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paragraph: Max Bell

paragraph: George Maxwell "Max" Bell (October 13, 1912 – July 19, 1972) was a Canadian newspaper publisher, race horse owner and philanthropist. He was best known as the co-founder of FP Publications, Canada's largest newspaper syndicate in the 1960s. He built his newspaper empire after inheriting the "Calgary Albertan", and its $500,000 debt, from his father in 1936. He repaid debt by 1945 and proceeded to purchase papers across the country, including the "Ottawa Journal" and "The Globe and Mail". Much of Bell's fortune was built on Alberta's burgeoning oil and gas industry. He formed several companies in the late 1940s that came to be worth millions of dollars when sold.

paragraph: Bell was a long time owner of thoroughbred race horses. He partnered with Frank McMahon to form two stables that won races across Canada, the United States and Europe. The pair joined with singer Bing Crosby to win the Irish Derby in 1965 while he and McMahon won the 1968 Queen's Plate. Bell was a part owner of several race tracks, including Balmoral Park, of which he became the first Canadian president. A noted philanthropist, he established the Max Bell Foundation shortly before his death, which has awarded millions of dollars in grants for medical, veterinary, sporting and educational causes.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Bell was born October 13, 1912 in Regina, Saskatchewan. He was the son of George Melrose Bell and Edna Mae Parkin and had one brother, Gordon and two sisters, Audrey and Olive. His grandfather, George Alexander Bell, was a Canadian pioneer and Liberal minister in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. His father earned his fortune selling insurance and owned several newspapers and periodicals before losing much of his wealth investing in mining and oil.

paragraph: Bell earned a degree in commerce from Montreal's McGill University during the Great Depression while working for his father at the "Calgary Albertan" newspaper during his summers. After graduating in 1932, Bell moved to British Columbia where he unsuccessfully attempted to prospect for gold in the Kootenays for a time and played two seasons of senior hockey with the Kimberley Dynamiters. He met and married his first wife, Suzanne Staples, during this time and in 1935 returned to Calgary. He returned to the "Albertan", earning $35 per week as the classified advertising manager. Bell inherited the paper upon his father's death in 1936, however the "Albertan" was under the control of the Royal Bank of Canada against $500,000 in loans that the elder Bell had made.

paragraph: Additionally, Bell invested in an oil well near Turner Valley, Alberta. When the well struck oil in mid 1936, the income from his one percent share was double that of his newspaper salary.

paragraph: Section::::Newspaper career.

paragraph: Despite the oil strike, Bell continued to work for the Royal Bank at the "Albertan". After seven years of what he called "clerking", he made a bid to regain his family's control of the paper. He convinced five friends in the oil and gas industry to form the Essex Company and put up $35,000 to operate the paper. He then convinced the Royal Bank to give him control, and in mid-1943, was made publisher of the "Albertan". Under Bell's leadership, the paper returned to profitability, prompting the partners in Essex to raise his salary to $85 per week. Within three years, Bell was able to repay both his partners in Essex and purchase full control of the paper from the bank. Almost immediately after repaying his partners, Bell convinced them to purchase the "Edmonton Bulletin". However, Bell lacked the capital to support the paper that was burdened with labour strife and aging equipment. He made the decision to fold the paper in 1951.

paragraph: While he worked to regain control of the "Albertan", Bell also continued to invest in oil ventures. In 1944 he partnered with Frank McMahon and others forming Empire Petroleum Limited, in an unsuccessful attempt to raise capital to drill a wildcat well. Two years later he tried again with two new companies, Reef Petroleum and Tower Petroleum. The two new companies also failed to find oil, but the efforts raised enough money for Bell and his partners to form Calvan Petroleums on the heels of Imperial Oil's discovery of a large oil field at Redwater, Alberta. The company found success trading in leases and drilling rights on crown land, prompting Bell to form several other oil companies in the years that followed. In 1951, Bell amalgamated his various companies into Calvan Consolidated Ltd. The new company held an interest in 77 wells at the Redwater field. He sold Calvan to Petrofina in 1955 for $40 million and, while he continued to trade in oil and gas companies for several years, his focus returned to the newspaper business.

paragraph: Bell purchased the "Victoria Times Colonist" in 1959 for $750,000, and one year later built a plant to print both the "Times" and "The Colonist", which he gained control of in 1953 for $1 million. In 1954, Bell acquired a controlling interest in the "Lethbridge Herald". He had a habit of appearing unannounced at the offices of his papers, often to chat with the editors, but never told them what to print. Bell continued to acquire newspapers, joining with Victor Sifton, owner of the "Winnipeg Free Press" to purchase the "Ottawa Journal" in 1959. The pair combined their interests to form FP (Federated Paper) Publications Ltd. that same year. Bell purchased the "Vancouver Sun" in 1963, and Toronto's "The Globe and Mail" in 1965, making FP Publications Canada's largest newspaper syndicate. By 1972, the papers had a combined circulation of over 820,000.

paragraph: Among acquisitions made outside the newspaper industry, Bell led a group that attempted to gain control of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1950. The bid was thought to have been motivated by the land and mineral rights that the company controlled, but was thwarted by company bylaws that prevented the transfer of such rights. It was later suggested that Bell backed out of the deal in the belief that the company would struggle to adapt to his ideas. By 1965, Bell was the largest single shareholder in Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR).

paragraph: In addition to serving as a director for the CPR, Bell was also director for the Bank of Nova Scotia, a member of the board of governors of McGill University and was a senior director of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede.

paragraph: Section::::Thoroughbred horse racing.

paragraph: A longtime thoroughbred horse racing enthusiast, Bell met future jockey Johnny Longden as a young man in Calgary, and later bought a horse from Longden, Mac Aurelius, whose victory in a Regina claiming race fueled Bell's interest in the sport. He invested in several ranches and was at least part-owner in three race tracks, including Balmoral Park, where he was the track's first Canadian president.

paragraph: Bell partnered with Frank McMahon to form Golden West Farms near Okotoks, Alberta, and the pair joined with Vance Longden and Wilder Ripley in 1952 to form Alberta Ranches, Ltd., which raced in California. The stables won numerous races throughout North America, as well as England and Ireland. Among Bell and McMahon's biggest successes was Four-and-Twenty, whose victories included the 1961 Santa Anita Derby, and the Hollywood Derby.

paragraph: Among his biggest victories, Bell won the 1965 Irish Derby with the colt Meadow Court, having sold one-third shares of ownership to McMahon and Bing Crosby just prior to the race. Meadow Court then won two more races before being retired to stud following the season. The horse, purchased by Bell for $9,000 won over $280,000 in purses before being sold for over $1.2 million. He and McMahon won the 1968 Queen's Plate with Merger.

paragraph: Max Bell was inducted into the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame in 1977.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Bell's marriage to Suzanne ended in 1949. The couple had four children: sons Chester (died 1970) and Paul, and daughters Diane and Gretchen. He later married Frank McMahon's daughter-in-law Agnes, who was widowed when her husband Frank Jr. was killed in an automobile accident in 1953. The family maintained a winter home in Palm Desert, California and a ranch in Okotoks.

paragraph: An ardent member of the Presbyterian Church, Bell was said to have read the Bible as often as his weekly horse racing forms. He neither drank nor smoked, and was a generous donor to his church. He enjoyed playing golf and badminton, and frequently sailed his yacht, "Campana", throughout the area around Vancouver Island and used it to ferry politicians and businessmen to a special forum on Canadian-American relations which he organized in 1959. Bell was a supporter of organized sport at several levels and helped finance the Vancouver Canucks' entry into the National Hockey League.

paragraph: Bell fell ill to a neurological illness in 1967 that resulted in numerous surgeries over the following five years. He died on July 19, 1972, at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Shortly before his death, he created the Max Bell Foundation and funded it with $17 million of FP Publications stock. Within 30 years, the foundation's assets had grown to $55 million in addition to over $65 million distributed as part of 200 grants across the nation. Capital grants have helped to fund several facilities throughout Canada, most notably in Calgary and Winnipeg. Thirty percent of the grants go to McGill University, half to the Faculty of Medicine specifically. Max Bell Foundation has funded charities in a variety of areas since its inception, and currently focuses its grants on health and wellness, environment, and education.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Footnotes

paragraph: BULLET::::- General

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Max Bell Foundation biography

paragraph: BULLET::::- George Maxwell Bell at The Canadian Encyclopedia

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paragraph: Lester Young

paragraph: Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

paragraph: Coming to prominence while a member of Count Basie's orchestra, Young was one of the most influential players on his instrument. In contrast to many of his hard-driving peers, Young played with a relaxed, cool tone and used sophisticated harmonies, using what one critic called "a free-floating style, wheeling and diving like a gull, banking with low, funky riffs that pleased dancers and listeners alike".

paragraph: Known for his hip, introverted style, he invented or popularized much of the hipster jargon which came to be associated with the music.

paragraph: Section::::Early life and career.

paragraph: Lester Young was born in Woodville, Mississippi, on August 27, 1909. His mother was Lizetta Young (née Johnson), and his father was Willis Handy Young, originally from Louisiana. Lester had two siblings – Leonidas Raymond, who became a drummer, and Irma Cornelia. He grew up in a musical family. His father was a teacher and band leader, and several other relatives performed professionally.

paragraph: While growing up in New Orleans, he worked from the age of five to make money for the family. He sold newspapers and shined shoes. By the time he was ten, he had learned the basics of trumpet, violin, and drums, and joined the Young Family Band touring with carnivals and playing in regional cities in the Southwest In his teens he and his father clashed, and he often left home for long periods.

paragraph: Young left the family band in 1927 at the age of 18 because he refused to tour in the Southern United States, where Jim Crow laws were in effect and racial segregation was required in public facilities. He became a member of the Bostonians, led by Art Bronson, and chose tenor saxophone over alto as his primary instrument. He made a habit of leaving, working, then going home. He left home permanently in 1932 when he became a member of the Blue Devils led by Walter Page.

paragraph: Section::::With the Count Basie Orchestra.

paragraph: In 1933 Young settled in Kansas City, where after playing briefly in several bands, he rose to prominence with Count Basie. His playing in the Basie band was characterized by a relaxed style which contrasted sharply with the more forceful approach of Coleman Hawkins, the dominant tenor sax player of the day. One of Young's key influences was Frank Trumbauer, who came to prominence in the 1920s with Paul Whiteman and played the C-melody saxophone (between the alto and tenor in pitch).

paragraph: Young left the Basie band to replace Hawkins in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra. He soon left Henderson to play in the Andy Kirk band (for six months) before returning to Basie. While with Basie, Young made small-group recordings for Milt Gabler's Commodore Records, "The Kansas City Sessions". Although they were recorded in New York (in 1938, with a reunion in 1944), they are named after the group, the Kansas City Seven, and comprised Buck Clayton, Dicky Wells, Basie, Young, Freddie Green, Rodney Richardson, and Jo Jones. Young played clarinet as well as tenor in these sessions. Young is described as playing the clarinet in a "liquid, nervous style." As well as the "Kansas City Sessions", his clarinet work from 1938–39 is documented on recordings with Basie, Billie Holiday, Basie small groups, and the organist Glenn Hardman. Billie and Lester met at a Harlem jam session in the early 30s and worked together in the Count Basie band and in nightclubs on New York's 52nd St. At one point Lester moved into the apartment Billie shared with her mother, Sadie Fagan. Holiday always insisted their relationship was strictly platonic. She gave Lester the nickname "Prez" after President Franklin Roosevelt, the "greatest man around" in Billie's mind. Playing on her name, he would call her "Lady Day." Their famously empathetic classic recordings with Teddy Wilson date from this era.

paragraph: After Young's clarinet was stolen in 1939, he abandoned the instrument until about 1957. That year Norman Granz gave him one and urged him to play it (with far different results at that stage in Young's life—see below).

paragraph: Section::::Leaving Basie.

paragraph: Young left the Basie band in late 1940. He is rumored to have refused to play with the band on Friday, December 13 of that year for superstitious reasons spurring his dismissal, although Young and drummer Jo Jones would later state that his departure had been in the works for months. He subsequently led a number of small groups that often included his brother, drummer Lee Young, for the next couple of years; live and broadcast recordings from this period exist.

paragraph: During this period Young accompanied the singer Billie Holiday in a couple of studio sessions (during 1937 - 1941 period) and also made a small set of recordings with Nat "King" Cole (their first of several collaborations) in June 1942. His studio recordings are relatively sparse during the 1942 to 1943 period, largely due to the recording ban by the American Federation of Musicians. Small record labels not bound by union contracts continued to record and he recorded some sessions for Harry Lim's Keynote label in 1943.

paragraph: In December 1943 Young returned to the Basie fold for a 10-month stint, cut short by his being drafted into the army during World War II (see below). Recordings made during this and subsequent periods suggest Young was beginning to make much greater use of a plastic reed, which tended to give his playing a somewhat heavier, breathier tone (although still quite smooth compared to that of many other players). While he never abandoned the cane reed, he used the plastic reed a significant share of the time from 1943 until the end of his life. Another cause for the thickening of his tone around this time was a change in saxophone mouthpiece from a metal Otto Link to an ebonite Brilhart. In August 1944 Young appeared alongside drummer Jo Jones, trumpeter Harry "Sweets" Edison, and fellow tenor saxophonist Illinois Jacquet in Gjon Mili's short film "Jammin' the Blues".

paragraph: Section::::Army service.

paragraph: In September 1944 Young and Jo Jones were in Los Angeles with the Basie Band when they were inducted into the U.S. Army. Unlike many white musicians, who were placed in band outfits such as the ones led by Glenn Miller and Artie Shaw, Young was assigned to the regular army where he was not allowed to play his saxophone. Based in Ft. McClellan, Alabama, Young was found with marijuana and alcohol among his possessions. He was soon court-martialed. Young did not fight the charges and was convicted. He served one traumatic year in a detention barracks and was dishonorably discharged in late 1945. His experience inspired his composition "D.B. Blues" (with D.B. standing for detention barracks).

paragraph: Section::::Post-war recordings.

paragraph: Young's career after World War II was far more prolific and lucrative than in the pre-war years in terms of recordings made, live performances, and annual income. Young joined Norman Granz's Jazz at the Philharmonic (JATP) troupe in 1946, touring regularly with them over the next 12 years. He made many studio recordings under Granz's supervision as well, including more trio recordings with Nat King Cole. Young also recorded extensively in the late 1940s for Aladdin Records (1946-7, where he had made the Cole recordings in 1942) and for Savoy (1944, '49 and '50), some sessions of which included Basie on piano...

paragraph: While the quality and consistency of his playing ebbed gradually in the latter half of the 1940s and into the early 1950s, he also gave some brilliant performances during this stretch. Especially noteworthy are his performances with JATP in 1946, 1949, and 1950. With Young at the 1949 JATP concert at Carnegie Hall were Charlie Parker and Roy Eldridge, and Young's solo on "Lester Leaps In" at that concert is a particular standout among his performances in the latter half of his career.

paragraph: Section::::Struggle and revival.

paragraph: From around 1951, Young's level of playing declined more precipitously as his drinking increased. His playing showed reliance on a small number of clichéd phrases and reduced creativity and originality, despite his claims that he did not want to be a "repeater pencil" (Young coined this phrase to describe the act of repeating one's own past ideas). Young's playing and health went into a crisis, culminating in a November 1955 hospital admission following a nervous breakdown.

paragraph: He emerged from this treatment improved. In January 1956 he recorded two Granz-produced sessions including a reunion with pianist Teddy Wilson, trumpet player Roy Eldridge, trombonist Vic Dickenson, bassist Gene Ramey, and drummer Jo Jones – which were issued as "The Jazz Giants '56" and "Pres and Teddy" albums. 1956 was a relatively good year for Lester Young, including a tour of Europe with Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Quartet and a successful residency at Olivia Davis' Patio Lounge in Washington, DC, with the Bill Potts Trio. Live recording of Young and Potts in Washington were issued later.

paragraph: Throughout the 1940s and 50s, Young had sat in on Count Basie Orchestra gigs from time to time. The best-known of these is their July 1957 appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival, the line-up including many of his colleagues: Jo Jones, Roy Eldridge, Illinois Jacquet and Jimmy Rushing. In 1952 he was featured on "Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio", released in 1954 on Norgran.

paragraph: Section::::Family life.

paragraph: Lester married three times. His first marriage was to Beatrice Tolliver, in Albuquerque, on 23 February 1930. His second was to Mary Dale.

paragraph: His third wife was Mary Berkeley. They had two children: Lester W. Young Jr. (born 1947) and Yvette Young (born 1957). Both hold a PhD in Education, according to drummer Roy Haynes, who was interviewed as part of an attempt to create a film biography of Young. On January 31, 2008, Sady Sullivan conducted an oral history interview with Dr. Lester W. Young Jr. At approximately 1:10:00 he speaks about his father, listening to jazz, learning to play, and how having a famous father did not convey any favours.

paragraph: Section::::The final years.

paragraph: On December 8, 1957, Young appeared with Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge, and Gerry Mulligan in the CBS television special "The Sound of Jazz," performing Holiday's tune "Fine and Mellow." It was a reunion with Holiday, with whom he had lost contact over the years. She was also in physical decline, near the end of her career, yet they both gave moving performances. Young's solo was brilliant, acclaimed by some observers as an unparalleled marvel of economy, phrasing and extraordinarily moving emotion; Nat Hentoff, one of the show's producers, later commented, "Lester got up, and he played the purest blues I have ever heard...in the control room we were all crying."

paragraph: Young made his final studio recordings and live performances in Paris in March 1959 with drummer Kenny Clarke at the tail end of an abbreviated European tour during which he ate next to nothing and drank heavily. He died in the early morning hours of March 15, 1959, only hours after arriving back in New York, at the age of 49.

paragraph: According to jazz critic Leonard Feather, who rode with Holiday in a taxi to Young's funeral, she said after the services, "I'll be the next one to go." Holiday died four months later on July 17, 1959 at age 44.

paragraph: Section::::Posthumous dedications.

paragraph: Charles Mingus dedicated an elegy to Young, "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat", only a few months after his death. Wayne Shorter, then of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, composed a tribute, called "Lester Left Town".

paragraph: Young's playing style influenced many other tenor saxophonists, including Stan Getz, as well as Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, and Gerry Mulligan. Paul Quinichette modeled his style so closely on Young's that he was sometimes referred to as the "Vice Prez" (sic). Sonny Stitt began to incorporate elements from Lester Young's approach when he made the transition to tenor saxophone. Lester Young also had a direct influence on the young Charlie Parker, and thus the entire be-bop movement.

paragraph: In 1981 OyamO (Charles F. Gordon) published the book "The Resurrection of Lady Lester", subtitled "A Poetic Mood Song Based on the Legend of Lester Young", depicting Young's life. The work was subsequently adapted for the theater, and was staged in November of that year at the Manhattan Theater Club, New York City, with a four-piece jazz combo led by Dwight Andrews.

paragraph: In the 1986 film "Round Midnight", the fictional main character Dale Turner, played by Dexter Gordon, was partly based on Young – incorporating flashback references to his army experiences, and loosely depicting his time in Paris and his return to New York just before his death. Young is a major character in English writer Geoff Dyer's 1991 fictional book about jazz, "".

paragraph: The 1994 documentary about the 1958 "Esquire" "A Great Day in Harlem" photograph of jazz musicians in New York, contains many remembrances of Young. For many of the other participants, the photo shoot was the last time they saw him alive; he was the first musician in the famous photo to pass away.

paragraph: Don Byron recorded the album "Ivey-Divey" in gratitude for what he learned from studying Lester Young's work, modeled after a 1946 trio date with Buddy Rich and Nat King Cole. "Ivey-Divey" was one of Lester Young's common eccentric phrases.

paragraph: Young was the subject of an opera, "Prez: A Jazz Opera", that was written by Bernard Cash and Alan Plater and broadcast by BBC television in 1985.

paragraph: Peter Straub's short story collection "Magic Terror" (2000) contains a story called "Pork Pie Hat", a fictionalized account of the life of Lester Young. Straub was inspired by Young's appearance on the 1957 CBS-TV show "The Sound of Jazz", which he watched repeatedly, wondering how such a genius could have ended up "this present shambles, this human wreckage, hardly able to play at all".

paragraph: On 17 March 2003, Young was added to the ASCAP Jazz Wall of Fame, along with Sidney Bechet, Al Cohn, Nat "King" Cole, Peggy Lee and Teddy Wilson. He was represented at the ceremony by his children Lester Young Jr and Yvette Young.

paragraph: Lester Young is said to have popularized use of the term "cool" to mean something fashionable. Another slang term he coined was the term "bread" for money. He would ask, "How does the bread smell?" when asking how much a gig was going to pay.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:Compilations (as leader).

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Kansas City Sessions" (recorded in 1938 and 1944) Commodore Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Complete Aladdin Recordings" (1942–47) – the 1942 Nat King Cole session and more from the post-war period

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Complete Savoy Recordings" (recorded 1944–50)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Complete Lester Young Studio Sessions on Verve" – 8-CD boxed set (includes the only two Young interviews in existence)

paragraph: Section::::Discography.:As sideman.

paragraph: With the Count Basie Orchestra

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Original American Decca Recordings" (GRP, 1937-39 [1992])

paragraph: BULLET::::- "America's No.1 Band: The Columbia Years" (1936–1940 and non-Young sessions to 1942) Columbia Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Super Chief" (1936–1940 and non-Young sessions to 1964) Columbia Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Count Basie at Newport" (Verve, 1957)

paragraph: With Jazz at the Philharmonic

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Complete Jazz at the Philharmonic on Verve: 1944-1949" (Verve, 1998)

paragraph: BULLET::::- "The Drum Battle" (Verve, 1952 [1960])

paragraph: With Billie Holiday

paragraph: BULLET::::- "" Columbia Records

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Billie Holiday and Lester Young: A Musical Romance" (1937-1941) Columbia Records [2002]

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Büchmann-Møller, Frank (1990) "You Just Fight for Your Life: The Story of Lester Young". Praeger.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Büchmann-Møller, Frank "You Got to Be Original, Man! The Music of Lester Young" (discography)

paragraph: BULLET::::- Daniels, Douglas Henry (1990) "Lester Leaps In: The Life and Times of Lester 'Pres' Young". Beacon Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Delannoy, Luc "Prez: The Story of Lester Young". University of Arkansas Press.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Porter, Lewis (1991) "Lester Young: A Reader". Smithsonian Institution Press .

paragraph: BULLET::::- Porter, Lewis (2005, revised edition) "Lester Young". University of Michigan Press.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Lester Young 100th Year Anniversary Site

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paragraph: David A. B. Miller is the W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he is also a Professor of Applied Physics by courtesy. His research interests include the use of optics in switching, interconnection, communications, computing, and sensing systems, physics and applications of quantum well optics and optoelectronics, and fundamental features and limits for optics and nanophotonics in communications and information processing.

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paragraph: Miller completed a BS degree in Physics from St. Andrews University and received his PhD in Physics in 1979 from Heriot-Watt University. In 1997 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, and in 2003 he was awarded an honorary doctorate of engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.

paragraph: Section::::Career.

paragraph: Following postdoctoral and lecturer positions at Heriot-Watt, Miller began working at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1981 as a Member of Technical Staff, and from 1987 to 1996 was Department Head of the Advanced Photonics Research Department. In 1996 he joined Stanford's Department of Electrical Engineering as a professor. From 1997-2006 he was Director of the Ginzton Lab; and from 1997-2009, Director of the Solid State Photonics Lab. He is currently the W. M. Keck Professor of Electrical Engineering, and a Co-Director of the Stanford Photonics Research Center.

paragraph: Since 2013, he has taught open online classes on Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers, attracting more than 30,000 student registrations.

paragraph: Miller is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, the American Physical Society, and IEEE. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.

paragraph: Miller is a Fellow of OSA,

paragraph: , American Physical Society (APS), and the Royal Societies of Edinburgh and Royal Society. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

paragraph: He was President of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (now IEEE Photonics Society) in 1995.

paragraph: Section::::Research.

paragraph: Miller studies optical and optoelectronic devices including quantum wells and photonic nanostructures, especially for information sensing, communication, switching and processing. He also investigates more generally the fundamentals of optics in these applications, with current research including dense optical interconnection to silicon electronics, quantum well optical physics and devices, nanometallic photonics, and fundamental limits in optics.

paragraph: He has published more than 270 scientific papers and wrote the textbook, "Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers". Miller holds 74 U.S. patents.

paragraph: Section::::Awards and honors.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Carnegie Millennium Professorship, 2013

paragraph: BULLET::::- Prize of the International Commission for Optics, 1991

paragraph: BULLET::::- R. W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America, 1988 – with D. S. Chemla

paragraph: BULLET::::- Adolph Lomb Medal of the Optical Society of America, 1986

paragraph: BULLET::::- H-index (August, 2018) – 99 (Google Scholar), 76 (Web of Science)

paragraph: Section::::Books.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Quantum Mechanics for Scientists and Engineers" (Cambridge, 2008).

paragraph: Section::::Links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Personal website, Stanford University

paragraph: BULLET::::- Research Group

paragraph: BULLET::::- Google Scholar

description: British physicist

wikidata_label: David A. B. Miller

wikipedia_title: David A. B. Miller


text:
Swiss
captain
sailor
1900 Summer Olympics
Bellevue
Casablanca
Hermann
Hélène

categories: Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – 1 to 2 ton,1870 births,Olympic sailors of Switzerland,Olympic silver medalists for Switzerland,1935 deaths,Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland,Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics,Swiss male sailors (sport)

paragraph: Bernard de Pourtalès

paragraph: Bernard Alexandre George Edmond de Pourtalès (5 June 1870 – 5 July 1935) was a Swiss infantry captain and sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: He was born in Bellevue, France, and died in Casablanca, Morocco.

paragraph: In 1900 he was a member of the Swiss boat "Lérina", which won the gold medal in the first race of 2-3 ton class and silver medal in the second race of 2-3 ton class. He also participated in the open class, but did not finish. His uncle Hermann and uncle's wife Hélène were also crew members.

description: Olympic sailor

wikidata_label: Bernard de Pourtalès

wikipedia_title: Bernard de Pourtalès


text:
Neuchâtel
Geneva
Swiss
sailor
1900 Summer Olympics
Hélène
Bernard
Guy de Pourtalès

categories: Sailors at the 1900 Summer Olympics – 1 to 2 ton,1847 births,Olympic sailors of Switzerland,1904 deaths,Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland,Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics,Swiss male sailors (sport)

paragraph: Hermann de Pourtalès

paragraph: Hermann Alexander de Pourtalès (31 March 1847 in Neuchâtel – 28 November 1904 in Geneva) was a Swiss sailor who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: He was a member of the Swiss boat "Lérina", which won the gold medal in the first race of 1 — 2 ton and silver medal in the second race of 1 — 2 ton class. He also participated in the open class, but did not finish. His wife Hélène and nephew Bernard were crew members.

paragraph: De Pourtalès son Guy de Pourtalès was an author.

description: Olympic sailor

wikidata_label: Hermann de Pourtalès

wikipedia_title: Hermann de Pourtalès


text: astronomer

text: astrologer

text: Aichach

text: Augsburg

text: Free Imperial City

text: Holy Roman Empire

text: Vienna

text: almanach

text: planetary table

text: Erhard Ratdolt

text: Johann Emerich

text: Lucantonio Giunti

text: Venice

text: Aichach

text: Augsburg

text: Bavaria

text: University of Ingolstadt

text: master of arts

text: Aristotle

text: proof-reader

text: Erhard Ratdolt

text: Venice

text: Vienna

text: Johann Emerich

text: Lucantonio Giunti

text: Venice

text: Jean de Séville

text: Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi

text: Baghdad

text: conjunction

text: Regiomontanus

text: Guido Bonatti

text: Forlì

text: Johannes Winterburger

text: plague

text: "Astrolabium planum"

text: Second edition

text: Reprinted

text: "De magnis coniunctionibus"

text: "Decem continens tractatus astronomie"

categories: University of Ingolstadt alumni,People from Aichach,16th-century astrologers,16th-century German writers,15th-century astronomers,1512 deaths,16th-century male writers,1453 births,15th-century German physicians,Medieval German astronomers,15th-century German writers,16th-century German physicians,16th-century astronomers,15th-century astrologers

paragraph: Johannes Engel

paragraph: Johannes Engel (2 March 1453 – 29 September 1512), also known as Johannes Angelus, was a doctor, astronomer and astrologer from Aichach, near Augsburg, which at that time was a Free Imperial City within the Holy Roman Empire. He practiced medicine in Vienna, and published numerous almanachs, planetary tables and calendars. His "Astrolabium planum" was published by Erhard Ratdolt of Augsburg in 1488; a second edition was printed by Johann Emerich for Lucantonio Giunti in Venice in 1494.

paragraph: Section::::Life.

paragraph: Engels was born at Aichach, near Augsburg in Bavaria, probably on 2 March 1453. He registered at the University of Ingolstadt in the summer of 1472, the year of its foundation, and graduated as a master of arts in 1474; in 1476 he gave lectures on Aristotle at the university. From 1489 to 1491 Engel worked as a proof-reader or editor for the noted printer Erhard Ratdolt of Augsburg, who had previously worked in Venice and had published many works on astronomy. Between 1492 and 1497 Engels studied medicine at the University of Ingolstadt. He later practiced medicine in Vienna, where on 29 September 1512 he died.

paragraph: Section::::Works.

paragraph: From 1484 Engel began to publish almanachs and astrological calendars, in both German and Latin. His "Astrolabium planum", with many tables of astrological calculation and 360 examples of horoscopes, was published by Erhard Ratdolt in Augsburg in 1488. A second edition was printed by Johann Emerich for Lucantonio Giunti in Venice in 1494, and subsequently reprinted by Giunti in 1502.

paragraph: Engel's edition of the "De magnis coniunctionibus", Latin translations by Jean de Séville (Johannes Hispalensis) of works by the ninth-century astronomer and astrologer Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi of Baghdad, was published by Ratdolt in 1489, and was influential in the development of the astrological theory of planetary conjunctions. Ratdolt's edition of the "Tabule directionum profectionumque" of Regiomontanus, printed in 1490, has corrections by Engel. In 1491 Ratdolt printed Engel's edition of the "Decem tractatus astronomiae" of the thirteenth-century mathematician and astrologer Guido Bonatti of Forlì.

paragraph: The "Ephemerides coelestium motuum usque ad annum 1500" of 1494 was printed in Vienna by Johannes Winterburger, the first Viennese printer, who also printed the undated "Almanach novum atque collectum … super anno domini 1510".

paragraph: Engel's brief treatise on the plague, "Tractat von der Pestilentz Joanni Engel …" was printed posthumously in Augsburg by and , on 4 November 1518.

paragraph: Section::::Publications.

paragraph: Among the publications of Johannes Engel as author or editor are:

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Astrolabium planum". Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1488

paragraph: BULLET::::- Second edition. Venice: Johann Emerich for Lucantonio Giunti, 1494

paragraph: BULLET::::- Reprinted. Venice: Lucantonio Giunti, 1502

paragraph: BULLET::::- Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, "De magnis coniunctionibus". Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1489

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Almanach auf das Jahr 1490". Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, [1489]

paragraph: BULLET::::- Regiomontanus, "Tabule directionum profectionumque". [Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt], 1490

paragraph: BULLET::::- Guido Bonatti (Guido Bonatus de Forliuio), "Decem continens tractatus astronomie". Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1491

paragraph: BULLET::::- [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00002911/images/index.html?id=00002911&groesser=&fip=xdsydeayaxseayaeayaxdsydeayaenyztsqrsen&no=1&seite=3 "Almanach novum atque correctum per Joannem angelum artium et medicine doctorem peritissimum ex p[ro]prijs tabulis calculatum super Anno domini 1510"]. Vienna: Johannes Winterburger, 1509

paragraph: BULLET::::- [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/bsb00002533/images/index.html?id=00002533&groesser=&fip=xdsydeayaxseayaeayaxdsydeayaenyztsqrsen&no=3&seite=3 "Almanach novum atque correctum per Joannem angelum artium et medicine doctorem peritissimum ex p[ro]prijs tabulis calculatum super Anno domini 1512"]. Vienna: [s.n.], 1511

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Astrolabij quo primi mobilis motus deprehenduntur canones". Venice: Peter Liechtenstein, 1512

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Tractat von der Pestilentz Joanni Engel, der freyen künsten und artzney Doctor, auss der leer der Doctorn der artzney und der Astronomey gezogen", Augsburg: Sigmund Grimm and Marx Wirsung, 4 November 1518

description: German astronomer and physician

wikidata_label: Johannes Engel

wikipedia_title: Johannes Engel


text:
Bishop of Mississippi
Derry
Ireland
Nashotah House
Nashotah House
Chicago
New York City
New Orleans
Bibliographic directory
Project Canterbury

categories: 1830 births,American Episcopal priests,1903 deaths,Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

paragraph: Hugh Miller Thompson

paragraph: Hugh Miller Thompson (5 June 1830 – 20 January 1903) was the second Bishop of Mississippi.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Thompson was born on June 5, 1830 in Derry, Ireland however he emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was 6 years old. He trained for the priesthood in Nashotah House and was ordained deacon on June 6, 1852 and priest on August 31, 1856. Between 1860 and 1870, he served as professor of ecclesiastical history at Nashotah House. He also spent some time as the editor of the American Churchman. Between 1871 and 1872 he was rector of St James' Church in Chicago and later became rector of Christ Church in New York City. In 1876 he moved south to serve as rector of Trinity Church in New Orleans.Thompson was elected bishop coadjutor of Mississippi and was consecrated on February 24, 1883. He became Mississippi's diocesan bishop upon Bishop Green's death on February 13, 1887. Thompson remained Mississippi's diocesan bishop until his death in 1903.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

description: Bishop of Mississippi; American Episcopalian bishop

wikidata_label: Hugh Miller Thompson

wikipedia_title: Hugh Miller Thompson


text:
East German
biathlete
1973
1974
SG Dynamo Zinnwald
Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo

categories: Biathlon World Championships medalists,1949 births,Biathletes at the 1972 Winter Olympics,Olympic biathletes of East Germany,German male biathletes,Living people

paragraph: Günther Bartnick

paragraph: Günther Bartnick (born 20 February 1949) is a retired East German biathlete. He won a bronze medal in relay at the Biathlon World Championships 1973 and a silver medal in the first World Championship 10 km sprint for men in 1974. He started for the SG Dynamo Zinnwald / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo.

description: German biathlete

wikidata_label: Günther Bartnick

wikipedia_title: Günther Bartnick


href: Hebrew Sofia Bulgaria Sephardic%20Jewish Jerusalem Bulgaria Av%20Beit%20Din First%20Zionist%20Congress Basel

text:
Hebrew
Sofia
Bulgaria
Sephardic Jewish
Jerusalem
Bulgaria
Av Beit Din
First Zionist Congress
Basel

categories: Bulgarian rabbis,Bulgarian Jews,Jewish Bulgarian history,1828 births,People from Sofia,1910 deaths

paragraph: Preciado Bakish

paragraph: Preciado Bakish (Hebrew: פרסיאדו בקיש ) was a rabbi and a Bulgar member of the Zionist Movement.

paragraph: Section::::Biographical elements.

paragraph: Born in 1828 at Sofia (Bulgaria) to a Sephardic Jewish family. He died in Jerusalem at the age of 82 (1910). He was named Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria (1885–1889; 1895–1898 or 1900) and Av Beit Din (Chairman of the Rabbinical Court) He participated in the First Zionist Congress held on 29, 30 and 31 August 1897 to Basel (Switzerland) along with three other delegates from Bulgaria (Zvi Belkovsky, Karl Herbst, Yehoshua Kalef) and some 200 other members from around the world. These activities have created difficulties and Rabbi Preciado Bakish was not maintained in his functions as Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria after 1900. A photograph of Rabbi Bakish was published on a genealogy website

paragraph: Section::::Bibliography.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Anon (2002), 'List of the most famous Jews in Bulgaria during the period 1900-2000', "SEGA" ("СЕГА") n° 5492 (2002), http://www.segabg.com/article.php?id=56802

paragraph: BULLET::::- Benjamin Arditti (Ed. 1969), "Vidni Evrei. Famous Jews of Bulgaria", Volume I, pp. 20–32, Tel Aviv

paragraph: BULLET::::- Hillel Bakis (1992), 'Rabbi Ichaya Bakish. Un rabbin-juge marocain (16e-17e siècles)', pp. 1–40 (Préciado Bakich is quoted p. 4), in I. Bakish, "Fragments", 132 p., Editions Bakish, Kiryat Ata

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ivanka Gezenko (2014), ‘ЕВРЕЙСКАТА ОБЩНОСТ В БЪЛГАРИЯ 1879-1947 Г', p. 7, in "Les Juifs en Bulgarie et dans les territoires sous administration bulgare pendant l’Holocauste". Colloque organisé dans le cadre du programme du Conseil de l’Europe « Transmission de la mémoire de l’Holocauste et prévention des crimes contre l’humanité », 26 mai, The Red House, Sofia. 39 p.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ivanka Gezenko (2015), ‘Political changes in Central Jewish Religious in Bulgaria (Sept. Dec. 1944)‘ pp. 205–211 (see p. 206), in "Scientific Conference: "70 years since the coup of 1944 - Background and consequences. Collection of research", Central Military Club, Sofia. 8 sept. 2014. Manta print, Sofia. http://www.anamnesis.info/sites/default/files/SbornikDokladi.pdf

paragraph: BULLET::::- Henry Mechoulan (Dir. 1992), "Les Juifs d'Espagne histoire d'une diaspora 1492-1992", Paris, Liana Lévi, see the following chapter : Zvi Loker (1992),"Les Juifs séfarades de Bulgarie".

paragraph: BULLET::::- Mathilde Tagger & S. Alfassa Marks (2004 ?),’’Bulgaria Chief Rabbis’’, Fondation for the Advancement of Sephardic Studies and Culture, http://www.sephardicstudies.org/bulg-rab.html.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.sephardichouse.org/prom_bulg_jews.pdf.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.geni.com/people/% (fiche contenant une photographie).

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/bulgaria.html.

paragraph: BULLET::::- http://skachate.ru/jurnalistika/63296/index.html?page=12

wikidata_label: Preciado Bakish

wikipedia_title: Preciado Bakish


text: coloratura soprano

text: Ukrainian

text: "You Light Up My Life"

text: High School of Music & Art

text: Mannes College of Music

text: Carly Simon

text: Michael Franks

text: Quincy Jones

text: jingles

text: Ford

text: McDonald's

text: Burger King

text: General Motors

text: Toyota

text: ABC

text: NBC

text: CBS

text: American

text: Delta

text: Eastern

text: TWA

text: Sears

text: JC Penney

text: Coca-Cola

text: Pepsi

text: New York Times

text: Mr. Pibb

text: Safeway

text: Starburst

text: Joe Brooks

text: You Light Up My Life

text: Didi Conn

text: "Billboard" Hot 100

text: Debby Boone

text: "You Light Up My Life"

text: Ed Rakowicz

text: Joseph Brooks

text: The One and Only

text: Circle of Two

text: Working Girl

text: Kvitka, Songs of Ukraine

text: Kvitka, Two Colors

text: Ed Rakowicz

text: Maria Cisyk

text: breast cancer

text: Lviv

text: Ukraine

text: Inter

text: Lviv

text: Kiev

text: Lviv

text: Ternopil

text: Ivano-Frankivsk

text: Odessa

text: Luhansk

text: Chernivtsi

text: Inter

text: Kvitka, Two Colors

text: "New York Times" obituary

text: "Los Angeles Times" obituary

text: Obituary for Kvitka Cisyk

categories: American folk singers,1998 deaths,People from Queens, New York,20th-century opera singers,Harpur College alumni,Deaths from breast cancer,Deaths from cancer in New York (state),American operatic sopranos,The High School of Music & Art alumni,American female pop singers,20th-century American singers,American people of Ukrainian descent,1953 births,20th-century American women singers

paragraph: Kvitka Cisyk

paragraph: Kvitka (or "Kasey") Cisyk (, "Kvitka Tsisyk"; April 4, 1953 – March 29, 1998) was an American coloratura soprano of Ukrainian ethnicity. Cisyk, a classically trained opera singer who achieved success in four musical genres: popular music, classical opera, Ukrainian folk music and commercial jingles for radio and TV advertisements.

paragraph: Cisyk recorded the version of "You Light Up My Life" heard in the movie (Oscar and Golden Globe Awards win in 1978), sang the "Have you driven a Ford lately?" and "You deserve a break today!" jingles and also released two critically acclaimed albums of Ukrainian songs.

paragraph: Section::::Early life.

paragraph: Cisyk was the daughter of two Ukrainian immigrants; her given name, Kvitka, is Ukrainian for "flower". Her father, Volodymyr Cisyk, a well known Ukrainian concert violinist and teacher, taught his daughter the violin when she was five years old, grooming her for a career as a classical musician.

paragraph: Section::::Education.

paragraph: Cisyk attended the High School of Music & Art in New York City and graduated in 1970. She attended Harpur College, also known as SUNY Binghamton, for one year directly after high school. Her sister taught piano there. In the summer of 1971, she attended a SUNY-sponsored opera program in Ghent, Belgium. She received a violin scholarship to the Mannes College of Music, but had switched to classical voice training by the time of her graduation.

paragraph: Section::::Popular music career.

paragraph: Cisyk's original goal was a career as an opera singer, but her father's death left the family without a source of income. Needing to earn money immediately, Cisyk pursued a career as a session singer in popular music. She drew her professional name (Kasey) from her first and last initials.

paragraph: Cisyk began singing in clubs, while submitting audition tapes to producers and advertising agencies. She had a successful career as a background singer in popular music, working as a backup singer for Carly Simon and Michael Franks and for artists produced by Quincy Jones.

paragraph: Section::::Commercial jingle career.

paragraph: Cisyk achieved her widest success as a singer of the musical jingles used in TV and radio commercials. Cisyk's recording of the slogan "Have you driven a Ford lately?" was used in Ford commercials from 1981 to 1998; in 1989, Ford executives estimated that Cisyk's recording of that phrase had been heard by 20 billion people.

paragraph: During a career that lasted more than twenty years, Cisyk had skills so highly valued that competitors within the same industry sought her services. She sang the phrase "You deserve a break today" for McDonald's, but also recorded commercials for Burger King.

paragraph: In addition to Ford, Cisyk sang for automakers General Motors and Toyota. She recorded spots for the three national television networks in the 1980s (ABC, NBC and CBS), four major airlines (American, Delta, Eastern and TWA), two national retailers Sears and JC Penney and the two most popular soft drinks: Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

paragraph: According to her "New York Times" obituary, "a typical day, she later recalled, would begin with a 9 am session for Trans World Airlines, followed by Coca-Cola at eleven, Hartz Mountain at 1 pm, Eastern Airlines at two, Datsun at three, L'Eggs at five, McDonald's at six, and, after all that, a recording session from 8:30 pm to 3 am"

paragraph: Cisyk's list of commercial credits also include Mr. Pibb, Safeway grocery stores, and Starburst candies.

paragraph: Section::::Soundtrack performances.

paragraph: Cisyk's work in commercials brought her to the attention of Joe Brooks, who worked as a composer and arranger of jingles. Brooks, who wrote, directed and composed the score for the movie "You Light Up My Life" chose Cisyk to dub the singing voice of actress Didi Conn.

paragraph: Cisyk's performance of the song appears on the original soundtrack album, and was released as a single, although she was not listed as the performing artist in the final credits of the film (for which she successfully sued the producers). Her single release of the song reached No. 80 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 charts.

paragraph: The song was also recorded by singer Debby Boone, with Brooks producing and arranging. This recording of "You Light Up My Life", became a No. 1 single on the "Billboard" chart for ten consecutive weeks. People magazine ran a substantial article about "The real voice behind 'You Light Up My Life" inasmuch the similarity between her and Debby Boone's voice led many to assume the latter had sung the songs in the movie. In a 2013 biographical essay about Cisyk, Cisyk's second husband, Ed Rakowicz wrote, that Brooks "withheld payment ... tried to evade payment by false promises and by asking her to be an incidental actor in his film, implying huge rewards yet to come..." Later, (according to Rakowicz's biographical essay), Brooks made improper advances toward Cisyk, and after being rebuffed, didn't speak directly to her again, and continued to evade payments to her. Rakowicz writes, "[Kasey] retained a lawyer and sued Brooks for the fees she earned for her work on the record and the film but accepted an award of a small sum just to relieve herself of the torment of a prolonged legal battle with Brooks." Later in 2009 Joseph Brooks, became the subject of an investigation after being accused of a series of casting-couch rapes. He was indicted in May 2009 by the state Supreme Court for Manhattan (a trial-level court) on 91 counts of rape, sexual abuse, criminal sexual act, assault, and other charges. While awaiting trial, Brooks killed himself in May, 2011.

paragraph: Cisyk also recorded lead vocals for the soundtracks of the movies "The One and Only" and "Circle of Two". She also contributed backing vocals to the Carly Simon songs used on the soundtrack for the movie "Working Girl".

paragraph: Section::::Ukrainian music.

paragraph: As the daughter of Ukrainian immigrants, Cisyk was raised with Ukrainian music, and she is well known in the Ukrainian-speaking world for her two albums of Ukrainian songs. According to Cisyk she recorded these albums because her colleagues often asked her to "show them something Ukrainian, but there were no records worthy of being shown".

paragraph: In 1980 she recorded her first album, "Kvitka, Songs of Ukraine" which won top honors in the 1988 Ukrainian Music Awards.

paragraph: Her second album, "Kvitka, Two Colors", was released in 1989. was dedicated to "the spirit of the Ukrainian soul, whose wings can never be broken." Today, songs from both albums continue to be heard on radio in Ukraine.

paragraph: Both albums were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

paragraph: Both "Songs of Ukraine" and "Two Colors" were family projects. Cisyk's second husband, Ed Rakowicz, a recording engineer, produced them; her first husband, Jack Cortner arranged and conducted them. Her sister, Maria Cisyk, a concert pianist and teacher, performed the solo piano selections on the record, and her mother, Ivanna, made sure her Ukrainian pronunciation was perfect.

paragraph: Section::::Death and legacy.

paragraph: Kvitka Cisyk Rakowicz died from breast cancer on March 29, 1998, six days before her 45th birthday.

paragraph: Because of her contribution to Ukrainian music a yearly music festival is held and a street was named for her in Lviv, Ukraine.

paragraph: For the singer’s 60th birthday anniversary Ukrainian Inter TV channel made a documentary film "Kvitka. Single copy voice". The film authors have investigated the phenomenon of the singer with the help of her relatives and close friends: husband Ed Rakowicz, son Eddie, family from Lviv and the United States, workmates and fans. On April 4, 2013 premieres of the film took place in Kiev, Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa, Luhansk and Chernivtsi. The film was released on Inter TV channel on April 5, 2013.

paragraph: Section::::Recordings.

paragraph: Section::::Recordings.:Solo albums.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kvitka, Songs of Ukraine" 1980

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Kvitka, Two Colors" 1989

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- "New York Times" obituary

paragraph: BULLET::::- [ Allmusic.com discography]

paragraph: BULLET::::- Review of first album, with music clips from selected songs

paragraph: BULLET::::- "Los Angeles Times" obituary

paragraph: BULLET::::- Obituary for Kvitka Cisyk

paragraph: BULLET::::- J. Walter Thompson demo for Ford, featuring Casey Cisyk

description: American opera singer of ukrainian descent

wikidata_label: Kvitka Cisyk

wikipedia_title: Kvitka Cisyk


text:
tennis
1900 Summer Olympics
Baltimore, Maryland
Garmendia
Max Décugis
Laurence Doherty
profile

categories: 1932 deaths,19th-century male tennis players,Tennis people from Maryland,Olympic silver medalists for the United States in tennis,Sportspeople from Baltimore,American male tennis players,Tennis players at the 1900 Summer Olympics,Olympic tennis players of the United States,19th-century American people,1860 births,Medalists at the 1900 Summer Olympics

paragraph: Basil Spalding de Garmendia

paragraph: Basil Spalding de Garmendia (February 28, 1860 – November 9, 1932) was an American tennis player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

paragraph: Spalding de Garmendia was born in Baltimore, Maryland to the wealthy family Garmendia, of Spanish ancestry. In 1900 he won a Silver medal in Men's Doubles event with Max Décugis of France. In the singles, he reached the quarter-finals, losing to Laurence Doherty.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- profile

description: US sports person and military attaché

wikidata_label: Basil Spalding de Garmendia

wikipedia_title: Basil Spalding de Garmendia


text: Rzeszów

text: Poland

text: Warsaw

text: Polish

text: Second World War

text: concentration camp

text: Auschwitz

text: Buchenwald

text: Centre of Polish Sculpture

text: Józef Szajna

categories: 2008 deaths,1922 births,20th-century Polish dramatists and playwrights,20th-century sculptors,Buchenwald concentration camp survivors,People from Rzeszów,Polish theatre directors,Auschwitz concentration camp survivors,Polish male dramatists and playwrights,20th-century Polish male writers,Polish sculptors

paragraph: Józef Szajna

paragraph: Józef Szajna (; March 13, 1922 in Rzeszów, Poland – June 24, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish set designer, director, play writer, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.

paragraph: During the Second World War and occupation of Poland, Szajna was a prisoner of the German concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

paragraph: Section::::See also.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Centre of Polish Sculpture

paragraph: Section::::Further reading.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Archives and art collection at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Bodek, Andrzej, ed. Reminiszenzen: ein Environment von Prof. Jósef Szajna: zum 50. Jahrestag der Befreiung von Auschwitz-Birkenau. Frankfurt am Main, 1995.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Archives and art collection at the Buchenwald Memorial Museum, Weimar.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Madeyski, Jerzy and Andrzej Zurowski. Józef Szajna: plastyka, teatr. Warsaw, 1992.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Milton, Sybil and Janet Blatter. Art of the Holocaust. New York, 1981.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Sybil Milton interviews and conversations with Józef Szajna at Warsaw 1980 and 1995,

paragraph: BULLET::::- Auschwitz 1988, and Venice 1990.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Oleksy, Krystyna, ed. Swiat Józefa Szajny. Oświęcim, 1995.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Józef Szajna: Appell: Geschichtszeichen und Kunstwerk in der Dauerausstellung zur

paragraph: BULLET::::- Geschichte des Konzentrationslagers Buchenwald. Weimar, 1995.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Szajna, Józef. "Replika - Erinnerungen: Künstleriche Protest-Aktion gegen den Terror," and "Gespräch zwischen Detlef Hoffmann und Józef Szajna," in Detlef Hoffmann and Karl Ermert, eds. Kunst und Holocaust: Loccumer Protokolle, No. 14 (1990), 74-99.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Information and pictures regarding the Józef Szajna's stay in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Concentration Camps during WWII

paragraph: BULLET::::- Video interview with Józef Szajna Windows Media Version

paragraph: BULLET::::- Józef Szajna at culture.pl

paragraph: BULLET::::- Biography of Józef Szajna at Polish Culture NYC

paragraph: BULLET::::- Józef Szajna's contribution to the webpages of a "Why Auschwitz? Why Kolyma? Why Kosovo?" competition organised by Znak, a Polish Christian Culture Foundation

paragraph: BULLET::::- Article occasioned by a December 2002 exhibition Jozef Szajna - Theater

paragraph: BULLET::::- Articles about Józef Szajna - Teatr im. Siemaszkowej in Rzeszów

paragraph: BULLET::::- Art and Auschwitz - Józef Szajna's ""The Roll Call Lasted Very Long ... My Feet Hurt Very Much"," ca. 1944-45 ca. 1944-45 (in Spanish)

paragraph: Works

paragraph: BULLET::::- Works by Józef Szajna at Gallery Katarzyna Napiorkowska in Warsaw and Brussels

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paragraph: Amir Vahedi

paragraph: Amir Vahedi (February 25, 1961 – January 8, 2010) was an Iranian professional poker player born in Tehran, Iran. who won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet at the 2003 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event.

paragraph: Section::::World Series of Poker.

paragraph: Vahedi was named No Limit Texas hold 'em player of the year in 2001 and was runner-up to Men Nguyen for Card Player Magazine's 2003 Player of the Year. In 2003 he made the final table of the Main Event of the World Series of Poker and finished sixth, earning $250,000. Earlier in the series, he won his first WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event for $270,000.

paragraph: During the 2003 World Series of Poker, in reference to the natural tendency of players to tighten up on the bubble (when only a few eliminations are left to the money), Vahedi stated: "In order to live, you must be willing to die."

paragraph: Vahedi was also the season three champion of the Ultimate Poker Challenge.

paragraph: During his lifetime, Vahedi won over $3,250,000 in live tournament play. His nine cashes at the WSOP account for $671,216 of those winnings.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: Vahedi served in the Iranian army during the Iran–Iraq War before becoming a war refugee and immigrating to the US, settling in Sherman Oaks, California. He was one of Ben Affleck's early poker tutors.

paragraph: Amir had two brothers, Saeed and Masoud, two sisters, Farideh and Fahimeh. He is survived by his Children Johnathon, Erika, Chanel, and Albaro.

paragraph: Vahedi died at the age of 48 due to possible complications of diabetes on January 8, 2010.

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text: Vasily Pavlovich Kravkov

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text: World War II

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text: Pavel Kolosov

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text: Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory

text: Yuriy Kravkov

text: Nikolai Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital

text: RSFSR

text: Mariya Kovrigina

text: Сергей Васильевич Кравков — 120 лет со дня рождения

text: С. В. Кравков как психолог и психофизиолог

text: С. В. Кравков — выдающийся психофизиолог

text: Сергей Васильевич Кравков — жизнь и научная деятельность

text: Несколько штрихов к портрету С. В. Кравкова

text: Вопросы психологии, 1993’5

text: Итоги века. С. В. Кравков — выдающиеся достижения и несбывшиеся надежды

text: Кравков Сергей Васильевич (1893—1951) @ МГУ

text: В память о знаменитой династии

text: В Рязани открыли мемориальную доску выдающимся врачам Кравковым

text: В Рязани открыли памятную доску Василию Павловичу и Сергею Васильевичу Кравковым

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paragraph: Sergey Kravkov (psychologist)

paragraph: Sergey Vasilyevich Kravkov (Russian: Сергéй Васи́льевич Кравко́в; 1893–1951) was a Russian psychologist and psychophysiologist, Doctor of Science in Biology (1935), Corresponding Member of the Academy of Science of the USSR and the Academy of Medical Science of the USSR (1946). He is considered one of the founders of physiological optics, a scientific discipline that studies physiological processes, physical and psychic regularities which characterize the functioning of the organs of human vision.

paragraph: Section::::Biography.

paragraph: Kravkov was born 31 May 1893 in Ryazan in the family of Vasily Pavlovich Kravkov (1859–1920), an army medical officer. At the time of his birth his father held a rank of a Court Councilor (VII grade of the Table of Ranks) and served as a senior physician in the 137th "Nezhinsky" Infantry Regiment based in Ryazan. The future scientist's mother, Elena Alexeyevna, née Lukina (1870 – c. 1922) came of a family of hereditary gentry in the Ryazan Governorate.

paragraph: From 1903 to 1911 Kravkov attended the First Ryazan Gimnasium. After leaving it, the future scientist was admitted to the Imperial Moscow University, where he studied at the Faculty of History and Philology. From 1912 Kravkov was also a student at the Lydia Schukina Psychology Institute attached to Moscow University and from 1915 worked there as an assistant. The beginning of Kravkov's scientific activity is considered to be his report "Objective psychology, its subject and significance", presented to the annual session of the Psychology Institute. The young scientist's abilities were highly appreciated by the Institute's Director, Professor Chelpanov.

paragraph: In 1916 Kravkov graduated from the University magna cum laude with a qualification in experimental psychology. He was left at the University's Psychology Chair to be prepared for the professor's rank.

paragraph: Working at the Psychology Institute (up to 1923) from 1920 to 1932, Kravkov was also a senior assistant of the Institute of Biological Physics of the People's Commissariat for Health of the RSFSR, where he worked under the guidance of academician Pyotr Lazarev. Those years he studied physics and mathematics and also started his own experimental research of physiology of the eyesight. Kravkov carried out an active pedagogical work in Moscow higher institutions: from 1924 to 1929 he was a senior lecturer at the Higher Art and Technical Studios (Vkhutemas), teaching colorimetry, since 1927 he had been associated professor on physiological optics at the Light Technical Department of the Moscow Energy Institute. In 1932 the scientist became professor of physiological optics of the Moscow Energy Institute. In addition to that since 1920 Kravkov had carried on pedagogical and research work in a number of Moscow higher institutions — the Military Pedagogical Academy, the Moscow Plekhanov Institute of People's Economy, the State Academy of Arts, the All-Union Electrical Engineering Institute, etc.

paragraph: In 1935, on the basis of a career of published works, Kravkov was awarded a scientific rank of Doctor of Science in Biology with the qualification in psychophysiology of the eyesight. From 1935 to 1938 he was professor of physiology chair of the biological faculty of the Moscow State University.

paragraph: Since 1936 Kravkov had headed the Laboratory of Physiological Optics at the State Central Helmholtz Institute of Ophthalmology (now the Moscow Helmholtz Scientific Research Institute of Eye Diseases), created by him and laternamed after him. At the same time Kravkov headed the Laboratory of Perception Psychophysiology at the Psychology Institute of the Academy of Pedagogical Science.

paragraph: During World War II Kravkov worked in a neurosurgical hospital at the problems of rehabilitation of the eyesight. Since 1945 he had created and had been in charge of the Laboratory of Physiological Optics at the Philosophy Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1946 to 1951 he was professor of philosophy faculty of the Moscow State University.

paragraph: Kravkov was an Academic Secretary (since 1943) and Vice Chairman of the Commission on Physiological Optics at the Biological Department at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He was also a member of the Commission on lightning engineering at the Department of Technical Sciences at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1947–1951).

paragraph: In 1946 Kravkov was elected corresponding member of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1947 he was given a title of Honoured Scientist of the RSFSR.

paragraph: On the initiative of the academician Mikhail Averbakh in 1941 an issue of a specialized periodical publication "Problemy fisiologicheskoi optiki" (Problems of physiological optics) was launched. From 1941 to 1951 Kravkov was its permanent editor.

paragraph: During the decades of academic activity, Kravkov became the author of more than one hundred scientific works. The main of them are "Samonablyudeniye" (Self-observation, 1922), "Vnusheniye (psikhologiya i pedagogika vnusheniya)" (Suggestion, its psychology and pedagogics, 1924), "Ocherk psikhologii" (Essay on psychology, 1925), "Glaz i ego rabota" (Eye and its functions, 1932), "Ocherk obschey psikhofiziologii organov chuvstv" (Essay on general psychophysiology of sense organs, 1946) "Vzaimodeystviye organov chuvstv" (Interaction of sense organs, 1948), "Tsvetovoe zreniye" (Colour eyesight, 1951). In cooperation with N. Vishnevsky, Kravkov designed and constructed a special device for definition of the normality of twilight vision, that was being mass-produced for the Red Army needs during the Great Patriotic War. Kravkov brought up a number of prominent Soviet scientists.

paragraph: Kravkov died 16 March 1951 in Moscow and was buried at the Danilovskoye Cemetery.

paragraph: Section::::Scientific activity.

paragraph: Kravkov's scientific activity went on from 1916 up to 1951. It can be divided into four periods: the first one, of early creative activity (1916–1930), that took place in difficult conditions of postrevolutionary coming into being of Soviet psychology; the second one (1930–1941), mainly connected to investigations in the field of interaction of sense organs; the third one (1941–1945), chiefly directed to the solution of tasks connected with the country’s defense during World War II; the fourth one (1945–1951), that coincides with the scientist’s work at the Psychology Institute of the Academy of Pedagogical Science, at the State Central Helmholtz Institute of Ophthalmology, at the Psychology Sector of the Philosophy Institute of the Academy of Science of the USSR, where Kravkov kept on an extending research of the interaction of the senses organs and problems of colour eyesight.

paragraph: For this period Kravkov published more than one hundred original research works. Many of them were translated and published in Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, UK, US. Kravkov’s monograph "Glaz i ego rabota" (Eye and its functions) was considered the best combined work on psychophysiology of the eyesight. It had four editions in the USSR and was translated in a number of foreign countries.

paragraph: Kravkov’s wide range of scientific interests included: adaptation and interaction of the senses organs, contrast, successive images, synesthesia, bioelectricity of different levels of visual system (retina, cerebral subcortex and cortex), interaction of macular and peripheral spheres of the retina, induction of retina, electrophysiology of the eyesight (electric sensibility of the eye, lability,

paragraph: electroretinogram), colour eyesight and its anomalies, sensorial classical conditioning, glaucoma diagnosis methods (by colour sensation and by the reaction of a blind spot) and many other items.

paragraph: Kravkov is one of the founders of physiological optics, a scientific discipline representing a synthesis of knowledge about physiological, psychical and psychological regularities that characterize the function of the eyesight organ. He studied the regularities of the functioning of the vision system, central regulation of vision functions, interaction of senses organs, electrophysiology of vision, investigated colour vision and the hygienics of lightning.

paragraph: Numerous experiments carried out by Kravkov, his disciples and colleagues, helped to find out functional ties between colour vision systems, between the sensitivity to red and green colours, and to understand antagonistic relation between them. The same functional dependence was found out in the sensitivity to yellow and blue colours. A relation of assistance between green and blue sensitive systems was discovered.

paragraph: In the years of World War II the themes of Kravkov's researches were linked to the practical needs of the Red Army: he dealt with the problems of observation efficiency, improvement of camuflage, reconnaissance, worked out methods to oppose the eye dazzling by searchlights, methods to fight against snow blinding and the senses organs hypersensitivity.

paragraph: Section::::Family.

paragraph: Since 1920 Kravkov was married to Nina Kolosova (1894–1985), daughter of archpriest Pavel Kolosov (c. 1853–1923), bishop of Yelisavetgrad from 1921 to 1923. She was a pianist, later lecturer of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Their son Yuriy Kravkov (1921–2003), Major General of Medical Service, directed the Nikolai Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital from 1973 to 1983.

paragraph: Section::::Memory.

paragraph: By the order of the Minister of Health Care of the RSFSR Mariya Kovrigina # 616 of November 28, 1951, the Department of Physiological Optics of the State Central Helmholtz Institute of Ophthalmology was named after Kravkov. Nowadays the Kravkov Laboratory of Clinic Vision Physiology is one of the structural branches of the Moscow Helmholtz Scientific Research Institute of Eye Diseases.

paragraph: Section::::Selected bibliography (English, German, French).

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov, S. W. Über die Helligkeits und Adaptationskurven der total Farbenblinden / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 118, issue 2, 25. Februar, 1927, pp. 285–29

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. Über die Richtung der Farbentransformation / Psychologische Forschung, 10 (1928), pp. 20–31

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V., Paulsen-Bashmakova V. A. Über die kontrasterregende Wirkung der transformierten Farben / Psychologische Forschung, 12 (1929), pp. 88–93

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. W. Über eine zentrale Beeinflussung der Sehschärfe / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 124, issue 1, 29. April 1930, pp. 76–86

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov, S. W. Über die Abhängigkeit der Sehschärfe vom Schallreiz / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 124, issue 2, May 1930. pp. 334–338

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov, S. W. Die Unterschiedsempfindlichkeit der Netzhautperipherie beim Dämmerungssehen / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 127, issue 1, 23. September 1931, pp. 86–99

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. W. Über die Beeinflussung der Unterschiedsempfindlichkeit des Auges durch Nebenreize / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 128, issue 1, 22. Februar 1932, pp. 105–111

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov, S. W. Über die Beeinflussung der Unterschiedsempfindlichkeit des Auges durch Nebenreize / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 129, issue 2, 24. November 1932, p. 298

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. Über ein Grundgesetz der Farbentransformation / Psychologische Forschung, 16 (1932), pp. 160–165

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. W. Der Lichtirradiationseffekt im Auge in seiner Abhängigkeit von den Gesichts-, Gehörs- und Geruchsnebenreizen / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 129, issue 3, 21. Januar 1933, pp. 440–451

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. W., Semenovskaja E. N. Steigerung der Lichtempfindlichkeit des Auges durch vorangehende Lichtreize / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 139, issue 4, 22. September 1933, pp. 513–526

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. W. Sehschärfe und Beleuchtung beim Unterscheiden weißer Objekte auf schwarzem Grunde / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 131, issue 3, 20. Dezember 1933, pp. 452–457

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov, S. W., Semenovskaja E. N. Zur Frage der Abhängigkeit der Sehfunktion vom längeren Hungern / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 132, issue 4, 8. August 1934. pp. 370–371

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov, S. W. Die Unterschiedsempfindlichkeit eines Auges unter dem Einfluß vom Schall oder Beleuchtung des anderen Auges / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 132, issue 4, 8. August 1934, pp. 421–429

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov, S. W., Belitzky G. S. Die Abhängigkeit des Lichtirradiationseffektes im Auge von der Lichtintensität, Kontrast und Nebenreizwirkung / Albrecht Von Græfes Archiv für Ophthalmologie, vol. 132, issue 4, 8. August, 1934, pp. 379–398

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. Changes of visual acuity in one eye under the influence of the illumination of the other or of acoustic stimuli / Journal for experimental psychology. Vol. 12, No 6, December 1934, pp. 805–812

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. Action des excitations auditives sur la fréquence critique des papillotements lumineux / Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 13, Issue 3–4, September 1935, pp. 260–272

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. The influence of sound upon the light and color sensibility of the eye / Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 14, Issue 3–4, June 1936, pp. 348–360

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S.V. Effect of indirect light stimulation as a function of the intensity of a direct stimulus / Acta Ophthalmologica, 1937, Volume 15, Issue 1, March 1937, pp. 96–103

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. The influence of acoustic stimulation upon the colour sensibility of a protanopic eye /Аcta Ophthalmologica, Volume 15, Issue 3, October 1937, pp. 337–342

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. The influence of the dark adaptation on the critical frequency of flicker for monochromatic lights / Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 16, Issue 2–3, September 1938, pp. 375–384

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. Illumination and visual acuity / Acta Ophthalmologicа, Volume 16, Issue 2–3, September 1938, pp. 385–395

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. The influence of the loudness of the indirect sound stimulus on the color sensitivity of the eye / Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 17, Issue 3, October 1939, pp. 324–331

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S.V. The influence of odors upon color vision / Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 17, Issue 4, December 1939, pp. 426–442

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S.V. The influence of caffeine on the color sensitivity / Acta Ophthalmologica, Volume 17, Issue 1, March 1939, pp. 89–94

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V., Galochkina L. P. Effect of a constant current on vision /Journal of the Optical Society of America, Volume 37, Issue 3, 1947, pp. 181–185

paragraph: BULLET::::- Kravkov S. V. Das Farbensehen. [Übers. aus d. Russ. von P. Klemm] Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1955.

paragraph: Section::::References.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ашрафьян И.Б. Психологические и психофизиологические исследования С.В. Кравкова: автореф. дис…. канд. психол. наук / И.Б. Ашрафьян. – М., 1973. – 26 с.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Бунин А.Я. Сергей Васильевич Кравков – жизнь и научная деятельность / А.Я. Бунин, Г.К. Гуртовой, А.А. Яковлев // Вопросы психологии. – 1993. – №5. – С. 92-93.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Колен А.А.Профессор Сергей Васильевич Кравков / А.А.Колен // Вопросы физиологии и патологии зрения: сборник статей. – М.: Медгиз, 1950. – С. 5-8.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Котова И.Б. С.В. Кравков как исихолог и психофизиолог / И.Б. Котова // Вопросы психологии. – 1982. – №4. – С. 50-60.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Лаврова Л.Н. С.В. Кравков (1893–1951) / Л.Н. Лаврова // Научные труды Ряз. мед. ин-та им. акад. И.П.Павлова. – Рязань, 1964. – Т.18, вып.2. – С. 44-47.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Машков В.В. Сергей Васильевич Кравков / В.В. Машков // Светотехника. – 1961.- №3. – С. 16-18.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Сергей Васильевич Кравков: (Некролог) / И. Авербах [и др.] // Офтальмол. журн. – 1951. – №2. – С. 96.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Сергей Васильевич Кравков // Сто великих психологов (сост. В. Яровицкий) – Москва, "Вече" 2004 – С. 66-69

paragraph: BULLET::::- Узбекова Д.Г. Кравковы: два поколения ученых из Рязани / Д.Г.Узбекова – М.:Вече, 2014 – 352 с.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Узбекова Д.Г. С.В.Кравков – выдающийся психофизиолог / Д.Г. Узбекова // Вопросы психологии. – 1993 № 5. – С.95-98.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ярошевский М.Г. Несколько штрихов к портрету С.В. Кравкова / М.Г. Ярошевский // Вопросы психологии. – 1993. – №5. – С. 94-95.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

paragraph: BULLET::::- Зуева М.В. (2013). Сергей Васильевич Кравков — 120 лет со дня рождения

paragraph: BULLET::::- Котова, И. Б. (1982). С. В. Кравков как психолог и психофизиолог// Вопросы психологии

paragraph: BULLET::::- Узбекова, Д. Г. (1993). С. В. Кравков — выдающийся психофизиолог// Вопросы психологии

paragraph: BULLET::::- Бунин, А. Я., Гуртовой, Г. К. и Яковлев, А. А. (1993). Сергей Васильевич Кравков — жизнь и научная деятельность// Вопросы психологии

paragraph: BULLET::::- Ярошевский, М. Г. (1993). Несколько штрихов к портрету С. В. Кравкова// Вопросы психологии, 1993’5 с.94

paragraph: BULLET::::- Умрюхин (2002). Итоги века. С. В. Кравков — выдающиеся достижения и несбывшиеся надежды // Психологический журнал

paragraph: BULLET::::- Кравков Сергей Васильевич (1893—1951) @ МГУ

paragraph: BULLET::::- В память о знаменитой династии

paragraph: BULLET::::- В Рязани открыли мемориальную доску выдающимся врачам Кравковым

paragraph: BULLET::::- В Рязани открыли памятную доску Василию Павловичу и Сергею Васильевичу Кравковым

description: Russian physiologist, university teacher and psychologist (1893-1951)

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paragraph: McLeod Bethel-Thompson

paragraph: McLeod John Baltazar Bethel-Thompson (born July 3, 1988) is an American professional Canadian football quarterback for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at UCLA and Sacramento State. He is the grandson of the 1948 Olympic shot put champion Wilbur 'Moose' Thompson. Bethel-Thompson is a journeyman quarterback having been a member of five different NFL teams, two CFL teams, and one team in both the Arena Football League and the United Football League.

paragraph: Section::::High school career.

paragraph: Bethel-Thompson graduated from San Francisco's Balboa High School in 2006, where he played football, basketball, and baseball. He was the City's Football Player of the Year in 2006 and its Back of the Year in 2005. In 2004 and 2005, he led his team to the Turkey Bowl, the City's annual championship, held on Thanksgiving Day in Kezar Stadium. Legendary.

paragraph: Section::::College career.

paragraph: After a redshirt year at UCLA in 2006, Bethel-Thompson shared the Bruins' quarterback duties in the 2007 season. He started in the 2007 Las Vegas Bowl where the Bruins lost to BYU. Bethel saw action in five games for UCLA in 2007, completing 23 of 55 passes for 293 yards, with one touchdown and five interceptions.

paragraph: Bethel-Thompson played at Sacramento State from 2008 to 2010. In three seasons at Sacramento State, Bethel-Thompson appeared in 12 games, completing 113 of 197 passes for 1,322 yards, with seven touchdowns and eight interceptions.

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paragraph: Section::::Professional career.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Jose SaberCats.

paragraph: After going undrafted in the 2011 NFL Draft, Bethel-Thompson joined the San Jose SaberCats of the Arena Football League. During three games played, Bethel-Thompson completed 20 out of 43 passes for 220 yards, 3 touchdowns, and 1 interception, as well as 2 rushes for 24 yards.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers.

paragraph: Bethel-Thompson played for the San Francisco 49ers for a short time, and was expected to be the third-string quarterback for the 49ers after Josh McCown was cut, but was later cut himself.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Sacramento Mountain Lions.

paragraph: On September 3, 2011, Bethel-Thompson signed with the Sacramento Mountain Lions. Bethel-Thompson competed with Jordan Palmer, former Fresno State quarterback Ryan Colburn, and Trevor Harris for the starting job. Bethel-Thompson ended up starting the last two games at quarterback over Colburn. Palmer was released and Harris signed with the Orlando Predators.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Miami Dolphins.

paragraph: Later in 2011, Bethel-Thompson signed to the Miami Dolphins practice squad.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minnesota Vikings.

paragraph: Bethel-Thompson signed a future contract with the Minnesota Vikings on January 13, 2012. He was named to the 53-man active roster just before the start of the 2012 regular season after beating out veteran Sage Rosenfels for the third-string quarterback job. He was released on October 8, 2013, when the Vikings signed Josh Freeman.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers (II).

paragraph: Bethel-Thompson was claimed off waivers by the San Francisco 49ers from the Minnesota Vikings on October 9, 2013. He was put on waivers by the 49ers on November 26, 2013, then signed to the practice squad a day later. He was signed to a reserve/future deal and was activated to the active roster on January 23, 2014. The 49ers waived Bethel-Thompson on August 25, 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:New England Patriots.

paragraph: He was signed to the New England Patriots practice squad on August 31, 2014.

paragraph: He was released by the Patriots on September 9, 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Minnesota Vikings (II).

paragraph: He was signed by the Vikings on September 22, 2014 to the Vikings' practice squad. The signing came in part due to the injury to Matt Cassel, leaving the Vikings with only two healthy quarterbacks on the roster, in Teddy Bridgewater and Christian Ponder. After Bridgewater's week 4 injury, Chandler Harnish was signed to the practice squad and eventually the active roster to back up Ponder in Week 5 against the Green Bay Packers, leaving Bethel-Thompson on the practice squad. He was released from the team on October 7, 2014.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Miami Dolphins (II).

paragraph: On October 15, 2014, Bethel-Thompson was signed to the Miami Dolphins' practice squad. He was released on September 5, 2015 as part of the Dolphins' final roster cuts. On September 6, 2015, Bethel-Thompson was signed to the Miami Dolphins' practice squad. On September 9, 2015, he was released by the Dolphins.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:San Francisco 49ers (III).

paragraph: On November 23, 2015, Bethel-Thompson was signed to the 49ers' practice squad.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Philadelphia Eagles.

paragraph: On February 18, 2016, Bethel-Thompson was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles. On May 17, 2016, Bethel-Thompson was released by Eagles. He was re-signed by the team on July 24, 2016. On September 3, 2016, he was released by the Eagles.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

paragraph: Bethel-Thompson was signed to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers' practice roster on September 20, 2016. He was released by the team on October 19, 2016.

paragraph: Section::::Professional career.:Toronto Argonauts.

paragraph: In April, Bethel-Thompson played with a startup developmental minor league, The Spring League. Players were scouted by numerous NFL and CFL teams during the practices and two games played, and Bethel-Thompson earned an invite to workout at a minicamp for the New York Jets. He was not offered a contract following the Jets minicamp, and on May 23, 2017, Bethel-Thompson signed with the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League. During the 2 game preseason, Bethel-Thompson started at quarterback in one game, and completed 5 passes out of 13 attempts, throwing for 78 yards, and rushing for 1 yard for a first down on a quarterback sneak. In an unusual use of a quarterback, he also played as a defensive back in the first preseason game, and on special teams in the second. Bethel-Thompson recorded 2 tackles and an interception on defense, plus 2 special teams tackles on kickoffs. Following the release of CFL veteran Drew Willy, Bethel-Thompson made the Argonauts roster as the 4th quarterback. It was an irregular decision given that the Argonauts elected to keep an additional quarterback on their practice roster, giving them a total of 5 quarterbacks, whereas most CFL teams keep only the required 3 quarterbacks as part of their active roster. On June 24, Bethel-Thompson was placed on the 6-game injured list, and received several extensions. Coming off the injured list after 13 weeks, Bethel-Thompson made his debut on September 23, backing up Argos starter, and fellow Sacramento State alumni Ricky Ray. Bethel-Thompson entered the game during garbage time, and completed his only pass attempt for 8 yards in the 33-19 victory over the Montreal Alouettes. After going 2/2 for 10 yards during the regular season, Bethel-Thompson's Argonauts won the 105th Grey Cup over the Calgary Stampeders. Among the Calgary players activated for this CFL championship game was Ricky Stanzi, Bethel-Thompson's opposing quarterback from the Spring League.

paragraph: Bethel-Thompson was named the Argos starting quarterback in Week 8 of the 2018 season after Ricky Ray was out for the season with a neck injury and backup quarterback James Franklin was ineffective in his first four starts. In his first CFL start Bethel-Thompson and the Argos overcame a 24-point deficit to defeat the Ottawa Redblacks 42-41, with Bethel-Thompson completing a 23-yard pass to Armanti Edwards for the game winning score with one second left in the game. After beating the Lions the following week Bethel-Thompson would go on to start and lose the next six games, resulting in the Argos being eliminated from playoff contention. James Franklin was announced as the team's Week 18 starter.

paragraph: Bethel-Thompson began the 2019 season as the Argos backup quarterback behind James Franklin. However, Bethel-Thompson was announced the starting quarterback after Franklin was placed on the six-game injured reserve list following the team's Week 3 loss.

paragraph: Section::::Personal life.

paragraph: He is the grandson of the 1948 Olympic shot put champion Wilbur 'Moose' Thompson. He is also of Scottish and Salvadoran descent through his grandmother.

paragraph: Section::::External links.

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