Edward Hirsch

Edward M. Hirsch (born January 20, 1950) is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published nine books of poems, including "The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems" (2010), which brings together thirty-five years of work, and "Gabriel: A Poem" (2014), a book-length elegy for his son that "The New Yorker" called "a masterpiece of sorrow." He has also published five prose books about poetry. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City.
Life.
Hirsch was born in Chicago. He had a childhood involvement with poetry, which he later explored at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in folklore.
Hirsch was a professor of English at Wayne State University. In 1985, he joined the faculty at the University of Houston, where he spent 17 years as a professor in the Creative Writing Program and Department of English. He was appointed the fourth president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation on September 3, 2002. He holds seven honorary degrees.
Career.
Hirsch is a well-known advocate for poetry whose essays have been published in the "American Poetry Review", "The New York Times Book Review", "The New York Review of Books", and elsewhere. He wrote a weekly column on poetry for "The Washington Post Book World" from 2002-2005, which resulted in his book "Poet’s Choice" (2006). His other prose books include "Responsive Reading" (1999), "The Demon and the Angel: Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration" (2002), and "A Poet's Glossary" (2014), a complete compendium of poetic terms. He is the editor of "Transforming Vision: Writers on Art" (1994), "Theodore Roethke’s Selected Poems" (2005) and "To a Nightingale" (2007). He is the co-editor of "A William Maxwell Portrait: Memories and Appreciations" and "The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology" (2008). He also edits the series "The Writer’s World" (Trinity University Press).
Hirsch's first collection of poems, "For the Sleepwalkers", received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. His second book, "Wild Gratitude", received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and a five-year MacArthur Fellowship in 1997. He received the William Riley Parker Prize from the Modern Language Association for the best scholarly essay in "PMLA" for the year 1991. He has also received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He is a former Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Hirsch's book, "How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry" (1999), was a surprise bestseller and is widely taught throughout the country.


Viktor Fainberg

Viktor Isaakovich Fainberg (, born 26 November 1931, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a philologist, prominent figure of the dissident movement in the Soviet Union, participant of the 1968 Red Square demonstration, and the director of the Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuse.
Biography.
Viktor Fainberg was born to the married couple of Isaac Fainberg and Sarah Dashevskaya. In his life as a child, while attending school during an antisemitic campaign of 1948-1952, he was subjected to harassment that, in his own words, he did not reconcile himself to, but entered the fray with an abuser. As the result of these frays, he got a referral to a psychiatrist.
In 1957, in connection with antisemitic insult, he had a fight with a policeman and for this reason was sentenced to 1 year of corrective labor.
In 1968, he graduated from the English unit of the philological department of the Leningrad University where he defended his diploma thesis about writer Salinger with distinction. In the summer of 1968, Fainberg worked as a guide for the Pavlovsk Palace.
Viktor Fainberg was one of the seven persons who participated in the 1968 Red Square demonstration against the intervention into Czechoslovakia. During the demonstration and his arrest, he lost many teeth and in this unpresentable state was never presented for trial; instead, he was placed to a psychiatric hospital.
Fainberg was examined by the Serbsky Institute commission composed of G.V. Morozov, D.R. Lunts and Y.L. Lindau. In their act No 35 / s dated October 10, 1968, they did not mention the invasion of Czechoslovakia, which gave rise to this demonstration, the action was merely described as 'disorderly conduct at Red Square,' and Fainberg's mental condition was described as follows:
As a result, he was committed for compulsory treatment to the Special Psychiatric Hospital in Leningrad where he was confined from January 1969 to February 1973.
At the hospital, Fainberg went on hunger strike in protest, was subjected to forced feeding and was treated with chlorpromazine despite his hyperthyroidism that was somatic contraindication to chlorpromazine therapy.
Marina Vaykhanskaya, a psychiatrist at the hospital, assisted Fainberg by passing information about him to dissidents outside. She was dismissed for this activity which helped Fainberg be released. In 1974, they married and emigrated from the Soviet Union.
In emigration, Fainberg has initiated the formation of "Campaign Against Psychiatric Abuses" (CAPA) to fight punitive psychiatry in the USSR. In 1983, the Soviet Union was expelled from the World Psychiatric Association (WPA).
Other.
On October 27, 2014, along with other 3 dissenters from summer of 1968, Viktor Fainberg was decorated by Slovak President Andrej Kiska for his show of solidarity to Czechoslovakia. He received the Medal of the President of the Slovak republic along with Vladimir Dremlyuga and Pavel Litvinov. Natalya Gorbanevskaya received the highest Slovak award, Order of the White Double Cross, in memoriam.
Renowned British playwright Tom Stoppard wrote the play "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" dedicated to Vladimir Bukovsky and Viktor Fainberg.
Viktor has daughter, Sarah, who is a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv.
Video.
The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes videotaped Fainberg's spoken autobiography in Russian:


Swetha Suresh

Swetha Suresh (born 5 September 1991) first Indian woman to win two first prizes in the World Whistling Convention from India. Swetha is commonly called as Whistling Queen, an accomplished Bharathanatyam dancer and classical singer. She is also a member of the lesser-known Indian Whistlers Association alongside 400 other whistling enthusiasts. She has performed in more than 6,000 shows. She is an Audio engineer by academics.
World Whistling Convention.
Swetha being a trained classical singer and Bharathanatyam dancer at a very young age, is now training herself in western-classical too. Swetha became the first Indian woman to win two first prizes in the World Whistling Convention 2016 held at Kawasaki, Japan which saw participation from a total of 6 countries including, Japan, India, Australia, Korea, the United States, and Venezuela. Popularly known as the ‘Whistling Queen’ in the Indian Whistling Association, she now stands as the first female whistler in the country and is also in the number one position in Asia.
She danced and whistled simultaneously and won the world whistling queen title at World Whistling Convention 2016 in Japan.


Victor Masayesva Jr.

Victor Masayesva Jr. (born 1951) is a Hopi filmmaker, video-artist, and photographer. Born on the Hopi Reservation of Arizona, and growing up in Hotevilla, Masayesva's artistic career reflects his active participation with the Hopi community, his body of work promoting Hopi culture and worldview. Scholar Martin Padget considers Masayesva "one of the most influential Indigenous filmmakers and photographers of his generation." Masayesva's films and photographs are diverse and complex in nature, often employing diverse visual language, and an experimental approach towards media. The majority of his films are in Hopi language and are destined for his community, especially to pass-on traditional teachings to youth. Masayesva has also been personally involved in promoting indigenous media, both in the United States and internationally.
Education and early career.
As a teenager, Masayesva was recruited to attend the Horace Mann School in New York. He later studied Hopi ceremonies and English at Princeton University. and pursued graduate studies in English and Photography at the University of Arizona. Following his studies, Masayesva became the director of Hotevilla's Ethnic Heritage Program, where, in 1980, he created a program to teach Hopi language and values in community schools and trained Hopi high school students in video production.
Notable works.
"Hopiit" (1982): Created from footage he had shot during the Ethnic Heritage program, Masayesva's first film is a documentary short intended for a Hopi audience, presenting a "montage of different views of Hopi landscapes and people during the cycle of a year".
"Itam Hakim, Hopiit" (1985): In Masayesva's first feature-length documentary, a tribal elder from the Hopi historian's clan recounts stories of Hopi history and philosophy, which Masayesva interprets through visual imagery. Diverging from documentary tradition, the film uses a variety of camera techniques and changes of perspectives (2). Scholar Sonja Bahn-Coblans writes that in the documentary, "the Eurocentric perception of time and space has distinct difficulty in coping with the 'spherical' and 'cyclical' perceptions of the Native American." Made to commemorate the Hopi Tercentennial 1680-1980, the film received funding from German national television (ZDF) and although initially released in Hopi in the United States, after receiving distribution opportunities Masayesva created an English version.
With growing interest in his work from cultural outsiders, Masayesva's succeeding films engaged with misconceptions of Hopi culture and were destined for non-indigenous audiences, beginning with "Ritual Clowns" (1988), which uses computer animation and plays with color to explore Hopi pottery. His next two documentaries were commissioned for museums and both explore traditions in Native American ceramic-making: "Pott Starr" (1990), which also incorporates animation, and "Siskyavi: The Place of Chasms" (1991).
"Imagining Indians" (1993): Shot on 16mm film with an entirely Native-American crew, this feature-length documentary critiques representations of Native Americans in Hollywood and other forms of media. Masayesva visited indigenous communities in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Washington, and the Amazon to produce the film. It is considered one of Masayesva's "best-known and most critically debated film".
Awards and honours.
Masayesva received one of the first Intercultural Media Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, allowing him to use computer animation and graphics in his films. He has received the University of Arizona Distinguished Alumni Award, the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival the Two Rivers Visionary Award, the Taos Festival's distinguished filmmaker award, and the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award.
His video work has appeared in the Native American Film and Video Festival, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Long Beach Museum of Art, the World Wide Video Festival, the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, the San Francisco Art Institute, and the American Indian Contemporary Arts "Festival 2000".


Study of Exceptional Talent

The Julian C. Stanley Study of Exceptional Talent (SET) is an outgrowth of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) at Johns Hopkins University. Founded in 1971 by Professor Julian Stanley, SMPY pioneered the concept of above-grade-level testing of middle school students, using the SAT to identify exceptionally talented mathematical reasoners, then offering rigorous academic programs for students who exhibit exceptional reasoning ability.
History.
In 1979, Center for Talented Youth (CTY) was created as an independent entity to administer the Johns Hopkins Talent Search and summer programs, while Dr. Stanley continued to focus on offering educational counseling to the ablest mathematical reasoners throughout the United States. SET was created in 1991, with a commitment to serve verbally as well as mathematically talented students.
Eligibility.
Students qualify for SET by scoring at least 700 on either the Math or Verbal (Critical Reading) SAT Reasoning Test before age 13 years. Students who take the SAT after their 13th birthday may qualify for SET by scoring an additional 10 points above 700 for each month or fraction of a month of age after their 13th birthday. Thus, a student who takes the SAT Reasoning Test two months and two weeks after his or her 13th birthday would qualify for SET with a score of at least 720 on either the SAT-Math or SAT-Verbal.


Lorna Bourg

Lorna Bourg is President/Executive Director of the Southern Mutual Help Association (SMHA).
Biography.
She graduated from St. Joseph's Academy and received a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, from Harvard University's JFK School of Government in the Sr. Executive's Program, and studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as the University of Wisconsin's Extension Program Community Development.
She designed and implemented the Building Rural Communities Program for Economic Development. She designed, and implemented a loan fund for low-income rural homeowners. In 1997, she helped design and implement a pilot programs of the Rural Home Loan Partnership.


Edward Rondthaler

Edward Rondthaler (June 9, 1905 – August 19, 2009) was a typographer as well as a simplified spelling champion and chairman of the American Literacy Council. He was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. A longtime resident of the village of Croton-on-Hudson, New York, Rondthaler became a centenarian in 2005.
Early life.
Rondthaler received his first small printing press at the age of 5, thus starting his career in the graphic arts. Working in New York in the 1930s, he associated with Harold Horman of the Rutherford Machinery Co. Together they adapted a step-and-repeat machine (for texture and metal printing) for photographic lettering, and in 1936 founded Photo Lettering Inc.
In 1969, Rondthaler associated with Aaron Burns and Herb Lubalin in founding the International Typeface Corporation. For several decades, ITC furnished manufacturers of photographic, electronic and laser equipment, a plethora of superb typefaces.
In later life, Rondthaler became interested in promoting the spelling reform of the English language as a means of fighting illiteracy. He was also an avid historian.
Longevity.
Rondthaler credited his long and healthy life to clean living, good genes, and regular cold showers. In an interview with CNN Ed stated "When my brother in 1918 came home from the army, he said, 'Ed, whenever you take a hot shower, end it with an ice cold one and count to 100. When your older brother tells you to do something, you do it," he said.
Rondthaler wrote a weekly letter to the editor of the local newspaper. Formerly very active in his community, for reasons of health he moved to Utah in 2008 to be closer to his family. He died of natural causes in Utah on August 19, 2009, at the age of 104.
Personal life.
Edward Rondthaler was the son of Howard Rondthaler, a Moravian bishop and president of Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his wife Katharine Boring, the daughter of a Philadelphia pharmacist. His grandfather (Rev. Edward Rondthaler) was a Moravian church bishop. Rondthaler spent his youth in Salem, North Carolina.
Rondthaler married Dorothy (Dot) Reid in 1930. They were married for 72 years up until her death in 2002. The Rondthalers had 3 sons.
Commercials.
Since turning 100 Rondthaler had been featured in a number of commercials which had led to his most recent notoriety.


Majora Carter

Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an American urban revitalization strategist and public radio host from the South Bronx area of New York City. Carter founded and led the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx from 2001 onward, before entering the private sector in 2008.
Early life.
Carter was born in South Bronx, New York where she attended the Head Start Program and primary schools. After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, she entered Wesleyan University in 1984 to study film and went on to obtain a Bachelor of Arts. In 1997, she received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University (NYU). While at NYU, she returned to her family's home in Hunts Point, and later worked for The Point Community Development Corporation.
While Associate Director of The POINT Community Development Corporation, Carter initiated the development of Hunts Point Riverside Park. Carter was "pulled by her dog into a weedy vacant lot strewn with trash at the dead end of Lafayette Avenue. As the pair plowed through the site they ended up, much to Carter's surprise, on the banks of the Bronx River."
From there, Carter secured a $10,000 grant from a USDA Forest Service program to provide seed money for river access restoration projects. Over a five-year period she worked with other community members and the Parks Department to help leverage that seed money into more than $3 million from the mayor's budget. The money was used to build the park into the Rudy Bruner award-winning iteration which re-opened in 2006.
Career.
Advocacy.
In August 2001, after exploring and then declining to engage in a campaign for NY City Council, Carter founded Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), where she served as executive director until July 2008. During that time, SSBx advocated the development of the Hunt's Point Riverside Park which had been an illegal garbage dump. Carter was a co-founder of the Bronx River Alliance [bronxriveralliance.org], and SSBx continued to carry on Carter's involvement in Bronx River waterfront restoration projects. In 2003, Sustainable South Bronx started the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training program, one of the nation's first urban green collar training and placement systems. Other SSBx projects have centered around fitness, food choices (including the creation of a community market), and air quality.
In 2007, Carter co-founded Green for All with Van Jones. A December 2008 "New York Times" profile called Carter "The Green Power Broker" and "one of the city's best-known advocates for environmental justice" but reported that some South Bronx activists (who would not go on record) stated that Carter has taken credit for accomplishments when others should share the credit as well as taking credit for uncompleted projects. Other Bronx activists (who did agree to be named) stated that her recognition was well deserved.
Carter was a torch-bearer for a portion of the San Francisco leg of the torch relay of the 2008 Summer Olympics. Many portions of the torch relay, including the San Francisco leg, were met with protests concerning the policies of the Chinese government toward Tibet. Although Carter had signed a contract pledging not to use an Olympic venue for political or religious causes, when she and John Caldera were passed the torch during their part of the relay, she pulled out a small Tibetan flag that she had concealed in her shirt sleeve.
Members of the Chinese torch security escort team pulled her out of the relay and San Francisco police officers pushed her into the crowd on the side of the street. Fellow torch-bearer, retired NYFD firefighter Richard Doran, who was making his own personal and political statement by wearing a helmet to refer to the firefighters who died in the September 11 attacks, called Carter's actions "disgusting and appalling" and said that he thought "she dishonored herself and her family". Another torch-bearer, retired NYPD police officer Jim Dolan, agreed with Doran.
Media.
Majora Carter's TED talk was one of the first six publicly released talks to launch the TED.com website in 2006. Carter has made appearances in, and/or written, and produced television and radio programs, including HBO's The Black List volume 2, American Public Media's Market Place, and PRX's "This I Believe" series and has hosted several pieces on urban sustainability with Discovery Communications' Science Channel.
She has been featured in corporate promotional videos and advertisements for companies such as Cisco Systems, Frito-Lay, Intel, Holiday Inn, HSBC, Visa, Mazda and Honda.
In 2014, Carter was the on-camera and voice over host of "Water Blues - Green Solutions", a one-hour documentary on Green Infrastructure in several American cities, produced by Pennsylvania State University TV for the Public TV Market. In 2015, Carter played "TSA Agent 1" opposite Meryl Streep in Ricky and the Flash, directed by Johnathon Demme.
From 2007 to 2010, Carter appeared on "The Green", a television segment dedicated to the environment, shown on the Sundance Channel. The first season consisted of a series of 90 second op-eds shot in studio. The second season consisted of a series of short interview pieces with individuals taking uncommon approaches to environmental problems.
In 2008, Carter and Marge Ostroushko co-produced the pilot episode of the public radio show, The Promised Land (radio), which won a 3-way competition for a Corporation for Public Broadcasting Talent Quest grant. The one-hour programs debuted on over 150 public radio stations across the US on January 19, 2009, was renewed for the 2010/2011 season, and earned a 2010 Peabody Award, but went unsupported by the public radio funding organizations after that period, and has since stopped production.
Carter co-authored a white paper on urban heat island mitigation and a peer-reviewed article, Elemental carbon and PM(2.5) levels in an urban community heavily impacted by truck traffic.
Consulting.
After leaving Sustainable South Bronx, Carter has served as president of a private consulting firm, Majora Carter Group, LLC (MCG). In the June 2010 issue of "Fast Company" magazine, Carter was listed as one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business. In 2014, B Corporation (certification) recognized MCG as one of the "Best for the World" according to its ranking among other B Corps of similar size.
In 2012, Carter's consulting firm, Majora Carter Group LLC (MCG) accepted FreshDirect as a client to help the company and local organizations connect prior to its proposed relocation to the Harlem River Yards in the South Bronx.
Activists opposed to the relocation, claimed New York City Government and FreshDirect failed to conduct sufficient environmental review and community outreach. A lawsuit and boycott campaign were initiated to stop the relocation. That lawsuit was dismissed, and a subsequent appeal was also dismissed; both were filed by New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Sustainable South Bronx, an organization Carter founded, opposed FreshDirect's move to the Bronx.
Subsequent votes by Bronx Community Board 1 and the NYC Industrial Development Agency both voted to approve the move to the Bronx.
South Bronx youth development NGO leader Maryann Hedaa stated that Carter "realizes that fighting poverty has to be a partnership between the public interests and the private interests." Regarding the negative attitude among Bronx activists towards Carter's position, Steve Ritz, founder of Green Bronx Machine, noted that "It's much easier to run your mouth than run a business."
The project broke ground December 22, 2014 and was scheduled to be completed before the end of 2016. FreshDirect started hiring in the Bronx ahead of its move in anticipation. Despite activist's concerns over increased truck traffic as a result of the new FreshDirect facility, no comparative studies showing before and after amounts of traffic or air borne pollutants from truck traffic were conducted, so it is not possible to conclusively state that a substantial negative effect occurred.
Tech-Economy Inclusion.
In 2007, while running Sustainable South Bronx, Majora Carter introduced MIT's first ever Mobile fab lab (digital fabrication laboratory) to the South Bronx, where it served as an early iteration of the "maker spaces" found elsewhere today. The project drew residents and visitors together for guided and creative collaborations.
In 2013, Carter joined the Advisory Board member of the Bronx Academy of Software Engineering High School. After Co-Founding StartUp Box #SouthBronx in 2012 as a social enterprise to seed diverse participation in the knowledge economy, she launched StartUp Box #QA (Quality Assurance testing services) which assisted in the launch of Mayor Bill DeBlasio's Digital.NYC in 2014. Carter then took StartUp Box to victory at the national Blogher Conference in 2015, winning the pitch contest with $250,000 worth of in-kind services from SheKnows Media.
The social enterprise eventually went on to win second place in both the MIT Inclusion Innovation and the Village Capital & Kapoor Capital People Ops Competitions in 2016, (each garnering a $25,000 prize), as well as the Digital Diversity Network's Code Breaker Award in 2016
She is a BusinessInsider.com 'Silicon Alley 100', and her 2006 TEDtalk was one of 6 to launch that groundbreaking site. Carter is also a co-founder of the Bronx Tech Meetup, which includes 700+ members. She served as a judge for the NYC Office of Digital Media's "Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge".
Awards and honors.
She is a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
References.
Notes


Namakura language

The Namakura language, "Makura" or "Namakir", is an Oceanic language of Vanuatu. The language is spoken in Shefa Province, north Efate, Tongoa, and Tongariki.


Friedrich Neumann

Friedrich Neumann (2 March 1889 – 12 December 1978) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.
Biography.
Friedrich Neumann was born Kassel, Germany on 2 March 1889. From 1907 to 1913, Neumann studied classical philology, German literature and philosophy at the universities of Marburg, Munich and Göttingen. He received his Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1914.
Neumann volunteered for service in the German Army during World War I, and served on the Western Front. Neumann completed his habilitation in philology at Göttingen in 1921. He subsequently served as a professor at the University of Leipzig.
Since 1927, Neumann was Professor of German Philology at the University of Göttingen. Among his students were , and Gottfried Höfer. At Göttingen, Neumann served as Rector from 1933 to 1938, and Vice Rector from 1938 to 1945. He was a member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1943 to 1945.
A member of the Nazi Party, Neumann was fired from the University of Göttingen and expelled from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1945. He was subsequently rehabilitated, and retired from the University with a pension in 1954. Neumann was awarded the Brothers Grimm Prize of the University of Marburg in 1971. He died in Göttingen on 12 December 1978.


Alabama School of Mathematics and Science

The Alabama School of Mathematics and Science (ASMS) is a public residential high school in the Midtown neighborhood of Mobile, Alabama. ASMS is a member of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools (NCSSS). It graduated its first class in 1993.
The school was founded in 1989 as a unique public-private partnership. The Alabama School of Mathematics and Science is part of the state government, while the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science Foundation coordinates private support. It was modeled after the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics and the Louisiana School for Math, Science, and the Arts where students complete their final two or three years of high school focusing on advanced studies in mathematics and the sciences. Although a boarding school, it does not charge for tuition, books, room, or board. The only fees include an annual student activity fee, which covers class trips and other day-to-day activities, along with an enrollment fee (for new students only), a PSAT fee, and a graduation fee. The annual student activity fee was $1,575 for the 2019 - 2020 school year. The school's focus is preparing its students for higher education, and residency is a requirement for all students.
ASMS's mascot is a dragon.
Academics.
All courses are taught at the Advanced Placement or Honors level. ASMS offers Advanced Placement courses in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science A, Environmental Science, Physics B, Physics C, Studio Art, English Literature and United States History. More than 40% of ASMS instructors hold terminal degrees, all have earned at least a master's degree, and nearly 100% have taught at the college level. According to Newsweek, the school was the third most effective in turning out college-ready graduates in the State of Alabama and 182nd nationally in 2012. The academic program, which is comprehensive in the sciences as well as the humanities, is complemented by varsity and intramural sports, residential life activities, and college counseling.
ASMS is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and is a member of the National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools, Science and Technology, or NCSSS.
Admission is open to all Alabama high school students via a process akin to college admissions. Initially, students could enter only as high school juniors, but in September 1998 the school also allowed sophomores to apply for entry. Students have been admitted as seniors, but this is extremely rare.
For the class of 2016, the average composite ACT score for the class of 2016 was 29.0 and 100% of the graduates matriculated on to institutions of higher education
Summer program.
ASMS also offers an academic summer camp for students entering the 6th through 9th grades. The Adventures In Math and Science summer program is typically held in June and enrolls roughly 1,000 students over the course of three weeks. Students from across Alabama can enroll in classes that are taught by ASMS instructors. Courses include: 3D Printing and Design; ACT Prep; All About Animals – Inside and Out; Apps for Smart Devices; Basic Geometry with Computers; CSI: Fun Forensics; Discovering the Alabama Outdoors; Drones and Race cars; Environmental Science; Estuaries: Where Rivers Meet the Sea; Exploring Inner Space; Game Design with Unity 3D; Geology of Minecraft; Invertebrate Zoology; Labs of Doom; Land, Sea, and Air: Basic Navigation, Buoyancy, and Energy of Propulsion; Learning Linux using the Raspberry Pi; Marine Biology; Meteorology; Phun Physics; Python Programming with Raspberry Pi; Robotics; Rocketry; and Studying Nature-Field Biology. The camp offers a residential program as well as a day-school program. AIMS runs for three week-long sessions. Each AIMS student takes three courses of their choice per week each weekday with a weekend interim period at a local waterpark for students staying more than one week. Admissions to AIMS is highly competitive. More than 50 percent of incoming, full-time students have attended the AIMS summer program. AIMS is made possible from the ASMSEA. ASMSEA stands for ASMS Educational Association and has hosted the many different camps available. The association decides which camps to host the cost and many other details involved. It has around 15 board members, but anyone can vote for a new program.
Facilities.
The school was formerly the site of Dauphin Way Baptist Church and underwent extensive alterations to create classrooms, laboratories, and dormitories. In May 2006, the school commenced groundbreaking on the first new building since the building of the Boy's Dorm. This construction demolished the old Student Activities Center (SAC), and was completed for the start of the 2007–08 academic year. The new building, called the Ann Smith Bedsole Building, as named after one of the main founders of the school, former State Senator Ann Bedsole. The Bedsole Building includes a new library, reception area, several classrooms and offices, a coffee room, TV/lounge room, and games room.
In previous years, the girls' dormitory was spread out over two buildings, floors one through four being in the girls' dorm building, while the "fifth floor" was actually on the fourth floor of the humanities building. At the end of the 2009–10 school year, faculty decided to close "fifth floor," and it was used as storage for extra furniture. Following the 2016–17 school year the floor was renovated to become the Honor hall. The boys' dormitory is contained in one two-story building. Both the boys' and girls' dorms are divided into four halls- Einstein, Curie, Newton, and Da Vinci- which compete in several contests, such as a talent show and goofy olympics, throughout the school year to determine the year's winning hall. Girls on the "fifth floor" in Honor hall are divided amongst the other halls to ensure everyone takes part in activities.
School traditions.
Geekfest.
Mike Zambrano, in the fall of 2004, 2005, president of High Fantasy a role playing and card game club, in a collaborative effort with the Presidents of: the DDR club, Matt McCawley '05; the Anime club, Licki Kallenberg '05; and Anindo Sarker '05 organized a large, entertainment oriented event that involved the whole student body. Due to its popularity, the event became a school tradition, generally held once each trimester. The principal organizers for the 05-06 year were Jonathan Kush '06 and Jean-Jacques DeLisle '06, presidents of the anime and RPG clubs respectively. The current organization of geekfest is no longer handled by the former three clubs, but operates as an independent organization.
This event operates similar to a small fan convention, and includes activities that are predominantly associated with "Geek" culture. Such activities include anime and/or film showings, a LAN party for PCs, independent console games, board games, card games, DDR, Guitar Hero, as well as other events. The event is traditionally held in the SAC, but renovations have caused the event to be moved to several different locations. During the 2006-07 year Geekfest was held in multiple areas inside the Administration building. Upon the completion of the Bedsole Building, geekfest was held in areas around the first floor.
Stress Fest.
On the last weekend before finals of the Spring term, the school hosts Stress Fest, designed to alleviate students' stress and give them time to enjoy themselves before tests. The event mainly consists of: field games, tournaments, a rock wall, ice cream truck, tie-dye T-shirts, barbecue, and live bands.


Jason Mantzoukas

Jason Mantzoukas (, ; born December 18, 1972) is an American character actor, comedian, writer, and podcaster. He is best known for his recurring role as Rafi in the FX comedy series "The League", and as one of the three co-hosts of the podcast "How Did This Get Made?" alongside Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael. Mantzoukas has also appeared in the films "The Dictator", "Sleeping with Other People", "They Came Together", "Conception", and "". He has had recurring roles on three TV shows created by Michael Schur: "Parks and Recreation" (as Dennis Feinstein); "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" (as Adrian Pimento); and "The Good Place" (as Derek Hostedtler). He also voices the characters Jay Bilzerian in the Netflix animated series "Big Mouth", Alex Dorpenberger in the HBO Max animated series "Close Enough", and Rex Splode in the Amazon Prime animated action series "Invincible". He is known for often playing "crazy, funny weirdos."
Early life and education.
Mantzoukas was born in Nahant, Massachusetts, and is the eldest child of Cynthia (née Mourousas) and William Mantzoukas, second-generation Greek-Americans. He has one younger sister, Melissa. He has described himself as "100 percent Greek."
Mantzoukas began taking drum lessons at age 10 and studied under Steve Barrett for over 8 years. In interviews, he has cited Stewart Copeland, Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction, and Jimmy Chamberlin from The Smashing Pumpkins as his biggest influences as a young musician. He participated in jazz and marching bands in high school, as well as playing in a cover band called Slygoul. He continued with jazz drumming in college and also played for a bebop group.
Mantzoukas attended Swampscott High School, graduating in 1991. While attending, he was named captain of Swampscott's boys' soccer and track teams and was also president of the marching band. He then attended Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont; majoring in religion. He attempted to defend a "terribly written" honors thesis on religious iconography (which he admits to starting a week prior to his defense date) but was not given credit to graduate with honors.
After graduating college in 1995, Mantzoukas was granted a Watson Fellowship, traveling throughout North Africa and the Middle East studying religious and transcendental music for nearly two years. He has admitted to having a "horrible [grant proposal] but was charming in the room; so [he earned the grant]." At the time he left for Morocco for the Watson Fellowship, he had already had six auditions and callbacks for the Blue Man Group, but he ultimately decided to travel before the audition process was complete. He lived in Morocco for about 7½ months while studying and recording Gnawa music. While abroad, he also traveled to Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Jordan, and Syria. During his time abroad, he was arrested numerous times; once in Morocco for having an expired tourist visa and again in Turkey to prevent him from traveling through an active war zone.
Career.
Early comedy.
Mantzoukas first began writing comedy sketches during his junior and senior years of high school for variety shows. He began performing short-form improvisational comedy (improv) as a part of the Otter Nonsense Players at Middlebury College and quickly became "obsessed" with improv as it utilized the same skill set as performing jazz. While performing with the Otters, Mantzoukas met and began learning and practicing long-form improv with fellow performers, Jessica St. Clair, Dan O'Brien, and Rodney Rothman.
Upright Citizens Brigade.
Soon after moving to New York City in 1998, he began performing comedy regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCB) and was taught by Amy Poehler. He was a member of the improv team "Mother," one of the UCB's earliest house teams. During his time at UCB, Mantzoukas worked in the computer graphics department at J.P. Morgan for over three years to "make ends meet."
Mantzoukas and comedian Ed Herbstman performed as the comedy duo, "The Mantzoukas Brothers," for a number of years and were named the "Best Improv Duo" by "Time Out New York" magazine in 2006. Mantzoukas continued to write and perform as a duo with Jessica St. Clair appearing in the sketch show, "We Used to Go Out" and long-form improv show, "First Date." Together, he and St. Clair pitched a pilot to HBO (which was ultimately not picked up) and also earned a deal with Comedy Central. The two were often compared to the likes of Nichols and May and continue to collaborate and perform on the podcast, "Womp It Up!". Mantzoukas would later go on to teach advanced improv classes at UCB.
Television and film.
Mantzoukas has appeared in movies such as "Baby Mama", "I Hate Valentine's Day", "The Dictator", and "". He has also made guest appearances in television programs such as "The Life & Times of Tim", "Parks and Recreation", "Enlightened", "Broad City", "Modern Family", "The Good Place", "Community", and "Brooklyn Nine-Nine". Mantzoukas appeared in the recurring roles on the improvised FX comedy "The League" as Rafi and on the "Gigolo House" sketches on Comedy Central's sketch series "Kroll Show" as Eagle Wing.
In 2018, he replaced T.J. Miller as the voice of Mr. Mucus for the Mucinex commercials.
Writing career.
In 2008, NBC ordered a pilot for a comedy series written by Mantzoukas called "Off Duty". The pilot was filmed in New York starring Bradley Whitford and Romany Malco but the series was not picked up. In interviews in 2014, Mantzoukas announced that he was working on a "loosely autobiographical" television show for Showtime about life after ending a long-term relationship.
Mantzoukas earned credit for writing the screenplay draft of the buddy cop comedy, "Ride Along", starring Ice Cube and Kevin Hart. He originally was asked to write for Andy Samberg as one of the leads, but the rights to the film were ultimately purchased by Universal Studios who later cast Hart in the role originally intended for Samberg. He has also served as a consulting writer and producer on "Childrens Hospital" and "Portlandia".
Podcasts.
He currently co-hosts the podcast "How Did This Get Made?" with Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael. Mantzoukas also regularly makes appearances on "Comedy Bang! Bang!," "Womp It Up!, and Reply All".
Personal life.
Mantzoukas was born with an egg allergy and experiences anaphylaxis if ingested. He has credited this allergy as the cause of his hypochondriac tendencies.
He was previously in a relationship with actress Connie Britton.


Eli Vakil

Eli Vakil () (born March 4, 1953) is an Israeli clinical neuropsychologist. Vakil is a professor and former departmental chairman of the Department of Psychology, and the head of the Memory and Amnesia Lab at the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar Ilan University. He is also director of the Rehabilitation Center for Veterans after Traumatic Brain-Injury (TBI) in Jaffa, Israel.
Biography.
In 1974–1976, Vakil studied at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, graduating with a B.A. in psychology.He received his Ph.D. in clinical neuropsychology from the City University of New York (CUNY) in 1985.
His dissertation was titled: "Encoding of frequency of occurrence, temporal order, and spatial location information by closed-head-injured and elderly subjects: Is it automatic?"
Vakil is married with three children and lives in Ra'anana.
Academic and therapy career.
In 1995–1996, Vakil was a visiting scholar at the Amnesia Research Laboratory (Professor Neal J. Cohen), Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
Vakil started his career as a clinical neuropsychologist working in rehabilitation with patients who had sustained severe head-injuries. He worked at the Head Trauma Program at the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in New York University Medical Center, and in the Recanati National Institute for the Rehabilitation of the Head-Injured Person in Israel.
Certified by the Ministry of Health as a rehabilitative psychology specialist and supervisor.
Vakil served as a member of the discussion group “Holocaust – Transmitted Memory and Fiction”, a project conducted for a research group and workshop at Van Leer Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2013-2015).
In the summer of 2017 he was a visiting scholar at the Kessler Foundation in West Orange, New Jersey.
Vakil was chairman of the rehabilitation psychology section in the Israeli Psychological Association and as the head of the rehabilitation psychology subprogram at Bar-Ilan University.
He is a founding member of the Israeli Neuropsychological Society and has served as a board member of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).
Vakil has served as an associate editor of the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society (JINS).
In 2017 he received the Distinguished Career Award of the International Neuropsychological Society (INS).
Vakil has published extensively (over 150 scientific papers and book chapters) in the area of memory and memory disorders in various populations, such as traumatic brain injury patients, Parkinson’s disease patients, and the elderly.


Nerve to tensor veli palatini

The nerve to tensor veli palatini is a small nerve which is unique in that it is the only branch of the mandibular nerve providing motor innervation to the palate.


Walther von Hahn

Walther von Hahn (born April 26.1942 in Marburg/Lahn) is a German linguist and computer scientist and was until 2007 full professor both in Computer Science and Linguistics at the University of Hamburg.
Education and career.
Von Hahn studied German linguistics and literature, philosophy, Latin and Protestant theology in Marburg/Lahn from 1962 to 1969. He received his PhD (Dr.phil.) at the same university (with Prof. Dr. Ludwig Erich Schmitt). He moved as assistant to Hamburg University (Germany) and gave seminars in German linguistics. As a professor since 1978 his research and teaching shifted to more formal fields of formal in the German seminar thereat. In 1987 he was appointed to full professor in the computer science department. Since then he kept the right of teaching in both departments. He was founder of the “Natural Language Systems Division” (NatS).
Research.
Major research projects.
Following the lines of technical language research von Hahn established (within German linguistics) the “HAM-RPM” project group (funding: German Science Foundation) and the Artificial Intelligence-centered group HAM-ANS (funding: Ministry of research and technology), which have been very influential in the German linguistic and AI community. As member of CS department he initiated and managed a national preparatory project for speech-to-speech machine translation with broad industrial and academic cooperation and participated in the international follow-up research project VERBMOBIL
From 1992-1998 von Hahn led the project DB(R)-MAT the first major machine aided translation project involving languages in Central-Eastern Europe (Romanian and Bulgarian). The project based on an innovative paradigm of linking multilingual lexical material onto a language independent ontology. In this way concepts were separated from their linguistic realisation. This principle was applied in a European follow-up project , in which he was involved (2005-2008)
From 2001 to 2003 he was the first director of the interdisciplinary group "Computerphioogie" at the University of Hamburg, one of the first innitiatives in Digital Humanities in Germany and innitiated the first curriculum in this domain in Germany.
He is one of the main contributors to the development of computational linguistics and Digital Humanities at the University of Bucharest and constant promoter of the cooperation between the University of Hamburg and St-Kliment Ohrdiski University of Sofia, University of Bucharest and Charles-University Prague
Since 2015 his research is focused on computer modelling and representation of vagueness in digital humanities.


Roger von Oech

Roger von Oech (born February 16, 1948) is an American speaker, conference organizer, author, and toy-maker whose focus has been on the study of creativity.
Professional life.
In 1975, von Oech earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in the self-created interdisciplinary program "History of Ideas". Shortly afterwards, he began providing services in creativity consulting, working with companies such as Apple, IBM, Disney, Sony, and Intel.
In the 1980s, he created and produced the "Innovation in Industry" conference series in Palo Alto, which included Silicon Valley entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Bob Metcalfe, Charles Schwab, Alan Kay, and Nolan Bushnell of Atari.
Decks.
Creative Whack Pack.
In 1989, von Oech created the Creative Whack Pack, a deck of 64 cards with illustrations and strategies for stimulating creativity. It was designed to be a portable version of his creativity workshops, and it has sold over a million copies.
Creative Whack Company.
In 2004, he started the Creative Whack company. Roger's definition of 'whack' is creativity.
Geometric Toys.
Ball of Whacks.
The Ball of Whacks consists of 30 rhombic pyramid shaped magnetic blocks. These pieces combine to form a rhombic triacontahedron. They can be combined to form many other shapes. The Ball of Whacks comes with a creativity guidebook that gives instructions on using the product. There are three single-color versions made with either red, blue, or black pieces; and one six-color version with black, white, yellow, green, blue, and red pieces.
X-Ball.
The X-Ball consists of 30 X-shaped pieces that connect together to form a skeletal icosidodecahedron. The X-Ball comes with a guidebook and in the color red.
Y-Ball.
The Y-Ball consists of 30 Y-shaped pieces that when put together, form a truncated icosahedron. The Y-Ball comes in the color blue.
Star Ball.
The Star Ball consists of 16 five-legged "star pieces" and 16 three legged "tri" pieces. These combine to form a skeletal rhombic triacontahedron. The pieces have polarity dots to help the user connect the right sides together. The Star Ball comes in Yellow.
Eureka Ball.
The Eureka Ball consists of 12 magnetic design pieces ,  each a seven-sided, truncated pentagonal pyramid. Together, these Eureka pieces form a beautiful 12-sided dodecahedron. The Eureka Ball also has polarity dots on its pieces to help the user connect them together correctly. The Eureka Ball comes in Red.


Darwin Gross

Darwin Gross (1928–2008) was an American spiritual teacher who succeeded to the leadership of Eckankar in 1971 at the death of its founder Paul Twitchell. Gross officially took up the position of "Living ECK Master" on October 22, 1971, and appointed his successor Harold Klemp as Living ECK Master on October 22, 1981, though Gross later claimed Klemp failed to fully succeed to the position. Gross claimed to continue afterwards as the Living Eck Master, though he was precluded from continuing to use the Eck terminology.
Biography.
Darwin Gross was born in 1928 in Denhoff, North Dakota. He was brought up in the Mennonite faith. As a young man, he served with the US 11th Airborne Division in Japan following World War II. Later, Gross worked as an engineer, acquiring gigs on the side as a jazz musician. He described in his books a childhood filled with encounters and learning from many of the spiritual teachers of Eckankar. The moment he found the writings of Paul Twitchell, he recognized this as the same teaching he had been receiving inwardly since childhood. He began studying Twitchell's mail-order discourses and soon wrote to Twitchell asking how he could help set up classes in the Portland, Oregon, area where he lived. Twitchell wrote back in November 1969, encouraging Gross to start some of the first ECK Satsang classes in the Northwestern United States. Gross continued taking on greater responsibilities with Eckankar and on many occasions traveled with Paul Twitchell to Eckankar Seminars. Gross gained the Eckankar title of leadership, the "Living ECK Master", upon Twitchell's death in October 1971.
On October 22, 1981, Darwin Gross's health problems led him to publicly appoint Harold Klemp as the Living ECK Master. Gross retained management responsibilities, running the corporate organization of Eckankar until 1983. In 1983 Gross was voted out of his position by the Eckankar Board of Directors under controversial circumstances involving unproven charges that he misappropriated Eckankar corporate funds. As Klemp entered an exclusive leadership role, the Eckankar corporate structure was changed in the State of California. This gave Klemp new authority in leadership as the only voting member of the Eckankar corporation. This change, considered by Gross as a "hostile takeover" of the corporation, was formally filed in the State of California on June 20, 1985. The policies giving Klemp exclusive powers were changed in Eckankar's Minnesota corporate papers on January 30, 1987, and were also changed in the Eckankar Nevada corporate papers on December 21, 1987.
Following the rift in ECKANKAR leadership in 1983, most members of Eckankar chose to follow Harold Klemp, but a number joined Darwin Gross and continue to learn under his new organization: "ATOM: Ancient Teachings of the Masters," in which he claimed to carry on the original teachings of Paul Twitchell.
In 1988, "The John Ankerberg Show" interviewed Gross in reference to his continued use of the term "Mahanta" (the inner spiritual master revered in Eckankar), and he said, "I always looked at myself as not the Mahanta but a vehicle for it."
Gross died on March 8, 2008 at the age of 80. According to the ATOM website, "Darwin’s Living Trust provides that his writings, music and unpublished works shall be held in trust to carry on his memory and life’s work as well as his predecessor’s, Paul Twitchell. The Teachings will continue to be made available to those who are interested in this most direct path to God."
Legacy.
During the decade of his leadership of Eckankar, Gross expanded the physical organization and membership of Eckankar substantially. His leadership was considered important for the followers of Eckankar during the time, prior to his 1983 expulsion from Eckankar.
Current ATOM students of Darwin Gross, who still study his discourses and books, consider Gross to be a very ancient master. Gross, like his teacher Paul Twitchell - the originator of Eckankar, is regarded as a spiritual master who descended from an ancient and direct line extending into a history that is said to predate the early history and existence of our planet and solar system. The mythology of the ECK Masters is outlined in Twitchell's "The Spiritual Notebook".PDF


Ehsan Danish

Ehsan Danish (, 1914 – 22 March 1982), born Ehsan-ul-Haq ), was a prominent Urdu poet, prose writer, linguist, lexicographer and scholar from Pakistan. Ehsan Danish had penned down over 100 scholastic books on poetry, prose, linguistics, lexicography and prosody. At the beginning of his career his poetry was very romantic but later he wrote his poems more for the labourers and came to be called "Šhāʿir-e Mazdūr" (Poet of the workmen) by his audience. His poetry inspired the common people's feelings and he has been compared with Josh Malihabadi. He holds the unique position as one of the best poets of all times, with fine, romantic and revolutionary, but simple
style of poetry.
Biography.
Danish (birth name: Ehsan-ul-Haq) was born in Maulanan मोलानान Kandhla, a small town in the Shamli district of Uttar Pradesh, India. He belonged to a poor family and he could not continue his studies due to financial reasons but still learned the Arabic and Persian languages on his own. His father's name was Danish Ali. Later he migrated to Lahore and settled there permanently. He struggled very hard to earn his living. He worked as an ordinary labourer for years in odd jobs, finally becoming a poet of excellence. His autobiography, "Jahan-i-Danish", is a classic and has inspired many people. Danish has written more than 80 books and hundreds of articles about and including poetry, prose, linguistics, philology, autobiographies and the famous interpretation of "Diwan-e-Ghalib". Much of his literary work is still unpublished.
Death and legacy.
He passed away on 22 March 1982 in Lahore, Pakistan. His poetry and writings about the dignity of labour earned him the title of 'Shaer-i-Mazdoor' (poet of the labourers).
Autobiography - Jahan-e-Danish.
Ehsan Danish was a prolific prose writer and had contributed hundred of articles, essays and books in the domain of Urdu prose. Ehsan Danish autobiography "Jahan-e-danish" is a splendid masterpiece in Urdu literature. Jahan-e-Danish was first published in 1973 by Ehsan Danish in Lahore, Pakistan and duly received Adam Ji literary award in recognition of its literary value and linguistic stature. The language, diction, realism, sincerity and above all a unique classical flavor of language and literature elevates this autobiography at the highest position in the realm of Urdu autobiographies.
An excerpt.
Maulvi Saeed talks of Ehsan Danish, the poet. He recalls:
"In 1928, when we lived in Mozang I happened to be present at a gathering in the street adjoining ours where a short-statured but a well-built darkish young man recited a naat in a voice which kept the audience spell-bound. The poet was Ehsan-bin-Danish (now Ehsan Danish, for 'bin' though in Arabic stood for 'son of', in Hindi meant 'without'). The poet had come from across the Yamuna in search of employment – and perhaps recognition, too. Lahore gave him both; employment which hardly did any credit to this city, recognition, of course, which it never held back.
Ehsan was seen in the evening at the mushairas; in the morning, at the building sites with a brush in one hand and the lime-bucket in the other; or doing a gardener's job on the Simla Hill. He has recorded the experiences of his early days in a fascinating autobiography – "Jahan-e-Danish". In the realm of poetry, he was not a mere labourer, but a master architect."
Ehsan Danish Poetry.
Ehsan Danish was titled Poet-Laborer (Shair-e-Mazdoor) due to his revolutionary, passionate and novel poems for the laborers, the poor people and the oppressed. He had presented stark realities about the labor class in a powerful and unique style. He was initially impressed with the poet Josh Malihabadi's style of poetry.
yeh uDi uDi si rangat yeh khule khule se gesu
teri sub,h keh rahi hai teri raat ka fasana


Beryl Davis

Beryl Davis (16 March 1924 – 28 October 2011) was a vocalist who sang with British and American big bands, as well as being an occasional featured vocalist at a very young age with the Quintette du Hot Club de France between 1936 and 1939. She was still performing (in her 80s) into the 2000s, possibly the last surviving and performing singer of the generation of popular entertainers from the 1930s and wartime years. Her younger sister is Lisa Davis Waltz, a teen actress in the 1950s and 1960s and later, the voice of Anita in Disney's "101 Dalmatians".
Music career.
Born in Plymouth, England, to Harry Lomax Davis and Queenie Davis, she began to sing for the Oscar Rabin Band, co-led by her father and saxophonist Oscar Rabin, at the age of eight, eventually turning professional and singing with, among others, Oscar Rabin, Geraldo, and the Sky Rockets Dance Orchestra. From the age of just 12, accompanied by a chaperone, she also performed and recorded with Django Reinhardt in Paris and on several European tours, and was the featured singer with the Quintette du Hot Club de France during their tour of the U.K. in July-August 1939, including a performance with the Quintette for BBC Television (broadcast in August 1939), of which, unfortunately, no copy appears to survive. She became popular singing for British and Allied troops during World War II, during which time Glenn Miller discovered her in London, and she sang for the Army Air Force Orchestra. After the second world war, she moved to Los Angeles with her father's big band, and with Frank Sinatra for one year on "Your Hit Parade".
She was part of the Four Girls singing group with Jane Russell, Rhonda Fleming, Della Russell, and Connie Haines. They recorded sixteen singles, and albums which became best sellers. She appeared both in variety shows and films.
She was married to William Mann Moore (aka Peter Potter), disc jockey and host of the 1950s Emmy Winning television show, "Jukebox Jury". They had three children, William Bell, Merry Bell, and Melinda Beryl. The marriage ended in divorce.
In 1996, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to her. Still performing into her 80s, she was featured at several concerts/festivals in the mid 2000s with the backing of the guitarist John Jorgenson and his band, who featured her vocals on one track, "Don't Worry 'Bout Me", on his 2007 CD "Ultraspontane", reprising her original recording with Django almost 70 years earlier.
On 28 October 2011, Davis died in Los Angeles from complications of Alzheimer's disease, at age 87. She was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles.


Glaro-Twabo language

Glaro and Twabo are two largely mutually intelligible dialects of the Wee languages which are divergent other. "Ethnologue" reports that Twabo (but not Glaro) has slight intelligibility with some dialects of Eastern Krahn.


Kozjak subdialect

The Kozjak subdialect ("kozjaški govor") is a Slovene subdialect in the Styrian dialect group. It is a subdialect of the South Pohorje dialect, which it greatly resembles, and is the northernmost member of the Styrian dialect group. It encompasses the Kozjak Mountains north of the Drava River and partially extends into Austria, including the Leutschach area.
Phonological and morphological characteristics.
The Kozjak subdialect has the typical Styrian diphthongs "ei" and "ou" as well as two open glides as reflexes of old acute yat and neoacute "e" and "o".


Agnes Woodward

Agnes Woodward (January 1872 — June 1938) was an American music educator and professional whistler, founder and head of the California School of Artistic Whistling in Los Angeles, California.
Early life.
Anna Agnes Woodward was born in Waterloo, New York and raised in Tecumseh, Michigan, the daughter of Charles Meredyth Woodward and Martha McGlashan Woodward. Her father was a military surgeon and veteran of the American Civil War. She trained as a singer at the Detroit Conservatory of Music. Actress and screenwriter Bess Meredyth was her first cousin.
Career.
Woodward sang with the Whalom Opera Company briefly as a young woman. She moved to California with her widowed mother and studied birdsong to develop her own "Bird Method" of teaching whistling, and opened the California School of Artistic Whistling in 1909, with branches later opening in Glendale, Seattle, Yakima, Chicago, and Portland. Her school's prospectus laid out her belief that "There is an art of whistling which belongs to the higher musical accomplishments, and which, in the majority of cases, falls to the lot of the young woman." Most of her students were young women, including Helen Porter, whose father was the mayor of Los Angeles. But she taught men and women of all ages; she trained actor John Wayne and singers Bing Crosby and Pat Boone as whistlers.
By 1916 she was managing the tours of several of her more successful students, including Margaret Gray McKee, Gertrude Willey, Nina Kellogg, Felice Jung, Mary Louise Hand, and Shirley Irvine. In 1918 Agnes Woodward and her "Forty Whistling Girls" entertained at a Red Cross benefit in Los Angeles, adding "Over There" to their program for the occasion. She wrote a textbook on the subject, "Whistling as an Art", published in 1923, with later editions in 1925 and 1938.
Personal life.
Agnes Woodward died in June 1938, aged 66 years, in Los Angeles, California.


Richard Critchfield

Richard Patrick Critchfield (March 23, 1931 – December 10, 1994) was an American journalist and essayist who wrote principally about agricultural village life in developing countries.
Career.
Richard Critchfield was born in Minneapolis and grew up in North Dakota, the son of a country doctor. His older brother, James H. Critchfield, became the chief of the Near East and South Asia division of the US Central Intelligence Agency.
Richard Critchfield graduated from the University of Washington, and earned a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University. He did additional graduate work at the Universities of Vienna and Innsbruck, as well as Northwestern University.
Critchfield served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and then began his writing career as farm editor of the "Cedar Rapids [Iowa] Gazette". He served as a war reporter in the Vietnam War for four years for the "Washington Star", and wrote for that newspaper for about a decade, as a member of its editorial staff. After leaving the "Washington Star", he became a freelance foreign correspondent on the Third World, writing for numerous publications including "The Economist", "The International Herald-Tribune", "The Washington Post", and "The Christian Science Monitor".
Critchfield published about ten books on a variety of topics, particularly villages in developing countries, but also including his Great Plains family history and Great Britain. Most notable among his books was "Villages", published in 1981 and described thirteen years later as "a classic study of the forces eroding small towns." "Villages" was based on his having "studied 18 villages in 13 countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America," and lived in those villages for long periods, "doing whatever was the dominant mode of earning a living."
Critchfield described his form of writing as "village reporting." In the words of his "New York Times" obituary, he "lived and worked among villagers of the third world to tell their story to Western readers," often addressing changes in traditional ways of life.
Critchfield believed that the U.S. defeat in Vietnam "was not a failure of power, but a failure of knowledge," that is, the result of a U.S. lack of understanding "the ordinary Vietnamese peasant out in his village and ... his Confucian culture."
In a 1980 article he argued, presciently, that agriculture in the Soviet Union was failing (among other reasons, "the Russians can blame Marxism-Leninism for their farming failure"), while Chinese agriculture was succeeding (where the Great Leap Forward to collective agriculture "proved such a fiasco that the Chinese made a brisk retreat back toward the family farm").
He died in 1994 in Washington, D.C., after suffering a stroke; he was there for a party to celebrate the publication of his last book, "The Villagers," a follow-up to "Villages".
Critchfield won significant honors. In 1965, he won an Overseas Press Club award for his reporting from Vietnam. He was awarded an Alice Patterson Fellowship in 1970 to report on the topic "Food Population Crisis in India, Indonesia and Iran." He was chosen as a MacArthur Fellow in December 1981, the first year of that "genius grant" program, and accordingly awarded a $244,000 grant.
On the other hand, Columbia professor of Middle Eastern Studies Timothy Mitchell has vocally criticized Critchfield, arguing that Critchfield's writing on Egypt plagiarized from older and uninformed sources, and was disingenuous or inaccurate in its descriptions of Egyptian life. Mitchell further asserts that Critchfield's work supported, and was in turn supported by, the U.S. academic and foreign policy establishment, noting that it was partly financed by the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the U.S. Agency for International Development; that his brother was an early and senior CIA employee; that many of the sites of his reporting, such as Vietnam, Mauritius, and Egypt, were significant to U.S. foreign policy; and that he was on friendly terms with Robert McNamara and "other figures associated with the CIA and the politico-military establishment."


Alan Entwistle

Alan Entwistle (March 10, 1949 – March 28, 1996) was a scholar of the Hindi language. He was a professor at the University of Washington.
Early life and education.
Entwistle was born on March 10, 1949, in Weymouth, England. He completed his undergraduate education with an honors Bachelor of Arts in French language at the University of Southampton in 1971. He then moved on to the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, completing a Master of Arts in South Asia Area Studies in 1975. In 1982 he completed his PhD in Hindi, writing a dissertation "The Rasa mana ke pada of Kevalarama, a medieval Hindi text of the Eighth Gaddi of the Vallabha Sampradaya". He was supervised by Professor J. C. Wright, Dr. R. D. Gupta and Dr. R. S. McGregor.
Career.
From 1980 to 1985, Entwistle held the post of Universitair Docent at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands where he taught Hindi and courses on Indian civilization, iconography, religion and literature. He joined the faculty of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1986. He was promoted to associate professor with tenure in September, 1990. Entwistle gained a reputation as an effective and dedicated teacher of Hindi language and literature, as well as lecturing on courses about Indian devotional literature, Hinduism, iconography, and a postgraduate seminar on Religion in Comparative Perspective. Aside from his work within his department, Entwistle also worked within Washington's South Asia and Comparative Religion programs in the Jackson School of International Studies.
Entwistle's scholarly works on the study of India and Indian religions were marked by close attention to both philological linguistic issues of translation of texts and a broad emphasis upon the context of the material. Entwistle's research was dependent on a thorough linguistic and literary training which formed the bedrock of his close attention to both philological issues of text and cultural context. In 1981, along with H. T. Bakker, he coedited "Vaisnavism: The history of the Krishna and Rama cults and their Contribution to Indian pilgrimage", authoring chapters on the history of Vaishnavism as well as an appendix "Notes on the Hindu Calendar and Vaisnava Festivals." In 1983 he published "The Rasa mana ke pada of Kevalarama: a medieval Hindi text of the Eighth Gaddi of the Vallabha sect" and "Devi: the worship of the goddess and its contribution to Indian pilgrimage", which incorporated his essay "Varieties of Devi."
In 1987, Entwistle published a multidimensional study of medieval Indian cultural history entitled "Braj: Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage". Jack Hawley opined that:
In 1994, Entwistle coedited the "Studies in South Asian Devotional Literature: Research Papers 1988-91".
Later life.
In 1986, Entwistle was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor. He underwent severe radiation and chemotherapy and experienced a remission that allowed him to engage in almost ten further years of research and teaching. In late 1995, he took up a Senior Fellowship of the American Institute of Indian Studies during a long postponed study leave in India, but showed symptoms that the remission had ended. His deteriorating health forced him to return to Seattle in January 1996. He died on March 28, 1996.
At the time of his final illness, he was working on a piece in "Readings in Medieval Rajasthani (Dingal)" for the SOAS South Asian Texts series and a critical edition and translation of "Acaldas Khici ri vacanika" ("The Tale of Acaldas Khici"), a 15th-century historical ballad from Rajasthan.
Entwistle was survived by his sister Janice Mary Entwistle. 1942-2013.
Books by.
The Rasa mana ke pada of Kevalarama (1982)
Braj: Centre of Krishna Pilgrimage (1987)
Studies in South Asian Devotional Literature: Research Papers, 1988-1991, 599 pages, (1994)
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One World Direct

One World Direct is a U.S. company that provides outsourced fulfillment, call center and e-commerce services to other companies. As such, it is typically categorized as a third-party fulfillment company or call center. One World’s operation is headquartered in Mobridge, South Dakota with distribution centers in Mobridge, Mira Loma, California and Columbus, Ohio, and contact centers in Mobridge and Rapid City, South Dakota. The company’s sales offices are located in Pasadena, California.
History.
The company was founded in 1994 by Thomas E. Unterseher and Heather K.A. Bohr. The couple moved from Pasadena to Mobridge to start the company and take advantage of South Dakota’s lower operating cost environment.
One World Direct was originally named One World Distribution. The company changed its name to One World Direct in 2009.
In 1999, One World was named a “Top Ten Growing with Technology” award winner by Inc. Magazine and Cisco Systems. In 2001, the company’s co-founder, Thomas Unterseher was named one of “Ten Outstanding Young South Dakotans.”
In 2005, the company was named “Progressive Business of the Year” by the Mobridge Chamber of Commerce. In 2006, One World was named “Business of the Year.”
Unterseher is known as a local change agent and proponent of rural development through technology.
Clients and services.
One World’s clients range from large Fortune 500 companies such as Sony to small dot com operations. The company serves clients who sell their products through e-commerce and direct-to-consumer channels. In addition to order fulfillment, call center and e-commerce integration, One World provides returns processing, warehousing, inventory management and credit card processing.


Vaughan College

Leicester Vaughan College (LVC) is an independent higher education college in Leicester, England. It is the successor to Vaughan College, originally founded by Revd David Vaughan in 1862 to provide education for under-educated men. It rapidly became a facility for broader adult education and self-improvement for men and women of the town. After 45 years using two town centre schools, in 1908 it moved into its own premises on Great Central Street. Merging with University College, Leicester in 1929, it offered more undergraduate level adult education, including many part-time certificate courses and later a degree course. In 1962, with the demolition of its building, a new purpose-built college building was opened, integrated with Jewry Wall Museum and an archaeological site on St Nicholas Circle. In 2013 the university announced plans to close the city centre site, and move the teaching to its main campus, a move which lasted until 2016 when plans were announced for shutting the department altogether. In 2017 a new chapter opened in the history of the College when staff in the Vaughan Centre re-established the College as an independent co-operative community benefit society and renamed it Leicester Vaughan College.
Beginnings.
On 21 March 1862 a meeting was held at St Martin's Boy's School, Friar Lane, to discuss opening a reading room and library for men in the parish. A committee of management was formed, chaired by Revd David Vaughan with 6 further members. Even at this stage, there was a hope that a Working Men's College would result, to 'remedy the deficiencies of elementary education in adulthood' of the many framework knitters living and working in Leicester. From September 1862 it was called the 'Working Men's Institute, with Library, Reading Room and Classes'. Classes in a variety of subjects were offered, based in the St Martin's Infant School in Union Street. From the following year one-off lectures also featured, on such topics as 'America' and 'Co-operation'. As the popularity of lectures, musical evenings and social events grew, larger venues such as the Temperance Hall were regularly used. Other ways of improving the lot of working people were developed, including a Sick Benefit Society, and a Provident Society, to encourage regular saving, as well as a 'Samaritan Fund' for those too poor to pay the modest subscriptions.
Six years after its inception, the name was changed to "Working Men's "College" and Institute", to show its "humble, yet earnest, endeavour to improve the working classes of the town, intellectually and morally". From 1880 women aged 17 and upwards were also provided with classes, based in the Friar Lane school, and included reading, writing, arithmetic, spelling, needlework, cutting out, domestic economy, geography, English grammar and composition. Within four years the women had to move to the County School on Great Central Street, to provide more space. By 1912, fifty years after it was founded, the women outnumbered the men, with an enrolment of 1,189 compared to 899 men.
The Vaughan Working Men's College.
In 1905 David Vaughan died aged 80. Age and ill-health had required him to step back from the college, but for 43 years he had been central to its life and character. Also in 1905, St Martin's Churchwardens sold the Union Street school buildings, giving the college two years to find a new home. The Board of Education agreed to provide a new building on Great Central Street, and in tribute to the work of both David Vaughan and his wife, Margaret, it was named the Vaughan Working Men's College. In 1908 a branch of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) was established in Leicester, and by 1914 the two organisations were in active partnership, which continued in various forms thereafter. An inspection report of 1917-18 found shortcomings, which arose from falling enrolment, due in some measure to the success of the day-schools over previous years. The solution, they suggested, was to focus on "higher education of the liberal humanistic type for working people in Leicester". In 1921 Leicester University College was founded, and from the outset the usefulness of Vaughan College as a "preparatory institution" was apparent. Plans to utilise the Great Central Street building as the headquarters of the University extramural department progressed. The need for grant-funded investment required the University to be the responsible body, and in 1929 Vaughan Working Men's College ceased to be an independent body, and was taken over by the University College, forming one part of the Department of Adult Education.
University College.
The transfer to a department of Leicester's fledgling University College brought a shift in activities, as well as the winding up of the former committee. The name "Vaughan College" indicated both a link with the past, and a move away from its working class focus. Much of the 'traditional' teaching was taken on by an Adult Evening Institute set up by Leicestershire Education Authority, which still used the Great Central Street premises, while the College focused on higher level courses. The founding of a Students' Union and the Vaughan Society in 1931 expanded the social and sporting activities along with lectures, discussions, music, drama and a cinema.
During and after World War II, demand for classes meant every available room was in use for teaching. The situation was eased in 1949 when the Evening Institute moved out to the "Pork Pie Chapel" on Belvoir Street. Prof. A. J. Allaway was appointed Head of Adult Education in 1945, tasked with moving the Vaughan College courses to university undergraduate level throughout. As part of this process, the WEA found that the expanded role they had taken on within Vaughan College during the 1940s was severely curtailed by the early 1950s. They continued to offer WEA courses within the College, but were limited to two classrooms per evening, and to classes with a "clear social reference", while the College would expand their Extramural Certificate courses and professional refresher courses.
Jewry Wall site.
In 1954 the administration of the University's Department of Adult Education was moved from Vaughan College to the main University building. The post of Warden of Vaughan College was created to provide oversight of Vaughan College itself. P.A.W. Collins was the first holder of the post which was phased out 54 years later in an administrative re-organisation of 2008. In 1957 the University was granted its own charter. Also in the mid-1950s a major road scheme, which was to become "Vaughan Way" required the demolition of the Vaughan College building. The question of where to move to was in large measure answered by Alderman Charles Keene, a University Pro-Vice Chancellor who was also on the City Council's Town Planning and Museums committees. He suggested a new building close to the old Great Central Street site, which could incorporate both the college and a new museum, alongside the Roman archaeological site at Jewry Wall. Designed by Trevor Dannatt, work began in 1959 and was completed in 1962. The lower floor, housing the Jewry Wall Museum, with Roman mosaics and other artifacts from Roman Leicester along with Iron Age and post-Roman displays, is at the same level as the Roman bath-house foundations, well below street level. Vaughan College occupied the upper floor of the long L-shaped building of cream-coloured brick and concrete, with impressive views of the Jewry Wall Roman remains and St Nicholas Church. 100 years after its foundation, the college had a modern, purpose built building, and a staff team providing full-time, day release and part-time courses.
Also in 1962, Denis Rice became Warden, and would remain so for the next 22 years. An innovation from 1964 was the use of the common area for art exhibitions. Local artists could exhibit for free, in return for donating a picture, selected by the Warden, which joined an expanding Vaughan College permanent collection. By 1984 some 200 art works had been acquired in this way. In 1968 Prof. H. A. Jones succeeded Prof. Allaway, and in 1970 a widened subject range with a strong arts emphasis, plus social sciences, religion, local studies and geology. 91 different tutors were used that year, drawn from 24 different university departments.
Lifelong Learning.
By the 1980s Vaughan College was, like many adult education institutions, having difficulties with funding and recruitment. The introduction in 1989 of a BA in Humanities provided he opportunity for part-time students, primarily being taught at evening classes, to obtain a University of Leicester degree. Instigated by Dr Robert Colls of the University's Department of Adult Education, it remains the only "purpose-built" part-time degree course at the University. The 1990s saw more students (5,000 were enrolled during 1989-90) but difficulties of integrating with both the Department of Adult Education and the wider University meant on-going restructuring, and in 2000 the Department was replaced by the Leicester Institute of Lifelong Learning (LILL). Closer integration with the main university facilities was one of the outcomes of this change. The Vaughan College library received a £75,000 grant from the Higher Education Funding Council for England to update its facilities and stock, and integrate it with the university library systems.
In September 2012 the university held an event to celebrate 150 years of Vaughan College. This included the launch of Cynthia Brown's book, "A Blessing to the Town: 150 years of Vaughan College, Leicester", and a talk by Professor Rob Colls on "Why is Vaughan College Important?", featuring ex-students describing the positive impact it had on their lives.
In June 2013 the University of Leicester announced that it had decided to close the city centre building, and move the adult education teaching to the main University site, alongside all the other university teaching. In June 2016 the University announced that the Vaughan Centre for Lifelong Learning was being considered for closure, with no new adult education recruitment for its courses.
The former Vaughan College building was sold to Leicester City Council by 2016, and plans were announced in March 2016 to expand the Jewry Wall Museum to include the upper floors, improve the access arrangements, expand the displays on Roman Leicester, and carry out additional archaeological works on the Roman remains themselves.
Leicester Vaughan College.
Leicester Vaughan College (LVC) is an independent higher education college set up as a co-operative community benefit society to continue the work of the former Vaughan College. It aims to provide university-level education dedicated to the needs of part-time learners and to those wanting a "second chance" to study. It currently has a non-accredited programme of courses, an Open Research Forum, and is working towards offering fully accredited degrees in various forms of counselling and in arts, humanities and social sciences. The new Vaughan College operates out of Leicester Adult Education College on Belvoir Street and is registered with the FCA as Community Benefit Society No. 7622.


Cammie Dunaway

Cammie Dunaway is an American marketer. She was the chief marketing officer for Yahoo! before joining Nintendo of America in 2007 as the company's executive vice president of sales & marketing, replacing Reggie Fils-Aimé in the role after he was promoted to his position as president and COO of the company. Before joining Yahoo! in 2003, she worked for Frito-Lay for 13 years.
Personal life.
Dunaway was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Dunaway holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Richmond and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Career.
Dunaway was named one of the 100 top marketers by Advertising Age. She appeared onstage for Nintendo's E3 2008 press conference, demonstrating "Shaun White Snowboarding" and "Wii Sports Resort". She also made numerous more appearances that day. Dunaway also appeared at Nintendo's E3 press conference in 2009.
Dunaway left Nintendo of America in October 2010. She joined KidZania as the global chief marketing officer.
In 2018 she joined Duolingo.


Sunil Amrith

Sunil S. Amrith (born ) is a historian who holds the position of the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University. His research interests include transnational migration in South and Southeast Asia.
Amrith was born in Kenya to parents from Tamil Nadu. He received his postsecondary education at the University of Cambridge, and then taught at Birkbeck, University of London until he became a professor of South Asian history at Harvard in 2015. He also co-directed the Joint Center for History and Economics between Harvard and the University of Cambridge, and was interim director of Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center. On 20 April 2020, Yale University announced that they had appointed Amrith as a professor of history.
Amrith was awarded the 2016 Infosys Prize in Humanities for his contributions to the fields of the history of migration, environmental history, the history of international public health, and the history of contemporary Asia. He became a MacArthur Fellow in 2017. Amrith has also authored numerous books on his research. "Unruly Waters", which studies the influence of water on the political and economic development of the Indian subcontinent, was shortlisted for the 2019 Cundill History Prize.


Ray Lyell

Ray Lyell (born 1962 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and vocal coach.
Career.
Ray Lyell came to prominence with his band, the Storm, in the late 1980s. Ray Lyell and the Storm released their self-titled debut album in 1989. Its first single, "Another Man's Gun", scored No. 6 on the AOR charts. The second single released by Lyell, "Carry Me", was a top 40 hit on the CHR charts and still gets airplay in Canada. Lyell was nominated for a Juno Award as Most Promising Male Vocalist, in 1989. Shortly after the nomination, he began an international tour in Australia.
In 1992, Lyell sold the rights to the name "the Storm" after a legal conflict in the United States. "Desert Winds", his next album, was released under his own name, even though the members of the band continued to tour and perform with him. "Gypsy Wind" was the album's first successful single. In 1994, Ray Lyell travelled to Nashville, Tennessee, to begin working on his third album, "Working Man", with writers, Billy Crain and Todd Cerney. "Working Man" was released in 1995. A decade later, Lyell released his fourth album, "Running on Faith", with CMC Canada.
Vocal coach.
In 1996, Lyell developed the Dynamic System of Vocal Teaching. His experience as a performer, with thousands of shows, meshed with his ability to coach singers toward better and healthier vocal performances.
In an effort to expand his own knowledge, Lyell has studied with some of the most prominent vocal coaches in North America. He continues to teach, write and record out of his studio, Rayne Records, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Songwriter.
In 1987, radio station HTZ-FM sponsored a songwriting contest. Ray Lyell won first place with his song, "Take This Heart".
Later that year, he co-wrote, with Paul Hackman of the band Helix, the title track to their album, "Wild In The Streets". The success of "Wild In The Streets" earned Lyell a gold album. He also co-wrote tracks on "half-ALIVE" and "It's a Business Doing Pleasure" with Hackman.
Lyell wrote all of the songs from his four albums, with an occasional collaboration with other writers such as Billy Crain.


Larry Robertson (toxicologist)

Larry W. Robertson is an American chemist, microbiologist and toxicologist. He is professor at the University of Iowa, Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, known for his work on toxicology of POPs and PCBs, which are important environmental pollutants.
Scientific Work.
Robertson's scientific research focuses on the mechanisms of toxicity of polyhalogenated aromatic hydrocarbons, e.g. polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), dibenzodioxins (PCDDs), dibenzofurans (PCDFs) and various pesticides. His work is including studies of their effects on gene regulation, their metabolism to electrophilic species and their binding to nucleophiles (including amino acids, nucleotides and DNA). Recent work comprises the metabolism of halogenated compounds to show oxidative events, which lead to increased oxidative DNA damage - in important factor in the cancerogenic potential of a compound.
Career (selected).
Being a professor at The University of Kentucky, Robertson was program director of the Superfund Basic Research Program.
Robertson received international recognition for hosting the First PCB Workshop ("Recent Advances in the Environmental Toxicology and Health Effects of PCBs"), held at Lexington, KY, April 9–12, 2000. A resulting publication was edited with Larry G. Hansen and accepted as reference work. He also engaged in organization and funding for international follow-up workshops (biannually).
Robertson was appointed professor of toxicology at The University of Iowa College of Public Health in 2003. Right now he is the Principal Investigator of the Iowa Superfund Basic Research Program (ISBRP) and the Pilot Grant Program Director in the University's Environmental Health Sciences Research Center. His research work is funded by NIOSH, EPA and NIH.


Don Robertson (songwriter)

Donald Irwin Robertson (December 5, 1922 – March 16, 2015) was an American songwriter and pianist, mostly in the country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956 (Peaking at 6th). The track reached #8 in the UK Singles Chart the same year. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.
Although contracted to Capitol at the time of his biggest selling hit single, Robertson subsequently signed a recording contract with RCA Victor. He composed or co-composed with Hal Blair "(né" Harold Keller Brown; 1915–2001), many hits for other musicians, including Elvis Presley who recorded over a dozen of Robertson's songs, five of which appeared in Presley's numerous films. He died in 2015.
Legacy.
Notably, Robertson lent his piano-playing skills to the Disney theme park attraction Country Bear Jamboree at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, and Tokyo Disneyland in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan. His instrumental song "Pianjo" is played by the audio-animatronic bear, Gomer as the attraction’s opening number.