John Wheatley (physicist)

John C. Wheatley (17 February 1927, Tucson – 10 May 1986, Los Angeles) was an American experimental physicist who worked on quantum fluids at low and very low temperatures.

Biography
Wheatley received his B.S. in electrical engineering in 1947 from the University of Colorado in Boulder and his Ph.D. in physics under David Halliday in 1952 from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1952 to 1966 he was an instructor and then a professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In 1966 he became a full professor in the physics department of the University of California, San Diego. From 1981 to 1985 he did research at Los Alamos National Laboratory as a permanent staff member of the Laboratory. From 1985 he was a professor at the UCLA. He died of a heart attack while riding a bicycle.

His fame stems from his research on liquid helium-3, a Fermi liquid. He collaborated with theorists such as John Bardeen, Gordon Baym, and Christopher Pethick. In the academic years 1954/55 and 1980/81 he was a Guggenheim Fellow at the University of Leiden. He was a Sloan Fellow. In 1965/66 he was a guest scientist at the Center for Advanced Study of the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He was also a guest scientist for 18 months in 1962/63 at Bariloche Atomic Centre in Argentina, where he helped to establish a low temperature laboratory. At the time of his death he had been nominated for UCLA's first Presidential Chair in Physics. In 1975 Wheatley won the Fritz London Memorial Prize and in 1966 the Simon Memorial Prize. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1975 and he was also a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences. In 1991 the John Wheatley Award was established in his honor.

He had a wife and two sons.

SHE Corporation
In 1970 Wheatley with Olli Lounasmaa and other colleagues founded the SHE (for Superconducting Helium Electronics) Corporation in San Diego. SHE was the first worldwide corporation specializing in superconducting electronics. The name of the corporation was changed to Biomagnetic Technologies in 1985. In December 1999, Biomagnetic Technologies merged with the Finnish company Neuromag Oy to form the new corporation 4-D Neuroimaging. The Neuromag part of the company was sold to Elekta AB of Sweden in 2003; 4-D Neuroimaging filed for bankruptcy in 2009.


Charlie Eastwood

Charlie Eastwood (born 11 August 1995 in Belfast) is a racing driver from Northern Ireland and an Aston Martin Factory driver having been a former junior.

Racing record

Career summary

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Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

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Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results


Ben Lawes

Benjamin 'Ben' James Lawes (born 5 April 1982) is a former English cricketer. Lawes was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break.

Also in 2001, Lawes made his debut for Dorset in the 2001 Minor Counties Championship against Cornwall. From 2001 to 2008, Lawes represented Dorset in 26 Minor Counties Championship matches, with his final Minor Counties appearance for the county coming against Oxfordshire.

Also in 2001, Lawes made his List-A debut for Dorset in the 2nd round of the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy against Scotland which was played in 2001. Lawes played a further 2 List-A matches for the county against the Worcestershire Cricket Board in the 1st round of the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy which was played in 2002 and against Yorkshire in 2nd round of the 2004 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy.

External links
Ben Lawes at Cricinfo
Ben Lawes at CricketArchive


Thermococcus litoralis

Thermococcus litoralis  (T. litoralis) is a species of Archaea that is found around deep-sea hydrothermal vents as well as shallow submarine thermal springs and oil wells. It is an anaerobic organotroph hyperthermophile that is between 0.5–3.0 µm in diameter. Like the other species in the order thermococcales, T. litoralis is an irregular hyperthermophile coccus  that grows between 55–100 °C. Unlike many other thermococci, T. litoralis is non-motile. Its cell wall consists only of a single S-layer that does not form hexagonal lattices.  Additionally, while many thermococcales obligately use sulfur as an electron acceptor in metabolism, T. litoralis only needs sulfur to help stimulate growth, and can live without it. T. litoralis has recently been popularized by the scientific community for its ability to produce an alternative DNA polymerase to the commonly used Taq polymerase. The T. litoralis polymerase, dubbed the vent polymerase, has been shown to have a lower error rate than Taq but due to its proofreading 3’-5’ exonuclease abilities.

DNA polymerase

The DNA polymerase of Thermococcus litoralis is stable at high temperatures, with a half-life of 8 hours at 95 °C and 2 hours at 100 °C. It also has a proofreading activity that is able to reduce mutation frequencies to a level 2-4 times lower than most non-proofreading DNA polymerases.

Habitat and ecology
T. litoralis grows near shallow and deep sea hydrothermal vents in extremely hot water. The optimal growth temperature for T. litoralis is 85–88 °C. It also prefers slightly acidic waters, growing between pH 4.0 to 8.0 with the optimal pH between 6.0–6.4. Unlike many other hyperthermophiles, T. litoralis is only facultatively dependent on sulfur as a final electron acceptor in fermentation, producing hydrogen gas in its absence and hydrogen sulfide when present. Additionally, T. litoralis has been shown to produce an exopolysaccharide (EPS) that could possibly help it form a biofilm. It is made of mannose, sulfites, and phosphorus.

Physiology
T. litoralis can utilize pyruvate, maltose, and amino acids as energy sources. In a laboratory setting, T. litoralis must be supplied with amino acids in order to grow at non-reduced rates. The only amino acids it does not require are asparagine, glutamine, alanine, and glutamate. These amino acids may not be vital for T. litoralis because asparagine and glutamine tend to deaminate at high temperatures found around hydrothermic vents and alanine and glutamate can usually be produced by other hyperthermophilic archaea. The main carbon source for T. litoralis seems to be maltose, which can be brought into the cell via a maltose-trehalose ABC transporter. T. litoralis has a specialized glycolytic pathway called the modified Embden–Meyerhoff (EM) pathway. One way the modified EM pathway in T. litoralis deviates from the common EM pathway is that the modified version contains an ADP dependent hexose kinase and PFK instead of an ATP dependent versions of the enzymes.

Novel strains
New DNA analysis has shown several isolates of T. litoralis, MW and Z-1614, which are most likely new strains. MW and Z-1614 were confirmed to be strains of T. litoralis through DNA-DNA hybridization, C–G ratios (38–41 mol%), and immunoblotting analyses. They slightly differ in morphology from the previously isolated T. litoralis in that they all have flagella. Through the same processes it has been shown that the previously discovered Caldococcus litoralis was actually T. litoralis. The genome for T. litoralis has yet to be fully sequenced.


"One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" is a 1948 song by singing cowboy Eddie Dean, his wife Lorene "Dearest" Dean, and Hollywood songwriter Hal Blair.  The song was first recorded by Jimmy Wakely and was his third release on the Folk Best Seller charts and his first number one.  Within two years of the song's release, two additional versions of "One Has My Name (The Other Has My Heart)" made the country charts, recorded by Eddie Dean and by Bob Eberly.

Other cover versions
In 1965, Barry Young recorded his version which reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100.
 Also in 1965, Gene Pitney and George Jones recorded a version during their collaboration.
 Al Martino recorded a version for his 1966 album, "Spanish Eyes".
In 1969, Jerry Lee Lewis recorded the song which reached number three on the country chart.


Kenneth Fisher

Kenneth Lawrence Fisher (born November 29, 1950) is an American billionaire investment analyst and the founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, a fee-only financial adviser. Fisher's Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column ran from 1984 to 2017, making him the longest continuously-running columnist in the magazine's history. Fisher has authored eleven books on investing, and research papers in the field of behavioral finance. He is on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans and as of 2020 is worth $4.3 billion. In 2010, he was named to Investment Advisor magazine's "30 for 30" list of the 30 most influential people in the investment advisory business over the last 30 years. , Fisher's firm manages $100 billion.

Life and work
Kenneth Fisher was born in San Francisco, California, the third and youngest son of Dorothy (née Whyte), from Arkansas, and influential stock investor Philip A. Fisher. Fisher was raised in San Mateo, California. He went to Humboldt State University to study forestry, but graduated with a degree in economics in 1972. Humboldt State recognized Fisher with its Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007. In 2015, Fisher was appointed to the board of advisors of the Forbes School of Business at Ashford University.

Over the past few decades, Fisher has helped Fisher Investments become one of the largest independent money managers in the world. He started his firm in 1979 with $250 and it has grown to over $100 billion in assets under management.

In 2007, Fisher and Thomas Grüner founded Grüner Fisher Investments in Germany. In 2009, Fisher received the inaugural Tiburon CEO Summit award for Challenging Conventional Wisdom. Fisher also has a Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs Levy Award for his research on market forecasting, which he published in 2000 with Meir Statman of Santa Clara University.

In 2011, Fisher was ranked as one of the top 25 most influential figures in the financial industry by Investment Advisor Magazine.

Fisher has three adult sons, Nathan, Jesse and Clayton. Nathan Fisher is the senior executive vice president of Fisher Investments 401(k) Solutions.

Investment research and philosophy
Fisher's theoretical work identifying and testing the price-to-sales ratio (PSR) is detailed in his 1984 Dow Jones book, Super Stocks. James O'Shaughnessy credits Fisher with being the first to define and use the PSR as a forecasting tool. In Fisher's 2006 book, The Only Three Questions That Count, he states that the PSR is widely used and known, and no longer as useful as an indicator for undervalued stocks. However, the PSR is still frequently included as required curriculum for the Chartered Financial Analyst exam and has allowed Fisher to avoid significant portions of several bear markets over his career.

According to The Guru Investor by John P. Reese and Jack M. Forehand, in the late 1990s, Fisher defined his investment philosophy after studying the stock returns and P/E Ratios between January 1976 and June 1995 of six investment categories: big-cap value, midcap value, small-cap value, big-cap growth, midcap growth, and small-cap growth.

Small-cap value was not defined as an investing category until the late 1980s. Fisher Investments was among the institutional money managers offering small-cap value investing to clients in the late 1980s.

Books and other authorship

Fisher has authored eleven investing books: Super Stocks (1984), The Wall Street Waltz (1987), 100 Minds that Made the Market (1993), The Only Three Questions That Count (2006), The Ten Roads to Riches (2008), How To Smell A Rat (2009), Debunkery (2010), Markets Never Forget (2011), Plan Your Prosperity (2012), The Little Book of Market Myths (2013), and Beat The Crowd (2015). The Only Three Questions That Still Count, The Ten Roads to Riches, How to Smell a Rat, and Debunkery were all New York Times bestsellers.

In 2015, Fisher released Beat the Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest the Herd by Thinking Differently. In an interview with CNN Money, Fisher discusses how media hype around major economic events have already been priced into stock markets globally, and why investors are better served worrying about factors the market is ignoring. Fisher released the Second Edition of The Only Three Questions That Count in April 2012, and the Second Edition of The Ten Roads to Riches in April 2017.

Fisher Investments

Fisher is founder and chairman of Fisher Investments, an independent money management firm. He founded the firm in 1979, incorporated in 1986, then served as CEO until July 2016, when he was succeeded by long-time Fisher Investments employee Damian Ornani. Fisher remains active as the firm's executive chairman and co-chief investment officer.

Interests
Fisher's ongoing study of redwood ecology, particularly the emerging field of study of redwood canopies, grew from his childhood in San Mateo, California, near ancient redwood logging camps. Fisher's personal library contains more than 3000 volumes of regional logging history.

In 2006, Fisher gave $3.5 million to endow the Kenneth L. Fisher Chair in Redwood Forest Ecology at Humboldt State. The gift supports redwood ecology research in perpetuity and provides support for graduate students, laboratories, and field equipment; the research has focused particularly on canopy studies. Fisher's goal in creating the chair was to transform our understanding of trees and forests.

In 2012, Fisher and his wife gave $7.5 million to Johns Hopkins University to fund the new Sherrilyn and Ken Fisher Center for Environmental Infectious Diseases. After much deliberation, Fishers donation was approved.

Controversy
In October 2019 Fisher came under criticism for crude sexual references he made during a fireside chat at a conference sponsored by Tiburon Security Advisors. Fisher in his defense said his comments were misinterpreted and that he used references to genitalia and women to show how the art of wooing clients is similar to seduction. On October 11, it was announced that in response to Fisher's sexually explicit and inappropriate comments, the state of Michigan has withdrawn its pension fund of $600 million dollars from Fisher Investments. On October 16, 2019, the city of Boston pulled their $248 million in pension fund money from Fisher Investments and terminated their relationship due to Fisher's off-color comments.

Other repercussions followed. Fidelity announced it was reviewing the $500 million in assets that it has Fisher’s organization manage, and Philadelphia's board of pensions terminated its relationship with Fisher. Within weeks of the incident Fisher Investments lost more than $2.7 billion as several institutional clients, including government pensions, severed their relationship with the firm.  The firm Fisher founded is taking action as well. Fisher Investments Chief Executive Damian Ornani wrote a memo to employees stating: “Ken’s comments were wrong.” He said the firm is taking steps to address diversity and inclusion within the organization itself. Reporting from Bloomberg L.P. contended that this behavior was commonplace at Fisher Investments and that Fisher himself had made derogatory remarks a number of times before.

Works
 Super Stocks by Kenneth L. Fisher. McGraw-Hill. 1990.


Miscellany (Puncho)

Miscellany () is a collection of sermons and other religious texts (a Damaskin), by Puncho Kuzdin (Пунчо Куздин), a priest and pupil of Paisius of Hilendar who compiled, scribed and illustrated it by 1796, in a village near Mokreš Lomu. Today it is in the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library in Sofia (under the shelfmark NBKM 693).  The 809 pages are 20.5 х 15 centimeters.

The collection is an important witness to the nascent modern literary Bulgarian language, as written by an educated man using the commonly spoken language of Bulgarian (mokrešský dialect). The text is accompanied by several miniatures, including two self-portraits.


Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus (consul 127)

Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus was a Roman senator active during the first half of the second century AD. He was ordinary consul for 127 as the colleague of Titus Atilius Rufus Titianus. Gallicanus is known only from inscriptions.

The origins of the family of Gallicanus lie in Verona; an inscription mentioning one M. Gavius M.f. Pob. Squillianus has been recovered from there. Two men are known to be his sons: Marcus Gavius Squilla Gallicanus, ordinary consul in 150, and Marcus Gavius Orfitus, ordinary consul in 165.


Patrol Ship Multi-Mission

The PSMM Mk5 multi-purpose patrol boat class gunboat were a class of small military ships built for the United States Navy based on the Asheville class gunboat. The class is called Patrol Ship Multi Mission. The class was used by South Korean, Indonesia, Taiwan and Thailand Navies.

PSMM Mk5 multi-purpose patrol boat class gunboats employed a Combined diesel or gas turbine (CODOG) propulsion system; twin GM 12V149 Diesels for endurance, and a Lycoming TF-40A gas turbine for high-speed dash.

History

Ships

Republic of Korea Navy

PGM 581 Paek Ku 52 delivered 14-Mar-75
PGM 582 Paek Ku 53 delivered 14-Mar-75
PGM 584	Paek Ku 55 delivered 1-Feb-76
PGM 585	Paek Ku 56 delivered 1-Feb-76
PGM 586 - built in South Korea
PGM 587 - built in South Korea
PGM 589 - built in South Korea
PGM 591 - built in South Korea

Republic of China Navy

Lung Chiang PGG 601  delivered 15-May-78
Suijiang    PGG 602  built in Taiwan

Republic of Indonesia Navy

Mandau class missile FAC made in South Korea by Korea-Tacoma in Masan with Exocet MM-38

Displacement: 270 tons full load
Dimensions: 50.2 x 7.3 x 2.3 meters (164.6 x 23.9 x 7.5 feet)
Propulsion: 2 shafts; 2 MTU 12V diesel engine, 2,240 bhp; 1 LM 2500 gas turbine, 25,000 shp, 35 knots
Crew: 43
Radar: Racal Decca 1226
Fire Control: Signaal WM-28, Selenia NA-18
EW: Thompson-CSF DR-2000S Mk1 intercept
Armament: 4 MM38 Exocet SSM, 1 57mm/70cal DP, 1 Bofors 40 mm, 2 Rheinmettal 20 mm

Number  Name           Year
KRI Mandau 621 1979
KRI Rencong 622	1979
KRI Badik 623 1980
KRI Keris 624 1980

Kingdom of Thailand Navy

Sattahip class built in Thailand

Displacement: 300 tons full load
Dimensions: 50.14 x 7.30 x 1.58 meters (164.5 x 24 x 5 feet)
Propulsion: 2 diesels, 2 shafts, 6,840 bhp, 22 knots
Crew: 56
Armament: 1 3/50 SP (76 mm OTO DP in 524-56), 1 40 mm, 2 20 mm, 2 12.7 mm MG

Number  Name           Year
PC 521 Sattahip       1983
PC 522 Klongyai       1984
PC 523 Takbai         1984
PC 524 Katang         1985
PC 525 Thepa          1986
PC 526 Thai Muang     1986

External links
 http://www.navsource.org/
 http://www.hazegray.org/
 http://shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/2large/inactive/tacoma.htm
 http://komandomiliter.blogspot.com/2010/09/kcr-mandau-class.html


Alaton

Alaton is a surname. It may refer to:

İshak Alaton (1927–2016), Turkish businessman and investor of Jewish descent
Kalef Alaton (1940–1989), Turkish interior designer
Leyla Alaton, Turkish businesswoman and art collector


Fred M. Ahern

Fred M. Ahern (November 6, 1884 – September 17, 1950) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life
He was born on November 6, 1884, in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. He attended St. James Academy. He graduated from St. Bonaventure College; and LL.B. from Brooklyn Law School in 1907. He practiced law in Brooklyn.

He entered politics as a Republican. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Co., 10th D.) in 1911, 1912, 1914, 1915, 1916 and 1917. He was Chairman of the Committee on Claims in 1914; Chairman of the Committee on General Laws in 1915; and Chairman of the Committee on Codes in 1916.

He died on September 17, 1950, at the home of his brother John F. Ahern at 51 East 90th Street in Manhattan, of a heart attack.


Léon Bertin

Léon Bertin (8 April 1896, Paris – 5 February 1954, Saint-Amand-de-Vendôme) was a French zoologist. He was born in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, and died in the Loir-et-Cher Department of France, in a car accident.

Biography
From 1914, Bertin studied at the . He was granted his  in 1917, and his  in 1920. In 1925, he received his doctorate with a thesis entitled  ("Bionomic, biometric and systematic research on sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae)".

Bertin studied under Alfred Lacroix (1863 – 1948) in the  Geology Laboratories of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and studied invertebrates under Louis Eugène Bouvier (1856 – 1944). In 1938, after working as a lab assistant at the Faculty of Science, he moved to the Herpetology Laboratory of the Museum, working for Louis Roule (1861 – 1942), who was followed by Jacques Pellegrin (1873 – 1944) on his retirement. In 1949 he was President of the French Zoological Society.

Publications
Bertin is most remembered as the author of the 1921 work  ("Atlas of Marine Fish, Detailing their Habits and Mysteries, The Life Cycle and Biology of Sticklebacks"). He specialised in deepwater fauna.

Other works include:
  New editions 1980 and 1998.
  Reissued 1930.
  New edition 1979.
  New edition 1979.

  New edition 1951.
  New edition 1946.


Pedro Romo (actor)

Pedro Romo is a prolific Mexican actor and comedian (born June 17, 1957). He is known mostly for his roles as Don Filemon in the sitcom Skimo, and Pedro in the La risa en vacaciones film series.

Filmography

Television work
Romo has starred and guest starred in many sitcoms such as Skimo, Vecinos and Yo amo a Juan Querendón, and dramas such as Abrázame muy fuerte and Por tu Amor just to name a few.

External links


Congregation Beth Israel (Meridian, Mississippi)

Congregation Beth Israel in Meridian, Mississippi, is a Reform Jewish congregation founded in 1868 and a member of the Union for Reform Judaism. The congregation's first permanent house of worship was a Middle Eastern-style building constructed in 1879. The congregation moved to another building built in the Greek Revival style in 1906, and in 1964 moved to a more modern building, out of which they still operate.

The congregation was initially made up of only ten families but grew to include 50 members by 1878. By the time their second building was built in 1906, the congregation included 82 members, and Meridian as a whole had grown to include 525 Jewish residents by 1927. By the 2000s there were fewer than forty, mostly elderly Jews remaining in the city, however, and the congregation no longer has a full-time rabbi. Former rabbis include Judah Wechsler, after whom the Wechsler school was named, and William Ackerman, whose wife Paula Ackerman became the first woman to perform rabbinical duties in the country after her husband's unexpected death.

In 1968, the education building of the new complex was bombed by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Pieces of glass were salvaged from the destruction and are now incorporated into the front windows of the current synagogue building. The congregation owns and maintains a historic cemetery at 19th Street and 15th Avenue which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

History
In the early days of Lauderdale County before Meridian was established, the nearby town of Marion was the largest settlement in the area. The families of Abraham Threefoot, Isaac Rosenbaum, Leopold Rosenbaum, E. Lowenstein, and Jacob Cohen lived in Marion during these early years. These families, along with other Jews in Marion, worked with Jews from the up-and-coming Meridian to build a temple halfway between the two towns. After the American Civil War, Meridian began to grow rapidly and Marion began to decline. As a result, many of Marion's Jews elected to move to Meridian. In 1868, the Jewish community established the first Jewish congregation in Lauderdale County, Beth Israel, and bought the lot which is now the Beth Israel Cemetery for $100 (today $).

The congregation initially consisted of only ten families and met in several temporary locations before moving to a permanent building. These locations included a house on 24th Avenue and 9th Street, a room above Carney's Grocery Store, and Sheehan Hall. In this interim period, the congregation grew to include 50 members by 1878, with David Burgheim serving as rabbi. The Middle Eastern style building at the corner of 8th Street and 22nd Avenue, constructed by the growing congregation in 1879, was the first building in the city with gas-powered lighting. Rabbi Burgheim was succeeded by Rabbi W. Weinstein, then Rabbi Jacobs, and then Rabbi Judah Wechsler. Wechsler, who became rabbi in 1887, led a movement to provide public schools for blacks, which culminated in a bond issue to construct the first brick public school building for African Americans in the state. The Wechsler School was named after him and has since been listed on the National Register of Historic Places and as a Mississippi Landmark. The congregation stayed in this building for several years, before eventually being forced to move due to complaints of flies attracted by horse droppings outside of a nearby retail store.

In 1906, a new Greek Revival octagonal synagogue designed by architect P.J. Krouse and modelled after the Temple of Athena Nike was built at the corner of 11th Street and 24th Avenue. The marble steps leading to the entrance of the building were flanked by large Ionic columns. The new synagogue could seat 500 and featured stained glass windows displaying the Ten Commandments, a menorah, the Star of David, and Noah's Ark. A fire damaged the building during its first year of operation, and while it was being repaired, services were held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. By 1907, the congregation had grown to include 82 members and was led by Rabbi Max Raisin. By 1927, the Jewish community in Meridian had grown to 525 people, partly due to an influx of immigrants from Eastern Europe. The members of Beth Israel sponsored these newcomers, helping them to find jobs and homes and holding night classes to teach them English.

Some of the congregation's members had preferred a more strict form of worship and a smaller Orthodox congregation, Ohel Jacob, had been formed in 1895.  The two congregations had good relations, however, and a number of Meridian Jews belonged to both.

In 1951, the congregation included 100 members and was the second largest Jewish community in the state. When Rabbi William Ackerman, who had served the congregation from 1924 to 1950, suddenly died while still in service, Beth Israel asked his wife Paula Ackerman to take his place until they could find a replacement. No women had been ordained at this time, and it would be a full 20 more years before the first woman would be officially ordained in the United States. Nonetheless, without ordination Paula Ackerman served as "spiritual leader" (the congregation elected not to call her "rabbi") for three years until Beth Israel could find another. Despite the unwillingness to call Ackerman "rabbi," she performed all the duties of a normal rabbi, including conducting weekly Shabbat services, giving sermons, and performing marriages and funerals. In spite of much media attention and criticism from other Jews in the country, the congregation remained united under her leadership. (Ackerman would later move to her original home of Pensacola, Florida, where she would serve as an interim rabbi at Temple Beth-El for nine months in 1962 until a replacement was found.)

By 1964, the temple was in need of repairs, and some older members found it difficult to get up the steep marble steps at the entrance. Instead of repairing their 60-year-old building in downtown, they purchased a  plot in the Broadmoor residential subdivision of Meridian and built a new synagogue. The new facility, located at 57th Court and 14th Avenue, was dedicated in December 1964 and was composed of a 200-seat sanctuary, a social hall with a kitchen and a library, and an education building.

1968 Ku Klux Klan bombing

During the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, the leadership of Beth Israel spoke out against the Ku Klux Klan's attacks on black churches. In response, Thomas Tarrants of Mobile, Alabama, who had helped bomb the synagogue building of Beth Israel Congregation and its rabbi's house there bombed Beth Israel's education building on May 28, 1968. The blast was caused by about 15 sticks of dynamite planted by Tarrants and his accomplice, Danny Joe Hawkins, a top hitman in the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The force of the blast knocked down several walls of the education building and caved in part of the roof while also destroying a door at the opposite end of the synagogue building. A hole approximately  in diameter was left in the concrete floor, and damages were estimated to be around $50,000 (equivalent to $ today). A reward of $10,000 was offered by the Meridian City Council, and $15,000 extra was promised by the Jewish community of the city. According to Sammy Feltenstein, past president of Congregation Beth Israel, pieces of stained glass that survived the bombing were salvaged and adorn the front window of the synagogue today.

On June 30, Tarrants returned to Meridian to bomb the home of Meyer Davidson, an outspoken leader of the Jewish community, on 29th Avenue. The FBI and police chief Roy Gunn convinced Raymond and Alton Wayne Roberts, local Klan members, to gather information about the Klan's operations. Alton was free on bond after being convicted in connection with the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner in 1964. Leaders of the Jewish communities in Jackson and in Meridian had raised money to pay the two informants, who tipped off the FBI about the attack before it happened. Fifteen police officers were hidden around Davidson's house shortly after midnight when a car stopped about  away from the house. Tarrants exited the vehicle with a box, later found to include 29 sticks of dynamite, and approached Davidson's carport. When police ordered him to stop, he dropped the box and fled to his vehicle. Officers then chased him for about 15 blocks before ramming the back of his vehicle, ending the chase. Tarrants opened fire on the policemen with a German-made 9mm submachine gun, striking officer J.M. Hatcher four times in the chest (though critically injured, the officer survived). Tarrants fled through the neighborhood continuing to fire at the policemen. Robert Burton, a resident of the neighborhood, opened his door to see what was going on and was struck by stray bullets. Police eventually found Tarrants in a pool of his own blood in a local resident's backyard. Kathy Ainsworth, a 26-year-old fifth grade school teacher from Jackson who had helped with the bombing of Jackson's synagogue a few months earlier, was found dead in the car with a loaded pistol in her purse. The car's owner was identified to be Danny Joe Hawkins, who had helped bomb Beth Israel; he was arrested on robbery charges a few weeks later. Tarrants survived his wounds and was sentenced to a thirty-year term in Parchman prison. He was paroled eight years into his term to enter the University of Mississippi after a religious conversion, and in 1992 he was training missionaries in North Carolina.

Cemetery

Besides their main campus in Broadmoor, the congregation also operates Beth Israel Cemetery, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Located at 19th Street and 5th Avenue, it was originally outside of Meridian's city limits and was intended to be a rural cemetery, but the city has since expanded and annexed the area containing the cemetery. The cemetery contains generations of German and Alsatian immigrants, as well as many big names of the largely mercantile Jewish community of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beth Israel Cemetery is the only remaining built memorial for many of Meridian's early Jews since the era of the 1879 and 1906 temple buildings, neither of which still stands.

A stuccoed brick fence with cast iron gates and an iron Star of David enclose the cemetery. Within the walls, there are two main pathways which meet in the center of the cemetery at a circular decorative piece including a fountain. The oldest graves are in the northern half of the cemetery while newer graves were added progressively south. Many grave sites are adorned with well-maintained Victorian era funerary art, which gives the cemetery its historic significance. Among the monuments include the grave enclosure of the Winner family, which includes a bronze bust of Mark Winner, and two marble angels at the entrance of the plot. Other examples include the grave of David L. Rosenbaum, topped with marble shoes and stockings, the grave of Julius Elson, marked by a carved marble fainting couch, and a memorial to Mattimore Meyer, featuring a marble angel.

Because the cemetery is so small – only  – it cannot be fully compared to such prolific rural cemeteries as Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, but it was clearly laid out in the rural cemetery fashion. Many of the first people buried here were European immigrants, so that could explain why there are no trees on the property. Jewish cemeteries in Europe are generally not planted with trees because of the possibility that roots could disturb the bodies.

Decline of the Jewish community
Congregation Beth Israel experienced decline along with the rest of the city and state's Jewish community. The Jewish population in Mississippi peaked in 1927 at 6,420 and has since decreased steadily. By 2001, only 1,500 Jews remained in the state. Children of the original Jewish immigrants – mostly merchants – were more interested in going to college to become professionals than taking over family businesses. The rise of national retail chains pressured many Jews to move to larger cities, leaving empty storefronts to line streets of smaller cities that were once economic centers. As of 2006, there were thirteen Jewish congregations left in the state, and only two still had a full-time rabbi. Meridian as a whole has also seen a decline in population. Between the censuses in 1980 and 2000, the city's population declined over 16% from 46,577 to 39,968.

By the early 21st century, there were fewer than 40 Jews remaining in the city of Meridian, most of whom were elderly. Ohel Jacob, the local Orthodox congregation, first shared services with Beth Israel on all but High Holy Days and then disbanded completely in 1990, with its handful of members joining Beth Israel.  By the 2000s, there were no longer enough children in the Beth Israel congregation to support a Sunday school class or youth group. Beth Israel no longer has a full-time rabbi; instead, from 2005-2016 retired rabbi David Goldstein from Touro Synagogue in New Orleans, leads services once a month. Starting September 2016, Rabbi Barry Altman, of Ormond Beach, Florida, took over as part-time rabbi.  The synagogue serves about 30 member families and houses a Family Growth Services Group, which "seeks to sustain and advance the reach and contributions of the Jewish community within Meridian." In January 2010, Beth Israel launched a Family Relocation Program, which provided grants of up to $25,000 to families looking to relocate to the Meridian area.


Kiowa Shale

The Kiowa Shale is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Kansas. Plesiosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from its strata.


Socialist Party of Ireland (1904)

The Socialist Party of Ireland (SPI) was a small political party in Ireland associated with James Connolly.

Socialist Party of Ireland
Until 1904, Connolly was the leading figure in the Irish Socialist Republican Party (ISRP).  However, the ISRP had lost many members following internal disputes, with some forming the rival Irish Socialist Labour Party (ISLP).  The ISLP attempted to affiliate to the recently founded British Socialist Labour Party, but was advised to attempt to merge with the ISRP first.  With Connolly out of the country, this was achieved, the two groups coming together to form the new "Socialist Party of Ireland".

Although the party's initial membership was based in Dublin, it soon established groups in Belfast and Cork.  However, it was unable to attract the Belfast-based members of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) around William Walker to join, as they opposed the new party's principle of Irish Home Rule.

Despite some growth, the party remained small and only held its first conference in 1910.  Connolly was chosen as its national organiser, while Francis Sheehy-Skeffington became president, Michael Mallin was secretary, and William X. O'Brien was also elected to the executive.

In 1912, Connolly called a socialist unity conference in Dublin, attended by the Belfast branch of the Socialist Party and four of the Belfast-based ILP branches, only Walker's own branch refusing to attend.  The five groups united to form the "Independent Labour Party of Ireland", but this collapsed soon after the outbreak of World War I, after Connolly was banned from giving speeches alleged to be pro-German in Belfast by the local leadership of the group. Nationally, the SPI almost stopped operating during the war, but was revived by supporters of the Russian February Revolution and October Revolution.

With the SPI now led by O'Brien, Cathal O'Shannon was elected as president, and Sean O'Casey also became a leading figure. An opposition faction around Roddy Connolly and Seán McLoughlin wished to affiliate to the Communist International (Comintern). But even O'Shannon spoke about pursuing both political and military action to enable a workers' revolution, and welcomed the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB).  To build links with the Bolsheviks, both factions in the SPI claimed that the party had played a significant role in the Irish War of Independence.  Although some members had been centrally involved, this claim was not correct, as the party was largely inactive at the time.

Communist Party of Ireland
The left faction were successful in winning the group over, with Connolly becoming the leader and McLoughlin elected as president. Liam O'Flaherty and George Pollock also came to prominence, while O'Brien and O'Shannon were expelled in October, at the same time as the group renamed itself as the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI). Connolly wrote a document setting out a strategy for the party, arguing that it should develop a nucleus in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Irish Citizen Army, while also seeing revolutionary potential in the Protestant workers in Ulster.  However, the Comintern ordered the party to focus on the national question and orientate to the IRA.  While the CPGB was supportive of the CPI, it disagreed on this focus.

Although the party claimed 300 members in October 1921, this dropped rapidly, and by the end of November, it claimed only 78 members in Dublin and 28 in Cork.  In December, Nora Connolly and Eamonn MacAlpine were suspended and formed the rival Communist Groups, focusing more heavily on links with the IRA.  The CPGB sent Thomas A. Jackson and Willie Gallacher to arrange negotiations between the two.

The Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in December 1921, and the CPI sided with the anti-treaty republicans; Peadar O'Donnell, a leading figure in the IRA, joined the party, and it formed a small Red Guard which offered to provide support for the IRA.

O'Flaherty and Seán McIntyre led a small group of CPI members who declared that they were establishing a Soviet Republic while they occupied the Rotunda Hospital in January 1922, but the party's leadership called this a "childish stunt", and both leaders left Dublin and the party. The British Special Branch concluded that Connolly had visited Moscow on more than one occasion, and that the party was receiving a subsidy from the Comintern.  They incorrectly believed that the party was responsible for numerous revolutionary actions early in 1922.

At the 1922 Irish general election, the CPI endorsed O'Donnell's successful candidature in Donegal, although he did not sit as a party member.  Patrick Gaffney, who had been elected for the Labour Party in the election, left it soon afterwards and joined the CPI, becoming its only Parliamentary representative.  He stood again in the 1923 general election, but was heavily defeated.

The CPI held its first Congress in January 1923, chaired by Walter Carpenter.  Other than Gaffney, all the delegates were from Dublin. With membership remaining low, when Jim Larkin established the Irish Worker League in September, the Comintern ordered the CPI to dissolve itself, and for its members to work through Larkin's group.  Although the party's leadership protested that membership would rise once imprisoned members were released, they complied with the order.


General Tracy

General Tracy is the name of:

Edward D. Tracy (1833–1863), brigadier general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
Benjamin Franklin Tracy (April 26, 1830 – August 6, 1915), an American political figure who served as Secretary of the Navy


Ninette de Valois

Dame Ninette de Valois  (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 18988 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the leading ballet companies in the world.  She also established the Royal Ballet School and the touring company which became the Birmingham Royal Ballet.  She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of ballet and as the "godmother" of English and Irish ballet.

Life

Early life and family
Ninette de Valois was born as Edris Stannus on 6 June 1898 at Baltyboys House, an 18th-century manor house near the town of Blessington, County Wicklow, Ireland, then still part of the United Kingdom. A member of a gentry family, she was the second daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Stannus DSO, a British Army officer, and Elizabeth Graydon Smith, a glassmaker known as "Lilith Stannus". She was the maternal great-granddaughter of the diarist Elizabeth Grant Smith and the maternal great-great granddaughter of Scottish politician John Peter Grant. Through her mother she was also the great grandniece of Sir John Peter Grant and a first cousin twice removed of Lady Strachey. In 1905 she moved to England, to live with her grandmother in Kent. She started attending ballet lessons in 1908, at the age of ten.

Early dancing career
At the age of thirteen Stannus began her professional training at the Lila Field Academy for Children. It was at this time that she changed her name to Ninette de Valois and made her professional debut as a principal dancer in pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre in the West End.

In 1919, at the age of 21, she was appointed principal dancer of the Beecham Opera, which was then the resident opera company at the Royal Opera House. She continued to study ballet with notable teachers, including Edouard Espinosa, Enrico Cecchetti and Nicholas Legat.

Ballets Russes

In 1923, de Valois joined the Ballets Russes, a renowned ballet company founded by the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev. She remained with the company for three years, performing around Europe and being promoted to the rank of Soloist, and creating roles in some of the company's most famous ballets, including Les biches and Le Train Bleu. During this time, she was also mentor to Alicia Markova who was only a child at the time, but would eventually be recognised as a Prima Ballerina Assoluta and one of the most famous English dancers of all time.  Later in her life, Valois said that everything she knew about how to run a ballet company she learned from working with Diaghilev.  She stepped back from regular intense dancing in 1924, after doctors detected damage from a previously undiagnosed case of childhood polio.

London and Dublin dance schools
After leaving the Ballets Russes, in 1927, de Valois established the Academy of Choreographic Art, a dance school for girls in London and the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet, Dublin. In London, her ultimate goal was to form a repertory ballet company, with dancers drawn from the school and trained in a uniquely British style of ballet. Students of the school were given professional stage experience performing in opera and plays staged at the Old Vic Theatre, with Valois choreographing several short ballets for the theatre. Lilian Baylis was the owner of the Old Vic at that time, and in 1928 she also acquired and refurbished the Sadler's Wells Theatre, with the intention of creating a sister theatre to the Old Vic.  She employed de Valois to stage full-scale dance productions at both theatres and when the Sadler's Wells theatre re-opened in 1931, de Valois moved her school into studios there, under the new name, the Sadler's Wells Ballet School.  A ballet company was also formed, known as the Vic-Wells Ballet.  The Vic-Wells ballet company and school would be the predecessors of today's Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet and Royal Ballet School.

Also in 1927, in May, W. B. Yeats, poet and co-founder of the Abbey Theatre, suggested to de Valois while she was visiting Dublin the establishment of a ballet school in the city, and from around November, she took responsibility for the setting up and the programming of the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet in Dublin.  This, the first of perhaps five Irish national ballet school projects during the 20th century, ran until June 1933, and 7 of the 16 final students continued in active dancing, with 2 founding the next national ballet project, the "Abbey School of Ballet."

Choreography
During these years de Valois produced a number of ballets each year, mostly to her own choreography. She also worked with music especially commissioned from Irish contemporary composers such as Harold R. White's The Faun (April 1928), Arthur Duff's The Drinking Horn and John F. Larchet's Bluebeard (both in July 1933).

Vic-Wells Ballet

At its formation, the Vic-Wells Ballet had only six female dancers, with de Valois working as lead dancer and choreographer.  The company performed its first full ballet production on 5 May 1931 at the Old Vic, with Anton Dolin as guest star. Its first performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre came a few days later, on 15 May 1931.  As a result of the success of the company, Valois hired new dancers and choreographers.  She retired fully from the stage herself in 1933, after Alicia Markova joined the company and was appointed as Prima Ballerina.

Under de Valois's direction, the company flourished in the 1930s, becoming one of the first Western dance companies to perform the classical ballet repertoire made famous by the Imperial Russian Ballet.  She also set about establishing a British repertory, engaging Frederick Ashton as Principal Choreographer and Constant Lambert as Musical Director in 1935.  She also choreographed a number of her own ballets, including her most notable works, Job (1931), The Rake's Progress (1935) and Checkmate (1937).

Eventually the company included many of the most famous ballet dancers in the world, including Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer, Beryl Grey, and Michael Somes. In 1949 the Sadler Wells Ballet was a sensation when they toured the United States. Fonteyn instantly became an international celebrity.

In 1947, Valois established the first ballet school in Turkey. Formed as the ballet school of the Turkish State Opera and Ballet in Istanbul, the school was later absorbed into and became the School of Music & Ballet at Ankara State Conservatory, a department of the Hacettepe University.

The Royal Ballet
In 1956 the ballet company and school were granted a Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth II, and formally linked.  de Valois made sure that her company had a constant supply of talent, and in later years it had such stars as Svetlana Beriosova, Antoinette Sibley, Nadia Nerina, Lynn Seymour, and, most sensationally, Rudolf Nureyev. She also invited choreographers such as Sir Kenneth MacMillan and George Balanchine to work with her company. She formally retired from the Royal Ballet directorship in 1963, but her presence continued to loom large in the company, and the same was true with the School, from which she formally retired in 1970.

de Valois acted as patron or supporter to a number of other projects, including the Cork Ballet Company and Irish National Ballet Company in Ireland.

Turkish State Ballet
As with ballet in the British Isles, de Valois exerted a great deal of influence on the development of ballet in Turkey, which had no prior history with the art form.  The Turkish Government invited her to research the possibility of establishing a ballet school in the country, and she subsequently visited the country in the 1940s, going on to open a school following the same model as her Sadler's Wells Ballet School in London.  Initially, very few people took the project seriously, but the school did become firmly established and led to the development of the Turkish State Ballet.

After training the first set of pupils at the new school, de Valois produced a number of early performances by the state ballet company, permitting guest appearances by Royal Ballet dancers including Margot Fonteyn, Nadia Nerina, Anya Linden, Michael Somes and David Blair.  She mounted productions of the traditional classical repertoire including Coppélia, Giselle, Don Quixote, Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, as well as the contemporary ballets Les Patineurs, Les Rendezvous and Prince of the Pagodas by Frederick Ashton, and her own ballets The Rake's Progress, Checkmate and Orpheus.

In 1965, de Valois produced and choreographed the first full-length work created for the new Turkish State Ballet.  Titled Çeşmebaşı (At the Fountain), the ballet was the first to feature music composed by a Turkish composer, Ferit Tuzun, and its choreography incorporated elements of Turkish folk dance.  Further ballets followed, and the company continued to develop.  Today, ballet continues to be a thriving art form in Turkey, with the ballet school that Valois established now forming part of the State Conservatory for Music and Drama at the Ankara State Conservatory.

Personal life
In 1935, at Windsor, she married Dr Arthur Blackall Connell (1902–1987), a physician and surgeon from Wandsworth, who worked as a general practitioner in Barnes, London, where they lived, and later Sunningdale, Berkshire. She was his second wife; the union was childless, but Valois had two step-sons, including Dr David Blackall Connell (born 1930), who, in 1955, married Susan Jean Carnegie, a daughter of John Carnegie, 12th Earl of Northesk; they had two sons and a daughter.

de Valois kept her private life very distinct from her professional, making only the briefest of references to her marriage in her autobiographical writings.  In April 1964 she was the subject of This Is Your Life, when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the home of the dancer Frederick Ashton in London. She continued to make public appearances until her death in London at the age of 102.

In 1991 de Valois appeared on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. Her chosen book was a collection of poems and her luxury item was an everlasting bottle of sleeping pills.

Choreographic works

Among her earliest choreography was a production of the Greek tragedy Oresteia, which opened Terence Gray's Cambridge Festival Theatre in November 1926. Valois first established herself as a choreographer producing several short ballets for the Old Vic Theatre, London. She also provided choreography for plays and operas at the theatre, all of which were performed by her own pupils. After forming the Vic-Wells Ballet, her first major production, Job (1931), was the first ballet to define the future of the British ballet repertoire.

Later, after employing Frederick Ashton as the company's first Principal Choreographer in 1935, de Valois collaborated with him to produce a series of signature ballets, which are recognised as cornerstones of British ballet. These included The Rake's Progress (1935) and Checkmate (1937).

Job (1931)

The oldest ballet in the Royal Ballet repertoire, Job is regarded as a crucial work in the development of British ballet and was the first ballet to be produced by an entirely British creative team. The ballet was produced and choreographed by Valois, with a commissioned score entitled Job, a Masque for Dancing, written by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with orchestrations by Constant Lambert and designs by Gwendolen Raverat.  The libretto for the ballet was written by Geoffrey Keynes and is based on William Blake's engraved edition of the Book of Job from the Hebrew Bible. Consisting of eight scenes, the ballet is inspired by Blake's engravings and so de Valois choreographed the ballet using predominantly mimed actions to create a simple decorative effect.

Despite the choreography of the ballet being described as 'uneven', Job features a number of well known dances, which continue to be performed regularly. The most recognised extracts are Satan's Dance, an acrobatic solo for a male dancer, the dance of Job's comforters, and the satirical expressionist dances representing War, Pestilence and Famine. Job had its world premiere on 5 July 1931, and was performed for members of the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre, London. The first public performance of the ballet took place on 22 September 1931 at the Old Vic Theatre.

Other works
Ninette de Valois' other works include:
The Haunted Ballroom (1934)
Bar aux Folies-Bergère (1934), for The Ballet Club
 The Rake's Progress (1935)
 As You Like It (1936)
 Checkmate (1937)
 Every Goose Can
 The Gods Go A-Begging
 Barabau The Prospect Before Us (1940)
 Keloğlan (1950)
 At the Fountain Head (1963)
 Çeşmebaşı (1965), for the Turkish State Opera and Ballet
 Sinfonietta (1966)

Honours and awards
Honours
Ninette de Valois was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) on 1 January 1947 and was promoted Dame Commander (DBE) on 1 January 1951. She became a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH) on 31 December 1981 and was honoured by HM The Queen with the Order of Merit (OM) on 2 January 1992.

She was appointed Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur on 1 May 1950 and received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey on 2 January 1998.

Awards

Ninette de Valois received the Bronze award presented for services to Ballet from the Irish Catholic Stage Guild in 1949. She was the first recipient of the Royal Academy of Dance Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Award in 1953–1954. She was made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Dance on 19 July 1963 and of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing on 8 March 1964 In 1964 she received the Royal Society of Arts Albert Medal and in 1974, the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Erasmus Prize. The Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal was awarded on 7 June 1977 and the Royal Opera House Long Service medal in 1979.

She received the Critics' Circle Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts in 1989 and the Society of London Theatre Laurence Olivier Award Special Award in 1992.

In the United States, she received the Dance Theatre of Harlem Emergence Award on 27 July 1981.

Honoris causa degrees
Ninette de Valois received Doctor of Music (DMus) degrees from the University of London in 1947, the University of Sheffield on 29 June 1955, Trinity College, Dublin in 1957 and Durham University in 1982.

She received DLitt from the University of Reading in 1951, the University of Oxford in 1955 and the University of Ulster in 1979.

In 1958 she received an LLD from the University of Aberdeen and on 5 July 1975 Doctor of Letters from the University of Sussex.


Roosevelt Collins

Roosevelt Collins Jr. (born January 25, 1968) is a former American football linebacker who played one season with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League.  He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the sixth round of the 1992 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas Christian University and attended Booker T. Washington High School in Shreveport, Louisiana. Collins was also a member of the Sacramento Gold Miners, San Antonio Texans and Amsterdam Admirals.

Professional career

Miami Dolphins
Collins was seelcred by the Miami Dolphins with the 155th pick in the 1992 NFL Draft. He played in ten games for the Dolphins during the 1992 season.

Sacramento Gold Miners
Collins appeared in four games for the Sacramento Gold Miners of the Canadian Football League in 1994.

San Antonio Texans
Collins played in 18 games for the San Antonio Texans of the Canadian Football League in 1995.

Amsterdam Admirals
Collins was drafted by the Amsterdam Admirals in the ninth round with the 51st pick in the 1997 World League of American Football Draft and played for them during the 1997 season.


Major actinide

Major actinides is a term used in the nuclear power industry that refers to the plutonium and uranium present in used nuclear fuel, as opposed to the minor actinides neptunium, americium, curium, berkelium, and californium.


U.S. Route 127

U.S. Route 127  (US 127) is a  north–south U.S. Highway in the eastern half of the United States. The southern terminus of the route is at US 27 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The northern terminus is at Interstate 75 (I-75) near Grayling, Michigan. Since 1987, it has been the core of the annual World's Longest Yard Sale, also known as the Highway 127 Corridor Sale (127 Yard Sale),  which now stretches  from Addison, Michigan, to Gadsden, Alabama. The sale, held every August, was started to demonstrate that the older U.S. Highway System has something to offer that the Interstate Highway System does not.

In Michigan, US 127 tripled in length in 2002 at the expense of its parent, US 27.

Route description

Tennessee

In Tennessee, US 127 traverses rural areas of the Cumberland Plateau in eastern Middle Tennessee and western East Tennessee. The route officially begins in the northern Chattanooga suburb of Red Bank at an interchange with US 27, where it overlaps Tennessee State Route 8. From there it runs primarily northwest as it passes Signal Mountain, and later Walden Ridge before entering Dunlap, where it turns northeast along Tennessee State Route 28. After TN 8 leaves at the interchange with TN 111, US 127/TN 28 follows through the Sequatchie Valley, passing through the city of Pikeville, then curves back to the northwest as it enters Crossville, only to return towards the northeast as it enters Jamestown. From that point on it returns towards the northwest one more time as it winds through the woods surrounding the Sgt. Alvin C. York State Historic Park. Finally in Static, the road runs along the Tennessee-Kentucky border where it makes a sharp turn at the northern terminus of TN 111 before entering Kentucky.

Kentucky

In Kentucky, US 127 is cosigned with US 42 through Cincinnati's Northern Kentucky suburbs until  east of Warsaw, then passes south through Owenton. This was the road driven by Buddy Rich when he wrote "Blue Grass makes me Blue" in 1947. At the state capital of Frankfort, it becomes a four-lane highway, then skirts Lawrenceburg, Harrodsburg, and Danville. It enters the hilly Knobs Region at Junction City, where it becomes a two-lane route, and continues through Hustonville, crossing the drainage divide between the Kentucky and Green river watersheds and roughly following the scenic upper Green River valley through Casey County, crossing the river at Liberty. South of Dunnville it climbs onto the Eastern Pennyroyal Plateau and cuts through Russell Springs and Jamestown. It crosses Wolf Creek Dam, which creates Lake Cumberland.  It runs very briefly with KY 90 north of Albany and crosses into Tennessee at Static. The new route through Clinton County includes a bypass west of Albany; the original plan for a more direct eastern route was abandoned because of historic and scenic concerns. In the county US 127 runs through sinkhole plains along the escarpment that marks the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau, creating scenic views.

Ohio

US 127 serves several cities and rural communities along the extreme western edge of Ohio, including Cincinnati,  New Miami,  Seven Mile, Somerville, Camden, Eaton, Greenville, Celina, Van Wert, Paulding and Bryan. In Cincinnati, it shares a short concurrency with its parent route, US 27, along with US 42. From there, it heads north through Fairfield and Hamilton. The highway is a four-lane, divided bypass around Greenville. US 127 crosses the Ohio Turnpike near West Unity, but does not intersect with it. It also joins with US 36 for about . The first city US 127 enters after leaving Kentucky is Cincinnati. The last municipality that US 127 goes through before reaching Michigan is West Unity.

Except for Defiance County, US 127 passes through the county seats of all nine counties in Ohio that share a border with Indiana. It also traverses a portion of Fulton County before entering Michigan.

In total, US 127 traverses  across Ohio.

Michigan

In Michigan, US 127 runs from the Ohio border south of Hudson north to the junction with I-75,  south of Grayling, a distance of .

The highway is the primary route connecting Lansing and central Michigan to Northern Michigan and the Mackinac Bridge; it serves the cities of Jackson, Lansing, and Clare.  From the south side of Jackson northerly, it is mostly a four-lane freeway, except for the notable exception of a  stretch from north of St. Johns to just south of Ithaca, where access to the road is not limited.

Prior to 2002, US 127 ran from I-69 north of East Lansing southerly to the Ohio border near Hudson, a total of . From the Ohio border until Jackson, the highway follows the course (with minor deviations) of the Michigan Meridian used to survey Michigan in the early 19th century. That stretch is generally named Meridian Road.
In the non-freeway sections of the route, it is known as Bagley Road.

A proposed I-73 would incorporate US 127 between Jackson and Grayling.

History

Southern terminus
US 127 originally terminated at Toledo when it was commissioned in 1926. At that time, the southern portion ran from Somerset to Toledo along the route of present-day U.S. Route 223. In 1930 the southern terminus moved to Cincinnati, and in 1958 it was extended to its present southern terminus at Chattanooga.

Northern terminus
The northern terminus of US 127 was in or near Lansing, Michigan, from its inception in 1926 to 2002. In 2002, the terminus was moved to an intersection with I-75 south of Grayling in Crawford County, Michigan, replacing all of US 27 north of Lansing.

Major intersections
Tennessee
  in Chattanooga
  in Crossville
  in Crossville
  in Crossville
Kentucky
  in Danville. The highways travel concurrently through Danville.
  northeast of Harrodsburg
  in Lawrenceburg
  in Frankfort
  in Frankfort
  in Frankfort. The highways travel concurrently through Frankfort.
  in Glencoe
  north-northeast of Glencoe. The highways travel concurrently to .
  in Florence
  in Florence. The highways travel concurrently to the Ohio state line.
  in Crestview Hills
  in Fort Mitchell
  in Covington
Ohio
  in Cincinnati. The highways travel concurrently through Cincinnati.
  in Cincinnati
  in Cincinnati
  in Cincinnati
  in Cincinnati
  in Cincinnati
  on the Pleasant Run–Mount Healthy Heights–Forest Park line.
  in Eaton
  exit 10 Eaton, OH (4 miles south)
  west of Lewisburg
  west-northwest of Jaysville. The highways travel concurrently to Greenville.
  southeast of Rockford
  in Van Wert. US 127/US 224 travels concurrently to north-northeast of Van Wert.
  east of Cecil
  south of Bryan
  east of Alvordton. The highways travel concurrently to west of Fayette.
Michigan
  southeast of Somerset
  east of Somerset
  northeast of Jackson. The highways travel concurrently to north-northwest of Jackson.
  at Michigan State University south-southeast of Lansing. I-496/US 127 travels concurrently to East Lansing.
  north-northwest of East Lansing
  in Clare. The highways travel concurrently to north-northwest of Clare.
  south of Grayling


Seven Stories Press

Seven Stories Press is an independent American publishing company. Centered in New York City, the company was founded by editor Dan Simon in 1995, after establishing Four Walls Eight Windows with John Oakes. The company was named for its seven founding authors: Annie Ernaux, Gary Null, the estate of Nelson Algren, Project Censored, Octavia E. Butler, Charley Rosen, and Vassilis Vassilikos, all of whom have continued to publish with Seven Stories.

Seven Stories Press states that they "publish works of the imagination and political titles by voices of conscience." Seven Stories also publishes a wide range of literature, National Book Award–winning poetry collections, and translations in prose and poetry from French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Italian, Greek, Polish, Korean, Vietnamese, Russian, and Arabic.

Free speech
Seven Stories believes publishers have a special responsibility to defend free speech and human rights. On several notable occasions, Seven Stories has stepped in to publish important books that were being refused the right to publish for political reasons, including Dark Alliance by Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Gary Webb, Citizen Newhouse by Carol Felsenthal, The Others by pseudonymous Saudi Arabian lesbian author Seba al-Herz, and All Things Censored by distinguished journalist and death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal.

Foreign fiction
Seven Stories is an active publisher of works of literature in translation, including The Few Things I Know About Glafkos Thrassakis by Vassilis Vassilikos, The Old Garden by Hwang Sok-yong and Jean Giono’s The Solitude of Compassion. Seven Stories has introduced new translations of underappreciated classics like Ivan Goncharov’s Oblomov, while also seeking works by emerging international voices, like Céline Curiol's Voice Over, Johan Harstad’s Buzz Aldrin, What Happened To You in All The Confusion? and Andri Snær Magnason's LoveStar and The Story of the Blue Planet. Recent translations include Operation Massacre by Rodolfo Walsh and The Body Where I Was Born by Guadalupe Nettel.

Siete Cuentos
Launched in 2000, Seven Stories’ Spanish-language imprint, Siete Cuentos Editorial, represents an effort to introduce a selection English-language texts to Spanish-language readers. Siete Cuentos has published Spanish-language editions of Our Bodies, Ourselves (Nuestros cuerpos, nuestras vidas) and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States (La otra historia de los Estados Unidos.) Siete Cuentos has published new and classic works of literature by Ariel Dorfman, including Death and the Maiden (La muerte y la doncella) and Heading South, Looking North (Rumbo al sur, deseando el norte), as well as fiction by Ángela Vallvey and Sonia Rivera-Valdés. Recent Spanish translations include Charles C. Mann's 1491 (Una nueva historia de la Americas antes de Colon).

Triangle Square, books for young readers
The new imprint from Seven Stories Press was launched in 2012 and combines social justice and good storytelling to a reading audience of young adults and children. Triangle Square supports the struggle for social justice and restoration of the environment, kid's rights, and freedom of the imagination. Triangle Square titles include The Story of the Blue Planet by Andri Snær Magnason, Trevor by James Lecesne, 'Do You Dream in Color?" by Laurie Rubin, A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff, and A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff. Titles include What Makes A Baby and Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg, A is for Activist and Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara, and The Third Chimpanzee for Young People by Jared Diamond, adapted by Rebecca Stefoff.

Authors published by Seven Stories

Fiction

Nelson Algren
Kate Braverman
Octavia Butler
Anton Chekhov
Harriet Scott Chessman
Rick DeMarinis
Linh Dinh
Assia Djebar
Ariel Dorfman
Martin Duberman
Alan Dugan
Annie Ernaux
Marcus Ewert
Barry Gifford
Beverly Gologorsky
Johan Harstad
Christopher R. Howard
Hwang Sok-yong
Stephanie McMillan
Stanley Moss
Luis Negrón
Peter Plate
Uday Prakash
Charley Rosen
Layle Silbert
Ted Solotaroff
Lee Stringer
Martin Winckler
Kurt Vonnegut

Nonfiction

Mumia Abu-Jamal
As'ad AbuKhalil
Eqbal Ahmad
Michael Albert
Amnesty International
Anna Anthropy
Tom Athanasiou
Aung San Suu Kyi
Normand Baillargeon
Subhankar Banerjee
David Barsamian
Boston Women's Health Book Collective
Art Buchwald
Center for Constitutional Rights
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Noam Chomsky
Angela Davis
Michael Deibert
Sarah Erdreich
Samuel Epstein
Elizabeth Ewen
Stuart Ewen
Karlene Faith
Eva Gabrielsson
Mike Gravel
Shere Hite
Phil Jackson
Wojciech Jagielski
Derrick Jensen
Paul Krassner
Kalle Lasn
Andrew Laties
JT LeRoy
Joel Magnuson
Robert W. McChesney
Ralph Nader
Loretta Napoleoni
Gary Null
Greg Palast
Hugh Pearson
Sam Pizzigati
Benjamin Pogrund
Ted Rall
Luis J. Rodriguez
Arundhati Roy
Laurie Rubin
Barbara Seaman
Tara Seibel
Vandana Shiva
Cory Silverberg
Nancy Snow
Gregory Sumner
John R. Talbott
Leora Tanenbaum
Rodolfo Walsh
Koigi wa Wamwere
Gary Webb
Fred A. Wilcox
Sean Michael Wilson
Minky Worden
Howard Zinn

Siete Cuentos

Ariel Dorfman*
Néstor Kohan
Charles C. Mann*
Sonia Rivera-Valdés
Ángela Vallvey
Howard Zinn*

Triangle Square

Tamara Bower
Jared Diamond
James Lecesne
Andri Snær Magnason
Innosanto Nagara
Laurie Rubin
Cory Silverberg
Ronald Takaki
Howard Zinn

Award-winning work
Kia Corthron
2016 — Winner Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter
Aharon Appelfeld
2016 — Winner Sydney Taylor Book Award for Adam and Thomas
2016 — Batchelder Honor for Adam and Thomas
Luis Negrón
2014 — Winner Lambda Award for Gay General Fiction for Mundo Cruel
Guadalupe Nettel
2014 — Winner Herralde Novel Prize for Después del Invierno, the Body Where I was Born
Project Censored
2014 — Winner Whistleblower Summit’s Pillar Award for New Media and Journalism
Stephanie McMillan
2012 — Winner Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in Cartoon for The Beginning of the American Fall and Code Green. Originally commissioned by the Cartoon Movement, The Beginning of the American Fall is now available through Seven Stories and expanded on in the minimum security chronicles.
2001 — Firecracker Alternative Book Award for Independent Press of the Year