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Makow County

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Maków County
Powiat makowski
—  County  —
Coat of arms of Maków County
Coat of arms
Location within the voivodeship
Location within the voivodeship
Division into gminas
Division into gminas
Coordinates(Maków Mazowiecki): 52°52?N 21°6?E? / ?52.867, 21.1
Country  Poland
Voivodeship Masovian
Seat Maków Mazowiecki
Gminas

Total 10 (incl. 1 urban)
Maków Mazowiecki
Gmina Czerwonka
Gmina Karniewo
Gmina Krasnosielc
Gmina M?ynarze
Gmina P?oniawy-Bramura
Gmina Ró?an
Gmina Rzewnie
Gmina Sypniewo
Gmina Szelków

Area
 - Total 1,064.56 km2 (411 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 - Total 46,474
 - Density 43.7/km2 (113.1/sq mi)
 - Urban 12,541
 - Rural 33,933
Car plates WMA
Website: http://www.powiat-makowski.pl

Maków County (Polish: powiat makowski) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It was created on January 1, 1999 as a result of the Local Government Reorganization Act of 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Maków Mazowiecki, which lies 73 kilometres (45 mi) north of Warsaw. The only other town in the county is Ró?an, lying 20 km (12 mi) east of Maków Mazowiecki.

The county covers an area of 1,064.56 square kilometres (411.0 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 46,474, out of which the population of Maków Mazowiecki is 9,880, that of Ró?an is 2,661, and the rural population is 33,933.

Neighbouring counties

Maków County is bordered by Ostro??ka County to the north-east, Wyszków County to the south-east, Pu?tusk County to the south, Ciechanów County to the west and Przasnysz County to the north-west.

Administrative division

The county is subdivided into 10 gminas (one urban, one urban-rural and eight rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

Gmina Type Area
(km²)
Population
(2006)
Seat
Maków Mazowiecki urban 10.3 9,880  
Gmina Krasnosielc rural 167.0 6,544 Krasnosielc
Gmina P?oniawy-Bramura rural 135.0 5,864 P?oniawy-Bramura
Gmina Karniewo rural 129.4 5,448 Karniewo
Gmina Ró?an urban-rural 84.1 4,423 Ró?an
Gmina Szelków rural 112.9 3,695 Szelków
Gmina Sypniewo rural 128.6 3,528 Sypniewo
Gmina Rzewnie rural 111.7 2,699 Rzewnie
Gmina Czerwonka rural 110.6 2,646 Czerwonka
Gmina M?ynarze rural 75.0 1,747 M?ynarze

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Azalia Snail

Monday, January 5th, 2009


Azalia Snail

Azalia Snail is an American avant-garde musician who helped launched the 1990s “lo-fi” movement, being dubbed the “Queen of lo-fi”.

Her debut album on Sub Pop was Snailbait (1990), followed by Burnt Sienna (1992), Fumarole Rising (1993) and, collaborating with Hail’s Susanne Lewis as Hail/Snail, How to Live with a Tiger (1993). Subsequent albums include Blue Danube (1995), Deep Motif (1996), Breaker Mortar (1998), Soft Bloom (1999). “Brazen Arrows” (2002) Avec Amour (2006). She has also done music for film and television.

Upon her move to Los Angeles in 2000, she was awarded that year’s LA Weekly Music Award for Best New Genre.

References

  1. ^ Khider, I. (March 2002). “Azalia Snail”. Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved on 2008-04-23.

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European Business School

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European Business School

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European Business School is the name of several educational institutions. Most notably:

  • European Business School Dublin (Ireland)
  • European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen in Oestrich-Winkel and Wiesbaden (Germany)
  • European Business School London (Great Britain)
  • European Business School Madrid (Spain)
  • European Business School Paris (France)

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Business_School”
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George L. Trager

Monday, January 5th, 2009

George Leonard Trager (1906 – 1992) was an American linguist. He was born March 22, 1906, in Newark, New Jersey; he died on August 31, 1992, in Pasadena, California. He was the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1960.

During his years at Yale in the 1930s and ’40s he was a close associate of Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, Benjamin Lee Whorf, Charles Hockett, and after 1941, Leonard Bloomfield. From 1937, he collaborated with Benjamin Whorf on historical-comparative Azteco-Tanoan, but further planned collaboration was cut short by Whorf’s death in 1941. He wrote the entries on Language and Linguistics for the 14th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Like Sapir and Swadesh, he was a consultant of the International Auxiliary Language Association, which presented Interlingua in 1951.

References

  1. ^ Esterhill, Frank, Interlingua Institute: A History, New York: Interlingua Institute, 2000.

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West Orange, New Jersey

Monday, January 5th, 2009

West Orange, New Jersey
Map of West Orange Township in Essex County. Inset: Location of West Orange highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Map of West Orange Township in Essex County. Inset: Location of West Orange highlighted in the State of New Jersey.
Census Bureau map of West Orange, New Jersey
Census Bureau map of West Orange, New Jersey
Coordinates: 40°47?19?N 74°15?19?W? / ?40.78861, -74.25528
Country United States
State New Jersey
County Essex
Incorporated April 10, 1863
Government
 - Type Faulkner Act (Mayor-Council)
 - Mayor John F. McKeon
Area
 - Total 12.2 sq mi (31.7 km2)
 - Land 12.1 sq mi (31.4 km2)
 - Water 0.1 sq mi (0.3 km2)
Elevation 443 ft (135 m)
Population (2006)
 - Total 43,536
 - Density 3,708.7/sq mi (1,431.9/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code 07052
Area code(s) 973
FIPS code 34-79800
GNIS feature ID 1729718
Website: http://www.westorange.org

West Orange is a township in central Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the United States 2000 Census, the township population was 44,943. West Orange adjoins the South Mountain Reservation.

Contents

  • 1 Geography
  • 2 Demographics
  • 3 Government
    • 3.1 Municipal Court
    • 3.2 Township facilities
    • 3.3 Politics
    • 3.4 Federal, state and county representation
  • 4 Education
  • 5 History
  • 6 Sports
  • 7 Mass media and telecommunications
  • 8 Notable residents
  • 9 Trivia
  • 10 See also
  • 11 References
  • 12 External links

Geography

West Orange is located at 40°47?19?N 74°15?19?W? / ?40.78861, -74.25528 (40.788650, -74.255416).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 12.2 square miles (31.7 km²), of which, 12.1 square miles (31.4 km²) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.3 km²) of it (0.90%) is water.

The oldest and most densely populated part of the township lies in the low valley along the border with the City of Orange, between Montclair Township in the north and South Orange Township to the south (”down the hill”). The Edison National Historic Site is located on Main Street in this section, and several major east-west arteries of the Newark street grid have their western terminus here, notably Central and Park Avenues. Downtown West Orange has a more urban character than the rest of the township.

Moving west, the neighborhoods along the First Watchung Mountain become increasingly suburban, ascending the steep hill along Northfield, Mount Pleasant, and Eagle Rock Avenues. The housing stock in neighborhoods of Hutton Park and the First Mountain neighborhoods is a mixture of 19th-century and Jazz Age estates, large pre-war Tudor-style houses, garden apartments, and post-war suburban houses. Llewellyn Park, one of the country’s first planned communities, is also located on the First Mountain. These parts of town overlook downtown West Orange and many streets, often called terraces, have sweeping views of the skylines of downtown Newark and New York City.

Beyond the high ridge of Prospect Avenue (”up the hill”), the township transitions to a predominantly post-war suburban neighborhood, interspersed with pockets of older homes, golf courses, and shopping centers, sloping back down toward Pleasant Valley Way. Pleasantdale includes a business district and large Orthodox Jewish community.

The westernmost section of West Orange lies along the eastern face of the Second Watchung Mountain, and includes a large part of South Mountain Reservation. The post-war housing stock in this neighborhood resembles Pleasant Valley, bordering the townships of Millburn, Maplewood and Livingston.

Demographics

Historical populations
Census Pop.  %±
1930 24,327
1940 25,662 5.5%
1950 28,605 11.5%
1960 39,895 39.5%
1970 43,715 9.6%
1980 39,510 ?9.6%
1990 39,103 ?1%
2000 44,943 14.9%
Est. 2006 43,536 ?3.1%
Population 1930 - 1990.

As of the census of 2000, there were 44,943 people, 16,480 households, and 11,684 families residing in the township. The population density was 3,708.7 people per square mile (1,431.7/km²). There were 16,901 housing units at an average density of 1,394.7/sq mi (538.4/km²). The racial makeup of the township was 67.55% White, 17.46% African American, 0.14% Native American, 8.09% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 3.52% from other races, and 3.20% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.04% of the population.

There were 16,480 households out of which 32.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 56.0% were married couples living together, 11.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.1% were non-families. 24.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.66 and the average family size was 3.19. In the township the population was spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 6.2% from 18 to 24, 29.7% from 25 to 44, 23.4% from 45 to 64, and 17.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females there were 88.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 84.0 males.

The median income for a household in the township was $69,254, and the median income for a family was $83,375. Males had a median income of $52,029 versus $39,484 for females. The per capita income for the township was $34,412. About 4.6% of families and 5.6% of the population were below the poverty line, including 6.0% of those under age 18 and 7.8% of those age 65 or over.

Government

The Township of West Orange is governed by the Mayor-Council system of municipal government under the Faulkner Act. Within this form of government, each member of the Township Council is elected to four-year terms on a staggered basis, in nonpartisan elections and serves on an at-large basis, representing the entire township.

The Mayor and members of the Township Council are:

  • John F. McKeon, Mayor (term ends June 30, 2010)
  • Sal M. Anderton, Township Councilman (2012)
  • Renard Barnes, Township Councilman (2010)
  • Patty Spango., Township Councilwoman (2012)
  • Susan McCartney, Township Councilwoman (2010)
  • Robert Parisi, Township Councilman (2012)

Municipal Court

  • Harry L. Starrett - Presiding Judge, West Orange Municipal Court
  • Margaret Padovano - Municipal Judge, West Orange Municipal Court
  • Mark Infante - Municipal Prosecutor

Township facilities

  • The Municipal Building and Township Council offices are located at 66 Main Street
  • The Police Department and Municipal Court are located at 60 Main Street
  • The West Orange First Aid Squad is located at 25 Mount Pleasant Place
  • The West Orange Fire Department HQ is located at 415 Valley Road.
  • The West Orange Public Library is located at 46 Mount Pleasant Avenue.

Politics

On the national level, West Orange leans toward the Democratic Party. In 2004, Democrat John Kerry received 65% of the vote there, as opposed to Republican George W. Bush, who received around 34%.

Federal, state and county representation

West Orange is split between the Eighth and Tenth Congressional and is part of New Jersey’s 27th Legislative District.

New Jersey’s Eighth Congressional District, covering the southern portion of Passaic County and northern sections of Essex County, is represented by Bill Pascrell Jr. (D, Paterson). New Jersey’s Tenth Congressional District, covering portions of Essex County, Hudson County, and Union County, is represented by Donald M. Payne (D, Newark). New Jersey is represented in the Senate by Frank Lautenberg (D, Cliffside Park) and Bob Menendez (D, Hoboken).

For the 2008-2009 Legislative Session, the 27th District of the New Jersey Legislature is represented in the State Senate by Richard Codey (D, West Orange) and in the Assembly by Mila Jasey (D, South Orange) and John F. McKeon (D, West Orange). The Governor of New Jersey is Jon Corzine (D, Hoboken).

West Orange is represented on the Essex County Board of Chosen Freeholders by Freeholders Linda Lordi-Cavanaugh (District 4), Donald M. Payne, Jr. (At-Large) and Freeholder Blonnie R. Watson (At-Large).

Education

Main article: West Orange Public Schools

The West Orange Public Schools serves students in Kindergarten through 12th grade, including a total of eleven school facilities. Schools in the district (with 2005-06 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are seven elementary schools (all K-5, except as noted) — Gregory (471 students), Hazel Avenue (334), Mount Pleasant (350), Pleasantdale (PreK-5; 454), Redwood (496), St. Cloud (363) and Washington (412) — three middle schools — Edison (6; 483), Liberty (7&8; 528) and Roosevelt (7&8; 438) — and one high school, West Orange High School (1,998), for grades 9-12. In the 1990s, the West Orange school district was ranked among the top 1% of schools in the nation by The Washington Post.

History

West Orange was initially a part of the city of Newark, and remained such until November 27, 1806, when the territory now encompassing all of The Oranges was detached to form Orange Township. On April 13, 1807, the first government was elected. On January 31, 1860, Orange was incorporated as a town, and on April 3, 1872, it was officially incorporated as a city. Almost immediately, Orange began fragmenting into smaller communities, primarily because of local disputes about the costs of establishing paid police, fire, and street departments. South Orange was organized on April 1, 1861, Fairmount (an independent municipality for less than one year that was later to become part of West Orange) on March 11, 1862 and East Orange on March 4, 1863. West Orange (including what had been the briefly-independent municipality of Fairmount) was formed as a township on April 10, 1863, and was reformed as a town on February 28, 1900.

Llewellyn Park, the first planned community in America is located within West Orange. Designed by Llewellyn Haskell and A. J. Davis in 1857. Llewellyn Park is considered the best example of “The Romantic Landscape” movement of that period. Thomas Edison was one of the many residents.

Sports

The Jersey Rockhoppers Hockey Team of the Eastern Professional Hockey League will play home games at the Richard J. Codey Arena beginning in Fall 2008. The arena also used to be the practice facility for The New Jersey Devils.

Mass media and telecommunications

For years West Orange has been a hotbed for the mass-media and telecommunications industries. The first movie studio ever was located in this town, There are a number of antenna’s located in the town. From the mid-1970s until the early 1990s Channel 68 TV maintained their offices, studios and transmitter on Eagle Rock Avenue which was then occupied by WNBC-TV and WPXN-TV as a backup transmitter facility after Channel 68 moved to West Market Street in Newark. As of March 2007, the 416 Eagle Rock Avenue property is now an empty lot, the main building which housed Channel 68 was recently demolished and the transmitter tower now stands alone. WFME Radio has their offices studios and transmitter while their sister station WFME-TV has their executive offices in the same building on Mount Pleasant Avenue next to an MCI Communications (Now part of Verizon Communications) Fiber optics and satellite transmission facility and a Fiber Optic and satellite transmission facility on Eagle Rock Avenue next to the old Channel 68 building. Former Upsala College radio station WFMU’s transmitter is on Marcella Avenue just down the street from WFME. Sprint Nextel and Verizon Wireless all have cell towers located throughout the township to provide clear coverage and Verizon maintains a huge Central Office on Prospect Avenue.

Notable residents

Notable current and former residents of West Orange include:

  • Dan B?lan (1979-), Writer of Dragostea din tei and leader of the Moldovan pop boy-band group O-zone, now a rock singer with his band Balan producing, writing, composing, and singing songs such as Sugar Tunes Numa Numa.
  • Robert “Kool” Bell (1950-), Musician with Kool and the Gang. Lived in Llewellyn Park section of West Orange.
  • Martin Brodeur (1972-), ice hockey goaltender in the NHL with the New Jersey Devils.
  • Vinnie Brown, (better known by his stage name Vin Rock), rapper for group Naughty by Nature.
  • Brendan Byrne (1924-), Governor of New Jersey from 1974 to 1982.
  • Joan Caulfield (1922-1991), Movie, theatre, television actress of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Born in East Orange, she moved to West Orange during childhood and lived here until her high school graduation from a private school in Orange.
  • Alex Chiger (1985-), Hiphop music producer (aka “Don Cheegro”) whose credits include work found on the Grammy winning album “Release Therapy” by Ludacris, “Fantasia” by Fantasia, Chris Brown’s “Exclusive” and Beanie Sigel’s “The Solution”.
  • Richard Codey (1946-), State Senator, and Acting Governor of New Jersey in 2002 and Governor from 2004 until 2006.
  • Brandon Costner (1987-), forward for the NC State Wolfpack basketball team.
  • Charles Cullen (1960-), Serial killer who grew up on Kling Street.
  • Ginny Duenkel (1947-), Winner of a Gold and Bronze medal in two swimming events at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. Ginny Duenkel Municipal Pool is named in her honor.
  • DJ Whoo Kid (1979-), official DJ of G-Unit.
  • Charles Edison (1890-1969), United States Secretary of the Navy 1940, Governor of New Jersey 1941 to 1944 and son of Thomas Edison.
  • Theodore Miller Edison (1898-1992), only child of his inventor father who graduated college; went on to become an inventor with over 80 patents.
  • Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), Invented the phonograph, the incandescent electric lightbulb, and the first practical motion picture camera. Edison’s Black Maria, the first movie studio, was located in West Orange.
  • Eugenio Fernandi (1922-1991), a leading tenor with the Metropolitan Opera who rose to prominence in the late 1950s and 1960s. He is credited with having received twenty-two curtain calls for his performance in Lucia di Lammermoor.
  • Leo Fitzpatrick (1978-), Actor who was in Kids and Bully which also stars former West Orange resident Michael Pitt.
  • Alisa Flatow
  • General Paul J. Kern was the commanding general of the United States Army Materiel Command from 2001-2004.
  • Carole King (1942-) and Gerry Goffin (1939-), Husband & wife songwriting team. From the late 1950s through the 1980s they were one of the most talented and successful of all pop song writers. In 1969, she expanded her career to singing with her 1971 album Tapestry, one of the most popular of all-time. In the early to mid 1960s they resided off Pleasant Valley Way along with other song writers. This location gave rise to the song Pleasant Valley Sunday, recorded by the Monkees in 1966.
  • Bettye LaVette (1946-), Soul singer who released her first record at age 16 and found success with I’ve Got My Own Hell to Raise at age 59 in 2005.
  • George B. McClellan (1826-1885), Major General and briefly general-in-chief of the Union Army during the Civil War. He ran as a Democrat against Lincoln in the presidential election of 1864. He went on to become governor of New Jersey (1878-1881).
  • Joseph Minish (1916-2007), represented New Jersey’s 11th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
  • Fred Ott (1860-1936), an employee of Thomas Edison’s in the 1890s who “starred” in two of the earliest surviving motion pictures – Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (a.k.a. Fred Ott’s Sneeze) and Fred Ott Holding a Bird – both from 1894.
  • Michael Pitt (1981-), Actor who was in Murder by Numbers, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, and Last Days, among other films.
  • Phil Rizzuto (1917-2007), nicknamed “The Scooter,” played shortstop for the New York Yankees from 1941-1956.
  • Anwar Robinson (1979-), finalist on American Idol (season 4). The year prior and leading up to Idol, Anwar worked at Edison Middle School, but no longer does.
  • Peter W. Rodino (1909-2005), United States Congressman from 1949 to 1989.
  • Alfredo Silipigni (1932-2006), conductor.
  • Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965), known as “The Grand Old Man” of college football. During the founding year of the College Football Hall of Fame, he was inducted as both a player and a coach. He was among the first group of inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959. He is also credited with the invention of the batting cage in baseball and the tackling dummy in football. West Orange’s Stagg Field playground is named in his honor. Ranked #4 on the Sports Illustrated list of The 50 Greatest New Jersey Sports Figures.
  • “Uncle” Floyd Vivino (1951-), Actor, comedian, kids TV show host, musician, and radio show host.
  • Scott Wolf (1968-), Actor who is best known as Bailey Salinger on the TV series Party of Five.
  • Ian Ziering (1964-), Actor who is best known for the role of Steve Sanders on the TV series Beverly Hills 90210.
  • Abner Zwillman (1899-1959), Jewish mobster found hanging dead at his mansion home at 15 Beverly Road on February 27, 1959.
  • Kwasi Amoko-Ayim, Professional Debater/New Jersey Apologist/Self Promoter. Also credited with the creation of the phrases; “That’s mad foul!” and “I’m just sayin’!”

Trivia

  • The Essex County Parks and Recreation Department erected a memorial inside of Eagle Rock Reservation to the memory of those Essex County residents who were killed during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The memorial is located on a site that overlooks the New York City skyline, and was dedicated on October 20, 2002.
  • West Orange was frequently used as a locale in the HBO mafia series The Sopranos. Filming locations included the Green Hill Retirement Community on Pleasant Valley Way depicted as the Green Grove Nursing Home where Tony’s mother Livia resided and the Police Department headquarters located at 60 Main Street was depicted as the East Haledon Police Department in the episode Johnny Cakes.
  • The New Jersey Devils, a NHL team, used the Richard J. Codey Arena at South Mountain as their practice facility until the 07-08 season.
  • Thomas Edison bought a property known as Glenmont in 1886 as a wedding gift for his bride. It occupies 13.5 acres (55,000 m²) in the Llewellyn Park district. The remains of both Thomas and Mina Edison are now buried there. Glenmont is maintained by the National Park Service as part of the Edison National Historic Site.
  • The first motion picture studio, The Black Maria, was located on the grounds of Edison’s factory in West Orange.
  • The first Linens-N-Things store which has since permanently closed was located on the upper level of the Essex Green Shopping Center.
  • Turtle Back Zoo, founded in 1963 and currently one of only four zoos in New Jersey, is located in the South Mountain Reservation.
  • West Orange has the largest population of Jewish and Roman Catholic residents in Essex County.
  • In 1999, West Orange was chosen to participate in Nickelodeon’s Big Help-a-Thon kids volunteer movement.
  • In 2000, West Orange was chosen as one of the cities to host the annual CowParade.
  • West Orange also houses a branch of the New Jersey National Guard at the West Orange Armory.

See also

  • The Oranges

References

  1. ^ USGS GNIS: Township of West Orange, Geographic Names Information System, accessed January 4, 2008.
  2. ^ a b Census data for West Orange township, United States Census Bureau. Accessed August 19, 2007.
  3. ^ a b “American FactFinder”. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
  4. ^ A Cure for the Common Codes: New Jersey, Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed July 14, 2008.
  5. ^ “US Board on Geographic Names”. United States Geological Survey (2007-10-25). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
  6. ^ “US Gazetteer files: 2000 and 1990″. United States Census Bureau (2005-05-03). Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
  7. ^ New Jersey Resident Population by Municipality: 1930 - 1990, Workforce New Jersey Public Information Network. Accessed March 1, 2007.
  8. ^ 2005 New Jersey Legislative District Data Book, Rutgers University Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, April 2005, p. 125.
  9. ^ West Orange Office of the Mayor, Township of West Orange. Accessed May 23, 2006.
  10. ^ West Orange Township Council, Township of West Orange. Accessed March 14, 2007.
  11. ^ New Jersey Citizens Guide to Government p. 66, New Jersey League of Women Voters. Accessed August 24, 2006.
  12. ^ Legislative Roster: 2008-2009 Session, New Jersey Legislature. Accessed June 6, 2008.
  13. ^ About the Governor, New Jersey. Accessed June 6, 2008.
  14. ^ Data for the West Orange Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed June 2, 2008.
  15. ^ a b c d “The Story of New Jersey’s Civil Boundaries: 1606-1968″, John P. Snyder, Bureau of Geology and Topography; Trenton, New Jersey; 1969. p. 133.
  16. ^ LP Historical Society and Archives, Llewellyn Park. Accessed September 10, 2007.
  17. ^ Golway, Terry. “When Codey Talks, He Talks to Them”, The New York Times, October 31, 2004. Accessed November 5, 2007. “Essex County, home of the state’s largest city, Newark, and a diverse population of nearly 800,000, has not had a governor to call its own since Brendan T. Byrne - another native of West Orange - left office January 1982.”
  18. ^ Fowler, Glenn. “Joan Caulfield, A Film Actress, Is Dead at 69″, The New York Times, June 20, 1991. Accessed November 5, 2007. “Miss Caulfield, who was a native of West Orange, N.J., attended Columbia University and was a fashion model and a cover girl before she landed ingenue roles on Broadway in the early 1940’s.”
  19. ^ Fairleigh Dickinson University Commencement Honoree: Richard J. Codey, Fairleigh Dickinson University. Accessed December 31, 2006.
  20. ^ Young, Jim. “STRONG SENDEK RECRUITING CLASS ADDS N.J. POWER FORWARD”, Greensboro News & Record, september 24, 2004. Accessed November 5, 2007, “N.C. State landed its third commitment for the Class of 2005 when Brandon Costner, a 6-foot-8, 210-pound power forward from West Orange, N.J., picked the Wolfpack on Wednesday.”
  21. ^ A killer’s final insult, The Star-Ledger, March 3, 2006.
  22. ^ “Webster and Miss Duenkel Gain Diving and Swimming Gold Medals for U.S.; JERSEY GIRL SETS 400-METER MARK She Captures Free-Style in 4:43.3 — Webster Rallies From 6th in High Diving”, The New York Times, October 18, 1964. Accessed November 5, 2007. “Bob Webster, a 25-year-old diving perfectionist from Santa Ana, Calif., and Ginny Duenkel, a free-style swimmer from West Orange, N.J., won gold medals today for the United States.”
  23. ^ Jordan, Chris. “Hip-hop phenomenon ‘mixtapes’ go mainstream”, The Tennessean , March 8, 2005. Accessed November 5, 2007. “Whoo Kid, who hails from West Orange, N.J., has certainly diversified. The Queens-raised kid of Haitian parents starting spinning at 16; now, he performs around the world with 50 Cent and on his own.”
  24. ^ New Jersey Governor Charles Edison, National Governors Association. Accessed November 5, 2007. “Charles Edison, the fifty-eighth governor of New Jersey, was born in West Orange, New Jersey on August 3, 1890.”
  25. ^ Pace, Eric (November 26, 1992). “Theodore M. Edison; An Illustrious Father Guided Inventor, 94″, New York Times. Retrieved on 21 July 2007. ”Theodore M. Edison, an inventor, environmentalist and philanthropist who was the last surviving child of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison, died on Tuesday at his home in West Orange. He was 94 years old.” 
  26. ^ Thomas Edison National Historical Park, govnotes.com. Accessed November 5, 2007. “Half of Edison’s astonishing 1,093 patents were earned during the 44 years he lived in West Orange.”
  27. ^ curtain calls and residency supported by Michael Redmond, Sunday Star-Ledger, August 18, 1991.
  28. ^ “Major Army Command Says Farewell to Four-Star Commander”, United States Army Materiel Command press release. Accessed November 19, 2007. “Kern was raised in West Orange , NJ and graduated from West Orange High School.”
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Torsion pendulum clock

Sunday, January 4th, 2009


Anniversary clock made by S. Haller & Sohne Co.

A torsion pendulum clock, or torsion clock, is a mechanical clock which keeps time with a mechanism called a torsion pendulum. This is a weighted disk or wheel, often a decorative wheel with 3 or 4 chrome balls on ornate spokes, suspended by a thin wire or ribbon called a torsion spring. The torsion pendulum rotates about the vertical axis of the wire, twisting it, instead of swinging like an ordinary pendulum. The force of the twisting torsion spring reverses the direction of rotation, so the torsion pendulum oscillates slowly, clockwise and counterclockwise. The clock’s gears apply pulses of torque to the top of the torsion spring to keep the wheel going. The wheel and torsion spring function similarly to a watch’s balance wheel and hairspring, as a harmonic oscillator to control the rate of the clock’s hands.

Torsion clocks are usually delicate, ornamental, spring-wound mantel clocks. The polished clock mechanism is exposed under a glass case or dome, to allow people to watch the torsion pendulum turn. Clocks of this style, first made by Anton Harder around 1880, are also known as 400-day or anniversary clocks, because many of them only have to be wound once a year.

Torsion clocks are capable of running much longer between windings than clocks with an ordinary pendulum, because the torsion pendulum rotates slowly and takes little energy. However they are difficult to set up and are usually not as accurate as clocks with ordinary pendulums. One reason is that the oscillation period of the torsion pendulum changes with temperature due to temperature-dependent change in elasticity of the spring. The rate of the clock can be made faster or slower by an adjustment screw mechanism on the torsion pendulum that moves the weight balls in or out from the axis. The closer in the balls are, the smaller the moment of inertia of the torsion pendulum and the faster it will turn, like a spinning ice skater who pulls in her arms. This causes the clock to speed up.

One oscillation of the torsion pendulum usually takes 12, 15, or 20 seconds. The escapement mechanism, that changes the rotational motion of the clock’s gears to pulses to drive the torsion pendulum, works rather like an anchor escapement. A crutch device at the top of the torsion spring engages a lever with two anchor-shaped arms; the arms in turn alternately engage the teeth of the escape wheel. As the anchor releases a tooth of the escape wheel, the lever, which is fixed to the anchor, moves to one side and, via the crutch, gives a small twist to the top of the torsion spring. This is just enough to keep the oscillation going.

The Atmos clock, made by Jaeger LeCoulter, is a type of torsion clock which doesn’t need to be wound or powered at all. The mainspring which turns the clock’s wheels is kept wound by small changes in atmospheric pressure and/or local temperature, using a bellows mechanism. Thus no winding key or battery is needed, and it can run for years without human intervention.

History

The torsion pendulum was invented by Robert Leslie in 1793. The torsion pendulum clock was first invented and patented by American Aaron Crane in 1841. He made clocks that would run up to 1 year on a winding. He also attempted to make precision astronomical regulator clocks based on the torsion pendulum, but only 4 sold.

The German Anton Harder apparently independently invented and patented the torsion clock in 1879-1880. He was inspired by watching a hanging chandelier rotate after a servant had turned it to light the candles. He formed the firm Jahresuhrenfabrik (’Year Clock Factory’) and designed a clock that would run for a year, but its accuracy was bad. He sold the patent in 1884 to F. A. L. deGruyter of Amsterdam, who allowed the patent to expire in 1887. Other firms entered the market, beginning the German mass production of these clocks.

Although they were successful commercially, torsion clocks remained poor timekeepers. In 1951, Charles Terwilliger of the Horolovar Co. invented a temperature compensating suspension spring, which allowed fairly accurate clocks to be made.

Bowler and Burdick, a Cleveland, USA, jewelry store, patented the name ‘Anniversary Clock’ in 1901 for use with torsion clocks.

External links

  • International 400-day Clock Chapter #168, NAWCC, retrieved Aug. 30, 2007. Torsion clock branch of large clock collectors club. Publishes quarterly journal Torsion Times.
  • Torsion clock gallery, Horology Web Ring, webhorology.com, retrieved Aug. 30, 2007. Pictures of torsion clocks from several private collections.
  • Torsion clock collection, Battersea Clock Home, Flickr.com, retrieved Aug. 29, 2007. Pictures of a collection of 30 anniversary clocks in London, UK.
  • The Danish Telavox (later Clementa) battery driven torsion pendulum clock. A collector’s guide illustrating the history and varieties of cases and movements from 1942-1977 (?).

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Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts And Technology

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts and Technology

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Petersburg, Virginia 23803
Information
School type Public magnet high school
Founded September 7, 1999
School district Chesterfield County Public Schools
Area trustee Chesterfield County
Executive Director James L. Ruffa
Assistant Directors Veronica Kouassi
Larry Joyner
Grades 9-12
Enrollment 350
Language English
Campus Urban
Mascot Dragons
Affiliation none
Focus Areas Dance, Literary Arts, Music, Musical Theatre, Theatre, Technology, Visual Arts
Athletic Conference
Website

The Appomattox Regional Governor’s School for the Arts And Technology (locally and colloquially sometimes known as ARGS, ARGSAT, Appomattox, or the Governor’s School) is a public regional magnet high school in downtown Petersburg, Virginia.

One of 18 Virginia Governor’s Schools, it draws students from 14 jurisdictions: Chesterfield, Richmond, Petersburg, Dinwiddie, Colonial Heights, Hopewell, Prince George, Powhatan, Sussex, Surry, Charles City, Amelia, Southampton and Franklin City.

Contents

  • 1 Organization
  • 2 History
  • 3 Academics
    • 3.1 Specialized Classes
    • 3.2 PowerSchool
    • 3.3 SharePoint
    • 3.4 Alumni
    • 3.5 Athletics
  • 4 Selection Process
  • 5 See also
  • 6 External links

Organization

Formerly fiscally run by the Petersburg school district, ARGS is now under the fiscal control of Chesterfield County. It receives approximately $5500 for each student from their home districts. The other primary sources of funding are private grants, federal grants, state money and individual donations. The school has a Governing Board, composed of representatives or superintendents from each participating district, that functions in much the same role as a school board but also rules on admissions and other school-specific issues.

History

While purported to be an overflow hospital during the Civil War, and later a morgue, in reality ARGS is the extensively renovated Petersburg High School, located at 512 W. Washington Street in downtown Petersburg, Virginia.

The building first opened its doors as ARGS on Tuesday, September 7, 1999. For the first operating year, the school was home to nearly 90 students in the ninth and tenth grades. Currently the school serves approximately 350 students in grades 9-12, with an ever-increasing student population.

Academics

Once accepted into the school, students must maintain a GPA of 2.0 and conform to all of the standards of the regional board. The student is required to maintain good academic standing and may remain in the school as long as they reside in a participating school district and funding school.

Specialized Classes

In addition to the common core classes, ARGS offers specific “tracks” in specialized classes for a student’s focus area. These include: Performing Arts: musical theatre, theatre arts, technical theatre, modern dance, jazz dance, ballet, tap dance, vocal music, instrumental music, and piano performance; Visual Arts: sculpture, painting, drawing, graphic design, photography and film studies; Literary Arts: poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; and Communication Arts/Technology: computer programming and engineering.

PowerSchool

In the 2004-2005 school year ARGSAT introduced the PowerSchool program which allows parents to view grades, attendance, and teacher comments regarding their children at any time. It also allows students to check, in real time, their grades and for missing assignments.

SharePoint

At the beginning of the 2006-2007 school year, another communications service was introduced to the faculty and students of ARGS. Microsoft’s SharePoint system is now used by most teachers, focus areas, classes, and staff members of the school as a communication area. This new system allows teachers and students to log in and view daily announcements, deadlines, important dates, club information, and sometimes individual class assignments from any computer with internet connectivity.

Alumni

ARGS graduated its first senior class in June, 2002. In the few short years of the school’s existence, alumni of the Appomattox Regional Governor’s School have enrolled in many prestigious colleges and universities, including Bard College, Christopher Newport University, Duke University, East Carolina University, Emerson College, Hampton University, Harvard University, Howard University, James Madison University, Louisiana Tech, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Old Dominion University, Penn State, Sarah Lawrence College, Savannah College of Art & Design, School of Visual Arts, Shenandoah Conservatory, Spelman College, University of the Arts, University of Virginia, VCU School of the Arts, and Virginia Tech, to name a few. The 73-member class of 2006’s total financial aid/scholarship award is currently the largest in the school’s history, topping 2 million dollars.

In June 2007, to commemorate the fifth anniversary of ARGS’ first graduation ceremony, the ARGS Alumni Association was formed, to help connect the growing alumni and coordinate planned efforts for an alumni presence at the campus.

Athletics

ARGS offers its students four sports with six teams: Boy’s and Girl’s Tennis, Coed Soccer, Boy’s and Girl’s Basketball, and Girl’s state winning Volleyball. The school has no fields of its own, using local Battlefield Park for Tennis and Cameron Field for Soccer.

Selection Process

All students who are accepted into ARGS are required to have at least a B average in the seventh grade. They are also required to have completed Algebra I by their ninth grade year. It is highly recommended that applicants have completed a course in Dance, Art, and/or Music, Basic Computer Science, and a Foreign Language. Students are required to apply and go through an adjudication process. This process consists of an interview with the department head of the focus area in which the student is applying and possibly an audition, depending on the department.

See also

  • Governor’s Schools (Virginia)

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Charlotte High School

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  • Charlotte High School (Charlotte, Michigan), Charlotte, Michigan
New York
  • Charlotte High School (Rochester, New York), Rochester, New York
North Carolina
  • Charlotte High School (now Garinger High School), Charlotte, North Carolina

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Polly Bemis

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Polly Bemis was a famous Chinese American pioneer woman who lived in the Pacific Northwest in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century.

Contents

  • 1 Life
  • 2 Death and Legacy
  • 3 Books and Films about her life
  • 4 See also
  • 5 References
  • 6 External links

Life

Polly Bemis was born Lalu Nathoy in China in 1853. When she was a child a group of bandits raided her village and she was forcefully sold by her father for two much needed bags of seed. Lalu was later smuggled into the U.S. and sold as a slave in San Francisco for $2,500 in 1872. Her buyer, Hong King, ran a saloon in a mining camp in Warrens (now Warren, Idaho), Idaho.

Polly worked for many years and by the mid 1880s was able to buy her freedom. She later ran a popular boarding house in Warren. In 1894 she married Charlie Bemis, whom she had befriended when she first arrived in Warrens. Together, they were among the first pioneers to help settle the Idaho Territory, especially along the Salmon River (The River of No Return).

The couple had no children - Polly was 40 when they married - however, they were known to care for a number of animals, including horses and even a cougar. A fire later gutted their beloved home on the Salmon River in 1922, possibly caused by an untended or overheated woodstove; Charlie died soon aftward. He had been ill in the last several years, reportedly due to a lung ailment (probably tuberculosis).

Death and Legacy

Friends helped Polly to rebuild a new home, and she lived another ten years, dying of a stroke in 1933 at the age of 80.

Her final cabin is now a museum and in the National Register of Historic Places. At the dedication ceremonies in 1987, Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus stated, “The history of Polly Bemis is a great part of the legacy of central Idaho. She is the foremost pioneer on the rugged Salmon River.”

Current biographers continue to debate the details of Polly Bemis’ life. For example, there is little evidence that she was ever actually known as “Lalu” or that “Hong King” was really her owner’s name. Also, there is no evidence that Polly was actually a prostitute; from a cultural standpoint, it is more likely that Polly was a concubine. Finally, close friends reported that as she neared death, Polly denied the long-standing public belief that she was “won in a poker game.”

Polly Bemis is the subject of an extensive and ongoing series of paintings by Chinese-American artist Hung Liu.

Books and Films about her life

  • Thousand Pieces of Gold is a biographical novel about Lalu Nathoy/Polly Bemis and includes an essay in which the author, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, documents her research for the book and her discoveries in the years since Polly’s death.
  • Polly Bemis’ life was fictionalized in the 1991 film A Thousand Pieces of Gold, starring Rosalind Chao (as Polly) and Chris Cooper (as Charlie).
  • Polly Bemis: A Chinese American Pioneer, written by Priscilla Wegars and published in 2003, is a noted elementary classroom history book.

See also

  • River of No Return
  • Idaho Territory

References

  1. ^ The Asian Reporter: Book Review
  2. ^ CRM Journal, Fall 2003
  3. ^ Polly Bemis on Ruth Lum McCunn’s website
  4. ^ Asian American Comparative Collection: Ongoing research, The University of Idaho
  5. ^ Polly Bemis Lessons: Introduction at www.uidaho.edu

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Blanca of Navarre (1420-1464)

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Blanche II (1420-1464) was the daughter of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre.

She married Henry IV of Castile. Blanca remained a virgin, not only on her wedding night, but for the rest of her marriage. After thirteen years, Henry sought the annulment of the marriage. An official examination confirmed the virginity of Blanca. A divorce was granted by the Pope on the grounds that some “witchcraft” had prevented Henry from consummating the marriage. Blanca was sent home, where her family imprisoned her, and she was later killed by poison in 1464. She remained childless throughout her life.

After the death of her brother in 1461, some Navarrese dissatisfied elements and some of the anti-Aragonese party regarded Blanca as the rightful monarch, as they had regarded Charles. They proclaimed her queen. She would have thus become Blanche II of Navarre, had not her father (who wanted to keep the government of Navarre) already had her incarcerated and thus not capable to act. Upon her death, her rights to Navarre were inherited by her next sister, Eleanor of Aragon, Countess of Foix, who however was their father’s ally and supporter, and did not press her own claims until his death in 1479.

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