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# I... Dreaming

I... Dreaming is an experimental short film by Stan Brakhage, released in 1988. The film features a soundtrack of Stephen Foster songs, composed by Joel Haertling.

## Production

I... Dreaming was described by Brakhage as "extremely autobiographical," and was produced at one of the lowest points in his life, following his separation from wife Jane. Unlike most of the director's works, the film features a soundtrack. Brakhage took a "collage" of Stephen Foster songs, composed by Joel Haertling, and set images to the music. The soundtrack often "jumps" abruptly from one musical phrase or song to another.
Brakhage also scratched chosen song lyrics, such as "sweet spirit" and "see the dark void," directly onto the film emulsion. The visuals interchange between images of Brakhage, appearing a weary old man, and the restless movements of his grandchildren, sometimes captured with a time-lapse camera. The film is composed of "small, minimalist images" and often uses a steady, mounted camera.

## Reception

I... Dreaming is often commented upon for its use of soundtrack, an atypical element in Brakhage's work. The film has been likened to the director's earlier "trance films," such as The Way to Shadow Garden (1954) and Reflections on Black (1955), as well as the work of contemporaries Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, and Gregory Markopoulos. Malcolm Cook, writing for Senses of Cinema, described I... Dreaming as "an emotional experience." Laurel Gildersleeve writes that the film "elicits a melancholy and cold emptiness," and communicates the loss of vitality that comes with growing older. R. Bruce Elder considered the film significant in Brakhage's oeuvre, in that it, alone among Brakhage’s work, challenges the idea of “mind as creating the world anew, with every passing moment, in a triumphant act of the imagination.” Fred Camper praised the imagery of I... Dreaming' as "poetic and suggestive," and interpreted the scratching of phrases as Brakhage acknowledging the impossibility of transcending his sadness.
# Alaya (film)

Alaya is a 1987 American avant-garde short film directed by Nathaniel Dorsky. It shows sand filmed in different ways.

## Production

Dorsky shot the earliest footage for Alaya while visiting friends in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. To produce attain extreme magnification of individual grains of sand, he made use of extension tubes. Dorsky's home in San Francisco, California was not far from the beach, so he photographed it during spring, when heavy winds would blow the sand around. Shooting was difficult, and he had to have his camera cleaned repeatedly.
Dorsky set up a makeshift soundstage in the cellar of his home. He placed his camera on a tripod with an aperture around f/11. Because he was using multiple extension tubes, a large depth of field was required to keep entire grains in focus. Two photofloods provided the amount of light needed for this, which heated the lens of his camera enough that he could not touch it. While the camera was rolling, Dorsky used an Electrolux vacuum cleaner to blow the sand around on a baking tray.
Alaya was inspired by a Buddhist teacher. It is named after alaya, a Buddhist term for what Dorsky described as "perception without concept".

## Release

Alaya premiered at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive on October 6, 1987, in a program with Pneuma and 17 Reasons Why. It screened on October 20 at the Collective for Living Cinema in New York.
Critic Stephen Holden called Alaya "a flowing visual symphony of sand, wind and light." Amy Taubin reacted negatively, recommending in The Village Voice that "if Dorsky has any other '70s material lying around he should resist bringing it out."
# Roy H. Rudd

Roy H. Rudd (July 17, 1906 – November 1, 1997) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

## Life

He was born on July 17, 1906, in Brooklyn, New York City, the son of Congressman Stephen A. Rudd (1874–1936) and Martha (Lindsay) Rudd. He married Rose Ann Murphy, and their only child was Roy H. Rudd Jr.
Rudd was a member of the New York State Assembly (Kings Co., 20th D.) in 1937, 1938, 1939–40, 1941–42 and 1943–1944; and a member of the New York State Senate (9th D.) in 1945 and 1946. In 1946, he ran for re-election, but was defeated by Republican Richard McCleery.
He was an Assistant District Attorney of Kings County until August 1951.
In October 1960, he was appointed by New York City Schools Superintendent John J. Theobald as the Legislative Representative of the School Board.
He died in November 1997; and was buried at the Cemetery of the Evergreens in Brooklyn.
Assemblyman Robert J. Rudd and Congressman George H. Lindsay (1837–1916) were his grandfathers; and Congressman George W. Lindsay (1865–1938) was his uncle.

## Sources

* ↑ "Roy H. Rudd" at Social Security Info
* ↑ New York Red Book (1946; pg. 108)
* ↑ Tables of Latest Count in Tuesday's Voting in State and City Resulting in Republican Sweep in the New York Times on November 7, 1946 (subscription required)
* ↑ M'DONALD AIDE QUITS; Rudd Resigns Post as Assistant District Attorney in Kings in the New York Times on July 11, 1951 (subscription required)
* ↑ POLITICS CHARGED TO DR. THEOBALD; Adams Sees "Patronage" in Naming Rudd in the New York Times on October 11, 1960 (subscription required)
New York State Assembly :
| Preceded byEugene J. Keogh | New York State Assembly Kings County, 20th District 1937–1944 | Succeeded byJohn E. Beck |
| New York State Senate |||
| Preceded byJames A. Corcoran | New York State Senate 9th District 1945–1946 | Succeeded byRichard McCleery |
# Uromyrtus lamingtonensis

Uromyrtus lamingtonensis is a rare Australian shrub growing around the state border of New South Wales and Queensland. Like the Peach Myrtle, it has attractive pink flowers.
It differs from other Australian members of the genus by the somewhat rounded leaf base. Also the leaf tip has either a sharp firm point, or a sharp flexible tip. The petals are relatively long.

## Taxonomy

This species was first described in 2001 by Neil Snow and Gordon Guymer.

## Habitat

A restricted range in high rainfall areas around Lamington National Park and Limpinwood Nature Reserve. Occurring on dry rainforest or on steep rocky slopes, with soils derived from basalt. At altitudes ranging from 720 to 940 metres above sea level.

## Description

A shrub or small tree up to 5 metres in height and 12 cm in stem diameter. The stem is irregular in shape. It is often multi-stemmed, low-branched, leaning downhill and crooked. Like many New South Wales rainforest myrtles, the bark is greyish brown, flaky and scaly.
Small branches are a slender pale green or fawn. The new shoots have fawn hairs, unlike the silver new shoots in the Peach Myrtle.
Leaves are opposite on the stem, narrow-elliptic with a prominent tip. 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, 0.3 to 0.7 cm wide. Oil dots are small though easily seen under a lens. They are translucent and two to three diameters apart. The leaf stems are red and about 3 mm long. Leaf venation is obscure, with the mid rib only being easily seen.

### Flowers & fruit

Single flowers form from October to December, appearing from the leaf axils. Petals are rounded, at first a pale pink, then becoming somewhat darker at maturity. The fruit is a round black berry, 4 to 5 mm in diameter. Inside are two to eight seeds. The berry has calyx lobes attached.
# Martin D. Brom

Martin D. Brom (June 29, 1880 – February 27, 1954) was an American farmer and politician.
Born in the community of Pine Creek, in the town of Dodge, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin, Brom was a farmer and the manager of the Farmers Cooperative Oil Company. Brom served on the Trempealeau County Board of Supervisors from 1911 to 1918. He also served as sheriff of Trempealeau County from 1927 to 1931 and 1937 to 1941 and was a Republican. Brom served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1941 and 1943. Brom died in a hospital in Winona, Minnesota.
# Emil Costello

Emil Antonio Costello (January 2, 1908 – February 9, 1994) was an American furniture worker and labor union activist from Kenosha, Wisconsin who served one term as a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Kenosha County. While he was elected as a Progressive, he was frequently accused of being a communist or fellow traveler who urged others to join the party.

## Background

Costello was born January 2, 1908, in Kenosha. He attended Kenosha public schools, and became an assembler at the Simmons Bedding Company factory there. He helped organize and became president of an AFL Directly Affiliated Local Union there, which was later dissolved at the AFL's insistence, and assigned to the Upholsterers International Union of North America (UIU). He was on the state governing council of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor.

## Assembly and UFWA

In 1936, Costello was elected as a Progressive from the Assembly's 2nd Kenosha County district (the Towns of Brighton, Bristol, Paris, Pleasant Prairie, Randall, Salem, Somers, and Wheatland; the Village of Silver Lake; and the 1st, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 11th Wards of the City of Kenosha), unseating Democratic incumbent Matt G. Siebert in a three-way race, with 5,144 votes to Siebert's 4,712 and Republican Jay Rhodes' 3,539. He was assigned to the standing committees on labor and on transportation.
In 1937, he was one of a group of labor activists who led a breakaway movement, taking the Simmons local of the UIU and several others out of the Upholsterers and forming a new union, the United Furniture Workers of America (UFWA) which advocated industrial unionism, and affiliated immediately with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. He was expelled from the AFL, became interim president of the Wisconsin CIO (he would serve from 1937-1939) and was hired as an organizer by the CIO. An effort was made to censure Costello for excessive absences from the Assembly, but was decisively defeated. When he came up for re-election in 1938, he faced two challengers in the Progressive primary (which he won). He was again accused of "holding communist views", and lost in the general election to Siebert, who took his old seat back with 4,730 votes to Costello's 3,420 and Republican James Brook's 3,152.

## After the Assembly

Costello ended up working for the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee and the successor United Steelworkers until 1947. By 1961, when he was hauled before the House Unamerican Activities Committee, he was running an employment agency in California. He died February 9, 1994, in San Diego, California, where he had been living.
# Clifford E. Dorr

Clifford E. Dorr (August 11, 1920 – June 1978) from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.

## Biography

Dorr was born in New Auburn, Wisconsin. He went on to serve in the United States Army during World War II. From 1955 to 1959, he was Sheriff of Chippewa County, Wisconsin.

## Political career

Dorr was elected to the Assembly in 1958. He was a Democrat.
# William T. Evjue

William T. Evjue (October 10, 1882 – April 23, 1970; born Peder Wilhelm Theodor Evjue) was an American newspaper editor and radio broadcast executive. He founded The Capital Times and also helped launch the radio station WIBA (AM), both in Madison, Wisconsin. He also served as a Wisconsin state legislator.

## Biography

Peder Evjue was born to Norwegian emigrant parents in Merrill, Wisconsin. His name was later modified to William T. Evjue. Evjue first worked for the Citizens Bank of Merrill. He then went to University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin. After graduating in 1905, Evjue became a reporter at the Milwaukee Sentinel and later worked for the Wisconsin State Journal as the business manager. In 1917, Evjue served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as a Republican. He served as director of the Republican State Central Committee of Wisconsin from 1920 to 1924.
The Wisconsin State Journal had opposed the anti-war views of United States Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr. In 1917, Evjue left the Wisconsin State Journal. He started The Capital Times and continued to support La Follette Sr. and the Wisconsin Progressive Party. Later Evjue and The Capital Times supported Democratic candidates. In 1925, he started the radio station, WIBA, and continued to serve as station president until his death. In 1934, he was appointed chairman of the Wisconsin Progressive Party. Evjue died at his home in Madison, Wisconsin and was buried in Forest Hill Cemetery in Dane County, Wisconsin. Before his death, he established the Evjue Foundation and stipulated in his will that profits go to the foundation to be distributed to worthy causes in the community.
# Slavko Lisica

Slavko Lisica (Serbian Cyrillic: Славко Лисица; 18 February 1944 – 28 June 2013) was a Major general of the Army of Republika Srpska, a former commander of the Second Armored Brigade of the Army of Republika Srpska and commander of the Doboj Operational Group (OG Doboj).
# Velia (disambiguation)

Velia may refer to:

## Places

* Velia, the ancient Greek town named Elea in Italy, now part of the municipality of Ascea, Province of Salerno
* Velian Hill (or Velia), an ancient hill of Rome, Italy
* Novi Velia, a municipality of the Province of Salerno in Italy
* Ascea-Velia, the semi-official name from 2003 of the Italian municipality of Ascea

## Other meanings

* Velia (bug), a genus of the riffle bug family Veliidae
* Velia gens, an ancient Roman family
* Velia (given name), a female Italian name
* Ana Velia Guzmán, Mexican journalist
# Rainu Kaushal

Rainu Kaushal is an American information scientist and health services researcher. She is the Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Research, Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences, and the Nanette Laitman Distinguished Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is also the Physician-in-Chief of Population Health Sciences at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.

## Early life and education

Kaushal completed her Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Vermont before enrolling at Harvard University for her graduate studies. She completed her medical degree at Harvard Medical School and her Master's of Public Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

## Career

In 2005, Kaushal founded and became the executive director of HITEC (Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative) in conjunction with HEAL NY. She subsequently joined the faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in 2006. Upon joining the faculty, Kaushal also became the founding chief of a new Division of Quality and Medical Informatics in the Departments of Pediatrics and Public Health at Weill Cornell. While serving as the Frances and John L. Loeb Professor of Medical Informatics and chief of the Division of Quality and Medical Informatics, Kaushal was named the director of the Center for Healthcare Informatics and Policy (CHiP).
In December 2013, Kaushal was named chair of the Department of Healthcare Policy and Research at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician-in-chief of healthcare policy and research at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Following this appointment, she was selected as a Fellow of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine program at Drexel University College of Medicine. In 2015, Kaushal was appointed to serve on the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network Steering Committee. Her efforts were later recognized by Crain Communications as being one of their 2018 Notable Women in Health Care in New York City. As a result of her "achievements and exceptional service in medical sciences, health care, and public health," Kaushal was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2019.
In 2020, Kaushal was appointed senior associate dean for clinical research at Weill Cornell Medicine. In this role, she was expected to lead Weill Cornell Medicine’s clinical research enterprise, which oversees the experimental application and comparative investigations of new medicines, technologies, interventions and healthcare delivery models to patients. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she used her role as principal investigator of INSIGHT Clinical Research Network to create a city-wide surveillance database for information of suspected and diagnosed COVID-19 patients to be used in analytical inquiries and research.
# Sergei Brukhonenko

Sergei Sergeevich Brukhonenko (Russian: Серге́й Серге́евич Брюхоненко; 30 April 1890 – 20 April 1960) was a Soviet physician, biomedical scientist and technologist during the Stalinist era. Brukhonenko's research was vital to the development of open-heart procedures in Russia. He was one of the leaders of the Research Institute of Experimental Surgery, where Professor Alexander Vishnevsky performed the first Soviet open-heart operation in 1957.
Brukhonenko is primarily remembered for his development of the autojektor, one of the first heart and lung machines. The device was used to mixed results in a series of experiments with canines during the year 1939, which can be seen in the film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms. While there is some speculation today that the film is a re-staging of the procedures, the experiments themselves were well documented, and resulted in Brukhonenko being posthumously awarded the prestigious Lenin Prize.

## Career

Brukhonenko received his secondary education in Saratov, later joining the medical faculty of Moscow State University. He was drafted to serve in World War I in 1914, witnessing numerous combat injuries while assigned to the active army as a junior physician. He returned in 1917 to work in Moscow. During 1919 to 1926, Brukhonenko was the assistant professor at the Department of Clinical Pathology and Therapy in Moscow.
Brukhonenko's work in creating the autojektor, an early heart-lung machine, was displayed in a series of experiments with canines in 1939. These experiments are shown in the 1940 documentary film Experiments in the Revival of Organisms, directed by David Yashin [ru].
While the film is commonly suspected to be a re-staging of the procedures, as none of the more scientifically questionable experiments are shown in full-frame shots, the experiments in question were documented thoroughly. Additionally, the film's claim that dogs had been drained of blood and revived to live for years after was found to be only partially true, as according to the lab records the dogs survived for only days after the experiment, not years as the film claimed, and suffered serious brain damage.
Through 1951 to 1958, Brukhonenko lead the Institute of Experimental Surgical Devices and Instruments. Following his experiments with canines, Brukhonenko was granted permission to continue his autojektor experiments with human cadavers. However, these experiments failed to produce encouraging results, resulting in Brukhonenko losing favor with Soviet leadership.
Brukhonenko died 20 April 1960 from rectal cancer.

## Legacy

in 1965, 5 years after his death, Brukhonenko was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize for advancing knowledge of artificial blood circulation and laying the ground for future advancements.
His experiments laid the groundwork for further advancements in cardiac surgery in the Soviet Union.

## Decorations

* 3rd class of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (1914)
* 3rd class of the Order of Saint Anna (1915)
* Lenin Prize (1965, posthumously)
# David Sigman

David Sigman (1905 – February 1, 1987) was an American trade union staff member from Two Rivers, Wisconsin who served three terms as a Republican, then a Progressive member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from the 2nd Manitowoc County district.

## Background

Born in 1905 in Brest-Litovsk, Poland, Sigman was the youngest of six children born in Poland before his family immigrated to the United States. Sigman graduated from Two Rivers High School and the University of Wisconsin. When elected in 1930, he had been a resident of Two Rivers for 24 years.

## Public office

He was still in law school when first elected to the Assembly in 1930 from the 2nd District (the Towns of Cato, Cooperstown, Eaton, Franklin, Gibson, Kossuth, Maple Grove, Mishicot, Rockland, Schleswig, Two Creeks, and Two Rivers; Villages of Reedsville and Valders; and the Cities of Kiel and Two Rivers) as a self-described "Progressive Republican", with a plurality over three challengers in the Republican primary. He won the general election with 3,458 votes to 2,911 for Democrat Henry Goedjen. Sigman was assigned to the standing committees on elections and engrossed bills, and to a special joint committee for investigation of the Memorial Union.
In 1932, Sigman defeated two challengers in the Republican primary, only to go down to defeat in the 1932 landslide Democratic victory, being unseated by Democrat Raymond J. Scheuer. In 1934, Sigman (now working as a union organizer for the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor, part of a WSFL policy of offering employment to key pro-labor legislators to supplement the low legislative salaries) reclaimed his seat, first by winning a three-way Progressive Party primary, then by defeating Democratic and Republican nominees (Scheur was not a candidate for re-election) in the general election. He was re-elected in 1936, after facing a challenge from one Everett La Fond or Lafond first in the Progressive primary, then again as an "Independent Progressive" in the general election (along with Democratic and Republican challengers).
In 1938, Sigman ran for the 1st State Senate District, losing in the primary.

## After the legislature

In 1939, as part of a campaign against perceived supporters of Henry Ohl in the WSFL, Sigman lost his seat on the WSFL executive board, one he had been elected to in 1937 as recognition of his key role in defending labor interests in the just-ended legislative session.

### Senior citizen activism

Sigman served as secretary for the Allied Council of Senior Citizens of Wisconsin (a senior citizens' rights organization) in November 1964, speaking to the press at the organization's first meeting in Milwaukee. Among the council's other leaders was former Socialist assemblyman John Polakowski; at one point he was their president.
# Hemiclepsis

Hemiclepsis is a genus of leeches belonging to the family Glossiphoniidae.
The species of this genus are found in Eurasia.
Species:
* Hemiclepsis chharwardamensis Mandal, 2013
* Hemiclepsis marginata (Müller, 1774)
# Charles M. Fisher

Charles M. Fisher (September 8, 1899 – May 16, 1966) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. He was elected in 1944 as a Democrat.
Charles lived in Fifield, Wisconsin.
He is buried there, at the Forest Home Cemetery.
# Clayton Hicks

William Clayton Hicks (June 17, 1919 – June 9, 1999) was an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1949 to 1953.

## Early life and education

Hicks was born on June 17, 1919, in Phillips, Wisconsin. He graduated from Phillips High School and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He later studied at Harvard Business School.

## Career

During World War II, Hicks served in the United States Army. Afterwards, he transferred to the United States Army Reserve. He was vice-president and corporate controller at Sears, Roebuck and Company.
Hicks was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate in 1948. Additionally, he was Clerk of Price County, Wisconsin. He was a Republican.

## Death

He died on June 9, 1999, in Montgomery, Texas.
# Karl J. Goethel

Karl J. Goethel (April 7, 1930 – February 23, 1996) was an American lawyer and politician.
Born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Goethel served in the United States Army during the Korean War. He received his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1952 and then his law degree from Notre Dame Law School in 1957. He then practiced law. He served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1959 as a Democrat. In 1964, he was elected District Attorney for Pepin County, Wisconsin. He died in Durand, Wisconsin on February 23, 1996.