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# Ira D. Wallach

Ira David Wallach (June 3, 1909 – January 6, 2007) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was head of Central National-Gottesman, the largest privately held marketer of paper and pulp products.

## Life and career

Born to a Jewish family in New York City, he earned his B.A. and law degrees from Columbia University. He served as a Navy lieutenant in World War II.
In 1938, he married Miriam Gottesman Wallach, the daughter of D.S. Gottesman. they had four children: James Wallach, Kenneth L. Wallach, Sue Wallach Wachenheim, and Kate Wallach Cassidy. He joined Gottesman & Company as Executive Vice President in 1946. He served as CEO from 1956 to 1979. During his tenure, the company grew to become the world's largest private marketer of wood pulp, paper and newsprint. He later served as chairman, then senior vice chairman until his death.

## Activism and philanthropy

Ira David Wallach was born in New York City on June 3, 1909. He earned bachelor's and law degrees from Columbia University and was a Navy lieutenant in World War II.
In 1946 he joined Gottesman & Company, as it was then known, as executive vice president. He was the chief executive and a director of the company from 1956 to 1979, later serving as chairman and then senior vice chairman, the title he held at his death. During his tenure, the company, which is based in Purchase, N.Y., grew from a relatively small wood pulp distributor, into the world's preeminent privately owned marketer of pulp and paper, with offices in 26 U.S. cities, 17 countries and representatives in 40 international locations. Wallach was a man who refused accolades, and was much admired and adored by his company's employees.
In 1980, Wallach co-founded the Institute for East West Security Studies, now known as the EastWest Institute, a research group that focuses on international political, economic and security issues.
In a career of more than 70 years, he was a lawyer and businessman with interests in philanthropy and in global economic and political affairs. With his wife Miriam, he created a charitable foundation whose beneficiaries included the New York Public Library, Columbia University, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is the namesake of Columbia's Wallach Hall and Wallach Art Gallery.
Wallach was an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War and many policies of the Nixon administration. He was named in a White House memorandum listing Nixon's "political opponents", one step down from the notorious "enemies list" — people who were singled out for tax audits and other problems.
# Irv Gikofsky

Irv Gikofsky (born May 10, 1945), known professionally as Mr. G, is an American television meteorologist who currently serves as the weatherman for WPIX serving New York City and the surrounding regions.

## Biography

Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Queens in 1967, he graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. He then attended Yeshiva University, where he received a Master of Arts degree in Secondary Education and pursued doctoral studies. Shortly after graduating, he began his career as a school teacher at Albert Einstein Intermediate School in the Bronx. During his tenure there, he was notable for creating the first computerized weather program for use by New York City's school system. In 1977, after teaching in public school for a decade, he was hired to become a TV weatherman at CBS New York.

## Meteorological career

Gikofsky worked as a morning weatherman at CBS from 1977 until 2014, when he retired from the position. In 1993, he became the nightly weeknight weatherman at WPIX11, a position he still holds until this day. For his work as a television meteorologist, he has won five Emmy Awards and an Edward R. Murrow Award. In 2008, he was presented the Friar’s Club Lifetime Achievement Award. During his tenure, WPIX11 has been named Best Newscast by numerous media outlets, including the New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association and the New York Press Club.
He has given motivational speeches at over 500 schools around New York City and has participated in New York City’s “Principal for a Day” program every year since its inception. On January 28, 2016, then-Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. proclaimed January 28 to be "Mr. G Day" in honor of his work in the community and his famous media presence. He also serves as board member for the R Baby Foundation, which works to improve pediatric care in emergency rooms in the New York metropolitan area.
On August 1, 2023, the New York State Broadcasters Association, Inc., announced that Mr. G would be inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony took place at the group’s annual luncheon in the Rainbow Room, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York City on October 26, 2023.
# Isaac Burney Yeo

Isaac Burney Yeo (3 March 1835 – 20 November 1914) was an English physician and writer.

## Biography

Yeo was born at Stonehouse, Devon. For some years, he worked as an apprentice to a local practitioner, Dr. James Sheppard. He studied medicine at King's College London from 1858. He joined the Medical Department of King's College, gained the senior Medical Scholarship and qualified M.D from London University. In 1865, he was appointed medical tutor at King's College a position he held until 1871. From 1869 he worked as assistant physician and was later made consulting physician to King's College Hospital and Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. At King's College he held successively the chairs of Clinal Therapeutics and of the Principles and Practice of Medicine and on his retirement in 1899 was appointed Emeritus Professor of Medicine.
In the 1890s, Yeo developed a wire mesh oro-nasal inhaler. Yeo contributed to medical literature and his books were widely read. His Manuel of Medical Treatment, first published in 1893 had sold over 30,000 copies by 1914. His book Food in Health and Disease was positively reviewed in medical journals. A review in the British Medical Journal noted that "Yeo is fully master of his subject, and he supplies in a compact form nearly all that the practitioner requires to know on the subject of diet." The book contains a chapter criticizing strict vegetarianism.
Yeo specialized in bariatrics. He proposed a treatment of obesity using hot drinks and avoiding carbohydrates. Yeo may have been the first physician to use raw meat to treat diabetic patients. In 1873, he gave it to two patients, without notable results.
He married Winifred Helen Spyers of Weybridge late in life and they had no children. Yeo is buried at Weybridge Cemetery.

## Selected publications

* Climate and Health Resorts (1885)
* Food in Health and Disease (1890, 1896)
* Manuel of Medical Treatment (two volumes, 1893)
* Raw Meat in Diabetes (1894)
* An Address On Hepatic Inadequacy And Its Relation To Irregular Gout (1901)
* The Therapeutics of Mineral Springs and Climates (1904)
# Nakōdo-jima

Nakōdo-jima (媒島) is an uninhabited Japanese island in the Mukojima Islands (formerly known as the Parry Group), the northernmost island group of the Bonin Islands, in the village of Ogasawara, Tokyo Metropolis. The entire island and its surrounding waters form part of Ogasawara National Park, while an area of 147 hectares (360 acres) including surrounding reefs forms part of the Ogaswara Islands UNESCO World Heritage Site.

## Geography

The highest point on the island (and the Muko-jima Group) is Mount Byōbu (屏風山), at 154.9 metres (508 ft).

## Natural history

The island is a breeding ground for the brown booby (Sula leucogaster) and black-footed albatross (Phoebastria nigripes). Vegetation, including Pandanus boninensis, Lobelia boninensis, and Cirsium boninense, has been recovering since the eradication of goats introduced when the island was inhabited between the 1880s and 1944, and feral once the island was again uninhabited.

## Related maps and images

* US AMS 1945 map of the southern islands in the Mukojima Islands
* View of Nakōdo-jima from the sea
# Connie Francis Sings Jewish Favorites

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Connie Francis sings Jewish Favorites is a studio album of Jewish songs recorded by American entertainer Connie Francis.

## Background

After the success of her 1959 album Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites (which remained on the album charts for 81 weeks and peaked at number four), Francis decided to release more albums which appealed to immigrant communities in the United States.
In July 1960, Francis was in Hollywood for the interior shots of her first motion picture Where The Boys Are which made it impossible for her to record the album during live sessions at EMI's famous Abbey Road Studios in London, as she had done with Connie Francis Sings Italian Favorites. Hence, the playbacks to these songs were pre-recorded in London under the supervision of Francis' British producer Norman Newell, and were conducted by Brian Fahey. The tapes containing these playbacks were shipped to Hollywood, where Francis overdubbed her vocals.
According to Ron Roberts, all the recording dates and titles included in the 1975 edition of his series of Connie Francis discographies were faithful copies of sessions logs compiled at the time by Connie herself. The entire Jewish album was recorded at EMI's Abbey Road studios, together with her preceding release, Connie Francis Sings Spanish & Latin American Favorites, and the subsequent album More Italian Favorites. It was the last album that could not be completed during the July sessions, and final tracks by Connie were cut in September 1960.
Francis, who had grown up in an Italian-Jewish neighborhood in Newark, spoke Yiddish fluently and was familiar with songs in Hebrew, which prompted her to record the songs either entirely in Yiddish or Hebrew or bilingually, with a few lines sung in English.
The album was originally released in October 1960 under the catalogue numbers E-3869 (mono pressings) and SE-3869 (stereo) on MGM Records. The album consisted of 12 songs, although 13 playbacks had been produced. However, conflicts with Francis' busy schedule of filming, recording for other markets and public appearances led to her not overdubbing vocals for her rendition of "Eli, Eli".
According to Ron Roberts, Francis did record "Eli Eli" in London during the Jewish album sessions and it had not been deferred because of other schedules. The backing track to this and several tapes of Connie's London sessions were discovered in the EMI vaults when the MGM Records label was taken over by Polydor. Francis eventually utilised the backing track in 1983 when she recorded a new vocal.
# Heinz Hornig

Heinz Hornig (born 28 September 1937) is a German former footballer who played as a striker.
Hornig was capped by West Germany on seven occasions, making his debut in 1965 and his final appearances the following year. He was a member of the German squad at the 1966 FIFA World Cup, although he did not play a game in the tournament.
Hornig played his club football for 1. FC Köln between 1962 and 1970, and he appeared for them in the 1962–63 European Cup against Dundee.
# Ivan Večenaj

Ivan Večenaj (18 May 1920 – 13 February 2013; Koprivnica, Croatia) was a Croatian painter. His works can be found at the Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb.
# Meshan

Meshan (Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭩𐭱𐭠𐭭) was a province of the Sasanian Empire. It consisted of the Parthian vassal kingdom of Characene and reached north along the Shatt al-Arab river and then the lower Tigris to Madhar and possibly further. Its inhabitants included Babylonians, Arabs, Iranians, and even some Indians and Malays (the Malays may have been slaves brought from the Indian sub-continent). The province was very fertile, the best place for barley according to Strabo, and contained many date palms. It was also an important trading province along the Persian Gulf.

## History

In, the first ruler of the Sasanian dynasty, Ardashir I (r. 224–242) after having conquered his native province, Pars, invaded Meshan, killing its ruler, Bandu. Ardashir had a city named Karkh Meshan rebuilt, and had it renamed as Astarabad-Ardashir. According to a fragmentary Manichean account found in Turfan, Mihr-šāh, a brother of the Sasnian king Shapur I (r. 240–270), ruled as the vassal-king of Meshan. According to this Manichean account, Mihr-šāh was visited and converted by Mani himself – some scholars, however, doubt the accuracy of this source. Ardashir also built (or rebuilt) a town named Vahman-Ardashir, also known as Forat Meshan. A son of Shapur I, Shapur Mishanshah, is confirmed to have ruled Meshan from an unknown date until his death in 260, and was probably succeeded by his wife Denag.
According to the inscription of king Narseh (r. 293–302), known as the Paikuli inscription, Meshan was ruled by an Iranian aristocrat named Adurfarrobay, who would later rebel against Narseh and support a claimant to the Sasanian throne, Bahram III.
During the 5th century, Vahman-Ardashir had seemingly succeeded Karkh Meshan as the capital of Meshan, due to its mention as the chief city of Meshan by Syriac sources.
The port of Obolla (Apologos) was located in this province.

## Population

Like most of the other western Sasanian provinces such as Asoristan, Meshan was a province with various ethnic groups; The Assyrians, the Mesenian Arabs, and the nomadic Arabs, formed the Semitic population of the province along with Nabataean and Palmyrene merchants. Iranians had also begun to settle in the province, along with the Zutt, who had been deported from India. Other Indian groups such as the Malays may also have been deported to Meshan, either as captives or recruited sailors.
# Jacqueline de Weever

Jacqueline de Weever (born 1932) is a Guyanese-born literary scholar and poet. She is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College, City University of New York.

## Life

Jacqueline de Weever was born in Georgetown, British Guiana. She is the niece of the poet A. J. Seymour. De Weever was educated in Georgetown and in New York. She gained her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, with a thesis entitled 'A Biographical Dictionary of Proper Names in Chaucer'. She went on to teach medieval English literature for 25 years at Brooklyn College. She lives in Brooklyn.
Sheba's Daughters (1998) combined "the concepts of medieval rhetorical treatises with the perspectives of post-colonial criticism", to examine how Saracen women were portrayed in medieval French epic poetry of the 12th and 13th centuries.
De Weever has also written poetry, which has appeared in Blue Unicorn, The Homestead Review, Iodine, Tiger's Eye, and Vanitas. A 2019 poetry collection, Trailing the Sun's Sweat, was written in response to Cecil Jane's translation of The Journal of Christopher Columbus.

## Works

* The Bamboo Flute and Other Stories. 1979.
* A Dictionary of Classical, Mythological and Sideral Names in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. University of Pennsylvania, 1983.
* Mythmaking and Metaphor in Black Women's Fiction. 1992.
* Chaucer Name Dictionary: A Guide to Astrological, Biblical, Historical, Literary, and Mythological Names in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. New York: Garland, 1996.
* Sheba's Daughters: Whitening & Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic. New York: Garland, 1998. ISBN 0-81533018-9
* Aesop and the Imprint of Medieval Thought: A Study of Six Fables as Translated at the End of the Middle Ages. 2010.
* Rice-Wine Ghosts. The Poet's Press, 2017.
* Trailing the Sun's Sweat. The Poet's Press, 2019. ISBN 0-922558-77-9
# Jagora asperata

Jagora asperata is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Pachychilidae. Jagora asperata is the type species of the genus Jagora.

## Description

The shell of an adult Jagora asperata can be as long as 50–80 millimetres (2.0–3.1 in) and has a width of about 18 millimetres (0.71 in). This shell is solid, dark brown to yellowish brown, highly tower–shaped, comprising up to twelve whorls. The apical whorl is truncated. The sculpture of the shell shows closely spaced axial ribs and spiral elements with tiny nodules.
The body of these snails is gray to black with filiform antennae. They are characterized by a unique reproductive system, including a long sperm gutter, a very short a spermatophore bursa and a prominent lateral ridge working as a seminal receptacle. Females carry eggs and juvenile stages within their mantle cavity. These snails feed on detritus and algae.

## Distribution and habitat

This species occurs in the northern part of the Philippines, on Luzon, Leyte Island, Samar Island and several other small islands. They live in small mountain rivers with stony or sandy bottoms.
# James McIntosh Patrick

James McIntosh Patrick, OBE RSA (4 February 1907 – 7 April 1998) was a Scottish painter, celebrated for his finely observed paintings of the Angus landscape and Dundee, Scotland, where he was based for most of his life.

## Life

Born in Dundee, the son of Andrew Patrick, an architect and amateur artist who encouraged his son to draw and paint, Patrick studied painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1924 to 1928, studying with Maurice Greiffenhagen, and in Paris. He continued his interest in etching which was very popular in the 1920s and was to prove a source of income for him during the Depression years. A foremost landscape painter, he began his career producing highly finished etchings, but when the market for these collapsed in the 1930s he turned towards painting in watercolour and oil.
Patrick joined the staff of Dundee School of Art in 1929, initially to teach etching and later painting and art history. He continued to teach there for most of the rest of his life, latterly in highly popular non-vocational painting classes on Saturday mornings.
Patrick produced portraits and still life works but is known mainly for his paintings of cultivated landscapes in the Scottish countryside. They are often very wide in scope yet meticulously detailed. In this he has been compared to Bruegel. His style was traditional but his use of colour could be bold, as were some compositional aspects of several of his paintings. In Spring in Eskdale (1935) the scene seems to be viewed from a height, giving an almost aerial view, while in Stobo Kirk (1936) perspective is again deliberately but subtly distorted. Less unconventionally, his landscapes frequently make use of lanes, roads, waterways or other features leading from foreground to middle distance or beyond, drawing the viewer into the picture. This compositional trademark can be seen in one of his earliest landscapes, The Three Sisters, Glencoe (1934), Spring in Eskdale, and many of his later works.
Like many artists of the interwar period, he was profiled as an 'Artist of Note' in The Artist magazine, Vol XIV No 3, in November 1937.
He received many awards including the Guthrie Prize and was elected a full member of the Royal Scottish Academy in 1957. He was appointed OBE in the 1997 Birthday Honours

## Works

His works are displayed at such venues as McManus Galleries and Museum, Dundee, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Glasgow Art Gallery, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Manchester Art Gallery, the Walker Art Gallery, the National Gallery of South Africa, National Gallery of South Australia, the Sydney Art Gallery, and the Carnegie Institute (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA). In 1999 the Patrick family donated his archives to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.
To celebrate its victory in the 1983 University Challenge competition, the University of Dundee commissioned Patrick to produce to two paintings of its campus. Other examples of Patrick's works held as part of the university's fine art collections include portraits of Principal Angus Robertson Fulton and Arthur Alexander Matheson.
# Jamie Batley

Jamie Batley is a lacrosse coach who has coached several teams in the NLL and the Major Series Lacrosse. Batley is also a former player, who played with the Buffalo Bandits, Syracuse Smash, and Pittsburgh CrosseFire.
Batley began his coaching career in Colorado in 2002, when he was hired by new coach Rod Jensen as the offensive coordinator. When Jensen was fired in February 2003, Batley took over as interim coach, and the "interim" tag was removed less than two weeks later. Batley led the Mammoth to a 27–16 record in two and a half seasons, making the playoffs each year, but his contract was not renewed after the 2005 season.
A year later, Batley was hired by the expansion Chicago Shamrox to be their first-ever coach and general manager. After consecutive 6–10 seasons, the Shamrox suspended operations shortly before the 2009 season began, and Batley was out of work again, though not for long.
In January 2009, Batley became the head coach of the Toronto Rock after the Rock fired Glenn Clark. The Rock were 5-8 after Batley took over, and missed the playoffs for the second straight year. After the season, Mike Kloepfer resigned as Director of Lacrosse Operations of the Rock, and Batley applied for the job but was turned down. After Terry Sanderson was announced as the new GM, Batley was informed that he would not be returning as head coach of the Rock.
In March 2016, Batley replaced Dan Perreault as head coach of the Vancouver Stealth, he left the team in 2018.

## Statistics
### NLL

| | | Regular Season | Regular Season | Regular Season | Regular Season | Regular Season | Regular Season | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs | Playoffs |
| Season | Team | GP | G | A | Pts | LB | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | LB | PIM |
| 1995 | Buffalo | 8 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 29 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1998 | Syracuse | 8 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 27 | 24 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 1999 | Buffalo | 12 | 12 | 19 | 31 | 58 | 17 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 2000 | Pittsburgh | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| NLL Totals | NLL Totals | 30 | 25 | 32 | 57 | 120 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
# Mõmmi ja aabits

Mõmmi ja aabits (English: Teddy Bear and the Alphabet Book) is an Estonian children's television series, where a little bear cub learns letters from a primer. The children's show is based on Heljo Mänd's story "Karu aabits" (1971). The program was broadcast on Eesti Televisioon (ETV) from 1973 until 1976. The director of the series was Kaarel Kilvet, the co-director was Tiiu Vahi, the artist was Gunta Randla, and the music was composed by Tõnis Kõrvits.

## History

The first broadcast went live on 18 March 1973, and was in black and white. By 1976, 17 episodes were made. These shows have not survived on tape. Another version was recorded in color in 1977–1978, which is also the most well-known. At the end of the 1970s, another seven-part series was made, where Mõmmi already attends school, but these parts have not been preserved either.
In the years 1998–1999, Karin Nurm and Maarika Lauri staged the new stories Mõmmi ja aabits. 20 aastat hiljem (English: Teddy Bear and the Alphabet Book. 20 Years Later) on ETV. The artist of the production was Gunta Randla, the author of the music was Tõnis Kõrvits and the author of the lyrics was Heljo Mänd.
The director of the bear story, Kaarel Kilvet, has also emphasized the social importance of the show, because the family of bears is a good example for children, from whom they can learn to care for each other.

## Cast (1977–1978)

* Mõmmi – Ivo Eensalu, a bear
* Karu-Kati – Ene Janson, a bear
* Karu-Mati – Vello Janson, a bear
* Mõmmi's mother – Katrin Karisma, a bear
* Mõmmi father – Tõnis Rätsep, a bear
* Jänku-Juta – Maria Klenskaja, a bunny
* Rebase-Rein – Lembit Ulfsak, a fox
* Hundikutsikas Uudu – Tõnu Saar, a wolf cub
* Hundikutsikas Uugu – Kalev Tammin, a wolf cub
* Orava-Olga – Marje Metsur, a squrriel

## DVD

* "Mõmmi ja aabits". Parts 1–8; 1977 recording. Eesti Televisioon (ETV), 2005.
* "Mõmmi ja aabits". Parts 9–16; 1977 recording. Eesti Televisioon (ETV), 2005.
* "Mõmmi ja aabits". 20 years later. 1998 recording. Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR), 2008. Learn the letters A, I, L, E, P, B, V, U, J, T and D.
* "Mõmmi ja aabits". 20 years later. 1999 recording. Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR), 2008. Learn the letters M, N, O, G, K, H, Ü, Ä, S, R, Õ and Ö.