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It was released in Japan, North America, and Europe in 1998.
It allows a person to take 256x224 black and white digital pictures.
It is meant to be used with the Game Boy Printer, which uses a special kind of paper to print saved pictures.
It can be used with all Game Boy consoles except for the Game Boy Micro.
It was the only Nintendo product to allow a person to take pictures until the release of the Nintendo DSi console.
The Game Boy Printer is an accessory for the Game Boy line of video game consoles.
It allows a person to print pictures taken with the Game Boy Camera.
It can also be used to print images from Game Boy and Game Boy Color games that can be used with it.
It uses thermal paper, which is a kind of paper that changes color in heat.
It runs on six AA batteries.
It can be used with all Game Boy Consoles except for the Game Boy Micro.
Like the Game Boy and Game Boy Color, Nintendo stopped making the Game Boy Printer in 2003.
A blast injury is an injury caused by exposure to an explosive blast.
Blast injuries are divided into four main types, with a fifth type for illnesses caused by the blast, and a sixth type for the effects of psychological trauma after the blast such as Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
The type of injury and how severe it is depends on different things.
This includes the type of explosion, the force of the explosion, the environment where the explosion happens, and how close the person is to the explosion.
An explosion results from the rapid release of energy.
Explosions fall into four general categories:
A chemical explosion is the result of a rapid chemical reaction or change of state which creates a lot of heat and usually gas.
There are various types of chemical explosions including natural gas explosions, dust explosions and those caused by explosives.
Explosives are categorized as high-order (HE) explosives or low-order (LE) explosives and they each cause different injury patterns.
Only (HE) explosives produce a shock wave.
High-order explosives (HE) detonation causes the explosive material to change into a highly pressurized gas which travels at supersonic speeds creating a 'blast wave' (over-pressurization shock wave).
Examples of HE include TNT, C-4, Semtex, nitroglycerin, dynamite, and ammonium nitrate fuel oil (ANFO).
Supersonic is when something travels at speeds that are faster than the speed of sound.
The speed of sound is about 768 miles per hour (1,236 kilometers per hour) at sea level.
Low-order explosives (LE) deflagrates or burns at a subsonic rate (below 3,300 feet per second), so it does not have HE’s over-pressurization supersonic schock wave.
Examples of LE include pipe bombs, gunpowder, and most pure petroleum-based bombs such as Molotov cocktails.
Injury classification
Blast injuries are divided into four classes of physical trauma primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary.
A fifth category, the quinary injuries, are those caused by toxic substances associated with the blast.
Primary injuries
Primary injuries are caused by the explosion's shock waves.
Air and fluid-filled internal organs are most commonly affected, but the blast wave may also cause external injuries such as traumatic amputation.
The structures of the internal ears are most often affected by the blast wave, with perforated ear drums the most common injury.
The most common fatal injury in victims who survive the initial blast is blast lung.
Blast lung can result in pulmonary contusions, bleeding and fluid build-up in the lungs with damage to airways and blood vessels.
Secondary injuries
Most casualties in an explosion are caused by secondary blast injuries.
These injuries may be caused by fragments of the explosive device and other objects within the blast zone being propelled by the force of the explosion.
These objects may strike any part of the body resulting in penetrating trauma.
The severity of the penetrating trauma depends to a degree on the size of the object, the depth of penetration, and the part of the body hit.
Secondary blast injuries are common in deliberate explosions such as those caused by terrorist bombs.
The bombs are often designed with objects such as nails, or ball bearings packed in and around the explosive device to act as shrapnel.
Tertiary injuries
Displacement of air by the explosion creates a blast wind that can throw victims against solid objects.
Injuries resulting from this type of traumatic impact are referred to as tertiary blast injuries.
Tertiary injuries may present as some combination of blunt and penetrating trauma, including bone fractures and coup contre-coup injuries.
Quaternary injuries
Quinary injuries
This category of blast injury has been added fairly recently to classify injuries, which often results in a hyperinflammatory state may due to exposure to the environmental contaminants associated with the  various types of explosive blasts including, bacteria, chemicals and radiation (dirty bombs) as well as adverse tissue reaction to fuel and metals in the blast.
The psychological trauma which may occur in explosive blast survivors includes post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
A concussion sustained in a blast may also be a risk factor for developing PTSD independent of a person's psychological reaction to the witnessed event.
Psychological trauma may also occur in the complete absence of  physical injuries.
Neurotrauma  can occur due to the mechanisms of one or more blast injury categories.
Bleeding from injured organs such as lungs or bowel causes a lack of oxygen in all vital organs, including the brain.
Damage of the lungs reduces the surface for oxygen uptake from the air, reducing the amount of the oxygen delivered to the brain.
Tissue destruction initiates the synthesis and release of hormones or mediators into the blood which, when delivered to the brain, change its function.
Irritation of the nerve endings in injured peripheral tissue and/or organs also significantly contributes to blast-induced neurotrauma.
Individuals exposed to blasts frequently have loss of memory for events before and after explosion, confusion, headache, impaired sense of reality, and reduced decision-making ability.
Patients with brain injuries acquired in explosions often develop sudden, unexpected brain swelling and cerebral vasospasm despite continuous monitoring.
However, the first symptoms of blast-induced neurotrauma (BINT) may occur months or even years after the initial event, and are therefore categorized as secondary brain injuries.
The broad variety of symptoms includes weight loss, hormone imbalance, chronic fatigue, headache, and problems in memory, speech and balance.
Because BINT in blast victims is underestimated, valuable time is often lost for preventive therapy and/or timely rehabilitation.
Conventional Warfare: Ballistic, Blast and Burn Injuries
Samuel Marshall "Sam" Raimi (born October 23, 1959) is an American movie director, producer, writer, and actor.
He directed the Spider-Man movie trilogy (2002-2007).
He also directed Oz the Great and Powerful.
Raimi was born on October 23, 1959 in Royal Oak, Michigan to a Hungarian-Russian Jewish family.
He was raised in Birmingham, Michigan.
He studied at Groves High School and at Michigan State University.
Raimi has been married to Gillian Dania Greene since 1993.
Men in Black 3 is a 2012 American 3D science fiction comedy movie.
It is about stopping aliens from changing the past in 1969, so Agent J travels back in time to stop that from happening.
The movie stars Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Josh Brolin.
Movie critic Roger Ebert gave the movie 3 out of 4 stars.
2010s science fiction movies
El Diablo toca la flauta (1954)
El amor tiene cara de mujer (1971) - Vicky Gallardo y Pimentel
María la del Barrio (1995) -  Victoria Montenegro de De la Vega
Esmeralda (1997) - Sor Piedad
Sin ti (1997) - Mercedes
Gotita de Amor (1998) - Madre Superiora
Aventuras en el tiempo (2001) - Violeta
Jones was born on September 12, 1931 in Saratoga, Texas.
He was raised in Vidor, Texas.
Jones was married to Dorothy Bonvillion from 1950 until they divorced.
Then he was married to Shirley Ann Corley from 1954 until they divorced in 1968.
Then he was married to Tammy Wynette from 1969 until they divorced in 1975.
Then he was married to Nancy Sepulvado from 1983 until his death in 2013.
Grand Ole Opry's New Star (1956)
Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't (2005)
Louis Marshall Jones (October 20, 1913 – February 19, 1998), known professionally as Grandpa Jones, was an American banjo player and "old time" country and gospel music singer.
He is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Jones was born on October 20, 1913 in Niagara, Kentucky.
He was raised in Akron, Ohio.
He was married to Ramona Riggins from 1946 until his death in 1998.
Jones died on February 19, 1998 in Nashville, Tennessee from a stroke, aged 84.
CMT.com profile
Jones at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Grandpa Jones as member of the Brown's Ferry Four with the Delmore Brothers.
Sessionography, Discography
Joshua Ryan Evans (10 January 1982 - 5 August 2002) was an American actor.
He was best known for acting as Timmy in the television series Passions.
He also acted in movies.
Due to dwarfism, Josh was only 3 feet 2 inches tall and had the voice of a small child.
Evans died from complications due to a congenital heart condition.
He was born in Hayward, California and died in San Diego, California.
The 2013 Savar building collapse was an incident on 24 April 2013.
An eight-story building, the Rana Plaza, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
1129 people died.
Another one thousand or more received injuries of varying levels.
The building contained clothing factories, other shops and a bank.
It collapsed during the morning rush hour.
Warnings to avoid using the building because of cracking appearing the day before were ignored, resulting in a tragedy.
This was thought to be the worst industrial accident in the history of Bangladesh.
2013 disasters in Asia
William Lewis Guy (September 30, 1919 – April 26, 2013) was an American politician who was the governor of the U.S. state of North Dakota from 1961 to 1973.
At 93, he was the oldest of the six living current or previous governors of North Dakota.
Guy was born on September 30, 1919 in Devils Lake, North Dakota.
He studied at North Dakota State University and at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
Guy was married to Jean Guy until his death in 2013.
Guy died on April 26, 2013 in his home in West Fargo, North Dakota from Alzheimer's disease, aged 93.
His wife June Guy died two months later on July 5, 2013 from a stroke.
Men in Black II is an American science fiction action comedy movie.
It is about aliens trying to take over the world and Agents J and K must stop that from happening before it is too late.
Some of the stars include Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, and Rip Torn.
Michael Jackson appears in a cameo when he wants to become Agent M.
Tommy Lee Jones as Agent K
Will Smith as Agent J
Rip Torn as Zed
Lara Flynn Boyle as Serleena
Rosario Dawson as Laura Vasquez
Johnny Knoxville as Scrad and Charlie
Patrick Warburton as Agent T
Peter Graves as himself
Michael Jackson as himself
The movie was #1 at the box office against The Powerpuff Girls Movie but had mixed reviews.
People didn't like how it was a rehash of the first movie.
"How Do U Want It" (also called "How Do You Want It"), released in 1996, is a rap single from Tupac Shakur.
The song contains samples of the song "Body Heat" from Quincy Jones.
It was released on June 16, 1996.
Three music videos for the single were released alongside it.
The song was produced by Johnny "J" Jackson who produced much of Tupac's best work.
Finding Dory is a 2016 American computer-animated comedy adventure movie.
It was produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.
It is a sequel to the 2003 Disney-Pixar movie, Finding Nemo.
Andrew Stanton, who directed the original movie, directed.
The movie was confirmed by Walt Disney Pictures in April 2013.
The movie was originally scheduled for a holiday 2015 release.
Hayden Rolence voiced Nemo the clownfish, because Alexander Gould's voice has suddenly deepened since reaching adulthood.
Finding Dory is about Dory, the regal blue tang fish, who forgets things almost instantly.
The story is about Dory reuniting with her family.
The movie is set off the coast of California.
Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, a regal blue tang.
Sloane Murray as Baby Dory.
Murray is the seven-year-old daughter of producer Lindsey Collins.
Albert Brooks as Marlin, an overprotective clownfish, Nemo's father and Dory's friend.
Hayden Rolence as Nemo, a young juvenile clownfish and Marlin's son.
Ed O'Neill as Hank, a cranky East Pacific red octopus who previously lost a tentacle.
Diane Keaton as Jenny, Dory's mother.
Eugene Levy as Charlie, Dory's father.
Kaitlin Olson as Destiny, a near-sighted whale shark and Dory's childhood friend.
Ty Burrell as Bailey, a beluga whale who temporarily lost echolocation due to a concussion.
Idris Elba as Fluke, an easygoing sea lion.
Dominic West as Rudder, a sea lion and Fluke's friend.
Bob Peterson as Mr. Ray, a spotted eagle ray and Nemo's schoolteacher.
Andrew Stanton as Crush, a sea turtle that lives on the East Australian Current.
Bennett Dammann as Squirt, Crush's son.
He was voiced by Nicholas Bird in the previous film.
Bill Hader as Stan, a kelp bass
Kate McKinnon as Stan's fish wife
Angus MacLane as Charlie Back-and-Forth, a sunfish.
Katherine Ringgold as a chickenfish.
Sigourney Weaver as herself, the voice intercom announcer for the Institute PA system.
Alexander Gould as Passenger Carl, a delivery truck driver that works for the Institute, and Passenger Tommy, Carl's co-worker.
Gould voiced Nemo in the previous film.
John Ratzenberger as Bill, a crab.
Torbin Xan Bullock as Gerald, an outcast California sea lion who is frequently treated hostilely by Fluke & Rudder, and Becky, a friendly and helpful but dimwitted common loon.
Willem Dafoe as Gill, a moorish idol, who is the leader of the "Tank Gang."
Brad Garrett as Bloat, a porcupinefish.
Allison Janney as Peach, a pink starfish.
Austin Pendleton as Gurgle, a royal gramma.
Stephen Root as Bubbles, a yellow tang.
Vicki Lewis as Deb, a four-striped damselfish.
Jerome Ranft as Jacques, a cleaner shrimp.
He was voiced by Joe Ranft, Jerome's late brother, in the previous film.
2016 animated movies
2010s buddy movies
2016 comedy movies
Calahorra, (), La Rioja, Spain is a municipality in Rioja Baja.
It is near the border with Navarre on the river Ebro.
During ancient Roman times, Calahorra was known as Calagurris Fibularia.
The city is located on a hill at an altitude of  at the confluence of the Ebro and Cidacos rivers.
Calahorra is the second-largest city in La Rioja in population and importance.
21,060 people live there.
People have lived in the area that is now Calahorra since the Paleolithic.
It has had a stable population since the Iron Age.
Rome took control of the town in 187 BC.
They made it more important as an administrative centre for regions near it.
Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar gave the city (then named Calagurris) converted the town into a municipality.
They developed its city planning, economy, and politics.
Its archeological remains show that it had a circus, baths, an amphitheatre, and other things found in large cities.
Monte Compatri, Italy
Caussade, France
Calahorra (La Rioja) Web Site
Calahorra Jewish family in Poland
A blood film or peripheral blood smear is a thin layer of blood smeared on a microscope slide and then stained in such a way to allow the various blood cells to be examined microscopically.
Blood films are usually examined to investigate disorders of the blood and, occasionally, to look for parasites within the blood such as malaria and filaria.
How to Prepare & Interpret Peripheral Blood Smears
Jean Smart (born September 13, 1951) is an American actress.
She acts in television, movies and on stage.
She is known mainly for comedy-type roles.
She starred as Charlene Stillfield on the show Designing Women.
She has also done dramatic roles, including that of Martha Logan on the series 24.
Jean was born in Seattle, Washington.
animated roles include, American Dad, Big Mouth, Hey Arnold, Hercules The Animated Series, Kim Possible, Nutri Ventures, The Powerpuff Girls, Robot Chicken, Static Shock, Tiny Toon, Spider-Man  (2017), The Fairly OddParents, etc.
, also known as Iō-tō, is an uninhabited Japanese island in the Volcano Islands.
It is south of the Bonin Islands.
It is  south of mainland Tokyo.
WBZ-TV is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
It is owned by CBS.
It is received on channel 4 in eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and southern New Hampshire.
WBZ-TV first went on the air on June 9, 1948.
It is the oldest television station in Boston.
It is also the oldest television station in the New England states.
It was originally owned by Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
The station showed programs from the NBC network when it first went on the air.
On January 2, 1995, WBZ-TV stopped showing NBC programs and started showing CBS programs.
Before then, CBS programs aired on WHDH-TV, which now airs NBC programs.
The reason Channel 4 switched networks is because Westinghouse Electric agreed to merge with CBS, and all Westinghouse channels became CBS stations.
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) or Logan Swanson was an American author and screenwriter.
He mostly wrote in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.
Two of his books are I Am Legend and Bid Time Return.
He wrote several television episodes for The Twilight Zone.
Matheson was born on February 20, 1926 in Allendale, New Jersey to a Norwegian family.
Matheson studied at Brooklyn Technical High School and at the University of Missouri.
He was married to Ruth Ann Woodson from 1952 until his death in 2013.
Matheson came up with the idea for I Am Legend after seeing Tod Browning's Dracula.
Matheson died on June 23, 2013 in Los Angeles, California from a long illness.
Richard Matheson  featured on AMC-TV's Sci-Fi Department webshow
21st-century American novelists
Wolf Isaac Blitzer (born March 22, 1948) is an American journalist and television news anchor.
He has been a CNN reporter since 1990.
He is the senior anchor of all CNN programs currently in production.
Blitzer is currently the host of The Situation Room.
He is CNN's lead political anchor.
Blitzer was born on March 22, 1948 in Augsburg, Germany to Polish-American parents.
His parents were Jewish refugees.
He was raised in Buffalo, New York.
Blitzer has been married to Lynn Greenfield since 1973.
They have one daughter, Ilana (born 1981).
He now lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
CNN bio
CNN.com – The Situation Room
"Wolf Blitzer for the Defense (Department)", Jim Naureckas, FAIR Extra!,
January/February 2003
Google Video on Israel Discussion – Held Nov 1989.
Robert William "Bob" Edgar (May 29, 1943 – April 23, 2013) was an American politician and administrator from Pennsylvania, and a member of the Democratic Party.
He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1987, representing the 7th district of Pennsylvania.
Edgar was born on May 28, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He studied at Drew University.
Edagr died on April 23, 2013 in his home in Annandale, Virginia from a heart attack, aged 69.
Robert William Edgar entry at The Political Graveyard
A sports agent is a person who represents a sportsperson in finance and contracts.
The sports agent negotiates the contracts for an athlete's salary.
The agent gets part of the athletes pay.
Also, they are responsible for making recommendations about the athlete's options.
Mario Matthew Cuomo (June 15, 1932 – January 1, 2015) was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party.
He served as the Secretary of State of New York from 1975 to 1978, as the Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1979 to 1982 and as the 52nd Governor of New York for three terms, from 1983 to 1994.
His son Andrew Cuomo is the current governor of New York.
Cuomo was born on June 15, 1932 in Queens, New York City to an Italian Catholic family.
He studied at St. John's University.
Cuomo was married to Matilda Raffa from 1954 until his death in 2015.
Cuomo died on January 1, 2015, in his home in Manhattan, New York City at the age of 82 from heart failure only hours after his son Andrew was sworn-in to a second term as governor of New York state.
His funeral was held on January 6, 2015 at the Saint Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan, New York.
He was buried at St. John Cemetery, in Queens, New York.
Text Cuomo's 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address – "A Tale of Two Cities"
Text and Audio of Cuomo's Address at the University of Notre Dame– "Religious Belief and Public Morality"
Lewis Lehrman 1982 NY Governor Campaign Retrospective.
Lehrman narrowly lost to Mario Cuomo (51% to 48%)
Biography at Willkie Farr & Gallagher website
Video of debate/discussion with Mario Cuomo and Paul Krugman on Bloggingheads.tv
Booknotes interview with Cuomo on Why Lincoln Matters, July 25, 2004.
The memorial for the Jewish Soldiers in the Polish army in World War II is a memorial dedicated to the Jews who served in the Polish Army and died in World War II.
The memorial is in the National Military and Police Cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.
The memorial was built in 1998 next to the memorial for those who served in the Russian army.
The memorial was built with pink stones with the symbols of the Polish army and the inscription of the years 1939-1945 next to stairs going to ceremonial plaza.
it is inscribed with a Bible verse from 2 Samuel 1:23: "They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions."
jewish military casualties in the polish armies in the world war 2 in the "zchor" website
The memorial for the Jewish Soldiers in the Soviet Army in World War II is a memorial dedicated to the Jews in the Red Army who died in World War II.
It is next to the memorial to those who served in the Polish army.
The memorial was started by the Organization of Veterans of the Red Army in World War II.
It was built in 1989 with a design of the architect Yizhak Rachelin and the Engineer "Ze'ev Kariv".
The memorial is a wall with pink stones and red stones.
It has the number "20,000" for the fallen Jews of the Russian army.
There is a Hebrew Bible verse inscribed from Judges 3:2: The Lord "did this to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites."
In front of the memorial there are stairs going to ceremonial plaza between two boards with the sign of the years "1941" and "1945".
Jews Who Died Fighting in Red Army in the "Jewish Daily forward"
Mount Whymper (Edward), 2.844 m, a mountain on the Canadian Rocky Mountains, British Columbia, Canada, in the Vermilion Pass area, Kootenay National Park.
Named for Edward Whymper.
Mount Whymper (Frederick), 1,539 m, a mountain on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Named for Frederick Whymper
WHDH is a television station in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States.
It is owned by Sunbeam Television and is an independent television station that used to carry NBC.
It is received on Channel 7 in eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and southern New Hampshire.
In the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, there was another television station in Boston with the name WHDH-TV.
That station aired on Channel 5 and is now called WCVB-TV.
There is no relationship between the two stations.
Channel 7 in Boston went on the air June 21, 1948 as WNAC-TV.
It is the second oldest television station in Boston, and the third oldest in the New England states.
The first owner was General Tire, which later became RKO General.
The station showed CBS network programs when it first went on the air.
The station also showed some programs from the ABC network.
However, when a new TV station in Boston, Channel 5, then known as WHDH-TV but now known as WCVB-TV, started in 1957, Channel 7 dropped all ABC programs, which were then aired on Channel 5.
In 1961, Channel 7 and Channel 5 switched networks, and Channel 7 became an ABC station, and Channel 5 became the CBS station for Boston.
In 1972, the two channels switched again, and Channel 7 returned to being a CBS station, and Channel 5 an ABC station.
On May 21, 1982, RKO General lost the license to broadcast and Channel 7 was taken over by New England Television on May 22.
The channel was renamed WNEV-TV.
New England Television bought a radio station known as WHDH in 1989, and in January, 1990, channel 7 was renamed WHDH-TV.
On January 2, 1995, Channel 7 stopped showing CBS programs and began showing NBC programs.
Before then, NBC programs were shown on WBZ-TV, Channel 4, which now shows CBS programs.
The reason for this switch is because WBZ-TV's owners merged with the CBS network.
In 1993, the station was sold to Sunbeam Television.
In July, 2010, Channel 7 officially dropped the -TV from its name, becoming just WHDH.
Lawrence Welk (March 11, 1903 – May 17, 1992) was an American musician, accordionist, bandleader, and television impresario, who hosted The Lawrence Welk Show from 1955 to 1982.
His style came to be known as "champagne music".
Welk was born in Strasburg, North Dakota.
Most people there spoke German, but also knew English.
His parents were Ludwig and Christiana (Schwahn) Welk, who were ethnic Germans from Russia.
They emigrated to America in 1892 from Selz, Kutschurgan District, in the German-speaking area north of Odessa (now Odessa, Ukraine, but then in southwestern Russia).
In North Dakota, the family lived on a homestead.
Welk decided on a career in music and got his father to buy him an accordion from a mail order for $400 (equivalent to $ in )  He promised his father that he would work on the farm until he was 21, to pay his father back for the accordion.
Any other money he earned during that time, by doing farmwork or performing, would go to his family.
On his 21st birthday, Welk left the family's farm to start his career in music.
During the 1920s, he performed with the Luke Witkowski, Lincoln Boulds, and George T. Kelly bands before he started his own orchestra.
He led big bands in North Dakota and eastern South Dakota.
These included the Hotsy Totsy Boys and later the Honolulu Fruit Gum Orchestra.
His band also played for radio station WNAX in Yankton, South Dakota.
In 1927, he graduated from the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
During the 1930s, Welk led a traveling big band that played dance tunes and "sweet" music.
At first, the band traveled around the country by car.
They were too poor to rent rooms, so they usually slept and changed clothes in their cars.
At an engagement at the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, a dancer said that Welk's band's sound was as "light and bubbly as champagne," which is where the term "Champagne Music" came from.
Welk described his band's sound, saying "We still play music with the champagne style, which means light and rhythmic.
We place the stress on melody; the chords are played pretty much the way the composer wrote them.
We play with a steady beat so that dancers can follow it."
Welk's big band performed across the country but mostly at ballrooms and hotels in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.
In the early 1940s, the band started to play at the Trianon Ballroom in Chicago, where they played for 10 years.
His orchestra also played at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City during the late 1940s.
Welk recorded a version of Spade Cooley's "Shame on You" with Western artist Red Foley in 1945.
The record (Decca 18698) was #4 on Billboard's September 15 "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records" listing.
From 1949 through 1951, the band had its own national radio program on ABC.
Sometimes, Welk's band made recordings in Richmond, Indiana and in Grafton, Wisconsin for the Gennett and Paramount companies.
In November, 1928, he recorded for Gennett and in 1931, he recorded for Paramount.
These records are very rare.
From 1938 to 1940, he recorded in New York and Chicago for the Vocalion label.
He started with Decca in 1941, and recorded for Mercury and Coral before starting with Dot in the early 1950s.
In 1966, his orchestra recorded an album on the Ranwood Records label, with Jazz saxophonist Johnny Hodges, featuring a number of Jazz standards, including "Someone to Watch Over Me", "Misty" and "Fantastic, That's You".
The album has been out of print for many years.
In 1951, Welk moved to Los Angeles.
The same year, he began hosting The Lawrence Welk Show.
It was broadcast from the Aragon Ballroom in Venice Beach.
The show became a local hit and was picked up by ABC in June 1955.
The show had a "bubble machine."
Whenever the orchestra played a polka or waltz, Welk himself would dance with the band's female singer, called a "Champagne Lady" on the show.
His first Champagne Lady was Jayne Walton Rosen (her real name was Dorothy Jayne Flanagan).
Rocky Rockwell would usually sing novelty songs.
Welk would also have one song each show where he would play an accordion solo.
Welk's show would rarely play current music, except as a novelty.
On the December 8, 1956 show, the show did play two current songs.
They were "Nuttin' for Christmas," and Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel."
The songs on the show were mostly popular music standards, polkas, and novelty songs.
Welk often danced with women from the audience.
Welk had very high quality musicians, including accordionist Myron Floren, concert violinist Dick Kesner, guitarist Buddy Merrill, and New Orleans Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain.
He paid his regular band members very well, and it was common for them to stay with the band a long time.
For example, Floren was the band's assistant conductor throughout the whole time the show was broadcast.
The show didn't only play big-band era music.
During the 1960s and 1970s, for example, the show played music that was originally by The Beatles, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, The Everly Brothers and Paul Williams and others, but in a style his older viewers would like.
The show was originally in black and white.
It changed to color in fall 1965.
While it was on network television, The Lawrence Welk Show aired on ABC on Saturday nights at 9 p.m. (Eastern Time), but changed to 8:30 p.m. in fall 1963.
From 1956 to 1959, it was also known as The Dodge Dancing Party, because Welk was also hosting another show called Top Tunes and New Talent on Mondays.
ABC canceled the show in 1971, but it continued on 250 stations across the country until 1982.
Welk was married for 61 years, until he died, to Fern Renner (b. August 26, 1903, d. February 13, 2002).
Welk was an excellent businessman.
He had investments in real estate and music publishing, and was a general partner in a commercial real estate development.
A musically-themed restaurant menu
An accordion-themed tray for serving food at a restaurant
An accordion-themed ash tray
After he retired in 1982, Welk continued to air reruns of his shows.
He was also in two Christmas specials in 1984 and 1985.
Welk died from bronchopneumonia in Santa Monica, California, in 1992 at age 89.
He was buried in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery.
"Moritat (A Theme from 'The Three Penny Opera')" (US #17, March 1956)
"The Poor People of Paris" (US #17, April 1956)
"On the Street Where You Live" (US #96, June 1956)
"Weary Blues" (US #32, August 1956)
"In the Alps" (US #63, August 1956)
"Tonight You Belong to Me" featuring The Lennon Sisters (US #15, November 1956)
"When the White Lilacs Bloom Again" (US #70, November 1956)
"Liechtenstein Polka" (US #48, December 1957)
"Last Date" (US #21, December 1960)
"Calcutta" (US #1, February 1961)
"Theme From My Three Sons" (US #55, April 1961)
"Yellow Bird" (US #71, July 1961)
"Riders in the Sky" (US #87, October 1961)
"One A-Two A-Cha Cha Cha" (US #117, December 1961)
"Runaway" (US #56, May 1962)
"Baby Elephant Walk" (US #48, September 1962, AC #10, 1962)
"Zero-Zero" (US #98, December 1962)
"Scarlett O'Hara" (US #89, June 1963)
"Breakwater" (US #100, June 1963)
"Blue Velvet" (US #103, October 1963)
"Fiesta" (US #106, October 1963)
"Stockholm" (US #91, March 1964)
"Apples and Bananas" (US #75, April 1965, AC #17, 1965)
"The Beat Goes On" (US #104, April 1967)
"Green Tambourine" (AC #27, March 1968)
"Southtown U.S.A." (AC #37, February 1970)
Sources: Billboard Top Pop Singles 1955–2006, Billboard Top Adult Songs 1961–2006, Billboard Bubbling Under the Hot 100 1959–2004
Welk has a star for Recording on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, located at 6613½ Hollywood Blvd.
He has a second star at 1601 Vine Street for Television.
Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk, 1971,
Ah-One, Ah-Two!
Life with My Musical Family, 1974,
My America, Your America, 1976,
Lawrence Welk's Musical Family Album, 1977,
Welk with McGeehan, illustrated by Carol Bryan, Lawrence Welk's Bunny Rabbit Concert, Indianapolis: Youth Publications/Saturday Evening Post Co., 1977,  (children's book)
This I Believe, 1979,
You're Never Too Young, 1981,
Stars of the Lawrence Welk Show
Lawrence Welk's recordings in the 1920s and 1930s, along with other info
Welk Musical Family website
Welk Musical Family blog
Lawrence Welk Collection at North Dakota State University
The Lawrence Welk Show: Video of "Calcutta" 1961
Comedians from North Dakota
Super Monkey Ball is a platform video game.
It was developed by Amusement Vision and published by Sega.
It was first released in Japan in January 2001 as an arcade game titled Monkey Ball.
It had a joystick in the shape of a banana.
It was later released worldwide as a launch title for the Nintendo GameCube.
Titled Super Monkey Ball, it was released in Japan on September 4, 2001, in North America on November 18, 2001, and in Europe on May 3, 2002.
Super Monkey Ball has three modes of gameplay: Main game, party games and mini-games.
In the main game, the object is to guide a monkey in a hamster ball across a series of platforms in the air and through a goal at the end of the level.
Four monkeys are available for the player to play as.
Each level is timed; with a level running for either 30 or 60 seconds.
The player controls the main game with the GameCube controller's control stick.
By moving the stick, the whole level moves, and the ball rolls in the direction that the level moves.
Each level has bananas that the player can collect.
Bananas give the player points, and collecting a certain amount of them gives the player an extra life.
Should the player fall off of the level or the timer reaches zero, the player loses a life.
There are three main difficulties: Beginner, Advanced and Expert.
Beginner is ten easy levels, Advanced is 30 non-easy levels, and Expert is 50 harder levels.
Should the player meet a certain condition after completing a difficulty, they will be able to play the difficulty's "extra" levels.
A fourth difficulty level, Master, can be unlocked by completing the Expert and Expert Extra levels without using a continue.
Master is the hardest difficulty level, with ten levels.
Party games
There are three party games: Monkey Race, Monkey Target and Monkey Fight.
In Monkey Race, players race on one of several racing levels, competing for the best rank.
In Monkey Target, players roll their monkey down a ramp and open the monkey's ball to fly in order to land on one of several islands.
Three levels are available to play on.
In Monkey Fight, players punch other monkeys for points.
When time runs out, whichever monkey has the most points wins.
There are three minigames that can to be unlocked with points gotten in the main game: Monkey Bowling, Monkey Billiards and Monkey Golf.
Each minigame is based on the real life sport.
Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 – January 28, 1890) was an American teacher.
She was born on September 3, 1803 to Quakers.
She went to the New England Friends’ Boarding School in Providence, Rhode Island.
In October 1831, she opened a private girls’ school in Canterbury, Connecticut.
In 1833, an African American girl was admitted to the school.
The parents of the white girls in the school wanted the black girl expelled.
Crandall refused.
She opened a school for African American girls in April 1833.
The Connecticut legislature passed the "Black Law".
This law made it illegal to open a school that taught African American pupils from a state other than Connecticut.
Crandall was arrested, tried, and convicted of violating this law.
She was put in jail.
A higher court reversed the decision.
Crandall was freed, but neighbors harassed her.
They smashed the windows in the school.
Crandall feared for the students’ safety.
She closed the school in 1834.
Crandall married Baptist minister and abolitionist Calvin Philleo.
In 1835, the couple and his three children left Connecticut for Philleo’s farm in New York State.
They later moved to Illinois.
Here Crandall ran a school from her home.
She also took part in women’s rights activities.
When Philleo died in 1874, Prudence moved to Kansas to live with her brother.
In 1886, the Connecticut legislature gave her a pension.
Crandall died on January 28, 1890.
She was buried in Kansas.
Her old school house in Canterbury is now the Prudence Crandall Museum.
In 1995, Crandall was named Connecticut's state heroine.
Michael Henry "Nicko" McBrain (born 5 June 1952) is an English heavy metal musician.
He is the drummer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden.
During his early year, McBrain played for a few small pub bands and paid his bills with session work he did when he left school.
He has also played in Streetwalkers, Trust and with Pat Travers.
He joined Iron Maiden in 1982 and debuted on their  fourth studio album, Piece of Mind.
He currently uses Premier drums and Paiste cymbals.
He converted to Christianity in 1999 after he had an experience in the Spanish River Church.
Kataklysm was formed in 1991.
The band released their debut studio album Sorcery on February 10, 1995 and their second full-length album on June 26, 1996.
Lead singer Sylvain Houde left the band afterwards and Maurizio Iacono took over the lead vocals.
Stephane Barbe was also recruited to the band during this time.
Their third album Victims of this Fallen World which was released on March 7, 1998, saw a change in musical style from Kataklysm's previous albums.
They returned to their former style when they released The Prophecy (Stigmata of the Immaculate) but it was less chaotic and with a little bit of thrash metal.
Iacono had vocal lessons for the death metal genre after he was complaining that he was losing his voice during or after the band performed concerts.
Their fifth studio album Epic: The Poetry of War was released on September 17, 2001.
The album featured a little bit of a melodic approach to death metal however they did not step into the boundaries of melodic death metal.
The band released their sixth studio album Shadows & Dust on October 15, 2002.
The album is considered to be one of the most successful albums by the members of Kataklysm because of the positive attention that the album received and the sales it gathered.
Their seventh studio album Serenity in Fire was released on March 9, 2004.
The album featured Martin Maurais temporarily replacing Max Duhamel on drums.
Duhamel said that he forced out of the band because of injuries but recovered from his injuries and played with the band on their eighth album In the Arms of Devastation which was released on February 21, 2006.
The band is known for using a frequently used drum pattern which they call "Northern Hyperblast".
The band was ranked #7 on AOL Radio's list of the 10 best Death Metal bands.
Maurizio Iacono – vocals (1998–present), bass (1991–1998)
Jean-Francois Dagenais – guitars (1991–present)
Max Duhamel – drums (1994–1996, 1999–2002, 2006–present)
Stephane Barbe – bass (1998–present)
Stephane Coté – guitar (1991–1992)
Ariel Saied Martinez – drums (1991–1992)
Sylvain Houde – vocals (1991–1997)
Nick Miller – drums (1996–1998)
Jean-François Richard – drums (2002–2003)
Martin Maurais – drums (2003–2004)
Sorcery (1995)
Temple of Knowledge (1996)
Victims of this Fallen World (1998)
The Prophecy (Stigmata of the Immaculate) (2000)
Epic: The Poetry of War (2001)
Shadows & Dust (2002)
Serenity in Fire (2004)
In the Arms of Devastation (2006)
Prevail (2008)
Heaven's Venom (2010)
Waiting for the End to Come (2013)
America's Next Top Model, Cycle 4 is the fourth season of America's Next Top Model.
This cycle includes 14 contestants.
The winner was 20-year-old Naima Mora.
Sarah Dankleman-Dore
Lluviana "Lluvy" Gomez-Gibbs
Brita Petersons-Wald
Best: Tiffany Richardson
Worst: Brita Petersons-Wald & Brandy Rusher
Eliminated: Brita Petersons-Wald
Best: Keenyah Hill
Worst: Sarah Dankleman-Dore & Brittany Brower
Eliminated: Sarah Dankleman-Dore
Best: Brittany Brower
Worst: Lluvy Gomez-Gibbs & Brandy Rusher
Eliminated: Brandy Rusher
Best: Rebecca Epley
Worst: Noelle Staggers & Lluvy Gomez-Gibbs
Eliminated: Noelle Staggers
Best: Kahlen Rondot
Worst: Rebecca Epley & Lluvy Gomez-Gibbs
Eliminated: Lluvy Gomez-Gibbs
Worst/Eliminated: Tiffany Richardson & Rebecca Epley
Worst: Tatiana Dante & Michelle Deighton
Eliminated: Tatiana Dante
Worst: Michelle Deighton & Keenyah Hill
Eliminated: Michelle Deighton
Best: Naima Mora
Worst: Christina Murphy & Brittany Brower
Eliminated: Christina Murphy
Worst: Naima Mora & Brittany Brower
Worst: Keenyah Hill & Kahlen Rondot
Eliminated: Keenyah Hill
Final Two: Naima Mora & Kahlen Rondot
Winner: Naima Mora
William Bradford (15901657) was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620.
He travelled to the New World to live in religious freedom.
He became the second Governor of Plymouth Colony and served for over 30 years.
Bradford kept a journal of the history of the early life in Plymouth Colony.
It is called Of Plymouth Plantation.
Bradford was born to William and Alice Bradford in Austerfield, Yorkshire, England.
The Bradford family owned a large farm and were considered rich.
Bradford's father died was he was one year old.
When he was four years old he was sent to live with his grandfather.
Two years later, his grandfather died and he returned to live with his mother and stepfather.
A year later, in 1597, his mother died.
Bradford became an orphan at age 7.
He was sent to live with two uncles.
His uncles wanted Bradford to help on the farm but Bradford was ill and was not able to work.
Bradford started to read many books.
One of the books was the Bible.
This may be where he started learning of a religion that was different from the church of England.
When Bradford was 12 years old he went with a friend to hear the pastor Richard Clyfton.
Clyfton was a minister who did not believe in the Church of England.
Bradford believed in Clyfton’s words.
His uncles told him not to go to that church but he went anyway.
During one meeting he became friends with William Brewster.
Brewster did not live far away and Bradford borrowed books from him about the new church.
King James I of England started to punish the people who did not follow the Church of England.
They were called Separatists.
By 1607 many members of the Separatists were arrested.
Brewster was made to pay a fine for going to the church.
Some members were put into prison and others were watched night and day.
The people also learned that other Separatists in London had been put into prison and left to starve to death.
The Separatists decided to leave England for the Dutch Republic (where religious freedom was permitted).
William Bradford went with them.
It was illegal to leave England.
The group was betrayed by an English sea captain who brought them to the English authorities.
Most of the congregation, and Bradford, were put into prison.
By the summer of 1608, the Separatists, and William Bradford, escaped to Leiden, Netherlands.
Bradford was 18.
In the Dutch Republic
William Bradford moved to Amsterdam in August 1608.
He lived with the Brewsters in Stink Alley.
The Separatists had spent most of their money leaving England and were poor.
After nine months, the congregation moved to the smaller city of Leiden.
When Bradford turned 21 he received some money.
Bradford purchased his own house.
He built a workshop and worked as a weaver.
He was liked.
In 1613, Bradford married Dorothy May, the daughter of a rich English couple living in Amsterdam.
In 1617, the Bradfords had their first child, John Bradford.
By 1617, the Separatists decided to travel to Virginia Colony in North America.
The Separatists could practice their religion in the Dutch Republic, they wanted their children to keep their English customs and language.
The colonists made a business arrangement with the Merchant Adventurers.
These were a group of men who were willing to pay for the Pilgrims to go to the New World with the promise that the pilgrims would pay them back with furs and other goods they got from the colony.
By July 1620, Robert Cushman and John Carver had made the plans and fifty Separatists left Delftshaven on the ship Speedwell.
Many families were split as some Separatists stayed behind in the Netherlands, planning to make the voyage to the New World after the colony had been established.
William and Dorothy Bradford left their three-year-old son John with Dorothy's parents in Amsterdam, possibly because he was too frail to make the voyage.
The Speedwell planned to meet with the Mayflower and both ships would travel to Virginia Colony.
The Speedwell proved unsafe and the passengers were put on the Mayflower.
This made the ship very crowded.
Not all the passengers were Separatists.
There were about 50 colonists who went because they had certain skills.
These skills would prove useful on the Mayflower and at the colony.
Bradford said they hugged each other and cried and said goodbye to family and friends for the last time.
They knew they were pilgrims and lifted their eyes to heaven, their dearest country and this comforted them.
The Mayflower Voyage
On 19 November 1620, the Mayflower spotted land.
Bradford signed the Mayflower Compact.
Anchored and first explorations at Plymouth Colony
Up to this time, Bradford, aged 30, had never been a leader in the colony.
When the Mayflower anchored in the Harbor, the men went out to explore the land for a place where they could live.
Bradford volunteered to be a member of the exploration parties.
In November and December, these parties went out three times on foot and by boat.
One of the earliest exploration missions included William Bradford, John Carver, Myles Standish, Edward Winslow, John Howland, Richard Warren, Stephen Hopkins and Edward Doty.
Of this group Hopkins was the most experienced, having seen Indians during his time at Jamestown.
According to Bradford, they set off in below freezing weather, many of the men already being ill, "and when the set sail the salt spray froze on their coats, as if they had been glazed".
During their trip they saw Indians who looked like they were cutting up a large whale.
When the Indians saw the men they ran away.
The men camped and protected themselves from the cold and the Indians.
They located a place that would be Plymouth Colony in December.
During the first expedition on foot, Bradford was caught up in a deer trap made by Native Americans and brought upside down.
During the third exploration, on 6 December 1620, Bradford and the other men found Plymouth Bay.
A winter storm nearly sank their boat as they came near the bay.
The explorers were very cold and started to get sick.
The waves were high but they landed on Clark's Island.
During this time, they searched areas all around the bay and found a place to live and build their homes.
The location had a large hill.
This hill is now called Burial Hill.
It was a good place to build a fort for safety against any possible enemies.
There were many brooks providing water.
They would later find out that the site had been the location of a Native American village known as Patuxet; and that is why a large area had already been cleared for planting of food.
The Patuxet tribe of Indians, between 1616 and 1619, had all died from bad sickness.
Bradford later wrote that bones of the dead were easy to find in many places.
Great sickness
The Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Bay on 20 December 1620.
The settlers began building the colony's first house on 25 December.
On January 11, 1621, as Bradford was helping to build houses when he was got a great pain in his hipbone and fell.
Bradford was taken to the "common house" (the only house that was finished) and they thought he would die that night, but he did not.
Bradford got well but many of the pilgrims were not so fortunate.
During the months of February and March 1621 sometimes two or three people died every day.
By the end of the winter, half of the 100 settlers had died.