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= = = Fort Point, Boston = = = |
Fort Point is a neighborhood or district of Boston, Massachusetts, and where a fort stood which guarded the city in colonial times. |
Fort Hill was located near what is today the intersection of Oliver and High Streets. At least until 1675, (see ) the hill jutted out into the Atlantic Ocean, hence the designation of being a "point". Its height and proximity to the sea made the hill an advantageous point to put defensive cannons. Between 1866 and 1872, the City of Boston undertook a redevelopment project on Fort Hill in attempt to add more land for business facilities. The project called for the Hill to be leveled, for the streets to be widened, and for all buildings to be razed. Today the land is flat and largely occupied by the towers of International Place. Landfill has also extended the shoreline outward, so the location of the old fort is no longer directly on the waterfront. |
The boundaries of the modern neighborhood of Fort Point are somewhat ill-defined. At its broadest extent, it includes the land a few blocks on either side of the Fort Point Channel (which due to landfill is considerably smaller than it was in colonial times). The Fort Point artists' community is located on the opposite side of the channel. This is also called the South Boston Waterfront or the Seaport District. Real estate listings include "Fort Point" locations east of the channel and west of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and the Boston World Trade Center. (Further south is South Boston proper.) The Boston Redevelopment Authority defines the Fort Point District within the neighborhood of South Boston as "an area of approximately defined by the Fort Point Channel to the west, Summer Street to the north, the Bypass Road to the east, and West 2nd Street to the south." |
The Summer Street Bridge, which crosses the channel, has a sign which welcomes eastbound travelers to South Boston, and westbound travelers to Fort Point. The United States Postal Service Bulk Mail Center at Fort Point Station is located between the channel and South Station. To the northwest is Chinatown. The northeastern section of the Fort Point neighborhood, on the east side of the channel, could be said to overlap with the Financial District. |
The Fort Point neighborhood was featured in Martin Scorsese's 2006 film "The Departed". An alley between Thompson Place and Farnsworth Street provided the setting for the fictional address "344 Wash." The dramatic views of downtown Boston from the rooftops of Fort Point were prominently featured in the film. |
In 2001, the Fort Point District was petitioned as a Landmark District with the Boston Landmarks Commission. In 2007, a Mayoral-appointed Study Committee began drafting District guidelines. In December 2008, Mayor Menino and the Boston Landmarks Commission voted in favor of the guidelines which were officially approved on January 28, 2009 by the Boston City Council. |
Fort Point is served by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority via Broadway station and South Station as well as bus routes #7, #9, #11 and #47. The Silver Line (MBTA) bus rapid transit (BRT) system serves parts of Fort Point. Several water taxi companies serve Fort Point locations along Fort Point Channel such as Atlantic Wharf, Children's Wharf and the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse/Fan Pier connecting to Rowes Wharf and Logan International Airport. |
With the rapid growth of Fort Point, private shuttles have supplemented public transportation to the neighborhood. The Southie Shuttle, Cultural Connector and Channel Center Shuttle are some of the private transportation services. |
In 2013, plans were announced that diesel rail service would connect the South Boston Waterfront to Back Bay. |
The neighborhood of Fort Point is home to over 300 artists creating art in a wide array of media. This neighborhood is recognized as one of New England’s largest artists’ communities. The historic warehouse buildings of Fort Point are home to sculptors, painters, digital media artists, photographers, designers, ceramicists, performance artists, jewelers, book artists, and more. In addition to being home to many artists, Fort Point is home to many arts organizations and galleries. |
= = = Keystone State Park (Oklahoma) = = = |
Keystone State Park is an Oklahoma state park near Sand Springs, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, in the United States. The park provides recreational opportunities in fishing, swimming, water skiing and boating. Cabins are available to rent. Keystone State Park is on State Highway 151 near Mannford. |
= = = Toquaht First Nation = = = |
The Toquaht Nation is a First Nations government based on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. |
In terms of citizenship, the Toquaht Nation is one of the smallest First Nations within the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council (NTC). The Nation has about 150 citizens in total. There are roughly 20 people currently living at the main village of Macoah, which is accessible off Highway 4 on Kennedy Lake. Most remaining citizens live in Ucluelet, Port Alberni, Nanaimo and Victoria. |
Despite its small size the Toquaht Nation has, within the NTC and the Central Region First Nations, engaged in active political leadership, business initiatives, cultural events, and been a proponent of the Maa-nulth First Nations Final Agreement. On April 1, 2011, the Maa-nulth First Nations Final Agreement was implemented, the second treaty to be implemented under the BC treaty process. |
Historically, the Toquaht Nation, like many Nuu-chah-nulth Nations, maintained a hereditary system of governance. Under the Maa-nulth First Nations Final Agreement, however, Toquaht moved towards a "hybrid" hereditary/elected system, which maintains traditional governance approaches. This hybrid model has two hereditary leaders holding permanent seats on Council, with three other Councillors elected every four years. The government structure under the Toquaht Constitution consists of a Legislative branch, an Executive branch, and a People’s Assembly. The Toquaht Nation reserves the right to establish a judicial branch as well. |
In January 2009, in a traditional ceremony Grand Chief Bert Mack passed on Chieftainship to Anne Mack, who succeeds him after a reign of over 50 years. |
The Toquaht Nation has a small administrative structure which oversees social and economic development programs, treaty implementation, and governance coordination. |
The Toquaht Nation and its citizens manage or own businesses including: |
The implementation of the Maa-nulth First Nations Final Agreement freed the Toquaht Nation from the Indian Act and re-established self-governance and control over Toquaht traditional territories. Under the Maa-nulth treaty, Toquaht regained control of 1,489 hectares of land with an option to purchase 721 more hectares over 15 years. This was a significant increase to the 199 hectares of Indian Reserve lands that were held in trust for the Toquaht Nation under the Indian Act. |
Ecotrust Canada. Jackie Godfrey, "The Toquaht Nation," in Daniel Arbour, Brenda Kuecks & Danielle Edwards (editors). "Nuu-chah-nulth Central Region First Nations Governance Structures 2007/2008", Vancouver, September 2008. |
= = = Stringtown, Clarke County, Virginia = = = |
Stringtown is an unincorporated community in northern Clarke County, Virginia. |
= = = WZOO-FM = = = |
WZOO-FM is an FM radio station in Edgewood, Ohio, United States, broadcasting at 102.5 MHz with a classic hits radio format. It is one of four stations in the Media One Group's Ashtabula cluster, the others being WFUN, WREO-FM, WYBL (FM) and WFXJ-FM - all of which were sold off by Clear Channel in September 2007. |
WZOO-FM is not connected in any way with WZOO (AM), an AM radio station in Asheboro, North Carolina sharing the same callsign (see below). |
WZOO was founded by John A. Bulmer, an experienced broadcaster who was awarded a number of FCC permits to construct new FM stations in Ohio, Indiana and Glens Falls, New York (Lake Luzerne). When Bulmer constructed the new Ashtabula station on 102.5 MHz, he wanted something that rhymed with the 102 dial position. Mr. Bulmer desired the name ZOO. However, WZOO was already in use by an AM radio station in North Carolina. |
Bulmer was able to take advantage of an FCC policy that allowed him to be granted the WZOO call sign on FM (as WZOO-FM) by obtaining the written permission from WZOO (AM) in Asheboro, North Carolina. Mr. Bulmer paid the licensee of WZOO (AM) $1,000 to grant him permission. Hence, "102 ZOO" was born. WZOO-FM was one of five construction permits granted to Bulmer in the late 1980s/early '90s. At that time, prior to FCC auctions for frequencies, Bulmer discovered a not-widely-known FCC policy whereby if a filing window closed and there were no applications filed, the FCC would then grant a construction permit (authority to build the radio station) under "First Come/First Served" processing rules. While the general public was often stampeding to the next newly opened filing window, Bulmer was combing the FCC's records for windows that had just closed to ascertain what FCC filing windows drew no applications for a particular community. |
As a result, Mr. Bulmer received construction permits to construct new FM stations in Edgewood, Ohio (Ashtabula, Ohio, WZOO-FM), North Baltimore, Ohio (WHMQ FM, Findlay, Ohio, now WPFX), Royal Center, Indiana (WHZR (FM) "Hoosier 103" in Logansport, Indiana) and WJBI-FM in Windslow (Augusta-Waterville, Maine). Bulmer constructed three of those four stations (he gave the WJBI-FM permit back to the FCC, as the economy had hit the skids in the early 1990s) and built an entire group of new FM stations from construction permits. Arguably, 102 ZOO was Bulmer's most successful station in the group. Having constructed the station in late 1988 for approximately $140,000, he sold the station to Richard and David Rowley of Ashtabula in May 1999. Bulmer recently sold his last stations, WDOE (AM) and WBKX (FM) ("96 Kix FM") in Dunkirk-Fredonia, NY and he is now retired, spending time between homes in Pennsylvania and Florida. |
The station was most commonly known under the nickname "102 ZOO" right after going on the air in 1989 right up until October 2007. It has, however, changed its slogan several times from originally being "The Exciting FM" in 1989 and into the early 1990s when it operated under a Top 40 format. |
Then, in the mid 90s, 102 ZOO changed format to become a Hot AC (Adult Contemporary) station. It also changed its slogan to "No Rap, No Metal, No Way". In the early 2000s, when the station was sold by local owners, brothers Richard & David Rowley to Clear Channel, 102 ZOO changed its slogan again to "Your Hit Music Station". The station remained Hot AC until flipping back to a Top 40 (CHR) format in September 2006. Then, in October 2007, Media One Group Switched 102 ZOO to an oldies format on October 5, 2007. |
= = = Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion) = = = |
The Jewish Social Democratic Labour Party (Poalei Zion) was a Zionist socialist political party in the Russian Empire and Ukraine. The party was founded in 1906 in Poltava. Members of the party participated in the government of Ukraine in 1917-20. It was part of the international Poalei Zion movement. Due to its position towards the October Revolution and being a strong supporter of the Russian Constituent Assembly, the party was banned from most of Soviets dominated by the RSDLP(b), but was not recognized illegal until 1928. |
The party suffered a major split in August 1919, when a dissident group formed the Jewish Communist Party (Poalei Zion). After the JCP(PZ) had merged into the Communist Party in 1922, the JSDLP(PZ) changed name to the Jewish Communist Labour Party (Poalei Zion) (known by its Yiddish acronym א.ק.א.פ. (פועלי ציון)). Its Yiddish organ, "Der proletarisher gedank" ('Proletarian Thought'), was published from Moscow 1926-1927, replacing its Moscow central Russian organ "Evreiskaya proletarskaya mysl" ('Jewish Proletarian Thought', 1920-1926). The 12th conference of the party was held in Moscow March 11–18, 1926. The party opposed the policy of regionalization of the Soviet Union. The party was completely banned and dissolved in 1928 when most of its member either joined the Communist movement or quit the party. |
The party was represented in the Central Council of Ukraine in 1917 and in the Council of National Ministers of the Ukrainian National Republic (executive branch of the Ukrainian National Republic) the Poalist Abraham Revutsky was minister of Jewish affairs. Another Poalist, Solomon Goldelman, was deputy minister of trade and industry and of labour in the Directory of the Ukrainian National Republic (state authority created by the Ukrainian National Union on 14 November 1918). |
= = = Wembley North (UK Parliament constituency) = = = |
Wembley North was a parliamentary constituency in what was then the Borough of Wembley in North-West London. It returned one member of parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first-past-the-post voting system. |
The constituency was created at the 1945 general election, and abolished at the February 1974 general election. |
The Municipal Borough of Wembley wards of Chalkhill, Fryent, Kenton, Preston, Roe Green, and The Hyde. |
= = = Nuchatlaht First Nation = = = |
The Nuchatlaht First Nation is a First Nations government based on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council. |
= = = The White Album (Valensia album) = = = |
White Album is a 1994 mini-album by Dutch singer Valensia. It was only released in Japan. |
= = = Wembley South (UK Parliament constituency) = = = |
Wembley South was a constituency in what was then the Borough of Wembley in Middlesex and from 1965 wholly in northwest London. It returned one member (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, elected by the first past the post system, returning Conservative apart from in 1945, the victory of the First Attlee ministry when it returned a Labour member. |
The constituency was created at the 1945 general election, and abolished at the February 1974 general election. |
The Municipal Borough of Wembley wards of Alperton, Central, Sudbury, Sudbury Court, Tokyngton, and Wembley Park. |
= = = Off for the Sweet Hereafter = = = |
Off for the Sweet Hereafter is a 1986 novel by T. R. Pearson. The story opens with a sentence over 400 words long: |
That was the summer we lost the bald Jeeter who was not even mostly Jeeter anymore but was probably mostly Throckmorton or anyway was probably considered mostly Throckmorton which was an appreciable step up from being considered mostly Jeeter since Jeeters hadn't ever been anything much while Throckmortons had in fact been something once previously before the money got gone and the prestige fell away leaving merely the bluster and the taint and the general Throckmorton aroma all of which taken together hardly made for a legacy worth getting stirred up over but any one of which taken singly still outstripped the entire bulk of advancements ever attempted and realized by Jeeters who had scratched around in the dirt but were not much accomplished at farming and who had speculated in herds of cattle but were not much accomplished at speculating either and who at last had turned their energies to the construction of a henhouse which commenced ramshackle and got worse but became nonetheless the chief Jeeter advancement along with the hens and the little speckled brown eggs and the localized ammonia cloud which was itself most probably the primary Jeeter success though no particular Jeeter or group of Jeeters together actually contributed to it or could prevent it either so when the bald Jeeter, with the fat Jeeter as her maid of honor, exchanged vows with Braxton Porter Throckmorton III in the sanctuary of the Methodist church on Saturday June the twelfth, 1942, and afterwards set up house in Neely proper she got away from the hens and the henhouse and out from under the ammonia cloud which was most likely beginning to expand in June 1942 since it set in to expanding most every June and swelled straight through August and on into September, especially this past August and especially this past September when it was bearing down on the town limits and posing some threat to the icehouse which was regular and ordinary for the season, particularly in August and particularly in September, so we were having what had come to be our usual summer straight up to the moment Mr. Derwood Bridger laid his ladder against the Throckmorton clapboard and climbed to the upper story where he pressed his nose to the bedroom windowscreen and shaded his eyes and called and hollered and shrieked at the bald Jeeter until he was satisfied that she was gone from us for good. |
This opening sets the stage for the rambling tone of the entire novel, which consists more of digressions than of straightforward plot. |
Raeford Benton Lynch, nephew to the bald Jeeter, is a cipher, remarkable only for being gangly and horse-faced. On a whim, he accepts a job "digging holes" for Mr. Claude Ellwyn Overhill, who drives a motley assortment of riff-raff around the south, disinterring and relocating the denizens of graveyards that had to be moved to make room for development. |
Benton Lynch meets Jane Elizabeth Firesheets when he and Mr. Overhill's crew disinter her grandmomma. Jane Elizabeth, for some inscrutable reason, takes a fancy to Benton Lynch, beguiling him with her "milky white parts" and "plum colored parts." |
Trouble comes in the form of Jimmy, a petty criminal whose renegade nature lures Jane Elizabeth Firesheets away from Benton Lynch. In order to prove that he is as dangerous and ambitious—and thus as alluring—as Jimmy, Benton Lynch takes to holding up convenience stores and sending clippings about the crimes to Jane Elizabeth Firesheets. This wins her affections away from Jimmy, but has an unintended side effect: Jane Elizabeth Firesheets pictures herself as Bonnie to Benton Lynch's Clyde, and insists that the two take off on a crime spree that ends in the shooting of an elderly store clerk. |
"Lemly had no industry whatsoever and little agriculture to speak of unless mildew counted for something." |
"Black dirt's dirt. Yellow dirt's clay. Gray dirt's folks. Ain't a goddamn thing to it." |
= = = Nedre Elvehavn = = = |
Nedre Elvehavn is a neighborhood in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is situated the borough of Østbyen, just on the east side of the river Nidelva (across the river from Midtbyen, although it is generally considered to be part of the city center). Nedre Elvehavn is within walking distance of the Midtbyen and Trondheim Central Station. The area is located north of the neighborhood of Bakklandet, west of Møllenberg, and south of Nyhavna. In the late 1990s, the borough went through a major renovation, resulting in a new and expensive area close to the city centre with business, shopping, restaurants, pubs, and housing. Almost all buses running from the east into town stop at Nedre Elvehavn, as does the commuter train service Trønderbanen at Lademoen Station. |
The area has developed on the site of Ørens Mekaniske Verksted and Trondheims Mekaniske Verksted, a mechanical workshop that was once the largest employer in Trondheim. The industrial site became disused in the late 1990s and turned into a new high-end area, though some of the original buildings and artifacts have been kept, including a dry dock and a crane. The area includes the shopping centre Solsiden, a hotel, marina, and the Trondheim offices of many companies, including DnB NOR, Vital, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Cap Gemini, Deloitte, Petrojarl, the British Consulate, the Mexican Consulate, the Polish Consulate, Google, NextGenTel, Radio 1, Scandinavian Airlines, and InCreo Interactive Creations AS. Across the street from Nedre Elvehavn is Trondheim Art Academy, part of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. |
= = = 2004 J.League Division 1 = = = |
The 2004 J.League Division 1 season was the 12th season of the J1 League. The league fixture began on March 13, 2004 and ended on December 11, 2004. The Suntory Championship 2004 took place on December 5 and December 11, 2004. The first ever J.League Promotion / Relegation Series took place on December 4 and December 12, 2004. |
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Following sixteen clubs participated in J.League Division 1 during 2004 season. Of these clubs, Albirex Nigata and Sanfrecce Hiroshima were newly promoted from Division 2. |
In the 2004 season, the league was conducted split-season format, 1st Stage and 2nd Stage. In each stage, sixteen clubs played in a single round-robin format, a total of 15 games per club (per stage). A club received 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. The club were ranked by points, and tie breakers are, in the following order: |
A draw would be conducted, if necessary. The club that finished at the top of the table is declared stage champion and qualifies for the Suntory Championship. The first stage winner, hosts the first leg in the championship series. If a single club wins both stages, the club is declared the season champions and championship series will not be held. Meanwhile, the last-placed (16th-placed) club must play Pro/Rele Series at the end of the season. |
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Yokohama F. Marinos won the first stage and thus hosted the first game. They won the first leg by 1–0 thanks to Ryuji Kawai's goal. In the second leg, Alessandro Santos scored from the free kick in 76th minute to level the aggregate score. The clubs played in sudden death extra time, however neither club could break the scoreline. Yokohama upset the home club in the penalties winning them and series overall. |
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= = = Pacheedaht First Nation = = = |
The Pacheedaht First Nation is a First Nations band government based on the west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Although the Pacheedaht people are Nuu-chah-nulth-aht by culture and language, they are not a member of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council and define themselves differently. |