NAME CHANGES Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk 1919) Michael Keaton (born Michael John Douglas 1951) Mitchell Parish (born Michael
Hyman Pashelinsky 1900) Elvis
Costello (born Declan Patrick MacManus 1954) Tony Bennett (born Anthony Dominick Benedetto
1926) Performing under the name Joe
Bari, Bennett was discovered in 1949 by Pearl Bailey,
who asked him to open for her show in Greenwich Village. He subsequently caught the attention of Bob Hope, who
advised him to take the name Tony Bennett and put him in his road show. http://www.biography.com/people/tony-bennett-9926699#career-revival
Jim Brower, age 101, died December 22, 2016 in
Temperance, Michigan. Since 1932, Jim
Brower has created art work characterized by its attention to detail,
execution, design, and often humor. By
the time Jim was in high school, his advanced skills in draftsmanship and
composition were evident. He was editor
and art editor of his Charleston, WV, high school annual and at that time
worked closely with the platemaker and printer who gave him a head start in the
graphic art process. When Jim was two,
his family moved to Toledo where he finished grade school and the freshman year
of high school. The family returned to
West Virginia in 1929 where Jim finished high school in Charleston in 1932,
moved to Huntington in 1933 and back to Toledo in 1943. While in Huntington, after a brief stint as
an advertising art director, he went into private practice as the Jim Brower
Studio. In 1944, he purchased the Felz
Art Studio and was a partner and art director of Brower, Brownsberger and Burda
in Toledo through 1951. In 1952, the
partnership was dissolved and he opened the Jim Brower Studio with his primary
customer being Owens-Illinois, Inc. along with others such as Toledo Edison, DeVilbiss
Company, and Toledo advertising agencies.
From 1992 to 1997, Jim was Director of Art and Design for Meeks Heit
Publishing Company. He served as
illustrator for its books, Education for Sexuality, 1970, Human Sexuality,
1982, Education for Sexuality and HIV/AIDS, 1993. Jim was busy with advertising art and had
painted no more than ten watercolors prior to 1978. Jim's sense of humor often surfaces in his
watercolors. In 1984, Jim received the
Watercolor Ohio ‘84 Gold Medal for a painting of old discarded ties titled
“Candidates for Goodwill.” Another work
of his own image reflected in a light switch, and titled “Self Portraits Turn
Me Off”, was given special juror's mention in an Ohio Watercolor Society show. Jim served as president of the Northwestern
Ohio Watercolor Society, 1983-84, and as president of the Toledo Federation of
Art Societies, 1987-88. He served on the
Board of Directors of the Ohio Watercolor Society from 1986 to 1992 and for a
number of years produced the annual exhibition catalog. Jim designed the 1983 Return of the Jedi Star
Wars glasses for Burger King. He went on
to win many national awards including the San Diego International, Watercolor
Society, and more. Jim painted more than
forty paintings in his 100th year of life.
He was featured on the Smucker's Jelly jar in his 100th year and was
honored by Willard Scott on national television for his community service. Jim was a big supporter of the Toledo Public
Library. He cherished his relationship
with the Monday Morning Painters and his membership in the Tile Club. Jim's family established the Ohio Watercolor
Jim Brower Lifetime Achievement Fund to honor his many contribution to the
world of watercolor painting.
In the United States, a designated
survivor (or designated
successor) is an individual in the presidential
line of succession, usually a member of the United States
Cabinet, who is arranged to be at a physically distant, secure, and
undisclosed location when the President and the country's other top leaders
(e.g., Vice President and Cabinet members) are gathered at a single location,
such as during State of the
Union addresses and presidential
inaugurations. This is
intended to guarantee continuity of
government in
the event of a catastrophic occurrence that kills the President and many
officials in the presidential line of succession. If such an event occurred, killing both the
President and Vice President, the surviving official highest in the line,
possibly the designated survivor, would become the Acting
President of the United States under the Presidential
Succession Act. The
practice of naming a designated survivor originated during the Cold War with its risk of nuclear attack. Only Cabinet members who are eligible to
succeed to the presidency (i.e., natural-born citizens over
the age of 35, who have resided in the United States for at least 14 years) are
chosen as designated survivors. For
example, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was
not a natural-born citizen (having emigrated to the United States from Czechoslovakia) and was thus not in the line
of presidential succession. The
designated survivor is provided presidential-level security and transport for
the duration of the event. An aide
carries a nuclear football with
them. However, they are not given a
briefing on what to do in the event that the other successors to the presidency
are killed. Find list of
some designated survivors from 1981 to 2016 at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_survivor
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin (born 1929) is an American author of novels,
children's books, and short stories, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. She has also written poetry and essays. First published in the 1960s, her work has
often depicted futuristic or imaginary alternative worlds in politics, the natural environment,
gender, religion, sexuality and ethnography.
In 2016, The
New York Times described
her as "America's greatest living science fiction writer", although
she herself has said she would prefer to be known as an "American
novelist". She
influenced such Booker Prize winners and other writers as Salman Rushdie and David Mitchell--and
notable science fiction and fantasy writers including Neil Gaiman and Iain Banks. She has won the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award,
and World Fantasy Award,
each more than once.
In 2014, she was awarded
the National Book
Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Read much more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin
Le Guin is
not a French name at all; it's Breton.
It's pronounced, to the best of my knowledge, just like its Welsh
cognate gwyn—white, blond, fair. Here I
am in English: URsuhluh (UR as in burr;
or, in England, URsyoola) KROb'r l'GWIN.
http://www.ursulakleguin.com/Note-HowToPronounceMe.html
Breton is a Celtic language spoken mainly in Brittany (Breizh) by about 210,000 people, about 35,000
of whom speak use it as an everyday language.
It is spoken mainly in western parts of Brittany, and is also spoken, to
some extent, in parts of eastern Brittany, and by Breton immigrants in other parts
of France, and in other countries. The
area known to the Romans as Armorica was renamed Brittany ("Little
Britain") after the people who migrated there from Britain, particularly
from Cornwall, in the 6th century AD.
Between 1880 to the middle of the 20th century, Breton was banned from schools
and children were punished for speaking it.
This changed in 1951 with the promulgation of the Deixonne law, which
allowed for the Breton language and culture to be taught for one to three hours
a week in public education if the teacher is willing and able to do so. Since then a number of schools and colleges
have been set up providing either education through the medium of Breton or
bilingual Breton/French education.
See Breton alphabet and
pronunciation at http://www.omniglot.com/writing/breton.htm
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1673
January 4, 2017 On this date in 1904, the case, which became known as Gonzáles
v. Williams, the Supreme Court
determined that under the immigration laws, Isabel González of Puerto Rico was
not an alien, and therefore could not be denied entry into New York. The court, however declined to declare that
she was a U.S. citizen. Puerto Ricans
came to be known as something in between: "noncitizen
nationals." (In 1917, the United States Congress passed
the Jones-Shafroth
Act which
conferred United States citizenship on all citizens of Puerto Rico.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Gonz%C3%A1lez
On this date in 1957, Patty Loveless, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist, was born. Thought for
today: It is the ability to take a joke, not
make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. - Max Eastman, journalist and
poet (4 Jan 1883-1969)
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