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This is a list of honorary degree recipients from the University of Alberta.
Contents: Top · 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Cardinal Jean-Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve LL.D. (1936)
Henry Viscardi, Jr LL.D. (1981)
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Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker LL.D. (1981)
William Philip Wagner LL.D. (1982)
Arthur Earl Walker LL.D. (1952)
Robert Charles Wallace LL.D. (1951)
Thomas Joseph Walsh LL.D. (1989)
William Legh Walsh LL.D. (1932)
Lord Diplock of Wansford LL.D. (1972)
Lady Barbara Ward LL.D. (1967)
Maxwell William Ward LL.D. (1979)
John Bryan Ward-Perkins LL.D. (1969)
Robert Rodger Wark LL.D. (1986)
Mamoru Watanabe D.Sc. (1997)
Arthur Balmer Watt LL.D. (1949)
John Barney Weaver LL.D. (1984)
Wilfred Rusk Wees LL.D. (1961)
Kenneth Clifford Welsh LL.D. (1999)
Fritz Warmolt Went LL.D. (1971)
Max Hirsch Wershof LL.D. (1958)
Frank Fairchild Westbrook LL.D. (1915)
Dorothy Anne Wheeler D.Litt. (1990)
Alison Genevieve White D.Litt. (1990)
Eugene Paul Wigner LL.D. (1957)
Arthur McEwan Wilson LL.D. (1971)
Bertha Wilson LL.D. (1985)
Charles, Prince of Wales LL.D. (1983)
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor LL.D. (1919)
Francis George Winspear LL.D. (1951)
Harriet Snowball Winspear LL.D. (1999)
Alfred Wirth LL.D. (2005)
Gen. Romuald Wolikowski LL.D. (1981)
Edgar Allardyce Wood LL.D. (1969)
Henry Wise Wood LL.D. (1929)
James Hossack Woods LL.D. (1940)
Prof. Roger Woodward LL.D. (1998)
Dilworth Wayne Woolley LL.D. (1958)
Walter H. Worth LL.D. (1991)
Howard Phin Wright LL.D. (1954)
Max Wyman LL.D. (1982)
Gordon Kenneth Wynn LL.D. (1978)
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Rosalyn Yalow D.Sc. (1983)
Dennis Kestall Yorath LL.D. (1974)
James William Young LL.D. (1960)
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Jiang Zehui LL.D. (2002)
Margaret Zeidler LL.D. (1997)
James Zimmerman LL.D. (1977)
References
University of Alberta Past Honorary Degree Recipients
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Glen Oak is a small community in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia, shared between the Port Stephens and Dungog Local Government Areas (LGA). Approximately two thirds of the suburb’s 45.1 square kilometres (17.4 sq mi) is located within the Port Stephens LGA while the remaining third, which is sparsely populated, is located in Dungog Shire.
Detail of the Rolls of Honour at the entrance to the School of Arts hall
Glen Oak was originally a small town, settled in the 19th century as a river port. During the late 19th and early 20th century the town included a community hall, post office, public school and general store. Declining river trade affected Glen Oak and by the 1950’s much of the village itself had been abandoned. Today, very little is left to indicate that a town ever existed. However, the School of Arts hall on Clarence Town Road, built in 1899 and possibly the last community-owned hall in Australia, still stands and is used for various social activities. At the entrance to the hall are two pillars commemorating local men from the area who fought in World War I.
Only a handful of Glen Oak’s original homesteads still exist, the oldest of which is Thomas Holmes’ “Oakendale” (circa 1830, damaged by fire in 1909). Another attractive homestead once overlooked the Williams River at “Langlands”, also an estate of note, (it was demolished in the 1970s).
Notes
^ Area calculation is based on 1:100000 map 9232 NEWCASTLE.
References
^ abc“Suburb Search - Local Council Boundaries - Hunter (HT) - Port Stephens”. New South Wales Department of Local Government. http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/dlg_Regions.asp?regiontype=2&slacode=6400®ion=HT. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
^ ab“Geographical Names Register Extract: Glen Oak”. Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search/extract?id=MnjLXttLMn. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
^“Port Maitland”. New South Wales Electoral Commission. 2007-03-24. http://www.elections.nsw.gov.au/state_government_elections/electoral_districts/all_districts_/maitland. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
^“Paterson”. Australian Electoral Commission. 2007-10-19. http://apps.aec.gov.au/esearch/LocalitySearchResults.aspx?filter=Paterson&filterby=Electorate. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
^“Suburb Search - Local Council Boundaries - Hunter (HT) - Dungog Shire Council”. New South Wales Department of Local Government. http://www.dlg.nsw.gov.au/dlg/dlghome/dlg_regions.asp?mi=0&ml=8®iontype=2&slacode=2700®ion=HT. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
^“Glen Oak”. Department of Lands - Spatial Information eXchange. New South Wales Department of Lands. http://imagery.maps.nsw.gov.au/?role=mysuburb&search=suburb&suburb=Glen%20Oak. Retrieved 2008-05-27.
“Paterson (Tocal AWS)”. Climate statistics for Australian locations. Bureau of Meteorology. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_061250.shtml. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
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Towns, suburbs and localities of Dungog Shire | Hunter Region | New South Wales
Towns, suburbs
& localities
Alison • Allynbrook • Anleys Creek • Bandon Grove • Barrington Tops • Bendolba • Bingleburra • Black Camp • Bonnington • Bonnington Park • Brookfield • Brownmore • Cairnsmore • Cambra • Camyr Allyn • Cangon • Carrabolla • Cawarra • Chads Creek • Chichester • Cintra • Clarence Town • Clarence Town West • Clay Hill • Colstoun • Cooreei • Coulston • Crooks Park • Dingadee • Douribang • Dungog • Dusodie • East Gresford • Eccleston • Elms Hall • Fishers Hill • Flat Tops • Fosterton • Glen Martin • Glen Oak • Glen William • Gresford • Halton • Hanleys Creek • Hilldale • Kenilworth • Kilbride • Lennoxton • Lewinsbrook • Lostock • Lyndhurst Vale • Main Creek • Marshdale • Martins Creek • Masseys Creek • Maxwells Creek • Melbee • Mill Hills • Mount Rivers • Munni • Paterson • Pine Brush • Quartpot • Raglan • Salisbury • Sugarloaf • Summerhill • Tabbil Creek • Tillegra • Tillimby • Torryburn • Trevallyn • Tunnibuc • Underbank • Upper Allyn • Upper Chichester • Vacy • Wallaringa • Wallarobba • Wangat • Webbers Creek • Welshmans Creek • Wirragulla • Woerden
Other places &
points of interest
Barrington River • Barrington Tops National Park • Chichester Dam • Lostock Dam • Mount Royal National Park • Mount Royal Range • Paterson River • Williams River
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Towns, suburbs and localities of Port Stephens Council | Hunter Region | New South Wales
Towns, suburbs
& localities
Anna Bay • Balickera • Boat Harbour • Bobs Farm • Brandy Hill • Butterwick • Campvale • Corlette • Duns Creek • Eagleton • East Seaham • Fern Bay • Ferodale • Fingal Bay • Fishermans Bay • Fullerton Cove • Glen Oak • Heatherbrae • Hinton • Karuah • Lemon Tree Passage • Mallabula • Medowie • Nelson Bay • Nelsons Plains • One Mile • Osterley • Oyster Cove • Raymond Terrace • Salamander Bay • Salt Ash • Seaham • Shoal Bay • Soldiers Point • Swan Bay • Tanilba Bay • Taylors Beach • Tomago • Twelve Mile Creek • Wallalong • Williamtown • Woodville
Other places &
points of interest
Edgeworth David quarry • Hunter River • Karuah River • Newcastle Airport • Paterson River • Port Stephens • RAAF Base Williamtown • Stockton Beach • MV Sygna shipwreck • Tomaree National Park • Williams River
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Population decline can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans.
Sometimes known as depopulation, population decline is the reduction over time in a region’s census. It can be caused for several reasons; notable ones include sub-replacement fertility (along with limited immigration), heavy emigration, disease, famine, and war.
Prior to the 20th century, population decline was mostly observed due to disease, starvation and/or emigration. The Black Death in Europe, the arrival of Old World diseases to the Americas, the tsetse fly invasion of the Waterberg Massif in South Africa, and the Great Irish Famine have all caused sizable population declines. In modern times, the AIDS epidemic has caused declines in the population of some African countries. Less frequently, population declines are caused by genocide or mass execution; for example, in the 1970s, the population of Cambodia underwent a period of decline due to wide-scale executions by the Khmer Rouge.
According to 2002 reports by the United Nations Population Division and the US Census Bureau, population decline is occurring today in some regions. According to the UN, below-replacement fertility is expected in 75% of the developed world by the year 2050. The US Census Bureau notes that the 74 million people added to the world’s population in 2002 were fewer than the high of 87 million people added in 1989–1990. The annual growth rate was 1.2 percent, down from the high of 2.2 percent in 1963-64.
“Census Bureau projections show this slowdown in population growth continuing into the foreseeable future,” stated the Bureau’s brief on the findings. “Census Bureau projections suggest that the level of fertility in many countries will drop below replacement level before 2050… In 1990 the world’s women, on average, were giving birth to 3.3 children over their lifetimes. By 2002 the average was 2.6, and by 2009, 2.5. This is marginally above the global replacement fertility of 2.33. This fall has been accompanied by a decline in the world’s population growth rate and in the actual annual population increase.
Sometimes the term underpopulation is applied in the context of a specific economic system. It does not relate to carrying capacity, and is not a term in opposition to overpopulation, which deals with the total possible population that can be sustained by available food, water, sanitation and other infrastructure. “Underpopulation” is usually defined as a state in which a country’s population has declined too much to support its current economic system. Thus the term has nothing to do with the biological aspects of carrying capacity, but is an economic term employed to imply that the transfer payment schemes of some developed countries might fail once the population declines to a certain point. An example would be if retirees were supported through a social security system which does not invest savings, and then a large emigration movement occurred. In this case, the younger generation may not be able to support the older generation.
Contents
1By specific countries
2Economic consequences
3National efforts to reverse declining populations
4Efforts to encourage declining populations
5Alternative concept relative to skills
6See also
7References
8External links
By specific countries
Population Decline. Red is decline, pink is approaching.
Today, emigration and sub-replacement fertility rates are the principal issues related to any regional population decline. A number of nations today are experiencing population decline, stretching from North Asia (Japan) through to Eastern Europe through Russia including Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Georgia, Armenia, Bosnia, Croatia, Slovenia, Hungary, and now Italy. Countries rapidly approaching population decline (but currently still growing, albeit slowly) include Greece, Spain, Cuba, Uruguay, Denmark, Finland, Austria and Lesotho.
The population of former Soviet Republics, with the exception of most of the Muslim majority nations (Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan), is falling due to health factors and low replacement. Much of Eastern Europe has lost population due to migration to Western Europe. In Eastern Europe and Russia, natality fell abruptly after the end of the Soviet Union, and death rates generally rose. Together these nations occupy over 8 million square miles and are home to over 400 million people (less than six percent of the world population), but if current trends continue, more of the developed world and some of the developing world could join this trend.
Many nations in Western Europe (and the EU as a whole) today would have declining populations if it were not for international immigration. The total population of the continent of Europe (including Russia and other non-EU countries) already peaked around the year 2000 and is currently falling. The total population of Japan began falling in 2005; Japan’s situation is related to low fertility rates and an extremely low level of immigration.
AIDS plays some role in population decline; however, data available suggests that, even with high AIDS mortality, fertility rates in Africa are sufficiently high, so that overpopulation trends continue.
Table:1 Population Decline in Percent by Country (from various sources)
Country
Year
Population in million
Rate of natural decrease in percent
Main reason for decrease
Armenia
2009
2.967.004
0.03
emigration
Belarus
2009
9.648.533
0.378
declining births and life expectancy
Bulgaria
2009
7.704.687
0.79
declining births and life expectancy
Croatia
2009
4.489.409
0.052
declining births
Czech Republic
2009
10.211.904
0.094
declining births
Estonia
2009
1.299.371
0.632
low number of births
Georgia
2009
4.615.807
0.325
emigration
Germany
2009
82.329.758
0.053
declining births
Italy
2009
58.126.212
0.047
declining births
Hungary
2009
10.031.000
0.257
declining birth and life expectancy
Japan
2009
127.078.679
0.191
declining births
Latvia
2009
2.231.503
0.614
declining births and life expectancy
Lithuania
2009
3.555.179
0.279
declining births and life expectancy
Federated States of Micronesia
2009
0.107
0.238
emigration
Moldova
2009
4.320.748
0.079
declining births and life expectancy
Montenegro
2009
0.672180
0.851
Poland
2009
38.482.919
0.047
emigration, declining births
Romania
2009
22.215.421
0.147
declining births
Russia
2009
141,927,297
0.0
more deaths than births
Slovenia
2009
2.005.692
0.113
Swaziland
2009
1.123.913
0.459
HIV AIDS
Trinidad & Tobago
2009
1.229.953
0.102
emigration
Ukraine
2009
45.700.395
0.632
declining births and life expectancy
Zimbabwe
2008
11.35
0.787
HIV AIDS
Economic consequences
The effects of a declining population can be adverse for an economy which has borrowed extensively for repayment by younger generations. Economically declining populations are thought to lead to deflation, which has a number of effects. However, Russia, whose economy has been rapidly growing (8.1% in 2007) even as its population is shrinking, currently has high inflation (12% as of late 2007). For an agricultural or mining economy the average standard of living in a declining population, at least in terms of material possessions, will tend to rise as the amount of land and resources per person will be higher. But for many industrial economies, the opposite might be true as those economies often thrive on mortgaging the future by way of debt and retirement transfer payments that originally assumed rising tax revenues from a continually expanding population base (i.e. there would be fewer taxpayers in a declining population). However, standard of living does not necessarily correlate with quality of life, which may increase as the population declines due to presumably reduced pollution and consumption of natural resources, and the decline of social pressures and overutilization of resources that can be linked to overpopulation. There may also be reduced pressure on infrastructure, education, and other services as well.
A considerable adverse effect of depopulation on quality of life for the young is an increased social and economic pressure in the sense that they have to increase per-capita output in order to support an infrastructure with costly, intensive care for the oldest among their population, removing focus from the planning of elder and future families and therefore further degrading rates of procreation.
The period immediately after the Black Death, for instance, was one of great prosperity, as people had inheritances from many different family members. However that situation was not comparable, as it did not have a continually declining population, but rather a sudden shock, followed by population increase. Predictions of the net economic (and other) effects from a slow and continuous population decline (e.g. due to low fertility rates) are mainly theoretical since such a phenomenon is a relatively new and unprecedented one.
A declining population due to demographics will also be accompanied by population ageing which can contribute problems for a society. The decade long economic malaise of Japan and Germany is often linked to these demographic problems. The worst case scenario is a situation where the population falls too low a level to support a current social welfare economic system, which is more likely to occur with a rapid decline than with a more gradual one.
The economies of both Japan and Germany both went into recovery around the time their populations just began to decline (2003–2006). In other words, both the total and per capita GDP in both countries grew more rapidly after 2005 than before. Russia’s economy also began to grow rapidly from 1999 onward, even though its population has been shrinking since 1992-93 (the decline is now decelerating). In addition, many Eastern European countries have been experiencing similar effects to Russia. Such renewed growth calls into question the conventional wisdom that economic growth requires population growth, or that economic growth is impossible during a population decline. However, it may be argued that this renewed growth is in spite of population decline rather than because of it, and economic growth in these countries would potentially be greater if they were not undergoing such demographic decline. For example, Russia has become quite wealthy selling fossil fuels such as oil, which are now high-priced, and in addition, its economy has expanded from a very low nadir due to the economic crisis of the late 1990s. And although Japan and Germany have recovered somewhat from having been in a deflationary recession and stagnation, respectively, for the past decade, their recoveries seem to have been quite tepid. Both countries fell into the global recession of 2008-2009, but are now recovering once again, being the among first countries to recover.
In a country with a declining population, the growth of GDP per capita is higher than the growth of GDP. For example, Japan has a higher growth per capita than the United States, even though the US GDP growth is higher than Japan’s . Even when GDP growth is zero or negative, the GDP growth per capita can still be positive (by definition) if the population is shrinking faster than the GDP.
A declining population (regardless of the cause) can also create a labor shortage, which can have a number of positive as well as negative effects. While some labor-intensive sectors of the economy may be hurt if the shortage is severe enough, others may adequately compensate by increased outsourcing and/or automation. Initially, the labor participation rates (which are low in many countries) can also be increased to temporarily reduce or delay the shortage. On the positive side, such a shortage increases the demand for labor, which can potentially result in a reduced unemployment rate as well as higher wages.
A smaller national population can also have geo-strategic effects, but the correlation between population and power is a tenuous one, especially in today’s world.
National efforts to reverse declining populations
Further information: Natalistic politics
Former Russian President Vladimir Putin directed Parliament to adopt a 10-year program to stop the sharp decline in Russia’s population, principally by offering financial incentives and subsidies to encourage women to have children. Australia currently offers a $5,000 bonus for every baby plus additional fortnightly payments, a free immunization scheme and recently proposed to pay all child care costs for women who want to work. Many European countries, including France, Italy and Poland, have offered some combination of bonuses and monthly payments to families. Some Japanese localities, facing significant population loss, are offering economic incentives. Yamatsuri, a town of 7,000 just north of Tokyo, offers parents $4,600 for the birth of a child and $460 a year for 10 years. The Republic of Singapore has a particularly lavish plan: $3,000 for the first child, $9,000 in cash and savings for the second; and up to $18,000 each for the third and fourth. The effectiveness of these policies is currently the subject of debate.
Paid maternity and paternity leave policies can also be used as an incentive. For example, Sweden has generous parental leave where parents are entitled to share 16 months paid leave per child, the cost divided between both employer and State.
Efforts to encourage declining populations
Some organisations have argued in favour of encouraging declining populations, in particular in the face of global overpopulation, the exploitation of scarce resources and the threat of climate change. This theory favours the idea of an optimum population.
Alternative concept relative to skills
Sometimes the concept of population decline is applied where there has been considerable ex-migration of skilled professionals. In such a case, the government may have ceased to reward or value certain skills (e.g. science, medicine and engineering), and sectors of the economy such as health care and technology may go into decline. Such characterizations have been made of Italy and Russia in the period starting about 1990.
Further information: Brain drain
See also
Aging of Europe
Aging of Japan
List of countries and territories by fertility rate
Negative Population Growth
Overpopulation
Parental Leave
Population control
Rank mobility index
Rural flight
Sub-replacement fertility
Zero population growth
References
^“World Population Prospects - The 2002 Revision” (PDF). United Nations Population Division. http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2002/WPP2002-HIGHLIGHTSrev1.PDF.
^“Global Population Profile: 2002″. US Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/wp02.html.
^C. J. Chivers (May 11, 2006). “Putin Urges Plan to Reverse Slide in the Birth Rate”. New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/world/europe/11russia.html.
External links
Population Research Institute
BBC Report 2004: World population growth ‘falling’
2002 Revision of the official United Nations population estimates and projections
The Global Baby Bust
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Steve Bales is a former NASA engineer and flight controller. He is best known for his role during the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
August 1969- Steve Bales is presented with an engraved plaque from Governor Robert D. Ray of Iowa. He was being honored for his role in the Apollo 11 mission.
Contents
1Early life
2NASA career
2.1Apollo 11
2.2Later career
3In films
4Footnotes
5References
6External links
Early life
Bales was born in Ottumwa, Iowa, and grew up in the nearby town of Fremont. His father was a school janitor and his mother was a beautician. From a young age he had an interest in space and at the age of thirteen he was deeply affected by a Wonderful World of Disney television show that discussed the future of space travel. “This show,” he said later, “probably more than anything else, influenced me to study aerospace engineering. And this wasn’t the ordinary thing to do for a boy raised in a small Iowa farming community.”
He graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in aeronautical engineering and was hired by NASA in December, 1964.
NASA career
At NASA he was assigned to work in the Flight Dynamics branch as a guidance officer, a flight controller responsible for determining the location of the spacecraft in space and monitoring the guidance systems on board. He was a backup controller for Gemini 3 and Gemini 4 but worked his first mission as a flight controller on Gemini 10 when he was still only twenty-three.
Apollo 11
Steve Bales is best known for having been guidance officer (or GUIDO) during the Apollo 11 lunar landing when he had the responsibility of dealing with several problems that could have ended the mission. While monitoring the lunar module’s position and velocity he came close to calling an abort when it became clear a navigational error had occurred. The spacecraft was moving at 20 feet per second (6 m/s) faster than it should have been and was halfway to its abort limits. However Bales continued to watch the data and the situation remained stable.
The last few minutes of the landing were punctuated by program alarms from the guidance computer. These alarms signalled an “executive overflow” which meant the computer might not be keeping up with its computing tasks. Bales had to very quickly determine whether or not this was serious. If high-priority computing tasks were indeed not being completed, as guidance officer he would have to call for an abort of the lunar landing. After several seconds had passed he informed flight director Gene Kranz that the landing could continue despite the alarms.
While Bales is sometimes credited with having made the decision on his own, like all flight controllers he was supported by a team of “backroom” engineers. Twenty-four year old computer specialist Jack Garman first recognized the meaning of the alarm and determined the situation was acceptable. As Bales said later, “Quite frankly, Jack, who had these things memorized said, ‘that’s okay’, before I could even remember which group it was in”. The final decision of whether to call an abort (or in JSC jargon, “no go on the alarms”) lay wholly with Bales as guidance officer, along with the responsibility if anything went wrong.
Bales’ decision as GUIDO to go ahead with the landing was appropriate and Apollo 11 landed safely. When President Richard Nixon awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the three Apollo 11 astronauts, Steve Bales was also honored by being chosen to accept a NASA Group Achievement Award on behalf of the entire mission operations team. Nixon said at the time, “This is the young man, when the computers seemed to be confused and when he could have said Stop, or when he could have said Wait, said, Go.”
Later career
Bales had a long subsequent career at NASA and eventually became Deputy Director of Operations at Johnson Space Center. In 1996 he left the space agency and took a position at Amspec Chemical in New Jersey.
In films
Bales was played by Andy Milder in the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon. He was also interviewed in the History Channel documentary Failure Is Not an Option and the NOVA documentary To the Moon.
Footnotes
^Watkins, Billy (2006). Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes. Connecticut: Praeger.
Marshall, Thom; Kreps, Mary Ann; Chriss, Nicholas C. (July 16, 1989). “The Eagle Has Landed: 20 Years After Apollo 11″. Houston Chronicle. http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/archives/89/890716-1.html. Retrieved 2006-07-12.
Murray, Charles; Cox, Catherine Bly (1989). Apollo: The Race to the Moon. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-61101-1.
Nixon, Richard. “Richard Nixon: Remarks at a Dinner in Los Angeles Honoring the Apollo 11 Astronauts”. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2202&st=&st1=. Retrieved 2006-07-13.
Watkins, Billy (2006). Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes. Connecticut: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-98702-7.
External links
Console Audio of Apollo 11 Landing
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Nirvana, a philosophical concept in Buddhism and Jainism
Nirvana (Jainism), a concept of spiritual liberation in Jainism
Works
Nirvana Shatkam or Atma Shatakam is a poem or Shloka in six stanzas written by Adi Shankara summarising the concept of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualistic philosophy).
Music
Nirvana (band), a grunge music band from Aberdeen, Washington, USA (1987–1994)
Nirvana (album), a hits compilation album of the US band
Nirvana (UK band), a UK-based rock band (1967–present)
“Nirvana” (Elbosco song), a 1995 new age song by the Spanish group Elbosco
“Nirvana” (Elemeno P song), a 2002 rock song by New Zealand band Elemeno P
Biology
Nirvana (leafhopper), a leafhopper genus established by Kirkaldy in 1900
Nirvana, an invalid butterfly genus established by Tsukada and Nishiyama in 1979; now Nirvanopsis
Ships
USS Nirvana (SP-706), later USS SP-706, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission in 1917 and from 1918 to 1919
USS Nirvana II (SP-204), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1918
Other
NEdit, the “Nirvana editor”, a text editor
Mechanus, also known as Nirvana, is an alternate name for the Lawful Neutral spiritually aligned outer plane in Dungeons & Dragons
Nirvana (film), a 1997 Italian science fiction movie
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Bojnourd Airport (IATA: BJB, ICAO: OINM) is an airport in Bojnourd, Iran.
Airlines and destinations
Iran Aseman Airlines (Tehran-Mehrabad)
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Beekman Place (Manhattan)
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Beekman Place is a small street located on the east side of Manhattan, New York City. The street runs from north to south for approximately two blocks and is situated between the eastern end of 51st and 49th streets. Beekman Place is also used to refer to the residential neighborhood that surrounds the street itself. It is named after the Beekman family, an influential family in the development of the city. The neighborhood was the site of the Beekman family mansion, Mount Pleasant, which was built by James Beekman in 1765. James Beekman was a descendant of Willem Beeckman for whom Beekman Street was named.
The British made their headquarters in the mansion for a time during the Revolutionary War and Nathan Hale was tried as a spy in the mansion’s greenhouse and hanged in a nearby orchard. George Washington visited the house many times during his presidency. The Beekman family lived at Mount Pleasant until a cholera epidemic forced them to move in 1854. The home survived until 1874 when it was torn down.
With the surge of immigration from Europe in the late 19th and early 20th century, the Lower East Side’s slums expanded north. The Beekman Place area’s well-off residents gave way to impoverished workers employed in the coalyards that defaced much of the East River shore. The neighborhood’s rehabilitation began in the 1920’s, facilitated primarily by Anne Morgan of the Morgan banking family, who lived slightly farther north on Sutton Place.
See also
Map - Beekman Place
References
^Aitken, William Benford (1912). Distinguished Families In America: Descended From Wilhelmus Beekman And Jan Thomasse Van Dyke. The Knickerbocker Press. http://books.google.com/books?id=cZ0xAAAAMAAJ. Retrieved 2009-08-22.
^Henry, Moscow (1990) . The Street Book: An Encyclopedia of Manhattan’s Street Names and Their Origins. Fordham University Press. p. 27. ISBN 0823212750.
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Streets and Avenues of Manhattan
North-South
Downtown
South St ·Essex St ·Ludlow St ·Orchard St ·Allen St ·Forsyth St ·Front St ·Pearl St/Bowery ·Mott St ·Mulberry St ·City Hall Ln/Coenties Alley ·Coenties Slip ·William St ·Centre Market Pl ·Centre St ·Broad St/Nassau St/Lafayette St ·Whitehall St ·Broadway/Canyon of Heroes ·Trinity Pl ·Church St ·West Broadway ·MacDougal St ·Patchin Pl ·Varick St ·Hudson St ·Greenwich St ·Washington St ·Weehawken St ·West Side Elvtd Hwy/West St
Midtown
East River Dr/FDR Dr ·Ave D ·Ave C/Loisaida Ave ·Ave B/East End Ave ·Ave A/Beekman Pl/Sutton Pl/York Ave/Pleasant Ave ·First Ave ·Second Ave ·Third Ave ·Lexington Ave ·Fourth Ave/Park Ave ·Vanderbilt Ave ·Madison Ave ·Fifth Ave/Museum Mile ·Rockefeller Plaza ·Sixth Ave/Ave of the Americas/Lenox Ave/Malcolm X Blvd ·Times Sq ·Seventh Ave/Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd ·Great White Way ·Eighth Ave/Central Park West/Frederick Douglas Blvd ·Manhattan Ave ·Ninth Ave/Columbus Ave/Morningside Dr ·Dyer Ave ·West Side Hwy/Tenth Ave/Amsterdam Ave ·Eleventh Ave/West End Ave ·Riverside Dr ·Joe DiMaggio Hwy/12th Ave ·13th Ave ·Miller Hwy/Henry Hudson Pkwy
Uptown
Harlem River Dr ·Audubon Ave ·St. Nicholas Ave ·Juan Pablo Duarte Blvd ·Morningside Ave ·Claremont Ave ·Ft. Washington Ave ·Cabrini Blvd
East-West
Downtown
Bridge St ·Brewers St/Stone St ·Wall St ·Liberty St ·Maiden Ln ·Fulton St ·Vesey St ·Ann St ·Park Row ·Roosevelt St·Chambers St ·Cherry St ·Henry St ·Worth St/Justice John M. Harlan Way/Ave of the Strongest ·East Broadway ·Doyers St/Bloody Angle ·N. Moore St ·Beach St ·Canal St ·Hester St ·Grand St ·Delancey St ·Rivington St ·Stanton St ·Houston St
1st-14th Sts — 1st St ·Bleecker St ·2nd St ·3rd St/Great Jones St ·4th St ·6th St ·Waverly Pl/Washington Square North ·Astor Pl/Washington Mews ·Gay St ·8th St/St. Mark’s Pl/Greenwich Ave ·Christopher St ·Stuyvesant St ·10th St ·13th St ·14th St
Midtown
15th-22nd Sts — 17th St
23rd-41st Sts — 23rd St ·24th St ·25th St ·26th St ·27th St/Club Row ·28th St ·29th St ·30th St ·31st St ·32nd St/Korea Way ·33rd St ·34th St ·35th St ·36th St ·37th St ·38th St ·39th St ·40th St ·41st St
42nd-59th Sts — 42nd St ·47th St ·50th St ·51st St ·52nd St/Swing Alley/St of Jazz ·53rd St ·54th St ·55th St ·57th St ·59th St/Central Park South
Uptown
60th-215th Sts — 66th St/Peter Jennings Way ·72nd St ·79th St ·85th St ·86th St ·96th St ·110th St/Cathedral Pkwy/Central Park North ·112th St ·116th St ·118th St ·122nd St/Mother Hale Way/Seminary Row ·125th St/Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd ·130th St/Astor Row ·132nd St ·139th St/Strivers’ Row ·145th St ·155th St ·Trans-Manhattan Expwy ·178th-179th St Tls·181st St ·187th St ·Bogardus Pl ·Dyckman St
Italics indicate streets no longer in existence. See also: Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 and List of eponymous streets in New York City.
Dr. Laird Hayes (born October 3, 1949 in Santa Barbara, California) is an educator and National Football League side judge. He wears the uniform number 125.
He graduated from San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara, California. Hayes earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, New Jersey, in 1971 and was awarded a Master’s and Doctorate in Higher Education from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1976.
Hayes played on football, basketball and baseball teams in high school, which prepared him for an athletic performance at Princeton. He played on the freshman football team and four years as a catcher for the Princeton Tigers baseball team.
Hayes’ officiating career started with basketball, baseball, and football games in high school and community colleges. In 1983 he was elevated to the Pac-10 as a football official. This was followed with a 1995 appointment to the National Football League roster of officials and his designation as a side judge. During his career in the NFL, he has officiated in Super Bowl XXXVI in 2002, Super Bowl XXXVIII in 2004, and at the 2006 Pro Bowl.
An NFL side judge monitors the contact between defensive players and receivers on his side of the field.
Currently, Hayes is the Men’s Soccer Coach and Professor of Education and Athletics at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, a post he has held since 1976. He teaches First Aid/CPR, surfing, bowling, soccer, and weight training.
Hayes is Director of the Quarterback and Receiver Camp (QBR) in its 42nd year of non-contact, football fundamentals training for youth players. QBR schedules six summer camps held in California, New Jersey, Arkansas, Michigan, and Georgia.
For the 2008 NFL season, Hayes is a side judge on the officiating crew headed by referee Walt Anderson. The other crew members are Butch Hannah (umpire), Phil McKinnely (head linesman), Byron Boston, Gary Cavaletto, and Terrence Miles. During the 2007 NFL season, Hayes was the SJ on the officiating crew headed by referee John Parry and officiated the NFC Divisional Playoff game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys.
External links
2006 NFL All Star game details: .
Princeton alumni recognition for Super Bowl officiating: Princeton University, New Jersey, Alumni 1971
Princeton Alumni Weekly article:
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