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Transport links
Public transport
Fulong Beach is accessible as follows: moses basket mattress
Railwayaiwan Railway Administration (TRA) Fulong Station used tanning bed
Bus extending dining table
Between Taipei City and Yilan County: Taipei-Luodong Seaside Route of Kingbus () to the Fulong Stop
Between Taipei City and Hualien Countyaipei-Hualien Seaside Route of Airbus () to the Fulong Stop
From Keelung: Keelung-Fulong Route of Keelung Bus () to the Fulong Stop
Car transport
Fulong Beach is accessible by car:
From central Taipei: the Sun Yat-sen Expressway and Northern Seaside Highway (Provincial Highway 2).
From Southeastern Taipei: through Muzha, Shenkeng Township, and Shihding Township via Taipei County Highway 106 to Pingsi Township, through Ping-Shuang Tunnel to Taipei County Highway 38, and then to Northern Seaside Highway.
From Eastern Taiwan: via Northern Seaside Highway.
The main parking lot is right next to Fulong visitors center on the main street. Parking is free but it can be quite congested at the weekends.
Entrance Fee
During summer months (and when the rock festival is not on) entrance to the beach is $90NTD for adults and $10NTD for kids. This includes access to the beach as well as use of showers, changing rooms etc.
This does not include rental of miniature sailboats, canoes, boogie boards, beach umbrellas or sunshade tents/awnings.
Nearby landmarks
Northeast Coast National Scenic Area Administration Office and Fulong Traveler Service Center
Longmen Camping Site
Outlet of Shuanghsi River
Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) Fulong Station
Dongxin Temple of Fulong
External links
Northeast Coastal Scenic Area Fulong Beach
Coordinates: 25115 1215643 / 25.02083N 121.94528E / 25.02083; 121.94528
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Kinsey Millhone
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Biography
Kinsey Millhone was born on May 5, 1950. Her unusual first name was her mother's surname before her marriage to Kinsey's father. Kinsey lived with her parents until they were killed in a car wreck when she was five. Kinsey survived in the car for several hours before she was rescued. She then moved in with her aunt (her mother's sister) Gin, who was the only relative still in contact with her mother; the rest of the family disapproved of her marriage and cut off contact with her. It is from Aunt Gin that Kinsey has taken a few of her eccentricities, such as her liking for peanut-butter and pickle sandwiches. In high school, Kinsey was a delinquent. After three semesters at the local community college she realized that academic life was not for her and she took a job with the Santa Teresa police force. After two years, Kinsey quit the police force and became an investigator for California Fidelity, an insurance company. Eventually, she became a self-employed private investigator, solving various disappearances and murders, clearing names and dodging hitmen.
Kinsey is 5'6" and weighs about 118 pounds. She has short, dark, thick hair that she trims with nail scissors, being generally uninterested in her physical appearance. She does, however, place a great premium on physical fitness and jogs three miles every day. At the same time, she is an enthusiastic junk food fanatic. Kinsey has been divorced twice. Her first husband Mickey, an ex-cop, appears in "O" is for Outlaw and her second husband Daniel, a struggling musician, appears in "E" is for Evidence. Kinsey has no children, and she lives in a garage converted into an apartment. Her landlord is a young-at-heart octogenarian named Henry Pitts who enjoys creating crossword puzzles and is famous for his baking; Kinsey herself states that she has a crush on Henry. She suffers from tinnitus, caused when she shot an attacker from inside a trash can. Kinsey has had several relationships in the series, beginning with Charlie Scorsoni, continuing through Jonah Robb and Robert Dietz, until the present novels in which she's begun an affair with longtime friend Cheney Phillips. cruzer micro u3
Having lived for most of her life with very few family members (for most of the series, her "family" consisted of Henry, her landlord and his siblings, the local tavern owner Rosie, and the generous natured employees in nearby offices), Kinsey received a shock when her cousin Tasha reached out to her. Meeting Tasha and her sister, Lisa, for lunch revealed they are very similar in appearance. Kinsey and Tasha form a business relationship in "M" Is for Malice. wintv usb
Kinsey Millhone novels kingmax super stick
"A" Is for Alibi (1982)
"B" Is for Burglar (1985)
"C" Is for Corpse (1986)
"D" Is for Deadbeat (1987)
"E" Is for Evidence (1988)
"F" Is for Fugitive (1989)
"G" Is for Gumshoe (1990)
"H" Is for Homicide (1991)
"I" Is for Innocent (1992)
"J" Is for Judgment (1993)
"K" Is for Killer (1994)
"L" Is for Lawless (1995)
"M" Is for Malice (1996)
"N" Is for Noose (1998)
"O" Is for Outlaw (1999)
"P" Is for Peril (2001)
"Q" Is for Quarry (2002)
"R" Is for Ricochet (2004)
"S" Is for Silence (2005)
"T" Is for Trespass (2007)
"U" Is for Undertow (2009)
Grafton has stated that the twenty-sixth and final book in the series will be titled "Z" Is for Zero. In 2009, she revealed to a Los Angeles Times interviewer that this final novel will "coincide with Kinsey's 40th birthday in 1990".
Also published
Kinsey and Me (1992) - a collection of Kinsey Millhone short stories along with other short stories about Grafton's own mother.
The Lying Game (2003) - a Kinsey Millhone short story which appeared in the September 2003 special 40th anniversary Lands' End catalogue.
Kinsey Millhone in other works
Kinsey has made cameo appearances in crime novels by other authors. In Double, Bill Pronzini and Marcia Muller's detective spots Kinsey at a convention in Chicago. In one novel by Sara Paretsky, her detective, V.I. Warshawski, wishes at one point that her business records were as organized as Kinsey's.
References
^ a b Weinman, Sarah (December 17, 2009). "Closing in on the letter Z". Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-sue-grafton17-2009dec17,0,3603461.story. Retrieved December 27, 2009. "And with the end of the alphabet in sight, no author is more closely identified with reader expectations -- especially when "Z Is for Zero" shepherds Kinsey and her hometown of Santa Teresa to a fictional end."
^ Everett, Todd (1991-05-23). "Mystery Town: Whodunit author Sue Grafton lines in Santa Barbara and sets her tales in Santa Teresa". Los Angeles Times: p. J15.
External links
Kinsey Millhone biography
Sue Grafton's official website
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Sue Grafton
Alphabet novels
"A" Is for Alibi "B" Is for Burglar "C" Is for Corpse "D" Is for Deadbeat "E" Is for Evidence "F" Is for Fugitive "G" Is for Gumshoe "H" Is for Homicide "I" Is for Innocent "J" Is for Judgment "K" Is for Killer "L" Is for Lawless "M" Is for Malice "N" Is for Noose "O" Is for Outlaw "P" Is for Peril "Q" Is for Quarry "R" Is for Ricochet "S" Is for Silence "T" Is for Trespass "U" Is for Undertow
Related articles
C. W. Grafton Kinsey Millhone Santa Teresa, California
Other novels
Keziah Dane The Lolly-Madonna War
Films adapted from novels
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ISO 13567
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Standard parts
The standard is divided in three parts:
ISO 13567-1:1998 512mb pc133
Technical product documentation -- Organization and naming of layers for CAD -- Part 1: Overview and principles sharp zaurus 5500
ISO 13567-2:1998 zaurus 5500
Technical product documentation -- Organization and naming of layers for CAD -- Part 2: Concepts, format and codes used in construction documentation
ISO/TR 13567-3:1999
Technical product documentation -- Organization and naming of layers for CAD -- Part 3: Application of ISO 13567-1 and ISO 13567-2
Standard has been developed by Technical Committee TC 10 (Technical product documentation) Subcommittee SC 8 (Construction documentation); Refer. ICS: 01.110; 35.240.10.
Structure of layer names
CAD layer names are structured as a series of mandatory and optional fixed length fields, composed as a continuous alpha-numerical text string.
Mandatory fields
Agent responsible <clause 6.1>
(2 characters, indicating the person or organisation responsible for the layer information
-- manufacturer,
A- architect
A2 architect#2 on the same project
B- building surveyors
C- civil engineers
E- electrical engineers
F- facility engineers
G- GIS engineers and land surveyors
H- heating and ventilating engineers
I- interior designers
L- landscape architects
Q- quantity surveyors
S- structural engineers
T- town and country planners
W- contractors
X- sub-contractors
Y- specialist designers
Element <cl. 6.2>
(6 characters, indicating the functional parts of construction works or structure): follows a classification system like SfB building codes or Uniclass codes;
Presentation <cl. 6.3>
(2 characters, related to the information graphical presentation)
-- whole model and drawing page,
E- element graphics (Model space)
T- text (M)
H- hatching (M)
D- dimensions (M)
J- section/detail marks (M)
K- revision marks (M)
G- Grid graphic and dimension (M)
U- user red lines & construction lines (M)
B- Border (Page/Paper space)
V- text, title, notes (P)
I- tabular information, legends, schedules, tables/query (P)
-1 language#1 or pen thickness#1 or text height#1
Optional fields
Status <cl. 7.1>
(1 character, status of the physical part, ISO code)
- whole, no subdivision
N new part
E existing to remain
R to be removed
T temporary
O to be moved original position
F to be moved final position
Sector <cl. 7.2>
(4 characters, physical subdivision of construction work, recommended to use ISO 4157-2/3 codes)
---- whole project, all levels all blocks
00-- ground floor
02-- 2nd floor
-1-- basement
SA-- section AA
EA-- elevation A
EB-- elevation B
--B1 block 1
--A- zone A
01B1 1st floor block#1
-2-- 2nd basement level
01A- storey 01 zone A
Phase <cl. 7.3>
(1 character, time or logical subdivision of work)
- whole duration
P pre-design/preliminary
D design
R procurement
C construction
O post-construction
1 phase#1 (pre-design)
2 phase#2
3 phase#3 (licence design)
Projection <cl. 7.4>
(1 character, work multiple views differentiation, ISO code)
- all
0 plan
1 elevation
2 section
3 3D model
Scale <cl. 7.5>
(1 character, classification of layer information by the scale of final drawing, ISO code)
- all
A 1:1
B 1:5
C 1:10
D 1:20
E 1:50
F 1:100
G 1:200
H 1:500
I 1:1000
J 1:2000
K 1:5000
1 1:1-5
2 1:5-20
3 1:20-50
4 1:20-100
5 1:50-200
6 1:200-500
7 1:500-1000
Work Package <cl. 7.6>
(2 characters, materials and/or work sections)
RC reinforced concrete
SS structural steel
23 phase#23
User Defined <cl. 7.7>
(unlimited, additional subdivision or help plain description): description or subdivision.
Special characters
- (hyphenation) not used field
_ (underscore) relative to all possible characters
Applications
Resulting length
In practice, application of ISO 13567 fields can lead to short names (only mandatory fields), or much longer names (use of some or all optional fields in complex projects).
Short name samples
A-B374--T-
agent Architect, element Roof window in SfB, presentation text
A-B374--E-
agent Architect, element Roof window in SfB, presentation graphic element
Other
A-374---T-
A-24--__D-
Long name samples
A-37420-T2N01B113B23pro
agent Architect, element Roof Window in SfB, presentation Text#2, New part, floor 01, block B1, *phase 1, projection 3D, scale 1:5(B), work package 23 and user definition "pro"
A-G25---D-R
agent Architect, element wall in Uniclass, presentation dimensions, status Existing to be removed
Other
A-2441__D-N01AB1
A-37420-T2N01B113B23pro
T-811---E-N----30F--DESCRIPTION_OF_LAYER
E-63----E-N----30G--ELECTRICAL_EQUIPMENT
A1645---Z-O----1-A72DESCRIPTION_OF_LAYER
A-DUCTS-E-N02C------P281
F-5821ABE-N-I--13C23USER
A-144001M-----
List of layers in a standard architectural drawing
Agent is Architect, using ISO 13567 and UniClass or CI/SfB Classification System.
Generic layers
A-------E-: all elements
A-------T-: text
A-------H-: hatchings
A-------D-: dimensions
A-------J-: section/detail marks
A-------K-: revision marks
A-------G-: grid (graphics and dimensions)
A-------U-: user (red and construction lines)
A-------B-: border (border lines/frame and other graphics) in paper space
A-------V-: text (title and notes) in paper space
A-------I-: tabular information (legends, schedules and tables) in paper space
A-------E-N: new work elements
A-------E-E: elements existing to remain
A-------E-R: elements existing to be removed
A-------E1: line thickness 0,13 mm
A-------E2: line thickness 0,18 mm
A-------E3: line thickness 0,25 mm
A-------E4: line thickness 0,35 mm
A-------E5: line thickness 0,50 mm
A-------E6: line thickness 0,70 mm
A-------T1: text height 1,8 mm
A-------T2: text height 2,5 mm
A-------T3: text height 3,5 mm
A-------T4: text height 5,0 mm
A-------T5: text height 7,0 mm
A-------T6: text height 10,0 mm
Architectural layers using UniClass
Using UniClass Table G and Table H (exceptionally F and J tables).
A-F1----E-: zones (blocks, wings, floors, departments)
A-F2----E-: rooms
A-F2----T-: room numbers and text
A-F3----E-: circulation (foyers, halls, stairs, corridors, gangways)
A-F9----E-: building space analysed (areas)
A-F911--E-: usable area (ISO 9836)
A-F912--E-: circulation area (ISO 9836)
A-F913--E-: services area (ISO 9836)
A-F914--E-: structural element area (ISO 9836)
A-F919--E-: gross area (ISO 9836)
A-G-----E-: building
A-G11---E-: site clearance
A-G12---E-: ground contouring
A-G2----E-: building fabric
A-G21---E-: foundations
A-G21---E5: foundations in section
A-G22---E-: floors, slabs
A-G22---E5: floors, slabs in section
A-G23---E-: stairs (incl. balaustrades), ramps
A-G23---E5: stairs and ramps in section
A-G24---E-: roofs
A-G24---E5: roofs in section
A-G25---E-: walls
A-G25---E5: walls in section
A-G251--E-: external walls
A-G252--E-: internal walls
A-G26---E-: structural frame, columns, beams, bracing
A-G26---E5: structural frame, columns, beams, bracing in section
A-G321--E-: windows
A-G322--E-: doors
A-G33---E-: internal finishes (on floor, ceilings, walls)
A-G331--E-: floor finishes
A-G332--E-: ceilings/soffit finishes
A-G333--E-: internal wall finishes
A-G4----E-: fittings, furnitures, equipments
A-G44---E-: sanitary fittings
A-G50---E-: water supply (water pipes)
A-G501--E-: cold water
A-G502--E-: hot water
A-G51---E-: gas supply
A-G52---E-: heating/ventilation/air conditioning (HVAC) (HVAC ductworks)
A-G53---E-: electric power (cable runs)
A-G54---E-: lighting fixtures (fittings)
A-G55---E-: communications (radio, TV, telephones, computer networks)
A-G561--E-: lifts
A-G562--E-: escalators
A-G57---E-: protection (security, fire)
A-G581--E-: removal /disposal, drainage
A-G6----E-: energy (heat, electricity) generation, storage and conversion
A-G7----E-: external site works
A-G71---E-: surface treatment of external site (hard surfaces, landscaping)
A-G72---E-: enclosures of external site (fence, walls)
A-G74---E-: fittings/furnitures/equipment of external site (manholes)
A-G77---E-: underground drainage in external site (drain runs)
A-H-----E-: civil engineering works (non-building)
A-H1----E-: pavements and landscaping (ground, pavements, etc.)
A-H122--E-: surfacing to pavements and hard landscaping
A-H123--E-: edgework to pavements and hard landscaping
A-H132--E-: electrical installations (mechanical, lighting, power, communications)
A-H142--E-: fittings
A-H1422-E-: signs
A-H1424-E-: street furniture
A-H735--E-: drainage (non building)
A-JE0---E-: concrete
A-JF1---E-: block/brick work
A-JF2---E-: stone
A-JG1---E-: metal
A-JG10--E-: structural steel
A-JG2---E-: timber
A-JK3---E-: glass
A-Z001--T-: identification tags, rooms, door numbers
A-Z400--E-: special presentation
A-Z410--E-: cars
A-Z420--E-: people
A-Z430--E-: trees
A-Z900--U-: non-plotting
A-Z920--E-: external reference (Xref)
Note: Elements cut by section has been provvisionally indicated as A-****--E5 (reflecting the use of a wider line). An alternative -but longest- notation could be A-****--E-------2 (defining the view as section) or A-****--ES.
Architectural layers using CI/SfB
A-100---E-: substructure
A-110---E-: groundwork
A-160---E-: foundations
A-170---E-: pile foundations
A-210---E-: external walls
A-214---E-: external curtain walls
A-220---E-: internal walls
A-226---E-: internal framing & cladding
A-230---E-: floors
A-240---E-: stairs
A-270---E-: roofs
A-28----E-: building frames
A-280---E-: beams and columns
A-281---E-: metal columns
A-282---E-: concrete columns
A-283---E-: metal beams
A-284---E-: concrete beams
A-285---E-: timber beams
A-310---E-: external wall completions
A-314---E-: external windows
A-315---E-: external doors
A-320---E-: internal wall completions
A-324---E-: internal windows
A-325---E-: internal doors
A-330---E-: floor completions
A-340---E-: stairs
A-350---E-: ceilings
A-370---E-: roof completion's
A-374---E-: roof windows
A-410---E-: external wall finishes
A-420---E-: internal wall finishes
A-430---E-: floor finishes
A-440---E-: stair finishes
A-450---E-: ceiling finishes
A-470---E-: roof finishes
A-5-----E-: services, non electrical
A-500---E-: mechanical
A-52----E-: waste disposal, drainage
A-53----E-: water & liquid supply
A-54----E-: gas supply
A-55----E-: space cooling, refrigeration
A-56----E-: space heating
A-57----E-: ventilation
A-59----E-: parts, accessories to piped, ducted services
A-6-----E-: services, mainly electrical
A-600---E-: electrical
A-61----E-: electrical supply
A-62----E-: power supply
A-63----E-: lighting
A-630---E-: lamps
A-640---E-: communications
A-65----E-: telecommunications
A-660---E-: transports
A-661---E-: lifts
A-68----E-: security protection
A-700---E-: general fittings & furniture
A-71----E-: circulation fitting
A-72----E-: rest, work fittings
A-73----E-: kitchens, culinary fittings
A-74----E-: sanitary fittings
A-75----E-: cleaning fittings
A-76----E-: storage fittings
A-77----E-: special activity fittings
A-78----E-: loose fittings
A-900---E-: external works
A-910---E-: site information
A-920---E-: survey information
A-930---E-: land drainage/services
A-940---E-: landscaping
A-950---E-: hard surfaces
A-960---E-: utilities
A-970---E-: fences/equipment
A-980---E-: special landscaping
A-990---E-: environmental data
See also
CAD standards
CPIC
Uniclass
List of ISO standards
External links
The Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction
Paper by ITCON in pdf
Another paper by ITCON in pdf
Categories: ISO standards | Computer-aided design
Water Pump
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For the technical apparatus, see Pump.
Water Pump (Urdu: ) is one of the neighbourhoods of Gulberg Town in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is near main Water Pump that supplies fresh water to the city of Karachi. yag laser marking
There are several ethnic groups in Water Pump including Muhajirs, Punjabis, Sindhis, Kashmiris, Seraikis, Pakhtuns, Balochis, Memons, Bohras, Ismailis, etc. Over 99% of the population is Muslim. The population of Gulberg Town is estimated to be nearly one million. co2 laser cutting
References hene laser
^ Gulberg Town - Government of Karachi
External links
Karachi Website.
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Neighbourhoods of Karachi
Baldia Town
Ittehad Town Gulshan-e-Ghazi Islam Nagar Muhajir Camp Muslim Mujahid Colony Nai Abadi Rasheedabad Saeedabad
Bin Qasim Town
Cattle Colony Gaghar Gulshan-e-Hadeed Ibrahim Hyderi Landhi Colony Quaidabad Rehri
Gadap Town
Darsano Chana Gadap Gujro Manghopir Maymarabad Murad Memon Goth Songal Yousuf Goth
Gulberg Town
Aisha Manzil
Ancholi Azizabad Karimabad Shafiq Mill Colony Naseerabad Water Pump Yaseenabad
Gulshan Town
Civic Centre Delhi Mercantile Society Essa Nagri Gillani Railway Station Gulshan-e-Iqbal I
Gulshan-e-Iqbal II Gulzar-e-Hijri Jamali Colony Metroville Colony Pehlwan Goth P.I.B. Colony Safooran Goth Shanti Nagar
Jamshed Town
Akhtar Colony Azam Basti Central Jacob Lines Chanesar Goth Garden East
Jamshed Quarters Jut Line Mahmudabad Manzoor Colony Pakistan Quarters P.E.C.H.S. P.E.C.H.S. II Soldier Bazar
Keamari Town
Baba Bhit Bhutta Village Gabo Pat Kakapir Keamari Machar Colony Maripur Salehabad Shams Pir Shershah Sultanabad
Korangi Town
Bilal Colony Chakra Goth Gulzar Colony Hasrat Mohani Colony Hundred Quarters Korangi Sector 33 Mustafa Taj Colony Nasir Colony Zaman Town
Landhi Town
Awami Colony Bhutto Nagar Burmee Colony Dawood Chowrangi Khawaja Ajmeer Colony
Korangi Landhi Moinabad Muslimabad Muzafarabad Sharafi Goth Sherabad
Liaquatabad Town
Abbasi Shaheed Bandhani Colony Commercial Area Dak Khana Firdous Colony
Mujahid Colony Nazimabad Qasimabad Rizvia Society Sharifabad Super Market
Lyari Town
Agra Taj Colony Allama Iqbal Colony Baghdadi Bihar Colony Chakiwara
Daryaabad Khada Memon Society Nawabad Ragiwara Shah Baig Line Singo Line
Malir Town
Gharibabad Ghazi Brohi Goth Jafar-e-Tayyar Kala Board Khokhra Par Model Colony Saudabad Usmanabad
New Karachi Town
Abu Zar Ghaffari Faisal Colony Fatima Jinnah Colony Godhra Gulshan-e-Saeed
Hakim Ahsan Kalyana Khamiso Goth Khawaja Ajmeer Nagri Madina Colony Mustufa Colony Shah Nawaz Bhutto Colony Sir Syed Colony
North Nazimabad Town
Buffer Zone Buffer Zone II Farooq-e-Azam Hyderi Khandu Goth
Nusrat Bhutto Colony Pahar Ganj Paposh Nagar Sakhi Hassan Shadman Town
Orangi Town
Baloch Goth Bilal Colony Chisti Nagar Data Nagar Ghabool Town
Ghaziabad Hanifabad Haryana Colony Iqbal Baloch Colony Madina Colony Mohammad Nagar Mominabad Mujahidabad
Saddar Town
City Railway Colony Civil Line Clifton Garden Gazdarabad
Islam Pura/Millat Nagar Kharadar Khehkashan Nanak Wara Old Haji Camp Saddar
Shah Faisal Town
Al-Falah Society Drigh Colony Moria Khan Goth Natha Khan Goth
Pak Sadat Colony Rafa-e-Aam Society Raita Plot
SITE Town
Banaras Colony Bhawani Chali Frontier Colony Islamia Colony
Jahanabad Metrovil Old Golimar Pak Colony Qasba Colony
Cantonment Areas
Clifton Cantonment Defence Housing Society Faisal Cantonment Karachi Cantonment Korangi Creek Cantonment
Malir Cantonment Manora Cantonment
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MB
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MB and Mb may refer to
Megabyte (MB), a measure of amount of information used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity.
Megabit (Mb, or properly: Mbit), a measure of amount of information commonly used in the combination Mb/s (megabit per second) to express the rate data is transferred. drusy
MB may further refer to lace agate
Bachelor of Medicine, an academic degree (Medicinae Baccalaureus) rough opal
Lee Myung-bak, the president of South Korea, using the initials from his given name
Macbeth
MacBook
Mandalay Bay, a hotel and casino in Las Vegas
Manitoba, Canada
Marching band
Martinique's FIPS PUB 10-4 territory code
Maurizio Bianchi or MB, an Italian noise musician
MB Doctrine, the foreign policy doctrine of South Korean president Lee Myung-bak
Medal of Bravery, Canadian decoration
Mercedes-Benz, a German brand of automobiles, buses, coaches and trucks
Meridian and Bigbee Railroad's reporting mark
Message board
Mighty B, childrens' TV show
Mighty Beanz, toys for children
Milton Bradley Company, a board game and sometimes video game publisher
Minibus, a type of car
Monica Bellucci
Montgomery Burns
Motherboard
Mount&Blade, a game developed by TaleWorlds
Movie Battles, a computer game mod
Muppet Babies
Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic opposition party in Egypt
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Mythbusters
Mb may further refer to
Megabase, a unit of measurement in genetics.
Mb (digraph)
Myoglobin
mb may refer to
Body wave magnitude (mb), a type of seismic scale.
Millibar, a unit of pressure
Millibarn, a unit of area used in nuclear physics and particle physics
Millibit, a (rare) unit of information equal to one thousandth of a bit
mb, a rarely used unit of Imperial weight equal to 1000lbs or roughly 453 Kilograms
File format ".MB"
MapBasic, MapBasic Source Code;
Mathematica Binary before Mathematica 4.0;
Maya Binary, the 3D file format for Maya (software);
MaBiao (), code table of IMEGen Applet designed by Microsoft and Zhong Yi (), distributed with Windows.
mB may refer to
Millibel, a hundredth of a decibel
References
^ "The textural language machine: a system of associative electronicnetworks for efficient processing of neural language texts". Hilberg, W. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1991. Volume i, Issue , 8-11 Jan 1991 Page(s):219 - 228 vol.1.
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Kazuhito Tadano
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Biography
Tadano as the ace pitcher led Yachiyoshoin High School to the National High School Baseball Championship (Summer Koshien) for the first time. He had been a highly regarded pitcher coming out of Rikkyo University. He was expected to be a high draft pick in the Nippon Professional Baseball draft in 2002, but no Japanese team drafted him due to the gay porn video scandal, which forced him to leave Japan.
The Cleveland Indians signed Tadano as a free agent in 2003, and he quickly rose through the Cleveland farm system, making his debut in 2004. He made 14 appearances and four starts with a 4.65 ERA in 50 innings. In January 2004, it was widely reported in the U.S. that Tadano was featured in a gay porn video three years previous, with Tadano appearing at a press conference organized by the team. Tadano said "I was young, playing baseball, and going to college and my teammates and I needed money" and "I'm not gay." acoustical wall
He was sidelined due to an injury early in the 2005 season, but recovered and was shuttled between Cleveland and the Buffalo Bisons for the rest of the year. vinyl shake siding
On April 4, 2006, Tadano was traded to the Oakland Athletics for outfielder Ramon Alvarado. structural insulated panel
In 2007, Tadano was sent down to Oakland's Double-A team, Midland, after being invited to spring training. He was eventually promoted back up to Triple-A and started off well, looking extremely sharp with a plus splitter. Curiously, he ran into trouble in June. His ERA ballooned as he gave up 29 runs over 5 games. He was moved to the bullpen in July after Oakland demoted Colby Lewis and Shane Komine.
In 2008, he was the first-pick by the Nippon Ham Fighters in the university/company player draft in 2007, he would become the last player in the Matsuzaka Generation to start his NPB life. He missed the start of the 2008 season with an injury.
See Also
LGBT in Japan
References
^ a b "Minor leaguer: It was a 'one-time incident'". ESPN. 2004-01-28. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1720362. Retrieved 2008-02-22.
^ Baseball Player's Gay Porn Past, CBSnews.com, January 28, 2004. Accessed July 9, 2007.
External links
Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
Nippon Professional Baseball career statistics from Japanesebaseball.com
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BMW E24
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Model history
The E24 was a replacement for the CS and CSL coups first produced in 1965. The CS 3.0 was almost changed by adding a few inches in height to make it easier for customers to get into the car. However, Bob Lutz rebelled against the decision and rough drafted an alternative version that soon became the 6 series. Production started in March 1976 with two models: the 630CS and 633CSi. Originally the bodies were manufactured by Karmann, but production was later taken in-house to BMW.
In July 1978 a more powerful variant, the 635CSi, was introduced (for the time being not available in North America and Japan) that featured as standard a special close-ratio 5-speed gearbox and a black rear spoiler. gv 1480
In 1979 the carburetted 630CS was replaced with the 628CSi; this car had a fuel injected 2.8L engine taken from the BMW 528i. geovision dvr card
In 1982 (Europe) and 1983 (US), the E24 changed slightly, with an improved interior and slightly modified exterior. At the same time, the 635CSi received a new engine, a slightly smaller-bored and longer-stroked 3430 cc six to replace the former 3453 cc engine and became available with a wide-ratio 5-speed or an automatic. gv 1240
E24s produced after June 1987 came with ellipsoid headlamps instead of the halogen lamps of earlier models. The sleeker European bumpers were also discontinued. Previous cars had either a European-standard bumper or a larger, reinforced bumper to meet the US standard requiring bumpers to withstand impact at 5 mph (8 km/h) without damage to safety-related components. 1989 was the last year for the E24 with production stopping in April. The E24 was supplanted by the considerably heavier, more complex, and more exclusive E31.
M Version
The M635CSi was introduced in Europe at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1983. It is essentially an E24 powered by the powerplant of the BMW M1 (the M88, now putting out 286 PS (210 kW; 282 hp)). Most M635csi's were equipped with special metric 415 mm diameter wheels requiring Michelin TRX tires. A catalyzed, lower compression ratio version of the car with the S38 engine putting out 260 PS (190 kW; 260 hp) was introduced in the U.S. in 1987. All M635/M6s came standard with a 25% rear slip differential. U.S. models included additional comforts such as Nappa leather power seats and a dedicated rear A/C unit with a center beverage chiller. Car and Driver tested a U.S. M6 in July 1987 and achieved a 0-60 time of 6.1 seconds, better than the BMW published 6.4 and 6.8 second times for the European and U.S. versions respectively. 4,088 M635CSis were built between 1983 and 1988 with 1,767 U.S. M6s built.
North America and Japan
While in most markets several E24 versions were usually available, markets with strict emission control regulations received only a single model (except for the M6 that was later offered additionally). This meant that in North America and Japan, BMW offered the following models :
1988 BMW M6
630CSi (MY 1977 through 1978)
633CSi (MY 1978 through 1984)
635CSi (MY 1985 through 1989)
L6 (MY 1987 - Luxury Edition 635CSi NA-only)
M6 (MY 1987 through 1989)
In 1977, the 6er was released in the US as the 630CSi. This was a fuel-injected version of the carburetted 630CS available elsewhere. Its 3-litre engine developed 176 horsepower (131 kW) and 185 ftlbf (251 Nm) of torque.
In mid-model year 1978 the 630CSi was replaced by the 633CSi. US/Japan specification 633CSi cars had the M30 3.2 litre 181 hp (135 kW) engine until 1984. In 1985 the car was renamed 635CSi, displacement was increased to 3.4 litres and horsepower increased slightly to 182 hp (136 kW). The big difference, however, was torque. Whereas the 3.2 litre had 195 ftlbf (264 Nm) at 4,000 rpm, the 3.4 litre powerplant managed 214 ftlbf (290 Nm) at 4,000 rpm.
From model year 1983, North American and Japanese versions benefitted from the technical revisions and changes to the interior introduced elsewhere in spring or summer 1982. Its chassis was now based on the E28 and no longer on the E12. The front and rear suspension was also revised. Later a self-levelling rear suspension was added to the 635 CSi and M6 features list in 1988.
The US received its own M series E24 in 1987 called the M6. The S38 powerplant found in the US model had several modifications from the M88 powerplant in the European model, most notably: a double row timing chain, modified cam tray, different valve lengths, a slightly different cam profile, less elaborate exhaust manifold (rather than full headers), Bosch X5DC copper spark plugs (instead of Bosch Silver plugs on the M88) and the introduction of an oxygen sensor for the EFI. These changes coupled with the introduction of a catalytic converter for emission regulations reduced the output to 256 hp (191 kW). The US model also included a variety of options not found on the earlier European models, to include: heated power seats, sport tuned self-levelling rear suspension, A/C cooled ice box between the rear seats, A/C vents for rear seat occupants, sunshade for rear occupants and an 8 speaker "premium" sound system.
In 1988, the US E24 was now available with the newest version of the M30, the 3.4L (first used in the E32 735i). Even though the intake manifold states 3.5 it's technically a 3.4 (3430cc) like the previous 3.4. This engine had an increased compression ratio, and updated Motronics/DME. The result was 208 hp (155 kW) and 225 ftlbf (305 Nm) torque. In effect, this engine was identical to the catalyzed version newly available in Germany and other markets.
Technical data BMW 628CSi-M 635CSi (E24) (except North America and Japan) (Manufacturer's figures except where stated)
BMW
628CSi
630CS
633CSi
635CSi
635CSi
M635CSi
Produced:
19791987
19761979
19761982
19781981
19821989
19831989
Engine:
6-cylinder-inline engine (four-stroke), front-mounted
Bore Stroke:
86 mm 80 mm
89 mm 80 mm
89 mm x 86 mm
93.4 mm x 84 mm
92 mm 86 mm
93.4 mm 84 mm
Displacement:
2788 cc
2985 cc
3210 cc
3453 cc
3430 cc
3453 cc
Max. Power @ rpm:
184 PS (135 kW; 181 hp) @ 5800
185 PS (136 kW; 182 hp) @ 5800
197 PS (145 kW; 194 hp) @ 5500
218 PS (160 kW; 215 hp) @ 5200
218 PS (160 kW; 215 hp) @ 5200
286 PS (210 kW; 282 hp) @ 6500
Max. Torque @ rpm:
235 Nm (173 lbft) @ 4200
255 Nm (188 lbft) @ 3500
284 Nm (209 lbft) @ 4300
304 Nm (224 lbft) @ 4000
304 Nm (224 lbft) @ 4000
333 Nm (246 lbft) @ 4500
Compression Ratio:
9.3: 1
9.0 : 1
9.3 : 1
9.3 : 1
10.0 : 1
10.5 : 1
Fuel feed:
fuel injection
Bosch L-Jetronic
single downdraft carburetor
Pierburg 4A1
fuel injection
Bosch L-Jetronic
fuel injection
Bosch Motronic
Fuel tank capacity:
70 L (18.5 US gal; 15.4 imp gal)
Valvetrain:
12 valves, SOHC, duplex chain
24 valves, DOHC, duplex chain
Cooling:
Water
Gearbox:
4-speed manual, from 1979 5-speed manual (wide- or close-ratio)
on request 3-speed automatic, from 1983 4-speed automatic
rear wheel drive
5-speed manual
rear wheel drive
Electrical system:
12 volt
Front suspension:
McPherson axle, coil springs, stabilising bar
Rear suspension::
Trailing arms, struts, coil springs, stabilising bar
Brakes:
disc brakes ( front 280 mm, rear 272 mm), power assisted, from MY 1984: ABS
Steering:
ZF recirculating ball steering, power assisted
Body structure:
Sheet steel, unibody construction
Dry weight:
1,450 kg (3,200 lb)
1,475 kg (3,250 lb)
1,495 kg (3,300 lb)
1,520 kg (3,400 lb)
1,470 kg (3,200 lb)
1,510 kg (3,300 lb)
Loaded weight:
1,830 kg (4,000 lb)
1,830 kg (4,000 lb)
1,830 kg (4,000 lb)
1,860 kg (4,100 lb)
1,850 kg (4,100 lb)
1,850 kg (4,100 lb)
Track front/
rear:
1,422 mm (56.0 in) 1,487 mm (58.5 in)
1,422 mm (56.0 in) 1,487 mm (58.5 in)
1,422 mm (56.0 in) 1,487 mm (58.5 in)
1,430 mm (56 in) 1,460 mm (57 in)
1,430 mm (56 in) 1,460 mm (57 in)
1,430 mm (56 in) 1,464 mm (57.6 in)
Wheelbase:
2,626 mm (103.4 in)
2,626 mm (103.4 in)
2,626 mm (103.4 in)
2,626 mm (103.4 in)
2,626 mm (103.4 in)
2,626 mm (103.4 in)
Length:
4,755 mm (187.2 in)
4,755 mm (187.2 in)
4,755 mm (187.2 in)
4,755 mm (187.2 in)
4,755 mm (187.2 in)
4,755 mm (187.2 in)
Width:
1,725 mm (67.9 in)
1,725 mm (67.9 in)
1,725 mm (67.9 in)
1,725 mm (67.9 in)
1,725 mm (67.9 in)
1,725 mm (67.9 in)
Height:
1,365 mm (53.7 in)
1,365 mm (53.7 in)
1,365 mm (53.7 in)
1,365 mm (53.7 in)
1,365 mm (53.7 in)
1,354 mm (53.3 in)
Tyre/Tire sizes:
195/70VR14
195/70VR14
195/70VR14
195/70VR14
205/70VR14
220/55VR390
or 240/45VR415
Top speed:
215 km/h (134 mph)
210 km/h (130 mph)
215 km/h (134 mph)
222 km/h (138 mph)
225 km/h (140 mph)
255 km/h (158 mph)
Fuel Consumption (estimates):
15.5 litres per 100 kilometres (18.2 mpg-imp; 15.2 mpg-US)
16.5 litres per 100 kilometres (17.1 mpg-imp; 14.3 mpg-US)
16.5 litres per 100 kilometres (17.1 mpg-imp; 14.3 mpg-US)
17.0 litres per 100 kilometres (16.6 mpg-imp; 13.8 mpg-US)
15.0 litres per 100 kilometres (18.8 mpg-imp; 15.7 mpg-US)
18.0 litres per 100 kilometres (15.7 mpg-imp; 13.1 mpg-US)
Sources and further reading
^ a b Oswald, Werner (1. Auflage 2001). Deutsche Autos 1945-1990, Band 4. Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag. ISBN 3-613-02131-5.
^ Guts: Robert A. Lutz, Wriley and Sons, Pub. Copyright 2003
^ http://www.bmwmregistry.com/model_faq.php?id=5
^ Mike Covello: Standard Catalog of Imported Cars 1945-2002. Krause Publications, Iola 2002, ISBN 0-87341-605-8.
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George Burns
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Early life
Nathan Birnbaum was the ninth of twelve children born to Louis and Dorothy (Bluth) Birnbaum in New York City. His father was a substitute cantor at the local synagogue but did not work very often. During the influenza epidemic of 1903, Louis contracted the flu and died. Nattie (as he was known to his family) started working in 1903 after his father's death, shining shoes, running errands, and selling newspapers. When he landed a job as a syrup maker in a local candy shop at age seven, Nattie Birnbaum was discovered, as he recalled many years later:
We were all about the same age, six and seven, and when we were bored making syrup, we used to practise singing harmony in the basement. One day our letter carrier came down to the basement. His name was Lou Farley. Feingold was his real name, but he changed it to Farley. He wanted the whole world to sing harmony. He came down to the basement once to deliver a letter and heard the four of us kids singing harmony. He liked our style, so we sang a couple more songs for him. Then we looked up at the head of the stairs and saw three or four people listening to us and smiling. In fact, they threw down a couple of pennies. So I said to the kids I was working with, 'no more chocolate syrup. It's show business from now on'. stpp
We called ourselves the Peewee Quartet. We started out singing on ferryboats, in saloons, in brothels, and on street corners. We'd put our hats down for donations. Sometimes the customers threw something in the hats. Sometimes they took something out of the hats. Sometimes they took the hats. alpha ketoglutarate
Burns quit school in the fourth grade to go into show business full-time. Like many performers of his generation, he tried practically anything he could to entertain, including trick roller skating, teaching dance, singing, and adagio dancing in small-time vaudeville. During these years, he began smoking cigars and later in his older years was characteristically known as doing shows and puffing on his cigar. He adopted the stage name by which he would be known for the rest of his life. He claimed in a few interviews that the idea of the name originated from the fact that two star major league players (George H. Burns and George J. Burns, unrelated) were playing major league baseball at the time. Both men achieved over 2000 major league hits and hold some major league records. Burns also was reported to have taken the name George from his brother and the Burns from the Burns Brothers Coal Company (he used to steal coal from their truck). citrus pectin
He normally partnered with a girl, sometimes in an adagio dance routine, sometimes comic patter. Though he had an apparent flair for comedy, he never quite clicked with any of his partners, until he met a young Irish Catholic lady in 1923. "And all of a sudden," he said famously (and repeatedlyever failing to get a laugh from it, either) in later years "the audience realised I had a talent. They were right. I did have a talentnd I was married to her for 38 years."
Gracie Allen
Main article: Gracie Allen
George Burns, Gracie Allen and children aboard Matson flagship Lurline just before they sailed for Hawaii, 1938
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen was born into an Irish Catholic show business family and educated at Star of the Sea Convent School in San Francisco, California in girlhood. She began in vaudeville around 1909, teamed as an Irish-dance act, "The Four Colleens", with her sisters, Bessie, Hazel, and Pearl.
She met George Burns and the two immediately launched a new partnership, with Gracie playing the role of the "straight man" and George delivering the punchlines as the comedian. Burns knew something was wrong when the audience ignored his jokes but snickered at Gracie's questions. Burns cannily flipped the act around: After a Hoboken, New Jersey performance in which they tested the new style for the first time, Burns's hunch proved right. Gracie was the better 'laugh-getter', especially with the "illogical logic" that formed her responses to Burns's prompting comments or questions.
Allen's part was known in vaudeville as a "Dumb Dora" act, named after a very early film of the same name that featured a scatterbrained female protagonist, but her "illogical logic" style was several cuts above the Dumb Dora stereotype, as was Burns's understated straight man. The twosome worked the new style tirelessly on the road, building a following, as well as a reputation for being a reliable "disappointment act" (one that could fill in for another act on short notice). Burns and Allen were so consistently dependable that vaudeville bookers elevated them to the more secure "standard act" status, and finally to the vaudevillian's dream: the Palace Theatre in New York.
Burns wrote their early scripts, but was rarely credited with being such a brilliant comedy writer. He continued to write the act through vaudeville, films, radio, and, finally, television, first by himself, then with his brother Willie and a team of writers. The entire concept of the Burns and Allen characters, however, was one created and developed by Burns.
As the team toured in vaudeville, Burns found himself falling in love with Allen, who was engaged to another performer at the time. After several attempts to win her over, he finally succeeded (by accident) after making her cry at a Christmas party. She told a friend that "if George meant enough to her to make her cry she must be in love with him".
They were married in Cleveland, Ohio on January 7, 1926, somewhat daring for those times, considering Burns's Jewish and Allen's Irish Catholic upbringing. They adopted their daughter, Sandra, in 1934 and son, Ronnie, in 1935. (For her part, Allen also endeared herself to her in-laws by adopting his mother's favorite phrase, used whenever the older woman needed to bring her son back down to earth: "Nattie, you're such a schmuck," using a diminutive of his given name. When Burns's mother died, Allen comforted her grief-stricken husband with the same phrase.)
In later years Burns admitted that, following an argument over a pricey silver table centerpiece Allen wanted, he had a very brief affair with a Las Vegas showgirl. Stricken by guilt, he phoned Jack Benny and told him about the indiscretion. However, Allen overheard the conversation and Burns quietly bought the expensive centerpiece and nothing more was said. Years later, he discovered that Allen had told one of her friends about the episode finishing with "You know, I really wish George would cheat on me again. I could use a new centerpiece."
Stage to screen
Getting a start in motion pictures with a series of comic short films, their feature credits in the mid- to late-1930s included The Big Broadcast; International House (1933), Six of a Kind (1934), The Big Broadcast of 1936, The Big Broadcast of 1937, A Damsel in Distress (1937) in which they danced step for step with Fred Astaire, and College Swing (1938), in which Bob Hope made one of his early film appearances.
Burns and Allen were indirectly responsible for the Bob Hope and Bing Crosby series of "Road" pictures. In 1938, William LeBaron, producer and managing director at Paramount, had a script prepared by Don Hartman and Frank Butler. It was to star Burns and Allen with a young crooner named Bing Crosby. The story did not seem to fit the comedy team's style, so LeBaron ordered Hartman and Butler to rewrite the script to fit two male co-stars: Hope and Crosby. The script was titled Road to Singapore and it made motion picture history when it was released in 1940.
Radio stars
Burns and Allen first made it to radio as the comedy relief for bandleader Guy Lombardo, which did not always sit well with Lombardo's home audience. In his later memoir, The Third Time Around, Burns revealed a college fraternity's protest letter, complaining that they resented their weekly dance parties with their girl friends to "Thirty Minutes of the Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven" had to be broken into by the droll vaudeville team.
In time, though, Burns and Allen found their own show and radio audience, first airing on February 15, 1932 and concentrating on their classic stage routines plus sketch comedy in which the Burns and Allen style was woven into different little scenes, not unlike the short films they made in Hollywood. They were also good for a clever publicity stunt, none more so than the hunt for Gracie's missing brother, a hunt that included Gracie turning up on other radio shows searching for him as well.
The couple was portrayed at first as younger singles, with Allen the object of both Burns's and other cast members affections. Most notably, bandleaders Ray Noble (known for his phrase, "Gracie, this is the first time we've ever been alone") and Artie Shaw played "love" interests to Gracie. In addition, singer Tony Martin played an unwilling love interest of Gracie's, in which Gracie "sexually harassed" him, by threatening to fire him if the romantic interest wasn't returned. In time, however, due to slipping ratings and the difficulty of being portrayed as singles in light of the audience's close familiarity with their real-life marriage, the show adapted in 1940 to present them as the married couple they actually were. For a time, Burns and Allen had a rather distinguished and popular musical director: Artie Shaw, who also appeared as a character in some of the show's sketches. A somewhat different Gracie also marked this era, as the Gracie character could often found to be mean to George.
George Your mother cut my face out of the picture.
Gracie Oh George you're being sensitive.
George I am not! Look at my face! What happened to it?
Gracie I don't know; it looks like you fell on it.
Or
Census Taker What do you make?
Gracie I make cookies and aprons and knit sweaters.
Census Taker No, I mean what do you earn?
Gracie George's salary.
As this format grew stale over the years, Burns and his fellow writers redeveloped the show as a situation comedy in the fall of 1941. The reformat focused on the couple's married life and life among various friends, including Elvia Allman as "Tootsie Sagwell," a man-hungry spinster in love with Bill Goodwin, and neighbors, until the characters of Harry and Blanche Morton entered the picture to stay. Like The Jack Benny Program, the new George Burns & Gracie Allen Show portrayed George and Gracie as entertainers with their own weekly radio show. Goodwin remained, his character as "girl-crazy" as ever, and the music was now handled by Meredith Willson (later to be better known for composing the Broadway musical The Music Man). Willson also played himself on the show as a naive, friendly, girl-shy fellow. The new format's success made it one of the few classic radio comedies to completely re-invent itself and regain major fame.
Supporting players
The supporting cast during this phase included Mel Blanc as the melancholy, ironically named "Happy Postman" (his catchphrase was "Remember, keep smiling!"); Bea Benaderet (later Cousin Pearl in The Beverly Hillbillies and the voice of Betty Rubble in The Flintstones) and Hal March (later more famous as the host of The $64,000 Question) as neighbors Blanche and Harry Morton; and the various members of Gracie's ladies' club, the Beverly Hills Uplift Society. One running gag during this period, stretching into the television era, was Burns's questionable singing voice, as Gracie lovingly referred to her husband as "Sugar Throat." The show received and maintained a top ten rating for the rest of its radio life.
New network
The couple took the show to CBS in the fall of 1949, after having spent virtually their entire radio career to date on NBC. Their good friend Jack Benny reached a negotiating impasse with NBC over the corporation he set up ("Amusement Enterprises") to package his show, the better to put more of his earnings on a capital-gains basis and avoid the 80 percent taxes slapped on very high earners in the World War II period. When CBS executive William S. Paley convinced Benny to move to CBS (Paley, among other things, impressed Benny with his attitude that the performers make the network, not the other way around as NBC chief David Sarnoff reputedly believed), Benny in turn convinced several NBC stars to join him, including Burns and Allen. Thus did CBS reap the benefits when Burns and Allen moved to television in 1950.
Television
On television, The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show put faces to the radio characters audiences had come to love. A number of significant changes were seen in the show:
A parade of actors portrayed Harry Morton: Hal March, The Life Of Riley alumnus John Brown, veteran movie and television character actor Fred Clark, and future Mister Ed co-star Larry Keating.
Burns often broke the fourth wall, and chatted with the home audience, telling understated jokes and commenting wryly about what show characters were doing or undoing. In later shows, he would actually turn on a television and watch what the other characters were up to when he was off camera, then returned to foil the plot.
When announcer Bill Goodwin left after the first season, Burns hired veteran radio announcer Harry Von Zell to succeed him. Von Zell was cast as the good-natured, easily-confused Burns and Allen announcer and buddy. He also became one of the show's running gags, when his involvement in Gracie's harebrained ideas would get him fired at least once a week by Burns.
The first shows were simply a copy of the radio format, complete with lengthy and integrated commercials for sponsor Carnation Evaporated Milk by Goodwin. However, what worked well on radio appeared forced and plodding on television. The show was changed into the now-standard situation comedy format, with the commercials distinct from the plot.
Midway through the run of the television show the Burns' two adopted children, Sandra and Ronald, began to make appearances: Sandy as an occasional drama school classmate of Ronnie, and Ronnie himself as George and Gracie's son, who held his parents' comedy style in befuddled contempt and deemed it unsuitable to the "serious" drama student. In one episode, Ronnie and Sandy, in a plot centered around their school's staging a vaudeville-style show to raise money, performed a remarkable impersonation of their famous parents' stage and radio comedy routines.
Burns and Allen also took a cue from Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's Desilu Productions and formed a company of their own, McCadden Corporation (named after the street on which Burns's brother lived), headquartered on the General Service Studio lot in the heart of Hollywood, and set up to film television shows and commercials. Besides their own hit show (which made the transition from a bi-weekly live series to a weekly filmed version in the fall of 1952), the couple's company produced such television series as The Bob Cummings Show (subsequently syndicated and rerun as Love That Bob); The People's Choice, starring Jackie Cooper; Mona McClusky, starring Juliet Prowse; and Mister Ed, starring Alan Young and a talented "talking" horse. Several of their good friend Jack Benny's 1953-55 filmed episodes were also produced by McCadden for CBS.
George Burns appeared on the Muppet Show.
The George Burns Show
The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show ran on CBS Television from 1950 through 1958, when Burns at last consented to Allen's retirement. The onset of heart trouble in the early 1950s had left her exhausted from full-time work and she had been anxious to stop but couldn't say no to Burns.
Burns attempted to continue the show (for new sponsor Colgate-Palmolive on NBC), but without Allen to provide the classic Gracie-isms, the show expired after a year.
Wendy and Me
Burns subsequently created Wendy and Me, a situation comedy in which he co-starred with Connie Stevens, Ron Harper, and J. Pat O'Malley. Burns acted primarily as the narrator, and secondarily as the advisor to Stevens' Gracie-like character. The first episode involved the middle-aged Burns watching with amusement the activities of his young upstairs neighbor on his television set, apparently via hidden cameras, then breaking the fourth wall and commenting directly to viewers. The series only lasted a year. In a promotion, Burns had joked that "Connie Stevens plays Wendy, and I play 'me'."
Allen's death
After fighting a long battle with heart disease, Gracie Allen suffered a fatal heart attack in her home on August 27, 1964 at the age of 69. She was entombed in a mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. In his second book, They Still Love Me in Altoona, Burns wrote that he found it impossible to sleep after her death until he decided to sleep in the bed she used during her illness. He also visited her grave once a month, professing to talk to her about whatever he was doing at the time including, he said, trying to decide whether he really should accept the Sunshine Boys role Jack Benny had to abandon because of his own failing health. He visited the tomb with Ed Bradley during a 60 Minutes interview on November 6, 1988.
The Sunshine Boys
After Gracie's death George immersed himself in work. McCadden Productions co-produced the television series No Time for Sergeants, based on the hit Broadway play; George also produced Juliet Prowse's 1965-'66 NBC situation comedy, Mona McCluskey. At the same time, he toured the U.S. playing nightclub and theater engagements with such diverse partners as Carol Channing, Dorothy Provine, Jane Russell, Connie Haines, and Berle Davis. He also performed a series of solo concerts, playing university campuses, New York's Philharmonic Hall and winding up a successful season at Carnegie Hall, where he wowed a capacity audience with his show-stopping songs, dances, and jokes.
In 1974, Jack Benny signed to play one of the lead roles in the film version of Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys (Red Skelton was originally the other). Benny's health had begun to fail, however, and he advised his manager Irving Fein to let longtime friend Burns fill in for him on a series of nightclub dates to which Benny had committed around the U.S.
Burns, who enjoyed working, accepted the job. As he recalled years later:
"The happiest people I know are the ones that are still working. The saddest are the ones who are retired. Very few performers retire on their own. It's usually because no one wants them. Six years ago Sinatra announced his retirement. He's still working."
But Benny was never able to work on The Sunshine Boys, as he'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, from which he died soon thereafter (December 26, 1974). Burns, heartbroken, said that the only time he ever wept in his life other than Gracie's death was when Benny died. He was chosen to give one of the eulogies at the funeral and said, "Jack was someone special to all of you but he was so special to meI cannot imagine my life without Jack Benny and I will miss him so very much."[citation needed] Burns then broke down and had to be helped to his seat. People who knew George said that he never could really come to terms with his beloved friend's death.
Burns replaced Benny in the film as well as the club tour, a move that turned out to be one of the biggest breaks of his career; his wise performance as faded vaudevillian Al Lewis earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, and secured his career resurgence for good. At age 80, Burns was the oldest Oscar winner in the history of the Academy Awards, a record that would remain until Jessica Tandy won an Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy in 1989.
Oh, God!
In 1977, Burns made another hit film, Oh, God!, playing the omnipotent title role opposite singer John Denver as an earnest but befuddled supermarket manager, whom God picks at random to revive His message. The image of Burns in a sailor's cap and light springtime jacket as the droll Almighty influenced his subsequent comedic work, as well as that of other comedians. At a celebrity roast in his honor, Dean Martin adapted a Burns crack: "When George was growing up, the Top Ten were the Ten Commandments."
Burns appeared in this character along with Vanessa Williams on the September 1984 cover of Penthouse magazine, the issue which contained the infamous nude photos of Williams, as well as the first appearance of underage pornographic film star Nora Kuzma, better known to the world as Traci Lords. A blurb on the cover even announced "Oh God, she's naked!"
Oh, God! inspired two sequels Oh, God! Book Two (in which the Almighty engages a precocious schoolgirl (Louanne Sirota) to spread the word) and Oh, God! You Deviln which Burns played a dual role as God and the Devil, with the soul of a would-be songwriter (Ted Wass) at stake.
Burns also provided the voice of God in John Denver's TV special Montana Christmas Skies.
Later films
Burns appeared in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the film based on the Beatles' album of the same name.
Burns continued to work well into his nineties, writing a number of books and appearing in television and films. One of his last films was 18 Again!, based on his half-novelty, country music based hit single, "I Wish I Was 18 Again." In this film, he played a self-made millionaire industrialist who switched bodies with his awkward, artistic, eighteen-year-old grandson (played by Charlie Schlatter).
His last feature film role was the cameo role of Milt Lackey, a 100 year old stand-up comedian, in the comedy mystery Radioland Murders.
Author
Burns was a bestselling author who wrote a total of 10 books:
I Love Her, That's Why (1955)
Living It Up or They Still Love Me in Altoona (1976)
The Third Time Around (1980)
How to Live to be 100 or More (1983)
Dr. Burns' Prescription for Happiness (1984)
Dear George (1986)
Gracie, A Love Story (1988)
All My Best Friends (1989)
Wisdom of the 90s (1991)
100 Years 100 Stories (1996)
Final years
Portrait of George Burns by Allan Warren
When Burns turned 90 in 1986, the city of Los Angeles, California renamed the northern end of Hamel Road "George Burns Road," City regulations prohibited naming a city street after a living person, but an exception was made for Burns. In celebration of Burns's 99th birthday in 1995, Los Angeles, California renamed the eastern end of Alden Drive "Gracie Allen Drive." Burns was present at the unveiling ceremony where he quipped, "It's good to be here at the corner of Burns & Allen. At my age, it's good to be anywhere!" George Burns Road and Gracie Allen Drive cross just a few blocks west of the Beverly Center mall.
George Burns patter in his nightclub routine poked humor at his age. Burns would say, "I was born when Grover Cleveland was President." The girl replied, "I know hime managed a baseball team." Burns would say, "I will now sing a modern patriotic song," singing, "I'll be waitin' for you Bill when you get back from San Juan Hill; because Bill McKinley sent you on your way." By this time, Burns fans knew of President McKinley, President Cleveland and the Spanish-American War only from history books.
Burns's stage persona in his final phase of professional life was that of an amorous senior citizen, which became a running gag for the rest of his career. In 1988, he received the Kennedy Center Honors and had booked himself to play the London Palladium and Caesars Palace for his 100th birthday.
Death
George Burns on The Golden Palace, 1993, in one of his last TV appearances.
In July 1994, Burns fell in his bathtub and had to undergo surgery to remove fluid that had collected on his brain. His health began to decline afterward. All performances celebrating his 100th birthday were canceled. In December 1995, Burns was well enough to attend a Christmas party hosted by Frank Sinatra, where he reportedly caught the flu, which weakened him further. On January 20, 1996, he celebrated his 100th birthday, but was no longer mobile enough to perform and instead spent the evening at home.
On March 9, 1996, just forty-nine days after his milestone birthday, Burns died in his Beverly Hills home of cardiac arrest. His funeral was held three days later at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale. George Burns was buried in his best dark blue suit, light blue shirt and red tie along with three cigars in his pocket, his toupee, his watch that Gracie gave him, his ring, and in his pocket, his keys and his wallet with 10 $100 bills, a five and three ones.
As much as he looked forward to reaching age 100, Burns also stated that he looked forward to death, saying that the day he died he would be with Gracie again in heaven. Upon being interred with Gracie, the crypt's marker was changed to, "Gracie Allen & George Burnsogether Again." George had said that he wanted Gracie to have top billing.
Legacy
The handprints of George Burns in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.
Burns and Allen were the subjects of Rupert Holmes's play Say Goodnight, Gracie.
In the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the two humpback whales are named George and Gracie after Burns and Allen.
Hooters restaurants had signs that prior to George's death read "We even card George Burns," and following his death were changed to read "We even carded George Burns."
The episode "The Deep End" of Robot Chicken features a parody of the movie Kill Bill entitled Kill Bunny with George Burns replacing Pai Mei.
The Simpsons referenced Burns in the Season 5 episode titled "Rosebud". In the show, Burns is the younger brother of Montgomery Burns. The character of Mr. Burns, as a kid, leaves his family to live with a rich man (who is actually his paternal grandfather). His father makes the comment, "Oh well. At least we still have his little brother George." The camera flashes to a kid-sized George Burns, who sings a line in his style and then says, "Trust me, it'll be funny when I'm an old man."
In South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, George Burns appears briefly when Kenny goes to Hell. Along with Adolf Hitler and Mahatma Gandhi, he is a ghost who talks to Kenny, and is heard saying, "Hey, fuckface, you seen Gracie?".
In an episode of Boy Meets World, Corey Mathews claims an old educational puberty film starred George Burns.
In the film For the Boys, the characters played by Bette Midler and James Caan talk about how their comedy act will be "bigger than Burns and Allen, bigger than Hope and Crosby".
In en episode of Mad About You, Paul Reiser's character is working on a documentary on the history of television. In a scene he is reviewing classic television shows, and the viewer can hear Gracie saying, "Well, if we were married they'd call me Mrs. Burns."
In Eminem's duel rap song Guilty Conscience, there is a reference to George Burns, "Think about it before you walk in the door first; Look at the store clerk, she's older than George Burns"
Filmography
Features
The Big Broadcast (1932)
International House (1933)
College Humor (1933)
Six of a Kind (1934)
We're Not Dressing (1934)
Many Happy Returns (1934)
Love in Bloom (1935)
Here Comes Cookie (1935)
The Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935)
College Holiday (1936)
A Damsel in Distress (1937)
College Swing (1938)
Honolulu (1939)
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956) (narrator)
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Oh, God! (1977)
Movie Movie (1978)
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
Just You and Me, Kid (1979)
Going in Style (1979)
Oh, God Book II (1980)
Oh, God! You Devil (1984)
18 Again! (1988)
A Century of Cinema (1994) (documentary)
Radioland Murders (1994)
2010 Mars Men (cancellation)
Short Subjects
Lambchops (1929)
Fit to Be Tied (1930)
Pulling a Bone (1931)
The Antique Shop (1931)
Once Over, Light (1931)
100% Service (1931)
Oh, My Operation (1932)
The Babbling Book (1932)
Your Hat (1932)
Let's Dance (1933)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933)
Walking the Baby (1933)
Screen Snapshots: Famous Fathers and Sons (1946)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Grows Up (1954)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty (1955)
All About People (1967) (narrator)
A Look at the World of Soylent Green (1973)
The Lion Roars Again (1975)
Discography
Albums
Year
Album
Chart Positions
Label
US Country
US
1980
I Wish I Was Eighteen Again
12
93
Mercury
Singles
Year
Single
Chart Positions
Album
US Country
US
CAN Country
CAN
CAN AC
1980
"I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"
15
49
8
25
19
I Wish I Was Eighteen Again
"The Arizona Whiz"
85
1981
"Willie, Won't You Sing a Song with Me"
66
Single only
Radio series
The Robert Burns Panatella Show 19321933; CBS
In their debut series, George and Gracie shared the bill with Guy Lombardo and his orchestra. The pair launched themselves into national stardom with their first major publicity stunt, Gracie's ongoing search for her missing brother.
The White Owl Program 19331934; CBS
The Adventures of Gracie 19341935; CBS
The Campbell's Tomato Juice Program 19351937; CBS
The Grape Nuts Program 19371938; NBC
The Chesterfield Program 19381939; CBS
The Hinds Honey and Almond Cream Program 19391940; CBS
This series featured another wildly successful publicity stunt which had Gracie running for President of the United States.
The Hormel Program 19401941; NBC
Advertised a brand new product called Spam; this show featured musical numbers by jazz great Artie Shaw.
The Swan Soap Show 19411945; NBC, CBS
This series featured a radical format change, in that George and Gracie played themselves as a married couple for the first time, and the show became a full-fledged domestic situation comedy. This was George's response to a marked drop in ratings under the old "Flirtation Act" format (as he later recalled, he finally realized "our jokes are too young for us").
Maxwell House Coffee Time 19451949; NBC
The Amm-i-Dent Toothpaste Show 19491950; CBS
TV series
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show 19501958; CBS
Broadcast live every other week for the first two seasons, 26 episodes per year. Starting in the third season, all episodes were filmed and broadcast weekly, 40 episodes per year. A total of 291 episodes were created.
The George Burns Show 19581959; NBC
An unsuccessful attempt to continue the format of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show without Gracie, the rest of the cast intact.
Wendy and Me 19641965; NBC
George plays narrator in this short-lived series, just as he had in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, but with far less on-screen time, as the focus is on a young couple played by Connie Stevens and Ron Harper. Stevens is, essentially, playing a version of Gracie's character.
George Burns Comedy Week 1985; CBS
Another short-lived series, a weekly comedy anthology program whose only connecting thread was George's presence as host. He does not appear in any of the actual storylines. He was 89 years old when the series was produced.
References
^ a b Marx, Arthur. "Ninety-eight-year-old George Burns Shares Memories of His Life". Cigar Aficionado. http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Profiles/People_Profile/0,2540,3,00.html. Retrieved 2007-08-21. "Comedian George Burns is not only a living legend, he's living proof that smoking between 10 and 15 cigars a day for 70 years contributes to one's longevity."
^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3c-WBn5cCg
^ Burns, George (1988). Gracie: A Love Story. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. pp. 6465. ISBN 0399133844. http://www.adherents.com/people/pb/Jack_Benny.html.
^ a b Seeing-Stars.com.
^ George Burns's death certificate
^ "George Burns, Straight Man And Ageless Wit, Dies at 100". New York Times. March 10, 1996.
^ George Burns and Gracie Allen acting as spokesmen for Spam (1940).
Further reading
George Burns by Martin Gottfried, published by Simon & Schuster, 1996
External links
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: George Burns
Official George Burns website
George Burns at the Internet Movie Database
George Burns at the Internet Broadway Database
George Burns at Allmusic
George Burns at Find a Grave
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NAME
Burns, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
Birnbaum, Nathan
SHORT DESCRIPTION
Actor, Comedian, Writer
DATE OF BIRTH
1896-1-20
PLACE OF BIRTH
New York City, New York
DATE OF DEATH
March 9, 1996
PLACE OF DEATH
Beverly Hills, California
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