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Lex Goudsmit

Alexandre Joseph Goudsmit (15 March 1913 – 10 December 1999) was a Dutch-Belgian actor.

Goudsmit's father, a diamond worker, was Jewish and his mother Roman Catholic. He became famous in 1966 for playing Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, which role he performed some 1100 times in the Netherlands and in London. He played many characters on Dutch television, among others in the popular youth series Q en Q (1974) and Thomas en Senior (1985–88). From 1984 to 1999 he played Grandpa Lex on Sesamstraat, the Dutch version of Sesame Street. Goudsmit was one of the artists who recorded the song Shalom from Holland (written by Simon Hammelburg and Ron Klipstein) as a token of solidarity to the Israeli people, threatened by missiles from Iraq, during the first Gulf War in 1991.

When Goudsmit died as the consequences of a stroke, instead of doing an episode dealing with his death, along the lines of Mr. Hooper's death, the producers addressed the issue on the program following Sesamstraat, called Jeugdjournaal (Youth News). The program aired a compilation of his best appearances on the show and commented on his death. Goudsmit had told producers that he wanted to stay on Sesamstraat even after his death, so the latest scenes he taped were still used on the next season. During this season, he was slowly phased out of the show and Aart Staartjes, who played the grumpy neighbor "Meneer Aart", became the grandfather figure.

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Richard Preston

Richard Preston (born August 5, 1954) is a writer for The New Yorker and bestselling author who has written books about infectious disease, bioterrorism, redwoods and other subjects, as well as fiction.

Biography
Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He graduated Wellesley High School in Massachusetts in 1972 and attended Pomona College in Claremont, California. He earned a Ph.D. in English from Princeton University in 1983.

His 1992 New Yorker article "Crisis in the Hot Zone" was expanded into his breakout book, The Hot Zone (1994). It is classified as a "non-fiction thriller" about ebolaviruses. He learned of Ebola through such contacts as U.S. Army researchers Drs. C.J. Peters and Nancy Jaax. His fascination began during a visit to Africa where he was an eyewitness to epidemics. The book served as the (very loose) basis of the Hollywood movie Outbreak (1995) about military machinations surrounding a fictional "Motaba virus".

Preston's novel The Cobra Event (1998), about a terrorism release of a fictional virus combining various qualities of different diseases upon New York City, alarmed even then-President Bill Clinton who, shortly after reading it, instigated a review of bio-terror threats to the U.S. The book strove to tell a fast-paced thriller narrative within the bounds of well-researched bio-terrorism possibility, and was reportedly pressed upon Clinton by a molecular biologist when he was attending a Renaissance Weekend event.

The Demon in the Freezer (2002) covers the story of the eradication of smallpox, perhaps the most destructive virus to have plagued mankind. It details the survival of the virus in research labs and bio-weapon programs of Russia and other nations, despite its eradication in the human population. The narrative continues with anthrax, a bacterial disease of cattle and humans, used in the 2001 anthrax attacks.

First Light and American Steel are non-fiction books addressing astrophysics and the steel industry. First Light centers around the history of the Hale Telescope on Palomar Mountain, and the astronomers who work there. American Steel chronicles the history of the Nucor steel company, and focuses on its newest steel plant in Indiana, whose success depends on a new steel-sheet making machine engineered in West Germany.

Preston's personal hobby of recreational tree climbing is introduced in The Wild Trees (2007). His climbing experience likely led him to write about the largest known redwoods like Lost Monarch in the Grove of Titans, or Iluvatar, described in that book along with delicate forest canopy ecosystems.

Preston's Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science is a collection of essays related to his experiences researching his previous books.

In November 2009, Preston was selected by Harper-Collins and the Michael Crichton estate to complete his unfinished novel Micro after Crichton's death in November 2008. The book was released on November 22, 2011. Approximately a third of Micro was completed by Crichton. Preston completed the book according to the author's remaining outline, notes, and research.

In 2016, Preston served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program where he judged the prestigious Iowa Prize in Literary Nonfiction.

Preston resides in Hopewell, New Jersey with his wife, Michelle, and their two daughters and one son. He is also the brother of best-selling author Douglas Preston.

Minor planet 3792 Preston is named in his honor.

Novels

 * 1997:, or Cobra's Eye
 * 2003:
 * 2011: Co-written with Michael Crichton; completed after Crichton's death.

Non-fiction

 * Articles:

 * Nature:
 * 2007:

 * Science:
 * 2008:

 * True events:
 * 1987: 	ISBN 9780871132000; OCLC 16004290
 * 1991:
 * 1994:
 * 2002:
 * 2019:

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Arturo Labriola

Arturo Labriola (21 January 1873 – 23 June 1959) was an Italian revolutionary syndicalist and socialist politician and journalist.

Early political activity (until 1897)
Labriola was born in Naples on 21 January 1873 to Luigi Labriola, an artisan. While studying jurisprudence in University of Naples, Arturo Labriola started his political activity. In 1891 he joined the Republican-Socialist University Circle. Between 1892 and 1895, he collaborated on various periodicals: Socialismo Popolare, edited by Carlo Monicelli, Rivista Popolare di Politica, Litteratura e Scienze Sociali, edited by Napoleone Colajanni and Critica Sociale, edited by Filippo Turati. In 1894–1895, Labriola was involved with the Fasci Siciliani and therefore was suspended for one year from university studies. In 1897, Labriola joined Italian Socialist Party (PSI) and fought in the Greco-Turkish War in Crete.

Life in exile (1898–1900)
In May 1898, workers in Milan organized strikes and protests to demonstrate against the government. The riots were brutally repressed: troops fired on demonstrators, and Filippo Turati was arrested, and accused of inspiring the riots. Labriola fled to Geneva in order to elude arrest. There, he taught at University of Geneva and worked with Vilfredo Pareto. Labriola was expelled from Switzerland in the same year and moved to Paris. In Paris he met the socialists Georges Sorel, Hubert Lagardelle and Paul Lafargue.

Revolutionary syndicalist period
He returned to Italy in 1900, and in 1902 published a weekly called Avanguardia Socialista which became the centre of activity for Italian revolutionary syndicalism. From 1910 to 1911 he was one of the leading contributors of La Lupa, a weekly magazine supporting the revolution. He later withdrew his support for revolution, and adopted Marxist Reformism, becoming a member of the Italian Parliament as an independent. Favourable to Italy's participation in World War I, Labriola also served as Minister of Labor in the last of Giovanni Giolitti's cabinets (1920).

An opponent of Fascism, he had to take exile in France after Benito Mussolini came to power, but returned in 1935. In 1946 he was elected member of the Constituent Assembly of Italy as a National Democratic Union candidate. In 1948 he became a senator of the new Republic.

As it was confirmed by the former President of the Grand Orient of Italy, he was one of the eight father constituents belonging to the main Italian Masonic organization.

Works

 * La teoria del valore di C. Marx, Studio sul III libro del Capitale (1899)
 * Riforme e rivoluzione sociale (1904, 1906)
 * Karl Marx, L'Économiste, Le Socialiste (1910)
 * Storia di dieci anni (1910)
 * La guerra di Tripoli e l'opinione socialista (1912)
 * Spiegazioni a me stesso (1945)

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ABC Records

ABC Records was an American record label founded in New York City in 1955. It originated as the main popular music label operated by the Am-Par Record Corporation. Am-Par also created the Impulse! jazz label in 1960. It acquired many labels before ABC was sold to MCA Records in 1979. ABC produced music in a variety of genres: pop, rock, jazz, country, rhythm and blues, soundtrack, gospel, and polka. In addition to producing records, ABC licensed masters from independent record producers, and purchased regionally released records for national distribution.

The label was initially called Am-Par Records (1955), but quickly changed to ABC-Paramount Records (1955–1966), and then renamed ABC Records in 1966.

Background
In the 1940s and early 1950s, the Federal Communications Commission took action against the Anti-competitive practices of movie studios and broadcasting companies, forcing the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) to sell the Blue Network, the sister network of NBC Red Network, in 1943. The Blue Network was purchased by Edward J. Noble, who changed the company's name to the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) in 1946. In 1953, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, the divested former exhibition/cinema division of Paramount Pictures, with the newly-merged corporation, American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres (AB-PT) chaired by former Paramount Theaters executive Leonard Goldenson and headquartered at 1501 Broadway in New York City, above the Paramount Theater in Times Square.

ABC-Paramount Records
American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres formed a records division, incorporating the Am-Par Record Corporation on 1955-6-14 with Samuel H. Clark as its first president. By August 1955, the unit was organized with AMPCO (ASCAP) and PAMCO (BMI) as subsidiary publishing units. Though the record label was established as Am-Par, no records were released until after the division's name was changed to ABC-Paramount in September 1955.

Eydie Gorme was the company's first signed artist. The company recorded its first single record, "Sincerely Yours" and "Come Home", both by Gorme. Alec Templeton's "Smart Alec" was the company's first LP recorded, also in September 1955.

One of Gorme's singles was its first release in January 1956. "Chain Gang" by Bobby Scott in February 1956 was the company's first national hit. George Hamilton IV's "A Rose and a Baby Ruth" single was Am-Paramount's first million-selling single in October 1956.

In 1957, the company had two million-selling singles: in June with "Diana" by Paul Anka and in October with "At the Hop" by Danny & the Juniors. Am-Paramount Records in May 1958 debuted the Apt subsidiary label with its first million-selling single, "Little Star" by the Elegants, released the same month.

Chancellor Records had Am-Par Record Corporation handle its distribution starting in 1957 and started a trend. Chancellor had its first million-selling single in October 1958 with Lloyd Price's "Stagger Lee".

Am-Par purchased Grand Award Records including the newly formed Command Records label, in 1959. The company started a second label for jazz, Impulse! Records, in November 1960. Impulse released its first four records in January 1961.

The company had artists that earned three Grammy Awards in 1960. While in January 1961, the company purchased Westminster Records, a classical label. Thus Am-Par Record had a label for each music genre.

Am-Par Record Corporation was renamed to ABC-Paramount Records, Inc. on December 7, 1961. The company opened a Los Angeles office in January 1962. Ray Charles formed Tangerine Records in March 1962 and arranged for ABC-Paramount to distribute Tangerine's records. The company formed Jet Record Distributors based in Long Island City, N.Y. as its local distributor. Also in 1962, the company had acquired Music Guild label and library for Westminster Records.

In 1965, Clark was promoted to vice-president in charge of AB-PT's non-broadcast operations. National sales manager Larry Newton was named ABC-Paramount president. On January 4, 1965, vice-president in charge of sales Larry Newton was promoted to president of ABC-Paramount Records. The previous president, Sam Clark was promoted to director of theater operations for American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres. Newton's first action as president was to restart Apt Records as a teen-oriented West Coast base label under Irwin Garr.

ABC Records
In June 1966, the label was renamed ABC Records, and the company acquired New Deal Record Service Corp., a rack-jobbing and record distribution company, along with its affiliates.

In 1967, Dunhill Records was purchased from Lou Adler. In 1970, ABC and Dunhill moved its headquarters to Los Angeles. Newton was promoted to vice-president in charge of ABC Pictures. Dunhill co-owner Jay Lasker was named president and referred to the combined operations as ABC/Dunhill. At that time ABC had another five labels: Westminster, Command, Probe, Impulse!, and Bluesway.

At the August 29, 1970 Directors Guild meeting, ABC/Dunhill launched a number of marketing initiatives. The company planned to have writers create a broader music for the catalog market. Imprints Probe and Apt were relaunched, Probe as a label which held the international rights to ABC's albums and Apt as a label which released budget cassettes and 8-track tapes. Jazz dropped from Impulse!'s cover for a new slogan: "University Series of Fine Recordings" and two new series were launched: Audio Treasury and Westminster Gold for classic and youth fare, respectively.

By May 1972, ABC formed the ABC Leisure Group, which included ABC Records, Anchor Records, and ABC Records and Tape Sales, plus a new retail record-store division. Lasker left ABC to join Ariola America Records in 1975. He was succeeded by Jerry Rubinstein, who served as company head until 1977. In November 1972, ABC bought country music company Cartwheel Records.

In 1974, ABC switched British distribution from EMI to the EMI-distributed Anchor Records, allowing ABC recordings to be issued on the ABC label in the UK, and Anchor records to be distributed by ABC on the Anchor label in the US. Also in 1974, ABC acquired Famous Music Records Group including Nashville based Dot Records then began releasing ABC country music under the ABC/Dot label until January 1979.

As a cost-cutting measure, ABC Records discarded many master tapes in the 1970s to save storage space. When these recordings were reissued on compact disc in the 1980s, CD versions were often taken from master copies which had less than optimal sound quality. The company's last president, Steve Diener, was named to that job in 1977 after serving as head of ABC Records' international division. Because of financial problems except for its Nashville office, ABC Records was sold on January 31, 1979 to MCA Records with ABC Records being its third label likely under a different name. Instead, MCA discontinued ABC Records on March 5, 1979 and albums in the ABC catalog still selling well were reissued on MCA.

Diener died in April 2019, aged 80.

Acquisitions
ABC Records sub-labeled Apt to release singles. In the early 1960s, it bought Westminster, a classical music label. For jazz it created Impulse!. Led by Creed Taylor and Bob Thiele, Impulse! developed a reputation for innovative releases, including albums by John Coltrane from 1961 until his death in 1967. ABC created Bluesway for blues music. Tangerine was formed by Ray Charles to produce his albums and those he produced.

ABC Records bought Dunhill in the summer of 1967, forming ABC Dunhill Records. It also bought Don Robey's record labels, including Duke, Peacock, Back Beat, and Song Bird on May 23, 1973.

In 1974 ABC bought the Famous Music record labels from Gulf and Western, the parent company of Paramount. This acquisition gave ABC Dot, Blue Thumb, and a distribution deal with Sire, which released the first album from the Ramones.

ABC purchased all labels from Enoch Light in October 1959. It acquired Audition, Command, Colortone, and Waldorf Music Hall.

In 1979, ABC was acquired by MCA for $30 million. It operated briefly as a separate division. MCA was absorbed by the Universal Music Group, which currently distributes recordings for ABC's current sister company, Disney Music Group, worldwide except for Russia.

This is not the same ABC Records that operates in Australia, which is run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, although the Ampar label was distributed in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s, first by W&G Records (1955–60) and then by Festival. Nor is it the sub-label of Voiceprint.

ABC-Paramount/ABC Records label variations

 * 1955–1961: Black label, "ABC-PARAMOUNT" around top perimeter of label in yellow, red, and blue (repeating in that sequence) Venus medium font, with silver print for singles and the company's name in all white letters in Venus medium and silver print for albums and logo consisting of color spectrum Möbius strip and white jagged line (representing a sound wave). Bottom perimeter of label reads: "A PRODUCT OF AM-PAR RECORD CORP."
 * 1961–1966: Same label as above, but disclaimer at bottom of label now reads: "A PRODUCT OF ABC-PARAMOUNT RECORDS, INC."
 * 1966–1967: Label name now shortened to ABC Records. Black label with large white circle at top with "abc" in black letters and the "Möbius strip and sound wave" logo under the letters. This variant was used only for singles.
 * 1967–1974: Black label with small white "abc" circle logo in color spectrum box at top (In conjunction with this label, a brief interim label was used from 1973 to 1974 consisting of three children's blocks spelling out ABC and one block with the "abc" logo in a white triangle at the top).
 * 1974–1978: Yellow, orange, red and purple "sunburst" label with "abc Records" (black "abc" circle logo) between two black lines at top. (Note: The other ABC labels would also adopt this label, such as Dunhill, Dot, Blue Thumb with its logo next to the "abc" logo, and Backbeat and Impulse! with a green background rather than a yellow background, but the circles were the same.)
 * 1978–1979: Same multi-colored label as above, but with 1/8 note featuring "abc" inside the bottom of the note. Late pressings show "Mfg. & Dist. by MCA Distributing Corp..." at the bottom perimeter, just before the ABC label was discontinued and its artists transferred to MCA.

Artists associated with ABC Records and its labels

 * Amazing Rhythm Aces
 * Paul Anka
 * Louis Armstrong
 * The Atlantics
 * Kevin Ayers
 * Florence Ballard
 * Count Basie
 * Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers (US/Canada)
 * Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones
 * Stephen Bishop
 * Art Blakey
 * Blood, Sweat & Tears
 * Bobby Bland
 * The Brass Ring
 * Tom Bresh
 * Charles Brown
 * Roy Brown
 * Jimmy Buffett
 * Solomon Burke
 * Shirley Collie
 * Carl Carlton
 * Betty Carter
 * Johnny Carver (musician)
 * Ray Charles
 * Kvitka Cisyk
 * Roy Clark
 * Ornette Coleman
 * John Coltrane
 * John Conlee
 * Billy "Crash" Craddock
 * Jim Croce
 * Crosby and Nash
 * Crowfoot
 * The Crusaders
 * Danny & the Juniors
 * Dalton and Dubarri
 * James Darren
 * Billy Davis Jr.
 * The Del-Vikings
 * The Dells
 * Fats Domino
 * Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
 * The Dramatics
 * The Dubs
 * Duke and the Drivers
 * The Elegants
 * Lu Elliott
 * Mario Escudero
 * Donna Fargo
 * Narvel Felts
 * Freddy Fender
 * Ferrante & Teicher
 * Mickie Finn's
 * The Floaters
 * Frank Fontaine
 * Four Tops
 * Ferrante & Teicher
 * The 5th Dimension
 * Lefty Frizzell
 * Gabriel (band)
 * Genesis (US/Canada)
 * Eydie Gormé
 * The Grass Roots
 * George Hamilton IV
 * Bobby Hammack
 * Christian Harmonizers
 * Richard Harris (US/Canada)
 * Coleman Hawkins
 * Isaac Hayes
 * Roy Head
 * Hello People
 * Levon Helm
 * Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
 * Eddie Holman
 * John Lee Hooker
 * Freddie Hubbard
 * James Gang
 * The Impressions
 * Jackie and Roy
 * Johnny Kidd and the Pirates (US/Canada)
 * B.B. King
 * Kracker
 * Frankie Laine
 * Julius La Rosa
 * Denise LaSalle
 * Yusef Lateef
 * Steve Lawrence
 * J B Loyd
 * Eddie Lund
 * Barbara Mandrell
 * The Mamas and the Papas
 * Barry Mann
 * Charles Mann
 * Shelly Manne
 * Guy Marks
 * The Marvelows
 * Marilyn McCoo
 * Brownie McGhee
 * Barry McGuire
 * Mighty Clouds of Joy
 * Charles Mingus
 * The O'Kaysions
 * The Oak Ridge Boys
 * Tommy Overstreet
 * Pavlov's Dog
 * Paxton Brothers
 * Poco
 * The Pointer Sisters
 * The Poni-Tails
 * Lloyd Price
 * Rare Bird
 * Jimmy Reed
 * Emitt Rhodes
 * Rhythm Heritage
 * Cliff Richard (US/Canada)
 * Sue Richards
 * Howard Roberts (Impulse!)
 * Tommy Roe
 * Sonny Rollins
 * Jeris Ross
 * Royal Teens
 * Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
 * Jimmy Rushing
 * John Wesley Ryles
 * Sabicas
 * Soupy Sales
 * The Sapphires
 * Bobby Scott
 * Jack Scott
 * Shirley Scott
 * The Shadows (US/Canada)
 * Archie Shepp
 * Beverly Sills
 * Smith (featuring Gayle McCormick)
 * Soft Machine (Probe/ABC)
 * Otis Spann
 * Arnold Stang
 * Dusty Springfield (US/Canada)
 * Joe Stampley
 * Red Steagall
 * Silk
 * Steely Dan
 * Diane Steinberg
 * Steppenwolf
 * Stepson
 * Sonny Terry
 * B. J. Thomas
 * Three Dog Night
 * Buck Trent
 * Joe Turner
 * US Radio Band
 * Eddie Vinson
 * Bobby Vinton
 * T-Bone Walker
 * Joe Walsh
 * Wha-Koo
 * Josh White
 * Chico Williams
 * Lenny Williams
 * Jimmy Witherspoon
 * Bobby Wright
 * O. V. Wright
 * The Ziontones

Labels associated with ABC Records

 * 20th Century Fox Records
 * Addison Records
 * Anchor Records
 * Apt Records
 * Back Beat Records
 * Bigtop Records
 * Blue Thumb Records
 * Bluesway Records
 * Boom Records
 * Buluu Dunhill Records
 * Chancellor Records
 * Cimarron Records
 * Colonial Records
 * Command Records
 * Dot Records
 * Duke Records
 * Dunhill Records
 * Equinox Records
 * Fargo Records
 * Grand Award Records
 * GTO Records
 * Hickory Records
 * Hot Buttered Soul Records
 * Hunt Records
 * Impulse! Records
 * Jerden Records
 * LHI Records
 * Montel Records
 * Myrrh Records
 * Oliver Records
 * Passport Records
 * Peacock Records
 * Probe Records
 * Senate Records
 * Shelter Records
 * Sire Records
 * Song Bird Records
 * Tangerine Records
 * Westminster Records
 * Wren Records

Management of ABC Records catalog today
The catalogs of ABC Records and its sub-labels are now controlled by Universal Music Group. UMG also distributes Disney Music Group, which is owned by ABC's current parent, The Walt Disney Company, with the following exceptions:
 * The Paul Anka ABC-Paramount catalog is controlled by Anka himself. Distribution is done by Universal Music Enterprises and its Canadian counterpart UMusic.
 * The Jim Croce catalog is controlled by the Croce estate and R2M Music, and is distributed by BMG Rights Management.
 * The Ray Charles catalog is controlled by the Charles estate and is currently licensed to Concord Records. Concord's recordings are distributed by UMG.
 * The Amazing Rhythm Aces catalog and the recordings that former 5th Dimension members Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. made for ABC are controlled by Sony Music.
 * Lawrence Welk acquired his Dot recordings (prior to ABC acquiring the label) which were reissued on his Ranwood Records label. Like Concord, Ranwood is also distributed by UMG.

The following labels manage different genres:
 * Pop, rock, R&B: Geffen
 * Jazz: Impulse!, Impulse!/Verve
 * Country: Universal Music Group Nashville
 * Classical: Deutsche Grammophon
 * Musical theater: Decca Broadway

These labels also produce releases from labels absorbed into ABC. For example, MCA Nashville's catalog includes country releases on Dot Records. Deutsche Grammophon's catalog includes the Westminster Records catalog, as well as soundtracks released by Dot and Paramount Records.

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Talk:Stelzer engine

I moved this from Frank Selzer, however neither he nor his invention seem to be terribly significant as evidenced with a Google search. And the version submitted by User:Wysocki1 even conceeds this, which leads me to believe this may be a vanity page and a possible VfD candidate (see revision history). Alcarillo 16:06, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Unsure. It has been the subject of a number of newspaper articles in Australia, but these may just have been produced by clever press releases. Andrewa 22:47, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Still unsure. The diagrams at the external link have no connecting-rods or crankshaft, which certainly allows for fewer moving parts and simplified manufacturing, but it's not obvious how this engine would achieve anything either! If the intention is to use a turbine on the exhaust to deliver the power, that should be shown in the diagrams as it's a basic part of the concept, but this of course increases the number of moving parts and the complexity, and complicates manufacturing. Similar designs have been tried in the past with conventional reciprocating engines, but they weren't a great success.

I think the (top) ends of the pistons are used as pumps ie: they pump air. There is also talk of linear generators ie: magnets embedded in the rods - no rotary action. This is typical of free piston engines.

The claim that this is an opposed piston design is a strange one, opposed piston is an established and completely different concept, see talk:opposed piston.

I don't think this article does a lot of harm as long as we are careful to keep it NPOV, but I wouldn't be upset if it were deleted either. Andrewa 20:00, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

German wikipedia
There is a lot more information in the German article. It just needs translating. Biscuittin (talk) 12:38, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

Opposed/opposing, scavenging and output
It is an opposing piston design, with two combustion chambers, rather than an opposed piston design with one combustion chamber. The central chamber seems to provide the equivalent of "crankcase compression" so no scavenge blower would be needed. According to the patent: "The power generated by the combustion can be transformed into work by the piston portions 16 and 18, in that, for example, in further chambers (not shown) still another medium can be periodically sucked in and exhausted. This medium can then drive other working machines, for example, turbines, in a further cycle (not shown)". Biscuittin (talk) 12:48, 26 March 2015 (UTC)

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Chucho Valdés

Dionisio Jesús Valdés Rodríguez, better known as Chucho (born October 9, 1941), is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger whose career spans over 50 years. An original member of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, in 1973 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands.

Both his father, Bebo Valdés, and his son, Chuchito, are pianists as well. As a solo artist, he has won seven Grammy Awards and four Latin Grammy Awards.

Career
Chucho Valdés's first recorded sessions as a leader took place in late January 1964 in the Areíto Studios of Havana (former Panart studios) owned by the newly formed EGREM. These early sessions included Paquito D'Rivera on alto saxophone and clarinet, Alberto Giral on trombone, Julio Vento on flute, Carlos Emilio Morales on guitar, Kike Hernández on double bass, Emilio del Monte on drums and Óscar Valdés Jr. on congas. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, these would be the members of his jazz combo, whose lineup would often change, sometimes including bassists Cachaíto and later Carlos del Puerto, and drummers Guillermo Barreto and later Enrique Plá.

In 1967, Chucho and his bandmates became founding members of Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna, together with many other well-known Cuban musicians. This all-star big band would back singers such as Elena Burke and Omara Portuondo. In 1973, Chucho along with other members of the Orquesta Cubana de Música Moderna founded Irakere, an ensemble that bridged songo and Afro-Cuban jazz. He would simultaneously continue his solo career, eventually signing with Blue Note Records, which allowed him to get international exposure. As a result, Chucho's work has received universal critical acclaim from the media, winning seven Grammy awards.

Chucho's father, Bebo, who attained a legendary status as the pianist and director of the Tropicana Club orchestra and Orquesta Sabor de Cuba, fled Cuba in 1960, and did not record music again until the 1990s. In the late 1990s, Chucho decided to focus on his solo career, and his son Chuchito replaced him as the pianist/director of Irakere. Chucho and Bebo occasionally played together until the latter's death in 2013. Since 2010, Chucho performs with a backing band known as the Afro-Cuban Messengers.

Chucho has spent much of his time teaching younger generations, either in his homeland of Cuba at the Havana National school (with many famous musicians such as Herbie Hancock), or elsewhere. Chucho is the father of six children: Chuchito Valdés Cortes, Emilio Valdés Cortes, Yousi Valdés Torres, Leyanis Valdés Reyes, Jessie Valdés Reyes, and Julian Valdés Salcedo.

Awards and honors
Chucho has won four Grammy Awards as a solo artist:
 * Best Latin Jazz Album in 2001 for his album Live at the Village Vanguard
 * Best Latin Jazz Album in 2010 for Juntos Para Siempre, with his father Bebo Valdés
 * Best Latin Jazz Album in 2011 for Chucho's Steps, with the Afro-Cuban Messengers
 * Best Latin Jazz Album in 2017 for Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac.

Other albums of his nominated for a Latin Jazz Album Grammy include Bele Bele en la Habana (1999), Briyumba Palo Congo – Religion of the Congo (2000) and New Conceptions (2004).

He has also been part of two ensembles who have won Grammy Awards:
 * Best Latin Recording in 1980 for the album Irakere by Irakere
 * Best Latin Jazz Performance in 1998 for the album Habana, by Roy Hargrove's Crisol

He has won the following Latin Grammy Awards:
 * Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album in 2004 for New Conceptions
 * Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album in 2009 for Juntos Para Siempre
 * Best Latin Jazz/Jazz Album in 2019 for Jazz Batá 2

On October 16, 2006, Chucho Valdés was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

In May 2011, Chucho Valdés was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music

In Abril 2022, Chucho Valdés was awarded Best Latin Jazz Album Mirror Mirror with Eliane Elias & Chick Corea @grammyaward2022 Best Latin Jazz

Albums

 * 1964: Jazz nocturno (Areito)
 * 1964: Guapachá en La Habana (Areito) – with Guapachá
 * 1970: Chucho Valdés (Areito)
 * 1972: Jazz batá (Areito)
 * 1976: Piano I (Areito)
 * 1981: Tema de Chaka (Areito)
 * 1986: Invitación (Areito)
 * 1988: Lucumi (Messidor)
 * 1988: Straight Ahead (Jazz House) – with Arturo Sandoval
 * 1991: Solo Piano (Blue Note)
 * 1998: Bele Bele en la Habana (Blue Note)
 * 1999: Briyumba Palo Congo (Blue Note)
 * 1999: Live (RMM) -- with Hilton Ruiz
 * 2000: Live at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
 * 2001: Solo: Live in New York (Blue Note)
 * 2002: Canciones inéditas (EGREM)
 * 2002: Fantasía Cubana: Variations on Classical Themes (Blue Note)
 * 2003: New Conceptions (Blue Note)
 * 2005: Cancionero cubano (EGREM)
 * 2008: Canto a Dios (Comanche)
 * 2008: Tumi Sessions (Tumi)
 * 2008: Juntos para siempre (Sony) – with Bebo Valdés
 * 2010: Chucho's Steps (Four-Quarters)
 * 2013: Border-Free (Comanche)
 * 2016: Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac (Live) (Comanche)

EPs

 * 1964: Por la libre (Areito)
 * 1964: No me digan na (Areito) – with Guapachá

title: Chucho Valdés