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Steve Johnson (basketball)

Clarence Stephen "Steve" Johnson (born November 3, 1957) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played the power forward and center positions.

Collegiate career
Johnson played collegiately at Oregon State University under Naismith Hall of Fame coach Ralph Miller. He was the star player on the 1980–81 team (known as the Orange Express) which reached as high as no. 1 in the national rankings, before being upset in the second round of the 1981 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament by eighth-seeded Kansas State. That season, Johnson made 235 of 315 field goals for a field goal percentage of .746, a single-season mark which was an NCAA men's basketball record until March 16, 2017, when Devontae Cacok of UNCW finished with a field goal percentage of .800 of 230 shots.

Professional career
He was drafted the following summer, with the seventh pick overall, by the Kansas City Kings in the 1981 NBA draft, and played with the Kings from 1981 to 1984 before being traded to the Chicago Bulls. After a season and a half with the Bulls, Johnson played one season with the San Antonio Spurs. While with the Spurs, Johnson led the league in field goal percentage at .632 one of the highest in NBA history.

During the 1986 off-season, Johnson was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for longtime Portland's fixture Mychal Thompson; the team intended to start Johnson at power forward alongside defensive-minded center Sam Bowie. Five games into the season, however, Bowie suffered a broken leg (one of many such injuries he would endure in his ill-fated career), and Johnson was moved to the starting center role, with aging veteran Caldwell Jones replacing him at power forward. Only a couple games later, on November 26, 1986, Johnson scored a career-best 40 points, while also grabbing 10 rebounds, during a 118–114 loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. That year, Johnson enjoyed his best season, averaging nearly 17 points per game, while averaging a .555 field goal percentage.

The next season, Bowie again broke his leg, and Johnson assumed the starting center position. Unfortunately for him, he would himself be injured, and was replaced in the lineup by Kevin Duckworth, whose stellar play earned him the job permanently. Nevertheless, Johnson earned a selection on the West All-Star team, but was unable to play due to injury. An attempt to start both players in a dual-post configuration, and the Johnson/Duckworth controversy was one of several which distracted the team in the 1988–89 season (which led to a losing record and a first-round playoff sweep). After that season, the rather unhappy Johnson was left unprotected in the 1989 NBA expansion draft, and was selected by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Johnson, unhappy with being drafted by an expansion team, played only four games for the Timberwolves before being traded to the Seattle SuperSonics; he played only 21 games for Seattle that season. He played 24 games for the Golden State Warriors the following year; and retired at the conclusion of the 1990–91 season.

Johnson holds the NCAA single season and career records for field goal percentage. He led the NBA in personal fouls during the 1981–82 and 1986–87 seasons, and led the NBA in disqualifications during the 1981–82, 1985–86, and 1986–87 seasons.

Personal life
Johnson, who retired from playing and permanently settled in Portland, now works with an organization called The Best of Yachting and is an investor in business in the area.

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Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport

Ürümqi Diwopu International Airport  is an international airport serving Ürümqi, the capital of Northwest China‘s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is located in the Diwopu township of Xinshi district, 16 km northwest of downtown Ürümqi. As a hub for China Southern Airlines and as a focus city for Hainan Airlines, the airport handled 23,027,788 passengers in 2018, making it the 19th busiest airport in China by passenger traffic.

History
Urumqi Airport was opened to foreign passengers in 1973, and has been used for emergency landings for flights between Europe and west Asia.

Facilities
The airport covers an area of 484 ha. Its newly built runway is 3600 m in length. The airport can allow the landing of large aircraft such as the Boeing 747. The 110000 m2 apron can accommodate over 30 aircraft.

Runways

 * The first runway (07/25) was built in 1994 to accept the expansion, the flight zone level 4E, runway length 3600 m, 45 m wide, PCN value of 74, elevation 648 meters, with Class II precision approach.
 * The second runway (???): under construction, located to the north of the current runway, flight zone level 4F, runway length 3600 m, 60 m wide.
 * The third runway (???): under construction, located to the north of the current runway, flight zone level 4F, runway 3200 m long, 60 m wide.

Terminal 1
The original terminal opened in 1974. It was closed between April 23, 2011, and August 30, 2013, for renovation. On April 1, 2014, operations were resumed. After the transformation of the T1 terminal has six security channels, 19 check-in counters, with the peak hourly 700 times the business capacity. This terminal is mainly for regional aviation around Xinjiang province and low-cost aviation use, including Tianjin Airlines, Capital Aviation, Spring Airlines, Yunnan Xiangpeng Airlines, China United Airlines, Okay Airways and Western Airlines.

Terminal 2
Construction on this terminal started in April 1994, was completed in December 2001 through the national acceptance, and on May 12, 2002, the terminal opened. On July 10, 2010, it closed for a renovation project, and resumed operations on April 16, 2011. It serves most domestic routes outside of Xinjiang province, except for China Southern, Xiamen and Chongqing Airlines flights.

Terminal 3
Construction of Terminal 3 to the west of the older terminal building began in April 2007 at a cost of 2.8 billion yuan (350 million U.S. dollars). It increased Diwopu's ability to handle more than three times its 2007 capacity of 5.13 million passengers annually to 16.35 million passengers annually. It can also handle 275,000 tons of cargo and 155,000 aircraft a year. Terminal 3 added 22 more jet bridges and nearly 106,000 square meters of new terminal space. The terminal opened in 2009.

Terminal 4

An expansion project, which began in 2017, is underway and will see a new terminal building covering almost 400,000 sq meters consisting of 177 gates, as well as two additional runways north of the existing. Originally set to open in 2024, the date was pushed backed to July 2025 due to many aspects of the terminal being unfinished. After the opening of T4, the previous three terminals will be converted to cargo relay stations as part of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Other facilities
When the airline existed, China Xinjiang Airlines had its headquarters on the airport property.

Ground Transport
Line 1 of Ürümqi Metro opened on 25 October 2018 and links the airport to downtown Ürümqi.

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Leukocyte adhesion deficiency

Leukocyte adhesion deficiency (LAD) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder characterized by immunodeficiency resulting in recurrent infections. LAD is currently divided into three subtypes: LAD1, LAD2, and the recently described LAD3, also known as LAD-1/variant. In LAD3, the immune defects are supplemented by a Glanzmann thrombasthenia-like bleeding tendency.

Signs and symptoms
LAD was first recognized as a distinct clinical entity in the 1970s. The classic descriptions of LAD included recurrent bacterial infections, defects in neutrophil adhesion, and a delay in umbilical cord sloughing. The adhesion defects result in poor leukocyte chemotaxis, particularly neutrophil, inability to form pus and neutrophilia.

Individuals with LAD suffer from bacterial infections beginning in the neonatal period. Infections such as omphalitis, pneumonia, gingivitis, and peritonitis are common and often life-threatening due to the infant's inability to properly destroy the invading pathogens. These individuals do not form abscesses because granulocytes cannot migrate to the sites of infection.

Cause

Types of leukocyte adhesion deficiency include LAD1, LAD2, and LAD3. LAD1 is the most common.

Patients with LAD1 have an inherited molecular defect that causes a deficiency of the β-2 integrin subunit, also called CD18, which is encoded by the ITGB2 gene found on chromosome 21. This subunit is involved in the formation of the β-2 integrins (LFA-1, integrin alphaXbeta2/CR4/p150,95, and Mac-1/CR3) by dimerization with different CD11 subunits.

Mutations in the ITGB2 gene lead to absent, reduced, or aberrant CD18 protein expression, causing a lack of expression in the leukocyte membrane of the β-2 integrins. The main function of these proteins is to allow neutrophils to make their way out of the blood stream and into the infected tissues by adhering to different ligands expressed by the endothelium, e.g. ICAM-1. In LAD-I patients, neutrophils cannot extravasate and fight against bacteria in tissues. The bacteria can then proliferate, leading to symptomatic infection, which can spread unimpeded and cause serious injury to important tissues.

Diagnosis
Typically, diagnosis involves several preliminary tests of immune function, including basic evaluation of the humoral immune system and the cell-mediated immune system. A WBC differential will reveal extremely elevated levels of neutrophils (on the order of 6–10x normal) because they are unable to leave the blood vessels. In the case of LAD-I, specific diagnosis is done by flow cytometry. This technique will reveal absent or reduced CD18 expression in the leukocyte membrane. Recently, prenatal diagnosis systems has been established, allowing an early detection of the disease. LAD-II diagnosis includes the study of different glycosylated forms of the transferrin protein. In LAD-III, as platelet function is also affected, this could be used to differentiate it from the other types.

Treatment
Although patients can receive intensive antibiotherapy and even granulocyte transfusions from healthy donors, the only current curative therapy is the hematopoietic stem cell transplant. However, progress has been made in gene therapy, an active area of research. Both foamyviral and lentiviral vectors expressing the human ITGB2 gene under the control of different promoters have been developed and have been tested so far in preclinical LAD-I models (such as CD18-deficient mice and canine leukocyte adhesion deficiency-affected dogs).

Prognosis
A 2009 study reported results from 36 children who had received a stem cell transplant. At the time of follow-up (median time 62 months), the survival rate was 75%.

Epidemiology
LAD is a rare disease, with an estimated prevalence of one in 100,000 births, with no described racial or ethnic predilection. The most common type is LAD1.

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Dave Checketts

David W. Checketts (born 1955) is an American businessman and sports executive. Checketts has served in c-suite roles or been an owner of the Utah Jazz, New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Liberty, Madison Square Garden (MSG), Legends Hospitality, and the St. Louis Blues. He also advised on Tom Gores' purchase of the Detroit Pistons and of Joe Tsai's purchase of the Brooklyn Nets.

Education
Checketts attended the University of Utah and later earned a master's degree in business administration from Brigham Young University.

Career
Checketts started his career with the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company.

Then in 1983 at age 28, he became the president and general manager of the Utah Jazz, which made him the youngest chief executive in National Basketball Association (NBA) history. He then spent a year as the general manager of NBA International, where he worked to increase the league's presence around the world, including hosting the first regular season games played outside North America. The games took place in Tokyo in 1990.

In 1991, Checketts became president of the New York Knicks. He then advanced to president and CEO of MSG, which owns the New York Knicks, New York Rangers, New York Liberty, MSG Network, Radio City Music Hall, and other properties. Through MSG, Checketts led the 1997 acquisition and renovation of Radio City Music Hall. Checketts is also responsible for founding the New York Liberty in 1997 as one of the original Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) franchises. Under Checketts' leadership, the New York Knicks went to the NBA Finals in both 1994 and 1999. The team made the playoffs ten straight seasons as well as earning a record 460 straight MSG sellouts. During his tenure, Forbes named the Knicks the most valuable franchise in the NBA and MSG was named Arena of the Year for six straight years.

In 2001, Checketts resigned as president and CEO of MSG and founded SCP Worldwide, a sports consulting and investment entity. Under SCP Worldwide, Checketts founded the Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake (RSL) in 2005; Checketts is credited with building Rio Tinto Stadium and establishing it as the home of the club. Under his ownership, RSL won the 2009 MLS Championship. Through SCP Worldwide, in 2005 Checketts also acquired the NHL's St. Louis Blues until 2012.

Checketts is the managing partner of Checketts Partners Investment Management (CPIM), a private equity firm he founded in 2011.

From 2011 to 2015, Checketts was Chairman and CEO of Legends Hospitality, establishing the hospitality, merchandising and premium ticketing services provider as one of the industry's standard-bearers. CPIM purchased 20% equity in Legends, joining the Dallas Cowboys and New York Yankees as co-owners. Checketts secured contracts with venues such as Angel Stadium, Levi's Stadium, and Manchester City F.C.'s Etihad Stadium to build onto the core Yankees and ATT stadiums. Under Checketts' guidance, Legends designed, built, and now operates One World Observatory at the top of One World Trade Center in New York. The Observatory opened in May 2015 and is a must-visit for locals and tourists alike.

Checketts was an original founding board member of JetBlue and held this role until 2018.

In 2021, Checketts was named Director of Burnley Football Club. With Burnley, Checketts doubles as part owner and investor.

In 2022, Checketts was named to the Utah Sports Hall of Fame.

Personal life
Checketts is a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). In 2007, Checketts was called as president of the church's Yorktown New York Stake, succeeding Gary Crittenden. Checketts was featured in the book The Mormon Way of Doing Business by Jeff Benedict. In July 2018, Checketts began a three-year term of service as president of the LDS Church's England London Mission. During Checketts' mission over 700 missionaries from 54 countries worked together to create open-ended friendship centers. The centers helped refugees from other countries to find jobs and homes while learning English and getting settled in England. The mission coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic but continued to operate uninterrupted.

Checketts served as chairman of the Advisory Board of the Clinical Neurosciences Center at the University of Utah Hospital from 2010 to 2018.

Checketts and his wife, Deb, are the parents of six children. Their son, Spencer, worked as a Radio Host on "The Big Show" on 1280 KZNS (AM). He was also an anchor of Gameday Coverage of Utah Jazz for 1280/97.5 The Zone, NBA Analyst for KJZZ-TV and Root Sports Utah.

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El Mouradia

El Mouradia-El Golf (المرادية) is a municipality in Algiers Province, Algeria. It is administratively part of Sidi M'Hamed district. Its municipal code is 1627 and postal code is 16035 and it has a population of 29,503 as of the 1998 census, which gives it 11 seats in the PMA.

The Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have their head offices in El Mouradia. The Embassy of Finland is also in El Mouradia. El Mouradia Palace is the Algerian president's office.

Other meanings
El Mouradia Palace is also the name of the main presidential palace in Algeria. It is a Moorish style villa pre-dating independence that was chosen to house the Algerian presidency's main offices, including the Algerian president's office itself. El Mouradia symbolises the Algerian presidency therefore just like the White House or the Kremlin symbolise the American or Russian presidencies. Entrance is guarded by dismounted troops from the Algerian Republican Guard (Republican Cavalry).

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Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School

Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School (天主教母佑會蕭明中學), founded in 1973, is a girls' secondary school in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong. It is administered under the Grant Code and using English as a medium of instruction, or being an "EMI school".

Religion
Catholicism

Brief history
Daughters of Mary Help of Christians Siu Ming Catholic Secondary School is a subsidized girls' grammar school run by the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians. Founded in 1973, the school has incorporated the educational philosophy of St. Mary Mazzarello and St. John Bosco, that is educating young people with love and putting equal stress on the importance of virtue, wisdom, physique, sociability, aesthetic appreciation and spirituality in providing quality education to the community.

Teachers
The total number of teaching staff members is 61 with 66% of them holding master's degrees as their highest education level, 33% holding bachelor's degrees as their highest education level and 100% holding professional qualifications.

Medium of instruction
English is the medium of instruction. Chinese Language, Chinese History, Putonghua, Chinese Literature, Liberal Studies, Ethics & Religious Education, Civic Education, Life & Society, Visual Arts are conducted in Chinese.

Class organization
There are 24 classes, 4 classes each from S.1 to S.6. There are 16 elective modules of 13 different subjects offered to the 4 classes in each level of S.4 to S.6.


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User:SaxTeacher

Hello - I have been a volunteer editor of Wikipedia since September 2005. When not working on Wikipedia, I am:
 * A saxophone and clarinet teacher
 * An FAA certificated flight instructor
 * A volunteer search and rescue pilot for Civil Air Patrol, the Air Force auxiliary, and the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary
 * A members of Toastmasters International (and a past club president and area governor)
 * A former first aid instructor for the American Red Cross
 * A former volunteer Aviation Safety Counselor for the FAA
 * A boy scout leader (and formerly a cub scout leader).

Personal pages

 * References for my use
 * List of merit badges I counsel

Favorite articles

 * Unusual_articles
 * The Boston molasses disaster
 * Heavy metal umlaut
 * List of Latin phrases
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Articles I started

 * 1) Air & Space 18A (aircraft)
 * 2) Franz Biebl (composer)
 * 3) Ronald Caravan (saxophonist, clarinetist)
 * 4) Paul Cohen (saxophonist)
 * 5) Larry Combs (clarinetist)
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 * 23) John Edward Kelly (General)
 * 24) John-Edward Kelly (saxophonist)
 * 25) Theodore Kerkezos (saxophonist)
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 * 31) John Moore (saxophonist)
 * 32) Henri Mulet (composer)
 * 33) Lee Patrick (saxophonist)
 * 34) Powered lift (aircraft)
 * 35) Raschèr Saxophone Quartet
 * 36) Jean Rivier (composer)
 * 37) Eugene Rousseau (saxophonist)
 * 38) Mark Sheinkman (artist)
 * 39) David Shifrin (clarinetist)
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 * 41) James Wayne (musician)
 * 42) Harry White (saxophonist)
 * 43) Keith Wilson (musician)
 * 44) Laurence Wyman (saxophonist)
 * 45) Yale University Art Gallery
 * 46) Edmund von Borck

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USS Willard Keith (DD-775)

USS Willard Keith (DD-775), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is currently the only completed ship of the United States Navy ever named for Willard Keith, a United States Marine Corps captain who died in combat during the campaign for Guadalcanal. He was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions.

Willard Keith (DD-775) was laid down on 5 March 1944, at San Pedro, Los Angeles, by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding and launched on 29 August 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Willard W. Keith, the mother of Capt. Keith. The ship was commissioned on 27 December 1944.

Cancelled ships
The US Navy had two previous contracts for destroyer escorts that were to be named USS Willard Keith; both were cancelled before they were completed. The contract for the construction of Willard Keith (DE-754)—a Cannon-class destroyer escort whose keel had been laid down on 14 September 1943 at San Pedro, California, by the Western Pipe and Steel Company—was cancelled on 2 October 1943. The contract for the construction of Willard Keith (DE-314) —an Evarts-class destroyer escort laid down on 22 January 1944 at Vallejo, California, by the Mare Island Navy Yard—was cancelled on 13 March 1944.

World War II
After shakedown training out of San Diego, California, Willard Keith operated temporarily out of the Pre-commissioning Training Center at San Francisco, California, as training ship for engineering personnel. During that time, she made weekly trips from San Francisco to San Clemente Island and back.

It is rumored that, during one of these runs from San Clemente to San Francisco, Willard Keith encountered, depth-charged, and supposedly destroyed a sonar contact of unknown origin or nationality. The matter was allegedly suppressed by the ship's officers, save the eyewitness accounts of some crew members. However, no documentation or physical proof of this alleged encounter has been discovered. A few remaining crew of Willard Keith have formed a non-profit organization (The Marine War Memorial Association of Half Moon Bay, California) with the mission of finding and memorializing this alleged sunken wreck.

Completing that tour of training duty in mid-April 1945, Willard Keith sailed for the Western Pacific on 16 April, heading for Pearl Harbor in company with the cruiser USS Atlanta (CL-104) and USS Tillman (DD-641). Willard Keith arrived at Okinawa on 29 May and was assigned screening and radar picket duties for the remainder of the Okinawa campaign, during which Willard Keith destroyed two Japanese aircraft and was struck by a Japanese torpedo from one attacker which fortunately, did not explode.

Willard Keith then joined a cruiser-destroyer task force on 24 June for anti-shipping sweeps into the East China Sea. Due to the losses the Japanese merchant marine had suffered, encounters were few. Willard Keith spent the remainder of the war engaged in such largely fruitless operations and, with the coming of the Japanese surrender, drew screening duties with the initial occupying forces in Japanese home waters. That autumn, the destroyer travelled between Japanese ports carrying men and mail.

Williard Keith was the flagship of Commodore John T. Bottom, Jr., Commander, Task Flotilla 1 and area commander while remaining at Nagoya from the last part of October until 5 December. Willard Keith rendezvoused with her sister ships in Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 66, and sailed east, reaching the US west coast in time to spend Christmas at San Diego, California

1946
Subsequently, Willard Keith proceeded down the west coast; transited the Panama Canal; crossed the Gulf of Mexico and then proceeded around the tip of Florida, bound for New York City. After voyage repairs at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York., the destroyer stood out of the yard on the last day of January and proceeded up the eastern seaboard to Newport, Rhode Island. She engaged in gunnery exercises out of that port and, upon conclusion of that first phase of her peacetime training program, returned to New York. She made five more short round trips between New York and Newport until 12 July, when she set out for Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

After operations in the British West Indies area, Willard Keith returned to Norfolk, Virginia, from whence she escorted the battleships USS Washington (BB-56) and USS North Carolina (BB-55) to Culebra, Puerto Rico, for shore bombardment exercises. The destroyer then returned to Norfolk as part of the screen for the battlewagons, before she drew another escort assignment, this time with the aircraft carrier USS Philippine Sea (CV-47). Conducting exercises and maneuvers en route, the carrier and her consorts reached Guantanamo Bay for training before returning northward and putting into Newport.

1947-1949
The destroyer operated locally between Pensacola, Florida and Key West. She sailed to Mobile, Alabama, on 13 February 1947 as one of the Navy's official representatives to the Mardi Gras festivities. For the remainder of the spring months, Willard Keith cruised routinely between Newport and Key West, carrying out training duties off the eastern seaboard.

Arriving at Norfolk on 20 June 1947, Willard Keith was assigned to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet and "mothballed" at Charleston, South Carolina Naval Shipyard until the Fleet buildup brought about by the start of the Korean War in 1950.

1950-1952
Recommissioned on 23 October 1950, Willard Keith was assigned to the Atlantic Fleet. After her activation was completed on 27 November, the ship departed Charleston, shaping course for Norfolk, Virginia. Subsequently, pushing on to Guantanamo Bay, acting as plane guard for the fleet carrier USS Intrepid (CV-11) en route, Willard Keith reached her destination on 13 January 1951 to commence her shakedown soon thereafter.

Completing that training phase on 22 February 1951, Willard Keith stopped briefly at Culebra for gunnery exercises before proceeding on to Norfolk and upkeep. After a three-month overhaul, the destroyer returned to the Guantanamo region for further refresher training. She then returned to Norfolk for a tender upkeep.

On 3 September 1951, Willard Keith departed the east coast, bound for the Mediterranean and duty with the 6th Fleet. Relieving USS Dennis J. Buckley (DD-808) as a unit of that force on 22 September, Willard Keith spent the next six months in the Mediterranean making operational visits to such ports as Gibraltar, Naples, Trieste, Augusta Bay, Sicily; Istanbul, Leros, and Souda Bay.

From November 1951 to February 1952, Willard Keith operated in company with USS John W. Weeks (DD-701) as a unit of the Northern European Force under the overall command of Rear Admiral W. F. Boone. During that period of time, the destroyer visited Plymouth, Copenhagen, Bornholm, Bremerhaven, Bordeaux, and Derry. While operating out of the last-named port, she conducted exercises jointly with British destroyers.

While in northern European waters, Willard Keith joining the efforts to save the crippled SS Flying Enterprise before it broke apart and sank in heavy seas; the two-week incident gaining international attention. The owners of the lost ship, the Isbrandtsen Lines, later presented a plaque to Willard Keith in appreciation for her assistance rendered to their vessel.

Completing her duty in European waters early in February 1952, Willard Keith sailed home, reaching Norfolk on 6 February for leave and upkeep. The destroyer headed north from Norfolk on 21 April 1952 for Naval Station Argentia in Newfoundland, with a party of observers from the United States Naval Underwater Sound School embarked on board. From 21 April to 12 May, the destroyer then conducted antisubmarine warfare (ASW) drills for the benefit of the observers.

Upon the ship's return to Norfolk, all hands began to make preparations for a scheduled midshipmen's cruise. In early June, the ship sailed to Annapolis, Maryland, and embarked 72 officers-to-be, taking them to Norfolk. Subsequently, Willard Keith sailed to European waters and then to Guantanamo Bay. Ports visited during the midshipmen's cruise included Torquay, England, and Le Havre, France.

Returning to Norfolk via Guantanamo, Willard Keith disembarked her passengers and resumed her routine of training. She conducted two weeks of hunter/killer training in company with the escort carrier USS Block Island (CVE-106), a task group under the command of Rear Admiral D. V. Gallery. Willard Keith put back into Norfolk at the end of November and spent the remainder of the year there.

1953-1954
She departed her home port nine days into the new year, though, setting sail for Pensacola, Florida, assigned as plane guard for the light carrier USS Monterey (CVL-26). En route, however, an urgent message from Commandant, 6th Naval District, directed the ship to proceed to a rendezvous with an LST which had a Marine sergeant on board who was stricken with appendicitis. Willard Keith complied and transported the man to Charleston, South Carolina, where he received medical attention. The ship received a special commendation from the Commandant of the 6th Naval District for her fine work in helping to save the man.

Ultimately completing her assigned duties in company with Monterey, Willard Keith returned to Norfolk to prepare for a scheduled $3 1/2$-month overhaul. After repairs and alterations at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard from 11 February to 27 May, Willard Keith conducted refresher training out of Guantanamo Bay after first stopping at Norfolk en route. Returning to her home port on 4 August, the destroyer subsequently sailed for the Far East on 25 September in company with the other ships of Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 221.

The division reached Yokosuka, Japan, on 10 November 1953, via Bermuda, Gibraltar, Naples, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, and Manila. Willard Keith and her sister ships operated with Naval Forces, Far East, under the overall command of Rear Admiral Robert P. Briscoe. Operating with the hunter/killer group for the initial part of her time in the Far East, the destroyer served with part of the United Nations Blockading and Escort Group. In company with USS James C. Owens (DD-776), Willard Keith performed plane guard services for two weeks with the Australian aircraft carrier, HMAS Sydney (R17), as that ship conducted flight operations. During the course of the tour, Willard Keith visited the ports of Sasebo and Yokosuka, Japan; Inchon, Korea; and Buckner Bay, Okinawa.

Completing her WestPac tour in March 1954, Willard Keith and her squadron mates returned to the United States via Midway; Hawaii; San Francisco; Long Beach; the Panama Canal; Havana, Cuba; and Key West, Florida, returning to Norfolk on 1 May and thus completing the ship's circumnavigation of the globe. For the remainder of the year 1954, Willard Keith operated from Labrador to the Caribbean, taking part in ASW exercises and amphibious exercises interspersed with routine upkeep periods in port.

1955-1977
After spending Christmas, 1954, in her home port, Willard Keith departed Norfolk five days into the new year, 1955, bound for the Mediterranean. She paid goodwill calls at the ports of Algiers, Naples, Genoa, and the Azores in the course of her extended deployment, before she returned to Norfolk on 15 March. Then, after a brief upkeep period, Willard Keith offloaded stores and ammunition and shifted to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard for a four-month overhaul. Emerging from the shipyard on 8 August, the destroyer conducted refresher training out of the familiar waters of Guantanamo Bay before conducting gunfire support exercises with the rest of her division at Culebra. Returning northward that autumn, she conducted amphibious warfare gunfire support exercises as a fire support unit during Marine Corps amphibious landing exercises off the coast of North Carolina.

For the next seven years, Willard Keith remained with DesRon 22, operating from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. She participated in a variety of goodwill missions, midshipmen cruises, and the usual training assignments in gunnery, ASW, and the like. She also participated in the "quarantine" operations in the autumn of 1962 during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The ship took part in the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959—during which Willard Keith escorted the royal yacht HMY Britannia with Queen Elizabeth II on board.

On 1 October 1963, Willard Keith began a new phase of her career. Reporting to DesRon 34 for duty, the warship soon commenced operating as a Naval Reserve training (NRT) ship. For the next nine years, Willard Keith operated in that capacity, accomplishing reserve training with monthly drill weekend cruises for the reservists permanently assigned to the ship's reserve crew and undertaking two-week active duty training cruises for reservists getting their annual active sea duty training. She ranged from the eastern seaboard to Guantanamo Bay as an NRT destroyer, providing the platform for training necessary to maintain a skilled pool of reservists ready for any eventuality.

Ultimately considered to have capabilities that were not up to modern Fleet standards, Willard Keith was chosen for inactivation and transfer. Decommissioned on 1 July 1972 at Norfolk, Virginia, Willard Keith was transferred to the Navy of the Republic of Colombia. Simultaneously stricken from the Navy list, the destroyer was renamed Caldas (DD-02). She served the Colombian Navy until disposed of in 1977.

Willard Keith (DD-775) earned two battle stars for her World War II service.

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USS Willard Keith

USS Willard Keith has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:

 * USS Willard Keith (DE-754), a destroyer escort cancelled in 1943 prior to completion
 * USS Willard Keith (DE-314), a destroyer escort cancelled in 1944 prior to completion
 * USS Willard Keith (DD-775), a destroyer in commission from 1944 to 1972

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Lü Wencheng

Lü Wencheng (吕文成, pinyin: Lǚ Wénchéng, or Lui Man Sing in Cantonese, jyutping: Leoi5 Man4 Sing4) (1898 in Zhongshan - 1981 in Hong Kong) was a Chinese composer and musician. He composed Autumn Moon Over Calm Lake (平湖秋月) in the 1930s, one of the best known works of Cantonese music.

He also played the yangqin and was a Cantonese opera singer. His music shows a strong influence of the traditional music of the Shanghai area as a result of living almost thirty years there.

Life
Lü was born in 1898 in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province, but grew up in Shanghai when at the age of three he and his parents moved to Shanghai. There he developed the gaohu, composed and performed Guangdong yinyue, and made recordings. In 1932, he moved to Hong Kong, where he lived until his death in 1981. His daughter, Lü Hong (吕红), is a professional singer, and the wife of Chinese musician Lui Tsun-Yuen.

Works
Lü is considered to have been a master of Cantonese music (Guangdong yinyue) and Guangdong folk music.

He developed, or co-developed, the gaohu in the 1920s from the erhu by raising its pitch and using steel strings instead of silk, and changing its playing position from on the thigh to between the knees.

He composed Autumn Moon Over the Calm Lake (平湖秋月; pinyin: Píng Hú Qiū Yuè) in the 1930s, and this piece remains to this day one of the best known works of Cantonese music.

His piece "Tiger down the Mountain" (下山虎; pinyin: Xià Shān Hǔ) is quoted in the Chinese Rhapsody by Xian Xinghai.

Compositions
Lü composed over 100 pieces, including:
 * bù bù gāo (步步高) Higher step by step
 * chén zuì dōng fēng 沉醉东风 Intoxicated by the easterly wind
 * jiāo shí míng qín 蕉石鸣琴
 * luò huā tiān 落花天 Flowers falling from sky
 * píng hú qiū yuè (平湖秋月) Autumn Moon Over Calm Lake
 * qīng méi zhú mǎ 青梅竹马 Happy childhood
 * qí shān fèng 岐山凤 Phoenix of Mount Qishan
 * xǐng shī 醒狮 Awakening lion
 * yín hé huì 银河会 Meeting in the Milky Way
 * yú gē wǎn chàng 渔歌晚唱 Fisherman's song at dusk
 * xià shān hǔ 下山虎 Tiger down the Mountain

Audio sample

 * Performance of Lü Wencheng's Autumn Moon Over Calm Lake (平湖秋月) by Jiyang Chen
 * 78 RPM recording of Lü Wencheng's Tiger down the Mountain (下山虎) performed by Lü Wencheng

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Alice Huyler Ramsey

Alice Huyler Ramsey (November 11, 1886 – September 10, 1983) was the first woman to drive an automobile across the United States from coast to coast, a feat she completed on August 7, 1909.

Early life
Ramsey was born Alice Taylor Huyler, the daughter of John Edwin Huyler, a lumber dealer, and Ada Mumford Farr. She attended Vassar College from 1903 to 1905. On January 10, 1906, in Hackensack, New Jersey, Ramsey married congressman John R. Ramsey (1862–1933), with whom she had two children: John Rathbone Ramsey, Jr. (1907–2000) and Alice Valleau Ramsey (1910–2015), who married Robert Stewart Bruns (1906–1981).

Career
In 1908 her husband bought her a new Maxwell runabout. That summer she drove over 6,000 miles near their Hackensack home. In September 1908 she drove one of the three Maxwells which were entered in that year's American Automobile Association's (AAA) Montauk Point endurance race, being one of only two women to participate. She won a bronze medal by getting a perfect score in the race. One of the other Maxwell drivers was Carl Kelsey, who did publicity for Maxwell-Briscoe. It was during this event that Kelsey proposed that she attempt a transcontinental journey, with Maxwell-Briscoe's backing. The company would supply a 1909 touring car for the journey, and would also provide assistance and parts as needed. The drive was originally meant as a publicity stunt for Maxwell-Briscoe, and would also prove to be part of Maxwell's ongoing strategy of specifically marketing to women. At that time, women were not often encouraged to drive cars.

Transcontinental drive
On June 9, 1909, this 22-year-old housewife and mother began a 3,800-mile journey from Hell Gate in Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California, in a green, four-cylinder, 30-horsepower Maxwell DA. On her 59-day trek she was accompanied by two older sisters-in-law and 19 year-old friend Hermine Jahns, none of whom could drive a car. They arrived amid great fanfare on August 7, although about three weeks later than originally planned.

The group of women used maps from the American Automobile Association to make the journey. Only 152 of the 3,600 miles (244 of the 5,767 kilometers) that the group traveled were paved. Over the course of the drive, Ramsey changed 11 tires, cleaned the spark plugs, repaired a broken brake pedal and had to sleep in the car when it was stuck in mud. The women mostly navigated by following the telephone poles with more wires in hopes that they would lead to a town.

Along the way, they crossed the trail of a manhunt for a killer in Nebraska, Ramsey received a case of bedbugs from a Wyoming hotel, and in Nevada they were surrounded by a Native American hunting party with bows and arrows drawn. In San Francisco, crowds awaited them at the St. James Hotel. Ramsey was named the "Woman Motorist of the Century" by AAA in 1960. In later years, she lived in West Covina, California, where in 1961 she wrote and published the story of her journey, Veil, Duster, and Tire Iron. Between 1909 and 1975, Ramsey drove across the country more than 30 times.

After her husband's death in 1933, Ramsey lived with Anna Graham Harris in New Jersey and then later in West Covina, California until Anna's death in 1953, and eventually with Elizabeth Elliott from 1968 until Ramsey's death on September 10, 1983, in Covina, California.

Legacy
On October 17, 2000, Ramsey became the first woman inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame.

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Talk:List of current DC Comics publications

Cancelled Comics
I deleted this section, as I feel it is irrelevant to the "Current DC Comics" article. If it's not current, it shouldn't be there. Cubzrule (talk) 09:01, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Updating
How Often does anyone move the Upcoming titles and limited series to the top? Gmaster108 15:15, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Overhaul Presentation Format
I think that every currently running, unlimited comic series should have its date of publication read from its start (i.e. 1998) to present. It currently would read 1998- Please say something here if you have any objections. I'll come back in the next couple of weeks to fix it if no one disagrees.Bifgis 23:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Okay, I fixed this today and also updated to the best of my knowledge the current comics. I would like to update the "Upcoming" section next once I have time.Bifgis 19:47, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

new Wonder Woman series
Has an actual announcement been made in regards to the new series? I haven't seen any news (as yet), but I know it's likely in the wake of Infinite Crisis. Fastbak77 06:13, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Green Arrow/Black Canary
Green Arrow/Black Canary is also a current title. Somebody needs to add it to the list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Greenlanternfanguy (talk • contribs) 05:48, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

Young Animal DC Imprint
Since Vertigo is included on this page, I think Young Animal should be here as well. If you have objections to this idea, please tell me before I begin later today if I have the time, if anyone doesn't beat me to the punch. Kamila 064 (talk) 11:22, 8 September 2016 (UTC)

Astro City
I think it should be deleted from this list, the series ended in August DemonDays64 (talk) 21:40, 1 October 2018 (UTC)

Update
I've given the page an overhaul, in order to make it up-to-date, easier to keep up-to-date, and better in accordance with Wikipedia guidance. Hopefully it will work out. Pyy (talk) 17:06, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Far Sector
If Young Animal Publications are still included I believe "Far Sector" by Jemisin and Campbell should be on the list. Alisio Star (talk) 22:54, 1 December 2020 (UTC) I added it; I hope the article works as a source Alisio Star (talk) 23:08, 1 December 2020 (UTC)