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the blue jackets struggled in shorthanded situations allowing the most power @@ play goals in the league with 64 and having the lowest penalty @@ kill percentage at 76 @@ 64 |
finishing with the worst record in the nhl columbus had the best chance of receiving the first overall pick in the 2012 draft with the nhl's weighted draft lottery the blue jackets had a 48 @@ 2 chance of drafting first overall however the lottery was won by the edmonton oilers who proceeded to leapfrog columbus and secure the number one draft pick for a third consecutive year it was the fifth time that the blue jackets were dropped one draft position in the franchise's 12 lottery participations |
a month later on may 14 the blue jackets announced that richards would remain as head coach and signed him to a two @@ year contract during the press conference howson noted our team continuously improved under todd and he has earned the opportunity to build upon the work he started columbus posted an 18 21 2 record under richards including winning seven of their final 11 games |
since being founded as an expansion team the blue jackets have played in the central division of the western conference division rivals chicago blackhawks detroit red wings nashville predators and st louis blues all made the playoff during the 2011 12 season which helped columbus finish 36 points behind fourth place chicago and 44 points out of first |
divisions ce central nw northwest pa pacific |
bold qualified for playoffs y won division p won presidents' trophy ( best record in nhl ) |
green background indicates win ( 2 points ) |
red background indicates regulation loss ( 0 points ) |
silver background indicates overtime / shootout loss ( 1 point ) |
in ice hockey a combination of a player's goals and assists are collectively called points penalty minutes are the total number of minutes assigned to a player for infractions assessed during the @@ minus is a statistic that tracks when a player was on the ice while goals were scored both for and against their team though some in game situations will not effect the statistic below is a listing of all player statistics for the blue jackets during the season |
note pos |
games played in g |
assists pts |
penalty minutes + / = plus / minus |
note gp |
time on ice ( minutes ) w |
losses ot |
goals against gaa = goals against average sa = shots against sv |
save percentage so = shutouts |
† denotes player spent time with another team before joining blue jackets stats reflect time with the blue jackets only ‡ traded mid @@ season |
when mason was injured in warm @@ ups late in the year columbus was without an active goaltender on their roster to remedy the situation the team signed former university of michigan goaltender shawn hunwick to a one @@ day amateur tryout contract after being eliminated from the ncaa tournament just days prior hunwick skipped an astronomy class and drove his worn down 2003 ford ranger to columbus to make the game he served as the back @@ up to allen york during the game and the following day he signed a contract for the remainder of the year with mason returning from injury hunwick was third on the team's depth chart when an injury to york allowed hunwick to remain as the back @@ up for the final two games of the year in the final game of the season the blue jackets were leading the islanders 7 3 with 2 33 remaining when at the behest of his teammates head coach todd richards put hunwick in to finish the game he did not face a shot hunwick was the franchise record ninth player to make his nhl debut during the season conversely vaclav played in his 1000th nhl game during the year |
during the off @@ season the blue jackets parted ways with defensemen jan hejda anton stralman sami and mike commodore hejda who played four of his first five nhl seasons with the blue jackets was offered a contract by columbus but felt that the organization undervalued him and left via free agency columbus had offered him a three @@ year $ 7 @@ 5 million contract he instead signed a four @@ year $ 13 million deal with the colorado avalanche stralman and were not given qualifying offers which made them unrestricted free agents and both signed with other teams commodore had originally signed a big contract with the blue jackets in 2008 but fell out of favor he was waived sent to the minors and eventually had his contract bought out in order to replace the departed players columbus not only acquired james wisniewski but also signed ten @@ year nhl veteran radek played only seven games with the blue jackets before suffering a concussion and missing the remainder of the season brett was brought in to replace him |
the gregorian tower ( italian torre ) or tower of the winds ( italian torre dei venti ) is a round tower located above the gallery of maps which connects the villa belvedere with the apostolic palace in vatican city the tower was built between 1578 and 1580 to a design by the bolognese architect ottaviano mascherino ( who was credited with building the apostolic palace ) mainly to promote the study of astronomy for the gregorian calendar reform which was commissioned by pope gregory xiii and promulgated in 1582 it was then also known as the tower of winds the tower is now called the astronomica vaticana the vatican observatory four stages of progressive development have occurred since it was first established the tower was an edifice of great value for astronomical observations made using a sundial as they provided essential confirmation of the need to reform the julian calendar |
the first stage of building of the tower as recorded by leo xiii in his motu proprio ut of 1891 is credited to pope gregory xiii pope from 1572 to 1585 the directive was to build a tower at a suitable location in the vatican and equip it with the greatest and best instruments of the time the design was effected after a series of meetings of the experts who had been appointed to reform the julian calendar in use since 45 bc to verify their proposed reforms fr christoph clavius a jesuit mathematician from the roman college was the expert on the committee who suggested the new system for the observations the 73 metres ( 240 ft ) tower was then built above the museum and library flanked by the belvedere and della pigna courtyards the instrumentation for the observation of the sun rays falling over it consisted of a meridian line designed by ignazio of perugia it was in the form of a circular marble plate in the centre embellished with scientific designs the tower still remains today but has undergone improvements over the centuries |
the second stage of construction in the 17th and 18th centuries when the tower was under the charge of the vatican librarian involved mgr filippo luigi gilii a clergyman of st peter's basilica earlier in 1797 pius vi gave approval to placing a latin inscription vaticana at the entrance to the upper part of the tower which was implemented by cardinal with plans to enhance the instrumentation system in the tower's observatory the original observatory was then set up above the second level of the tower with the agreement of pope pius vi its instrumentation apart from many normal devices ( such as meteorological and magnetic equipment with a seismograph and a small transit and pendulum clock ) was noted for the telescope the instrumentation facilitated recording of occurrences of eclipse appearance of comets satellites of jupiter and mercury s transit as an addition under the patronage of pope pius x four rotary observatory domes were also added at strategic locations on the 1 @@ 300 feet ( 400 m ) long fortification walls more than a thousand years old mgr gilii highly respected as a polyglot with a knowledge of physics biology archeology and the hebrew language was in charge of the observatory from 1800 to 1821 he carried out continuous meteorological observations ( twice a day at 6 am and 2 pm ) conforming to the programme of the mannheim meteorological society while the observation records for seven years were published the balance data in a manuscript form was preserved in the vatican library subsequent to gilii's death in 1821 the observatory on the tower was discontinued and the instruments were moved to the observatory at the roman college established in 1787 it was considered more suitable for making observations than the vatican |
the revival of the observatory on the gregorian tower was initiated by the francesco denza with the approval of pope leo xiii high quality instruments were procured partly with generous donations from hicks of london and the automatic recording instruments were procured from richard in paris a four @@ inch equatorial a three @@ inch transit instrument and four pendulum clocks with two chronometers were also procured from the observatory at modena in 1888 the gift of a 16 inch long telescope to pope leo xiii became a part of the observatory father denza joined the observatory in 1889 after it was upgraded with more modern instruments the same year a second tower was built some 400 metres ( 1 @@ 300 ft ) away from the main gregorian tower overlooking the vatican gardens behind st peter's basilica on the south @@ west border it was built to a diameter of 17 metres ( 56 ft ) with a lower wall thickness of 4 @@ 5 metres ( 15 ft ) which could bear the load of a 13 inch photographic refractor newly procured from paris augustinian father rodriguez was the expert meteorologist who held the post of director from 1898 to 1905 in 1891 pope leo xiii promulgating the motu proprio ut designated the second tower as the seat of the newly established vatican observatory a decision which required altering the roof to provide a flat terrace for astronomical observations |
the fourth stage involved remedying the problem of communicating between the two towers during the time of pope pius x his plans were to make the gregorian tower into a historical tower and to record and carry out observations at the second tower by linking the two towers along the fortified wall with a 83 metres ( 272 ft ) iron bridge spanning the gap at the west end of this bridge a four @@ inch equatorial was installed on semicircular bastion the east end of the bridge above the barracks of the gendarmes had a heliograph with a camera attached used to photograph the sun ( ) a new 16 @@ inch visual telescope called torre pio x was erected in the second tower as a result of these modifications the original library was moved to the pontifical academy lincei and the old meteorological and seismic instruments were shifted to the valle di pompei observatory the new astronomical library was housed in two rooms of the building the two new machines were used for recording on the plates the recorded observations were published along with explanatory notes together with the last two series of the atlas of stars charts were printed on silver bromide paper |
the tower had two floors and a mezzanine on the first floor was the famous sundial room or meridian room which was initially an open loggia pope urban viii had it enclosed and it was subsequently decorated with long sequences of frescoes painted between 1580 and 1582 by simon lagi and the two flemish artists paul and matthijs today the tower has paintings by cristoforo roncalli and da siena |
the sundial room also called the meridian hall was once the residence of queen christina of sweden then newly converted to catholicism the room was further modified by two additions which gave it its current name a sundial and a delicate but sophisticated which was fixed to the ceiling of the meridian hall these were created by ignazio the papal in association with the gregorian calendar reform the sundial consisted of a straight line in white marble running across the floor in a north @@ south direction intended to measure the height of the sun at noon according to the seasons of the year the observations made with the sundial provided essential confirmation of the need to reform the julian calendar the in contrast was a complex mechanism attached to the ceiling which was used to measure the strength and direction of the wind but soon stopped functioning the instrument may have led to the other name of the tower tower of the winds however an ancient observatory at athens was also called the tower of the winds and might have been the source for inspiration |
the interior walls and ceiling of the hall were richly decorated in some cases with gaudy frescoes of the hills and roman countryside the religious themes the buildings surrounding the area and naval shipwrecks with jesus calming the storm and so forth |
there's got to be a way is a song by american singer and songwriter mariah carey from her self @@ titled debut studio album ( 1990 ) columbia released it as the fifth and final single from the album in the united kingdom it was one of four songs carey wrote with ric wake during their first recording session together but there's got to be a way was the only composition to make the final track listing it is a socio @@ political conscious r & b @@ pop song which addresses the existence of poverty racism and war in the world which gradually becomes more aspirational and positive as it progresses the track garnered a mixed reception upon the album's release in 1990 while carey's vocals were praised it was seen as too political an accompanying music video highlights social injustices the song reached number 54 on the uk singles chart |
there's got to be a way was written by mariah carey and ric wake for carey's self @@ titled debut studio album ( 1990 ) it was written during carey and wake's first recording session together they composed four songs but only there's got to be a way was chosen for the final track listing co @@ produced by wake and narada michael walden it appears as the second of ten songs on the track listing the track was recorded and engineered by bob at cove city sound studios and the power station both located in new york city he was assisted by dana jon chappelle it was mixed by david frazer at tarpan studios in san rafael the keyboards bass and rhythm engineering was carried out by louis biancaniello while joe franco performed the percussion vernon ice black played the guitar and rich tancredo also performing on the keyboards walter afanasieff played the synth horns carey provided her own background vocals along with billy t scott muhammed and the billy t scott ensemble the song was released as the fifth and final single from the album in the united kingdom it is available to purchase as a cd single while the remixes are available on vinyl |
there's got to be a way is an r & b @@ pop music song with elements of gospel the theme of social activism can be heard in the lyrics there s got to be a way / to connect this world today the song begins with carey publicly denouncing the existence of poverty and racism in the world and she uses the bridge to shift the lyrics towards an uplifting and aspirational tone carey suggests we should be more tolerant of each other and not resort so readily to war in the lyrics couldn't we accept each other / can't we make ourselves aware |
music critic robert christgau felt that carey was being too political in her brave young idealistic attack on war and destitution ralph novak david hiltbrand and david grogan of people wrote that it is a testimony to her talent that she does so much with so little they continued to write that carey's tone and clarity makes there's got to be a way a mesmerizing track to mark twenty @@ five years since the release of mariah carey in june 1990 billboard writer trevor anderson wrote a track @@ by @@ track review of the album in june 2015 he noted that there's got to be a way follows the same melodic tone as the album's opener vision of love but highlighted their stark lyrical differences as the former is about social activism and the latter is about love although he praised carey's vocals writing that she deploys one of her best whistle notes of her career he felt that the aim for broad appeal comes at the expense of memorable lyrics |
the accompanying music video begins with a shot of an empty street followed by clips of disadvantaged and poorer members of society going about their daily activities two men play dominoes on a wooden crate outside a building a gang make fun of an elderly man hanging newspapers outside his store and an obese woman walks down the street clips of carey leaning against a wall and sitting on some steps looking on at what is happening are shown as the first chorus begins everyone starts to dance joyfully in the street and help those in need a gospel choir comes out of one of the buildings as the street becomes more crowded with people of all ages and backgrounds rejoicing and getting along with each other one of the shops in the background has a neon light outside the entrance which says jesus saves |
there's got to be a way ( original album version ) 4 52 |
there's got to be a way ( 7 remix ) |
there's got to be a way ( 12 remix ) |
there's got to be a way ( alternative vocal dub mix ) |
nebraska highway 88 ( n @@ 88 ) is a highway in northwestern nebraska it has a western terminus at wyoming highway 151 ( wyo 151 ) at the wyoming nebraska state line the road travels eastward to n @@ 71 where it turns south n @@ 88 continues east to south of bridgeport the road turns north ends at an intersection with us highway 385 ( us 385 ) and n @@ 92 in bridgeport the route was designated in 1937 before the official state highway system was created it was extended to the state line in 1986 |
n @@ 88 starts at the nebraska wyoming state line in banner county where wyo 151 ends and travels northeast the road quickly bends east after less than one mile ( 1 @@ 6 km ) and continues in a straight line for the next twenty miles ( 32 km ) n @@ 88 intersects minor streets through rural farmland the route turns south at n @@ 71 and becomes concurrent four miles ( 6 @@ 4 km ) later n @@ 88 turns east ending the concurrency with n @@ 71 the route continues to travel through farmland for sixteen miles ( 26 km ) where it enters morrill county the road crosses over pumpkin creek four times and enters the unincorporated community of two rock formations courthouse and jail rocks become visible from the road n @@ 88 turns north toward bridgeport soon after the road crosses over pumpkin creek for the fifth time and enters into bridgeport five miles ( 8 @@ 0 km ) later the road intersects a railroad owned by bnsf railway n @@ 88 turns northeast soon after and ends at the intersection of us 385 and n @@ 92 in 2012 nebraska department of roads ( ) calculated as many as 2 @@ 410 vehicles traveling on the n @@ 71 / n @@ 88 concurrency and as few as 315 vehicles traveling east of the banner morrill county line this is expressed in terms of annual average daily traffic ( aadt ) a measure of traffic volume for any average day of the year only the n @@ 71 / n @@ 88 concurrency is part of the national highway system ( nhs ) a network of highways identified as being most important for the economy mobility and defense of the nation |
n @@ 88 was unofficially designated around 1937 connecting from n @@ 29 to n @@ 86 and n @@ 19 in bridgeport the route remained relatively the same as the state highway system was officially designated before 1955 nebraska did not have an adequate legal instrument to define the state highway system by 1960 n @@ 19 was renumbered to us 385 and us 26 was rerouted north near bridgeport the old alignment became part of n @@ 92 two years later n @@ 29 was renumbered to n @@ 71 between 1981 @@ 82 a road appeared on the official state map extending from wyo 151 to n @@ 71 that road became part of n @@ 88 by 1986 no significant changes have been made since |
atlanta was a casemate ironclad that served in the confederate and union navies during the american civil war she was converted from a scottish @@ built blockade runner named fingal by the confederacy after she made one run to savannah georgia after several failed attempts to attack union blockaders the ship was captured by two union monitors in 1863 when she ran aground atlanta was floated off repaired and rearmed serving in the union navy for the rest of the war she spent most of her time deployed on the james river supporting union forces there the ship was decommissioned in 1865 and placed in reserve several years after the end of the war atlanta was sold to haiti but was lost at sea in december 1869 on her delivery voyage |
fingal was designed and built as a merchantman by j & g thomson's clyde bank iron shipyard at govan in glasgow scotland and was completed early in 1861 she was described by midshipman dabney scales who served on the atlanta before her battle with the monitors as being a two @@ masted iron @@ hulled ship 189 feet ( 57 @@ 6 m ) long with a beam of 25 feet ( 7 @@ 6 m ) she had a draft of 12 feet ( 3 @@ 7 m ) and a depth of hold of 15 feet ( 4 @@ 6 m ) he estimated her tonnage at around 700 tons bm fingal was equipped with two vertical single @@ cylinder direct @@ acting steam engines using steam generated by one flue @@ tubular boiler the engines drove the ship at a top speed of around 13 knots ( 24 km / h 15 mph ) they had a bore of 39 inches ( 991 mm ) and a stroke of 30 inches ( 762 mm ) |
the ship briefly operated between glasgow and other ports in scotland for hutcheson's west highland service before she was purchased in september 1861 by james d bulloch the primary foreign agent in great britain for the confederacy to deliver the military and naval ordnance and supplies that he had purchased to disguise his control of fingal and the destination of her cargo bulloch hired an english crew and captain and put out his destination as bermuda and nassau in the bahamas the cargo was loaded in greenock in early october although bullock and the other passengers would not attempt to board until they rendezvoused with the ship at holyhead wales on the night 14 / 15 october as she was slowly rounding the breakwater at holyhead fingal rammed and sank the austrian brig slowly swinging at anchor without lights bulloch and the passengers embarked in the steamer while bulloch dispatched a letter to his financial agents instructing them to settle damages with the brig's owners because he could not afford to take the time to deal with the affair lest he and fingal be detained the ship reached bermuda on 2 november and after leaving port on 7 november bulloch informed the crew that the steamer's real destination was savannah georgia he offered to take anyone who objected to the plan to nassau however all of the crew agreed to join in the effort to run the union blockade fingal was able slip safely into the savannah estuary in a heavy fog on the night of 12 november without sighting any blockaders |
while fingal was discharging her cargo bulloch went to richmond to confer with stephen mallory secretary of the navy mallory endorsed bulloch's plan to load fingal with cotton to sell on the navy department's account to be used to purchase more ships and equipment in europe he returned to savannah on 23 november and it took him almost a month to purchase a cargo and acquire enough coal he made one attempt to break through the blockade on 23 december but it proved impossible to do as the union controlled every channel from savannah aided by their occupation of tybee island at the mouth of the savannah river bulloch reported to mallory in late january 1862 that breaking out was hopeless so mallory ordered him to turn the ship over to another officer and to return to europe some other way |
the brothers asa and nelson tift received the contract to convert the blockade runner into an ironclad in early 1862 with the name of atlanta after the city in georgia this was largely financed by contributions from the women of savannah fingal was cut down to her main deck and large wooden sponsons were built out from the sides of her hull to support her casemate after the conversion atlanta was 204 feet ( 62 @@ 2 m ) long overall and had a beam of 41 feet ( 12 m ) her depth of hold was now 17 feet ( 5 @@ 2 m ) and she now had a draft of 15 feet 9 inches ( 4 @@ 8 m ) atlanta now displaced 1 @@ 006 long tons ( 1 @@ 022 t ) and her speed was estimated at 7 10 knots ( 13 19 km / h 8 @@ 1 11 @@ 5 mph ) |
the armor of the casemate was angled at 30 ° from the horizontal and made from two layers of railroad rails rolled into plates 2 inches ( 51 mm ) thick and 7 inches ( 180 mm ) wide the outer layer ran vertically and the inner layer horizontally her armor was backed by 3 inches ( 76 mm ) of oak vertically oriented and two layers of 7 @@ 5 inches ( 191 mm ) of pine alternating in direction the bottom of the casemate was some 20 inches ( 508 mm ) from the waterline and its top was 8 feet 6 inches ( 2 @@ 59 m ) above the waterline the pyramidal pilothouse was armored in the same way and had room for two men the upper portion of atlanta's hull received two inches of armor |
the rectangular casemate was pierced with eight narrow gun ports one each at the bow and stern and three along each side each gun port was protected by an armored shutter made of two layers of iron riveted together and allowed the guns to elevate only to a maximum of + 5 to + 7 ° atlanta was armed with single @@ banded 7 @@ inch ( 178 mm ) brooke rifles on pivot mounts at the bow and stern the middle gun port on each side was occupied by a single @@ banded 6 @@ 4 @@ inch ( 163 mm ) brooke rifle the 17 @@ caliber seven @@ inch guns weighed about 15 @@ 000 pounds ( 6 @@ 800 kg ) and fired 80 @@ pound ( 36 kg ) armor @@ piercing bolts and 110 @@ pound ( 50 kg ) explosive shells the equivalent statistics for the 18 @@ 5 @@ caliber 6 @@ 4 @@ inch gun were 9 @@ 110 pounds ( 4 @@ 130 kg ) with 80 @@ pound bolts and 64 @@ pound ( 29 kg ) shells atlanta was also armed with a 20 @@ foot ( 6 @@ 1 m ) solid iron ram that was reinforced by a series of vertical steel bars in front of the ram was a spar torpedo that carried 50 pounds ( 23 kg ) of black powder on a wooden pole connected to an iron lever that could be raised or lowered by means of pulleys |
on 31 july 1862 under the command of lieutenant charles h mcblair atlanta conducted her sea trials down the savannah river toward fort pulaski the ship proved to be difficult to steer and the additional weight of her armor and guns significantly reduced her speed and increased her draft this latter was a real problem in the shallow waters near savannah she also leaked significantly and her design virtually eliminated air circulation one report said that it was almost intolerable on board the atlanta there being no method of ventilation and the heat was intense scales commented in his diary what a comfortless infernal and god @@ forsaken ship |
attempts were made to fix the problems and were at least partially successful in stopping many of the leaks the ship was commissioned on 22 november and became the flagship of flag officer josiah tattnall commander of the naval defenses of georgia under pressure from mallory to engage the blockading ships tattnall attempted to engage them before any ironclads arrived on 5 january 1863 but army engineers could not clear the obstacles blocking the channel in a timely manner despite early coordination being made by tattnall to do so it took another month to actually clear the obstacles and two monitors arrived before the end of january nonetheless tattnall attempted to pass through the obstructions during high tide on 3 february but high winds prevented the water from rising enough to allow the ship to do so after atlanta successfully passed through them on 19 march tattnall planned to attack the union base at port royal south carolina while the monitors were attacking charleston deserters revealed tatnall's plan while he was waiting at the head of sound and he was forced to retreat when three monitors augmented the defenses at port royal dissatisfied with tattnall's perceived lack of aggressiveness mallory replaced tattnall as commander of the savannah squadron later that month with commander richard l page page in his turn was relieved in may by commander william a webb atlanta remained the squadron flagship throughout this time |
webb demonstrated his aggressiveness when he attempted to sortie on the first spring tide ( 30 may ) after taking command but atlanta's forward engine broke down after he had passed the obstructions and the ship ran aground she was not damaged although it took over a day to pull her free he planned to make another attempt on the next full tide rejecting mallory's idea that he wait until the nearly complete ironclad savannah was finished before his next sortie in the meantime rear admiral samuel f du pont commander of the south atlantic blockading squadron had ordered the monitors weehawken and nahant into sound commander john rodgers in weehawken had overall command of the two ships |
in the early evening of 15 june webb began his next attempt by passing over the lower obstructions in the wilmington river and spent the rest of the night coaling he moved forward the next evening to a concealed position within easy reach of the monitors for an attack early the following morning webb planned to sink one of the monitors with his spar torpedo and then deal with the other one with his guns the gunboat and the tugboat resolute were to accompany him to tow one or both of the monitors back to savannah |
a lookout aboard weehawken spotted atlanta at 04 10 on the morning of 17 june when the latter ship closed to within about 1 @@ 5 miles ( 2 @@ 4 km ) of the two union ships she fired one round from her bow gun that passed over weehawken and landed near nahant shortly afterward atlanta ran aground on a sandbar she was briefly able to free herself but the pressure of the tide pushed her back onto the sandbar this time webb was unable to get off and the monitors closed the range when weehawken the leading ship closed to within 200 300 yards ( 180 270 m ) she opened fire with both of her guns the 11 @@ inch ( 279 mm ) shell missed but the 15 @@ inch ( 381 mm ) shell struck the ironclad above the port middle gun port penetrated her armor and broke the wooden backing behind it spraying splinters and fragments that disabled the entire gun crew and half the crew of the bow gun even though it failed to cleanly penetrate through the backing the next shot from the 11 @@ inch dahlgren gun struck the upper hull and started a small leak even though it failed to penetrate the two @@ inch armor there the next shell from the 15 @@ inch dahlgren glanced off the middle starboard gun shutter as it was being opened wounding half the gun's crew with fragments the final shell was also from the 15 @@ inch dahlgren and it struck the top of the pilothouse breaking the armor there and wounding both pilots in it by this time atlanta had been able to fire only seven shots none of which hit either union ship and was hard aground with high tide not due for another hour and a half weehawken and nahant were able to freely maneuver into positions from which the atlanta's narrow gun ports would not allow her to reply and the damage already inflicted by the former ship made further resistance futile webb surrendered his ship within 15 minutes of opening fire before nahant even had a chance to fire of the ironclad's 21 officers and 124 enlisted men one man was killed and another sixteen were wounded badly enough to require hospitalization |
atlanta was easily pulled free by the union ships and she reached port royal under her own power not badly damaged she was repaired and bought by the union navy the prize money of $ 350 @@ 000 was shared between the crews of weehawken nahant and the gunboat cimarron the only ships within signaling distance the ship retained her name and was commissioned again on 2 february 1864 rearmed with a pair of 8 @@ inch ( 203 mm ) 150 @@ pound parrott rifles in the bow and stern and 6 @@ 4 @@ inch 100 @@ pound parrott rifles amidships the 150 @@ pound parrott rifle weighed 16 @@ 500 pounds ( 7 @@ 500 kg ) and was 17 calibers long the 100 @@ pounder weighed 9 @@ 800 pounds ( 4 @@ 400 kg ) and was 20 calibers long it fired a 100 @@ pound ( 45 kg ) shell a distance of 6 @@ 900 yards ( 6 @@ 300 m ) at an elevation of + 25 ° all four of her brooke rifles are currently located in willard park in the washington navy yard atlanta was assigned to the north atlantic blockading squadron and spent most of her time stationed up the james river where she could support operations against richmond and defend against a sortie by the ironclads of the james river squadron on 21 may 1864 she and the gunboat dawn fired on and dispersed confederate cavalry that was attacking fort powhatan and she was deployed further upriver in february 1865 after the battle of trent's reach to better blockade the confederate ironclads at richmond |
after the end of the war in april atlanta was decommissioned in philadelphia on 21 june 1865 and placed in reserve at league island she was sold to sam ward on 4 may 1869 for the price of $ 25 @@ 000 and subsequently delivered to representatives of haiti on 8 december by sydney a lawyer who had received an advance of $ 50 @@ 000 on her purchase price of $ 260 @@ 000 the ship was briefly seized by the customs service possibly for violations of neutrality laws as she had just loaded four large guns and a number of recruits for the forces of sylvain president of haiti who was embroiled in a civil war atlanta was released and sailed for port @@ au @@ prince three days later she broke down in delaware bay and had to put in at chester pennsylvania for repairs the ship now renamed either triumph or departed on 18 december 1869 and vanished en route apparently sinking with the loss of all hands either off cape hatteras or the delaware capes |
jacqueline fernandez ( born 11 august 1985 ) is a sri lankan actress former model and the winner of the 2006 miss universe sri lanka pageant as miss universe sri lanka she represented her country at the 2006 world miss universe pageant she graduated with a degree in mass communication from the university of sydney and worked as a television reporter in sri lanka |
while on a modelling assignment in india in 2009 fernandez successfully auditioned for sujoy ghosh's fantasy drama aladin which marked her acting debut fernandez' breakthrough role was in mohit suri's psychological thriller murder 2 ( 2011 ) her first commercial success this was followed by glamorous roles in the ensemble @@ comedy housefull 2 ( 2012 ) and its sequel housefull 3 and the action thriller race 2 ( 2013 ) all of which were box @@ office successes her performance in the first of these garnered her an iifa award for best supporting actress nomination in 2014 fernandez played the leading lady in sajid nadiadwala's kick which is one of the highest @@ grossing bollywood films of all time |
one of the most popular actresses in india she was the recipient of the iifa award for star debut of the year female in 2010 alongside her screen acting career fernandez has participated in stage shows and is active in humanitarian work |
fernandez was born on 11 august 1985 in manama bahrain and was raised in a multi @@ ethnic family her father elroy is sri lankan and her mother kim is of malaysian descent her grandfather on her mother's side of the family is canadian and her great grandparents were from goa india her father who was a musician in sri lanka moved to bahrain in the 1980s to escape civil unrest between the tamils and sinhalese and subsequently met her mother who was an air hostess she is the youngest of four children with one elder sister and two elder brothers she hosted television shows in bahrain at the age of fourteen after receiving her early education in bahrain she pursued a degree in mass communication from the university of sydney in australia after graduating she worked as a television reporter in sri lanka she also attended the berlitz school of languages where she learnt spanish and improved her french and arabic |
according to fernandez she had aspired to become an actress at a young age and fantasized about becoming a hollywood movie star she received some training at the john school of acting although she was a television reporter she accepted offers in the modeling industry which came as a result of her pageant success in 2006 she was crowned the winner of the miss universe sri lanka pageant and represented sri lanka at the world miss universe 2006 pageant held in los angeles in a 2015 interview fernandez described the modeling industry as a good training ground and said it is a medium that is about shedding your inhibitions knowing your body confidence in 2006 she appeared in a music video for the song o sathi by music duo and |
in 2009 fernandez traveled to india for a modeling assignment she studied acting under the mentorship of theatre director barry john and successfully auditioned for sujoy ghosh's fantasy film aladin ( 2009 ) her acting debut she played the love interest of deshmukh's character a role based on the princess jasmine character fernandez garnered mixed reviews for her performance anupama chopra of ndtv called her a plastic debutant [ e ] and rajeev masand of cnn @@ ibn felt that she was easy on the eyes and appears confident but has precious little to do although the film was a critical and commercial failure she won the iifa award for star debut of the year female |
in 2010 fernandez appeared opposite deshmukh in the science fiction romantic comedy jaane kahan se aayi hai she was cast as a girl from venus who lands on earth in search of love the film along with fernandez's performance received poor reviews rediffcom's sukanya verma noted she gamely makes a fool of herself whilst aping the actions of movie stars ranging from sridevi's dance mithun chakravarthy's disco dancer moves to big b's violent in hum her tara could be a keeper if only jaane kahan se aayi hai wasn't so intent on turning her into a love @@ struck barbie critic anupama chopra also criticized fernandez calling her a pin @@ prick on a balloon later that year she made a cameo appearance in sajid khan's housefull in the song |
mahesh bhatt's thriller murder 2 was fernandez's first commercial success and marker a turning point in her career she took on the role of priya a lonely model who is in a confused relationship with arjun bhagwat ( played by emraan hashmi ) fernandez was praised for the her performance and for the boldness and sex appeal she displayed in the film gaurav malini of the times of india stated that she was tastefully tempting but noted that her romance with hashmi was literally half @@ baked the following year fernandez appeared in the ensemble comedy housefull 2 alongside akshay kumar john abraham and asin it became one of the top grossing productions of india that year and earned ₹ 1 @@ 86 billion ( us $ 28 million ) worldwide fernandez received mostly negative reviews for her performance while gaurav malini praised her for her looks ndtv called her a bimbo who find [ s ] no pleasure in [ her role ] despite the negative reviews fernandez received a best supporting actress nomination at the 14th iifa awards for her performance |
fernandez's first release of 2013 was race 2 an ensemble action thriller ( alongside saif ali khan john abraham deepika padukone ameesha patel and anil kapoor ) ) described as the cinematic equivalent of a trashy novel by critic rajeev masand she played a femme fatale a role which required her learn fencing and some acrobatics the film emerged as a commercial success with the domestic gross of more than ₹ 1 billion ( us $ 15 million ) in a particularly scathing review saibal chatterjee of ndtv wrote that both fernandez and padukone strut around like wound @@ up automatons that are all decked @@ up but have nowhere to go fernandez also appeared in an item number ( music video ) titled jaadu ki for prabhu deva's |
in 2014 fernandez appeared in sajid nadiadwala's directorial debut the action film kick a remake of a 2009 telugu film of same name she starred opposite salman khan playing shaina a psychiatry student she retained her real voice for the first time in kick while sneha may francis commented that she is incredibly dazzling and moves like a magic raja sen of rediffcom was more critical of her dialogue delivery calling it unfortunate the film received mixed reviews from critics but with worldwide revenue of over ₹ 3 @@ 75 billion ( us $ 56 million ) it became the fourth highest @@ grossing bollywood film the film established fernandez as one of the most popular bollywood actresses |
in 2015 fernandez featured in vicky singh's roy a romantic thriller which critic sarita a tanwar described as a boring exhausting and pretentious film fernandez played dual roles ayesha aamir a filmmaker in a relationship with another filmmaker ( played by arjun rampal ) and tia desai a girl in love with a thief ( played by ranbir kapoor ) while india tv called it her best act till date critic rajeev masand felt that she appears miscast in a part that required greater range roy failed to meet its box @@ office expectations and was a commercial failure later that year she appeared in a guest appearance for the comedy @@ satire |
karan malhotra's action drama brothers was fernandez's next release co @@ starring alongside akshay kumar and sidharth malhotra fernandez played jenny a fearless mother struggling for her child a role which she described as challenging intense and difficult the role marked a departure from the glamorous characters that she had a reputation for portraying film critics praised her performance though their response to the film was mixed sharma of zee news called her character soft timid and promising and praised her for convincingly pull [ ing ] off a pleasing character of a street fighter's wife film critic subhash k jha noted that she in a limited role gives her finest emotive shot while critic raja sen remarked [ she ] plays kumar's long @@ sobbing wife who gets so deliriously happy on seeing a text message that it may well have contained news about a kick sequel |
as of september 2015 fernandez has several projects in various stages of production she has completed shooting for chandran 's english @@ sri lankan crime @@ thriller according to mathew and the horror thriller definition of fear which marks her hollywood debut fernandez has also signed on to appear in three other projects rohit dhawan's opposite varun dhawan and john abraham as a part of three @@ film deal with nadiadwala grandson entertainment remo d'souza's flying jat opposite tiger shroff and in an indo @@ chinese film starring opposite abhay deol amitabh bachchan and jackie chan titled gold struck |
fernandez shares a close bond with her family and admits to missing being around them she says i miss them so much everyday you don't realise when you live away from home how difficult life can be [ ] at the same time staying away from them has taught me to be more responsible it has taught me so many things about myself about priorities and time management in march 2012 fernandez turned vegetarian for a 40 @@ day period to observe lent a period from ash wednesday to holy saturday |
in 2008 fernandez started dating bahraini prince hassan bin rashid al khalifa whom she met at a mutual friend's party they separated in 2011 while filming housefull 2 in 2011 fernandez began a romantic relationship with director sajid khan the relationship attracted media coverage in india and there was speculation of an impending wedding however the relationship ended in may 2013 |
in addition to acting in films fernandez has supported charitable organisations and a number of causes in 2011 on the behalf of people for the ethical treatment of animals ( peta ) she sent a letter to the mumbai municipal commissioner asking for an end to horse @@ drawn carriage rides in mumbai in early 2013 she asked the consulate general of the philippines william john t perera in colombo to hasten the transfer of an elephant from its inadequate housing at the manila zoo to a humane sanctuary later that year she auctioned a breakfast in mayfair london where she raised around £ 4000 for the pratham ngo which helps children's primary education in 2014 fernandez was named woman of the year by peta ( india ) for advocating the protection of animals the following year she auctioned her outfits on an online portal for a philanthropic cause some of her outfits included the ones she wore in the song party on my mind ( from race 2 ) and hangover ( from kick ) in march 2016 she was part of jacqueline builds campaign that raised funds for the victims of the 2015 south indian floods |
fernandez has participated in several concert tours and televised award ceremonies in 2013 she performed at the temptations reloaded in auckland perth and sydney alongside shah rukh khan rani mukerji and madhuri dixit she also performed at the live talent show got talent world stage live with khan priyanka chopra and varun dhawan the following year in july 2014 fernandez opened a restaurant in colombo sutra in collaboration with chef which specialises in contemporary sri lankan cuisine |
in the early 2013 fernandez became the ambassador for htc one which she endorses in india she was the face of indian bridal fashion week of 2013 later that year she became the spokesperson for gareth pugh's designed diamonds in mumbai and was at the inaugural opening of the forever 21 store in mumbai that year she also launched gillette shaving system with arbaaz khan and aditya roy kapur while analysing fernandez's career india tv noted slowly and steadily jacqueline fernandez is climbing up the ladder of success [ ] jacqueline is comfortably grasping every aspect of the work which an actress is required to do and is accordingly giving results on the contrary charu thakur of india today criticized her acting skills but remarked that [ she has ] managed to find her feet in bollywood now by banking on glamorous roles |
in 2008 and 2011 fernandez featured in the uk magazine eastern eye's world's sexiest asian women list ranking twelfth she was ranked third on the times of india's listing of the most desirable woman in 2013 and 2014 after being ranked eighth seventh and fourteenth respectively in the preceding three years in 2013 rediffcom placed her on their list of bollywood's best dressed actresses the following year she held the sixty second position in the indian edition of the forbes' celebrity 100 a list based on the income and popularity of india's celebrities she has been the cover model for many indian editions of magazines including vogue fhm maxim cosmopolitan grazia elle verve harper's bazaar women's health and l'officiel among others |
barry john cullen ( born august 2 1964 ) is a canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played in the national hockey league ( nhl ) for the pittsburgh penguins hartford whalers toronto maple leafs and tampa bay lightning he was a standout player for boston university and is the school's all @@ time leading scorer after the buffalo sabres selected him in the 1986 nhl supplemental draft but chose not to offer him a contract cullen signed with the flint spirits of the international hockey league ( ihl ) for the 1987 88 season where he was named the ihl's co @@ rookie of the year and most valuable player after leading the league in scoring |
his career was halted in 1997 when he was diagnosed with non @@ hodgkin lymphoma he attempted a brief comeback in 1998 after an 18 @@ month battle with the disease for which the nhl awarded him the bill masterton memorial trophy before retiring to serve as an assistant coach for a year with the lightning cullen played in two nhl all @@ star games in his career he joined his brother in the car dealership business after leaving the game and briefly operated his own dealership until forced to close during the automotive industry crisis of 2008 10 |
cullen was born in @@ ontario on august 2 1964 he is one of six children of barry and loretta cullen his father and uncles brian and ray all played in the nhl and while cullen and his three brothers all played as well their father never pressured them preferring that they enjoy the game |
he idolized his elder brother terry who was considered a top nhl prospect until terry's career was ended when he suffered a broken neck after being hit from behind into the boards during a college game while his brother was highly sought by american universities john received only two scholarship offers choosing to play for boston university ( bu ) in 1983 |
at the same time his mother loretta was diagnosed with skin cancer following her death early in his freshman year cullen contemplated returning to his ontario home but was convinced by his father to continue with both school and hockey he used the game to cope with the loss and dedicated every game he played to his mother's memory cullen felt that the inspiration he drew from his mother's battle allowed him to become a better player |
cullen was a standout with bu he was named the east coast athletic conference rookie of the year in 1983 84 after leading his team in scoring with 56 points the national hockey league passed him over however as he went unclaimed in the 1984 nhl entry draft he was named to the hockey east all @@ star teams in 1985 1986 and 1987 and a national collegiate athletic association east second team all @@ american in 1986 he graduated as bu's all @@ time scoring leader with 241 points and was named to bu's hockey east 25th anniversary team in 2009 |
passed over in the entry draft cullen was finally selected by the buffalo sabres in the 1986 nhl supplemental draft when the sabres failed to offer him a contract cullen signed with the flint spirits of the international hockey league ( ihl ) for the 1987 88 season he led the league with 157 points scoring 48 goals and won the james memorial trophy as league most valuable player while sharing the gary f longman memorial trophy with ed belfour as rookie of the year cullen's outstanding season in flint caught the attention of the sabres and the pittsburgh penguins he signed a contract with the penguins for the league minimum passing up a superior contract offer from buffalo as he remained upset at how they released him the year before |
cullen made his nhl debut in 1988 89 appearing in 79 games with the penguins and scoring 49 points he was given a greater role with the penguins the following year after mario lemieux missed 21 games due to a back injury and responded by scoring 32 goals and 92 points to finish third in team scoring additionally he played for team canada at the 1990 world championship scoring four points in ten games cullen had his best season in 1990 91 as one of the team's top offensive centres he scored 94 points in the penguins' first 65 games and played in his first nhl all @@ star game however when lemieux returned after missing an additional 50 @@ games due to injury cullen's playing time and production declined |
the penguins' needs led them to complete a blockbuster trade on march 1 1991 cullen was sent to the hartford whalers along with zarley zalapski and jeff parker in exchange for hartford's all @@ time leading scorer ron francis along with ulf samuelsson and grant jennings the penguins almost turned down the deal as they were concerned about giving up cullen's playmaking and leadership abilities while his former teammates credited cullen as being the primary reason they were in a playoff position at the time the trade happened after the penguins won their first stanley cup that season phil bourque later said it broke his heart that cullen was not able to share in that championship |
in hartford cullen worked to overcome the team's fans' disappointment at losing francis the hartford fans initially booed him to show their dissatisfaction with the trade he scored 16 points in 13 regular season games to finish the season with 110 points combined between the penguins and whalers and was the team's best player in their first round loss to the boston bruins in the 1991 stanley cup playoffs he initially accepted an invitation to join the canadian team at the 1991 canada cup but subsequently chose not to participate as his contract had expired leading to greater insurance concerns still without a contract when the 1991 92 season began cullen missed the first four games before signing a four @@ year deal with hartford worth a total of $ 4 million he returned to score 77 points in 77 games in his first full season with the whalers and represented the team at the 1992 all @@ star game |
midway through the 1992 93 nhl season the whalers sent cullen to the toronto maple leafs for toronto's second round selection at the 1993 nhl entry draft cullen was excited to play for his father's old team but injuries reduced his ability to perform his most significant injury was a herniated disc in his neck that doctors initially feared would end his career a bulky neck brace allowed cullen to return and play out his contract in toronto when the leafs chose not to re @@ sign him following the 1993 94 season he returned to the penguins for one season before tony esposito convinced him to sign with the tampa bay lightning in 1995 |
cullen enjoyed immediate success with linemates shawn burr and alexander as the trio combined to score 130 points and helped lead the lightning to the first playoff appearance in franchise history they were eliminated by the philadelphia flyers in five games while cullen led the team in playoff scoring with three goals and three assists the lightning looked to improve in 1996 97 cullen was leading the team in scoring but was suffering flu @@ like symptoms that he could not shake as tampa was fighting for a playoff spot he played through his condition for weeks |
after two months of quietly dealing with his symptoms cullen's wife finally called team trainers and asked them to check into his illness the team took an x @@ ray and found a large black shadow in his chest he underwent a cat scan which revealed cullen had a baseball @@ sized tumor he was diagnosed as having non @@ hodgkin lymphoma the diagnosis ended his season and he immediately began chemotherapy treatments that quickly reduced his cancer the tumor was gone by september 1997 but a precautionary test prior to training camp revealed that cullen still had cancer cells in his body he missed the entire 1997 98 nhl season as he continued to battle the disease while his teammates wore a uniform patch with his # 12 in support throughout the year |
on one day during his treatments as his wife was wheeling him down a hospital corridor cullen went into cardiac arrest requiring doctors to use a defibrillator to revive him he underwent a bone marrow transplant that briefly reduced his immune system to the point that he could have very little human contact another examination in april 1998 revealed that the cancer was finally gone and cullen immediately began training for a comeback |
the lightning signed cullen to a one @@ year $ 500 @@ 000 contract for the 1998 99 season he played his first game in nearly 18 months on september 18 1998 in an exhibition game between the lightning and sabres at innsbruck austria cullen scored the game @@ winning goal in a 3 1 victory after which he said he sat on the bench in disbelief over how he was given a second chance he was named to the roster and was greeted with a loud standing ovation by the fans in tampa bay when he was introduced prior to their season opening game |
cullen appeared in four of the lightning's first eight games but it was evident that he had lost much of his speed and strength the lightning assigned him to the ihl's cleveland lumberjacks but also gave him the option of retiring and taking up a position as an assistant coach he chose to accept the demotion giving himself one month to determine if he could continue playing he appeared in six games for cleveland and in one game against the chicago wolves tied an ihl record when he scored seven points in a 7 3 victory |
however a bout of bronchitis led cullen to fear that his cancer had returned tests came back negative but after spending time with his family he realized that neither he nor his family were interested in returning to cleveland cullen announced his retirement on november 28 1998 and accepted the lightning offer to become an assistant coach in recognition of his comeback attempt the nhl named him the 1999 winner of the bill masterton memorial trophy for dedication and perseverance while the ihl renamed its comeback player of the year award the john cullen award |
former lightning head coach terry crisp has stated publicly that cullen was a player that stood out as something special saying john cullen beat cancer and came back to play and helped us win |
cullen and his wife valerie have three daughters kennedy and twins and unwilling to spend so much time away from his family he left the lightning in 1999 and settled in the atlanta area joining his brother's car dealership in jonesboro georgia he had always expected to become a car dealer after his hockey career as his father uncles and brother all worked in the industry after apprenticing under his brother for five years he bought a dodge dealership in newnan georgia in 2007 however he owned the dealership for less than two years before chrysler closed him down as part of its recovery plan in response to the automotive industry crisis of 2008 2010 he has since returned to his brother's dealership serving as its general manager |
cullen's battle with cancer inspired timm harmon of the moffitt cancer centre to partner with the lightning to raise awareness and money for cancer research the nhl itself joined the cause in the winter of 1998 creating the hockey fights cancer program to raise money for research cullen has spent time promoting the initiative |
prior to marrying his wife valerie john dated carolyn bessette the future wife of john f kennedy jr the two met while attending university in boston |
cullen is the namesake of the john cullen award previously given to key ihl players |
for the ironclad present at the battle of lissa of the same name see sms erzherzog ferdinand max ( 1865 ) |
sms erzherzog ferdinand max ( german his majesty's ship archduke ferdinand max ) was a pre @@ dreadnought battleship built by the austro @@ hungarian navy in 1902 the second ship of the erzherzog karl class she was launched on 3 october 1903 she was assigned to the iii battleship division |
for most of world war i erzherzog ferdinand max remained in her home port of pola in present @@ day croatia except for four engagements in 1914 she formed part of the austro @@ hungarian flotilla sent to protect the escape of the german ships sms goeben and sms breslau from the british @@ held mediterranean she advanced as far as brindisi before being recalled to her home port her sole combat engagement occurred in late may 1915 when she participated in the bombardment of the italian port city of ancona she also took part in suppressing a major mutiny among the crew members of several armored cruisers stationed in cattaro between 1 3 february 1918 she also attempted to break through the otranto barrage in june of that year but had to retreat when the dreadnought sms szent istván was sunk after the war erzherzog ferdinand max was awarded to the united kingdom as a war prize in 1920 |