JournalServer is an Oxford-based international initiative to create a digital library of academic journals freely available to the public. It involves the collaboration of several leading universities across the world.
As of May, 2007, there were 8 journals listed, of which only 5 had any actual content available. The website officially closed in 2009.
Background information
JournalServer assists peer-reviewed academic journals to be accessible free of cost, and to promote the use of these journals by the international community. The project objectives are:
*to promote access to peer-reviewed journals by means of a digital library of scholarly publications freely available through the Internet.
*to assist scholars and publishers from low and middle income countries in making the transition to electronic modes of publication and dissemination.
*to strive to reduce the impact of the digital divide and the scholarly communication crisis.
History
The initiative was formed in the summer of 2001 with the support of the University of Oxford, BITS Pilani and the National Science Council of Taiwan, with seed-funding from the AIT Trust based in Imperial College London.
JournalServer.org is registered as a non-profit corporation in the state of New York since August 2002.
Technology
The search engine is being developed by a project team at Centre for Software Development, BITS Pilani, India.
As of May, 2007, there were 8 journals listed, of which only 5 had any actual content available. The website officially closed in 2009.
Background information
JournalServer assists peer-reviewed academic journals to be accessible free of cost, and to promote the use of these journals by the international community. The project objectives are:
*to promote access to peer-reviewed journals by means of a digital library of scholarly publications freely available through the Internet.
*to assist scholars and publishers from low and middle income countries in making the transition to electronic modes of publication and dissemination.
*to strive to reduce the impact of the digital divide and the scholarly communication crisis.
History
The initiative was formed in the summer of 2001 with the support of the University of Oxford, BITS Pilani and the National Science Council of Taiwan, with seed-funding from the AIT Trust based in Imperial College London.
JournalServer.org is registered as a non-profit corporation in the state of New York since August 2002.
Technology
The search engine is being developed by a project team at Centre for Software Development, BITS Pilani, India.
The Lakewood Lancers are a high school American football club based in Lakewood, California. The Lancers compete in the Harry J. Moore League as a member club of the CIF Southern Section football division. The purpose of this newest web site is to bring to the forefront the proud tradition and history of Lancer football and its strive for excellence. Founded in 1957, they played their first preseason game on September 27, 1957, as a charter member of the Moore League.
The inaugural season for the Lakewood Lancers took place in the fall of 1957, as they became new members of the Harry J. Moore League. After a sluggish start to the varsity squad, and the emergence of legendary John T. Ford
History
Texas born and bred, Coach John Ford presented Lakewood a vast amount of high school and university football experience. Before arriving at Lakewood, he served as a coach at several schools including Rotan High, Hardin Simmons University in Texas, the University of Arizona at Tuscon, Long Beach Jordan and Downey High.
In 1966, Ford led the Lancers to their first Moore League championship in school history. It was also the first time the Lancers had defeated Wilson by a convincing 33-28 final score in front of over 17,000 screaming spectators at Veteran's Memorial Stadium. Later that season, the Lancers went on to play in the CIF semi-finals. At the end of the season, Ford was elected to head the south's team in the California North-South All Star Football game in 1967.
Lakewood had yet another banner season under the command of Coach Ford as the Lancers won their second Moore League crown and faced the Anaheim Colonists in the quarter finals of the CIF playoffs. The Lancers saw more action in the semi-finals of the 1969 playoffs when they faced the Blair Vikings and fell short of advancing to the final. It wasn't until the 1970 season when Lakewood marched all the way to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the CIF finals where they fell to Bishop Amat by a single point. The final score in that contest was 18-17.
Coach Roy Woolbright was another Texan breed with tremendous all-around athletic ability. He earned All League honors in football, basketball and baseball to name a few from his impressive resume. A star performer at Rice University, Woolbright led the Owls to the 1954 Cotton Bowl. Upon completing his career at Rice, Woolbright served as an Army officer before returning to the gridiron as a high school coach in Texas. Sunny, Southern California was his next stop where he served as a line coach at Long Beach Poly.
Known for its tradition of championship caliber teams, Poly lost an integral part of its coaching staff as Woolbright packed his bags and headed to Lakewood in 1963. In just three years following Ford's and Woolbright's arrival at Lakewood, the Lancers went from a dismal 3-5 record to a respectable 7-1 mark in the 1965 season with key wins over Poly and crosstown rival Millikan. It was a match made in heaven as the two coaches joined forces to assemble some of the greatest teams to ever set foot on the playing field at Lakewood. Coach Ford retired in 1979 from Lakewood and went on to coach at LBCC.
Early Years
Sept. 27, 1957 — Football clubs from Lakewood and Millikan, which appeared to be "mostest" and "leastest" in the Milk Bowl last Friday night, go their separate ways tonight. Lakewood, which encountered a rough going in its first night of football, travels to Riverside to meet Ramona. Millikan, which blanked two rivals in the Carnival, treks to Torrance to face North High. Lakewood coach Chuck Toy has shuffled his lineup in an effort to get better speed and strength into the forward wall. Former quarterback Phil Gonzales will start at end, and Ted Barstine moves to tackle and Bill Avery and Jules Canute take over the starting guard spots.
The inaugural season for the Lakewood Lancers took place in the fall of 1957, as they became new members of the Harry J. Moore League. After a sluggish start to the varsity squad, and the emergence of legendary John T. Ford
History
Texas born and bred, Coach John Ford presented Lakewood a vast amount of high school and university football experience. Before arriving at Lakewood, he served as a coach at several schools including Rotan High, Hardin Simmons University in Texas, the University of Arizona at Tuscon, Long Beach Jordan and Downey High.
In 1966, Ford led the Lancers to their first Moore League championship in school history. It was also the first time the Lancers had defeated Wilson by a convincing 33-28 final score in front of over 17,000 screaming spectators at Veteran's Memorial Stadium. Later that season, the Lancers went on to play in the CIF semi-finals. At the end of the season, Ford was elected to head the south's team in the California North-South All Star Football game in 1967.
Lakewood had yet another banner season under the command of Coach Ford as the Lancers won their second Moore League crown and faced the Anaheim Colonists in the quarter finals of the CIF playoffs. The Lancers saw more action in the semi-finals of the 1969 playoffs when they faced the Blair Vikings and fell short of advancing to the final. It wasn't until the 1970 season when Lakewood marched all the way to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for the CIF finals where they fell to Bishop Amat by a single point. The final score in that contest was 18-17.
Coach Roy Woolbright was another Texan breed with tremendous all-around athletic ability. He earned All League honors in football, basketball and baseball to name a few from his impressive resume. A star performer at Rice University, Woolbright led the Owls to the 1954 Cotton Bowl. Upon completing his career at Rice, Woolbright served as an Army officer before returning to the gridiron as a high school coach in Texas. Sunny, Southern California was his next stop where he served as a line coach at Long Beach Poly.
Known for its tradition of championship caliber teams, Poly lost an integral part of its coaching staff as Woolbright packed his bags and headed to Lakewood in 1963. In just three years following Ford's and Woolbright's arrival at Lakewood, the Lancers went from a dismal 3-5 record to a respectable 7-1 mark in the 1965 season with key wins over Poly and crosstown rival Millikan. It was a match made in heaven as the two coaches joined forces to assemble some of the greatest teams to ever set foot on the playing field at Lakewood. Coach Ford retired in 1979 from Lakewood and went on to coach at LBCC.
Early Years
Sept. 27, 1957 — Football clubs from Lakewood and Millikan, which appeared to be "mostest" and "leastest" in the Milk Bowl last Friday night, go their separate ways tonight. Lakewood, which encountered a rough going in its first night of football, travels to Riverside to meet Ramona. Millikan, which blanked two rivals in the Carnival, treks to Torrance to face North High. Lakewood coach Chuck Toy has shuffled his lineup in an effort to get better speed and strength into the forward wall. Former quarterback Phil Gonzales will start at end, and Ted Barstine moves to tackle and Bill Avery and Jules Canute take over the starting guard spots.
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Vampires appear throughout Stephen King's fictional multiverse. They appear in the novels Salem's Lot, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower; the short stories "One for the Road", "The Night Flier", "Popsy", and "The Little Sisters of Eluria"; and are mentioned in a number of other stories. Marvel Comics' The Dark Tower: End-World Almanac includes a detailed entry on their categorization.
Classification
The majority of vampires that exist in King's multiverse consist of a standard type. These standard vampires exist in at least three facets of King's multiverse: All-World; the fictional setting of Salem's Lot and works related to it; and the "real" world.
All three types of vampires drink blood to survive. While they are immune to blood-borne diseases, they can pass them on to their victims. Due to this, in King's multiverse vampires were instrumental in causing the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s.
Most also seem to require being "invited" into a particular area or building by the proper "owner" of the territory. Once invited, they seem to be able to come and go as they please, even if their invitation is verbally revoked.
Type Ones
Type One vampires are "lesser demons", the last remnants of the Prim (magical beings who predated creation and dissolved when Gan made the multiverse). Although humanoid in shape, they are extremely deformed, with an emaciated appearance; enormous, inch-long teeth that force their mouths open; and large amounts of tumors, body hair, and other physical defects. Their bodies are adapted for the seeking and consuming of blood: their noses are attuned to smell even traces of blood from long distances, their teeth are built for piercing skin and draining blood, their stomachs can expand to hold as much as half their body weight in blood, and their tongue is long and prehensile, and can produce anticoagulants to apply to bites on victims.
Type Ones have lifespans of thousands of years, and can hibernate for hundreds of years. They also are surrounded by blue or indigo auras. These represent their life energy, and when the aura goes out, Type Ones almost immediately putrefy into stinking yellow puddles. Type Ones are vulnerable to faith, and can be driven away or even killed by someone with sufficient belief wielding an object of faith such as a cross, which cause them to burst into flame.
Type Threes
Type Three vampires are humans who have been bitten by a Type Two vampire. Type Threes can pass as normal humans, as they are able to move in sunlight, survive off of normal food instead of solely blood, and have a higher degree of intelligence and personality than Type Twos. In addition, their bites contain an enzyme that causes temporary memory loss and disorientation in their victims, allowing them more leeway in feeding. However, Type Threes cannot pass along vampirism to those they bite. Type Threes also generate a faint version of the Type One aura, along with a smell such as burnt onions or hot metal, which those with psychic powers can detect.
In The Dark Tower, the existence of "psychic vampires" is revealed, who feed on emotions as opposed to blood, can change shape, and can mask their surroundings via a glamour.
Examples
Kurt Barlow
Kurt Barlow is a Type One vampire who terrorizes the town of , Maine, before being killed by Ben Mears and Mark Petrie. In the notes to Nightmares & Dreamscapes, King states that the Night Flier is possibly also the titular character of his story "Popsy", who rescues a possibly-vampiric child from an abductor.
Classification
The majority of vampires that exist in King's multiverse consist of a standard type. These standard vampires exist in at least three facets of King's multiverse: All-World; the fictional setting of Salem's Lot and works related to it; and the "real" world.
All three types of vampires drink blood to survive. While they are immune to blood-borne diseases, they can pass them on to their victims. Due to this, in King's multiverse vampires were instrumental in causing the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s.
Most also seem to require being "invited" into a particular area or building by the proper "owner" of the territory. Once invited, they seem to be able to come and go as they please, even if their invitation is verbally revoked.
Type Ones
Type One vampires are "lesser demons", the last remnants of the Prim (magical beings who predated creation and dissolved when Gan made the multiverse). Although humanoid in shape, they are extremely deformed, with an emaciated appearance; enormous, inch-long teeth that force their mouths open; and large amounts of tumors, body hair, and other physical defects. Their bodies are adapted for the seeking and consuming of blood: their noses are attuned to smell even traces of blood from long distances, their teeth are built for piercing skin and draining blood, their stomachs can expand to hold as much as half their body weight in blood, and their tongue is long and prehensile, and can produce anticoagulants to apply to bites on victims.
Type Ones have lifespans of thousands of years, and can hibernate for hundreds of years. They also are surrounded by blue or indigo auras. These represent their life energy, and when the aura goes out, Type Ones almost immediately putrefy into stinking yellow puddles. Type Ones are vulnerable to faith, and can be driven away or even killed by someone with sufficient belief wielding an object of faith such as a cross, which cause them to burst into flame.
Type Threes
Type Three vampires are humans who have been bitten by a Type Two vampire. Type Threes can pass as normal humans, as they are able to move in sunlight, survive off of normal food instead of solely blood, and have a higher degree of intelligence and personality than Type Twos. In addition, their bites contain an enzyme that causes temporary memory loss and disorientation in their victims, allowing them more leeway in feeding. However, Type Threes cannot pass along vampirism to those they bite. Type Threes also generate a faint version of the Type One aura, along with a smell such as burnt onions or hot metal, which those with psychic powers can detect.
In The Dark Tower, the existence of "psychic vampires" is revealed, who feed on emotions as opposed to blood, can change shape, and can mask their surroundings via a glamour.
Examples
Kurt Barlow
Kurt Barlow is a Type One vampire who terrorizes the town of , Maine, before being killed by Ben Mears and Mark Petrie. In the notes to Nightmares & Dreamscapes, King states that the Night Flier is possibly also the titular character of his story "Popsy", who rescues a possibly-vampiric child from an abductor.