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Dr. John Garst, from the University of Georgia, believes that the John Henry legend was born in Alabama. [1]

The African American blues-ballad John Henry is arguably both the best-known and the greatest traditional American folk song. [2]

There are two John Henrys - the man and legend surrounding him. [...] According to some accounts, on hearing of the machine, John Henry challenged the steam drill to a contest. [...] One such chore that figures heavily into some of the earliest John Henry ballads is the blasting of the Big Bend Tunnel — more than a mile straight through a mountain in West Virginia. [1]

In the 1920s two scholars, Guy Johnson and Louis Chappell, determined the song was based on an actual incident that probably occurred between 1870 and 1872 at the Big Bend Tunnel on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in southeastern West Virginia; however, Johnson and Chappell could not trace the exact identity of ‘John Henry’. [...] In the most popular version of the story, John Henry tries to outwork a steam drill with only his hammer and steel bit. [2]

You can also read a Q&A Session with Dr. Nelson and a book review on the College of William and Mary’s News Site. [1]

The story of John Henry is traditionally told through two types of songs: ballads, commonly referred to as “The Ballad of John Henry”, and work songs known as hammer songs, each with wide-ranging and varying lyrics. [...] Regardless, John Henry has endured into the twentieth century as a folk character and popular icon among both African Americans and whites; over the years his legend has intrigued everyone from railroad workers to union organizers to artists. [2]

Though the story of John Henry sounds like the quintessential tall tale, it is certainly based, at least in part, on historical circumstance. [...] Dr. Scott Nelson, from the College of William and Mary, believes he has found the real John Henry. [...] Some place John Henry in West Virginia, while recent research suggests Alabama. [...] - Read John Henry song lyrics. [...] Steel-drivin’ men like John Henry used large hammers and stakes to pound holes into the rock, which were then filled with explosives that would blast a cavity deeper and deeper into the mountain. [1]

Sources:
[1] John Henry - The Steel Driving Man
[2] John Henry: Biography from Answers.com

Once you select a specific credit union, you can view further information pertaining to that credit union such as contact information, branch locations, services offered, and financial information such as the validated quarterly 5300 Call Report submission. [...] To allow users to view validated quarterly 5300 Call Report data through June 2009 as it was submitted with profile information NCUA has created an Archived 5300 Call Report Data utility. [1]

NCUA does not necessarily endorse the views expressed or the facts presented on this site. [...] NCUA does not endorse any non-government web sites, companies or applications. [...] NCUA does not endorse any commercial products that may be advertised or on this site. [...] Social media links provided on the NCUA website are for reference only. [2]

NCUA’s Find a Credit Union utility is a multipurpose tool for use by consumers and the credit union industry. [1]

If you are reading this message please enable Javascript before continuing. [2]

When Credit Union Online was launched in September 2009, some profile data contained in the quarterly 5300 call reports prior to September 2009 was not carried forward. [...] Financial Performance Reports (FPR’s) are also accessible via a link to the FPR application. [1]

Sources:
[1] Find a Credit Union
[2] National Credit Union Administration

Live Streaming of the Grand Prix Freestyle from Dressage at Devon! [1]

The word dressage comes from the French word dresser, to train. [2]

An upper-level dressage competitor performing an extended trot. [...] Its fundamental purpose is to develop, through standardized progressive training methods, a horse’s natural athletic ability and willingness to perform, thereby maximizing its potential as a riding horse. [3]

Announcing the 2011 Grand Prix Freestyle Webcast Live form Dressage at Devon ! [1]

To the untrained eye it looks easy, but like many equestrian sports, it serves the needs of a diverse range of horse lovers. [2]

Horses and riders advance through a graduated series of Nationally defined levels, with tests of increasing difficulty at each level. [...] ) (a French term, most commonly translated to mean “training”) is a competitive equestrian sport, defined by the International Equestrian Federation as “the highest expression of horse training.” [3]

Vitor Silva not only specializes in under saddle training of horse and rider, but he also specializes in longe-line and in-hand work. [4]

The different breeds of the world took centre stage on the final day of the 2011 Devon Breed Show on Thursday 29 September 2011, at the same time that the performance classes of the 2011 CDI Devon kicked off in the afternoon. [5]

L Hunter Wilson, owner, trainer and rider from Margaux Tip LLC, based in Martinsburg, West Virginia, loves her Cleveland Bays. [1]

This will be held at Morven Park Equestrian Center on Sunday, November 6, 2011 starting at 8am. [4]

Competitors flocked from as far away as New Brunswick to attend the event, held September 16 to 18 at Iron Horse Equestrian Complex in Burlington, ON. [1]

With some of the most stunning horses from around the world competing, it was Rheporter, Dazzle, Rabiola and Doctor Wendell MF who treated spectators to the final feast for the eyes, floating around the Dixon Oval as they competed for top honors in the Grand Championship. [...] Three Dutch youth riders obtained their qualification score at the national show in Geldrop, The Netherlands, in order to be promoted on the Dutch A and B-teams. [5]

Sources:
[1] Dressage Daily | Daily Dressage News Since 1997
[2] Dressage
[3] Dressage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Potomac Valley Dressage Association
[5] eurodressage

Children and adults with a severe to profound hearing loss who cannot be helped with hearing aids may be helped with cochlear implants. [1]

A cochlear implant is a device that provides sound perception through direct electrical stimulation of the hearing nerve, bypassing the inner ear — the most common culprit of hearing loss. [2]

A cochlear implant is an electronic device that restores partial hearing to individuals with severe to profound hearing loss who do not benefit from a conventional hearing aid. [3]

A cochlear implant is a surgically implanted device that helps overcome problems in the inner ear, or cochlea. [4]

A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing. [5]

A cochlear implant is very different from a hearing aid. [6]

Your ear consists of three parts that play a vital role in hearing-the external ear, middle ear, and inner ear. [3]

A cochlear (koe-klee-er) implant is a device that provides direct electrical stimulation to the auditory (hearing) nerve in the inner ear. [1]

With the experience most implant users are able to understand spoken speech in the everyday world. [2]

Sometimes called a “bionic ear,” the cochlear implant offers the hope of regaining or restoring the ability to sense sound for some people who have experienced significant hearing loss. [4]

A cochlear implant is a small, complex electronic device that can help to provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing. [6]

It picks up sounds’just like a hearing aid microphone does’and sends them to the speech processor. [1]

This often provides recipients with the ability to understand speech solely by listening through the implant, without requiring any visual cues such as those provided by lipreading or sign language. [6]

Current research includes improvement of speech processing technology, improving performance by implanting bilateral devices and preserving residual hearing, expanding the eligibility requirements by looking at patients with more residual hearing and prelingual deafness, improving the design of the device to one day be 100 percent implantable, and improving the function of the inner ear by preventing injury to the sensitive inner ear structures with new medications and potentially gene therapy. [2]

In those patients, they can often restore sufficient hearing to allow unaided understanding of speech in a quiet background, but the restored, electrical hearing is much less rich than natural hearing, and offers only very limited appreciation of musical melody, or speech understanding in noisy environments. [5]

Sources:
[1] Cochlear Implants
[2] Cochlear Implant
[3] Cochlear Implants
[4] Cochlear Implants
[5] Cochlear implant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[6] Cochlear Implants

After two decades as a popular comedian in the United Kingdom, Hugh Laurie found fame in the United States as percipient churl Dr. Gregory House in TV’s House, M.D. Laurie got his start in Cambridge University’s Footlights Revue in 1979. [1]

Hugh Laurie was born in Oxford, England, and educated at Eton College and Cambridge University, where he took a degree in anthropology. [2]

Hugh Laurie stars as Dr. Gregory House - a brilliant, acerbic, painfully honest, and fascinating physician who not only has to combat the latest baffling disease, but also the constant pain in his damaged leg. [3]

Laurie has directed television programs and commercials, including the HOUSE Season Six episode “Lockdown,” composed and recorded numerous original songs and written articles for London’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper. [2]

As of August 2010, Laurie is the highest paid actor in a drama series on US television. [4]

Laurie and Fry became familiar faces on British television in the 1980s and ’90s, appearing in Rowan Atkinson ’s Blackadder series, as well as A Bit of Fry & Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster (with Laurie as Bertie Wooster). [1]

He first became well known in the media as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1987 until 1999. [4]

On American television, Laurie portrayed “Vincente Minnelli” opposite Judy Davis in the network telefilm “Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows.” [...] Laurie’s performance as “Dr. Gregory House” has garnered him two Golden Globe Awards for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, five Emmy nominations for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series. [2]

Hugh was born in Oxford, England on June 11, 1959. [5]

He later went on to Eton and then to Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he studied for a degree in archeology and social anthropology. [4]

Along with Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson, Laurie produced “The Cellar Tapes,” which won the Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of 1981 and propelled the trio into a number of groundbreaking British television shows, including four seasons of “A Bit of Fry and Laurie,” which Laurie co-wrote for the BBC with Stephen Fry; three seasons of “Blackadder”; and three seasons of “Saturday Live.” [2]

He has been listed in the 2012 Guinness Book Of World Records as the highest paid actor in a TV Drama’earning $700,000 per episode in House’and for being the most watched leading man on television. [...] , is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist, and director. [4]

Episodes are available 8 days after airdate to DISH Network subscribers. [2]

Sources:
[1] Hugh Laurie: Biography from Answers.com
[2] FOX Broadcasting Company - House TV Show - House TV Series …
[3] Welcome to hughlaurie.net
[4] Hugh Laurie - Wikipedia
[5] Hugh Laurie - IMDb