Leah’s Yard is a former collection of small industrial workshops situated on Cambridge Street in the city centre of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Although now in a run down state, the building has been designated as a Grade II* listed building because of its importance as an example of Sheffield’s industrial heritage.

History

Leah’s Yard was constructed in the early part of the 19th century as a works for the manufacture of shears and other hand tools. As was typical with small works of this type Leah’s Yard had many different trade occupants and as such the building underwent many alterations and additions which are evident today. Throughout the 19th century the yard was used by a horn dealer (who supplied the cutlery handle making trade), Sheffield platers, knife manufacturers and silver stampers. In the 1880s the building was known as the Cambridge Street Horn Works. In 1892 Henry Leah took over the building as a producer of die stamps for silverware, giving the building the name that it is known by today. Sharing the building at that time was Walter Walker & Co Ltd who were piercers and stampers and the building was alternatively known as the Cambridge Stamping Works.

At the end of the 19th century steam power was introduced to run a grinding hull and drop hammers in a silver die stamping shop. The key to the success of buildings such as Leah’s Yard was that they could be adapted to provide accommodation for a number of different metal industry trades on the same site. They provided adaptable, cheap work space by crowding buildings into a confined area. By 1905, the workshops around the courtyard of Leah’s Yard were occupied by eighteen Little mesters whose trades included dram flask manufacturer, hollow ware and silver buffers, palette knife makers, steel fork manufacturer, silver ferrule maker, brass and nickel silver turners, electroplate producer and a cutler.

The building

The front of the Leah’s Yard building which faces onto Cambridge Street has a carriage entrance within it, this opens up into a small rear courtyard surrounded by small two and three storey brick workshops. There are external wooden staircases to give access to the upper floors and large casement windows to give plenty of natural light for the workmen.

Present day

Today Leah’s Yard stands in a derelict state, it has not been used for over 20 years when the lower floor was used as a shop. The building is located between two public houses on Cambridge Street, The Benjamin Huntsman and The Sportsman. The Benjamin Huntsman was constructed recently with older buildings being cleared to make way for the pub. The Leah’s Yard buildings were left standing because of their listed building status and it is now planned to restore and refurbish them as part of the Sevenstone development of the city centre. However because of central Government cutbacks work on the Sevenstone project has been postponed until 2011 at the earliest.

References

Category:Buildings and structures in Sheffield Category:History of Sheffield Category:Grade II* listed buildings in Sheffield

Name	Leah Dizon
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Leah Donna Dizon
Birth date	September 24, 1986
Birth place	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Genre	R&B;, pop
Years active	2006–present
Occupation	Gaijin tarento, singer, and gravure idol
Label	Victor Entertainment
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(born September 24, 1986) is an American-born gaijin tarento, singer, and gravure idol in Japan. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, she moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2006 to pursue an entertainment career and made her recording debut on Victor Entertainment later that same year.

Biography

1986–2004: Childhood and youth

car show in 2005.]]Leah Donna Dizon was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on September 24, 1986. Her mother is of French descent and her father is half Filipino and half Chinese. Her parents work as casino dealers. Dizon is the fourth of six children: she has two older brothers, an older sister, and two younger brothers. In an interview, she explains that she grew up listening to rock and R&B; music and trained in dance. Dizon has said that her mother was "very strict and monitored [Dizon's] spending habits". When she was 14 years old, she worked at a clothing store and eventually saved enough money to travel to Japan alone for a trip.

She attended the private Las Vegas Academy Of Performing Arts for her freshman and sophomore years but graduated from the public Eldorado High School in 2004, where she became active in theater. At the age of 18, Dizon relocated to Los Angeles, California and attended college as a film major for her freshman year. she was asked by many Japanese fans—who had seen her photographs—to work in their country, which eventually prompted her to submit several demo tapes and dance videos to Victor Entertainment. An agent offered and signed her to a recording contact.

In March 2006, Dizon moved to Tokyo and began Japanese lessons alongside voice training. She released her first photobook, Petite Amie (which means "girlfriend" in French), in October 2006—Petite Amie was ranked as the third best-selling photobook of 2006 and 2007. A few pictorials for various magazines followed.

Dizon made her musical debut under Victor Entertainment on February 14, 2007 with the single "Softly". This was followed by , and "L・O・V・E U". which also peaked at #7 on the Oricon Weekly Chart. The title track is described as a "grooving, up-tempo dance song" and the single features 2 B-sides: "Could you be that one?" and . Koi Shiyō was used in a Lotte TV ad, while "Could you be that one?" was featured in a PlayStation 3 Ninja Gaiden Sigma TV ad, with Dizon starring in both commercials. In September 2007, Dizon released her debut album, Destiny Line, under Victor Entertainment. The CD+DVD Edition contains 14 tracks, 10 of which she penned herself on the single PVs alongside a special album PV "Again and Again". The CD Only Edition contains the digitally-released remix of "Koi Shiyō", called "Koi Shiyō♪ (Yasutaka Nakata-Capsule Mix)".

2008–present: Communication!!!, marriage, and pregnancy

After the release of Destiny Line, Dizon continued with two singles: "Love Paradox" and "Vanilla" (both 2008). Her second album, Communication!!!, was released on August 2008. "Under the Same Sky" was used as the theme song for the Japanese drama Tokyo Prom Queen. She made a guest appearance on the show as Naomi, the prom queen from the previous year.

In a September 26, 2008 blog post on her official website, she announced that she was engaged to , a Japanese stylist whom she had met while shooting "Love Paradox" seven months before. Additionally, she wrote that she was expecting her first child in late April of the following year on her official website. On October 10, 2008, the couple married in a traditional Japanese ceremony. These initial stages were chronicled and announced during her Communication!!! Album Tour several days after the marriage. Dizon was quoted as saying, "I have important news to tell you. I have actually got married! I'm pregnant, too. My family and I are very happy. Now, I think they'll have a lot of difficulties and changes. Of course, it is a little scary. But also, I am interested and looking forward to beginning a new life." The couple's daughter, , was born on April 24, 2009. On February 14, 2010, Dizon appeared on live television and discussed making cookies for Bun. Subsequently, she confessed that their relationship had been aversive ever since the birth. That same month, she was featured in a spread for Glamourous Magazine, where she discussed motherhood and her hopes to return to the entertainment industry. It was her first magazine cover in nearly two years. On October 30, 2010, she confirmed news reports that she and Bun had separated and filed for divorce earlier that month, and she is currently seeking full custody of their daughter. According to Dizon, the split was due to "busy schedules and inability to meet regularly differing opinions toward raising children" alongside "irreconcilable differences".

Discography

Singles

"Fever" (2006)

"Softly" (2007)

"Koi Shiyō♪" (2007)

"L・O・V・E U" (2007)

"Love Paradox" (2008)

"Vanilla" (2008)

Studio albums

Destiny Line (2007)

Communication!!! (2008)

Concert DVDs

LIVE Communication!!! (2008)

Filmography

Dizon has been sought by numerous brands to endorse their products. Throughout her career, she has promoted products that ranged from electronics (Sony Cybershot) to various snack foods and cosmetics. Among the products she has advertised on television are Recruit, Lotte, PlayStation 3, JVC, Coca-Cola, Fuji, and Kao Corporation.

Film

Traffic in The Sky (2007) (American Indie Movie)

Words 'Yakusoku/Uragiri'~Subete wa ushinawa re shi mono no tame ni~ (2009)

Television

Webtama as a co-host (2007)

Sakigake Ongaku Banzuke Vegas as host (2007)

J-melo as host (2007)

See also

Race queen

Americans in Japan

References

External links

Leah Dizon Official Homepage Leah Dizon at Victor Entertainment

Official Blog

Category:1986 births Category:Living people Category:Expatriate television personalities in Japan Category:American female singers Category:American television personalities Category:Japanese-language singers Category:Japanese pop singers Category:American people of French descent Category:American people of Chinese descent Category:American people of Filipino descent Category:American expatriates in Japan Category:American musicians of Chinese descent Category:American musicians of Filipino descent Category:People from the Las Vegas metropolitan area

Name	Leah Jamieson
Birth date	August 27, 1949
Birth place	Trenton, NJ, USA
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Field	Signal Processing
Work institution	Purdue University
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPrinceton University
Doctoral advisor	Kenneth Steiglitz
Awards	Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology (2005) Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education, (ASEE,1997) Women of Vision Award for Social Impact (Anita Borg Institute, 2007)IEEE Fellow (1993)IEEE Third Millennium Medal (2000)

Leah H. Jamieson (born August 27, 1949 in Trenton, NJ, USA) is an American engineering educator serving at present as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. She is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and served as the 2007 President and CEO of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Jamieson was a founder of the Engineering Projects in Community Service program (EPICS), a multi-university engineering design program that operates in a service-learning context. She is a recipient of the Gordon Prize.

Biography

Jamieson was born in 1949 and grew up in New Jersey, USA. She received the S.B. degree in Mathematics in 1972 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She received M.A. and M.S.E. degrees in 1974 and a Doctorate degree in 1977, all three from Princeton University.

Jamieson worked as Professor of Engineering at Purdue University since 1976. Her research interests include speech analysis and recognition; the design and analysis of parallel processing algorithms; and the application of parallel processing to the areas of digital speech, image, and signal processing. She has authored over 160 journal and conference papers in these areas and has co-edited books on algorithmically specialized parallel computers (Academic Press, 1985) and the characteristics of parallel algorithms (MIT Press,1987). She served Purdue as Director of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (1990–94), Director of Graduate Admissions (1994–96), Interim Head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2002), and Associate Dean of Engineering for Undergraduate Education (2004–06). At present she is serving as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Engineering Projects in Community Service

In Fall 1995 Jamieson and her Purdue colleague Edward J. Coyle founded Engineering Projects in Community Service, an academic engineering design program that operates in a service-learning context. The program, which was initially offered only at Purdue, is available at present in 18 universities. It offers students from multiple disciplines with the opportunity to be part of engineering project design teams that work with nonprofit community organizations. The teams provide technological solutions to challenges faced by the community organizations and their target audiences. Examples of EPICS projects include the Spanish In Action Project at Butler University, which provides students with a web-based computer game that helps them learn Spanish vocabulary; and the Sensor Network Air Pollution Monitoring project at Drexel University that allows measurement of diesel particulate concentration in Philadelphia’s neighborhoods. For founding and administering EPICS, Jamieson has received in 2005 the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology (with colleagues Edward J. Coyle and William C. Oakes). In 2008 the EPICS program has announced EPICS High, an extension of the program’s scope to integrate high school students in the design teams. .

Presidency of IEEE

In November 2005 Jamieson was elected 2006 President-elect by members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). IEEE the world's largest technical professional society, focused on electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science and the related arts and sciences. The other candidates in the 2005 elections were Gerald Peterson and James M. Tien.

Jamieson served as President and CEO of IEEE in 2007. Her presidency was characterized by a strong effort to redefine and expand the strategic planning process within IEEE, and to start an IEEE public visibility program. Other notable developments during her presidency included expansion of IEEE’s pre-university engineering education programs and reorganization of the IEEE Regional Activities Board (renamed Member and Geographical Activities Board). .

Publications

1985, “Algorithmically Specialized Parallel Computers'' (1985, Academic Press, ISBN 0-12-654130-2), Editor, with Lawrence Snyder, Dennis B. Gannon and Howard Jay Siegel.

1987, “The Characteristics of Parallel Algorithms'' (1987, MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262100366), Editor, with Dennis B. Gannon and Robert J. Douglass.

References

External links

Biography of Jamieson from IEEE

Category:Living people Category:1949 births Category:People from Trenton, New Jersey Category:American electrical engineers