Edward Castillo, of the Luiseño-Cahuilla tribes, is a Native American activist who participated in the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. Current professor and director of Native American Studies at the Sonoma State University in California, he wrote several chapters in the Smithsonian Institution's Handbook of North American Indians and in Mission Indian Federation: Protecting Tribal Sovereignty 1919-1967, published in the Encyclopedia of Native Americans in the 20th Century. He is editor of Native American Perspectives on the Hispanic Colonization of Alta California and The Pomo, A Tribal History. Castillo is a regular contributor of book reviews to historical journals such as Indian Historian, Journal of California Anthropology, Western Historical Quarterly, American Indian Quarterly and California History.^[1]

Early life[link]

Castillo was born in 1948 in California. He was raised on a rancheria outside San Jacinto.^[2] After high school, he enrolled in the University of California at Riverside with a major in American frontier history and a minor in Latin American studies. After graduating in 1969, Castillo took a minority counseling position at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In that same year he was hired as a graduate student instructor in UCLA’s newly established Native American Studies program.^[2]

Participation at Alcatraz[link]

Castillo first got involved with the American Indian occupation of Alcatraz when Richard Oakes, the foremost organizer of the demonstration, gave a speech at UCLA attempting to get more support for the protest in mid-November 1969. Oakes had been giving similarly effective speeches at San Francisco State, UC Berkeley, and UC Riverside. Castillo, along with about two-thirds of the Native American studies class he was teaching, agreed to take leave from his position at UCLA and join the occupation. He was 21 years old at the time.

When he arrived at Alcatraz, Castillo was one of the original members on the island council, along with Richard Oakes and a number of other college students.^[3] The island council oversaw everything that occurred on the island. Castillo also worked in the makeshift mail room of the island.

Early on during the occupation, Castillo was voted as security chief of the island, but soon resigned from the difficult position after numerous threats from much larger young Indian males.

When Richard Oakes left the island due to the death of his daughter, Castillo began to notice the burgeoning of inner conflicts within the island’s population. He believed the original idealism of the island was faltering, and many of the island’s leaders were focused more on the political and financial benefits of the protest. After nearly three months of participating in the occupation, Castillo decided to return to UCLA to fulfill his teaching duties.^[4]

Later life[link]

Castillo is currently the director of the Native American studies program at Sonoma State University. He has worked on numerous books, usually dealing with the history of California Native American tribes. The majority of his scholarly works focus on the impact of Spanish colonization on Native Americans in the 17th and 18th centuries. He coauthored Indians, Franciscans, and Spanish Colonization: The Impact of the Mission System on California Indians with Robert H. Jackson.

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Castillo, Edward D. "California Indian History." CERES. 1998. Web. 23 Sept. 2010. <http://ceres.ca.gov/nahc/califindian.html>.
• Irvine, Keith. Encyclopedia of Indians of the Americas. St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly, 1974. Print.
• Wasp, Jean. "Ed Castillo Will Help Change How Teachers Tell the Story of California's "First People"" Sonoma State University. 17 Sept. 2003. Web. 23 Sept. 2010.
• Vigil, Delfin. "Disputed Alcatraz Invasion Flag on Block - SFGate." Featured Articles From The SFGate. 24 Jan. 2008. Web. 23 Sept. 2010.
• Castillo, Edward D. "An Introduction to California's Native People"; http://www.cabrillo.edu/~crsmith/anth6_americanperiod.html.
• Castillo, Edward D. "Short Review of California Indian History"; http://www.nahc.ca.gov/califindian.html.

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Guy Gerber (born in 1975 in Holon,near Tel Aviv) is an electronic DJ/producer and musician who specializes in making music with synthesizers and live instrumentation in the techno scene and beyond. Gerber regularly DJs across the globe at events in Detroit, Berlin, Ibiza and the UK.^[1]

At the age of 15, Gerber was a member of the Israeli Under-16 national football team but soon developed the passion for music and found himself drawn to English guitar acts like Joy Division and My Bloody Valentine. Consequently, his harmonic, shoe-gaze inspired sound was a style that saw Gerber record for various European electronic labels including ‘Stoppage Time’ for John Digweed’s Bedrock imprint.

Gerber’s first full length album ‘Late Bloomers’ was released on Sven Väth’s Cocoon imprint in June 2007 and featured two worldwide club hits in ‘Belly Dancing’ and ‘Sea Of Sand’ which he recorded with his Israeli production friend Shlomi Aber. In addition to his productions, Guy also found time to remix New Order and Dominik Eulberg as well as setting up his own label Supplement Facts. More recently, he’s remixed ‘The L Word’ by Deniz Kurtel and ‘Hungry For The Power’ by Azari & III.

Now living in Madrid, Supplement Facts has just celebrated its 5th anniversary with the compilation album ‘Heartbeats’. As well as releasing Gerber’s own productions like ‘Disorientation’, Supplement Facts is also home to exclusive music by Lee Curtiss, David K, Michel Cleis and Varoslav feat dOP.

References[link]

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Lauren Lane (born February 2, 1961^{[citation needed]} in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is a television and stage actress. She is best known for her role as C. C. Babcock on The Nanny.^[1]

Biography[link]

Lane was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and raised in Texas.^[2]

Lane has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. She also earned a Master's degree in the advanced training program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.^[2] She is currently a professor in the Theatre Department at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.^[1]

Lane was married to David Wilkins.^{[citation needed]} Lane has a daughter Kate (born February 23, 1998) with Wilkins.^{[citation needed]}

In 2004, she appeared in the reunion of The Nanny, The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember, starring Fran Drescher and much of the original cast.^{[citation needed]}

Since 2000 she has been active mainly in theatre.^[1]

In 2010, she guested on The Fran Drescher Show.^{[3][citation needed]}

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Lauren Lane at the Internet Movie Database

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Edward Key Ellis (born October 13, 1975 in Hamden, Connecticut^[1]) is a former American football offensive tackle in the National Football League for the New England Patriots, the Washington Redskins, and the San Diego Chargers. He played college football at the University at Buffalo and was drafted in the fourth round of the 1997 NFL Draft.

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A view from within Leedskalnin's Coral Castle.

Edward Leedskalnin (Latvian: Edvards Liedskalniņš) (January 12, 1887, Stāmeriena parish, Livonia; December 7, 1951, Miami) was an eccentric Latvian emigrant to the United States and amateur sculptor who single-handedly built the monument known as Coral Castle in Florida. He was also known for his unusual theories on magnetism.

Life[link]

(1887 - 1951) Edward Leedskalnin was born January 12, 1887, according to World War I draft registration records, in Stāmeriena parish, Latvia. Little is known of his childhood, aside from the fact that he was not wealthy and achieved only a fourth-grade education. However Edward was a sickly boy, and often spent his time inside reading books - eventually leading him to discontinue his schooling as it "bored him". For Ed, his development of a yearning to obtain knowledge became a passionate and potent driving force in many endeavours throughout his later life.^[1] At the age of 26, he was engaged to marry Agnes Scuffs, a girl ten years younger.^[2] However, the girl that Leedskalnin referred to as his "Sweet Sixteen" broke the engagement the night before their wedding.

Several years later for reasons of which are unclear (yet most likely involving his lost love Agnes),^[3] he emigrated to North America where he found work in various lumber camps at Canada, California, and Texas.

Then, after contracting a case of tuberculosis, Leedskalnin moved to the warmer climate of Florida around 1919, where he purchased a small piece of land in Florida City. Over the next 20 years, Leedskalnin putatively constructed and lived within a massive coral monument he called "Rock Gate Park", dedicated to the girl who had left him years before. Working alone at night, Leedskalnin eventually quarried and sculpted over 1,100 short tons (997903 kg) of coral into a monument that would later be known as the Coral Castle. Leedskalnin gave polite, but cryptic answers to visitors' questions regarding his construction methods, which to this day remain a mystery. In spite of his private nature, he eventually opened his monument to the public, offering tours for 10 cents. He was a surprisingly accommodating host, even cooking hot dogs for visiting children in a pressure cooker of his own invention.

When people asked Ed how he had moved all of the stone by himself, he refused to give up his method and would only reply to whoever was asking with the same statement of; "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids (being those at the site at Giza in Egypt)."

This building was originally located in Florida City in the 1920s; then in the mid 1930s Leedskalnin moved it single-handedly to its present location on a 10-acre (4.0 ha) site near Homestead, Florida. "On November 9, 1951, he checked himself into Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Ed suffered a stroke at one point, either before he left to the hospital or at the hospital. He died twenty-eight days later of pyleonephritis a kidney infection, at the age of 64. His death certificate noted that his death was a result of "uremia;" failure of kidneys, as a result of the infection and abscess."^[4] It should also be noted that Edward Leedskalnin was a man of slight build and stature, measuring no more that 5 feet (152 cm) tall and never exceeded a weight of more than 120 lbs (54.43 kg).

Writings[link]

During his lifetime, Ed Leedskalnin published five pamphlets, advertising them in local newspapers:

• A Book in Every Home. Containing Three Subjects: Ed's Sweet Sixteen, Domestic and Political Views^[5]
• Mineral, Vegetable and Animal Life^[6]
• Magnetic Current (19 pages)^[7]
• Magnetic Base
• Magnetic Current (4 pages)

Moral education[link]

His first and longest booklet, a treatise on moral education, is printed on only the left-hand pages, and begins with the following preface:

Reader, if for any reason you do not like the things I say in the little book, I left just as much space as I used, so you can write your own opinion opposite it and see if you can do better.
The Author

In the first section, Leedskalnin vents his anger at his "Sweet Sixteen", arguing that girls should be kept pure, and that boys are primarily a soiling influence upon them. On page 4 of A Book in Every Home, Leedskalnin writes:

Everything we do should be for some good purpose but as everybody knows there is nothing good that can come to a girl from a fresh boy. When a girl is sixteen or seventeen years old, she is as good as she ever will be, but when a boy is sixteen years old, he is then fresher than in all his stages of development. He is then not big enough to work but he is too big to be kept in a nursery and then to allow such a fresh thing to soil a girl — it could not work on my girl. Now I will tell you about soiling. Anything that is done, if it is done with the right party it is all right, but when it is done with the wrong party, it is soiling, and concerning those fresh boys with the girls, it is wrong every time.

The second section continues along the theme of moral education, with several aphorisms aimed at parents regarding the proper way to raise children. The last, "Political" section, reveals that the reclusive Leedskalnin had strong political views. He advocates voting for property owners only (and in proportion to their holdings), and argues that "Anyone who is too weak to make his own living is not strong enough to vote."

Some writers have suggested that Leedskalnin's booklet contains further information on his electromagnetic research and philosophies encoded in its pages, and the blank pages are provided for the reader to fill in their decrypted solutions. It has also been suggested that Leedskalnin's frequent referral to his "Sweet Sixteen" may in fact refer to the numerological and/or scientific relevance of the number sixteen to his research and theories.^[8]

Magnetism[link]

Leedskalnin's other four pamphlets addressed his theories on magnetism, detailing his theories on the interaction of electricity, magnetism and the body; Leedskalnin also included a number of simple experiments to validate his theories.

Most importantly, Edward Leedskalnin claimed that all matter was being acted upon by what he called "individual magnets". Simply a positive and a negative like a battery. It is obvious from the pamphlets that he produced that this theory became the base of all of his work, and most likely thoughts as well. He also attempted to claim that scientists of his time were looking in the wrong place for their understanding of electricity, and that they were only observing "one half of the whole concept" with "one sided tools of measurement". (Info from Ed's own scientific pamphlets).

Other media[link]

Ed Leedskalnin, Coral Castle and the mystery surrounding how he built it are plot foundations of the novel Cincinnatus.

The Brooklyn-based history band, Piñataland, recorded a song about Leedskalnin entitled "Latvian Bride" for their 2003 album Songs for the Forgotten Future Vol. 1.

References[link]

• CORAL CASTLE: The Mystery of Ed Leedskalnin and His American Stonehenge

External links[link]

• Coral Castle: The Mystery of Ed Leedskalnin and his American Stonehenge
• Coral Castle official website Virus link
• Unexplained Mysteries / Edward Leedskalnin’s Coral Castle
• Compilation of Published Writings
• Magnetic Current Research
• Ed Leedskalnin's Magnetic Current illustrated
• The kinetic particle physics of Edward Leedskalnin's devices