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""Anne" is the third season premiere of the WB Television Network's drama television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It was written and directed by series creator Joss Whedon, and first broadcast on September 29, 1998. The episode marks a significant emotional journey for Buffy as she has cast off her slayer identity along with her friends in Sunnydale. In the episode, Buffy - living a secluded life away from her previous life - helps some unknown strangers find their lost loved ones. Meanwhile, Buffy has to decide whether she is ready to find herself again. This episode forms part of a larger study of personal and alternate identities which characterises all seven seasons of the show. Plot Due to Buffy's trauma from season 2, including her expulsion of school, the murder of her boyfriend Angel and fighting with her Mother Joyce, Buffy has skipped Sunnydale and moved to L.A. Buffy works as a diner waitress under her middle name, "Anne". She serves Lily and Rickie, a young couple living on the streets, who have just gotten a complementary set of distinctive tattoos. As Buffy walks the street a homeless woman is muttering "I'm no one". Later that evening Lily approaches Buffy and reveals that she remembers her from an earlier episode, when Lily was known as "Chanterelle". As they talk, a man bumps through, an mutters "I'm no one" as he walks out into traffic and is nearly hit by a car, only saved by Buffy's quick response. Buffy runs into a man named Ken, who comments on her "lost" state and offers to befriend her. The next day Lily tells Buffy that Rickie has disappeared. Buffy reluctantly agrees to help find him. In her search, she finds the body of an elderly homeless man with Rickie's tattoo. Buffy reports her findings to Lily, who doesn't believe that the body could be Rickie's. On the street Lily meets Ken, who claims to know Rickie, so she eagerly goes with him. Buffy interrogates a blood bank worker who has been acting suspiciously, and learns that the woman has been giving Ken the names of healthy homeless people who come in to donate blood. Meanwhile, Ken has prepared Lily for a "cleansing," which entails stepping into a bath in the floor. Lily hesitates, as the bath looks like black oil. At the door, Buffy attempts to pass herself off as a sinner wanting a new chance, but ends up kicking her way into the building in time to see Lily dragged into the pool. Buffy and Ken wrestle and they both fall in, coming out below in a huge factory. Ken's human mask falls off, revealing him to be a demon. Buffy and Lily are now amongst many other slave laborers of varying ages. Ken tells Buffy and Lily that they are in a hell dimension where time passes very quickly: a hundred years there equals only one day in Los Angeles. Since he only picks people who no one will miss, they will have worked themselves to a used-up death of old age without anyone noticing their absence. He tells Lily that Rickie remembered her, even after he had forgotten his own name. Lily resigns herself to ending up in hell, and accepts her fate passively. Ken lines the captives up and each one is asked, "Who are you?" and then bludgeoned unless they answer "I'm no one." When it is Buffy's turn, she says her name with pride and a battle ensues until Ken threatens Lily at knifepoint. Ken delivers a speech, but Lily pushes him off the ledge onto a concrete floor. Lily then leads the captives back up through the pool as Buffy dispatches Ken. Once all of the humans are out of the demonic dimension, the pool gateway closes. Back in her apartment, Buffy packs her bag, ready to return to Sunnydale. She gives Lily her "Anne" identity. The episode ends with Buffy being embraced by her relieved mother. Production Seth Green is added to the title credits between David Boreanaz and Anthony Stewart Head. Reception Noel Murray of The A.V. Club described "Anne" as "a very clever meditation on adolescent identity". The scene where Anne asserts her identity as Buffy was frequently used as a promotional clip for reruns of the series on the FX channel. References External links Category:Buffy the Vampire Slayer (season 3) episodes Category:1998 American television episodes Category:Television episodes written by Joss Whedon Category:Television programs directed by Joss Whedon Category:Television episodes about child abduction Category:Television episodes set in Los Angeles Category:Television episodes about human trafficking "
"Wright Morris Wright Marion Morris (January 6, 1910 – April 25, 1998) was an American novelist, photographer, and essayist. He is known for his portrayals of the people and artifacts of the Great Plains in words and pictures, as well as for experimenting with narrative forms. Early life Morris was born in Central City, Nebraska; his boyhood home is on the National Register of Historic Places."Nebraska National Register Sites in Merrick County". Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved 2009-11-06. His mother, Grace Osborn Morris, died six days after he was born. His father, William Henry Morris, worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. After Grace's death, Wright was cared for by a nanny, until his father made a trip to Omaha and returned with a young wife, Gertrude. In Will's Boy, Morris states, "Gertrude was closer to my age than to my father's". Gertrude hated small-town life, but got along famously with Wright, as they shared many of the same childish tastes (both loved games, movies, and ice cream). In 1919, the family moved to Omaha, where they resided until 1924. During that interlude, Morris spent two summers on his uncle's farm near Norfolk, Nebraska. Photographs of the farm, as well as the real-life characters of Uncle Harry and Aunt Clara, appear in Morris's books. Career Morris moved to Chicago in 1924.Waterman, Arthur E. "The Novels of Wright Morris: An Escape from Nostalgia." Critique 4. (Winter 1961-62): 24-40. Later that year, he accompanied his father on a road trip to the west coast that formed the basis for his first novel, My Uncle Dudley. He also lived briefly with his uncle in Texas before enrolling in Pacific Union College in California. He graduated from Pomona College in 1933.Howard, Leon. Wright Morris. Pamphlets on American Writers 69. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1968. He married Mary Ellen Finfrock in 1934; the couple divorced in 1959. He later married Josephine Mary Kantor. Following college, Morris traveled through Europe on a "wanderjahr," which he later fictionalized in Cause for Wonder.Knoll, Robert E. Conversations with Wright Morris: Critical Views and Responses. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1977. From 1944 to 1954, Morris lived in Philadelphia. From 1954–1962, he divided his time between California and Mexico.Crump, G. B. "Wright Morris." In A Literary History of the American West, edited by Thomas J. Lyon. Western Literary Association. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1987. In 1963, he accepted a teaching position at San Francisco State College. He retired from teaching in 1975. Morris won the National Book Award for The Field of Vision in 1956. His final novel, Plains Song won the American Book Award in 1981. Morris developed close friendships with several other American authors, most notably John O'Hara and Thornton Wilder, and was a pall bearer at O'Hara's funeral in 1970. He also conducted a weekly correspondence with Scottish author Muriel Spark from 1962 until his death.Obituary, Omaha World- Herald, 1998 Morris died of esophageal cancer in Mill Valley, California in 1998. He is buried in the Chapman Cemetery."Who Is Wright Morris". Lone Tree Literary Society www.wrightmorris.org Selected works * My Uncle Dudley (1942) * The Man Who Was There (1945) * The Inhabitants (photo-text) (1946) * The Home Place (photo-text) (1948) * The World in the Attic (1949) * Man and Boy (1951) * The Works of Love (1952) * The Deep Sleep (1953) * The Huge Season (1954) — finalist for the National Book Award "National Book Awards – 1955". NBF. Retrieved 2012-03-15. * The Field of Vision (1956) — National Book Award for Fiction "National Book Awards - 1957". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-15. (With essay by Harold Augenbraum from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) * Love Among the Cannibals (1957) — finalist for the National Book Award "National Book Awards – 1958". NBF. Retrieved 2012-03-15. * Ceremony in Lone Tree (1960) — finalist for National Book Award "National Book Awards – 1961". NBF. Retrieved 2012-03-15. * Cause for Wonder (1963) * One Day (1965) * In Orbit (1967) * A Bill of Rites, a Bill of Wrongs, a Bill of Goods (essays) (1968) * God's Country and My People (photo-text) (1968) * In Orbit (1971) * Fire Sermon (1971) * A Life (1973) * "" (Short Stories) (1976) * The Fork River Space Project (1977) * Plains Song: For Female Voices (1980) — National Book Award for Fiction "National Book Awards - 1981". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-03-15. (With essay by Patricia Smith from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) Plains Song won the 1981 award for hardcover Fiction. From 1980 to 1983 in National Book Awards history there were dual hardcover and paperback awards in most categories. Most of the paperback award-winners were reprints, including the 1981 Fiction. * Will's Boy (1981) * "Victrola" (1982) (short story in The New Yorker; O. Henry Award third prize) * Solo (1983) * A Cloak of Light (1985) * "Glimpse Into Another Country" (1985) (short story in The New Yorker; O. Henry Award) * Time Pieces: Photographs, Writing, and Memory (1989) Awards and honors Morris received numerous honors in addition to the National Book Awards for The Field of Vision and Plains Song. He was granted Guggenheim Fellowships in 1942, 1946, and 1954. In 1975, he won the Mari Sandoz Award recognizing "significant, enduring contribution to the Nebraska book world". In 1979, he received the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement Award. In 1981, he won the Los Angeles Times' Book Prize Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement. In 1982, a jury of Modern Language Association members selected him for the Common Wealth Award for distinguished service in literature. In 1985, he was one of the inaugural recipients of the Whiting Award. In 1986, he was honored with a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Archives The full archive of Wright Morris photographs is located at the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, which also manages the copyright of these photographs.CCP's "Conditions for Publication of Photographs by Wright Morris" (PDF file). Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona Libraries. The Lincoln City Libraries of Lincoln, NE, houses some Morris correspondence and taped interviews in The Gale E. Christianson Collection of Eiseley Research Materials and The Wright Morris-Victor Musselman Correspondence collection. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries houses a collection of Wright Morris papers, including material donated by Josephine Morris (1927-2002), widow of Wright Morris. Historical places in the life of Wright Morris Wright Morris wrote about the places and lives he knew. Here are a few of the most historic. * Cahow Barber Shop * Patterson Law Office * Wright Morris Boyhood House Notes References External links * Official sites ** Wright Morris (Lone Tree Literary Society) Website * *Western American Literature Journal: Wright Morris * Guide to the Wright Morris Papers at The Bancroft Library Profile at The Whiting Foundation * Stuart Wright Collection: Wright Morris Papers, 1950–1985 (#1169-008), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University Further reading Category:1910 births Category:1998 deaths Category:People from Central City, Nebraska Category:20th-century American novelists Category:American male novelists Category:National Book Award winners Category:Photographers from Nebraska Category:20th-century American male writers Category:San Francisco State University faculty Category:Pomona College alumni "
"FUJIC FUJIC was the first electronic digital computer in operation in Japan. It was finished in March 1956, the project having been effectively started in 1949, and was built almost entirely by Dr. Okazaki Bunji. Originally designed to perform calculations for lens design by Fuji, the ultimate goal of FUJIC's construction was to achieve a speed 1,000 times that of human calculation for the same purpose – the actual performance achieved was double that number. Employing approximately 1,700 vacuum tubes, the computer's word length was 33 bits. It had an ultrasonic mercury delay line memory of 255 words, with an average access time of 500 microseconds. An addition or subtraction was clocked at 100 microseconds, multiplication at 1,600 microseconds, and division at 2,100 microseconds. Used extensively for two years at the Fuji factory in Odawara, it was given later to Waseda University before taking up residence in the National Science Museum of Japan in Tokyo. See also *MUSASINO-1 *List of vacuum tube computers References References and external links * FUJIC at the IPSJ Computer Museum * Dr. Okazaki Bunji at the IPSJ Computer Museum Raúl Rojas and Ulf Hashagen, ed. The First Computers: History and Architectures. 2000, MIT Press, . Category:One-of-a- kind computers Category:Vacuum tube computers Category:Fujifilm "