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"John F. McCormick was a sailor in the United States Coast Guard who was recognized for his courage. McCormick was born in Portland, Oregon, and served much of his 26 year Coast Guard career in Oregon. After his 1947 retirement he made his home in Garibaldi, Oregon, where he lived another 39 years. Coast Guard career The skill and daring McCormick showed while rescuing a fellow crewmember, when in command of the USCGC Triumph, earned him the admiration of his peers. McCormick enlisted in 1921, and spent most of his career as a non- commissioned petty officer. Late in his career he was promoted to the ranks of commissioned officers, and retired as a Lieutenant, in 1947. In 1938 McCormick was the coxswain in charge of the motor lifeboat USCGC Triumph, at Point Adams Station, at the mouth of the Columbia River. Large rivers, like the Columbia, have dangerous sandbars, where the fast-flowing fresh-water, full of silt, slows where it meets ocean water. In bad weather waves break on the sandbar, representing a serious navigational danger. On March 26, 1938 McCormick took the Triumph to assist a tug trying to tow logs across the bar. One of McCormick's crew fell overboard, and McCormick, exercising great skill, was able to lead his remaining crew in a rescue that won the admiration of his peers. The rescue earned McCormick the Congressional Gold Lifesaving Medal. During World War 2 McCormick commanded Point Adams Station. In 1947 he commanded Coast Guard Station Garibaldi. Legacy McCormick received the Coast Guard Gold Lifesaving medal. In 2010, Charles "Skip" W. Bowen, who was then the Coast Guard's most senior non-commissioned officer, proposed that all 58 cutters in the Sentinel class should be named after enlisted sailors in the Coast Guard, or one of its precursor services, who were recognized for their heroism. In 2014 the Coast Guard announced that the 21st cutter would be named the USCGC John F. McCormick. She was built in Lockport, Louisiana, at the Bollinger shipyards, and delivered to the Coast Guard on December 13, 2017. She was commissioned in Ketchikan, Alaska, the first cutter of her class to transit the Panama Canal, and the first to be commissioned on the west coast. References External links * Category:1901 births Category:1986 deaths Category:United States Coast Guard enlisted Category:United States Coast Guard officers Category:Military personnel from Portland, Oregon Category:People from Tillamook County, Oregon "
"Self-portrait (date unknown) Louis Nicolas Matout (19 March 1811, in Renwez – 24 January 1888, in Paris) was a French painter and muralist. He was known primarily for cityscapes with figures and genre scenes. Biography He was from a family of modest means but, thanks to the generosity of an architect he met at a construction site where he was employed, he was able to gain admission to the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. His first exhibit at the Salon came in 1833 and he would continue to have showings there until 1879. A major commission came his way in 1852, when the Minister of Finance, Achille Fould, engaged him to create a painting on the subject of Dr. Ambroise Paré performing a ligature, to replace a dilapidated fresco painted by in 1778, along with the two frescoes that framed it, in the Grand Amphithéâtre of the Faculté de médecine de Paris. The two adjoining frescoes were replaced with tableaux of Lanfranc and Pierre-Joseph Desault. These and the remaining frescoes by Gibelin were destroyed by a fire in 1889. The publicity engendered by this project led to several other public works, notably at St-Gervais-et-St-Protais, the Church of Saint-Merri and the Church of Saint-Sulpice. Later, he worked at the Cathedral of St Philippe in Algiers (now the Ketchaoua Mosque), La Rochelle Cathedral and Angoulême Cathedral..Lettre manuscrite achetée par les Archives Départementales des Ardennes, consultable sous la cote 1 J 1053, Online He had a major showing at the Exposition Universelle (1867). He was named a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor in 1857.Dossier @ the Base Leonore His works may be seen at the Louvre, the Musée Fesch and at numerous small museums throughout France. Selected paintings File:Matout-Algerian.jpgAlgerian Woman Killed by a Lioness File:Matout-Perseus.jpgPerseus and Andromeda File:Matout- NotreDame.jpgView of Notre Dame File:Matout-Fountain.jpgAt the Fountain References Further reading * Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle (1877), vol.17, pg. 1574 Online. * Maxime Du Camp, Les beaux-arts à l'exposition universelle et aux salons de 1863, 1864, 1865, 1866 et 1867, Veuve Jules Renouard, pgs.=27, 28, 56, 351 Online External links *Biography and works @ the Famille Matout website * Dictionnaire Bénézit. "Matout, Louis (1811-1888), Painter", Oxford Index Category:1811 births Category:1888 deaths Category:French painters Category:French muralists Category:People from Ardennes (department) Category:Cityscape artists "
"Matrimelee is an arcade fighting game published by Playmore. It's the fifth installment in the Power Instinct series, and the second fighting game created by Noise Factory after Rage of the Dragons. The game was first released on Neo Geo arcade system on March 20, 2003, and it was one of the last games to be released on the system. The title is a compound of "matrimony" and "melee". Matrimelee ignores gameplay elements introduced in its predecessor, Groove on Fight, and goes back to 1-on-1 match structure. A few of the game elements from Rage of the Dragons were integrated to this game, such as the special meter that slowly fills up when an attack connects with an opponent and the four guest stars. In 2006, the game was released on PlayStation 2 exclusively in Japan, under the new title . This port treats itself a sequel, taking place after the events from Matrimelee, with more changes in gameplay and the addition of new characters while removing the Rage of the Dragons cast. Gameplay Gameplay screenshot showcasing a match between Clara Hananokouji and Oume Goketsuji. Matrimelee discards all the characters introduced in Groove of Fight and brings back the roster from Power Instinct 2 (except Angela, Oshima, Sahad and Kinta, the latter of whom was replaced by his alter- ego, Pochi), plus 4 totally new characters and one new boss (Princess Sissy). It features four unlockable guest characters from Rage of the Dragons: Jimmy, Elias, Lynn, and Jones. In the game's story, the King of Certain Country wants to find a worthy successor for the throne and the ideal husband for his little daughter (or a beautiful and strong woman for his older son) So he holds a fighting tournament where the prize is the hand of the princess and the throne succession. The game inherits the Stress meter system from Power Instinct 2, but with further changes. The Stress meter now could be filled up to three levels. Super moves included are a Stress Shot (one bar), an Ippatsu Ougi (two bars) and a powerful, hidden super attack called a Kinjite (three bars). However, only a few of the characters have Kinjite moves. Finally, transformations are no longer possible. Release Matrimelee was ported to PlayStation 2 in May 25, 2006, under the title . It was released exclusively in Japan. It features enhanced graphics and sound, the return of two of the older characters (Angela Belti and Kinta Kokuin), a new boss (Bobby Strong, a comedic re-interpretation of Nigerian-Japanese personality Bobby Ologun, who provided his voice for the game), and the return of the transformation feature. Gameplay was also improved in some areas, and super attacks were made easier to execute. The game has the same backgrounds and all the characters from Matrimelee (except the four secret characters from Rage of the Dragons), while the game's story takes place after the events from the previous game, making it a sort of sequel or update. The game tells the story of the king from the previous game, who holds a "Bonnou Kaihou" ("Liberation of Lusts") tournament to cheer up his daughter Princess Sissy. This time the prize is anything that the winner could wish for (except the throne succession). This version also features an online mode and a 'Lust Cards System' that consists of buying cards with special effects. Some allow the player to change certain characteristics of the characters, others are used to view special music video clips, and others to call strange characters to help the player in battle. Notes References See also * Rage of the Dragons External links Game Excite's website for Shin Gōketsuji Ichizoku: Bonnō Kaihō * Category:2003 video games Category:Atlus games Category:Arcade games Category:Fighting games Category:Neo Geo games Category:PlayStation 2 games Category:Versus fighting games Category:Multiplayer and single-player video games Category:Video games developed in Japan Category:Video games featuring female antagonists "