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The name Roosevelt is an American surname originally derived from the Dutch place-name spelled variously as Van Rosevelt or Van Rosenvelt, meaning "from the rose field." The most famous bearers of this name come from the Roosevelt family, a merchant and political family descended from the 17th-century immigrant to New Netherland Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt.
In the United States, the surname ranked as the 15,060th most common surname in the 1990 U.S. Census, accounting for 0.001% of the American population.[1] By the 2000 U.S. Census, the surname was ranked as the 24,406th most common family name. There were 961 individuals recorded at that time using the surname Roosevelt, and of these, 64% identified as being white, 27.26% black, 1.87% Asian and Pacific Islander, 1.77% American Indian and Native Alaskan and 1.66% as Hispanic ethnic origin.[2]
Notable RooseveltsEdit
Van Rosevelts of Oud-VossemeerEdit
In 1410, William III, Duke of Bavaria, Count of Holland and of Zeeland granted amt fiefdoms north of Tholen to six lords. An amt fief was a grant of land, by William III of Bavaria in this instance, to lesser vassal lords where the land stipulated in the grant had been or needed to be dyked and reclaimed from the sea. Also, the vassal lords held several powers from their position, such as appointing the steward and alderman that governed the municipal area, inflicting corporal punishment and even pass death sentences by hanging in several situations.[3][4]
One of the first amt lords was Marijnus van Rosevelt, whose lordship dates back to 1697. Johan Willem van Rosevelt, LL.M, was also an amt lord from 1731 until 1790, and also held the prominent positions of steward of Vossemeer, councilor, alderman and pensionary of Goes, Steward of the Count's Domains to oversee clerical goods, common means and taxes in Biervliet, deputy councilor of Zeeland and admiralty councilor. The Van Rosevelt name holds a place of prominence in the Oud-Vossemeer House of Amt Lords, which was constructed in 1767, even amongst the other amt lords.[3][5]
It has been suggested that Claes van Rosenvelt was related to the Van Rosevelts of Oud-Vossemeer, and evidence suggests that Claes van Rosenvelt indeed came from the Tholen region where the Van Rosevelts were land owners, but no records exist that prove any relation of the two families.[5][6]
Roosevelts, the American political and business familyEdit
Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt, the immigrant ancestor of the Roosevelt family, arrived in Nieuw Amsterdam (present day New York City) some time between 1638 and 1649. Around the year 1652, he bought a farm from Lambert van Valckenburgh comprising twenty-four morgens (forty-eight acres) in what is now Midtown Manhattan, including the present site of the Empire State Building.[7] The property included roughly what is now the area between Lexington Avenue and Fifth Avenue bounded by 29th St. and 35th St.
Claes' son Nicholas was the first to use the spelling Roosevelt and the first to hold political office, as an alderman. His children Johannes and Jacobus were the progenitors of the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park branches of the family that emerged in the 18th century, respectively. By the late 19th century, the Hyde Park Roosevelts were generally associated with the Democratic Party and the Oyster Bay Roosevelts with the Republican Party. President Theodore Roosevelt, an Oyster Bay Roosevelt, was President Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin. Despite political differences that led family members to actively campaign against each other, the two branches generally remained friendly. James Roosevelt, Sr. met his wife at a Roosevelt family gathering in the home of Theodore's mother, and James' son Franklin married Theodore's niece Eleanor.
Coats of armsEdit
It is a common misconception that there is one coat of arms associated to everyone of a common surname, when, in fact, a coat of arms is property passed through direct lineage.[8] This means that there are numerous families of Roosevelt, perhaps under various spellings, that are related, but because they are not the direct descendants of a Roosevelt that owned an armorial device do not have rights or claims to any arms themselves.
In heraldry, canting arms are a visual or pictorial play on a surname, and were and still are a popular practice. It would be common to find roses, then, in arms of many Roosevelt families, even unrelated ones. Also, grassy mounds or fields of green would be a familiar attribute.
The Van Rosevelts of Oud-Vossemeer, in the Tholen region of Zeeland, have a coat of arms that is divided horizontally, the top portion with a white chevron between three white roses, while the bottom half is gold with a red lion rampant. The upper portion is simply a cant of the Van Rosevelt name, which means "from the rose fields". The lower portion was likely added to the heraldic achievement after the family gained the amt lordship, as a representation of their land ownership. The coat of arms of the province of Zeeland has a red lion rising from waters on a gold field, while the town of Oud-Vossemeer use similar arms but with a red wolf, so the red lion of the Van Rosevelts is either directly taken form the Zeeland arms or an allusion to both Zeeland and Oud-Vossemeer. A traditional blazon suggested would be, Per fess vert a chevron between three roses argent and Or a lion rampant gules.[9]
The coat of arms of the Dutch burgher Claes van Rosenvelt, ancestor of the American political family that included Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt, were white with a rosebush with three rose flowers growing upon a grassy mound, and whose crest was of three ostrich feathers divided into red and white halves each. In heraldic terms this would be described as, Argent upon a grassy mound a rose bush proper bearing three roses gules barbed and seeded all proper, with a crest upon a torse argent and gules of Three ostrich plumes each per pale gules and argent. Franklin Roosevelt altered his arms to rid of the rosebush and use in it's place three crossed roses on their stems, changing the blazon of his shield to Three roses one in pale and two in saltire gules barbed seeded slipped and leaved proper.[9]
- ^ "Frequently Occurring First Names and Surnames From the 1990 Census". U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/freqnames.html. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
- ^ "Frequently Occurring Surnames From Census 2000". U.S. Census Bureau. http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/freqnames2k.html. Retrieved 29 November 2009.
- ^ a b "Amt fiefdom of Oud and Nieuw Vossemeer and Vrijberghe". Ambachtsheerlijkheid. http://www.ambachtsheerlijkheid.com/. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ^ "Short summary of the history of the amt fiefdom of "Oud en Niew Vossemeer en Vrijberghe"". Ambachtsheerlijkheid. http://www.ambachtsheerlijkheid.com/amtfiefdom.html. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ^ a b "Amt lords". Ambachtsheerlijkheid. http://www.ambachtsheerlijkheid.com/amtlords.html. Retrieved 27 November 2009.
- ^ "Oud Vossemeer". Oudvossemeer.com. http://www.oudvossemeer.com/index.htm. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- ^ "Lambert Jochemse van Valckenburch of New Amsterdam". VanValkenburg.org. http://www.vanvalkenburg.org/lambert-manhattan.html. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
- ^ "College of Arms-Frequently Asked Questions". College of Arms. http://www.college-of-arms.gov.uk/Faq.htm. Retrieved 26 October 2009.
- ^ a b Heraldry Society "Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 26th and 32nd Presidents of the United States". PUBLISHER. http://www.americanheraldry.org/pages/index.php?n=President.American Heraldry Society. Retrieved 28 October 2009.
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Located in Bao'an, this hotel is 2.1 mi (3.3 km) from Zhongshan Park and 2.3 mi (3.7 km) from Xin'an Nantou Ancient City. Window of the World and Shenzhen University are also within 6 mi (10 km).
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The hotel offers a restaurant. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. Event facilities measuring 3228 square feet (300 square meters) include conference space. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) is offered to guests. This business-friendly hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, multilingual staff, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby.
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Mellow Orange - This restaurant specializes in international cuisine and serves breakfast only.
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I was analyzing a short, relatively uninteresting section of a fairly common gene present in all bacteria and a few eukaryotic organisms, gyrase B (GyrB). My goal was to design a couple of primers I could use to polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplify a specific E. coli I was attempting to further characterize as part of my dissertation work. The software package I had been using to do the alignments I would need is called VectorNTI. It's a fairly clunky and somewhat dated program but I was familiar with it and only needed some of the most basic functions for the work. Over the course of the day I had imported over 150 complete genome sequences from various E. coli strains off of the NCBI database. Some of the data consisted of non-assembled contigs from the short read archive (SRA) database. This was rather annoying as I would then need to assemble and partially annotate the contigs before I could use them.
A different software package was required to do these assemblies and the program was extremely computationally intensive. One assembly might take two to three hours depending on the quality of the input data. While the assemblies were running my computer slowed to a crawl as the processors worked in overdrive to analyze all the data. End result was further delays in an already time intensive process. Simultaneously I would BLAST my initial proposed primer sequences to make sure they would appropriately detect the E. coli I was interested in while not cross-reacting with anything else. Usually I only had one or two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that I could exploit for my purposes.
It was tedious work, time consuming, and not very fun. It was a process I had repeated on numerous occasions for other genes with other target organisms. There was no reason to suspect that this time things would be any different. After a few hundred iterations I would no doubt hit upon at least a few potential candidate primer sets. At that point I would then need to confirm the in silico findings by empirical screening in the lab across a subset of our fairly vast collection of bacteria. Very basic stuff.
At some point I noticed something in the data I had never seen before. There was a large segment of sequence containing a seemingly out of place string of bases. I had seen enough of the particular section of the gene I was looking at to know this was highly unusual. It was only present in one of the genomes I was examining. There did not seem to be anything out of the ordinary about this particular strain of E. coli which made me even more curious.
I quickly converted the DNA sequence to RNA so I could translate the sequence into the relevant protein using the RNA codon table I always kept handy. The RNA sequence was as follows: AAAAUUCUUCUUAAAAUUCUUCUUAAAAUUCUUCUU…etc. The 12-mer tandem repeat continued on for 144 bases total. The corresponding amino acids coded for were as follows: Lysine-Isoleucine-Leucine-Leucine. Much like the bases in DNA are abbreviated by letters each amino acid has a one letter abbreviation as well. Lysine is K, Isoleucine is I, and Leucine is L. When fully translated to abbreviated protein code the sequence read as KILLKILLKILLKILL….etc.
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The Mississippi Press reports supervisors discussed the matter in a closed session on Monday.
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After seeking new design ideas over the summer, supervisors decided to go with Goldberg, which pitched a jail made up of modular steel cells that can be stacked two or four cells high upon a deep foundation.


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I cant wait because he will find out that i lied to him and he will yell at me and we will have to fight so...
good question! I would make it in a positive environment. May be order a good dinner with his favorite dishes? First of all wait when he finished his dinner, and then say " Honey, I know that our relationship is the best now, but I have something very important for you. " Can you tell that you love him very much, and can't live without him. I mean prepare him first, and then tell the news. Try to use only positive lovely words.
I agree with Elena, and tell him how excited you are about the news so that he knows your happy with it and he may be more okay with it, too.
Why would he be angry? Some of your posts are contradicting... I'm confused.
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Molly Kirk (r) with Lime Connect President/CEO Susan Lang
Eight years ago, one simple routine test changed my life forever. At 13 years old, while my friends were starting their journeys as teenagers, I was starting a medical journey, questioning the life and person I thought I knew. It began with a annual hearing test in my middle school nurse's office - the first test I had ever "failed" and since that moment, my teenage years were defined by over 50 different hearing tests, dozens of doctor visits, a failed surgical injection, attempts at intense medications, MRIs and cat-scans and even alternative medicine, all of which only ended in false hope, broken promises and so many unanswered questions. No one could tell me why my hearing was getting progressively worse and why it would never improve. It was during those years that I realized I could no longer define myself as "normal". I had lost the sense of who I was and worried about what my future would hold. I lost hope in myself and in my goals and I was so scared that I would wake up one morning to a world of silence.
Then in the spring of 2010, I had to face the most dreaded reality of it all, one that I had avoided for years - to avoid losing all nerve function in my ears, I had to get hearing aids. Yes hearing aids, something I had forever associated with only older people and sick people, not a college student. My grandfather got hearing aids at 80, I was getting them at 20 - life did not seem fair. I was afraid my "big secret" would be out and that hearing aids would make me unattractive, weird, isolated and unable to get a job and lead a normal life. The day I got my hearing aids, April 26, 2010, my mom was with me and I just cried and cried for the rest of the day, they sat painfully in my ears; so amplified that it felt like the world was screaming at me. I thought that although these hearing aids were supposed to help me, they were actually hurting me and taking away any last bit of confidence and self-esteem I still had left. Less than one month later, it was Lime Connect that gave me back that hope and self-esteem I thought I lost forever.
To say I was hesitant to apply to Lime Connect is an understatement - I had never thought of myself as a person with a disability - I didn't think my hearing loss qualified and deep down almost didn't want it to. My academic resource counselor thought it would be a great opportunity to help me confront my fears and meet other students who faced disabilities and who have overcome them and have been able to be successful in school, jobs and life. When I went to Super Days that May to interview, my hair was hiding my hearing aids, but for the first time I actually felt comfortable telling my interviewers what my disability was. I had amazing conversations with people from Google, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and Target and I left so happy and confident, that I tried not to worry about being picked because I had overcome a huge fear of talking to people about my "secret." But luckily, they did accept me as an inaugural Fellow and when Susan Lang called to me in June 2010, Lime Connect became the silver lining and blessing in disguise during one of the most difficult times in my life. Through the interviews that May and the symposium last August, I was able to connect with some of the greatest companies and people in the country and intern for Google this past summer. My Google experience was life changing - I felt at home with the company culture and people and I did not have to hide my disability. Google gave me a lot of support and responsibility, along with opportunities to meet the founders, key executives, run projects and have an impact on my team. When the summer ended, I had grown exponentially as a person and I had succeeded in my internship even though many people, including myself had had their doubts. And, best of all, I will return to Google full time upon graduation.
The connection between Lime Connect and its partners is truly remarkable. They are really influencing how the world, especially companies, view, help and support people with disabilities. They are creating opportunities for students like me that I never even knew existed and they have given me the chance to achieve beyond what I could have ever imagined. When I found out my hearing would never improve and I had to wear hearing aids, I thought my life was over. Lime Connect and its partners have given me the chance to once again lead the life I wanted before this all happened. They have given me a new sense of self, given me back my confidence and supported my ability to continue my education.
Although it took me years after that first routine test in the nurse's office, I have come to accept that I am a person with a disability. No one knows what tomorrow will bring, but in the last year and a half, I have been able to once again believe in myself and my accomplishments. I know now that life is not about being "normal" or having a solution to every problem; it is about forcing yourself to get through challenges, to make yourself stronger. The days I spent in hospitals, the hours I spent in testing rooms, and the minutes I have missed out of in conversations are gone. Yet I have my whole life ahead of me, and thanks to Lime Connect I plan on experiencing every second of it despite life's unpredictable setbacks.
- Molly Kirk, Georgetown '12 and 2010 Lime Connect Fellow


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Pretty confident title for this project, but once you tap into it you'll understand why. Phoenix Flamee put on his engineer hat for this one. The This Is What Your Mixtape Should Sound Like beat tape is a candy store for any artist looking to collaborate with this young man.
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Damn this was a year after Biggie passed. Jayz was still on his way to superstardom thats how long ago this tape was created. Damn the beats still sound fresh though I was selecting one I could spit on.


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Academic Stuff
|Here I am with Nancy Coory, who inspired my thesis script, Development-the-movie
In March 2013 my autoethnographic activism and academic work are less important to me than they have been for a long time.
I've taken what I've learned and moved forward with my play Throat of These Hours, about poet and activist Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) and two women in a Wellington radio station. I'm gearing up to finish and transform Hemingway's, my serial for the 2011 Rugby World Cup, which I refer to in some of the media convergence posts, as Grace Notes. I want to continue with various fictional and hybrid experiments, which I group together in my Looking Like Sean Connery blog, especially more comics like Mouse.
But most of the narratives I work on are about how women can tell their stories and how media convergence may offer us new opportunities to do this, so all of this creative work is built on the theorising in my PhD, supported by my supervisors and my fellow PhD students; and these media convergence posts. The media convergence posts ask what elements are necessary in and unique to a particular story-telling form and what aren't. They and my own work explore reasons to write and produce a film rather than a play or a game or a book of essays or comic or a collection of poems; and how to reach audiences. And in turn, my writing and other art work questions what I wrote as part of the theorising.
My PhD at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML); & its ongoing effects
A Singer May Be Innocent; Never The Song September 2012
Tautoko For An Unknown Woman March 2012
What Will Make Women's Work 'Cool'? February 2011
Developing Development-the-Movie at Branchage October 2010
Chris Vogler Visits September 2010
Looking Towards A New World December 2009
Moving Forward: Leaving IIML December 2009
Finishing My Thesis October 2009
Andrew Bovell's Visit October 2009
Beginning My Thesis Script January 2009
Download My PhD Thesis (without script) 2010
Link to Report for People Who've Helped Me 2008
My PhD Profile at IIML
Media Convergence Posts
A Golden Age For Women Who Make Movies? (2) August 2012
Media Convergence, MOFILM & Strategies March 2011
More Questions About Media Convergence January 2011
Media Questions & Desire January 2011
The Creation & Deferment of Hope January 2011
Too Much Dialogue? December 2010 (includes analysis of The Social Network's media convergence)
Transmedia & Women's Feature Films in Ireland November 2010


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Noah Cyrus Auditions for 'Wizards of Waverly Place' (PHOTOS)
Noah Cyrus and Selena Gomez, together on the little screen? It's no longer the seemingly impossible dream that it once was.
Miley Cyrus' 10-year-old sister was all business in Hollywood on Wednesday, clutching a script as mom Tish Cyrus accompanied her to an audition for Gomez's series Wizards of Waverly Place. And with her solid performing chops, is there any doubt that she'll land the part?
Click through the photo gallery to witness the beginning of what will surely be a momentous collaboration. Are you psyched to see Noah take Wizards to the next level? Let us know in the comments section.