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"Joe Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was an American artist and writer. Biography Born in New York City, New York, Grant worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1933 on the Mickey Mouse short, Mickey's Gala Premier. He created the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He led the development of Pinocchio and co- wrote Fantasia and Dumbo. During World War II, Grant worked on war cartoons including the Oscar-winning Der Fuehrer's Face. Grant was Jewish, and rigorously denied rumors that Walt Disney was anti-Semitic claiming "As far as I'm concerned, there was no evidence of anti-Semitism...I think the whole idea should be put to rest and buried deep. He was not anti-Semitic. Some of the most influential people at the Studio were Jewish. It's much ado about nothing. I never once had a problem with him in that way. That myth should be laid to rest."Gabler, Neal, 2006, Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination, Page 455, New York, Alfred A. KnopfKorkis, Jim, 2014, Debunking Meryl Streep: Part One", MousePlanet, Lady, the protagonist from Lady and the Tramp was based on a pet English Springer Spaniel named Lady owned by Joe Grant,Lady's Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp. Section; 'What a Perfect Little Lady: The Story of Lady and the Tramp' it is said by his daughter on the DVD (Lady and the Tramp) that Walt Disney thought the dog's long fur looked like a dress and suggested creating a storyboard featuring his dog. Grant left the Disney studio in 1949 and ran a ceramics business and a greeting card business but returned in 1989 to work on Beauty and the Beast. He also worked on Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, Fantasia 2000, and Pixar's Monsters, Inc. among others. Grant was also specially mentioned in the credits of Monsters, Inc. The last two films he worked on before his death, Chicken Little and Pixar's Up, were dedicated to him. Grant worked four days a week at Disney until he died, nine days before his 97th birthday. Grant's final project, Lorenzo, for which he conceived the idea and helped storyboard, received an Academy Award nomination in 2005. He was a recipient of the Disney legend award. Lorenzo In 2004, a short film he developed called Lorenzo was made and was based on his cat who got into a fight with two poodles in 1949. While it happened, he was thinking, "what would happen if he lost his tail?" The short, directed by Mike Gabriel, was released on March 4th, 2004 at the Florida Film Festival and made its world premier in front of the critically panned Raising Helen, with this the only positive feedback from critics and audiences. The finished short was planned at the time to be attached for a planned third Fantasia movie, but in 2003, the planned feature was eventually cancelled due to several years of funding and staff cutbacks from Walt Disney Feature Animation. The short won an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject, and was included at the Animation Show of Shows. Death On May 6, 2005, Grant died of heart attack while working at his drawing board in his home studio, nine days before his 97th birthday. He is interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. The film Chicken Little, released five months after his death, was dedicated to his memory. ReferencesFurther reading * External links * *Obituary *Another obituary *Lorenzo Director / Production designer Mike Gabriel uses sequences of production art to discuss the creative process on Lorenzo, a Disney short based on story ideas and sketches by Joe Grant. Category:1908 births Category:Animation screenwriters Category:2005 deaths Category:Jewish artists Category:Jewish American artists Category:Artists from New York City Category:Walt Disney Animation Studios people Category:Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Category:Animators from New York (state) Category:American storyboard artists Category:American caricaturists Category:American Jews "
"The AG36 is a single-shot 40 mm grenade launcher that operates on the High-Low System and was designed primarily for installation on the G36 assault rifle, designed by the German weapons manufacturing company Heckler & Koch of Oberndorf am Neckar. It originally appeared as Heckler & Koch's candidate for the US Army's Enhanced Grenade Launcher requirement, evaluated for use with the XM8 and FN SCAR rifles. As is commonly mistaken, the "A" is not an addition to the name "G36", which is short for Gewehr 36, but is in fact an abbreviation of the German Anbaugranatwerfer, literally meaning "attached grenade launcher" and the 36 coming from the name of the primary weapon it was designed to enhance – the G36. It can also be used dismounted, with a stock attached as a stand-alone model, or a LLM01 laser light module can be attached to it. Design details The AG36 on a Latvian G36KV carbine. As in many modern weapon systems, including the G36 series, extensive use of polymers and high-strength aluminium in the AG36 launcher contributes to its low mass and high durability. It is capable of firing almost all 40×46mm grenade rounds, including plastic training cartridges, flexible baton rounds, CS gas, and oleoresin capsicum (OC, the same chemical used in pepper spray) gas cartridges, white phosphorus, and HE ammunition. With the grenade launcher fitted, when firing 5.56 mm ammunition, the G36 Rifle’s mean point of impact shifts approx. 10 cm downwards at a range of 100 meters. AG36 Operators Manual Page 6 The AG36 is a part of Germany's Infantryman of the future program. The AG36 is a single-shot weapon with a break-action steel barrel and unlike its American counterpart, the M203, the AG36 swings out laterally for loading, allowing for the use of longer rounds when necessary, e.g. baton or flare rounds. When open, the breech is on the left. For installation, the rifle's existing barrel handguard is removed and replaced by the AG36. The weapon has a trigger group with a manual safety lever and a pistol grip for ease of handling. Aiming is accomplished using standard ladder sights, which are located on the left side of the launcher body and folded down when not in use. Due to its modular design, the launcher can be readily adapted to other rifles, such as the M16-series and the Diemaco C7 and C8. Variants The L17A1 and L123A2 UGL (Underslung Grenade Launcher) are the under-barrel 40 mm grenade launchers used by the British Army in conjunction with the L85A2 rifle (L123A2 UGL), and in small numbers with the L119A1 carbine used by United Kingdom Special Forces and the Pathfinder Platoon (L17A1 UGL). It is designed and built by Heckler & Koch and is a modified variant of the AG36. The UGL was first deployed during Operation Telic in 2003. The UGL replaced the muzzle- launched Rifle Grenade General Service. One UGL is issued per fireteam within infantry battalions. A further version of the AG36 is the Heckler & Koch AG-C/EGLM. Users AG36 fitted to the L85A2 rifle. : Replacing the Heckler & Koch HK69A1. * Jones, Richard D. Jane's Infantry Weapons 2009/2010. Jane's Information Group; 35 edition (January 27, 2009). . * : Lithuanian Armed Forces. : * :Kosovo Security Force , GlobalSecurity.org : L123A2 Variant * * : Designated as M320 grenade launcher See also * M203 grenade launcher * M320 grenade launcher * GP-25 * Milkor UBGL * Heckler & Koch AG-C/GLM ReferencesExternal links * Heckler & Koch – official page * Modern Firearms * The Infantry's Explosive Punch (Asian Military Review article) Category:40×46mm grenade launchers AG36 Category:Post–Cold War weapons of Germany "
"My Man Jeeves is a collection of short stories by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes.McIlvaine (1990), pp.33-34, A22a. Of the eight stories in the collection, half feature the popular characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, while the others concern Reggie Pepper, an early prototype for Bertie Wooster. Revised versions of all the Jeeves stories in this collection were later published in the 1925 short story collection Carry On, Jeeves. One of the Reggie Pepper stories in this collection was later rewritten as a Jeeves story, which was also included in Carry On, Jeeves. Publication history British cover. The book was published in the United Kingdom in May 1919 by George Newnes; it is a collection of short stories featuring either Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, or Reggie Pepper. Although the book was not published in the United States, all the stories had appeared there, mostly in The Saturday Evening Post or Collier's Weekly, and in the Strand in the UK, prior to the publication of the UK book. Several appeared later in rewritten form in Carry On, Jeeves (1925). "Absent Treatment", "Brother Alfred" and "Rallying Round Clarence" were included in the US version of The Man with Two Left Feet (1917). Jeeves and Wooster had first appeared in the short story "Extricating Young Gussie", which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1915, and was included in The Man with Two Left Feet.McIlvaine (1990), pp.31-33, A21. Contents * "Leave it to Jeeves" (revised as "The Artistic Career of Corky" in Carry On, Jeeves) ** US: Saturday Evening Post, February 5, 1916 ** UK: Strand, June 1916 * "Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest" (included in Carry On, Jeeves) ** US: Saturday Evening Post, December 9, 1916 ** UK: Strand, March 1917 * "Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg" (included in Carry On, Jeeves) ** US: Saturday Evening Post, March 3, 1917 ** UK: Strand, August 1917 * "Absent Treatment" (Reggie Pepper) ** UK: Strand, March 1911 ** US: Collier's Weekly, August 22, 1911 * "Helping Freddie" (Reggie Pepper, rewritten as the Jeeves story "Fixing it for Freddie" in Carry On, Jeeves) ** UK: Strand, September 1911 ** US: Pictorial Review, March 1912 (as "Lines and Business") * "Rallying Round Old George" (Reggie Pepper, rewritten as the Mr. Mulliner story "George and Alfred" in Plum Pie) ** UK: Strand, December 1912 ** US: Collier's Weekly, September 27, 1913 (as "Brother Alfred") * "Doing Clarence a Bit of Good" (Reggie Pepper, rewritten as the Jeeves story "Jeeves Makes an Omelette" in A Few Quick Ones) ** UK: Strand, May 1913 ** US: Pictorial Review, April 1914 (as "Rallying Round Clarence") * "The Aunt and the Sluggard" (Jeeves and Wooster, included in Carry On, Jeeves) ** US: Saturday Evening Post, April 22, 1916 ** UK: Strand, August 1916 See also * List of the Jeeves short stories * List of all Jeeves' appearances ReferencesBibliography * * External links * Free eBook of My Man Jeeves at Bookglutton * Free eBook of My Man Jeeves at Project Gutenberg * The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and a list of characters * Fantastic Fiction's page, with details of published editions, photos of book covers and links to used copies * Category:Short story collections by P. G. Wodehouse Category:1919 short story collections "