The Redstone Acceleration & Innovation Network (TRAIN) is an organization launched by FasterCures in 2004 established to create opportunities for medical research organizations to discuss and overcome research challenges that cut across all diseases. TRAIN brings together nonprofit disease research organizations to share information, as well as promote collaboration and innovation in disease research. Headed by FasterCures, TRAIN asserts that collaboration is crucial for efficient biomedical advancement. Participating researchers discuss successes, failures, and best practices that provide lessons learned and valuable ideas that could be scaled up to amplify productivity.

Originally named “The Research Acceleration & Innovation Network,” TRAIN was renamed to “The Redstone Acceleration & Innovation Network” in order to honor a generous grant contribution from Sumner Redstone and the Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation.

Participating Research Organizations

Accelerate Brain Cancer Cure

Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis

Alliance for Aging Research

Alpha-1 Foundation

ALS Therapy Development Institute

Autism Speaks

Ben & Catherine Ivy Foundation

Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation

Cure Alzheimer's Fund

CureDuchenne

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

The Epilepsy Therapy Development Project

FastForward, LLC (National MS Society)

Focused Ultrasound Surgery Foundation

Foundation Fighting Blindness

Foundation for Accelerated Vascular Research

Hydrocephalus Association

Institute for OneWorld Health

International AIDS Vaccine Initiative

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

Lance Armstrong Foundation

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

Life Raft Group

Lymphoma Research Foundation

Melanoma Research Alliance

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

MPD Foundation

Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

Myelin Repair Foundation

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network

Parkinson's Action Network

Prostate Cancer Foundation

Susan G. Komen for the Cure

TGen

References

Altevogt, Bruce, Sarah Hanson and Lori Nadig. Venture Philanthropy Strategies to Support Translational Research. Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. 2009 February 25.

Rimer, Skip. “Sumner M. Redstone Charitable Foundation Awards $35 Million Grant to FasterCures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions.” Milken Institute. 2007 April 19. Retrieved 2009 July 1.

"Sumner M. Redstone Commits $105 Million to Fund Cancer and Burn Recovery Research and Patient Care." RedOrbit News. 18 April 2007. Retrieved 2009 July 1. http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/906598/sumner_m_redstone_commits_105_million_to_fund_cancer_and/index.html

"A 'Younger' Redstone Makes a Commitment." OnPhilanthropy News. April 25, 2007. Retrieved 2009 July 1. http://flip.onphilanthropy.com/news_onphilanthropy/2007/04/a_younger_redst.html

External links

FasterCures website

The Milken Institute website

Category:Medical and health organizations Category:Public services Category:Healthcare quality Category:Organizations established in 2004

name	Roger Miller
background	solo_singer
birth name	Roger Dean Miller
birth date	January 02, 1936
birth place	Fort Worth, Texas
death date	October 25, 1992
death place	Los Angeles, California
instrument	Guitar, fiddle, drums
genre	Country
occupation	Singer-songwriter
years active	1957–1992
associated acts	Bill Anderson, George Jones, Dean Miller, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Minnie Pearl, Ray Price, Jim Reeves, Sheb Wooley, Dwight Yoakam, Faron Young
website	www.rogermiller.com
notable instruments	}}

Roger Dean Miller (January 2, 1936 – October 25, 1992) was an American singer, songwriter, musician and actor, best known for his honky tonk-influenced novelty songs. His most recognized tunes included the chart-topping country/pop hits "King of the Road", "Dang Me" and "England Swings", all from the mid-1960s Nashville sound era.

After growing up in Oklahoma and serving in the United States Army, Miller began his musical career as a songwriter in the late 1950s, penning such hits as "Billy Bayou" and "Home" for Jim Reeves and "Invitation to the Blues" for Ray Price. He later started a recording career and reached the peak of his fame in the late-1960s, but continued to record and tour into the 1990s, charting his final top 20 country hit "Old Friends" with Willie Nelson in 1982. Later in his life, he wrote the music and lyrics for the 1985 Tony-award winning Broadway musical ''Big River'', in which he also acted.

Miller died from lung cancer in 1992, and was posthumously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame three years later. His songs continued to be recorded by younger artists, with covers of "Tall, Tall Trees" by Alan Jackson and "Husbands and Wives" by Brooks & Dunn, each reaching the number one spot on country charts in the 1990s. The Roger Miller Museum in his home town serves as a tribute to Miller.

Early life

Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas, the third son of Jean and Laudene (Holt) Miller. Jean Miller died from spinal meningitis when Roger was only a year old. Unable to support the family during the Great Depression, Laudene sent each of her three sons to live with a different one of Jean's brothers. Thus, Roger grew up on a farm outside Erick, Oklahoma with Elmer and Armelia Miller.

As a boy, Miller did farm work such as picking cotton and plowing. He would later say he was "dirt poor" and that as late as 1951 the family did not own a telephone. He received his primary education at a one-room schoolhouse. Miller was an introverted child, and would often daydream or compose songs. One of his earliest compositions went: "There's a picture on the wall. It's the dearest of them all, Mother."

Miller was a member of the National FFA Organization in high school. He listened to the ''Grand Ole Opry'' and Light Crust Doughboys on a Fort Worth station with his cousin's husband Sheb Wooley. Wooley taught Miller his first guitar chords and bought him a fiddle. Wooley, Hank Williams, and Bob Wills were the influences that led to Miller's desire to become a singer-songwriter. He began to run away and perform in Oklahoma and Texas. When he was 17, he stole a guitar out of desperation to write songs; however, he turned himself in the next day. He chose to enlist in the Army to avoid jail. He later quipped, "My education was Korea, Clash of '52." Near the end of his military service, while stationed in Atlanta, Georgia, Miller played fiddle in the "Circle A Wranglers," a military musical group started by Faron Young. While Miller was stationed in South Carolina, an army sergeant whose brother was Kenneth C. Burns from the musical duo Homer and Jethro, convinced him to head to Nashville after his demobilization.

Career

Nashville songwriter

After his discharge, Miller traveled to Nashville to begin his musical career. Once there, he met with Chet Atkins, who asked to hear Miller, and even loaned him his guitar after learning that he did not own one. Out of nervousness, Miller played the guitar and sang a song in two different keys. Atkins advised him to come back at a later date, after a little more work. Miller remained in Nashville and worked as a bellhop at the Andrew Jackson Hotel, to make ends meet; he soon became known as the "singing bellhop," Meanwhile, he was hired by Minnie Pearl to play fiddle in her band, and later met up with George Jones, who introduced him to music executives from the Starday Records label for an audition. The label was impressed with Miller and awarded him with a session in Houston, accompanied by Jones. Jones and Miller collaborated, writing "Tall, Tall Trees" and "Happy Child."

}} After getting married and having a child, Miller decided to put his Nashville career on hold and left for Amarillo, Texas to become a fireman. He did not altogether abandon his musical career; although he worked as a fireman during the day, he spent the nights performing gigs. Miller later recounted that during his career as a fireman, he saw only two fires, a "chicken coop" and another that he "slept through." After the latter, the department "suggested that...[he] seek other employment." Miller met with Ray Price, and was hired as a member of his Cherokee Cowboys. He moved back to Nashville, and penned the song "Invitation to the Blues," which was covered by Rex Allen and later by Price, for whom it became a number three hit on country charts. Miller signed with ''Tree Publishing'' on a salary of $50 a week. He wrote: "Half a Mind" for Ernest Tubb, "That's the Way I Feel" for Faron Young; and his first number one, "Billy Bayou," which along with "Home" were recorded by Jim Reeves. Miller became one of the biggest songwriters of the 1950s. However, Bill Anderson would later remark that "Roger was the most talented, and least disciplined person that you could imagine" citing the attempts of Miller's ''Tree Publishing'' boss, Buddy Killen to force him to finish a piece. He was also known to give away lines, inciting many Nashville songwriters to follow him around since "everything he said was a potential song." (Killen)

Recording career

Miller signed a recording deal with Decca Records in 1958. He was paired with singer Donny Little, who would later gain fame under the name Johnny Paycheck, to perform the Little-penned "A Man Like Me", and later "The Wrong Kind of Girl." Both songs were honky tonk and did not chart. His second single with the label, featuring the B-side "Jason Fleming," foreshadowed Miller's future style. To make extra money, Miller went on tour and joined Faron Young's band as a drummer, although he had never drummed before. During this period, he signed a record deal with Chet Atkins at RCA Records, for whom Miller recorded "You Don't Want My Love" (also known as "In the Summertime") in 1960, which marked his first appearance on country charts, peaking at #14. The next year, he would make an even bigger impact, breaking through the top 10 with his single "When Two Worlds Collide," co-written with Bill Anderson. But Miller soon grew tired of writing songs, divorced his wife and began a party lifestyle that earned him the moniker "wild child." He was dropped from his record label and began to pursue other interests.

After numerous appearances on late night comedy shows, Miller decided that he might have a chance to go to Hollywood to be an actor. However, short of money, he signed with the up and coming label Smash Records, asked the label for $1,600 in cash, in exchange for recording 16 sides. Smash agreed to the proposal, and Miller performed at his first session for the company early in 1964, when he recorded the hits "Dang Me" and "Chug-a-Lug". Both were released as singles, peaking at #1 and #3 respectively on country charts; both also fared well on the Billboard Hot 100 reaching #7 and #9. The songs transformed Miller's career, although the former was penned by Miller in only four minutes. Later that year, he recorded the #15 hit "Do-Wacka-Do," and soon after the biggest hit of his career "King of the Road," which topped Country and Adult Contemporary charts while peaking at #4 on the Billboard 100. The song was inspired by a sign in Chicago that read "Trailers for Sale or Rent" and a hobo happened upon by Miller while at an airport in Boise, but took months for Miller to write. The song was certified gold in May 1965 after selling a million copies. It won Miller numerous awards, and earned him a royalty check worth $160,000 that summer. Later in the year Miller scored hits with "Engine Engine #9", "Kansas City Star" (a Top Ten country hit in 1965 about a local television rhinestone cowboy personality who would rather stay in the safety and security of his success in Kansas City rather than try to become a bigger star - or risk failure - in Omaha) and "England Swings" (an adult contemporary #1). He began 1966 with the hit "Husbands and Wives."

Miller was given his own TV show on NBC in September 1966 but it was canceled after 13 weeks in January 1967. During this period Miller recorded songs written by other songwriters. The final hit from his own composition was "Walkin In the Sunshine," which reached #7 and #6 on the country and adult contemporary charts in 1967. Later in the year he scored his final top 10 hit with a cover of Bobby Russell's "Little Green Apples." The next year, he was one of the first artists to cover Kris Kristofferson's "Me and Bobbie McGee," taking the song to #12 on country charts. In 1970, Miller recorded the album ''A Trip in the Country,'' made up of honky tonk standards penned by Miller, including "Tall, Tall Trees." Later that year, after Smash Records folded, Miller was signed by Columbia Records, for whom he released ''Dear Folks: Sorry I Haven't Written Lately'' in 1973. Later that year, Miller wrote and performed three songs in the Walt Disney animated feature ''Robin Hood'' as the rooster/minstrel Alan-a-Dale, including "Whistle-Stop" which was sampled for use in the popular The Hampster Dance web site. He also provided the voice of Speiltoe, the equine narrator of the Rankin/Bass holiday special ''Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey'' in 1978. Miller collaborated with Willie Nelson to create an album titled ''Old Friends.'' The title track was based on a song he had previously penned for his family in Oklahoma. The song, with guest vocals from Ray Price, was the last hit of Miller's career, peaking at #19 on country charts in 1982.

Late career

Roger was the voice of the Donkey narrator "Spieltote",in the Rankin/Bass special Nestor, The Long Eared Christmas Donkey. He continued to record for different record labels and charted a few songs, but stopped writing in 1978, feeling that his more "artistic" works were not being appreciated. He was absent from the entertainment business following the release of ''Old Friends'' in 1981, but returned after receiving an offer to write a Broadway score for a new musical based upon Mark Twain's ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.'' Although he had never read the novel, Miller accepted the offer after discovering how the story brought him back to his childhood in rural Oklahoma. It took him a year and a half to write the opening but he eventually finished. The work, entitled ''Big River'' premiered at Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York on April 25, 1985. The musical received glowing reviews, earning seven Tony Awards including "Best Score" for Miller. He also acted the part of Huck Finn's father Pap for three months after the exit of actor John Goodman, who left for Hollywood.

Miller left for Santa Fe to live with his family following the success of ''Big River''. He co-wrote Dwight Yoakam's hit "It Only Hurts When I Cry" from his 1990 album ''If There Was a Way'', and supplied background vocals. The song was released as a single in 1991, peaking at #7 on country charts. He began a solo guitar tour in 1990, which he ended the following year after being diagnosed with lung cancer. His last performance on television occurred during a special tribute to Minnie Pearl that aired on TNN on October 26, 1992, the day after Miller's death.

Style

Although usually grouped with country music singers, Miller's unique style defies easy classification. Many of his recordings were humorous novelty songs with whimsical lyrics, coupled with scat singing or vocalese riffs filled with nonsense syllables. Others were sincere ballads, which also caught the public's fancy, none more so than his signature song, "King of the Road." The biographical book ''Ain't Got No Cigarettes'' described Miller as an "uncategorizable talent", and stated that many regarded him as a genius.

On his own personal style, Miller remarked that he "tried to do" things like other artists but that it "always came out different" so he got "frustrated" until realizing "I'm the only one that knows what I'm thinking." He commented that the favorite song that he wrote was "You Can't Rollerskate in a Buffalo Herd." Johnny Cash discussed Miller's bass vocal range in his 1997 autobiography. He commented that it was the closest to his own that he had heard.

Personal life and death

Miller was married three times, and fathered seven children. Miller's first wife Barbara bore his first child, Michael, who later died. The couple had three more children subsequent to Michael's death — Alan, Rhonda and Shari. By the time Shari was born, Miller's career was beginning to blossom into national popularity. The family remained in Inglewood for a short time after Miller found fame. The increasing interest in Miller caused struggles for the performer: He suffered from depression and insomnia and had a drug addiction that contributed to the end of both his first and second marriages. Miller was known to walk off of shows and get into fights. who like his father, went on to become a singer-songwriter. The Christmas song, "Old Toy Trains" was written by Miller about his son, who was only two years old when it was released in 1967. After divorcing Leah, Miller married Mary Arnold, whom he had met through Kenny Rogers. Arnold was a member of The First Edition, a band that included Rogers. They adopted two children: Taylor and Adam. After The First Edition, she subsequently performed with Miller on tours, including a White House performance for President Gerald Ford. In 2009 she was inducted into the Iowa Rock'n Roll Hall of Fame, Arnold currently manages Roger Miller's estate. She sued Sony for copyright infringement in the 2007 case Roger Miller Music, Inc. v. Sony/ATV Publishing, LLC, which went to the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Arnold was ultimately awarded nearly $1 million in royalties and rights to the songs Miller wrote in 1964.

Miller was a lifelong cigarette smoker. During a television interview Miller once explained that he composed his songs from "bits and pieces" of ideas he wrote on scraps of paper. When asked what he did with the unused bits and pieces, he half-joked, "I smoke 'em!" Miller died of lung and throat cancer in 1992, at the age of 56 shortly after the discovery of a growth under his vocal cords.

Discography

Artist	Roger Miller
Studio	19
Live	3
Compilation	69
Singles	37
Option color	blue
2option	3
2option name	No.1 Single
2option color	orange
References	}}

Main albums

''Roger and Out'' (1964)

''The Return of Roger Miller'' (1965)

''The 3rd Time Around'' (1965)

''Words and Music'' (1966)

''Walkin' in the Sunshine'' (1967)

''A Tender Look at Love'' (1968)

''Roger Miller'' (1969)

''Roger Miller Featuring Dang Me!'' (1969)

''A Trip in the Country'' (1970)

''Roger Miller 1970'' (1970)

''Dear Folks, Sorry I Haven't Written Lately'' (1973)

''Celebration'' (1976)

''Painted Poetry'' (1977)

''Off the Wall'' (1978)

''Waterhole #3'' (1978)

''Making a Name for Myself'' (1979)

''Old Friends'' (with Willie Nelson) (1982)

''The Country Side of Roger Miller'' (1986)

''Green Green Grass of Home'' (1994)

#1 singles

;Released and recorded by Miller

"Dang Me" (1964)

"King of the Road" (1965)

"England Swings" (1966)

;Recorded and released by other artists

"Billy Bayou" – Jim Reeves (1958)

"Don't We All Have the Right" – Ricky Van Shelton (1988)

"Tall, Tall Trees" – Alan Jackson (1995)

"Husbands and Wives" – Brooks & Dunn (1998)

Awards

In addition to 11 Grammy Awards, Roger Miller won Broadway's Tony award for writing the music and lyrics for ''Big River'', which won a total of 7 Tonys including best musical in 1985. He was voted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1973 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1995. Miller's 11 Grammy Awards held the record as the most won by any artist until Michael Jackson's 1982 album ''Thriller''. In Erick, Oklahoma where he grew up, a thoroughfare was renamed "Roger Miller Boulevard" and a museum dedicated to Miller was built on the road in 2004.

Below is a list of awards won by Miller:

1964 — Grammy Award: Best Country Song: "Dang Me"

1964 — Grammy Award: Best New Country and Western Artist

1964 — Grammy Award: Best Country and Western Recording, Single: "Dang Me"

1964 — Grammy Award: Best Country and Western Performance, Male: "Dang Me"

1964 — Grammy Award: Best Country and Western Album: "Dang Me"/"Chug-a-Lug"

1965 — Jukebox Artist of the Year

1965 — Grammy Award: Best Country Song: "King of the Road"

1965 — Grammy Award: Best Country Vocal Performance, Male: "King of the Road"

1965 — Grammy Award: Best Country and Western Recording, Single: "King of the Road"

1965 — Grammy Award: Best Contemporary Vocal Performance, Male: "King of the Road"

1965 — Grammy Award: Best Contemporary (Rock 'N Roll), Single: "King of the Road"

1965 — Grammy Award: Best Country and Western Album: "The Return of Roger Miller"

1965 — Academy of Country and Western Music: "Best Songwriter"

1965 — Academy of Country and Western Music: "Man of the Year"

1973 — Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame

1985 — Tony Award for Best Score and Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics for ''Big River''

1988 — Academy of Country Music: Pioneer Award

1995 — Country Music Hall of Fame

1997 — Grammy Hall of Fame Song : "Dang Me"

1998 — Grammy Hall of Fame Song : "King Of The Road"

2003 — CMT's ''40 Greatest Men of Country Music'': Ranked #23.

References

Bibliography

Cooper, Daniel. (1998). "Roger Miller." In ''The Encyclopedia of Country Music.'' Paul Kingsbury, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 347–8.

External links

All Roger Miller Songs Written and Released

Episode of Quincy ME starring Roger Miller

Roger Miller Museum in Erick, Oklahoma

Roger Miller interview on the Pop Chronicles

Category:1936 births Category:1992 deaths Category:People from Fort Worth, Texas Category:American country singers Category:American male singers Category:American country singer-songwriters Category:American military personnel of the Korean War Category:American novelty song performers Category:Musicians from Oklahoma Category:Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame inductees Category:Cancer deaths in California Category:Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Category:Deaths from lung cancer Category:Deaths from esophageal cancer Category:American musicians of European descent Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Mercury Records artists Category:People from Beckham County, Oklahoma Category:RCA Victor artists Category:Smash Records artists Category:Starday Records artists Category:Tony Award winners Category:United States Army soldiers Category:American composers

cs:Roger Miller da:Roger Miller de:Roger Miller es:Roger Miller fr:Roger Miller it:Roger Miller nl:Roger Miller (zanger) no:Roger Miller pt:Roger Miller ru:Миллер, Роджер sv:Roger Miller

Ken Jacobs (born May 25, 1933, Williamsburg, Brooklyn) is an American experimental filmmaker. He is the director of ''Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son'' (1969, USA), which was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and ''Star Spangled to Death'' (2004, USA), a nearly seven hour film consisting largely of found footage.

He coined the term ''paracinema'' in the early 1970s, referring to cinema experiences provided by means outside of standard cinema technology. He was an influential teacher of Art Spiegelman of ''Maus'' fame, former painting student of Hans Hofmann, and in 1969 with Larry Gottheim started the Cinema department at Harpur College at Binghamton University providing arts education and tools of critical thinking to students until his retirement in 2003 as a Distinguished Professor of Cinema. He resides in New York City.

Filmography

As Director

''The Alps and the Jews'' (1957)

''Little Stabs at Happiness'' (1960)

''The Death of P'town'' (1963)

''Blonde Cobra'' (1963)

''Window'' (1964)

''Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son'' (1969)

''Keaton's Cops'' (1991)

''Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896'' (1991)

''The Georgetown Loop'' (1996)

''Disorient Express'' (1996)

''Circling Zero: We See Absence'' (2002)

''Star Spangled to Death'' (2004)

''Razzle Dazzle (The Lost World)'' (2007)

''Capitalism: Child Labor'' (2007)

''Nymph'' (2007)

''Gift of Fire: Nineteen (Obscure) Frames that Changed the World'' (2008)

''The Scenic Route'' (2008)

''The Discovery (film)'' (2008) for the music album please see "The Discovery"

''Seeking the Monkey King'' (2011)

Images

Capitalism: Slavery 2006

External links

Ken Jacobs' official website

EAI: Ken Jacobs Biography

Cinema and Critical Reflection A Conversation with Ken Jacobs and Family

"Conversations With History: Ken Jacobs", interview at UC Berkley

Category:1933 births Category:Living people

de:Ken Jacobs fr:Ken Jacobs it:Ken Jacobs