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Chinese and Japanese unit names

Chinese expressway distances road sign in eastern Beijing. Although the primary text is in Chinese, the distances use the internationally recognised numerals and symbols.

Chinese uses traditional logograms for writing the unit names, while in Japanese unit names are written in the phonetic katakana script; in both cases, symbols are also written using the internationally recognised Latin and Greek characters.

Chinese

The basic Chinese units are metre (米 mǐ), litre (升 shēng), gram (克 kè), and second (秒 miǎo), while others include watt (瓦 wǎ). Prefixes include deci- (分 fēn), centi- (厘 lí), milli- (毫 háo), micro- (微 wēi), kilo- (千 qiān), and mega- (兆 zhào). These are combined to form disyllabic characters, such as 厘米 límǐ "centimetre" or 千瓦 qiānwǎ "kilowatt". In the 19th century, various compound characters were also used, similar to Japanese, either imported or formed on the same principles, such as 瓩 for 千瓦 qiānwǎ (kilowatt) or 糎 for 厘米. These are generally not used today, but are occasionally found in older or technical writing.

Some units have different names in Taiwan. Metre (公尺), centimetre (公分), litre (公升), kilogram (公斤), gram (公克) and hectare (公頃) have the prefix "公", which means "universal". The prefixes "兆", "分" and "厘" are not commonly used, and the use of "千" is limited to kilowatt (千瓦).

Japanese

A set of characters representing various metric units was created in Japan in the late 19th century. Characters, which are the same in Chinese, exist for three base units: the metre (米), litre (升) and gram (瓦). These were combined with a set of six prefix characters – kilo- (千), hecto- (百), deca- (十), deci- (分), centi- (厘) and milli- (毛) – to form an additional 18 single-character units. The seven length units (kilometre to millimetre), for example, are 粁, 粨, 籵, 米, 粉, 糎 and 粍. These characters, however, are not in common use today; instead, units are written in katakana, the Japanese syllabary used for foreign borrowings, such as キロメートル (kiromētoru) for kilometre, but are also written in standard prefixes such as "km" for kilometre. A few Sino-Japanese words for these units remain in use in Japanese, most significantly "平米" (heibei) for "square metre", but otherwise borrowed pronunciations are used.

These characters are examples of the rare phenomenon of single-character loan words – a foreign word represented by a single Japanese character – and form the plurality of such words. Similar characters were also coined for other units, such as British units, though these also have fallen out of use; see Single character gairaigo: Metric units and Single character gairaigo: Other units for a full list.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9C0CE2D9123CEE3BBC4A51DFB0668388659EDE DRAFT TO CHECK DOCTORS DRAFT; Work of Young Physicians in Hospitals to Be Studied WASHINGTON, June 21, 1943 (AP) -- Selective Service officials disclosed today that locals boards have been instructed to check closely on the work of men now asking or already granted occupational deferment as resident doctors in hospitals.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=940DE2D8173FE03ABC4F51DFB4668382659EDE Military Medical Service Still a National Problem; Doctors, Draft-Exempt and Educated During War, Held Obligated to Volunteer Now. HOWARD A. RUSK, M. D. February 27, 1949,

• Both houses of the United States Congress passed the [Doctors' Draft|doctors' draft]] Bill, authorizing any physician under the age of 50 to be inducted into the U.S. armed forces, but with priority on residents and interns.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9404E3D7143DEF3BBC4F53DFB667838B649EDE Text of Proclamation on Doctors' Draft; A PROCLAMATION Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES. October 07, 1950.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9E06E7D6163FE23BBC4850DFB0668388649EDE DOCTORS DRAFT' SIGNED; Bill Provides for Call of 7,707 Physicians, 4,552 Dentists WASHINGTON, June 29, 1953 (UP) -- President Eisenhower signed today the so-called "doctors draft" bill under which the armed service's plan to induct 7,707 physicians and 4,552 dentists during the next two years.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/20/us/selective-service-considering-plan-to-draft-medical-workers-swiftly.html A new medical draft would also differ from the doctors draft of 1950 to 1973

Hotel Albert
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	23 E. 10th St. at University Place, New York City
Coordinates	40°43′57.6834″N 73°59′36.834″W
Built	1882
Architect	Henry J. Hardenbergh
Architectural style	Renaissance, English Victorian
NRHP reference No.	12000329

The Albert is a full service apartment building on University Place in Greenwich Village, New York. It is best known for the almost 100-year period in which it was a hotel with many long-stay residents prominent in artistic, literary and political circles. It was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

The Albert was originally built in 1882 as a 24 unit apartment building on land that formed part of the Brevoort estate. Albert S. Rosenbaum, an investor, retained the architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, who was also building The Dakota apartment building on New York's Central Park West at that time.

In 1887 the building was converted into a hotel. In 1904 a 12 story structure was added and, in 1924, a six story addition on the Northeast corner of 10th Street and University Place. This remains the building's present structure, occupying the length of one block on University Place between 10th and 11th Streets.

In 1975, The Elghanayan brothers, real-estate developers, bought the Albert to convert it back to residential use. In 1985 the rental building was converted into an 204 apartment cooperative with an unusual landscaped garden roof deck.

Mark Twain lectured at the Albert. Hart Crane wrote his famous poem, The Bridge, in its rooms. Thomas Wolfe styled his fictional Hotel Leopold on the Albert. Anaïs Nin was a guest. Jackson Pollock visited, as did Andy Warhol. Rocky Graziano ate steak in its French restaurant. The Mamas & The Papas wrote California Dreamin' in the Albert.

Notable residents

Other notable residents of the building have included:

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Artists

• Salvador Dali
• Philip Guston
• Jackson Pollock
• Albert Pinkham Ryder's family moved to New York City in 1867 or 1868 to join Ryder's elder brother, who had opened a successful restaurant. His brother also managed the Hotel Albert, which became a Greenwich Village landmark. Ryder took his meals at the hotel for many years, but the hotel was named for the original owner, Albert Rosenbaum, not the painter.
• Augustus St. Gaudens
• Andy Warhol

And more...

Writers

• Thomas Beer died of a heart attack in his apartment in the Hotel Albert in New York
• Hart Crane
• Diane di Prima
• Horton Foote
• A.P. Herbert
• Robert Lowell
• Anaïs Nin
• Robert Louis Stevenson used one of the hotel's rooms as his studio.
• Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
• Walt Whitman
• Thomas Wolfe

Rock & Roll Years

• Moby Grape. Skippy Spence kind of disappeared for a little while. Next time we saw him, he had cut off his beard, and was wearing a black leather jacket, with his chest hanging out, with some chains and just sweating like a son of a gun. I don't know what the hell he got a hold of, man, but it just whacked him. And the next thing I know, he axed my door down in the Albert Hotel.

Political Radicals

• Ivan Ivanovich Norodny (1906). Seeks Help From America: Chief of Russian Military Revolutionary Party in New York. The World today says: - Ivan Ivanovich Norodny, chief executive commissioner of the Russian Military Revolutionary Party, is here to establish headquarters in American for the revolution. He comes to solicit one million signatures to a petition to the Czar praying for liberty, justice and amnesty. He comes upon a mission of education: to disavow the bloody acts of Terrorists… “I come to solicit names,” said he last night, while seated in his rooms in the new Hotel Albert.

• Maxim Gorky (1906). "The Albert must have had a reputation for such guests, because earlier that same year it was rumored that Russian author and revolutionary Maxim Gorky might be staying at the hotel: Maxim Gorky was to have been the guest of honor yesterday at a luncheon at the Aldine Club, 111 Fifth Avenue. The luncheon was held without the Russian author. He sent his regrets five days ago. Gorky is said to be living at the Hotel Albert, Twelfth Street [sic] and University Place. This the hotel proprietor denies."

• Wolfe Lindenfeld (1921), Connected to the investigation of the 1921 explosion on Wall Street: William J. Burns, Director of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice...said that Wolfe Lindenfeld, the suspect arrested in Warsaw in connection with the Wall Street bomb explosion “was not implicated in the plot except that he knew about it. “Lindenfeld is one of these fellows who believes in revolution by pacific methods, not by direct action. There is no question that he was the representative of the Soviet Government in this country at the time of the explosion.” ... Mr. Burns said that after the war Lindenfeld was a spy for the Burns Detective Agency, and that he was familiar with all the prominent radicals in this country. [His lawyer said:] “..the last time I heard from him he said he was stopping at the Hotel Albert, University Place and Eleventh Street.... He was reported to have told ...friends of information acquired in this country regarding the persons responsible for the explosion.... He also was reported to have declared that he had obtained credentials that would admit him as a delegate to the Third Internationale in Moscow and that he expected to meet the bomb plotters at the convention and point them out to United States Government agents who would meet him there.

• John Thomas Scopes (1925), the Dayton, Tennessee school teacher whose attempt to teach evolution, subsequent trial (the “Scopes monkey trial”), and defense by Clarence Darrow, were portrayed in the film Inherit the Wind – came to New York in 1925 in advance of the trial searching for supporters, and met Darrow for the first time. Speaking to reporters, he said: “…I’ll be glad to get back to Dayton. They are all my friends down there, in spite of everything.” To another he said: “It’s got to be a jury trial, and it’s pretty hard in Tennessee to find twelve men who wouldn’t want to convict me.” Scopes prudently reserved comment on skyscrapers, flappers, and Mayor John F. Hylan. He finally fled to the sanctuary of the Hotel Albert, north of Washington Square.

• John J. Huber (1949), FBI agent who infiltrated the American Communist Party:

Even while Russia was a wartime ally of the United States, the Communist “high command” was laying plans for widespread industrial sabotage in case of an East-West war, a Senate committee revealed yesterday. Testimony, given in closed session by John J. Huber, who said he had spent nine years in the Communist Party as an FBI agent, was released by Senator McCarran (D., Nev.). McCarran is chairman of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee which has been studying legislation designed to bar subversive allies from the U.S. and deport those already here. Huber also testified that, despite general belief to the contrary, the Communist Party counts more than one million members and sympathizers in this country and their number is growing.... [Huber] attended a secret meeting at the Albert Hotel in New York November 15, 1945, where he heard a party official impartially curse Trotskyites, the “old leadership” of the party and FBI undercover agents.

• Harvey Matusow (1950s), Informant for the FBI: In 1950, he was living with an African-American divorcee and took a job with a Harlem collection agency. The party accused him of “white chauvinism” and demoted him. In a fit of pique, Matusow went to the New York office of the FBI in late March and said he was a disillusioned Communist who wanted to be an undercover informant. He was paid $75 a month to cover expenses and named several hundred persons he knew in the party. Assistant Attorney General William F. Tomkins later said that corroboration had been found for 90 percent of those he named. In the summer of 1950, Matusow met Craig Vincent at a party affair at the Hotel Albert in New York City. Vincent operated a dude ranch for comrades in the mountains of New Mexico and was recruiting guests. Matusow was invited and went in July.

• Elia Katz (1971). A description of the author’s experience in America’s communes: We had a better idea – yes. If you want to know about the USA then read Life and look at the pictures. If you want to write a book, then go to a hotel and do it. So that is what we did. We spent the next week in New York, at the Hotel Albert on 10th Street, in various attempts to create the national commune experience on dark blind tape, humming, glossy, out of our mouths onto the tape. Rateyes would talk, then I would talk, stupidly, fervently, creating American sunshine, American landscapes, mountains, trees, rivers, American men and women, parties, adventures, adding, adding, always adding, data and data, stolen from pamphlets and magazines, made up – like maniacs in deepest dreamy dreamland - to make a mental America, a place that was poured from out of ourselves, taped, given existence. Ours. The room was green, small and comfortable like the inside of an unopened gift. the furniture was painted with light green-flecked paint, the beds were covered with beige poplin spreads, all stained, ripped, soft, moist, and the hotel smelled like a hospital and had signed photos of rock and roll bands that have stayed there and failed, some long ago, some recently (determined from the hairstyles of the groups - before the Beatles, after the Beatles) all preserved above the front desk, over the mailboxes, the way some delicatessens have their pix of comedians. To this place we brought our new pound of grass, five hundred dollars’ worth of cocaine, our wholesale-bought tape recorders and blank cassettes, and we made every effort, every effort. Our idea was to finish this book in a week, hold it for a couple of months, bring it back to the publisher and get the rest of the advance. Isn’t that grotesque? We interviewed each other. I was us and Rateyes was the young hippie chick; Rateyes was us and I was the guru; I was us and Rateyes was an ex-Green Beret in the Berkeley Hills, teaching his commune how to shoot guns.

• John Gates (1958), Editor of the Daily Worker: John Gates, for ten years editor of The Daily Worker, announced yesterday his resignation from the Communist Party. At the same time he quit his editorship. His action further fragments the much-splintered American Communist party. The resignation of many supporters of Mr. Gates, including most of the remaining members of The Daily Worker’s staff, is expected soon.... He told reporters at the Albert Hotel that the first thing he was going to do was “to rejoin the American people” and “find out what Americans are thinking about.”

• Farrell Dobbs (1960), Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers party: Farrell Dobbs, Presidential candidate of the Socialist Workers party said here yesterday that both major parties had a “hostile foreign policy” that pointed toward nuclear disaster. He proposed his American Trotskyite slate as an alternative for independent voters, especially young people... The party is on the ballot in five states and is trying to get on in fifteen others, including New York. Mr. Dobbs and his running mate, Mrs. Myra Tanner Weiss, appeared at a press conference at the Commodore Hotel and later at a rally at the Albert Hotel.

• Mary Heaton Vorse. Before we listed the house for rent we had a renter. It was Mary Heaton Vorse, an old radical, a writer for women’s magazines and of novels about the labor movement. She also had a great capacity for drink. When she walked into the kitchen she said the house reminded her of her own in Provincetown. She spoke in a slow honey-tinged New England voice. She said so deliberately that we missed it, “Yes, it is right.” Then she asked if we could move her from the Hotel Albert. When? Now.

Associations and Political Parties

• Progressive Labor party (1965) New party founded at the Albert: A new party of “revolutionary socialism” was formally founded here yesterday under the name of the Progressive Labor party. The party, an outgrowth of the Progressive Labor Movement, was officially formed at the end of a four-day convention at the Albert Hotel, 23 East 10th Street. "Pro-Chinese Reds in U.S. Hold Confab. The Harlem headquarters of the Progressive Labor Movement maintained an official silence Friday on reports that a new U.S. Communist party is being founded at a closed-door convention here. The New York Times reported Thursday that a new party, committed to the Red Chinese “hard” line, is being sponsored by the PLM, whose top leaders have often been connected with leftist causes. A spokesman at the Harlem headquarters said no information would be given out until some time Sunday afternoon. He confirmed, however, that leaders of the movement are attending a conference at the Hotel Albert."

• People’s Radio Foundation. As described in The Afro-American: New York Items: The People’s Radio Foundation, Inc., which seeks to buy and set up a radio station for broadcasting programs that never get through the sponsors, has moved to the Hotel Albert. Dean Dixon is one of the sponsors, along with Howard Fast and Margaret Halsey. About $100,000 is needed, and half of that amount has already been subscribed. You can buy a share for $100. Programs will stress interracial unity and the brotherhood of man.

• Charles S. Johnson (1938)

See also

• List of Registered Historic Places in New York County, New York

References

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison) (NYSE: ED) announced today that the repowering of the East River Generating Station is expected to result in an overall decrease in emissions from the power plant.

``This project will fully replace an older Con Edison steam generating facility, the Waterside plant. It will have one-fourth the total rate of air emissions of that facility. In response to community concerns about the level of emissions from existing generation at the East River site, we are proposing a program of operational enhancements, reduced oil-burning, and equipment upgrades, said Luther Tai, senior vice president of Central Operations.

"This is a very critical piece of infrastructure,” said Con Edison CEO Kevin Burke.

It was blamed for knocking out power to much of Manhattan. Power was down from 39th Street south all the way to the southern tip of Manhattan.

Con Edison’s power plant has stood there, within 50 yards of the water’s edge, for more than 90 years. It supplies electricity and steam to more than 250,000 customers, including banks on Wall Street and subsidized apartment towers on the Lower East Side.