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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawvere%27s%20fixed-point%20theorem
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Lawvere's fixed-point theorem
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In mathematics, Lawvere's fixed-point theorem is an important result in category theory. It is a broad abstract generalization of many diagonal arguments in mathematics and logic, such as Cantor's diagonal argument, Cantor's theorem, Russell's paradox, Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, Turing's solution to the Entscheidungsproblem, and Tarski's undefinability theorem.
It was first proven by William Lawvere in 1969.
Statement
Lawvere's theorem states that, for any Cartesian closed category and given an object in it, if there is a weakly point-surjective morphism from some object to the exponential object , then every endomorphism has a fixed point. That is, there exists a morphism (where is a terminal object in ) such that .
Applications
The theorem's contrapositive is particularly useful in proving many results. It states that if there is an object in the category such that there is an endomorphism which has no fixed points, then there is no object with a weakly point-surjective map . Some important corollaries of this are:
Cantor's theorem
Cantor's diagonal argument
Diagonal lemma
Russell's paradox
Gödel's first incompleteness theorem
Tarski's undefinability theorem
Turing's proof
Löb's paradox
Roger's fixed-point theorem
Rice's theorem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan%20Bla%C5%A1kovi%C4%87
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Stjepan Blašković
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Based on the traditional right as the bishop of Makarska, Blašković also administered the Diocese of Duvno under the Ottoman occupation, which he visited during Jul and August 1735. In his report from 25 May 1734 to the Holy See, Blašković states that parts of the diocese were under the care of the Franciscans of the Fojnica friary. During his visit, Blašković stayed in Studenci, Gradac, Vir, Zavelim, Roško Polje, Buško Blato and the Duvanjsko Polje, where he stayed for around ten days. While in the Duvanjsko Polje, Blašković met with the Muslim beys of the Kopčić family, which was present during the Catholic ceremonies and asked him for prayers and relics. Then, Blašković went to Rama where he also stayed for around ten days and met with the local Muslim beys and the kadi of Prozor. The beys blamed him for the flee of the Catholics in 1687 and accused the Franciscans of destroying the Rama friary. To prevent further exodus of the Catholic serfs and return those who fled, the beys asked Blašković to reside in Rama, promising him the Franciscan possessions and a pay of 300 sequins and additional means for maintenance. Blašković went on to visit Rakitno and then Mostar. Blašković visited Rama again in 1737.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni%20Beaulieu
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Toni Beaulieu
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Leone Florence Perry (8 May 1905 – 28 March 1994), known professionally as Toni Beaulieu, was an American composer of classical, semi-classical, and popular music. She later used the names Leone Perry Hall and Leone Perry Allen.
In 1946, Beaulieu founded Artistic Records, which recorded some of the leading pop artists. Her name appears in the Internet Movie Database as a contributor to movie soundtracks.
Her music is being published by Clear Note Publications. The first volume, Celestial Suite, is now available. One movement of the suite plus five other short pieces may be heard on the Mojave Beach podcast site.
Biography
Born in Highmore, South Dakota, on May 8, 1905, Leone Florence Perry began piano lessons at age six and violin lessons at age eight. She began playing the violin in public concerts and was considered a child prodigy. At age 14, she began studying in the Academy Department at Huron College in Huron, North Dakota. She graduated from the Academy in 1920 and enrolled in the MacPhail School of Music in Minneapolis. She graduated from MacPhail with a Bachelor of Music degree in June 1924, then joined the MacPhail faculty teaching piano and violin.
Leone had a short, unsuccessful marriage to bandleader Dick Hall. Then, in the early 1930s, she married Jack Allen, the owner of a Minneapolis music store. The Allens moved to Los Angeles and Leone continued teaching. Their son, Jack Allen, Jr., was born there. The Allens divorced in the early 1960s.
In Los Angeles in the 1940s, Leone Perry Allen adopted the name Toni Beaulieu and began composing in earnest. She joined Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI) and found a publisher, the BMI-affiliated Duchess Music Corporation.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni%20Beaulieu
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Toni Beaulieu
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She was a prolific and versatile composer. For almost 50 years, from 1942 to 1988, she wrote classical music, blues, jazz, and rags, also love songs, hymns, and children’s songs. Latin-American music enjoyed great popularity, so, although Toni’s background was English/Welsh/Scottish, she began writing Latin music—rhumbas, boleros, and the like, with Cuban, Puerto Rican, and generally Ibero-American origins.
In 1946, she formed her own record company, Artistic Records, to produce commercial recordings of her compositions. Her first release was the album Caribbean Moon, three ten-inch 78-rpm shellac discs, three minutes per side, containing Caribbean Moon (bolero), When You Look at Me (bolero), Bahama Bay (rumba), La Tortolita (samba), Cuban Bolero, and Gypsy Rhapsody (beguine). Performers were leading artists, including the Puerta Rican flutist Esy Morales (1916–1950), pianist Geri Galian (1918–2001), and singers Nestor Amaral (1913-1962) and Nick Cea. The reviewer for The Billboard found the album "ear-worthy" and noted that "Miss Beaulieu proves herself as a capable tunesmith. She displays a well-grounded knowledge of Latin modal scales with which builds her appealing melodies."
In 1947, she released a single of Jungle Rhumba / Rumba Jungla, probably her best known work. The B side was Chopin’s Fantasie-Impromptu, op. 66, set to a rhumba rhythm. Performers were Geri Galian and His Caribbean Rhythm Boys—a string bass player and three percussionists. Jungle Rhumba was orchestrated and used in a production number in the movie Neptune’s Daughter (1949); Xavier Cugat conducts the orchestra. The scene was included in the documentary feature film That’s Entertainment! III (1994)
Jungle Rhumba" became a Latin standard. The estimated 35 different recorded arrangements include those by Dante and His Magical Orchestra, by Freddy Martin and His Orchestra, and—the composer’s favorite—by piano duo Ferrante & Teicher and their orchestra.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramalina%20peruviana
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Ramalina peruviana
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Ramalina peruviana is a species of fruticose lichen in the family Ramalinaceae with a pantropical distribution. The lichen was first formally described by Erik Acharius in 1810, who wrote of its flat, compressed, branching thallus with narrow, undulating branches. It typically occurs on the bark of trees (corticolous) although occasionally it grows on rocks (saxicolous). Ramalina peruviana is widely distributed, found in subtropical and warm temperate regions across several continents. It has been recorded in diverse locations such as Pacific Islands, the southern United States, East Africa, Asia, Australasia, and South America. Its presence has been documented in specific habitats like mangroves in Australia and on certain tree species in Taiwan and China, where it thrives at higher elevations.
The lichen has an intricately branched and tufted thallus, greyish-green to yellowish-green in colour. The are rounded or irregularly thickened, and dotted with soralia (granular reproductive particles). Occasionally, the thallus surface has tiny pores for air exchange, known as pseudocyphellae. Apothecia (fruiting bodies) are rarely made by this species. Ramalina peruviana contains several secondary metabolites (lichen products), and a few novel chemicals have been isolated and identified from this lichen.
Taxonomy
The lichen was first scientifically described in 1810 by the Swedish lichenologist Erik Acharius. In his he details a lichen with a flat, compressed, branching, ash-coloured thallus, having narrow, undulating, twisted branches with uneven edges and ends that are torn or somewhat finger-like. He noted it growing in Peru alongside lichens Borrera villosa and Borrera ephebea. He went on to further describe the lichen:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf%20Schwarzer
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Ralf Schwarzer
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Ralf Schwarzer (born 1943) is a Psychologist. He is a professor emeritus of psychology at the Freie University of Berlin, Germany. He is known for the exploration of diverse psychological dimensions, including stress, coping mechanisms, social support, self-efficacy, well-being, positive psychology, and health behavior change. Notably, he has contributed to the field through the formulation of the Health Action Process Approach (HAPA), a theoretical framework in the realm of health behavior.
Biography
Schwarzer earned his Ph.D. in 1973 from Kiel University. He was appointed professor of education in 1974 in Schwäbisch-Gmünd, followed by similar appointments in 1976 in Aachen and, ultimately, as a professor of psychology in 1982 at Freie University Berlin.
Schwarzer embarked on sabbatical leaves, notably at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985, and later in Los Angeles during 1990–1991. He assumed the role of visiting professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1994–1995) and at York University, Canada, in 1998, where he merited the position of adjunct professor.
From 2011 to 2024, he was affiliated with the University of Social Sciences and Humanities (USWPS) in Wroclaw, Poland. Simultaneously, his scholarly pursuits extended to Australia, where from 2014 to 2017, he served as a part-time professor at the Institute for Positive Psychology and Education, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia.
Schwarzer co-founded three journals "Anxiety, Stress, and Coping: An International Journal," "Zeitschrift für Gesundheitspsychologie," and "Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being," where he currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief.
Honors and awards
John F. Diefenbaker Research Award by the Canada Council in 1995.
STAR Lifetime Career Award from the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR) in 1999.
Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) in 2010.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lees%20of%20Happiness
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The Lees of Happiness
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“The Lees of Happiness” is a work of short fiction by F. Scott Fitzgerald first appearing in The Chicago Tribune, December 12, 1920. The story was first collected in Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) published by Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Plot
“The Lees of Happiness" is written from a third-person omniscient point-of-view.
The narrator first provides vignettes derived from notices in newspapers, dating to around 1900, for two of the three principal protagonists. Jeffery Curtain, a young man, had been a modestly talented, but obscure, novelist and short story writer: after 1908, the public record suggests he has ceased to publish. Around the same period, when the Gibson Girl was a feminine ideal among the American middle-class, Roxanne Milbank was a minor star in popular theatre: her photograph in a trade paper for actors depicts a young lady of uncommon beauty.
The newspaper record reports that she retired from the stage upon her marriage to Jeffrey Curtain. Blissfully in love, the couple travel around the western US and Mexico for a year in an extended honeymoon. They settle on a small, semi-rural estate outside of Chicago near other members of their social class. The marriage is idyllic.
The couple are visited for a week by a close friend of Jeffery’s, Harry Cromwell. Harry is not accompanied by his wife of two years, Kitty: Jeffery suspects that his friend is having demoralizing marital difficulties, complicated by the fact that the pair have a young son.
Though entirely ignorant of the culinary arts, Roxanne prepares a batch of biscuits from a recipe provided by the household’s hired cook. The biscuits are a disaster, “decorative,” but inedible. Jeffery, in an effort to salvage them, nails the hardtack in a row along the wall of the library. Roxanne is praised for her faux-artistry. Harry reflects upon Roxanne’s good-natured response to her failure with his prideful wife Kitty, and is troubled by the contrast.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Walt%20Disney%20Animation%20Studios
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Criticism of Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Over the years, many have been critical of Walt Disney Animation Studios for its ethnic and racial stereotyping, sexism, reported plagiarism in The Lion King, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and Frozen, limiting and stereotyping LGBT representation in certain films, and for other reasons.
Ethnic and racial stereotyping
Over the years many scholars, film critics, and parent groups have been critical of Disney for the stereotypical portrayal of non-white characters. These portrayals exist due to being products of a time when negative and antagonistic sentiments towards minorities in America was socially acceptable. Examples cited included the short Mickey's Mellerdrammer where Mickey Mouse dresses in blackface; the stereotypical "Black" Bird in the short Who Killed Cock Robin?; Sunflower the half-zebra/half-African servant centaurette in Fantasia; the film Song of the South, which depicts an idealized version of the lives of former slaves; the depiction of Native American 'Indians' as savages in Peter Pan; the cunning and manipulative Siamese cats Si and Am in Lady and the Tramp; and the jive talking crows in Dumbo (however in the latter instance some critics have defended the crows as being one of the few characters in the film sympathetic to Dumbo's plight since being a marginalized group they understand what it's like to be ostracized themselves).
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Criticism of Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Some people have used these stereotypes to accuse Walt Disney of being racist. During a story meeting on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, he referred to the scene when the dwarfs pile on top of each other as a "nigger pile" and during casting of Song of the South he used the term pickaninny. However, Disney biographer Neal Gabler argues that "Walt Disney was no racist. He never, either publicly or privately, made disparaging remarks about blacks or asserted white superiority. Like most white Americans of his generation, however, he was racially insensitive." The feature film Song of the South was criticized by contemporary film critics, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and others for its perpetuation of black stereotypes, but Disney became close friends with its star, James Baskett, describing him as "the best actor, I believe, to be discovered in years." Disney later campaigned successfully for Baskett to receive an Honorary Academy Award for his performance, the first black male actor so honored. Baskett died shortly afterward, and his widow wrote Disney a letter of gratitude for his support. Floyd Norman, the studio's first black animator who worked closely with Disney during the 1950s and 1960s, said, "Not once did I observe a hint of the racist behavior Walt Disney was often accused of after his death. His treatment of peopleand by this I mean all peoplecan only be called exemplary."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Walt%20Disney%20Animation%20Studios
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Criticism of Walt Disney Animation Studios
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Sexism
In 1938, The Walt Disney Company sent a rejection letter to Mary Ford, stating that "girls are not considered" for creative positions. The letter was rediscovered in 2009 when Ford's grandson uploaded the image on Flickr. The letter received greater attention on January 7, 2014, when, after congratulating Emma Thompson for her Best Actress win at the National Board of Review Awards, Meryl Streep referenced the letter. Referencing Thompson's film, Saving Mr. Banks, Streep responded "It must have killed [Disney] to encounter a woman, an equally disdainful and superior creature, a person dismissive of his own considerable gifts and prodigious output and imagination." In response to Streep's statements, many Disney scholars and artists defended Disney, including Disney Legend Floyd Norman, who said "Much has changed, and changed for the better." Other journalists found the speech ironic, noting that Streep just finished filming the then-upcoming Disney film, Into the Woods.
The Walt Disney Company has also been criticized for the lack of feminist values seen in the older, original Disney Princesses. Snow White in particular is under constant criticism for her lack of feminist ideals. The film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) features a main protagonist who, at the time, fit the domestic and docile expectations of women in the pre-World War II era. Snow White is displayed on screen covered in a long dress, embellished with a white collar, puffy sleeves, red cape, and a red bow constraining her hair; a traditional, modest feminine look that reveals minimal skin. Through her actions portrayed in the movie, she draws on the traditional femininity that was encouraged in 1930s American culture. In the midst of the Great Depression, women were encouraged to return to the home and care for the household, a theme that is widely displayed in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Walt%20Disney%20Animation%20Studios
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Criticism of Walt Disney Animation Studios
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As a number of media journalists and fans watched The Lion King after its initial release in 1994, they noticed characters and events in the story resembling those of Kimba. Although the two works follow different screenplays, there are strong artistic similarities, and The Lion King contains numerous sequences that closely match up with Kimba. Other similarities are thematically deeper and more pronounced, such as that both feature the theme of the circle of life. Alleged similarities in the characters, beginning with the protagonist lion cubs Kimba and Simba, include the evil lions, the one-eyed Claw and Scar, the sage baboons Dan'l Baboon and Rafiki, the animated birds Pauley Cracker and Zazu, and the pair of hyena sidekicks (it was a trio in the Disney film).
The Lion King co-director Rob Minkoff deflected criticism of similarities in the characters by stating it was "not unusual to have characters like a baboon, a bird or hyenas" in films set in Africa. Both films feature the protagonist looking up at cloudbursts in the shape of his father lion, as pointed out by Frederick L. Schodt. The similarity is alluded to in a scene from The Simpsons episode 'Round Springfield", where a parody of Mufasa (voiced by Harry Shearer) in the clouds tells Lisa Simpson, "You must avenge my death, Kimba ... dah, I mean Simba!".
Matthew Broderick has said that when he was hired as the voice of adult Simba in The Lion King, he presumed the project was related to Kimba the White Lion. "I thought he meant Kimba, who was a white lion in a cartoon when I was a little kid", said Broderick. "So I kept telling everybody I was going to play Kimba. I didn't really know anything about it, but I didn't really care." In addition, a memo written by Roy E. Disney in July 1993 refers to Simba as "Kimba", causing critics to claim that Disney was aware of the similarities.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20Pierre-Gilles%20de%20Gennes
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Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
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The Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (IPGG) or Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes pour la microfluidique is a French research center dedicated to microfluidics and its applications at PSL University.
The institute brings together sixteen research teams attached to the Curie Institute, Chimie ParisTech, the École normale supérieure and ESPCI Paris, all four members of PSL University.
Based on rue Jean-Calvin in Paris, it is named after the French physicist and Nobel Prize winner in physics Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. The building housing the IPGG has been inaugurated on March 14, 2016, in the presence of the President of the French Republic François Hollande and the Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo. This building accommodates eight of the sixteen IPGG teams, the ESPCI Paris PC'up incubator, a 150-seat amphitheater and a microfabrication technological platform.
Managed from 2010 to 2018 by Patrick Tabeling, the IPGG has been managed since January 1, 2019 by Lydéric Bocquet.
The IPGG has designed a Master's degree level program dedicated to microfluidics, its concepts, applications and innovations. This training is carried out in partnership with the master's degree in Physics of Complex Systems (Paris-Saclay University, Université Paris Cité, Sorbonne University) and Materials Science and Engineering (PSL University).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyrinchium%20ostenianum
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Sisyrinchium ostenianum
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The perigon (the structure formed by the flower's tepals) is disk shaped, and yellow, light yellow or pale cream. The tepals are yellow or light green at the base, followed by a brown or burgundy (vinaceous) ring. Three burgundy-colored veins extend out from the ring along the yellowish tepals; these are visible from above and below. Liquid-preserved flowers are 10–18 mm in diameter. The six tepals are roughly equal in size, 5–9 mm long by 2–3.5 mm wide, oblanceolate in shape with emarginate or apiculate tips. The lower (abaxial) surface of each tepal bears sparse trichomes. The light yellow stamen filaments are fused into a cylindrical staminal column 2–3.2 mm long. The lowest 0.5–1.1 mm is covered with oil-producing trichomes (elaiophores); above that the trichomes are more sparsely distributed, but at the tip, just below the anthers, there is a dense crown of reflexed trichomes. The stamens bear yellow anthers 0.7–1 mm long (occasionally up to 1.3 mm) that are connected to the filaments at their bases (basifixed). The flower's ovary is generally spherical globose, measuring about 1.2–2 mm long and wide, and (similar to the pedicel) is covered with a fuzz of light-yellow, straight, capitate trichomes. Rising above the ovary, the style is 3.7–4.8 mm long, yellow and unbranched. At the top of the style, projecting above the anthers is the stigmatic region, which receives pollen. Each flower matures to form a hairy, khaki or brown fruiting capsule that is globose to subglobose, 3–4 mm long by 3.2–3.9 mm in diameter (sometimes as narrow as 2.3 mm). Flowers and fruits are reported from September to December.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyrinchium%20ostenianum
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Sisyrinchium ostenianum
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Taxonomy
Sisyrinchium ostenianum was described by the Swiss botanist Gustave Beauverd, among a large group of new species he described from Uruguay, in issue 14, series 2 of the Bulletin de la Société botanique de Genève (dated 1922, but published in 1923). The species is accepted as a correct name by the global taxonomy resource Plants of the World Online. Beauverd did not describe the male parts of the flower (androecium), and this description was added by Johnston in 1938.
Beauverd's description of the species was based on a holotype collected by Cornelius Osten on 20 October 1901, at Estacion Molles (now Carlos Reyles) in Durazno Department in central Uruguay and deposited at the herbarium of the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève with collector number 4306. The specific epithet "ostenianum" honors the collector.
Brazilian botanist Camila Dellanhese Inácio reviewed the species as part of her treatment of Sisyrinchium section Cephalanthum in her 2017 thesis. Some earlier authors on Sisyrinchium, such as Pierfelice Ravenna (2002) and Roitman et al. (2008) have treated S. ostenianum as a synonym for Sisyrinchium sellowianum, but Inácio rejects the synonymy. According to Inácio S. ostenianum can be easily distinguished from Sisyrinchium sellowianum and other species in section Cephalanthum by its reddish leaf sheaths (most visible in fresh material), its firm leaves and bracts and the recurved tip of the terminal bract, characters not present in S. sellowianum.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyrinchium%20ostenianum
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Sisyrinchium ostenianum
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S. ostenianum is similar to several other species in Sisyrinchium section Cephalanthum. Most similar is Sisyrinchium albilapidense, which has a narrow and straight terminal bract (vs. a stiff and incurved bract in S. ostenianum) and sparse trichomes on the upper portion of the staminal column (whereas S. ostenianum has a dense crown of reflexed trichomes just below the anthers). While S. ostenianum has a broad distribution in northern Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil, its northern limit is around the Jacuí River in Rio Grande do Sul state, south of the one known population of S. albilapidense, near Lages in Santa Catarina state.
Sisyrinchium platycaule and Sisyrinchium sellowianum are similar species recorded from Santa Catarina state including some sites near Lages, but these can be distinguished by their cream or white flowers, whereas the flowers of S. ostenianum are yellow.
Two samples from S. ostenianum were included in the 2017 study of phylogenetic relationships within the genus Sisyrinchium. 171 samples representing 110 taxa were analyzed for a combination of nine coding and non-coding DNA regions. The resulting maximum likelihood phylogram confirmed that S. ostenianum is well supported as a member of section Cephalanthum and appears to be very closely related to Sisyrinchium claritae and Sisyrinchium commutatum subsp. capillare.
Distribution
Sisyrinchium ostenianum has been recorded from the province of Corrientes in Argentina; from several departments of Uruguay (Canelones, Cerro Largo, Durazno, Montevideo, San José and Tacuarembó); and from the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It has been recorded from grasslands with sandy soils, from rocky outcrops, and sometimes from roadsides, at elevations of 32–431 m. These sites are within the Low Altitude Temperate Grasslands, Temperate Shrubland and Subtropical/Temperate Coastal Scrub bioregions.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabilan%20Mountains%20AVA
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Gabilan Mountains AVA
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TTB determined that the Gabilan Mountains AVA will remain part of the established Central Coast AVA as Gabilan Mountains AVA shares some broad characteristics with the Central Coast. For example, the primary characteristic of the Central Coast AVA is its marine-influenced climate, which results in higher rainfall amounts than occur in the inland valleys on the eastern side of the Coastal Ranges. Gabilan Mountains AVA also experiences higher annual rainfall amounts than the regions to the east of the Coastal Ranges. However, due to its higher elevations, the Gabilan Mountains experiences less marine fog incursion than many of the lower elevations in the Central Coast AVA. Additionally, due to its smaller size, the soils and elevations of the Gabilan Mountains AVA are less varied than those of the large, multi-county Central Coast AVA. Finally, TTB determined that the Mt. Harlan and Chalone AVAs will remain a part of the Gabilan Mountains AVA. All three AVAs are high elevation areas that experience less marine fog than the lower neighboring regions. Like the Gabilan Mountains, the Mt. Harlan contains soils of the Sheridan, Cieneba, and Auberry series, and the Chalone AVA soils contain large amounts of calcium derived from limestone. However, the Mt. Harlan and Chalone viticultural areas have characteristics that distinguish themselves from Gabilan Mountains and justify their continued existence as unique viticultural areas within the larger region. Both the Mt. Harlan and Chalone contain a narrower range of elevations due to their smaller size. Additionally, due to its proximity to the Hollister and Cienega Valleys that funnel storms in from the Pacific Ocean, Mt. Harlan AVA receives more rainfall each year than the Gabilan Mountains as a whole. However, Chalone is sheltered from the Pacific storms by the Santa Lucia Mountains and receives less rainfall annually than Gabilan Mountains AVA as a whole.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%20W.%20Ludlow
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Anna W. Ludlow
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Anna Ludlow (née Wright, 1865 – 1955) was a Choctaw teacher and philanthropist.
Life
She was born Anna Wright at Boggy Depot, the daughter of Rev. Allen Wright, Principal Chief of the Choctaw and Methodist minister, and his wife Harriet Newell Mitchell. She was involved in the Methodist church from childhood.
She attended Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies, Massachusetts, from 1880 – 1884. She also graduated from Kirkwood Seminary, Missouri, in 1886, winning the school's prize for vocal music in her final year.
She taught at schools at Lehigh and Atoka and at the Tushkahoma National Female seminary, which had opened in 1892. In 1897 she was teaching there alongside her sister Katherine.
On 22 November 1893 she married Edwin Ludlow, superintendent of mines for the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company. They had one son, who died in infancy. They lived first at Hartshorne, and Edwin's work brought them to Coahuila, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. When Edwin died in 1924, Anna lived with her brother Allen Wright. Edwin's obituary praised the contribution that Anna's 'delightful personality and open-handed hospitality' made to the company.
A member of the First Presbyterian church, she 'was widely known for her interests and philanthropies in Presbyterian missions.' In her final years she donated land for the Old Boggy Depot memorial park.
She died 11 July 1955 at McAlester, Oklahoma.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine%20Lemoyan
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Josephine Lemoyan
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Career
Lemoyan's expertise is in WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene) systems. From the early 1990s, she worked with various rural and urban councils, and NGOs such as the Danish International Development Agency (Danida), to evaluate public service projects. In 2009, she was one of the featured speakers at a conference held in Forlì, Italy, by the International Women's Network and the Hannah Arendt School of Politics, where she spoke about water and soil conservation projects in Tanzania. In 2016, Lemoyan, a senior facilitator with the NGO Action For Development (AFORD) worked with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation on a feasibility study for building a wastewater treatment plant in Dar es Salaam to recycle wastewater for industrial and irrigation applications. She cited that the difficulties in providing fully accessible water to all sectors of society were that the present system was not equally available to rural and urban settings, had previously not been well managed, and that commitments from local communities and donors had not been met. She was one of the experts who were consulted during the creation of the Tanzanian "Code of Practice for the Application of Small-Scale, Decentralised Wastewater Treatment Systems", which was implemented in 2018.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk%20distillery
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Falkirk distillery
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Falkirk is a Scotch whisky distillery in Falkirk, Scotland. Falkirk was the first distillery to recommence whisky production in the Falkirk area since the Rosebank distillery closed in 1993.
The distillery produces unpeated lowland style whisky. The distillery produces 200,000 litres of spirit per year.
History
The distillery was founded by George Stewart and is family owned. The distillery was granted planning position in 2010. The distillery's location near the Antonine Wall required additional planning consents. The distillery became fully operational in 2020. The distillery facilities cost £9 million to construct.
In 2021, the distillery donated a cask to Strathcarron Hospice.
The first bottles of Falkirk distillery single malt whisky produced were auctioned in December 2023.
The distillery's whisky went on general public sale in January 2024.
Facilities
The distillery uses the renovated copper stills and mash tun from the mothballed Caperdonich distillery in Speyside. The distillery has two pagoda roofs, as well as eight washbacks.
The distillery has a traditional dunnage style warehouse. Waste from the facility is used as a feedstock to grow microalgae as an animal feed ingredient. The distillery has a visitor centre, planned to accommodate 80,000 visitors a year.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsolinol
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Salsolinol
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Metabolism
Salsolinol is metabolized by an N-methyltransferase enzyme into N-methyl-(R)-salsolinol. This can then be converted by an amine oxidase into 1,2-dimethyl-6,7-dihydroxyisoquinolinium (DMDHIQ+). It can also be methylated to form its 7-methoxy and 6-methoxy versions by the enzyme catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT).
Role in the body
Neurotoxicity and neurotransmission
Salsolinol binds to several receptors associated with dopaminergic pathways. It may be an agonist of the μ-opioid receptor and of dopaminergic D1 and D3 receptors.
Salsolinol itself also appears to be neurotoxic, the mechanism of which is not clear. Its metabolites, including N-methyl-(R)-salsolinol, also exhibit neurotoxic effects.
Prolactin
Salsolinol has been shown to be involved in the secretion of prolactin in the pituitary gland in lactating rats and lactating sheep. Administration of a solution of salsolinol was not shown to raise prolactin levels in human women.
Disease and disorders
Parkinson's disease
Salsolinol is detectable in the cerebrospinal fluid of Parkinson's disease (PD) patients and is involved in the pathogenesis of PD. It is known to exercise inhibitory effects on tyrosine hydroxylase and to be toxic to dopaminergic neurons.
A mechanism for the induction of Parkinson's by salsolinol is linked to its mediation of pyroptosis.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20B%C3%BCchner
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Christine Büchner
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Christine Büchner (born 1970 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany) is a German Roman Catholic theologian and author.
Christine Büchner studied Catholic Theology, German Studies and Latin Philology at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1989 to 1995. From 1995 to 1997 she worked as a student teacher. From 1998 to 1999, the Hanns Seidel Foundation supported her with a doctoral scholarship. From 1999 to 2004 she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Catholic Theology of Goethe University Frankfurt in the field of systematic theology. In 2003, she was awarded her PhD for the work Gottes Kreatur – „ein reines Nichts“? Einheit Gottes als Ermöglichung von Geschöpflichkeit und Personalität im Werk Meister Eckharts. In 2004 and 2005 she studied Sanskrit at the University of Tübingen.
There she worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Catholic Theology (Dogmatics and History of Dogma) from 2004 to 2006, where she habilitated in dogmatics and ecumenical theology in 2008 and then taught as a private lecturer from 2008 to 2013. At the same time, she received graduate funding from the University of Tübingen and the Gerda Henkel Foundation. Between 2006 and 2011 she held several teaching positions at Goethe University Frankfurt. From 2007 to 2013 she was a senior teacher in Frankfurt. From 2014 to 2020 she was Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Hamburg and simultaneously from 2018 to 2020 Deputy Director of the Academy of World Religions there. Since 2020, she has held the Chair of Dogmatics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Büchner's past and current research is focused on mysticism and spirituality, theology of the gift, theological history of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, interreligious dialogue, and women's theological thinking in the history of theology and in the present – with special regard to models of the relationship between God and the world.
She is married to the writer Andreas Maier.
Academic awards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%20Public%20Housing%20Authority
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Minneapolis Public Housing Authority
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The Minneapolis Public Housing Authority is a public housing authority (PHA) serving the city of Minneapolis.
It is the largest provider of affordable housing in Minnesota.
It was established with its current name in 1986.
It is one of 39 Moving to Work (MTW) housing authorities funded by the department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
It owns public housing, and has a housing choice voucher program.
Its executive director is Abdi Warsame.
In 2022, the MPHA managed housing including 15 single-family homes, 217 townhouse units, and 4,821 high-rise apartment units, housing about 5,000 households in total. For more information, see this list of developments.
In 2022, the MPHA spent $45 million on MTW housing choice voucher rent subsidies and averaged 4,212 housing choice vouchers under lease per month, and spent $17.8 million on non-MTW vouchers and averaged 1,598 under lease each month.
In 2022, the MPHA had total revenue of $151.6 million from tenant rental income, HUD, the city of Minneapolis, and other government grants. It had total assets (including housing) of $292 million
In 1995, the NAACP successfully sued several agencies including the MPHA, showing that these agencies had worked to ``concentrate" people of color in the city's poorest areas.
In 2019, a fire in an MPHA housing complex left 5 people dead.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Delaney
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Catherine Delaney
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Catherine Delaney (born 1965) is an Irish artist, working in the disciplines of sculpture, installation art and photography. She was elected as a member of Ireland's academy or affiliation of artists, Aosdána and her work is held in multiple public collections.
Early life and education
Catherine Delaney was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1965, one of five siblings. Her father was the artist Edward Delaney and her mother was Nancy (née O'Brien). Her father moved away in 1980, settling in the west of Ireland, and later starting a second family. She pursued third level studies in Ireland's National College of Art and Design (NCAD), graduating in 1984. She further studied sculpture in New Jersey, at the Johnson Atelier, and then from 1986 to 1988 on a scholarship at an arts academy in Munich, working on sculpture and photographic arts.
Career and work
Dublin's Project Arts Centre hosted Delaney's first solo show, Rib by Rib, in 1994. She also exhibited sculpture at the Grant Fine Arts gallery in County Down, where her father had previously had a sculpture show. One major transient installation was Enclose, a roughly bridge-shaped structure at the Grennan Mill in County Kilkenny, supported by the local authority and Ireland's Arts Council after plans for a similar installation at the Ireland-Northern Ireland were placed on indefinite hold; the macquette of the sculpture was bought by Ireland's Office of Public Works. Another was Inside-Outside in Baltinglass. A large-scale permanent installation is the poured-metal Fill in Ballymun.
Recognition
Delaney was elected to Ireland's academy or affiliation of artists, Aosdána, in 2008. She has received support from the Arts Council, both before election to Aosdána, and since election, including payment of the "cnuas".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterographa%20bella
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Enterographa bella
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Enterographa bella is a species of foliicolous (leaf-dwelling) lichen in the family Roccellaceae. The lichen is characterised by its orange-brown, often wavy (fruiting bodies). Its partner is from the green algal genus Phycopeltis.
Taxonomy
The lichen was formally described as a new species in 1952 by the Swedish lichenologist Rolf Santesson. The original documented specimens were collected from New Zealand, at Rangituhi / Colonial Knob in Wellington, where they were growing on leaves of Polystichum hispidum.
Description
Enterographa bella is characterised by a pale greyish to translucent thallus that often forms small circular spots (typically 0.4–1 mm wide), which can merge into larger colonies. The thallus, containing a Phycopeltis photobiont and devoid of a prothallus, is quite thin and can spread up to 10 mm wide. This lichen has apothecia, which are elongated and can be straight, curved, or even serpentine (curved and twisting), usually surrounded by a pale orange-pink margin. They are typically 0.5–1 mm long. Its spores have seven transverse septa) internal partitions), and measure 20–31 by 3.5–5.5 μm. The hymenium, which measures 55–70 μm thick, has a diffusely pale brown colour towards the upper part. The major secondary metabolite (lichen product) present in Enterographa bella is psoromic acid. Chemical spot test reactions on the lichen are P+ (yellow) and C−. The asexual morph of the fungus is unknown.
Similar species
The South American species Enterograph falcata has external and anatomical characteristics that are similar in appearance to E. bella. It can be distinguished by its 3-septate ascospores, compared to the 7-septate spores of E. bella.
Habitat and distribution
Although Enterographa bella considered for several decades after its discovery to be endemic to New Zealand, its recorded occurrence in Victoria, Australia expanded its known distribution. It was also later documented from Tasmania in 2021.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethna%20Beulah%20Winston
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Ethna Beulah Winston
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Ethna Beulah Winston (July 13, 1903 – November 9, 1993) was an American educator. She was dean of women and chair of the education department at Tougaloo College in Mississippi, and dean of women at Clark Atlanta University.
Early life and education
Winston was born in Windsor, Connecticut, the daughter of Peter H. Winston and Eugenia S. Howard Winston. She graduated from John Fitch High School, and trained as a teacher at Miner Normal College in Washington, D.C., completing her studies there in 1925, before earning a bachelor's degree at Howard University in 1928. She earned a master of social work (MSW) degree from Hartford Seminary in 1939, with a thesis titled "The Need for Integrated Studies of Negro Culture and Achievement in Public Schools in Hartford, Connecticut". In 1944, she completed doctoral studies at Teachers College, Columbia University, with a dissertation titled " A Program of Guidance and Recreation in the Day Care of Children of Working Mothers in Hartford, Connecticut".
Career
After college, Winston worked as a typist for a cousin in Miami, Florida, and taught typing classes at a night school there. She taught school, and did secretarial work at an insurance company, Howard University, the Federal Council of Churches, and Tuskegee University. In the early 1930s, she was a social worker in Hartford, Connecticut, arranging meals and housing for newly unemployed Black tobacco workers during the Great Depression.
In 1939, Winston became dean of women at Tougaloo College in Mississippi; later she was chair of the education department at Tougaloo. She also taught English at Howard University and Elizabeth City Teachers College, and was dean of women at Clark Atlanta University. In 1958, she was invited to teach at the American Collegiate Institute in Izmir, Turkey. In her seventies, she taught English at Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington, D.C.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrianism%20in%20France
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Equestrianism in France
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The demilitarization of equestrianism can be seen in the transition of the Cadre Noir de Saumur to civilian status in 1969. It too was attached to the Ministry of Sports. It was also at the end of the 1960s that the last civilian equestrianism teachers from military backgrounds retired, making way for a new generation of civilian riders. The changeover took around twenty-five years, or one generation.
Opening up to the general public
From the 1960s onwards, new riders from outside the military world began to seek leisure activities close to nature and contact with horses, for a purpose other than sport. In 1963, the Association nationale pour le tourisme équestre (National Association for Equestrian Tourism) was created independently, with the help of the national stud farms, to meet the demand for outdoor leisure sports. The number of equestrians in France rose spectacularly, from 30,000 after the Second World War to 620,000 in 2001, of whom 432,500 were members of the French equestrianism Federation. The arrival of these new riders has revolutionized the equestrian landscape, introducing a new culture and a new relationship with the animal. Equestrian practices, exotic or scorned by classic military riders, are developing.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrianism%20in%20France
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Equestrianism in France
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The feminization of equestrianism is increasing, and the vast majority of riders in France are now women. At the beginning of the 21st century, they accounted for over 80% of licence holders. Historically, equestrianism was inaccessible to women, as French law prohibited them from riding astride until 1930. Until the 1970s, the equestrian world remained very masculine, as expressions like "horseman" attest. The majority of these riders are now students, who use their free time to look after horses. equestrian facilities are real gathering places for young girls on Wednesdays and weekends. The feminization of the French equestrian world is at odds with the masculine culture of the "horseman", and the exclusive pursuit of sporting performance. Jean-Pierre Digard notes that some female riders are driven by a desire for revenge or challenge in a milieu that has long remained masculine, while other specialists put forward psychoanalytical explanations for young girls' attraction to the horse. However, the majority of top-level riders are still men, since only 35% of "pro" riders are women.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoland%20Asmar
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Yoland Asmar
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Yolande Asmar (Arabic: ) was a Syrian actress and singer who commenced her career in the early 1970s. Renowned for her angelic and celestial vocal talents, she garnered recognition for her significant contributions to the musical landscape, particularly in the churches of Aleppo.
Early life
Asmar was born in 1930 in Aleppo to Hoda Antaki and Naeem Asmar, and was raised in a conservative and educated family. Her father, a high school teacher at the Holy Land School in Aleppo, studied directing in Jerusalem and established the Catholic Theater Club in Aleppo in 1945.
Her nickname, Basma, came from her smile.
Career
Asmar began acting within the theater group of the Catholic Club in Aleppo, participating in international plays like The Noble Bourgeois, The Scholarly Women of Molière, and The Miser. She served as the primary cantor in the church choir, and would sing in the churches of Aleppo throughout her lifetime. Her vocal performances also captivated audiences in Damascus, where churches and public squares were filled with admirers of her musical talent until the end of her life.
Yolande Asmar was invited to perform on Syrian Radio in Aleppo after Antoine Zabita, the music department director at Aleppo Radio, heard her performing. She initially sang songs in Classical Arabic, with texts set to music by Chopin and Mozart, with arrangements by poet Charles Khoury and musical composition by Aziz Ghanem. In the 1960s, she also performed a number of children's songs on children's programs. Yolande Asmar was the only singer on both Damascus and Aleppo radio stations who was proficient in singing in both French and Italian.
In Syrian television, Yolande Asmar appeared across various series during the late sixties and early seventies. Her versatility extended to roles in Syrian cinema. Asmar collaborated with the Syrian Cinema Foundation. Notable among her filmography is her debut in The Deceived (1972), a film directed and scripted by Tawfiq Saleh, adapted from the narrative by Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches%20of%20Verona
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Churches of Verona
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Moving on to the other side of the Adige River, in the Veronetta district, is the church of San Giovanni in Valle, built from 1120 on the remains of an 8th-century building: this is one of the most valuable works of late Veronese Romanesque, where one can see the now achieved balance between plan and elevation, the use of the basilical plan with three naves separated by columns alternating with pillars, but with the renunciation, on the outside, of the chromatic alternation derived from the use of brick and tuff. In this case the external decoration is entrusted to the use of regular tuff ashlars and the classical frieze that crowns some elevations. The greater classical sensibility can be seen in particular in the amplitude of the emerging masses of the apses (of which the northern one has lesenes crowned by finely sculpted Corinthian capitals), and is repeated in the size of the bell tower, connected to the building by means of a large semicircular arch reminiscent of the Roman Ponte Pietra, and in the rhythm of the small arches of the cloister, of which, however, only one arm has survived. The interior of the church possesses a linearity, given by the three simple naves covered by wooden trusses, interrupted only by the raised chancel, under which the crypt finds its place, while the dim natural lighting from narrow monoforas openings over the nave recreates the original and evocative atmosphere.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches%20of%20Verona
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Churches of Verona
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As far as the Verona cathedral is concerned, the transformation project actually originated in the second half of the 14th century but was only partially realized between 1444 and 1503, so architecturally the structure still appears to have a Gothic feel, especially because of the presence of bundled pillars from which the ribs unravel that overlap the rib vaults, in a manner very similar to that which had been experimented in the church of San Petronio in Bologna and which would later be developed for the Milan cathedral. On the other hand, a completely different style was used in the six chapels added in the last part of the building site, along the sides of the side aisles: in fact, these retain elements typical of a Renaissance spatiality, given by the presence of a large interior arch framed by two pilasters surmounted by a hint of entablature. These are also characterized by a shell-shaped basin and by large painted architectures framing them, which only came to light again during the 1870s. Two side chapels of much greater size than those just mentioned were then planned, one on the southern and one on the northern side, and placed immediately before the chancel to make them assume the role of a transept, thus transforming the plan of the church into a Latin cross, in place of the basilical one that characterized the Romanesque building.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churches%20of%20Verona
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Churches of Verona
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In 1602 Valier gave the church of San Nicolò all'Arena as a concession to the Theatines, which was confirmed the following year by Pope Clement VIII. The latter settled there in 1622, and only in 1627 did work begin on the renovation of the entire church building, which was completed rather quickly and consecrated in 1697. This is one of the few examples of the Veronese Baroque period, the design of which is due to the architect Lelio Pellesina and the direction of the work to his son Vincenzo; it traces the Counter-Reformation scheme of a single nave with a wide transept and side chapels; however, even in this work, perhaps also due to the failure to build the dome that would have given it more breadth and theatricality, an architectural and decorative style related to classical schemes is shown, with an interior space elegantly decorated by Corinthian pilasters and seventeen niches in the walls where various statues find their place, except in the design of the high altar by Guarino Guarini, an object endowed with a powerful Baroque soul characterized by a tabernacle moved and articulated by a superimposition of columns in which the frontal view is substantially annulled. The facade was placed only after World War II, when the remains of the main elevation of the church of San Sebastiano were reused and reintegrated with the missing parts, thus saving a part of the monument that was destined to disappear.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20League%20Sideswipe
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Rocket League Sideswipe
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Rocket League Sideswipe is a free-to-play mobile vehicular soccer video game published by Psyonix. It serves as a spin-off of Rocket League, but with 2D computer graphics. An alpha version of the game was released in Oceania in March 2021 before the game was given a worldwide release in late November of the same year.
Gameplay
Sideswipe typically has the same type of gameplay as its console version, in which players must move their cars to hit the ball into the opponent's goal. If both teams are tied at the 0-second mark (at this point, the game won't end unless the ball hits the ground or a goal is scored), the game will enter a sudden death phase in which the first team to score wins. The only key difference between the console version of Rocket League and Sideswipe is the absence of 3D computer graphics. The game has multiple single-player and multiplayer modes, including game modes that revolve around sports other than soccer, such as basketball and volleyball.
The game has casual playlists and competitive (known as Ranked) playlists in which players are given a rank during the game's competitive "season". They will rank up a sub-division by winning and will rank down a sub-division by losing. The ranks, from highest to lowest are Grand Champion (in which players cannot demote out of), Champion, Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Unranked, which is when the player has never played the game before or on a new account. At the end of the season (which typically lasts 55 days), players will receive rewards based on whether they won a match in their peak rank or not. Players can also go up two sub-divisions in one match until they reach Platinum. Bronze and Silver have three sub-divisions per division, Gold and Platinum have four, and Diamond and Champion have five. Grand Champion does not use sub-divisions, instead using an "" system that will record a player's place on the Grand Champion leaderboards.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20C.%20Mitchell
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Eva C. Mitchell
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Eva C. Mitchell (August 21, 1893 – February 9, 1990) was an American educator. She was a professor of education at Hampton Institute from 1930 to 1960.
Early life and education
Mitchell was born in Hawkinsville, Georgia, the daughter of William Mitchell and Sarah Love Mitchell. She graduated from Hampton Institute in 1921. She earned a master's degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1930, and completed doctoral studies there in 1942.
Career
Mitchell taught at the Penn School in South Carolina after college, then at the North Carolina state normal school in Fayetteville. She was a professor in the education department at Hampton Institute for thirty years, from 1930 to 1960, and was chair of the elementary education program there. Mitchell took a particular interest in providing continuing education opportunities for Black teachers, because, in the Jim Crow South, Black teachers were often prevented from attending the conferences and using the libraries that white teachers could access.
In 1933, Mitchell was elected president of the Virginia Society for Research, a scholarly society for Black academics in the state. She was research editor of the Virginia Education Bulletin from 1934 to 1940. After World War II, she worked on adult literacy, adult health education, and other reforms, and was a member of the board of directors of American Overseas Aid–United Nations Appeal for Children (AOA–UNAC). She was active in the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools, the American Association of University Women (AAUW), and the NAACP.
Publications
"Educational Needs of Negroes, Illustrated" (1925)
"The Necessity of a Guidance Program for Virginia Negro Teachers" (1935)
"A Statistical Survey of Problems Facing the Negro Teacher in Virginia" (1936)
"Adult Health Education and Recreational Programs: National, State, and Local" (1945)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker%20Weiss
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Volker Weiss
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Volker Weiss (born 1972) is a German historian, writer, and commentator on extreme right movements. His research focus is the extreme right and German history in the 19th and 20th century. Volker Weiss is a Fellow of the Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin.
Biography
Volker Weiss studied literature studies, social and economical history as well as psychology at the University of Hamburg. In 2009, he finished his PhD in history with a study of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, a major conservative intellectual in the late 19th and early 20th century that greatly influenced the Nazi Party.
Weiss has since taught at the University of Hamburg, Leipzig University and the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). In 2021, he was a guest professor at the University of Innsbruck.
As a journalist and writer, Weiss has published articles in a variety of media outlets, including Süddeutsche Zeitung, Der Spiegel and Die Zeit. He has written regularly for the Berlin weekly newspaper Jungle World since 2003, primarily on the extreme right in Germany. His 2017 book Die autoritäre Revolte. Die Neue Rechte und der Untergang des Abendlandes (the authoritarian revolt. The New Right and the Downfall of the West) was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, and made his work known to a wider audience. He has also published a commentary on Theodor W. Adorno's work Aspects of the New Right-Wing Extremism, which was translated into English and Polish. He is considered an journalistic expert on the extreme right in Germany.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte%20von%20Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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Lotte von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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In exile in Switzerland, her assets in Germany either confiscated or inaccessible, Charlotte Countess von Wesdehlen lived in financial difficulties. Her parents' inheritance was no longer available to her and her first husband, Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, died in 1935. After the death of her second husband, Georg Graf von Wesdehlen, in 1938, she was increasingly forced to sell works of art from her own collection. The pictures that she was able to bring to Switzerland included, for example, the paintings La femme à la corbeille by Juan Gris, a rose still life by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and works by Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley. Sales include Renoir's Still Life with Peaches and Plums to the entrepreneur Emil Georg Bührle (now a private collection) and Henri Rousseau's The Muse that Inspires the Poet to the Kunstmuseum Basel. Lotte sold the Rousseau via Swiss art dealer Christoph Bernoulli (1897-1987) at a knocked-down price from its estimated value of 20,000 francs to 12,000 francs, a “disgracefully cheap price,” according to museum director Georg Schmidt, who was aware of the collector's plight when purchasing it. The painting was later the subject of a restitution claim.
Lotte von Mendelssohn-Barthlody, known as the Charlotte Countess von Wesdehlen, died in Geneva in 1946.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995%20Green%20Party%20of%20Aotearoa%20New%20Zealand%20co-leadership%20elections
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1995 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand co-leadership elections
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The 1995 Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand co-leadership elections were elections that took place on 21 May 1995 to determine the future leadership of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand.
The elections were held at the party's annual conference at Tauhara, near Taupō. The conference determined the party would use a gender-based co-leadership model and elected Rod Donald and Jeanette Fitzsimons to fill those roles. Donald and Fitzsimons would lead the Green Party until their respective death and retirement in 2005 and 2009.
Background
The Green Party was founded in May 1990 when the remnants of the Values Party merged with a number of other environmentalist organisations to form the modern Green Party ahead of the 1990 election. When the party formed it deliberately had no formal leadership, using a "organic" rather than "hierarchical" structure. This model was briefly tried in the Values Party (outside election years). In December 1991 the Greens became founding members of the Alliance, a five-party grouping that also consisted of the Democrats, Liberals, Mana Motuhake and NewLabour Party. In May 1992, at the party's annual conference, members voted by a 4 to 1 margin to officially join the Alliance. Unlike the Greens the Alliance had a more formalised leadership structure. Four members of the Greens were required to sit on the Alliance's council which governed the party. Jon Field, Stewart Harrex, Alyson Clarke and Ashok Parbhu were elected to represent the Greens at the council. At the Alliance's inaugural party conference in November 1992 party members elected Green Party member Jeanette Fitzsimons as a co-deputy leader of the Alliance.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS%20Thomas%20Currell
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SS Thomas Currell
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At the outbreak of World War II, Thomas Currell was on a usual fishing trip, and was unaware of the declaration of war due to a lack of radios on board, and was unable to be contacted. She would return to Auckland, one week after war was declared, she discharged her catch and would be shifted to the Devonport Naval Base, as it had been commandeered by the government. Along with the other Sanford trawlers, James Cosgrove and the Humphrey, they were converted for minesweeping duties and fitted with guns, depth charges, and minesweeping equipment, also being given a wireless telephone and telegraph equipment. The Thomas Currell was commissioned for the Royal New Zealand Navy on 10 October 1939, serving at Auckland. On the morning of 19 June 1940, a distress signal was received from the passenger ship , reporting it had struck a naval mine between Bream Head, and the Moko Hinau Islands and was sinking. The James Cosgrove and Thomas Currell were ordered to sea, steaming at full speed towards her, arriving at 12:50 PM with minesweeping gear being deployed at 2:48 PM. She and the James Cosgrove would discover two contact mines which had been laid recently, both were destroyed by rifle fire. Thomas Currell would be paid off in September 1944, with work to convert her back into a fishing trawler completed by late 1945.
Post war
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otjikoto%20Solar%20Power%20Station
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Otjikoto Solar Power Station
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The Otjikoto Solar Power Station is a planned 10 megawatts solar power plant in Namibia. The power station is owned and is being developed by Sustainable Power Solutions, a Namibian independent power producer, in collaboration with two other Namibian entities.
Location
The power station is under construction in North Central Namibia, on the Maxwell Farm, owned by the Oelofse family. The power generated here is intended for sale to the Otjikoto Gold Mine, owned by B2Gold, a Canadian gold-mining company that is the largest gold miner in Namibia. The Otjikoto Gold Mine is located approximately , by road, north of Windhoek, the capital city of Namibia.
Overview
Under current Namibia's laws, it is possible for an independent power producer (IPP) to produce power and sell that power to a specific customer using NamPower transmission network to relay the power. This transaction is referred as a "power-wheeling project". The development of this power station and the related power purchase arrangements are the first such transaction in the country.
The power station is located approximately away from the target gold mine. The power will be fed into the NamPower grid and transported to the target customer's location. Close to the target customer, the power is downloaded through the new "Eldorado substation" and then transmitted to the gold mine.
Developers
Sustainable Power Solutions (SPS), is the Namibian IPP that owns and is developing the power station. SPS is collaborating with the Oelofse Family, who own the farm, where the solar park is located, and with Fortitude Property Group, a Namibian real estate investment and management company.
Timeline
Construction is expected to start in H1 2024, with commercial commissioning anticipated in H2 2024.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus%20dicranostyla
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Ficus dicranostyla
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Ficus dicranostyla is a shrub or tree species within the family Moraceae. It occurs in Tropical Africa and it is one of the two species of Ficus within the section Oreosycea of Ficus subgenus Pharmacosycea.
It was named by Johannes Mildbraed.
Description
The species grows up to 8 m tall but occasionally taller, sometimes reaching 35 m in height, it has a spreading cown, a greyish to brownish bark that is often rough and fissured; the slash is pale brown exuding latex. The stems are usually brownish in color, are pubescent when young but when matured they are commonly free of hair. The leaves are arranged spirally and tend to be distichous with a surface that borders on either papery or leathery, stipules are present and are caducous, up to 1.5 cm long. The leaf blade is broadly ovate to elliptical with a base that is cordate to rounded and an apex that is acuminate; leaves can grow up tp 20 cm long and 9 cm wide. Figs are borne in pairs or solitary in leaf axils and are pedunculate with peduncles that can reach 1 cm long and with 3 basal bracts. The figs are yellowish green when young to yellowish orange when mature, they are globular to obovoid in shape.
Distribution and habitat
Commonly occurs in West, East and Central Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia and southwards to Zambia. Found in rocky soils in savannahs and gallery or deciduous forests.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Mackie%20Morrison
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Margaret Mackie Morrison
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Margaret Mackie Morrison (18 April 1897–7 February 1973); known as Peggy Morrison, and the pen name March Cost, was a British novelist. She was one of the six children of Arthur Mackie Morrison and Agnes Brysson Morrison C.B.E., née Inglis.
Hers was a literary family: one brother T. J. Morrison, was a novelist and screenwriter, another brother, John, a novelist and poet; her sister Mary a short‐story writer; and her other sister Nancy Brysson Morrison, a novelist and biographer.
Early life
Born in Glasgow, after studying at the Glasgow School of Art, Morrison went on to study drama, and joined the company of Sir Frank and Lady Benson. Ill-health forced her from the stage, and after extensive travel on the continent she began to write.
Literary career
Morrison achieved international acclaim in 1932 with the publication, under her pen name March Cost, of her first novel A Man Named Luke.
In 1939, she began work on her monumental biographical novel about the great French nineteenth century actress Rachel. She wrote most of it during the London Blitz, and was forced to move from both a gutted flat and bombed house with her manuscript and research books books in a battered suitcase.
Further biographical novels followed, including of Aimée du Buc de Rivéry, a first cousin of the Empress Josephine, who was rumoured to have been the same person as Nakşidil Sultan who married the Sultan of Turkey; and of the 18th‐century mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
Personal life
A spinster, Morrison was a Presbyterian and member of the Church of Scotland, her family being of Covenanters stock. She later resided at Tunbridge Wells, where she died following a long illness.
Works
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Path%20of%20the%20Eagle
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The Path of the Eagle
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The Path of the Eagle is a 1943 Australian radio play by Catherine Duncan. It was originally written under the title Succubus. The play was a telling of the Oedipus story.
It was broadcast by the ABC as part of a series of ten verse dramas on radio. The others included The Golden Lover, The Real Betrayal, We're Going Through, It Has Happened Before, Mined Gold, The Unmapped Lands, Brief Apocalypse, Fear and Richard Bracken-Farmer.
The play was first produced in 1943. It was produced again later that year, and then in 1951.
The play was published in a collection of radio plays in 1946 called Australian Radio Plays.
Reviewing this, the Herald said the play "proves that in drama... it is not necessary for Australians to rely in
terminably on the inspiration of a 'sunburnt culture.' She reverts to the ancient Greeks. The plot of her ambitious work — in verse — is based on a modern interpretation of the Oedipus theme, giving rise to some splendid passages full of rich imagery and passion, building up to a tragic climax."
According to Leslie Rees, "The author’s chief talent in this play is for finding a rhythm, exploiting a sure ear for yearning cadences. They are cadences that can catch coloured words out of past or present and out of exotic places, using them to make a richly associative emotional pattern. Sometimes this facility runs away with the writer, so that the sense of character, though it is there, emerges less vividly than the verbal texture... The play’s theme is the unreality of the ivory-tower attitude of mind, but the play itself cannot altogether escape the charge of being unreal."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument%20to%20John%20Cockerill%2C%20Brussels
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Monument to John Cockerill, Brussels
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The Monument to John Cockerill (; ) is a group of statues erected in Brussels, Belgium, in memory of the Belgian-British industrialist John Cockerill, a pioneer of the steel industry and the railways in Belgium in the 19th century, as well as the industrial workers of Belgium.
The monumental group was designed in 1872 by the sculptor in eclectic style. It stands in the centre of Place du Luxembourg/Luxemburgplein in Ixelles, with its back to the former Brussels-Luxembourg railway station's entrance and to the postmodern buildings of the Espace Léopold, seat of the European Parliament in Brussels.
History
Inaugurated in 1872, the monument is a near copy of the monument erected in 1871 by the sculptor outside Seraing's Town Hall in Liège Province (Wallonia), where the heart of John Cockerill's industrial empire was located. The creation of the monument, authorised by the sculptor, was financed by Willem Rau, a collaborator of Cockerill. The monument was probably erected in front of Brussels-Luxembourg railway station because it was one of the first stations in Brussels, and Cockerill's workshops supplied Belgium's first rails, wagons and locomotives.
On 1 February 2024, the monument was vandalised during a farmers' protest that took place in front of the European Parliament. Specifically, the statue of the mechanic Beaufort, one of the four figures surrounding the industrialist, was torn from the pedestal and left on the ground, in the middle of burning wooden pallets. According to Yves Rouyet, Ixelles' Heritage Councillor: "It has a crack in its arm, leg and lower back; the worker's tool melted and the extreme heat removed the patina". It was sent to Ghent for restoration. The statue was restored over the course of 2024 and replaced on 13 December 2024, including the full restoration of the worker's compass, which had been damaged long before the vandalism.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Atamian
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Christopher Atamian
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Christopher Peter Atamian () is a New York-based literary critic, writer, translator, curator and filmmaker who was the recipient of the 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor. He has translated works from French and Armenian into English including; The Bois de Vincennes (2013), The Rosy Future of War (1999), Fifty Years of Armenian Literature in France (2016), and Trashland (2023).
Born to immigrants, Christopher grew up and studied in the United States where he received his BA in literature from Harvard University and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich as a Fulbright fellow. He then studied at USC School of Cinematic Arts and Columbia Business School, where he received an MBA in international media. In 2013, he was awarded the Tölölyan Literary Prize for translating Nigoghos Sarafian's The Bois de Vincennes and in 2017 he received a second Tölölyan Literary Prize for his debut poetry collection A Poet in Washington Heights (2018).
Biography
Early life: background and education
Atamian was born in New York City to immigrant Swiss-Italian and Lebanese-Armenian parents. He studied at the Lycée Français de New York and graduated from Collegiate School in 1985, where he was a National Merit Semifinalist. Atamian earned his BA in Literature at Harvard University (1985–1989). He later proceeded to the Swiss National Polytechnic in Zürich on a Fulbright Fellowship. He is also an alumnus of USC Film School and Columbia Business School, where he earned his MBA in International Media.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu%27allimi
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Al-Mu'allimi
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Family
Al-Mu'allimi was born into a family of seven siblings. He got married once, from and Indian woman during his stay in Hyderabad, India. He had one child, Abdullah.
His father, Yahya ibn Ali al-Mu'allimi, a jurist married to two wives, established residence in Bilad al-Reemi. Upon his arrival, he encountered dilapidated structures atop a mountain and, obtaining permission from the landowner, constructed a residence and mosque. This mountain was where Al-Mu'allimi and his family lived until the death of the father in 1942.
Some of his siblings:
Muhammad al-Mu'allimi: He was a student of knowledge, served as a clerk and knew Turkish fluently. He died early and left behind a huge library which his father later incorporated into the family residence.
Ahmad al-Mu'allimi: He migrated to Indonesia, engaging in trade, and returned to Yemen in the 1950s for settlement.
Abd al-Majid al-Mu'allimi: He was a learned masn who memorized the Quran and was in the company of his father until his father died. Then, he relocated to Sanaa, living with one of his children until his demise in 1994.
Saidah al-Mu'allimi: She was an illiterate but impactful figure, was the mother of the esteemed scholar Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Mu'allimi. Despite her lack of formal education, she played a significant role in shaping her children's lives and education. She died in 1973.
Leaving Yemen
During Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din's rule, a notable number of individuals from the al-Mu'allimi family experienced persecution and imprisonment in Yemen. Allegations of loyalty to external entities led to harsh treatment against Al-Mu'allimi's family. In 1918, al-Mu'allimi left Yemen for a pilgrimage to Mecca and Madinah, subsequently settling in Jazan upon his return.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favoriten%20%28film%29
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Favoriten (film)
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Favoriten is a 2024 Austrian documentary film, named after Vienna's tenth district in which the action is set, directed by Ruth Beckermann. It is a film about teaching and learning in what some consider the equivalent of an inner-city school in Austria's largest city in response to recent migrations. It is a hopeful movie, with often surprising experiences oscillating between the roles of learner and teacher. The central theme revolves around a class of 25 elementary students whose engaged teacher is doing what is in her might to create chances for her students that they otherwise, for a lack of education in the parental home and a lack of school-institutional support alike, would not have.
Favoriten had its world premiere on 16 February 2024 in the Encounters at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Film Award.
Content
The documentary by Ruth Beckermann portrays the daily experiences of students at a challenging school in Vienna-Favoriten. The film tracks the kids as they go through their third grade at elementary school, which is an important stage in their learning paths. The students deal with problems in school and personal life and encounter big obstacles. However, they also demonstrate how much power and talent they possess when they get help and motivation.
Production
The film directed by Ruth Beckermann on the concept from her and Elisabeth Menasse-Wiesbauer, has Johannes Hammel as director of photography and Dieter Pichler as the editor.
The film was funded by the Austrian Film Institute, which provided 120,000 as part of production funding and 62,363 as part of reference funding (as of January 2021). The ORF contributed 70,000 as part of the film/television agreement. 120,000 in production funding came from the Vienna Film Fund and 113,000 from FISA Filmstätte Austria.
Principal photography began on 1 July 2021 in Vienna, Austria, and ended in February 2023.
Release
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75975516
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasinho%20Ribeiro
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Lucasinho Ribeiro
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Encouraged by their initial success, Ribeiro undertook further translations of plays into Konkani, including works such as Alladin Ani Tacho Ojeapancho Divo (Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp), Alibaba ani Cheallis Chor (Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves), and Carlos Magno (Charlemagne). Ribeiro's proficiency in English facilitated precise renditions of these classic English novels in Konkani, which were met with acclaim. The popularity of Konkani tiatr became evident as it garnered support not only in Bombay but also in Goa and among Goans residing elsewhere. Ribeiro then worked to introduce Konkani tiatr to Goa. While historical records from Assagão, Bardez, Ribeiro's birthplace, confirm that the first Konkani tiatr in Goa was staged in Assagão in 1894, it remains uncertain whether the performance was Italian Burgo or one of the other three plays translated by Ribeiro. This screening took place on New Year's Day, 1 January 1894, and featured artists such as Napoleanv, Manuel Jose Fonseca, Zeferine Andrade, Tolentino Fonseca, and L. J. Rapose. The musical accompaniment for this tiatr was provided by Mestre Gabriel Franco. Subsequently, Ribeiro went on to produce numerous tiatrs at Sokol-Vaddear in Assagão, Goa.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Choloki%20%281918%29
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Battle of Choloki (1918)
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On April 3, an armored train derailed south of Choloki. The road was spoiled by the righteous. During the attack on the track, the Georgian side was opened fire at, to which the advanced detachment of Georgian scouts responded with fire too, killing two of the enemy and capturing several guns. On April 4, the Ottomans captured Kobuleti. including one officer and wounded several others. The Ottomans then retreated. Noe Zhordania, Irakli Tsereteli, Vlasa Mgeladze and others came to encourage the fighters in Natanebi and spoke words. On April 5, at eight o'clock in the evening, the Georgian side received intelligence that a relatively small part of the Ottoman Gallipoli 2nd Division was moving towards Ozurgeti with cart-road and a larger part, 7,000 soldiers, along the railway towards Natanebi. The Ottomans laid a barricade on the railway bridge of the Ochkhamuri river, which confirmed that they were going to launch the main attack from the side of the Natanebi. By blockading the railway, they hoped to leave the Georgian armored train inoperable. Mazniashvili built a railway from Choloki bridge into the forest in one day. In the evening of April 6, the Ottomans opened artillery fire.
Battle at the Choloki bridge
On April 8, the Ottoman army passed Ochkhamuri, but did not go through the valley and took refuge in the forest between Ochkhamuri and Choloki. Mazniashvili ordered the armored train to retreat. The armored personnel carrier was supposed to be in the rearguard, but then he shared the plan of Vladimir Goguadze, the head of the armored personnel carrier: to break into the enemy's positions and conduct a battle. The battle began at five o'clock in the morning on April 7. An armored train broke into the ranks of the enemy. But the Georgian side did not open fire either from the train or from the trenches, because it had received such an order. Only the artillery, which was handed over to Kargaretli, opened fire on the opponent.
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