Masada Iosefa (26 January 1988 – 25 January 2021) was a Samoan professional rugby league player. He played as a hooker. He played for the Penrith Panthers and Wests Tigers in the National Rugby League (NRL). He also played for the Samoan national team.
Iosefa was born in Motoʻotua, Samoa. He moved to Australia at a young age. After his playing career, he was a youth worker in Rockhampton, Queensland.
On 25 January 2021, the day before his 33rd birthday, Iosefa died in a quad bike accident in Herbert, a rural locality of Darwin, Northern Territory.
Echizen Washi
is a type of Japanese paper that is made in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Echizen washi is the best in Japan in terms of quality, variety, and production volume.
There are many types of Echizen washi.
"Echizen Hoshoshi" (越前) and "Echizen Torinokogami" (越前鳥子紙) are Echizen washi that designated important intangible cultural property of Japan. Washi is made from three main materials such as Kozo, Mitsumata, Gampi. Hemp and wood pulp are also materials.
Echizen washi has a history of about 1,500 years. In 4~5c, ancient (old) documents in "Shōsō-in" confirmed the existence of Echizen washi but it is said that Echizen washi had made before it. In the early days, Echizen washi was used as a sutra paper. In 1341, The paper was named “"Echizen-hosho"” and began to produced and used in large quantities as official documents for the higher classes. Echizen washi developed under the protection of the shogunate and lords. In 1661, the first Japanese bills, “"hansatsu"“, are published in Fukui Prefecture and made in Echizen washi production areas. In 1868 the first Japanese official bills ""Dajokansatsu"" were published and made in Echizen washi production area. (As a result of the government's review and comparison of bills issued by various clans throughout Japan, Echizen washi was considered to be the best quality in Japan.)
The Birthplace of Paper Money.
There is a legend about the origin of Echizen Washi.
The Legend of "Kawakami Gozen".
The "Goka" area consists of the five villages of "Oizu", "Otaki", "Iwamoto", "Shinzaike", and "Sadatomo". This area constitutes the “Echizen washi” and from the 6th century to now, paper making has been continued.
Echizen Washi Village
In the Udatsu Museum and Workshop, visitors can see how artisans make Echizen washi by using traditional tools and technique.
Exhibits explain the origin and history of Echizen washi, manufacturing process and examples of Echizen washi use.
Visitors can create their own original Japanese paper.
4. Paper & Culture Museum Exhibits
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Sylvirana guentheri
Gunther's Amoy frog, Guenther's Amoy frog, Günther's frog, Guenther's frog, Günther's red-and-black frog or Gunther's brown frog ("Sylvirana guentheri") is a frog from Vietnam, China and Taiwan. People have brought this frog to Guam. It can live as high as 1100 meters above sea level.
The adult male frog is 6.3 to 6.8 cm long and the adult female frog is 7.5 to 7.6 cm long. The hind legs are about one and a half times as long as the body. It has vomerine teeth and a large tongue. It has a fold of skin on each side of its body, running from the eye down to the hip. This frog has a brown or yellow-brown back and a white belly.
The female frog lays eggs in rice fields and streams where the water does not move quickly. The tadpoles are silver-white in color. They have stripes running from their noses to their eyes and a dark spot behind each eye.
This frog makes chemicals on its skin. It makes (Val1)-bradykinin to stop larger animals from eating it. It also has antibiotics on its skin: guentherin, brevinin-2GHa, brevinin-2GHb, brevinin-2GHc, and temporin-GH.
The parasite "Angiostrongylus cantonensis", or rat lungworm, can live in this frog. This parasite gives humans the disease angiostrongyliasis and makes the membranes around the brain swell, which is very dangerous.
Wakasa Lacquerware
Wakasa lacquerware (若狭塗, Wakasa-nuri) is traditional Japanese art from Obama City, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Wakasa lacquerware can be boxes or other objects. They are covered in decorations of eggshells, seashells, and pine needles. Wakasa lacquerware uses "togidashi maki-e", a technique in which a large pattern is put on an object by adding many layers of lacquer. it takes a long time to make Wakasa laquerware. The entire process is completed by a single artisan. Wakasa lacquerware  is famous for lacquer chopsticks in Japan. Lacquer chopsticks from Obama City account for 80% of domestic production, but almost all of them are produced in factories. Wakasa lacquer chopsticks which are actually produced by artisans are less than 1 percent of the domestic production in Obama City. Artisans take at least half a year to produce a pair of chopsticks. In 2008 and 2013, a lacquer picture frame and a lacquer ballpoint pen were given to Barack Obama by Obama City.
Wakasa lacquerware is said to have started in the early Edo period from 1596 to 1615. An lacquerware artisan, Sanjuro Matsuura created a lacquerware which had a pattern of seabed of Wakasa Bay. The pattern was designed by referring to Chinese lacquerware. The techniques of producing lacquerware which Matsuura had developed was improved during the Manji era (1658 to 1660). Because families of the lord supported the artisans, Wakasa lacquerware became the core industry of the Obama Domain. It is said that the golden age of Wakasa lacquerware when Wakasa lacquerware were popular and sold a lot is the middle to late Edo period (1603-1868), but after that, the demand of Wakasa lacquerware has decreased. These days, artisans are trying to create new ways to apply design, such as PC mouse and accessories. The number of artisans has been decreasing and, as of 2020, there were 4 artisans of Wakasa lacquerware.
There are 11 steps involved in the production of Wakasa lacquerware.
António Cardoso e Cunha
António José Baptista Cardoso e Cunha (28 January 1933 – 24 January 2021) was a Portuguese Social Democratic Party (PSD) politician. He was a government minister in the 1970s and 1980s. From 1986 to 1992, he was Portugal's first European Commissioner. He was elected to the Assembly of the Republic in 1978.
Cardoso e Cunha died on 24 January 2021, aged 87.
Kenneth Z. Altshuler
Kenneth Z. Altshuler (April 11, 1929 – January 6, 2021) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He was a Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He was born in Paterson, New Jersey.
Altshuler died on January 6, 2021 in Dallas from problems caused by COVID-19 at aged 91.
Paul Kölliker
Paul Kölliker (19 February 193211 January 2021) was a Swiss rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Wolfwil, Switzerland.
Kölliker died on 11 January 2021 at the age of 88.
Jim MacGeorge
James A. MacGeorge (October 15, 1928 – January 16, 2021) was an American voice actor and writer.
He was best known for his voice roles as Beany Boy, Crowy and Uncle Captain Horatio K. Huffenpuff in "Beany and Cecil", Oliver Hardy in the "Laurel and Hardy" cartoon series, Crazy Claws in "The Kwicky Koala Show", Bort in "The Mighty Orbots", Wimper in "Clue Club" and as Dr. Wilmer Scarab in "Bionic Six".
MacGeorge died on January 16, 2021 at the age of 92.
Jean Dumont (politician)
Jean Dumont (27 November 1930 – 18 January 2021) was a French politician. He was born in Thouars, France. Dumont was a member of the Republican Party. From 1986 to 1995, Dumont was a member of the Senate.
Dumont died in Parthenay, France on 18 January 2021, aged 90.
Thouars
Thouars () is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France. On 1 January 2019, the former communes Mauzé-Thouarsais, Missé and Sainte-Radegonde were merged into Thouars.
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