Imogene Coca

Imogene Coca (born Emogeane Coca; November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001) was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on "Your Show of Shows". Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and wished to have a serious career in music and dance, graduating to decades of stage musical revues, cabaret and summer stock. In her 40s, she began a celebrated career as a comedian on television, starring in six series and guest starring on successful television programs from the 1940s to the 1990s.
She was nominated for five Emmy Awards for "Your Show of Shows", winning Best Actress in 1951 and singled out for a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in 1953. Coca was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1978 for "On the Twentieth Century" and received a sixth Emmy nomination at the age of 80 for an episode of "Moonlighting".
She possessed a rubbery face capable of the broadest expressions — "Life" magazine compared her to Beatrice Lillie and Charlie Chaplin and described her characterizations as taking "people or situations suspended in their own precarious balance between dignity and absurdity, and push(ing) them over the cliff with one single, pointed gesture". The magazine noted a "particularly high-brow critic" as observing, "The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. Miss Coca, on the other hand, is the timid woman who, when aroused, can beat a tiger to death with a feather." Aside from vaudeville, cabaret, film, theater and television, she voiced children's cartoons and was even featured in the 1984 MTV music video "Bag Lady" by the band EBN-OZN, ultimately working well into her 80s. In a 1999 interview, Robert Ozn said during the shoot she was required to sit on the sidewalk in snow for hours during a blizzard with 15 degree temperatures. "While the rest of us 20-somethings were moaning about the weather, warming ourselves by a heater, this little 75-year-old lady never once complained - put us all to shame. She was the most professional artist I've ever worked with."
Early life.
Born Emogeane Coca in Philadelphia, Coca was the daughter of Joseph Fernandez Coca, a violinist and vaudeville orchestra conductor and Sadie Brady, a dancer and magician's assistant. Coca's father was of Spanish descent (the family surname was originally Fernández y Coca), the son of Joseph F. Coca, Sr. and his wife, Laura.
Coca took lessons in piano, dance and voice as a child and while still a teenager moved from Philadelphia to New York City to become a dancer. She got her first job in the chorus of the Broadway musical "When You Smile" and became a headliner in Manhattan nightclubs with music arranged by her first husband, Robert Burton.
She gained prominence when she began to combine music with comedy; her first critical success was in "New Faces of 1934". A well-received part of her act was a comic striptease, during which Coca made sultry faces and gestures but would manage to remove only one glove. She committed this routine to film in the Educational Pictures comedy short "The Bashful Ballerina" (1937) and co-starred opposite another newcomer to films, Danny Kaye, in Educational's 1937 short "Dime a Dance". Both of these comedies were filmed in New York.
Career.
She played opposite Sid Caesar on "The Admiral Broadway Revue" (January to June 1949), and then in the sketch comedy program "Your Show of Shows", which was immensely popular from 1950 to 1954, winning the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series in 1952 and 1953. The 90-minute show was aired live on NBC every Saturday night in prime time. She won the second-ever Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 1951 and was nominated for four other Emmys for her work in the show. She won a 1953 Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. Her success in that program earned her her own series, "The Imogene Coca Show", which ran 1954-55.
Prior to working with Caesar she had starred in an early ABC series, "Buzzy Wuzzy", which lasted four episodes in 1948. She went on to star in two more series. In the 1963–64 TV season, Coca portrayed a comic temporary helper in the NBC sitcom "Grindl". It competed with the second half of "The Ed Sullivan Show" and lasted only one season. Coca later starred as a cave woman with Joe E. Ross in the 1966–67 time-travel satire sitcom "It's About Time".
She continued to appear on comedy and variety series throughout the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s including several appearances each on "The Carol Burnett Show", "The George Gobel Show", "The Hollywood Palace" and Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town" and Bob Hope specials. She appeared on other shows and specials by Dean Martin, Jackie Gleason, Jerry Lewis, Dick Clark, Danny Kaye and Andy Williams. "The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner and Howard Morris Special" won a 1967 Emmy for Outstanding Variety Special.
She made memorable guest appearances on sitcoms including two appearances on "Bewitched", "The Brady Bunch" and "Mama's Family". She appeared with Milton Berle and "Your Show of Shows" co-star Howard Morris in "Curtain Call", a 1983 episode of "Fantasy Island".
Coca appeared in a number of literary adaptations for children. In 1960 she was Miss Clavel in Sol Saks' adaptation of Ludwig Bemelmans' "Madeline" for "Shirley Temple's Storybook". In 1972, she voiced the character of Princess Jane Klockenlocher in "The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye", a Rankin/Bass version of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Emperor's New Clothes". In 1978, she appeared in "A Special Sesame Street Christmas". In 1985, she played The Cook in "Alice in Wonderland", an all-star TV miniseries adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll. Among her final roles was voicing characters in "Garfield and Friends".
In 1988, Coca appeared as the mother of Allyce Beasley's Agnes in the "Moonlighting" episode "Los Dos Dipestos", written by David Steinberg. She received her sixth Emmy nomination, as Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series, for the role. The same year she was the female recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Comedy at the second annual American Comedy Awards, alongside male recipient George Burns.
Coca appeared only sporadically in films such as "The Incredible Incident at Independence Square", filmed in her hometown of Philadelphia, as well as "Under the Yum Yum Tree" (1963), "Nothing Lasts Forever", "Papa Was a Preacher", "Buy & Cell" and "National Lampoon's Vacation" (1983), as "Aunt Edna".
After having appeared in several Broadway musical-comedy revues and plays between the 1930s and the 1950s, Coca returned to Broadway at the age of 70 with a Tony Award-nominated performance as religious zealot Letitia Primrose in "On the Twentieth Century", a 1978 stage musical adapted from the film "Twentieth Century" (1934). Her role, that of a religious fanatic who plasters decals onto every available surface, had been a male in both the film and the original stage production, and was rewritten specifically as a vehicle for Coca. She appeared in the Broadway run with Kevin Kline and Madeline Kahn, continued with the national tour starring Rock Hudson and Judy Kaye and returned for a later tour revival in the mid-1980s with Kaye and Frank Gorshin. She also co-starred with singer Maxine Sullivan in "My Old Friends" and touring productions including musicals such as "Once Upon a Mattress" and "Bells Are Ringing" and plays such as "The Prisoner of Second Avenue" and "Luv". She rejoined Sid Caesar in 1961–62, 1977 and 1990–91 for a traveling stage revue and made an appearance with Caesar and Howard Morris at "Comic Relief VI" in 1994.
One of Coca's early stock characters on the Caesar series blended comedy with socially conscious pathos as a bag lady and she was frequently asked to reprise the role, including by Carol Burnett for her 60s series and by Red Skelton as love interest to one of his own familiar characters in the 1981 TV special "Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner". New wave group Ēbn-Ōzn featured Coca as the title character in the music video to their song "Bag Lady (I Wonder)", which was a top-40 dance hit in 1984.
Life and legacy.
Coca had no children, but was married twice: for 20 years to Bob Burton, from 1935 until his death in 1955, and later for 27 years to King Donovan, from 1960 until his death in 1987. Burton's death came only one month after her mother had died. Coca was a practicing Roman Catholic.
Coca was a Democrat who supported the campaign of Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election.
Hours after Coca and Donovan completed their New Year's Eve 1972 performance of "Fourposter" at the Showboat Dinner Theater in St. Petersburg, Florida, they were involved in a serious auto accident. They had been driving in foggy weather to their home in Clearwater, Florida, when Donovan collided with another car driven by 19-year-old Cheryl Lynn Rice. Rice was unharmed, but Donovan sustained a slight leg injury, and the rear-view mirror entered Coca's right eye, smashing her cheekbone.
Transported to the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Coca underwent plastic surgery and a cosmetic lens covered her now-blind eye for the rest of her career, which resumed with her long stint in Broadway's "On the Twentieth Century" beginning in 1978.
Performers citing Coca as an influence include Carol Burnett, Lily Tomlin, Whoopi Goldberg and Tracey Ullman. "Your Show of Shows" is considered a television classic and was the basis for a well-received 1982 film, "My Favorite Year". A 1992 musical version of the film made its way to Broadway, in which comedic actress Andrea Martin won a Tony Award for her portrayal of Alice Miller.
In 1995, Coca was honored with the second annual Women in Film Lucy Award, honoring women's achievement in television and named after Lucille Ball.
Death.
On June 2, 2001, Coca died at her home in Westport, Connecticut, aged 92, from natural causes incidental to Alzheimer's disease. She was cremated and her ashes scattered.


Marburn Academy

Marburn Academy is a non-profit independent day school for students in grades 2–12 school in New Albany, Ohio. The school was created in 1981 as an alternative for gifted students who have ADHD or dyslexia. The school is one of 13 accredited Orton-Gillingham schools in the United States.
In January 2017, Marburn Academy moved from Forest Park East, Columbus, to a new location at 9555 Johnstown Road, New Albany, Ohio 43054.


University of Sydney Centre for Continuing Education

The Centre for Continuing Education (commonly referred to as CCE) is an adult education provider within the University of Sydney, Australia. It is located on Missenden Road in Newtown, an inner-west suburb, just south-west of the Sydney city centre. Extension lectures at the university were inaugurated in 1886, 36 years after the university's founding, making it Australia's longest running university continuing education program.
History.
The University of Sydney was founded in 1850. Emulating an English movement to extend the benefits of university teaching and to forge links with the community, Walter Scott (1855–1925) inaugurated the University Extension Board lectures in 1886.
At its meeting in July 1892, the University of Sydney Senate accepted a recommendation of the University Extension Lectures Committee that Miss Louisa Macdonald deliver a course of six lectures on "Greek life and art". The Senate also approved payment to Miss MacDonald of an honorarium of £30 for teaching the course, and agreed that the course participants should each pay five shillings.


George J. Minty

George James Minty Jr. (September 16, 1929, Detroit – August 6, 1986, Bloomington, Indiana) was an American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis and discrete mathematics. He is known for the Klee-Minty cube and the Browder-Minty theorem.
Biography.
George Minty Jr. grew up in Detroit. His father emigrated, after WW I, from Scotland to work in Detroit's automotive industry as a tool and die maker. George Minty Jr. received his bachelor's degree from Detroit's Wayne State University. After service in the US Army Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, he became in 1956 a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Michigan. There he received in 1959 his PhD with thesis "Integrability Conditions for Vector Fields in Banach Spaces" supervised by Erich Rothe. As a postdoc in 1959 he was briefly a visiting researcher at Tokyo's Waseda University.
Minty joined the University of Michigan faculty and was eventually promoted to associate professor before he resigned in 1965. For the academic year 1964–1965 he was on leave to do research at the Courant Institute. In 1965 he was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. At Indiana University he was a full professor of mathematics from 1965 until his death in 1986.
Research.
Minty's 1966 paper "On the axiomatic foundations of the theories of directed linear graphs, electrical networks and network-programming" is important in matroid theory. In that 1966 paper, according to Dominic Welsh:
According to K.-C. Chang:
In 2012 D. Erdős, A. Frank, and K. Kun published a sharpening of Minty's coloring theorem (published in 1962 in "The American Mathematical Monthly").


Jessie Isabelle Price

Jessie Isabelle Price (January 1, 1930 – November 12, 2015) was a veterinary microbiologist. She isolated and reproduced the cause of the most common life-threatening disease in duck farming in the 1950s and developed vaccines for this and other avian diseases. A graduate of Cornell University, where she gained a PhD (1959), she worked first at the Cornell Duck Research Laboratory and later at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center. She served as chair of the Predoctoral Minority Fellowship Ad Hoc Review Committee of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), and as president of Graduate Women in Science.
Early life and education.
Jessie Price was born in Montrose, Pennsylvania. Her mother, Teresa Price, raised her daughter on her own in difficult financial circumstances. Price was the only African-American in her class, at a school where there were only two other Black students. After graduating from Montrose High School, she was accepted into Cornell University, moving with her mother to Ithaca to take advanced high classes in mathematics and English for a year. Tuition fees were waived because of her New York residency and grades. She wanted to be a physician, but could not because of the cost. Price gained a Bachelor of Science in the College of Agriculture in 1953.
Her mentor, Dorsey Bruner, recommended post-graduate studies, but finances prohibited it. Price worked for three years as a laboratory technician in the Poultry Disease Research Farm in the Veterinary College at Cornell to save for further study. She gained research assistant support for 1956 to 1959, gaining a Masters in 1958, and doctorate in 1959, supervised by Bruner. Her Master's thesis was "Morphological and Cultural Studies of Pleuropneumonia-like Organisms and Their Variants Isolated from Chickens".
For her doctoral dissertation, Price isolated and reproduced the bacterium, "Pasteurella anatipestifer", in white pekin ("Long Island") ducklings infected with a disease that was a major killer among duck farmers at that time. Her dissertation was published by Cornell University in 1959.
Career and later life.
After her PhD, Price joined the Cornell Duck Research Laboratory, where she worked from 1959 to 1977, teaching at Long Island University, where she became an adjunct professor. She worked on developing a vaccine, undertaking trials of mixed flocks of vaccinated and unvaccinated ducklings, working every day, and conducting daily autopsies. In 1964, Ebony magazine featured Price and her work in an extensive photo-essay describing and showing her work on vaccine development, in the Duck Research Laboratory and on the farm. Price describes the heavy workload, made more onerous by the four-mile distance between the laboratory and farm where the flocks of ducklings were managed.
In 1966, Price was awarded a National Science Foundation travel grant to present her findings at the International Congress for Microbiology in Moscow. By 1974, she had developed an injectable vaccine and was moving on to studying oral vaccination. She moved to the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin in 1977, and the study of environmental contaminants and diseases in wildlife, especially water fowl.
Her professional activities included serving as chair of the Predoctoral Minority Fellowship Ad Hoc Review Committee of the American Society for Microbiology (ASM), as well as its Summer Research Fellowship and Travel Award Program. Price was also a member of the ASM's Committee on the Status of Minority Microbiologists and its Committee on the Status of Women Microbiologists. She was also active in Graduate Women in Science (also called Sigma Delta Epsilon), serving as national president from 1974 to 1975, after being national second vice-president (1972-1973), as well as on the national board of directors (1976-1980).
Price was a dog-lover and breeder, with a prize-winning Corgi in the 1960s. Her other favorite pastimes were photography, music, and travel.
Price died of Lewy body dementia on 12 November 2015 in Madison, and was buried in Quoque Cemetery on Long Island.
Avian disease research and vaccine development.
Long Island "New Duck Disease" is an infectious disease affecting primarily ducklings, with a high mortality rate. In 1956, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported that it was "the most important disease problem of the duck industry", with losses of up to 75% of populations. For her doctoral work, Price isolated and reproduced "Pasteurella anatipestifer", an essential step for vaccine development.
While at the Cornell Duck Research Laboratory, she began working on vaccine development for "Pasteurella anatipestifer" for white pekin ducks, which she would continue in avian cholera and TB for various species through her career. Some of the vaccines were commercially developed. She worked with national and international colleagues, publishing on "Pasteurella anatipestifer" in pheasants, medication for bacterial infections in ducklings, "Pasteurella multocida" in Nebraska wetlands and in snow geese.


Kefeng Liu

Kefeng Liu (Chinese: 刘克峰; born 12 December 1965), is a Chinese-American mathematician who is known for his contributions to geometric analysis, particularly the geometry, topology and analysis of moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and Calabi-Yau manifolds. He is a professor of mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, as well as the Executive Director of the Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University. He is best-known for his collaboration with Bong Lian and Shing-Tung Yau in which they establish some enumerative geometry conjectures motivated by mirror symmetry.
Biography.
Liu was born in Kaifeng, Henan province, China. In 1985, Liu received his B.A. in mathematics from the Department of Mathematics of Peking University in Beijing. In 1988, Liu obtained his M.A. from the Institute of Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing. Liu then went to study in the United States, obtaining a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1993 under Shing-Tung Yau.
From 1993 to 1996, Liu was C. L. E. Moore Instructor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1996 to 2000, Liu was an assistant professor at Stanford University. Liu joined the University of California, Los Angeles faculty in 2000, where he was promoted to full professor in 2002. In September 2003, Liu was appointed as the head of Zhejiang University's mathematics department. Liu is currently the Executive Director of the Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University.


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Crate training

Crate training is the process of teaching a pet to accept a dog crate or cage as a familiar and safe location. Advocates claim that dogs are den-dwelling animals and that a crate can become a den substitute. While this is a widely held belief, there is little evidence to support it. Regardless, most puppies can learn to tolerate crate training if it is introduced properly. The initial stress from being confined can give way to "increased feelings of security, safety, and comfort" after repeated exposure to the crate. Long-term or excessive crate confinement "may lead to emotional and behavioral deterioration over time." On the other hand, if properly done, crate training can play a major role in housebreaking a dog as fast as possible. Ordinarily, it is seen as a way of confining a dog and restricting its movement and freedom. However, crate training can help dogs gain full bowel and bladder control while enjoying treats and comfort. If crate training is not taken seriously, the dog may start soiling around the house.
Rationale.
Proponents of crate training argue that dogs are den animals and that the crate acts as a substitute for a den. While this is a widely held belief, there is little evidence to support it. Borchelt (1984) states:
Nevertheless, once a dog gets used to a crate, they can see it as a place of comfort and safety. The Humane Society of America recommends crate training to create a place of security and comfort for a dog, while cautioning that it is not the best solution to animal behavior problems.
Other scenarios where crate training may be considered helpful include: when visiting a vet, when traveling, during recuperation from an injury and to protect your dog while you are away for short periods of time.
Crate selection.
It is important to pick a crate that is the correct size for the pet and is appropriate for its purpose. Often larger crates come with some sort of divider so that a crate can grow with the pet. The correct size for a crate is just enough room for the animal to stand up without hitting their head, lay down and stretch out their paws and to turn around unimpeded. When using a crate in the home, make sure the crate is placed in a location that is comfortable. Avoid drafty areas near doors or windows, areas in the direct sunlight (which may become excessively hot), or areas adjacent to a radiator or heat source.
A crate for use at home can be larger than one used for travel. Crates used for international transport should adhere to international regulations stipulated by IATA. If the crate is too big the pet will be able to use one end for rest and sleep while using the other as a toilet, which will undermine one of the purposes of crate training.
A dog's natural instinct is to relieve themselves outside of the area in which they eat and sleep. So if a crate is small enough that they cannot possibly defecate while having enough room to sleep well away from it, a dog will 'hold it' as long as they possibly can. It is this instinct that facilitates using a crate as an aid for house training.
During air travel, an oversized cage does not permit the pet to use the sides easily as a brace during turbulence. Likewise, crates that are too small pose a health risk by restricting and preventing proper air flow and ventilation. This is of particular concern to domestic pets of a brachycephalic (short-headed) breed where the requirement is to allow extra room due to the high incidence of death in these pets during transport. Due to their shortened airways and limited ability to cool themselves through panting, overheating while traveling poses a risk to the health of such breeds.
Training.
When crate training, it is important to use a training approach that is recommended by a reputable vet, trainer, breeder or a trusted training book.
Crate training is often practiced with new puppies as a method of house-training. Puppies naturally do not want to dirty the place where they sleep, so they will try as much as possible to hold it while they are in their crate. Of course, young puppies can not control their bladders for long: about one hour for every month of age. Owners of young dogs will have to continue to take the puppy outside frequently. The crate is the only space in the entire house that truly belongs to the dog, and if used appropriately, will become a safe haven for years to come.
Locking the dog in a crate and letting it whine, bark and attempt to escape is common but such attempts to introduce crate training may cause a negative association with crating. The dog should become slowly accustomed to the crate. This can involve making a crate an inviting place by placing small familiar toys inside, moving the pet bed into crate, leaving unwashed items of the owner's clothing inside, rewarding pets for entering the crate and remaining inside, incorporating the crate as part of play, feeding the pet in the crate, allowing the pet to explore and use the crate until it is no longer intimidating, and eventually building to the pet sleeping in the crate overnight.
Part of proper crate or cage training requires that the pet owner observe calm and relaxed behavior around the crate. The pet will attribute any emotional responses such as raised voices or other nervous behaviors to the foreign object in their normal environment. It is important for the owner not to create any negative associations with the cage in order for the pet to accept the crate in a calm manner.
Adverse effects.
Without proper conditioning, dogs may vocalize their distress and make efforts to escape the crates. Crating suppresses the dog's behavior, removes the dog's freedom of movement and is a negative punishment (removal of reward) under operant conditioning. Dogs who do not react well to negative punishment may find crating highly stressful. Long term or excessive crate confinement "may lead to emotional and behavioral deterioration over time." To the extent that crating reduces the amount of exposure to different environmental and social situations, it can make dogs more reactive (fearful or aggressive) or intolerant of novel situations. Crating "may significantly exacerbate the distress and emotional reactivity associated with separation distress". Behavioral problems that compels owners to crate train in the first place, may be exacerbated by the negative effects of crating.
A dog may form a strong attachment to the crate eventually, feeling comfort and safety, after the initial feeling of distress and vulnerability. One dog behaviorist has compared this behavioral effect to Stockholm syndrome. Dogs that are trained to sleep in a crate, when allowed to sleep in a bedroom, can show signs consistent with that of separation distress, suggesting that dogs may love their crate "perhaps in some cases more than they love the owner." This bond with the crate may interfere with the human-animal bond and exacerbate bond-related behavior problems such as separation distress and owner-directed aggression.
Steven Lindsay in "Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training" states that while "the role of crate confinement in the etiology of behavior problems has not been scientifically established [...] empirical impressions and logic dictate that it probably plays an important role in the development or exacerbation of many adjustment problems." He argues that "the widespread practice of routinely caging a dog at night and then again during the day for periods totaling 16 to 18 hours (or more) is an extremely problematic practice that should not be condoned or encouraged, because it probably underlies the development of many adjustment problems, including aggression." The purpose of crate training, he says, "should be to get the dog out of the crate as soon as possible, and to use the crate as little as possible in the service of training and space-management objectives."
Legislation.
In Sweden, regulations forbid keeping dogs in cages or other enclosures below a certain size. Exceptions are made for some situations, such as during travels or at dog shows/trials. Even then, the dogs have to be walked every two hours or three hours. The size required for an enclosure to be exempt from such regulations starts at —about the area of a single/twin mattress—for a small dog and up to for a large dog. Similar regulations exist in Finland.


Ram Charan (consultant)

Ram Charan (Hindi राम चरण; Uttar Pradesh, 1939) is an Indian-American business consultant, speaker, and writer resident in Dallas, Texas.
Career.
Charan has consulted for companies such as GE, KLM, Bank of America, Praxair and Jaypee Associates. He is the author of various books on business, including "Talent Masters", "Leaders At All Levels"', "Leadership in the Era of Economic Uncertainty: The New Rules for Getting the Right Things Done in Difficult Times", "Boards That Deliver", "What The CEO Wants You To Know", "Boards At Work", "Every Business Is A Growth Business" (with Noel Tichy), "Profitable Growth Is Everyone's Business", "Confronting Reality", "Know How" and "Execution" (with Larry Bossidy and Charles Burck), which was a best-seller.
Charan runs his business management consulting company under the name Charan Associates in Dallas, TX. Records show the company was established in 1981 and incorporated in Texas. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $500,000 to $1 million and employs a staff of approximately 1 to 4. Charan sits on the board for Austin Industries, SSA & Company (formerly Six Sigma Academy), and TE Connectivity.
Charan partnered with Kevin R. Cope and Stephen M.R. Covey to form Acumen Learning. Acumen Learning and Ram Charan have an agreement to use the concepts in his book: "What the CEO Wants You to Know". Ram has helped to define and popularize the idea of business acumen being an essential leadership characteristic in management.
In November 2012, Dr. Ram Charan, along with Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev guided "Insight: the DNA of Success" a leadership program bringing together, for the first time, the tools of professional and personal empowerment. Fortune magazine calls him 'the most influential consultant alive'. The 4-day program held at the Isha Yoga Center, saw 200 business leaders converge in an exploration that bridged spirituality and business.
Charan was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources in 2000 and named a Distinguished Fellow in 2005.


Gwen Carr

Gwen Carr (born 1949) is an American activist, public speaker, and author. Carr's son, Eric Garner, was killed by a New York Police Department officer who used a prohibited chokehold to arrest Garner. Since her son's death, Carr has become active in police reform in the United States, including as a member of Mothers of the Movement and a voice in the Black Lives Matter movement.
Death of son, Eric Garner.
On July 17, 2014, Carr's son Eric Garner was killed by a New York Police Department officer who used a prohibited chokehold while arresting Garner. Garner's death was filmed, with "I can't breathe" being his final words, which went viral and became a mantra of the Black Lives Matter ("BLM") and anti-police brutality movement. Carr became part of the BLM movement and became a leading supporter of justice for the death of her son. On December 4, 2014, a grand jury declined to indict the police officer, Daniel Pantaleo. Carr expressed disappointment and frustration at the decision.
Activism.
Before becoming an activist, Carr worked for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as a train operator. She retired in 2015 to devote her work to the civil rights movement. Carr often makes appearances with Al Sharpton and National Action Network at protests and rallies opposing police brutality and supporting Black Lives Matter.
Carr is a critic of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who in 2016 opposed a bill that would have banned police officers from using chokeholds. Carr did not vote for de Blasio in the 2017 election. She endorsed Hillary Clinton in her 2016 run for president.
In September 2019, Carr testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee about police brutality, alongside James Blake and Al Sharpton.
After the videotaped death of George Floyd, choked by Minneapolis police in May 2020, Carr immediately contacted and consoled Floyd's family. Just like her son, Floyd's last words were "I can't breathe." After her first conversation with the Floyd family, she told them: "Don't forget. You cannot let this go."
Carr spoke at protests in Queens, New York and Staten Island, followed by attending Floyd's memorial service in Minneapolis and Floyd's funeral in Houston.
On the opening night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Carr appeared in a video that also featured Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, activist Jamira Burley, NAACP President Derrick Johnson, and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot.
Personal life.
Carr lives on Staten Island, New York.


Mart Kuldkepp

Mart Kuldkepp (born September 19, 1983) is an Estonian Scandinavianist, historian and translator. He is Associate Professor of Scandinavian History and Politics at University College London. Between 2011 and 2015, he worked in various positions in the Tartu University Scandinavian languages department, including as head of department and programme director.
Mart Kuldkepp's main research topics are Estonian and Scandinavian political and cultural contacts in the twentieth century, questions of Estonians' nordic identity, and Old Norse literature and culture. At the University of Tartu in 2014, he defended his doctoral dissertation on the subject "Estonia Gravitates towards Sweden: Nordic Identity and Activist Regionalism in World War I".
He has also been engaged in a thorough investigation of Aleksander Kesküla, and in 2015 received an Emerging Scholar Award from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
Mart Kuldkepp belongs to the Estonian student society Veljesto. He is also a member of the Learned Estonian Society.


Paul Grannis

Paul Dutton Grannis (26 June 1938) is an American physicist.
Grannis received the B. Eng. Phys., with Distinction, from Cornell University in 1961 and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley in 1965 under the supervision of Owen Chamberlain with thesis "Measurement of the Polarization Parameter in Proton-Proton Scattering from 1.7 to 6.1 BeV". Since 1966 Grannis has been at Stony Brook University (SUNY at Stony Brook). He has been a visiting scientist at CERN (ISR, LEP Collider), Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, University College London and Imperial College London.


Thomas P. Saine

Thomas Price Saine (March 8, 1941 – December 5, 2013), usually called Tom Saine, was an American professor of German studies who taught at University of California, Irvine, from 1975 to 2005.
Life and academic career.
Saine was born in 1941 in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Clarence Price Saine and Evelyn Meadows Saine. After attending Christian Brothers High School in Memphis, he studied at Yale University from 1958 to 1962, when he graduated with a B.A. in German. After studying at the University of Tübingen and Rice University, he returned to Yale where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1968 under the supervision of Heinrich E. K. Henel and taught as a German instructor, assistant and associate professor from 1969 to 1975. In 1975, he moved to UC Irvine as associate professor and was promoted to full professor and department chair in 1976. He was one of the original members of the Goethe Society of North America in 1979 and the founding editor of its "Goethe Yearbook", which published its first issue in 1982 and the Goethe Society's Vice President 2001–2002. Saine was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1982. He retired from UC Irvine as emeritus professor in 2005. In 2010, he moved to Texas and lived in Plano, until his death from complications of lung cancer in Dallas on December 5, 2013. Saine was divorced and had two sons.
Research themes and interests.
Saine's main interest was in , the period between 1770 and 1830 in German literature, and he was a well-known scholar of Goethe and the culture of 18th-century Germany. In his time at Yale, he studied mostly Enlightenment authors, especially radical theologians and freethinkers. His thesis considered the aesthetics of Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793). In 1972, he published the first English biography of Georg Forster. At Irvine, his research interests included authors such as Christian Wolff, Johann Gottfried Seume and Adolph von Knigge. He investigated the German Enlightenment and its reaction to the French Revolution in his books "The Problem of Being Modern" and "Black Bread-White Bread".
One of the central topics of Saine's research was Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and he wrote several essays on Goethe, founded the Goethe Society of North America, edited the "Goethe Yearbook" that played a central role in American Goethe scholarship, and translated and edited some of Goethe's works. Saine was described as a Goethe fan, and not only owned a large Goethe-related library, but also used Goethe-related vanity plates for his vehicles. His California car registration was GOETHE 1, his California motorcycle registration was GOETHE; when Saine moved to Texas, he was able to obtain another GOETHE plate for his car. His GOETHE 1 California plate later appeared in a novel, by German author , based on the author's experiences as an international student at Irvine. One of Tom Saine's original GOETHE 1 license plates has been displayed by Fleischhauer at readings.
Publications.
Besides more than forty research articles, Saine wrote the following five books:
Saine also edited some volumes (those with Goethe's autobiographical writings) of Goethe's collected works in English, including his own translations of "Campaign in France" and "Siege of Mainz":


Marija Kon

Marija Kon (née Marie Bergmann; 15 January 1894 - 9 August 1987) was a Bosnian Germanist and the first woman in Bosnia and Herzegovina to be awarded a doctorate.
Biography.
Kon was born in Hadžići (near Sarajevo), where her father, Joseph Bergmann, worked as a railway officer. The middle-class Bergmann family, Ashkenazi Jews, moved from Vienna during the Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Kon's mother was determined not to allow financial or social issues to limit the opportunities of her four daughters. In order to enable them to attend university, the Bergmanns enrolled their daughters into gymnasium; Marija and her older sister Berta thus became first female pupils in Mostar's Velika gimnazija in 1905, and seven years later Berta became the first girl in Bosnia and Herzegovina to finish high school. Both sisters went on to study in Vienna, with Kon choosing Slavic and German studies. In 1916 Kon gained a doctorate degree from the University of Vienna and returned to Bosnia and Herzegovina as its first female Doctor of Philosophy.
During the interwar period Kon taught at gymnasiums in Mostar, Cetinje and Sarajevo. She married a civil engineer and had two children. With the rise of Nazi Party in Germany in the 1930s, however, anti-semitism started gaining foothold in Yugoslavia. Kon had to personally combat proto-Ustaša inclinations of some of her students. The situation rapidly worsened after the invasion of Yugoslavia by Axis powers in April 1941, when Sarajevo and the rest of Bosnia became part of the Independent State of Croatia, a fascist puppet state. Kon lost her job and soon found herself interned with her family in Rab concentration camp. Following the camp's liberation in 1943, she reached Partisan territory in Croatia proper, becoming a gymnasium principal in Glina. Her children became Partisan fighters; her son was killed in action, and her daughter captured and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Kon's sister Berta also actively supported the Partisans until her internment and death in 1945.
Kon and her daughter belonged to a fifth of Sarajevo's Jews who survived the Holocaust. She continued her career in the high schools of Mostar and Sarajevo until 1950, when she was invited to participate in the creation of a German language and literature department at the University of Sarajevo. As university professor she was most involved with early modern and modern German literature until her retirement in 1967. Kon died in Sarajevo in 1987.


Senara language

Senara (Niangolo), one of a cluster of languages called Senari, is a Senufo language of Burkina Faso and Mali.


Thomas Spence

Thomas Spence ( 17508 September 1814) was an English Radical and advocate of the common ownership of land and a democratic equality of the sexes. Spence was one of the leading revolutionaries of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was born in poverty and died the same way, after long periods of imprisonment, in 1814.
Life.
Spence left Newcastle for London in 1787. He kept a book-stall in High Holborn. In 1794, with other members of the London Corresponding Society, he spent seven months in Newgate Gaol on a charge of high treason, and in 1801 he was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for seditious libel. He died in London on 8 September 1814.
Land reform and Spence's Plan.
The threatened enclosure of the common land known as Town Moor in Newcastle in 1771 appears to have been key to Spence's interest in the land question and journey towards ultra-radicalism. His scheme was not for land nationalization but for the establishment of self-contained parochial communities, in which rent paid to the parish (wherein the absolute ownership of the land was vested) should be the only tax of any kind. His ideas and thinking on the subject were shaped by a variety of economic thinkers, including his friend Charles Hall.
At the centre of Spence's work was his plan, which argued for:
Spence's Plan was first published in his penny pamphlet Property in Land Every One's Right in 1775. It was re-issued as "The Real Rights of Man" in later editions. It was also reissued by, amongst others, Henry Hyndman under the title of The Nationalization of the Land in 1795 and 1882.
Spence explored his political and social concepts in a series of books about the fictional Utopian state of Spensonia.
"Rights of man".
Spence may have been the first Englishman to speak of 'the rights of man'. The following recollection, composed in the third person, was written by Spence while he was in prison in London in 1794 on a charge of high treason. Spence was, he wrote,
This is in reference to the story of "Jack the Blaster" at Marsden Grotto.
Spelling reform.
Spence was a self-taught radical with a deep regard for education as a means to liberation. He pioneered a phonetic script and pronunciation system designed to allow people to learn reading and pronunciation at the same time. He believed that if the correct pronunciation was visible in the spelling, everyone would pronounce English correctly, and the class distinctions carried by language would cease. This would bring a time of equality, peace and plenty: the millennium. He published the first English dictionary with pronunciations (1775) and made phonetic versions of many of his pamphlets.
Examples of Spence's spelling system can be seen on the pages on English from the Spence Society.
Rights of children.
Spence's angry defence of the rights of children has lost little of its potency. When his The Rights of Infants was published in 1797 (as a response to Thomas Paine's "Agrarian Justice") it was ahead of its time. In this essay Spence proposes the introduction of an unconditional basic income to all members of the community. Such allowance shall be financed through the socialization of land and the benefits of the rents received by each municipality.
Spence's essay also expresses a clear commitment to the rights of women, although he appears unaware of Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 "Vindication of the Rights of Woman".
Memorial and legacy.
Spence is listed on the Reformers Memorial in Kensal Green Cemetery in London.
His admirers formed a "Society of Spencean Philanthropists," of which some account is given in Harriet Martineau's "England During the Thirty Years' Peace". The African Caribbean activists William Davidson and Robert Wedderburn were drawn to this political group.
Members of the Society of Spencean Philanthropists (including Arthur Thistlewood) maintained contacts with Irish radicals, and were implicated in the Spa Field riots of 1816 and the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820.


Kratt brothers

The Kratt Brothers, Martin William (born December 23, 1965) and Christopher Frederick James (born July 19, 1969), are American zoologists, actors, producers, directors, and educational nature show hosts. Grandsons of musical-instrument manufacturer William King "Bill" Kratt, the brothers grew up in Warren Township, New Jersey, and together created children's television series "Kratts' Creatures", "Zoboomafoo", and "Be the Creature" (which aired on the National Geographic Channel and CBC), as well as "Wild Kratts" (which airs on PBS Kids and TVOKids). Martin holds a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from Duke University, and Chris holds a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Carleton College.
The brothers attended Watchung Hills Regional High School. Both were inducted into the school's hall of fame in 2013.
Early life.
Martin was born on December 23, 1965, and Chris was born on July 19, 1969, in New Jersey to Linda (born 1939) and William Kratt (born 1928). They are the grandsons of musical instrument maker William Jacob Kratt.
Career.
In 1990, Chris served as an intern at Conservation International in Washington, D.C. A year later, he started the Carleton Organization for Biodiversity. His ecology studies have been funded by the Explorers Club and the National Science Foundation. He was also the recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.
Chris also starred alongside his brother Martin in the show "Zoboomafoo", which aired from 1999 to 2001. On this PBS kids show, they went on many adventures with animals with the help of Zoboomafoo, a Coquerel's sifaka lemur (Propithecus coquereli).The other shows the brothers created are "Wild Kratts", "Be the Creature", "Kratt's Creatures", and "Wild Alaska Live".
From June 13 to August 3, 2008, the brothers appeared in "Creature Adventures", a stage show at Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. They also appear as themselves in the "Odd Squad" episode "Night Shift".
Personal life.
The brothers have lived in Ottawa, Ontario since 2008, where they film and animate their TV series "Wild Kratts."
Martin.
Martin was married to Laura Wilkinson and has two sons, Ronan (born 2003), a soccer player and Gavin, both of whom have had roles on "Wild Kratts". According to Laura’s social media accounts, she and Martin are separated.
Chris.
Chris has two sons, Aidan (born 2003), a swimmer and Nolan, with his wife Tanya Armstrong, an interior designer whom he married in 2000 in the country of Botswana. Chris' older son, Aidan, played a child named Aidan in the "Wild Kratts" episode "Build It Beaver", though his character was unrelated to Chris and Martin in the show. Nolan's character made a brief cameo as a Wild Kratts Kid, and appears later on in the series as the little brother of Aidan.


Walter Broadnax

Walter Doyce Broadnax (born October 21, 1944) is Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, appointed in the fall of 2008. Prior this appointment he served as president of Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, retiring after six years in July 2008.
Biography.
Born October 21, 1944, in Star City, Arkansas, to a railroad man named Walter Broadnax and mother Mary Lee Broadnax, Broadnax attended Roosevelt Elementary School in Hoisington, Kansas. He graduated from Hoisington High School in 1962 as an outstanding senior. He earned his B.A. degree from Washburn University in 1967. A Ford Foundation Fellow, Broadnax earned his M.P.A. degree from the University of Kansas in 1969 and his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University in 1975.
From 1974 to 1975, Broadnax taught at Syracuse University and was a staff consultant to the New York State Department of Correctional Services. In 1976, he was appointed co-director, Joint International City Management Association/National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, Urban Management Education Program, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. Until 1979, he was professor of public administration at the Federal Executive Institute while teaching at the University of Virginia, Howard University and the University of Maryland. He also worked as director of Services to Children, Youth and Adults for the State of Kansas in Topeka. Broadnax joined the Carter administration in 1980 as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare. He was senior staff member for the Advanced Study Program of the Brookings Institution. In 1981, he joined the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University where he chaired the Massachusetts Executive Development Program and was founding director of the innovations in state and local government programs. In 1987, Broadnax was appointed president of the New York Civil Service Commission. He worked as adjunct professor of Public Policy at the University of Rochester from 1990 to 1993. In 1992, he served on the Harvard South Africa Program team and as a transition team leader for President Bill Clinton. In 1993, he served as president of the Center for Governmental Research, and from 1993 to 1996, Broadnax worked as Deputy Secretary and COO of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. He also worked as a professor at the University of Maryland and Dean of the School of Public Affairs at American University.
In 2002, Broadnax became president of Clark Atlanta University. Under his leadership, Clark Atlanta University became the second private historically Black College or university classified as a RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity) institution by the Carnegie Foundation. Howard University is a RU/H: Research Universities (high research activity).
Broadnax has served on Colin Powell's U.S. Secretary of State management advisory board, Comptroller General of the United States David Walker's Advisory Board and NASA's Return to Flight Task Force.


Inquisiq R3

Inquisiq R4 is a web-based SCORM compliant Learning Management System (LMS) that is owned by ICS Learning Group Inc. Inquisiq R4 is used for delivering and tracking both e-learning courseware and traditional training. The product is available as either a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model or an unlimited user on-premises model hosted by the customer or the vendor.
Product information.
General.
Inquisiq R4 first launched in 2002 under the name"Inquisiq LMS". A second generation product was released in 2005 as "Inquisiq EX" and a third generation product was released in 2009 as "Inquisiq R3." The current version, Inquisiq R4, was released in 2015 and added an updated user interface, multilingual capability (English and up to 12 additional languages), and gamification features. It is a web-based software application developed in ASP/.NET and can be hosted on recent Windows Server and SQL platforms. As of 2016, Inquisiq has over 3 million users on its platform.
The Inquisiq interface provides standard and advanced LMS functionality, including
Server Requirements.
Recommended:


Andreas Heusler

Andreas Heusler (10 August 1865 – 28 February 1940) was a Swiss philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. He was a Professor of Germanic Philology at the University of Berlin and a renowned authority on early Germanic literature.
Life.
Andreas Heusler was born into a prestigious family in Basel, the third in a line of fathers and sons bearing the same name (his father was Andreas Heusler (1834–1921) and his grandfather Andreas Heusler (1802–1868); both worked in law and government). Andreas enjoyed a stellar career as a student in Basel, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Berlin, completing his studies in 1887 in Freiburg with the doctoral thesis "Beitrag zum Consonantismus der Mundart von Baselstadt".
In 1890, when Heusler was 25 years old, he began lecturing in Berlin and was a professor of Nordic textual studies there from 1894 to 1913. He focused on research into Old Norse literature, especially the Poetic Edda and "Íslendingasögur", translating many works into German and travelling twice to Iceland. From 1914 to 1919, Heusler was professor of Germanic textual studies at Berlin University. He moved back to Switzerland in 1920 and lived in Arlesheim near Basel, where a place was made for him at Basel University, where he worked until he reached the age limit in 1936.
Besides ancient Germanic and Nordic culture, Heusler was noted for his love of music (he played the violin); around 1889 he switched from a strongly held Christianity to being a confirmed atheist. There is some debate as to where Heusler stood on German nationalism in the 1930s. He seems at first to have been swayed by it, but it is thought that he turned his back on Adolf Hitler around 1938. A good insight into his thoughts is offered by the four hundred letters to Wilhelm Ranisch which he wrote in the period 1890–1940.
In 1893, Heusler married the singer Auguste Hohenschild, who was fourteen years his senior. The marriage was unhappy and they divorced in 1922, having been separated since 1901. Heusler died in Basel in 1940 after a short illness.
Influence.
Andreas Heusler was among the most influential figures in early Germanic studies in the first half of the twentieth century, and much of his work still resonates today.


Watsonville High School

Watsonville High School is a high school located in Watsonville, Santa Cruz County, California, and is part of the Pajaro Valley Unified School District. The school mascot is Willy the Wildcat. The school colors are black and gold. Watsonville High School is a large school with over 2,000 students and staff, making it the largest school in the Pajaro Valley Unified School district.
History.
Watsonville High School was originally a two-year high school course which was connected to a grammar school. The program met the standard for college entry requirements, as well as teaching Latin and Greek. In 1891, the course was extended to three years. There was an increased need for a separate building, so the district passed a bond measure to build a new two-story building, designed by W.H. Weeks, on the corner of Third and Marchant Streets.
On November 8, 1901, seven years after it was built, the school burnt to the ground. In December, a second bond measure was proposed to rebuild the school, but it failed. In February, the school district was able to pass a smaller bond to hire Weeks to build a "Spanish style" school on the foundations of the original building.
Sports.
Their most recent sports rival is Pajaro Valley High School, which is also located in Watsonville. Watsonville High's long-time rival is Aptos High School; the football game between the two schools is known as the "Black and Blue Bowl."


Carmen Sevilla

María del Carmen García Galisteo (born 16 October 1930), known professionally as Carmen Sevilla, is a Spanish actress, singer and television presenter. Her film roles include Academy Award nominee "Vengeance", "Searching for Monica" (1962) and the 1956 French film "Don Juan".
Early life.
María del Carmen García Galisteo was born on 16 October 1930 in Seville.
Career.
Sevilla made her film début in 1948 in "Jalisco Sings in Seville". Her rise to fame came with her starring role in "The Troublemaker" with Tony Leblanc. She also played Mary Magdalene in Nicholas Ray's "King of Kings".
In 1972, she played Octavia in the English-language film "Antony and Cleopatra", She also appeared in "No es bueno que el hombre esté solo" (1973), "Nadie oyó gritar" (1973), and "Beatriz" (1976). In January 2004, she received the 2003 Medal of Honour bestowed by the Círculo de Escritores Cinematográficos.
Personal life.
In 2012, she was announced to be in a "very advanced stage" of Alzheimer's disease. In 2015 it was reported that she no longer recognized her home.


Kiel Moe

Kiel Kenneth Moe (born 1976). is a registered practicing American architect. Moe has taught architecture and energy at University of Illinois at Chicago, Syracuse University, Northeastern University and Harvard Graduate School of Design. He holds the Gerald Sheff Chair of Architecture in McGill University.
Moe received the B.Arch from the University of Cincinnati, M.Arch from University of Virginia, and a Master in Design and Environmental Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design Advanced Studies Program.
Honors and awards.
2012, 2014, 2016 Fellow, MacDowell Colony for the Arts
2013 Boston Design Biennial winner by Boston Society of Architects
2012 Barbara and Andrew Senchak Fellowship, The MacDowell Colony
2011 Architectural League Prize by Architectural League of New York
2011 Young Architects Award American Institute of Architects
2010 Fellow of American Academy in Rome (FAAR)


Aris Christofellis

Aris Christofellis (; born 5 February 1960) is a Greek sopranist (male soprano) and musicologist.
Life and career.
Aris Christofellis was born in Athens. After studying piano in Athens and Paris with several teachers including the famous pianist France Clidat, he decided to concentrate on developing his unique singing voice of male soprano, studying with Fofi Sarandopoulo. He made his debut in Bordeaux in 1984. In 1985 he sang Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Exsultate, jubilate" at Cannes Midem Classique inauguration concert, where he was received enthusiastically by both the public and the critics.
His repertoire extends from Renaissance to contemporary music, but he focuses on the Italian baroque opera of the 18th and early 19th century. Aris Christofellis' vocal technique and taste for historically informed ornaments have been highly acclaimed across the world and as a musicologist, he has brought to light many works of this period and has dealt in particular with the ornamentation of the vocal music of the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to lieder and folk songs, he concentrates mainly on Baroque opera and is known for singing roles written for castrati. He maintains an extensive discography and his numerous recordings made for EMI Classics between the mid 1990s and early 2000 are of enormous importance for the rediscovery of the vocal music from the late Baroque and early Classic period.
Since the end of the 1990s, Aris Christofellis reduced significantly his concert and opera performances and has started a successful career as a singing teacher in Greece and in several other countries, including Italy.


Elouise P. Cobell

Elouise Pepion Cobell, also known as Yellow Bird Woman (November 5, 1945 – October 16, 2011) ("Niitsítapi" Blackfoot Confederacy) was a tribal elder and activist, banker, rancher, and lead plaintiff in the groundbreaking class-action suit "Cobell v. Salazar" (2009). This challenged the United States' mismanagement of trust funds belonging to more than 500,000 individual Native Americans. She pursued the suit from 1996, challenging the government to account for fees from resource leases.
In 2010, the government approved a $3.4 billion settlement for the trust case. Major portions of the settlement were to partially compensate individual account holders, and to buy back fractionated land interests, and restore land to reservations. It also provided for a $60 million scholarship fund for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, named the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund in her honor. The settlement is the largest ever in a class action against the federal government.
Buy-back of lands has continued, restoring acreage to the tribes. As of November 2016, $40 million had been contributed to the scholarship fund by the government, from its purchase of lands. It has paid $900 million to buy back the equivalent of 1.7 million acres in fractionated land interests, restoring the land base of reservations to tribal control.
In November 2016, Cobell's work on behalf of Native Americans was honored by the award of a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama; her son Turk Cobell accepted the award on her behalf.
Biography.
Elouise Pépion was born in 1945 on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, the middle of nine children of Polite and Catherine Pépion. She was a great-granddaughter of Mountain Chief, one of the legendary leaders of the Blackfeet Nation. She grew up on her parents' cattle ranch on the reservation. Like many reservation families, they did not have electricity or running water. Pépion attended a one-room schoolhouse until high school. She graduated from Great Falls Business College and attended Montana State University. She had to leave before graduation to care for her mother, who was dying of cancer.
After her mother's death, Elouise moved to Seattle, where she met and married Alvin Cobell, another Blackfeet living in Washington at the time. They had one son, Turk Cobell. After returning to the reservation to help her father with the family ranch, Elouise Cobell became treasurer for the Blackfeet Nation.
She founded the Blackfeet National Bank, the first national bank located on an Indian reservation and owned by a Native American tribe. In 1997, Cobell won a MacArthur genius award for her work on the bank and Native financial literacy. She donated part of that money to support her class-action suit against the federal government because of its mismanagement of trust funds and leasing fees, which she had filed in 1996. (See below: Challenging federal management of trust funds)
After twenty other tribes joined the bank to form the Native American Bank, Cobell became Executive Director of the Native American Community Development Corporation, its non-profit affiliate. The Native American Bank is based in Denver, Colorado.
Her professional, civic experience and expertise included serving as Co-Chair of Native American Bank, NA.; a Board Member for First Interstate Bank; a Trustee of the National Museum of the American Indian; as well as a member of other boards.
Throughout her life, Cobell also helped her husband to operate their ranch, raising cattle and crops. Cobell was active in local agriculture and environmental issues. She founded the first land trust in Indian Country and served as a Trustee for the Nature Conservancy of Montana.
Cobell died at the age of 65 on October 16, 2011, in Great Falls, Montana after a brief battle with cancer.
Cobell was the former president of Montana's Elvis Presley fan club, but left these activities to focus on her landmark lawsuit. In her honor, all car radios during her funeral procession were tuned to Elvis songs. Her family arranged to have at the viewing a pair of life-size Elvis cutouts standing against the rear wall. A photo of Cobell and her family at Graceland flashed occasionally in the rotating display on a big screen overhead. The buffet featured a giant cake, decorated with the words, "In Loving Memory of Elouise Cobell," and a picture of Elvis.
Challenging federal management of trust funds.
While Treasurer of the Blackfeet Tribe for more than a decade, Cobell discovered many irregularities in the management of funds held in trust by the United States for the tribe and for individual Indians. These funds were derived from fees collected by the government for Indian trust lands leased for lumber, oil production, grazing, gas and minerals, etc., from which the government was supposed to pay royalties to Indian owners. Over time accounts became complicated as original trust lands were divided among descendants, and Cobell found that tribal members were not receiving their fair amount of trust funds.
Along with the Intertribal Monitoring Association (on which she served as President), Cobell attempted to seek reform in Washington, DC from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s without success. At that point she asked Dennis Gingold (renowned banking lawyer, based in Washington, DC), Thaddeus Holt, and the Native American Rights Fund (including John Echohawk and Keith Harper) to bring a class-action suit against the Department of Interior in order to force reform and an accounting of the trust funds belonging to individual Indians.
They set up the Blackfeet Reservation Development Fund, "a nonprofit created to bring claims against the United States for mismanaging lands held in trust for Native Americans." The Lannan Foundation, which "provides financial assistance to tribes and nonprofits that serve Native American communities..." has said that it gave more than $7 million in grants to the Blackfeet fund from 1998 to 2009 to support the litigation, in the expectation that the grants would be repaid in full after settlement. In 2013, in a suit filed in Washington, the Lannan Foundation said it was still seeking payment from Gingold, the lead counsel in the case, and had received only $1.8 million.
Settlement.
The class-action suit was filed in October 1996 and is known as "Cobell v. Salazar" (Salazar was Secretary of Interior when the case was settled.) A negotiated settlement was reached in 2009 by the administration of President Barack Obama. In 2010 Congress passed a bill to appropriate $3.4 billion for settlement of the longstanding class action suit. It had three parts: payment of individual plaintiffs included in the class action; a fund of $1.9 billion to buy back fractionated land interest in voluntary sales, and restore land to reservations, strengthening their land base. It also provided for a $60 million scholarship fund to be funded from the sales, named the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund in her honor.
As of July 2011, notices were being sent to the hundreds of thousands of individual Native Americans affected. Most received settlements of about $1800, but some may receive more. As of November 2016, the government had spent about $900 million to buy back the equivalent of 1.7 million acres in fractionated land interests, restoring the land base of reservations to tribal control. In addition, $40 million has been added so far to the Cobell Scholarship Fund.
In 2009, when settlement was reached with the government, Cobell said:
Although we have reached a settlement totaling more than $3.4 billion, there is little doubt this is significantly less than the full accounting to which individual Indians are entitled. Yes, we could prolong our struggle and fight longer, and perhaps one day we would know, down to the penny, how much individual Indians are owed. Perhaps we could even litigate long enough to increase the settlement amount. But we are compelled to settle now by the sobering realization that our class grows smaller each year, each month and every day, as our elders die and are forever prevented from receiving their just compensation.
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Mick Moloney

Michael Moloney (born November 15, 1944) is a traditional Irish musician and scholar.
Born in Limerick, he was an important figure on the Dublin folk-song revival in the 1960s. In 1973, he moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He gained early fame as a member of the Irish group The Emmet Folk Group and The Johnstons but has since performed and recorded with a variety of groups and individuals, including Eugene O'Donnell and Séamus Egan, and Marie & Martin Reilly; he also worked closely with The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem.
Moloney served as the artistic director for several major arts tours, including the Green Fields of America, an ensemble of Irish musicians, singers, and dancers which toured across the U.S. on several occasions. He has produced and performed on over seventy albums and acted as advisor for scores of festivals and concerts all over America.
In 1992, Moloney received a Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. For his work in public folklore, he received a 1999 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1999, he was named Best Tenor Banjo Player by "Frets" magazine. He has taught ethnomusicology, folklore, and Irish studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Villanova, and New York University.
Founded in 2000 by Moloney, the Washington Square Harp and Shamrock Orchestra (WSHSO) is based at New York University and made up of musicians from the city's Irish music community. The WSHSO plays traditional Irish music, with a focus on older tunes, tunes with history, and tunes with interesting stories attached.
Moloney is the author of "Far From the Shamrock Shore: The Story of Irish American History Through Song" released by Crown Publications in February 2002 with an accompanying CD on Shanachie Records. He has hosted three nationally syndicated series of folk music on American Public Television; was a consultant, performer, and interviewee on the Irish Television special "Bringing It All Back Home"; a participant, consultant, and music arranger of the PBS documentary film "Out of Ireland"; and a performer on the PBS special "The Irish in America: Long Journey Home".


Julia Neuberger

Julia Babette Sarah Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger, (née Schwab; born 27 February 1950) is a member of the British House of Lords. She previously took the Liberal Democrat whip, but resigned from the party and joined the Crossbenches in September 2011 upon becoming the full-time senior rabbi to the West London Synagogue. She became chair of University College London Hospitals (UCLH) in February 2019.
Early life and education.
Julia Schwab was born on 27 February 1950 to Walter and Liesel ("Alice") Schwab. She attended South Hampstead High School and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she studied Assyriology at first. After she was refused entry to Turkey, because she was British, and to Iraq, because she was Jewish, she had to change her subject and started studying Hebrew, her subsidiary language, full-time. Her lecturer at Cambridge, Nicholas de Lange, suggested she should become a rabbi. She obtained her rabbinic diploma at Leo Baeck College, London, where she taught from 1977–97. She was chancellor of the University of Ulster from 1994–2000.
Her father was born in Britain to German Jewish immigrants who arrived before the First World War. Her mother was a refugee from Nazi Germany, arriving at age 22 in 1937. The Schwab Trust was set up in their name, to help support and educate young refugees and asylum seekers. In 2016, Neuberger stated she was applying for a German passport.
Religious roles.
Neuberger was Britain's second female rabbi, the first being Jackie Tabick, and the first to have her own synagogue. She was rabbi of the South London Liberal Synagogue from 1977 to 1989 and is president of West Central Liberal Synagogue. On 1 February 2011, the West London Synagogue (a Movement for Reform Judaism synagogue) announced that she had been appointed as senior rabbi of the synagogue. She retired from her West London Synagogue role in March 2020.
She also regularly appears on the Pause for Thought section on BBC Radio 2.
Public sector activity.
Neuberger was Chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust from 1992 to 1997, and Chief Executive of the King's Fund from 1997 to 2004. "Who's Who" lists a large number of voluntary and philanthropic roles she has undertaken. Her book, "The Moral State We're In", a study of morality and public policy in modern Britain (), was published in 2005. The title is an allusion to Will Hutton's 1997 book, "The State We're In".
Political and parliamentary roles.
Neuberger was the Social Democratic Party candidate for Tooting in the 1983 general election, coming third with 8,317 votes (18.1%).
She was appointed a DBE in the New Year Honours of 2003. In June 2004 she was created a life peer as Baroness Neuberger, of Primrose Hill in the London Borough of Camden. She served as a Liberal Democrat Health spokesperson from 2004 to 2007. On 29 June 2007, Neuberger was appointed by the incoming Prime Minister Gordon Brown as the government's champion of volunteering. She resigned from the Liberal Democrats upon becoming senior rabbi of the West London Synagogue.
Personal life and family relationships.
Julia Schwab married Professor Anthony Neuberger. They have two adult children, a son and a daughter. Anthony Neuberger is the son of Professor Albert Neuberger, and the brother of Professors Michael and James Neuberger, as well as David, Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, former President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
Controversy over Northern Ireland schools.
In 1997 she criticised education in Northern Ireland as sectarian at the opening of Loughview Integrated Primary School. The "Irish News" claimed she had criticised Catholic schools as sectarian, leading to criticism from the Director of the Catholic Council for Maintained Schools. However, she said that the report from the "Irish News" had given a misleading impression and that she had been quoted out of context:
Charity involvement.
In January 2013, Neuberger was appointed chair of an Independent Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient. The impartiality of the appointment was questioned by some of the bereaved families, due to her previous endorsement of the pathway, which was written by Dr John Ellershaw, medical director of the Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute in Liverpool, in a 2003 BMJ article, and her widely publicised support of the Marie Curie Institute. The results of the review were published in July 2013; accepting the review's recommendations, the government advised that NHS hospitals should phase out the use of the LCP.
Neuberger was elected vice-president of Attend, a charity that supports and expands the roles volunteers play in creating healthy communities, in 2006 and held the position until she retired in 2011.
Neuberger was appointed to the board of Irish health insurers Vhi Healthcare for a five-year period from 2005 by Mary Harney, the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children.
Neuberger is a Vice President of the Jewish Leadership Council.


Biafada language

Biafada ("ga-njoola") is a Senegambian language of Guinea-Bissau.
Biafada is heavily influenced by Mandinka. Variants on the name include "Beafada, Bedfola, Biafar, Bidyola, Dfola, Fada".


Kuno Francke

Kuno Francke (27 September 1855 – 1930), was a U.S. (German-born) educator and historian. Most of his career was spent at Harvard University where he eventually became a professor of history and German culture and curator of the Germanic Museum.
Biography.
Francke was born in Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, in 1855, where he received his early education at the Kiel gymnasium. He earned a Ph.D. in medieval folklore and poetry in Munich in 1878. He was a close associate of art historian Ephraim Emerton, and through him met Harvard University president Charles William Eliot. In 1884 he became an instructor at Harvard, in 1887 assistant professor of German, in 1892 assistant professor of German literature, and earned a full professorship of history and German culture in 1896. In 1902, he became curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum (Germanic Museum) of Harvard University. He remained curator at Harvard until 1929, when he retired, and died the next year in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He received the degrees of LL.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1904, and Litt.D. from Harvard University in 1912. From the German imperial government, he received the title of Chevalier Royal Prussian Order Red Eagle and Order of the Crown. A professorship in "German Art and Literature" at Harvard is named after Francke.
Works.
Works published in Germany:
Works published in the United States:
He also edited Munsey's collections of German classics.


William L. Jungers

William L. Jungers (born November 17, 1948) is an American anthropologist, Distinguished Teaching Professor and the Chair of the Department of Anatomical Sciences at State University of New York at Stony Brook on Long Island, New York. He is best known for his work on the biomechanics of bipedal locomotion in hominids such as the 3.4-million-year-old Lucy ("Australopithecus afarensis"), and the 6.1- to 5.8-million-year-old Millennium Man "Orrorin tugenensis". He devoted much of his career to the study of the lemurs of Madagascar, especially giant extinct subfossil forms such as "Megaladapis". More recently, Jungers has been a subject of media attention due to his analysis of the remains of "Homo floresiensis", which he believes to be legitimate members of a newly discovered species based on remains of the shoulder, the wrist, and the feet.
Early life.
Jungers was born in Palacios, Texas and spent part of his childhood in that area. He excelled academically from an early age and graduated as one of several valedictorians of his 1966 Streator Township High School class. Standing 6'4" tall, he was also an accomplished basketball player throughout his high school career. Following graduation, he attended Oberlin College for his undergraduate education where he was involved in the liberal political and social culture of the late 1960s. He later received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan in 1976 at the age of 26 under the advisorship of Frank Livingstome, Milford Wolpoff and C. Loring Brace. He was hired shortly thereafter at the University of Illinois but moved in 1978 to the State University of New York at Stony Brook Department of Anatomical Sciences, where he has remained throughout the course of his career.
Scholarly life.
Jungers is an expert in biomechanics, and has edited an important reference work on primate allometry in particular. His work concerning the extinct subfossil lemurs focuses on their initial isolation in the virtually predator-free environment of Madagascar, their subsequent adaptive radiation, and the unusual morphological and behavioral diversity that resulted as a consequence. He has worked on hominid bipedalism being due to the unique muscular and skeletal constraints required for locomotion in humans and their ancestors, and the apparently ancient anatomy of the recent "hobbit" fossils, possibly influenced by insular dwarfism. By the end of 2009 Jungers had written more than 150 peer-reviewed articles about the relationship between form and function in many primate species, both extinct and extant.


William Denis Brown III

William Denis Brown III (November 20, 1931 – March 6, 2012), known as Billy Brown, was a Democratic lawyer and businessman from Monroe, Louisiana, who was a member of the Louisiana State Senate from 1968 to 1976.
Background.
Brown's grandfather, the first William Denis Brown, was born in 1876 in Terrebonne Parish in South Louisiana, where he managed a sugar plantation. He came to East Carroll Parish at the invitation of an uncle, who was a levee contractor. Brown, I, married into an East Carroll plantation family and founded Providence Drug Company in the parish seat of Lake Providence. In 1907, he purchased Gossypia Plantation. In 1932, he became president of the First National Bank of Lake Providence, by which time he owned ten thousand acres of land.
Brown was born in a hospital in Vicksburg, Mississippi, but reared at Panola Plantation, the northern East Carroll Parish farm of his parents, Denis II, and Martha Brown. He considered Lake Providence to be his hometown. As a child, he was involved in many activities on the plantation and in town. The plantation, located on a small railroad crossing along U.S. Highway 65 North was worked by tenant farmers and during part of World War II German prisoners of war. In 1948, Brown graduated as the valedictorian of Lake Providence High School, where he had also played for the Panthers football team. At the age of seventeen, he left Lake Providence by train to attend a post-graduate year at the since defunct Kentucky Military Institute in Lyndon, Kentucky.
Brown graduated cum laude from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge with a bachelor's degree in commerce. In 1955, he graduated first in his class from the Louisiana State University Law Center. He was a member of Kappa Alpha Order, Phi Kappa Phi, the Order of the Coif and the editorial board of "Louisiana Law Review." Immediately after law school, Brown entered the United States Army as an officer through LSU Reserve Officers Training Corps. He was assigned to the Judge advocate's office at Fort Benning, Georgia.
Legal, business and civic endeavors.
In 1957, Brown moved to Monroe, where in 1960 he joined the firm Theus, Grisham, Davis, Leigh, to which Brown was added as a full partner. with his mentor having been Thomas Leigh. He handled all kinds of legal cases from insurance companies to victims of personal injury. In addition to his law partnerships, he was chairman of Louisiana Bank and the co-founder of both the Gas Transportation Corporation and Tensas Delta Exploration He had real estate and farming interests too.
He quickly became active in community affairs as a member of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce, Recreation Board, and Rotary International, which named him "Outstanding Man of the Year" in 1966. He left the Roman Catholic faith to join Grace Episcopal Church, of which he was a vestryman from 1960 to 1968. He joined the Masonic lodge and was on the boards of the YMCA, St. Francis Medical Center, United Way, and the Louisiana Forestry Association. He was a charter member of the Louisiana Civil Law Institute.
Brown was married to his wife of fifty-eight years, Eleanor H. Brown. There are three children: William Denis Brown, IV, and wife Kathryn, Priscilla B. O'Quinn and husband David, and Andrew Harris Brown, with his wife Kristen. He was predeceased by a sister, Martha. His younger brothers, Grady and Phillip Brown, operated the family farm near Lake Providence for the fifth generation.
Political life.
In the Senate, Brown served in the last term of Governor John McKeithen of Columbia south of Monroe. He was floor leader for McKeithen's successor, Edwin Edwards, during which time he led the work of drafting the Louisiana Mineral Code. He served alongside Jamar Adcock, a banker from Monroe, and K.D. Kilpatrick, a funeral home owner from Ruston in Lincoln Parish. In Brown's first term, the district, a variation of what is now District 35, represented by Republican Robert Kostelka, also included Morehouse Parish. Among his colleagues were later Judge Adrian G. Duplantier and convicted felon Michael O'Keefe, both of New Orleans, future U.S. Senator J. Bennett Johnston Jr. of Shreveport, Senate Dean Sixty Rayburn of Bogalusa, Senate President Samuel B. Nunez Jr. of St. Bernard Parish, and the colorful Dudley J. LeBlanc of Abbeville and in the House, the equally flamboyant Shady Wall of Monroe.
Thereafter, Brown was a long-term supporter of Edwin Edwards, who served four nonconsecutive terms as governor. Brown himself once considered running for governor but instead ran for lieutenant governor and then left elective politics. From 1980 to 1988, he was chairman of the Louisiana Board of Ethics during the tenure of Republican Governor David C. Treen and in Edward's third term.
In 1975, Brown was named "Conservationist of the Year" among the elected official category by the Louisiana Wildlife Federation.
Death.
Brown died at the age of eighty-one of Alzheimer's disease at his home in Monroe. Services were held on March 9, 2012, at Grace Episcopal, where he led the communion service most Sunday mornings. He is interred privately at Cuba Farm near Monroe, which according to his obituary is "the place he loved dearest near his beloved dogs."
Brown's younger son, Andrew Harris Brown (born June 1965) of Monroe, known as Harris Brown, an oil and gas businessman, was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat in the primary election held on November 4, 2014. The seat was held by the short-term incumbent Republican, Vance McAllister of Swartz in Ouachita Parish, who was engulfed in a personal sexual scandal and lost his reelection bid. Other Republicans in the race were Ed Tarpley, a lawyer from Alexandria and a former district attorney for Grant Parish, the late former U.S. Representative Clyde C. Holloway from Forest Hill in Rapides Parish, and Zach Dasher, a nephew of the "Duck Dynasty" television series stars Phil Robertson and Si Robertson. The only Democrat seeking the seat, Jamie Mayo, the mayor of Monroe, lost the runoff to still another Republican, Ralph Abraham, a physician from Richland Parish, who still holds the position.


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Donald Stuss

Donald Thomas Stuss OC, OOnt, FRSC, FCAHS (September 26, 1941 - September 3, 2019) was a Canadian neuropsychologist who studied the frontal lobes of the human brain. He also directed the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest from 1989 until 2009 and the Ontario Brain Institute from 2011 until 2016.
Life.
Donald Stuss was born on September 26, 1941, in Sudbury, Ontario, and grew up in Kitchener-Waterloo. After graduating from high school, he entered a monastery run by the Basilian Fathers in Mundare, Alberta. After 6 years of study and contemplation, he decided that he was better suited to a more active life and studied philosophy at the University of Ottawa. After several years of teaching he then returned to obtain his doctorate in psychology with Terence Picton at the University of Ottawa. He then did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Aphasia Research Center in the Boston Veteran's Administration Hospital where he worked with Frank Benson, Harold Goodglass, and Edith Kaplan, before returning to the University of Ottawa in 1978. In 1989 he moved to Toronto to direct the new Rotman Research Institute established by Joseph Rotman to investigate the cerebral basis of memory and its disorders.
Research.
While in Boston, Stuss worked with D. Frank Benson and other colleagues on an extensive study of the neuropsychological consequences of frontal leucotomy. The results of this investigation were published in a sequence of papers and then summarized in the 1986 book "The Frontal Lobes". This study triggered Stuss's lifelong interest in the human frontal lobes. In Boston he also started to work with the neurologist Mick Alexander. Their first study together concerned Capgras delusion, which causes a patient to believe that close family members have been replaced by imposters. Alexander et al. pointed out that this can be caused by a combination of frontal lobe damage (causing problems with familiarity) and right hemisphere dysfunction (causing problems with visual recognition). The collaboration between Stuss and Alexander would continue productively for the next 40 years.
In Ottawa, Stuss became interested in the neuropsychological sequelae of traumatic brain injury. He realized that even though the patients did very well on structured tests, they found it difficult to set appropriate goals, plan real-life behaviour, sustain attention and monitor their own performance (functions often considered the "executive functions"). These patients had great difficulty returning to their work and to their family. One of the characteristic findings was a variability of performance on simple reaction time. This was very similar to what happens to patients with nontraumatic lesions of the prefrontal cortex and its connections. He and his colleagues demonstrated these deficits, and worked on ways to help such patients regain a normal life.
In Toronto, Stuss and his colleagues Mick Alexander, Terence Picton and Tim Shallice set up a test battery of simple reaction-time tests to study disorders of attention in normally aging subjects, patients with frontal lobe damage, and patients with traumatic brain injury. Using accurate measurements of lesion-extent in patients with frontal lobe damage he and his colleagues proposed that the prefrontal cortex does not act as a nonspecific cognitive processor, but that multiple localized regions of the prefrontal cortex each perform specific cognitive processes. Over the years, among the many localized functions of the prefrontal cortex, Stuss came to focus on five:
The metacognitive aspects include
As of February 2020, Donald Stuss's h-index as judged on Web of Science using "stuss d*" and searching all databases was 71.
Scientific administration.
Stuss led the Rotman Research Institute in Toronto from 1989 until 2009. He started by recruiting Fergus Craik, Morris Freedman, Morris Moscovitch, and Endel Tulving. Around this nucleus he then assembled a group of cooperative and creative scientists to study the human brain using techniques from psychology, physiology, anatomy and neurology. All scientists at the institute were given salaries but no tenure - they had to maintain their scientific productivity to keep their appointments. Some idea of the research produced during his leadership can be found in the book "Mind and the Frontal Lobes" published as a festschrift for his retirement in 2009.
Stuss was the founding president and Scientific Director of the Ontario Brain Institute from 2011 until 2016. During this time he set up a productive and collaborative network of research on the brain, conjointly funded by government, industry and academia. The institute has had remarkable success in its data sharing among researchers in different locations and in different disciplines.
Honours.
Stuss was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2005. He was made an officer of the Order of Ontario in 2001 and the Order of Canada in 2017. He was appointed "University Professor" at the University of Toronto in 2004, and in 2016 received the award from the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science named in honour of Canadian neuropsychologist Donald Hebb.
Personal life.
Donald Stuss married Kaaren Kummer in 1969 and they had two children: David born in 1973 and Leanne in 1974. Don and Kaaren separated in the early 2000s. For the last decade of his life Stuss lived together with his partner Lourenza Fourie. Stuss was also an avid canoeist.


47th Writers Guild of America Awards

The 47th Writers Guild of America Awards honored the best television, and film writers of 1994. Winners were announced in 1995.
Winners & Nominees.
Film.
Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface.


Tulu-Bohuai language

The Tulu-Bohuai language is a West Manus language spoken by approximately 1400 people on central Manus Island and on Peli Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea.


School of thought

A school of thought, or intellectual tradition, is the perspective of a group of people who share common characteristics of opinion or outlook of a philosophy, discipline, belief, social movement, economics, cultural movement, or art movement.
Schools are often characterized by their currency, and thus classified into "new" and "old" schools. There is a convention, in political and philosophical fields of thought, to have "modern" and "classical" schools of thought. An example is the modern and classical liberals. This dichotomy is often a component of paradigm shift. However, it is rarely the case that there are only two schools in any given field.
Schools are often named after their founders such as the "Rinzai school" of Zen, named after Linji Yixuan; and the Asharite school of early Muslim philosophy, named after Abu l'Hasan al-Ashari. They are often also named after their places of origin, such as the Ionian school of philosophy, which originated in Ionia; the Chicago school of architecture, which originated in Chicago, Illinois; the Prague school of linguistics, named after a linguistic circle founded in Prague; and the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School, whose representatives lived in Tartu and Moscow.


Timothy Rub

Timothy F. Rub (born 1952) is an American museum director and art historian. He currently holds the position of the George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, one of the largest museums in the United States.
Biography.
Timothy Rub was born in 1952 in New York, N.Y. He was raised largely in New Jersey and received a bachelor's degree in Art History from Middlebury College in Vermont. He received his master's degree in Art History from the New York University Institute of Fine Arts. He also received a degree in business administration from Yale University.
After Yale, Rub was named a Ford Foundation Fellow and was the curator at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum from 1983 to 1987. From 1991 to 1999, he was the director of the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He was director of the Cincinnati Art Museum from 2000 until, in 2006, he was selected to head the Cleveland Museum of Art. While at Cleveland, he was responsible for the reinstallation of European and American art collections, and oversaw its capital project and fundraising campaign. Under his tenure, the museum completed the first phase of a seven-year $350 million renovation and expansion designed by the architect Rafael Viñoly. He also developed a touring exhibitions program that sent exhibitions from the museum to Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Munich, and a number of venues in North America, and was responsible for a number of new acquisitions, including a 10th-century Chola temple sculpture of the Hindu god Shiva.
Rub was mentioned as a finalist for the same position at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but took himself out of the running. On June 18, 2009, the Philadelphia Museum of Art voted unanimously to appoint him as the director, after reviewing the seventy-five applicants. Timothy Rub was chosen to replace Anne d'Harnoncourt, who died of cardiac arrest June 1, 2008, after leading the museum for twenty-six years. He will be executing the plans for a ten-year $500 million expansion and renovation, designed by Frank Gehry.
Personal life.
Timothy Rub specializes in architecture and modern art, and considers his passion to be early 20th Century modern art. He is married to artist and graphic designer Sally Rub, with whom he has two children, Katharine and Peter. They live in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Publications.
"The Age of the Marvelous"
"Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens"
"Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1928-1934"
"Petra: Lost City of Stone"