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<mask>ai <mask> (born in 1981), is a Hong Kong born artist, working with various types of media such as paintings, sculpture, collages, installations, videos and photography. Through her works, she explores her internal conflicts, raising and answering questions about the journey of motherhood, her fears, and her struggle with self-doubt. Background
Born in Hong Kong in 1981, <mask> graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2004, and a Masters in Fine Arts from the University of Leeds in 2005. She was also the Founder of the Observation Society in Guangzhou and now teaches as a part-time lecturer at the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She joined the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012. Work
<mask>'s works include painting, sculpture, collage, installations and photography. She frequently investigates the nature of what is real or fake, what constitutes art and what does not.Creating emulators, <mask> juxtaposes 'raw' pieces alongside the original articles, dispelling the notion of an ideal framework, and encouraging viewers to question the nature of authenticity; challenging preconceptions whilst blurring boundaries. <mask> has exhibited her works extensively in Hong Kong, as well as showcases in Japan, U.S.A, Singapore and Guangzhou. Personal life
<mask> currently lives and works in Hong Kong. She is married to artist Kwan Sheung-chi, with whom she has worked on several projects such as "EVERYTHING GOES WRONG FOR THE POOR COUPLE", addressing questions such as "What are Hong Kong's core values?" and "What is art?". The couple has one son together. Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions
 2016."Without Trying", Spring Workshop, Hong Kong
2011. "Becoming a Different Person Might be Hard" – A Painting Exhibition of <mask> <mask>, iPRECIATION, Hong Kong
 2011. "From <mask> <mask>'s Collection to the Hong Kong Art Archive", Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
 2010. "Woofer Café Ten", Woofer Ten, Hong Kong
 2009. "L'Écume des choses" – l'art de <mask> <mask>, Observation Society, Guangzhou, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
 2014. "Man's Future Fund", Discover Asia, Art Fair Tokyo, Japan
 2013. ""But is it Art?""I know but I don't know. "", Gallery EXIT, Hong Kong
 2013. "The Imperfect Circle", Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
 2013. "BiennaleOnline 2013"
 2013. "Hong Kong Eye", ArtisTree, Hong Kong
 2012. "Mobile M+: Yau Ma Tei", Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong
 2012. "Why Do Trees Grow Till the End?", SOUTHSITE, Hong Kong
 2012. "Wearable Exhibition: Bring Art Everywhere", Fotan, Hong Kong
 2011. "Primitive Craftsmanship – Contemporary Mechanism", Artist Commune, Hong Kong
 2011. "Except why not just come right out and say it:", Collectors House, Heerlen, The Netherlands
 2010. "Siu Sai Gual Bananale", Woofer Ten, Hong Kong
 2010. "Taipei Biennial 2010", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
 2010. "Everything Goes Wrong for the Poor Couple", ART HK 10, Hong Kong
 2010."Go: The First OCAT Youth Exhibition", OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
 2010. "A Guide to Job Loss", Inheritance Projects, Shenzhen, China
 2010. "FAX", Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
 2009. "ISCP Open Studio", ISCP, New York, USA
 2009. "One Degree of Separation", Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
 2009. "Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
 2009. "Muse", Louis Vuitton Gallery, Hong Kong
 2009."Some Rooms", Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
 2009. "Charming Experience", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
 2009. "Reality Revisited", OC Gallery, Hong Kong
 2008. "Wanakio 2008", Okinawa, Japan
 2008. "Reversed Reality", Worksound, Portland, USA
 2008. "The 3rd Guangzhou Triennial", Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
 2008. "Inside Looking Out", Osage Gallery, Singapore
 2008."Women's Work", Osage Gallery, Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
 2008. "Sick Leaves" Conceptual Art Exhibition, C&G Artpartment, Hong Kong
 2008. "Shek Kip Mei / World: Public Housing 20/20", MOST, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong
 2008. "Hong Kong Anarchitecture Bananas: Artists who reclaim space", Artist Commune, Hong Kong
 2008. "Fair Enough", Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong
 2008. "Sun of Beach", Wong Wai Wheel Artspace, Hong Kong
 2008. "Fotanian: Fotan Artists Open Studios 2008", =(o-otter studio, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong
 2007."Vending Art Machine" Made in Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
 2007. "Copied Right", Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
 2007. "Time After Time", Basement, Hollywood Centre, Hong Kong
 2007. "97+10" Reversing Horizons, Artist Reflections of the Hong Kong Handover 10th Anniversary, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
 2007. "Exhibitions On – Fire! ", Para/Site Central, Hong Kong
 2007. "Variances in Singular", Too Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
 2007."Fotanian: Open Studio 2007", =(o-otter studio, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong
 2006. "Dream a little dream", Basement, Hollywood Centre, Hong Kong
 2006. "aWay" Group Exhibition of Contemporary Visual Artists, 1a space, Hong Kong
 2005. "Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2005", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
 2005. "Art SuperMart＠Para/Site", Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong
 2005. "Studio Visit", Bankley House Studios, Manchester, UK
 2005. "Meeting Point" MA Fine Art Graduation Show, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
 2004."Build: HK Spirit Red White Blue", Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong
 2004. "CUHK Fine Art Graduation Show", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 2004. "Sculpture non Sculpture", 1a space, Hong Kong
 2003. "Fotanian", Yiliu Painting Factory, Fotanian Artists Studios, Hong Kong
 2003. "Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition 2003", Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
 2003. "Just Do It" Sharon Lam, Doris To and <mask>-yin Joint Exhibition, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 2002. "Cho Siu-yee and <mask> Wai-yin Joint Exhibition", The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Curated Projects
 2011."Love and Community", Woofer Ten, Hong Kong
 2010. "Kanyu Weiti Fengshui Weiyong Sculpture Installation", Woofer Ten, Hong Kong
 2008. "Sun of Beach", Wong Wai Wheel Artspace, Hong Kong

Awards
 2009. "ADC and ACC Artist-in-Residence Fellowship", Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Asian Cultural Council, Hong Kong
 2004. "The British Chevening Scholarship", Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Hong Kong
 2003. "Hui's Fine Arts Award", The Art of CUHK 2003, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
 2003. "Cheung's Fine Arts Award", The Art of CUHK 2003, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Artist-In-Residence
 2011."From <mask> <mask>'s Collection to the Hong Kong Art Archive", Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
 2009–2010. ISCP, New York, USA
 2008. "Wanakio 2008", Okinawa, Japan
 2008. Worksound, Portland, USA

Collections

Private Collections
Hong Kong Museum of Art
 Hong Kong Kadist Art Foundation, Paris/San Francisco
 M+, Hong Kong

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1981 births
Living people
Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Hong Kong artists
Hong Kong women artists

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<mask> (, ; born 26 June 1946)  is a Ukrainian engineer, an expert in the field of construction, reconstruction, the theory of structural systems, information technology, calculation and design of structures, methods of optimization and rationalization of the scientific theory of rationalization building constructions. He is an academician of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine (1999), doctor of technical sciences (1997), professor (2001), winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in Architecture (1995), Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine in the field of science and technology (2020), Honored Scientist of Ukraine (2015), emeritus professor of O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv (2014), chief of the department of building construction of O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, a member of the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures IASS (1980), a member of the American Concrete Institute (1997). Biography

Shmukler was born on June 26, 1946, in the city of Krasnoyarsk, USSR. His family moved to the city of Kharkiv in 1949. His father, Samuel I<mask> was a mechanical engineer and worked all his life in the construction and mounting trust No. 86 as a chief mechanic. His mother, Shklovskaya Asya Abramovna was a chemist and the head of the laboratory at the pharmaceutical institute.In 1964 he entered the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering (now – Kharkiv National University of Building and Architecture) on faculty "Industrial and Civil Engineering," from which he graduated in 1969. After graduating in civil engineering from 1969 to 1986, he worked in the Kharkovproekt consistently occupying positions from the engineer to the chief of the department, and from 1986 to 1990 – in the Ukrgorstroyproekt, where he occupied positions from the head of technical department to the deputy chief engineer of the institute. In 1977, he defended the PhD thesis, and in 1997 – thesis for the degree of the doctor of technical sciences. Since 1990, <mask> has been working in O. M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy (ex – Kharkiv National Academy of Municipal Economy), consistently occupying positions: the professor of building structures and the chief of building structures department (since 2012). Work in state design institutes

After graduating from the Kharkiv Institute of Civil Engineering, <mask> from 1969 to 1990 worked in the research and design institutes, Kharkovproekt (1969–1986), Ukrgorstroyproekt (1986–1990), where he occupied the positions from the head of the technical department to the deputy chief engineer of the institute. During the time he spent in Kharkovproekt, he created one of the first computation center and computer-aided design of industrial and civil structures in Ukraine. Under his leadership and with direct participation a number of CAD software systems were created.The results of these developments were the basis of his dissertation for the degree of candidate of technical sciences "flat concrete casing sresearch work." The work suggested and developed new methods of accounting for physical and geometrical nonlinearities in solving the problems of static stability of membranes covering. Also, in these years, <mask> co-authored a series of CJC (Complex Kharkiv Series) for the construction of large sixteen residential buildings and was one of the organizers of a network of data centers roses State Construction Committee of Ukraine. Over the years of work in the GUI (Ukrgorstroyproekt), <mask> was one of the pioneers in the creation and development of youth and housing construction in Ukraine. After the earthquake in Armenia he took an active part in the reconstruction of housing, that had welfare and cultural purposes. He was one of the first to engage in the implementation of the industrial facilities of reinforced concrete and metal spatial structures in buildings and structures of the country. Scientific activity

<mask>'s scientific interests are associated with the theory of structural systems, information technology for calculation and design of structures, and methods of their optimization and rationalization.His main works in this area include: integrated gradient method for finding the global extremum of functionals on many variables; method for solving multiobjective optimization problems; overdetermined contour collocation method for solving boundary problems in the theory of plates and shells; compilation methods for solving nonlinear problems of the theory of constructions. A cycle of his work devoted to the creation of direct design methods, well-founded principles of new energy, is the basis of the formation of constructions with a simple external and complex internal geometry. Based on them, the following were created and implemented: architectural construction systems RAMPA, IKAR, DOBOL, intended for housing and civil engineering; a family of gantry and bridge cranes up to 800 tons, etc. In 1999, he was elected as the member of the Ukrainian Academy of Construction. <mask>'s scientific achievements were marked with state awards: for the organization, implementation and development of the youth construction in Ukraine – 40 Years of Youth Residential Complex Movement Medal (2011); for his outstanding contribution to the development of science, technology and engineering in Ukraine – Silver Medal of the Academy of Construction of Ukraine (2013) and Gold Medal of A. N. Podgorny of the Engineering Academy of Ukraine (2014). In 2015 he was awarded with the honorary title «Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine». References to <mask>'s works can be found in a number of books, articles, dissertations, research reports of other authors.The constructions developed by him are used and applied in a number of projected and constructed facilities. Educational activity
Since 1990, <mask> has been combining active scientific work with teaching activities at O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy, consecutively occupying the positions of: professor of the Building Designs Department, and since 2012 – the Head of Department. <mask> gives lectures on the modern theory of building designs, including the latest advances in the field of construction and applied mechanics, computer science, materials and structural systems. The audience of his lectures consists of students, graduate students, doctoral students and university professors, as well as specialists in the construction field. <mask> also works with graduate students and doctoral candidates of the Kharkiv National Automobile and Highway University and Kharkiv State Technical University of Construction and Architecture. He pays much attention to the integration of science and education. Over the years, <mask> made a significant contribution to the development of the scientific theory of rationalization of building designs.He is the author of many important initiatives, including the establishment of the school "Structures and materials for residential and civil buildings" (1992). Within the framework of the school he is heading, multidisciplinary theoretical and experimental research of constructions is conducted, both for Ukraine and other countries. Works of the school are the basis for the functioning of the master's, postgraduate and doctoral studies at the Building Designs Department of the University. Paying great attention to the training of highly qualified personnel, <mask> prepared 12 candidates and 1 doctor of technical sciences. His students successfully work in universities, factories of Ukraine and many other countries. <mask> is a member of the Specialized Academic Council (D 64.056.4) at the Kharkiv State Technical University of Construction and Architecture for doctoral and master's theses on the construction specialization 05.23.01 "Building constructions, buildings and structures." For valorous work, <mask> was awarded with numerous certificates of honor of the USSR State Construction Committee, Kharkiv City Council, administrations of design institutes, Rector of O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy, etc., and also was awarded the diploma "Excellence in Higher Education of Ukraine" (2002).In 2014, <mask>, for his scientific and pedagogical contribution, professional and human qualities, providing high performance work so entrusted to him, was awarded the title of "Honoured Professor of O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy." Publications
<mask> is an author and co-author of over 180 scientific papers and 60 inventions. His works have been published in leading scientific journals in Ukraine, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, China, Japan, US, and Iraq. <mask> is a member of the editorial boards of scientific journals, namely the Concrete and Reinforced Concrete in Ukraine (Poltava), the Scientific Construction Bulletin (Kharkiv), and the Urban Economy of Cities (Kharkiv). He is a co-author of seven books and teaching aids:

– Complex of programs for the calculation of the shallow shells supported along the contour considering physical and geometric nonlinearity. – M., 1975;

– Program system of drawing schemes and designs. – M., 1986;

– Information technology for calculating and structural design.– Kiev; Kharkiv, 2003;

– Frame systems of facilitated type. – Kharkiv, 2008;

– Practical calculation of elements for concrete structures under DBN V. 2.6-98:2009 as compared to the calculations under SniP 2.03.01-84* and EN 1992-1-1 (Eurocode 2). – Kharkiv, 2015;

– Numerical and experimental methods of rational design and construction of constructive systems - Kyiv, 2017;

- Rational Design of Structural Building Systems : monograph / V. Babayev, I. Ievzerov, S. Evel, A. Lantoukh-Liashchenko, V. Shevetovsky, O. Shimanovskyi, V<mask>, M. Sukhonos. – Berlin : DOM publishers, 2020. – 384 p. – (Construction and Engineering Manual). And national regulatory documents:

– DBN V.2.6-98-2009 "Concrete and reinforced concrete structures";

– Project DSTU-Н Б EN 1996-1-Eurocode 6 "Design of masonry structures";

– DSTU B V.2.6-2010 "Construction of buildings and structures. Monolithic, reinforced concrete structures of buildings"; recommendations for the use of reinforcing bars under DSTU 3760–98 in the design and manufacture of reinforced concrete structures without pretension;

– DSTU-N B.2.6-205: 2015.The name of the design of monolithic concrete and reinforced concrete constructions of buildings and structures, etc. For the list of <mask>'s published works and inventions, see References section. References

Shmukler V. S. on the official website of O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy (Building Designs Department)

Shmukler V. S. on the website of Scientific activity of O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy

 official website of O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy

Patents of the author Shmukler V. S. on the website of Patents Base of Ukraine

Patents of the author Shmukler V. S. on the website of search for patents

Shmukler V. S. on the Wikipedia page about O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy

Favorite professors of O. M. Beketov Kharkiv National University of Urban Economy

List of published works and inventions of Professor <mask> V. S. on the website of the library of O. M. Beketov Kharkiv

1946 births
Living people
Ukrainian engineers

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<mask> (12 August 191330 January 2011) was a Thai Buddhist monk. He was thought by many of his followers to be an arahant (someone who has attained full enlightenment). He was a disciple of the esteemed forest master Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta, and was himself considered a master in the Thai Forest Tradition. Following the death of Ajahn Thate in 1994, he was considered to be the Ajahn Yai (or head monk) of the Thai Forest Tradition lineage until his death in 2011. Biography

Early years
<mask> was born in Baan Taad village in the northeastern province of Udon Thani. He was one of 16 children of a rich family of rice farmers. When he was 21, his parents asked him to enter the monkhood for a season, a Thai tradition to show gratitude towards one's parents.He entered Yothanimit monastery and was ordained on 12 May 1934, with Venerable Chao Khun Dhammachedi as his preceptor. His preceptor gave him the Pali name Ñāṇasampanno, meaning 'one endowed with wisdom'. At the time, Bua had no intention of remaining a monk for the rest of his life. As Phra Ñāṇasampanno, he studied the incarnations of the Buddha and his Arahant Disciples. He has said he was so impressed that he decided to seek the same enlightenment as had the Buddha's original disciples. He tried to understand the ways of practicing the Dhamma (Dharma) which would eventually lead to Nibbana (Nirvana). He studied Pali, the language of the Theravada Buddhist scriptures, as well as the Vinaya (the Buddhist monastic rules).After seven years, he passed the third level of Pali studies, and achieved the highest level in Dhamma and Vinaya studies. He then concentrated entirely on the practice of Dhamma in hopes of studying with Venerable <mask> Mun, one of the most renowned meditation masters of his time. Venerable <mask> Mun

Nanasampanno then went in search of Venerable <mask> Mun. When he finally met him, he was pleased with his efforts, since it seemed as if Mun already knew his desires, intentions, and doubts. Mun clarified the questions in his mind and showed him the paths leading to Nibbana still exist. Nanasampanno said to himself:

"Now, I have come to the real thing. He has made everything clear and I no longer have doubts.It is now up to me to be true or otherwise. I'm determined to be true!" He learned the meditation methods followed by Mun, based on the principles of Buddhism and the code of Buddhist discipline. He continued to follow these methods in his own teaching of monks and novices. Due to his deep respect and admiration for Mun, whom he likens to a father and mother to his students, he was inspired to write a biography of Mun to disseminate his methods of practice and document his character for coming generations. He has also written 'Wisdom develops samadhi' and "Patipada' His transcribed talks he gave to laypeople and monks have formed several hundred books in Thai language, but only a few of his talks have been translated into English. He solely focuses on the practice of Buddhist meditation and has only one aim for his disciples: Reaching the end of dukkha.Several hundred of talks given to his monk disciples were recorded and several thousand of talks given to laypeople, normally after the meal or in the evening were also recorded. He allowed them to be recorded, so that his fellow practitioners may have a guide in the practice of meditation. Seclusion and establishing a monastery
In 1950, after the death of Mun, Bua sought a secluded place. He went to Huey Sai village in Mukdahan province. He was very strict and serious in teaching the monks and novices, both in the austere dhutanga practices and in meditation. He continued his teaching until these same principles became established amongst his followers. Learning that his mother was ill, he returned home to look after her.Villagers and relatives requested that he settle  permanently in the forest south of the village and no longer wander in the manner of a forest monk. As his mother was very old and that it was appropriate for him to look after her, he accepted the offer. With a donation of  of land, he began to build his monastery in November 1955. It was given the name Wat Pa Baan Taad. Wat Pa Ban Taad
<mask> said:

"This monastery has always been a place for meditation. Since the beginning it has been a place solely for developing the mind. I haven't let any other work disturb the place.If there are things which must be done, I've made it a rule that they take up no more time than is absolutely necessary. The reason for this is that, in the eyes of the world and the Dhamma, this is a meditation temple. We're meditation monks. The work of the meditation monk was handed over to him on the day of his ordination by his Preceptor — in all its completeness. This is his real work, and it was taught in a form suitable for the small amount of time available during the ordination ceremony — five meditation objects to be memorized in forward and reverse order — and after that it's up to each individual to expand on them and develop them to whatever degree of breadth or subtlety he is able to. In the beginning the work of a monk is given simply as: Kesa — hair of the head, Loma — hair of the body, Nakha — nails, Danta — teeth, Taco — the skin which enwraps the body. This is the true work for those monks who practice according to the principles of Dhamma as were taught by the Lord Buddha."The wilderness surrounding the monastery has vanished, as it has now been cleared for cultivation. The forest inside the monastery is all that remains. Wat Pa Baan Taad preserves this remnant in its original condition, so that monks, novices, and lay people can use its tranquility for the practice of the Dhamma as taught by the Lord Buddha. Rise to fame
<mask> has traveled to London to give lectures. He also founded the Help Thai Nation Project, a charitable effort dedicated to helping the Thai economy. He has been visited and supported by the King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand. <mask>'s biographer wrote:
"Ven.<mask> <mask> <mask> is well known for the fluency and skill of his Dhamma talks, and their direct and dynamic approach. They obviously reflect his own attitude and the way he personally practiced Dhamma. This is best exemplified in the Dhamma talks he gives to those who go to meditate at Wat Pa Bahn Tahd. Such talks usually take place in the cool of the evening, with lamps lit and the only sound being the insects and cicadas in the surrounding jungle. He often begins the Dhamma talk with a few moments of stillness — this is the most preparation he needs — and then quietly begins the Dhamma exposition. As the theme naturally develops, the pace quickens and those listening increasingly feel its strength and depth." Some basic teachings on the 'Citta'

Bua observes the essential enduring truth of the sentient being as constituted of the indestructible reality of the citta (heart/mind), which is characterized by the attribute of Awareness or Knowingness.This citta, which is intrinsically bright, clear, and aware, gets superficially tangled up in samsara but ultimately cannot be destroyed by any samsaric phenomenon. Although <mask> is often at pains to emphasise the need for meditation upon the non-Self (anatta), he also points out that the citta, while getting caught up in the vortex of conditioned phenomena, is not subject to destruction as are those things which are impermanent, suffering, and non-Self (anicca, dukkha, anatta). The citta is ultimately not beholden to these laws of conditioned existence. The citta is bright, radiant, and deathless, and is its own independent reality. The fundamental problem that besets human beings, according to Bua, is that they have taken fake and false things as their true self and lack the necessary power to be their 'own true self'; they allow the wiles and deceits of the mental defilements to generate fear and anxiety in their minds. Fear and anxiety are not inherent within the citta; in fact, the citta is ultimately beyond all such things and indeed is beyond time and space. But it needs to be cleansed of its inner defilements (the kilesas) before that truth can be realised.Bua goes on to attempt to describe the inner stages and experience of the cleansed citta. When its purgation of defilements is complete, it itself does not disappear – only the impermanent, suffering, and the non-Self disappear. The citta remains, experientially abiding in its own firm foundation, yet ultimately indescribable. Some of the notions found here are reminiscent of the Tathagatagarbha tradition found in Mahayana Buddhism— although the latter posits an original, primordial purity to the mind, whereas Bua sees that purity as needing to be established through mental and moral cultivation. Kammatthana
Kammatthana literally means "basis of work" or "place of work". It describes the contemplation of certain meditation themes used by a meditating monk so the forces of defilement (kilesa), craving (tanha), and ignorance (avijja) may be uprooted from the mind. Although kammatthana can be found in many meditation-related subjects, the term is most often used to identify the forest tradition (the Kammatthana tradition) lineage founded by Ajahn Sao Kantasilo <mask>a and his student Ajahn Mun Bhuridatta <mask>a.Notes

References

External links

Luangta <mask> <mask>'s homepage
Luangta <mask> <mask>'s biography, Cremation, Legacy and history of Wat Pa Baan Taad
Arahattamagga Arahattaphala - The Path to Arahantship
Luangta <mask> <mask>'s biography of <mask> Mun
Patipada – Venerable Acariya Mun's Path of Practice. written by <mask> <mask> <mask>
English Books
Dhammatalks in Thai
Straight from the Heart, as translated from the Thai by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu at dhammatalks.org
Things As They Are, as translated from the Thai by Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu at dhammatalks.org

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Air Vice-Marshal <mask>,  (27 July 1911 – 31 October 1997) was an officer in the Royal Air Force. During the Second World War he was credited with sinking three German U-boats—, , and —in one month while serving in RAF Coastal Command. He was in charge of the British nuclear tests of hydrogen bombs in the Pacific Ocean in Operation Grapple in 1957. Early life
<mask> was born in Monks Coppenhall, Cheshire, on 27 July 1911, the first of eight children of <mask>, a schoolteacher. His mother, Martha  Wellings, died when he was young, and his father remarried. He was educated at Abertillery County School, where his father was the chemistry teacher. He was awarded a scholarship to University College, Cardiff, where he studied engineering, but in 1929 he entered the Royal Air Force College Cranwell.He represented the RAF College at boxing and was awarded the Abdy Gerrard Fellowes Memorial Prize. <mask> graduated at the top of his class, and was commissioned as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force on 25 July 1931. He trained as a pilot at No. 3 Flying Training School, and then as a flying boat pilot at RAF Calshot. On 4 April 1932 he was posted to No. 204 Squadron at RAF Mount Batten, where he flew Supermarine Southampton and Supermarine Scapa flying boats. He was posted to No.202 Squadron in Malta on 19 August 1932; he was promoted to flying officer on 25 January 1933. He joined the staff of RAF Hal Far on 29 November 1933, and married Sarah (Terry) Davies in Malta in 1935. The couple had three sons, two of whom joined the Royal Air Force; the other joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. <mask> returned to the United Kingdom as a student at the Air Navigation School on 17 March 1936, and became an instructor at the school on 11 November 1936. He was promoted to squadron leader on 1 December 1938. He was also the RAF squash champion in 1938–39. Second World War
When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, <mask> was flying Avro Ansons with No.217 Squadron, based at RAF Pembroke Dock, but he was soon reassigned to the Ministry of Aircraft Production. He was mentioned in despatches on 20 February 1940. <mask> was promoted to wing commander on 1 March 1941, and sent to Washington, DC, to organise training in North America for RAF navigators. On 1 April 1943, he was appointed commander of No. 58 Squadron RAF, flying Handley Page Halifax bombers. In May 1943, he participated in the sinking of three German U-boats in the Bay of Biscay. He attacked and sank  on 7 May, then  on 15 May.On 31 May, he shared in the sinking of  with aircraft of No. 228 Squadron RAF and No. 10 Squadron RAAF. For this feat he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on 4 June 1943. In October 1943, <mask> became commander of RAF Lajes, a newly established base in the Portuguese Azores. From this base, No. 206 Squadron RAF and No.220 Squadron RAF covered part of the Mid-Atlantic gap with their Flying Fortress bombers. For this service, he was made a companion of the Distinguished Service Order on 12 November 1943. He was promoted to group captain on 1 January 1944, and became commander of the flying boat base at RAF Castle Archdale in Northern Ireland. He was mentioned in despatches a second time on 2 June 1944. In March 1945, <mask> was appointed deputy director of maritime operations in Northern Ireland. At the end of the war he was deputy director of flying (air traffic) control, and established the air traffic control arrangements for the new airport at Heathrow Airport. He was mentioned in despatches a third time on 8 June 1945.Postwar
In 1946, <mask> became the director of the Joint Anti-Submarine School at RAF Ballykelly in Northern Ireland. On 1 October that year, he reverted to his permanent rank of wing commander. He joined the faculty of the Joint Services Staff College in 1948, and was promoted to group captain again on 1 Jan 1949. This was followed by a posting to South America as air attaché to Argentina in 1950. <mask> was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1953 Coronation Honours. He attended the Imperial Defence College in 1954, and joined the directorate of staff training before becoming director of operations. He was promoted to air commodore on 1 January 1955.In 1956, the British hydrogen bomb programme approached fruition, and preparations began for a nuclear test series, which was given the secret codename Operation Grapple. Rear Admiral Kaye Edden, the Commandant of the Joint Services Staff College was approached to be the Task Force Commander (TFC), but he pointed out that the test series would primarily be an RAF responsibility, and that it would be more appropriate to have an RAF officer in charge. <mask> was appointed TFC on 6 February 1956, with the acting rank of air vice-marshal from 1 March 1956. Christmas Island was chosen as a base. It was claimed by both Britain and the United States, but the Americans were willing to let the British use it for the tests. <mask>'s wartime experience establishing a base in the Azores was useful in developing one in the Pacific Ocean. The first test series was not a success, and a second series was required.This time the desired result was achieved. <mask> was promoted to the substantive rank of air vice-marshal on 1 January 1958, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1958 New Year Honours. His final posting was on 21 April 1958, as Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters Coastal Command at RAF Northwood. He retired from the RAF at his own request on 1 January 1961. Later life
<mask> joined the board of EMI Electronics, where he oversaw the company's military programmes, and forged a business partnership with Hughes Electronics in the United States. He was an honorary fellow of Cardiff University, and a fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and of the Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers. He was a member of the Royal Institute of Navigation Council from 1962 to 1965, and was its Vice President in 1965.He wrote two books, Christmas Island Cracker (1987), about his experiences in Operation Grapple, and Technocrat (1995), a biography of the American nuclear scientist Allen Crocker. His wife Sarah died in 1990, and the following year he married Leticia Malcolm. He died of bladder cancer and prostate cancer at Lymington, Hampshire, on 31 October 1997. His remains were cremated, and his ashes scattered over the Bay of Biscay by an aircraft of No. 206 Squadron. Bibliography

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<mask>, OBE (; 24 May 1918 – 13 August 2006) was a British World War II army sergeant and a POW, most well known for his dedicated efforts of tracking down Japanese war criminals and his determination displayed in defending the rights of Hong Kong war veterans. Early life
<mask> was born in Cardiff, Wales on 24 May 1918, in the suburb of Canton, joining the Territorial Army just before the outbreak of the Second World War. British Army career
<mask> was an army sergeant in the Royal Corps of Signals when Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942. He was interned for some time by the Japanese in the notorious Changi Prison before being transported to Taiwan, then the Japanese colony of Formosa. <mask> was put into the Kinkaseki POW camp, a mountainous region near Jiufen, where he and 525 other inmates were forced to work the copper mine daily in tropical heat. To get to the mine, parties had to walk up 250 steps to top of a ridge, then down 831 more to sea, and then descend a further 800 steps inside the mine to the working face on the lowest levels. So ever day before, and then again after work, the men had to walk up and down 1,881 crudely cut steps (by way of comparison there are 1,665 steps to the small platform on the top of the Eiffel Tower).His team was required to bring out 24 bogeys of copper every single day, if not, they were then beaten. As men died, or were transferred to other camps because they were too weak and ill to continue working, replacement contingents were drafted in to make up the numbers. From the initial contingent of 525 only 120 remained in Kinkaseki when the camp was abandoned between 16 and 30 May 1945. <mask> was moved to a remote jungle camp called Kukutsu in the Taihoku Heights about  from Shinten (now Xindian District). He was in the first party to arrive on 1 June 1945. Their first task was to construct the camp as the site was a derelict tea plantation with no facilities. All materials for the construction were carried by the prisoners who were forced to carry  each.On 28 August 1945 the USAAF started to drop food supplies on the camp and on the afternoon of 5 September American Marines arrived at the jungle camp. He and others were so emaciated that their eyes were sunken and their bodies mere skeletons of their former selves. After World War II
<mask> spent a year recuperating in Britain, then in 1946 he returned to Asia to help in the apprehension of Japanese war criminals and to give evidence at their trials  as part of the war crimes investigation team in Hong Kong. While visiting Kinkaseki he found Document No. 2701 — the only surviving copy of the Japanese order to massacre all prisoners of war if the Allies landed on the Japanese home islands — and an important piece of evidence at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. On his return to South Wales <mask> worked in local government. There, he felt an active discouragement from talking about the horrors he experienced as a POW.Unable to settle, he left for Hong Kong in 1963. <mask> took up a post as a housing officer in the housing department of the Hong Kong administration, later becoming a senior housing manager for Hongkong Land. There, he was actively involved in the Hong Kong Ex-Servicemen's Association as well as the Royal British Legion, becoming later on its chairman. He was also president of the St David's Society of Hong Kong. Life as a campaigner
In 1989, after the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, <mask> started to help the Hong Kong people with British Dependent Territories Citizenship (BDTC), to fight for the recognition as British Citizens with the right of abode in the United Kingdom from the British Government. He was featured in the open forum "Hong Kong - A Matter of Honour" which organized by RTHK in Hong Kong and the BBC in Britain, during which showed a Union Jack flag which was hoisted in Hong Kong during 1945, and defended the contributions from the British Army and local veterans in the program. Through his efforts as the chairman of the Royal British Legion (Hong Kong and China branch), in 1991 <mask> succeeded in winning monthly pension awards from the British government to ethnic Chinese veterans and their widows.A greater triumph came in 1996 when <mask> fought and won the granting of British citizenship to wives and widows of those veterans. He spoke out for the many in Hong Kong who during the occupation, had been forced to sell their businesses as well as property to the Japanese in exchange for the worthless Japanese military yen. Personal life
<mask>'s first marriage ended because of the war. In 1990, he married Polly Tam So-lan, a former member of a Chinese People's Liberation Army dance troupe whom he met in 1974. They lived in a flat in Sha Tin in the New Territories. Both he and Polly loved dancing by practising to the tunes of Taiwanese songs in their small living-room. <mask> spoke fluent Cantonese.He was survived by his wife and her daughter by her first marriage. Trivia
It took him 45 years to write his book Banzai You Bastards!. The first translator of his book, the Japanese journalist Shinji Nagino, was murdered in Montreal with two-thirds of the way to go. After being requested by Diana, Princess of Wales to find the grave of Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith, the father of Princess Diana's lady-in-waiting who had died as a POW in Japan, <mask> managed to locate it. In 1981 the National Film Board of Canada released A War Story: Based on the Diaries of Dr. Ben Wheeler, docudrama produced, written, and directed by Anne Wheeler whose father was the Canadian doctor in the Kinkasekihe camp. <mask> was a featured commentator in the film, along with several other former POWs who were interviewed in the documentary. In 2000, a memorial was erected in Kinkaseki to which <mask> returned for the second time with the help of a grant of £10,000 from the British Government.<mask> and his other POW survivors escaped impending death at the hands of their Japanese captors by a mere two days due to the dropping of the two American atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. When American aircraft began to drop supplies into <mask>' POW camp near the end of the war, several POWs and civilians were killed by the supplies which were dropped too low for their parachutes to work. <mask> was the only one to know flag semaphore in the camp as he had learned it in the Boys' Brigade. As <mask> frantically signalled "Don't Drop" the American aircraft circling overhead was about to drop supplies on top of him until the crew realised <mask>' signals. There was only one crew member on the aircraft who could read semaphore and he had learned it in the Boy Scouts of America. Quotes

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A War Story (1981), a docudrama about Major Ben Wheeler the doctor in Kinkaseki

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Further reading
POW rights campaigner <mask> dies, Taipei Times
<mask>, Telegraph
Stirring farewell to 'indomitable, fearless' <mask>, South China Morning Post, 2 September 2006
Gov't mourns WWII veteran <mask> Announcement from the Hong Kong Government

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<mask> (born March 3, 1986) is a female American mixed martial artist who competes in Featherweight division of Bellator MMA. She has previously competed in Invicta Fighting Championships, where she is the former Invicta FC Featherweight Championship. As of October 5, 2021, she is #7 in the Bellator Women's Featherweight Rankings. <mask> was born in Blaine, Minnesota, United States. She started picked up kickboxing class to lose weight after suffering a period of depression due to a passing of her best friend. Sorenson began competing in kickboxing shortly later. Mixed martial arts career

Early career
<mask> started her professional mixed martial arts career in 2015.She fought all her fights under King of the Cage promotion prior joined Invicta Fighting Championships, amassing a record of 4-1. Invicta Fighting Championships
<mask> made her promotional debut on November 18, 2016 at Invicta FC 20: Evinger vs. Kunitskaya against Jessica-Rose Clark. She won the fight via split decision. Her next fight was on May 20, 2017 at Invicta FC 23: Porto vs. Niedźwiedź. She faced Ediane Gomes in a featherweight bout and she lost the fight in split decision. On July 15, 2017, <mask> faced Helena Kolesnyk  at Invicta FC 24: Dudieva vs. Borella. She won the via a submission in round one.Alpha One Sports
<mask>  faced Jan Finney on November 22, 2018 at Alpha One Sports: IT Fight Series 77. She won the fight via split decision. The Ultimate Fighter 28
Sorenson participated tryout in the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC) TV series The Ultimate Fighter 28 for the females featherweight weight class in 2018. However, she failed to make it as one of the cast in the program. Return to Invicta Fighting Championships
After one-year hiatus, <mask> returned to Invicta and faced Felicia Spencer on November 16, 2018 at Invicta FC 32: Spencer vs. <mask> for the vacant Invicta FC Featherweight Championship. She lost the fight via a rear-naked choke in round four. <mask> faced Kaitlin Young on August 9, 2019 at Invicta FC 36: <mask> vs. Young for the vacant Invicta FC Featherweight Championship after former champion Felicia Spencer signed with the UFC.<mask> won the fight and the title in a five round unanimous decision. Bellator MMA
On July 13, 2021, <mask> announced that she was released from Invicta FC, upon her request, and in the process vacated the title. Soon after it was announced that she had signed a multi-fight deal with Bellator MMA. <mask> faced Roberta Paim Samad on August 13, 2021 at Bellator 264. She won the bout via split decision. <mask> faced Arlene Blencowe on November 12, 2021 at Bellator 271. She lost the bout via unanimous decision.<mask> was scheduled to face Cat Zingano on March 11, 2022 at Bellator 276. However, Zingano was forced to pull out due to injury and the bout was cancelled.

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<mask> (born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is a lifelong trade union activist who participated in the Civil rights and Anti-war movements of the 1960s, the anti-nuclear/safe-energy, environmental movements of the 1970/80s and is currently part of the New Agriculture Movement of the twenty-first century. He has lived most of his life in Maine. His mother brought him to his first picket line in a baby carriage at a bank where workers were striking management for not recognizing their union. It was the bank Kellman’s Grandfather used, but not that day. His parents and their friends were the radical activists of their day:  communists, socialist and trade unionist. At the dinner table and family get togethers they talked the politics of a just and sane world. The Kellman family moved to Salem, NH in 1952 where he attended grade school and then on to Sanford, Maine in 1959 where he went to High School.In 1963 he attended the University of Maine where he played football and dropped out after finishing his freshman year. In the Fall of 1964 he worked for Helen and Scott Nearing on their homestead in Harbourside, Maine. In early 1965 he went to work for the Committee for Non-Violent Action (CNVA) in Voluntown, Connecticut where he participated in and organized demonstrations against the Vietnam War. When the US started bombing North Vietnam, CNVA sent Kellman to Washington, DC to organize demonstrations against the bombing. Shortly after returning from DC, CNVA sent Kellman to represent them on the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery. On the March, Kellman directed a crew of 50 seminarians to set up the tent sites for the marchers. He stayed in Selma after the March and helped build a Free Library.Later in 1965 Kellman volunteered with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Alabama to help organize independent political parties out of which the call for Black Power came. Kellman worked in Sumter County, Alabama on that project. Returning North after his work for SNCC, Kellman helped organize the anti-draft movement and the Assembly of Unrepresented People in Washington, DC which was the first mass arrest demonstration against the Vietnam War. In 1967, Kellman went into exile in Canada and was arrested for violation of the Selective Service Act on his return to the United States in 1973. Charges against him were later dropped by the Federal Attorney prosecuting Kellman’s case. Labor movement activism

In 1976, Kellman was working in the rubber mill portion of the Converse shoe factory in North Berwick, Maine. He led the attempt to form a union among his 500 co-workers.The organizing effort was unsuccessful and <mask> was fired but later won a National Labor Relations Board case against the company. The effect the company's anti-union effort had on him was a radicalizing one and Kellman became more and more involved in the labor union activities. Kellman also became involved in the anti-nuclear/safe energy movement. In 1977, he worked with the Clamshell Alliance to build public support against the operation of commercial nuclear power plants in New Hampshire and Maine, and he participated in mass arrest demonstrations in opposition to construction of the Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in New Hampshire. In 1979, Kellman went to work at the Laconia Shoe Shop in Sanford, Maine, where he was elected president of Local 82, Shoe Division, of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union. As president of the local, he was ordered by the company to remove from the union bulletin board a leaflet asking workers to vote to shut down a nuclear power plant in Maine. Kellman and two other members of the local were arrested for refusing to leave the factory after being suspended.However, after the entire shop came out in support of the arrested workers, the company caved and brought the three of them back with pay and told Kellman hereafter they could put whatever they wanted on the union bulletin board. In 1980, Kellman became active with the Maine AFL-CIO. He was appointed the chair of the Maine AFL-CIO Committee on Run-Away Shops and worked on the implementation of, and improvement of, Maine’s first-in-the-nation run-away shop law under which Maine workers received notice of plant closing and severance pay. Kellman later joined the painter's union, where he held the position of steward. In 1984, he was the campaign manager on a congressional campaign in New Hampshire’s First District, after which he returned to Maine, and in 1986 he went to work for the Maine AFL-CIO getting union members involved in legislative races. In early 1987, the Maine AFL-CIO had Kellman work on the lockout of workers at the Simplex Wire and Cable Plant in Newington, New Hampshire, which employed many workers who lived in Maine. 1987/88 Strike Against the International Paper Company

Following the Simplex Lockout Kellman was assigned to work with the unions at the International Paper Companyin Jay, Maine who were instructed by their national union, the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU), to prepare their 1250 members to strike when their contract ran out on June 16, 1987.At that time the Jay workers joined the locals locked out in Mobile, Alabama and struck with workers at IP mills in Lockhaven, Pennsylvania and De Pere, Wisconsin. Kellman's instinct for building solidarity and his organizational skills "turned a routine strike into a crusade marked by rallies, marches, and emotional meetings. "[1] in that strike. Local 14 of the UPIU faced demands which, on the face of it, seemed unbelievable. Among IP's demands were the elimination of overtime pay on Sunday, no more Christmas Day holiday, the elimination of 156 jobs, the contracting out of all maintenance work which would have eliminated 350 jobs and what amounted to the elimination of the grievance procedure. The local union, however, had little history of member activism outside of their executive board. But the Summer before the start of the strike Kellman had begun the process of educating and organizing the mill workers into a successful "class-based social movement."[3]  It is said that Kellman brought to the labor movement in Jay what he learned from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s what the Civil Rights Movement got from the Labor Movement of the 1930s. Every week for 16 months the strikers held a mass meeting attended by over 1,000 people. During the first two months of the strike, International Paper Company permanently replaced the entire union workforce. However the strikers kept fighting. The strike by IP's workers in Jay generated international attention and they had a  bill introduced in Congress to ban striker replacement. President Clinton promised to sign the legislation if it passed Congress. The bill passed the House but the two Democrats in the Senate from Arkansas killed Labor’s chance to reverse its numbers by voting against it and the bill was defeated by two votes never making its way to the Presidents desk.Many in the labor movement, including Kellman, argued that UPIU had "sold out" Local 14. The strikers held out for 16 months until October 1988 when the UPIU’s International President, Wayne Glen, reversed his position and agreed to sign contracts at other IP locations, thus isolating the striking locals. To help explain the context in which the strike was lost, Kellman wrote a history of the unions in the paper mills called "Divide We Fall," published in 2004. INSERT: (Jay Strike Mural on Local 14 Union Hall in Jay, Maine. Kellman is fourth from the right in the red shirt and hat. Post Strike Work)

After the strike Kellman became director of the newly formed New Hampshire Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health. While working in New Hampshire Kellman was involved in a bad car accident after which he went back to college and received a BA in Labor Studies from the University of Massachusetts.Program on Corporations Law and Democracy

As a researcher for the Program on Corporations, Law, and Democracy,(POCLAD), Kellman researched and wrote about the history of the labor movement and the legal, political, economic, cultural and democracy killing effect of corporate power from a working class perspective. While at POCLAD he wrote a number of insightful articles which were published in their journal, "By What Authority", and their book "Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy". Other

Kellman initiated the "Jay-Livermore Falls Working Class History Project" out of which came the book "Pain on their Faces," a series of essays by participants in the Jay Strike of 1987/88. He taught several Labor History courses at Heartwood College of Art in Kennebunk, Maine and the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine. Kellman served as President of the Southern Maine Labor Council and was given the title of President Emeritus when he retired as President. Kellman represented the Council on the Executive Board of the Maine AFL-CIO. He is presently on the Executive Board of the Southern Maine Labor Council.Kellman helped develop the Workers Rights Platform of the Labor Party and his booklet, Building Unions was a product of his work with the Labor Party. Agriculture in the 21st century

Kellman and his wife Rebekah Yonan are currently engaged in trying to grow all their nutritional and caloric needs using primarily human labor. He is also studying and beginning to organizing around the cultural side of agriculture. In a way he has come full circle from 1964 when he worked for Helen and Scott Nearing, many consider the parents of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement. Memberships and awards

<mask> is a member of the National Writers Union, Local 1981 of the United Auto Workers, AFL-CIO. He has previously been in the following unions: International Brotherhood of Painters and Allied Trades, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, United Food and Commercial Workers, the American Federation of Teachers, the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and Chaired the Labor Parties Maine Chapter. In 2002, Kellman was named a co-recipient of the 2002 Stringfellow Awards for Justice and Peace, given by the Chaplain's Office at Bates College in honor of peace activist, theologian and lawyer William Stringfellow.INSERT: His Portrait is part of the "Americans Who Tell the Truth" collection. Published works
<mask>, <mask>. Building Unions. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Apex Press, 2001). .
<mask>, <mask>. Divided We Fall: The Story of the Paperworkers' Union and the Future of Labor. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Apex Press, 2004. <mask>, <mask>, ed.Pain On Their Faces: Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Maine, 1987-1988. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Apex Press, 1998. Kellman, <mask> and Bruno, Ed. "Toward a New Labor Rights Movement." WorkingUSA. Spring 2001. Notes

 POCLAD is a project of the Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA).References
"1,200 Maine Workers Strike International Paper Co. Plant." New York Times. June 17, 1987. Getman, Julius. The Betrayal of Local 14. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999.Minchin, Timothy J. " 'Labor's Empty Gun': Permanent Replacements and the International Paper Company Strike of 1987–88." Labor History. 47:1 (February 2006). <mask>, <mask>. Divided We Fall: The Story of the Paperworkers' Union and the Future of Labor. Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Apex Press, 2004.External links
Maine AFL-CIO
Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy (POCLAD)
Council on International and Public Affairs (CIPA)

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<mask> (November 20, 1898 – March 1, 1950) was an American physicist who later became an antiracist, civil rights activist, labor organizer, and communist. In the mid-1930s, he served as the secretary and southern-U.S. representative of the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners. In September 1936, <mask> was kidnapped, beaten, and nearly killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan for his civil rights and labor organizing activities. After his recovery, <mask> continued his activism and cofounded the Southern Conference for Human Welfare and the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax. He collaborated closely with other activists including Lucy Randolph Mason and Virginia Foster Durr. Internal injuries sustained during his kidnapping and assault led to <mask>' death on March 1, 1950. Early life and education
<mask> was born November 20, 1898, in Birmingham, Alabama, to a family of German-Jewish descent.He was the son of Blanche Loeb, of Mississippi, and <mask>, a restaurateur and real estate businessperson. His elder sister was author <mask> Sterne, and his brother, <mask> Jr., was a New York architect. <mask> attended the University of Alabama for a year and a half before attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year. <mask> went back to Birmingham and joined the American Legion. He worked at several jobs including "third helper in an open-hearth furnace of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company." Gelders tried to operate an automobile dealership without success. In 1929, he returned to the University of Alabama and completed a bachelor's and master's degree.After graduating in 1930, <mask> worked at the university as an assistant professor of physics for five years and was also head of the physics laboratory. Activism
While working at the University of Alabama, <mask> became more aware of oppressive anti-labor actions. Interested in labor organizing, he joined the Communist Party during the Great Depression. The catalyst for his civil rights activism and labor organizing efforts was a 1934 ore-miner strike which led to the death of several black miners. <mask> and his wife Esther started hosting a weekly discussion group for students. In 1935, he assisted students in drafting a petition against a state anti-sedition bill. In May 1935, <mask> attended a southern conference on civil liberties hosted by left-wing groups in Monteagle, Tennessee.He was moved by the stories of communists, including Blaine Owen, about beatings and illegal raids. In August 1935, he joined the National Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners (NCDPP). In fall 1935, <mask> resigned from the University of Alabama to pursue civil liberties advocacy fulltime. He moved to New York City to serve as secretary of the NCDPP. He established an Alabama committee to work on the Scottsboro Boys case. <mask> also investigated civil liberties denial at the RCA Corporation in New Jersey. In the summer of 1936, <mask> worked for the release of Communist Party organizer Jack Barton, who had been sentenced to 180 days in jail for being in possession of "communistic literature."In August 1936, he became the southern representative for the CDPP. Kidnapping and assault

At 11:30 pm on September 23, 1936, <mask> was on his way home from an International Labor Defense (ILD) meeting when he was kidnapped on a Birmingham street and flogged with a leather strap. The abductors read and mocked <mask>'s Scottsboro Boys–related documents, calling him a "dammed red" and "nigger lover." After a national outcry, Alabama Governor Bibb Graves, who had connections with the Ku Klux Klan, ordered a state police investigation and authorized a $200 reward (). Police found four suspects, three of whom Gelders positively identified. One was an employee of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. Some accounts state that they were members of the Ku Klux Klan.Despite an additional investigation by the La Follette Committee, no indictments were filed. In a private letter to the governor, the chief detective, G. C. Giles, remarked that the economic considerations would prevent convictions. Continued activism
In the spring of 1938, <mask> went to Hyde Park, New York, to discuss his idea for the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) with U.S. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. With their support, the conference was open to people of all races and covered topics including social justice, electoral reforms, and improving race relations. Lobbyist Lucy Randolph Mason cofounded the SCHW and played a large role in its development. Gelders also obtained the support of William Mitch, the President of District 20 of the United Mine Workers, and the Alabama Director of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Eleanor Roosevelt attended the first SCHW on November 20, 1938.A continuing organization was established as an outcome of this conference, and <mask> was designated executive secretary of the Civil Rights Committee. In this role, he targeted poll taxes in the United States. Gelders and civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were prominent figures in the women's poll tax repeal movement, which brought widespread attention to the voter suppression caused by poll taxes. In 1941, <mask> and Durr led the creation of the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax (NCAPT). Durr and Gelders's diverse backgrounds proved effective. Gelders's experience in union organizing in the steel industry complemented Durr's network. She was a model of southern femininity and a member of a prominent family.Durr, Gelders, and their circle of southerners who supported New Deal liberalism believed that abolition of the poll tax was a necessary step in reshaping the Democratic Party in the South and defeating the conservative oligarchy of large planters and industrialists that kept most southern citizens disenfranchised and impoverished. Military career
On July 2, 1918, <mask> enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. He served in Coast Artillery Corps, First Company, in Mobile, Alabama, until transferring on October 1, 1918, to Fort Monroe for school. <mask> was promoted to corporal in September 1918. He was honorably discharged on November 25, 1918. Gelders never saw action, as the war had ended. During World War II, <mask> reenlisted on March 30, 1942, as a technical sergeant in the Western Signal Corps, at Camp Kohler.He was honorably discharged on July 24, 1944. Personal life

<mask> married <mask> Frank on November 19, 1919, at the Standard Club in Montgomery, Alabama. She worked as an official for the National Youth Administration. They had two daughters. Their older daughter, Marge Frantz, was an activist, feminist, and among the first generation of academics who taught women's studies courses in the United States. <mask>'s younger daughter, Blanche Hartman, was a Sōtō teacher. The internal injuries that <mask> sustained from his kidnapping and beating in 1936 eventually led to his death on March 1, 1950, in San Francisco.He was interred on March 7, 1950, at the Golden Gate National Cemetery. References

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<mask>. (born May 25, 1977) is a retired American mixed martial artist. A professional from 2000 until 2011, he fought for the UFC, Bellator, the Maximum Fighting Championship, and the Seattle Tiger Sharks of the now defunct International Fight League. Background
At the age of 22 <mask> began boxing but soon transitioned to MMA after being persuaded to do so by his friends who trained. Mixed martial arts career

Early career
<mask> was a contender on the now defunct IFL before signing on to the UFC. He held a record of 15 wins, 9 losses, 1 draw, and 1 no contest before joining the UFC. Ultimate Fighting Championship
<mask> made his UFC debut against James Giboo winning by TKO due to strikes on UFC Fight Night 14. He would later go on to defeat Ryo Chonan by unanimous decision and Edgar García by split decision.He then fought TUF 7 winner Amir Sadollah at UFC Fight Night 20 on January 11, 2010. In this fight, <mask> was rocked badly once in the first round and would go on to get rocked again in the third round by a knee. <mask> survived Sadollah's attacks going on to lose by unanimous decision. <mask> lost to DaMarques Johnson at UFC 112, and was subsequently released from the organization. Personal life
<mask> has two children, a son and a daughter.

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<mask> (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American-Irish writer known for the Dragonriders of Pern science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, "Weyr Search", 1968) and the first to win a Nebula Award (Best Novella, "Dragonrider", 1969). Her 1978 novel The White Dragon became one of the first science-fiction books to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. In 2005 the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America named McCaffrey its 22nd Grand Master, an annual award to living writers of fantasy and science fiction. She was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame on 17 June 2006. She also received the Robert A. Heinlein Award for her work in 2007. Life and career
<mask> was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the second of three children of <mask>née McElroy) and Col. <mask>.She had two brothers: Hugh ("Mac", died 1988) and Kevin Richard <mask> ("Kevie"). Her father had Irish and English ancestry, and her mother was of Irish descent. She attended Stuart Hall (a girls' boarding school in Staunton, Virginia), and graduated from Montclair High School in Montclair, New Jersey. In 1947 she graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College with a degree in Slavonic languages and Literature. In 1950 she married Horace Wright Johnson (died 2009), who shared her interests in music, opera and ballet. They had three children: Alec Anthony, born 1952; Todd, born 1956; and Georgeanne ("Gigi", Georgeanne Kennedy), born 1959. Except for a short time in Düsseldorf, the family lived for most of a decade in Wilmington, Delaware.They moved to Sea Cliff, Long Island in 1965, and <mask> became a full-time writer. <mask> served a term as secretary-treasurer of the Science Fiction Writers of America from 1968 to 1970. In addition to handcrafting the Nebula Award trophies, her responsibilities included production of two monthly newsletters and their distribution by mail to the membership. <mask> immigrated to Ireland with her two younger children in 1970, weeks after filing for divorce. Ireland had recently exempted resident artists from income taxes, an opportunity that fellow science-fiction author Harry Harrison had promptly taken and helped to promote. <mask>'s mother soon joined the family in Dublin. The following spring, <mask> was guest of honour at her first British science-fiction convention (Eastercon 22, 1971).There she met British reproductive biologist Jack Cohen, who would be a consultant on the science of Pern. Writer
<mask> had had two short stories published during the 1950s. The first ("Freedom of the Race", about women impregnated by aliens) was written in 1952 when she was pregnant with her son Alec. It earned a $100 prize in Science-Fiction Plus. Her second story, "The Lady in the Tower", was published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction by editor Robert P. Mills and published again by editor Judith Merril for The Year's Greatest Science Fiction. <mask> said "she thought of the story when wishing herself alone, like a lady in an ivory tower". Judith Merril matched <mask> with her long-time literary agent Virginia Kidd (died 2003) and invited her to the Milford Writer's Workshop (to which she returned many times), where participants each brought a story to be critiqued.After her first Milford workshop in 1959 she worked on "The Ship Who Sang", the story which began the Brain & Brawn Ship series. At the story's end, the spaceship Helva sings "Taps" for her human partner. Decades later, <mask>'s son Todd called it "almost an elegy to her father". In interviews between 1994 and 2004, she considered it her best story and her favourite. "I put much of myself into it: myself and the troubles I had in accepting my father's death [1954] and a troubled marriage." <mask> then wrote two more "Ship" stories and began her first novel. Regarding her motivation for Restoree (1967), her son recalled her saying, "I was so tired of all the weak women screaming in the corner while their boyfriends were beating off the aliens.I wouldn't have been—I'd've been in there swinging with something or kicking them as hard as I could". <mask> explained that it did not require a sequel; it "served its purpose of an intelligent, survivor-type woman as the protagonist of an s-f story". Regarding her 1969 Decision at Doona (which she dedicated "To Todd Johnson—of course! "), her son recalled that he was directed to lower his voice in his fourth-grade school play when his mother was in the auditorium. That inspired the Doona story, which opens on "an overcrowded planet where just talking too loud made you a social outcast". As a settler on Doona, the boy talker has a priceless talent. <mask> made a fast start in Ireland, completing for 1971 publication Dragonquest and two Gothic novels for Dell, The Mark of Merlin and The Ring of Fear.With a contract for The White Dragon (which would complete the "original trilogy" with Ballantine), her writing stalled. During the next few years the family moved several times in the Dublin area and struggled to make ends meet, supported largely by child-care payments and meager royalties. The young-adult book market provided a crucial opportunity. Editor Roger Elwood sought short contributions for anthologies, and <mask> started the Pern story of Menolly. She delivered "The Smallest Dragonboy" for $154, and four stories which later became The Crystal Singer. Futura Publications in London signed her to write books about dinosaurs for children. Editor Jean E. Karl at Atheneum Books sought to attract more female readers to science fiction and solicited "a story for young women in a different part of Pern".<mask> completed Menolly's story as Dragonsong and contracted for a sequel before its publication in 1976. The tales of Menolly are continued in Dragonsinger: Harper of Pern, and Dragondrums as the "Harper Hall Trilogy". With a contract with Atheneum she was able to buy a home (named "Dragonhold" for the dragons who bought it). Her son wrote, 20 years later, that she "first set dragons free on Pern and then was herself freed by her dragons." Dragons
The first Pern story, "Weyr Search", was published in 1967 by John W. Campbell in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. It won the 1968 Hugo Award for best novella, voted by participants in the annual World Science Fiction Convention. The second Pern story, "Dragonrider", won the 1969 Nebula Award for best novella, voted annually by the Science Fiction Writers of America.Thus she was the first woman to win a Hugo for fiction and the first to win a Nebula. "Weyr Search" covers the recruitment of a young woman, Lessa, to establish a telepathic bond with a queen dragon at its hatching, thus becoming a dragonrider and the leader of a Weyr community. "Dragonrider" explores the growth of the queen dragon Ramoth, and the training of Lessa and Ramoth. Editor Campbell requested "to see dragons fighting thread [the menace from space]", and also suggested time travel; <mask> incorporated both suggestions. The third story, "Crack Dust, Black Dust", was not separately published, but the first Pern novel (Dragonflight, published by Ballantine Books in 1968) was a fix-up of all three. Agent Virginia Kidd and editor Betty Ballantine provided advice and assistance for its sequel Dragonquest. It was almost complete (and the contract for another sequel signed) before the 1970 move to Ireland.Both Ballantine and fellow writer Andre Norton made suggestions for the mutant white dragon. Readers waited a long time for the completion of the original trilogy. Progress was not made until 1974–1975, when the New England Science Fiction Association invited <mask> to its annual convention (Boskone) as guest of honour (which included publication of a novella for sale on-site). She wrote A Time When, which would become the first part of The White Dragon. The White Dragon was released with new editions of the first two Pern books, with cover art illustrated by Michael Whelan. It was the first science-fiction book by a woman on the New York Times best-seller list, and the cover painting is still in print from Whelan. The artists share credit for their career breakthroughs.Collaborations
<mask> said of her collaborations with son <mask> and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, "While I would dearly love to have the energy to tell a tale all on my own, I really cannot say that I am not ably represented with my collaborations". In the Pern collaboration with Todd, she was mainly "making suggestions or being a sounding board". <mask> also gave Todd and his sister Gigi permission to write their own stories set in the Pern universe. McCaffrey also collaborated with author Mercedes Lackey to write The Ship Who Searched, the third of seven books in The Ship Who Sang series by <mask> and four other authors, and the only one by Lackey. She also wrote with Elizabeth Moon for the series 'The Planet Pirates' (3 volumes)

Death
<mask> died at age 85 on 21 November 2011 at her home in Ireland, following a stroke. Books

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In August 1987, Locus: The magazine of the science fiction & fantasy field ranked two of the eight extant Pern novels among the "All-Time Best Fantasy Novels", based on a poll of subscribers; Dragonflight was 9th and The White Dragon 23rd. Commenting on the Locus list, David Pringle called them "arguably science fiction rather than fantasy proper" and named <mask> a "leading practitioner" of the planetary romance subgenre of science fiction.McCaffrey considered most of her work science fiction and enjoyed "cutting them short when they call me a 'fantasy' writer". All the Pern books may be considered science fiction, since the dragons were genetically engineered by the Pern colonists. Regarding science, she said "I don't keep up with developments, but I do find an expert in any field in which I must explain myself and the science involved".

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 Astronomer Steven Beard often helped with science questions, and McCaffrey acknowledged reproductive biologist Jack Cohen several times. The Science Fiction Hall of Fame citation of <mask> summarises her genre as "science fiction, though tinged with the tone and instruments of fantasy", and her reputation as "a writer of romantic, heightened tales of adventure explicitly designed to appeal—and to make good sense to—a predominantly female adolescent audience." McCaffrey said in 2000, "There are no demographics on my books which indicate the readers are predominantly of an age or sex group. Dragons have a universal appeal"!Formerly, it was another matter:I started writing s-f in the late 50s/early 60s, when readership was predominantly male. And their attitudes unreconstructed. [... Women] began reading s-f and fantasy—and, by preference, women writers. My stories had themes and heroines they could, and did, relate to. I never had any trouble with editors and publishers. I had trouble getting male readers to believe I was serious, and a good enough writer to interest them. In 1999, the American Library Association gave <mask> the 11th Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for teens.The librarians credited her with "over 50 novels for young adults and adults" and cited seven published from 1968 to 1979 for the "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature" that the award features: The Ship Who Sang (1969) and the first six Pern books (those sometimes called the "original trilogy" and the "Harper Hall trilogy"). The panel chair observed that "<mask>'s focus on the personal and emotional need of human beings mirrors the quest of today's teens to find their own place in society." Restoree
<mask>'s first novel was Restoree, published by Ballantine Books in 1967. Unlike most science fiction books of the era, Restorees heroine is a strong-willed, intelligent woman who is willing and able to think for herself and act on her own initiative. <mask> was widely quoted as saying that Restoree was intended as a "jab" at how women were usually portrayed in science fiction. Federated Sentient Planets universe
Several of <mask>'s series (and more than half her books) are set in a universe governed by the "Federated Sentient Planets" ("Federation" or "FSP"). Although Pern's history is connected to the Federation, <mask> only used it as a backdrop for storytelling and did not consider her different "worlds" to be part of the same universe.Dragonriders of Pern series

<mask>'s best-known works are the Dragonriders of Pern series. After colonists from Earth make a decades-long journey to a new planet (which they name 'Pern', from the report of the initial exploration of the planet. Pern is an acronym for "Parallels Earth, Resources Negligible"), a volcanic eruption and an extra-planetary threat called Thread force the original colonists to retreat into caves in the northern hemisphere of the planet, abandoning most of their advanced technology in the process. Adopting an agrarian lifestyle, the survivors of the original expedition create genetically-engineered 'dragons' from a native species of reptiles, and use them to fight back the encroaching thread. The Brain & Brawn Ship series

The Brain & Brawn Ship series comprises seven novels, only the first of which (a fix-up of five previously published stories) was written by McCaffrey alone. The stories in this series deal with the adventures of "shell-people" or "Brains", who as infants (due to illness or birth defects) have had to be hard-wired into a life-support system. With sensory input and motor nerves tied into a computer they serve as starship pilots (or colony administrators), seeing and feeling the colony or ship as an extension of their own body.They perform this job to pay off their debt for education and hardware, and continue as free agents once the debt is paid. To compensate for the Brains' inability to move within human habitats they are paired with partners known as "Brawns", who are trained in a wide array of skills (including the protection of their Brain counterparts). It was considered impossible for a person to adjust to being a shell after the age of two or three. An exception, in The Ship Who Searched, was a shell-person who was seven when she became quadriplegic. The Ship books are set in the same universe as the Crystal Singer books; Brainship-Brawn pairings were also characters in the second and third volumes of that series. The Crystal series

The first book (and first of the trilogy), The Crystal Singer (1982) is a fix-up of four stories published in 1974–1975. The Crystal Singer series revolves around the planet Ballybran.Under a permanent biohazard travel restriction due to a potentially-fatal symbiotic organism on the planet's surface, Ballybran is the source of valuable crystals that are vital to a number of industries, and home to one of the FSP's wealthiest (and most reclusive) organisations: the Heptite Guild. The Heptite Guild is known to require absolute, perfect pitch in hearing and voice for all applicants (especially those seeking to mine crystal by song). Because Ballybran's weather is unpredictable and dangerous (Ballybran's windstorms will cause exposed crystal to 'scream' in a discordant, deafening cacophony), the Heptite Guild is prohibited from actively recruiting members. The Coelura series

'The Coelura' explores the theme of environmental abuse, as a precious animal is hunted to near extinction for the thread it spins for its net. The Lady Caissa must choose between protecting the Coelura or meeting her obligations to her father and mother. 'Nimisha's Ship' takes place in the same universe, as a woman in the First Families becomes a ship designer and on a test run her ship is captured by a wormhole. On exploring a nearby planet, she finds and befriends the remaining crew of a stranded ship who suffered the same fate years before, plus a new sapient species.Ireta

The Ireta series (as catalogued by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database) comprises five novels: two "Dinosaur Planets" by <mask> in 1978 and 1984 and three "Planet Pirates" co-written during the 1990s. They share a fictional premise, and some characters and events overlap. "Dinosaur Planets" follow the Exploration and Evaluation Corps team on the planet Ireta, which did not expect to find dinosaurs. In "Planet Pirates", all is not well in the FSP: pirates attack the spacelanes. Survivors on Ireta and the survivors of space pirate attacks join forces. The Talents universe

"The Talents Universe" (as catalogued by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database) comprises two series: "Talent" and "The Tower and Hive" and share a fictional premise. Eight books (all by <mask> alone) tell the story of telepathic, telekinetic individuals that become increasingly important to the proper function of interstellar society.Doona

Two civilisations in near-identical circumstances – an overlarge, lethargic population and a tragic history with sentient aliens – end up attempting to colonise the same planet by accident. What the humans do not know is that the people they have misidentified as nomadic natives are more technically advanced than themselves (and under no such illusions regarding the humans). The books are set prior to the formation of the Federation of Sentient Planets; in this series, the ruling body is the 'Amalgamated Planets'. Petaybee universe

The Petaybee universe comprises two trilogies (Powers and The Twins of Petaybee) by <mask> and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. The Barque Cat series

This series introduces a new universe with space faring Barque Cats and their special telepathically linked humans. The Freedom series

The Freedom series (or the "Catteni Sequence") comprises one 1970 short story and four Freedom novels written between 1995 and 2002. Acorna universe

The "Acorna Universe series" comprises ten novels published between 1997 and 2007: seven sometimes known as Acorna and three sometimes known as Acorna's Children.The series involve a group of intergalactic miners who adopt a mysterious alien foundling with unicorn-like physiognomy and apparent magical abilities. The first two were written by <mask> and Margaret Ball, and the rest by <mask> and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Other works

McCaffrey also published two short-story collections, several romances and young-adult fantasies. Her nonfiction work includes two cookbooks and a book about dragons in general. Notes

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  Self-published. Excerpts from interview published in the monthly Locus, November 2004. Further reading

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  – official website, <mask>
 Pern Home – official website, Pern and The Dragonriders of Pern™

 <mask> - Guest of Honour at Eurocon 2007
 Remembrances by Peter Morwood

 Interview with <mask> and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough about co-authoring two books, A DISCUSSION WITH National Authors on Tour'' TV Series, Episode #105 (1994)

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