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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: Nilotic peoples, Madi people, Toposa people, Dinka people, Kuku people, Bari people, Moru people, Luo peoples, Acholi people, Anuak people, Baggara Arabs, Nuer people, Murle people, Zande people, Didinga people, Nyangatom people, Mandari people, D¿r Fertit, Kakwa people, Kara people, Pari people, Avukaya people, Morokodo people, Lango people, Shita people, Shatt people, Ketebo people, Makaraka people, Yulu people, Tenet people, Keliko people, Dongotona people, Kaligi people, Nyamusa people, Lotuko people, Baka people, Bai people, Kichepo people, Mundu people, Atwot people, Burun people, Ndogo people, Mangaya people, Rek people, Ngulgule people, Olu'bo people, Indri people, Belanda Bor people, Tacho people, Bviri people, Lokoja people, Thuri people. Excerpt: The Mà'dí people are found in the Magwi County in South Sudan, and the districts of Adjumani and Moyo in Uganda. From south to north, the area runs from the from Nimule(at Sudan-Uganda border) to Nyolo River where the Mädi mingle with Acholi, Bari and Lolubo. From the east to west, it runs from Parajok/Magwi to Uganda across the River Nile. The speakers refer to themselves and are known Madi. In standard orthography this is Ma'di; the aprostrophe indicates that d is implosive. The speakers refer to their language as madi ti, literally meaning Ma'di mouth. Among themselves, Ma'di refer to each other as belonging to a suru ("clan" or "tribe"), which may further be broken down to pa, "the descendants of," which in some cases overlap with suru. While a Madi can only marry someone from outside their clan, they must normally marry within the group that shares the Madi language. Many neighboring speakers of Moru¿Madi languages go by the name of Madi. Madi womenAccording to one popular folk tale, the name Madi came as an answer to a question by a white man to a Madi man. When the first white person in the area asked the question 'who are you?', the bemused response was madi, i.e. a person. This was taken to be the name of the people, which came to be corrupted to the present. Another Ma'di narrative tries to account for the names of some of the Moru¿Ma'di group members. When the progenitors of the Ma'di were pushed southwards, on reaching a strategic location they declared, Muro-Amadri, i.e., "Let's form a settle here". And so they formed a cluster to defend themselves. This group came to be known as the Moru. A group broke off in search of greener pastures in a more or less famished state, until they found an edible tree called lugba('desert dates' - ximenia aegyptiaca). After they ate some of the fruits, they took some with them. When the time came to refill their stomachs again, a woman who lost her harvest was heard enquiring about the lugba ri 'the desert dates'. This

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Chapters: Iranian photographers, Inge Morath, Abbas Kiarostami, Zahra Kazemi, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Shirin Neshat, Bahman Motamedian, Naveed Nour, Antoin Sevruguin, Gilles Peress, Amir Ali Ghassemi, Jahangir Razmi, Shadi Ghadirian, Sadegh Tirafkan, Bruno Barbey, Bahman Jalali, Ali Khan Vali, Nasrollah Kasraian, Ahmad Aali, Mohammadreza Mirzaei, Mitra Tabrizian, Maryam Zandi, Babak Salari, Peyman Hooshmandzadeh, Morteza Avini, Nikol Faridani, Elisabeth Meyer, Mirza Ebrahim Khan Akkas Bashi, Ashkan Sahihi, Khan Baba Motazedi, Morteza Poursamadi. Excerpt: Abbas Kiarostami (Persian: Abb¿s Kiy¿rostam¿; born 22 June 1940) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer. An active filmmaker since 1970, Kiarostami has been involved in over forty films, including shorts and documentaries. Kiarostami attained critical acclaim for directing the Koker Trilogy (1987¿94), Taste of Cherry (1997), and The Wind Will Carry Us (1999). Kiarostami has worked extensively as a screenwriter, film editor, art director and producer and has designed credit titles and publicity material. He is also a poet, photographer, painter, illustrator, and graphic designer. Kiarostami is part of a generation of filmmakers in the Iranian New Wave, a Persian cinema movement that started in the late 1960s and includes pioneering directors such as Forough Farrokhzad, Sohrab Shahid Saless, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Bahram Beizai, and Parviz Kimiavi. The filmmakers share many common techniques including the use of poetic dialogue and allegorical storytelling dealing with political and philosophical issues. Kiarostami has a reputation for using child protagonists, for documentary style narrative films, for stories that take place in rural villages, and for conversations that unfold inside cars, using stationary mounted cameras. He is also known for his use of contemporary Iranian poetry in the dialogue, titles, and themes of his films. Kiarostami majored in painting and graphic design at the Tehran University College of Fine ArtsKiarostami was born in Tehran. His first artistic experience was painting, which he continued into his late teens, winning a painting competition at the age of eighteen shortly before he left home to study at the Tehran University School of Fine Arts. There he majored in painting and graphic design, and supported his degree by working as a traffic policeman. As a painter, designer, and illustrator, Kiarostami worked in advertising in the 1960s, designing posters and creating commercials. Be

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 184. Chapters: Russell T Davies, Oscar Wilde, Michel Foucault, Ion Negoi¿escu, Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Stephen Fry, Noël Coward, Stephen Gately, Alexandru Bogdan-Pite¿ti, Truman Capote, Tom Kahn, Brian Epstein, W. H. Auden, Kenneth Anger, James Randi, Derren Brown, Federico García Lorca, Perez Hilton, Langston Hughes, Lance Bass, Andrew Sullivan. Excerpt: Stephen Russell Davies, OBE (born 27 April 1963), better known by his pen name Russell T Davies, is a Welsh television producer and screenwriter whose works include Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, and the 2005 revival of the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who. Born in Swansea, Davies aspired to work as a comic artist in his adult life, until a careers advisor at his school suggested that he study English literature; he consequently focused on a career of play- and screen-writing. After he graduated from Oxford University, Davies joined the BBC's children's department on a part-time basis in 1985 and worked in varying positions, including writing and producing two series, Dark Season and Century Falls. He left the BBC in the early 1990s to work for Granada Television and later became a freelance writer. Davies moved into writing adult television dramas in 1994. His early scripts generally explored concepts of religion and sexuality among various backdrops: Revelations was a soap opera about organised religion and featured a lesbian vicar; Springhill was a soap drama about a Catholic family in contemporary Liverpool; The Grand explored society's opinion of subjects such as prostitution, abortion, and homosexuality during the interwar period; and Queer as Folk, his first prolific series, recreated his experiences in the Manchester gay scene. His later series include Bob & Rose, which portrayed a gay man who fell in love with a woman, The Second Coming, which focused on the second coming and deicide of Jesus Christ, Mine All Mine, a comedy about a family who discover they owned the entire city of Swansea, and Casanova, an adaptation of the Venetian lover's complete memoirs. His most notable achievement is reviving and running the science fiction series Doctor Who after a sixteen-year hiatus, with Christopher Eccleston, and later David Tennant, in the title role of the Doctor. Davies's tenure as executive producer of the show oversa

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, Hodge conjecture, Navier¿Stokes existence and smoothness, Poincaré conjecture, P versus NP problem, Riemann hypothesis, Yang¿Mills existence and mass gap. Excerpt: 62 article summaries including: One Solved; Six Millennium Prize Problems Remain. Zeroing in on the zeta zeta function (Riemann Hypothesis). Prime time for the Riemann hypothesis(Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics )(Book Review). A numerical test on the Riemann hypothesis with applications. Quantum physics may offer clues to solving prime number problem: electron energy levels linked to Riemann hypothesis(Numbers). Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis: The Quest to Find the Hidden Law of Prime Numbers(Books: A selection of new and notable books of scientific interest)(Brief Article)(Book Review). Hypothesis finxit(Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis)(Book Review). From Solitaire, a Clue to the World of Prime Numbers(study may help prove Riemann hypothesis ). The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics(Book Review). The Millennium Prize Problems(Brief Article)(Book Review). 1 Solved 6 Millennium Prize Problems Remain. The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time(Book Review). The num8er my5teries solutions. Analysis: Mathematicial discovery. Analysis: Methematicial discovery. Complexity science for simpletons. Arithmetic of L-functions(Brief article)(Book review). Riemann's riddle; Mathematics(three books about mathematics theory)(Book Review). THE PEA AND THE SUN: A MATHEMATICAL PARADOX. Is That Your Final Equation(mathematicians announce contest for solving of mathematical problems). Quantum Structures, Hilbert Problems, and Military Academy in Liptovsky Mikulas. Mathematician Declines Top Prize. Rockmore, Daniel N 1961. Prime problem(Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics)(Book Review). Math Whiz(input output). 9 CORRELATION STREET. Zeros of the Lerch transcendent function(Report). MATH WHIZ. The Arnold Proof. Mathematicians mind the gap (Prime Finding). On quadratic residue codes and hyperelliptic curves(Report). The Grade A, Number 1 Prime Puzzle Of Math(FYI/Book Of The Month)(Review). On a number set related to the k-free numbers. New test finds "certified" primes in record time (prime numbers). Colloquy. The Bootstrap and Modern Statistics(Statistical Data Included). Prime formula weds number theory and quantum physics. Mathematical Explorer 10. Grand challenges and great opportunities in science, technology, and public policy(PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Omenn, Gilbert S)(Speech). A Beautiful Mind. Geometry based critique of general relativity theory(Report). Noncommutative geometry, quantum fields and motives(Brief Article)(Book Review). Books for late summer: from genius genes to tyrannosaur musings(Who's Your Daddy The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank)(Code Breaking: A Toy Story PopCo)(Thinking About Tomorrow Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change)(Murder and Old Bones Tyrannosaur Canyon)(Decoding Decision Makers Blink)(The Wisdom of Crowds)(A Curious Gaze at the Heavens Find the Constellations)(A Journey Through the World's Backwaters the Ends of the Earth)(Ice Age: From Heroic Scientists to Black-Op Spies Fifty Degrees Below)(Book review). A Beautiful Mind ; A romanticised account of Ramanuj...

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 25. Chapters: Morya, Spiritual Hierarchy, Sanat Kumara, Count of St. Germain, Master Jesus, Maitreya, Kuthumi, Serapis Bey, Master Hilarion, Paul the Venetian. Excerpt: Morya - a.new,#quickbar a.new/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-css:5:f2a9127573a22335c2a9102b208c73e7 */ Morya Spiritual Hierarchy is a term often used in Neo-Theosophy, and the Ascended Master Teachings, a group of religions based on Theosophy. It represents the concept of a group of self-realised Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, referred to by those adherent to the Ascended Master Teachings as Ascended Masters, who are ranked at various levels, and their disciples, invisibly helping humanity from behind the scenes on the higher spiritual planes (although according to Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin Creme, they are now allegedly planning to making their existence more known on the physical plane). Another term used for this idea include Great White Brotherhood; other terms used less often for this concept are: the Communion of Saints (where the "saints" are thought of as being the Masters), the Elder Brothers of the Race, the Council of Light, the Society of Illumined Minds, the Planetary Center of Love-Wisdom, The Kingdom of the Gods, the Spiritual Kingdom, the Kingdom of Souls, the Secret Chiefs, or the Mystical Body of Christ, when used in a New Age sense centering on Maitreya and not in the Roman Catholic sense). Basically, the Masters are the New Age equivalent of the saints of the Roman Catholic Church. The Masters will function as such in the New Age world church called the Church Universal which Alice A. Bailey predicted in 1919 would be founded under the auspices of the Masters of the Ancient Wisdom. . The Hierarchy is, according to Benjamin Creme, "... made up of the Masters and Initiates of all degrees and whose purpose is to implement the Plan of God", referred to by Alice A. Bailey as the Plan of the Masters. Neo-Theosophy and the Ascended Master Teachings are syncretic religions which combine religious concepts from and deities from primaril

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 92. Chapters: Bodies: The Exhibition, Body Worlds, Cappella Sansevero, Embalming, Embalming chemicals, Ethanol, Formaldehyde, Glutaraldehyde, Maceration (bone), Methanol, Plastination, Prosection, Prosector, Thomas Greenhill (surgeon). Excerpt: 204 article summaries including: Body worlds . Occupational asthma due to glutaraldehyde and formaldehyde in endoscopy and x ray departments . Calcification of subcutaneously implanted type I collagen sponges Effects of formaldehyde and glutaraldehyde pretreatments . Effect of Formaldehyde and Glutaraldehyde on Electrical Properties of Cardiac Purkinje Fibers . Comparison of cytokine secretion profiles provoked in mice by glutaraldehyde and formaldehyde . Observations on the effects of formaldehyde on cockroaches and their flora: II Prolonged survival of cockroaches drinking formaldehyde or glutaraldehyde solutions . Role of altered rpoB alleles in Bacillus subtilis sporulation and spore resistance to heat, hydrogen peroxide, formaldehyde, and glutaraldehyde . Estimation of relative skin sensitizing potency using the local lymph node assay: a comparison of formaldehyde with glutaraldehyde . International Society for Plastination . Formaldehyde . TRANSCRIPTOMIC ANALYSIS OF F344 RAT NASAL EPITHELIUM SUGGESTS THAT THE LACK OF CARCINOGENIC RESPONSE TO GLUTARALDEHYDE IS DUE TO ITS GREATER TOXICITY COMPARED TO FORMALDEHYDE . Plastination: a modern approach to chiropractic teaching . Plastination in the teaching of Neuroanatomy . Short Report: Plastination - A Novel Method In Tissue Preservation . The Interspinous Spacer: A Clinicoanatomical Investigation Using Plastination . Plastination: A novel, innovative teaching adjunct in oral pathology . The Interspinous Spacer: A Clinicoanatomical Investigation Using Plastination . Anatomy of spectatorship: tracing the body in Body Worlds, the anatomical exhibition of real human bodies . Glutaraldehyde in dentistry--a review . Mycobactericidal activity of glutaraldehyde solutions . Inactivation of Enterovirus by Glutaraldehyde . Dark tourism and the cadaveric carnival: mediating life and death narratives at Gunther von Hagens' Body Worlds . Glutaraldehyde Fixation of Autologous Pericardial Patches . Glutaraldehyde Inactivation of Virus in Tissue . Observations on glutaraldehyde-treated heterologous cardiac valves . Prolonged Survival of Glutaraldehyde-Treated Skin Homografts . Glutaraldehyde enhanced dielectrophoretic yeast cell separation . Calcification of glutaraldehyde-fixed porcine xenograft . Experiments with cholera toxin detoxified with glutaraldehyde . Glutaraldehyde, asthma and work--a cautionary tale . Plastination: a modern anatomical technique; Plastinación, una técnica moderna al servicio de la anatomía . Seetting up a plastination laboratory at the Faculty of medicine of Autonomous University of Barcelona . A MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF FOURTH VENTRICAL OF HUMAN CADAVERIC BRAIN BY PLASTINATION . Microbial Formaldehyde Oxidation . Formaldehyde Absorption toward W51 . PHOTOCHEMISTRY OF FORMALDEHYDE . Formaldehyde oxidation and methanogenesis . New Formaldehyde Base Disinfectants . Controlled formaldehyde fumigation system . Formaldehyde in pathology departments . Does formaldehyde induce aneuploidy . Microfabricated Formaldehyde Gas Sensors . Formaldehyde-releasers: relationship to formaldehyde contact allergy Contact allergy to formaldehyde and inventory of formaldehyde-releasers . Microfabricated F...

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Chapters: Yoshitaka Amano, Raymond Loewy, Saul Bass, Paul Rand, Herb Lubalin, Massimo Vignelli, Milton Glaser, Michael Patrick Cronan, Alan Fletcher, Henry Steiner, Michael Doret, Katherine McCoy, Stefan Kanchev, Jean François Porchez, Bob Gill, Peter Ledger, Chermayeff & Geismar, Dennis Hwang, Otl Aicher, Alan Peckolick, Lisette Rene Sacks, Michael Bierut, Carolyn Davidson, Art Chantry, Anton Stankowski, Sandy Dvore, Theodore W. Drake, Todd Radom, Armin Hofmann, George Opperman, Louis Fishauf, Daniel Gil, Rob Janoff. Excerpt: Yoshitaka Amano Amano Yoshitaka, born July 28, 1952) is a Japanese artist. He began his career as an animator and has become known for his illustrations for the anime Vampire Hunter D and for his character designs, image illustrations and title logo designs for the Final Fantasy video game series developed by Square Enix (formerly Square). His influences include Western comic books, art nouveau, and Japanese woodblock prints. He has won awards for his work, including the 1999 Bram Stoker Award for his collaboration with Neil Gaiman, Sandman: The Dream Hunters. In early 2010, he established Studio Devaloka, a film production company. Amano's design work for early anime series such as Gatchaman drew inspiration from Western comic books. Amano was born in Shizuoka, Japan. As a young adolescent, he was fascinated with drawing. In 1967, he began working in the animation department of Tatsunoko Productions, where he was introduced to the early Japanese anime movement. His first paid project was for the Speed Racer anime franchise. He was a character designer for anime shows such as Time Bokan, Gatchaman, Tekkaman, and Honey Bee. In the 1960s, Amano was exposed to Western art styles through comic books, which he claims among his artistic roots. He has cited Neal Adams as his favorite comic book artist, noting that he would often purchase used comics based on Adams's cover artwork, only to be disappointed that the interior artist was different. Amano was also fascinated by the art styles of psychedelic art and pop art of the West, particularly the work of American Pop artist Peter Max. In the 1970s, Amano studied the artworks of the late 19th century and early 20th century European movement of Art Nouveau, as well as the ancient Japanese hand woodblock printing work of Ukiyo-e. Amano remained at Tatsunoko Productions until 1982. In the early 1980s, Amano concentrated on illustrations for science fiction and fantasy works. Combined with the influence of his prior experience

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Garfield, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Luann, Annie, The Addams Family, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman, Snoopy! The Musical, The Better 'Ole, Doonesbury, Li'l Abner, Annie Warbucks. Excerpt: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a rock musical with music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge and a book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The musical is based on the Spider-Man comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published by Marvel Comics, as well as the 2002 film about the character and the Greek myth of Arachne. lt tells the story of the origin of the character, his romance with Mary Jane and his battles with the evil Green Goblin. The show includes highly technical stunts, such as actors swinging from "webs" and several aerial combat scenes. At the first preview performance, these technical challenges caused several lengthy interruptions. Several actors were injured during rehearsals and previews. Spider Man is the most expensive Broadway production, and had the longest preview period (182 preview performances), in history. Although the musical began performances in November 2010, the official opening was postponed several times. After receiving feedback from preview audiences and scathing reviews from critics, previews were suspended in March 2011. Director Julie Taymor left the production, as co-director Philip William McKinley was brought in to redirect portions of the show. The musical's book was revised, and new previews began May 12, with the official opening on June 14, 2011. Critical reception of the opening was better than for the earlier version, but mixed at best, with praise for the visual effects but little enthusiasm for the book and score. Bono (left) and The Edge (right)Although often described as a rock musical, the production "treads new ground" that some commentators have asserted "have effectively distanced it from its peers¿and caused some confusion when it comes time to describe the show." The Edge stated that he is unsure of what description to use for the production, because "It is elements of rock and roll, it's elements of circus, it's elements of opera, of musical theater." Bono, admitting that his de