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Living people Ninth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada Servant of the People (political party) politicians
Frederick J. Streng (September 30, 1933 - June 21, 1993) was a noted scholar in Buddhist-Christian studies, author, editor, leader of religious organizations, and Professor of the History of Religions, Southern Methodist University in Texas from 1974 to 1993. He was one of the founding members of the Society for Buddhist-Christian studies, which has bestowed the Frederick Streng Book Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies in his honor since 1997.
Early life
Frederick John Streng was born in Seguin, Texas to Adolph C. Streng and Elizabeth M. Hein. His father was a Lutheran minister but Streng always felt restricted by just one religious identity, which led him to study world religious and support Unitarian Universalism later in life.
Religious scholarship
Streng earned a bachelor's degree at Texas Lutheran College, a master's in English at Southern Methodist and a bachelor of divinity and a doctorate in the history of religion at the University of Chicago.
His graduate study at the University of Chicago took place under Mircea Eliade, Joseph Kitagawa, and Bernard Meland, from 1956 to 1963. He wrote his doctoral thesis about Buddhist thinker Nagarjuna, which was later published as Emptiness - A Study of Religious Meaning (Abingdon Press, 1967) and became required reading for leading philosophers and theologians in America.
He studied at Benares Hindu University in India as a Fulbright scholar from 1961-1962, received a National Endowment of the Humanities grant in 1979, and also won Carnegie and Ford fellowships.
Streng was the president of the international Society for Buddhist and Christian Studies and died while serving as its third president. He was also the former president of the American Society for the Study of Religion from 1987-1990. and of the Society for Asian Comparative Philosophy in 1971.
He wrote and edited several books, including Understanding Religious Life (Wadsworth, 1984) and Ways of Being Religious: Readings for a New Approach to Religion (co-authored with Charles L. Lloyd Jr and Jay T. Allen). He also wrote articles for journals, including "The Ontology of Silence and Comparative Mysticism" for Philosophy Today and the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Encyclopedia of Religion, as well as translating and interpreting Madhyamaka texts.
In 1969, he launched The Religious Life of Man Series with Dickenson Publishing Company, which included separate volumes by different authors writing about various religious beliefs around the world.
He began teaching religion at Southern Methodist University in 1966 and received the Outstanding Professor at Southern Methodist University award in 1974. He also received the Distinguished Alumni award from Texas Lutheran College in 1988.
He was a board member of the Greater Dallas Community of Churches and past president of the North Texas Association of Unitarian Universalist Societies.
One of his last public appearances before his death was at the Krost Symposium on Salvation at Texas Lutheran College in 1993, where he spoke of "shared religious intent" between Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, and Zen Buddhist traditions, which is a transformative power that transcends biological, social or psychological life, and a freedom of choice which is not a result of physical, biological or social forces, but makes the ultimate transformation of religious salvation possible.
Death
Streng died June 21, 1993, at his home in Dallas at the age of 59, due to cancer. He was survived by his wife of 12 years, the former Susie Blossom; his stepmother, Evelyn; two sons, Mark A. Streng and Steve Deane; two daughters, Elizabeth Ann Devoll and Lisa Evans; two brothers, Adolph Streng and Paul Collinson-Streng; a sister, Esther Staats, and one granddaughter.
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1933 births 1993 deaths
The 2022 Arizona State Sun Devils softball team represents Arizona State University in the 2022 NCAA Division I softball season. The Sun Devils are coached by Trisha Ford, in her sixth season. The Sun Devils play their home games at Alberta B. Farrington Softball Stadium and compete in the Pac-12 Conference.
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Arizona State Arizona State Sun Devils softball seasons Arizona State Sun Devils softball
East Timor consumes 125 GWh of electricity per annum, an average of 95 kWh per person. The country has about 80 MW of electricity capacity, 19 MW in Dili — the capital has an electrification rate of 85%, but rural electrification is at just 5–18%: total nationwide electrification is just 22% (one of the lowest electrification rates of any country in the world). Only the capital and Baucau have uninterrupted supply.
Most of the energy infrastructure was destroyed by the Indonesians during the 1999 East Timorese crisis. In 2005, the government identified the high price of electricity (US$0.20 per kWh) as a deterrent to development. Gariuai Hydroelectric Plant is the country's only hydro plant, with a production capacity of 326 kW. Many people rely on diesel generators. A feasibility study of 2007–10 concluded that the country had huge potential for renewable energy.
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Energy in Indonesia List of power stations in East Timor Rural electrification List of renewable energy topics by country
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The Phaeotremellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Tremellales. The family currently contains two genera.
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Tremellomycetes Phaeotremellaceae
Seybert is a spelling variant of the German language surname Seibert. Notable people with the name include: Adam Seybert (1773–1825), politician from Philadelphia Joanna Seybert (1946), United States federal judge John Seybert (1791–1860), American bishop
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German-language surnames Surnames from given names
St. Mary's Episcopal Church was an Episcopal church in Athens, Georgia, United States. Completed in 1869, it came to prominence after the musical group R.E.M., then without a name, played its first concert at the location in 1980.
Built for the workers at the nearby R. L. Bloomfield Pottery, the factory's closure in 1892 led to the demise of the church's functionality.
History Built in 1869, and located at the foot of Carr's Hill, the first service was held at the church on April 9, 1871, by Robert Lee Bloomfield (1827–1916), who also designed the church. He based the design on his childhood church in his native Bound Brook, New Jersey.
Regular services were held for the next 21 years, but had stopped by 1899. Bloomfield's pottery business closed in 1892, resulting in a marked downturn in parishioners.
The building became the headquarters of the local Red Cross in 1945, and during the 1960s it was the home of Athens-Clarke County Museum. It subsequently became apartments for University of Georgia (UGA) students.
R.E.M. In the spring of 1979, Dan Wall, owner of Wuxtry Records, visited the property. He discovered that between the wall of the inner shell, created by the construction of the apartments, and the back wall of the original building was a large space containing the remnants of the altar. Although it had a hole in the roof and an unsound floor, under which there were two graves. Wall recognized the potential of the church as a rehearsal space and cleared it out. He lived there briefly too.
Later that year, Wall moved to Atlanta to manage its branch of Wuxtry. Peter Buck, who worked for Wall at the Athens branch, expressed an interest in taking over the church that his boss was renting out. Wall sub-let the apartment to Buck, his brother Ken, Kathleen O'Brien (a bartender at Athens' Tyrone's OC and a morning-show disc jockey on WUOG) and another girl named Robyn Bragg, although it is rumored that up to fifteen other people lived there as well, all contributing to the monthly rent of $350. "There were pews and a stage and ceilings and the old preachers were buried under the floor," explained Buck. "It was like something out of weird Tennessee Williams, this big, pink, decrepit church. It wasn’t so legendary as rumored. It was a real zoo. It was a dumpy little shithole where only college kids could be convinced to live. It was really wretched: slate falling off the walls. We lived with some girl who dealt drugs, and all of these sickos who would come over at four in the morning with 'the urge.'"
"Our first jam was in February [1980]," recalled Mike Mills, who became the third of the four members of the band. "It was cold; we didn’t have any heat. It was in the back of the church. I was trying to play with gloves on and steam was coming out of our mouths. I really enjoyed what Michael and Peter were doing with the songs Bill [Berry] and I brought, and it was clearly working."
At the end of the month, to celebrate her 20th birthday in just over a month's time, Kathleen O'Brien said she intended to throw a party at the church. At five weeks' notice, after a performance by John Cale at the Georgia Theatre, she asked the quartet to help provide the entertainment. They had only been practicing together for a few weeks and were less than enthusiastic with the idea. "She begged us to play," explained Berry, now also resident at the church. Mills slept on the church couch while rehearsals took place.
On April 5, 1980, Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe played the arranged birthday concert, in support of the Side Effects, at the church, then home to Buck and his new friend Michael Stipe. The band became known as R.E.M. shortly thereafter.
Church demolition
The church was torn down on March 1, 1990, and replaced by sixteen Steeplechase Condominiums. Only the steeple was spared. The remnant, now known as the "R.E.M. steeple", was maintained by a homeowner association until 2004.
In November 2010, a fire occurred at Rick Hawkins' print shop in front of the church at 376 Oconee Street. Established in the 1970s, the Athens magazine Flagpole was founded in the shop. Afterward, county inspectors told the Steeplechase Condominium Association that they either needed to repair the steeple of have it torn down. Although they voted for the latter, they did not arrange its demolition.
In 2013, Nuçi's Space became the owner of the steeple. Initially, the association was only willing to sell the tower itself, not the land on which it stands. Bob Sleppy, exeuctive director of Nuçi's Space, launched a fundraising campaign to facilitate its upkeep and build an adjacent meditation garden. Sleppy brought in Whitsel Construction, specialists in historic preservation, who removed a wall that had been part of the church but was not attached to the steeple. The project was completed in early 2020.
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19th-century Episcopal church buildings Churches completed in 1869 Episcopal church buildings in Georgia (U.S. state) Demolished churches in the United States 1869 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) 1990 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state) R.E.M.
Bess Goodykoontz (August 21, 1894 – July 29, 1990) was an American educator and federal official. She was assistant US Commissioner of Education from 1929 to 1945.
Early life and education Goodykoontz was born in Waukon, Iowa, the daughter of Edward Warren Goodykoontz and Lela Sherman Goodykoontz. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Iowa, in 1920 and 1922. She was a member of Delta Zeta sorority.
Career Goodykoontz taught school in Iowa an Wisconsin. She was an assistant professor of education at the University of Pittsburgh in the 1920s. She was assistant US Commissioner of Education from 1929 to 1946. From 1933 to 1937, she was president of Pi Lambda Theta. During the 1930s, much of her attention was focused on vocational education; she also encouraged the use of motion pictures in educational settings, and testified before a 1933 Senate hearing on teacher salaries. During World War II, she testified before a 1943 Senate hearing on childcare programs to meet the needs of working mothers. She frequently spoke at college commencement exercises and teachers' conventions.
After World War II, Goodykoontz was part of the rebuilding effort in Germany. She was director of the elementary education division from 1946 to 1949. In 1950, she was named Associate Commissioner of Education. From 1951 to 1956, she was director of the comparative education division. In 1956, she became director of the international education division. She was president of the World Organization for Early Childhood Education. In 1959 she was named Woman of the Year by Delta Zeta. She retired from the Office of Education in 1960.
Publications Goodykoontz wrote many articles for scholarly and professional journals, including Childhood Education, The Elementary English Review, Teachers College Record, Bulletin of the American Library Association, Hispania, Pi Lambda Theta Journal, and National Altrusan. She also created publications for the Office of Education, including The Elementary School Principalship: Some Aspects of Its Development and Status (1938, with Jessie A. Lane) and Know Your Community as a Basis for Understanding the Schools Problems (1941).
"Teaching Pupils to Organize What They Read" (1930) "Pan-Pacific Women's Organization" (1931) "Some Factors Affecting the Elementary English Curriculum" (1931) "The Relation of Pictures to Reading Comprehension" (1936) "A Bibliography of Unpublished Studies in Elementary School English, 1934-1936" (1937) "Propaganda: What It Is; How It Works; What to Do About It" (1938) The Elementary School Principalship: Some Aspects of Its Development and Status (1938, with Jessie A. Lane) Know Your Community as a Basis for Understanding the Schools Problems (1941) "The Importance of Education for Family Life at the Various School Levels" (1941) "Challenges to the Present Structure of American Education" (1945)
"Why Education for Inter-American Understanding?" (1945) "Changes Needed in School Organization to Provide for Special Groups" (1945) "The Elementary School of Tomorrow — Its Possible Structure" (1946) "Hobbies Extend Horizons, Too" (1952) "Selected Studies Relating to Community Schools" (1953) "Children's Needs Throughout the World" (1955) Basic Human Values for Childhood Education (1962)
Personal life Goodykoontz adopted a daughter, Ellen Darrow. She died in 1990, aged 95 years, at her daughter's home in South Newfane, Vermont. Her papers are in the Hoover Library,
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1894 births 1990 deaths American educators University of Pittsburgh faculty University of Iowa alumni
Halyna Petrosanyak (; born 1969) is a Ukrainian poet, writer and translator.
Life Halyna Petrosanyak was born in 1969 in a remote village in the Ukrainian Carpathians. She graduated in German and Russian studies from Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University.
Petrosanyak was among the authors linked to the Stanislav phenomenon. She debuted in 1996 with poetry book Парк на схилі ("Park on the hill"). A poem from the publication was awarded with the Bu-Ba-Bu "Best Poem of the Year" award. Petrosanyak is also the laureate of Hubert-Burda-Preis für junge Lyrik ((2007) and the Ivan Franko Prize (2010). Her works have appeared in various literary magazines and almanacs and have been translated into several languages, including English, German, Polish, Russian, Czech and Italian.
Petrosanyak works as a translator from Czech and German into Ukrainian. She has translated, among others, the autobiographies of Alexander Granach and Soma Morgenstern.
Publications
Poetry
Парк на схилі (“Park on the hill”), 1996 Світло окраїн (“Light of outskirts”), 2000 Спокуса говорити, 2008 Екзофонія (“Exophonium”), 2019
Other
Політ на повітряній кулі, 2015 – essays and poetry Не заважай мені рятувати світ (“Don’t hinder me to save the world”), 2019 – short stories
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Ukrainian translators Ukrainian women poets 21st-century Ukrainian women writers 1969 births Living people
La maternal is an upcoming teen drama film written and directed by Pilar Palomero starring Carla Quílez and Ángela Cervantes.
Plot The plot tracks Carla, a 14-year old pregnant girl placed in a centre for teenage mothers where she hangs out with other teen classmates (Raki, Estel, Claudia, Jamila and Sheila). She also has to deal with the vicissitudes of her fraught relation with her mother Penélope.
Cast
Production The screenplay was penned by Pilar Palomero. La maternal (the second feature directed by Palomero after Schoolgirls) is an Inicia Films and Bteam Prods production, with the participation of RTVE, TVC, Televisión de Aragón, and Movistar+ and support from Creative Europe's MEDIA, ICAA and . Julián Elizalde worker as cinematographer.
Shooting took place in late 2021 and lasted for 8 weeks. Shooting locations included Los Monegros and Barcelona and its surroundings.
Release The film will be distributed in Spain by BTeam Pictures. Elle Driver acquired rights for worldwide sales outside Spain and France.
See also List of Spanish films of 2022
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Upcoming films Spanish drama films Teenage pregnancy in film Spanish pregnancy films Films shot in Aragon Films shot in Catalonia
Maria Lioudaki (November 22, 1894 - December 4, 1947) was a Greek educator, folklorist, and resistance fighter. She promoted social action in Lasithi with her friend, Maria Drandaki (1914-1947), with whom she was arrested and killed during the Greek Civil War.
Personal life Lioudaki was born on November 22, 1894, in Latsida of Apano Mirabello, in the countryside of Crete to farmer Georgios Lioudakis and Aikaterini, from the genus Papazachariadis (family clan), and was the oldest of their 8 children. Growing up in a rural family, she experienced the sounds of the "Mantinadas" in the fields at work, in social gatherings, in dances; with emotional devotion.
Education She studied at the Girl's School of Naples and in 1908, immediately after graduation at the age of 14, began her career as a sub-teacher at the primary school of Kritsa. She also taught at Agios Georgios in Lassithi and at Fourni Mirabellou from 1912 to 1914.
In 1914 she graduated with honors from the School of Heraklion. From 1925 - 1927, after successfully passing her examinations, she studied at the University of Athens. In her postgraduate studies she was taught by Manolis Triantafyllidis, Dimitris Glinos, and Alexandros Delmouzos who instilled in her the idea of educational reform, including giving education to all social classes.
Triantafyllidis distinguished Lioudaki for her spiritual interests and introduced her to Folklore. Triantaphyllides also supported and instilled in Lioudaki the then-new ideas of educational reform. She received her postgraduate degree with honors.
Career After graduating, from 1927 - 1937, she took over as Principal of the Girl's School of Ierapetra which was housed in the old Turkish school in Mehtepi. She sought to fix the school, which was in a miserable state and put the schoolgirls in danger. She complained about the poor condition of the building, and in 1929, sent a letter to the parents, who were mostly workers, fishermen, and farmers, saying. "Make sure you find your masters, move, work for your children." She shared her food with the poorest children in the school, and conducted extra classes without pay.
In Lioudaki's writings, lectures, and teaching spread Greek language and literature with the aim of communicating and educating the poor, contributing to the struggle for their spiritual upliftment. She translated Sophocles' play Electra into a measured elementary school play, presented in 1929 by the students of Ierapetra High School. At the same time she took part in the trade union struggles: to improve the position of teachers and to provide a better Education to the children of the people."Man must be educated, and education does not distinguish in society between young and old, high and low. He who is not a coward in front of the supposed superiors and tortures his inferiors. An educated person is one who puts himself in second place to serve his neighbor. Educated is the man who suffers for their sorrow and rejoices for their joy. Education is something divine, he is the god who dwells in us."At the same time, she was also financially supporting her family including her siblings' educations and her youngest sister Hara's fiancé Napoleon Soukatzidis.
Folklore Apart from being a teacher, Maria Lioudaki was the author of 21 textbooks and a distinguished folklorist. She published children's works, such as the collections of children's fairy tales, Grandmother's Knees (Στης γιαγιάς τα γόνατα), Around the brazier (Γύρω στο μαγκάλ), and others. She received the First Prize of the Academy of Athens for the collection of Mantinades of Crete (Μαντινάδες Κρήτης).
In the prologue of Mantinades of Crete Lioudaki refers to those who helped her in the work of collecting mantinadas in various ways. She makes a special reference to Napoleon Soukatzidis about whom she writes: "I especially thank the most noble and progressive child Napoleon Soukatzidis, who worked tirelessly in the collection of mantinades. Most of these are among the thousands he found… ”
In April 1937 she became the assistant sorter under George Megas in the Folklore Archive of the Academy of Athens due to her exceptional folklore work.
The author Manolis Milt. Papadakis in his book "Maria Lioudaki. The Priestess of Education" writes with what enthusiasm the martyr teacher Lioudaki recorded throughout her life thousands of Mantinadas, fairy tales, obituaries, opinions, tongue twisters and all the customs of the Cretan people. Hundreds of fairy tales and other works of Lioudaki are currently in the Folklore Archive of the Academy of Athens still unpublished.
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