The Secretary of the California Senate is a nonpartisan officer of the Senate and is elected at the beginning of each two year session. The Secretary s primary role is the chief Parliamentarian consultant parliamentarian of the Senate Senate Rule 9, Standing Rules of the Senate. See S.R. 4, 2007 08 Regular Session . The Secretary also oversees the clerical workforce on the floor of the California State Senate . This workforce includes staff responsible for producing the daily files, histories, and journals of the Senate, as well as clerks that amend, engross, and enroll bills. The Secretary is also responsible for recording votes on the Senate floor. The Secretary is one of three non member officers selected for each two year session the body also appoints a Chaplain and Sergeant at Arms. California s Legislature 2006 edition , California State Assembly Sacramento. p. 149 The current Secretary of the Senate is Greg Schmidt, who was first elected in 1996. California s Legislature 2006 edition , California State Assembly Sacramento. p. 269 The longest serving Secretary of the Senate was Joseph Beek , who served from 1919 1968 with the exception of 1921, when he did not serve . Sources & More Information http www.leginfo.ca.gov califleg.html Entire text of California s Legislature book is posted online here http www.sen.ca.gov California Senate web site. Contains links to Secretary s homepage Rules of the Senate Senate Resolution 4, 2007 08 Regular Session Category California State Legislature ... more details
In Jonathan Swift s novel Gulliver s Travels , the name struldbrug is given to those humans in the nation of Luggnagg who are born seemingly normal, but are in fact Immortality immortal . However, although struldbrugs do not die , they do nonetheless continue aging . Swift s work depicts the evil of immortality without eternal youth. They are easily recognized by a red dot above their left eyebrow. They are normal human beings until they reach the age of thirty, at which time they become dejected. Upon reaching the age of eighty they become legally dead, and suffer from many ailments including the loss of eyesight and the loss of hair. Struldbrugs were forbidden to own property blockquote As soon as they have completed the term of eighty years, they are looked on as dead in law their heirs immediately succeed to their estates only a small pittance is reserved for their support and the poor ones are maintained at the public charge. After that period, they are held incapable of any employment of trust or profit they cannot purchase lands, or take leases neither are they allowed to be witnesses in any cause, either civil or criminal, not even for the decision of meers metes and bounds. blockquote Because blockquote Otherwise, as avarice is the necessary consequence of old age, those immortals would in time become proprietors of the whole nation, and engross the civil power, which, for want of abilities to manage, must end in the ruin of the public. blockquote Related myths Chinese Taoism placed the Penglai Mountain Island of the Immortals eastward from China, while Swift places the struldbrugs near Japan. The term struldbrug has often been used in science fiction , most prolifically by Larry Niven , to describe supercentenarian s. See also Brobdingnag Lilliput and Blefuscu Houyhnhnm Yahoo Gulliver s Travels Tithonus External links http classiclit.about.com library bl etexts jswift bl jswift gull 3 10.htm Gulliver s Travels Part 3, Chapter 10 Gulliver s Travels Category ... more details
Sexual intercourse can sometimes lead to a feeling of melancholy called PCT, or post coital tristesse from Latin post coitus coital , and French language French tristesse , literally& 160 sadness . This is more common in men than in women . With respect to symptoms in women, see An epidemiological survey of post coital psychological symptoms in a UK population sample of female twins. ref cite web url http www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed?term postcoital 20burri title An epidemiological survey of post coital psychological symptoms in a UK population sample of female twins date 2011 06 14 accessdate 2011 10 05 ref Many PCT sufferers may also exhibit strong feelings of anxiety , anywhere from five minutes, to two hours after coitus . For more, see Sex and depression In the brain, if not the mind. ref cite web url http www.nytimes.com 2009 01 20 health 20iht 20mind.19507430.html title Sex and depression In the brain, if not the mind date 2009 01 20 accessdate 2011 10 05 ref Possible physiological causes of post coital tristesse are discussed in The Passion Cycle. ref cite web url http www.psychologytoday.com blog cupids poisoned arrow 200908 the passion cycle title The Passion Cycle date 2009 08 09 accessdate 2011 10 05 ref The phenomenon is referred to by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza in his Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione when he said For as far as sensual pleasure is concerned, the mind is so caught up in it, as if at peace in a true good, that it is quite prevented from thinking of anything else. But after the enjoyment of sensual pleasure is past, the greatest sadness follows. If this does not completely engross, still it thoroughly confuses and dulls the mind. A better known reference is the grammatically incorrect Latin phrase Post coitum omne animal triste est &mdash After sexual intercourse any animal is sad . The correct phrase is Post coitum anima tristis est which translates to After sex the spirit is sad. English comedian Russell Brand describes the phenom ... more details
The family of H chstetter also rendered Hechstetter or Hochstetter ref name austroarchiv.com http austroarchiv.com joomla content view 594 27 H chstetter von Scheibenegg, from Hohenb hel Beitr ge zur Geschichte des Tiroler Adels , 1891 ref from H chst dt an der Donau H chst dt near the banks of the Danube were members of the fifteenth and sixteenth century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg . For a time, the international mercantile bankers and venture capitalists whose most notorious member was Ambrosius H chstetter were on a par with the Fugger and the Welser . They were drawn upon, like other Augsburg bankers, for loans to Emperor Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I . The accumulating wealth of Augsburg was built upon control of metal ores, the gold, silver and copper of Bohemia , Slovakia , Hungary and the County of Tyrol Tyrol , and their refining and marketing. The Hochstetter company drew upon investments as small as a few florins, but the total invested with him required Ambrosius Hochstetter to pay out up to a million florins a year in interest. He successfully cornered at brief occasions local markets in ash timber, grain and certain wines. Grain hoarding is never a popular practice, and Ambrosius was accused of adulterating the spice trade spices in which he traded . ref The houses of Fugger, Hochstetter and Welser all invested heavily in the early sixteenth century Portuguese voyages to India. J. H. Parry, The European Renaissance Selected Documents. London Macmillan 1968 24. ref His son and son in law lost spectacular sums in gambling. ref Georges Sorel , Social Foundations of Contemporary Economics 1984 p. 314. ref Then in 1529 he tried to engross the whole mercury element quicksilver stock in a cartel this failed attempt to corner the market led to his bankruptcy for 800,000 gulden, for which he eventually died in prison. Rising prices bring out a hidden supply, and the size of the required investment had become too large for even the greates ... more details
No footnotes date June 2009 Infobox artist name Karin Mamma Andersson image imagesize caption birth name Karin Andersson birth place Lule , Sweden death date death place nationality Swedish people Swedish field Visual art , Contemporary art training movement works patrons awards Mamma Andersson born 1962 is a contemporary artist based in Stockholm. She is represented by Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London http www.stephenfriedman.com and David Zwirner , New York. She is one of Sweden s most internationally famous artists. She is married to Swedish contemporary artist Jockum Nordstr m . Biography Mamma Andersson s childhood home of Lulea is in North Sweden near the Polar Circle. She drew and painted from an early age without any family members being interested in art. She studied at the Royal University College of Fine Arts and her nickname Mamma was added at that time to differentiate herself from another student with the same name. She was a mother during her time at art school and has two sons with artist Jockum Nordstrum. She started by painting landscapes because that was what she saw daily as she pushed her kids around in the pram. She worked as a guard at Moderna Museet in Stockholm and was influenced by work of Dick Bengtsson. To learn to paint she found she had to engross herself in others work and cites John E Franzen, Enno Hallek and her greatest teacher Dick Bengtsson. from Moderna Museet 2007. Mamma Andersson, Steidl Work Mamma Andersson s paintings depict domestic interiors, lush landscapes, and genre scenes just welcoming enough to allow their otherworldly air to take hold. Born in Lule in 1962, and raised amidst forests and art books, her work is imbued with beguiling narrative zest and frequent references to the stage and everyday settings as well as to works by other artists. Both familiar and mysterious, most of Andersson s works include images of recognizable paintings by other artists as peculiarly placed access ... more details
Infobox Muslim scholars notability Muslim scholar era style color cef2e0 image caption name Abu al Fadl Abd al Rahman ibn Abi Bakr Jalal al Din al Suyuti title Ibn al Kutb Son of Books birth date 1445 CE Rajab of 849 AH death date 1505 911 Maddhab Shafi i school tradition Sunni Islam ethnicity Arab region Egypt main interests Tafsir , Sharia , Fiqh . Hadith notable ideas works Tafsir Jalalyn influences influenced Jalaluddin Al Suyuti lang ar c. 1445 1505 AD also known as Ibn al Kutub son of books was an Egyptians Egyptian writer, religious scholar, juristic expert and teacher whose works deal with a wide variety of subjects in Islam ic theology. He was precocious and was already a teacher in 1462. In 1486, he was appointed to a chair in the mosque of Baibars Baybars in Cairo . He adhered to the Shafi i Madhab and is one of the latter day authorities of the Shafi i School, considered to be one of the Ashabun Nazzar Assessors whose degree of Ijtihad is agreed upon. Biography Name, lineage and birth His full name was Abu al Fadl Abd al Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, Jalal al Din al Suyuti. Al Suyuti is an ascription to a town in Upper Egypt called Asyut . One of his grandfathers built a school there and donated money to it. His father, Al Kamaal, was born there in Asyut, so that is why Jal l al Din ascribes himself to that town. Both his grandfathers were men of leadership and prestige and his father was a Jurist of the Shafi i Madhhab , as Al Suyuti stated in Husn ul Muhaadarah . When his father died, Al Kamaal Ibn Al Hamaam, a Hanafi jurist, was one of the people that his father left Al Suyuti entrusted to. He was born in the month of Rajab 849H 1445 AD in Cairo Egypt , and was raised as an orphan after his father died while he was only 5 years old. He Hafiz Quran memorized the entire Qur an when he was barely eight. Then he went on to memorize Abd al Ghani al Maqdisi Al Umdah and Minhaaj Al Fiqh wal Usool and Alfiyyah Ibn Malik . He began to engross himself ... more details
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