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Why do we build passive solar homes? Most people familiar with the subject of alternative and renewable energies would reply with a variation of many answers to this question.
"To act locally in an ever expanding global market." "The solar panels or photovoltaics will pay for themselves in a given amount of time depending on the system implemented." "I would build a passive solar house to take myself entirely off the grid."
These answers seem to be common when it comes to the world of alternative energies. Although the majority may reply to this question with similar answers there has to be a flip side or different view on any topic including renewable energy. "Green building," or building with natural supplies is yet another way to recycle the earth's minimal resources. Combining green building and solar passive idioms is nothing new to the alternative energy market, but it does raise a few different questions about the role of humans co-existing with nature and their living spaces. This paper will discuss the aesthetic values of living in tune with the earth through passive design.
For thousands and thousands of years, man lived on the earth as we still do today. Nomadic peoples resorted to hunting and gathering, which gave way to organized agriculture that developed in Mesopotamia. The major step that propelled us into our present day lives was the industrial revolution. Now as "evolved" creatures we have fallen prey to the technological advances and have come to depend on them, especially with our ever-increasing population on earth. Environmental degradation, over population, war, and economic decay have become mainstays on our agenda as world citizens. These issues must be dealt with or we risk eternal failure as a whole.
How do we reverse this cycle of events for the better? Maybe we need to look back on our ancient ancestors and take a few pointers. No, we obviously cannot reverse the chain of events that has brought us to this point but we can individually do our part to stop the on going process.
Technology has brought us to where we are today as humans. For better or worse this is where we are and we are stuck with it. We need to use technology to our advantage in our everyday lives. This is where passive solar technology comes into play. It is, in a sense, a gathering of the new and old for a better world. Our ancient ancestors may have caused war and been unjust but they did not place the future of the world on the brink of extinction. As present citizens of earth our living habits dictate the way we use earth's resources. We need to curb our ways and live "closer" or more in-tune with our mother earth.
Greeks and Romans used passive designs in their architecture for such purposes as community baths and meeting halls as well as orientating their living spaces also. This technology is nothing new, so we have the ability to do this type of building on a large scale. The...
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I know that Charuvakas only accept Pratyaksha.
Dvaithis and Vishishtadvaithis accept Pratyaksha, Anumana and Agama(Shabdha). But I was kind of surprised to know that Advaithis accept all the six pramanas. This is quite surprising as we consider world as maya, and everything in world is maya.
How can we take even Anumana as a pramana. Why are we not taking only pratyaksha as the right pramana like Charuvakas? All the other pramanas are built upon on Anumana.
This question is especially asked in the light of David Hume's Problem of Induction, which is a well known and accepted problem in philosophy world-wide. How does an Advaiti deal with the Problem of Induction as it was already raised by the Charuvakas, and Advaitis must have had some answer to it.
How does Shri Adi Shankaracharya or any Advaiti establish anumana as pramana?
Objection 1: This question is especially asked in the light of David Hume's Problem of Induction, which is a well known and accepted problem in philosophy world-wide. How does an Advaiti deal with the Problem of Induction as it was already raised by the Charuvakas, and Advaitis must have had some answer to it.
There are two types of reasoning. First is inductive reasoning and second is deductive.
Smoke always arises from fire, therefore if there is smoke, there has to be fire.
Smoke always arises from fire, therefore if there is no smoke there is no fire.
Notice that in first example, what we arrived at is not 100 % certain but the result we arrive at second example is 100 % certain.
Conclusion : Brahman (sat) is not the cause of world (asat).
From the standpoint of the Ultimate Reality, things can, in no way, enter into causal relation. How? An unreal cannot be the cause of another unreal. An1 unreal entity such as the horns of a hare, which may be said to be the cause of another unreal entity such as a castle in the air, has no existence whatsoever. Similarly,1 an object like a jar, which is perceived and which is the effect of an unreal object like the horns of the hare, is never existent. In3 like manner, a jar which is perceived and which is the effect of another jar that also is perceived to exist, is, in itself, non-existent. And4 lastly, how is existence possible of a real object as the cause of an unreal one? No other causal relation is possible nor can be conceived of. Hence men of knowledge find that the causal relation between any objects whatsoever is not capable of being proved.
Objection2: Dvaithis and Vishishtadvaithis accept Pratyaksha, Anumana and Agama(Shabdha). But I was kind of surprised to know that Advaithis accept all the six pramanas. This is quite surprising as we consider world as maya, and everything in world is maya.
In Advaita, Atman is called aprameya (that which cannot be known by any praman). The 6 types of praman you see accepted by Advaita is only to prove that world is unreal, and Atman is attribute-less.
Objection: Is it not that the Self is determined by the scriptures, and before that through direct perception etc.?
Vedantin: No, because the Self is self-evident. For, (only) when the Self stands predetermined as the knower, there is a search for a means of knolwedge by the knower. Indeed, it is not that without first determining oneself as, 'I am such', one takes up the task of determining an object of knowledge. For what is called the 'self' does not remain unknown to anyone. But the scripture is the final authority [when the Vedic text establishes Brahman as the innermost Self, all the distinctions such as knower, known and the means of knowledge become sublated. Thus it is reasonable that the Vedic text should be the final authority. Besides, its authority is derived from its being faultless in as much as it has not originated from any human being.]: By way of merely negating superimposition of alities that do not belong to the Self, it attains authoritativeness with regard to the Self, but not by virtue of making some unknown thing known. There is an Upanisadic text in support of this: '৷৷.the Brahman that is immediate and direct, the Self that is within all' (Br. 3.4.1).
The teachers of Advaita Vedanta philosophy have gone into the aspect of the process of knowledge in great detail, and have enumerated 'six' pramanas. Which pramana has to be resorted to & also when, is decided by the situation and the nature of object concerned. These six means of knowledge are Pratyaksha (Perception), Anumana (Inference), Upamana (Comparison), Arthapatti (Postulation), Anupalabdhi (Non-apprehension), and Sabda (Verbal Testimony). These are the six valid means of knowledge available to us, and we consciously or unconsciously use them too in our day to day life to 'know' various things which come our way.
It is extremely important for us to understand each of these pramanas properly, so that we dont start using the wrong means to know a particular kind of object. This is specially so when we are inquisitive to know the Self, the Atman, which is the ultimate, transcendental, infinite, non-dual truth referred to as the Brahman in the Upanishads. Proper understanding of Pramanas not only facilitates channelising of our energy properly but also culminates in the attainment & fulfillment of the objective.
Pratyaksha : Pratyaksha or Perception implies direct, immediate cognition. There are two kinds of direct perception, external and internal. The 'external' perception implies cognition of sense objects, namely - sound, touch, form, taste and smell by our five sense organs (ears, skin, eyes, tongue and nose). When the sense organs contact their respective objects then the Pratyaksha knowledge takes place.
The 'internal' perception means the direct & immediate cognition of pain, pleasure, love, hate, anger, knowledge or ignorance of various objects etc. in & by our minds.
Anumana : Literally translated the word anumana means 'knowing after'. It means the method by which knowledge is derived from another knowledge. It is an indirect, mediate knowledge. We have knowledge of an invariable relationship between two things and on that basis while seeing one we deduce the presence the other. Thus anumana refers to the logical process of gaining knowledge. The knowledge thus gained is called inferential knowledge or the logical deduction.
Perception forms the basis of anumana, but at the core of all inferential knowledge lies the knowledge of vyapti or the 'invariable concomitance', the invariable relationship between the two objects. We know on the basis of our perceptual knowledge that wherever there is smoke there is fire (the opposite however may not be true). Having known the invariable connection between the two we can logically deduce the presence of fire whenever we see smoke. This is anumana.
b. Invariable concomitance - Wherever there is smoke there is fire, as seen in kitchen.
Upamana : The Mimamsakas & Advaitins define Upamana as the process by which the knowledge of A's similarity to B is gained from the perception of B's similarity to A, which has been seen elsewhere.
Upamana is a distinct means of knowledge, and cannot be clubbed under anumana, because we cannot have a universal proposition that a thing is similar to whatever is similar to it. Such a knowledge cannot be gained without the observation of the two similar things together.
Arthapatti : This means postulation, supposition or presumption of a fact. Arthapatti can either be from what is seen or from what is heard. The use of this method in Vedanta is in assuming rightly the implications of Upanishadic statements.
Anupalabdhi : The Advaitins believe Anupalabdhi to be a separate independent pramana. It literally means non-apprehension. Non-existence of a thing is apprehended by its non-perception.
Sabda : Sabda pramana is verbal testimony. It is also called 'apta-vakyas' (statement of a trust-worthy person', and agama (authentic word).
Having known these 'pramanas', when a qualified 'pramata' (knower) takes resort of these and turns his focus to 'prameya' (object of knowledge) then 'prama' or valid knowledge is instantaneously brought about. The knowledge brought about by any valid means of knowledge is alone valid knowledge, it does not & can not depend on verification by other means, because the other means have no reach to that. The right knowledge does have some definite indications and thus validity of a means is confirmed by the perception of those indications in the pramata. So instead of wasting ones time trying to see a form by our nose we should rather open our eyes and fulfill our aspiration. This alone is the objective of understanding the various means & methods of knowledge at our disposal.
Theabove makes the role of 'Anumana' clear as an'pramana'.
Advaita is true only in the paramarthika stage. We normally are mistaken by the world 'Jagat mithya'. The word 'Jagat' literally means something which is ever-changing.It comes from the root 'gam' which means movement. 'Mithya' here just does NOT mean false. It means :that which is not eternal or is ever-existing'. (Reference : Vivekanander Vedanta-Chinta, Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya, RMIC).
We get both pleasure and pain because we are deluded by Maya. To cross the ocean of Maya, we need Brahma-Jnana or the knowledge of the never changing eternal truth Which is one with our True Self.To attain that knowledge, we first need'Chitta-suddhi' according to Sri Adi Sankaracharya.For Chitta-Suddhi, we need 'Nishkama-Karma' and 'Ishwara-Upasana'.So long as one has the sense of 'I' and 'My', he has to go on doing good works prescribed by the holy scriptures. So karma is essential to realise 'Advaita' in life.(Reference: Jnani-Guru, Paramahansa Nigamananda Saraswati, Sarasvata Math).
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Solidarity to those resisting gentrification and the police.


Intelligence forces affiliated to the Iraqi Prime Ministry are interfering in the residents' medical affairs and are depriving them of medical services. Preventing the patients from going to hospitals and depriving them of access to medical services is an inhumane act. In order to legitimize this act, the Iraqi Intelligence Forces are resorting to various pretexts. One of the most significant pretexts is the issue of ID cards. Recently, Iraqi forces under the pretext that the patients do not have protected ID cards, which were issued by US Forces in 2004, are preventing the patients from going to hospitals. This means people who don't have ID cards won't be permitted to go to hospitals.
It is worth noting that in 2004 and 2008 when the US forces were in charge of Camp Ashraf protection, issued ID cards for all Ashraf residents. The cards that were issued in 2004 were "Protected Persons" cards and in 2008 the US Forces issued a different type of identification cards for all the residents.
Given that some of the residents came to Ashraf after 2004, they do not have the "Protected Person" ID cards and they only have the 2008 ID cards issued by the US forces.
The residents request that UNHCR at least issues ID cards for these residents so that the Iraqi Government will have no excuse to prevent them from going to hospitals.
In the past week there have been many instances where Iraqi forces denied Camp Liberty residents access to hospitals for this very reason. In one instance, the Iraqi Intelligence officer told the patient that he has to "die in this camp," and had him returned to the camp.
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"There appears to be no immediate justification for adoption of high-dose vitamin C, alone or in combination, as a component of treatment for sepsis," writes the author of an accompanying editorial.
One author disclosed financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.
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'You've had your chance,' Yanson matriarch tells children behind bus firm power grab
By: Daxim L. Lucas - Reporter / @daxinq
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 02:34 PM July 19, 2019
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MANILA, Philippines–The matriarch of the feuding Yanson clan of Bacolod City yesterday made an impassioned appeal to her four children behind the recent boardroom coup that grabbed control of the country's largest bus liner firm from their youngest sibling and long-time company president Leo Rey Yanson.
In a statement released to the media, 85-year-old Olivia Villaflor Yanson — who co-founded the parent company of what is now Ceres Bus Lines in the 1960s — said the group of Roy, Emily, Celina and Ricardo Jr. that staged the July 7 takeover of the firm's headquarters have made life difficult for her in her old age.
"You had your chance to prove yourselves while your father was alive," she said, referring to the late Ricardo Sr., who passed away in 2015, leaving the multibillion transporation empire in the hands of his youngest, Leo Rey.
Olivia defended the decision of her late husband to bypass all his older children and entrust the company to his youngest, saying he "placed great value on merit and competence."
"Bearing the Yanson name does not automatically make you capable of handling the company," she said. "Despite this, Leo Rey did not neglect you. You have greatly benefitted from his sacrifices in the company. You were given what was due to you — all without you breaking a single sweat."
Ever since assuming control of the firm, the 45-year-old Leo Rey grew its fleet size from only 1,600 to 4,000, making it the country's largest bus operator. Its employee headcount also rose from 6,500 to 18,000 in 15 major bus terminals nationwide.
Leo Rey told the Inquirer in an interview that the company has an average net income margin of 30 percent of its annual multibillion peso revenues, and that 50 percent of the yearly earnings are distributed equally among the Yanson siblings, equivalent to hundreds of millions each.
In her statement, Olivia appealed to her four children who are trying to wrest control of the firm: "If you can still find love and respect within yourselves for me, I simply ask you to stop your attempt of taking over the terminals, the branches and head office. Every time you bring your security forces and legal team to force yourselves in, our people experience anxiety and fear."
She added that the company's employees are solid in their support for Leo Rey, who also has her support as well as that of her other daughter Ginnette Yanson-Dumancas, adding "if you insist on the legality of your claims, let the courts decide first before proceeding on any actions against the terminals or against any employees loyal to me or LRY", referring to Leo Rey's initials.
"If you will not listen to me because your hearts are already cold, listen to your 18,000 employees — the very same people who toil day and night to make us what we are now," she said. "They deserve that." /jpv
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The Children's Defense Fund (CDF) has released a report detailing the significant deterioration in the social conditions of children in the US since the onset of the recession. Focusing primarily on the years 2008-2010, "The State of America's Children: 2011," examines in depth the social calamity facing the youngest segment of society in all aspects of life.
These conditions are the result of a tremendous growth of social inequality, combined with a governmental assault on social programs in recent decades by politicians of both big-business parties. For society's youngest members, this finds expression in the growth of poverty and hunger, attacks on education and welfare programs, and an increase in violence and abuse.
The CDF report presents stark indices in various areas of social life. To cite one example: infant mortality rates for minority children in the United States rank behind the overall infant mortality rates in countries such as Costa Rica and Thailand; low infant birth weight occurrences happen more often in the US than in Nigeria and Kazakhstan.
The CDF report notes the tremendous growth of social inequality in America. Since the late 1970s, the incomes of the bottom 90 percent of the population have stagnated or declined, while the incomes of the top one percent in particular—the ultra-rich—have soared.
In 2008, the average income for the bottom 90 percent of US households was at its lowest level in more than a decade. In the face of this growth of poverty, however, income assistance programs have been slashed and are ill-equipped to deal with the serious rise in social need.
One in five children—or 15.5 million—officially lived in poverty in 2009. Almost half of these children, 6.9 million, live in conditions of extreme poverty, described as an annual income of less than half of the poverty level ($11,025 for a family of four).
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Clinton's pledge at the time that TANF would end "welfare as we know it" has been borne out in the form of increased poverty and suffering. According to the CDF report, in nearly two-thirds of US states, TANF benefits in 2009 were less than half the 1970 AFDC real dollar amount.
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The same CBPP report noted that since the onset of the 2008 recession the number of cases adopted by the program has been disproportionate to need. Whereas programs such as food stamps have increased caseloads by nearly 45 percent since 2007, TANF caseloads have risen by only about 10 percent in the same time period.
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Hunger and poor nutrition are cited as the leading causes of low birth weight and infant mortality. The effect this has on the quality of life for children is extensive, leading to mental defects and poor education performance, among other problems.
The unavailability of nutritious foods and/or the inability to purchase them have also led to record levels of overweight and obese children. Nearly a third of all US children are considered either overweight or obese. Black and Hispanic children ages 6 to 19 are nearly 26 percent more likely to be either overweight or obese than children overall.
The study shows that American Indian and Hispanic children are the most likely to be uninsured medically: 18.3 percent for American Indians, 17.5 for Hispanics. The concentration of these populations in Southwestern states like California and Texas cause these states to have the highest ratios of uninsured children.
One in seven Americans receives food stamp benefits (SNAP). Three-quarters of these recipients are families with children. In 2009, an estimated 15.6 million children received food stamps each month, an increase of 65 percent in only a decade.
In 2010, nearly 32 million children received free or reduced price lunches through the National School Lunch Program. However, only one in nine poor children who participate in the lunch program during the school year is reached by the Summer Food Service Program.
Almost 9 million women and children participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). While the number of participants has increased by 800,000 since the start of the recession, this program is now targeted for cutbacks in state budgets across the country.
About 70 percent of mothers with children under the age of six are in the workforce, but access to affordable, quality childcare and early childhood care is extremely limited. For example, in 33 states and Washington DC, the annual cost of center-based childcare for a four-year-old child is more than the annual cost of in-state tuition at a public four-year university.
Among the 30 countries studied by CDF, the US ranked 24th in overall educational achievement for 15-year-olds. One indication of the low premium government authorities place on the education of its young people is the following statistic: the US spends almost two and a half times as much per prisoner in prisons and jails across the country than per public school pupil.
According to the Children's Defense Fund, a child is abused or neglected in America every 42 seconds, a further expression of the consequences of poverty and lack of social programs. An estimated 1,161 children enter foster care each day, remaining there for more than two years on average. In 2009, more than 29,000 youth aged out of foster care at age 18 or older.
Each night, an estimated 87,000 youth are housed in facilities ranging from community-based juvenile youth homes to long-term youth prisons. An additional 10,000 youth are in adult prisons or jails serving sentences or awaiting trial. Minority youth make up about two-thirds of the youth in the juvenile justice system.


"We're beginning to enter a world where ruling out toxic ingredients in our beauty regimens is becoming more mainstream. The education is right at our fingertips, and the sheer scope of natural and organic products is bursting at the seams. Admittedly, though, I myself pay close attention to the labels on my skincare products, but when it comes to makeup, I'm much less discerning—it's hard to give up a foundation and mascara you've been using for years when no natural alternative seems to quite match up." Read more.


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OP5: A Service for Specifying API Rules
Andrii Vozniuk
I think it is a good idea to express the rules in the specification language for interface checking (of C) (SLIC), introduced in [1]. This approach has several advantages. Kernel developers usually have a good knowledge of C language. SLIC has a C-like syntax, so the entrance barrier for the developers is low. SDV tool translates API usage rules into C code due to Windows kernel-mode drivers being written in C. Thus, providing rules in a C-like language makes this translation easy.
Starting with Windows XP, Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) driver model supports both user-mode and kernel-mode drivers. User mode drivers can be written in languages, different from C. In order to support verification of such drivers, the SDV tool has to be extended. The verifier has to support translation from the API rules description language, into the target driver languages. It is also possible to use for the rules definition any language, other than SLIC, but expressive enough to define a state machine.
Since developers are rarely experts in formal methods, it would be too naїve to expect them submitting only the correct rules. That is why in my opinion the API ruleset building process cannot be fully automated and the control over the changes going into the production ruleset is necessary. I see such control done by a small group of maintainers of the ruleset – experts in the field of drivers verification tools.
Construction of the API ruleset starts with the initial ruleset, which can be based on the specifications obtained from the API's documentation. Then the ruleset should be extended and refined using the information, provided by the developers. The situations are possible when the new submitted rule:
extends the existing ruleset without overlapping. We mark the extended ruleset as a candidate for the testing;
overlaps with some rules from the existing ruleset. We have to merge the ruleset and the rule. This is equal to merging state-machines. We mark the merged ruleset as a candidate for testing;
contradicts some rules from the ruleset. We have to decide if the problem is in the ruleset or in the rule. We construct a new ruleset by adding the new rule to the non-contradicting part of the original ruleset and mark it for testing.
Now, we check the candidates for testing. We would like to know whether the new ruleset helps to find new bugs in the drivers, or hides the ones, that were discovered before. For this purpose we may use: a) a benchmark driver with a known number and type of errors in the APIs access or b) previous history of the drivers testing. In the case, when due to changes in the ruleset, some additional bugs are found and some previously discovered bugs are hidden, heuristic should be defined.
If the new ruleset passes the testing, we add the submitted rule as a candidate for the maintainers' review and further inclusion into the production ruleset. We also provide the developer and to the maintainers, with all the information, obtained during testing.
[1] T. Ball and S. K. Rajamani. SLIC: A specification language for interface checking. Technical Report MSR-TR-2001-21, Microsoft Research, 2001.
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State of the Map 2009, was probably the best conference I've been to all year. Full of energy, excitement, new things and drive, it felt like a BarCamp should do – one where all the conference goers contribute and give!
Yes, I got a bit emotional at the third OpenStreetMap conference, held in the CCC, Amsterdam last weekend – mainly because this globe we are on is the only one we know – we really are mapping our universe, doing it our way. Creating the world we want to live in. I thought it worth while to say "Thanks" to some people. Being British, the feeling of being a bit foolish stopped me from being too effusive!
Presented about Open Historical Map, as Shekhar and Schuyler couldn't make it – which, given that my laptop was broken and I couldn't take it with me to write it went okay. Thanks to Chris and John for letting me use their computers. You can get the slides to open historical map on SlideShare, and the video at Vimeo later.
Whilst the presentation didn't shine much amongst a lot of other much beter sessions, it was placed within a good theme about history and temporal issues – a lot of people are thinking about these things now. Repeating what I talked about at Wherecamp 2009 in May, Frankie Roberto showed us that mapping the past (buildings) is not easy – an object may have a start and and end_date, but is it always the same object. What happens when just the facade remains? If half of the building changes land use, if the building changes name? It's a tricky subject! At the very least we can start mapping now to record changes later. On a walk over and beside canals, I chatted to Andrew Larcombe, also keen on solving these problems – he gives the example of "So you map the Twin Towers… then the next year, what do you do? Just delete them from the database?". OpenStreetMap is gradually looking from collecting and representing Now, to storing Then, both in the Past for the Future. (If that makes sense!).
Andrew also talked about a geo-philosophical problem with tracing over old maps. Maps were made with a view of reality – not everything was recorded. And these views change over time. Recording changes over time by using different base maps therefore, may reveal less detail. We hope to form a little group to start working through these issues.
Peter Batty: Navteq 18M km roads. OSM 24M km.
Peter Stoner, Peter Miller Traveline & ITO – Lovely PDF bus stop maps. OSM teaches them about their own stuff.
James Rutter. Inertia in mapping in UK.
Michal Migurski – Walking Papers. Plus a UNSDIT form?
Nick Black, Editors for vertical. i.e. an editor just for skiiers.
Geocommons releasing their geocoder. V. Cool.
Conflux festival – map warper as tool for art.
Motivations of OSMers. Values, fun, exercies, ideology. similar to wikipedia.
Gary Gale – Yahoo going open source for place data for 2010.
Lulu Accessiblilty – map ramps, features. Also tactile maps!
Cartagen & general Jeffery Warren stuff, nav by stars, sun.
R. Soden – AFRICOVER africa imports. data silos bad. OSM maps organisations more effective.
Italy – mapped Pompeii, better than anywhere else.
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Manex Goyhenetche, Manex Goienetxe, Manex Goihenetxe Etxamendi, ou Jean Goyhenetche, né le  à Estérençuby et mort le  dans le couloir du Biscaü (Béarn), est un professeur, historien, politicien, écrivain et académicien basque français de langue basque et française.

Biographie
Manex Goyhenetche est le premier secrétaire de l'Université basque d'été (Udako Euskal Unibertsitatea). L'Académie de la langue basque (ou Euskaltzaindia), le nomme membre correspondant, le . Il a produit de nombreux ouvrages, principalement en langue française et quelques-uns en langue basque, 36 articles en langue basque.

Il a publié entre autres Histoire générale du Pays basque. Il meurt au cours d'une randonnée en Béarn, dans le couloir du Biscaü, réputé impraticable, s'écrasant au bas de la falaise. Il était en train d'achever le  volume de l'Histoire générale du Pays basque.

Bibliographie
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 L'oppression culturelle française en Pays basque Nord, 1974, 59 pages ;
 Histoire de la colonisation française au Pays basque : les origines du problème basque, 1975, 85 pages ;
 Bayonne : Guide Historique, 1986, 131 pages ;
 Ephémères : Côte basque, avec Jean Filho, 1993, 183 pages ;
 Euskal Herria XI. mendean, avec Roldán Jimeno Aranguren, 2004, 158 pages ;
 Fors et coutumes de Basse-Navarre, 1985 ;

 Histoire d'Anglet : des origines à nos jours, Manex Goyhenetche et Jean Haritschelhar, 2003, 297 pages ;
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 L'oppression culturelle française au Pays basque., 1981 ;
 Lapurdi Historian, Elkar, 1987, Donostia, 149 pages ;
 Le guide du Pays basque, 1995, 228 pages ;
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 Les origines du problème basque, 1975;
 Les origines sociales et historiques d'Eskualzaleen Biltzarra (1893-1913), 1984 ;
 Livre blanc de la langue et culture basques, 1974 ;
 Uztaritze au milieu du , 1981.

 Article
 Institutions, société et noblesse en Pays basque : quelques textes significatifs, Lapurdum, 1, 1996.

 Thèse de doctorat
 Analyse critique de l'historiographie basque du , 1992.

 Colloque
 Les origines sociales et historiques de l'association Eskualzaleen Biltzarra, processus sociaux, idéologies et pratiques culturelles dans la société basque, colloque de Bayonne,  (dir. Pierre Bidart), Pau, 1985.

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Liens externes

 Manex Goyhenetche Historien du Pays basque et montagnard (1942-2004) par Maïté Lafourcade.
 Site de l'association Manex Goyhenetche Kultur Etxea.

Naissance en septembre 1942
Naissance dans les Basses-Pyrénées
Décès en mai 2004
Décès dans les Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Décès à 61 ans
Historien du Pays basque
Membre correspondant de l'Académie de la langue basque
Écrivain de langue basque
Écrivain lié aux Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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In their inaugural addresses, Dasho Dungpas stated that about 70% of our population is dependent on agriculture as their main source of livelihood. Considering its importance, the Royal Government has been making concerted efforts in supporting the sector in all the development plans. Despite many program interventions, the farming communities are constrained by lack of access to quality and reliable farm inputs, poor infrastructure and market access for their farm produce and acute shortage of farm labour.
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