Guest Post By Mark R. Basile, Esq.
Turns out that Friday the 13th is also unlucky for toxic convertible note-holders! I have been warning the toxic convertible note industry that there was going to be a reckoning with regard to how they lend money to microcap OTC Markets companies, and now, it seems that the chickens are coming home to roost.
Several months ago COR Clearing decided to make it near impossible to clear any stock derived through convertible notes coming from OTC Market issuers. That decision was based largely on several issues, they key being that a convertible note is not a security that would allow an opinion to clear stock under a Rule 144 exemption. I won't get into the legalities of this here other than to say to look up both the New Earthshell v. Jakoobit case in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, as well as the Reves v Ernst & Young US Supreme Court case. In the end, COR Clearing made a good decision – but not good for toxic convertible note holders. In fact, I had a well-known lenders counsel from Florida send me an article he wrote that tried to counter the courts decisions – that was a massive FAIL!
Well, as of Friday, April 13, 2018, one of the last major clearing houses, ALPINE, is going to make it near impossible to process stock from convertible notes from issuers trading sub-penny (most are sub-penny after being pummeled by toxic convertible notes). Turns out that Friday the 13th is also unlucky for note-holders!
Note-holders' sometimes arrogant and greedy attitudes in dealing with small undercapitalized issuers needs to change and it needs to change quickly if they are going to save all that money on the street. Instead of being worth 5 times face value, many notes might end up being worth less than half of their principle value and, in some instance, worth nothing.
A. Sell the note to a third party– Good luck with that. That was a viable alternative when the third party could easily benefit from tacking provisions from the date of the original transaction, but now the challenge is finding a clearinghouse, on shore, that would clear that stock. If you think someone will buy the note just to collect the principle and stated interest, think again. Not likely as most of your borrowers don't have sufficient assets to take should your successor ever get a judgment. The only way to get rid of that note now is to sell it at a substantial discount to its face value, and again, good luck with that, you will be throwing money away if your lucky to find someone stupid enough to buy it.
B. Wait for Maturity then Get a Judgment– Good luck with that also. Most of the issuers have limited assets and limited revenues and it's highly unlikely that you would ever collect. Plus, you will incur legal fees to commence, litigate, adjudicate, secure and collect on a judgment (if you can). On a note under $50,000.00, it's just not worth it. That would just be throwing good money after bad. Almost every toxic note lender I come across has not been able to collect on judgments they obtain in either state or federal court relying instead on the tactic that once they get a judgment the issuer will fold and settle and fork over cash and/or free trading stock. In some cases litigation forces the companies out of business. They will probably just start all over again without you.
C. A 3(a)(10) Court Approved Settlement– Possibly, but the courts are starting to catch on to this end-around and have been denying approving such settlements. Also, the costs and documentation to get a 3(a)(10) settlement is almost prohibitive, but it is an option provided your issuer agrees to it. Based on the first two options the issuers may hurt their chances of doing a real deal that could benefit both sides, if they agreed to a 3(a)(10) settlement too early.
D. Give up and let the Loan Sit- Always an option. Many issuers experience a toxic note-holder who will sit on its' hands and wait it out, sometimes for years, hoping the company's stock price improves or the issuer somehow is able to bring its' financial reporting requirements current, or better yet, some magical mystery investor that will hand over cash to pay off the notes. There are only a handful of lenders, mostly out of New York, Chicago and Massachusetts that will try on litigation to force you to settle or come up with money to pay them off. Usually, they want to force issuance of shares or they want a new deal for more shares – either way, its back to the prior discussed problems of clearing the stock. They may even try suing the CEO personally under some BS fraud claim and as we know now under the Jakoobit case, a convertible note may not be a security and if it's not a security, there can be no securities fraud claims. Then its simple state based fraud claim and in most states, if there is a breach of contract claim, the fraud claim against the CEO personally usually fails.
Alternatively, note-holders and microcap CEOs can take the best option for everyone – LETS MAKE A DEAL!
I have seen how entrenched these toxic note-holders are in how they have previously approached some of my clients. The funny thing is that every time we contest litigation based on certain usury statutes under state law, they jump up and down claiming that the notes are investments instead of loans. Well, ALL of the courts are now finding that these transactions all start out as loans. But the point here is that they "claim" they are investments even though the investment decision is made when they convert months after the original loan is made. So if they are an "investor" from the beginning, that means by definition they are taking a "risk" in the company's success – yea, right. We all know the true and sole motivation of providing these types of loans and it certainly is NOT based on the success of the issuer but rather, on trading price and volume of the issuers public stock.
The cold hard reality is that from an economic position, the note-holders have just lost a tremendous amount of leverage. Some of you CEO's whose company stocks have been crippled by these transactions and those who have been tortured by message board posters would instinctively want to take revenge and put the screws to them. BUT WAIT!
There is a solution that makes sense that is legal and puts both the issuer and the lender on better footing. The plan for a new class of convertible preferred equity designed solely to allow the convertible note holder to actually use the booked liability to really "invest", short term, into the company. My group has been using this method of debt remediation rather successfully with no issues other than some lender pushback. Now with APLINE's Friday the 13th massacre, I think that will change as well.
The lender eventually gets what it wants out of the deal; the issuer gets the liabilities removed from its balance sheet allowing them to go out and raise more traditional capital; the pressure on the stock is alleviated, no more lawsuits, no more angst, its really a win-win for both sides. Less booked liabilities, more capital is available improving the company's financial outlook, and in 6 or 12 months, the former lender, and now shareholder, can convert into common with no clearing issues.
In discussing ALPINE's newest position with one of my clients CEO's, Bob Silzer of DSG Global, Inc., a great company that is revolutionizing the golf information industry, we agreed that most OTC Markets companies should consider a fair and reasonable restructuring that can clean up their books, eliminate booked liabilities yet provide a similar return to their note-holders under a fair program where both sides win. It's very hard to try to convince someone that their business model needs to change, but if change provides you with a similar or same return, then why all the pushback? The days of lenders forcing their position seem to be quickly coming to an end because the major clearing houses will not clear stock from convertible notes and the sooner these lenders realize that convertible preferred stock arrangement can allow them to realize similar returns while helping the companies they "invest" in to focus on their business to make it more successful can benefit everyone including its shareholders.
It could very well be that the current landscape for convertible notes is changing and I can only suggest that the lenders quickly, post-haste, contact their issuers now to work out a deal in which everyone wins. I also encourage the issuers, no matter how mad you are at the note-holders, to be receptive and deal with them fairly and provide them with a real investment structure to help them realize a return on the monies loaned to your company. At the end of the day it's not only about the deal you make, but rather, being part of the solution that is way more rewarding than being the actual problem.
Mark R. Basile, Esq. is a nationally known corporate restructuring and workout attorney and is a member of The Basile Law Firm P.C. The Firm represents numerous OTC and Pink Sheet companies in litigation and corporate restructurings. www.thebasilelawfirm.com. Mr. Basile is also director of OTCWORKOUTS LLC www.otcworkouts.com.


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Les Artistes: It Starts at Home
From Port Arthur to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Chestee Harrington's artistic work with wood is well-traveled, even though her subject matter doesn't stray far from her Acadiana roots.
Will Kalec,
Inspiration for the rebirth comes atop Rose Hill, high ground suitable for burying the dead.
It's Christmastime 1968, and the joy of the season is somewhat tempered by the malaise blanketing Chestee Harrington's art career. Still in her 20s, she's a wound-up veteran mother of three/volunteer art instructor at the local community center. Her work – impressive to friends and novices – fails to wow her inner critic. The texture, Harrington laments, it's just not … it's just not doing what she wants.
"I'd been globbing paint, manipulating it for a long time," she says. "And it never came out just right. Then, all of a sudden, it's like a flash of light happened."
The best present Harrington receives this season isn't from Santa's sleigh but rather the mangy trunk of a Ford Mustang – five or six ink-stained wood blocks. Her brother, Herschel, is home for the holiday break after a semester studying commercial art up north. Like many poor college students, he stretches his Christmas budget by giving Harrington a homemade gift, a self-portrait.
"I was floored," she recalls. "I asked him, 'How did you do this?'"
He explains it's a wood-block print, but Harrington still doesn't quite get it, so Herschel tells his sister to come outside. He pops the trunk. Harrington snatches a wood block, hoisting it like a trophy.
"This is it!" she exalts.
"No, it's not," Herschel replies. "You don't understand …"
"No, you don't understand," Harrington snaps back. "I got this. I got this. No, Herschel, I got this."
"No, you see," Herschel interjects, "this is the thing you …"
"No," Harrington interrupts. "I know what I'mma do. Lemme go do it."
And with that, Harrington's off – racing down the dirt road, past Rose Hill Cemetery, fueled by this epiphany. She reaches the lumberyard and asks the owner for a chisel. He pulls out an 8-inch carpenter's chisel.
"Not like that," Harrington says. "I need an itty-bitty chisel."
The owner thinks for a second, looks around and fishes out a curved Japanese gouge chisel from the pencil holder on the front desk. "It's perfect," Harrington says. "How much?"
"He says to me, 'Aw, shucks, you can have it,'" Harrington remembers. "I insisted I pay, though, because I told him: 'I'm going to make a lot of money from this little chisel. So, please, I need to pay something for it.'"
Harrington gave him a nickel.
From that 5-cent investment sprouted the budding beginning of one of the most accomplished female artists in Acadiana, with more than 50 solo exhibits and 40 group shows.
Most artists have a signature style; Harrington has a signature technique – literally carving out her own niche in the media of wood polychromatic bas-relief (painted and stained wood carvings that project a 3-dimensional effect) and wood-block prints.
Harrington's collection decorates domestic and international galleries and the personal collections of A-listers: Brad Pitt, Gerald Ford, Spiro Agnew, Jenny Craig and the McIlhenny family, to name a few. Within the year, the LSU Rural Life Museum will put on a half-century retrospective chronicling Harrington's artistic evolution by showcasing the fruits of this often-unforgiving labor.
"It's been a marriage, ever since that day [with Herschel] – there's pain, and there's pleasure, the ups and the consequences," Harrington says. "I've had to see a physical therapist, on and off, with the stress in my shoulders. If I carve for two weeks straight, I'll be in bad shape. … But when it comes together, it's like a conductor in a symphony. You have to tune up all your instruments and tweak it until you get on the same page and it's right. When the tone is there, it's exciting.
"This piece I'm working on right now is for an investment company in Houston … so for this last week, this orchestra has been playing – my own little personal orchestra."
Harrington's courtship with various types of wood dates back to her early childhood, growing up in the Rose Hill section of New Iberia – the wrong side of the tracks, she says. The neighborhood was a sampler platter of races and ethnicities – Cajuns living next to Jews, who lived next to blacks, who lived next to Irishmen, who lived next to Germans – but a sense of community formed despite these differences because everyone was in the same financial boat.
Her father, also named Herschel, built their house in 1937, four years before Harrington was born. Out back, he slapped together a meager woodworking shop. Its door was always open. Once the family let a young man named Murphy squat there near the shop. Harrington recalls him cooking frog legs in a frying pan over an open fire and running inside scared as Murphy's dinner sizzled and danced beneath the heat. Another time, Harrington's father allowed a down-on-his-luck merchant mariner to crash in the shop until he got his affairs in order.
Hints of lacquer, walnut and oak hung in the air, but the unmistakable fragrance of cypress dominated them all. Even today, when Harrington steps into an old cypress home, the smell takes her back to that specific time and place.
"Dad's shop was a wonderful place full of sawdust and shavings and scraps of wood, and the aroma was just amazing," she says. "You'd open the door and it was just like 'wow!' – all these wonderful wood fragrances. My dad would cut out little images that I would draw – I'd pick up the little scraps of wood, and I'd draw little animals or fruit, and he'd cut 'em out for me on the band saw. To me they were little treasures.
"Anything I wanted to do, he'd always say: 'Well, gosh, I don't know if we could do that. But here; let's try,'" Harrington continues. "And he'd always accomplish it. That's why I always wanted to go further – to not just accept what I was doing as the best I could do – because if Daddy made anything possible, then maybe I could, too."
Her father fostered her expanding artistic horizons by taking periodic family day trips to museums in New Orleans and Baton Rouge – exposing all of his children to the vastness of styles and media. For artistic fodder, though, Harrington didn't have to venture far beyond her own backyard.
"I was always trying to express the people and that culture where I grew up," Harrington says. "It was so colorful and so rich – the contrasts between the people. That's why texture is and was such a big deal to me because to show the genuine character of these people, the piece has to have some feeling, some depth to it. Through textures, you're able to get the compassion and faith that exists down here and existed specifically in my neighborhood."
Categories: Artist-Gallery Spotlight, Theatre + Art

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Alcides Longhi (Caxias do Sul, 10 de junho de 1917 — Caxias do Sul, 18 de agosto de 1994) foi um industrial, comerciante e futebolista brasileiro.

Iniciando a vida como sapateiro de magros recursos, depois fundou uma fábrica e loja de sapatos que por alguns anos foi muito bem sucedida, sendo elogiada na imprensa e exportando seus produtos para outros locais do estado do Rio Grande do Sul e do Brasil. Ao mesmo tempo, sempre envolvido no futebol, foi ativo colaborador do Esporte Clube Juventude como jogador, dirigente em várias gestões, presidente do clube e coordenador das obras de construção do Estádio Alfredo Jaconi. Foi um dos mais populares "ídolos" do alvi-verde em sua geração, que coincidiu com os tempos dourados do amadorismo, conquistou vários campeonatos e distinções, incluindo dez títulos de campeão do Citadino e campeão da Copa Governador do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, tornou-se figura estimada na cidade e é lembrado como um destacado personagem da história do futebol caxiense. Casado com Noris Leda Artico, teve seis filhos que deram expressivas contribuições à sociedade local.

Biografia

Origens familiares

A família de Alcides é nativa de Vermiglio, comuna situada no norte do Trentino, Itália. A origem remota do grupo de Alcides é mal conhecida e sua genealogia é fragmentária, principalmente devido ao fato de que os antigos arquivos locais sofreram uma perda quase total em incêndios e guerras.

O que se sabe vem de uma extensa pesquisa realizada por seu neto Ricardo Frantz. Os resultados indicaram que a família descende de um grupo originalmente grafado Long, nobilitado na comuna vizinha de Ortisè antes de 1529 com o título imperial de "nobres rurais". Um brasão de características imperiais preservado por parentes de Vermiglio deixa muito pouco espaço para dúvidas sobre essa origem, uma conclusão corroborada pelo historiador trentino Paolo Odorizzi. A genealogia ininterrupta do seu ramo inicia em torno de 1750, quando nasce Giovanni Domenico, casado com a nobre Giovanna Zambotti, mas logo a sorte da família mudaria. Em 1784 o Império Austríaco aboliu todos os títulos da nobreza rural concedidos pelos antigos príncipes–bispos de Trento. Na mesma época a região começava a ser devastada por guerras e por uma série de desastres naturais, epidemias, fome e carestias, e no início do século XIX o ramo de Alcides aparece empobrecido. Desde então seus ancestrais diretos viveram como madeireiros e artesãos.

Seu bisavô, o imigrante Ignazio Longhi, antes casado com Anna Maria Poli, chegou ao Brasil em 1876 já idoso, com sua segunda esposa Candida Pedron e alguns filhos, nos primórdios da imigração italiana no Rio Grande do Sul, estando entre os primeiros colonizadores de Caxias do Sul. Ignazio faleceu pouco depois da chegada, legando a chefia da família a seu filho Giovanni Battista, um dos fundadores da Comunidade de São Romédio, onde primeiro formou-se um núcleo comunitário, sendo hoje considerada "o berço de Caxias". Ali também participou da fundação e foi membro da primeira diretoria da Sociedade Igreja de São Romédio, a primeira associação civil da cidade, permanecendo na função até 1894, colaborando na estruturação da comunidade e na construção das duas primeiras capelas de madeira, da escola e do cemitério.

Giovanni Battista rapidamente prosperou como agricultor, industrial, moleiro e comerciante, abrindo uma série de negócios. João Tessari, o historiador de São Romédio, o chamou de um "faz-tudo", e anos depois de morto virou lenda, quando seu túmulo foi aberto para uma reforma e seus despojos não foram encontrados. Sua esposa, Catterina Rossi, também gerou folclore, falecendo com fama de santa, e 32 anos depois de seu sepultamento seu corpo foi encontrado incorrupto, o que desencadeou a formação de um pequeno culto popular em seu redor, sendo-lhe atribuídas graças e curas.

Victorio Longhi, filho de Giovanni e Catterina, casou com Lucia Pezzi e foi pai de Alcides, Francisco, Tercila, Flora, Romilda, Oscar, Natalino, Irma e Guilherme. Victorio deixou a zona semi-rural de São Romédio e passou a viver no centro urbano, mas ainda foi conselheiro fiscal da Sociedade e um dos fundadores da terceira e atual capela. Tornou-se grande industrial madeireiro, um dos três sócios de uma empresa que em seu auge teve o vultoso capital de 900 contos de réis e filiais em Porto Alegre e Jaguari,

No entanto, em sua juventude a família Longhi havia empobrecido outra vez, e Alcides iniciou sua vida profissional como sapateiro, aprendendo o ofício de João Maineri. Casou-se em 1938 com Noris Leda Artico, filha de Augusto Artico e Ema Panigas, nascida em 10 de novembro de 1918 e falecida em 16 de outubro de 2011, também de família tradicional, mas que tivera sorte semelhante, ganhando riqueza no início do século com uma grande cantina, de produto premiado, e falindo em 1921. Com a esposa teve os filhos Beatriz Ignez, Elisabeth Ana, Vera Mari, Villi Victorio, Vitor Augusto e Roberto Alcides.

Carreira na indústria

Associando-se ao irmão Francisco, abriu uma fábrica de sapatos em torno de 1935, a Longhi & Cia. Ltda., mais conhecida como Fábrica de Calçados Caxias, iniciando uma fase ascendente. Na época era a única empresa do gênero da cidade, produzindo calçados de todos os tipos, mas concentrando-se nos modelos escolares e botas para o Exército, passando a atender o mercado interno e também exportando seu produto para várias cidades do Rio Grande do Sul e outros estados do Brasil.

A empresa conheceu um período de significativa prosperidade, ampliando suas instalações em 1947 com uma seção de varejo junto à fábrica e abrindo uma loja própria em 1948 na praça central da cidade. A imprensa da época apontou sua contribuição para o avanço econômico e industrial de Caxias, como fez O Momento:

"Aqui estamos hoje falando da grande fábrica de calçados da firma Longhi & Cia. Ltda. Não resta dúvida que o progresso e o desenvolvimento material e cultural desta terra, de anos a esta parte, vem tomando um incremento extraordinário, digno do maior crédito e apreciação. Assim, depois de termos abordado noutros números, a marcha admirável de dois importantes estabelecimentos comerciais da praça, hoje cuidaremos [...] da firma que tem como dirigente o sr. Alcides Longhi. Senhor dum tino comercial idôneo e apreciável, cavalheiresco e entusiasta do esporte caxiense, o sr. Alcides Longhi há mais de um lustro que está norteando, dentro do terreno da honradez e do critério, a Fábrica de Calçados marca 'Caxias', instalada próxima ao campo do Juventude.

"Iniciando suas atividades com modesta sapataria, em ponto central da cidade, hoje o sr. Alcides Longhi, para orgulho desta terra, orienta os negócios daquele modelar estabelecimento. Com uma seção de varejo instalada na própria fábrica, com funcionários que exprimem a beleza do comércio moderno, no tocante ao esforço, a dedicação, a atenção e o trabalho em geral, o sr. Alcides Longhi viu concretizados os seus mais ardentes sonhos. A passos gigantescos, marcha a indústria em Caxias do Sul. Com homens de têmpera construtiva e progressista do quilate do sr. Alcides Longhi e doutros que integram a poderosa indústria, breve a 'Pérola das Colônias' poderá, festivamente, proclamar a sua independência econômica".

Recebeu destaque também em 1950 em dois grandes álbuns ilustrados comemorativos dos 75 anos da colonização italiana no estado, um publicado pela Festa da Uva e outro pela Municipalidade. No primeiro, declara-se que a cidade podia se orgulhar de uma empresa que era a única em seu tipo na região e que se comparava às melhores do estado, e no segundo, de teor semelhante, foi descrita como...

"[...] uma fábrica de calçados que hoje figura em pé de igualdade com as mais reputadas congêneres do estado e do país, [...] fornecendo calçados de todos os tipos, todos de superior qualidade, a uma multidão de consumidores em todo o estado e demais unidades da Federação. [...] Fazendo do binômio 'qualidade e preço módico' o seu lema de trabalho, a firma Longhi & Cia. Ltda. conquistou para seus calçados uma aceitação que superou as melhores expectativas. [...] Os negócios da firma acham-se sob a direta orientação do sócio sr. Alcides Longhi, cuja capacidade comercial tem sido um dos fundamentos do extraordinário progresso que consolidou em poucos anos a Fábrica de Calçados Caxias".

Porém, depois desta boa fase, Alcides faliu em 1954, em uma crise do setor coureiro. Então passou a direcionar sua atenção para outra empresa que havia fundado na mesma época, a Mibral, que produzia rebites, braçadeiras e lonas para freios, mas que até a falência da fábrica de calçados havia permanecido em segundo plano e tinha um porte pequeno. Para aumentar seus rendimentos e sustentar sua grande família, abriu também uma lancheria. No entanto, os negócios não foram muito bem e ele passou por períodos difíceis. Em 1965 a Mibral tornou-se uma sociedade anônima, quando Alcides retirou-se da empresa e se aposentou.

O desportista

Paralelamente à sua vida empresarial, Alcides sempre manteve forte envolvimento com o futebol, vindo a construir destacada carreira. Iniciou sua participação no Esporte Clube Juventude nos anos 30 como júnior, e em 1935 ingressou no time principal, ocupando a posição de zagueiro. Nesta época, por um breve período colaborou com o Esporte Clube Cruzeiro do Sul como tesoureiro, mas dedicaria depois toda a vida ao Juventude. Francisco Michielin o citou em várias passagens de seu livro Assim na Terra como no Céu, que narra a história do clube. Em uma delas, o autor diz:

"Quando o Juventude despontou no futebol, em 1913, havia tanta gurizada que queria jogar, misturando-se aos 'coroas', que a primeira providência, logo que as coisas se definiram, foi criar a divisão dos 'filhotes'. Eram gurizotes de dez anos para cima, loucos para chutar uma bolinha e, naturalmente, vestidos de verde. A partir daí, gerações de craques foram nascendo como banana em cacho. A história do Juventude é rica pelos 'prata-da-casa' que produziu.

"O time-base que vinha atuando nos últimos oito anos [entre as décadas de 20 e 30] era quase imutável, com mínimas variações. Algumas peças haviam se desgastado. [...] Fazia-se claramente necessário efetuar uma eficaz reposição. Foi justamente nos 'filhotes' que o Juventude procurou suas soluções emergenciais. A fornada de novos talentos oferecia promissoras condições de montar uma equipe sempre competitiva. [...] Para o arco, apareceu o grandalhão, de quase dois metros de altura, forte como um touro, Adelino Fabbris, o Vanzetti. Ele, posteriormente, seria técnico, diretor de futebol e presidente. Ocuparia todo e qualquer cargo diretivo para servir o seu Juventude. A zaga trazia a proposição de dois fortíssimos elementos: Décio Nabinger – A Mobília – com sua boina verde, e Alcides Longhi – A Lenda – também, mais tarde, um faz-tudo e, naturalmente, presidente. Era impressionante o amor que esses jogadores todos nutriam pelo Juventude. Antes de jogar, amavam-no. [...] A Lenda Longhi prolongou-se por quase vinte anos, jogando até o último reservatório de sua energia".

Conquistou com seu clube vários títulos: campeão do Citadino em 1935, 1936, 1938, 1940, 1941, 1949, campeão da 4ª Região em 1939, campeão do Torneio Início em 1942, vice-campeão do Citadino em 1937, 1942, 1945 e 1946, e vice-campeão da Região Nordeste em 1940. Sua atuação individual foi elogiada numerosas vezes na imprensa da época, citando os seus "pés mágicos" e assinalando especialmente a segurança que transmitia em sua posição na retaguarda. Esta qualidade foi destacada em umas quadras humorísticas referentes aos "ìdolos" do clube publicadas no jornal A Época, onde se dizia dele:

Longhi é baque direito
Ligeiro e empreendedor
Por ele ninguém passa
Nem pedindo por favor.

Michelin também fez menção a este talento particular: "Lá atrás, Alcides Longhi era uma garantia, uma fortaleza, principalmente quando Décio Nabinger, com a sua 'bomba', abandonou o futebol". Foi o capitão do time entre 1939 e 1947 e em 1948 recebeu o título de Jogador Laureado.

Foi juiz em jogos da segunda divisão em 1941, e em 1947, ainda jogando, iniciou sua participação nas diretorias, assumindo primeiramente como diretor de Futebol. Em 1949 ocupou a presidência, ano em que realizou benfeitorias no primitivo estádio, a então chamada Quinta dos Pinheiros, construindo em anexo "um majestoso pavilhão", e conquistando invicto o Campeonato Citadino. O jornal A Época assim o descreveu neste ano:

"Longhi conquistou para o Juventude inúmeros campeonatos trabalhando no campo da luta. Este ano, conquistou outro galardão, desta vez mais significativo, porque estava sob sua responsabilidade, não como antigamente conter o avanço e quebrar o ímpeto dos adversários – mas o Clube todo. Alcides Longhi é mais um dos nomes que há de figurar para sempre, aplaudido, estimado e respeitado, nas páginas imorredouras da história do E. C. Juventude. Seu esforço, sua abnegação, seu trabalho e dinamismo servem para solidificar cada vez mais os alicerces deste veterano clube caxiense".

A revista Panorama Esportivo de Porto Alegre deixou outro registro sobre a conquista:

"É o ponto central de onde partem todas as iniciativas, que ele sabe distribuir inteligentemente entre os seus companheiros de diretoria. Esportista de linha, ativo, incansável mesmo, não encontra dificuldades nem sacrifícios quando se trata da defesa do bom nome e da grandeza do clube ao qual dispensa os melhores dias de sua existência. Como presidente lhe coube a honra de reconquistar para seu clube o título de Campeão Invicto da cidade de Caxias do Sul, entretanto com fundadas esperanças na jornada final pelo campeonato estadual. A Alcides Longhi deve, pois, o simpático clube da Pérola das Colônias o lugar de destaque em que se encontra, com seu pavilhão verde e branco cheio de novas e retumbantes vitórias".

Ingressou no time dos Veteranos em 1953 e permaneceria associado ao Juventude ainda por muitos anos, fazendo parte de outras diretorias como conselheiro, membro da Comissão Técnica ou diretor de Futebol, cargos que ocupou muitas vezes. Foi  presidente do Conselho Deliberativo em 1951. Colaborava para a conquista de outros títulos. O clube foi campeão do Citadino também em 1950, 1951 e 1953; campeão do Interior em 1964, 1965 e 1966, e vice-campeão do Estadual de 1965. Em 1966 Alcides recebeu o título de Melhor Diretor de Futebol, conferido pela popular Rádio Caxias, e em 1970 recebeu homenagem do clube nas festividades do aniversário do alvi-verde.

No início dos anos 70 o Juventude passava por sérias dificuldades financeiras, e para saná-las concebeu-se a fusão com o seu maior rival, o Flamengo. Alcides foi um dos poucos dirigentes que se opôs à ideia, considerando que "nas cidades onde só há um clube o futebol está morrendo", como disse em entrevista para a revista Placar. A fusão de fato ocorreu mas acabou fracassando, e em 1975 o Juventude retornou à sua antiga identidade, iniciando uma fase de novos sucessos. Neste mesmo ano, sendo presidente Willy Sanvitto, inaugurou-se o seu novo estádio, o Alfredo Jaconi, cujas obras foram dirigidas por Alcides, e foi conquistada a Copa Governador do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul, com Alcides ocupando também a função de diretor de Futebol e assessor da Presidência. Seu filho Vitor era o preparador físico. A Copa, de âmbito estadual, comemorava nesta edição o centenário da imigração italiana.

Por um breve tempo deixou suas atividades no Juventude, mas em 1981 o então presidente Flávio Ioppi e o lendário Pastelão o convidaram para colaborar mais uma vez, mas logo retirou-se em definitivo, encerrando sua participação no esporte caxiense. Faleceu em 18 de agosto de 1994.

Legado

Alcides Longhi é lembrado hoje principalmente como figura ilustre do Esporte Clube Juventude. Como jogador foi um dos seus ídolos na fase áurea do amadorismo, recebendo os apelidos de A Lenda e Jesus, este pelos "milagres" que fazia com a bola, deixando depois, quando passou para o trabalho nos bastidores, também significativa contribuição. Roni Rigon e Rodrigo Lopes dedicaram-lhe vários artigos na página "Memória" do jornal Pioneiro, assinalando ainda suas atividades filantrópicas. Além de prestigiá-lo em seu livro sobre a história do clube, Francisco Michielin o incluiu na sua galeria dos "100 Personagens" publicada no Pioneiro em 2013, quando foi comemorado o centenário da agremiação, e na mesma oportunidade a Gazeta de Caxias o listou entre as figuras destacadas da sua história.

O reconhecimento da comunidade foi coroado, contudo, com a atribuição de seu nome a uma rua. Foi louvado pela Comissão de Desenvolvimento Urbano e Obras, que analisou o referente Projeto de Lei, como "cidadão empreendedor, que dedicou sua vida ao seu time do coração: Esporte Clube Juventude. [...] A Comissão se manifesta pela aprovação do projeto em tela, aproveitando a oportunidade para unir-se ao vereador autor do projeto nas homenagens ao senhor Alcides Longhi". O Projeto de Lei foi aprovado na Câmara Municipal por unanimidade, com manifestações dos vereadores Francisco Spiandorello e Walmor Vanazzi, que fizeram breves retrospectivas de sua atuação. O primeiro assim disse:

"Senhor presidente, pedi a palavra para declarar o voto e mencionar que o homenageado, Alcides Longhi, foi um dos mais extraordinários atletas que passaram por Caxias do Sul. Conhecido no futebol como 'Jesus', era um jogador laureado no Esporte Clube Juventude. Deixou a sua passagem como atleta, como dirigente e como homem integrado a Caxias do Sul. Trabalhou sem pretensões pessoais, mas com muito idealismo. Era casado com a Noris Leda Artico Longhi e tem os filhos Beatriz, Elisabeth, Vera Mari, Villi Victorio, Vitor Augusto e Roberto Alcides. Trabalhou também, no início de sua vida profissional, como sapateiro na área central de Caxias do Sul. Durante toda a atividade que teve em Caxias do Sul, sempre procurou estar próximo da cidade, dos seus eventos, das suas manifestações, amando o Esporte Clube Juventude. Por exemplo, em 1949, pelas atuações todas, ele fez com que o Esporte Clube Juventude se sagrasse campeão invicto, o que era uma raridade no futebol. Creio que, pelo exemplo de dignidade e de honradez, pela família que possui, pelo exemplo que legou, ele merece esta homenagem. Contamos com a aprovação desta Casa para que fique eternizado o seu nome, a sua história, a sua vida como exemplo para nós".

O vereador Vanazzi declarou:

"Eu conheci o homenageado, Alcides Longhi. Quando era menino, de 1935 a 1948, jogou como zagueiro central do Esporte Clube Juventude. Também era empreendedor, botou uma fábrica de calçados bem próximo ao estádio do Juventude. [...] Acho que estamos fazendo justiça a esse ilustre cidadão caxiense ao denominar com seu nome uma rua de nossa cidade. Como empreendedor, fabricou calçados masculinos e femininos e foi bem sucedido. Como jogador de futebol obteve diversos títulos. Naquele tempo eram disputados apenas campeonatos municipais, e todos eles eram amadores. Se nós tivéssemos hoje, no nosso profissionalismo, tanto no Juventude como no Caxias, o espírito amadorista do qual Alcides Longhi era exemplo, não estaríamos correndo o risco de cair nas divisões: o Juventude para a segunda, e nós para a terceira. Quero, então, homenagear a família de Alcides Longhi e seus descendentes".

Como industrial, teve sua empresa destacada em sua época em publicações de larga circulação, e em tempos recentes sua trajetória foi recuperada por vários autores. Rigon e Lopes escreveram sobre ela no Pioneiro, foi assinalada como uma das empresas que "marcaram época" na cidade pelas historiadoras Loraine Slomp Giron e Heloísa Bergamaschi em um livro sobre a história das casas comerciais de Caxias, e o prédio novo foi estudado por Ana Elísia da Costa, sendo considerado um bom representante da estética Déco aplicada à indústria.

Descendência

Alcides Longhi e Noris Leda Artico deram origem a uma descendência que recebeu atribuições de responsabilidade e numerosas distinções de organismos oficiais, bem como louvores na imprensa. Seus filhos são:

Beatriz, professora de Educação Física, vice-diretora do Colégio Cristóvão de Mendoza e ativo membro fundador e duas vezes presidente das entidades beneficentes Liga Feminina de Combate ao Câncer e o Lions Clube São Pelegrino, e uma das fundadoras do Banco de Olhos, uma cooperação entre o Lions e o Hospital Pompeia.

Vera, professora de Matemática, vice-diretora do Colégio Estadual Imigrante, delegada-adjunta e depois delegada titular da 4ª Delegacia Regional de Educação, membro da alta diretoria da Festa Nacional da Uva em duas edições, membro do Conselho Estadual de Cultura, secretária do Gabinete de Balthazar de Bem e Canto e João Jardim, secretários de Estado da Agricultura, vice-presidente da APAE local e benemérita da Igreja de São Pelegrino.

Elisabeth, presidente da Juventude Estudantil Católica local, cronista do jornal Pioneiro, membro fundador e secretária da Academia Caxiense de Letras, professora de Artes, diretora do Colégio Imigrante, quando o projetou em nível estadual por seus métodos educativos avançados, presidente do Núcleo de Artes Visuais de Caxias do Sul, integrante da diretoria da XV Festa Nacional da Uva, diretora do Departamento Social do Recreio da Juventude, diretora por oito anos do Departamento Cultural do Clube Juvenil, organizando um vasto projeto de recuperação de sua memória, secretária da Liga Feminina de Combate ao Câncer, duas vezes presidente do Rotary Club Cinquentenário e presidente da Casa da Amizade das Esposas dos Rotarianos.

Villi, professor de Informática da UFRGS, executivo de grandes empresas e depois sócio fundador de duas importantes consultorias de Informática (MBS Consulting e BPM Soluções), com clientes de peso em todo o Brasil, premiado com o Global Awards for Excellence in BPM & Workflow, categoria Ouro, concedido pela Workflow Management Coalition, pelo case de automação da gestão de contratos da Unimed.

Vitor, sargento do Exército, jogou nos Veteranos e foi preparador físico do Esporte Clube Juventude e nesta condição campeão da Copa Governador em 1975, diretor do Departamento Esportivo do Recreio da Juventude, professor de Educação Física, vice-diretor do Colégio Abramo Randon, empresário e um dos fundadores do balneário Noiva do Mar.

Roberto, também jogou nos Juniores e nos Veteranos do Juventude, formou-se dentista e tornou-se conhecido profissional em Caxias, um dos fundadores e membro da diretoria do Sindicato dos Odontologistas de Caxias do Sul, entidade com abrangência sobre 30 municípios.

Ver também

Longhi (sobrenome)
História de Caxias do Sul
Esporte Clube Juventude

Ligações externas
Galeria de ex-presidentes do E. C. Juventude. DNA do Tempo
Frantz, Ricardo André Longhi. Crônica das famílias Artico e Longhi e sua parentela em Caxias do Sul, Brasil: Estórias e História. Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV, Academia.edu, 2020.

Presidentes do Esporte Clube Juventude
Naturais de Caxias do Sul
Industriais do Brasil
Empresários do Rio Grande do Sul
Futebolistas do Esporte Clube Juventude
História de Caxias do Sul
Futebolistas do Rio Grande do Sul

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The instructive title of Belenky et al.'s volume, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind makes clear that this is more than a discussion of intellectual development. Indeed, a major contribution of this volume is its joint emphasis on all three domains; for example, the Tag Heuer Replica Watches authors described cognitive development as "dependent on the evolution of identity (self); the interrelationship of the self with others (voice); and the understanding of truth and knowledge (mind) as defined by the self". This integration of elements brings depth to Perry's observation that one finds identity through one's commitments.
This volume was inspired by Perry's work on epistemological development, the authors' interest in addressing the problem of the absence of women's voices in psychological research (Gilligan, 1979), and their interest in gender-related patterns of development, such as those observed by Gilligan. This book is based on a phenomenological study of 135 women (90 who were students from nine diverse academic institutions and 45 who were served by family agencies), whose personal (and sometimes heartrending) stories illuminated the identification of five "epistemological perspectives from which women know and view the world". These are: silence, received knowing, subjective knowing, procedural knowing, and constructed knowing; they are similar to the first five positions in Perry's scheme, but also hold important differences. (I use the more active "knowing" rather than the original "knowledge" in these labels in light of the authors' preference for this change one of these differences is that by naming and exemplifying the position of silence that precedes the epistemological positions, Belenky et al. provided empirical support for Perry's theoretically derived Position 1. The procedural way of knowing is descriptively rich and particularly relevant to Omega Replica Watches college students. In another departure from Perry's (1970) scheme, these authors identified two types of procedural knowing, separate and connected. In separate knowing, one critically examines and critiques knowledge claims, and looks for alternative explanations. In connected knowing, one tries to "get inside the head" of the author to better understand the basis for the argument by understanding it from the inside rather than from the outside. Both approaches are valuable and called for in different situations.
The most advanced epistemological position in this model is constructed knowing, in which self, mind, and voice (the knower, the known, and how one communicates the known) are integrated. Processes of knowing and knowledge construction are explicit, and ambiguity, differences of opinion, and contradictions are seen as a predictable part of the process. Context is seen as relevant and important information in understanding, and constructed learners take this into account as they move easily between connected and separate ways of knowing. This way of knowing is much more consistent with higher order collegiate learning goals than are any of the earlier ways of knowing.


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Jean Moorhead (nacida el 4 de febrero de 1935) es una actriz y modelo estadounidense. Enunciado bajo un apellido alternativamente deletreado, Jean Moorehead, fue Playmate del mes en la revista Playboy para el número de octubre de 1955. Fue fotografiada por Hal Adams.

Una antigua Miss Hollywood, Moorhead actuó en películas como The Violent Years (1956), así como un papel invitado en el western televisivo Death Valley Days (1 episodio, 1957). Sus últimas actuaciones fueron en dos películas de bajo presupuesto en 1959, Gunmen from Laredo y The Atomic Submarine, con una aparición más (no acreditada) en el musical de 1960 de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Suena el teléfono.

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Referencias

Enlaces externos
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Actrices de cine de Estados Unidos
Playmates de Estados Unidos


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Madhavacharya and Trignometry
The Madhava Trignometric series
The Madhava Trignometric series is one of a series in a collection of infinite series expressions discovered by Madhava of Sangramagrama ( 1350-1425 ACE ), the founder of the Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics. These are the infinite series expansions of the Sine, Cosine and the ArcTangent functions and Pi. The power series expansions of sine and cosine functions are called the Madhava sine series and the Madhava cosine series.
The power series expansion of the arctangent function is called the Madhava- Gregory series.
The power series are collectively called as Madhava Taylor series. The formula for Pi is called the Madhava Newton series.
One of his disciples, Sankara Variar had translated his verse in his Yuktideepika commentary on Tantrasamgraha-vyakhya, in verses 2.440 and 2.441
Multiply the arc by the square of the arc, and take the result of repeating that (any number of times). Divide (each of the above numerators) by the squares of the successive even numbers increased by that number and multiplied by the square of the radius. Place the arc and the successive results so obtained one below the other, and subtract each from the one above. These together give the jiva, as collected together in the verse beginning with "vidvan" etc.
Rendering in modern notations
Let r denote the radius of the circle and s the arc-length.
The following numerators are formed first:
s.s^2,
s.s^2.s^2
s.s^2.s^2.s^2
These are then divided by quantities specified in the verse.
1)s.s^2/(2^2+2)r^2,
2)s. s^2/(2^2+2)r^2. s^2/4^2+4)r^2
3)s.s^2/(2^2+2)r^2.s^2/(4^2+4)r^2. s^2/(6^2+6)r^2
Place the arc and the successive results so obtained one below the other, and subtract each from the one above to get jiva:
Jiva = s-(1-2-3)
When we transform it to the current notation
If x is the angle subtended by the arc s at the center of the Circle, then s = rx and jiva = r sin x.
Sin x = x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - x^7/7!...., which is the infinite power series of the sine function.
By courtesy www.wikipedia.org and we thank Wikipedia for publishing this on their site.
By means of the same argument, the circumference can be computed in another way too. That is as (follows): The first result should by the square root of the square of the diameter multiplied by twelve. From then on, the result should be divided by three (in) each successive (case). When these are divided in order by the odd numbers, beginning with 1, and when one has subtracted the (even) results from the sum of the odd, (that) should be the circumference. ( Yukti deepika commentary )
This quoted text specifies another formula for the computation of the circumference c of a circle having diameter d. This is as follows.
c = SQRT(12 d^2 - SQRT(12 d^2/3.3 + sqrt(12 d^2)/3^2.5 - sqrt(12d^2)/3^3.7 +.......
As c = Pi d , this equation can be rewritten as
Pi = Sqrt(12( 1 - 1/3.3 + 1/3^2.5 -1/3^3.7 +......
This is obtained by substituting z = Pi/ 6 in the power series expansion for arctan (z).
Pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 +1/5 -1/7+.....
This is Madhava's formula for Pi, and this was discovered in the West by Gregory and Liebniz.
http://www.astrognosis.com/html/madhavatrignometricseries.asp
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Ancient Indian Astrologers
Paramesvara was an Indian astronomer and mathematician who wrote many commentaries on earlier works as well as making many observations.He is inspired from Madhava's work on mathematics in Kerala. Although his father has not been identified, we know that Paramesvara was born into a Namputiri Brahmana family who were astrologers and astronomers. The family home was Vatasseri (sometimes called Vatasreni) in the village of Alattur. This village was in Kerala and Paramesvara himself gives its coordinates with respect to Ujjain. This puts it at latitude 10° 51' north. It is on the north bank of the river Nila at its mouth.
From Paramesvara's writing we know that Rudra was his teacher, and Nilakantha, who knew Paramesvara personally, tells us that Paramesvara's teachers included Madhava and Narayana. We can be fairly confident that the dates we have given for Paramesvara are roughly correct since he made eclipe observations over a period of 55 years. We will say a little more about these observations below. He played an important part in the remarkable developments in mathematics which took place in Kerala in the late 14th and early part of the 15th century.
The commentaries by Paramesvara on a number of works have been published. For example the Karmadipika is a commentary on the Mahabhaskariyam, an astronomical and mathematical work by Bhaskara I, and its text . In the text of Paramesvara's commentary on the Laghubhaskariyam of Bhaskara I is given. Munjala wrote the astronomical work Laghumanasam in the year 932 and Paramesvara wrote a commentary . It is a work containing typical topics for Indian mathematical astronomy works of this period: the mean motions of the heavenly bodies; the true motions of the heavenly bodies; miscellaneous mathematical rules; the systems of coordinates, direction, place and time; eclipses of the sun and the moon; and the operation for apparent longitude.
Aryabhata gave a rule for determining the height of a pole from the lengths of its shadows in the Aryabhatiya. Paramesvara gave several illustrative examples of the method in his commentary on the Aryabhatiya.
Like many mathematicians from Kerala, Madhava clearly had a very strong influence on Paramesvara. One can see throughout his work that it is teachings by Madhava which direct much of Paramesvara's mathematical ideas. One of Paramesvara's most remarkable mathematical discoveries, no doubt influenced by Madhava, was a version of the mean value theorem. He states the theorem in his commentary Lilavati Bhasya on Bhaskara II's Lilavati. There are other examples of versions of the mean value theorem in Paramesvara's work which we now consider.
The Siddhantadipika by Paramesvara is a commentary on the commentary of Govindasvami on Bhaskara I's Mahabhaskariya. Paramesvara gives some of his eclipse observations in this work including one made at Navaksetra in 1422 and two made at Gokarna in 1425 and 1430. This work also contains a mean value type formula for inverse interpolation of the sine. It presents a one-point iterative technique for calculating the sine of a given angle. In the Siddhantadipika Paramesvara also gives a more efficient approximation that works using a two-point iterative algorithm which turns out to be essentially the same as the modern secant method.
The expression for the radius of the circle in which a cyclic quadrilateral is inscribed, given in terms of the sides of the quadrilateral, is usually attributed to Lhuilier in 1782. However Paramesvara described the rule 350 years earlier. If the sides of the cyclic quadrilateral are a, b, c and d then the radius r of the circumscribed circle was given by Paramesvara as:
r2 = x/y where
x = (ab + cd) (ac + bd) (ad + bc)
and y = (a + b + c - d) (b + c + d - a) (c + d + a - b) (d + a + b - c).
Paramesvara made a series of eclipse observations between 1393 and 1432 which we have referred to above. The last observation which we know he made was in 1445 but Nilakantha quotes a verse by Paramesvara in which he claims to have made observations spanning 55 years. The known observatons by Paramesvara do not quite square with this statement, there being a discrepancy of three years. Although we do not know when Paramesvara died we do know, again from Nilakantha, that the two knew each other personally. Since we have a definite date for Nilakantha's birth of 1444 it is hard to believe that Paramesvara died before 1460.
Using his observations, Paramesvara made revisions of the planetary parameters and, like many other Indian astronomers, he constantly attempted to compare the theoretically computed positions of the planets with those which he actually observed. He was keen to improve the theoretical model to bring it into as close an agreement with observations as possible.
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WESTERN NEWTON,ETC STOLE INDIAN CALCULUS FROM ANCIENT SCRIPTURES
Now,people are blinded by falsehood of Newton as father of calculus.Infact he stole it from Indian,who practiced calculus in a school of Astronomy in Malabar,Kerla 2000 years before Jesus came. It is same port where Vasco De Gama landed in 1498 for christian conversion of Hindus. Stupid King at that time let Vasco de Gama come but did not realize that it will be like East India Company which came to dupe Indians and Hindus like what Germans did ,stole Swastika and turned this pious sign to wrong end. Now with internet, people are understanding and started researching.
Astronomy school of Kerla and also Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh produced a student,namedAryabhatta who calculated value of Pi of 3.1416 and the solar year of 365.358 days . He is the one who produced heliocentric universe 4200 years before Copernicus, with elliptically orbiting planets and a spherical earth spinning on its axis explaining the motion of the heavens. Aryabhatta is father of Trigonometry and Algebra,when Europe was in the dark ages.. Westerners, both Germans and British stole his theory and propogated as their, but truth get revealed slowly but sure. Germans are destroyed ,so west heading that way because of stolen sanctity of pios ancient Indian scriptures and misusing it in wrong way.
Aryabhatta was the first to determine the circumference of the earth, with an error of 64 miles 4000 yrs ago. .Aryabhatta gave square, cube, triangle, trapezium, circle and sphere in geometry.
He was called Arjehir by the Arabs.
Remember that Galileo was killed by church when he told world what he learned from Indian Scriptures that ,that it is earth that circles the sun .(Aryabhatta explained this 4 millenuims years before)
Calculus was developed and many books were written ,some of them are here-
Parameshwara's book of Calculus , including Drigganita was available even to the Arabs. The East India company was based in Calicut. Several Europeans like Fillippo Sasetti who came to Kerala to study Sanskrit in the end of the 15th century. It was this Italian who revealed the vicious and secret Portuguese Inquisition ordered by St Francis Xavier , in Goa, to the Western world. Finally it was the British who stopped this dutch Francis Xavior to stop but they took over from Dutch and ended of controlling India for 300 years. Time is ripe to pay it back now.
In 1580 Matteo Ricci borrowed Calculus Malayalam texts from Calicut kings in 1580, never to return it.
They took Calculus to Europe , from where the likes of Gottfried Wilhelm Von Liebniz , Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke raced with each other to translate , re-invent and market it in their own names, in a acrimonious manner.
Newton copied laws of gravity from "Surya Sidhanta" the great Sanskrit astronomical work written in the Vedic age . Reproduced in another written text by Bhaskara , 1200 years before Newton it clearly explains gravity without an apple. However Vedic gravity was a push ( after observing the solar eclipse ) and NOT a pull.
Before thete, it was a Greeck-Pythagoras" who copied Bhaskara's theorem from the great Sanskrit mathematics text Baudhayana Sulba Sutra, published thousands of years earlier.
Thanks to John Wallis , while he was the keeper of Oxford Univeristy archives who first started pondering over translated Mathematics stolen from India.
John Wallis patented Vedic Math infinity and infinitesimal ( Vishnu reclining in horizontal 8 position ) in his own name. Rest he could NOT understand and passed it to Newton.
You all know late Shakuntala Devi ,who has beaten all supercomputers in mathmatical calculation.
Also India produced great mathmatician-Ramanujan,but during British regime, he was not terated properly and was not given Noble Prize.
Newtons laws of motion were lifted from the Sanskrit texts of 4000 BC and Aryabhatta's written work in 2700 BC in Sanskrit.
Newtons gravity laws of explaining gravity as pull or attraction is all wrong.In fact It is explained in GURUTVAKARSHAN that gravity is a property of matter and akasha warp. If Magnet is reason for gravity, how come SUN HAS IMMENSE GRAVITY WITHOUT MAGNET ,IRON PER SE AND MOON WITH MASS .
Newton's third law-about every action has an equal and opposite reaction is infact law of KARMA of Gita, explained that you get what you do.
Calculus was written in Malayalam atleast 200 years before Newton was born, by the Kerala school of Calculus. Calculus in Sanskrit was written 4800 years ago.
"When Vedic ideas are proved correct, it is just dreaming , come right. When Western work ( lifted from ancient Vedanta ) is proved right, it is scientific knowledge " -- Nikola Tesla .
Pythogorus stole his theorem from Vedic texts 2500 years ago . Pythagoras was a student of Mathematics in India .
The 6000 year old Vedic texts taken to Palestine by King David's mistress the attractive dusky long haired Bathsheba ( Solomon's mother ) from Calicut in 3000 years ago. A lot of these ancient palm leaf texts were recovered from the Solomon's temple at Jerusalem by the Templar Knights .
P. Johnstone: "Gravitation was known to the Hindus (Indians) before the birth of Newton. The system of blood circulation was discovered by them centuries before Harvey was heard of."
Aryabhatta's (2700 BC), formula giving the tat-kalika-gati (instantaneous motion) is given by the following -
u'- v' = v' - v ± e (sin w' - sin w) (i)
where u, v, w are the true longitude, mean longitude, mean anomaly respectively at any particular time and u', v', w' the values of the respective quantities at a subsequent instant; and e is the eccentricity or the sine of the greatest equation of the orbit.
"True motion in minutes is equal to the cosine (of the mean anomaly) multiplied by the difference (of the mean anomalies) and divided by the cheda, added or subtracted contrarily (to the mean motion)."
δu = δv ± e cos θ δ θ.
Proof of the Differential Formula
Let a point P (See Fig. 1) move on a circle. Let its position at two successive intervals be denoted by P and Q. Now, if P and Q are taken very near each other, the direction of motion in the interval PQ is the same as that of the tangent at P.
Let PT be measured along the tangent at P equal to the arc PQ. Then PT would be the motion of the point P if its velocity at P had not changed direction.
"The difference between the longitudes of a planet found at any time on a certain day and at the same time on the following day is called its (sphuta) gati (true rate of motion) for that interval of time."
The tatkalika-gati (instantaneous motion) of a planet is the motion which it would have, had its velocity during any given interval of time remained uniform."
In the figure given above, let the arc PQ = A. Then
R (sin BOQ - sin BOP) = QN - PM = Qn
which is the Bhogya Khanda
Now from the similar triangles PTr and PMO
R : PT : : R cos w : Tr ................ (iii)
Tr = PT cos w.
But Tr = R(sin w' - sin w) and PT = R(w' - w)
(sin w' - sin w) = (w' - w) cos w.
Thus the Tat-kalika Bhogya Khanda (the instantaneous sine difference) in modern notation is
δ (sin θ) = cos θ δ θ.
This formula has been used by Bhaskara to calculate the ayana-valana ("angle of position").
the epithet Tat-kalika (instantaneous) gati (motion) to denote these differentials.
Theory of proportion (similar triangles) –
(1) The sine-difference sin (θ + δ θ) - sin θ varies as the cosine and decreases as θ increases.
(2) The cosine-difference cos (θ + δ θ) - cos θ varies as the sine negatively and numerically increases as θ increases.
(1) The difference of the sine-difference varys as the sine negatively and increases (numerically) with the angle.
(2) The difference of the cosine-difference varys as the cosine negatively and decreases (numerically) with the angle.
For Δ2 (sin θ),
the differential of an inverse sine function. This result--
if Tn denotes the nth jya (or Rsine), Cn the circumference of the corresponding circle, An the area of the nth annulus and S the area of the surface of the sphere, then we shall have
the summation being taken so as to include all the Rsines in a quadrant of the circle. Since there are ordinarily 24 Rsines in a Hindu trigonometrical table, we have
Hence approximately
S = 21600 x 2 x 3437
Area of the surface = circumference x diameter.
If ln denotes the length of the nth transverse arc, we have
the summation being taken so as to include all the Rsines.
Hence the area of a lune is numerically equal to the diameter of the sphere. As the number of limes is equal to the number of parts of the circumference of the sphere, we get
It pays to remember that 4600 years back, half this planet was doing grunt grunt for language and wearing animal skins!
Rothschild , who owned British East India company gave a lot of stolen Vedic Maths and Astronomy papers in Sanskrit to their bloodline represented by German Jew Sir Frederick William Herschel ( 1738-1822 ) from Hanover. But this man was NOT smart enough. So Rothschild made a observatory for him, so that he could atleast patent the vedic Astronomical data in his name. The British made a big hue and cry when William "discovered " Uranus on March 13th 1781-- hi hi the stupid Indians never knew all this. . They were jubilant as Indian Vedic astrology does NOT use Uranus ( Shweta ) Neptune ( Shyama ) Pluto ( Teevra ), just because they are too far away to affect your DNA and they stay in one single rashi for too long. Vedic rishi astrologists did NOT need a telescope, they read off from Aakashik records.
Ptolemy came to India in 155 AD, and he stole from the astronomical data from Surya Siddhanta (12.85-90) , the most significant being the diameters of Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn . You must understand that these diameters were calculated accurately more than 6 millenniums ago when even the atmospheric refraction of earth was different.
Much before in 500 BC Pythagoras came to India and stole his theorem.
William passed over the stolen ( translated to English by Kashmiri Pandits ) papers to his son, Sir John Frederick Hershel, ( 1792-1871 ) an English citizen. He made full use of the Chemical and Botanical Vedic papers too. He also dabbled with Kerala Calculus. This man is buried next to Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, in Westminister Abbey-- next to the English Kings--probably to ironically reveal, that these men were NOT scientists , but thieving politicians.
John send his son Sir William James Herschel ( 1833 -1917 ) to steal more, which he did --and how! He patented the ancient Indian finger printing method . The Indian Panchatantra stories, which were written 5000 years ago, have episodes of written contracts , signed by a indelible Indian ink thumb print. James was Rothschilds represenative in India, overseeing the change over after the First war of Independence ( Sepoy's mutiny ) in 1857--merrily taking finger prints all all and sundry--this man really got a kick out of all this.
Gravity thief Isaac Newton stole everything from GURUTWAKARSHANA the pioneering work in Sankrit of astronomer Mihira Muni ( sage Varahamihira ) in 2660 BC. Mihira Muni was the disciple of Mathematician Aryabhatta. Mihira Muni's observatory was at Sultan Bathery , Western Ghat mountains , Kerala --where today you can see a 3800 year old Jain temple --converted by Muslim Invader Tipu Sultan as his fort. He stayed at Kapletta at a lake by the name of Pookode lake.
Without understanding the concept of Akasha , written in Vedic texts -- he hastily propounded the " Aether Wave theory"-- and fell flat on his face when asked to explain refraction of light and diffusion. ( the same way his gravitation theory is bullshit too- little knowledge is a dangerous thing !.
When super genius Indian Mathematician Srinivasan Ramanujan arrived at London, he was greeted by Professor Hardy. Hardy made a innocent remark that the number of the taxi , he came in is 1729-- a boring number.
Ramanujan looked at the number plate himself and replied casually in a knee jerk manner "No, actually it is a very interesting number. .It is the smallest natural number representable in two different ways as the sum of two cubes" This is known as equation HARDY-RAMANUJAN NUMBER,(Hardy has nothing to do except he was British,white).
BBC documentary on Madhavan, Aryabhatta ( they say 600 AD while it is 2700).
The sages who gave this planet the Vedas , Upanishads did not care to leave their names; the truths they set down were eternal, and the identity of those who arranged the words irrelevant.
The mathematical value pi has always been a curious number throughout history.ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter,
Here is Aryabhatta's version of the value of Pi in 2700 BC:
Lets split the words and understand the meaning:
चतुरधिकम्शतम्- Four more than hundred (=104)
अष्टगुणम्- multiplied by 8 (104 x 8 = 832)
द्वाषष्टि= 62
तथासहस्राणाम्= of 1000 as such (=62000; totalling 62832)
अयुतद्वय= 10,000 x 2 (=20,000)
विष्कम्भस्य= of the diameter
आसन्न:- approximately
वृत्तपरिणाह:- to the circumference.
In effect, 62832/20000 = 3.1416 !
It interesting to note the large numbers he has used to arrive at Pi and the remark that pi is only an approximate value.
And we have also coded it in Mantras by the KATAPAYADI SYSTEM
Vararuchi was a Mathematician from Kerala who taught at Bhoj Shala University inside the Saraswati Temple in 2860 BC . Today this ancient Hindu university is a Muslim mosque.
गोपीभाग्यमधुव्रातःश्रुंगशोदधिसंधिगः
खलजीवितखातावगलहालारसंधरः
Gopibhagya madhuvrata srngisodadhisandhiga|
Khalajivitakhatava galahalarasandhara||
Kaṭapayādi system dictates that:
* As the first digit is 3, the first consonant must be one of ga, ḍa, ba, la
* As the second digit is 1, the second consonant must be one of ka, ṭa, pa, ya
* For the third digit to be 4, the third consonant must be one of gha, ḍha, bha, va…
So to fit3.141592653589793…, the list of consonants in the verse must satisfy the regex
{g,ḍ,b,l}{k,ṭ,p,y}{gh,ḍh,bh,v}{k,ṭ,p,y}{ṅ,ṇ,m,ś}{jh,dh}{kh,ṭh,ph,r}{c,t,ṣ}{ṅ,ṇ,m,ś}{g,ḍ,b,l}{ṅ,ṇ,m,ś}{j,d,h}{jh,dh}{ch,th,s}{jh,dh}{g,ḍ,b,l}…
ga - 3 pii - 1 bhaa - 4 gya - 1 ma - 5 dhu - 9 ra - 2 ta -6 shru - 5 ga - 3 sho - 5 da - 8 dhi - 9 sa -7 dha - 9 ga - 3 kha - 2 la - 3 jii - 8 vi - 4 ta - 6 kha - 2 ta - 6 va - 4 ga- 3 la - 3 ra - 2 sa - 7 dha - 9 ra – 2
pi = 3.1415926535897932384626433832792
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Socialists need to throw off the cold corpse of Marx, give it a decent - but permanent - burial and recover the vitality of ethical radicalism, with all its humour and rootedness. In place of the poisonous legacy of Marxism with its sterile and false scientism, ludicrous infighting, nonsensical sectarianism and deadly fascination with tyrannical centralism, we should be telling the tales of Winstanley and the Diggers, of Thomas Spence, and of all our heroes who envisioned a better world, a true common wealth.
Every piece of legislation to improve the working conditions of those they employ has been denounced by the bosses and their lackeys as a hindrance to enterprise and trade. Every attempt to ensure those in work have more leisure time has been denounced as a reduction in competitiveness. Every social improvement to better the lot of those without work has been denounced as an inducement to idleness.
Nothing to improve our lot has been achieved without defeating the prolonged and bitter opposition of the boss class and their political lackeys.
Some right wing think tank proposes to slash school spending. Apparently larger classes and fewer teachers won't make a difference. I doubt they think like that at Eton but, of course, that's not the point.
And the Russell Group of self-defined 'elite' universities are pressing for a reduction in the money given to support poorer students to get to university. They want more of it for themselves, so they can 'compete'.
There really is a class war going on out there, and we're losing.


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How to Make Your First Dance Stand Out
Find out how to make the moment special for everyone.
Though the ceremony is what brings everyone together, the reception is where the celebration really begins. That doesn't mean that there can't still be sentimental moments during the party portion of the evening, however. The toasts can be touching, though there are certainly speeches that are too long or cringe-worthy.
For the newlyweds, the first dance is a magical moment of togetherness, although it can be nerve-wracking for those who either don't dance or do not like to be the center of attention. When it comes to your guests, on the other hand, a first dance can really drag on after more than two minutes, especially if they're itching to hit the dance floor themselves. Although the first dance is primarily about the two of you, it's understandable is you don't want the attendees watching to be bored. Luckily, there are several ways to make your first dance more memorable.
Photo by Amy & Stuart Photography; Bridal Salon: The White Dress; Event Design & Rentals by White Lilac Inc.
Discover three ways to make your first dance stand out:
- Choreographed routine. It doesn't have to be over the top or corny, just more moves than simple swaying back and forth. However, feel free to go extreme, even having a flash mob come out and join you. Even if you don't choreograph a routine, many Inside Weddings couples have expressed that taking dance lessons prior to the big day has definitely paid off.
- Unique song. As much as his songs are fit for the occasion, an Ed Sheeran tune is unlikely to make your big moment stand out. While you should always try to choose a song that means something to you as a couple, don't be afraid to go with an unconventional choice. You could even have an original song commissioned for the occasion – or create a medly of your favorites.
- Surprise performer. Even if you have a live band performing at your reception, a loved one singing or playing for the first dance is a lovely touch. If you can swing it, a celebrity singer will certainly make your moment unforgettable. Take a look at these weddings that included performers Boyz II Men, Tim McGraw, and Kenny G.
- Special effects. Fog, confetti, or even fake snow falling from the ceiling will certainly add a wow factor to the proceedings.
For more ideas, gather some inspiration for your first dance with songs from Broadway, alternative rock music, and popular tunes chosen by real brides and grooms.


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Canadian Zen Monk Hopes to Bring Education to All in Myanmar
John D. Stevens in the office of 100 Schools in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand. Photo by Nyein Nyein. From irrawaddycom
Since 2005, Canadian Zen Buddhist monk John Stevens has dedicated himself to bringing education to dozens of remote rural communities across Myanmar. Working through 100 Schools, a UK-registered charity based in the northern city of Chiang Mai in neighboring Thailand, Stevens has so far enabled more than 10,000 children to attend school.
In the last 10 years, the organization has grown into a permanent team of 35 Burmese masons and carpenters who work with volunteers from the villages they are helping. To date, 100 Schools has built 49 schools in remote, impoverished areas of Myanmar. It has also built a primary school in the far northern Thai province of Mae Hong Son and currently has two projects underway in central Myanmar.
Unlike in some larger towns and cities, schools in remote rural areas of Myanmar that are largely inhabited by subsistence farmers, while technically government-owned and run, are often neglected makeshift structures—little more than a corrugated tin roof supported by wooden beams. Since these structures fail to meet the government's own standards, the education office will only allocate from two to four teachers to a primary school, and any additional teachers needed must be paid for by the villagers themselves. However, 100 schools notes that "if a village does have a school which conforms to the Ministry of Education's specifications [classrooms measuring 24 feet by 30 feet, brick construction, and proper toilets, as well as accommodation for the teachers], then the government will and does send a minimum of one and often two certified teachers per grade to the school free of charge to the village. This makes our contribution a win-win situation for the villagers. They get a new school plus they get more teachers—for free." (100 Schools)
A school under construction in Mandalay. From irrawaddy.com
Stevens points out that beyond simply providing a place for children to study, 100 Schools is committed to constructing brick buildings sturdy enough to survive earthquakes, floods, and other natural disasters. "Once we have completed the assessment to build a school, we take all of the responsibilities, and use our own crew to guarantee a good-quality building," he said. "We create the jobs for all the crew, so they have stayed with us for many years. Many of the 35 crew members have been working with us from the beginning." (The Irrawaddy)
Since its inception, the scope of 100 Schools' work regularly goes beyond providing serviceable school buildings. It has also constructed dormitories to accommodate teachers, and has supplied basic stationery to more than 10,000 students, as well as desks, chairs, blackboards, and toilets. "Each year we try to give all the students their notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers, rulers and one school uniform. Since we make the school uniforms ourselves in our small factory in Mandalay, this enables us to keep the cost at just over US$9 a year for a primary school student and US$14 for someone in high school." (100 Schools)
With the help of donors, 100 Schools has even been able to provide high school and college scholarships to help promising students from families with little or no financial resources. One such student, who went on to study computer science, is due to go back to an underprivileged school after graduating to share his knowledge with the students there.
100 Schools also employs wives and relatives of its construction team to make school uniforms for students. From 100schools.org
More recently, the organization has become involved in a joint project with Myanmar's new government to build medical clinics and accommodation for staff. In return, the state has pledged to provide qualified medical personnel and to build access roads for the clinics. Stevens is hopeful that the new government, which is prioritizing education and improving healthcare, will be able to take on some of the work of his organization.
The governing National League for Democracy (NLD) party, headed by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, won a sweeping victory late last year in Myanmar's first openly contested election since 1990, which effectively ended more than 50 years of military rule. Last week, the NLD party announced that it would provide free textbooks and uniforms for all primary school students.
"Within two months of the new government being sworn in, we already have received permits to build two new schools, so we don't have any problems [with the new government]," said Stevens.
Despite the government's pledge of a more proactive stance, however, there is still much work to be done—according to an education ministry report last year, some 7,800 school buildings in the country are in urgent need of repair, while the ministry has the resources to renovate just 2,800 schools.
Distributing school supplies to eager students. From 100schools.org
Stevens—now in his late 60s—is insistent that he will continue his work on behalf of Myanmar's underprivileged children for as long as he is able: "Myanmar is the size of France and England put together and is divided into territories comprised of seven divisions and seven states. . . . Our aim is to be building them schools in all 14 areas. It's obviously not going to happen overnight, but with financial support coming from outside the country and the efforts of local volunteers continuing to come from within, it is entirely possible that one day down the road, every child in Myanmar will be getting a decent education." (100 Schools)
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