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(The first being the Talmudical Academy, associated with Yeshiva College, founded in 1916.)
The yeshiva opened its "mesivta" in 1926 and then under Rabbi Mendlowitz' direction, another early development in America (but also in competition with Yeshiva College), a post-graduate program.
Rabbi Mendlowitz first appointed Rabbi Gedalia Schorr to the faculty of the Yeshiva, later to become its principal and Rosh Yeshiva.
Despite his devotion to Torah Vodaath he assisted in the founding (both personally and financially) of several similar institutions, such as Mesivta Chaim Berlin (to which he relinquished a number of his top pupils), Telshe Cleveland and Beis Medrash Gevoha.
All grew to occupy important places in 20th century American Orthodoxy.
His work in Jewish education extended to several other organisations he founded.
Aish Dos was a specialized institution that focused on teaching outreach skills, Torah U'mesora was a nationwide umbrella organization for Jewish day schools, and Beis Medrash Elyon was one of America's first post-graduate yeshivas (which also included a kollel).
In 1931 he founded Camp Mesivta, the first yeshiva day camp.
Mendelowitz renounced eating meat after the Holocaust, saying: "There has been enough killing in the world."
Wallacea
Wallacea is a biogeographical designation for a group of mainly Indonesian islands separated by deep-water straits from the Asian and Australian continental shelves.
Wallacea includes Sulawesi, the largest island in the group, as well as Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores, Sumba, Timor, Halmahera, Buru, Seram, and many smaller islands.
The islands of Wallacea lie between Sundaland (the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, Java, and Bali) to the west, and Near Oceania including Australia and New Guinea to the south and east.
The total land area of Wallacea is .
The boundary between Sundaland and Wallacea follows the Wallace Line, named after the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who recorded the differences between mammal and bird fauna between the islands on either side of the line.
The islands of Sundaland to the west of the line, including Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, share a mammal fauna similar to that of East Asia, which includes tigers, rhinoceros, and apes; whereas the mammal fauna of Lombok and areas extending eastwards are mostly populated by marsupials and birds similar to those in Australasia.
Sulawesi shows signs of both.
During the ice ages, sea levels were lower, exposing the Sunda shelf that links the islands of Sundaland to one another and to Asia, and allowed Asian land animals to inhabit these islands.
The islands of Wallacea have few land mammals, land birds, or freshwater fish of continental origin, which find it difficult to cross open ocean.
Many bird, reptile, and insect species were better able to cross the straits, and many such species of Australian and Asian origin are found there.
Wallacea's plants are predominantly of Asian origin, and botanists include Sundaland, Wallacea, and New Guinea as the floristic province of Malesia.
Similarly, Australia and New Guinea to the east are linked by a shallow continental shelf, and were linked by a land bridge during the ice ages, forming a single continent that scientists variously call Australia-New Guinea, Meganesia, Papualand, or Sahul.
Consequently, Australia, New Guinea, and the Aru Islands share many marsupial mammals, land birds, and freshwater fish that are not found in Wallacea.
The line dividing Wallacea from Australia–New Guinea is called Lydekker's Line.
The Philippines is usually considered a separate region from Wallacea.
The Weber Line is the midpoint where Asian and Australian fauna and flora are approximately equally represented, and follows the deepest straits traversing the Indonesian Archipelago.
Although the distant ancestors of Wallacea's plants and animals may have been from Asia or Australia-New Guinea, Wallacea is home to many endemic species.
There is extensive autochthonous speciation and proportionately large numbers of endemics; it is an important contributor to the overall mega-biodiversity of the Indonesian archipelago.
Fauna species include the endemic anoa (dwarf buffalo) of Sulawesi and the babirusa (deer pig).
Maluku shows a degree of species similarity with Sulawesi, but with fewer flora and fauna.
Smaller mammals including primates are common.
Seram is noted for its butterflies and birdlife including the Amboina king parrot.
Wallacea was originally almost completely forested, mostly tropical moist broadleaf forests, with some areas of tropical dry broadleaf forest.
The higher mountains are home to montane and subalpine forests, and mangroves are common in coastal areas.
According to Conservation International, Wallacea is home to over 10,000 plant species, of which approximately 1,500 (15%) are endemic.
Endemism is higher among terrestrial vertebrate species; of 1,142 species found there, almost half (529) are endemic.
45% of the region retains some sort of forest cover, and only 52,017 km², or 15 percent, is in pristine state.
Of Wallacea's total area of 347,000 km², about 20,000 km² are protected.
Wallacea is home to 82 threatened and six critically endangered species of terrestrial vertebrates.
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests
Australia may be isolated by sea, but technically through Wallacea, it can be zoologically extended.
Australian Early-Middle Pliocene rodent fossils have been found in Chinchilla Sands and Bluffs Down in Queensland, but a mix of ancestral and derived traits suggest murid rodents made it to Australia earlier, maybe in the Miocene, over a forested archipelago, i.e.
Wallacea, and evolved in Australia in isolation.
Australia's rodents make up much of the continent's placental mammal fauna and include various species from stick-nest rats to hopping mice.
Other mammals invaded from the east.
Two species of cuscus, the Sulawesi bear cuscus and the Sulawesi dwarf cuscus, are the westernmost representatives of the Australasian marsupials.
The tectonic uplift of Wallacea during the collision between Australia and Asia 23 Million years ago allowed the global dispersal of passerine birds from Australia across the Indonesian islands.
Bustards and megapodes must have somehow colonized Australia.
Cockatiels similar to those from Australia inhabit Komodo Island in Wallacea.
A few species of "Eucalyptus", a predominant genus of trees in Australia, are found in Wallacea: "Eucalyptus deglupta" on Sulawesi, and "E. urophylla" and "E. alba" in East Nusa Tenggara.
Interestingly, for land snails Wallacea and Wallace's Line do not form a barrier for dispersal.
Walkley (ward)
Walkley is an electoral ward in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
Walkley ward—which includes the districts of Netherthorpe, Upperthorpe, Walkley and parts of Neepsend—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England.
It is located in the northwestern part of the city and covers an area of 3.8 km.
The population of this ward in 2011 was 21,793 people in 9,654 households.
The ward is in Sheffield Central Parliamentary Constituency.
Walkley () is a suburb in the north west of Sheffield in England.
It lies north-east of Crookes and south of Hillsborough.
Netherthorpe () is a council estate lying south-east of the Ponderosa open space.
Originally an area of working-class Victorian terraces, it was reconstructed in the 1960s as an area of tower blocks and medium-rise flats with a few houses.
In the late 1990s the tower blocks were reclad and many of the other flats demolished and replaced by modern housing.
Upperthorpe () lies north-west of the Ponderosa open space and south east of Walkley.
Building in the area began in the late Georgian period, from which the former infirmary (now offices) and a few houses survive.
Construction continued, with many large Victorian houses and a car-free late-20th-century housing estate surviving.
The Kelvin Flats were a landmark in the area, of similar design to now listed Park Hill, but were demolished in the early 1990s.
The area is served by the Infirmary Road Sheffield Supertram stop.
Sun bear
The sun bear ("Helarctos malayanus") is a bear species occurring in tropical forest habitats of Southeast Asia.
It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
The global population is thought to have declined by more than 30% over the past three bear generations.
Suitable habitat has been dramatically reduced due to the large-scale deforestation that has occurred throughout Southeast Asia over the past three decades.
The sun bear is also known as the "honey bear", which refers to its voracious appetite for honeycombs and honey.
However, "honey bear" can also refer to a kinkajou, which is an unrelated member of the Procyonidae.
The sun bear's fur is usually jet-black, short, and sleek with some under-wool; some individual sun bears are reddish or grey.
Two whirls occur on the shoulders, from where the hair radiates in all directions.
A crest is seen on the sides of the neck and a whorl occurs in the centre of the breast patch.
Always, a more or less crescent-shaped pale patch is found on the breast that varies individually in colour ranging from buff, cream, or dirty white to ochreous.
The skin is naked on the upper lip.
The tongue is long and protrusible.
The ears are small and round, broad at the base, and capable of very little movement.
The front legs are somewhat bowed with the paws turned inwards, and the claws are cream.
The sun bear is the smallest of the bear species.
Adults are about long and weigh .
Males are 10–20% larger than females.
Their muzzles are short and light-coloured, and in most cases, the white area extends above the eyes.
Their paws are large, and the soles are fur-less, which is thought to be an adaptation for climbing trees.
Their claws are large, curved, and pointed.
The sun bear's claws are sickle-shaped; the front paw claws are long and heavy.
The tail is long.
During feeding, the sun bear can extend its exceptionally long tongue to extract insects and honey.
The sun bear's teeth are very large, especially canines, and high bite forces in relation to its body size, which are not well understood, but could be related to its frequent opening of tropical hardwood trees (with its powerful jaws and claws) in pursuit of insects, larvae, or honey.
The animal's entire head is also large, broad, and heavy in proportion to the body, and the palate is wide in proportion to the skull.
The overall morphology of this bear (inward-turned front feet, ventrally flattened chest, powerful forelimbs with large claws) indicates adaptation for extensive climbing.
Sun bears are found in the tropical rainforest of Southeast Asia ranging from northeastern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam to southern Yunnan Province in China, and on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia.
They now occur very patchily through much of their former range, and have been extirpated from many areas, especially in mainland Southeast Asia.
Their current distribution in eastern Myanmar and most of Yunnan is unknown.
The bear’s habitat is associated with tropical evergreen forests.
"Helarctos anmamiticus", described by Pierre Marie Heude in 1901 from Annam, is not considered a distinct species, but is subordinated (a junior synonym) to "H. m. malayanus".