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In 2019, Kathleen Kennedy stated that Lucasfilm was looking into developing movies or television series in the "Knights of the Old Republic" era, but that no plans had yet been made.
"BuzzFeed News" reports that Laeta Kalogridis will write a Star Wars movie that's based on the "Knights of the Old Republic" video game series.
"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - The Visual Dictionary", a book guide to the 2019 film "", contained a reference to one of the Sith Legions of the Sith Eternal organization led by Emperor Palpatine named after Darth Revan.
Plastic Surgery Disasters
Plastic Surgery Disasters is the second full-length album released by punk rock band Dead Kennedys.
Recorded in San Francisco during June 1982, it was produced by the band's guitarist East Bay Ray and punk record producer Thom Wilson.
The album is darker and more hardcore-influenced than their debut album "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" as a result of the band trying to expand on the sound and mood they had achieved with their 1980 single "Holiday in Cambodia".
It was the first full-length album to feature drummer D.H. Peligro, and is frontman Jello Biafra's favorite Dead Kennedys album.
It has been reissued with the EP "In God We Trust, Inc.", which are the last eight tracks on the CD.
The cover photo is "Hands" by photographer Michael Wells.
The same photo was used by another San Francisco-based punk band called Society Dog for their EP "...Off of the Leash", released in 1981.
Most pressings of the album include a booklet containing lyrics and pieces of collage artwork by Biafra and Winston Smith that thematically tie in to the lyrics of each song on the album.
On the 2001 release of the album on the Manifesto record label, the beginning of "Government Flu" is a separate track entitled "Advice from Christmas Past".
There is also a typing error on the Manifesto CDs where "Bleed for Me" is entitled "Bleed for".
On the original vinyl and cassette releases, the A-side is tracks 1-8 and the B-side is tracks 9-13.
On some vinyl reissues, however, the A-side is tracks 1-9 and the B-side is tracks 10-13.
"Plastic Surgery Disasters" is a cyclical album, meaning that the end of the final track "Moon Over Marin" segues into the beginning of the opening track "Advice from Christmas Past".
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Frederic Kipping
Frederic Stanley Kipping FRS (16 August 1863 – 1 May 1949) was an English chemist.
He undertook much of the pioneering work on silicon polymers and coined the term silicone.
He was born in Manchester, England, the son of James Kipping, a Bank of England official, and Julia Du Val, a daughter of painter Charles Allen Du Val.
He was educated at Manchester Grammar School before enrolling in 1879 at Owens College (now Manchester University) for an external degree from the University of London.
After working for the local gas company for a short time he went in 1886 to Germany to work under William Henry Perkin, Jr. in the laboratories of Adolf von Baeyer at Munich University.
Back in England, he took a position as demonstrator for Perkin, who had been appointed professor at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh.
In 1890, Kipping was appointed chief demonstrator in chemistry for the City and Guilds of London Institute, where he worked for the chemist Henry Edward Armstrong.
In 1897 he moved to University College, Nottingham as professor of the chemistry department, and became the first newly endowed Sir Jesse Boot professor of chemistry at the university in 1928.
He remained there until his retirement in 1936.
Kipping undertook much of the pioneering work into the development of silicon polymers (silicones) at Nottingham.
He pioneered the study of the organic compounds of silicon (organosilicon) and coined the term silicone.
His research formed the basis for the worldwide development of the synthetic rubber and silicone-based lubricant industries.
He also co-wrote, with Perkin, a standard textbook in organic chemistry ("Organic Chemistry", Perkin and Kipping, 1899).
He was awarded the Longstaff Medal (now Longstaff Prize) by the Chemistry Society (now Royal Society of Chemistry) in 1909.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June, 1897.
He was awarded their Davy Medal in 1918 and delivered their Bakerian Lecture in 1936 and awarded a Royal Society Bakerian Medal in the same year.
He retired in 1936 and died in Criccieth, Wales.
He married Lilian Holland in 1888, one of three sisters and both his brothers-in-law were eminent scientists themselves: Arthur Lapworth and William Henry Perkin, Jr.
He had four children including Cyril Henry Stanley who became a famous chess player and headmaster of Wednesbury Boys School and Frederick Barry who was also eminent in Chemistry an later edited his father's Organic Chemistry Book.
Excitatory synapse
An excitatory synapse is a synapse in which an action potential in a presynaptic neuron increases the probability of an action potential occurring in a postsynaptic cell.
Neurons form networks through which nerve impulses travel, each neuron often making numerous connections with other cells.
These electrical signals may be excitatory or inhibitory, and, if the total of excitatory influences exceeds that of the inhibitory influences, the neuron will generate a new action potential at its axon hillock, thus transmitting the information to yet another cell.
This phenomenon is known as an excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP).
It may occur via direct contact between cells (i.e., via gap junctions), as in an electrical synapse, but most commonly occurs via the vesicular release of neurotransmitters from the presynaptic axon terminal into the synaptic cleft, as in a chemical synapse.
The excitatory neurotransmitters, the most common of which is glutamate, then migrate via diffusion to the dendritic spine of the postsynaptic neuron and bind a specific transmembrane receptor protein that triggers the depolarization of that cell.
Depolarization, a deviation from a neuron’s resting membrane potential towards its threshold potential, increases the likelihood of an action potential and normally occurs with the influx of positively charged sodium (Na) ions into the postsynaptic cell through ion channels activated by neurotransmitter binding.
Barbara Hepworth Museum
The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives, Cornwall preserves the 20th-century sculptor Barbara Hepworth's studio and garden much as they were when she lived and worked there.
She purchased the site in 1949 and lived and worked there for 26 years until her death in a fire on the premises in 1975.
The studio, known as Trewyn Studio, was purchased by Barbara Hepworth in 1949, and is typical of the stone-built houses in St Ives.
Her living room is furnished as she left it, while the workshop remains full of her tools and equipment, materials, and part-worked pieces.
The museum was opened by her family in 1976, after Barbara had left instructions to this effect in her will.
It is the largest collection of her works that are on permanent display.
The sculptures featured at the museum (mainly in the secluded garden) were some of her favourites.
Her workshop also includes a queue of uncut stones that one visitor has described as "still waiting for their moment in the shadow of her workshop".
In 1950 she acquired two huge blocks of Galway limestone which she carved into her Festival of Britain commission, the Contrapuntal Forms.
A set of photographs in the museum shows the progress of this project.
Wood carving was done in an upstairs room, and the bronze statues she started casting in 1956 had their origins in the plaster prototypes she worked on in the upper of the two outside studios.
She was helped in the creation of the garden by her friend, the South African-born composer Priaulx Rainier.
Barbara Hepworth died in a fire at this site in 1975, which was caused by one of her cigarettes making some package burn, when she was aged 72.
The family passed the museum to the Tate gallery in 1980 and they still manage it.
Torus-based cryptography
Torus-based cryptography involves using algebraic tori to construct a group for use in ciphers based on the discrete logarithm problem.
This idea was first introduced by Alice Silverberg and Karl Rubin in 2003 in the form of a public key algorithm by the name of CEILIDH.
It improves on conventional cryptosystems by representing some elements of large finite fields compactly and therefore transmitting fewer bits.
Swiss Re
Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd, commonly known as Swiss Re, is a reinsurance company based in Zurich, Switzerland.
It is the world's second-largest reinsurer.
It acquired GE Insurance Solutions in 2006.
Founded in 1863, Swiss Re operates through offices in more than 25 countries.
Swiss Re was ranked 118th in Forbes 2000 Global leading companies 2016.
It was also ranked 313th in Fortune Global 500 in 2015.
On 10/11 May 1861, more than 500 houses went up in flames in the town of Glarus.
Two-thirds of the town sank into rubble and ashes; around 3,000 inhabitants were made homeless.
Like the fire of Hamburg in 1842, which led to the foundation of the first professional reinsurers in Germany, the great fire of Glarus in 1861 showed that insurance coverage was totally inadequate in Switzerland in the event of such a catastrophe.
The Swiss Reinsurance Company of Zurich was founded on 19 December 1863 by the Helvetia General Insurance Company (now known as Helvetia Versicherungen) in St. Gallen, the Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (Credit Suisse) in Zurich and the Basler Handelsbank (predecessor of UBS AG) in Basel.
The company's articles of association were approved by the government of the Canton of Zurich on the same day.
The foundation capital, which was 15% paid up, amounted to 6 million Swiss francs.
The official foundation document bore the signature of the poet Gottfried Keller, who at the time was first secretary of the Canton of Zurich.
Swiss Re was the lead insurer of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks which led to an insurance dispute with the owner, Silverstein Properties.
In October 2006, the New York appeals court ruled in favor of Swiss Re, stating that the destruction of the twin towers was a single event rather than two, limiting coverage to 3.5 billion USD.
On 31 October 2008, Swiss Re completed a £762 million acquisition of Barclays PLC's subsidiary Barclays Life Assurance Company Ltd.
In 2009, Warren Buffett invested $2.6 billion as a part of Swiss Re's raising equity capital Berkshire Hathaway already owns a 3% stake, with rights to own more than 20%.
In June 2014, the company through Admin Re acquired the UK pensions business of HSBC Life (UK) Limited worth £4.2 billion.
In May 2016, the Fort McMurray Canadian wildfires caused estimated damages of up to 10 billion CAD with Swiss Re having the most exposure among reinsurers, covering 70-80% of the losses.
The Group consists of the following three business units:
Swiss Re's leadership consists of the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee and the Group Management Board.
Members of the Executive Committee include Christian Mumenthaler, Chief Executive Officer; Guido Fürer, Chief Investment Officer; John R. Dacey, Chief Financial Officer; Patrick Raaflaub, Chief Risk Officer; Edi Schmid, Chief Underwriting Officer; Moses Ojeisekhoba, Chief Executive Officer Reinsurance; Andreas Berger, CEO Corporate Solutions; Jayne Plunkett, CEO Reinsurance Asia; J. Eric Smith, CEO Swiss Re Americas; and Anette Bronder, Chief Operating Officer.
The group has offices in over 25 countries.
In Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Swiss Re has offices in Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Israel, South Africa, United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
In Asia and Australasia, the group has offices in the following countries: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea.
There are also offices in the Americas: in Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Swiss Re is headquartered in Zurich where the parent company's main premises have stood on the shores of Lake Zurich since 1864.
Its London office is located in the award-winning 30 St Mary Axe tower, which opened on 25 May 2004.
30 St Mary Axe is London's first environmentally sustainable tall building.
Among the building's most distinctive features are its windows, which open to allow natural ventilation to supplement the mechanical systems for a good part of the year.
The landmark London skyscraper, designed by architect Norman Foster and popularly known as 'the gherkin', was confirmed sold on 5 February 2007 for over £600 million (US$1.18 billion) to a group formed of IVG Immobilien AG of Germany and Evans Randall of Mayfair.
The American headquarters of Swiss Re is located in Armonk, New York, on a 127-acre (52 hectares) site overlooking Westchester County's Kensico Reservoir.
The facility, which houses more than 1,000 employees, was completed in 1999 and expanded in 2004.
Swiss Re also has offices in Alpharetta, Boston, Calabasas, Cape Town, Chicago, Dallas, Fort Wayne, Houston, Kansas City, Manchester, Marlton, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Miami, Schaumburg, Illinois, and Windsor.