Julia Child

Julia Child (née McWilliams; August 15, 1912 – August 13, 2004) was an American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for introducing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.

In 1996, Julia Child was ranked #46 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time.

Childhood and education

Child was born in Pasadena, California, the daughter of John McWilliams, Jr., a Princeton University graduate and prominent land manager, and his wife, the former Julia Carolyn ("Caro") Weston, a paper-company heiress whose father, Byron Curtis Weston, served as lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. The eldest of three children, she had a brother, John III (1914–2002), and a sister, Dorothy Dean (1917–2006).

Child attended Westridge School, Polytechnic School from fourth grade to ninth grade, then The Katherine Branson School in Ross, California, which was at the time a boarding school. At six feet, two inches (1.88 m) tall, Child played tennis, golf, and basketball as a child and continued to play sports while attending Smith College, from which she graduated in 1934 with a major in English. A press release issued by Smith in 2004 states that her major was history.

Following her graduation from college, Child moved to New York City, where she worked as a copywriter for the advertising department of upscale home-furnishing firm W. & J. Sloane. Returning to California in 1937, she spent the next four years writing for local publications, working in advertising, and volunteering with the Junior League of Pasadena

Awards

Emmy Awards

1.    1994: The Head of Art Attack

Daytime Emmy Awards

1.    1996: Outstanding Service Show Host for In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs, won

2.    1997: Outstanding Service Show Host for Baking with Julia, nominated

3.    1999: Outstanding Service Show Host for Baking with Julia, nominated

4.    2000: Outstanding Service Show Host for Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home, nominated

5.    2001: Outstanding Service Show Host for Julia & Jacques Cooking at Home, won

Peabody Awards

1.    1965: Personal Award for The French Chef, won

U.S. National Book Awards

1.    1980: Current Interest (hardcover) for Julia Child and More Company, won

Shea Butter

Shea butter is a slightly yellowish or ivory-colored fat extracted from the nut of the African shea tree. It is widely used in cosmetics as a moisturizer, salveor lotion. Shea butter is edible and is used in food preparation in Africa. Occasionally the chocolate industry uses shea butter mixed with other oils, as a substitute for cocoa butter, although the taste is different.

The English word "shea" comes from the tree's name in the Bamana language of Mali, its equivalent in the Wolof language of Senegal.

 Butter extraction and refining

The traditional method of preparing unrefined shea butter consists of the following steps:

§  Separating/cracking: The outer pulp of the fruit is removed. When dry, the nut, which is the source of shea butter, must be separated from the outer shell. This is a social activity, traditionally done by Women Elders and young girls who sit on the ground and break the shells with small rocks.

§  Crushing: To make the shea nuts into butter, they must be crushed. Traditionally, this is done with mortars and pestles. It requires lifting the pestles and grinding the nuts into the mortars to crush the nuts so they can be roasted.

§  Roasting: The crushed nuts are then roasted in huge pots over open, wood fires. The pots must be stirred constantly with wooden paddles so the butter does not burn. The butter is heavy and stirring it is hot, smoky work, done under the sun. This is where the slight, smoky smell of traditional shea butter originates.

§  Grinding: The roasted shea nuts are ground into a smoother paste, water is gradually added and the paste is mixed well by hand.

§  Separating the oils: The paste is kneaded by hand in large basins and water is gradually added to help separate out the butter oils. As they float to the top, the butter oils, which are in a curd state, are removed and excess water squeezed out. The butter oil curds are then melted in large open pots over slow fires. A period of slow boiling will remove any remaining water, by evaporation.

§  Collecting and shaping: The shea butter, which is creamy or golden yellow at this point, is ladled from the top of the pots and put in cool places to harden. Then it is formed into balls.

Industrially, a mechanical sheller such as the Universal Nut Sheller may be used, although controversy over its usability with shea nuts is reported in that article. The refined butter may be extracted with chemicals such as hexane, or by clay filtering.

Mark Zuckerbe

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of four co-founders of the social networking site Facebook, of which he is chairman and chief executive.

Born and raised in New York state, he took up writing software programs as a hobby in middle school, beginning with BASIC, with help from his father and a tutor (who called him a "prodigy"). In high school, he excelled in classic literature and science, while becoming proficient in four other languages.

He later enrolled in Harvard, majoring in computer science and sociology. In his sophomore year he wrote a program called Facemash as a "fun" project, letting students on the college's network vote on other students' photo attractiveness. It was shut down within days, but would become a template for his writing Facebook, a program he launched from his dormitory room. With the help of friends, he took Facebook to other campuses nationwide and soon after moved to Palo Alto, California. By 2010, the site had an estimated 500 million users worldwide. Zuckerberg has since been involved in various legal disputes initiated by others who have claimed a share of the company's profits due to their help in setting it up.

Since 2010 Zuckerberg has been named among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world by Time magazine's Person of the Year, In 2010 a fictionalized account of Zuckerberg creating Facebook while in college and its later start-up phase was made into a movie dramatization, The Social Network.

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with either nylon or steel strings. Some modern guitars are made of polycarbonate materials. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers. There are two primary families of guitars: acoustic and electric.

Acoustic guitars (and similar instruments) with hollow bodies have been in use for over a thousand years. There are three main types of modern acoustic guitar: the classical guitar (nylon-string guitar), the steel-string acoustic guitar, and the archtop guitar. The tone of an acoustic guitar is produced by the vibration of the strings, which is amplified by the body of the guitar, which acts as a resonating chamber. The classical guitar is often played as a solo instrument using a comprehensive fingerpicking technique.

Electric guitars, introduced in the 1930s, rely on an amplifier that can electronically manipulate tone. Early amplified guitars employed a hollow body, but a solid body was found more suitable. Electric guitars have had a continuing profound influence on popular culture. Guitars are recognized as a primary instrument in genres such as blues, bluegrass, country, flamenco, jazz, jota, mariachi, metal,reggae, rock, soul, and many forms of pop.

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ล่าสุด มศว ออกระเบียบการสอบตรงปี 2556 ที่ปีนี้รับอลังการมากถึง 13 คณะ 2,960 ที่นั่ง โดยเป็นรับตรงที่ไม่ใช่คะแนน GAT PAT หรือ O-NET แต่จะใช้คะแนนจากสอบที่ มศว จัดสอบเอง 100% รายละเอียดเป็นอย่างไรไปติดตามกันเลย คณะที่รับ - คณะทันตแพทยศาสตร์ 25 คน - คณะเภสัชศาสตร์ 35 คน - คณะพยาบาลศาสตร์ 60 คน - คณะสหเวชศาสตร์ 67 คน - คณะเทคโนโลยและนวัตกรรมผลิตภัณฑ์การเกษตร 90 คน - คณะวิทยาศาสตร์ 489 คน - คณะวิศวกรรมศาสตร์ 275 คน - คณะพลศึกษา 290 คน - คณะมนุษยศาสตร์ 310 คน - คณะศิลปกรรมศาสตร์ 402 คน - คณะศึกษาศาสตร์ 30 คน - คณะสังคมศาสตร์ 485 คน - สำนักเศรษฐศาสตร์และนโยบายสาธารณะ 60 คน - วิทยาลัยนวัตกรรมสื่อสารสังคม 375 คน กำหนการรับสมัคร - สมัครทางอินเทอร์เน็ต 21 พ.ค.55 - 24 ก.ค.55 - ประกาศผังที่นั่งสอบ 7 ก.ย.55 - สอบภาคปฏิบัติ (บางคณะ) 15 ก.ย.55 - สอบข้อเขียน (ทุกคณะ) 22 - 23 ก.ย.55 - ประกาศรายชื่อผู้ผ่านข้อเขียน 21 พ.ย.55 - สอบสัมภาษณ์ 1 - 2 ธ.ค.55 - ประกาศรายชื่อผู้มีสิทธิ์เข้าศึกษา 26 ธ.ค.55 - รายงานตัวเข้าเป็นนิสิต 7 ม.ค.56 ข้อควรรู้สอบตรง มศว - ทุกคณะมีการสอบข้อเขียน และบางคณะมีสอบปฏิบัติ - ไม่ใช้คะแนน GAT PAT หรือ O-NET - พี่ๆ เด็กซิ่ว สามารถสมัครสอบได้ในบางสาขาวิชา เช็คได้ในระเบียบการ - มีบางสาขาที่เปิดรอบรับตรง และจะไม่เปิดอีกในรอบแอดมิชชั่นกลาง - สามารถสมัครได้มากกว่า 1 สาขา ถ้าเวลาสอบไม่ตรงกัน - ช่องการทางสมัครมีทางเดียว คือ สมัครทางอินเทอร์เน็ตเท่านั้น - ค่าใช้จ่ายในการสมัคร สาขาวิชาละ 600 บาท - บางสาขามีกำหนด ต้องมี และต้องส่งแฟ้มผลงานก่อนการสอบข้อเขียน - สถานที่สอบปีนี้คือ อิมแพคอารีน่า เมืองทองธานี - รับตรง มศว ครั้งนี้ เป็นรับตรงแห่งแรกของเด็กแอดมิชชั่น 56 - ปี 54 และ ปี 55 สอบตรง มศว มียอดผู้สมัครหลักหมื่น แต่รับได้หลักพัน

Gioacchino Rossini

Gioachino Antonio Rossini (Giovacchino Antonio Rossini in the baptismal certificate) (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as sacred music, chamber music, songs, and some instrumental and piano pieces. His best-known operas include the Italian comedies Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) and La Cenerentolaand the French-language epics Moïse et Pharaon and Guillaume Tell (William Tell). A tendency for inspired, song-like melodies is evident throughout his scores, which led to the nickname "The Italian Mozart." Until his retirement in 1829, Rossini had been the most popular opera composer in history.

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was born in Hamburg, then a sovereign state of the German Confederation, into a prosperous and cultured Hanseatic family. His father, Gustav Ferdinand Hertz, was a writer and later a senator. His mother was the former Anna Elisabeth Pfefferkorn. His paternal grandfather David Wolff Hertz (1757–1822), fourth son of Benjamin Wolff Hertz, moved to Hamburg in 1793 where he made his living as a jeweller. He and his wife Schöne Hertz (1760–1834) were buried in the former Jewish cemetery in Ottensen. Their first son Wolff Hertz (1790–1859), was chairman of the Jewish community. His brother Hertz Hertz (1797–1862) was a respected businessman. He was married to Betty Oppenheim, the daughter of the banker Salomon Oppenheim, from Cologne. Hertz converted from Judaism to Christianity and took the name Heinrich David Hertz.
While studying at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums in Hamburg, he showed an aptitude for sciences as well as languages, learningArabic and Sanskrit. He studied sciences and engineering in the German cities of Dresden, Munich and Berlin, where he studied underGustav R. Kirchhoff and Hermann von Helmholtz.
In 1880, Hertz obtained his PhD from the University of Berlin; and remained for post-doctoral study under Hermann von Helmholtz.
In 1883, Hertz took a post as a lecturer in theoretical physics at the University of Kiel.
In 1885, Hertz became a full professor at the University of Karlsruhe where he discovered electromagnetic waves.
The most dramatic prediction of Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, published in 1865, was the existence of electromagnetic waves moving at the speed of light, and the conclusion that light itself was just such a wave. This challenged experimentalists to generate and detect electromagnetic radiation using some form of electrical apparatus.
The first clearly successful attempt was made by Heinrich Hertz in 1886. For his radio wave transmitter he used a high voltage induction coil, a condenser (capacitor, Leyden jar) and a spark gap — whose poles on either side are formed by spheres of 2 cm radius — to cause a spark discharge between the spark gap’s poles oscillating at a frequency determined by the values of the capacitor and the induction coil.
To prove there really was radiation emitted, it had to be detected. Hertz used a piece of copper wire, 1 mm thick, bent into a circle of a diameter of 7.5 cm, with a small brass sphere on one end, and the other end of the wire was pointed, with the point near the sphere. He bought a screw mechanism so that the point could be moved very close to the sphere in a controlled fashion. This "receiver" was designed so that current oscillating back and forth in the wire would have a natural period close to that of the "transmitter" described above. The presence of oscillating charge in the receiver would be signaled by sparks across the (tiny) gap between the point and the sphere (typically, this gap was hundredths of a millimeter).
In more advanced experiments, Hertz measured the velocity of electromagnetic radiation and found it to be the same as the light’s velocity. He also showed that the nature of radio waves’ reflection and refraction was the same as those of light, and established beyond any doubt that light is a form of electromagnetic radiation obeying the Maxwell equations.
Hertz's experiments would soon trigger the invention of the wireless telegraph, radio, and later television. In recognition of his work, the unit of frequency — one cycle per second — is named the "hertz".