Taylor Swift

Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter. Raised in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Swift moved toNashville, Tennessee at the age of fourteen to pursue a career in country music. She signed to the independent label Big Machine Records and became the youngest songwriter ever hired by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house. The release of Swift's eponymous debut album in 2006 established her as a country music star. "Our Song", her third single, made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number one song on the country chart. She received a Best New Artist nomination at the 2008 Grammy Awards.

Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in late 2008. Buoyed by the chart success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", Fearless attracted a pop crossover audience and became the top-selling album of 2009. The record won four Grammy Awards, with Swift becoming the youngest ever Album of the Year winner. Fearless also received Album of the Year plaudits at the American Music Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards and Country Music Association Awards, making it the most awarded album in country music history. In 2010, Swift released her third album, Speak Now, which sold over one million copies in its first week. She then embarked on the thirteen-month Speak Now World Tour, which included many stadium dates and was attended by over 1.6 million fans. The album's third single, "Mean", won two Grammy Awards. Swift's fourth album, Red, is set for release on October 22, 2012. The lead single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", became Swift's first song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100chart.

Often described as America's sweetheart, Swift is known for her hook-laden, narrative songs about her experiences as a teenager and young adult. As a songwriter, she has been honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Swift's other achievements include six Grammy Awards, ten American Music Awards, seven Country Music Association Awards, six Academy of Country Music Awards and thirteen BMI Awards. She has sold over 22 million albums and 50 million song downloads worldwide. In addition to her music career, Swift has appeared as an actress in the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009), the ensemble comedy Valentine's Day (2010) and the animated film The Lorax (2012). As a philanthropist, Swift supports arts education, children's literacy, natural disaster relief funds, LGBT rights and charities for sick children.

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.