Jess Collins (born August 6, 1923 in Long Beach, California as Burgess Collins - January 2, 2004 in San Francisco, California), known professionally by the single name "Jess," was an American visual artist.
Collins was born Burgess Collins in Long Beach, California, and educated as a chemist. He was drafted into the military and worked on the production of plutonium for the Manhattan Project. After his discharge in 1946, Collins worked at the Hanford Atomic Energy Project in Richland, Washington, and painted in his spare time, but his dismay at the threat of atomic weapons led him to abandon his scientific career and focus on his art.
In 1949, Collins enrolled in the California School of the Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) and, after breaking with his family, began referring to himself simply as "Jess". He met Robert Duncan in 1951 and began a relationship with the poet that lasted until Duncan's death in 1988. In 1952 in San Francisco, Collins, with Duncan and painter Harry Jacobus, opened the King Ubu Gallery, which became an important venue for alternative art and which remained so when, in 1954, poet Jack Spicer reopened the space as the Six Gallery.
Many of Collins' paintings and collages have themes drawn from chemistry, alchemy, the occult, and male beauty, including a series called Translations (1959-1976) which is done with heavily laid-on paint in a paint-by-number style. Collins also created elaborate collages using old book illustrations and comic strips (particularly, the strip 'Dick Tracy,' which he used to make his own strip 'Tricky Cad'). Collin's final work, Narkissos, is a complex, beautifully-rendered 6'x5' drawing owned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
A Collins retrospective ("Jess: A Grand Collage, 1951-1993") toured the United States in 1993-1994, accompanied by a book of the same title. The book included pictures of some of the paintings and collages from the tour. Interspersed between the pictures were essays by various contributors including poet Michael Palmer who wrote an extended piece on Jess' Narkissos.
Sections of Jess' paintings 'Arkadia Last Resort' were used by Faithless in 2004 for the front covers to their single I Want More.

A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was any person seeking "purity" of worship and doctrine, especially the parties that rejected the Reformation of the Church of England, and those who justified separation from the Church of England following the Elizabethan Religious Settlement are commonly called "Puritans" by historians and critics. However only some Puritans were in favor of separating from the English Church, which was currently under King James I. Most Puritans only wanted to change certain aspects of the church. Later groups are called "puritan", not necessarily favorably, by comparison to these low church Anglicans and Calvinistic Non-conformists.

Originally used to describe a third-century sect of strictly legalistic heretics, the word "Puritan" is now applied unevenly to a number of Protestant churches from the late 16th century to the present. Puritans did not originally use the term for themselves. It was a term of abuse that first surfaced in the 1560s. "Precisemen" and "Precisions" were other early antagonistic terms for Puritans who preferred to call themselves "the godly." The word "Puritan" thus always referred to a type of religious belief, rather than a particular religious sect. To reflect that the term encompasses a variety of ecclesiastical bodies and theological positions, scholars today increasingly prefer to use the term as a common noun or adjective: "puritan" rather than "Puritan." In fact, spouses (albeit, in practice, mainly females) were disciplined if they did not perform their sexual marital duties, in accordance with 1 Corinthians 7 and other biblical passages. Because of these beliefs, they did publicly punish drunkenness and sexual relations outside of marriage.
Alexis de Tocqueville suggested in Democracy in America that the Pilgrims' Puritanism was the very thing that provided a firm foundation for American democracy, and in his view, these Puritans were hard-working, egalitarian, and studious. The theme of a religious basis of economic discipline is echoed in sociologist Max Weber's work, but both de Tocqueville and Weber argued that this discipline was, not a force of economic determinism, but one factor among many that should be considered when evaluating the relative economic success of the Puritans. In Hellfire Nation, James A. Monroe suggests that some opposing tendencies within Puritanism—its desire to create a just society and its moral fervor in bringing about that just society, which sometimes created paranoia and intolerance for other views—were all at the root of America's current political landscape.

In the United States, "Puritan" has not always been the only acceptable spelling. Through the 20th century, "Puritain" was an acceptable alternative spelling in British English. During the 17th and 18th centuries in England, the word was spelled both with and without the second i. "Puritain" was more common in the 16th century. The word derives from "purity" in English, and the suffix meaning "dweller"/"practitioner" can be spelled -ain or -an, depending upon the language.




An emphasis on private study of the Bible
A desire to see education and enlightenment for the masses (especially so they could read the Bible for themselves)
The priesthood of all believers
Simplicity in worship, the exclusion of vestments, images, candles, etc.
Did not celebrate traditional holidays that they believed to be in violation of the regulative principle of worship.
Believed the Sabbath was still obligatory for Christians, although they believe the Sabbath had been changed to Sunday.
Some approved of the church hierarchy, but others sought to reform the episcopal churches on the presbyterian model. Some separatist Puritans were presbyterian, but most were congregationalists.
List of Puritans
Independents
Addison, Albert Christopher The Romantic Story of the Puritan Fathers and their founding of new Boston 1912 published by L C Page Boston Mass USA
Anderson, Virginia Dejohn (1993). New England's Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the 17th Century. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44764-X. 
Beeke, Joel R.. Puritan Reformed Spirituality. Evangelical Press. ISBN 9780852346297. 
Warren, John (1993). Elizabeth I: Religion and Foreign Affairs. Hodder and Stoughton, p. 104. ISBN 0-340-55518-1. 
Beeke, Joel, and Pederson, Randall, Meet the Puritans: With a Guide to Modern Reprints (2006) ISBN 9781601780003
Bennett, Arthur G., ed., The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions (While not directly about the puritans, this anthology gives a representative overview of the ways they viewed their relationship with God.)
Bozeman, Theodore Dwight, To Live Ancient Lives: The Primitivist Dimension in Puritanism
Bozeman, Theodore Dwight, The Precisionist Strain: Disciplinary Religion and the Antinomian Backlash in Puritanism to 1638
Brachlow, Stephen, The Communion of Saints: Radical Puritan and Separatist Ecclesiology, 1750–1625
Bremer, Francis J., John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father
Collinson, Patrick, The Elizabethan Puritan Movement
Collinson, Patrick, Godly People
Collinson, Patrick, Religion of Protestants
Foster, Stephen, The Long Argument
Gatiss, Lee, The Tragedy of 1662: The Ejection and Persecution of the Puritans, ISBN 9780946307609
Graham, Judith, "Puritan Family Life: The Diary of Samuel Sewall"
Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations: Religion, Politics, and Society under the Tudors
Haigh, Christopher, "The Continuity of Catholicism in the English Reformation," in Past and Present, No. 93. (Nov., 1981), pp. 37–69.
Hall, David D., Puritans in the New World: A Critical Anthology
Hall, David D., Worlds of Wonder, Days of Judgment: Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Hawthorne, Nathaniel., The Scarlet Letter (1850)
Kapic, Kelly M. and Randal Gleason, eds. The Devoted Life: An Invitation to the Puritan Classics
Kizer, Kay. "Puritans"
Lake, Peter, Moderate Puritans and the Elizabethan Church
Lake, Peter, "Defining Puritanism—again?" in Bremer, Francis J., ed., Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives
Leverenz, David, "The Language of Puritan Feeling: An Exploration in Literature, Psychology, and Social History"
Lewis, Peter, The Genius of Puritanism
Logan, Samuel T. Jr., Reformation for the Glory of God
Packer, J. I., A Quest for Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, Crossway Books: 1994 (reprint), ISBN 0-89107-819-3
Monaghan, Jennifer, "Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America"
Ryken, Leland, Worldly Saints: The Puritans As They Really Were, ISBN 0-310-32501-3
Tyacke, Nicholas, Anti-Calvinists: The Rise of English Arminianism
Underdown, David, Fire From Heaven
Morgan, Edmund S., The Puritan Family
Morgan, Edmund S., The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop, ISBN 0-321-04369-3
Miller, Perry, The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry
Packer, J.I., A Quest For Godliness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life
Porterfield, Ann, "Female Piety in Puritan New England: The Emergence of Religious Humanism"
Saxton, Martha, "Being Good: Women's Moral Values in Early America"
Vaughn, Alden and Francis Bremer, "Puritan New England"
Larousse Dictionary of Beliefs and Religions
Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
A Puritan's Mind, some writings of the Puritans and their admirers
Puritan sermons
Extensive Puritan resources on Monergism.com

Declan McCullagh is an American journalist and columnist for CNET's news.com. He specializes in computer security and privacy issues. He is notable, among other things, for his early involvement with the media interpretation and misinterpretation of U.S. presidential candidate Al Gore's statement that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet." McCullagh himself once claimed that "If it's true that Al Gore created the Internet, then I created the 'Al Gore created the Internet' story."

Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents (from newborn to age 14-21, depending on the country). The word pediatrics is derived from two Greek words pais (παῖς) which means "child" and iatros (ἰατρός) which means "doctor". Most pediatricians are members of a national body, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the Royal College Of Paediatrics and Child Health, Norsk barnelegeforening (The Norwegian society of pediatricians) or the Indian Academy of Pediatrics.
Pediatrics differs from adult medicine in many respects. The obvious body size differences are paralleled by maturational changes. The smaller body of an infant or neonate is substantially different physiologically from that of an adult. Congenital defects, genetic variance, immunology, oncology, and a host of other issues are unique to the realm of pediatrics.
Some diseases, such as sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis are more often treated by pediatricians because only recently did the majority of these patients survive into adulthood. Issues revolving around infectious diseases and immunizations are also dealt with primarily by pediatricians. Put simply, treating a child is not like treating a miniature adult.
Further training in all sub-specialties is available for pediatricians. Pediatric cardiologists deal with heart conditions in children, particularly congenital heart defects, pediatric oncologists often treat leukemias and lymphomas. Every subspecialty of the adult doctor exists in the pediatric field (with the exception of geriatrics), but some are unique to pediatrics, such as adolescent medicine, and neonatology. Specialty medicine can be very similar to those in adults, though often the diseases seen in children are not seen in adults (such as bronchiolitis) and those seen in adults are rare in children (coronary artery disease).
Childhood is the period of greatest growth, development and maturation of the various organ systems in the body. Years of training and experience (above and beyond basic medical training) goes into recognizing the difference between normal variants and what is actually pathological.
Another major difference between pediatrics and adult medicine is that children are minors and, in most jurisdictions, cannot make decisions for themselves. The issues of guardianship, privacy, legal responsibility and informed consent must always be considered in every pediatric procedure. In a sense, pediatricians often have to treat the parents and sometimes, the family, rather than just the child. Adolescents are in their own legal class, having rights to their own health care decisions in certain circumstances only, though this is in legal flux and varies by region.
In the U.S., pediatricians are considered to be primary care doctors, along with family practice, internal medicine, and obstetrics. Much of the rest of the world considers them specialists, and parents are only referred to pediatricians for special care not handled by the generalists.
Abraham Jacobi is considered the father of pediatrics.

Further reading

Contemporary Pediatrics - a monthly magazine

History
The township is predominantly rural/agricultural and contains a number of communities. Beaverton is the largest community and commercial centre of the township, while Cannington is home to the municipal administration and local high school.
The Trent-Severn Waterway forms part of the northern border of the municipality, which enters Lake Simcoe through Ramara, Ontario Township. The are five locks in Brock.

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Obninsk (Russian: О́бнинск) is a city in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located 102 km southwest of Moscow, on the main rail line between Moscow and Kiev. Its population was 105,706 in the 2002 Census and 100,178 in the 1989 Census. It is one of the major Russian science cities. The first nuclear reactor in the world for the large-scale production of electricity opened here on June 27, 1954, and it also doubled as a training base for the crew of the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, the Leninsky Komsomol, or K-3. Now the city is home to twelve scientific research institutes. Their main activities are nuclear power engineering, radiation technology, medical radiology, and meteorology.
Obninsk is famous for its meteorological tower which was built to study spreading of radiation from the nuclear station.

Official
The chief of local self-management is academician Vladimir Vikulin, the chairman of Obninsk city Assembly. The chief of the city Administration is professor Nikolay Shubin.

Pope St. Cyril of Alexandria (ca. 378 - ca. 444) was the Pope of Alexandria when the city was at its height in influence and power within the Roman Empire. He is called "The Pillar of Faith" by his supporters, as Pope St. Cyril was Orthodox in faith. Cyril wrote extensively and was a leading protagonist in the Christological controversies of the 4th and 5th centuries. He was a central figure in the First Council of Ephesus in 431 which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Archbishop of Constantinople. Cyril is among the patristic fathers, and the Doctors of the Church, and his reputation within the Christian world has led to his acquiring the title "Seal of all the Fathers." His feast day is celebrated on June 9 and, with St. Athanasius of Alexandria, on January 18.

Controversy
Cyril regarded the embodiment of God in the person of Jesus Christ to be so mystically powerful that it spread out from the body of the God-man into the rest of the race, to reconstitute human nature into a graced and deified condition of the saints, one that promised immortality and transfiguration to believers. Nestorius, on the other hand, saw the incarnation as primarily a moral and ethical example to the faithful, to follow in the footsteps of Jesus. Cyril's constant stress was on the simple idea that it was God who walked the streets of Nazareth (hence Mary was Theotokos or Mother of God), and God who had appeared in a transfigured humanity. Nestorius spoke of the distinct 'Jesus the Man' and 'the divine Logos' in ways that Cyril thought were too dichotomous, widening the ontological gap between man and God in a way that would annihilate the person of Christ.

Theology
As noted above, Cyril was a scholarly archbishop and a prolific writer. In the early years of his active life in the Church he wrote several exegeses. Among these were: Commentaries on the Old Testament [1], Thesaurus, Discourse Against Arians, Commentary on St. John's Gospel [2], and Dialogues on the Trinity. In 429 as the Christological controversies increased, his output of writings was that which his opponents could not match. His writings and his theology have remained central to tradition of the Fathers and to all Orthodox to this day.

Sources

Life and Writings of Cyril of Alexandria as relates to the Christological Controversy
Early Church Fathers Includes text written by Cyril of Alexandria