Akiva Society is a student run organization for top tier Jewish university students. Akiva Society’s mission is to inspire the future leaders of the Jewish world by creating forums for students at the top-tier universities to meet with peers, Rabbis, and mentors who will help guide in their transition into a leadership positions. This is achieved through social networking, weekend retreats, Shabbatons, and a mentor program.
Organizational goals
Akiva Society's self-declared objective is to revitalize the Jewish people by providing opportunities for members to learn from leaders, connect with other students, and to discover their potential for the Jewish world in an atmosphere of open inquiry, intellectual stimulation, and mutual respect.
Nationally, Akiva Society has students and alumni from most of the top 25 schools. Akiva Society is currently launching programs in Israel and internationally.
Educational philosophy
*Jewish Unity is key to success. Akiva Society has the support of Jewish groups on campus like Chabad Shluchim, Aish HaTorah Rabbis, Ohr Somayach Rabbis, and many smaller groups.
*The only cure to baseless hatred is unconditional love.
*Torah is the blueprint to life, it is the instruction book on how to live to your potential.
*Leadership can be passed down from mentors simliar to the opening of Pirkei Avot.
Meaning of name
The name Akiva Society was inspired by the Talmudic stories of Rabbi Akiva and Eliezer ben Hurcanus. Rabbi Akiva was once an illiterate 40-year-old shepherd who subsequently became the most famous sage of the Mishnah. He is credited with revalitizing the Jewish people with hope, training the next generation of leaders, and being the role model of a Baal Teshuva. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus was an unlearned 20 year old when he left his family fortune to learn in Jerusalem. He later also became a leading scholar and advocate for the Jewish people.
Organizational goals
Akiva Society's self-declared objective is to revitalize the Jewish people by providing opportunities for members to learn from leaders, connect with other students, and to discover their potential for the Jewish world in an atmosphere of open inquiry, intellectual stimulation, and mutual respect.
Nationally, Akiva Society has students and alumni from most of the top 25 schools. Akiva Society is currently launching programs in Israel and internationally.
Educational philosophy
*Jewish Unity is key to success. Akiva Society has the support of Jewish groups on campus like Chabad Shluchim, Aish HaTorah Rabbis, Ohr Somayach Rabbis, and many smaller groups.
*The only cure to baseless hatred is unconditional love.
*Torah is the blueprint to life, it is the instruction book on how to live to your potential.
*Leadership can be passed down from mentors simliar to the opening of Pirkei Avot.
Meaning of name
The name Akiva Society was inspired by the Talmudic stories of Rabbi Akiva and Eliezer ben Hurcanus. Rabbi Akiva was once an illiterate 40-year-old shepherd who subsequently became the most famous sage of the Mishnah. He is credited with revalitizing the Jewish people with hope, training the next generation of leaders, and being the role model of a Baal Teshuva. Rabbi Eliezer ben Hurcanus was an unlearned 20 year old when he left his family fortune to learn in Jerusalem. He later also became a leading scholar and advocate for the Jewish people.
Annie Wharton is an artist and curator who lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Born in Tallahassee, Florida, Wharton lived in Stuttgart, Germany, New York, New York, and Miami Beach, Florida before moving to Los Angeles in late 2005. Her work has been featured in publications that include the New York Times, Art in America, ArtNews, Art Papers, Art.Es (Spain) Ha'aretz (Israel), Giornale dell'Arte (Italy), Glamour, and German Elle. In addition to a wide array of international art fairs, gallery and alternative spaces throughout the US, Israel, Japan and Europe, she's shown her work in group shows at museums such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, DC, the Ringling Museum of Sarasota, and in Miami at the Lowe Museum the Bass Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and in solo museum exhibits at the Kirishima Open Air Museum in Kirishima, Japan and The Wolfsonian-FIU Museum. Her work is in included in important public and private collections throughout the world. Her studio is located in Chinatown in Los Angeles, California.
Her first solo curatorial endeavor, "DREAM(land)," is a show featuring works by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir (Iceland), Carlton DeWoody (New York), Matilda Forsberg (Sweden), Felice Grodin (Florida), Jiae Hwang (South Korea), Gregory Kucera (California), Joshua Levine (California), Elizabeth Perikli (California), Jim Roche (Florida), Neal Rock (South Wales), Leigh Salgado (California), and the TM Sisters (Florida). DREAM(land) was unveiled at JAIL Gallery in LA in May, 2008.
Her first solo curatorial endeavor, "DREAM(land)," is a show featuring works by Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir (Iceland), Carlton DeWoody (New York), Matilda Forsberg (Sweden), Felice Grodin (Florida), Jiae Hwang (South Korea), Gregory Kucera (California), Joshua Levine (California), Elizabeth Perikli (California), Jim Roche (Florida), Neal Rock (South Wales), Leigh Salgado (California), and the TM Sisters (Florida). DREAM(land) was unveiled at JAIL Gallery in LA in May, 2008.
Structured hardware design, is a modular digital hardware design methodology (for Computer hardware and other hardware) originated by Reiner Hartenstein, who also called it Structured LSI design. This methodology has been introduced by the hardware description language KARL and its interactive graphic companion language ABL, the first language also featuring topological primitives supporting regularly layouted floor planning, avoiding spaghetti-structured wiring patterns to save microchip area and featuring structured wiring functions (shift, shuffle, butterfly, reflect, etc.), so that the language can be used as a design calculus. This is obtained by repetitive arrangement of rectangular macro blocks which can be interconnected using wiring by abutment. An example is partitioning the layout of an adder into a row of equal bit slices cells. In complex designs this structuring may be achieved by hierarchical nesting. The term "structured hardware design" has been coined by Reiner Hartenstein, reminding to Edsgar Dijkstras structured programming approach by procedure nesting to avoid the disadvantages of go to commands. In this context Hartenstein has also shown, that the bus is as harmful for Structured hardware design, as the go to is for structured programming. Because of the memory wall this harmfulness of the bus is one of the reasons of the von Neumann syndrome.
Based on structured hardware design as a calculus Reiner Hartenstein has proposed in the early 1980ies the use of Term Rewriting for the automatic derival of structured VLSI layout floorplans from a Mathematical formula sources. Two decades later this proposal has been implemented by Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, encouraged by Hartensteins early . So far Rewriting methods had been only used in a bottom-up manner, as i. e. for verification. But by his idea, illustrated by his early integer multiplier example, Hartenstein has been the initiator of using Term Rewriting in a top-down manner for synthesis.
Literature
*R. Hartenstein: Structured Hardware Design: a Design Language Approach; North Holland / American Elsevier, Amsterdam / New York, 1977
*E. Dijkstra: Go To Statement Considered Harmful; Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11 (1968)
*R. Hartenstein, G. Koch: The Universal Bus Considered Harmful; Proc. EUROMICRO 1975, Nice France, 2007. (Hrsg. R. Hartenstein, R. Zaks): Microarchitecture of Computer Systems; North Holland /American Elsevier, Amsterdam/New York 1975
*R. Hartenstein: Microprogramming concepts - a step towards structured hardware design; Proc. 7th annual workshop on Microprogramming, Palo Alto, CA, USA,: 1974
Based on structured hardware design as a calculus Reiner Hartenstein has proposed in the early 1980ies the use of Term Rewriting for the automatic derival of structured VLSI layout floorplans from a Mathematical formula sources. Two decades later this proposal has been implemented by Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, encouraged by Hartensteins early . So far Rewriting methods had been only used in a bottom-up manner, as i. e. for verification. But by his idea, illustrated by his early integer multiplier example, Hartenstein has been the initiator of using Term Rewriting in a top-down manner for synthesis.
Literature
*R. Hartenstein: Structured Hardware Design: a Design Language Approach; North Holland / American Elsevier, Amsterdam / New York, 1977
*E. Dijkstra: Go To Statement Considered Harmful; Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11 (1968)
*R. Hartenstein, G. Koch: The Universal Bus Considered Harmful; Proc. EUROMICRO 1975, Nice France, 2007. (Hrsg. R. Hartenstein, R. Zaks): Microarchitecture of Computer Systems; North Holland /American Elsevier, Amsterdam/New York 1975
*R. Hartenstein: Microprogramming concepts - a step towards structured hardware design; Proc. 7th annual workshop on Microprogramming, Palo Alto, CA, USA,: 1974
Hindi People
By Prithvi Veer
Those who were born in Bharat or India, believe in Bhagvad Gita, speak Hindi Language, and who believe in Sanatan Dharm or Hindu Religion are Hindi People.
Who are the Hindi People?
All the people who believe in Sanatan Dharm or Hindu Religion and who are born in Bharat or India are Hindi People. I believe that the word Hindu does not represent Hindi People and our Sanatan Dharm because the word Hindu is not used in any Religious Text of Sanatan Dharm. Even in the Bhagvad Gita explains the word Sanatan, the one that exists from the beginning of human life.
So, we, Hindu should call ourselves Hindi not Hindu. Hindi represents our Hindi Language. The word Hindi represents Bharat Desh where Hindi is the National Language of Bharat. The word Hindi represents Sanatan Dharm which is cause of our existence. The word Hindi represents Sanskriti that is the language of our Bhagvad Gita and Puran.
By Prithvi Veer
Those who were born in Bharat or India, believe in Bhagvad Gita, speak Hindi Language, and who believe in Sanatan Dharm or Hindu Religion are Hindi People.
Who are the Hindi People?
All the people who believe in Sanatan Dharm or Hindu Religion and who are born in Bharat or India are Hindi People. I believe that the word Hindu does not represent Hindi People and our Sanatan Dharm because the word Hindu is not used in any Religious Text of Sanatan Dharm. Even in the Bhagvad Gita explains the word Sanatan, the one that exists from the beginning of human life.
So, we, Hindu should call ourselves Hindi not Hindu. Hindi represents our Hindi Language. The word Hindi represents Bharat Desh where Hindi is the National Language of Bharat. The word Hindi represents Sanatan Dharm which is cause of our existence. The word Hindi represents Sanskriti that is the language of our Bhagvad Gita and Puran.