Fountain guards are elite guards of the kingdom of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's . They are the best soldiers in all the kingdom and guard in permanence the White Tree of Gondor.
Equipment
The Fountain guards wore similar equipment to that of ordinary knights of Gondor, though more finely crafted.
They wore a uniform of black robes and black surcoats, embroidered in white with a tree in blossom under a silver crown and many-pointed stars. They also wore black scarves over the bottom part of their faces. Their helms were high-crowned and pointed, with long cheek-guards fitting to the face, and above these were set the white wings of sea-birds to honor their seafaring Númenórean heritage; the helms were made of Mithril and heirlooms from ancient times. While they were Númenórean in design, they were not in origin. Few helms escaped the Downfall, save perhaps those of Elendil (which became the White Crown), Isildur and Anárion. Anárion's was crushed by a stone-cast from Barad-dûr.
The Fountain guards were mainly a spear-carrying unit; each soldier carried a spear as his primary weapon, as well as a thick wooden shield painted black with the tree and star of Gondor, and a short ceremonial sword for close combat.
Roles
The Fountain guards saw little combat during the War of the Ring. Though the city burned around them and the air swarmed with Fell Beasts, they remained at their posts, guarding their Steward and the White Tree all through the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
They appear in the game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth as Gondor's spear class. They can only be created from a rank 2 Gondor Barracks and cost more to recruit than normal soldiers. Their formation is interchangeable between their default line formation and a dense "shield wall" formation, where they gain 80% armor but lose 75% speed. They return in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II as Gondor's spear-carrying class.
Equipment
The Fountain guards wore similar equipment to that of ordinary knights of Gondor, though more finely crafted.
They wore a uniform of black robes and black surcoats, embroidered in white with a tree in blossom under a silver crown and many-pointed stars. They also wore black scarves over the bottom part of their faces. Their helms were high-crowned and pointed, with long cheek-guards fitting to the face, and above these were set the white wings of sea-birds to honor their seafaring Númenórean heritage; the helms were made of Mithril and heirlooms from ancient times. While they were Númenórean in design, they were not in origin. Few helms escaped the Downfall, save perhaps those of Elendil (which became the White Crown), Isildur and Anárion. Anárion's was crushed by a stone-cast from Barad-dûr.
The Fountain guards were mainly a spear-carrying unit; each soldier carried a spear as his primary weapon, as well as a thick wooden shield painted black with the tree and star of Gondor, and a short ceremonial sword for close combat.
Roles
The Fountain guards saw little combat during the War of the Ring. Though the city burned around them and the air swarmed with Fell Beasts, they remained at their posts, guarding their Steward and the White Tree all through the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
They appear in the game The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth as Gondor's spear class. They can only be created from a rank 2 Gondor Barracks and cost more to recruit than normal soldiers. Their formation is interchangeable between their default line formation and a dense "shield wall" formation, where they gain 80% armor but lose 75% speed. They return in The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-earth II as Gondor's spear-carrying class.
The Page to Stage Festival is a theatre festival established by John Mc, a Liverpool (UK) based writer, actor and businessman. It is a platform for emerging writers to stage their shows during a two-week period in venues situated around Liverpool City Centre, hence gaining experience of the theatre production process. Plays are selected for the festival via an international script writing competition.
Process
Scripts are submitted to the festival organiser, with an entry fee. Scripts are then passed to a panel of adjudicators who score and critique each play. From the submissions, the strongest plays are selected to be produced at the festival.
Each writer acts as the executive producer for their own play and, with the help of the festival organiser, selects a director to work with them and then find a cast.
The festival organiser provides help and support throughout the process with a view to the writers developing the skills to enable them to self produce in the future.
History
Early in January 2014 Ian Moore, the director of a previously established festival (Write Now) posted on its website that he will no longer be holding the festival. John Mc decided to take the Page to Stage Festival forward as he had been involved in the theatre festivals previously and he had experience of running other festivals, including the 0151 Film Festival in 2013.
The name of the festival was chosen through a Twitter poll. More than fifty percent of those who responded selected “Page to Stage Festival” from a list of about ten suggestions.
On 15 January, the Facebook group (pagetostage) was launched, attracting over 500 members in the first week. This was followed with a Twitter account (@P2S_Festival) and registered domain names including www.pagetostage.org.uk.
Page to Stage is also listed in a list of theatre festivals.
Venues
In 2014 the Liverpool venues hosting the festival are The Treasurehouse Theatre (at The World Museum), The Bluecoat Chambers, The Lantern Theatre, House and 81 Renshaw Street.
Line Ups
2014
* Fell - Sean Burn. Directed by Lucia Cox. Starring Craig Sharkey and Joel Parry.
* Last Appointment - John Mc. Directed by Zara Marie Brown. Starring Marie-Claire Kennedy and Saul Murphy
* Life's Witness - Tom Hodson. Directed by Onur Orkut. Starring Jennifer Campbell, Luke Helly, Tom Hodson and John Mulholland.
* Mother, Crone, Maiden - Jessica Collette. Directed by Martin Williams. Starring Edwina Lea, Alicia Dillon and Charlotte Cumming.
* My Afternoon With Bruce Lee - Sarah Lowes. Directed by Samuel Erskine. Starring Joanna Moran, Andrew Di Tym, Rachel McKeown, John Purcell, Luke Saunders, Rebecca Riley, Sheddie Broddle and Laura Jump.
* Second Chance Saloon - Merseyside Script Initiative
* The Ruination of Isaiah Squiff - Tim Tricker. Directed by Paul James Furlong.
* Venus Rising - Ian Salmon. Directed by Anna Cardus. Starring Samuel Metcalfe, Natalie Timmins, Alan Flyn and Lydia Parsons.
* A Conversation with Colin McKeown - Mike Neary ineterviews Colin McKeown from LA Productions
Process
Scripts are submitted to the festival organiser, with an entry fee. Scripts are then passed to a panel of adjudicators who score and critique each play. From the submissions, the strongest plays are selected to be produced at the festival.
Each writer acts as the executive producer for their own play and, with the help of the festival organiser, selects a director to work with them and then find a cast.
The festival organiser provides help and support throughout the process with a view to the writers developing the skills to enable them to self produce in the future.
History
Early in January 2014 Ian Moore, the director of a previously established festival (Write Now) posted on its website that he will no longer be holding the festival. John Mc decided to take the Page to Stage Festival forward as he had been involved in the theatre festivals previously and he had experience of running other festivals, including the 0151 Film Festival in 2013.
The name of the festival was chosen through a Twitter poll. More than fifty percent of those who responded selected “Page to Stage Festival” from a list of about ten suggestions.
On 15 January, the Facebook group (pagetostage) was launched, attracting over 500 members in the first week. This was followed with a Twitter account (@P2S_Festival) and registered domain names including www.pagetostage.org.uk.
Page to Stage is also listed in a list of theatre festivals.
Venues
In 2014 the Liverpool venues hosting the festival are The Treasurehouse Theatre (at The World Museum), The Bluecoat Chambers, The Lantern Theatre, House and 81 Renshaw Street.
Line Ups
2014
* Fell - Sean Burn. Directed by Lucia Cox. Starring Craig Sharkey and Joel Parry.
* Last Appointment - John Mc. Directed by Zara Marie Brown. Starring Marie-Claire Kennedy and Saul Murphy
* Life's Witness - Tom Hodson. Directed by Onur Orkut. Starring Jennifer Campbell, Luke Helly, Tom Hodson and John Mulholland.
* Mother, Crone, Maiden - Jessica Collette. Directed by Martin Williams. Starring Edwina Lea, Alicia Dillon and Charlotte Cumming.
* My Afternoon With Bruce Lee - Sarah Lowes. Directed by Samuel Erskine. Starring Joanna Moran, Andrew Di Tym, Rachel McKeown, John Purcell, Luke Saunders, Rebecca Riley, Sheddie Broddle and Laura Jump.
* Second Chance Saloon - Merseyside Script Initiative
* The Ruination of Isaiah Squiff - Tim Tricker. Directed by Paul James Furlong.
* Venus Rising - Ian Salmon. Directed by Anna Cardus. Starring Samuel Metcalfe, Natalie Timmins, Alan Flyn and Lydia Parsons.
* A Conversation with Colin McKeown - Mike Neary ineterviews Colin McKeown from LA Productions
The Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) is an interdisciplinary research center directed by Prof. Vincent F. Hendricks and situated at the University of Copenhagen.
Background
CIBS was established in February 2015 by Prof. Vincent F. Hendricks when The Carlsberg Foundation awarded him a five-year grant of 1.92 million euros.
Research Area
CIBS combines philosophy, economics, logic, social psychology, information theory, behavioural science, and computer science to research on bubble-phenomena, which are usually associated with finance and real estate markets. Generally, a bubble has developed when assets trade at prices far exceeding the estimated fundamental value. The guiding research principle of CIBS is that bubbles arise when beliefs, preferences and actions have been aggregated in an irrational way among deliberating agents in bubble-hospitable environments.
Projects
In March 2017, the Danish foundation TrygFonden funded a CIBS-based digital education project called "Digital (Ud)Dannelse - D.U.D.E" with 6.1 million Danish kroner. The project's aim is to enable children and teenagers to get an insight into and ability to act in the digital world, as well as give them the courage to participate in digital communities without the risk of being mocked and demolished.
Publications
Books
* Fake News - Når virkeligheden taber, Vincent F. Hendricks, Mads Vestergaard
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 148 pages, , August 2017
* Spræng boblen - Sådan bevarer du fornuften i en ufornuftig verden, Vincent F. Hendricks,
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 184 pages , May 2016
* Infostorms - Why do we “like?” Explaining individual behavior on the social net 2nd revised and Extended Edition, Vincent F. Hendricks, Pelle G. Hansen
New York: Copernicus Books / Springer Nature, 290 pages Autum 2016
* Readings in formal epistemology Edited by Horacio Arló-Costa, Vincent F. Hendricks, Johan van Benthem Assistant Editors: Henrik Boensvang & Rasmus K. Rendsvig
Dordrecht: Springer XII, 872 pages, 77 illustrations Spring 2016
* Infostorms: How to take information punches and save democracy Vincent F. Hendricks, Pelle G. Hansen
New York: Copernicus Books / Springer, February 28, 2014
* Nedtur! Finanskrisen forstået filosofisk Vincent F. Hendricks, Jan Lundorff Rasmussen
Copenhagen: Gyldendal Business, May 2012
* Oplysningens blinde vinkler, Pelle G. Hansen, Vincent F. Hendricks
Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur / August 2011
Articles
* “VERLORENE WIRKLICHKEIT? An der Schwelle zur postfaktischen Demokratie”, Mads Vestergaard and Vincent F. Hendricks, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 13/2017: 4-10.
* “Informational Pathologies and Interest Bubbles: Exploring the Structural Mobilization of Knowledge, Ignorance and Slack”, Joachim Wiewiura and Vincent F. Hendricks, New Media & Society, vol. 1, 2017 / Online First Published 10 Jan 2017: 1-16
* "The Philosophy of Distributed Information (social information, announcements, testimony)" Vincent Hendricks and Rasmus Rendsvig, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, pp 120-137, Routledge, 2016
* "Tillid i en digital virkelighed", Vincent F. Hendricks in Når forbrydelser bliver digitale: En antologi om IT-kriminalitet og adfærd på internettet. Henrik Korf; Anna Vibe Onsberg Hansen; Anders Young Rasmussen; Merete Arentoft. (Red.)København: Det Kriminalpræventive Råd, 2016. s. 74-77.
* “Knowledge and Belief in Flux”, Rasmus K. Rendsvig and Vincent F. Hendricks, forthcoming in Outstanding Contributions to Logic - Jaakko Hintikka, Vol. 7. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016
* "Model Transformers for Dynamical Systems of Dynamic Epistemic Logic", Rasmus K. Rendsvig, in Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, Volume 9394 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 316-327, Springer, 2015
* “Bubbles Studies: The Brass Tacks”, Vincent F. Hendricks, forthcoming in Leading Frontier Research in the Humanities, ed. Emmeche, C., and Budtz, D. London: Bloomsbury (submitted, accepted). Penultimate version for download in PDF, 2016
* “Agents and Interactions”, Jeffrey Helzner and Vincent F. Hendricks forthcoming in A Formal Epistemology Reader, H. Arló-Costa, J. van Benthem and Vincent F.
Hendricks (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer (submitted, accepted) 2016
* “Social Proof in Extensive Games”, Rasmus K. Rendsvig and Vincent F. Hendricks, Jaakko Hintikka: Outstanding Contributions to Logic, van Ditmarsch, H. and Sandu, G. (editors), Dordrect: Springer, 2015
* “Logic and Learning”, Vincent F. Hendricks, Nina Gierasimczuk and Dick de Jong, in Johan van Benthem on Logic and Information Dynamics, Baltag, Alexandru, Smets, Sonja (Eds.). Outstanding Contributions to Logic, Vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06025-5_10 / , 2015
* “Humanioras rolle i boblestudier”, Kampen om disciplinerne, Vincent F. Hendricks
Simo Køppe, David Budtz Pedersen og Frederik Stjernfelt (red.). København: Reitzels Forlag: 275-294, 2015
* “The Philosophy of Distributed Information”, Vincent F. Hendricks, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, ed. Luciano Floridi, London: Routledge, 2015 (submitted, accepted)
* “Science Bubbles”, with David Budtz Pedersen, Philosophy and Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s13347-013-0142-7. Online first, November 15, 2013. Printed in Philosophy & Technology: Volume 27, Issue 4 (2014), Page 503-518, 2013
* “Bubbles”, in Johan van Benthem and Fenrong Liu, eds, Logic Across the University: Foundations and Application—Proceedings of the Tsinghua Logic Conference, Beijing, 14-16 October 2013. Volume 47: Studies in Logic. London: College Publications: 509-513, 2013
* “Infostorms”, Pelle G. Hansen, Vincent F. Hendricks, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 44, No. 3, April: 301-326, 2013.Publications
Background
CIBS was established in February 2015 by Prof. Vincent F. Hendricks when The Carlsberg Foundation awarded him a five-year grant of 1.92 million euros.
Research Area
CIBS combines philosophy, economics, logic, social psychology, information theory, behavioural science, and computer science to research on bubble-phenomena, which are usually associated with finance and real estate markets. Generally, a bubble has developed when assets trade at prices far exceeding the estimated fundamental value. The guiding research principle of CIBS is that bubbles arise when beliefs, preferences and actions have been aggregated in an irrational way among deliberating agents in bubble-hospitable environments.
Projects
In March 2017, the Danish foundation TrygFonden funded a CIBS-based digital education project called "Digital (Ud)Dannelse - D.U.D.E" with 6.1 million Danish kroner. The project's aim is to enable children and teenagers to get an insight into and ability to act in the digital world, as well as give them the courage to participate in digital communities without the risk of being mocked and demolished.
Publications
Books
* Fake News - Når virkeligheden taber, Vincent F. Hendricks, Mads Vestergaard
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 148 pages, , August 2017
* Spræng boblen - Sådan bevarer du fornuften i en ufornuftig verden, Vincent F. Hendricks,
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 184 pages , May 2016
* Infostorms - Why do we “like?” Explaining individual behavior on the social net 2nd revised and Extended Edition, Vincent F. Hendricks, Pelle G. Hansen
New York: Copernicus Books / Springer Nature, 290 pages Autum 2016
* Readings in formal epistemology Edited by Horacio Arló-Costa, Vincent F. Hendricks, Johan van Benthem Assistant Editors: Henrik Boensvang & Rasmus K. Rendsvig
Dordrecht: Springer XII, 872 pages, 77 illustrations Spring 2016
* Infostorms: How to take information punches and save democracy Vincent F. Hendricks, Pelle G. Hansen
New York: Copernicus Books / Springer, February 28, 2014
* Nedtur! Finanskrisen forstået filosofisk Vincent F. Hendricks, Jan Lundorff Rasmussen
Copenhagen: Gyldendal Business, May 2012
* Oplysningens blinde vinkler, Pelle G. Hansen, Vincent F. Hendricks
Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur / August 2011
Articles
* “VERLORENE WIRKLICHKEIT? An der Schwelle zur postfaktischen Demokratie”, Mads Vestergaard and Vincent F. Hendricks, Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 13/2017: 4-10.
* “Informational Pathologies and Interest Bubbles: Exploring the Structural Mobilization of Knowledge, Ignorance and Slack”, Joachim Wiewiura and Vincent F. Hendricks, New Media & Society, vol. 1, 2017 / Online First Published 10 Jan 2017: 1-16
* "The Philosophy of Distributed Information (social information, announcements, testimony)" Vincent Hendricks and Rasmus Rendsvig, in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, pp 120-137, Routledge, 2016
* "Tillid i en digital virkelighed", Vincent F. Hendricks in Når forbrydelser bliver digitale: En antologi om IT-kriminalitet og adfærd på internettet. Henrik Korf; Anna Vibe Onsberg Hansen; Anders Young Rasmussen; Merete Arentoft. (Red.)København: Det Kriminalpræventive Råd, 2016. s. 74-77.
* “Knowledge and Belief in Flux”, Rasmus K. Rendsvig and Vincent F. Hendricks, forthcoming in Outstanding Contributions to Logic - Jaakko Hintikka, Vol. 7. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016
* "Model Transformers for Dynamical Systems of Dynamic Epistemic Logic", Rasmus K. Rendsvig, in Logic, Rationality, and Interaction, Volume 9394 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 316-327, Springer, 2015
* “Bubbles Studies: The Brass Tacks”, Vincent F. Hendricks, forthcoming in Leading Frontier Research in the Humanities, ed. Emmeche, C., and Budtz, D. London: Bloomsbury (submitted, accepted). Penultimate version for download in PDF, 2016
* “Agents and Interactions”, Jeffrey Helzner and Vincent F. Hendricks forthcoming in A Formal Epistemology Reader, H. Arló-Costa, J. van Benthem and Vincent F.
Hendricks (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer (submitted, accepted) 2016
* “Social Proof in Extensive Games”, Rasmus K. Rendsvig and Vincent F. Hendricks, Jaakko Hintikka: Outstanding Contributions to Logic, van Ditmarsch, H. and Sandu, G. (editors), Dordrect: Springer, 2015
* “Logic and Learning”, Vincent F. Hendricks, Nina Gierasimczuk and Dick de Jong, in Johan van Benthem on Logic and Information Dynamics, Baltag, Alexandru, Smets, Sonja (Eds.). Outstanding Contributions to Logic, Vol. 5. Dordrecht: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-06025-5_10 / , 2015
* “Humanioras rolle i boblestudier”, Kampen om disciplinerne, Vincent F. Hendricks
Simo Køppe, David Budtz Pedersen og Frederik Stjernfelt (red.). København: Reitzels Forlag: 275-294, 2015
* “The Philosophy of Distributed Information”, Vincent F. Hendricks, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, forthcoming in Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information, ed. Luciano Floridi, London: Routledge, 2015 (submitted, accepted)
* “Science Bubbles”, with David Budtz Pedersen, Philosophy and Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s13347-013-0142-7. Online first, November 15, 2013. Printed in Philosophy & Technology: Volume 27, Issue 4 (2014), Page 503-518, 2013
* “Bubbles”, in Johan van Benthem and Fenrong Liu, eds, Logic Across the University: Foundations and Application—Proceedings of the Tsinghua Logic Conference, Beijing, 14-16 October 2013. Volume 47: Studies in Logic. London: College Publications: 509-513, 2013
* “Infostorms”, Pelle G. Hansen, Vincent F. Hendricks, Rasmus K. Rendsvig, Metaphilosophy, Vol. 44, No. 3, April: 301-326, 2013.Publications
Alejandro Badia is a specialist in Orthopedic Surgery and the CEO of Orthonow . Dr. Badia is internationally recognized for his expertise in orthopedic sports medicine and arthroscopic surgery.Badia, who's based in Miami-Dade County, founded Badia Hand to Shoulder Center, and The Surgery Center at Doral, accredited by in 2008. He also established OrthoNOW orthopedic urgent care in 2010, and by 2014 he turned it into a franchise .
Throughout his career he has operated on many professional tennis, golf, and polo players. Among some of the athletes he has treated are: Sania Mirza (tennis), Sebastian Salem (golf), and Danny Atwell (polo).
Badia served as ISSPORTH president, and currently serves in the Executive Board as a Hand Surgeon Delegate for North America. He also runs an active international hand fellowship.
Medical Missions
Badia and other surgeons carried out specialized surgical operations which required their expertise, and also transferred skills and shared the latest advancements of upper extremity surgeries with the St. Joseph Hospital’s medical staff in Koforidua, inner Ghana, West Africa. The trip was largely organized by Dr. Philippe Cuenod, of Geneva, Switzerland.
Throughout his career he has operated on many professional tennis, golf, and polo players. Among some of the athletes he has treated are: Sania Mirza (tennis), Sebastian Salem (golf), and Danny Atwell (polo).
Badia served as ISSPORTH president, and currently serves in the Executive Board as a Hand Surgeon Delegate for North America. He also runs an active international hand fellowship.
Medical Missions
Badia and other surgeons carried out specialized surgical operations which required their expertise, and also transferred skills and shared the latest advancements of upper extremity surgeries with the St. Joseph Hospital’s medical staff in Koforidua, inner Ghana, West Africa. The trip was largely organized by Dr. Philippe Cuenod, of Geneva, Switzerland.