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"Wanjira Mathai (born December 1971) is a Kenyan environmentalist and activist. She is Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute, based in Nairobi, Kenya. In this role, she takes on global issues including deforestation and energy access. She was selected as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by New African Magazine in 2018 for her role serving as the senior advisor at the World Resources Institute as well as for her recent campaign to plant over 30 million trees through her work at the Green Belt Movement. Early life and education Mathai was born and raised in Kenya. Her mother, Wangari Maathai, was a social, environmental and political activist and the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2004. Mathai was a student at State House Girls' High School in Nairobi. After completing high school she moved to New York City to attend Hobart and William Smith College where she majored in biology and graduated in 1994. She received a Masters in Public Health and in Business Administration from Emory University. After graduating Mathai joined the Carter Center where she worked on disease control. Here she learned about diseases that impacted African communities such as dracunculiasis, onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis. Research and career = The Green Belt Movement = Mathai serves on the World Future Council and on the board of the Green Belt Movement. The Green Belt Movement was founded by Wanjira's mother Wangari in 1977. Originally, Mathai served as Director of International of Affairs of the Green Belt Movement from 2002 and later was made Executive Director of the organization. At this organization she led fundraising programs and monitored resource mobilization, as well as facilitated international outreach. She realized that women were more responsive when the Green Belt Movement called for people to help planting trees. She has said that her work in planting trees, also called agroforestry, was inspired by her mother's environmental work. After her mother won the Nobel Peace Prize, Mathai accompanied her on a world tour. When her mother passed away in 2011, she helped steer the club through a time of transition. = Other Organizations and Foundations = Wanjira Mathai talking as Director of the Wangari Maathai Institute Mathai serves as senior advisor of the Partnerships for Women Entrepreneurs in Renewables (wPOWER). wPOWER promotes women in renewable energy leadership in an effort to bring renewables to almost four million women in East Africa. To Mathai, women's engagement with renewable energy is one of economic empowerment, fulfilling several of the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the modernization occurring in Kenya, women still spend several hours a day collecting firewood, and half of all deaths in children under 5 years old occur due to household air pollution. Mathai serves on the advisory board of the Clean Cooking Alliance, and is also a member of the Earth Chapter International Council. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). She is also one of a few six second EQ practitioners. These practitioners seek to promote emotional intelligence and support others to create a culture of positivity. Since 2016, Mathai has served as Chair person of the Wangari Maathai Foundation. The foundation looks to advance the legacy of Wangari Maathai by promoting a culture of purpose with young people serving as leaders. When asked of her work with the foundation, Mathai responded "I am not living in my mother’s Shadow, I am basking in her light...". The foundation has three priorities: maintaining Wangari Muta Maathai House, instilling leadership skills in youth to promote creativity and courage at a young age (Wanakesho), and a fellowship for young people. As an illustration of her faith in the importance of educating youth, she was the project director for the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies at the University of Nairobi (WMI). This institute focuses on promoting positive ethics and sustainable development. Educating youth has always been one of Maathai's goals, and she states, "Human beings are not born corrupt. At some point these behaviors are fostered by a culture that promotes individual gain over collective progress." She believes that educating youth will allow for peace-building and for a decrease in corruption in Kenya, as youth will grow up to become future leaders. She often speaks to these topics, as she is a motivational speaker on the topics of youth leadership, environment, and climate change. In addition, Mathai sits on the board of The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Kenya. In 2018 Mathai was selected as one of the 100 Most Influential Africans by New African Magazine, as well as the Top Influential African Women by the African Leadership University. As of December 2019 Mathai has served as Vice President and Regional Director for Africa at World Resources Institute. In this capacity Mathai convinced the Kenyan Environment Minister Judi Wakhungu to commit to restoring 12.6 million acres of deforested land in Kenya by 2030, building on her mother's environmental activism legacy. This is part of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), which Mathai oversees, an initiative to restore over 100 million hectares of deforested land in Africa by 2030. References Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:Emory University alumni Category:Hobart and William Smith Colleges alumni Category:Kenyan women environmentalists Category:Kenyan expatriates in the United States Category:Kenyan environmentalists "
""Cornzan the Mighty" is a classic science fiction story by L. Sprague de Camp. It was first published under the variant title "Cornzan, the Mighty" in the magazine Future Science Fiction for December, 1955. All later appearances omit the comma.Laughlin, Charlotte, and Levack, Daniel J. H. De Camp: An L. Sprague de Camp Bibliography. San Francisco, Underwood/Miller, 1983. It first appeared in book form in the collection A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales (Doubleday, 1963). The story has been translated into German. Plot summary Protagonist Franklin Hahn is scriptwriter for the television-moumpicture serial "Cornzan the Mighty," mingling and spoofing elements from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and Barsoom series, Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, and Alex Raymond's Flash Gordon. Hahn is smitten with fickle actress Cassia MacDermott, female lead on the show. She has just turned down his latest marriage proposal. The production also faces other difficulties. Everyone is kept on edge by temperamental program manager Mortimer Knight, self-proclaimed genius, who treats all his subordinates like slaves. Only Hahn stands up to him. If that's not enough, the studio is trying out the new consiline-hypnosis treatment, which conditions the actors to believe they really are the characters they portray. And Sasha, a giant anaconda grown to one hundred feet in length with hormones, has been brought in to provide the menace for the current episode. He's supposed to have drugged into docility, but working with wild animals is always chancy. Scientist Ilya Sorokin, discoverer of consiline, is responsible for both the treatment and the snake. In the dispensary, Cassia and her co-star Remington Dallas, who plays Cornzan, receive their consiline doses and indoctrination tapes. Series director Eisenhower Lynd tries to keep things light by telling limericks, which Knight later tries to top, drawing a rebuke from Sorokin lest it spoil the actors' indoctrination. They quarrel, Knight threatening to sack Sorokin as soon as the current series if concluded, and the later rejoining he can put the whole studio out of business with his new drug, somnone-beta, that will indoctrinate audiences with scripts from which they can dream their own adventures. On that note, shooting starts. The Cornzan series is set on a fictional "Counter- Earth" called Anthon; the titular hero, son of earthly scientist John Carson, was orphaned when his parents' spaceship crashed and was raised by native tree-men. In maturity he became a mercenary in the service of the tyrannical King Djurk of Djelibin and fell in love with the king's daughter Lululu, thus incurring the king's wrath. Now he must rescue his love from the jungle temple of Yak, guarded by the giant snake. The actors playing King Djurk and his henchman Boger tie up Lululu (Cassia) in the temple set as bait to lure rescuing hero Cornzan into the jaws of the snake. The princess dutifully screams as Sasha appears, and Cornzan swings in to save her. They kiss and emote, and then Cornzan incongruously starts spouting lines from Macbeth (Dallas was a Shakespearian actor before landing his current role). The indoctrination was ruined, all right! Evidently, the verses he was hearing did it. As the action proceeds, more and more Macbeth dialog gets interspersed with Cornzan's scripted lines. Shooting will have to cease and the actors given the antidote. But it must be done in keeping with their dream reality, lest their minds be damaged. "Djurk" and "Boger" having already left for the day, Knight drafts Hahn and Sorokin into their roles to dose Cassia and Dallas. It doesn't go well. "Cornzan," believing Hahn to be Djurk, engages him in swordplay; to prevent the actor from killing Hahn, Sorokin beans him with the device to administer the antidote. Distracted, Dallas pursues Sorokin, and Hahn pursues both. Each vaults over the giant snake Sasha, and Dallas, stumbling, accidentally stabs it. Hahn knocks Dallas out, only to face an angry Sasha. Knight, shouting "If he eats our star it'll ruin the show!" bounds forward; he and Hahn both try to pull Dallas away, but tug in opposite directions. Sasha clamps down on Knight and drags him back screaming. Hahn goes after Sasha with Dallas's sword. Eventually he succeeds in piercing the snake's skull, and it destroys the set in its dying convulsions. Afterwards, Knight, unfairly blaming Hahn for everything, fires him. Putting their heads together, Hahn and Sorokin realize Knight had already tried to kill them both; Sorokin had thrown the antidote device because he had discovered it emptythe manager had set them up to be killed by the hypnotized Dallas. They can't prove it, though. Feeling Hahn has been fired partly on his account, Sorokin takes him on as a business partner. A month later, the two are rich; to stay in business, the studio is paying them through the nose to suppress Sorokin's patent on the somnone-beta process. Things are also looking up for Hahn personally. Cassia had thrown Hahn over for Dallas in the wake of the disaster, but found him all looks and no intellect. Now she wants Hahn back. Hahn, still smitten and no wiser, blissfully accepts. Reception P. Schuyler Miller, commenting on the stories in the collection A Gun for Dinosaur, called this piece "a low comedy of the future entertainment world, [in which] Conan, Tarzan, Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim are properly demolished."Miller, P. Schuyler. "The Reference Library." In Analog Science Fact - Science Fiction, v. 71, no. 5, July 1963, p. 90. Avram Davidson found the story among most others in A Gun for Dinosaur and Other Imaginative Tales "a great disappointment," feeling the author "[t]ime after time ... gets hold of a great idea—and throws it away in playing for laughs of the feeblest conceivable sort."Davidson, Avram. "Books" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, v. 25, no. 4, October 1963, pp.20-21 Relation to other works Mind-altering treatments are a common plot feature in de Camp's fiction, some other instances being in his short stories "The Hibited Man" (1949) and "The Guided Man" (1952), and novels The Carnelian Cube (1948), The Virgin of Zesh (1953) and The Glory That Was (1960). The tale also reflects the author's interest in the works parodied by the in-story "television- moumpicture" series, particularly those of Burroughs and Howard. References Category:Science fiction short stories Category:Short stories by L. Sprague de Camp Category:1955 short stories "
"Isaac Smith was an Anglican priest in Ireland during the 17th Century."History of Sligo ; county and town ; with illustrations from original drawings and plans" Wood-martin, W.G. p271: Dublin; Hodges, Figgis, & Co; 1889 Smith educated at Trinity College, Dublin."Alumni Dublinenses: a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860)" George Dames Burtchaell/Thomas Ulick Sadleir p759: Dublin, Alex Thom and Co, 1935 He was Archdeacon of Killala from 1673 until 1685."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 4" Cotton,H. p86: Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 Notes Category:Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Category:17th-century Irish Anglican priests Category:Archdeacons of Killala "