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Karl Joseph Ufert (born August 10, 1964, in New York, New York) is an American marketing executive and consultant. He is President and Co-Principal Partner of Mitra Creative, a New York and Taipei, Taiwan-based marketing, branding, communications and interactive, multimedia and print design consultancy. He is also Co-Principal Partner of iluren, an on-line gallery for modern, handcrafted jewelry and home decor. In both enterprises, he partners with the multimedia designer, .
Karl Ufert's parents are Frank Ufert, a former professional photographer and later an OSHA officer and . He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing in 1988 from the City College of New York CUNY, and wrote his Master of Arts thesis in Theater and Linguistics in the English Department of the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science.
Professional Career
Karl Ufert's first career was in Higher Education. After brief employment with the McGraw-Hill Companies, he went on to join the administrations of New York University and Columbia University until 1999. In Higher Education Administration, he worked in the fields of marketing, recruitment, educational financing (financial aid) and technology. He followed this by serving as a Principal Consultant to Oracle Corporation's international Higher Education Consulting Practice (part of the Oracle Services Industries group, then headed by Jay Nussbaum).
He moved further into the private sector in 2000, first as Senior Director of Marketing for AMC Computer Corp., a New York-based IT business consultancy and value-added technology reseller. He then became Vice-President of Marketing and Sales for VFinity, a New York, Taipei, and Beijing-based video software company which produces tools for media production, archiving and publishing.
Ufert and Vincent Wang started ILUREN LLC, the parent company to Mitra Creative and iluren.com, in New York in 2005. Mitra Creative provides marketing, communications, design (both Web Design and Print Design) and related application development and integration solutions - custom-designed Content Management Systems, E-Commerce and CRM applications -- for clients in the technology, media/entertainment, education and non-profit industries and others.
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Karl Joseph Ufert (born August 10, 1964, in New York, New York) is an American marketing executive and consultant. He is President and Co-Principal Partner of Mitra Creative, a New York and Taipei, Taiwan-based marketing, branding, communications and interactive, multimedia and print design consultancy. He is also Co-Principal Partner of iluren, an on-line gallery for modern, handcrafted jewelry and home decor. In both enterprises, he partners with the multimedia designer, .
Karl Ufert's parents are Frank Ufert, a former professional photographer and later an OSHA officer and . He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Creative Writing in 1988 from the City College of New York CUNY, and wrote his Master of Arts thesis in Theater and Linguistics in the English Department of the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science.
Professional Career
Karl Ufert's first career was in Higher Education. After brief employment with the McGraw-Hill Companies, he went on to join the administrations of New York University and Columbia University until 1999. In Higher Education Administration, he worked in the fields of marketing, recruitment, educational financing (financial aid) and technology. He followed this by serving as a Principal Consultant to Oracle Corporation's international Higher Education Consulting Practice (part of the Oracle Services Industries group, then headed by Jay Nussbaum).
He moved further into the private sector in 2000, first as Senior Director of Marketing for AMC Computer Corp., a New York-based IT business consultancy and value-added technology reseller. He then became Vice-President of Marketing and Sales for VFinity, a New York, Taipei, and Beijing-based video software company which produces tools for media production, archiving and publishing.
Ufert and Vincent Wang started ILUREN LLC, the parent company to Mitra Creative and iluren.com, in New York in 2005. Mitra Creative provides marketing, communications, design (both Web Design and Print Design) and related application development and integration solutions - custom-designed Content Management Systems, E-Commerce and CRM applications -- for clients in the technology, media/entertainment, education and non-profit industries and others.
Ufert, Karl Joseph
Ufert, Karl Joseph
Ufert, Karl Joseph
Ufert, Karl Joseph
Ufert, Karl Joseph
Ufert, Karl Joseph
Ufert, Karl Joseph
bg:Karl Joseph Ufert
cs:Karl Joseph Ufert
de:Karl Joseph Ufert
es:Karl Joseph Ufert
fr:Karl Joseph Ufert
id:Karl Joseph Ufert
it:Karl Joseph Ufert
hu:Karl Joseph Ufert
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Georgi Pavlovich Gladyshev (born September 19, 1936 in Alma-Ata) is a Russian physical chemist and thermodynamicist known for his Gibbs free energy thermodynamic theory of evolution and for his anti-aging theories of foodstuffs. He is the author of more than five hundred scientific papers. His seminal article is the 1978 "On the Thermodynamics of Biological Evolution" published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
His 1997 book Thermodynamic Theory of the Evolution of Living Beings is the first of its kind to fully-apply Gibbs' 1876 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances to the phenomena of evolution and which argues that evolution of living beings is governed by the tendency for quasi-equilibrium, semi-closed, hierarchical living systems to evolve in the direction that tends to minimize the Gibbs free energy of formation of each structure. In 2006, he was one of key speakers at the 14th annual International Anti-Aging Congress and Exposition in Chicago; and will again lecture at the 2007 Exposition in Las Vegas.
Overview
In 1959, Gladyshev received his B.S. in chemistry from the State University in Alma-Ata and in 1966 received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry. In 1969, Gladyshev became professor of physical chemistry and in 1970 became the chief of the laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Physics Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a position that he held till 2005. In the 1970s and 80s, Gladyshev published a number of papers on the physical chemistry of biological evolution and on the evolution of
planetary systems.
He presently holds the following titles:
* President:
* Principal Researcher: (Russian Academy of Science)
* Head:
His present research is in the areas of the thermodynamics of anti-aging and the thermodynamic aspects of human evolution.
Law of temporal hierarchies
A central feature of Gladyshev’s work is his original Gibbsian thermodynamic theory of evolution, i.e. thermochemical evolution, as based on what Gladyshev calls the "Law of Temporal Hierarchies", which states:
Gladyshev divides evolving hierarchies within the earth system according to similar structural size and lifespan (temporal) groupings. Each such hierarchy is approximated to be surrounding by a "thermostat", i.e. a medium constant temperature and constant pressure composition. In this manner, this law, as well as what Gladyshev calls the principle of substance stability, which establishes a predominant direction of stable and unstable atomic and molecular movements between hierarchies, is argued to justify the application of free energy functions of state thermodynamics, i.e. constant temperature constant pressure states, to biospheric processes in which structures (per unit volume) tend to evolve in a direction that will minimize the Gibbs free energy of formation for that three-dimensional molecular structure.
Evolution
The central statement of Gladyshev’s thermodynamic evolution principle is as follows:
Furthermore, based on Gladyshev's "theory of temporal hierarchies", in combination with what he calls the principle of substance stability, which he defines as follows:
argues that each subsystem of the biosphere evolves according to its thermodynamic tendency to seek a free energy minimum during each evolution cycle.
His 1997 book Thermodynamic Theory of the Evolution of Living Beings is the first of its kind to fully-apply Gibbs' 1876 On the Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Substances to the phenomena of evolution and which argues that evolution of living beings is governed by the tendency for quasi-equilibrium, semi-closed, hierarchical living systems to evolve in the direction that tends to minimize the Gibbs free energy of formation of each structure. In 2006, he was one of key speakers at the 14th annual International Anti-Aging Congress and Exposition in Chicago; and will again lecture at the 2007 Exposition in Las Vegas.
Overview
In 1959, Gladyshev received his B.S. in chemistry from the State University in Alma-Ata and in 1966 received his Ph.D. in polymer chemistry. In 1969, Gladyshev became professor of physical chemistry and in 1970 became the chief of the laboratory at the Institute of Chemical Physics Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a position that he held till 2005. In the 1970s and 80s, Gladyshev published a number of papers on the physical chemistry of biological evolution and on the evolution of
planetary systems.
He presently holds the following titles:
* President:
* Principal Researcher: (Russian Academy of Science)
* Head:
His present research is in the areas of the thermodynamics of anti-aging and the thermodynamic aspects of human evolution.
Law of temporal hierarchies
A central feature of Gladyshev’s work is his original Gibbsian thermodynamic theory of evolution, i.e. thermochemical evolution, as based on what Gladyshev calls the "Law of Temporal Hierarchies", which states:
Gladyshev divides evolving hierarchies within the earth system according to similar structural size and lifespan (temporal) groupings. Each such hierarchy is approximated to be surrounding by a "thermostat", i.e. a medium constant temperature and constant pressure composition. In this manner, this law, as well as what Gladyshev calls the principle of substance stability, which establishes a predominant direction of stable and unstable atomic and molecular movements between hierarchies, is argued to justify the application of free energy functions of state thermodynamics, i.e. constant temperature constant pressure states, to biospheric processes in which structures (per unit volume) tend to evolve in a direction that will minimize the Gibbs free energy of formation for that three-dimensional molecular structure.
Evolution
The central statement of Gladyshev’s thermodynamic evolution principle is as follows:
Furthermore, based on Gladyshev's "theory of temporal hierarchies", in combination with what he calls the principle of substance stability, which he defines as follows:
argues that each subsystem of the biosphere evolves according to its thermodynamic tendency to seek a free energy minimum during each evolution cycle.
Björn Wennerwald (born 1964) is a photographer and film director born in Scandinavia, he attended Copenhagen Photo Collage as a photographer in 1987. Much of his work portrays nature.
Career
He has exhibited his nature photographs at the Louvre in Paris as well as in Berlin, Copenhagen, Seattle, New York, Tokyo and Stockholm.
Awards
* At PDN Photography Annual in New York he received awards in 2001, 2003 and 2004.
* Art Directors Club in New York, 1991
* First place for "The Blimp".
* Several awards in Scandinavia during his more than twenty year career.
MuViCure
Björn Wennerwald is the founder of MuViCure, a music, visual cure, a scientific research project with leading doctors and scientists, founded by The Tryg Foundation.
MuViCure helps patients to recuperate and distract them from the hospital environment, by showing moving pictures with wonderful nature sights, carefully intertwined with the scientific documented music MusiCure.
Career
He has exhibited his nature photographs at the Louvre in Paris as well as in Berlin, Copenhagen, Seattle, New York, Tokyo and Stockholm.
Awards
* At PDN Photography Annual in New York he received awards in 2001, 2003 and 2004.
* Art Directors Club in New York, 1991
* First place for "The Blimp".
* Several awards in Scandinavia during his more than twenty year career.
MuViCure
Björn Wennerwald is the founder of MuViCure, a music, visual cure, a scientific research project with leading doctors and scientists, founded by The Tryg Foundation.
MuViCure helps patients to recuperate and distract them from the hospital environment, by showing moving pictures with wonderful nature sights, carefully intertwined with the scientific documented music MusiCure.
Gaming Guardians is a Keenspot webcomic by Graveyard Greg, started on May 7, 2000. The comic's universe is based on the premise that every game system (be it official or fan-made) exists as a separate alternate universe, alongside the Primary System (portrayed as real life). The premise of the complex storyline is that every NPC in every gaming system is unaware of anything but their own world, subject to the whims of the GMs who run the system(s), until they are informed of the Primary System and what true reality is (or are otherwise informed by one with such knowledge), and thus become PCs, free to do as they wish.
The comic primarily follows the exploits of Graveyard Greg, a bald, oddly-well-built middle-aged man, and EDG, a squat, blue-and-silver robot, with a visor resembling that of the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, although there is a host of secondary characters (Brahma and Angus, two minotaurs; Radical, a female superhero; for a time, the Scarlet Jester and the Unprodigal, and many others).
Graveyard Greg has requested that it be moved to Keenspot's dormant area, saying "...I can and will give up GG and D&D if the artists can no longer commit. I was tired of playing the artist hunt game for Carpe Diem, I sure as Hell won't play it for any other comic anymore."
The comic primarily follows the exploits of Graveyard Greg, a bald, oddly-well-built middle-aged man, and EDG, a squat, blue-and-silver robot, with a visor resembling that of the Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, although there is a host of secondary characters (Brahma and Angus, two minotaurs; Radical, a female superhero; for a time, the Scarlet Jester and the Unprodigal, and many others).
Graveyard Greg has requested that it be moved to Keenspot's dormant area, saying "...I can and will give up GG and D&D if the artists can no longer commit. I was tired of playing the artist hunt game for Carpe Diem, I sure as Hell won't play it for any other comic anymore."