243 research outputs found
From Eggs to the Stars
No full textJane Pollak is a Westport, Connecticut, artist who started her career as a high school art teacher. She has now branched out into public speaking, is the author of two books, and embraces the life of entrepreneur as a sole proprietor of her rapidly expanding business of decorating eggs. For Jane, her life path has been one of hope and unexpected personal and business achievements.</jats:p
From Eggs to the Stars
No full textInterview of artist Jane Pollak by Shawn Blau and Laurence Weinstein.
Jane Pollak is a Westport, Connecticut, artist who started her career as a high school art teacher. She has now branched out into public speaking, is the author of two books, and embraces the life of entrepreneur as a sole proprietor of her rapidly expanding business of decorating eggs. For Jane, her life path has been one of hope and unexpected personal and business achievements
Talking Trade: China's Super Consumers: Changing China, Changing the World
No full textFIT's International Trade and Marketing Department, in partnership with the New York District Export Council at World Trade Week, presents Talking Trade: China's Super Consumers. Distinguished speakers discuss how marketing to China has been transformed, how China's consumers themselves are influencing marketing around the world, and how companies can enhance their sales and exports to the burgeoning Chinese market.Master of Ceremonies: Thomas Pollak, President, Tally-Ho Creations, Pollak Import/Export Corp. and ITM Advisory Board member. Speakers: Mr. Michael A. Zakkour, Vice President, China/Asia Pacific Practice Leader, Tompkins International and co-author of book, China's Super Consumers; Mr. Jason Merritt, Assistant Vice President, Corporate Foreign Exchange Sales, HSBC Bank USA, N
1995 Sub-Librarians Meeting: Let a Woman in Your Life: the Women in Conan Doyle\u27s Life and Fiction
No full textAt the 23rd (Irregular) meeting, the Sub-Librarians greeted members of multiple Chicago area scion societies at the Harold Washington Library Center. The meeting began with a champagne and dessert reception in the lower lobby and then moved into the video theater for the program. Toasts were given by Katherine Rankin, Deborah Schlesinger and others.
Marsha Pollak, ASH, welcomed everyone and introduced Ely. M. Liebow, professor of English at Northeastern Illinois University and author of Dr. Joe Bell: Model for Sherlock Holmes. Liebow spoke on the topic Let a Woman in Your Life: The Women in Arthur Conan Doyle\u27s Life and Fiction
Joachim Pollak (1798-1879): On the Role of the Rabbi in the Jewish Community of Trebitsch in 19th Century
No full textThis B.A. thesis is a case study, contributing toward the understanding to the nineteenth-century rabbinate in Moravia. It is based on a unique convolute of Hebrew correspondence of R. Joachim Pollak (1798-1879) who served as rabbi of Trebitsch since 1828 till his death. The convolute, now in the archive of the Jewish Museum in Prague, consists of over four hundred letters written by Pollak himself or adressed to him. The author analyzed the Hebrew manuscript, provided its paleographical analysis and placed it in the context of the epistolographic genre. The chronological list contains the names of Pollakʼs correspondents, many of whom were identified by the author. The letters, interpreted in the light of other archival and secondary sources, provide a unique insight into the competences, duties and activities of a local Moravian rabbi. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org
Recalling (the Jewishness of) Seweryn Pollak
No full textThis article focuses on Seweryn Pollak’s poetry, despite him being known first and foremost as an essayist and translator. Although meeting mixed and negative reviews (including his own), Pollak’s poetry is not only a space where personal and fascinating accounts, memories, conversations with the loved ones, and farewells collide, but also the precise genre which the author chooses to talk of his Jewish ancestry, which is left unmentioned in his narrative works, including those addressed to his family and friends. Among Pollak’s poems, there are texts devoted to the Shoah that actualise the sense of danger and alienation; these painful recollections, although dictated by fear, happen to be the poems where self-reflection becomes sharp and thorough, whilethe poetic persona – predominant.
Searching for an insightful perspective on Pollak and his work, this article turns to his captivating handwritten texts with a special emphasis put on the collections of letters exchanged between him and his wife, Wanda Grodzieńska.
Artykuł przybliża sylwetkę Seweryna Pollaka, znanego przede wszystkim jako tłumacz i eseista, oraz koncentruje się na jego twórczości poetyckiej. Liryka autora Wypraw za trzy morza, oceniana różnie, często krytycznie (również przez niego samego), jest miejscem niezwykłych, osobistych wyznań, wspomnień, rozmów z najbliższymi i pożegnań. To tu, w poezji, Pollak mówi także o swoim żydowskim pochodzeniu, o którym milczy w tekstach prozatorskich, nawet adresowanych do bliskich. Istotne miejsce w lirycznych tomach Pollaka zajmują wiersze zawracające ku Zagładzie, aktualizujące poczucie zagrożenia i obcości. W utworach rozdrapujących rany pamięci, dyktowanych przez lęk, rozpoznanie siebie jest przenikliwe i śmiałe, a poetyckie „ja” – najwyraźniejsze.
Poszukując możliwie szerokiej perspektywy dla przedstawienia Pollaka, autorka odwołuje się do interesujących materiałów rękopiśmiennych – zwłaszcza do tomów korespondencji poety z żoną Wandą Grodzieńską
"Celotno posojilo Mestne hranilnice ljubljanske je šlo v žepe akcionarjev in po drugih napačnih potih". Mestna hranilnica ljubljanska in propad industrijske delniške družbe Karel Pollak
No full textThis year it is the 120\u27h anniversary of the establishment of Mestna hranilnica ljubljanska (Ljubljana City Savings Bank). On the basis of the archives of this monetary institution, the author of the following contribution explores the previously unknown event, never mentioned before in the historical overviews published to date, of the crediting of the major leather industry joint-stock company Karel Pollak in the period between both World Wars. The discussion focuses on the dynamics of the business relationships between the creditor and borrower with the emphasis on the increasingly tense relations in the time when the In the middle of 1920s the Ljubljana City Savings Bank granted a mortgage credit to the family joint-stock leather industry company Pollak in the amount of 25 million dinars, which was extremely generous for the circumstances of that time. The issue was not problematic until the Great Depression, which affected the Pollak leather company severely. A two-year conflict ensued between the City Savings Bank and this company, during which the owners of the company resorted to many dirty and unethical business moves. The dispute concluded with the bankruptcy of the Pollak joint-stock company and the takeover of its factories, carried out by the City Savings Bank. However, the consequences of the granting of this credit did not only affect the Pollak family - the Ljubljana City Savings Bank also suffered considerable financial losses.Od ustanovitve Mestne hranilnice ljubljanske mineva letos 120 let. Avtor prispevka na podlagi arhivske zapuščine te denarne ustanove obravnava neznan in v do sedaj izšlih zgodovinskih pregledih nikoli omenjen dogodek kreditiranja industrijskega usnjarskega velepodjetja Karel Pollak, d. d. v obdobju med svetovnima vojnama. V ospredju razprave je obravnava dinamike poslovnih odnosov med upnikom in kreditojemalcem s poudarkom na zaostritvi odnosov v obdobju, ko je podjetje Karel Pollak zašlo v plačilne težave. Mestna hranilnica ljubljanska je družinski delniški družbi Pollak sredi dvajsetih let prejšnjega stoletja podelila hipotečni kredit, ki je bil za tedanje razmere izredno visok, 25 milijonov dinarjev. Zadeva ni bila problematična vse do izbruha svetovne gospodarske krize, ki je usnjarsko podjetje Pollak hudo prizadela. Med Mestno hranilnico in podjetjem so se vneli dve leti trajajoči boji, v katerih so lastniki podjetja uporabili mnoge nečedne in neetične poslovne poteze. Spor se je končal s konkurzom delniške družbe Pollak in prevzemom tovarn, ki ga je izvedla Mestna hranilnica. Posledice podelitve kredita pa niso prizadele le rodbine Pollak, saj je velike denarne izgube utrpela tudi Mestna hranilnica ljubljanska
Separability conditions from the Landau-Pollak uncertainty relation
No full text8 pages, no figures.-- PACS nrs.: 03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud, 03.65.Ta.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502062We obtain a collection of necessary (sufficient) conditions for a bipartite system of qubits to be separable (entangled), which are based on the Landau-Pollak formulation of the uncertainty principle. These conditions are tested and compared with previously stated criteria by applying them to states whose separability limits are already known. Our results are also extended to multipartite and higher-dimensional systems.The work of the second author (J.S.-R.) has been partially supported by Dirección General de Investigación (Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología) of Spain under grants BFM2001-3878-C02-01 and BFM 2003-06335-C03-02, and the Junta de Andalucía research group FQM-0207.Publicad
Towards an end-to-end rigid protein docking model guided by evolutionary history
No full textHuman protein-protein interactions are a key area of study when it comes to understanding the causes of many diseases like cancer. In order to analyze how proteins interact with each other, traditionally scientists use expensive experimental techniques or inefficient computational methods that scan through an entire search space. Recently, computational biologists have been able to tackle the problem of rigid body protein-protein docking using graph neural networks. In this thesis, we aim to improve the results of already existing protein docking machine learning models using in-house evolutionary data. We present a coevolution vector that encapsulates the evolutionary history between a pair of protein residues. By incorporating this vector as a node feature in the protein representation graph, we both guide existing models towards more accurate results and at the same time demonstrate the general utility of our coevolution feature in describing proteins
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