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Na het bekendmaken van de ,,Vandamme-affaire'', over het inhoudsloze KIM-postgraduaat aan de Ugent (DS 27 juli) haastten de KULeuven, de VUB en de UA zich om te verklaren dat dergelijke wanpraktijken bij hen niet mogelijk zijn ,,vanwege de vele controles''. Ik betwijfel dat ten zeerste. Over die KIM-opleiding werd wel degelijk een anonieme studentenevaluatie georganiseerd. Geen enkele student, op

Eerder was al te lezen dat het Vlaamse onderwijs de mogelijkheden van vrije software gaat verkennen. Dit is blijkbaar niet alleen zo in Vlaanderen, maar ook in Frankrijk. Daar krijgen de middelbare scholieren begin volgend jaar CD's van de overheid met vrije software en een Linux Live CD. Hopelijk wordt het een groot succes!
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Sarah Knauss

Sarah Knauss (September 24, 1880 - December 30, 1999) was considered the "world's oldest person" by Guinness World Records from April 16, 1998 until her death in 1999. At 117, Sarah set the record for the oldest "new" titleholder (which corresponds to the highest "valley" on a graph of the oldest living persons over time).

Sarah DeRemer Clark was born in a small coal mining town, Hollywood, Pennsylvania (which no longer exists), and died in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1901 she married Abraham Lincoln Knauss. He became a well-known Republican leader in Lehigh County. Upon the 1998 death of Marie-Louise Meilleur, she became the oldest recognized person in the world. Following her death, Eva Morris of England became the oldest recognized person in the world.

Knauss was a homemaker and insurance office manager. Her daughter, Kathryn Sullivan, who was 96 at the time of Sarah's death, once explained Knauss' three-digit age by saying:""She's a very tranquil person and nothing fazes her. That's why she's living this long."

In 1995, when asked if she enjoyed her long life, Knauss said matter-of-factly: "I enjoy it because I have my health and I can do things." Her passions were said to be watching golf on television, doing needlepoint, and nibbling on milk chocolate turtles, cashews, and potato chips. "Sarah was an elegant lady and worthy of all the honor and adulation she had received," said Joseph Hess, an Administrator of the Phoebe-Devitt Homes Foundation facility where Knauss died quietly in her room. Officials said that, to their knowledge, she had not been ill.

Knauss lived through seven U.S. wars, the sinking of the RMS Titanic and Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic. She was older than the Brooklyn Bridge and the Statue of Liberty, and was already 88 when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in July 1969.

In addition to her daughter, Knauss was survived by several grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.

At age 116 she was recognized as the United States national longevity recordholder, then thought to be held by Carrie White (1874?-1991). It is now thought that the record should have been held by Lucy Hannah (117 years 248 days) who died in 1993. In any case, Sarah extended the U.S. record to age 119. She lived to see her daughter turn 96. Most scientific circles consider her to be the second-oldest person ever, after Jeanne Calment (the Izumi claim to be 120 being largely bypassed).

She is considered to have been the last living member of the Missionary Generation.

Maximillion J. Pegasus, known as Pegasus J. Crawford (?????J???????) in the original Japanese anime and manga, is a fictional character in the manga and anime series Yu-Gi-Oh!. In the English Yu-Gi-Oh! The Duelists of the Roses video game, and in the instruction booklet for Yu-Gi-Oh! Forbidden Memories, his original name, Pegasus Crawford is used, while in the other games his English anime and manga name is used. Pegasus is unusual in that his English name is used in the English manga while most Yu-Gi-Oh! human characters keep their Japanese names in the English manga. In the video game Yu-Gi-Oh! The Falsebound Kingdom, the character representing Pegasus within the virtual world of the game is named Pegasus J. Kroitzel.

Pegasus, an antagonist, is the Honorary Chairman of Industrial Illusion (I²) and the creator of the game of Duel Monsters (Magic and Wizards in the Japanese manga). Pegasus, an American, possesses the Millennium Eye (throughout the Duelist Kingdom saga), and is to trying take over the Kaiba Corporation for its Solid Vision technology so he can use it to see his deceased love, Cynthia (Cecelia Pegasus in the English anime, who is his wife in the English anime). A possible reason on why the name was changed is because "Cynthia Crawford" resembles "Cindy Crawford". Pegasus plans to use that technology in conjunction with the seven Millennium Items. Using Seto Kaiba's technology with the items' magic is said to be able to give the power of Life over Death and would bring Cindy back to life.

Pegasus first met Cynthia at a party thrown by his businessman father in Las Vegas 14 years ago. He says she died when he was 17. It was unclear whether or not they married in the original Japanese.

After her death, Pegasus searched the world looking for anything that could possibly revive the dead. His quest led him to Egypt where their beliefs of an afterlife intrigued him. There he met Shadi, the ghost of a guardian of the Millennium Items, who gouged Pegasus' left eye out and replaced it with a gold metal one called the Millennium Eye after Pegasus passed its test.

Pegasus soon learned of the ancient Shadow Games that were played in ancient Egypt and began to obsess with their powers. He created a new game in the United States basing a card game on the duels used in the ancient version. Combining the magic of the Millennium Items with these cards had the same effect as using them with the stone slabs originally used. One notable problem he had was with the Egyptian God Cards, whose magical powers were too great for him to manage. Fearing for his life, he returned to Egypt, and had Ishizu Ishtar, a current guardian, bury them in the Pharaoh's tomb.

Pegasus has a habit of calling Yugi Mutou (Yugi Moto in the English anime) "Yugi-boy" and Seto Kaiba "Kaiba-boy" in the English anime and manga. This is assumed because of his childish personality, since he still enjoys cartoons, and even created cartoon monsters.

In the manga, after his Millennium Eye is torn out, he disappears without a trace and is presumed dead.

In the Japanese second series anime, Pegasus is the inspiration for Dungeon Dice Monsters, a game that Ryuji Otogi (Duke Devlin) created. Pegasus' defeat at the hands of Yugi is the reason that Otogi challenges Yugi in both second series anime versions.

In Yu-Gi-Oh! R, Pegasus' k?hai (protégé), Yakou Tenma, takes over Industrial Illusions after Pegasus is defeated.

In the game Yu-Gi-Oh! Reshef of Destruction (Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 8: Reshef of Destruction in Japan), Pegasus takes an alias. In the Japanese version, he takes the name Taiyo Tenma (???? Tenma Taiy?). In the English version, he takes the name Sol Chevalsky.

Notable Dueling Cards

Pegasus is best known for his Toon World card. Other cards in his deck are:

Monster Cards

• Blue Eyes Toon Dragon
• Red Archery Girl
• Toon Mermaid
• Toon Summoned Skull
• Ryu-Ran
• Manga Ryu-Ran
• Toon Dark Magician Girl
• Toon Masked Sorcerer
• Toon Gemini Elf
• Toon Alligator
• Parrot Dragon
• Relinquished
• Thousand-Eyes Idol
• Thousand-Eyes Restrict
• Illusionist Faceless Mage
• Dragon Piper
• Bikuribox

Magic Cards

• Toon Table of Contents
• Toon World
• Shine Palace
• Toon Rollback
• Doppleganger
• Prophecy

Reference

• Kazuki Takahashi (2002). Yu-Gi-Oh! Characters Guide Book - The Gospel of Truth (???????????????????????). Shueisha. ISBN 4-08-873363-0

Het gaat weer goed met de ruimtevaart. Na het bange afwachten op het resultaat van de Discovery-missie is iedereen nu terug hoopvol voor de toekomst. De NASA wist te melden dat de shuttle nog nooit in zo'n goede staat teruggekeerd is van een ruimtereis. Daarnaast is vandaag ook nog een Ariane 5 vertrokken die meteen het record van de lancering van de zwaarste telecommunicatiesatelliet ooit op haar naam mag schrijven. Alleen een Ariane 5 is in staat om zo'n beest van 6,5 ton in een geostationaire baan te krijgen. De Europese en Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisaties beleven hoogdagen!