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"Beryl Rawson (née Wilkinson; 24 July 1933 – 22 October 2010) was an Australian academic. She was Professor and Visiting Fellow in Classics at the Faculty of Arts of the Australian National University (ANU). Her work "made ANU a significant centre for classical studies". Early life and education Rawson was born in Innisfail, Queensland, and grew up in a small town nearby where her father was the schoolteacher. She won a full state government scholarship to the University of Queensland, where she excelled in classics and graduated with first-class honours. She accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States and completed a doctorate at Bryn Mawr College, under Lily Ross Taylor. Academia Her career at the Australian National University began in 1964, when she was appointed senior lecturer in Classics. She served as Dean of the Faculty of the Arts from 1981–86 and in 1989 was appointed Professor of Classics, retiring in 1998. As well as her academic duties, Rawson won five research grants between 1979 and 1991 and served on the Australian Vice- Chancellors' Committee and the Australian Research Council. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2006. The administrative offices of the College of Arts and Social Sciences at ANU was named after her following her death. On 13 December 2010, Vice-Chancellor of ANU, Professor Ian Chubb officially recognised the naming of the Beryl Rawson Building in her honour. Publications In the late 1970s she began using computers to analyse "the mass of funerary inscriptions commemorating slaves and freedmen, their spouses and children" and to better understand the lives of the lower classes in the early Roman Empire. She organised a number of conferences in Canberra on the Roman family (1981, 1988, 1994) and published collected papers resulting from these which included her own contributions, such as Children and childhood in Roman Italy (2003) and A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds (2010). Personal life Rawson's first marriage was to political scientist Don Rawson, the son of politician Roy Rawson. They later divorced and she remarried in 1983 to historian A. W. Martin. She was widowed in 2002. References 1933 births 2010 deaths Australian classical scholars Women classical scholars People from Innisfail, Queensland University of Queensland alumni Scholars of Roman history Australian women historians Australian National University faculty 20th-century Australian historians 21st-century Australian historians Fellows of the Australian Academy of the Humanities 21st- century Australian women writers 20th-century Australian women writers Bryn Mawr College alumni "
"Pier Luigi Loro Piana (born December 1951) is an Italian billionaire businessman. Early life He was born in Milan, Italy, the son of Franco Loro Piana. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Bocconi University in Milan. Career In 2013, Pier Luigi Loro Piana and his late brother Sergio sold an 80% stake in the Loro Piana fashion company to the French billionaire Bernard Arnault's LVMH for US$2.6 billion. Pier Luigi owns an estimated 10% stake in the Loro Piana company. Personal life He is married with three children, and lives in Milan, Italy. He hosts the annual Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta, and had a 130-foot yacht, My Song, which was the fourth incarnation of this boat. My Song was lost in a shipping accident while en route from the Caribbean to the Balearic Islands in late May 2019. According to information collected in a luxurious hotel in Positano (that he visits since 2006)https://www.positanonews.it/2006/05/positano-loro-piana-al- san-pietro/82795/ , he replaced his superyacht with a Maxi Dolphin 51 ft. References 1951 births Italian billionaires Italian businesspeople Living people People from Milan "
"Two-story structure in Banda Aceh following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami Vertical and horizontal evacuation are strategies for providing safety to humans in case of tsunami, hurricane or other natural disaster. Vertical evacuation Ocosta Elementary School in Westport, Washington, designed for vertical evacuation from tsunami hazard In areas where horizontal evacuation to higher ground is impossible, vertical evacuation to higher areas of a structure may be a way to shelter individuals from the surge of water, several meters high, that can follow an earthquake in coastal areas. In the United States The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency published design guidelines for vertical evacuation structures in 2008. According to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, serious discussions about vertical evacuation began in the United States following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The American Society of Civil Engineers adopted an updated edition of its building standards in September 2016, including tsunami hazards for the first time. The first vertical evacuation site in the United States was Ocosta Elementary School, constructed in 2015–2016 on the Pacific Ocean coast in Westport, Washington, where a Cascadia subduction zone magnitude 9+ earthquake is expected to cause great tsunamis. Horizontal evacuation Signage in Thailand for horizontal evacuation from tsunami An alternative to vertical evacuation is horizontal evacuation, for instance a hurricane evacuation route. Critics of vertical evacuation planning have charged it with justifying even greater human density in areas prone to disaster, and prefer low density growth with horizontal evacuation planning. See also *Emergency shelter * References Bibliography Further reading * Emergency management Earthquake and seismic risk mitigation "