Council Room Research Articles

Transforming Emergency Education to Accredited School: A Case Study of SMAN 4 Takari

The persistent issue of low education quality in Indonesia has long been a significant challenge. SMAN 4 Takari, originally a filial class of SMAN 2 Takari, officially became independent on July 5, 2021. The primary challenges include inadequate infrastructure and lack of accreditation, impacting the quality of education received by students. This community service activity aims to improve the quality of education at SMAN 4 Takari by enhancing infrastructure, preparing for accreditation, and increasing community and stakeholder involvement. The project employs a descriptive qualitative approach using data collection techniques such as observation, interviews, surveys, and documentation. The process includes initial preparation through the formation of an accreditation committee, task allocation, document collection, infrastructure development, and the accreditation process. The project led to significant improvements in the school's infrastructure, such as the construction of the student council room, health unit room, counseling room, and administrative office. All necessary documents for accreditation were prepared and uploaded to the DIA application in SisPenA. The school successfully obtained accreditation with a score of 79 and a "satisfactory" rating. Additionally, there was an increase in student enrollment from 88 in 2021 to 120 in 2023, reflecting increased community trust in the school. The community service activity has positively impacted SMAN 4 Takari by improving infrastructure, preparing for accreditation, and fostering community collaboration. These improvements have enhanced the quality of education and increased stakeholder confidence. Future efforts should focus on sustainable infrastructure development and continued community engagement to maintain and further improve education quality.

THE INFLUENCE OF LEARNING FACILITIES ON SOCIAL SCIENCE LEARNING ACHIEVEMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

This study aims to describe the effect of learning media on social science learning achievement in elementary schools. The purpose of managing educational facilities and infrastructure is to regulate and maintain educational facilities and infrastructure so that they can provide the best and meaningful contribution to the educational process, especially in the learning of Social Sciences (IPS). This research was conducted at Parang 5 Magetan Public Elementary School, East Java Province. The research uses qualitative research methods with data collectors such as document analysis, literature studies, interviews and observations. The results showed that inadequate facilities and infrastructure also occurred at SDN Parang 5, Magetan Regency, East Java Province, not a problem with access to difficult places, but seen from the condition of the school which only had 6 classrooms, no laboratory space (0), only 1 library room, 0 practice room, 0 leadership room, 0 administration room, 0 counseling room, 0 student council room and 0 prayer room. With the data on infrastructure facilities, it greatly influences social science learning achievement which is still low achievements and resulted in the accreditation of SDN Parang 5 is B.

Pelatihan penyusunan artikel ilmiah bagi guru sekolah dasar di Kecamatan Marpoyan Damai Pekanbaru

This activity is motivated by the lack of understanding and ability of elementary school teachers in the preparation of scientific articles. Many teachers are still reluctant to publish research results on the grounds that they do not understand the guidelines for preparing scientific articles. This is what underlies the need to carry out this service activity with the aim of helping elementary school teachers in compiling scientific articles so that later teachers can publish articles that have been made in journals or mass media. Community service activities were carried out in January 2020 at the SDN 193 Pekanbaru teacher council room. The method used is divided into two stages, namely the delivery of material and assistance for teachers who want to compile scientific articles according to their reports. With this service activity, it can provide new concepts of knowledge for teachers so that they can compile scientific articles, especially from the results of research that has been done.

Canada and the OAS: the Vacant Chair Revisited

Two basic questions are examined: first, why has the CANADA chair in the Council's room of the OAS remained unoccupied since 1910, and, second, should Canada occupy that chair. The answer to the first question lies in Canada's perception of itself as a north Atlantic country, belonging more to Europe than to the Americas. On the second question, the author's opinion is that Canada should take its seat in the OAS, in order to better promote stability in the hemisphere through peaceful solutions of the economic and social problems, which are at the basis of the unrest in the region.

Acoustic Measurements and Correction of a Council Room

This paper presents the acoustic correction of a Council Room, with an original reverberation time of 1.0 kHz higher than 3.0 seconds and marble floors walls and ceiling in plaster smooth. The work was conducted in four phases: the first was the measurement of acoustic characteristics with the empty hall; the second phase was the identification of the soundproof material for the acoustic correction and the measurement of the absorption coefficients with the tube of “Kundt”; the third phase was the implementation of a numerical model with the software “Odeon” to choose the position of absorbent material and of the plaster surface to be coated; the latest phase, after the installation of soundproof panels, was the acoustic measurement to verify if the results of the acoustic measurements are equal to those one of the numerical model.

'So exactly what does a Vice-Dean do?'

The election is over. You have survived the counting of the ballot papers in the Council room and the accompanying tachycardia, the congratulatory handshakes and the train journey home knowing that you have a new title and role in the Faculty. You are feeling mellow and excited at the same time as you enter the front door and then comes the killer question from one of the children – 'So exactly what does a Vice-Dean do?'

Franz Anton Maulbertsch als Chronist? Allegorie und Zeitgeschehen im Fresko der Verleihung des St. Stephansordens

The ceiling fresco commemorating the awarding of the St. Stephan's Order in 1764 by Maria Theresia was painted by Maulbertsch probably in 1768/68 in the Council's room of the Vienna Hungarian Chancellary, and can be compared with the rather documentative charachter of the pictorial representation of the same event by the Meytens-workshop in Schönbrunn (1768). Maulbertsch’ allegorical representation clearly corresponds to the aims of its commisioner, Chacelor Count Franz Esterházy.

Jan van der Heyden's urban prose*

Jan van der Heyden's urban prose*

Memoir of Leo Baeck College

I entered Leo Baeck College in September 1979 as 50 percent of the Class of 1984; my co-student was William Wolff. It would be hard to conceive of two less similar people, yet we hit it off like a house on fire and remained close mates throughout our College years. I came from an academic background; my general Jewish knowledge was almost nil, but I'd already mastered Biblical Hebrew. Willie, a tabloid journalist, was steeped in Yiddishkeit but couldn't differentiate between a s h va na ' and a s h va nach. Our lecturers that first year must have been in hysterics over us. In those days, as now, entry to the College was by interview. But what an interview! It was divided into three parts: a general discussion with the full College Board, a psychological assessment and a financial review. The College was then housed in the schoolrooms of the West London Synagogue. The interview with the full Board was held in the Council Room of WLS. We were surrounded by portraits of the good and the great who had ruled over WLS for several decades. Despite the somber setting, I've rarely, if ever, attended such a nonchalant interview. Most of the time I sat bemused, listening to the rabbis on the Board debating an abstruse point of theology that had been unearthed by my innocent reply to some question or other. When Jonathan Magonet asked me why I wanted to become a rabbi, I said that I'd received a great deal from my Judaism as a child and adolescent, and I wanted to give something back to the community. Evidently, this was sufficient back then to get me into the course. My psychological assessment was with Wendy Greengross. Knowing that I'd come from several years as a lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Bristol, Wendy pointed to the pock-marked and graffiti-covered school desk between us and asked me whether I would honestly consider leaving the University, with all its wonderful facilities, for this (I recall that her voice italicised the word 'this'). I'm sure that my affirmative answer was evidence of

My Student Years at Leo Baeck College

I entered the Leo Baeck College in October 1959 and completed my studies there in June 1965. In those days the college had few students and was initially housed in the old council room of the West London Synagogue atop the main entrance in Upper Berkeley Street. In 1963 the building on the corner of Upper Berkeley Street and Seymour Place was demolished and in its place was erected a new building for the Leo Baeck College which also doubled as a venue for the West London Synagogue Religion School. In the late 50s the faculty was almost entirely made up of refugees from Nazism, many of them graduates of the Hochschule fuer die Wissenschaft des Judentums , the great Berlin seminary founded in 1 872 by Abraham Geiger and closed in 1942 by the Nazis. An exception was Rabbi Dr Alan Miller, a young and dynamic British born graduate of Jews College and Oxford University, who taught history and Modern Hebrew literature. In 1961 two other British born scholars joined the faculty, Raphael Loewe, who also taught at University College and David Patterson, Cowley lecturer in post-Biblical Hebrew at Oxford. By this time Alan Miller had left for New York to take up the prestigious post of Rabbi at the Society for the Advancement of Judaism. David Patterson took over the teaching of Modern Hebrew literature and Raphael Loewe taught us Midrash. Raphael Loewe, though an Ashkenazi, was Parnas Presidente of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in Maida Vale. He was later appointed Professor of Hebrew Studies at University College. David Patterson was to later found the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. An expert on Avraham Mapu (the first Hebrew novelist) Patterson also taught us the poetry of Bialik and the prose of Agnon. He was probably the most self-effacing of our teachers. Rabbi Dr Israel Otto Lehman, former curator of Hebrew documents at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, taught us liturgy and Mediaeval Jewish philosophy. He also offered to teach Arabic but was persuaded by the college authorities not to do so. (Arabic had been a part of the Hochschule curriculum.) Dr Lehman

A Escola Médica do Campo Santana.

The Medical School of Campo Santana was built on the site where the bullring once stood. It replaced the Medical-Surgical School of Lisbon, in the vicinity of S. José Hospital, which was in a state of impending ruin. Despite this concern, construction was slow and only twenty years after laying the first stone was it possible to begin lectures in this new building. It is a majestic edifice with contributions by the best artists of the era: panels by Veloso Salgado in the Actos Room, tiles by Jorge Colaço in Passos Perdidos, and paintings by Colombano in the Council Room. Reference is made to some historical events which took place in this building. With the transfer of medical studies to Santa Marta Hospital, the Medical School of Campo Santana suffered a period of neglect which ended with the founding of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Lisbon in 1977.

The Republican Regime of the "Room of Peace" in Siena, 1338-40

IN THE DIVINE COMEDY a woman traditionally identified as Pia de' Tolomei declares, mi fe',-Siena made me (Purgatorio 5.134). The city, preempting nature and family, calls character into being and establishes her identity. But this Siena capable of making citizens was also made up of their individual differences and riven by social and political conflict. How could ideal of civic unity be legitimated and reconciled with fact of insistently particular identities and interests? This was a crucial question for all city-republics of medieval Italy, but Sienese response was played out in a series of artifacts that contend with high tensions of a republican culture. In this essay I want to show how these tensions come to light, if not to rest, in fresco cycle painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti in Room of Peace, Sala dei Nove or meeting hall of Nine, chief citizens' council of Sienese republic between 1287 and 1355 (figs. 1-4). The Nine Governors and Defenders of Commune and People of Siena were selected two months from class of citizens who qualified as the middling sort according to statute but who belonged for most part to upper middle ranks of bankers, longdistance traders, and manufacturers in a population of around fifty thousand. Although they were entitled by their oath of office to use every possible means for the conservation, augmentation, and magnificence of present regime, these citizen-officials usually exercised their authority within a system of interlocking councils that depended on participation of hundreds of citizens and reflected divisive topography of hilltown and a fractious society of rival families, neighborhoods, factions, and economic interests.' In commissioning Lorenzetti to paint their meeting room in town hall-the few surviving records of payments point to period between 1338 and 1340-the Nine were acting on an established policy that had already transformed Siena into a showplace of public art centered on great piazza of Campo. Since thirteenth century Sienese artists had been called upon to paint political icons of Virgin; they had lined major council room adjacent to chambers of Nine with paintings of Sienese conquests, decorated chests for official papers and covers of books of public records, and portrayed civic officials in illuminated manuscripts.

Aslib Computer Applications Group: Circulation Working Party. Symposium on Computer‐Aided Circulation Systems. Aslib, 20 October 1970

Continuing the pattern set by the two symposia already organised by Automated Library Systems Ltd., this symposium presented up‐to‐date reports of a number of British computer‐aided circulation systems. About fifty delegates were present, and the number of applicants who were unable to be accomodated in Aslib's Council Room has led the Circulation Working Party to plan for a repeat symposium with a slightly different programme which will be held at Aslib on Monday 22 March 1971.

Centro cívico de Dunstable Inglaterra

This civic centre has two storeys: — The ground floor provides room for a vestibule, cloakroom, the management office, washroom for the public, the large elliptic hall and access to the stalls, dressing room for the actors, and a kitchen in communication with the restaurant situated on the higher level; — The second storey comprises a hall and bar, council room, restaurant, additional dressing rooms for actors, storage room for dresses and other performance paraphernalia, and the room for the cinematographic projectors. This civic centre has many useful functions, such as exhibitions, banquets, dress balls, theatrical performances, etc. The elliptical hall accommodates 750 seated spectators.

Dos edificios administrativos, en San Francisco

The Crown Zellerbach has been built on a large triangular plaza, at the outskirts of San Francisco. This is one of the most recent tall buildings in the city. The Wells Fargo Bank is also situated on this plaza. It is of special interest, both as regards its shape and functional organisation. It has a ground floor, where most of the mercantile activities take place, and a basement, containing a Council room; the strong rooms, with 2,500 private boxes as well as the bank's own safe; washing rooms; mechanical equipment rooms; a rest room; a bar for the employees and independent stairs. The building has a circular planform, 21.5 m in diameter and 354 m 2 in area. The structure is metallic, the vertical supports are along the periphery, spaced every 1.626 m. The enclosing curtain walls are glass and anodized aluminium. The roof has radially distributed metal beams, interconnected by prefabricated concrete units, covered with copper sheeting. This bank, shaped like a hunting lodge, and finished with delicate care, contrasts sharply with the powerful volume of the Crown Zellerbach, and of other nearby buildings, and adds distinction to the plaza.

Edificio del trust Harris y banco Savings

This large Chicago project consists of three structures: a new 23 storey block containing the bank and other offices; the central building, with 20 floor levels, recently adapted to present day requirements, and an old garage,' also reconstructed and utilised by the bank. The new building has two distinct functional zones: the lower part, occupied by the bank; and the top 10 storeys which are let as office space. Between the two zones, floor levels 11 and 12 are devoted to general services and installations. On floor 23 the director has his office, and there is also space for a council room and a dining hall for guests. Externally the building is in the form of interesting and contrasting planes and volumes. This gives it a more expansive aspect, which is most necessary owing to the closely built area where it is situated, and enhances an impression of vitality and positive interaction between its structural elements. As a whole this building constitutes a satisfactory solution of the problem of adding a new building to two other already existent ones, so that the character of the latter is maintained, although new techniques are adopted. This project is also noteworthy because of its proportions, elegance and right choice of materials and colour.

The Portraits in the Council Room of the Royal Society of Medicine

The Portraits in the Council Room of the Royal Society of Medicine

Reception to mark the tercentenary of the granting of the Society’s first Charter

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother honoured the Society with her presence at the special reception held on Tuesday, 17 July, to celebrate the tercentenary of the granting of the Society’s first Charter. On this occasion some 350 Fellows and their Ladies attended. The Journal Book, the First and Second Charters, the Mace, the Charter Book and the silver handbell, presented by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in i960, were all displayed in the Council Room . There were also the following seven exhibits chosen for their general interest. Dr I. G. Gass, leader of the Royal Society’s Expedition to Tristan da Cunha in January 1962, arranged an exhibit which included a relief model o f the island, and was illustrated with several interesting photographs and geographical specimens. A prototype version of the Ariel I Artificial Earth Satellite was shown by Mr M. O. Robins. The exhibit arranged by Sir John Baker, F.R.S., on the plastic design of steel structures included some of his models illustrating the elastic behaviour of such structures. An exhibit of the evolution of the optical microscope was shown by John R . Baker, F.R.S., and this included many examples of early eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-centurv instruments.

ASLIB PROCEEDINGS

Following a meeting of Aslib Council on Wednesday 13th December, a sherry party will be held in the Council Room for the purpose of giving members an opportunity to meet the Council. Members wishing to attend must let Aslib know in advance. A charge of 7s 6d per person will be made.

Congratulatory Addresses presented to the Royal Society on the occasion of its Tercentenary

The President and Officers of the Society received over 300 congratulatory Addresses, from Academies, other learned Societies, Universities and International Scientific Organizations. The representatives attending the Celebrations presented these addresses to the Officers in the Council Room of the Society on Monday 18 July 1960. Many of the addresses were beautifully inscribed, some on parchment and other skins, some on silk, and all showed clearly the bond which exists between the Royal Society and other learned institutions and universities from all over the world. The Society wishes to record its deep-felt gratitude for this demonstration of good will.