833 research outputs found
Peter Kean to Susan Niemcewicz, January 29, 1808
No full textPeter Kean wrote from Albany, New York to Susan Niemcewicz in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. After Peter wrote to Susan that morning, Mr. Barber visited and gave him a letter from Susan enclosing $15 for which Peter returned his sincere thanks. Col. Rutgers was not planning on visiting Albany that winter. The piece signed “Thousands of the People” was written by Mr. Bears of Albany. Peter was unsure of the author who signed a piece “An American.” He continued to discuss the study of law in the Western Country. Peter had not seen Miss Jay except at church for a week.
People mentioned: Mr. Barber, Mr. Bears, Mr. Henry, Mr. Westerlo, Col. Troup, and Sarah Louisa Jay (1792-1818).https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1800s/1473/thumbnail.jp
books piece on a reading by Jay Cantor, author of Great Neck, which is being
No full textbooks piece on a reading by Jay Cantor, author of Great Neck, which is being presented at the Portland Public Library, April 30
Peter Kean to Susan Niemcewicz August 9, 1809
No full textPeter Kean wrote from Albany, New York to Susan Niemcewicz in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. After a most charming ride with Mrs. Banyer, Mr. Ridley, Sally Jay, and Susan Livingston, Susan’s letter together with Papa’s arrived as if to crown the happiness of the day. Thanked Susan for the assurances and good advice. It was important to Peter to know Susan’s reasons for him not reposing confidence in Mrs. Bz. As the confidence originated on the part of Sally Jay and she said she would consult her on the subject. Mrs. B. had in a measure become the only organ by which Peter could discover Sally’s thoughts as it respected the object he most earnestly desired to obtain. Peter discovered no change of sentiments and relied upon the bounty and goodness of God. Susan said she was reading Seneca and Peter claimed that while he was a charming and beautiful author, he was a pagan and not too fit a source to derive the precepts of true wisdom. Tom Grimké passed through Albany on his way to Balltown and informed Peter that he left his father’s family well and that Colonel Shubrick had not yet commenced the suit, neither had anything been done by Mr. B about the Paris Island Land.
People mentioned: Mrs. Banyer, Mr. Ridley, Sarah Louisa Jay (1792-1818), Susan Livingston, Mrs. B., Thomas Smith Grimké (1786-1834), and Colonel Shubrick.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1800s/1493/thumbnail.jp
1952 Jay-Cee-An BJC -- Page 20
No full textPhotographs of BJC freshmenL to R: Doug Barker, Carole La-
France, Lois LaFave, Bette Kautz-man,
Dallas Krause, Bill Kittler.
L to R: Alan Heath, Tipper Hirt,
Patty Hook, Alice Hunter, Jean
Irvine.
L to R: Arlene Hintz, Shirley Gal-lagher,
Carole Johanneson, Lois
James.
L to R: Jack Hall, Shirley Gifford,
Irene Janke, Peter Mosbrucker.
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Analytical and simulation performance modelling of indoor infrared wireless data communications protocols
No full textThe Infrared (IR) optical medium provides an alternative to radio frequencies (RF) for low cost, low power and short-range indoor wireless data communications. Low-cost
optoelectronic components with an unregulated IR spectrum provide the potential for very high-speed wireless communication with good security. However IR links have a
limited range and are susceptible to high noise levels from ambient light sources. The Infrared Data Association (IrDA) has produced a set of communication protocol standards (IrDA I. x) for directed point-to-point IR wireless links using a HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) based data link layer which have been widely adopted. To address the requirement for multi-point ad-hoc wireless connectivity, IrDA have produced a new standard (Advanced Infrared -AIr) to support multiple-device non-directed IR Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). AIr employs an enhanced physical layer and a CSMA/CA (Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Avoidance) based MAC (Media Access Control) layer employing RTS/CTS (Request To Send / Clear To Send) media reservation. This thesis is concerned with the design of IrDA based IR wireless links at the datalink layer, media access sub-layer, and physical layer and presents protocol performance models with the aim of highlighting the critical factors affecting performance and providing recommendations to system designers for parameter settings and protocol enhancements to optimise performance. An analytical model of the IrDA 1.x data link layer (IrLAP Infrared Link Access -Protocol) using Markov analysis of the transmission window width providing saturation
condition throughput in relation to the link bit-error-rate (BER), datarate andprotocol parameter settings is presented. Results are presented for simultaneous optimisation of the data packetsize and transmission window size. A simulation model of the IrDA l. x protocol, developed with OPNETTM Modeler, is used for validation of analytical results and to produce non-saturation throughput and delay performance results. An analytical model of the AIr MAC protocol providing saturation condition utilisation
and delay results in relation to the number of contending devices and MAC protocol parametersis presented.Results indicate contention window size values for optimum
utilisation. The effectiveness of the AIr contention window linear back-off process is examined through Markov analysis. An OPNET simulation model of the Alf protocol is
used for validation of the analytical model results and provides non-reservation throughput and delay results. An analytical model of the IR link physical layer is presented and derives expressions for signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and BER in relation to link transmitter and receiver
characteristics, link geometry, noise levels and line encoding schemes. The effect of third user interference on BER and resulting link asymmetry is also examined, indicating the minimum separation distance for adjacent links. Expressions for BER are linked to the data link layer analysis to provide optimum throughput results in relation to physical layer propertiesandlink distance
Framing audience prefigurations of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: The roles of fandom, politics and idealised intertexts
No full textAudiences for blockbuster event-film sequels and adaptations often formulate highly developed expectations, motivations, understandings and opinions well before the films are released. A range of intertextual and paratextual influences inform these audience prefigurations, and are believed to frame subsequent audience engagement and response. In our study of prefigurative engagements with Peter Jackson’s 2012 film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, we used Q methodology to identify five distinct subjective orientations within the film’s global audience. As this paper illustrates, each group privileges a different set of extratextual referents – notably J.R.R. Tolkien’s original novels, Peter Jackson’s The Lord of The Rings film trilogy, highly localised political debates relating to the film’s production, and the previous associations of the film’s various stars. These interpretive frames, we suggest, competed for ascendancy within public and private discourse in the lead up to The Hobbit’s international debut, effectively fragmenting and indeed polarising the film’s prospective global audience
Piecing together modular : understanding the benefits and limitations of modular construction methods for multifamily development
No full textThesis (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaves [100]-107).The primary purpose of this thesis is to explain the benefits and limitations of modular construction as it pertains to primarily wood-frame, multifamily housing in the United States. This thesis attempts to educate the consumer/builder/developer about what the modular construction process entails from beginning to end. Long term demographic trends point to a steady and increasing need for housing production. Decreasing development yields and increasing construction costs and regulations are making it more difficult for the market to meet this need. It is the authors' goal that the knowledge contained in this thesis helps to introduce developers to the basic issues involved in this relatively underutilized but potentially beneficial process.by Peter J. Cameron, Jr. and Nadia G. Di Carlo.S.M.in Real Estate Developmen
1974 Jay-Cee-An BJC--Page 116
No full textPhotographs of BJC studentsAarthun, Jean
Abrams, Lonnie
Adams, Dorothy
Adamyk, Jon
Adamyk, Karen
Akers, Diane
Albrecht, Gary
Albrecht, Wayne
Andersen, Kathryn
Anderson, Darrell
Anderson, Debra
Anderson, Eri c
Anderson, Gary
Anderson, Jolene
Anderson, Lynnell
Anderson, Marla
Anderson, Pamela
Anderson, Peter
Andre, Arlene
Andrews, Patri cia
Armentrout, Ralph
Armstrong, Clara
Atkinson, Timothy
Austad, Melody
Bachmeier, steven
Backman, Curt
Bahmiller, Gary
Baisch, Mark
Baker, Francis
Baker, Rex
Balfour, Robert
Barker, Jon
Barnhardt, Terrence
Barta, Richard
Bartkowski, Kay
Barton, David
Bashus, Edward
Bashus, Jeffrey
Bateman, Rocklin
Bauer, Wayne
Baumann, Paul
Baumstarc k, Leo
Beastrom, Dave
Becher, Robert
Bechtold, Don
Becker, Constance
Beckler, Theresa
Burch, Melvin
Beer, Katherine
Beierle, Richard
Bekkerus, Marilyn
Bell, Adolph
Beneke, Janelle
Bentz, Kathie
Benzinger, Vivian
Berg, Darw in
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Postwar Englishness in the fiction of Pat Barker, Graham Swift and Adam Thorpe
No full textThe widely-recognised crisis of Englishness in the 1980s and 1990s has generally been explained as a response to the end of empire. If the place of memories of the
First and Second World Wars in this crisis has been considered at all, these have generally been assumed to support a nostalgic version of English or British national
identity. Taking three contemporary British novelists-Graham Swift, Pat Barker and Adam Thorpe-as examples, however, this thesis argues that the late-twentiethcentury
memory of these conflicts is strikingly ambivalent, and that the contemporary crisis of Englishness must be understood not only as postcolonial, but also, in a
strong sense, as postwar.
The Introduction sets out the parameters of critical discussion of latetwentieth-century Englishness to date and explains my use of the term 'postwar', as marking the continuing cultural legacy of the world wars, and the process of interrogative re-reading of that legacy undertaken in the contemporary fiction I discuss. It also challenges the assumption that 'nostalgia' and a 'healthy' attitude to the past can necessarily be easily distinguished, through a discussion of postFreudian
psychoanalytic approaches to mourning and melancholia. Chapter One considers three writers of the early to mid-twentieth century, Siegfried Sassoon, J. B.Priestley, and Elizabeth Bowen, in order to suggest the nature of the questions about Englishness, war and violence which re-emerge with the breakdown of Britain's postwar social and political consensus from the mid-1970s onward. Chapter Two
then discusses Graham Swift's early novels, The Sweet Shop Owner, Shuttlecock and Waterland, arguing that critical attention to his metafictional concerns in Waterland
has meant that his interest in suburban English life as encrypting memories of war has been overlooked. Chapter Three proceeds to Pat Barker's The Regeneration Trilogy, charting a two-way process of haunting through which contemporary concerns with violence are read back into the historical and literary record of the First World War, and simultaneously seem to re-emerge in the present as the return of the violence underpinning a melancholic cultural attachment to the very English narrative of 'doomed youth'. My discussion in Chapter Four of Adam Thorpe's novels Ulverton, Still and Pieces of Light emphasises their exploration of the violence at the heart of the 'deep England' evoked in heritage representations of Englishness. I suggest, however, that Thorpe's attempts to find appropriate fictional forms for ambivalence and melancholia are at times closer to paralysed repetitions than to interrogations of Englishness. My argument concludes with a reading of Swift's Last Orders, which I contend enacts the beginnings of a movement beyond the wartime end of a certain England and Englishness. Its misreading by critics as parochial and nostalgic, I suggest, indicates the extent of critical misunderstanding of the troubled memory of the world wars in contemporary Britain. It also testifies to
the difficulty and the necessity of the creative and critical work on postwar Englishness undertaken by the writers considered in this study
Interview of L.W. Jay, February 21, 2010
No full textThis is a recording of a woman interviewing L.W. Jay who worked in the Atlanta Rome district. He states he started working for the church in 1958 or 1959, and was appointed as minister of Butler Street in the 1960s, and was appointed by Peter Randolph Shy. He talks about how during his tenure, churches moved, sold and were built depending on the congregation, and the culture of the different churches. He lists the churches that were under his direction, and how some other churches suffered financial problems and pulled out of districts. He talks about situations happening in the different churches, mainly from the Hosley Temple and Mount Sinai churches.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
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