758 research outputs found
Golfer Ben Hogan with the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, 1953
No full textGolfer Ben Hogan with the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, at the Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, 1953, b&w.https://mds.marshall.edu/bliss_enslow_add/1072/thumbnail.jp
On Feeling Torn About One’s Sexuality
No full textThree studies offer novel evidence addressing the consequences of explicit–implicit sexual orientation (SO) ambivalence. In Study 1, self-identified straight females completed explicit and implicit measures of SO. The results revealed that participants with greater SO ambivalence took longer responding to explicit questions about their sexual preferences, an effect moderated by the direction of ambivalence. Study 2 replicated this effect using a different paradigm. Study 3 included self-identified straight and gay female and male participants; participants completed explicit and implicit measures of SO, plus measures of self-esteem and affect regarding their SO. Among straight participants, the response time results replicated the findings of Studies 1 and 2. Among gay participants, trends suggested that SO ambivalence influenced time spent deliberating on explicit questions relevant to sexuality, but in a different way. Furthermore, the amount and direction of SO ambivalence was related to self-esteem
On feeling torn about one’s sexuality: the effects of explicit-implicit sexual orientation ambivalence
No full textThis research addressed the consequences of explicit-implicit sexual orientation (SO) ambivalence in samples of straight- and gay-identified individuals. Study 1
revealed worse psychological health among straight-identified individuals with greater SO ambivalence. Further, greater SO ambivalence was linked with negative
self-identity, an effect moderated by the direction of ambivalence. Given these negative psychological effects, the research aimed to investigate how individuals
resolved their ambivalence via the processing of relevant information. In Studies 1 and 2 straight-identified individuals with greater SO ambivalence took longer to
respond to direct questions on sexuality, an effect moderated by the direction of ambivalence. In an additional sample of straight-identified individuals, Study 3 confirmed the robustness of these effects by replicating the same pattern of findings using an established measure of systematic processing, thought
elaboration. Study 3 also demonstrated the impact of anti-gay attitudes on the processing of information relevant to SO.
In samples of gay-identified individuals, Studies 4 and 5 demonstrated that individual differences in SO ambivalence also impacted the processing of direct
questions on sexuality, but in ways that differed to straight-identified individuals. Individual differences in SO ambivalence also related to well-being, stigma, and
out-group discrimination. Additionally, for gay-identified individuals, the research considered implications of discrepant explicit-implicit evaluations towards one’s SO. Discrepant explicit-implicit evaluations of SO related to discrepant self-esteem
and smaller actual-ideal discrepancies. Further, a number of negative outcomes were observed when gay-identified individuals reported being positive towards
their SO whilst being somewhat more negative towards it on the implicit measure. Study 6 examined wider implications of SO ambivalence in a further sample
of straight-identified individuals. The findings showed that information relevant to SO ambivalence is communicated non-verbally, and that the experience of SO
ambivalence moderates the ability to detect such information
Occupation-specific suicide risk in England:2011-2015
No full textBackground: Previous research has documented marked occupational differences in suicide risk, but these estimates are 10 years out-of-date and were based on potentially biased assessments of risk. Aims: To investigate occupation-specific suicide mortality risk in England 2011-2015.Method: Estimation of indirectly standardized mortality rates for occupations and occupational groups based on national (Office for National Statistics) data for England. Results: Among males the highest risks were seen in low-skilled occupations, particularly construction workers (SMR 369, 95% CI 333-409); low skilled workers comprised 17% (1,784/10,688) of all male suicides. High risks were also seen among call and contact centre workers (SMR 290, CI 204-399); there was no evidence of increased risk among some occupations previously causing concern - male health care professionals and farmers. Among females the highest risks were seen in artists (SMR, 399 CI 244-616) and bar staff (SMR 182, CI 123-260); nurses also had an increased risk (SMR 123, CI 104-145). People in creative occupations and the entertainment industry: artists (males and females), musicians (males) and actors (males) were all at increased risk, though the absolute numbers of deaths in these occupations were low. In both males (SMR 192, CI 165-221) and females (SMR 170, CI 149-194), care workers were at increased risk and experienced a considerable number of suicide deaths. Conclusions: Specific contributors to suicide in high-risk occupations should be identified and measures, such as workplace-based interventions put in place to mitigate this risk. The construction industry seems to be an important target for preventive interventions.Declaration of interest: Non
L’évolution de la partie VII de la loi sur les langues officielles : un objectif ambitieux à la recherche de moyens efficaces
No full textSince its adoption in 1988, Part VII of the Official Languages Act has given rise to both hope and disappointment. Too broadly worded, the first version was declared non-justiciable by the courts. The second, though more precisely drafted, was also deprived of concrete effect, before the Federal Court of Appeal intervened in 2022 in the FFCB matter to set the record straight. This article takes stock of the progress made to date and seeks to identify in greater detail the questions still awaiting a clear answer in positive law. First, the author addresses the question of the justiciability of Part VII, which has been the subject of a lengthy debate and back-and-forth between the courts and the legislature, in order to summarize the current state of the law. Next, the author analyzes the duty to consult recognized in FFCB, as well as the precondition that triggers its application, namely the fact of contemplating a decision likely to have an effect on the “vitality” or “development” of a “French or English linguistic minority,” a criterion whose scope remains nebulous given that the terms in question have still not been clearly defined by case law. Drawing on cases dealing with related issues, on the parliamentary work preceding the amendments to Part VII, and on sociolinguistic research, the author makes assumptions about the nature and scope of the protected interests.Depuis son adoption en 1988, la Partie VII de la Loi sur les langues officielles suscite autant d’espoirs que de déceptions. Formulée de façon trop générale, la première version sera déclarée non justiciable par les tribunaux. La deuxième, pourtant formulée de façon plus précise, sera elle aussi privée d’effet concret, avant que la Cour d’appel fédérale n’intervienne en 2022 dans l’arrêt FFCB pour remettre les pendules à l’heure. Le présent article propose un bilan des progrès réalisés jusqu’à aujourd’hui et cherche à cerner plus en détail les questions qui attendent toujours une réponse claire en droit positif. Dans un premier temps, l’auteur aborde la question de la justiciabilité de la Partie VII, qui a fait l’objet d’un long débat et qui a donné lieu à un certain va-et-vient entre les tribunaux et le législateur, afin de résumer l’état du droit actuel. Ensuite, l’auteur analyse l’obligation de consulter reconnue par l’arrêt FFCB, ainsi que la condition préalable qui en déclenche l’application, soit le fait d’envisager la prise d’une décision susceptible d’avoir un effet sur l’« épanouissement » ou le « développement » d’une « minorité francophone ou anglophone », critère dont la portée demeure nébuleuse vu que les termes en question n’ont toujours pas été définis de façon claire par la jurisprudence. En s’appuyant sur des arrêts traitant de questions connexes, sur les travaux parlementaires précédant les modifications apportées à la Partie VII et sur les recherches en sociolinguistique, l’auteur esquisse une hypothèse quant à la nature et la portée des intérêts protégés.  
Storm Water Management Prioritization for the Watershed of Lake Windsor Minnetonka, MN
No full textReport and presentation completed by students enrolled in CE 5511: Urban Hydrology and Land Development, taught by Dr. John Gulliver in spring 2013.This project was completed as part of the 2012-2013 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Minnetonka. To improve water quality in Lake Windsor, Minnetonka project lead and water resources engineer Liz Stout collaborated with students in CE 5511: Urban Hydrology and Land Development, to assess potential best management practices. Based on their analysis, the students recommended increased street sweeping and retrofitting existing stormwater infrastructure to reduce nutrients and suspended solids entering the lake. The students' final report and presentation are available.This project was supported by the Resilient Communities Project (RCP), a program at the University of Minnesota whose mission is to connect communities in Minnesota with U of MN faculty and students to advance local sustainability and resilience through collaborative, course-based projects. RCP is a program of the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA). More information at http://www.rcp.umn.edu.Vogel, Eric; Ebrahimian, Ali; Sudman, Zach; Gaard, Ben. (2013). Storm Water Management Prioritization for the Watershed of Lake Windsor Minnetonka, MN. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/185370
The Merry The Wives of Windsor
No full text"What, have I scaped love-letters in the holiday -time of my beauty..." -Mistress Page[p]Queen Elizabeth herself is said to have requested the return of Falstaff to the Bard's stage...supposedly she wanted to see him in love. What Shakespeare gave Her Majesty instead was Falstaff's attempt to recoup his fortunes by seducing two respectable wives of affluent Windsor husbands.[p]This most amiable play, depicts the sturdy middle class, rarely found among Shakespeare's milieu of aristocrats. Starring Ben Kingsley, known for his academy award performance in Ghandi, here as a jealous husband. Richard Griffiths is Falstaff.[p
Effectuating Change: A Tool Box of Strategies for Reducing the Unnecessary Use of Administrative Court Orders
No full textThis article is a sequel to Correctional Afterthought, in which the author argued that Gladue’s promise of reducing Indigenous over-incarceration by employing non-custodial measures has been thwarted. By insisting on alternatives to incarceration, the justice system is forced to rely on administrative court orders managed by provincial probation services. The judiciary and justice system participants possess a misplaced faith in the probationary regime, which functions as a repressive system of control that necessarily views the Indigenous accused as a risk that must be managed. The most common probation conditions, far from fostering reintegration, serve to erode individual autonomy, engender mistrust, alienation, resentment, and resistance; in the end creating disunity and discord. The aim of Effectuating Change is to offer a sound proposal for legislative reform and in the interim, practical sentencing solutions to deliver the true intention of Gladue and its offspring. Regardless of whether the proposals in this article are vigorously critiqued, supported, denounced or modified the hope is that they create a springboard for creative solutions to the problems identified in Correctional Afterthought.Le présent article se veut une forme de suite de l’article intitulé « Correctional Afterthought », lequel soutenait que la promesse de l’arrêt Gladue, soit celle de réduire l’incarcération disproportionnée des Autochtones au moyen de mesures non privatives de liberté, avait été contrecarrée. En insistant sur des solutions de rechange à l’incarcération, le système de justice est obligé de se fonder sur des ordonnances de tribunaux administratifs gérées par les services de probation provinciaux. La magistrature et les participants au système de justice accordent une confiance mal placée au régime de probation, lequel fonctionne en tant que système de contrôle répressif qui perçoit nécessairement l’accusé autochtone comme un risque à gérer. J’ai examiné comment les conditions de probation les plus courantes, loin de favoriser la réintégration, servent à éroder l’autonomie individuelle et à causer de la méfiance, de l’aliénation, du ressentiment et de la résistance, et finissent par mener à la désunion et à la discorde. Le présent article vise à offrir une solide proposition de réforme législative et, dans l’intervalle, des solutions pratiques en matière de détermination de la peine, afin de réaliser la véritable intention de l’arrêt Gladue et des décisions qui l’ont suivi. Que les propositions figurant dans le présent article soient vigoureusement critiquées, soutenues, dénoncées ou modifiées, j’espère qu’elles créeront un tremplin pour trouver des solutions créatives aux problèmes cernés dans l’article intitulé « Correctional Afterthought »
Making Time for Critique: Canadian ‘Right to Shelter’ Debates in a Chrono-Political Frame
No full textThis article engages with Canadian ‘right to shelter’ discourse, with a focus on shared assumptions that do crucial work but are sometimes unstated. It offers a ‘chrono-political’ framework to organize various claims made in the courtroom, in legal academic commentary, and by homeless people themselves. People sleeping outdoors have had noteworthy success in court, preventing immediate bodily peril. However, the ‘emergency’ temporality in those cases ultimately offers a limited politics. The author evaluates proposals from legal academics who therefore prescribe court orders that aim to transcend emergency protection: the state ought proactively to provide some minimal level of shelter to everyone, thereby conjoining the emergency temporality with a longer term ‘progressive’ temporality. However, it is argued that these proposals insufficiently formulate how judges understand their institutional role and the extent to which courtroom doctrine can redirect wider neoliberal trends. Regulative assumptions about ‘gradual improvement’ in the law must themselves be interrogated. As an antipode for the courtroom emergency temporality, a ‘dissensual’ temporality is explored, not as a ‘solution,’ but as an already operant politics, one not previously explored in legal academic commentary on the ‘right to shelter.’ Never to be romanticized, the tent city is nonetheless seen to enact what Jacques Rancière terms ‘dissensus,’ in which participants stage their equality in a way that calls into question the existing arrangement of political intelligibility. Amidst present constraints, dissensus discloses an expansive nonlinear temporality that channels egalitarian predecessors, taking feasible action in the present and attempting to prefigure a more equal future dwelling arrangement.Le présent article traite du discours canadien sur le « droit au logement », qui met l’accent sur les hypothèses partagées qui font un travail essentiel mais qui sont parfois inexprimées. Il offre un cadre « chrono-politique » permettant d’organiser diverses réclamations présentées en salle d’audience, dans les commentaires des professeurs de droit, ainsi que par les sans-abri eux-mêmes. Les personnes qui dorment dehors ont connu un succès remarquable devant les tribunaux, évitant ainsi des préjudices corporels immédiats. Cependant, la temporalité d’« urgence » dans ces affaires offre finalement un horizon politique limité. L’auteur évalue les propositions des professeurs de droit qui prescrivent donc des ordonnances judiciaires visant à transcender la protection d’urgence : l’État devrait fournir de façon proactive un certain niveau de logement minimal à tous, unissant ainsi la temporalité d’urgence à une temporalité « progressive » à plus long terme. Toutefois, il est soutenu que ces propositions exposent inadéquatement la façon dont les juges perçoivent leur rôle institutionnel et la mesure dans laquelle la doctrine de la salle d’audience peut réorienter des tendances néolibérales plus générales. Les hypothèses régulatrices au sujet d’une « amélioration graduelle » du droit doivent elles-mêmes être examinées. En tant qu’antipode de la temporalité d’urgence de la salle d’audience, une temporalité « dissensuelle » est étudiée, non pas comme « solution », mais comme politique déjà opérante, qui n’a pas encore été examinée dans les commentaires des professeurs de droit sur le « droit au logement ». Bien qu’il ne doive jamais être idéalisé, le village de tentes est néanmoins considéré comme mettant en œuvre ce que Jacques Rancière appelle la « dissension », dont les participants affichent leur égalité d’une manière qui remet en question l’arrangement existant de l’intelligibilité politique. Malgré les contraintes actuelles, la dissension révèle une vaste temporalité non linéaire, en canalisant les prédécesseurs égalitaires, en prenant des mesures réalisables dans le présent et en tentant de préfigurer un arrangement plus égal en matière de logement pour l’avenir
Arenaceous foraminifera from the Windsor Group (Middle and Upper Mississippian) of the Atlantic Provinces of Canada
No full text Arenaceous foraminifera have been obtained from the insoluble residues of limestones from the Windsor Group (Valmeyeran—Chesterian) of the Atlantic Provinces of Canada. From the arenaceous foraminifera fauna 10 genera and 27 species have been identified of which Saccammina sydneyensis, Tolypammina windsorensis, Tolypammina bretonensis, Reophax acadiensis, and Reophax brunswickensis are new species.Locally, the different subzones of the Windsor Group are characterized by species that have restricted ranges. The genus Reophax and species are restricted to Subzone B. The author is of the opinion that the Skir Dhu beds of northeastern Cape Breton Island belong to Subzone E of the Windsor type area.These arenaceous foraminifera appear to be the first indication of the extensions in their ranges to Middle and maybe to Upper Mississippian.This first detailed report on the arenaceous foraminifera in the Windsor Group is an important aid in correlating Middle and Upper Mississippian strata of the Atlantic Provinces. </jats:p
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