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Humans of AI3SD: Dr Keith Butler
No full textThis interview forms part of our Humans of AI3SD Series. Keith Butler is a Senior Data Scientist working on materials science research in the SciML team at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. SciML is a team in the Scientific Computing Division working with the large STFC facilities (Diamond, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source and Central Laser Facility, for example) to use machine learning to push the boundaries of fundamental science. In this Humans of AI3SD interview he discusses the impact of his work, the potential of self- driving labs, the importance of explainable and interpretable machine learning systems and why early career researchers should shout about what they know (and use Linux!)
Butler, Gary. Oral history interview about Pasadena
No full textGary Butler talks about his involvement in cadets in Pasadena. As of the publication of his interview, Mr. Butler held the position of commanding officer with the 2959 Pasadena Army Cadet Corps. He has held this position for seventeen years. He shares his memories of cadets changing over the years, and discusses the many community service projects that the cadets regularly do in Pasadena
Poems
Full text linkPoems include: Sometimes, I Like to Walk the Shore, by Michelle L. Haymon and Transitory, by Dick Pearso
Black Fashion Designers Symposium: June Ambrose in conversation with Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs
No full textJune Ambrose in conversation with Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs at The Museum at FIT's annual fashion symposium, Black Fashion Designers, held on Monday, February 6, 2017. The one-day symposium featured talks by designers, models, journalists, and scholars on African diasporic culture and fashion.June Ambrose is a celebrity stylist and designer whose clients include Sean Combs, Jay Z, Alicia Keys, and Gabrielle Union. She is author of the book Effortless Style.Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs founded their brand Cushnie et Ochs in 2008, creating collections that juxtapose bold sensuality with minimalist sophistication
Allowing imprisoned fathers to parent: maximising the potential benefits of prison based parenting programmes
Full text linkDuring imprisonment, fathers are separated from their families and contact is limited. When delivering a prison based parenting programme, providing an opportunity to rehearse newly acquired parenting skills can be key for mastering the performance of these skills and using these skills to improve father-child relationships. This paper takes an in-depth look at how one parenting programme in Northern Ireland sought to overcome this challenge by providing additional opportunities to parent via increased telephone contact and special family friendly visits. Using a combination of in-depth interviews and observations, how fathers and their families responded to this increased contact is explored, as well as the extent to which this increased contact facilitated the acquisition of the parenting skills being taught on the programme. It is argued that while prison based parenting programmes can improve parenting skills and father-child relationships, their potential long-term effectiveness may be limited by wider prison policies, procedures and practices surrounding prison visitation, telephone access and the progression of fathers following the completion of such programmes. Recommendations and suggestions for future practice are offered
Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities
Full text linkDualities is an important book. It represents a contribution to the field of Hindu Christian studies, but it also adds considerably to women\u27s studies in religion and to the emergent field of comparative theology. Michelle Voss Roberts has managed to treat with sensitivity and creativity two enigmatic figures, each from long ago and far away (from us and from each other), and each from two dramatically different religious traditions. What is remarkable about this study is that Voss Roberts manages to introduce us to the basic shape of both of these women\u27s thought while at the same time pursuing a very contemporary, sophisticated stream of theological reasoning relevant to postmodern concerns about multiplicity, relationality and change as constitutive characteristics of divinity. A dedicated scholar of either one of these figures -- or of the tradition and time she inhabited -- may object that Voss Roberts is dabbling in anachronism by putting her figures to work in a theological agenda that neither woman would recognize. This is true. But the same can be said of biblical texts, patristic figures, and other ancient writers who labor in the pages of contemporary theologies. The fact that such use seems more obvious in a comparative theological project -- due perhaps to the inevitable disjunctures between the philosophical and religious presuppositions at work between the different traditions and cultures -- does not negate the mining of ancient texts for contemporary projects, it just illuminates the challenges of doing so
Author Response
Full text linkI am humbled and honored by the engagement of these four scholars, all of whom have significantly influenced my thinking. Francis Clooney\u27s pioneering work first interested me in the practice of comparative reading. Lance Nelson\u27s reflections on the ecological implications of a non-dualism provided a springboard for much of chapter three. Laurel Schneider\u27s radical push toward multiplicity has challenged my constructive thinking. Conversations with Brad Bannon, a new dialogue partner, have generated new springs of insight. I am grateful to each of them for the gift of their response to Dualities. I also owe a debt of gratitude to the Society of Hindu-Christian Studies, and especially to John Thatamanil, who was the impetus behind the panel and also presided at it
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Media Representations of Michelle Obama
Full text linkIn this article the author presents ideas about the media representations of Michelle Obama. The author argues that the public perceptions and favorability of Michelle Obama are tied to which aspects of her identity are presented in the media
Playing in the Flood of Love: A Response to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities: A Theology of Difference
Full text linkAs John Thatamanil confesses in his Foreward to Michelle Voss Roberts\u27 Dualities, I too, as a nondualist theologian, was initially apprehensive about Voss Roberts\u27 title. However, I quickly came to find that the plural emphasis of dualities and the private emphasis of non-dualism actually speak to similar concerns over the inadequacies of both monism and dualism. The dualism denied by non-dualism and the multiplicity and relationality affirmed by dualities are more harmonious than dissonant
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