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Front and Side View of Weiser Hall at Springfield College
No full textThis is a photograph of the front and side view of the Walter Rupert Weiser Infirmary at Springfield College, taken from the southwest, c. 1931. The Springfield College Triangle is on the top of the front wall.In 1920, Clifton A. Crocker, a member of the Executive Board of both Springfield College and Hampden Hospital, presented the need for an infirmary at Springfield College. Meanwhile, the Hampden Hospital was closed, Crocker together with the hospital administrator Walter R. Weiser turned over the hospital’s financial assets, 180,000 with funding coming from the Springfield and college communities. In the summer of 1921, summer school students worked to clear the building site and to raise money for furnishings. The corner stone was laid on September 27, 1922, and the building was opened in January, 1923. The building is brick with granite trimmings and 3-stories high, with the ground floor 3 feet below ground level. It is 93 feet long and 44 feet wide. The building originally extended the height of the lower two floors in the rear of the building to be a large gymnasium for medical gymnastics. Medical gymnastics is the forerunner of the athletic training program at Springfield College. The building also included hydro-therapy facilities, 4 operating rooms, and the entire third floor served as the college infirmary. In 1938, the basement housed the labs and classrooms of Dr. Peter Karpovich, the premier exercise physiologist in the U.S. at the time. In 1971, the student infirmary relocated to the Towne Student Health Center. After 1971, Weiser was refurbished and has been used as home to the Humanities Department, housing offices, classrooms, a TV studio, and the journalism department
Weiser and Payette- Countryside (C)
No full textWeiser and Payette, Statesman Anniversary Edition 1939-1940. View of the countryside in the area including, roads, farms, houses, trees, and prairie
The Mundane Computer: Non-Technical Design Challenges Facing Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence
No full textInterdisciplinary collaboration, to include those who are not natural scientists, engineers and computer scientists, is inherent in the idea of ubiquitous computing, as formulated by Mark Weiser in the late 1980s and early 1990s. However, ubiquitous computing has remained largely a computer science and engineering concept, and its non-technical side remains relatively underdeveloped.
The aim of the article is, first, to clarify the kind of interdisciplinary collaboration envisaged by Weiser. Second, the difficulties of understanding the everyday and weaving ubiquitous technologies into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it, as conceived by Weiser, are explored. The contributions of Anne Galloway, Paul Dourish and Philip Agre to creating an understanding of everyday life relevant to the development of ubiquitous computing are discussed, focusing on the notions of performative practice, embodied interaction and contextualisation. Third, it is argued that with the shift to the notion of ambient intelligence, the larger scale socio-economic and socio-political dimensions of context become more explicit, in contrast to the focus on the smaller scale anthropological study of social (mainly workplace) practices inherent in the concept of ubiquitous computing. This can be seen in the adoption of the concept of ambient intelligence within the European Union and in the focus on rebalancing (personal) privacy protection and (state) security in the wake of 11 September 2001. Fourth, the importance of adopting a futures-oriented approach to discussing the issues arising from the notions of ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence is stressed, while the difficulty of trying to achieve societal foresight is acknowledged
President Doggett and Robert Morse at the Building Site of Weiser Hall at Springfield College, 1921
No full textThe photograph is taken at the building site of Weiser Hall at Springfield College, during the summer of 1921. On the left of the photograph is the President of the College, Laurence Locke Doggett, on the right is the first YMCA National General Secretary, Richard C. Morse. Each of them is holding a drink and a donut.In 1920, Clifton A. Crocker, a member of the Executive Board of both Springfield College and Hampden Hospital, presented the need for an infirmary at Springfield College. Meanwhile, the Hampden Hospital was closed, Crocker together with the hospital administrator Walter R. Weiser turned over the hospital’s financial assets, 180,000 with funding coming from the Springfield and college communities. In the summer of 1921, summer school students worked to clear the building site and to raise money for furnishings. The corner stone was laid on September 27, 1922, and the building was opened in January, 1923. The building is brick with granite trimmings and 3-stories high, with the ground floor 3 feet below ground level. It is 93 feet long and 44 feet wide. The building originally extended the height of the lower two floors in the rear of the building to be a large gymnasium for medical gymnastics. Medical gymnastics is the forerunner of the athletic training program at Springfield College. The building also included hydro-therapy facilities, 4 operating rooms, and the entire third floor served as the college infirmary. In 1938, the basement housed the labs and classrooms of Dr. Peter Karpovich, the premier exercise physiologist in the U.S. at the time. In 1971, the student infirmary relocated to the Towne Student Health Center. After 1971, Weiser was refurbished and has been used as home to the Humanities Department, housing offices, classrooms, a TV studio, and the journalism department.
For more information on L.L. Doggett, see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/589.
For more information on Richard Cary Morse, see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/851
President Doggett and Robert Morse at the Building Site of Weiser Hall at Springfield College, 1921
No full textThe photograph is taken at the building site of Weiser Hall at Springfield College during the clearing of the site in 1921. On the left of the photograph is the President of the College, Laurence L. Doggett, on the right is the first YMCA National General Secretary, Richard C. Morse. They are taking a rest, each of them is holding a cup and a donut. The photograph was taken during the summer of 1921 when the students cleared the land for the building.In 1920, Clifton A. Crocker, a member of the Executive Board of both Springfield College and Hampden Hospital, presented the need for an infirmary at Springfield College. Meanwhile, the Hampden Hospital was closed, Crocker together with the hospital administrator Walter R. Weiser turned over the hospital’s financial assets, 180,000 with funding coming from the Springfield and college communities. In the summer of 1921, summer school students worked to clear the building site and to raise money for furnishings. The corner stone was laid on September 27, 1922, and the building was opened in January, 1923. The building is brick with granite trimmings and 3-stories high, with the ground floor 3 feet below ground level. It is 93 feet long and 44 feet wide. The building originally extended the height of the lower two floors in the rear of the building to be a large gymnasium for medical gymnastics. Medical gymnastics is the forerunner of the athletic training program at Springfield College. The building also included hydro-therapy facilities, 4 operating rooms, and the entire third floor served as the college infirmary. In 1938, the basement housed the labs and classrooms of Dr. Peter Karpovich, the premier exercise physiologist in the U.S. at the time. In 1971, the student infirmary relocated to the Towne Student Health Center. After 1971, Weiser was refurbished and has been used as home to the Humanities Department, housing offices, classrooms, a TV studio, and the journalism department.
For more information on L.L. Doggett, see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/589.
For more information on Richard Cary Morse, see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/851
Postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism? Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg in conversation
No full textIn this unconventional article, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Rosalind Gill and Catherine Rottenberg conduct a three-way ‘conversation’ in which they all take turns outlining how they understand the relationship among postfeminism, popular feminism and neoliberal feminism. It begins with a short introduction, and then Ros, Sarah and Catherine each define the term they have become associated with. This is followed by another round in which they discuss the overlaps, similarities and disjunctures among the terms, and the article ends with how each one understands the current mediated feminist landscape
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Geothermal investigations in Idaho. Part 3. An evaluation of thermal water in the Weiser area, Idaho
No full textThe Weiser area encompasses about 200 square miles in southwest Idaho and contains two thermal water areas: (1) the Crane Creek subarea, which is 12 miles east of Weiser, Idaho, and (2) the Weiser Hot Springs subarea, which is 5 miles northwest of Weiser. Volcanic and sedimentary rocks of Miocene to Pleistocene age have been faulted and folded to form the northwest-trending anticlines present in much of the area. Basalt of the Columbia River Group or underlying rocks are believed to constitute the reservoir for the hot water. Gravity and magnetic anomalies are present in both subareas. A preliminary audio-magnetotelluric survey indicates that a shallow conductive zone is associated with each thermal site. Above-normal ground temperatures measured at a depth of 1 metre below the land surface in the Weiser Hot Springs subarea correlate with relatively high concentrations of boron in underlying ground waters, which, in turn, are usually associated with thermal waters in the study area. Sampled thermal waters are of a sodium chloride sulfate or sodium sulfate type, having dissolved-solids concentrations that range from 225 to 1,140 milligrams per litre. Temperatures of sampled waters ranged from 13/sup 0/ to 92.0/sup 0/C. Minimum aquifer temperatures calculated from chemical analysis of water, using geochemical thermometers, were 170/sup 0/ and 150/sup 0/C in the Crane Creek and Weiser Hot Springs subareas, respectively. Estimated maximum temperatures ranged from 212/sup 0/ to 270/sup 0/C and 200/sup 0/ to 242/sup 0/C, respectively, in these subareas. The probable heat sources for both subareas are (1) young magmatic intrusive rocks underlying the basalt or (2) above-normal temperatures resulting from thinning of the earth's crust. Maps are included
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