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The Chair
No full textNoted prose poet and celebrated Latino author Richard Garcia's sixth collection is rich in fabulist traditionslyrical, accessible, and highly imaginative.Intro -- Contents -- Matchbook -- A Portrait of My Childhood Painted by Goya -- Day at the Beach, 1958 -- The Unstucks at the Gates of the Desert Folly Garden -- The History of Umbrellas -- The History of White Anklets -- The History of the Minstrel Show -- Little Known Fact Number One -- Little Known Fact Number Two -- Little Known Fact Number Three -- The Religious Brain -- His Last Night -- My Angry Mob -- My Fog -- Helen's Birthday -- Susan -- Christina -- Miss C.C. -- October -- November First -- Former Lovers -- Footsteps -- The Masked One -- Sappho -- The Poker-Playing Dog Poetry Workshop -- The Poetry Lesson -- The Expert -- Useful Phrases for Business Letters: Example One -- The Typewriter of Transcendence -- The Pencil of Transubstantiation -- The iPod of Pithy -- Page -- History -- Gotta Have -- Tripod -- Little Sister -- The Drummers -- The Mysterious -- The Mysterious Brassiere -- Postcard from Pink -- Postcard from Lake Manzanita -- Postcard from a Nude Beach -- Postcard from the Library Fire -- Postcard from a Civil War Reenactment -- Nightstand -- The Chair -- Felsenfeld -- The Alibi Room -- The Felsenfeld Movement -- Confusion -- No One -- Vowelville -- Missing One -- Hemlock 1-7563 -- The Three -- It's Like -- Like Two People -- Just Like Two People -- Tristes Tropiques -- Undecided -- Subservient Chicken -- The Case of the Disappearing Blondes -- The Rory Calhoun Film Festival -- Dollar Theater -- Hackers and 70s Hit Songs -- Take -- A Man Leaned Back -- Tanglewood -- Upraised Arms -- The Abandoning -- The Duration -- The Waiting -- The Aftermath -- The Pants Dance -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- BOA Editions, Ltd. American Poets Continuum Series -- ColophonNoted prose poet and celebrated Latino author Richard Garcia's sixth collection is rich in fabulist traditionslyrical, accessible, and highly imaginative.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
The Womb Chair Speaks
No full textAs part of International Women’s Day, 8 March, the University of Auckland Creative Arts and Industries, School of Architecture and Planning hosted a talk on the Womb Chair, designed by renowned mid-century modernist architect Eero Saarinen. Initially commissioned by Florence Knoll in 1948, Saarinen’s Womb Chair challenged the conventions of chair design of its time. It pushed the boundaries with its innovative use of technologies: a departure from the traditional techniques of the era. This allowed for a form and functionality that deviated from traditional prescriptive norms, marking a significant shift in design philosophy
Morris Chair
No full textEbonised beech, with a rush seatgeneral view, Sussex chair (left) and Morris chair (right
Ford Dining Chair
No full textThe mahogany chair with the brass plaque is a Ford family dining chair. There are replicas of this chair made of black walnut distributed throughout the house.
The brass plaque was added to the chair in the 19th century by its donorOriginal file name 230303101244-Ford Bedroom in Washingt.jp
Are you sitting comfortably? The political economy of the body
No full textThe aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the mass production of furniture in modern industrial societies and lower back pain (LBP). The latter has proven to be a major cost to health services and private industry throughout the industrialised world and now represents a global health issue as recent WHO reports on obesity and LBP reveal. Thus far there have been few co-ordinated attempts to deal with the causes of the problem through public policy. Drawing upon a range of sources in anthropology, health studies, politics and economics, the paper argues that this a modern social problem rooted in the contingent conjuncture of natural and social causal mechanisms. The key question it raises is: what are the appropriate mechanisms for addressing this problem? This paper develops an analysis rooted in libertarian social theory and argues that both the state and the capitalist market are flawed mechanisms for resolving this problem. There remains a fundamental dilemma for libertarians, however. Whilst the state and the market may well be flawed mechanisms, they are the dominant ones shaping global political economy. To what extent can libertarians work within these structures and remain committed to libertarian goals
Folder 25: Notebook 1, 1976, 1978
No full textA letter to democrats from the Democratic precinct Chair
Recommended from our members
Folder 25: Notebook 1, 1976, 1978
No full textA letter to democrats from the Democratic precinct Chair
Chair-based fidgeting and energy expenditure
No full textabstract: Introduction Sedentariness is associated with chronic health conditions, impaired cognitive function and obesity. Work contributes significantly to sedentariness because many work tasks necessitate sitting. Few sustained solutions exist to reverse workplace sedentariness. Here, we evaluated a chair and an under-table device that were designed to promote fidgeting while seated. Our hypothesis was that an under-table leg-fidget bar and/or a fidget-promoting chair significantly increased energy expenditure. We compared these devices with chair-based exercise and walking.
Materials and methods We measured energy expenditure and heart rate in 16 people while they sat and worked using a standard chair, an under-desk device that encourages leg fidgeting and a fidget-promoting chair. We compared outcomes with chair-based exercise and walking.
Results Energy expenditure increased significantly while using either an under-table leg-fidget bar or a fidget-promoting chair, when compared to the standard office chair (standard chair, 76±31 kcal/hour; leg-fidget bar, 98±42 kcal/hour (p<0.001); fidget chair, 89±40 kcal/hour (p=0.03)). However, heart rate did not increase significantly in either case. Bouts of exercise performed while seated provided energetic and heart rate equivalency to walking at 2 mph.
Conclusions Chairs and devices that promote fidgeting can increase energy expenditure by ∼20–30% but not increase heart rate. Dynamic sitting may be among a lexicon of options to help people move more while at work.The final version of this article, as published in BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, can be viewed online at: http://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/2/1/e000152.inf
Stitch Chair, 2008
No full textThe 'Stitch' chair was born of a demand for quality in a limited space. This is the 21st century urban environment. The chair folds flat. This is not a conventional chair, it can be folded and stored with ease, but demands not to be. Stitch is a folding chair that folds to 16mm, thinner than any other folding chair. Its folding mechanism is patented. The hinges are "elegant industrial" defining the method of assembly for production. The mechanism was created through the exploration and manipulation of folding sheet material into flat forms. My investigation resulted in a method of folding articulation that in one movement transforms a three-dimensional ridged structure into compact flat form. The colour scheme is a vibrant patchwork quilt. Ten pieces of metal "stitched" together by the unique hinge system. Stitch is significant in its innovation. It has won numerous awards and has been included in many curated exhibition throughout the world, and has attracted significant press coverage, for example: "A Century of Chairs (online exhibition http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/online/a-century-of-chairs) Design Museum London "Belle Georg Jensen Inaugural Award 2009 (Winner) "Design Icons, Tod's Boutique, Milan (an exhibition showcasing 10 pieced of significant furniture, held at the time of the Milan Furniture Fair 2009) "Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2008, Design Museum, London "Idea Awards 08 (Category Winner, Best Furniture Product) The patented folding mechanism has been applied to a range of furniture typologies, for example, the Stitch stool (launched in 2009), and a disaster relief folding shelter
Bing! New chair pad sounds alarm after prolonged sitting
No full textFirst paragraph: Researchers have developed a new office chair “sitting pad” that sounds an alarm when its owner has been sitting too long. Read this article on The Conversation website: https://theconversation.com/bing-new-chair-pad-sounds-alarm-after-prolonged-sitting-1114
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