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Animal agriculture : the biology of domestic animals and their use by man/ Edit.: Cole Harrison Harold
No full textxii, 788 hal.: bibl.; ill. ; ind. ; 26 cm
Directing Betrayal
No full textAn account of my preparation for and production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal in Levin Theater in the Fall of 2009.M.F.A.Includes summaryby Maryna E. HarrisonIncludes bibliographical references (p. 99-100
'One equal music’: The royal college of music, its inception and the legacy of Sir George Grove 1883-1895
Full text linkThe establishment of the Royal College of Music (RCM) in 1883 represents the denouement of an eighteenth-century movement to found a conservatoire with a national remit in Britain. Whether motivated by the desire to rival Continental conservatoires to generate and develop an environment in which a worthy successor to Purcell could be nurtured or to create an indigenous musical workforce to obtain direct control of market forces, the RCM was seen as a panacea in the light of the demise of the experimental National Training School for Music (1876-1882) and the ineffectual Royal Academy of Music founded in 1822. The NTSM's financial concerns led Sir Henry Cole to approach the Royal Commission of 1851 for aid. In return for a meagre grant, the Commission insisted the NTSM remodel its management and constitution on pain of eviction from buildings on the Kensington Estate. Cole's approach to 1851 Commissionets precipitated the involvement of the Prince of Wales and other senior members of the Court that led directly to the establishment of the RCM in 1878.Attempts to institute the RCM as a quango to regulate the music profession alongside music education both at elementary school and university level were intended to provide ideal circumstances for inducing comprehensive treasury assistance where the NTSM failed. When this proved elusive, a contingency was provided by George Grove (first RCM Director from 1882) who, at the request of the Prince of Wales, imtiated a capital fund. The introduction of fee-paying students alongside scholars provided financial security that distanced the College & insolvency. Substantial growth in numbers during the first few years forced Grove and the Council to address the issue of a new building. Grove's appointment of an unrivalled professorial staff and the development of a rigorous curriculum, whose inspiration was to be found within the Continental traditions in France and Germany, had paid dividends. By 1894, the results of RCM's pedagogical methods were respected across Europe. The appointment of Grove's neighbour, Alexander Mackenzie, as Principal of the RAM heralded an environment for mutual co-operation between two rival institutions. The institution of local examinations under the Associated Board of the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music from 1889 marked the conclusion of further attempts to amalgamate the two institutions. The foundation of both the Associated Board was intended to provide a remedy to the shortage of suitably-qualified candidates entering for scholarships and to improve music tuition among school children as set out in the RCM's 1883 charter. The coalition created formidable opposition to Halle's proposal to establish a chartered Royal College of Music in Manchester (RMCM) in 1893 and Parliament's attempts to include music within the provision of the bill for the regulation and registration of teachers. The foundation of the Associated Board allowed Grove to begin implementing the RCM's remit to lead the music profession on both a national and imperial scale. The RCM's national and European reputation established by Grove was consolidated under the directorate of his successor, c. Hubert H. Parry, who confirmed the RCM's global reputation to which other, fledgling institutions, such as New York's Juilliard School of Music, came to aspke. Grove's initiatives, which began the process of emancipating composer and performer alike, went on to transform Britain's international musical reputation within a generation, the ramifications of which continue to affect us more than a century later
Animal agriculture : the biology of domestic animals and their use by man
No full textBibl. : 747 - 770xii, 788 hlm. : il. ; 25 cm
Excavations in Cranborne Chase, near Rushmore, on the borders of Dorset and Wilts. [1880-1896] /
No full textVol.5 has imprint: Taunton Castle, The author, 1905.Vol.3 has title: Excavations in Bokerly and Wansdyke...v.1. Excavations in the Romano-British village on Woodcuts common, and Romano-British antiquities in Rushmore park. 1887.--v.2. Excavations in Barrows near Rushmore; in Romano-British village, Rotherley; in Winkelbury camp; in British Barrows and Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Winkelbury hill. 1888.--v.3. Excavations in Bokerly and Wansdyke, Dorset and Wilts... with observations on the human remains by J. G. Garson, M.D. 1892.--v.4. Excavations in South Lodge camp, Rushmore park... Handley hill and Handley down... Martin down, Wilts, etc. 1898.--v.5. Index, Memoir of General Pitt-Rivers, and a bibliographical list of his works, by Harold St. George Gray.Mode of access: Internet
Noseweek 221, 2018-03
No full textSouth Africa's only investigative magazine about business, professions, politics and society in South Africa.Letters;
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Modern Galileo or science crank?
Tim Noakes and his detractors go head to head;
Corruption net closes in on KZN big boys:
How tens of millions of rands were siphoned off under the guise of bringing a jazz festival to Durban;
In for a Zweli, in for a pound:
Questions keep rolling in over succession of dodgy loans involving former KZN premier and his wife;
Disney TV took the Mickey out of me:
Crime author says makers of Oscar Pistorious movie stole his work;
The evil Russians who robbed Hillary:
Except they didn’t. And all you anti-Trump liberals out there need to get over it, says Rian Malan;
No green light for Pondo road-building:
But that’s not stopping the contractors from going ahead with constructio
Noseweek 228, 2018-10
No full textSouth Africa's only investigative magazine about business, professions, politics and society in South Africa.Letters;
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Zabalaza Mshengu dies aged 104:
Bureaucrats leave tenant farmer landless till death;
Troubles grow for k-word businessman:
Furious Investec chair cuts off his cashflow;
Is SA’s Morandi bridge safe? Just checking:
Designer of collapsed Genoa viaduct had a hand in Storms River bridge;
Moti behind bars in Munich:
Our old friend Zunaid faces jail in Russia as ‘Putin’s man’ seeks his extradition;
KPMG’s SARS report makes comeback:
In a desperate bid for survival, accountancy giant lied to MPs and accountants’ institute;
Don’t mention my conviction:
Fraudster Panday doesn’t wish to be referred to as such;
A tragedy worse than a tragedy:
Author Arundhati Roy is uncompromising on capitalist greed, India, Ghandi and the Guptas;
Spies in the sky:
During World War 2 the British ran a secret intelligence operation – using carrier pigeon
When is a life too costly to save? : evidence from U.S. environmental regulations
Full text linkExcept for two relatively minor statutes, U.S. environmental laws do not permit the balancing of costs and benefits in setting environmental standards. The Clean Air Act, for example, prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from considering costs in setting ambient air quality standards. Similarly, the Clean Water Act does not allow consideration of benefits in setting effluent standards. When the EPA is allowed to balance benefits against costs, it has considerable discretion in defining"balancing."The authors ask two questions: Whether allowed to or not, has the EPA balanced costs and benefits in setting environmental standards? Where has the EPA drawn the line in deciding how much to spend to save a statistical life? Their answers are based on data about the costs and benefits of regulations involving three classes of pollutants: cancer-causing pesticides usedon food crops (1975-89); carcinogenic air pollutants (1975-90); and all uses of asbestos regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act. The following are their findings. The EPA behaved as though it were balancing costs and benefits in its regulation of pesticides under Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and of asbestos under Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), the two so-called balancing statutes. The higher the cost of the ban, the less likely the EPA was to ban the use of these products. The greater the number of lives saved, the more likely the EPA was to ban their use. But the amount the EPA was (implicitly) willing to spend to save a life was high: 49 million to avoid cancer through exposure to asbestos. The value the EPA attached to saving a life was higher for workers than for consumers. The value attached to avoiding a case of cancer through exposure to pesticide resides on food was less than 52 million value of preventing cancer among pesticide applicators - perhaps because workers are exposed to higher levels of pollution than consumers. After 1987, when the Natural Resources Defense Council sued the EPA for considering costs in setting emissions standards for vinyl chloride, the EPA considered costs in setting emissions standards only after an acceptable level of risk was achieved. Ironically, before the vinyl chloride decision, the value per cancer case avoided was only $15 million. The amount the EPA was willing to spend to save a life was thus less under the Clean Air Act than under the balancing statutes. But after this decision, the EPA did not consider costs at all if the risk of cancer to the maximally exposed individual was above one in 10,000.Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Economic Theory&Research,Health Economics&Finance,Montreal Protocol
Interview of Donald B. Glower by Bernard Bayer
Full text linkMartha Stimic: African-American secretary who assisted Glower in retaining black students (p. 7)
-- Hal Bolz: Dean of the College of Engineering (pp. 6, 10)
-- Chuck Sespy: Professor, and national leader in heating and cooling (p. 7)
-- Gordon Clark: Prof. of Architecture (p. 7)
-- President Harold Enarson (pp. 8, 11, 17-18)
-- Stan Harrison: Chairman of the Advisory Committee in the College of Engineering (p. 9)
-- Gov. James Rhodes (pp. 10, 12)
-- President Ed Jennings (pp. 11, 16, 21- 22)
-- Gov. Dick Celeste (pp. 10, 12)
-- Prof. Hans Schwar: advocate for creating the Transportation Research Center (p. 10)
-- Prof. Carl Graff: Chairman of Welding Engineering (p. 12)
-- Phil Bowser: businessman who helped Glower found the Co-op program (p. 13)
-- Douglas McGregor, President of Antioch, and author of the classic "The Human Side of Management" (p. 15)
-- President Gordon Gee (p. 16)
-- President Novice Fawcett (pp. 17-18)
-- President Harold Enarson (pp. 17-18)
-- John Corbally (p. 18)
-- Al Coon: Provost (p. 18)
-- Dieter Haenicke (p. 18)
-- Francile Firebaugh (pp. 18-19)
-- Roy Cottman: Dean of Agriculture (p. 19)
-- Mel Schottenstein (p. 21)
-- Tom Thompson: lead discoverer of the sunken gold ship, "The Central America" (pp. 24-28)Tex
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