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Trip into the Smokies with Horace Kephart
No full textThese letters between Fred J. Overly and Dodette Westfeldt Grinnell detail Grinnell’s account of a fishing trip the author made with Horace Kephart. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text|In today's Gospel reading, we hear Jesus overturning some commonly held understandings and traditions. His disciples even questioned him to make sure they understood his words correctly. Jesus reiterates that all food is clean and "nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person."|Perhaps one way to approach this reading might be to examine a change in our own understanding. Is there something in our lives that resonate with this Gospel passage? Perhaps we have had an experience lately where we discover that something that we have known to be true, wise and/or common practice is surprisingly turned upside down and proven false or irrelevant? It takes effort and energy (and grace) to handle with change well, but handling change can be even more difficult when it goes against a long standing tradition or hits us suddenly. Sometimes, we can even begin to question what is true among our other commonly held beliefs and practices, too.|Jesus does teach us that "from within the man, from his heart, come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly. All these evils come from within and they defile." He seems to be warning us and highlighting the slippery slope of evil that can come from our heart being in the wrong place.|Another way I invite us to think about applying this passage to our lives stems from a lesson that I am learning in my personal life. Sometimes I feel like I fall into a subtle but unhealthy trap of focusing so heavily on having my young children eating healthy and organic food, avoiding too much screen time, getting a good night's sleep, washing hands to prevent the spread of germs, etc. All of these things sometimes lead me to the focus of being overly concerned about what is entering the bodies of my young family members. These are all good and important things with which to concerned. And yet, this reading reminds me that Jesus is calling me to be a parent that helps keep my children healthy by nurturing their healthy hearts, overflowing with love, openness, compassion for God, God's creation and God's people. Maybe, I could direct more of my energy to what is inside their hearts rather than what might be entering their bodies.|Perhaps we can take the attitude of the queen of Sheba, who is generous in spirit and material gifts when she visits King Solomon in the first reading from Kings.|Perhaps we are called to heed the words of wisdom from Psalm 37 to "commit to the Lord…trust in him…utter what is right…take refuge in [the Lord]."|What is God inviting us to consider in our own lives, today, in regard to Jesus' message about clean foods and the evils that can come from our own hearts
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Federal Environmental Impact Statements: Overly Inflated Needs Result in NeedlessEnvironmental Harm
No full textAccording to federal regulations, an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) must include a statement of the purpose of, and need for, the proposed action. Unfortunately, the regulations do not specify how to determine the need. Typically, the declared need for a proposed action includes items that are not genuine needs. They are necessary conditions for achieving goals that are merely desired. The result of such overly inflated needs is, literally, needless environmental harm. The author presents criteria for identifying needs that have been developed by philosophers David Braybrooke and Garrett Thomson. These criteria are useful for gauging how far federal agencies are from a defensible conception of need. The author develops a principle that federal agencies should follow as they formulate the need for a proposed action in an EIS. If adopted, this principle would help eliminate overly inflated needs for proposed actions, leading to more environmentally sensitive decisions
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane: A Comps Production by Colleen Scallen
No full textMy comps project is 4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane. This play is considered by some to be Sarah Kane’s suicide note; she took her own life shortly after it was finished and never saw it staged. It details in a beautifully abstract, almost uncomfortably uncontained form what it is to live with mental illnesses, namely depression. There is a script with twenty-four “scenes,” and yet, this play refuses to be boxed in the traditional approach to “theatre.” For these reasons, in addition to the aura around Kane’s work as “unstageable,” many people want to shy away from her work. I disagree with this shying away. I turned to theatre as a saving grace to claw my way out from the depths of my eating disorder. Theatre has been there for me to help shape my identity as an actor, artist, human, and woman, and to show me my purpose. It allowed me to create and give back to the community that gave me a second shot at life; to express the pain I felt in a safe way, to express the joy I felt in a creative way, to show my gratitude, fear, love, hatred. . . . all in a way unique to me and my relationship with the audience. For this reason, I feel that the pinnacle of my theatre career at Carleton needs to reflect the deep relationship between theatre and my mental health. This play, as I mentioned above, is not simply nontraditional theatre, but essentially flies in the face of what “straight plays” are. It is a work that plays with form and content, with a level of abstraction that calls for a mix of devised and straight theatre that will definitely challenge me. The work will also challenge me in that it’s an incredibly personal subject matter. I, too, struggle with depression, have been in an inpatient program, and have struggled with suicidal ideation, and want to highlight my struggle with an eating disorder through my production of the show. I want to use my piece to educate people around the multifaceted nature of mental illness, to provoke consideration about stigma around mental health, and to encourage conversation around how we interact with our own and others’ mental health, particularly at a rigorous and uniquely intense place like Carleton College. Something that I love about this show is that it’s ageless. It’s nineteen years old, and yet it does not feel stuck in a time- or space-specific place. I believe that we should always be talking about mental health, be it the year 2000, 2019, or 2119, and this play is a vehicle to do so. I am an obsessive planner and a compulsive worrier. A sucker for details and an avid organizer. I love hedgehogs and cats beyond belief. I am an intense, passionate person. A bookworm. A chatty Cathy. An (sometimes overly) energetic being. A woman. A Minnesotan. A youngest child. A theatre artist. And I’m also mentally ill. My comps is an opportunity to highlight each of these identities through the framework of being mentally ill. It’s my chance to show how the praxis of mental illness being a weakness, a fault in identity, is not the whole picture--mentally ill people are artists and economists, children and parents, young and old, and so much more than their disorders. I want to lean in to Sarah Kane’s boldness and showcase this incredibly beautiful piece of work to marry two parts of my identity that are incredibly important to me, and to show the Carleton community how incredibly healing and powerful art can be in expressing and living with mental illness
Parents-to-be with Overly Optimistic Expectations of Parenthood: Who Are They and What Should Counsellors Do?
No full textA fair number of parents-to-be expect parenthood to be the impetus for improving their couple relationship, but this expectation is likely to be disconfirmed for most of them. With a focus on childrearing attitudes, the author investigates the factors differentiating parents-to-be who have overly optimistic expectations about parenthood from those who have realistic expectations. A sample of 174 French-Canadian couples expecting their first child completed questionnaires during the last trimester of pregnancy. Results indicated that, compared to realistic parents-to-be, those with overly optimistic expectations show less complexity in their attitudes toward childrearing. Implications of these findings for counsellors are discussed.De nombreux futurs parents espèrent que l’arrivée de leur enfant puisse améliorer leur relation conjugale, mais pour la plupart d’entre eux, la réalité ne sera pas conforme à cette attente. L’auteur a investigué les facteurs qui différencient les futurs parents qui ont des attentes trop optimistes concernant la parentalité de ceux qui ont des attentes réalistes, en portant une attention particulière aux attitudes face à l’éducation des enfants. Un échantillon de 174 couples canadiens-français attendant leur premier enfant ont remplis des questionnaires lors du troisième trimestre de la grossesse. Les résultats indiquent que, comparativement aux futurs parents ayant des attentes réalistes, ceux ayant des attentes trop optimistes démontrent moins de complexité dans leurs attitudes face à l’éducation des enfants. Les implications de ces résultats pour les praticiens en counseling sont discutées
Searching for Pigeons in the Belfry: The Inquest, the Abolition of the Deodand and the Rise of the Family
No full textThis article explores the abolition in 1846 of the deodand – the object or animal declared responsible for death by an inquest jury – and its relationship with the family of the deceased. Drawing on the work of Jacques Donzelot, it argues that the deodand brought contingency into the heart of law, and that its replacement with a legal right to compensation for dependents was a move to rationalize the investigation of death. This rationalization had consequences; limiting the place of the unruly community, centering and regulated the family, and disconnecting the inquest from the material of death
Overly honest data repository development
No full textAfter a year of development, the library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has launched a repository, called the Illinois Data Bank (https://databank.illinois.edu/), to provide Illinois researchers with a free, self-serve publishing platform that centralizes, preserves, and provides persistent and reliable access to Illinois research data. This article presents a holistic view of development by discussing our overarching technical, policy, and interface strategies. By openly presenting our design decisions, the rationales behind those decisions, and associated challenges this paper aims to contribute to the library community’s work to develop repository services that meet growing data preservation and sharing needs.Open Restriction set for Item 94079 on 2016-10-26T15:07:02Z with date null by [email protected] by Ayla Stein ([email protected]) on 2016-10-26T15:20:00Z
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The Open Class Authorship Attribution Problem: A Comparison of Mixture-of-Experts Methods within the JGAAP Framework
No full textIn this paper, we seek to describe, test, evaluate, and compare methods of open class attribution that utilize multiple unique closed class attributions in a voting framework. By applying statistical techniques to the proportion of closed class attributions indicating individual candidate authors, we seek to determine if the author is present in a set of suspected authors or not. The final answer to an open class attribution problem is either one of the authors in the set of candidate authors or None of the above. We test nine different methods of open class attribution grouped into three distinct voting paradigms. We find that the most effective method is a voting method in which each closed class attribution votes equally for its top two most likely authors. Accuracies in this method are statistically better than chance and, in total, are the best out of all nine methods
The Impact of the Community Infrastructure Levy on English Local Authorities' Planning Practice
No full textThe English system of developer contributions, planning obligations, remained unchanged between 1990 and 2010 and attracted major criticisms of causing slow, opaque, unaccountable planning processes. In 2010, the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) was introduced to reform planning obligations and deliver a faster, more transparent, certain and accountable planning process. This paper seeks to determine whether these objectives have been achieved by means of an online survey submitted to all English planning authorities between October 2015 and June 2016. The results (82 respondents with a response rate of 27%) show that local authorities that have implemented the CIL find it able to deliver advantages in terms of greater transparency, speed, accountability and certainty. On the downside, especially local authorities that have not yet implemented the CIL think that the new system is overly demanding in terms of required time and personnel and reduces in-kind and financial contributions from developers.Accepted Author ManuscriptUrban Studie
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