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Rapa Nui (Easter Island)’s Stone Worlds
No full textThis article explores the spatial, architectural and conceptual relationships between landscape places, stone quarrying, and stone moving and building during Rapa Nui’s statue-building period. These are central themes of the ‘Rapa Nui Landscapes of Construction Project’ and are discussed using aspects of the findings of our recent fieldwork. The different scales of expression, from the detail of the domestic sphere to the monumental working of quarries, are considered. It is suggested that the impressiveness of Rapa Nui’s stone architecture is its conceptual coherence at the small scale as much as at the large scale. </div
Ruth Stone, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textRuth Stone is the author of six books or chapbooks of poetry: In an Iridescent Time, 1960; Topography and Other Poems, 1971; Unknown Messages, 1973; Cheap, 1975; American Milk, 1986; Second-Hand Coat: New and Selected Poems, 1987. Three new books will be published this year: Who is the Widow\u27s Muse?; The Yasha Poems, and The Solitary. We were very fortunate that Ruth Stone taught creative writing as a visiting faculty member at Old Dominion University during 1989-90
Tacit knowledge, learning and expertise in dry stone walling
No full textThis is a detailed study of learning in the context of dry stone walling. It examines
what happens in the learning situation. The aim of this work was:
'To understand the nature of expertise in dry stone walling, how it is understood
by those practising the craft, and how it is transmitted to others'.
The main research questions were, therefore:
What happens when dry stone wallers are learning their craft?
How do they acquire expertise in dry stone walling?
How is this learning communicated?
This process necessitated developing a way of engaging with the practitioners,
eliciting descriptive data about what they were doing, and why they were doing it,
through interviews (or conversations) with both individuals and groups, whilst
they practiced their skill. Twenty three wailers were interviewed as they worked,
building walls.
The material obtained was analysed under seven different themes:
'Knowing how'
The use of tacit knowledge or intuition
'Flow'
Constant decision making, reflection and learning from mistakes
Individual and subjective variations and experiences
The relevance of emotion
The use of 'rules of thumb' or maxims.
Learning walling does not fit simply into any of the seven themes. It is
contextualised, complex and individual. It demonstrates tacit knowledge and
intuition. It involves emotion, sometimes consciously, sometimes not. It involves
memory, problem solving, and learning from mistakes, and reflection. Maxims or
'rules of thumb' were a key element in the learning process at all stages. Linear
stages of learning were not evidenced. Deep understanding of the practice is
evidenced, and the wider learning and teaching implications are explored
Joyful Readers: The New Webster Series
No full textThe Monkey and the Glasses (162) is listed as from Russia. Krylov, its author, seems not to be mentioned. The story is well told, with two nice colored illustrations. Though this fable is in good condition, the rest of the book has suffered somewhat from young hands. Do not miss the streamlined train engine on 16! The book is copyrighted, apparently, in 1932 and 1939.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Clarence R. Stone and Odille Ousle
Laurie Stone, 23rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textLaurie Stone is the author of the novel Starting with Serge; a collection of literary memoirs, Close to the Bone; and Laughing in the Dark: A Decade of Subversive Comedy. She was a columnist for The Village Voice for twenty-five years and her work has been published in Ms. Magazine, New York Woman, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Utne Reader, and Art Forum.
Stone is the recipient of grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts and The MacDowell Colony, and she received the 1996 Nona Balakain Excellence in Reviewing Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Stone is currently writing short fiction and a second novel, Apart from Sex. She will be Old Dominion’s Writer In Residence for fall 2000
Worked stone
No full textA consideration of a dated Post medieval stone assemblage from a clan stronghold at Dun Eistein, Ness (Isle of Lewis)
The influence of flow acceleration on stone stability
No full textThe stability of a bed of stones subject to a flow is often described in terms of a critical velocity or shear stress generated by the flow. These classical design methods like for example Shields, do not take the influence of flow acceleration into account. In experiments and practice, it appeared that when a flow is accelerated, stones start to move at a point where the so-called critical velocity is not reached yet. The movement of stones must have a second cause beside the velocity of flow. Only a little information is known on the influence of flow acceleration on stone stability of the bed. The objective of this thesis is to obtain more insight into the influence of acceleration of flow on the stability of stones. By carrying out experiments in a flume containing a local contraction, the stone stability in an accelerated flow is investigated. In the contraction the stability of two different stone sizes, subject to different velocity-acceleration combinations, is analysed. If the hypothesis is correct, than for some velocity-acceleration combinations movement occurs while for the same velocity combined with a lower acceleration no movement occurs. The shear stress occurring in the accelerated flow is determined using the shear velocity. According to the classical Shields method the shear velocity is responsible for the movement of the stones. Movement is detected for lower shear velocities then expected. According to the hypothesis this is a result of the extra generated force on the stones due to acceleration. After analysing the data it appeared that combinations of the same velocity and different accelerations showed differences in movement. The amount of movement goes up for an increase in acceleration combined with a constant or slightly decreasing velocity. This proves that there is a relation between the stability of the stones and a combination of the velocity and acceleration generated forces. The Morison equation is used to describe the relation between the forces acting on a stone. It combines the force generated by acceleration and the force generated by the peak velocities due to turbulence, as the sum of both forces. The extra force due to acceleration appeared to be of the same order as the force due to the velocity. Therefore, when looking at the stone stability in an accelerated flow, it is important to take the force generated by the acceleration into account. The resulting Morison force acting on a stone is proved to be responsible for the stability of the stones. Finally, a unique relation, valid for both stone diameters, between the force acting on the stone and the entrainment is found. This power relation consists of a dimensionless Morison-Shields parameter representing the force on a stone and a dimensionless entrainment parameter. The relation does not depend on stone size and is therefore expected to be universal in use.Civil Engineering and Geoscience
Leete Stone Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, years of letters typed on plain paper and handwritten in brown ink from a Portland, Maine, journalist who was forced to sell his car and whose work was published in American Short Story 1934, a handwritten biographical letter and biographical letters that drift from the personal to lumber camps and rodeo tales, a work of art by Bill Clifford Hoople, Stone\u27s service buddy and magazine illustrator, showing Leete Stone lighting his pipe with a match, concern in 1935, that his Freeport, Maine, home could be susceptible to theft or fire caused Stone to offer an old shotgun, Indian peace pipe, and a volume of Americana belonging to his grandfather to the State of Maine, ten years later when fire burned his library, Stone\u27s handwritten request returned two copies his book home, a typed letter from Times Square on Hotel America stationery presenting Stone\u27s first published writing since the fire, and a plain postcard from Stone in New York City thank the Maine State Library for placing his materials in the Maine Author Collection
The great stone face /
No full textPublication date supplied by cataloger.Title from cover.Mode of access: Internet.OSU's copy 3: Bound with: The snow image / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The miraculous pitcher / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Circe's palace -- The three golden apples / by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Selected poems -- The vision of Sir Launfal / by James Russell Lowell -- Prose selections -- The deserted village / by Oliver Goldsmith -- Cotter's Saturday night and other poems / by Robert Burns -- The rime of the ancient mariner / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Brewer's collection of favorite songs -- Brewer{u2019}s collection of popular songs.OSU's copy 3 lacking portrait
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