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A Reading by Rebecca Solnit
No full textSan Francisco writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of seventeen books about geography, community, art, politics, hope, and feminism and the recipient of many awards, including the Lannan Literary Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award (forRiver of Shadows; two other books of hers also were nominated for the prize in other years). A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com, she is a contributing editor to Harper\u27s, where she is the first woman to regularly write the Easy Chair column (founded in 1851).
For more information about Rebecca Solnit and her work, please visit http://rebeccasolnit.net
Rebecca Solnit, 29th Annual Literary Festival
No full textRebecca Solnit is a writer, historian, and activist with a particular interest in geography, landscape, slowness, insurrection, photography, indirect routes and subjects that escape category. She lives in San Francisco, has received various awards, including the Lannan, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Western Writers of America Spur Award, and is the author of ten books, including most recently A Field Guide to Getting Lost and Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
spill it. stories of menstruating on campus
No full textspill it. features qualitative responses from an exploratory research study, involving a survey and campus audit. The study aimed to document access to menstrual products and student experiences with menstruation on campus. As a first zine author and artist Rebecca Johnson hopes that spill it. will illuminate what it's like to menstruate on campus, and inspire others to share their story. The research was reviewed and approved by the Douglas College Research Ethics Board and data was collected between October 2019 - July 2020
Effect of the manger space on welfare and meat quality of beef cattle
No full textForty-eight Simmental young bulls (initial body weight = 321.2 +/- 34.1 kg) were assigned to eight balanced groups reared in separate pens with a space allowance of 3 m(2) per head. Two different manger spaces (60 vs. 80 cm per head) were tested in factorial arrangement with the type of floor of the pen (slatted vs. straw bedded). All the animals received the same diet provided ad libitum. No significant interaction was found between the two main factors considered in the study. Manger space did not affect bulls' daily gain, feed intake and feed efficiency. Health status of the animals was satisfactory and the neutrophil/ lympocite ratio, blood indicator of chronic stress, was not modified by the different manger space. Behavioural observations showed no differences due to manger space. Regardless of the manger space, the ad libitum feeding promoted a high turnover of the bulls in the feeding area limiting the number of animals eating at same time. Bulls were slaughtered at 614.6 +/- 14.7 kg and carcass traits and meat quality were not affected by manger space. Regardless of the type of floor, a space at the manger of 60 cm per head should be sufficient for beef cattle fed ad libitum under intensive rearing system
Welfare and meat quality of beef cattle housed on two types of floors with the same space allowance
No full textGrowth performance, behaviour, cleanliness, carcass traits and meat quality of 48 Simmental young bulls housed on slatted floor or on straw bedding with the same space allowance were compared in the study, which lasted 250 days. The animals (initial body weight = 321.2 +/- 34.1 kg) were assigned to 8 balanced groups, according to their initial body weight. All the groups were reared in separate pens with a space allowance of 3 m(2)/head. Four pens had a concrete floor covered with a straw bedding while the other pens had a fully slatted floor made of concrete slats. All the animals received the same diet provided ad libitum. Type of floor did not affect the bulls' daily gain, feed intake and feed efficiency. Health status of the animals was satisfactory throughout the trial and several blood indicators of chronic stress were not modified by the treatment. Behavioural observations carried out at d 10, 80, 180 and 240 showed differences only on some behaviours due to the type of floor. In particular, the straw bedding increased eating behaviour and it encouraged the simultaneous presence of more bulls at the manger. Regardless of the type of floor, the progress of the trial showed a linear increase of animals' inactivity (P < 0.05) while linear decrease of bulls' lying (P < 0.01), eating (P < 0.001) and ruminating (P < 0.01) was observed. These results can be referred to the growth of the animal body frame, which made the space allowance progressively limiting. In the straw bedded pens, clean straw was added weekly and fully renewed every 3 weeks, but this bedding management did not allow a satisfactory cleanliness of the animals in comparison with the slatted floor. However, the worse cleanliness of the bulls on the straw did not promote their grooming activity. Young bulls were slaughtered at a final weight of 614.6 +/- 14.7 kg and their carcass traits and meat quality were not affected by the treatment. The straw bedded system cannot always be considered the cleanest solution for the housing of beef cattle and its frequent renewal must be carried out, particularly when animals are kept with a minimum space allowance. The minimal differences observed for all the parameters measured in the study between the two types of floors must be related to the adoption of the same space allowance/animal and this factor has shown to be the most critical housing parameter affecting beef cattle welfare during the fattening period
Growth performance, cleanliness and lameness on finishing Charolais bulls housed in littered pens of different design
No full textRebecca Konyndyk DeYoung - Deadly Sins and Their Remedies
No full textVices are bad habits we can rely upon to make our lives not work. So why do we do them? How do we get to the bottom of our sin-symptoms and allow The Master Physician to heal the root causes? Rebecca DeYoung, author of Glittering Vices and Vainglory, talks with Nathan Foster about ordering our loves. The Renovaré Bookclub is reading Glittering Vices together—learn more at renovare.org/bookclub
Chris Dewdney and Rebecca Graham at the Campus Author Recognition Program annual reception, November 1, 2012.
No full textChris Dewdney, Writer in Residence and Rebecca Graham, Chief Librarian, at the Campus Author Annual Reception. November 1, 2012
A New Book on Mao: A Quick Q & A with Author Rebecca Karl
No full textRebecca Karl, who teaches at New York University and is known in Chinese studies circles as the author of important studies of nationalism during the final years of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) and the development of Marxist thought between the 1920s and the present, has a new book coming out soon. Titled Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History, it’s being published (simultaneously in paperback and hardback editions) by Duke University Press. The publisher promises that it will provide readers with a “lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong’s life and thought,” and it comes with advance praise from Stanford literary specialist Ban Wang and historian Delia Davin, whose many publications also include a short book about the Chinese Communist Party leader. Struck by the challenges Professor Karl has taken on, both of moving from writing for specialists to writing for general readers (that’s clearly the main target audience to her new book) and trying to cover such a big topic in a small number of pages (the book has just over 200 of them), I asked her to share her thoughts on these challenges and other subjects with followers of this blog
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