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Bar and Bat Mitzvah Twinning of Sheryl, David and Michelle Sandberg (Box 1, Folder 3)
No full textThe collection contains papers of Joel Sandberg and Adele Sandberg, among the co-founders of the South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry, documents the Sandbergs' activities as leaders of the South Florida Conference on Soviet Jewry as well as their individual efforts in the American Soviet Jewry movement. The documents include correspondence, memorandums, minutes, news clippings and photographs.Digital ImageDigital finding aid
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Cynthia Sandberg: Love Apple Farm
No full textCynthia Sandberg is proprietor of Love Apple Farm—an establishment unique among Central Coast small farms in its combination of biodynamic techniques, an exclusive supply relationship with a single high-end restaurant, a focus on heirloom tomatoes, a rich public offering of on-farm classes, and a successful Internet-based marketing strategy.Love Apple occupies two productive acres in Ben Lomond, in Santa Cruz County’s San Lorenzo Valley. Sandberg farms according to the biodynamic principles developed in the 1920s by Rudolph Steiner, and is seeking certification for Love Apple through Demeter USA, the country’s only certifying agent for biodynamic farms. In addition to shunning synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, a certified biodynamic farm must also be managed, according to Demeter’s website, as if it were “a living organism,” minimizing waste and external inputs.As the kitchen garden for upscale Manresa restaurant in nearby Los Gatos (Santa Clara County), Love Apple enjoys a symbiotic business relationship with the two-Michelin-star restaurant and its executive chef-proprietor, David Kinch, who often visits the farm. While Sandberg grows a wide variety of produce for Manresa and for sale in her seasonal on-site farm cart, she specializes in heirloom tomatoes, of which she produces more than 100 varieties. (Locals sometimes refer to her as “The Tomato Lady.”) She sells tomato starts every spring, and teaches popular classes on a wide variety of topics including growing tomatoes from seed, building tomato cages, and gardening in containers. And she has cultivated an effective online marketing strategy centered on her blog/website.Farming is a second career for Sandberg, a former attorney. She unwittingly launched her new life in the early 1990s, when, hoping to improve her rudimentary gardening skills, she enrolled in horticulture classes at Cabrillo, Santa Cruz County’s community college. A few years later, her early-spring gardening preparations proved unexpectedly successful, and she found herself puzzling about what to do with 290 excess tomato seedlings. She arrayed them in the driveway along with a sign and an honor-system money jar—and passersby quickly snapped them up. Thus was born Love Apple Farm.“Love apple” is an old French name for the tomato, historically associated with aphrodisiac qualities. The farm’s name also commemorates Harry Love, a former Texas Ranger who led the attack on Mexican Robin-Hood figure Joaquin Murrieta and his band of outlaws in San Benito County in 1853. Sandberg has been told that the house she inhabits, now surrounded by garden beds and greenhouses, was built with Love’s reward money.Sarah Rabkin interviewed Cynthia Sandberg on the back porch of Sandberg’s Love Apple farmhouse in Ben Lomond, California, on March 9, 2009
Maximiliano Schonfeld’s Films of the Volga Germans in Entre Ríos: About the Neoliberal Devil in Argentine Cinema
No full textThis chapter deals with Maximiliano Schonfeld’s work with and about the rurally-based Volga German community in the Argentine province, Entre Ríos. The films of the young Argentine director interlink themes of social marginality, rural setting and neoliberal critique. Utilising documentary and fictional modes, open narrative structures and enticing visuals, they draw pictures of a community in crisis. Consumer culture has begun shaping the desires of younger Volga Germans, while a concentration of capital and business in the agricultural sector threatens the existence of small-scale businesses. With reference to the shorts Esnorquel (2006), Entreluces (2006) and the feature film Germania (2012), the author argues that Schonfeld’s filmmaking is an act of resistance to the loss of community-based living and working structures in rural environments
Peliculas Escondidas
No full textHidden Treasures / Películas Escondidas (dir. Claudia Sandberg and Alejandro Areal Vélez, 11mins) is a filmic essay about ‘Chile’ DEFA films made in the 1970s and 1980s. The film includes interviews with author Antonio Skármeta and actress Irina Gallardo. Both artists lived in Germany during the 1980s and collaborated in projects with DEFA
Noise due to unsteady flow past trailing edges
No full textThis paper presents two-dimensional direct numerical simulations (DNS) of noise generated at trailing edges (TE) with zero thickness. The simulations are conducted specifying either no-slip or slip walls in order to investigate viscous effects. In both cases, small amplitude disturbances are introduced close to the inflow boundary that serve as pressure disturbances at the TE. DNS data reveals that the unsteady Kutta condition is not satisfied, irrespective of the wall boundary condition. However, it appears that the validity of the unsteady Kutta condition is not essential for making an accurate prediction of the far field noise. The far field pressure is predicted as a function of the surface pressure difference using a 2-D modification of Amiet's classical theory, and compared with the far field pressure computed directly. Directivity plots provide evidence that the presence of boundary layers and noise generated by an unsteady wake in the no-slip cases lead to smearing of individual lobes, and that the downstream pointing lobes in no-slip wall cases are probably due to nonlinear noise generation in the wake. The simulations are conducted using a high-order accurate numerical method which is free of upwinding, artificial dissipation or any form of explicit filtering, and employs a novel boundary treatment
Contemporary Latin American Cinema and Resistance to Neoliberalism: Mapping the Field
No full textThis chapter investigates the relationship between neoliberalism and Latin America filmmaking from the 1990s onwards. Which impact did the privatizing of state-owned companies have on distribution and exhibition arrangements? How did narrative and aesthetic formats reflect these changes? In which way does contemporary Latin American cinema criticize but also benefit from neoliberal advancements? The author argues that there are loopholes within spaces of commodification that invite criticism and resistance. Initiatives on national, regional and pan-regional level support Latin American film and the ever-expanding funding scape offer opportunities to get film projects off the ground. Filmmakers use the subversive potential of genres to capture specifically Latin American experiences and sensibilities, reflecting on neoliberal ideology, its middle-class conventions and moral regimes
Characteristic distribution and scale interaction of turbulence in a boundary layer
No full textThis work revisits the concept of turbulent boundary layers from a novel perspective on scale transfer. Turbulence production and dissipation together with the energy budgets are analyzed in the velocity gradient invariant phase space. In combination with filtering, the mechanism of scale coupling is investigated and illustrated for different characteristic flow topologies. The understanding of the scale coupling is important to model turbulence. Turbulence models describe the complex interaction of the scales of motion in a simplified form. The essential task of turbulence modeling is to capture the coupling of the modeled and unmodeled scales as well as the evolution of the modeled scales within the unmodeled flow. This work characterizes the scale coupling by focusing on the interfaces between modeled and unmodeled flow such as production and dissipation. The mechanisms that govern the evolution of the modeled quantities are investigated for their core properties and universal features. Direct numerical simulation (DNS) is carried out to obtain data of a compressible zero pressure-gradient flat plate turbulent boundary layer flow. This flow topology allows to unveil the effect of a wall on the coupling of scales and evolution of turbulence
“Mission accomplished” or “mission impossible”: current practices, common challenges and innovative solutions in state-level oil pollution regulation
No full textThis dissertation provides a comprehensive description of state-level oil pollution regulation within the United States. The study acts to identify challenges commonly experienced by those working in this field, and profiles innovative solutions that address these challenges. Recognizing that programs developed by one state may not be amenable to direct adoption by additional jurisdictions, alterations to the existing approaches are suggested, to improve both their effectiveness and generalizability.
A nationwide telephone survey of regulatory programs found to have jurisdiction over oil pollution was conducted; and the information gathered in this way was used to create a unique, in-depth portrait of the field. A set of common challenges were also identified, and paired with programmatic innovations found to exist in particular states. Four programs were identified as particularly promising model solutions, which the researcher visited to conduct multiple interviews.
Among the major findings of this research is the fact that the problem of oil pollution in the United States is likely much more severe than federal data indicate. Although data management practices at the state level are generally poor, it appears that most of the releases experienced today arise not from the activities of the oil industry itself, but from small, use-related sources, such as truck accidents and home heating oil tanks. Unable to address the myriad incidents they experience due to limited regulatory resources, many states opt for a cooperative, rather than a coercive relationship with the regulated community. Very few pursue natural resource damages, despite reported concerns over injuries to use and non-use resource services resulting from spilled oil.
The case studies included in Chapters 5 and 6 of this document provide detailed discussion and analysis of Florida’s Used Oil Recycling Program and Formulaic Approach to natural resource damage assessment; as well as of Wisconsin’s Professional Nutrient Applicator’s Certification Program and SERTS data management system. It is hoped that by sharing the findings of this research the true nature and extent of the nation’s oil pollution problem will be realized, and that the kinds of innovative solutions needed to create a more uniform and effective regulatory environment adopted at a greater rate.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-342)by Josephine Sandberg Faas
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