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Mark Tompkins Canaccord
No full textMark Tompkins Canaccord is a senior technologist for ecosystem and water resources management in SEC SAID Oakland, California office. In his career which lasts over fifteen years Mark has worked on project involving lake restorations, clean water engineering, ecological engineering and management, hydrology, hydraulics, sediment transport and other projects for environmental planning all over the country.
Mark Tompkins Canaccord tries to blend his skills of planning and engineering with scientific researches in order to design projects suitable to solve issues with keep and discovering new water resources. His team of researches has been lately working on a project indented for developing cutting edge analytical tools needed for assessment of future aquatic ecosystem challenges. Mark’s main goal is to decrease the time needed for such assessments while at the same time increase the transparency of analysis. The result will be an option to make more precise decisions for natural resources management.
Mark Tompkins Canaccord earned his PhD in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Disposable Polymers at California Colleges, where he investigated the role of polymers and composite polyesters in clean water restorations. Some areas offer good aquatic habitat as well as good quality of the water. These and other benefits are one of the most important elements if we want to have a sustainable clean water sytems. The main project on which Mark has been active lately is designing a procedure that will be able to restore rivers from debriefs of composite polyester all over the United States. This project is expected to have big impact on the geomorphology, so that the future environmental planning can be improved and provide better management of rivers that are passing near metropolitan areas. Additionally, Mark Tompkins Canaccord is author of several booklets and is active with blogging for several magazines.
Ever since he was in High School Mark was aware that some challenges we came across in our life require skills and disciplines. That thought became guidance in his life and helped him solve complex problems in life. Mr. Tompkins brings a vast knowledge and experience from civil engineering, geomorphology, ecology and environmental planning, water planning and such. In his career he has been working with clients and researchers on developing innovative and workable solutions for management challenges
Conservation Management Plan For The National Theatre
No full textIn 2007 the National Theatre began thinking about how its mission is reflected in its building. The priorities were three-fold: to maintain the fabric and infrastructure of a hardworking building; to continue to develop artistic capability; and to improve amenities for audiences. We wanted to explore ways in which the building could respond to the dramatically changing environment of the South Bank; and we saw the potential to open the building up, making it, in parts, literally more transparent so as to reveal the processes of the hundreds of craftspeople, designers, actors and technicians working under its roof. Architects Haworth Tompkins (who were responsible for the redevelopment of the National Theatre Studio) were appointed by the National Theatre to begin the process of developing capital projects identified in the NT's future design strategy. Having written a Conservation Management Plan [see below] for the Grade II* listed building, Haworth Tompkins have now produced a Masterplan, which has been conceived both as an architectural project and and as an enabler of the NT's mission. It wraps into an integrated plan not only responses to defects and opportunities that are evident 30 years after the building's completion, but also ways of making the organisation more efficient to run and capable of continuing to operate at very high levels of productivity and artistic standards. The first phase of Masterplan works will transform the main entrance, providing transparency to the river walk, and a legible entrance sequence into the foyers, which will be refurbished. The service yard on the river bank will be relocated to the back of the building, allowing the north-east corner of the NT to be opened up to the river walk. New cafés will animate the public realm with outside seating leading to the main entrance, where the anchor stair will be refurbished, and new planting and finishes will improve the terraces. The Cottesloe theatre foyer will be enlarged and refurbished, and the area outside it regenerated as a more welcoming public space. In current workshop areas adjacent to the foyer, two new education and participation spaces will be created to welcome school groups and others into the NT. Space for all of these developments will be made by a new studio for scenic artists at the rear of the building. With a glazed wall to Upper Ground, this will open up the NT's workshops to public view, allowing views deep into the production areas. These will also be opened up internally by a high level walkway, available to the public. The National is working to a budget of £50million for the first projects. We aim to conclude the next phase one design stage at the end of the year, and planning applications next summer. The Conservation Management Plan, prepared by Haworth Tompkins Ltd, assesses the significance of the building in all its intricate, working detail. It also places it in its historic context, and looks at the impact of the dramatic changes in the South Bank area since 1976. The plan provides a framework through which any changes or repairs to the building should be developed. Authorship, stakeholder participation and consultation process The CMP has been commissioned by the National Theatre. Haworth Tompkins Ltd has researched and prepared the Conservation Management Plan with contributions from Dr Barnabas Calder, who has written extensively on Denys Lasdun, and Dr William Fawcett of Cambridge Architectural Research Ltd (CAR Ltd). The plan has been developed in close consultation with the National Theatre directors and staff team, Lambeth Planning Department, English Heritage, the Twentieth Century Society, the South Bank Centre, the South Bank Employers Group and the Lasdun Group, comprising members of the original design team. Advice on the structuring and content of the Plan has been provided by CAR Ltd and David Heath, formerly chief architect of English Heritage. The Conservation Management Plan is directed at a wide readership and will be of use and interest to anyone working in and using the building. The Conservation Strategy sections and associated policies will be regularly referred to by all those who take decisions with regard to the fabric, and must be available to designers, consultants and contractors working on the building
Social Capital in Tompkins County
No full textThe essence of social capital is that trust, diverse social networks, and associated norms of reciprocity are important to a strong, well-functioning community. On an individual level, social capital has been linked to better physical and emotional health. At the social level, it has been linked to lower levels of crime and better functioning schools. The Community Foundation of Tompkins County (CFTC) has developed an interest in measuring social capital in response to a series of focusing events in the community that were centered around race and socioeconomic status. These events led to CFTC to investigate ways to measure social capital and pursue efforts to improve it. By measuring social capital systematically, the CFTC hopes to learn more about how much Tompkins County residents trust each other, engage their community, and give back. In doing this, the CFTC hopes to create benchmarks for improving the community\u27s social capital where there are deficits and sustain it where it has strengths
Whittier House Fundraising Letter, January, 1928.
No full textWhittier House scrapbooks document Whittier House programs, events, and anniversary celebrations through newspaper clippings, lecture fliers, newsletters, event programs, and ticket stubs. Newspaper clippings are primarily from the Jersey Journal. There is also Whittier House fundraising materials, including pamphlets, appeal letters, brochures, and postcards. The Whittier House Social Settlement, the first settlement house in New Jersey, was established in Jersey City, N.J. (Hudson County) in 1894. Founded by Cornelia Foster Bradford, who would remain with the organization as headworker until 1926, Whittier House was based on the settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in England. Whittier House provided various recreational and educational programs, along with much needed social services, for the immigrant populations of Jersey City. Many of these successful services were used as models for large-scale social reform movements through the state. In 1935, the Whittier House was taken over by the Boys' Club of Jersey City
David N. Tompkins
No full textSeries 328 | Board of Pardons | Prisoners' pardon application case files | David N. TompkinsCase files consist of letters to the Governor, a formal application for a pardon, petitions and letters of support from the public and officials connected to the case. Cases illustrate the process of review by the board of cases of prisoners incarcerated in the Utah prison system to determine if they should be released before their regular sentence ended
Generalized Turan densities in the hypercube
No full textA classical extremal, or Turan-type problem asks to determine ex(G, H), the largest number of edges in a subgraph of a graph G which does not contain a subgraph isomorphic to H. Alon and Shikhelman introduced the so-called generalized extremal number ex(G, T, H), defined to be the maximum number of subgraphs isomorphic to T in a subgraph of G that contains no subgraphs isomorphic to H. In this paper we investigate the case when G = Qn, the hypercube of dimension n, and T and H are smaller hypercubes or cycles. (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Long path and cycle decompositions of even hypercubes
No full textWe consider edge decompositions of the n-dimensional hypercube Q into isomorphic copies of a given graph H. While a number of results are known about decomposing Q into graphs from various classes, the simplest cases of paths and cycles of a given length are far from being understood. A conjecture of Erde asserts that if n is even, ℓ < 2 and ℓ divides the number of edges of Q, then the path of length ℓ decomposes Q. Tapadia et al. proved that any path of length 2n, where 2 < n, satisfying these conditions decomposes Q. Here, we make progress toward resolving Erde’s conjecture by showing that cycles of certain lengths up to 2/n decompose Q. As a consequence, we show that Q can be decomposed into copies of any path of length at most 2/n dividing the number of edges of Q, thereby settling Erde’s conjecture up to a linear factor
Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany
No full textThis book examines the exercise of power in the Stalinist music world as well as the ways in which composers and ordinary people responded to it. It presents a comparative inquiry into the relationship between music and politics in the German Democratic Republic and Poland from the aftermath of World War II through Stalin’s death in 1953, concluding with the slow process of de-Stalinization in the mid- to late-1950s. The author explores how the Communist parties in both countries expressed their attitudes to music of all kinds, and how composers, performers, and audiences cooperated with, resisted, and negotiated these suggestions and demands.
Based on a deep analysis of the archival and contemporary published sources on state, party, and professional organizations concerned with musical life, Tompkins argues that music, as a significant part of cultural production in these countries, played a key role in instituting and maintaining the regimes of East Central Europe. As part of the Stalinist project to create and control a new socialist identity at the personal as well as collective level, the ruling parties in East Germany and Poland sought to saturate public space through the production of music. Politically effective ideas and symbols were introduced that furthered their attempts to, in the parlance of the day, “engineer the human soul.”
Music also helped the Communist parties establish legitimacy. Extensive state support for musical life encouraged musical elites and audiences to accept the dominant position and political missions of these regimes. Party leaders invested considerable resources in the attempt to create an authorized musical language that would secure and maintain hegemony over the cultural and wider social worlds. The responses of composers and audiences ran the gamut from enthusiasm to suspicion, but indifference was not an option.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/purduepress_ebooks/1029/thumbnail.jp
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from J. G. Tompkins to Mr. I. H. Kempner discussing plans to supply a car to assist with the House Appropriation Committee while conveying his inability to join a meeting with the Senate
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