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Researcher Profile: Derek Lawson
No full textDerek Lawson, Ph.D., CFP®, is an Assistant Professor of Personal Financial Planning at Kansas State University and a partner and financial planner at Priority Financial Partners, based in Durango, CO. His research is practitioner-focused, allowing him to combine his past and present experience as a financial planner with his research interest
Tom Lawson
No full textTom Lawson is Professor of History and Pro Vice Chancellor for Arts, Design and Social Sciences at Northumbria University. He is the author and editor of several books including Debates on the Holocaust (2010) and most recently The Last Man: a British Genocide in Tasmania (2014).https://commons.erau.edu/genocide-bios/1044/thumbnail.jp
Social housing strategies, financing mechanisms and outcomes
No full textThis review provides a brief update of developments in social housing policies and national strategies in a cross‐section of developed countries since 2007. The countries included in the review are: Austria, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden (described collectively as European countries) and the United States of America. The time‐frame for this exercise is largely influenced by timing of the global economic downturn and credit crisis which has, in many countries, prompted fundamental policy shifts. With this in mind, the next part of this introductory chapter highlights some of the key features of the post‐2007 economic context for housing policy.
In selecting countries for inclusion in the review we have aimed to encompass a diversity of national social housing systems in countries with broadly similar economic and social profiles to Australia. Jurisdictions included are those where one or more of the contributing authors have direct knowledge of the social housing system and have recently conducted research on aspects of housing policy.
The review has been commissioned by Housing NSW to provide background information for the ongoing development of The Housing Strategy for New South Wales. It builds on and extends research funded by the City Futures Research Centre (UNSW), the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) and OTB TU Delft which is published in the following conference papers and reports: Lawson, Gilmour and Milligan (2010); Lawson (2009); Lawson and Milligan (2007); Milligan and Lawson (2008); Lawson and Nieboer (2009); Lawson, Berry, Yates and Milligan (2009); Milligan, Gurran, Lawson, Phibbs and Phillips (2009); and Hulse, Milligan and Easthope (2011). The report also draws on the UK Housing Review (Pawson & Wilcox, 2011 and forthcoming 2012) and on recently published material available online compiled by various research and sector organisations in a range of countries.
The report was prepared for Housing NSW, Department of Families and Communities, NSW Government in December 2011 and has been recently release
Bipolar Lawson Tau-Surfaces and Generalized Lawson Tau-Surfaces
No full textRecently Penskoi [J. Geom. Anal. 25 (2015), 2645-2666, arXiv:1308.1628] generalized the well known two-parametric family of Lawson tau-surfaces τr,m minimally immersed in spheres to a three-parametric family Ta,b,c of tori and Klein bottles minimally immersed in spheres. It was remarked that this family includes surfaces carrying all extremal metrics for the first non-trivial eigenvalue of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on the torus and on the Klein bottle: the Clifford torus, the equilateral torus and surprisingly the bipolar Lawson Klein bottle τ¯₃,₁. In the present paper we show in Theorem 1 that this three-parametric family Ta,b,c includes in fact all bipolar Lawson tau-surfaces τ¯r,m. In Theorem 3 we show that no metric on generalized Lawson surfaces is maximal except for τ¯₃,₁ and the equilateral torus.This result was obtained during studies of the author at the National Research University –
Higher School of Economics, Moscow and the author is very grateful for its hospitality. The
author also thanks A.V. Penskoi for the statement of this problem, many useful discussions and
invaluable help in preparing this manuscript. The research of the author was partially supported
by an NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship and by AG Laboratory NRU-HSE, Russian Federation
government grant, ag. 11.G34.31.0023
The Steven F. Lawson Papers: A Collection Guide
No full textSteven F. Lawson is professor emeritus of history at Rutgers University. He holds a B.A. in history from City College of New York (1966), and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in American history from Columbia University (1967, 1974). Lawson began his teaching career at the University of South Florida, St. Petersburg in 1972. He moved to the USF, Tampa campus in 1978, but continued to teach courses on the St. Pete Campus through the mid-1980s. He served as chair of the USF History Department from 1983 to 1986. From 1992 to 1998 he was head of the History Department at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and professor of history at Rutgers from 1999 to 2009. He has written extensively about civil rights, particularly about voting rights for African Americans in the post-World War II period, and is the author of eight books, thirty journal articles, book chapters, and essays. His books include Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South, 1944-1969 (Columbia University Press, 1976), which won the Phi Alpha Theta Award for Best First Book in 1977; In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks and Electoral Politics, 1965-1982 (Columbia University Press, 1985), a CHOICE Outstanding Book for 1986; Running for Freedom: Black Politics in America since 1941 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), 4th edition; and (with Nancy A. Hewitt) Exploring American Histories: A Survey with Sources (Bedford-Macmillan, 2018), 3rd edition.
Lawson has been a consultant for the National Parks Service, the National Civil Rights Museum, and the award-winning documentary film series Eyes on the Prize. He served as managing editor and then associate editor of Tampa Bay History from 1979 to 1992 and as co-director of the North Carolina Politics Project at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill from 1995 to 1996. He has also been an expert witness in several court cases, including Warren v. Krivanek in 1985, Concerned Citizens of Hardee County Florida v. County Commissioners of Hardee County in 1989, U.S. v. Georgia/ Brooks v. Miller in 1996, and United States of America vs. The State of North Carolina; The North Carolina State Board of Elections; and Kim W. Strach in 2013
Letter from [Frank Chin] to Momo and Lawson, January 21, 1998
No full textA letter to Momo and Lawson, possibly from Frank Chin, about a performance of the story Kaguya Hime, princess of the moon in Japanese folklore. The purpose of the performance is to drum up interest for the children's storytelling event that would be part of the tribute to Michi Weglyn on February 21, 1998.These materials are from box 73 and 74 of the Frank Chin Papers. The Frank Chin Papers contain personal and professional correspondence between Frank Chin and Michi Weglyn relating to particular projects on which either author was working as well as files related to the Day of Remembrance Tribute to Michi Weglyn
Henry lives!: Learning from Lawson fandom
No full textIn an age when many fan activities are undertaken via online networks, devotees of long-dead Australian author Henry Lawson are predominantly bound by face-to-face participation in shared commemorative events. Traditionally seen by fans and readers as 'the Mate of Australia', Lawson is a figure who has inspired a constellation of transformative fan practices ranging from impersonation to extreme outback pilgrimages. Based on interviews with fans and participant observation, this article will show Henry Lawson Society events are intrinsically interactive, encouraging all members to participate in a variety of modes, through visual art, music, poetry and theatre. I argue that Henry Lawson fans are productive rather than critical, circulating their homages within a well-defined community of interest. I argue that Henry Lawson fans re-deploy texts in creative ways in order to make sense of their own social experience. Through a study the fan activities of passionate amateurs - such as Henry Lawson Literary and Memorial Society members - 'nonauthorised' ways of interpreting texts may be discerned, providing alternatives to the 'suspicious reading' of critics
Aesop's Fables: A New Version Written by Munro Leaf with Illustrations by Robert Lawson. Collector's Edition. Bound in genuine leather.
No full textI finally broke down and picked up this fancy rendition of a book I have enjoyed very much. The cover is dramatic, the binding is made of buffalo, with moire endleaves and excellent paper--and I still like the art, particularly the full-page illustrations; in fact I like it here more than I did in the original 1941 edition! There is a newly commissioned frontispiece of Aesop by Gillian Tyler, as the newly added Publisher's Preface points out. I think my three copies may represent three stages in the publisher's history with the book. The Gatti copy does the frontispiece in brown, not black, and adds The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written to the title-page. Its covers have not the portrait of a fox but an abstract design, and its framing work on the cover and spine are done in egg-and-dart designs instead of arrows. My third copy drops the title page's reference to The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, perhaps because Easton's series grew beyond one hundred. What a thoughtful gift!This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Munro Lea
Henry Lawson lighted lamps for us in a vast and lonely habitat...
No full textMiles Franklin’s 1942 homage to Henry Lawson was the twentieth annual commemorative speech to this revered Australian author. Each year after his death admirers, family members and friends of Lawson would get together in Melbourne and Sydney to give speeches and celebrate his legacy. But the question of where to commentate him needed to be resolved. In 1927 the renowned local artist George W. Lambert submitted a model for a bronze statue of the author to the Henry Lawson Memorial Committee. Money was raised and the statue was commissioned: it shows a lithe Lawson in baggy trousers and rolled-up sleeves, possibly reciting to an audience, with a swagman sitting on one side and a sheep dog on the other.</p
Ontology and causality in comparative housing studies: Explaining the different role of limited profit housing in Vienna and Zurich
No full textIt has been argued in detail elsewhere that debates and indeed misunderstandings in comparative housing research often arise because housing systems and their development can be perceived and therefore analysed from a range of theoretical positions (Lawson, 2006). This paper considers a number of ontological alternatives and also examines the concept of change in housing studies, contrasting different approaches to causality. It is argued that in order to understand and explain different forms of housing consumption, it would be beneficial to focus on the changing definition of interdependent emergent relations in their contingent context which includes path dependent institutions and ideologies mediating the integral processes of housing promotion, finance, construction, management and consumption. This approach is inspired by the critical realist philosophy of Bhaskar (1979) further developed and applied to social science by Sayer (2000) and Danermark et al, (2002), which is concerned with the complex and layered nature of reality, embracing both perception and meaning, actual events and underlying social relations and has been applied to explanations of various housing and urban phenomena (Lawson, 2006, Fitzpatrick, 2005, Banai, 1995, Cloke et al, 1991). This paper briefly reviews progress in comparing and explaining different phases in housing history and proposes a way forward. A tentative application is made by comparing the role and market position of limited profit housing in Switzerland and Austria, two case studies often overlooked in Anglo housing research and never compared. No attempt is made to provide a detailed chronology; rather the emphasis here is on the application and revision of theoretical concepts concerning emergent relations, path dependency and the variety of capitalism thesis. The final section argues that the comparative historical explanation of two rental dominated housing markets is relevant to broader debates in housing policy and touches on a number of theoretical dilemmas. This concluding discussion sharpens the focus of emergent relations and institutional path dependency as causal terms in housing development, emphasizes the dynamic and scalar role of state structures in this process and highlights the variety of capitalist accumulation strategies in housing systems, which include an integral role for nonprofit housing in rental markets.OTB Research Institut
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