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Dreams of a social economy
No full textEd Mayo looks at the work and ideas of John Bird, Iain Tuckett and Edgar Cahn and gleans some salient lessons for the construction of the social economy in its latest guise. Copyright (c) 2010 The Author. Public Policy Research (c) 2010 ippr.
Critical pedagogy in hard financial times
No full textPeter Mayo takes issue with education financing not from an economic or technical
viewpoint, but from a philosophical and systemic one, drawing on critical pedagogy.
There is no sense, this article argues, to talk of higher education or its funding without
reference to the capitalist system which the mainstream education discourse reaffirms. The author concludes with an alternative vision of lifelong learning as a social act for the creation and enhancing of democratic spaces, reflected in the ongoing global “Occupy” protests for social equality.peer-reviewe
Object drop in L3 acquisition
No full textThe topic of cross-linguistic differences regarding the overt or null expression of arguments has been considered both in first (L1) and second language (L2) acquisition. There is abundant literature on both subject and object drop with different language pairings but the issue has not been considered in third language (L3) acquisition. The main goal of this article is to analyse the L3 interlanguage of Basque-Spanish bilinguals regarding the acceptability and interpretation of null objects. The three languages involved in the study display different semantic requirements for the target structure, with Basque allowing for a null object option across-the-board, Spanish only under certain semantic conditions, and English disallowing it in the standard variety. Two trilingual, one bilingual and a control group (n = 119) rated experimental items embedded in context, presented in a written and aural format on a computer screen. Findings point to the successful acquisition of the target structure, as well as a clear influence of Spanish in the three experimental groups
A nation of members: civic participation through membership in the UK
No full textAs Co-operatives UK launches a new report setting out the performance of the UK’s dynamic co-operative sector, its Secretary General, Ed Mayo, looks at what it means to be a member in today’s society
An American lady in Paris, 1828-1829; the diary of Mrs. John Mayo,
No full textTitle vignette (Mayo coat of arms
Statistical Science and Philosophy of Science: Whrer Do / Should They Meet in 2011 (and Beyond)?
No full textphilosophy of science, philosophy of statistics, decision theory, likelihood, subjective probability, Bayesianism, Bayes theorem, Fisher, Neyman and Pearson, Jeffreys, induction, frequentism, reliability, informativeness
Statistical Scientist Meets a Philosopher of Science: A Conversation
No full textphilosophy of science, philosophy of statistics, decision theory, likelihood, subjective probability, Bayesianism, Bayes theorem, Fisher, Neyman and Pearson, Jeffreys, induction, frequentism, reliability, informativeness
Mayo, E. June 30, 2018. Crystal Braye interviewing Ed Mayo, Burin.
No full textInterview focused on swamp boats (also known as swamp bottom), a style of boat that was unique to the Burin area in Placentia Bay. Dr. Mayo has a personal interest in boats and had begun construction on a swamp boat at the time of this interview. He had previously been in contact with Crystal while researching the design and construction details of this boat. Note that during the interview Ed refers to a “southscott dory,” but intended to mean “swampscott dory.”"0:00:00 Audio starts while Ed is talking about William “Billy” Paul whose family owned swamp boats. “When he was a teenager, that was his interest when he came home from school. He’d go down the store where they were building them each winter… He can basically see every part of the boat in his mind…”
0:00:50 Crystal discusses Sylvester Churchill in St. Lawrene who used to own swamp boat. He has two photos, one of which was given to Rick Rennie to build a model from.
0:01:20 Ed refers to pictures of model he had previously sent to Crystal [see: Burin_Swamp Boat Model (1)-(8)] and says he found another one. Says there were 4 models built by the same man and he has seen two of them. Believes his name is Matthew Manning - was not a builder but did the models. His brother may have built full size. Sharon Manning in Epworth was helpful in providing Ed with details.
0:04:10* Crystal asked how he became interested in swamp boats. Says he was always
interested in boats in general. Grandfathers owned boats. Neighbours from Great Burin had a dory and he remembers always asking to go out in it. “The deal was if I passed grade eight, I didn’t want a bike. I wanted a boat. And my father, he kept his word. I passed grade eight, and he must have planned it because within a week this new maybe 10 or 11 foot flat, like a dory shape but cut off on the stern, arrived. And it was exclusively mine. The first thing I did was take a sheet - stole a sheet basically - from my mother and made a sail. We had a lot of fun in that thing in high school. When I left home after high school I went back after 6 months and it was gone…” Father gave to boys for bonfire to avoid worry of others using.
0:07:10 Went to university in Halifax and was not around boats for a number of years. On
way home to Burin he purchased a 17 foot sailboat. Had been on sailboat a few weeks before he came home and his love for them was revived.
0:08:10 Ed grew up in Burin Bay. Looking across the harbour from where he lived was Wandsworth and Epworth. There was once another settlement between Wandsworth and Corbin called L'Anse-à-l'Eau but people no longer live there.
0:09:15 Boats common when Ed grew up were dories and flats. Also a lot of swamp boats and regular punts. Says there were also 7 or 8 trap crews that fished in trap skiffs about 35 feet long.
0:10:10 Swamp boats were used for inshore fishing. Speculates that the distance between the seats were just the right size to get a trawl tub between - trawl tubs made from apple barrels. “Most people claim that the swamp was a pretty stable boat. And there are a few people that said they were properly named: to swamp.” When growing up Ed’s friend’s father had one he used for fishing and Ed remembers spending time in it.
0:12:15 Ed says there wasn’t much space between the seat and engine room but that’s where the water would be bailed. They used a half bucket, like a scoop on a handle. Described as a half tub. Like a “scoop” or “piggen” but was a different name.
0:13:35 Ed begins to provide a description of what swamp boat looks like. Says from a distance it might look like a sailboat. He says he distinguishes between punts and rodneys: punts have inboard motors and rodneys are rowboats and could have a small outboard. Punts are “beefier”.
0:15:15 Continue to describe swamp boats. Stem has a nice curve, similar to schooners - a raking stem. A bit of a flat bottom and the stern is the same as a grand banks dory. Bottom is flat but also has a keel.
0:17:10 Says most traditional boats have been built with frames before plank. Swamp boats were planked before timbered. Clinker built planks give sturdiness that would allow it, unlike carvel planking.
0:18:10 When speaking to Mr. Paul, he was told that the first two boats that came from Nova Scotia - swamp boats - were steamed laths.
0:19:45 Ed shows Crystal a photo of a similar boat from Nova Scotia, which is also similar to Swampscott dory from Massachusetts. Likely connection between Swampscott dory and swamp bottom boats in Burin area.
0:21:55 Swampscott dories were used for fishing. They were designed to be launched from the beach and had a flat bottom. Speculates swamp boats evolved from these dories when inboard engines were introduced.
0:22:40 Ed refers to article in a Nova Scotian newspaper about a retired sea captain that built a swampscott dory which is now in a museum in Port Hawkesbury. Similar to swamp boat but without motor.
0:23:40 Billy Paul told Ed that two families in Epworth - Mannings and Roberts - often built two boats in the winter. Billy doesn’t remember them getting the timber, so he preseumes those having the boats built by the Mannings/Roberts would provide the timber. But Ed was also told by someone else that “those two guys [Manning and Roberts] would never pass by a crooked stick.”
0:24:45 Crystal asks about sail often seen on stern of swamp boats. Ed describes its purpose. Called a “driver”. Was used to keep the boat in position while hauling trawl line.
0:25:53 Ed refers to swamp boat in Rushoon owned by Greg Whiffen. Says that boat has two sails, one up front as well as the driver. Ed says he doesn’t remember ever seeing two sails in the boat, but does remember seeing a place to put a sail forward of the driver. Speculates that when engines first became available, gas was relatively expensive so “I think in the early days, if the wind was suitable, they would sail to and from and shut off their motors to save a bit of gas.”
0:27:20 Crystal asked about engines. Ed says he thinks they were five or six horsepower make and break engines. Remembers Kelvin engines having a unique sound which earned them the nickname “chuck chucks.”
0:29:30 Ed mentions a conversation he had with a patient about Easthope Engines. Instruction manual that came with engines included the first four chapters of the New Testament.
0:30:55 Crystal asks when swamp boats faded out. Ed says it was around the 60s. Remembers there was one still around in the 70s but it wasn’t used for fishing. It was owned by lighthouse keeper (Manning in Burin - no relation to Manning in Epworth) and ended up pulled up on the beach and deteriorated. Ed says there was also one in Mooring Cove that was deteriorating on the beach for years, but was burned the year before he went to go look at it closely. Another swamp that was still around was lost during Hurricane Igor went the stage it was in washed out to sea. Ed thinks that one was a secondhand boat that belonged to once belonged to Benny Mitchell.
0:33:30 Ed refers to swamp in Rushoon owned by Whiffens. Was built by Greg Whiffens father. Says it's not traditional style. The shape is the same but the planks are carvel, where traditionally they would have been clinker. Ed says he heard from a man originally from Flat Islands that someone there had a swamp and decided to repair it, and went from clinker to carvel but it made the boat unseaworthy and was no longer able to be used for fishing. Speculate that the ridges of clinker built gives you different buoyancy and resistance on the ocean.
0:35:10 Crystal asked what boats were used when swamp boats faded out. Ed says that some people went to speed boats. When he returned to Burin in mid-70s people were building speed boats with carvel planks and steamed laths. Says that after a few years fiberglass became popular. Also small longliner type of boats built with fiberglass and diesel engines were being used.
0:37:25 Decline of fishing. Those that continue to fish now are fishing offshore in larger boats. There are only a few boats that don’t fish offshore in the area.
0:38:00 Discussion of current fisheries.
0:40:55 Crystal asked who was known to build swamp boats in the area. Ed names Ren Roberts and Mannings. Possible Jim Manning. And other Roberts. Families of brothers. Ed says he didn’t see a lot of boats being built when he was growing up. Says the first longliner in the area was built while he was in high school in the 60s.
0:42:35 Says there were still older buildings of fish merchants around when he was growing up. Describes artificial driers. Describes liver factory that was once located where he currently has a wharf in Burin Bay. Was purchased by O’Ryans and turned used for a coal business. Ed remembers seeing schooners going back and forth with coal. Mentions another building on the other end of Burin Bay that he used to play basketball in when he was a child.
0:45:15 Crystal asks Ed why he wants to build a swamp boat. Ed responds: “Because I want someone else to build one, and I don’t think that’s going to happen unless I build a poor one and someone will say, ‘I can do better than that,’ and that’ll be great!” Plans to build one and mess around with it for a summer and then likely get rid of it.
0:25:50 Ed has also built a cedar canoe and a couple of rowboats. Also built a 17’ sailboat. Returns to story started earlier about boat purchased on his way home from Halifax. Built an extension on his father's shed to finish the boat over the winter. When it was getting close to time for launch, there was a flash fire and boat was lost with shed. A few years later he used the same plans to build and used for a summer and sold for what it cost to build. Also built a smaller 12’ sailboat that he sold to Rideout Tools in early 90s.
0:50:59 End of audio recording.
Doctors\u27 Explanation of Opposition to Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
No full text“…really…it has nothing to do with money!” An editorial cartoon by Ed Gamble, the cartoon references a doctor speaking to a laughing crowd on the topic of Mayo Clinic opening in Jacksonville, Florida. Box: 6 Folder: 5https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/ed_gamble/1104/thumbnail.jp
Antonio Gramsci’s impact on critical pedagogy
No full textThis paper provides an account of Antonio Gramsci’s impact on the area of critical pedagogy. It indicates the Gramscian influence on the thinking of major exponents of the field. It foregrounds Gramsci's ideas and then indicates how they have been taken up by a selection of critical pedagogy exponents who were chosen on the strength of their identification and engagement with Gramsci's ideas, some of them even having written entire essays on Gramsci. The essay concludes with a discussion concerning an aspect of Gramsci's concerns, the question of powerful knowledge, which, in the present author's view, provides a formidable challenge to critical pedagogues.peer-reviewe
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