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Literary Studies : The Author Cat - Clemens's Life in Fiction
No full textA review of The Author Cat: Clemens's Life in Fiction by Forrest G. Robinson (Fordham UP, 2007).\ud
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Even at its most basic, guilt forms a counterweight to the hesitancy and unpleasantness of authorship, forcing writers back to the desk when they have come to despise their work. Guilt as task-master is familiar to most, even those to whom more elevated feelings, such as inspiration, make occasional visits. It seems that guilt is effective because writing is so seldom an organic or natural activity - rather, good writing emerges out of unhappy pressures that eventually overwhelm the writer's evasive strategies, from visits to the fridge door to the most sophisticated forms they take, such as when the author creates a narrative persona that claims to have owned up..
Leaf Extracellular Ascorbate Metabolism in Relation to Ozone Tolerance in Two Soybean Cultivars
No full textAntioxidants in the leaf apoplast have the potential to detoxify ozone (O3) and active oxygen species (AOS), and thus may play a role in preventing plant injury. To investigate this possibility, two experiments were conducted to compare antioxidant metabolism in the leaf extracellular spaces of O3-tolerant (Essex) and O3-sensitive (Forrest) cultivars of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. In the first experiment, a canopy profile consisting of the 2nd, 4th and 6th main stem trifoliates was sampled from plants grown for four weeks in a greenhouse supplied with charcoal-filtered air (CF) to assess genetic and leaf age effects under low stress conditions. In general, apoplastic ascorbate (AA) levels were low ( 50 nmol DHA g-1 FW) relative to AA, particularly in younger leaves (250-450 nmol DHA g-1 FW), resulting in a low ascorbate redox state. Ascorbate oxidase (AO) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) activity were found in leaf apoplast samples, suggesting that the enzymes played a role in maintaining ascorbate primarily in the oxidized state. In the second experiment, the second main stem trifoliates of four week-old plants were compared in the two genotypes following exposure to CF or elevated O3 conditions. Following a six-day treatment period with 77 ppb O3 for 7 h d-1, foliar injury was greater in O3-treated Forrest than in Essex, and total leaf guaiacol peroxidase activity was correlated with the greater O3 sensitivity of Forrest. Under both CF and elevated O3 conditions, there was a significantly higher apoplastic total antioxidant capacity in Essex than in Forrest correlating with greater O3 tolerance. Although reduced AA concentration was greater in apoplasts sample from O3-treated Essex than Forrest, the difference (6.5 nmol g-1 FW) was unlikely to play a major role in the differential O3 sensitivity of these two cultivars. Apoplast AA was generally less than 30% of the total antioxidant capacity found in apoplast samples, suggesting that other antioxidants might be involved in the detoxification of O3 in the extracellular space in these soybean cultivars
A handbook of gymnastics
No full textIn this small book, a cheap volume intended for sale at railway stations, John George Wood describes some basic gymnastic exercises. He covers exercises both with and without apparatuses, such as parallel bars, poles, and ropes, with accompanying illustrations of the exercises described.
Although published under the pseudonym of "George Forrest," this edition advertises the entire Routledge Sixpenny Handbook series on the back cover, where Rev. J. G. Wood is named as the author. Among the other titles in the series are handbooks on "Croquet," "Swimming and Skating," "Billiards and Bagatelle," and "Manly Exercises.
Using Clustered Climate Regimes For
No full textspect to the N charac- Corresponding author address: Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831--6036 USA; e-mail: [email protected] Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE--AC05--00OR22725. Matter Organic 1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E G H C B E FG H 4 2 1 Temperature Organic Matter Rainfall Perform multivariate clustering. non-hierarchical statistical 1 3 4 2 Cluster Bins F2 H1 D6 E4 D5 C6 B7 A8 A6 F8 G8 G7 variables become axes of the data space. Map cell values become coordinates for the respective axis. Descriptive Group map cells with similar values for these descriptive variables. space and color them according to their cluster number. Reassemble map cells in geographic Temperature H1 Temperature G7 H1 Rainfall Geographic Space Data Space D5 D6 E4 F2 G8 F8 E6 C6 B7 A8 A6 Figure 1: The Multiv
Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Time-Series
No full textding author address: Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831--6036 USA; e-mail: [email protected] Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy under contract number DE--AC05--00OR22725. Matter Organic 1 2 3 4 5 6 A B C D E G H C B E FG H 4 2 1 Temperature Organic Matter Rainfall Perform multivariate clustering. non-hierarchical statistical 1 3 4 2 Cluster Bins F2 H1 D6 E4 D5 C6 B7 A8 A6 F8 G8 G7 variables become axes of the data space. Map cell values become coordinates for the respective axis. Descriptive Group map cells with similar values for these descriptive variables. space and color them according to their cluster number. Reassemble map cells in geographic Temperature H1 Temperature G7 H1 Rainfall Geographic Space Data Space D5 D6 E4 F2 G8 F8 E6 C6 B7 A8 A6 Figure 1: The Multivariate Geographic Clustering (MGC
The evolution of central banking
No full textInstitutions known as central banks emerged or were established as commercial banks or government banks. Their evolution into central banks came with their monopoly issuing notes and their role as lender of last resort, among other functions. Carrying out commercial business on a large scale created a conflict of interest, so this practice was abandoned. Establishing the right degree of dependence was difficult, and changed in times of crisis. Independence is important: it helps to establish reputation, which is everything in banking. The Great Depression, widely attributed to inept Central Bank behavior, interrupted central bank independence, but poor price behavior brought about its return. In the 19th century, laissez faire and the gold standard encouraged and sometimes allowed for considerable independence. Greater changes came in the new dirigiste environment following the Great Depression and the rise of the managed economy. Economies in transition confront high inflation and the problem of maintaining monetary stability just as newly independent developing countries did in the 1960s. How can inflation be controlled? Under fiat regimes, the money supply is controlled by the domestic monetary authority. But can they control monetary growth? Prior and current records are not encouraging. Will authorities have the credibility they need? Options include maintaining a fixed exchange rate or reviving currency boards. Currency boards function like an independent central bank, holding reserves and tying domestic currency to strong foreign currency. There are drawbacks to currency boards, especially for countries in transition. They require a considerable sacrifice of sovereignty, and are unlikely to appeal to countries that are only beginning to recover lost sovereignty.Financial Intermediation,Payment Systems&Infrastructure,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Theory&Research,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring,Banks&Banking Reform,Economic Stabilization,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Financial Crisis Management&Restructuring
Mrs. Helen Douglas Morton Obituary
No full textNewspaper Article - Mrs. Helen Douglas Morton ObituaryAlberta Women's Institutes; AWI CollectionDeaths
MORTON— On Sat.. Oct. 17. Mrs.
Helen Douglas Morton of Vegreville.
passed away at the age of 68 years.
She is survived by 2 sons.' Edmund
Forrest of Vegreville and Alexander
Charles of Calgary, also 2 grandchildren.
Her husband predeceased her
by 8 months.
Funeral service will be held on
Wed. Oct. 21 at 2: 00 p. m. at the
Vegreville United Church. Rev. G.
B. Mather will officiate and interment
will be made in the family
plot. Riverside Cemetery. No flowers
by request. Donations to the Canadian
Cancer Society or the Canadian
National Institute for the Blind will
be gratefully accepted. Park Memorial
Ltd.. ( Vegreville) Funeral Administrators
and Directors. The Chapel on
the Boulevard
With an olive branch and a shillelagh: the political career of Senator Paddy Lynch (1867-1944)
No full textAs a loyal Empire man and ardent conscriptionist, Irish born Senator Paddy Lynch swam against the prevailing Irish Catholic Labor political current. He was one of those MP's who followed Prime Minister W.M. Hughes out of the Federal Labor caucus in November 1916, serving out the rest of his political career in the Nationalist ranks. On the face of things, he represents something of a contradiction.
A close examination of Lynch's youth in Ireland, his early years in Australia and his subsequent parliamentary career helps us to resolve this apparent paradox. It also enables us to build up a picture of Lynch the man and to explain his political odyssey. He emerges as representative of that early generation of conservative Laborites (notably J.C. Watson, W.G. Spence and George Pearce) who, once they had achieved their immediate goals of reform, saw their subsequent role as defending the prevailing social order.
Like many of these men, Lynch's commitment to the labour movement's principles of solidarity and collective endeavour co-existed with a desire for material self advancement. More fundamentally, when Lynch accumulated property and was eventually able to take up the occupation which he had known in Ireland, farming, his evolving class interest inevitably occasioned a change in political outlook. Lynch is shown to have been an essentially conservative Meath farmer whose early involvement in the labour movement in Australia can be largely explained as a temporary phase consequent on emigration.
A single-minded and robust politician, Lynch was able to reconcile first his Irish and then his Australian nationalist loyalties with the cause of the Empire as the best guarantee of Australia's future security and advancement. He both represented and reinforced the more conservative Irish Catholic political climate which prevailed in Western Australia, compared to the more populous eastern states. The relationship of the Catholic Irish to the early labour movement in Australia was more complex and problematical than orthodox thinking has allowed. As someone who straddled both political camps, Lynch encapsulated many of the inherent ambiguities of the immigrant Irish. A study of his career allows us to gain a deeper insight into the complexities of the Irish-Australian experience
A review of the literature on sport and physical activity in relation to drug misuse prevention and adolescents
No full textThe purpose of this review was to examine the evidence base in published work (refereed journal articles and expert reports) for the contention that participation in sport or related physical activity is beneficial within the specific contexts of health promotion aimed at preventing young people from becoming involved in using harmful substances, or specific intervention with young people using illicit drugs
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