260 research outputs found
The Soldier's Marching Song
No full text(Color) Printed in blue, this postcard depicts two flags (Great Britain and the Royal Standard) and a crown with the words "Keep the Flag Flying." As per the title, the text can be sung to the tune of "Ring the Bell, Watchman" and the lyrics are written by Ralph W. Phipps specifically as a war song. This card is uninscribed and unposted
Bedaux Expedition Memoirs:
No full textIn 1934, French-born American millionaire Charles Bedaux embarked upon an expedition to cross 2,300 kilometers of unmapped northern BC territory east of the Rocky Mountains, using the then newly designed Citroën halftrack vehicles, initiating one of the most extravagantly equipped overland parties ever seen in British Columbia – including a fleet of automobiles, 130 packhorses, 53 Canadian cowboys, 400 pounds of books, more than 20 tons of supplies, 2 professional surveyors, a geologist, and a film crew led by Oscar-winning Hollywood cinematographer Floyd Crosby.
A hand-written memoir and typed notes have survived from the expedition that was created by A.H. Phipps, one of the surveying crew members who recorded his observations about the terrain, surveying activities, and ultimately the causes for the expedition’s failure. The memoirs document evidence of the regional participation of the team, from the involvement of individual cowboys from the Peace River country, to interactions with pioneer families from the Peace River region, and interactions with First Nations individuals from Northern British Columbia that the Bedaux party encountered on its route. Additionally, Phipps provides personal remarks about members of the Bedaux party.Archival Accession Number: 2004.
Hauntings – A nodalist study
No full textSince Deleuze and Guattari first described the concept of the rhizome as a model of cultural transmission in A Thousand Plateaus (1980), a new way of processing information in the Arts and Social Sciences has emerged – ‘Nodalism’. Philip Gochenour has convincingly argued that units of culture can now be thought of as ‘nodes’ existing in a nonhierarchical, web-like network. Information transfer between nodes in the network is horizontal, omni-directional and not necessarily teleological, a way of viewing the world which has been paralleled and actualized in the last twenty years by the emergence, growth and ubiquity of the internet and the World Wide Web.
The author – a developing audiovisual artist – here offers four videomusic pieces and one virtual sound-synthesis tool. At first glance, the pieces may appear to have little in common. However, the commentary will attempt to show that they are subtly linked together, immersed in a cocoon of rhizomatic, pluralistic, thread-like connections.
The strongest ‘thread’ holding them together appears to be the trope of being ‘haunted’ in some way – either by influence, genre, or overarching concept. However, this thesis will attempt to show how a detailed consideration of each piece results in a highly complex final picture in which the pieces can be thought of as individual cultural nodes suspended in a dense rhizomatic mass of lateral cultural threads. For the sake of completion, however, the project has received the name Hauntings in reference to one of the strongest shared tropes running throughout all five works
1976 RDOen 1
No full textBlack and white photo; mounted on paper, with names.Back - Akin Alagbe, Christa Binder, Donald Bird, Jeffery Clarke, John Collett, Stephen George; centre - Paul Gordon, Daryl Groom, Charles Hargrave, Neil McGuigan, Garry Mann; front - Dino Mazzocato, Keith Mugford, Geoffrey O'Grady, Garry Phipps, Kim Roberts, Adrian Sheriden; absent - John Cassegrain, Christopher Niccol
Trial and Condemnation of Charles E. Butt, for the willful murder of sweetheart
No full textCharles E. Butt kills his fiance, Amelia Phipps, who won\u27t wed him.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/2152/thumbnail.jp
On (not) being the master’s tools: five years of ‘Changing University Cultures’
No full text\ua9 2021 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.This paper reflects on the first five years of the Changing University Cultures (CHUCL) collective, which conducted equality and diversity projects in four English universities between 2015 and 2020. We explore how CHUCL has been used in the service of institutional polishing (Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 143) and airbrushing (Phipps, A. 2020b. “Reckoning Up: Sexual Harassment and Violence in the Neoliberal University.” Gender & Education 32 (2), 230–233), how our reports have become non-performatives (Ahmed, S. 2012. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 90), and how our findings have been weaponised in the service of institutional interests. We are two of three white middle-class women who constitute the CHUCL collective; we situate this retrospective within critical reflections on our positionality and an abolitionist theorisation of the institution. We conclude that we have often been the master’s tools, and while we join the work of imagining alternatives, we must build capacity for survival within the master’s house
Loss H.M.S. Captain
No full textSong concerning the sinking of the H.M.S. Captain off Cape Finisterre, Spain on 6-7 September 1870, knocked over by the wind; this capsize killed Cowper Phipps Coles, the ships designerhttps://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/1485/thumbnail.jp
Comparing observed bug and productivity rates for Java and C
No full textAn experiment was conducted to compare programmer productivity and defect rates for Java and C++. A modified version of the Personal Software Process (PSP) was used to gather defect rate, bug rate, and productivity data on C++ and Java during two real world development projects. A bug is defined to be a problem detected during testing or deployment. A defect is either a bug, or an error detected during compile time. A typical C++ program had two to three times as many bugs per line of code as a typical Java program. C++ also generated between 15 per cent and 50 per cent more defects per line, and perhaps took six times as long to debug. Java was between 30 per cent and 200 per cent more productive, in terms of lines of code per minute. When defects were measured against development time, Java and C++ showed no difference, but C++ had two to three times as many bugs per hour. Statistics were generated using Student’s t-test at a 95 per cent confidence level. Some discussion of why the differences occurred is included, but the reasons offered have not been tested experimentally. The study is limited to one programmer over two projects, so it is not a definitive experimental result. The programmer was experienced in C++, but only learning Java, so the results would probably favour Java more strongly for equally-experienced programmers. The experiment shows that it is possible to experimentally measure the fitness of a programming language
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