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Brief Investigatory Detentions: A Critique of R. v. Simpson
No full textIn this article, the author examines the brief investigative detention power created by the Ontario Court of Appeal in R. v. Simpson and challenges both the Court\u27s reasoning and the way in which the decision has been followed in other Canadian jurisdictions. The common law power to detain an individual, based upon prominent U.S. and British case law, is inconsistent with the previous Supreme Court jurisprudence on police powers. The author demonstrates this by analyzing several cases involving police powers and joins the list of commentators who have urged the country\u27s highest court to re-examine the Simpson doctrine. The author also argues that there has been a tendency for U.S. courts to grant increased discretion to the police even when such powers are unwarranted. There is a real possibility of a similar accretion of police powers in Canada. Moreover, the American experience also indicates that members of minority groups are frequently subjected to the rigours of brief investigative detention, often only because of their ethnic identity. Recent studies show that the same trend exists in Canada, serving to challenge democratic and egalitarian values that the Charter is designed to protect. The solution, according to the author, lies not with the Courts, but with Parliament taking the opportunity to define the extent and limits of brief investigative detentions
Kanter Revisited: Gender, Power and (In)visibility
No full textThis paper revisits Kanter's (1977) seminal work Men and Women of the Corporation, rereading her account of numerical advantage and disadvantage through a poststructuralist lens which exposes hidden dimensions of gendered power. This lens is captured in the ‘(In)visibility Vortex’ (Lewis and Simpson, 2010) which highlights struggles and tensions around the norm through processes of preservation and concealment within the norm as well as dynamics of revealing, exposure and disappearance as features of the margins. The study draws on developments in feminist theorizing, specially around visibility, invisibility and power, to facilitate this rereading. In so doing, the author demonstrate that while Kanter retreated from explanations based on the gendering of organizations or from recognition of gendered power, these dynamics can be identified in her text. The authors suggest that rereading classic texts can surface dimensions of organizations that have contemporary significance and can inform future research
Dien Bien Phu the epic battle America forgot
No full textThe fighting began in November 1953, when French paratroopers seized a small airstrip in northwestern Vietnam. It ended in May 1954 with tens of thousands of Vietminh troops overrunning the besieged garrison. A third of the 15,000 defenders died in combat; fewer than a hundred escaped into the jungle. Thousands more died in captivity. Dien Bien Phu is recognized as one of history's great battles and as a turning point for American policy: the French defeat led to the fateful U.S. commitment to Vietnam. Ironically, the U.S. military repeated many of the French mistakes. American Howard R. Simpson was there as a combat reporter and photographer. His account is a personal one - that of a man who shared meals and wine and danger with the doomed soldiers. A much-published defense expert, Simpson is uniquely qualified to tell the dramatic story of this famous last stand. Aided by interviews with dozens of survivors from both sides - including victorious Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap - his book will rank with Bernard Fall's bestselling Hell in a Very Small Place as a classic work on an event as significant for the United States as it was for France. Dien Bien Phu is being published on the fortieth anniversary of the French defeat and contains rare combat photos by the author and the French Foreign Legion
Homer Simpson Ponders Politics: Popular Culture as Political Theory
No full textIt is often said that the poet Homer “educated” ancient Greece. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale have assembled a team of notable scholars who argue, quite persuasively, that Homer Simpson and his ilk are educating America and offering insights into the social order and the human condition.
Following Homer Simpson Goes to Washington (winner of the John G. Cawelti Award for Best Textbook or Primer on American and Popular Culture) and Homer Simpson Marches on Washington, this exceptional volume reveals how books like J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, movies like Avatar and Star Wars, and television shows like The Office and Firefly define Americans’ perceptions of society. The authors expand the discussion to explore the ways in which political theories play out in popular culture.
Homer Simpson Ponders Politics includes a foreword by fantasy author Margaret Weis (coauthor/creator of the Dragonlance novels and game world) and is divided according to eras and themes in political thought: The first section explores civic virtue, applying the work of Plato and Aristotle to modern media. Part 2 draws on the philosophy of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Smith as a framework for understanding the role of the state. Part 3 explores the work of theorists such as Kant and Marx, and the final section investigates the ways in which movies and newer forms of electronic media either support or challenge the underlying assumptions of the democratic order. The result is an engaging read for undergraduate students as well as anyone interested in popular culture.
Joseph J. Foy, associate campus dean and associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Waukesha, is the editor of Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics through Popular Culture and coeditor of Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American Popular Culture.
Timothy M. Dale, assistant professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse, is coeditor of Homer Simpson Marches on Washington: Dissent through American Popular Culture.
“Today, film, fiction, and television reflect our notions of civic virtue, morality, and the human condition—or at least help us to struggle with understanding and defining these. The ubiquitous nature of popular culture means that it will have an effect upon us, whether one likes that or not. The authors argue that, given this fact, even those who doubt the ‘seriousness’ of popular culture would do well to pay attention to it.”—Margaret Ferguson, Assistant Vice President for Statewide Academic Relations at Indiana University
Since ancient times myths and stories have been used to convey our deepest thoughts about how to live together in community. With this book we now have a fun and engaging way to learn and think about political theory through the myths and stories of our time, popular culture. -- William Irwin, author of Black Sabbath and Philosophy: Mastering Reality
Foy and Dale have done it again, this time with political theory! Political theory is one of the most difficult subjects that political science undergraduates encounter and Homer Simpson Ponders Politics opens up an avenue for students to engage many of the broad theories through some of the cultural artifacts with which they are most familiar: popular culture. These important theories bubble up through all areas of popular culture from Machiavelli and The Godfather to Plato and Star Wars— there is much to learn from this compendium. This is a useful book for students of political theory of any age or training and for those who are intrigued by the many political concepts popular culture teaches us. --Lilly J. Goren, coeditor of Women and the White House: Gender, Popular Culture, and Presidential Politics
Most essays in this collection employ their philosophical guides in ways that can...disabuse undergraduates of the notion that political theory can better address the sterile and obsolete concerns of forgotten eras than fundamental questions about contemporary political life. -- Choicehttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_american_popular_culture/1013/thumbnail.jp
d-r-a-w-n-i-n-w-a-r-d towards the centre of things\ud Nicola Simpson on Dom Sylvester Houédard’s c-dagesh
No full textDom Sylvester Houédard (1924–92) was an extraordinary British monk, scholar, translator and concrete poet who has a reputation and legacy as an artist that still rests on the typestracts he meticulously made on his Olivetti 22 typewriter throughout the 1960s and into the early 1970s. The art critic Guy Brett has said of him:\ud
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…a Benedictine monk who spent most of his working life at Prinknash Abbey in Gloucestershire [he was] one of the great unsung intellects and playful creative spirits of twentieth-century Britain.\ud
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Describing himself as a ‘monk-maker’, Houédard was profoundly interested in the experiential non-conceptual truths at the heart of mystical and contemplative traditions, and he found a ready receptivity for his ideas in the vocabulary of the newly emerging conceptual and performative-based art made by a trans-national network of avant-garde artists and poets. As his correspondence, critical writings, and artworks attest, he was always exploring the ‘coexistence’ between his own deepening theological understanding of ‘the wider ecumenicalism’ and the “alive blurring of frontiers between art & art, mind & mind, world & world, mind art & world” of “post-WW/2” avant-garde art. (See Notes from the Cosmic Typewriter, 2012.
Pembinaan Guru Sekolah Minggu Untuk Mengajarkan Konsep Keselamatan Pada Anak
No full textThis article discusses the formation of Sunday school teachers to teach children safety. The author uses a qualitative approach to analyze teacher needs, then the authors construct a pattern of coaching Sunday school teachers by elaborating sources of literature in accordance with the needs of teachers obtained from the needs analysis. The results of the needs analysis show there are three main needs needed by the teacher, namely aspects of knowledge about sin and salvation, aspects of personality where there are teachers who are still unsure of safety, and aspects of skills related to the ability to teach safety. The proposed pattern of coaching is to provide teaching about sin and salvation, the use of media for evangelism, mentoring or teacher supervision and evaluation.Artikel ini membahas tentang pembinaan guru sekolah minggu untuk mengajarkan keselamatan pada anak. Penulis menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif untuk menganalisis kebutuhan guru, kemudian penulis melakukan konstruksi pola pembinaan guru sekolah minggu dengan melakukan elaborasi sumber literatur sesuai dengan kebutuhan guru yang diperoleh dari hasil analisis kebutuhan. Hasil analisis kebutuhan menunjukkan ada tiga kebutuhan utama yang diperlukan guru yaitu aspek pengetahuan tentang dosa dan keselamatan, aspek kepribadian di mana ada guru yang masih ragu dengan keselamatan, dan aspek keterampilan berkaitan dengan kemampuan mengajarkan keselamatan. Pola pembinaan yang diusulkan adalah dengan memberikan pengajaran tentang dosa dan keselamatan, pemanfaatan media penginjilan, pendampingan atau supervisi guru dan evaluasi
Variable-energy positron beam study of arsenic diffusion in poly-silicon
No full textThe positron beam technique is shown to be a sensitive indicator of the presence of arsenic within the grain boundaries of poly-silicon. Variable-energy positron beam and secondary-ion mass spectrometry studies have been performed on As+-implanted pre-amorphized Si samples as a function of dose and rapid thermal anneal temperature. Positron trapping within negatively-charged grain boundaries of the recrystallized poly-Si is observed, resulting in a similar to 2% elevation in the Doppler-broadening S lineshape parameter value. Infusion of As+-ions into the grain boundaries passivates the charge and reduces their specific positron-trapping rate.PT: J; CR: AERS GC, 1991, POSITRON BEAMS SOLIE, P162 ASOKAKUMAR P, 1993, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V74, P89 BOUSETTA A, 1991, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V55, P565 DANNEFAER S, 1987, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI A, V102, P481 DANNEFAER S, 1989, J APPL PHYS, V66, P3526 DLUBEK G, 1987, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI A, V102, P443 FLYNN CP, 1992, POINT DEFECTS DIFFUS GANIN E, 1989, APPL PHYS LETT, V54, P2127 HAKVOORT RA, 1992, MATER SCI FORUM, V105, P1391 HAKVOORT RA, 1993, THESIS DELFT U TECHN JACKMAN TE, 1989, APPL PHYS A-SOLID, V49, P335 KALISH R, 1984, APPL PHYS LETT, V44, P107 KEINONEN J, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P8269 LEO PH, 1981, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI B, V108, K145 LOMBARDO S, 1994, J APPL PHYS, V75, P345 MAKINEN J, 1990, J APPL PHYS, V67, P990 MITCHELL IV, 1991, POSITRON BEAMS SOLID, P121 NASU H, 1987, YOGYO-KYOKAI-SHI, V95, P5 NIELSEN B, 1987, APPL PHYS LETT, V51, P1022 NIELSEN B, 1991, PHYS REV B, V44, P1812 SCHULTZ PJ, 1988, PHYS REV LETT, V61, P187 SCHULTZ PJ, 1988, REV MOD PHYS, V60, P701 SEIDEL TE, 1991, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V55, P17 SIMPSON PJ, 1991, POSITRON BEAMS SOLID, P125 TAKAI M, 1989, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V39, P352 TANDBERG E, 1989, CAN J PHYS, V67, P275 VANDERDRIFT A, 1967, PHILIPS RES REP, V22, P267; NR: 27; TC: 0; J9: APPL SURF SCI; PG: 6; GA: QD950Source type: Electronic(1
Causal Confirmation Measures: From Simpson’s Paradox to COVID-19
No full textWhen we compare the influences of two causes on an outcome, if the conclusion from every group is against that from the conflation, we think there is Simpson’s Paradox. The Existing Causal Inference Theory (ECIT) can make the overall conclusion consistent with the grouping conclusion by removing the confounder’s influence to eliminate the paradox. The ECIT uses relative risk difference Pd = max(0, (R − 1)/R) (R denotes the risk ratio) as the probability of causation. In contrast, Philosopher Fitelson uses confirmation measure D (posterior probability minus prior probability) to measure the strength of causation. Fitelson concludes that from the perspective of Bayesian confirmation, we should directly accept the overall conclusion without considering the paradox. The author proposed a Bayesian confirmation measure b* similar to Pd before. To overcome the contradiction between the ECIT and Bayesian confirmation, the author uses the semantic information method with the minimum cross-entropy criterion to deduce causal confirmation measure Cc = (R − 1)/max(R, 1). Cc is like Pd but has normalizing property (between −1 and 1) and cause symmetry. It especially fits cases where a cause restrains an outcome, such as the COVID-19 vaccine controlling the infection. Some examples (about kidney stone treatments and COVID-19) reveal that Pd and Cc are more reasonable than D; Cc is more useful than Pd
Cadet corps. Military Science. University of Idaho. [208-3]
No full text1898 photograph of Military Science Cadets l-r: Charles Simpson, Gilbert Hogue, Mark Barnett, Jesse Rains, Winslow M. Howland, Glen McKinley, unidentified, Guy Wolfe, John Boyd, Elbert Moody, Bob Barkwell. Cadet corps in front of old Administration steps. Donor: Elbert Moody. [PG1_208-003
"The speciall men in every shere": the Edwardian regime, 1547-1553
No full textThis thesis examines clienteles during the reign of Edward VI, particularly those of the dukes of
Somerset and Northumberland, and the role of the county elite in political society in order to
reassess politics from the perspective of clientage. Edward's reign has not been extensively
studied from this perspective but work by Dr Adams, Professor Guy and others on other periods
provided the necessary context to reassess Edwardian politics. The aim was to investigate whether
the regime continued to rely on the same core within the county elite employed in the 1520s and
1530s and again in Elizabeth's reign. This has involved extensive archival research since 1996 (in
St Andrews, London and the Midlands). I have found that the privy council tried to foster a closer
working relationship with the county elite in order to maintain stability and prevent faction during
this period of minority government. The regime depended on the same core of gentlemen in the
shires to act as commissioners of the peace and to fill the other vital local offices. Even within this
group there was an inner-ring. This relationship was a two-way process and the clientage that
underpinned early modem society was central to it.
This study has also explored the extent to which Somerset's and Northumberland's clienteles were
involved in central and local government to reassess how much the dukes operated as courtcentred
or county-centred politicians. Both men dominated government in turn and their clienteles
were vitally important. These were made up of their servants, family, friends and clients and were
mutual self-support groups that reinforced their political and social status. Although principally
intended as a political study, this research has come to incorporate military and local history. It
has looked at how clienteles operated during periods of stability and crisis (the activities of Lord
Seymour of Sudeley, the 1549 rebellions, the October coup, the second fall of Somerset and the
succession crisis in 1553) in order to demonstrate how they really functioned
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