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JORY HERMAN Double Bass SENIOR RECITAL Saturday, January 22, 2005 5:30 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall
No full textPlaylist: Carmen Fantasy / Frank Proto (b.1941) -- Canon / Edgar Meyer (b.1960) trans.Jory Herman -- Unaccompanied Suite in G Major, BWV 1009 / Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) -- B.B. Wolf / Jon Deak (b.1943).This recital is given in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Bachelor of Music
Episode 35: Alexis Castellanos, Author of “Isla to Island”, and Her Panel Presentation during the Operación Pedro Pan Two-Day Event
No full textIn Part 1 of “Operación Pedro Pan: The Voices and Stories of Cuba’s Child Exodus—A Knights HistoryCast Mini-Series,” the Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Alexis Castellanos, an author, illustrator, graphic novelist, and a panelist at the esteemed, conspicuous, and powerful “Operación Pedro Pan: Honoring the Cultural, Historical Legacy of Cuba’s Child Exodus” Two-Day Program that Florida Humanities, UCF’s Department of English and Department of Modern Languages and Literatures sponsored (see https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/ for more details on sponsors and the program in general).
Sebastian structured this specific episode on Alexis Castellanos’ Isla to Island, a wordless graphic novel grounded by her personal family history and the history of Operación Pedro Pan (Operation Peter Pan). By analyzing such a historic event through the medium of fiction, Sebastian argued that this is one of the most unique Knights HistoryCast episodes of all time. Naturally, their conversation expanded to what she talked about during her panel presentation in Panel One, Day 1 of the event that featured “internationally renowned scholars that discussed the political, historical, and cultural legacy of Operación Pedro Pan (1960-1962).” (https://cah.ucf.edu/pedro-pan/)
To purchase Isla to Island (strongly recommend), check out: https://islatoisland.com/.
To find out more about Alexis and her professional work, check out her website at https://alexiscastellanos.com/https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/1034/thumbnail.jp
"Cronica der Turckey" Sebastian Franck's Translation of the "Tractatus de Moribus, Condicionibus et Nequitia Turcorum" by Georgius de Hungaria
No full textThe Tractatus de moribus, condicionibus et nequitia Turcorum is one of the most important first-hand accounts of life in fifteenth-century Turkey known to modern scholarship. It is the work of a Christian former slave of the Turks, writing after his return to the West. Although the author does not name himself, he can be identified as a
Dominican priest, Georgius de Hungaria, who died in Rome in 1502. His Tractatus is conceived as a work of anti-Islamic polemic, yet it contains a surprisingly unbiased appraisal of Turkish customs.
First printed c.1480 when European apprehension in the face of Ottoman expansion was at its height, the Tractatus was reprinted in numerous editions, and was widely used as a
source by other authors. Luther edited the text in 1530, using the positive account of Turkish customs and religious observance as a weapon in his polemic against the Roman
Catholic Church: if heathens could perform such exemplary works, who could fail to doubt the efficacy of works as a means of salvation?
Sebastian Franck in his German translation of the Tractatus went further: replacing Georgius' commentary with his own, he used the text to attack institutional religion as a
whole and to promote his concept of a non-dogmatic, spiritual Church of individuals united with each other only through their union with God -a Church which was not closed to Moslems or members of any other creed. This translation or adaptation, the Cronica der Türckey, marks Franck's decisive break with the Lutheran cause and the beginning of his lonely path as a 'spiritual individualist'. Franck reworked his translation of the Tractatus for his major geographical work, the Weltbuch of 1534.
This thesis concerns itself primarily with Franck's Cronica, providing the first modern critical edition of this text, in a near-diplomatic transcription with an extensive glossary. The thesis also includes transcriptions of the Tractatus; of Türckei, an anonymous translation of the Tractatus, and of relevant additional material from Franck's Weltbuch. None of these texts has been published in full in a modern edition.
In the Introduction Franck's Cronica is compared in detail with the Tractatus, highlighting the changes that occur in translation; the character and the significance of these changes are then discussed. It is established that Franck, whilst being unwilling to reverse any of Georgius' value judgements on Islam and Turkish culture, is highly selective in his choice of material for translation, and frequently gives the text new nuances and adds his own
comment. The question of the Tractatus' influence on Franck's further development as a writer and thinker is also raised.
The investigation then turns to Franck's use of the Tractatus material in his Weltbuch. His eclecticism becomes apparent in this text, in which Georgius' account is juxtaposed - but not synthesised - with material from other sources, often of lesser veracity and greater anti-Islamic bias. Franck's distortion of the Tractatus material to suit his own line of argument is clearly discernible: from the unique phenomenon presented in the Tractatus the Turks
become one more example of the general human tendency to externalise and dogmatise faith.
In addition, the transmission of Cronica and Türckei is examined, and the relationship between these two translations is clarified: Franck certainly used Türckei in writing his Cronica, but is unlikely to be the author of the anonymous work
Novel developments in ELAN
No full textModern language documentation depends on suitable software infrastructure. ELAN is a well-known tool developed at The Language Archive / MPI-PL which allows multi-tier, multi-speaker, time-linked annotation of audio and video recordings, in particular in a field work and language documentation setting.
In the past two years ELAN has been under constant development. Here we will give an overview of the major recent enhancements to ELAN and ongoing work. These changes combined provide for a better and much faster process for the field linguist. Below we address five aspects, each consisting of multiple new features. We will discuss briefly their impact on typical workflows.
First, there are modes that help you perform specialized tasks more efficiently. These are a) the segmentation mode, b) the transcription mode, and c) the interlinearization mode. With a focused user interface for each task, the segmentation and the transcription modes together provide very efficient means for the initial steps of a typical workflow. The interlinearization mode, which is still in an early phase of development, is optimized for the next steps of (morphological) parsing, glossing and tagging. It does so by providing an interface to a new program: Lexan. Lexan is an extensible system for "annotyzers" (annotation-suggestion modules). These can be used to perform many complex and simple tasks: from tier copying via word segmentation and interlinearization to machine learning.
Second, the interoperability with FLEx (FieldWork Language Explorer) has been improved. An export function for the FLEx file format now complements the, updated, import function.
Third, extensive support for performing operations on multiple files have been added. These include a) file-format conversion (including Toolbox and Praat), and b) creation of similarly structured EAF files for a selection of media files.
Fourth, facilities have been added to create new tiers with annotations on the basis of existing tiers while applying logical operations. E.g. if the annotation occurs in both tier A and tier B, then copy it combined to tier C. The concept of creating new tiers on the basis of existing ones is currently further explored in Lexan (mentioned above). However these features provide for a straightforward interface to basic, but extremely helpful operations.
Fifth, preliminary interaction with relevant web services (online audio-video and text processors that create annotations) has been implemented.
In short, in the past years several crucial features have been added that make ELAN better and faster to use in many aspects
2. A Human Being to Be Remembered | The 2024 UCF VLP Podcast Series
No full textIn Episode Two, Andrew Carroll’s herculean efforts to seek and collect over 210,000 war letters—that span since the American Revolution—demonstrate how others are as seriously committed to preserving the legacies of the men and women who served and fought for their country. Andrew shares several letters from his impressive collection, allowing us to be as close as possible to the Veterans—engaging with their own words, thoughts, and emotions. Indeed, themes central to UCF VLP are often exemplified in the 210,000 war letters Andrew has preserved for over twenty-five years.
Andrew Carroll is an award-winning historian and author and is the founder and director of the Center for American War Letters at Chapman University. Andrew was the second keynote speaker invited to share his extraordinary work during the 2024 UCF VLP Institute.
This episode was directed, produced, written, edited, and hosted by Sebastian Garcia and featured Andrew Carroll.
Executive Producers: Sebastian Garcia and Dr. Amelia Lyons.
Music: “Honor and Glory” and “Real Heroes” by SergePavkinMusic (Pixabay)
Podcast Cover Artwork: Sebastian Garcia
The 2024 UCF VLP Podcast Series is brought to you by the UCF History Department Podcast Network and UCF’s Veterans Legacy Program—a partnership with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration.https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/1051/thumbnail.jp
Wang Tao’s Diary: excerpts Translated by Sebastian Eicher
No full textIn a little regarded episode from Wang Tao’s diaries, the author tells us about a two-week long journey from Shanghai to Hangzhou and to the West Lake. Wang Tao undertook this journey together with the missionary Griffith John, who at that time was trying to find ways to preach the gospel outside the treaty port of Shanghai. We know the rough outline of this journey from Griffith John’s writings, as it was the second half of a longer journey along the Grand Canal. But Wang Tao’s presence and his notes on it have so far been neglected. This is a loss, as the diary Wang Tao kept offers not only a personal and lively account of the journey, it also gives us some insight in the Chinese perception of the missionaries’ activities and a description of the Hangzhou era before the Taiping would ravage it only a bit more than a year later
Episode 31: Professor Paul W. Wehr Day at the Pioneer Days Pine Castle Historical Society History Tent Event
No full textThe Department of History’s Sebastian Garcia talked with Mr. Richard Lee Cronin, author, historian, and event coordinator of the Pine Castle Historical Society HISTORY TENT, at the Annual Pine Castle Pioneer Days Event.
This episode is dedicated to and is in honor of Professor Paul W. Wehr.
A Professor of History at UCF since the Department’s inception in 1969, Professor Wehr retired in 1995 after 25 years of teaching his passion for history—inspiring countless students and faculty. Professor Wehr devoted much of his time to documenting the history of Orange County, specifically Pine Castle. This naturally led to a close relationship with the Pine Castle Historical Society, which dedicated Day 1 of the 2-day event at Pioneer Days to Professor Wehr for the first time this year. Sebastian decided to pay tribute to one of UCF’s original history professors by going to the Pine Castle Pioneer Days HISTORY TENT event dedicated to him and produced a podcast on location with Mr. Richard Lee Cronin, who knew Professor Wehr personally.
Below are links to an Orlando Memory interview featuring Professor Wehr himself that Sebastian mentioned in the introduction of this podcast, the page to know more about his books and association with Pine Castle, and a UCF CAH article written about Professor Wehr shortly after his passing in 2021. https://orlandomemory.info/topics/oral-history-interview-with-dr-paul-w-wehr/ https://www.pinecastlehistory.org/publications-books-pamphlets/ https://news.cah.ucf.edu/news/remembering-paul-w-wehr/https://stars.library.ucf.edu/knightshistorycast/1030/thumbnail.jp
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No full textNøytral Siddis – En digital løsning for bærekraftig atferd
No full textTittel: Nøytral Siddis – En digital løsning for bærekraftig atferd
Dato: 13.05.2022
Deltakere: Herman Slaattelid og Mathias Walmann
Veileder: Sebastian Brage Hansen
Oppdragsgiver: Smartbyen Stavanger
Stikkord: Bærekraft, Miljøpsykologi, Dobbel diamantmodell, Designmetodikk, Klimakommunikasjon, Klimafotavtrykk, Atferd
Antall sider: 95
Antall vedlegg: 17
Dette er en bacheloroppgave i Interaksjonsdesign ved Institutt for design ved Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet på Gjøvik. Prosjektet har Smartbyen Stavanger som oppdragsgiver. Stavanger er en av 112 europeiske byer som skal bli klimanøytrale innen 2030, noe som legger grunnlaget for behovet av Nøytral Siddis, en digital løsning for bærekraftig atferd.
Problemstillingen til prosjektet er: Hvordan kan vi legge til rette for motivasjon til en grønnere atferd gjennom en digital løsning for innbyggerne i Stavanger?
Rapporten tar for seg ulike teorier om klimakommunikasjon, klimapsykologi, designmetodikk og bærekraft. Ved bruk av designmetodikk for å forstå brukerens behov idégenererte vi ulike konsepter før vi bestemte oss for konseptet Nøytral Siddis. Vi designet en digital prototype som ble brukertestet gjennom flere iterasjoner.
Resultatet av oppgaven ble en digital prototype som gjennom fire hovedfunksjoner skal motivere innbyggerne i Stavanger til å ta grønne valg. Ved å gi brukeren en klar og tydelig oversikt over eget utslipp, øker vi kunnskapen om innbyggernes personlige klimapåvirkning. Gjennom å la brukeren sette personlige klimamål som de kan gjennomføre og dele med venner, legger vi til rette for at brukeren kan finne indre motivasjon til grønn atferd gjennom sosial anerkjennelse. Til slutt legger Nøytral Siddis til rette for motivasjon til klimavennlig atferd gjennom at brukere kan konkurrere med venner og kollegaer om hvem som påvirker klimaet minst.Title: Neutral Siddis – A digital solution for sustainable behavior
Date: 13.05.2022
Participants: Herman Slaattelid og Mathias Walmann
Supervisor: Sebastian Brage Hansen
Employer: Smartbyen Stavanger
Key words: Sustainability, Environmental psychology, Double diamond model, Design methodology, Climate communication, Climate footprint, Behaviour
Number of pages: 95
Number of attachments: 17
This is a bachelor's thesis in Interaction Design at the Department of Design at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Gjøvik. The project has Smartbyen Stavanger as the client. Stavanger is one of 112 European cities that will become climate neutral by 2030, which lays the foundation for the need for Neutral Siddis, a digital solution for sustainable behavior.
The problem for the project is: How can we facilitate motivation for a greener behavior through a digital solution for the inhabitants of Stavanger?
The report addresses various theories on climate communication, climate psychology, design methodology and sustainability. Using design methodology to understand the user's needs, we idea-generated different concepts, before we decided on the concept Neutral Siddis. We designed a digital prototype where all iterations were user tested.
The result of the project was a digital prototype which, through four main functions, will motivate the inhabitants of Stavanger to make green choices. By giving the user a clear and distinct overview of their own emissions, we increase knowledge about the inhabitants' personal climate impact. By letting the user set personal climate goals that they can implement and share with friends, we facilitate that the user can find inner motivation for green behavior through social recognition. Finally, Neutral Siddis facilitates motivation for climate-friendly behavior through users being able to compete with friends and colleagues about who has the least impact on the climate
Legalizing recreational marijuana: comparing ballot outcomes in four states
No full textMedical marijuana is now available in 23 states, and its growing acceptance has paved the way for the legalization of recreational marijuana. This article examines four recent campaigns to legalize recreational marijuana–two failures and two successes. Using data from newspaper sources, interviews with key players, and other sources, we examine the factors that influence whether a ballot initiative succeeds or fails. We identify similarities and differences between the four measures, the social forces shaping the debate, their claims and counterclaims, and a set of factors that appear to increase the odds that a recreational marijuana ballot measure will be successful.Peer reviewe
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