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Bob Hider dancing indoors in costume
No full textBob Hider performing a Morris dance in costume in the C# cabin at Pinewoods Camp. May Gadd, national director of the Country Dance and Song Society, stands in the background smiling. A man and a young boy sit in chairs watching the performance as a pianist, possibly Phil Merrill, provides accompanying music.https://scholars.unh.edu/cdss_photos/1084/thumbnail.jp
Author Q and A with editor Phil Crockett Thomas and contributors on abolition science fiction
No full textIn this author Q&A, Rémy-Paulin Twahirwa speaks to editor Phil Crockett Thomas and contributors about their recent collection, Abolition Science Fiction, a collection of short science fiction stories written by activists and scholars involved in prison abolition and transformative justice in the UK
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Phil Magness: COVID-19 Interview
No full textPhil Magness is a Senior Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of numerous works on economic history, taxation, economic inequality, the history of slavery, and education policy in the United States. Listen to the Policy@McCombs podcast to learn more about the data shaping public policy and the data that should be. Subscribe to our YouTube Channel to watch video versions of the podcasts.Salem Cente
The Phil Rogers Russell, D.O. Collection
No full textFinding aid for The Phil Rogers Russell, D.O. CollectionPhil Rogers Russell, D.O., practiced osteopathic medicine in the state of Texas from his 1917 graduation from the American School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Missouri, until his death at the age of 80 in 1975. He was a strong supporter of the profession and was instrumental in the establishment and growth of the Fort Worth Osteopathic Hospital and the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. He won numerous awards and honors from the American Osteopathic Association, the Texas Osteopathic Association, other osteopathic institutions and associations, and civil awards. He was the author of "Quack Doctor", a memoir of his years as an osteopathic physician.The Phil R. Russell, D.O. Collection consists of speeches, articles, book manuscripts, books, memorabilia, photographs, certificates and awards that Dr. Russell authored or was presented during his lifetime
Phil Raisor, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textPhil Raisor is the author of Swimming in the Shallow End and Outside Shooter: A Memoir, and the editor of Tuned and Under Tension: The Recent Poetry of W. D. Snodgrass. His poetry and reviews have appeared in The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, 5AM, Poetry East, Tar River Poetry, Ascent , Poetry Northwest , Midwest Quarterly, Aethlon and Poet Lore. He was on the Board of Directors of the Associated Writers and Writing Programs and managing editor of New Virginia Review. Raisor is an emeritus professor of English at Old Dominion University
Re-engaging with the intimacy of materials through touch
No full textIn today’s retail led world consumers are suffocating through an excess of soulless products. It is time we paused to breathe.
"Touch has a memory" - John Keats. [A1]
It is often assumed that product designers, especially in the fashion industry, will have a deep understanding of the tactile properties of materials that they use. This tacit knowledge is also assumed to be an essential ingredient for intimate engagement with the materials, for touch is about direct contact, close and personal; it is not sensation at a distance in the way of sound and vision. Through this intimacy, the designer can fully understand the potential sensory impact on their customers and can share their knowledge of this intimacy with the customers.
However the rise of fast, offshore manufacture has led to a virtual design approach where cad-cam rules and the first direct contact that the designer has with their material is often when they receive the finished goods. The approach has become embedded in teaching, where virtual-oriented design is cheap and simple as well as effective.
This runs in parallel to what Black [A2] describes as "The Fashion Paradox", i.e. the tension between an industry which has become dependent on the overconsumption of the consumer society made possible by low cost design and manufacture processes with emerging imperatives of environmental and ethical issues. It has become easy to make and sell a lot of goods, but perhaps a new approach is needed before we drown in an ocean of stuff.
We hypothesise that a business strategy to introduce a new intimacy with materials to consumers through goods and experiences that celebrate "the joy of touch" will a) spawn better, higher value goods with cutting-edge appeal and b) provide a positive piece in the jigsaw necessary to address the Fashion Paradox, taking the line described by Fletcher and Early in "5-Ways" [A3, A4] that touch is relevant to the production of "supersatisfiers...which begin to break the chain of consumption and dissatisfaction".
There are always many old voices that decry the lack of materials knowledge in the "designers of today", and we do not wish simply to join them. To avoid this yet to achieve new thinking in the territory we take a tangential approach that does not get stuck into stuff to early.
Accordingly, the method will apply a method of research and teaching based on storytelling in multidisciplinary teams developed by Smith and Sams [A5, A6]. This reflects on the role of designer-storytellers described by Seah [A7] and Erikson [A8]. Thus, perhaps counter-intuitively, we seek to stimulate word-based approaches to a physical effect.
The resultant project vehicle "Touch Stories" is inspired by the observations of experimental psychologist Charles Spence, e.g. [A9], that people have difficulty in detecting and remembering touch, but can be taught touch skills. This builds on earlier design projects "Touch Gourmet" by Torres and Sams [A10]. We provide below a short summary of the science context as well as the more usual design context for the project.
The work described here is our first experiment using this method in the touch context with a fashion student community of young business and design professionals. In recognition, we report in the style of a science experiment - which also reflects the background of the second author.
We are at the very start of a journey which we intend to take well beyond fashion (for the challenge of new materials and "too much stuff" spreads well beyond Fashion and its Paradox), thus to stretch and develop the territory, through the processes described in [A5, A6]. It’s a journey the design world needs to ‘touch on’
Maine Voices piece by Phil Hoose of Portland, whose cousin Don Larsen on Octob
No full textMaine Voices piece by Phil Hoose of Portland, whose cousin Don Larsen on October 8, 1956, pitched a perfect game in the World Series. Hoose, an author, wrote It\u27s Our World, Too!, which was named a Lupine Honor Book by the Maine Library Association
How Phil Collins became cool (no, really)
No full textThe piece is based on an article the authors have coming up in Research in the Sociology of Organisations.Marketing and Consumer Researc
Growing up on Shaky Ground: An Investigation into the Emotional and Behavioural Wellbeing of Four-Year-Olds in Canterbury’s Post-Disaster Environment
No full textA series of major earthquakes began in Canterbury, New Zealand, in September 2010 which continued for approximately the next three years. The Canterbury earthquakes have left healthcare providers, teachers and parents concerned for the mental wellbeing of children growing up in Canterbury.
Previous research has indicated that exposure to a large natural disaster during childhood can lead to emotional and behavioural disturbances in children which could potentially have long lasting effects on personal and population health. There are, however, serious methodological limitations in many of the available studies on this topic.
The B4 school check, which has been in use in NZ since 2008, is a nation-wide health screening tool for four-year-olds which includes the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), a measure of behavioural and emotional problems in children. The current study aimed to investigate the impact of earthquakes on the emotional and behavioural wellbeing of four-year-olds in Canterbury by analysing data from the B4 School Check.
Temporal and geographical trends in various measures of wellbeing were analysed using logistic regression to ascertain whether the trends in Canterbury may have been impacted by the earthquakes. Mean population SDQ scores and the proportion of abnormal SDQ scores in the population over time both decreased on all measures over the study period. Analyses indicated that, when compared to a control population, an overall population-level negative impact on SDQ scores due to the earthquakes was not present in the considered data.
This finding is surprising given the extent of community disruption and distress following the Canterbury earthquakes and is not consistent with other most similar research findings. Various explanations can be given for why the current results were found. Firstly, the study findings may be a true result. This could be because of positive factors such as resilience, the age of participants being a possible protective factor, or a general failure for exposure levels to meet a threshold level. Alternatively, a possible true result could be explained by the effect of the earthquakes being on non-studied measures only. Secondly, other explanations such as chance, bias, confounding or error could explain why the current results were found.
Any practical implications must be made with caution due to limitations of the study and the narrow generalizability of the findings. Further work is needed to explore the health needs specific to the children in Canterbury
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