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Article about Helen Hunley
No full textNewspaper Article - Article about Helen Hunley - Alberta's First Woman Lieutenant Governor by Lynn Neuman McDowell of The Advocate.AWI CollectionBy LYNN NEUMAN
MCDOWELL
of The Advocate
" Don't call me Ms.!"
This from the first woman
to be lieutenant- governor of
Alberta, the first solicitor
general of the province and
first woman to hold a full —
and massive — government
portfolio in Alberta.
When Helen Hunley, who
t u r n s 66 today, began her
political career as a Rocky
Mountain House town councillor
in 1960, she wasn't
championing a cause for the
women's movement or anybody
else. She was, she
thought, simply doing her
civic duty.
That sense of duty has
taken her from a farm implement
dealership to a government
position that supercedes
the premier's. Through
it all, she's been Miss Hunley
— Second World War lieutenant,
first woman mayor of
Rocky Mountain House,
minister of Social Services,
and president of the Alberta
Progressive Conservative
party.
Now, however, she's Your
Honor. And she'll let you
know if you forget. It's not
personal pride. It's part of
her job as the I2th lieutenant-
governor of Alberta, personal
representative of the
Queen.
" Whether they like me or
not, care about me or anything
else, they should respect
the office. That's what I
want people to do — respect
the office of the Queen."
The Queen's representative
does everything from attending
citizenship ceremonies
and inspecting cadets to
opening stampedes and talking
to high school students
about government. She
shakes a lot of hands.
When Helen Hunley
reaches out her hand, she
does it in the old sense of the
gesture. Originally, a noble
stretched out his hand to
show goodwill and that he
bore no dagger. The political
veteran of 19 years has never
backed down from a fight,
but she's never carried a
hatchet either.
" We'd have some dandies,"
said Art Bott, who was a
councillor when Miss Hunley
was mayor of Rocky. " But
we'd always go for coffee afterward.
If Helen's got anything
against you, she'll tell
you to your face and that'll be
it. No way she'd ever hold a
grudge."
" My office is neutral
ground," she says, leaning
back into her chair with a cup
of coffee. " I'm apolitical now.
I've divorced myself totally
from loyalties to either party.
I'm here to represent the
Queen, who is neutral."
The conversation always
finds its way back to duty and
responsibility, just as Helen
Hunley, private citizen has.
In 1979, the lieutenant- governor
was tired of politics.
After four years in the hefty
Social Services portfolio, she
announced she was leaving
public life.
But when the call came
from Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney, asking her to represent
the Queen in Alberta,
she packed her suitcase, marshalled
her Labrador dog
Kelly and her ingrained
sense of duty, and moved to
Edmonton.
" What are you'going to say
— no, I'm too lazy?" asks the
dyed- in- the- wool monarchist.
Even in retirement, she
served as chairman of Rock-y's
town library board, chairman
of the provincial mental
health advisory council and
president of the Alberta Tory
party.
When a person considers
politics, she says, the first
question is whether she s
willing to make sacrifices:
time, personal freedom,
sometimes even income.
Next, and equally important,
is to determine purpose.
" If you want power, that s
too bad. You may make it, but
it's bad for the people."
She says responsibility was
t h e factor that most shaped
her life. Others agree.
" Helen came up the hard
way," says Lou Soppit, mayor
of Rocky. The eighth of 11
children ( named alphabetically),
little was handed to
her.
As a farm girl she was responsible
for chores and contributing
to the family income
by picking berries for.
^ tcms a pound. There was
never any question she'd get
a job to pay for her board
when she moved into Rocky
at 16 to finish high school.
Working the night shift as
a switchboard operator may
not have done much for her
concentration at school ( she
tended to fall asleep), but it
prepared her for her next big
responsibility.
In 1941, the 21- year- old
joined the Women's Army
Corps and soon became a telephone
operator instructor.
She wasn't fussy about rising
in the ranks because, she
says, shft enjoyed what she
was doing. But others had a
different idea
CSS H.L. Hunley: First True Submarine
No full textThe card features a portrait of two soldiers posed next to the CSS H. L. Hunley. It is a part of a collection is number 8 in the series.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-ephemera/1123/thumbnail.jp
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
Die Charakterentwicklungen der Protagonistinnen in Christa Wolfs Moskauer Novelle, Der geteilte Himmel und Nachdenken über Christa T.
No full textThis thesis presents an analysis of the character development of the female protagonists in Christa Wolf\u27s Moskauer Novelle, Der geteilte Himmel, and Nachdenken über Christa T. Three levels of development are considered: personal, political, and literary.
The thesis consists of three main chapters in which the levels of development of Vera Brauer, Rita Seidel, and Christa T., the female protagonists of Christa Wolf\u27s early works, are treated. One chapter is devoted to each of the three. To what extent the three protagonists can be reduced to a common denominator, and to what extent they differ from each other, will be discussed in the final chapter.
The levels of development--personal, political, and literary –can be found in all three works. A gradual intensification in development from work to work can also be noticed. The works reflect Christa Wolf\u27s development as an author as well. She changed from a faithful member of her political party into a critical writer. Although all three works contain biographical features, one can especially feel the closeness of the author in Nachdenken über Christa T. She seems to have gone through the same development as her protagonist
Handwritten biographical information on Paulina T. McClung Merritt
No full textA handwritten biography of Paulina T. McClung Merritt by an unknown author, 1892.
Heterogeneous and tissue-specific regulation of effector T cell responses by IFN-gamma during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection.
No full textIFN-γ and T cells are both required for the development of experimental cerebral malaria during Plasmodium berghei ANKA infection. Surprisingly, however, the role of IFN-γ in shaping the effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cell response during this infection has not been examined in detail. To address this, we have compared the effector T cell responses in wild-type and IFN-γ(-/-) mice during P. berghei ANKA infection. The expansion of splenic CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells during P. berghei ANKA infection was unaffected by the absence of IFN-γ, but the contraction phase of the T cell response was significantly attenuated. Splenic T cell activation and effector function were essentially normal in IFN-γ(-/-) mice; however, the migration to, and accumulation of, effector CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells in the lung, liver, and brain was altered in IFN-γ(-/-) mice. Interestingly, activation and accumulation of T cells in various nonlymphoid organs was differently affected by lack of IFN-γ, suggesting that IFN-γ influences T cell effector function to varying levels in different anatomical locations. Importantly, control of splenic T cell numbers during P. berghei ANKA infection depended on active IFN-γ-dependent environmental signals--leading to T cell apoptosis--rather than upon intrinsic alterations in T cell programming. To our knowledge, this is the first study to fully investigate the role of IFN-γ in modulating T cell function during P. berghei ANKA infection and reveals that IFN-γ is required for efficient contraction of the pool of activated T cells
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Pelevin’s Trinity in the novel “t”: author – protagonist – reader
No full textThe article attempts to interpret Pelevin's artistic strategy in the novel "T" by exploring its subject organization and addressing the key problems of the author, the protagonist, and the reader as they are seen by the researcher. The article analyzes the peculiarities of constructing the narrative reality in the novel "T", and goes on to discuss Pelevin's philosophic models of the development of the humankind, and the emergence of his new anthropology
Measuring industry-science links through inventor-author relations: A profiling method
No full textIn this pilot study we examine the performance of text-based profiling in recovering a set of validated inventor-author links. In a first step we match patents and publications solely based on their similarity in content. Next, we compare inventor and author names on the highest ranked matches for the occurrence of name matches. Finally, we compare these candidate matches with the names listed in a validated set of inventor-author names. Our text-based profile methodology performs significantly better than a random matching of patents and publications, suggesting that text-based profiling is a valuable complementary tool to the name searches used in previous studies.innovation; industry-science links; text-based profiling;
Wave turbulence of a rotating array of quantized vortices in the T → 0 temperature limit
No full textThe dynamics of quantized vortices in the zero temperature limit is currently of great interest, particularly in the case of the Fermi superfluid He-B. Here we study wave turbulence, generated by the librating motion of a rotating cylindrical container filled with He-B, in the limit of vanishing viscous forces at temperatures . The polarization of the quantized vortices with respect to the axis of rotation is measured using non-invasive NMR techniques. We observe a decrease of the polarization when the librating motion is started, and a two-stage relaxation process when the modulation of the rotation velocity is stopped. The first relaxation process is associated with the dissipation of large-scale flow stored in inertial waves and the solid body rotation of the vortex array. From the decay of these energy reservoirs we determine the rate of energy dissipation of large-scale flow. The later second process is related to the relaxation of Kelvin waves on individual vortices. This process is monitored by the recovery of the polarization. The existence of a Kelvin wave cascade at the lowest temperatures is currently a central open question. We supply some evidence for the cascade
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