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Staples, James Harry
No full textJames Harry Staples*, LL.B.
James Harry Staples (December 3, 1879 - April 15, 1954) was the son of James Harrison Staples and Lila Marsh. Staples worked as a banker after graduation. He later became an insurance agent for companies in Lexington including the Union Central Life Insurance Company and the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company. Staples married Emma Hunter.
*Mr. Staples was not included in the 1910 edition of The Kentuckian.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/klapp_1910/1022/thumbnail.jp
At the intersection of disability and masculinity: Exploring gender and bodily difference in India
No full textThis is the accepted version of the following article: STAPLES, J. (2011), At the intersection of disability
and masculinity: exploring gender and bodily difference in India. Journal of the Royal Anthropological
Institute, 17: 545–562. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01706.x, which has been published in final form at
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2011.01706.x/abstract.Despite a conventional view that bodily impairments are necessarily interpreted as emasculating and negative, this article – drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with men affected by leprosy and by cerebral palsy (CP) in India – offers a more nuanced account of how disabled men negotiate their gendered identities. Different kinds of impairments have very specific, context-defined, meanings that, in turn, have different implications for how gender and disability might intersect. Rather than diminishing masculinity in all instances – some bodily differences, as the article demonstrates, might even be enacted as hyper-masculine – impairments are shown rather to reshape understandings of the masculine in sometimes unexpected ways. And while my informants were constrained both by ableist norms and by the biological limitations of their own bodies, ambivalence towards certain forms of masculinity also afforded them space to perform their identities more creatively, sometimes to potentially positive effect.The Economic and Social Research Council and the British Academy
James Scarbrough receipt for state, county, military, and military relief taxes
No full textReceipt for James Scarborough\u27s payment of $632 in taxes to the Confederate States of America for \u27\u27State, county, military, and military relief,\u27\u27 received by Sheriff William C. Staples, 1862.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/mss-scarbrough-papers/1002/thumbnail.jp
Steamboat "Jas. T. Staples."
No full textThe "James T. Staples" was destroyed by an explosion in January 1913
From leprosy to ground zero: Imagining futures in a world of elimination
No full textAcknowledgements: An early version was presented at a symposium on Disability Futures at the annual South Asia Studies Conference at Madison in 2024, and I am grateful in to Michele Friedner, who organized the panel and gave feedback on the presentation that developed into this article, and all my fellow panelists, for their valuable comments. Thanks also to Rebecca Marsland for commenting on an earlier draft, and to my colleagues at Brunel—especially Devanshi Chanchani, Peggy Froerer, Eric Hirsch, Luke Heslop, Maria Kastrinou, Will Rollason, and Anna Tuckett—for their constructive feedback when I presented the paper at our departmental research seminar.Achieving a target of zero—zero disease, zero disability, and zero discrimination—has become the dominant focus of campaigns to control or eliminate diseases, from HIV/AIDS to malaria to leprosy. Given the historical failure of most eradication programs over the last century, such teleological imaginings of disease-free futures might seem overly utopian. But even if it were possible to eradicate such diseases in their entirety, would this be universally welcomed, even by those most affected by them? In this article, I compare the narratives of national and international bodies concerned with eliminating leprosy, in particular, with the more ambivalent narratives of those affected by the disease in India, the country where the disease is most prevalent. For the latter, the promise of elimination not only seems unrealistic, but represents a potential loss of identity. Imagining disease trajectories in less linear terms, I argue, might also nuance understanding of them.The longitudinal ethnographic research on which this article draws was funded variously the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), British Academy, and small research grants from Brunel University London
Enabling Small-Scale Maize Marketing and Processing to Assure Supplies of Low-Cost Staples
No full textCrop Production/Industries, Downloads December 2008 - July 2009: 6,
Encouraging re-employability and discouraging bias
No full textThe paper discusses the need for more IT professionals and the need to retain those taking career breaks. The paper discusses the current situation in the UK for unemployed and under-employed computing professionals; and the view of professionals about the need for regular updating of their skills, particularly if they are currently unemployed. The needs of those taking an extended career break, of say five years are also discussed, together with help to encourage and assist those returning to the computing industry.
The paper discusses the actions that have been undertaken by the BCS Quality Specialist Group, BCS Women and Hampshire Branch to provide free training courses, together with the BCS Unconscious Bias Training for all BCS committee members. The comments of those attending these various BCS training courses are discussed
Staples theory, oil, and indigenous alternative development in the Northwest Territories
No full textStaples theory has been used as a framework to explain the historical establishment and political economy of Canada and other “new” countries, based on the concept that Canada has been and continues to be built on an economy of resource extraction. The theory has been applied on both a macro and a micro scale to regions of Canada that have specialized in the extraction of cod, wheat, fur, and oil and gas. Two foundational academics of staples theory, Harold A. Innis and Mel Watkins, spent time in the northern region of Canada now known as the Northwest Territories (NWT) and, among other researchers, applied a staples approach to various periods of the region’s economic development.
The application of staples theory in northern Canada, however, is problematic, particularly in view of the territory’s predominantly Indigenous, Inuit, and Métis population. A staples framework tends to ignore, or underplay, a fundamental reality in the NWT: the original political economy of the region was based on Indigenous values of communal trading and sharing in a subsistence economy. Most importantly, the Indigenous economy was controlled and distributed by the Indigenous people as they lived on, and carefully managed, the land and resources of the North. A theoretical approach that centers on the extraction and commodification of resources in the North by white traders and settlers who take over the land, obscures the critical questions of who owns and cares for the land and how it is ‘developed’.Graduat
James A. Kurpius
No full textJames A. Kurpius (Jim), died peacefully on March 15, 2022 at age 83 in Los Altos, California with his loving wife and two sons by his side. Born in Staples, Minnesota on July 20, 1938, Jim and his wife Susan (Sue) relocated to Palo Alto, California in 1969. Upon arrival in California, Jim worked in hospital administration, becoming the CFO of the Children's Hospital at Stanford. In 1982, Jim was recruited to the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSG&R) and was involved in the development of WSG&R's Palo Alto offices, most notably 650 Page Mill Road
Maintenance of portable operating microscopes in developing countries: the Myanmar experience
No full textCopyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, IncLucy A Goold, Brian Staples, James Muecke and Henry S Newlan
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