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Martha Benfer and Jerry Don Mitchell
No full textIt was cold waiting Monday night for singers on the Star-Telegram Christmas Tree and Music Festival program. At left, Martha Benfer, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Benfer, and Jerry Don Mitchell, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Mitchell huddle over a stove before joining White Settlement School singers.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/23108/thumbnail.jp
Gilbert, Meyer, Keenum, Nichols and Mitchell at Riley Center Event
No full text(l to r) MSU Provost Jerry Gilbert, Lew Meyer, MSU President Mark Keenum, Retired MSU-Meridian Dean Harold Nichols, and Interim MSU-Meridian Dean Dennis Mitchell pose for a photograph after the ceremony
Personnel in front of Station No. 2 on Appleton St.
No full textPictured (L to R): Forrest Kneisel, Camp (?), England (?), Archibald, 'Red' Junker (engineer), Fred Mitchell (engineer), ?, Arnold Boe, Fred Campbell, Jerry HarrisonPictured (L to R): Forrest Kneisel, Camp (?), England (?), Archibald, 'Red' Junker (engineer), Fred Mitchell (engineer), ?, Arnold Boe, Fred Campbell, Jerry Harriso
Cereals For Forage Production At Point MacKenzie
No full textResearch history on the soils in the Point MacKenzie project area is limited when compared to many other agricultural areas in Alaska. However, four years of soil fertility and forage production data has been compiled. The basis for information included here is research carried out on the research tract at Point MacKenzie by the staff at the Palmer Research Center. This information coupled with many years of breeding and crop selection data from the nearby Matanuska Valley, make preliminary recommendations possible.With Contributions from: W. W. Mitchell, R. L. Taylor, C. L. Ping, G. J. Michaelson and M. W. Herlugson, Agricultural Experiment Station, University of Alask
Domoic Acid
No full texteditors, R.H. Waring, G.B. Steventon, S.C. Mitchell.; Includes bibliographical references and index.; Chapter 4. written by R. Andrew R. Tasker - Domoic acid - UPEI professor, Dept. of Biomedical Sciences.Source type: Print(0
RELEVANCE OF POLICY ANALYSIS: NEEDS FOR DESIGN, IMPLEMENTATION AND PACKAGING
No full textThis article challenges the traditional model of the economist as a humble technocrat who simply provides analysis given the preferences of policy decision-makers. Since decision-makers rarely reveal their preferences, it is important that the would-be policy research/analyst know the political economy and be willing to identify potential performance goals for society. Researchers who are willing to incur the transaction cost associated with becoming involved in useful policy research must learn to work within the imperfect policy process. Policy research that considers the importance of implementation and that acknowledges the institutions and the history will have the highest chance of being useful to policy-makers.Implementation, Institutions, Policy research, Political economy, Agricultural and Food Policy,
George J. Mitchell: Maine\u27s Environmental Senator
No full textThe State of Maine is blessed with a history of impressive and respected politicians. Among others, the list includes James Blaine, Margaret Chase Smith, and Edmund S. Muskie. The State now must add the name of George J. Mitchell to these ranks. A native son of Waterville, Maine, he attended Bowdoin College, Georgetown University Law Center, and eventually catapulted himself into one of the most powerful political positions in the United States government when he was elected as majority leader of the United States Senate. During his tenure as majority leader, he helped to redefine the position through his strong work ethic, sense of fairness, and orientation toward results in the Senate. This Comment summarizes some of those results through an environmental lens, focusing on Mitchell\u27s contributions to federal environmental legislation in the late 1980s. As Mitchell served in the Senate for fourteen years, six as the majority leader, he sponsored or cosponsored countless pieces of legislation. Environmental protection, however, always was a focus of his public service. In that vein, this Comment canvasses Senator Mitchell\u27s influence on the provisions of the Water Quality Act of 1987, the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990, and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, three major legislative accomplishments aimed at protecting the environment. This Comment analyzes those provisions of each Act for which Senator Mitchell fought most ardently and discusses the different tactics and strategies he employed to secure passage of each of these important bills. Finally, this Comment is a tribute to a Maine native who dedicated his life to public service. This Author recognizes that no one Senator could be solely responsible for any of these three pieces of environmental legislation. Nonetheless, only a few Senators held the key to passage of each of these acts. George J. Mitchell was one of the those Senators. Senator Mitchell\u27s contributions to environmental law can be understood only by viewing his Senate career in context. First, Mitchell served as a Federal District Court Judge for the District of Maine
Publicpension governance and performance : lessons for developing countries
No full textThe author examines the relationship between public sector pension plan performance and management practices to improve the design and governance of public pensions in developing countries. Understanding this relationship is important because better yields on public pension plan investment reduce the need for additional taxes to support retirees - and well-funded plans stand a better chance of paying promised benefits. The author's model relates investment returns on public pension assets, as well as plan funding status, to features characterizing the pension systems'governance structure and authority, using new data set on U.S. state and local public sector plans. The following findings stand out. The higher the fraction of retirees elected to the pension board, the stronger the negative effect on investment return in 1990, and the more variable the returns. Systems fared about the same whether they had in-house or external money managers, or independent performance analysis (even if the external managers were drawn from the top 10). But public pensions performed better when fund and actuarial computations were done by professional actuarial and investment counselors rather than relying on former or current employees to choose investment strategies. Social investment rules hurt public pension yields. Public pension plans which mandated that a certain portion of investments be director to instate projects generated much lower returns. The data show that many public pension systems funded their plans satisfactorily but others did not. The results show the following. Fiscal stress reduced stock funding ratios. Stock funding rates were lower, the higher the fraction of elected retirees and elected active workers represented on the pension system board. Stock funding ratios were higher when a system had in-house actuaries, when the board authorized benefit levels, and when board members had liability insurance. Stock funding rates were unaltered by state statutes guaranteering that benefits be guaranteed by law, or by legally set funding requirements, or by the state's ability to carry budget deficits from one year to the next. Nor did they vary when dedicated or special taxes were earmarked for pension revenue. Policymakers in developing countries can profit from the mistakes made and lessons learned by U.S. pension analysis. Although no single package of pension plan practices can optimize investment performance for all systems across all time periods, care must be taken when designing the regulatory and investment environment in which these plans operate. Developing countries should study the work of the U.S. Government Accounting Standards Board. The author discusses some of the complex issues that must be confronted when establishing funding norms for defined benefit pension plans in the public sector.ICT Policy and Strategies,Financial Intermediation,Economic Theory&Research,Pensions&Retirement Systems,Economic Stabilization
Bass Choir
No full textA black and white negative showing the East Texas State University Bass Choir. Pictured in the front row from left to right: Arlis Lansford, Jerry Watson, Bill Yowell, Jerry Lancaster, Sam Pemberten. Pictured in the back row from left to right: Conrad R. Bauschka, Charles Herring, Dave Wilson, Barry Mitchell, Kenneth Altfather, Jimmy Wright, Jimmy Johnon, Randy Sharber, Fred Zehrer, Connie Seidel, Fred Tackett, Larry Buchanan, John Stacy, Billy Morton, Ken Griffin, John Hasty.https://lair.etamu.edu/scua-univ-photos-browse-all/1814/thumbnail.jp
Scalar soliton quantization with generic moduli
No full textThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons
Attribution License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits any use, distribution and reproduction in
any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credArticle funded by SCOAP3. CP is
a Royal Society Research Fellow and partly supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
under grants DOE-SC0010008, DOE-ARRA-SC0003883 and DOE-DE-SC0007897. ABR
is supported by the Mitchell Family Foundation. We would like to thank the Mitchell
Institute at Texas A&M and the NHETC at Rutgers University respectively for hospitality
during the course of this work. We would also like to acknowledge the Aspen Center
for Physics and NSF grant 1066293 for a stimulating research environment which led to
questions addressed in this paper
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