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James Flaherty Interview, August 17, 1978
No full textCo-founder of the Great Falls Paper Company, James Flaherty describes his personal relationship with Senator James E. Murray. He also describes Murray\u27s relationships with other Montana politicians, particularly Burton K. Wheeler. Flaherty discusses Murray\u27s political activities and campaigning style.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/jamesmurray_interviews/1007/thumbnail.jp
The Gnawer of Rocks by L. Flaherty
No full textFlaherty, Louise. The Gnawer of Rocks. Illustrated by Jim Nelson. Inhabit Media, 2017.
The Gnawer of Rocks, written by Louise Flaherty and illustrated by Jim Nelson, is based on the author\u27s memories of a story she heard as a child from an Inuk storyteller, Levi Iqalugjuaq, in Nunavut in the 1970s. The book, which feels like an incredible mix of picture book and graphic novel, focuses on a traditional story about a creature called Mangittatuarjuk and two young women who fall into her clutches.
Nelson\u27s artwork follows the layout of a comic book, using word balloons and panel captions, which makes for an immersive reading experience following two girls who discover a trail of beautiful rocks outside of camp which lead them from the bright and colourful world of home into the increasingly dark and frightening world of Mangittatuarjuk. The book mixes Inuktitut terms throughout, but does include a glossary at the end.
The story does get both gruesome and horrific in the cave of Mangittatuarjuk, but the story, which would be great for older school children, does include a warning in the author\u27s note. A really great introduction to traditional northern Canadian stories, the book includes an introduction for context and acknowledges the original storyteller as well as the reasons for this type of story and its likely role in the lives of children. An excellent read for children who are already comfortable with scary stories.
Highly recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Kirk MacLeod
Kirk MacLeod is the Open Data Team Lead for the Government of Alberta’s Open Government Portal. A Life-Long reader, he moderates two book clubs and is constantly on the lookout for new great books!
 
Cathcart vs Brooke: a Touring Actress and a Trial of Public Private Identity in the Australian Colonies
No full textIn this article Kate Flaherty examines the sensational contractual dispute that arose
between Gustavus Vaughan Brooke and Mary Fanny Cathcart during their Australian
colonial tour in 1855. She follows Brooke’s attempt to use his theatrical repertoire to
achieve and consolidate a legal victory over Cathcart, but argues that this strategy
ultimately backfired and elicited a form of judgement by the theatregoing public that
countered the judgement handed down by the Supreme Court. Conversely, coverage of
the case in Australian newspapers is identified as shaping reviews and sharpening the
edge of the stage dramas. The article provides a focused instance of the complex interplay
of dramatic works, cultural politics, gendered power, and publicity that characterized
nineteenth-century theatrical touring. Kate Flaherty is a lecturer in English and Drama at
the Australian National University, a member of the International Shakespeare Conference,
and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is author of Ours as We Play
It: Australia Plays Shakespeare (University of Western Australia Press, 2011), as well as
numerous essays on how Shakespeare’s works play on the stage of public culture
Colorado's water: a 1978 report of the Colorado Water Resources Research Institute
No full textPrepared by David C. Flaherty
Fixing Canada’s CPI: A Simple and Sensible Policy Change for Minister Flaherty
No full textFixing measurement errors in the Consumer Price Index is a small idea that offers big payoffs to Canadians and the government. In this paper, the author says if the upcoming federal budget devoted the resources needed to improve Statistics Canada’s measurement of the Consumer Price Index, Canadians would have a truer sense of changes in the cost of living, monetary policy would be guided by a more accurate measure of inflation, and Minister Flaherty would more easily achieve the government’s commitment to balance the federal budget by 2015/16.Monetary Policy, Consumer Price Index (CPI), Statistics Canada, inflation rate
Episode 35: Minamata: The Victims and the World & Minamata (Guest: Darryl Flaherty)
No full textThis episode looks at two films that examine the environmental disaster in Minamata, Japan: Noriaki Tsuchimoto’s documentary, Minamata: The Victims and the World (1971), and Andre Levitas’s Minamata (2020), a Hollywood feature film that tells the story through the famous American photographer, W. Eugene Smith. From 1932 to 1968, the Chisso Corporation, a local petrochemical and plastics maker, dumped approximately 27 tons of mercury into Minamata bay, poisoning fish and, ultimately, the people who ate them. Several thousand people died and many more suffered crippling injuries, with often severe mental and physical effects. The corporation’s environmental pollution sparked legal and political battles that would last decades and reverberate throughout Japan.
Guest: Darryl Flaherty
Darryl Flaherty is a historian of law and social change in early modern and modern Japan. He is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Delaware where he teaches courses on Japanese, Asian, and world history. Professor Flaherty has published work on the emergence of Japan\u27s legal profession during the nineteenth century, the Meiji Restoration in world history, and the twentieth century history of the jury in Japan.
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction2:13 The Chisso Chemical Corporation4:58 The fishing life in Minamata7:30 Methylmercury poisoning12:20 Movement politics and environmental protest in Japan16:44 The debilitating Minamata disease18:59 The Minamata pollution litigation22:03 Denial and violence by the Chisso Corporation 24:08 Government complicity29:26 Discrimination against the victims30:51 Strategies and challenges in obtaining compensation38:28 Noriaki Tsuchimoto, W. Eugene Smith, and the notoriety of Minamata44:51 The importance of an apology48:30 Environmental reform and its limits in Japan52:14 A lens into the 2011 Fukushima disaster54:39 The limited role of lawyers in the films57:21 Minamata today59:07 The decline of political activism in Japan102:02 Take-aways and stories about storytelling
Further Reading:
Flaherty, Darryl, Public Law, Private Practice Politics, Profit, and the Legal Profession in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Harvard Univ. Asia Center, 2013)
George, Timothy S., Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan (Harvard Univ. Press, 2002)
Smith, Eugene W. & Aileen M. Smith, Minamata: The Story of the Poisoning of a City, and of the People Who Chose to Carry the Burden of Courage (Holt, Rinehart, 1975)
Upham, Frank K., Law and Social Change in Postwar Japan (Harvard Univ. Press, 1989)https://scholarship.shu.edu/law-on-film-s03/1004/thumbnail.jp
Effect of aging on bone mass and bone metabolism in native American women
No full textHorace M. Perry III, Marie Bernard, Michael Horowitz, Douglas K. Miller, Shantiel Fleming, Mary Zoe Baker, Joseph Flaherty, Raj Purushothaman, Ramzi Hajjar, Fran E. Kaiser, Ping Patrick, John E. Morle
How Will Defined Contribution Pension Plans Affect Retirement Income?
No full textHow has the emergence of defined contribution pension plans, such as 401(k)s, affected the financial security of future retirees? We consider this question using a detailed survey of pension formulas in the Survey of Consumer Finances. Our simulations show that average and median pension benefits are higher under defined contribution plans that for defined benefit plans. Defined benefit plans are slightly better at providing minimum benefits, but for plausible values of risk aversion, a defined contribution plan drawn randomly from those available in 1995 is still preferred to a defined benefit plan drawn randomly from those available in 1983. This result is robust to different assumptions regarding the spending of defined contribution balances between jobs, equity rates of return, and the date of retirement. In short, we suggest that defined contribution plans can strengthen the financial security of retirees.
Sisters of Charity of St. Louis History
No full textNotes - A history of the Sisters of Charity of St. Louis written by Sister Joan Flaherty S.C.S.L. (2 pages
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