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Murrial Martin with carved goose
No full textThis picture shows Murrial Galt Martin, known as Murray Martin, with a large carving of a goose. A former occupational therapist, Martin came to the John C. Campbell Folk School as a craft instructor in 1935. She taught carving at the school until 1973, also leading the school's woodcarving cooperative that became known as the Brasstown Carvers. This photograph was taken from a booklet published by the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1990 titled "The Brasstown Carvers" with text by Bill Biggers, photographs by Werner Kahn and Bill Biggers
George C. Martin Papers - Accession 271 - M117 (149-150)
No full textThe George C. Martin Papers includes Civil War correspondence between George Canning Martin and his wife, Sarah Jane, from May 1862 to August 1864. Subjects include camp life, the progress of the war in North Carolina and Virginia, and the physical and mental condition of the Confederate soldiers (such as ill health, poor food, and depression). Also included are tax receipts, pension records, newspapers clippings (1863), a commonplace book belonging to Robert Smith, and a memoir (author unknown).https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1290/thumbnail.jp
Martin Andersen Nexø
No full textThis is a short presentation of the main works of the Danish author Martin Andersen Nexø
Lockheed Martin Dedication Ceremony of the John C. Stennis Space Center
No full textLockheed Martin Dedication Ceremony of the John C. Stennis Space Center with Roy Estess, Bill Hansen, Ronnie Musgrove, Trent Lott, Gene Taylor, and Roderick Pullman
Effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on fine particulate matter concentrations dataset
No full textMonthly regional PM2.5 estimates for China, Europe, and North America for January-April 2018 to 2020.
M. S. Hammer, A. van Donkelaar, R. V. Martin, E. E. McDuffie, A. Lyapustin, A. M. Sayer, N. C. Hsu, R. C. Levy, M. J. Garay, O. V. Kalashnikova, R. A. Kahn, Effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on fine particulate matter concentrations. Sci. Adv.7, eabg7670 (2021)
Hope Brown and Glen Brown with carvings
No full textHope and Glen Brown learned to carve from instructor Murrial Martin at the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1939 and 1940. They sold their carvings through the school's woodcarving cooperative which became known as the Brasstown Carvers. They created their own patterns and made them available to the Folk School for other carvers. Glenn is known for his geese, guinea fowl and many other birds. Hope, responsible for the design of most of their patterns, designed and carved everything from cardinals to mockingbirds, dolphins to Dobermans, and fish to tigers. This photograph was taken from a booklet published by the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1990 titled "The Brasstown Carvers" with text by Bill Biggers, photographs by Werner Kahn and Bill Bigger
Ray Mann portrait
No full textThis picture shows woodcarver Ray Mann carving a small figure. Mann learned to carve at the John C. Campbell Folk School under instructors Murrial Martin and Jack Hall. In fact, his father-in-law was Brasstown carver Elisha Allen Hall, brother of John and Ben Hall, and Jack Hall's uncle. Mann has sold work through the school's woodcarving cooperative know as the Brasstown Carvers. Ray worked mainly in cherry, walnut and buckeye and carved dogs, cows, oxen, mad mules and braying donkeys. This photograph was taken from a booklet published by the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1990 titled "The Brasstown Carvers" with text by Bill Biggers, photographs by Werner Kahn and Bill Biggers
Janet Anderson and Christine Gilbert carving
No full textThis photograph shows Janice Anderson (left) and Christine Gilbert (right) carving small animals. Christine is the daughter of the long-time Brasstown carver, Verda Anderson, and Janice is Verda's daughter-in-law. The women were introduced to carving through Verda, and both eventually learned to carve under John C. Campbell Folk School instructor Murrial Martin. Janice also took a class from carving instructor Jack Hall. Both worked at Folk School preparing meals and carved whenever they got the chance. They both started with napkin rings and worked with doves, pecking birds to ducklings, then Christmas ornaments. Both women have demonstrated carving throughout the region and have carved for the Folk School's Fall Festival. This photograph was taken from a booklet published by the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1990 titled "The Brasstown Carvers" with text by Bill Biggers, photographs by Werner Kahn and Bill Bigger
The euro at ten: the next global currency?
No full textOver the first ten years of its existence, the euro has proved to be more than a powerful symbol of collective identity. It has provided price stability to previously inflation-prone countries; it has offered a shelter against currency crises; and it has by and large been conducive to budgetary discipline. The eurozone has attracted five new members in addition to the initial eleven, and many countries in Europe wish to adopt it. The euro has also been successful internationally. Even though research presented in this volume confirms that it has not rivaled the dollar's world currency status, it has certainly become a strong regional currency in Europe and the Mediterranean region. Some countries in the region have de facto adopted it, several peg to it, and many have become at least partially euroized.
However, the euro's impressive first decade is likely to be followed by a much more difficult period. The present financial crisis is posing at least two important challenges: real economic adjustment within the euro area and maintenance of fiscal and financial stability without a central government authority capable of taking appropriate financial and fiscal decisions in difficult times.
This book is the product of a joint conference held in 2008 by the Peterson Institute for International Economics and Bruegel. It is edited by Bruegel Director Jean Pisani-Ferry and then-PIEE Deputy Director and current Bruegel board member Adam Posen. The papers and remarks in this volume demonstrate that the euro has proved to be attractive as a fair weather currency for countries and investors well beyond its borders. But it remains to be seen whether it is equipped to also succeed as a stormy weather currency.
Contributors: JoaquÃn Almunia, Maria Celina Arraes, Leszek Balcerowicz, C. Fred Bergsten, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, Kristin J. Forbes, Linda S. Goldberg, C. Randall Henning, Mohsin S. Khan, Antonio de Lecea, Erkki Liikanen, Philippe Martin, Thomas Mayer, André Sapir, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Lawrence H. Summers, and György Szapáry.
The SF-36: a simple, effective measure of mobility disability for epidemiological studies
No full textBackgroundMobility disability is a major problem in older people. Numerous scales exist for the measurement of disability but often these do not permit comparisons between study groups. The physical functioning (PF) domain of the established and widely used Short Form-36 (SF-36) questionnaire asks about limitations on ten mobility activities.ObjectivesTo describe prevalence of mobility disability in an elderly population, investigate the validity of the SF-36 PF score as a measure of mobility disability, and to establish age and sex specific norms for the PF score.MethodsWe explored relationships between the SF-36 PF score and objectively measured physical performance variables among 349 men and 280 women, 59-72 years of age, who participated in the Hertfordshire Cohort Study (HCS). Normative data were derived from the Health Survey for England (HSE) 1996.Results32% of men and 46% of women had at least some limitation in PF scale items. Poor SF-36 PF scores (lowest fifth of the gender-specific distribution) were related to: lower grip strength; longer timed-up-and-go, 3m walk, and chair rises test times in men and women; and lower quadriceps peak torque in women but not men. HSE normative data showed that median PF scores declined with increasing age in men and women.ConclusionOur results are consistent with the SF-36 PF score being a valid measure of mobility disability in epidemiological studies. This approach might be a first step towards enabling simple comparisons of prevalence of mobility disability between different studies of older people. The SF-36 PF score could usefully complement existing detailed schemes for classification of disability and it now requires validation against them
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