299 research outputs found
Audio Interview with Mr. Alexander (Alex) Lafferty
No full textAudio - Mr. Alex Lafferty discusses his life in Athabasca having moved here around 1906. Freighting, the railroad ,and the many captains and companies on the river are mentioned including: Captain Haight, John Shott, and Captain Mills. Mr. Magnus Brown was a boat builder and Mr. Lafferty helped to build the last ferryTape is quite good considering the age of Mr. Lafferty (90 yrs.) at the time of taping. Mr. Lafferty remembers much of early times
Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st Century
No full textWhen it comes to public-sector pensions, writes lead author Michael B. Lafferty in this report, "A major public-policy (and public-finance) problem has been defined and measured, debated and deliberated, but not yet solved. Except where it has been." As recounted in "Halting a Runaway Train: Reforming Teacher Pensions for the 21st Century", these exceptions turn out to be revealing -- and encouraging
A New Medical Specialty: Good for Patients?
No full textThe author looks at the National Association of Inpatient Physicians and the specialty of hospitalist or inpatient physician
‘You Are the Old Entrapped Dreams of the Coyote’s Brains Oozing Liquid Through the Broken Eye Socket’: Ecomonstrous poetics and weird bioregionalism in the fiction of R. A. Lafferty (with a comparative reading of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian)
No full textThe fiction of R. A. Lafferty (1914-2002) is at once deeply ecological and deeply strange. Its incessant narrative inclusion of the nonhuman beings, places, and forces of Lafferty’s Oklahoman and otherwise (south)western bioregion evinces an imagination profoundly porous to the local specificities and abundance of one’s more-than-human context. In this way it is deeply ecological. Lafferty’s fiction is also known (among his small devoted readership, which includes such luminaries as Neil Gaiman and Harlan Ellison) as one of the most uniquely off-kilter, wildly imaginative, and arcanely erudite bodies of work in U.S. literature. In this way it is deeply strange. While it is often acknowledged that Lafferty transcends the genre of science fiction (the industry in which most of his early work was published) and that his work is sui generis, little has been done to place him as either a U.S. author generally or an author of regional place more specifically. This thesis attempts to initiate the placement of Lafferty as a bioregional writer of the Great Plains and Southwest, whilst placing equal emphasis on Lafferty’s literary mode as not so much science-fictional as weird, or monstrous (in what we will call a horror-comic or monstro-ludic key). The fusion of these concerns leads this thesis to declare Lafferty a purveyor of American Weird Bioregionalism. Toward this end, we herein assemble insights from regional western U.S. narrative traditions (the frontier tall tale and Native American storytelling) together with recent ecocritical and ecophilosophical discourses (New Materialism and Object-Oriented Ontology) to reconfigure contemporary Monsters Studies toward a more-than-human construal of monsters and the monstrous that reads Lafferty’s weird bioregional fiction through the lens of what this thesis terms an Ecomonstrous Poetics. A chapter devoted to an ecomonstrous reading of Cormac McCarthy’s southwestern novel Blood Meridian provides a canonical comparison to Lafferty with surprising overlap. A final chapter on Lafferty’s implicit ecotheology rounds out the thesis and opens it up to further research
Saga of the Whispering Hills - 039
No full textPhotograph - Glenda Waddle, Alex Lafferty, Mike Saluk, and Carl Carlson. Saga of the Whispering Hills, presented by the Athabasca Players for the 75th Anniversary of Athabasca, Albert
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Market orientation development in family owned small and medium enterprises
No full textThis research examined the nature of Market Orientation and analysed the extent of Market Orientation development in family owned small and medium sized enterprises. The causes and means that may be instrumental in developing a Market Orientation were also evaluated using a case study approach. A paucity of knowledge was identified in this area of researching Market Orientation in family owned SMEs especially with a qualitative methodology. The lack of research and need for balancing the importance of the disciplinary foundation of marketing with consideration to constraints of small business by adapting the implementation process of small business marketing was highlighted in the literature review. Accordingly a balanced approach was adopted of considering the Market Orientation concept as universal in principle whilst adapting it to the unique characteristics of family owned small and medium sized enterprises by emphasising some differences in the extent of Market Orientation and in the process of Market Orientation development. Accordingly the Researcher built an integrated conceptual framework using the SME stages model as a starting point and superimposing the effect of family ownership to focus on the process of Market Orientation adoption
WIDE-BAND TUNABLE DIODE LASER HETERODYNE MEASUREMENTS
No full text J. P. Sattler, T. L. Worchesky, K. J. Ritter, and W. J. Lafferty, Opt. Lett. 5, 21 (1980)Author Institution:A technique for rapid, accurate, and copious diode laser heterodyne measurements of infrared absorption frequencies will be discussed in By use of a wideband (3 dB width, 1.2 GHz) HgCdTe photomixer and a laser local oscillator, absorptions lying within 9 GHz of a emission line may be measured with care to within 6 MHz. The data from accurate infrared heterodyne measurements of 1,1-difluoroethylene, when supplemented with existing microwave data on the ground state, permit the calculation of submilimeter wave laser emission frequencies to within a few megahertz. Similar measurements on carbonyl sulfide increase its utility as a secondary frequency standard
September 27, 1911 Page four Local man honored Will ship salmon Is doing good work Building store room Stock exhibit fine
No full textKinkaid, J. M.; Sims, E. A.; Lafferty [Street Superintendent]; Bailey, Fred J.; Bishop, William
HIGH RESOLUTION INFRARED SPECTRUM OF CYANOGEN
No full textA. Weber, W. J. Lafferty, and W. B. Olson, paper RE5, Thirty Ninth Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, The Ohio State University, June 1984.Author Institution: Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of Standards; Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of Standards; Molecular Spectroscopy Division, National Bureau of StandardsNew measurements of the IR spectrum of were obtained with the NBS BOMEM DA3.002 Fourier transform spectrometer equipped with a 20m White cell. The spectra of the , and combination and difference bands were recorded at an apodized resolution of . Because of the low lying fundamentals and these bands are accompained by numerous hot bands which complicate the assignment process. the band system was also recorded yielding new measurements superceding those reported earlier [1]. The band of the isotope, present in the gas in natural abundance, was also observed. Results of the analysis of the band system will be presented
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