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Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textWhen I began meditating on today's passage from Matthew, I got depressed thinking about dreadful photos from Iraq, scandals in the Church, etc. If such things are the "fruit" by which we will be judged, we are in sad shape. What could I offer besides an additional, unnecessary dose of depression?|The answer came on my morning walk: Bob Reilly, my recently deceased friend and role model. Bob was an Omaha public relations professional and professor, the author of more than a dozen books, a World War II veteran, a proud Catholic with 10 children, and an expert on Ireland. His lifetime of kindness culminated in caring for his beloved wife, Jean, a victim of Alzheimer's Disease. While few of us are blessed with Bob's talents, we can all emulate his concern for others.|Bob's legacy is less in his wonderful writing than in the numerous people he touched. I marveled at the way this nationally distinguished author donated precious time to local writers who might never publish a word. He helped numerous struggling authors including me through the difficult process of publishing a first book. He always seemed to have all the time in the world for whoever was intruding on his overbooked life. |When I became a professor, I consciously tried to emulate Bob. Numerous students frequently spoke with something akin to reverence of the impact of his attention and advice. He was a teacher who modeled what he taught. He exemplified the service to others that we see in the best Christians _ not people who make headlines but those who teach first graders to read, empty bedpans with a smile, wipe noses, do tax returns for the elderly, serve dinner at soup kitchens etc.|I read one time that the answer to choking on bad news is to become "good news" to others. This is how we can counteract the headlines that make us ashamed. We can all try to produce "good fruit" as Bob did
Blue Window: Poems
No full textBy Ann Fisher-Wirth Archer Books (Paperback, $14.00, ISBN: 1931122156, 8/2003) “In that shadowy time before sorrow…” the title poem of Ann Fisher-Wirth’s Blue Window begins, invoking a young girl’s world of befores: before sexual and political awareness; before loss, grief, and guilt; before deaths in the neighborhood and the family. Fisher-Wirth continues tracing a series of journeys begun at that time. An Army brat and lifelong traveler who grew up in California and now lives in Mississippi; daughter, lover, wife, and mother; environmentalist, literature professor, and student of yoga and Reiki, Ann Fisher-Wirth writes out of the full range of her experience. Grounded in the body and the earth, Blue Window mourns and celebrates what it is to be alive. “Many American poets have written what gets called ‘the autobiographical lyric.’ Very few poets have written it with such fierce and stinging accuracy. [Ann Fisher-Wirth] is, stylistically, a realist and a modernist. Like William Carlos Williams … she can be a little headlong, perhaps a little ruthless, and that quality gives this book, which also has the virtues of tenderness and attentiveness, its steel and its nerve.” —Robert Hass, former U.S. poet laureate, author, most recently, of the collection Sun Under Wood “Sweet, rank, precise, unafraid of either deep pain or deep joy, these poems remind me of horses in a pasture, always aware of their power and grace, even in repose, and always, completely natural. It is not just the poet who is acutely alive, in this work, but, somehow, the poems themselves.” —Rick Bass, Author, The Hermit’s Story: Stories, The Roadless Yaak, and others. Ann Fisher-Wirth lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where she teaches poetry and environmental literature at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature and of numerous essays on American literature, and a Fulbright Scholar who in 2002-2003 held the Chair of American Studies at Uppsala University, Sweden. She and her husband Peter Wirth have five children.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/mwp_books/1048/thumbnail.jp
Matlab codes for "Convex relaxation of discrete vector-valued optimization problems"
No full textvectormultibang
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This repository contains Matlab codes accompanying the paper [Convex relaxation of discrete vector-valued optimization problems](https://doi.org/10.1137/21M1426237) ([arXiv preprint](http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.10077)) by [Christian Clason](https://homepage.uni-graz.at/c.clason), Carla Tameling, and [Benedikt Wirth](https://www.uni-muenster.de/AMM/num/wirth/people/Wirth/index.html).
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##### directory `bloch`
contains the test scripts for the example concerning optimal control of the Bloch equation using discrete control vectors (run `test_bloch.m`)
##### directory `elasticity`
contains the test scripts for the example concerning optimal control of the equations of linearized elasticity (run `test_elasticity.m`)
##### directory `mbtransport`
contains the test scripts for the example concerning multimaterial branched transport (run `test_branchedTransport.m`)
If you find this approach useful, you can cite the paper as
@article{vectormultibang,
author = {Clason, Christian and Tameling, Carla and Wirth, Benedikt},
title = {Convex relaxation of discrete vector-valued optimization problems},
journal = {SIAM Review},
volume = {63},
number = {4},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1137/21M1426237
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text"For a thousand years in your sight are as yesterday, now that it is past, or as a watch of the night."||Last spring my husband and I spent several days marveling at the ruins of ancient Greece. From our Athens hotel room, we had a perfect view of the Parthenon lighted up at night just like the shots during the Olympics. Awesome!||Today's readings, especially the psalm, speak to this experience. They remind us of how small and transitory even the most astonishing works of man are compared with the work of God and eternity.||Before going to Greece, I read up on its history, geography and mythology because I had only dim memories from high school history, especially about Delphi, once the region's spiritual center. Today its impressive piles of stones and fragments of buildings are reminders of long-gone power and influence. Tourists listen to lectures to understand Delphi's significance. Then they head back to the souvenir shops and the street life of Athens.||In God's eyes, what happened in ancient Greece is "as yesterday" just like the achievements of our own time will soon be. Human power and glory are as mythical in the long term as the advice the Oracle at Delphi dispensed!||So what's important? What kind of legacy counts? I think of my friend, the late Bob Reilly , an outstanding author of many books, but an even more outstanding teacher and human being. At his packed wake, people spoke of his books but that wasn't why they came. Bob had touched every one of us with his kindness, mentoring and warmth. He patiently guided me through writing my first book. His wisdom and encouragement were invaluable.||I'll take a legacy of kindness like Bob's over a pile of stones any day. So, I think, will the Lord
REL22 Reinventing Energy Landscapes
No full textREL22 was an international summer school program launched by the Institute of Landscape Architecture of RWTH Aachen University (Prof. Frank Lohrberg, Silvia Beretta) together with the Master’s Programme in „Landscape Architecture and Landscape Heritage“ of Politecnico di Milano (Prof. Antonio Longo) andthe Master’s Programme in “Landscape Architecture” of TU Delft (Prof. Laura Cipriani). The aim was to formulate visions for the landscape transformation of the Rhenish Lignite District, the largest open-cast lignite mining area in Europe, located in the German region of North Rhine Westphalia
The king's jester, and other poems / by Anna Maria Wirth ; with decorations by the author.
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Villard de Honnecourt, architecte du XIIIe siècle
No full textThe only document we have by a 13th-century architect, the Album of Villard de Honnecourt has been the subject of writings by art and architectural historians since the 19th century and has been considered the work of an amateur since the 1970s. Jean Wirth sheds new light on the question, based on a philological study of the manuscript, and proves that Villard himself is the author of the technical drawings relating to construction. He goes on to provide convincing analyses of the art of drawing and its numerous applications, from drawing from nature to architectural plans. Drawings relating to engineering, geometry and stereotomy are treated individually, in order to convey as clearly as possible the technical processes they illustrate. An examination of the architect’s travels, the monuments he saw and his stylistic evolution allows for an accurate, corrected chronology of this work, previously considered outdated. This intelligent and detailed study will be a landmark in the rehabilitation of Villard de Honnecourt’s reputation
Ephydra (Ephydra) packardi Wirth
No full text29. <i>Ephydra (Ephydra) packardi</i> Wirth <p>Figs. 127–129, Map 29</p> <p> <i>Ephydra packardi</i> Wirth 1971: 365 [new name for <i>E. halophila</i> Packard].— Mathis and Zatwarnicki 1995: 243 [world catalog].</p> <p> <i>Ephydra halophila</i> Packard 1869: 49 [preoccupied by <i>Coenia halophila</i> von</p> <p> Heyden 1844: 203, a synonym of <i>E. riparia</i> Fallén].</p> <p> <i>Ephydra subopaca,</i> in part of authors [misidentification], not Loew 1864: 98.— Aldrich 1912: 93 [review].— Ping 1921: 557 [natural history, description of immature stages].</p> <p> <i>Ephydra riparia,</i> in part of American authors [misidentification], not Fallén 1813: 246.</p> <p> <i>Ephydra macellaria,</i> in part of American authors [misidentification], not Egger 1862: 779.</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> This species closely resembles other subcongeners but may be distinguished by the short, fairly blunt scutellum and sparsely setose anepisternum of females and by characters of the male terminalia. Medium-sized to moderately large shore flies, body length 3.30–4.70 mm; generally microtomentose, olivaceous green to gray.</p> <p> <i>Head:</i> Mesofrons shiny with bluish green metallic luster. Facial coloration variable, usually whitish but sometimes golden brown dorsally, paler ventrally. Eye ratio 1.06; gena-to-eye ratio 0.47.</p> <p> <i>Thorax:</i> Scutum microtomentose, subshiny, especially posteriorly, grayish green with some metallic bronzish tinges; scutellum of female moderately long, bluntly rounded. Acrostichal setae generally fine; both males and females with distinct, large pair of prescutellar acrostichal setae, prescutellar area of female shallowly swollen, generally inconspicuous, but with several setae; anepisternum, especially of female, with sparse setae along posterior margin. Wing length averaging 3.39–3.80 mm; costal vein ratio 0.27; M vein ratio 0.78. Legs mostly yellowish to reddish, some specimens with femora slightly microtomentose, grayish green; tarsal claws about equal to length of 4th tarsomere.</p> <p> <i>Abdomen:</i> Tergite 5 of male about 1.5X length of tergite 4. Male terminalia (Figs. 127–129): surstyli expanded and rounded apically in posterior view, pale colored, usually yellowish, generally setose except at apex and is distal concavity on posterior surface; gonite generally broad, apex with well-developed pointed hook; sternal plate transverse with narrow anterior process forming bifurcate sclerite, transversely ridged midportion not strongly convex ventrally; aedeagus with apex rounded in lateral view, with a sharp medial flange on posterior side distally, membranous anterodistal lobe with very well-developed apical spicules and proximal ridges, recurved basal process short, about 1/3 length of straight portion.</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> The lectotype male of <i>Ephydra halophila</i> Packard (designated by Wirth 1971: 365) is labeled “ E. halophila Pack. Equality Salt works [Gallatin Co.,] Ill[inois]. United States. Packard Coll. [species name, author, and specific locality handwritten, folded label]/M. C. Z holoTYPE 28563 [“holo” and type number handwritten, red]/ halophila Pack. [handwritten, black submargin]/ halophila Pack = subopaca Loew (Sturtevant) [handwritten]/ HOLOTYPE Ephydra packardi Wirth. n[ew]. n[ame]. [species name and author handwritten, red submargin].” Packard (1869) did not designate a holotype, hence the holotype labels are incorrect. Wirth's designation of “ type in MCZ,” however, does qualify as a lectotype designation, and the specimen he labeled as “ HOLOTYPE ” is the lectotype male of this species. The lectotype is double mounted (pin in cork block), is in fair condition (several setae are missing or misdirected, the basal flagellomeres are missing), and is in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ 28543. There is also a male paralectotype and a vial of puparia in the MCZ.</p> <p> <b>Type locality.</b> United States. Illinois. Gallatin: Salt works (37°43.3'N, 88°17.7'W).</p> <p> <b>Additional specimens examined.</b> MEXICO. <i>Baja California Sur:</i> Isla Ildefonso (26°38'N, 111°26.5'W), 30 Mar 1953, P. H. Arnaud, Jr. (4♂, 3♀; USNM). <i>Sonora:</i> Alamos (27°01'N, 108°55.9'W), 26 Feb 1963, P. H. Arnaud, Jr. (1♂; USNM).</p> <p> <b>Distribution</b> (Map 29): <i>Nearctic:</i> Canada (British Columbia), United States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington). <i>Neotropical:</i> Mexico (Baja California Sur, Sonora), between 26°–52°N and 72°–123°W.</p> <p> <b>Remarks.</b> This is one of the commonest species of the subgenus <i>Ephydra,</i> and aside from <i>E. millbrae</i> Jones, it is the only species of the <i>riparia</i> group known to occur below the Mexican-United States border.</p> <p> <b>MAP 29.</b> Distribution map for <i>Ephydra packardi</i> Wirth.</p>Published as part of <i>Mathis, Wayne N. & Marinoni, Luciane, 2016, Revision of Ephydrini Zetterstedt (Diptera: Ephydridae) from the Americas south of the United States, pp. 1-110 in Zootaxa 4116 (1)</i> on pages 92-94, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4116.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/257322">http://zenodo.org/record/257322</a>
Villard de Honnecourt, architecte du XIIIe siècle
No full textThe only document we have by a 13th-century architect, the Album of Villard de Honnecourt has been the subject of writings by art and architectural historians since the 19th century and has been considered the work of an amateur since the 1970s. Jean Wirth sheds new light on the question, based on a philological study of the manuscript, and proves that Villard himself is the author of the technical drawings relating to construction. He goes on to provide convincing analyses of the art of drawing and its numerous applications, from drawing from nature to architectural plans. Drawings relating to engineering, geometry and stereotomy are treated individually, in order to convey as clearly as possible the technical processes they illustrate. An examination of the architect’s travels, the monuments he saw and his stylistic evolution allows for an accurate, corrected chronology of this work, previously considered outdated. This intelligent and detailed study will be a landmark in the rehabilitation of Villard de Honnecourt’s reputation.L'Album de Villard de Honnecourt est le seul document personnel que nous ait laissé un architecte du XIIIe siècle. Connu et exploité par les historiens de l'art et de l'architecture dès le XIXe siècle, il a été considéré comme l'œuvre d'un amateur depuis les années 1970. Jean Wirth reprend le problème à partir de l'étude philologique des écritures contenues dans le manuscrit et montre qu'il faut attribuer à Villard les pages dont les dessins techniques relatifs à la construction passaient pour l'œuvre d'un continuateur. Dans une série de chapitres alertes, il analyse ensuite l'art du dessin et son adaptation à la multiplicité des tâches, du dessin d'après nature au relevé architectural. Les dessins relatifs à l'ingénierie, à la géométrie et à la stéréotomie sont traités un à un, afin de clarifier autant que possible les procédés techniques qu'ils transmettent. L’examen des déplacements de l’architecte, des monuments qu'il a vus et de son évolution stylistique mène ensuite à une rectification de la chronologie de son œuvre qu'on croyait retardataire. Cette étude s’affirme avec intelligence et précision comme une réhabilitation de Villard de Honnecourt ; elle fera date
00-05 "Getting the Prices Wrong: The Limits of Market-Based Environmental Policy."
No full textMarket based policies are fast becoming the recommended policy panacea for all the world's environmental problems. Implicit in such recommendations is the theory that free markets, adjusted for externalities, can always create an "efficient" allocation of society's resources. As a result, many contemporary policymakers advocate rolling back regulations in order to let the market protect the environment. There is a fundamental distinction between the use of the market as a tool to help achieve society's goals, and as a blueprint for society's goals; the market is a reasonable policy tool but not a reasonable blueprint. The market as blueprint fails because there are significant public purposes that cannot be achieved by prices and markets alone. Five major arguments show that getting the prices right is often a narrow or meaningless objective; society may intentionally and appropriately choose to "get the prices wrong" in order to pursue more important goals.
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