368 research outputs found
Maria Haigh Downloading Communism (draft), Libri, 55(3), pp.165-178 1 Abstract Downloading Communism: File Sharing as Samizdat in Ukraine
No full textThis article explores the cultural meanings of file sharing and other forms of digital media piracy in Ukraine. Ukraine, the second most populous of the former Soviet republics, had been named as one of the ten “priority countries ” with “unacceptable piracy rates”. Western governments and commercial associations have lobbied intensively to present piracy in straightforward terms as a crime. In contrast, the author argues that file sharing practices in Ukraine reflect distinctive features of its cultural heritage. Two factors are particularly important here: the Soviet Union’s disregard for international copyright norms and the cultural tradition of Samizdat that arose as a form of cultural resistance to the state’s monopoly on conventional reproductive methods. Samizdat was closely tied to the emergence of a modern Ukrainian national identity. An analysis of current Ukrainian attitudes toward piracy, focused on users of the popular Muzon.com music sharing site, shows that these factors influence attitudes toward the legitimacy of international copyright measures. Many Ukrainians distrust the imposition of controls on reproduction of information and resent the coercive tactics used against local pirate producers on behalf of Western copyright holders. Parallels between file sharing and Samizdat are particularly instructive because both take place from one individual to another along an anonymous chain, across national boundaries, and without the control of copyright holders. In both cases the political meaning of the action comes from participation in the process itself, as much as from the material being shared. Maria Haigh Downloading Communism (draft), Libri, 55(3), pp.165-178
Pleuro-pericarditis and pneumonia due to Listeria monocytogenes in an African lion
No full textRE: 6 ref.; SC: ZA; CA; VE; 0ISource type: Electronic(1) http://upei-resolver.asin-risa.ca?sid=SP:CABI&id=pmid:&id=&issn=&isbn=&volume=9&issue=2&spage=38&pages=38-42&date=1978&title=Journal%20of%20Zoo%20Animal%20Medicine&atitle=Pleuro-pericarditis%20and%20pneumonia%20due%20to%20Listeria%20monocytogenes%20in%20an%20African%20lion.&aulast=Haigh&pid=%3Cauthor%3EHaigh%2c%20J%20C%3bPharr%2c%20J%20W%3bDaoust%2c%20P%20Y%3C%2Fauthor%3E%3CAN%3E19782229679%3C%2FAN%3E%3CDT%3EJournal%20article%3C%2FDT%3
Heat and light
No full textBestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town and the conflicting forces at its heart - hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families. Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, this novel depicts a community blessed and cursed by its natural resource
Beyond Peter Rabbit : the private life of Beatrix Potter
No full textMichigan State University Humanities Librarian Agnes Haigh Widder delivers a talk entitled, "Beyond Peter Rabbit: The Private Life of Beatrix Potter." Showing examples of Potter's work, Widder discusses the personality and life of Potter and says that she was much more than the storied, brilliant and eccentric author. Widder explains that Potter was a naturalist, farmer, scientific illustrator, stockbreeder, and influential conservationist in England's Lake District, then comments on Potter's coded diary, her life, work, and legacy. She answers questions from the audience. Widder is introduced by John D. Shaw from the G. Robert Vincent Voice Library. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Colloquia Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
Newmarket Arts Trust: A brief history (2004–2021)
No full textBACKGROUND
The Newmarket Arts Trust (NAT) was formed in 2004. The original trustees were a mixture of people involved in the art world
–– myself
–– Sue Haigh (no relation to the author, local resident and active member of the Newmarket Park Beautification Group)
–– Deborah White (owner of Newmarket gallery Whitespace)
–– Joy Tongue (owner of Newmarket gallery Studio of Contemporary Art)
[...]
The trust was established by the Newmarket Business Association (NBA) and was tasked with promoting arts, especially public art in the Newmarket area – roughly the area within the boundary of the old Newmarket Borough Council and now the boundary of the NBA. I had been closely involved in establishing the NBA and ensuring that the Newmarket area had a special Mainstreet rate that was devolved by Auckland City Council (ACC) to the NBA. These special rates were essential in funding a regular and substantial part of the costs of future artworks.
NAT is a community organisation registered with the Charities Commission. Its constitution includes the following purposes:
–– Promote art and culture in Newmarket
–– Establish and support a Newmarket art and culture fund to commission works and promote the arts
–– Purchase artworks for public display in Newmarket
–– Encourage public art in all new developments and redevelopments in Newmarket
–– Encourage artists to set up in the Newmarket communit
Multi-decadal shoreline change in coastal natural world heritage sites – a global assessment
No full textNatural World Heritage Sites (NWHS), which are of Outstanding Universal Value, are increasingly threatened by natural and anthropogenic pressures. This is especially true for coastal NWHS, which are additionally subject to erosion and flooding. This paper assesses shoreline change from 1984 to 2016 within the boundaries of 67 designated sites, providing a first global consistent assessment of its drivers. It develops a transferable methodology utilising new satellite-derived global shoreline datasets, which are classified based on linearity of change against time and compared with global datasets of geomorphology (topography, land cover, coastal type, and lithology), climate variability and sea-level change. Significant shoreline change is observed on 14% of 52 coastal NWHS shorelines that show the largest recessional and accretive trends (means of -3.4 m yr
-1 and 3.5 m yr
-1, respectively). These rapid shoreline changes are found in low-lying shorelines (<1 m elevation) composed of unconsolidated sediments in vegetated tidal coastal systems (means of -7.7 m yr
-1 and 12.5 m yr
-1), and vegetated tidal deltas at the mouth of large river systems (means of -6.9 m yr
-1 and 11 m yr
-1). Extreme shoreline changes occur as a result of redistribution of sediment driven by a combination of geomorphological conditions with (1) specific natural coastal morphodynamics such as opening of inlets (e.g. Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve) or gradients of alongshore sediment transport (e.g. Namib Sea) and (2) direct or indirect human interferences with natural coastal processes such as sand nourishment (e.g. Wadden Sea) and damming of river sediments upstream of a delta (e.g. Danube Delta). The most stable soft coasts are associated with the protection of coral reef ecosystems (e.g. Great Barrier Reef) which may be degraded/destroyed by climate change or human stress in the future. A positive correlation between shoreline retreat and local relative sea-level change was apparent in the Wadden Sea. However, globally, the effects of contemporary sea-level rise are not apparent for coastal NWHS, but it is a major concern for the future reinforcing the shoreline dynamics already being observed due to other drivers. Hence, future assessments of shoreline change need to account for other drivers of coastal change in addition to sea-level rise projections. In conclusion, extreme multi-decadal linear shoreline trends occur in coastal NWHS and are driven primarily by sediment redistribution. Future exacerbation of these trends may affect heritage values and coastal communities. Thus shoreline change should be considered in future management plans where necessary. This approach provides a consistent method to assess NWHS which can be repeated and help steer future management of these important sites.
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The rise and fall of the Labour league of youth
No full textThis thesis charts the rise and fall of the Labour Party’s first and most enduring youth organisation, the Labour League of Youth. The history of the League, from its birth in the early nineteen twenties to its demise in the late nineteen fifties, is placed in the context of the Labour Party’s subsequent fruitless attempts to establish and maintain a vibrant and functional youth organisation. A narrative is incorporated that illuminates the culture, organisation and political activism of the League and establishes it as a predominantly working class radical organisation. The reluctance on the part of the Labour Party to grant autonomy to its youth sections resulted in the history of the League of Youth being one of control, suppression and tension. This state of affairs ensured that subsequent youth groups, the Young Socialists and Young Labour, would be established in an atmosphere of reservation and scepticism.
The thesis places the prime responsibility for the failure of the party’s youth organisations with the party leadership but also considers the contributory factors of changing social and political circumstances. A number of themes are explored which include the impact of structure and agency factors, the power of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the political socialisation of leading figures within the party, the social context in which each of the groups emerged and the extent to which the youth groups were prey to intra-party factionalism.
The thesis redresses the balance of research where most accounts have focussed on the Young Socialists and traces the common characteristics that are prevalent in the way the party leadership has approached its relationship with its youth organisations. Use has been made of previously unpublished primary source material, the major source being the League of Youth members themselves whose recollections have helped to demonstrate the arguments put forward in this thesis
The "Goodbye Petrovka" plan: moral economy of file sharing in Post-Soviet Ukraine
No full textUkraine, the second most populous of the former Soviet republics, had been named as one of the ten "priority countries" with "unacceptable piracy rates." Kiev's open-air Petrovka Market has become a symbol for the blatant distribution of pirated books, films, music, and software. As living standards and disposable incomes have risen dramatically in recent years, Ukrainians are turning increasingly toward the Internet and to newly-available high bandwidth networks as a new medium for the exchange of music, films, and computer software. Drawing upon the explanatory resources of science studies, particularly the well-established literature on the social construction of technological systems, the author argues that Ukrainians are literally and metaphorically reconstructing imported Internet technologies in accordance with their own culture. To explain this distinctive technological path the author examines the interaction of technologies, users, and regulatory regimes. These have shaped the understanding of ordinary Ukrainian Internet users toward what, following E.P. Thompson, the author calls the "moral economy" of copyright and file sharing. I probe these understandings through analysis of comments on file sharing behavior submitted by a sample of Ukrainian internet users
An updated checklist of Araceae, Leguminosae and Myrtaceae of the department of Boyacá, Colombia, including keys to genera and new occurrence records
No full textLucas, Eve J., Haigh, Anna L., Castellanos, Cesar, Aguilar-Cano, José, Biggs, Nicola, Castellanos, Carolina C., Fabriani, Federico, Frisby, Susan, García, Lina, Klitgård, Bente B., Morales-Puentes, Maria Eugenia, Parra-O, Carlos, Perezescobar, Oscar, Zuluaga, Alejandro, Lewis, Gwilym P. (2023): An updated checklist of Araceae, Leguminosae and Myrtaceae of the department of Boyacá, Colombia, including keys to genera and new occurrence records. Phytotaxa 589 (2): 137-178, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.589.2.4, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.589.2.
Discussion of ‘‘Re-Examination of Undrained Strength at Atterberg Limits Water Contents’’ by H.B. Nagaraj, A. Sridharan & H.M. Mallikarjuna
No full textHaving recently investigated soil strength at the Atterberg limits, the discussers read the paper by Nagaraj et al. (2012) with interest. Whilst some of the conclusions of the paper concur with those of our own work, there are other areas in which we would question the authors’ conclusions
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