180 research outputs found
Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay
No full textOriginal Soundtrack for the documentary film - composed, performed and recorded by Laura Ritchie.
William ‘Bill’ Jay (12 August 1940 – 10 May 2009) was a photographer, a writer on and advocate of photography, a curator, a magazine and picture editor, lecturer, public speaker and mentor. He was the first editor of Creative Camera Owner magazine, which became Creative Camera magazine (1967–1969) and founder and editor of Album magazine (1970–1971).
He established the first gallery dedicated to photography in the UK with the Do Not Bend Gallery, London and the first Director of Photography at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. Whilst there he founded and directed the first photo-study centre.
He studied at the University of New Mexico under Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke and then founded the Photographic Studies programme at Arizona State University, where he taught photography history and criticism for 25 years.
He is the author of more than twenty books on the history and criticism of photography, four books of his own photography, and roughly 400 essays, lectures and articles. His regular column titled Endnotes was published within Lenswork magazine for a number of years.
His own photographs have been widely published, including a solo exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Those are the facts but Bill Jay was so much more than just the facts… (quoted from http://www.donotbendfilm.com/who-was-bill-jay/
Children's folklore: a source book
No full textEdited by Brian Sutton-Smith, Jay Mechling, Thomas W. Johnson, Felicia R. McMahon.Includes bibliographical references and index.A collection of original essays by scholars from a variety of fields--including American studies, folklore, anthropology, psychology, sociology, and education--Children's Folklore: A Source Book moves beyond traditional social-science views of child development. It reveals the complexity and artistry of interactions among children, challenging stereotypes of simple childhood innocence and conventional explanations of development that privilege sober and sensible adult outcomes. Instead, the play and lore of children is shown to be often disruptive, wayward, and irrational. The contributors variably consider and demonstrate contextual and "textual" ways of studying the folklore of children. Avoiding a narrow definition of the subject, they examine a variety of resources and approaches for studying, researching, and teaching it. These range from surveys of the history and literature of children's folklore to methods of field research, studies of genres of lore, and attempts to capture children's play and games".--Provided by publisher.Introduction: What Is Children's Folklore? / Brian Sutton-Smith -- Who Are the Folklorists of Childhood? / Sylvia Ann Grider -- Overview: History of Children's Folklore / Brian Sutton-Smith -- The Complexity of Children's Folklore / Rosemary Levy Zumwalt -- The Transmission of Children's Folklore / John H. McDowell -- Overview: Methods in Children's Folklore / Brian Sutton-Smith -- Double Dutch and Double Cameras: Studying the Transmission of Culture in an Urban School Yard / Ann Richman Beresin -- Children's Games and Gaming / Linda A. Hughes -- Methodological Problems of Collecting Folklore from Children / Gary Alan Fine -- Overview: Children's Folklore Concerns / Brian Sutton-Smith -- Songs, Poems, and Rhymes / C.W. Sullivan III -- Riddles / Danielle M. Roemer -- Tales and Legends / Elizabeth Tucker -- Teases and Pranks / Marilyn Jorgensen -- Overview: Settings and Activities / Brian Sutton-Smith -- Children's Lore in School and Playgrounds / Bernard Mergen -- Material Folk Culture of Children / Simon J. Bronner -- Children's Folklore in Residential Institutions: Summer Camps, Boarding Schools, Hospitals, and Custodial Facilities / Jay Mechling -- Conclusion: The Past in the Present: Theoretical Directions for Children's Folklore / Felicia R. McMahon, Brian Sutton-Smith -- Bibliography of Children's Folklore / Thomas W. Johnson, Felicia R. McMahon
"Overcoming America's Infrastructure Deficit, A Fiscally Responsible Plan for Public Capital Investment"
No full textCondemned bridges, dilapidated school buildings, contaminated water supplies, and other infrastructure shortcomings threaten American growth, productivity, and prosperity. S Jay Levy and Walter M. Cadette propose a plan for financing infrastructure projects that is designed to have minimal effect on the federal budget and to promote sound fiscal operation. Federal zero-interest mortgage loans to state and local governments for capital projects specified by Congress can cut the cost of such projects, achieve needed improvements in the nation's infrastructure, and thereby contribute to the American economy's future.
A family poetry reading
No full textJay Meek has published his poetry and fiction in numerous journals; he is the author of eight collections of poetry and a novel, as well as the editor of several poetry anthologies. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. For years, he was poetry editor of the North Dakota Quarterly and directed the graduate writing program at the University of North Dakota. He has read from his poetry at many schools, including Harvard, Yale, and, this past fall, the Library of Congress. Martha Meek, a resident scholar at the Ecumenical Institute where she is completing a manuscript of poems, has previously published a collection entitled Rude Noises; she has also published her work in such journals as The Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and Spirituality and Health. Together with Jay Meek, she is the editor of Prairie Volcano, the first anthology of poetry and fiction by North Dakota writers. Having founded the non-profit St. Ives Press, she became editor and published of In Kind , poems in celebration of poet Phillip Booth’s 70th birthday. She also served as book review editor for the North Dakota Quarterly. Articles by both Jay and Martha Meek appear in John Hassler’s recent anthology Stories Teachers Tell.
Jay and Martha’s daughter Anna, herself an accomplished poet, will join them for the reading
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‘Uncle Ho’: A Rhetorical Analysis of U.S. Newspaper Coverage of Hồ Chí Minh
No full textThis thesis is a rhetorical analysis of American newspaper coverage of Hồ Chí Minh from 1954-1969. My method is the Pragmatic Attitude, created by Elizabeth and Jay Mechling. My foci of study are the polls and letters to the editor from this same period. These foci of study are used in order to measure public sentiment concerning Hồ and the broader Vietnam War. The purpose is to determine whether a link between the coverage and public sentiment existed.Keywords: Rhetoric; Rhetorical Criticism; Symbolic Interactionism; Pragmatism; Pragmatic Attitude; Hồ Chí Min
What goes around comes around: the circulation of proverbs in contemporary life
No full textEdited by Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, Stephen D. Winick.Includes bibliographical references.In this collection of essays prominent folklorists look at varied modern uses and contexts of proverbs and proverbial speech, some traditional and conventional, others new and unexpected. After the editors' introduction discussing the history and status of attempts to define proverbs, describing their contemporary circulation, and acknowledging the especially important work of paremiologist Wolfgang Meider, the contributions examine the continuing pervasiveness and idiomatic relevance of proverbs in modern culture.What goes around comes around: the circulation of proverbs in contemporary life / Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick -- "In aqua scribere": the evolution of a current proverb / Charles Clay Doyle -- "From one act of charity, the world is saved": creative selection of proverbs in Sephardic narrative / Isaac Jack Lévy and Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt -- Baseball as (pan)America: a sampling of baseball-related metaphors in Spanish / Shirley L. Arora -- "You can't kill shit": occupational proverb and metaphorical system among young medical professionals / Stephen D. Winick -- "Cheaters never prosper" and other lies adults tell kids: proverbs and the culture wars over character / Jay Mechling -- The proverb and fetishism in American advertisements / Anand Prahlad -- "The early bird is worth two in the bush": Captain Jack Aubrey's fractured proverbs / Jan Harold Brunvand -- As the crow flies: a straightforward study of lineal worldview in American folk speech / Alan Dundes
Learning About the Adversary
No full textThe evolving nature of the tactics, techniques, and procedures used by cyber adversaries have made signature and template based methods of modeling adversary behavior almost infeasible. We are moving into an era of data-driven autonomous cyber defense agents that learn contextually meaningful adversary behaviors from observables. In this chapter, we explore what can be learnt about cyber adversaries from observable data, such as intrusion alerts, network traffic, and threat intelligence feeds. We describe the challenges of building autonomous cyber defense agents, such as learning from noisy observables with no ground truth, and the brittle nature of deep learning based agents that can be easily evaded by adversaries. We illustrate three state-of-the-art autonomous cyber defense agents that model adversary behavior from traffic induced observables without a priori expert knowledge or ground truth labels. We close with recommendations and directions for future work.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Cyber Securit
News piece on Richard Grant, author of Scenes from a Tragedy, which focused
No full textNews piece on Richard Grant, author of Scenes from a Tragedy, which focused on the town of Camden and was published in the March 7 issue of the Maine Times. Grant, a columnist and part-time reporter for the Camden Herald has been told he can no longer report on issues covered in his Maine Times essay, which includes credit-card telemarketer MBNA, teens, schools and other subjects. Michael McGuire, executive editor for Courier Publications, which owns the Camden Herald, handed down the directive last week
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Control Ambassadors [President's Message]
No full textJay A. Farrell, Editor of the Digital Object Identifier, informs about the enhanced sensing, actuation, communication, and computational capabilities that enable increasing utilization of control theory research results, improving performance and reliability, giving rise to new areas of control applications, and motivating new directions of control research. In addition to sound control-theoretic research, effective contributions in such application domains require investigators to become control ambassadors. These people are willing to invest sufficient time to learn the fundamental domain knowledge in these application areas. The author informs that the second edition of the 'Impact of Control Technology' report provides several interesting examples of increasingly capable control systems enabled by growing computational, communication, algorithmic, and analysis capabilities
Angloscene
No full textAngloscene examines Afro-Chinese interactions within Beijing’s aspirationally cosmopolitan student class. Jay Ke-Schutte explores the ways in which many contemporary interactions between Chinese and African university students are mediated through complex intersectional relationships with whiteness, the English language, and cosmopolitan aspiration. At the heart of these tensions, a question persistently emerges: How does English become more than a language—and whiteness more than a race? Engaging in this inquiry, Ke-Schutte explores twenty-first century Afro-Chinese encounters as translational events that diagram the discursive contours of a changing transnational political order—one that will certainly be shaped by African and Chinese relations.
A tremendously nuanced book that moves beyond the verities of postcolonial theory as much as liberal illusions of postracialism in the academy. The ethnographic richness of Angloscene in its expositions of tropes and situated encounters is remarkable and pointed—even poignant.” — DILIP M. MENON, editor of Changing Theory: Concepts from the Global South
“Reflecting a critical sensibility from the Global South, Jay Ke-Schutte’s book defies Euro-American-centric perspectives on language, race, and colonialism. The innovative concept of the Angloscene offers an imaginative way to unpack the transnational power matrix that conditions Afro-Chinese encounters.” — FAN YANG, author of Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture, and Globalization
This book reveals the manner in which talk about signs of race and the racialization of those engaged in talk readily emerge hand in hand within social encounters, so that to isolate them from each other is to lose sight of the processes through which inequity persists in social life even when it is abjured.” — ASIF AGHA, Francis E. Johnston Term Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, and Editor-in-Chief, Signs and Societ
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