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Peter Sourian and Lucy Ferris
No full textReading given by Lucy Ferris and Peter Sourian at Bard College, 1985. Introduced by Robert Kelly. The reading contains excerpts from their novel-in-progress, discussing themes of family, relationships, and the human condition. They cover the opening chapters and provide insight into the author\u27s writing process.https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/poetry_at_bard/1230/thumbnail.jp
John Badham, Michael Ferris, Horace Jordan, and Gregg Champion during production of BLUE THUNDER, 1983
No full textJohn Badham, Michael Ferris, Horace Jordan, and Gregg Champion during production of BLUE THUNDER, 1983. 8x10 b&w photographic print
Salt Lake Area in Color photo contest entry: ferris wheel at night (verso)
No full textVerso of a photograph showing a ferris wheel at night (probably at Lagoon in Farmington), submitted by Michael Barnard of Salt Lake City for a "Salt Lake Area In Color" photo contest sponsored by the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and the Deseret News
Lease Purchase Financing Memorandum
No full textabstract: This memorandum from Theodore A. Ferris, Staff Director of the State of Arizona Joint Legislative Budget Committee, to Senator John Mawhinney and Representative Sterling Ridge discusses the lease purchase financing that the state was trying to pass to build ASU West. In particular, the issue was raised that by using this option, ASU West would be built only two years ahead of the proposed schedule, but at an additional cost of $57 million
Consumption
No full textIn the aftermath of the First World War, the high cost of living became one of Italy’s hottest political topics. From the start, Mussolini’s Fascists made the politics of everyday consumption a cornerstone of their “project” to remake Italy. This chapter examines the politics of everyday consumption in Fascist Italy from the perspective of how these were practiced and lived, focusing on a moment of heightened state intrusion into consumer habits and practices—the reaction to the imposition of sanctions by the League of Nations in late 1935 in response to Italy’s invasion of Ethiopia—and how these played out in one Italian city, Venice. The Fascist regime used the economic sanctions as a pretext for restrictive and persuasive measures aimed at reinforcing the imperial “home front” and fundamentally reshaping families’ consumer practices. Shopkeepers and consumers responded in multiple, often ambivalent, ways to the regime’s attempts to place them and their consumer practices at the center of efforts to construct a Fascist home front and empire
Ferris M. Weddle papers
No full textFerris Weddle was an American author of western stories, juvenile fiction, non-fiction and outdoor columns. Collection comprises personal and professional correspondence, diaries and journals, manuscripts of books, short stories and non-fiction articles. The collection also contains research materials related primarily to conservation and wildlife as well as correspondence with experts and activists in those fields
Eucosma aurilineana Ferris, New, New Species
No full textEucosma aurilineana Ferris, New Species (Figs. 1, 3–5, 8 a) Diagnosis. This species is distinguished from the superficially similar E. ridingsana (Fig. 2 a) by its much larger size (1.2– 2 X) and a forewing pattern lacking an apical transverse line while having 34 oblong distally located spots on the costa. The similarly sized crambitana (Fig. 2 b) lacks costal spots and the diagonal basetoapex gold line of aurilineana. Description. MALES (Figs. 1 a, b). Head: Frons and vertex white with small indistinct patch of golden tan scales anterior of each antennal base; length of labial palpus 2 X diameter of eye, white dorsally with goldentan scales laterally and at tip. Antenna weakly bipectinate, golden tan. Ocellus and chaetosema present. Thorax: Dorsum white with middorsum patch of golden tan scales, patagia and tegulae golden tan. Legs dorsally clothed with golden tan scales and ventrally with creamy white scales. Abdomen: Clothed with whitish scales with occasional light tan dusting, dense longitudinal white scaling of 8 th abdominal segment forming an anal tuft. Forewing: Length, measured along costa from base to apex, 13.0– 17.5 mm (holotype 17.0 mm), mean = 15.9 mm (n = 75); costal fold extending approximately 0.35 forewing length; dorsal ground color lustrous white, with over lying lattice pattern of golden tan (the color of old gold) broad lines and spots, consisting of two longitudinal stripes extending from base to outer margin with lower line rather irregular, upcurved at tornus then tapering toward apex along terminal margin; a diagonal line extending from base below lower longitudinal line across both longitudinal lines to apex, costa with three, small, oblong spots (sometimes conjoined) between apex and midwing, terminal line very thin, dark; fringe lustrous white with just a suggestion of golden tan at scale tips; ventrally brownish fuscous with repetition of costal spots, pale submarginal band, and thin brownish terminal line, fringe scales white with brownish tips (darker than above). Hindwing: Lustrous pale fuscous; fringe with two layers of scales, a lustrous white layer of long scales and an overlying basal layer of short faintly colored golden tan scales; venter fuscous fading to white along margins; wing venation as shown in Fig. 1 d. Genitalia (Fig. 3 a) [4 specimens dissected from Wyoming and California]: Socii well developed and densely setose; valva flat, slightly setose basad; cucullus with coronabearing stout spines; aedoeagus with a central slender cornutus tapering toward tip and 23 sockets indicating shed cornuti. FEMALES (Fig. 1 c). External morphology as in males, but antenna less pubescent. Forewing: Length 13.0– 15.5mm, mean = 14.5 mm (n = 7), costal fold absent; costa with 3 or 4 spots with basal spot sometimes weakly connected to upper longitudinal line; abdominal anal tuft absent. Genitalia (Figs. 3 b–e, 8 a): Ovipositor lobes densely setose, very few setae arising from small papillose bases; posterior apophyses ca 0.55 length of anterior apophysis; ostium bursae constricted at base of lamella postvaginalis, expanding with ductus bursae; ductus seminalis with bursa seminalis; corpus bursae ellipsoidal; anterior signum thornlike, larger posterior signum an open cone with rounded apex (3 specimens dissected from California, Nevada, Wyoming). Holotype: male: WYOMING, Albany Co., 41 ° 17.886 ’N, 105 ° 31.519 ’W, 2285 m, ca. 1.6 km SE of Laramie, 10.ix. 2004, to be deposited in NMNH. Paratypes: 77 ɗ, 5 Ψ. CALIFORNIA, Mono Co., dunes NE of Mono Lake, 23.ix. 1995, R. Robertson (1 ɗ), Tom’s Place, larva vii. 9.1968, eclosed viii. 28.1968, J. A. Powell No. 68 G 11 (1 Ψ). NEVADA, Humboldt Co., dunes 9.7 mi. NW of Winnemucca, 1495 m, 928 64 (28.ix. 1964), C. Henne (2 Ψ). WYOMING, Albany Co., 41 ° 17.886 ’N, 105 ° 31.519 W, 2285 m (all C. D. Ferris), 1.ix. 2001 (1 ɗ), 30.viii– 2.ix. 2002 (10 ɗ), 15.ix. 2003 (1 ɗ); 1.ix. 2004 (2 ɗ), 6–11.ix. 2004 (45 ɗ, 2 Ψ), 13.ix. 2004 (3 ɗ), 17–18.ix. 2004 (2 ɗ); 41 ° 17.820 ’N, 105 ° 31.334 ’W, 2289 m (all J. S. Nordin), 27.viii. 1990 (1 ɗ), 3.ix. 1992 (1 ɗ), 11.ix. 1993 (1 ɗ), 29–31.viii. 1996 (2 ɗ), 31.viii.04 (1 ɗ), 1.ix. 2004 (2 ɗ), 7–10.ix. 2004 (3 ɗ), 18.ix. 2004 (1 ɗ). Additional specimens examined: 7 ɗ, 2 Ψ. ARIZONA, Mohave Co., Rosy Canyon Rd., 0.6 mi. S. Utah line, 22.ix. 2000, G. J. Balogh (1 ɗ). UTAH, Uintah Co., 3 mi. N. of Vernalon [Rd.], 2500 W, 1886 m, 4.ix. 2000, D. J. Wright (5 ɗ, 2 Ψ). WYOMING, Albany Co., 41 ° 17.820 ’N, 105 ° 31.334 ’W, 2289 m, 30.viii. 2002, J. S. Nordin (1 ɗ). Paratypes are currently placed in the collections of the author, J. S. Nordin (Laramie, WY), Essig Museum of Entomology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, University of Wyoming Insect Collection, Laramie, WY, and C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropods Diversity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. Etymology. The specific epithet aurilineana is derived from a combination of the Latin words for gold and line, reflecting the maculation of this moth. Biology. An adult female was reared by J. A. Powell from a larva found boring in roots of Ericameria viscidiflora (Hooker) L. C. Anderson (Asteraceae) in Mono Co., CA. This plant does not occur at the type locality, but there is a concentration of the related Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britton & Rusby (Asteraceae) that may serve as the larval host. Ericameria viscidiflora does occur some kilometers distant in the same county. The type locality (Fig. 4) is sagebrushsteppe high plains in which the principal vegetation is grasses and forbs with the woody shrubs Gutierrezia sarothrae and two species of Artemisia. Flight period. Based upon specimens examined, adults fly from 27 August to 23 September, depending upon locality and annual weather conditions. Distribution. This species is presently known from sites in five western states as indicated by the solid circles in Fig. 5, but the vast majority of the specimens are from the type locality. Variation. There is little variation other than forewing length and number of costal margin spots, as noted in the description. The color intensity varies to some degree with a few specimens being very pale. Female genitalia of Eucosma crambitana (Figs. 6 a–c, 8 b): Ovipositor lobes strongly setose, setae arising from small papillose bases; posterior apophyses ca. 0.43 length of anterior apophyses; ostium bursae constricted at base of lamella postvaginalis, expanding slightly with ductus bursae; ductus seminalis with small bursa seminalis; corpus bursae ellipsoidal; one thimblelike signum (1 specimen dissected from Albany Co., Wyoming). Female genitalia of Eucosma ridingsana (Figs. 7 a–c, 8 c): Ovipositor lobes moderately setose, setae arising from small papillose bases; posterior apophyses ca. 0.46 length of anterior apophyses; ostium bursae constricted at base of lamella postvaginalis, expanding with ductus bursae; ductus seminalis with large bursa seminalis; corpus bursae nearly spherical; two conical thornlike signa (1 specimen dissected from Albany Co., Wyoming). Comparison of sterigma: Fig. 8 illustrates the sterigma of E. aurilineana, E. crambitana, and E. ridingsana.Published as part of Ferris, Clifford D., 2005, A new species of Eucosma Hübner from the Western United States (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae: Eucosmini)., pp. 1-8 in Zootaxa 806 on pages 2-8, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17057
Preface
No full textIt is truly an honour and a pleasure to dedicate this special issue to Professor Jong-Shi
Pang. The idea of the special issue was conceived to honour Jong-Shi on the occasion
of his 60th birthday in 2013 with the area of complementarity problems as a unifying
but not limiting theme, in keeping with his boundless appetite for exploration in the
field of mathematical programming.
We will introduce each of the papers in this special issue and then sketch Jong-Shi’s
journey through the field by giving a few biographical notes and making selective
observations on his research achievements
Letter from Cardinal Michael Logue to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Cardinal Michael Logue, Ara Coeli, Armagh, to Hagan. Recommending visitors to Rome, Mr. David Ferris and wife, Newry, Protestants who have done much privately for Catholic charities. Mr. William Gallagher and wife are also currently in Rome. Then observing they seem to be near the end of the strife since a great part of the irregular forces are in prison or killed – ' the misery is that so many young lives on both sides have been sacrificed'. Cordial argument seems unlikely, also some irregulars may not change their way of life for a while. The government seems unwilling for Monsignor Luzio's intermediary efforts, judging by the Freeman's questioning of his credentials. It was a mistake to think that he could conduct a private inquiry 'in the present world of newspapers'
Passadenoides montanus Ferris 2004, New Species
No full text<i>Passadenoides montanus</i> Ferris, New Species <p>(Figs. 1, 3–6)</p> <p> <b>Diagnosis.</b> The dorsal forewing of <i>montanus</i> (Fig.1) is darker gray than in either <i>donahuei</i> or <i>pullus</i> (Fig. 2), without the brownish cast of the latter. The contrast between the transverse bands and overall wing color is less pronounced than in <i>donahuei</i>, and not so sharp as in <i>pullus</i>. The male genitalic components are closer to <i>donahuei</i> than <i>pullus</i> with regard to the form of the basal process on the valva (Fig. 3) and the three chitinous pieces that comprise the armature of the vesica (Figs. 4–5).</p> <p> <b>Description.</b> MALES (Fig. 1a). <i>Forewing length:</i> 11–14 mm (holotype 13 mm), mean = 13 mm. <i>Head:</i> Frons and vertex with white­tipped medium gray scales; labial palpus laterally covered by white­tipped charcoal gray scales. <i>Thorax:</i> Dorsum and collar clothed with white­tipped medium gray and charcoal gray scales, and a few scattered brownishorange scales. <i>Abdomen:</i> Clothed with mixture of whitish and pale gray and brownish gray scales. <i>Legs:</i> Clothed with mixture of whitish and dark gray to brownish gray scales; femur, tibia, tarsi with alternating pale and dark bands in fresh specimens, faded in worn specimens. <i>Forewing:</i> Basal area generally medium gray with a weak darker basal band; irregular gray antemedial band bordered by thin black border basad and thicker black border distad that is wider at the costa than at inner margin; median area medium gray with the color produced by peppering of charcoal grey and very pale gray scales, with a few brownish­orange scales along the length of costa; crescentic reniform spot composed of black scales and dusting of brownish­orange scales in lower cusp and bordered outwardly by narrow band of white scales, the lower portion of which extends distally beyond the lower cusp producing the illusion of a small somewhat obscure pale horizontally oblong spot; a diffuse dark irregular spot located below the reniform just above the inner margin; pale gray postmedian band bordered by black scales heavily on the basal side and moderately on marginal side; thin black terminal line; fringes composed of whitish­tipped medium gray scales. <i>Hindwing:</i> Translucent pale fuscous with darker marginal shading, wider at apex and tapering to anal angle; very thin dark terminal line; fringe composed of uniform pale fuscous (dirty white) scales. <b>Genitalia</b> (Figs. 3–5) [10 specimens dissected from Wyoming and New Mexico]: Uncus subtriangular with rounded apex; apical process of gnathos a strongly pointed hook curved upward toward uncus; valva with basal process a broad low ridge with large thorn­like spine near costa and a smaller broad triangular process inward (not clearly visible when valva is flattened for photography as in Fig. 3; digitally outlined in inset), valva slightly constricted in area where spine arises; transtilla absent; juxta a broad U­shaped plate with smooth margins; aedoeagus short and stout; vesica armed with large broadly lanceolate cornutus, a smaller scobinate plate, and smaller yet chitinous piece; everted and inflated vesica reveals a scobinate plate resembling a rooster comb arising separately from membrane, with smaller chitinous piece attached near base of large cornutus (Figs. 4–5).</p> <p> FEMALES (Fig. 1b). <i>Forewing length:</i> 11–15 mm, mean = 13 mm. Wing maculation and color, head, thorax, abdomen and leg color as in males. <b>Genitalia</b> (Fig. 6) [3 specimens dissected from different Wyoming localities]: Ostium bursae with broad sclerotized plate; ductus bursae wide with irregularly­shaped scobinate, sclerotized plate originating about midway and extending into corpus bursae, where it is covered with long inwardlydirected spines; corpus bursae outwardly produced at site of a large sclerotized circular plate armed with numerous short, stout, inwardly­directed spines; ductus seminalis very slender, transparent, and originating from the corpus bursae near junction of corpus bursae and the ductus bursae. Location of circular plate on corpus bursae displaced relative to the plate positions in <i>donahuei</i> and <i>pullus</i>.</p> <p> <b>Type material.</b> Holotype male: WYOMING, Albany Co., 41°15.09’N, 105°24.48’W, 2525 m, Sherman Range, ca. 16 km east of Laramie, 14.viii.2002, to be deposited in U.S. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. Paratypes currently deposited in collections of the author, J. S. Nordin (Laramie, WY), the University of Wyoming Insect Collection, Laramie, WY, and C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropods Diversity, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO.</p> <p> <b>Etymology.</b> The specific epithet <i>montanus</i> is derived from the masculine form of the Latin adjective meaning mountain dweller and reflects the montane habitat of this moth.</p> <p> <b>Biology.</b> Unknown. The habitat (Fig. 7) is moderately dry aspen–coniferous forest at 2290 to 3100 m; all but one specimen from 2440 m and above. Douglas Fir, <i>Pseudotsuga menziesii</i> (Mirbel) Franco, and Ponderosa Pine, <i>Pinus ponderosa</i> Dougl. ex Laws. are common to all of the collection sites. One of these trees may be the larval host.</p> <p> <b>Flight period.</b> Based on the specimens collected to date from 14 July to 6 September, depending upon locality and annual weather conditions.</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> Presently known from several areas in the mountainous environs east (Sherman Range) and west (Snowy Range) of Laramie, Wyoming, and from Signal Peak (Pinos Altos Mts.), Grant County, New Mexico.</p> <p> <b>Material examined.</b> 89 male and 28 female specimens (collectors C. D. Ferris = CDF and J. S. Nordin = JSN): WYOMING: Albany Co.: Sherman Range: 41°17.88’N, 105°31.51’W, 2290 m, 15.viii.1999, JSN (1f); 41°15.09’N, 105°24.48’W, 2525 m, 14.viii.2002, CDF (6m incl. HT, 8f); 41°11.569’N, 105°23.509’W, 2516 m, 3.viii.2001, JSN (1m), 8,16. viii.2002, JSN (9m, 1f), 2.ix.2002, JSN (1f), 6.viii.2003, CDF (1m, 1f), JSN (1m), 19.viii.2002, JSN (1m); 41°13.5’N, 105°22.5’W, 2545 m, 5.ix.2003, JSN (1m); 41°15.09’N, 105°24.52’W, 2515 m, 15,24. viii.1999 (2f), 25.viii.2001 (1m), 24.viii.2002 (1m), 21–22.viii.2003 (1m, 1f), 21.viii.2003 (1f), all JSN; Snowy Range: 41°07.4’N, 106°02.5’W, 2440 m, 24.vii.2000, JSN (2f); 41°00.10’N, 106°12.69’W, Pelton Creek Rd., 2670 m, 24.viii.1998 (2m), JSN, 18.viii.2001, JSN (56m, 9f); 41°00.28’N, 106°13.14’W, 2700 m, 21.vii.2004, CDF (4m), 41°04.8’N, 106°09.1’W, 2757 m, 29.viii.1997, JSN (1m); 31.viii.2002, JSN (1m); 41°21.07’N, 106°12.55’W, 3100 m, 14.vii.2000, CDF (1f). NEW MEXICO: Grant Co.: 32°35.64’N, 108°09.98’W, 2450 m (Signal Peak, Pinos Altos Mts.), 6.ix.2002, CDF (2m).</p> <p> <b>Variation.</b> Other than the forewing length as noted in the description, there is little variation. The main variation is in the size and darkness of the forewing basal band and spot just above the inner margin and below the reniform. The two males from New Mexico are somewhat darker in color than the Wyoming specimens, but the genitalia are identical to the Wyoming moths.</p> <p> <b>Discussion.</b> In habitus <i>montanus</i> is similar to <i>pullus</i>, but a darker gray; its male genitalia, however, are closer in appearance to those of <i>donahuei.</i> The spines on the scobinate plate in the vesica of <i>donahuei</i> are randomly scattered, while in <i>montanus</i> they are aligned in two closely­spaced rows producing the aspect of a rooster comb. The small chitinous plate is smooth in <i>montanus</i>, while in <i>donahuei</i> there are several small spines. In all specimens examined, the end of the valva has a distinct curl not seen in <i>donahuei</i> and <i>pullus</i>. Females of <i>donahuei</i> and <i>pullus</i> were not available for genitalic study.</p> <p> The disjunct known geographic distribution of this species (southern Wyoming and southwestern New Mexico) parallels the known distribution of <i>donahuei</i> (eastern California and central New Mexico). One would expect to find colonies in intervening regions at suitable elevation and habitat.</p>Published as part of <i>Ferris, Clifford D., 2004, A new species of Passadenoides Neunzig from Wyoming and New Mexico (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae: Phycitinae), pp. 1-8 in Zootaxa 705 (1)</i> on pages 2-7, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.705.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5451777">http://zenodo.org/record/5451777</a>
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