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Franklin Orr Letter to D. Allan Bromley
No full textA letter for D. Allan Bromley from Franklin Orr. Orr asks Bromley if he could meet with him to discuss Orr's response to an article in Science
A call for continuity: the theological contribution of James Orr
No full textJames Orr (1844-1913) was a Scottish theologian, apologist
and polemicist. He was the leading United Presbyterian theologian
at the time of the United Free Church of Scotland union of 1900, and
beyond his own church and nation he came to exercise a significant
influence in North America. This study is an examination of Orris
theological contribution, what he believed and how he expressed it,
in its historical setting Particular attention is paid to the
convictions which undergirded and gave impetus to his activities.
The study reveals that while Orr was far from unaffected by
the intellectual movements of the late-Victorian period, his contribution
may best be described as a call for continuity with the central tenets
of evangelical orthodoxy. He was one of the earliest and principal
British critics of the Ritschlian theology, and a strong opponent
of rationalistic biblical criticism. He emphatically rejected all
evolutionary interpretations of man's moral history, and held firmly
to orthodox Christological formulations in the face of alternative
assessments of the historical Jesus.
While factors of temperament affected the tenor of his work,
his contribution was most decisively shaped by the convictions that
evangelical orthodoxy is ultimately self-authenticating, that truth
comprises a unity or interconnected whole, that genuine Christian
belief implies a two-story supernaturalist cosmology, and that the
rationalism of the times was a temporary malaise.
A general lack of support for his views within the scholarly
community, combined with his own deep-seated populist instincts and
common sense convictions, led Orr in later years to direct his
appeals primarily toward the Christian public. The conclusion reached
is that Orr deserves to be recognized, not so much as a brilliant or
particularly original thinker, but as an able and exceptionally
vigorous participant in a period of dramatic theological challenge
and change
Robert D. Orr
No full textRobert D. Orr (1917-2004) was born in Michigan, but grew up in Evansville. When he became governor Indiana was in the midst of a recession. He proposed unpopular austerity measures and increased income and sales taxes. Orr initiated a program to bring accountability to public education and brought foreign investment to Indiana. Later he served as U.S. ambassador in Singapore. He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.Use of this image is restricted to IHS reference purposes only. IHS may not reproduce. Information taken from the book The Governors of Indiana, edited by Linda C. Gugin and James E. St.Clair, published by the Indiana Historical Society Press in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Bureau, State of Indiana.Destination Indiana - Governors of Indiana, 1941-201
Associations of insulin and insulin-like growth factors with physical performance in old age in the boyd orr and caerphilly studies.
Get PDFOBJECTIVE: Insulin and the insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system regulate growth and are involved in determining muscle mass, strength and body composition. We hypothesised that IGF-I and IGF-II are associated with improved, and insulin with worse, physical performance in old age. METHODS: Physical performance was measured using the get-up and go timed walk and flamingo balance test at 63-86 years. We examined prospective associations of insulin, IGF-I, IGF-II and IGFBP-3 with physical performance in the UK-based Caerphilly Prospective Study (CaPS; n?=?739 men); and cross-sectional insulin, IGF-I, IGF-II, IGFBP-2 and IGFBP-3 in the Boyd Orr cohort (n?=?182 men, 223 women). RESULTS: In confounder-adjusted models, there was some evidence in CaPS that a standard deviation (SD) increase in IGF-I was associated with 1.5% faster get-up and go test times (95% CI: -0.2%, 3.2%; p?=?0.08), but little association with poor balance, 19 years later. Coefficients in Boyd Orr were in the same direction as CaPS, but consistent with chance. Higher levels of insulin were weakly associated with worse physical performance (CaPS and Boyd Orr combined: get-up and go time?=?1.3% slower per SD log-transformed insulin; 95% CI: 0.0%, 2.7%; p?=?0.07; OR poor balance 1.13; 95% CI; 0.98, 1.29; p?=?0.08), although associations were attenuated after controlling for body mass index (BMI) and co-morbidities. In Boyd Orr, a one SD increase in IGFBP-2 was associated with 2.6% slower get-up and go times (95% CI: 0.4%, 4.8% slower; p?=?0.02), but this was only seen when controlling for BMI and co-morbidities. There was no consistent evidence of associations of IGF-II, or IGFBP-3 with physical performance. CONCLUSIONS: There was some evidence that high IGF-I and low insulin levels in middle-age were associated with improved physical performance in old age, but estimates were imprecise. Larger cohorts are required to confirm or refute the findings
The economics of direct-seeded rice in eastern India
No full textThe private costs and benefits of dry-seeded rice (DSR) were investigated using data from on-station trials at Pantnagar, Uttaranchal, for 2002 and 2003. Results showed that DSR was profitable for farmers, giving net returns of Rs. 13,350 per ha for dry-seeded rice and Rs. 11,592 per ha for wet-seeded rice compared with Rs. 10,343 per ha for transplanted rice. Net labor savings with DSR averaged 27 days per ha. A provisional cost-benefit analysis suggests that DSR was also profitable nationally. Transplanted rice was as socially profitable as DSR only if (1) labor was assumed to have zero opportunity cost, (2) yields were halved, or (3) environmental and health-related costs were twice as high as private costs. DSR was also profitable according to the compensation principle of welfare economics. However, these analyses did not take into account equity issues. DSR reduces equity because it transfers income from labor to farmers without a compensating increase in output. Gender segmentation in the labor market and the absence of
alternative employment at the local level impose additional social costs
Job growth in New York and New Jersey: mid-2007 review and outlook
Get PDFEmployment in the New York-New Jersey region expanded by about 0.9 percent in 2006. Slightly slower job growth - on the order of 0.8 percent - was recorded in the first half of 2007 and is expected to continue throughout the year, in part reflecting moderating growth in the national economy. The employment rise in New York State was led by a strong expansion of services jobs in New York City; any sustained weakening in the city's financial sector would be unlikely to affect employment significantly until 2008.Federal Reserve District, 2nd ; Employment ; Economic conditions ; Service industries
Eigenvalue enclosures and exclosures for non-self-adjoint problems in hydrodynamics
Get PDFIn this paper we present computer-assisted proofs of a number of results in theoretical fluid dynamics and in quantum mechanics. An algorithm based on interval arithmetic yields provably correct eigenvalue enclosures and exclosures for non-self-adjoint boundary eigenvalue problems, the eigenvalues of which are highly sensitive to perturbations. We apply the algorithm to: the Orr-Sommerfeld equation with Poiseuille profile to prove the existence of an eigenvalue in the classically unstable region for Reynolds number R=5772.221818; the Orr-Sommerfeld equation with Couette profile to prove upper bounds for the imaginary parts of all eigenvalues for fixed R and wave number α; the problem of natural oscillations of an incompressible inviscid fluid in the neighbourhood of an elliptical flow to obtain information about the unstable part of the spectrum off the imaginary axis; Squire's problem from hydrodynamics; and resonances of one-dimensional Schrödinger operators
Local government chief executives’ everyday hauntings : towards a theory of organizational ghosts
No full textThis paper develops a theory of organizational ghosts, a concept that describes the haunted and burdensome aspects of organizational life and in particular of leadership action. The concept of organizational ghosts is not offered as yet another metaphor, a lens through which to analyse particular organizations. Rather, I offer my discussion of ghosts as a theoretical concept that explains how inheritances of the past haunt the relations and struggles of the present. I tell a ghostly tale of the everyday leadership and learning practices of UK local government chief executives, and provide an exploration of organizational ghosts as a contribution to the growing interest in the action in the shadows, atmospheres, margins and boundaries of organizations. Drawing upon an ethnographic study of UK local councils, and embracing the multiplicity and heterogeneity of organizational ghosts, the paper considers the theoretical, political and ethical stakes involved in taking ghosts seriously. Its contribution is to show how ghosts are insinuated in organizations and to highlight leaders as figures who are both willing agents and uneasy hosts of hauntings, and to point to the mediating role of leaders in handling confrontations between the past, the present and the future.Peer reviewe
Fuelling new millennium civilization: Oil or water?
No full textThe theme of the 2000 CIP conference will be "Water: the oil of the twenty-first century." As the organizers point out, "Oil, with its many facets of supply and demand, has driven the industrialized world of the twentieth century; water promises to be as critical a commodity in the twenty-first." David Orr's reflections on oil and water are offered here in the spirit of the conference theme, and as a bridge to our own concern with the millennium.Le congrès de l'ICU a pour thème >. Selon les organisateurs, > Pour rester dans le ton du congrès et, peut-être, pour nous amener à réfléchir sur les changements qui s'annoncent au tournant du millénaire, David Orr nous fait part de certaines de ses réflexions concernant le pétrole et l'eau.Granted with permission, or adapted, from Earth in Mind by David Orr, Island Press, 1994. Published by Island Press, Washington, DC and Covelo, CA
Mayor William Hudnut and Governor Robert D. Orr at Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on Monument Circle
No full textMayor William H. Hudnut (center) and Governor Robert D. Orr (right) marked the beginning of the Circle Celebration, the renovatoin of the Circle in downtown Indianaolis on October 21, 1978. The renovations inculded remolding the monument, laying new bricks, landscaping the area, and adding lights
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