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Mitchell, Dr. Henry H. Interview of Willie Ella Asberry With E.P. Mitchell and Jack Catherill of Sacramento Side 1, Rev. Woody at 216 N. Bonny Brae Side two
No full textDr. Henry Mitchell interviews several people associated with the Pentecostal movement and the Azusa street revival.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.</em
Green Toys: an analysis on toy companies through an environmental lens
No full textThis is a podcast dedicated to uncovering and sharing the impact large toy companies that rely heavily on plastic have on the environment. Sustainability has increasingly become a major concern in the focus of large corporations. In recent times, we’ve seen public interest shifting towards holding companies accountable for what they use to make their products with. People want to know that when they buy products for themselves or loved ones, they aren’t buying cheap, disposable products from a company that sends a bad message. In this podcast, I discuss different toy companies, such as LEGO and Mattel, and some of their main products, considering how they are (or aren’t) being sustainable
Cerebral atrophy in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer disease: rates and acceleration.
No full textOBJECTIVE: To quantify the regional and global cerebral atrophy rates and assess acceleration rates in healthy controls, subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subjects with mild Alzheimer disease (AD). METHODS: Using 0-, 6-, 12-, 18-, 24-, and 36-month MRI scans of controls and subjects with MCI and AD from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database, we calculated volume change of whole brain, hippocampus, and ventricles between all pairs of scans using the boundary shift integral. RESULTS: We found no evidence of acceleration in whole-brain atrophy rates in any group. There was evidence that hippocampal atrophy rates in MCI subjects accelerate by 0.22%/year2 on average (p = 0.037). There was evidence of acceleration in rates of ventricular enlargement in subjects with MCI (p = 0.001) and AD (p < 0.001), with rates estimated to increase by 0.27 mL/year2 (95% confidence interval 0.12, 0.43) and 0.88 mL/year2 (95% confidence interval 0.47, 1.29), respectively. A post hoc analysis suggested that the acceleration of hippocampal loss in MCI subjects was mainly driven by the MCI subjects that were observed to progress to clinical AD within 3 years of baseline, with this group showing hippocampal atrophy rate acceleration of 0.50%/year2 (p = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: The small acceleration rates suggest a long period of transition to the pathologic losses seen in clinical AD. The acceleration in hippocampal atrophy rates in MCI subjects in the ADNI seems to be driven by those MCI subjects who concurrently progressed to a clinical diagnosis of AD
The Australian annuity market
No full textIn Australia, a means-tested old-age public pension is paid from general tax revenues. A full pension (equivalent to roughly a quarter of the average wage) is currently paid to more than half the aged population, and a reduced pension is paid to another quarter of the aged population. About 20 percent receive no old-age public pension because of the level of their income or assets. There is also a compulsory system under which employers contribute at least 7 percent of salaries into a superannuation plan for the vast majority of employees. (This minimum rate will gradually rise to 9 percent in 2002.) More than 80 percent of superannuation benefits are received as lump sums; when public sector employees are excluded, the figure rises to almost 90 percent. The market for private life annuities with longevity insurance is very small. Greater use is made of allocated annuities, which are similar to income drawdowns in the United Kingdom or scheduled withdrawals in Latin American countries. The value of life annuities, measured by the money's worth ratio, compares favorably with that of annuities available in the United Kingdom and United States. But these ratios are calculated on the basis of conservative government bond yields. Many investors prefer allocated annuities--which are perceived to offer considerable advantages in flexibility and higher potential returns--despite the absence of longevity insurance.Insurance&Risk Mitigation,Pensions&Retirement Systems,Economic Theory&Research,Health Economics&Finance,Environmental Economics&Policies
Visual Arts: The beating heart and soul of building back better
No full textUK Visual Arts industry calls for government to build back better for creatives
14th December 2020 – A report launched today by UK think-tank Policy Connect, Contemporary Visual Arts Network, and the APPG for Design & Innovation, calls for Government to exploit the potential of the Visual Arts sector to grow the economy following the Covid-19 pandemic, through explicit growth targets and rolling over existing tax incentives.
The first lockdown and social distancing measures introduced in response to Covid-19 have had a detrimental impact on the creative industries, with a projected £74bn turnover loss over the course of 2020. COVID is also expected to be responsible for 406,000 job losses for the sector – of which over two thirds to be self-employed.
In July, the Government announced a support package of £1.75bn for the creative industries which, while hugely beneficial in the short-term, is not sufficient on its own, and more direct support must be shown to the Visual Arts in order for the sector to survive. This report lays out five key recommendations to support the industry as we begin to move back into a tiered system following a second lockdown.
The first recommendation is to formally define the value of the Visual Arts sector, and to measure this value using Department of Culture, Media and Sports trade figures. This will involve establishing a group of visual arts specific Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) codes.
The report also recommends the Creative Industries Council take this baseline and use it to set an annual growth strategy and targets for the visual arts, and request the same to be done at a local level – this will help ensure the potential of the sector is understood and incentivised.
The third recommendation calls on the Government to extend and simplify the current tax incentives for small galleries and new artists to ensure that the social and economic benefits of culture are shared across the United Kingdom, and English regions, to support the Government’s levelling up agenda.
The report then recommends that visual artists should be designed into the detail of the government’s proposed ‘Global Talent’ immigration route, with a wide range of applicants able to be endorsed as ‘future leaders’ by the Arts Council, using the new Standard Occupational Classification codes developed out of our first recommendation.
Finally, the report recommends that in order to provide capacity for the existing network of galleries, local authorities, schools and universities to operate more effectively together and provide sector leadership, collaboration funding should be provided through the government to support delivery of the growth targets laid out in the second recommendation.
In implementing these recommendation, Government has an opportunity to build the visual arts sector back better, by taking into account the specific industry focussed challenges of the pandemic and ensuring that most appropriate support is given.
Jack Tindale, policy manager for design & innovation at Policy Connect and report author says:
“It has been an honour to work with CVAN and the visual arts sector on this report. After one of the most disruptive years in modern history, access to culture is more important than ever for our social and economic well-being. The recommendations we have set out in the report are ambitious, but necessary, and provide a clear roadmap for how artists can contribute to the economic recovery over the coming years”
Director of CVAN Paula Orrell says:
“Today marks a really important and significant step forward in formalising our relationship with government, something that has been a long time in the making. We are pleased to be in a position to be able to make these recommendations on behalf of our sector. We believe that the visual arts will play a pivotal role in this next, crucial, rebuilding phase.”
This report was commissioned by the Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN) with partner support from a-n, The Artists Information Company.
About APDIG
The All-Party Parliamentary Design and Innovation Group is a cross-party coalition of Parliamentarians and design sector organisations that works to develop new design policy ideas, critique existing government decision-making around design, communicate within Parliament the enormous potential value of design, and help the design community better engage with the policy process.
About Policy Connect
Policy Connect is a membership-based, not-for-profit, cross-party think tank. It brings together parliamentarians and government in collaboration with academia, business and civil society to inform, influence and improve UK public policy through debate, research and innovative thinking, so as to improve peoples’ lives. It leads and manages an extensive network of parliamentary groups, research commissions, forums and campaigns. Its work focuses on key policy areas including: health; education & skills; industry, technology & innovation; and sustainability.
About CVAN
CVAN is a sector support and advocacy organisation that represents a diverse visual arts community of artists, creative practitioners, and arts organisation, institutions and art galleries across nine regions in England. The network is representative of the whole of England’s visual arts sector, bringing together individuals ranging from artists, independent creative professionals including technical professionals, academics, students, National Portfolio Organisations and organisations (including studio providers) with investment models outside of NPO and ACE funding. CVAN’s representation of the whole visual arts ecology means that it can consider and articulate the individual segments of the sector in relation to its whole
The Midwest Quarterly; Vol. 23 No. 3
No full textSTEVE GLASSMAN finds David Livingstone neither a saint nor a devil in examining the explorer\u27s dramatic 1848 confrontation with the Boer leaders. Glassman teaches English at the University of Miami (Florida) and is pursuing a degree in the Goddard M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College. He has published fiction and nonfiction in a variety of literary magazines.
CHARLES HARMON CAGLE discusses the role of Gertrude Stein in introducing the young Ernest Hemingway to the works of Paul Cézanne and the interplay of their creative influences on Hemingway\u27s writing. Cagle also contributes a review of John Wheatcroft\u27s newest book of poetry. Associate Professor of English at Pittsburg State University with a specialization in fiction writing, Cagle has published novels, scholarly articles, and shorter fiction, has had stage and television plays produced worldwide, and has a textbook, Creative Writing: Fiction, published recently by the University of Kansas. His article, Oscar Wilde in Kansas, will soon appear in the Kansas History journal.
WILLIAM C. BAURECHT examines affection between males and stages in schizophrenic experiences revealed in Ken Kesey\u27 s novel about individualism and oppression in America. Holder of a doctorate in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, Baurecht currently serves as Assistant Director of the General Honors Program there. He has produced several works on New Mexico and has articles on romantic male deviance and on Wallace Stegner.
JACK FLAVIN lives in Springfield, Massachusetts. His work in this issue is a modernization of William Dunbar\u27s famous Lament for the Makaris ( makers : poets ) from the late fifteenth century.
DAVID EWICK, LIZ MAYER, and THEODORA TODD are all with the creative writing program at Wichita State University.
J. T. KNOLL is a psychologist and director of the Elm Acres Youth Home in Columbus, Kansas.
GILES MITCHELL and L. ROBERT STEVENS argue that Darwin, like the tragic hero Oedipus, accepts chance as the arbiter of fate, while Adam in blaming Eve for the Fall rejects his responsibility and denies his humanity. Mitchell has published a book, The Art Theme in Joyce Cary\u27s First Trilogy, for Indiana University, has written numerous articles on literary subjects, and has read papers on a wide variety of topics, including several on Darwin with his co-author here. Stevens, like Mitchell a Professor of English at North Texas State University, has demonstrated similar virtuosity with a biography, Charles Darwin, in the Twayne English Authors Series, articles on Browning, Ruskin, and Dostoevsky, and a previous essay on England\u27s Gothic Dream in The Midwest Quarterly.
ROBERT WEXELBLATT offers a companion-piece to The Mad Scientist which appeared in the Spring, 1981, issue. Here Wexelblatt reveals the magic of received economic wisdom. Author of fiction and poetry published in an impressive variety of journals, Wexelblatt includes among his efforts recent articles on Mary Shelley\u27s Frankenstein and George Bernard Shaw\u27s Man and Superman. He teaches humanities at Boston University.
JAMES DAVID FAIRBANKS appraises the influence of the fundamentalist New Right on President Ronald Reagan and finds the nations\u27s civil religion of greater importance in understanding his views and deeds. Associate Professor of Government at the University of Houston Downtown College, Fairbanks has produced papers and articles on civil religion, public morality, politics, and political science pedagogy.
WALTER SHEAR is Professor of English at Pittsburg State University. For two decades he has taught courses and published extensively in modern and contemporary American literature.
KELLY CHERRY is Associate Professor of English and Writer-in- Residence at the University of Wisconsin. She has published reviews, poetry, and fiction in leading magazines and journals as well as six books.
CAROL WALKER MACKAY has graduate degrees in both French and English. She presently teaches French and German literature at Pittsburg State University
Harmony and discord within the English ‘counter-culture’, 1965-1975, with particular reference to the ‘rock operas’ Hair, Godspell, Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar
No full textPhDThis thesis considers the discrete, historically-specific theatrical and musical sub-genre of ‘Rock Opera’ as a lens through which to examine the cultural, political and social changes that are widely assumed to have characterised ‘The Sixties’ in Britain. The musical and dramatic texts, creation and production of Hair (1967), Tommy (1969), Godspell (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and other neglected ‘Rock Operas’ of the period are analysed. Their great popularity with ‘mainstream’ audiences is considered and contrasted with the overwhelmingly negative and often internally contradictory reaction towards them from the English ‘counter-culture’. This examination offers new insights into both the ‘counter-culture’ and the ‘mainstream’ against which it claimed to define and differentiate itself.
The four ‘Rock Operas’, two of which are based upon Christian scriptures, are considered as narratives of spiritual quest. The relationship between the often controversial quests for re-defined forms of faith and the apparently precipitous ‘secularization’ and ‘de-Christianization’ of British society during the 1960s and 1970s is considered.
The thesis therefore analyses the ‘Rock Operas’ as significant, enlightening prisms through which to view many of the profound societal debates – over ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ in the widest senses, sexuality, the Vietnam war, generational conflict, drugs and ‘spiritual enlightenment’, and race – which were, to some considerable extent, elevated onto the national, political agenda by the activities of the broadly-defined ‘counter-culture’. It considers subsequent representations of the ‘counter-culture’ as the root of a contested but enduring popular legacy of ‘The Sixties' as a period of profound cultural change
Adapting authoritarianism: institutions and co-optation in Egypt and Syria
No full textThis PhD thesis compares Egypt and Syria’s authoritarian political systems. While the tendency in social science political research treats Egypt and Syria as similarly authoritarian, this research emphasizes differences between the two systems with special reference to institutions and co-optation. Rather than reducibly understanding Egypt and Syria as sharing similar histories, institutional arrangements, or ascribing to the oft-repeated convention that “Syria is Egypt but 10 years behind,” this thesis focuses on how events and individual histories shaped each states current institutional strengthens and weaknesses. Specifically, it explains the how varying institutional politicization or de-politicization affects each state’s capabilities for co-opting elite and non-elite individuals.
Beginning with a theoretical framework that considers the limited utility of democratization and transition theoretical approaches, the work underscores the persistence and durability of authoritarianism. Chapter two details the politicized institutional divergence between Egypt and Syria that began in the 1970s. Chapter three and four examines how institutional politicization or de-politicization affects elite and non-elite individual co-optation in Egypt and Syria. Chapter five discusses the study’s general conclusions and theoretical implications.
This thesis’s argument is that Egypt and Syria co-opt elites and non-elites differently because of the varying degrees of institutional politicization in each governance system. Rather than view one country as more politically developed than the other, this work argues that Syria’s political institutions are more politicized than their Egyptian counterparts. Syria’s political arena is, thus, described as politicized-patrimonialism. Syria’s politicized-patrimonial arena produces uneven co-optation of elites and non-elites as they are diffused through competing institutions. Conversely, the Egyptian political arena remains highly personalized as weak institutions and individuals are manipulated and molded according to the president’s ruling clique. This is referred to as personalized-patrimonialism. As a consequence, Egypt’s political establishment demonstrates more flexibility in ad hoc altering and adapting its arena depending on the emergence of crises.
This study’s theoretical implications suggest that, contrary to modernization and democratization theory’s adage that institutions lead to a political development, politicized institutions within a patrimonial order actually hinder regime adaptation because consensus is harder to achieve and maintain. It is within this context that Egypt’s de-politicized institutional framework advantages its top political elite. In this reading of Egyptian and Syrian politics, Egypt’s personalized political arena is more adaptable than Syria’s. These conclusions do not indicate that political reform is a process underway in either state
MSNBC News Coverage
No full textMSNBC News programs. Beginning with Hardball with Chris Matthews. Topics discussed include: recall of Firestone Tires; Ford recall; and Senate hearings on recalls. Followed by The Mitchell Report hosted by Andrea Mitchell. White House Spokeman, Jake Stewart, GOP Media Consultant Alex Castellanos, and Bush Advisor Vin Weber are interviewed. Topics discussed include: Republican National Committee commerical pulled for subliminal messages; Firestone recall; Hillary Clinton\u27s campaign for a Senate seat; the most recent mistakes of the Bush campaign; and how political commericals are made. Followed by Equal Time hosted by Paul Begala and Ollie North. Raymond Strother, Alex Castellanos, Communications Director for Clinton campaign Howard Wolfson, and Representative Peter King interviewed. Topics discussed include: Republican National Committee commerical pulled for subliminal messages; Hillary Clinton\u27s campaign for Senate seat; and the treats Senator Joseph Lieberman\u27s mother gave to the press covering her son\u27s campaign. Followed by a MSNBC special town hall meeting at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama entitled Shades of Progress, Shadows of Hate hosted by Brian Williams and Hoda Kotb. Lawyer Johnnie Cochran; author of Losing the Race, John McWalters; Dr. Christopher Cooper; head of Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Hussein Ibish; International Union of Police Associations representative Rich Roberts; Yvette Bradely, plantiff in customs profiling case; Reverend Al Sharpton of the National Action Network; Maria Blanco of the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund; author of The TV Arab Jack Shaheen; editor of Newsweek Mark Whitaker; DME Interactive, INC. Darien Dash; author of End of Racism Dinesh D\u27Souza; Angela Oh of the Presidents Initiative on Rac;, and Niger Innis of the Congress of Racial Equality interviewd. Topics discussed include: race relations; racism; racial profiling; affirmative action policies; and the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church during the civil rights movement
Mitochondrial imaging in live or fixed tissues using a luminescent iridium complex
No full text© 2018 The Author(s). Mitochondrial morphology is important for the function of this critical organelle and, accordingly, altered mitochondrial structure is exhibited in many pathologies. Imaging of mitochondria can therefore provide important information about disease presence and progression. However, mitochondrial imaging is currently limited by the availability of agents that have the capacity to image mitochondrial morphology in both live and fixed samples. This can be particularly problematic in clinical studies or large, multi-centre cohort studies, where tissue archiving by fixation is often more practical. We previously reported the synthesis of an iridium coordination complex [Ir(ppy)2(MeTzPyPhCN)]+; where ppy is a cyclometalated 2-phenylpyridine and TzPyPhCN is the 5-(5-(4-cyanophen-1-yl)pyrid-2-yl)tetrazolate ligand; and showed that this complex (herein referred to as IraZolve-Mito) has a high specificity for mitochondria in live cells. Here we demonstrate that IraZolve-Mito can also effectively stain mitochondria in both live and fixed tissue samples. The staining protocol proposed is versatile, providing a universal procedure for cell biologists and pathologists to visualise mitochondria
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