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Go Farm, Young People, and Help Heal the Country
No full text A just and sustainable future will require rebuilding rural America. For too many decades, the countryside has been exploited and depopulated to support urban society, and enrich only suppliers and processors. For too many urban people with progressive politics, rural areas are dismissed as parochial, and resented for holding disproportionate power. And young people in rural communities have moved to cities in search of better opportunities. A better strategy, successfully pioneered a generation ago in Vermont, might be to encourage more young people to live in the country.
In this pamphlet, environmental historian and farmer Brian Donahue argues for empowering rural people so that they can replace the current extractive economy with an attractive economy, and for repopulating the countryside with intrepid young people to help drive change.
Common Sense for Global Crises is a New Perennials Publishing pamphlet series in the radical and reasoned spirit of Thomas Paine. Authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and walks of life—scholars and activists, scientists and artists, farmers and teachers, elders and youth—reflecting the belief that what we need to know now and in the days ahead will come from diverse and practical perspectives.
Contributors
Brian Donahue is an emeritus professor of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University. He has also been a farmer for almost fifty years. He is author of Reclaiming the Commons: Community Farming and Forestry in a New England Town (Yale University Press, 1999); and co-author of Wildlands and Woodlands, Farmlands and Communities: Broadening the Vision for New England (Harvard Forest, 2017), and of A New England Food Vision (Food Solutions New England, 2014). He is on the board of the Massachusetts Woodland Institute and The Land Institute.
Bill Vitek is Director of the New Perennials Project and New Perennials Publishing, and a Scholar in Residence at Middlebury College. Vitek taught philosophy for 32 years at Clarkson University, always with the objective of helping students understand that the philosophical imagination can, and must, do useful work in the world. Much of his work has engaged ecological issues, including collaborations with Wes Jackson and The Land Institute for over three decades. Vitek and Jackson co-edited two books, Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place (1996) and The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (2008).
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Local Food, More Hope
No full textIn the revolutionary spirit of Thomas Paine, author, historian, and gardener Kathleen Smythe declares in her pamphlet that the time has come for declaring independence from a global agricultural system that robs us of our food sovereignty and treats both consumers and farmers as mere colonial subjects; from the living Earth as inexhaustible rather than an exquisite complex of life that has slowly accumulated for millennia; and from human bodies as receptacles for whatever fossil fuel farming can produce most cheaply. Local food is our best hope in this declaration of inter-independence.
Common Sense for Global Crises is a New Perennials Publishing pamphlet series in the radical and reasoned spirit of Thomas Paine. Authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds and walks of life—scholars and activists, scientists and artists, farmers and teachers, elders and youth—reflecting the belief that what we need to know now and in the days ahead will come from diverse and practical perspectives.
Contributors
Kathleen Smythe is a professor at Xavier University where she addresses questions of contemporary relevance through historical investigation. She prefers bodily-engaged learning as seen in her most recent book, Bicycling Through Paradise: Historical Rides Around Cincinnati (2021). She is trained as an African historian with years of fieldwork experience in Tanzania. Africa’s Past, Our Future highlights ideas and institutions in African history that broaden our social, political, and economic imagination. Whole Earth Living: Reconnecting Earth, History, Body and Mind proposes a new sustainability framework based on long-term human interdependencies with the Earth.
Bill Vitek is Director of the New Perennials Project and New Perennials Publishing, and a Scholar in Residence at Middlebury College. Vitek taught philosophy for 32 years at Clarkson University, always with the objective of helping students understand that the philosophical imagination can, and must, do useful work in the world. Much of his work has engaged ecological issues, including collaborations with Wes Jackson and The Land Institute for over three decades. Vitek and Jackson co-edited two books, Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place (1996) and The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (2008). </p
From The Ground Up: Conversations With Wes Jackson
No full textAs human societies hurtle toward collapse, we’re going to need good science, appropriate teaching, and the best of our neighborly traditions to get through. In From the Ground Up, Wes Jackson discusses the challenges and opportunities. He’s a scientist with a sharp analytical mind to evaluate the data, and a lively storyteller who can reach back into the past for lessons that will be essential in a down-powering world.
Jackson supplemented the education he got growing up on a Kansas truck farm with a Ph.D. in genetics, leading to a university career. But he gave that up to start an alternative school and a research center that is now at the heart of work in sustainable agriculture. Along the way, he sharpened his storytelling skills, which are on display in this edited version of podcasts recorded in 2020 with his friend and collaborator Robert Jensen.
Contents
Foreword by Linda Ronstadt
Introduction by Robert Jensen
Intellectual Grounding
Respecting Your Tools
Mad About Science
Methodism to My Madness
The Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man
Bibliography
About the Authors
Contributors
Wes Jackson is cofounder and president emeritus of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including Hogs Are Up: Stories of the Land, with Digressions and New Roots for Agriculture.
Robert Jensen is professor emeritus in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of many books, including The Restless and Relentless Mind of Wes Jackson: Searching for Sustainability and Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully.
Bill Vitek is Director of the New Perennials Project and New Perennials Publishing, and a Scholar in Residence at Middlebury College. Vitek taught philosophy for 32 years at Clarkson University, always with the objective of helping students understand that the philosophical imagination can, and must, do useful work in the world. Much of his work has engaged ecological issues, including collaborations with Wes Jackson and The Land Institute for over three decades. Vitek and Jackson co-edited two books, Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place (1996) and The Virtues of Ignorance: Complexity, Sustainability, and the Limits of Knowledge (2008).
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Drivers for power SiC MOSFET transistors
No full textThe bachelor thesis describes gate driving principles of power MOSFET transistors made of silicon carbide material. The autor's aim is describing a different types of gate drivers and basic rules during process of designing gate drivers. In the theoretical part, the author will mount printed circuit board of gate driver designed on UVEE FEKT VUT Brno and verify functionality
TANF cuts : Arizona shortsighted in its dwindling support for poor families?
Get PDFabstract: Arizona's recently adopted budget for fiscal year 2015-16 includes dramatic reductions in assistance to low-income families with children. On July 1, Arizona will become the first and only state to limit lifetime eligibility requirements for recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) to 12 months (federal law allows for eligibility time limits of 60 months). That means come June 30, 2016, many Arizona families no longer will receive TANF benefits even if they otherwise would be eligible under federal guidelines
The Impact and Ways of Using of Lovecraft´s Horror Patterns in Contemporary Cultural Products
No full textTopic of this bachelor thesis stands on cosmic horror, fantasy sub-genre created by Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The thesis starts with introduction with author, said horror, iconic characters, people and mediums. Most of the thesis analyzes various examples of modern production, wich are either adapting Lovecraft´s original works, are inspired by them, or are refering to them in a selected hints. Thus the reader will meet with a wide range of adaptations that are nowdays a key parts of interner, horror and fictional popculture, whereby he will be introduced to the impact and ways of using patterns of Lovecraft´s horror in contemporary cultural products
Comparison of Two Biodegradable Polymer Coated, Drug-Eluting Coronary Stents Paclitaxel vs. Sirolimus, with 6-Years Clinical Follow-Up: BIOPRESS (BIOdegradable Polymer REgistry Smt
No full textAbstract: Background: The safety and efficacy of drug-eluting stents has been shown in randomized trials, but some controversy exists regarding which stent, sirolimus-eluting or paclitaxel-eluting is more effective in unselected real-world patients. Therefore, we investigated, long term safety and efficacy of paclitaxel-eluting stents (PES) compared to sirolimus-eluting stents (SES) when used without restriction in unselected real-world patients. Methods: We created a prospective, open label, non-randomized, multicenter registry and analyzed data on a consecutive series of all patients who presented to our institution with symptomatic coronary artery disease between July-2004 and June-2006 and who were treated with the Infinnium ® PES or the Supralimus ® SES. All enrolled patients were divided into two groups based on stent type. By outpatient clinic visit and telephone interview, we obtained up to 6-years clinical outcomes including death, myocardial infarction (MI), stent thrombosis (ST), target lesion revascularization (TLR), target vessel revascularization (TVR), and major adverse cardiac events (MACE, the composite of cardiac death, TLR, TVR and ST). Results: In total, 571 patients were treated with either the Infinnium ® PES (n=276) or the Supralimus ® SES (n=295). Baseline clinical and angiographic characteristics were almost similar in the two groups. The six-year clinical follow-up was completed in 529 patients (92.6%). Total 1.4 % in-hospital major adverse cardiac event (MACE) were recorde
Social positon of women in the 19th century's - the example of Zagreb
No full textŽene su kroz cijelu povijest bile u podređenom položaju u odnosu na muškarce. Bile su dio
marginalizirane skupine te je njihov društveni položaj bio oblikovan nadmoćnim položajem
muškaraca koji su oblikovali cjelokupni društveni i javni prostor. Tijekom 19. stoljeća diljem
se hrvatskih zemalja, kao posljedica napoleonskih osvajanja, proširio utjecaj prosvjetiteljskih
i liberalnih ideja koje su u konačnici oblikovale moderno građanstvo i ideju o formiranju
moderne nacije. U tom tranzicijskom razdoblju, društveni se položaj žena mijenjao s obzirom
na društvenu i ekonomsku razvijenost hrvatskih povijesnih zemalja. U tom okviru, središnje
je mjesto imao Zagreb, koji se tijekom 19. stoljeća, zahvaljujući modernizacijskim procesima,
profilirao u moderno središte Banske Hrvatske. Stoga će autorica u ovome radu analizirati i
problematizirati društveni položaj žena s obzirom na spolnu politiku hrvatskog društva
tijekom 19. stoljeća s posebnim naglaskom na Bansku hrvatsku, to jest na grad Zagreb.
Provedba će se takve vrste politike analizirati na primjeru položaja žena viših i nižih
društvenih slojeva u Zagrebu. Također, bit će opisan razvojni put onih ženskih uloga koje su,
kroz modernizacijske procese, rezultirale većom emancipacijom žena u javnom prostoru.
Najveći interes za rješavanjem „ženskog pitanja” u tom razdoblju bio je prikazan kroz
preustroj ženskoga obrazovanja. Slijedom toga, navest će se okolnosti osnivanja Privremenog
ženskog liceja u Zagrebu, koji je omogućio srednjoškolsko obrazovanje djevojaka. U tom će
kontekstu biti spomenute žene koje su svojim radom doprinijele poboljšanju položaju žena u
Hrvatskoj i sveobuhvatnom ugledu grada Zagreba u 19. stoljeću.Throughout history, women were in a subordinate position to men. They were a part of a
marginalized group and their social position was determined by the superiority of men who
dictated the social and public life. In the 19th century, as a consequence of the Napoleonic
invasions, the influence of enlightened and liberal ideas (which ultimately formed the modern
urban societies and the idea of the formation of the modern nation) spread across the Croatian
countries. In this transitional period, the social position of women changed in relation to the
societal and economic development of the historical Croatian countries. In this context, the
central position was taken by Zagreb, which, thanks to the modernization processes,
positioned itself as the modern center of Banska Hrvatska (Banovina of Croatia) in the 19th
century. In this paper, the author will analyze the social position of women regarding the
gender policies of the society of the 19th century Croatia (with special emphasis given to
Banovina of Croatia and, more specifically, Zagreb). The enforcement of such policies will
be observed on an example of women in both higher and lower social positions in Zagreb.
This paper will also describe the development of female roles which, through the
modernization processes, resulted in greater emancipation of women. The greatest interest in
solving the „female problem“ of that era was displayed in the reorganization of the women's
education. With that in mind, this paper will describe the circumstances of the establishment
of Temporary women's lyceum in Zagreb, which enabled the secondary education of young
women. In this context, this paper will mention the women which contributed to betterment
of women's social position in Croatia and the general reputation of Zagreb in the 19th century
Streptococcus pseudoporcinus: a rare cause of bacteraemia in an immune-compromised patient
Get PDFStreptococcus pseudoporcinus, a ß-haemolytic Streptococcus is known to cause genital infections. Author report a rare case of Streptococcus pseudoporcinus bacteremia in an immune-compromised male patient diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia eight months back. The organism was identified as a beta hemolytic bacterium which was catalase negative, oxidase positive and bacitracin resistant. Automated methods (VITEK-2) confirmed the organism to be Streptococcus pseudoporcinus
Data, code, and supplementary information for Hyracoid locus identification
No full text<p>Serially homologous elements pose an identification problem in fragmentary records, particularly those of vertebrate fossils. Examples include individual vertebrae in the vertebral column and teeth in a tooth row. Until an isolated element can be accurately attributed to a specific position within its series, multiple lines of ecological and evolutionary research cannot be conducted. However, varying levels of differentiability between loci, and varying patterns of differentiation across clades, make it impossible to develop a single set of diagnostic traits for any particular set of serial homologs, particularly mammalian molars. Here, we test the utility of a set of classification criteria for distinguishing molar tooth positions of hyraxes (Mammalia, Afrotheria, Hyracoidea), which have been considered indistinguishable in previous taxonomic studies. As part of the test, we evaluate the degree to which between-locus variation is conservative in this taxon, which would strengthen the predictive power of proposed traits even in cases where species identity is unknown. Suitable tests for hypotheses of conservatism in categorical traits did not exist, to our knowledge, and we, therefore, explored the behavior of previously developed metrics, Borges et al.'s δ, to assess conservatism in contrast to the phylogenetic signal produced by Brownian motion. This metric shows some promise but the nature of resulting distributions makes tests difficult to interpret, indicating a line of potential future methods improvement. We used a linear morphometric characterization of shape to validate the candidate traits. In the case of hyracoid molars, relatively simple ratios of linear measurements have strong discriminatory power despite evolutionary variation in between-locus differences. Overall, new or understudied taxa are likely to have lower molar loci differentiable by their relative length and talonid vs. trigonid width.</p><p>Funding provided by: National Science Foundation<br>Crossref Funder Registry ID: https://ror.org/021nxhr62<br>Award Number: BCS-2124792</p><p>This dataset contains raw data, a snapshot of code as analyzed, and associated supplementary data describing specimens, scans, and species used in a study attempting to diagnose tooth positions in isolated teeth of Hyracoidea. A live version of the code can be found in the GitHub repository 'hyracoid-locus-example' managed by the lead author (GitHub username: nsvitek). Full citations for associated references can be found in the manuscript associated with this dataset. Raw data consists of linear measures from multiple sources, including direct measurements collected from 3D surfaces in MeshLab and a compilation of published measurements from the literature. Separate datasets from separate sources are kept in separate spreadsheet files. Names correspond to their usage in code. All code was written for the R statistical computing language. </p>
