1,937 research outputs found
Laughing in Pandemic Times — with Charles Demers
No full textHost Am Johal catches up with author, activist, voice actor and Juno-nominated comedian Charlie Demers about his pandemic year, and how he reads this turbulent moment in politics. They talk about everything from the life of civil rights figure Jack O\u27Dell, to a strange year for stand-up comedy, to Charlie\u27s studies in theology.In the episode, Charlie and Am think through some of the mechanisms of Trumpism — looking to Rob Ford as a prefiguration to Trump, and unpacking the political stratagems populist leaders use to stoke anger and division.Charlie is also the author of a recently published novel, Primary Obsessions, an amateur sleuth story which takes up mental health themes. He speaks to Am about how his lived experience inspired and informed the book, as well as what led him to pursue studies at the Vancouver School of Theology.Resources:— Charlie\u27s website: https://www.charliedemers.com/— Primary Obsessions, novel by Charles Demers: https://douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771622561— Charlie\u27s Juno-nominated comedy album,Fatherland: https://604shop.com/products/fatherland— "How OCD, CBT and a Therapist Inspired Charles Demers to Write a Mystery Novel" via The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2020/09/16/OCD-CBT-Charles-Demers-Mystery-Novel/— The Issue of Mr.O\u27Dell, a short documentary about Jack O\u27Dell by Rami Katz: https://vimeo.com/25171717
Laughing in Pandemic Times — with Charles Demers (Video)
No full textHost Am Johal catches up with author, activist, voice actor and Juno-nominated comedian Charlie Demers about his pandemic year, and how he reads this turbulent moment in politics. They talk about everything from the life of civil rights figure Jack O\u27Dell, to a strange year for stand-up comedy, to Charlie\u27s studies in theology.In the episode, Charlie and Am think through some of the mechanisms of Trumpism — looking to Rob Ford as a prefiguration to Trump, and unpacking the political stratagems populist leaders use to stoke anger and division.Charlie is also the author of a recently published novel, Primary Obsessions, an amateur sleuth story which takes up mental health themes. He speaks to Am about how his lived experience inspired and informed the book, as well as what led him to pursue studies at the Vancouver School of Theology.Resources:— Charlie\u27s website: https://www.charliedemers.com/— Primary Obsessions, novel by Charles Demers: https://douglas-mcintyre.com/products/9781771622561— Charlie\u27s Juno-nominated comedy album,Fatherland: https://604shop.com/products/fatherland— "How OCD, CBT and a Therapist Inspired Charles Demers to Write a Mystery Novel" via The Tyee: https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2020/09/16/OCD-CBT-Charles-Demers-Mystery-Novel/— The Issue of Mr.O\u27Dell, a short documentary about Jack O\u27Dell by Rami Katz: https://vimeo.com/25171717
Extension of the C Star Rotation Curve of the Milky Way to 24 kpc
No full textDemers and Battinelli published in 2007 the rotation curve of the Milky Way based on the radial velocity of carbon (C) stars outside the Solar circle. Since then we have established a new list of candidates for spectroscopy. The goal of this paper is to determine the rotation curve of the Galaxy, as far as possible from the Galactic center, using N-type C stars. The stars were selected from their dereddened 2MASS colors, then the spectra were obtained with the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory and Asiago 1.8 m telescopes. This publication adds radial velocities and Galactrocentric distances of 36 C stars, from which 20 are newly confirmed. The new results for stars up to 25 kpc from the Galactic center suggest that the rotation curve shows a slight decline beyond the Solar circle
Grand Forks Flood Evacuation. Looking S. on S. Washington from Immediately N. of Demers Ave.
No full textFrom back of photograph : Grand Forks Flood Evacuation. Looking S. on S. Washington from Immediately N. of Demers Ave. April 21, 1997.https://commons.und.edu/flood-photos/1085/thumbnail.jp
Grand Forks Flood Evacuation Demers Ave.
No full textFrom back of photograph: Grand Forks Flood Evacuation Demers Ave. April- May, 1997.
This photograph was taken at the intersection of Demers Ave. and S. 5th Street. The Empire Arts Center and French Connection are visible.https://commons.und.edu/flood-photos/1023/thumbnail.jp
Post Grand Forks Flood. Looking S. on S. Washington from Demers
No full textFrom back of photograph: Post Grand Forks Flood. Looking S. on S. Washington from Demers. May, 1997.
This photograph shows S. Washington Street with a temporary dike built on it. Several businesses can be seen in the background.https://commons.und.edu/flood-photos/1051/thumbnail.jp
Quand le conte se constitue en objet(s) : bibliographie analytique et critique
No full textDemers Jeanne, Gauvin Lise, Cambron Micheline. Quand le conte se constitue en objet(s) : bibliographie analytique et critique. In: Littérature, n°45, 1982. Les contes : oral / écrit, théorie / pratique. pp. 79-113
The World Of Hannah More
No full textHistory has not been kind to Hannah More. This once lionized writer and activist—the most influential female philanthropist of her day—is now considered by many to be the embodiment of pious morality and reactionary anti-feminism. Largely because of her belief in separate spheres for men and women, More has been vilified by modern-day feminists. The first biography to examine the complete range of her life and work, The World of Hannah More depicts the author as a forceful voice in her own day and one who, from the point of view of plain justice, today deserves a more nuanced treatment. Without denying the problems More presents for modern readers, Patricia Demers has produced a balanced revisionist study of a woman enormously influential in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century England. By examining the career of this cultural warrior, situating her major texts in relation to contemporaries, and addressing her published writing, philanthropic activities, and voluminous correspondence, Demers anchors The World of Hannah More in the work itself—an appropriate and just response to a woman who took pride in living to some purpose. Trying to deal justly with More and her female moral imperialism requires admitting both the expansiveness and the limitations of her charity, methodology and vision. Without venerating or trivializing, Demers pursues the doubleness and contradictions of More’s largely neglected or superficially mined works, from the determined experiments of the earliest plays to the poignantly revealing essays on practical piety, Christian morals, and Saint Paul.
Admirably surveys More\u27s life and work. -- Choice
Demers sets out to rescue Hannah More from the hostility of her recent feminist critics by arguing for the significance of the writer\u27s melioristic philosophy as a means to galvanize middle- and upper-class women to dispense charity to the poor and obscure. -- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
A concise book that will be most appreciated by readers with an interest in literary analysis and a prior understanding of the subject and the period. Demers works hard to present a balanced account of More\u27s life by examining her entire career, not simply selected aspects. -- The Lion and the Unicorn
Offers an excellent overview of More\u27s career and life. Demers has organized a wide variety of published and unpublished material into a coherent and interesting assessment of Hannah More, arguing convincingly for her importance and for the need to reconsider how the opposed values of critics and writers might influence the production of literary biography and criticism. -- University of Toronto Quarterly
Demers does a good job of fusing many bits of information into a cohesive whole so that Hannah More\u27s life and work, both easily caricatured, become available to the reader in their complexity. -- Wordsworth Circle
The value of Demer’s work is precisely that More is more complex, more fascinating, more substantial, even more influential that we have recognized. -- Year’s Work in English Studieshttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_british_isles/1007/thumbnail.jp
Computing Stable Demers Cartograms
No full textCartograms are popular for visualizing numerical data for
map regions. Maintaining correct adjacencies is a primary quality criterion
for cartograms. When there are multiple data values per region (over
time or different datasets) shown as animated or juxtaposed cartograms,
preserving the viewer´s mental map in terms of stability between cartograms
is another important criterion. We present a method to compute
stable Demers cartograms, where each region is shown as a square
and similar data yield similar cartograms. We enforce orthogonal separation
constraints with linear programming, and measure quality in terms
of keeping adjacent regions close (cartogram quality) and using similar
positions for a region between the different data values (stability). Our
method guarantees ability to connect most lost adjacencies with minimal
leaders. Experiments show our method yields good quality and stability
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