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Storm-driven changes in rip channel patterns on an embayed beach
No full textThis paper introduces a semi-automatic computer algorithm designed to detect rip current channels in video imagery. As a case study, this method is applied to 3.3 years of video data from an embayed beach to demonstrate the link between antecedent surf zone morphology, wave energy and up/down transitions in beach state. An objective measure of rip channel change was developed to define six significant rip reconfiguration events and relate these events to wave energy. Over the period of study no complete resets of the nearshore morphology occurred. The analysis indicates that direct correlation of rip patterns with the instantaneous wave conditions is not a useful way to demonstrate how rips and waves interact. The average wave energy over a period of ten days, combined with storm duration were good indicators of rip channel change, demonstrating that in general, beach morphology responds with a time lag to changes in forcing. Rip channels with a short cross-shore length and narrow alongshore spacing responded faster to changes in wave conditions than rips with a long cross-shore length and wider alongshore spacing. To force changes in the rip morphology, longer rip channels required wave events of higher energy and/or a longer duration. Offshore islands protect the beach under certain wave approach angles, sometimes resulting in a dual-width surf zone, which was narrow at the sheltered end and wide at the exposed end of the beach. The wider surf zone end was characterised by three dominant and persistent rip channels, whereas the narrow surf zone section contained a number of smaller rips which evolved rapidly under wave forcing. Our observations demonstrate the importance of rip channel size in controlling the response time of nearshore morphology
SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY: POLYPHONY IN CALLIMACHUS’ HYMNS
No full textPolyphony in Callimachus is often a strategy of persuasion: adopting a plurality
of points of view in the presentation of an argument makes that argument
more authoritative—especially when the authority of at least some of these
points of view can be taken for granted. This paper investigates a few examples
of the frequent overlapping of the authorial voice of Callimachus with
different Callimachean voices impersonating or allusively evoking a series of
more or less peremptory figures—a literary critic in defense of his poetics,
the vox populi, the director of a ritual for a god, the god himself, or a series
of saviors of the past. The paper concludes with an argument that the editor
of Callimachus’ Hymns (Callimachus himself?) may have hidden behind the
authority of Callimachus the “theologian”
Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference
No full textRod Stephens is a VB programming guru and the author of more than two dozen programming books, including Stephens' Visual Basic Programming 24-Hour Trainer. He also writes frequently for such magazines as Visual Basic Developer, Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. Rod's VB Helper website (vb-helper.com) provides thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and code examples for VB programmer
James Stephens
No full textJames StephensIrish writer. His date of birth is uncertain, but probably not the 1882 which JJ believed. Raised in an orphanage, his early published writing began with pieces in the journal Sinn Féin. He became a prolific author, making a name with fiction (notably The Crock of Gold, 1912) but also publishing poetry and Irish history and culture. In 1925 he moved to London, and in the 1930s Stephens gave radio broadcasts for the BBC on assorted literary topics. While Stephens initially disdained JJ's writing, JJ developed a fascination with Stephens in 1927, believing that they shared a birthday, and at one point suggested to Stephens that he should finish the then-languishing "Work in Progress" (noted first in JJ's letter of 20 May 1927 to Harriet Shaw Weaver, LI 253-54). Fortunately this did not come to pass. Nevertheless, they became friends, corresponding and visiting from time to time. JJ translated Stephens's poem "Stephen's Green" into at least five languages. William Brockman</p
Review of S.A. Stephens (2015) Callimachus: the Hymns
No full textReview of Stephens, S. A. Callimachus: the Hymns. Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press, 2015. xiv, 324 pp. Pr. £19.49 (pb). ISBN 9780199783045
An apology for, and an invitation to the people call'd Quakers [electronic resource] : to rectifie some errors which through the scandals givers they have fallen into : wherein the true original causes both humane and divine of all the divisions of the church and mischiefs in the state and among the people are plainly and briefly opened and detected.
No full textImperfect: print show-through.Attributed to Edward Stephens [who wrote under the name of Socrates Christianus]--National union catalog pre-l956 imprints.Reproduction of original in the Huntington Library.WingElectronic reproduction
Correspondence regarding the construction of a museum
No full textThis 1945 correspondence, from Thurman Leatherwood to George M. Stephens, discusses the construction of a museum in Swain County, North Carolina. The letter is among the Horace Kephart papers. Horace Kephart (1862-1931) was a noted naturalist, woodsman, journalist, and author and promoter of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.|<?4-5"
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Bryson City, N. G.
April 3, 1945
Mr. George M. Stephens
c/o Stephens Press
48 Vlalnut Street
Asheville, N. G.
Dear Mr. Stephens:
Mr. Stupka, of the Park Service, x'jas here a few days
ago to see about the Kephart property.
As I understand they plan to construct a museum in Swain
County as soon as possible after the war and would like to
place the property in the museum. This would be a fine thing
and I believe would meet the approval of all Mr. Kephart!s
friends. In the meantime, however, until the museum is constructed, I think it ?jould be well for us to hold the property.
I have talked with Mr. Kelly Bennett, who is a member of the
Kephart committee, and this, of course, meets with his approval,
Yours truly,
Sgd. Thurman Leatherwood.
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Tamed and untamed political emotions
No full textThe complex entanglement between reason and emotion is evident in all political debate. In public discourse the idea that politics is concerned only with the reasoned exchange of dispassionate arguments is maintained by marginalising less rational human feelings and in viewing passions as politically dangerous.
Over the last decade, social and cultural theory has challenged the liberal notion that emotions have no place in the public sphere. So what place do the emotions have in politics, asks Julie Stephens as she discusses three books on the theme in the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
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Julie Stephens is an associate professor in the College of Arts, Victoria University where she teaches sociology. Her research interests include political dimensions of mothering, social movements and the cultural outsourcing of emotion. She is author of Confronting Postmaternal Thinking: Feminism, Memory and Care (Columbia University Press 2012).
Title: Politics and the Emotions: The Affective Turn in Contemporary Political Studies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date Published: 2012
Authors: Paul Hoggett and Simon Thompson (eds)
Title: Emotions in Politics: The Affect Dimension in Political Tension
Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: 2013
Author: Nicolas Demertzis (ed)
Title: Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Date Published: 2013
Author: Martha C. Nussbaum
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Nate Stephens Earns Two Best Paper Awards
No full textIt is a rare thing for an author to win a best paper award for his or her published research. It is even more unusual, however, for an author to win two of those awards in the same year. Yet Nate Stephens, assistant professor of accounting, has done just that for research published in the Accounting Horizons and Issues in Accounting Education journals.https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/huntsman_news/1045/thumbnail.jp
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