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IoWoman, March/April 2004, Vol. 34, no. 2
No full textNewsletter for the Iowa Commission on the Status of Wome
IoWoman, March/April 2004, Vol.34, no.2
No full textNewsletter for the Iowa Commission on the Status of Wome
Flemming Christiansen, Chinatown, Europe: An Exploration of Overseas Chinese Identity in the 1990s
No full textThere have been few studies on Chinese communities in Europe, as is apparent from the bibliography in Flemming Christiansen’s book. This one fills a significant gap. There are seven chapters, all devoted to various questions of identity. At the start of the book, its author recalls anthropological arguments (primitivist, instrumentalist, cultural...) on the question of ethnicity, and runs through the various policies (integration, assimilation...) adopted in European countries in response to ..
Zeebrugge Model:wave run-up under simulated prototype storms
No full textThis report presents the model test results on wave run-up on the Zeebrugge breakwater under the simulated prototype storms. The model test was performed in January 2000 at the Hydraulics & Coastal Engineering Laboratory, Aalborg University. The detailed description of the model is given in Schlutter et. al. (1999)
Panelists for The Threat with Arthur S. Flemming, Dr. Edward Teller, Richard Rovere, Gilbert Seldes and moderator Charles Herring on set of KING-TV's The Threat, 1961
No full textAttached note: "The Threat". For an important and timely discussion of the nature and menace of world-wide Communism, The Crown Stations brought together at KING-TV a panel of four distinguished American men-of-letters: from left to right, Arthur S. Flemming, president of the University of Oregon and former cabinet member in the Eisenhower Administration; Dr. Edward Teller, "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"; Richard Rovere, author and Washington, D.C. correspondent for The New Yorker; Gilbert Seldes, author, critic and Dean of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. KING-TV News Director Charles Herring moderated the program.
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Xaymaca fulvopulvis R D E Macphee & Clare Flemming 2003, new species
No full text<i>Xaymaca fulvopulvis</i>, new species <p>HOLOTYPE AND ONLY REFERRED SPECIMEN: AMNHM 268011, a left hemimandible retaining the incisor (presumptive i1) and excessively worn p4 (figs. 7–11). Recovered (but not then identified) in January 1995 by the senior author with the assistance of Lisa DeNault, Don McFarlane, and Alan and Adam Fincham.</p> <p>TYPE LOCALITY: Brown Dust Passage of Drum Cave, near Entrance #3 (fig. 1). Drum Cave, part of the ‘‘upper’’ sequence of the ~ 10 km Jackson’s Bay cave system (Fincham, 1997), is located on the south slope of Portland Ridge near Jackson’s Bay, in the southernmost part of Clarendon Parish, Jamaica. Entrance #3 is located at approximately 17°44'05̎N, 77°13'15̎W.</p> <p>ASSOCIATED FAUNA AND DISTRIBUTION: A provisional vertebrate faunal list for late Quaternary levels in the Portland Ridge (Jackson’s Bay) caves has been assembled by McFarlane et al. (2002). The birds, which include some extinct forms, were identified and are now under study by Storrs Olson (Smithsonian Institution). Mammalian taxa recovered in Brown Dust Passage are either extant or survived until very recently (MacPhee and Horovitz, in press).</p> <p> The most significant agent of small­mammal bone concentration in Jamaican cave deposits is the extant barn owl, <i>Tyto alba</i>. Since <i>Xaymaca</i> is evidently rare in such deposits, perhaps its size or behavior made it unlikely to be tracked by owls. <i>Quemisia gravis</i>, a relatively large species, is likewise known from very few specimens (McFarlane et al., 2000), although in Hispaniolan localities remains of other endemic rodents are encountered in great abundance (Woods, 1989b).</p> <p>ETYMOLOGY: Species name (‘‘of the brown dust’’) is a manufactured Latin adjective in the nominative singular in agreement with the genus name. Reference is to type locality, Brown Dust Passage of Drum Cave.</p> <p> DIAGNOSIS: Hystricognathous, lower premolar cylindriform and apparently hypselodont, showing marked apical hypertrophy. Other cheekteeth probably also cylindriform and hypselodont. Inferred features of cheektooth root development closest (among Antillean caviidans) to heptaxodontines <i>Amblyrhiza</i> and <i>Elasmodontomys</i>. Attributes of cheektooth ontogeny, alveolar construction, incisor procumbency, and other minor features are consistent with tentative allocation to Heptaxodontinae (family incertae sedis).</p> <p> The jaw is hystricognathous because its angular process is morphologically lateral to a parasagittal plane drawn through the incisor alveolar sheath (Landry, 1957). Cheektooth crown morphology not yet known. As may be seen plainly in figure 9 (bottom), the shape of the deeply striated p4 and the structure of the alveoli for m1–m 3 in <i>Geocapromys brownii</i> immediately rule out referral to this taxon, the only extant hystricognath on the island and the only endemic of any age in the new species’ body size range. Not an echimyid, because cheekteeth of all known species of Antillean spiny rats exhibit furcated roots, prominent cervix, and deep enamel infolds. Not a clidomyine, because all known clidomyines are far too large to be confused with the new taxon and in any case exhibit a substantially different tooth pattern.</p> <p> EXCAVATION RECORD AND DATING: Detailed discussion of the stratigraphy, dating protocols, and chronology of the secondary deposits in Drum and associated caves is presented by McFarlane et al. (2002). The following remarks pertain to discovery of the <i>Xaymaca</i> holotype.</p> <p> Pit 2, which yielded the holotype, was first opened in January 1995 and subsequently extended in July and September 1996. This relatively large amount of attention given to one site in one cave was warranted because the pit also yielded a well­preserved humerus of the extinct endemic monkey <i>Xenothrix mcgregori</i> and a number of jaws of the equally extinct endemic rice rat <i>Oryzomys antillarum</i>. The pit is located near Entrance #3, a major collapse feature (fig. 1). Excavations exposed ~ 1 m of deposits that have entered the cave through the collapse. A loose surface layer of limestone fragments, cave earth, and modern owl pellet debris 20 cm thick is underlain by a discontinuous calcite layer (<2 cm). This calcite caps a distinctive and sharply delineated dark­brown layer of subfossil bat guano 34 cm thick, designated ‘‘Guano I’’, beneath which 6 cm of limestone fragments, clay, and huge concentrations of bone extend down to a second guano layer (3 cm thick) designated ‘‘Guano II’’. Beneath this, material extends to a solid calcite floor at 125 cm below surface, beyond which excavation did not continue.</p> <p> The enormous quantity of lightly cement­ ed small bones present in parts of Pit 2 formed a ‘‘bone cake’’ that had to be broken out and divided by hand. In this situation, dry screening was the only feasible method of recovering specimens. On the screen, representative samples of lizards, snakes, bats, and <i>Geocapromys</i> were collected by handpicking, but much material was also simply bagged for later identification. The jaw which became the holotype specimen of <i>Xaymaca</i> was missed on the screen and was not recognized as distinctive until we sorted the material at the AMNH in New York.</p> <p> Bone is present throughout the Brown Dust Passage section, but bone recovered from the Guano I and II horizons (including the <i>Xaymaca</i> holotype) is invariably and characteristically stained a deep brown color not seen in other layers. Thus, although it is known that AMNHM 268011 came from a ~12­cm interval between the bottom of Guano I and the bottom of the thin Guano II horizon, its stratigraphic position cannot be fixed more firmly. Fortunately, however, its temporal position can be fixed with considerable accuracy. Radiocarbon dating of the acid­insoluble organic component (crude chitin) of Guano I provided isotopically corrected dates of 10,250 ± 80, 11,050 ± 70, and 11,260 ± 80 BP in correct stratigraphic sequence; similarly, Guano II dated to 11,980 ± 80 BP (see McFarlane et al., 2002). Thus although there is some uncertainty about the exact position of the holotype within Pit 2, its age can be fixed as lying between 10,090 – 11,420 BP (2 sigma error), or the terminal part of the late Pleistocene. Improved constraints on the ‘‘last occurrence’’ date for Fig. 7.</p>Published as part of <i>MacPhee, R. D. E. & Flemming, Clare, 2003, A Possible Heptaxodontine and Other Caviidan Rodents from the Quaternary of Jamaica, pp. 1-43 in American Museum Novitates 3422</i> on pages 16-17, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2003)422<0001:aphaoc>2.0.co;2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/5056742">http://zenodo.org/record/5056742</a>
»Rød og hvid i Billedsalen.« Grundtvigs døds- og mindedigte I
No full text“Red and White in the Picture Gallery” Grundtvig’s memorial poems (I)By Flemming Lundgreen-NielsenThe author sets out to examine six of Gr.’s memorial poems viewed as a particular literary genre within Gr.’s writings. The first part of the essay treats three poems. “My Mother” (1822) demonstrates how Gr. is able to turn his private grief for his mother’s death into hope for a future renewal of Danish history, poetry and Christianity, not least through Gr.’s own promised efforts. Poetically the poem relies principally on spiritual interpretations and ambiguous considerations of different details around his mother’s death and burial. “The Birthday (at Gisselfeld, June 11.)” (1823) commemorates Gr.’s supposed patron of literature, Count C.C.S. Danneskiold-Samsøe. The poem is shown to be effective in attaching the manor and park to elements of old Norse mythology, but it is pointed out that in the end the poem fails to bring solace to the widow and her daughters and hardly even convinces the poet himself, the reason being Gr.’s refusal to acknowledge the death of Danneskiold. Finally in “Jens Baggesen” (1826) Grundtvig as an honest enemy praises and critically characterizes his old opponent and ally, Jens Baggesen. Baggesen’s unfortunate attraction to German language and literature is in Gr.’s opinion more than counterbalanced by his essentially Danish childlike tone, cunning and innocent at the same time, and can be conceived of as evidence of a spiritual attitude to life that may secure Baggesen a revival and a part in the future national life in Scandinavia.The second part of the paper will be published in the 1981 volume
Grundtvig og censuren
No full textGrundtvig og censuren[Grundtvig and censorship]By Flemming Lundgreen-NielsenFor forty-six years of his life Grundtvig was engaged in a struggle for freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Over this period his attitude gradually changed. At the age of 21, he wanted not to abolish but to update the rigid and stem decree on the issue dating from 1799, his idea being that educated and scholarly orientated writers could serve as counsellors for the authorities instead of censors appointed by the police or by the Danish Chancellery (Ministry of the Interior).During a long middle period of his career as an author he time and again discussed and suggested models for setting up semi-official literary courts outside the normal court system, which could secure and improve the freedom of Danish writers and poets to no detriment of Danish society as such. In a lost libel suit in 1826 Grundtvig incurred life-long personal censorship which ran until 1837, when a revision of the relevant legal paragraph was realized. As a 67-year-old member of the first Danish democratic parliament, Grundtvig in 1850 advocated freedom of the press and of speech with as few limitations as possible. His winding way to this conclusion is followed through a series of his own texts with particular attention to two sources which have been overlooked by Grundtvig scholars, namely the censor suppressed third part of an essay on the freedom of religion (printed 1827, but not published until 1866) and a pamphlet issued in 1845 but never reprinted, opposing a proposed revision (1844) of the 1799 press ordinance. In the latter case, references to fragmentary manuscripts not included in Grundtvig’s final argumentation are added
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