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Percy O. Vera interview for a Wright State University History Course
No full textOn April 26, 2003 Lucy Putnam interviewed Percy Vera, a retired Economics Professor at Sinclair Community College, for a class project dealing with oral histories and capturing the history of the Miami Valley. During the interview Percy discusses his family’s immigration from Belize to the United States, attending the University of Dayton, and race relations in Dayton
Vera Kelsey Papers, 1944-1958
No full textAn accomplished journalist and author, Vera Kelsey's papers document her writing career through the manuscripts and research notes for her last four books, British Columbia Rides a Star, Red River Runs North!, Tomorrow is for You, and Young Men So Daring. For British Columbia Rides a Star it includes her travel notes from four trips around British Columbia
Open doors presents Judith Van Gieson and Vera John-Steiner
No full textThe Open Doors series presents Judith Van Gieson author of ""Confidence Woman"" reads from her new novel and discusses doing research for her books at the Center for Southwest Research and Vera John-Steiner, author of ""Creative Collaboration,"" discusses the her study of the collabortive process
Ceratomerus globosus Bradley J Sinclair 2003, n.sp.
No full textCeratomerus globosus n.sp. Figs. 39, 40, 42, 47–52, 57 Type material. HOLOTYPE 3, “ AUST [ralia]: NSW[New South Wales]: Kosciusko / NP, nr. Swamp Plain / 28.ix. 1994, 500 m/ B.J. Sinclair / ex. Bogong Ck.”;“ HOLOTYPE / Ceratomerus / globosus / Sinclair [red label]” AMS K175245. PARATYPES: New South Wales: 333, 3♀♀, same data as holotype (AMS, CNC); 13, 1♀, Barrington Tops NP, upper Gloucester R. + Falls, 1200 m, 20–21.xii.1993. BJS (CNC); 1 ♀, Barrington Tops NP, Williams R., subtrop. rainfor., 480 m, 19.xii.1993, BJS; 1♀, Blue Mtns NP, Valley of the Waters, Vera Falls, 23.x.1994, BJS; 13, 1♀, Blue Mtns NP, Wentworth Falls, Jamison Ck, 10.xi.1993, 23.x.1994, BJS (ZFMK); 13, Jonolan, 12.x.1950 (UQIC); 233, 1♀, Kosciusko NP, Leatherbarrel Ck, 1000 m, 28.xi.1994, BJS, DJB (AMS). Victoria: 533, 5♀♀, Burrowa-Pine Mtn NP, Bluff Ck Falls, 400 m, riverine for., y.pans, 29.xi.1994, DJB (ANIC, AMS); 1♀, Delgate R. & Goonmirk Rd, 960 m, 16.i.1991, DJB; 2♀♀, Otway Ra., SE Beech For., Beauchamp Falls, y.pans, mixed forest, 4–5.xii.1994, DJB; 1 ♀, Otway Ra., Beauchamp Falls, Nothofagus, 3.xii.1994, BJS (AMS); 333, 1♀, 45 km N Orbost, Bonang Hwy, Martins Ck, rainfor., 200 m, 6.xii.1994, BJS (CNC); 13, 29.5 km N Warburton, Acheron Way, rainfor., Acheron R., 1.xii.1994, BJS (ZFMK). Additional material. New South Wales: 1♀, Styx R. SF, E Jeogla, Wattle Flat, wet scler. for., pans, 1000 m, 7.xii.1992, DJB (AMS). This specimen is possibly conspecific because the ratio of the length of the style to postpedicel is similar, but an associated male specimen is required for confirmation. Diagnosis. Recognized by the style shorter than the postpedicel, slight inflexion of R 2+3 around the stigma, dark brown pleura, tufts of stout setae on the lateral margin of male sternites 3–4 and tergite 6, encapsulated male terminalia, and scape 1.25 times longer than height of head. Description. Wing length 3.5– 4 mm, similar to C. attenuatus except as follows: Male. Head. Face pale brown. Antenna with length of scape 1.25× height of eye (Fig. 57); postpedicel apical half 1.25× length of base; three-segmented stylus one-third length of postpedicel; segment 8 short, slightly longer than width. Palpus yellow, slender, one-fifth length of labrum. Thorax. Scutum, postnotum and pleura dark brown; postpronotal lobe pale; pale streak extending ventrally along proepisternum. Wing (Fig. 51) as in C. attenuatus. Legs. Base of femora, especially inner margin yellow, becoming dark brown towards tip. Fore femur slightly swollen, lacking ventral setae. First tarsomere greater than half length of fore tibia, with large notch on apical third; base of notch with twisted spur-like seta (Fig. 40). Mid femur more strongly swollen than fore femur, apical fourth strongly constricted; mid-length bearing pv row of 3 setae, longer than width of femur; apical half of swollen portion with 4 transverse rows of stout setae; base with long erect pv seta (Fig. 39). Mid tibia about half as long as femur, somewhat flattened and twisted, with subapical av notch; lateral margins with av and pv rows of setae, latter row increasing in length apically; lacking erect ad setae. First tarsomere longer than remaining 4 tarsomeres, with many erect pv setae. Hind femur straight with ventral surface bearing av row of short, dark setae. Hind tibia with 2 erect dorsal setae on apical half; ad margin with row of 3 long, erect setae. Hind tarsomeres slightly longer than tibia. Abdomen. S3–4 and T6 with dense cluster of short, stout, lateral setae; T8 broad, subrectangular, about half as long as sternite. Terminalia (Figs. 47, 48). Hypandrium laterally flattened, enclosed within epandrial lamellae; apex produced into slender posterior flap-like process; gonocoxal apodemes well developed; postgonites upright, gently arched posteriorly with subapical hooked process; phallus with pair of articulated processes, flanked by postgonites. Epandrial lamella oval forming distinct capsule fused ventrally to hypandrium; bearing subapical epandrial lobe, apically tapered, with dense mat of microtrichia. Surstylus complex, twisted, strongly bent, bearing whip-like setae; anterior margin with fringe of stout setae. Subepandrial plate narrow; lacking processes from hypoproct. Apical half of cercus well sclerotized, very narrow with apex bearing many stout setae; long stout seta on lateral margin of basal half. Female. Similar to male and female of C. attenuatus except as follows: apical half of palpus brown. Wing similar to male (Fig. 52). S7 lacking transverse weakening. Terminalia (Fig. 49): cercus bearing row of spine-like setae, with long slender marginal setae. Spermatheca receptacle spherical, with short, pigmented neck (Fig. 50). Distribution. This species is recorded from isolated communities at least as far north as Barrington Tops (NSW) south to the Otway Ranges of Victoria (Fig. 42). Biology. This species appears to prefer cool temperate rainforest regions and is more rarely collected along gallery rainforests. Etymology. The specific name is from the Latin globosus (round as a ball), referring to the rounded, encapsulated hypopygium.Published as part of Bradley J Sinclair, 2003, Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Zoogeography of the Subfamily Ceratomerinae of Australia (Diptera: Empidoidea), pp. 1-44 in Records of the Australian Museum 55 on page 2
Place and its relations in late twentieth century cultural theory and British fiction
No full textThe dissertation presents a descriptive analysis of aspects of British fictional
writing prefaced by a comparative analysis of cultural theory concerned with
questions of place and socio-spatial relations-The general aim is to show how
both the theory and the fiction negotiate elements of a relational poetics and
politics of place in the context of negatively homogenizing tendencies in socioeconomic
developments during the last thirty years of the twentieth century. In
the first part, the writers of cultural theory are divided into three preliminary
areas, covering primarily Marxist, post-structuralist and environmentalist
approaches to questions of place and its relations. The second and third
parts then provide more detailed consideration of novels by Raymond Williams
and lain Sinclair which have so far not been accorded substantial critical
attention. The aim is to show how their approaches in the novels considered
converge with aspects of the theory discussed in the opening part of the
dissertation. In all cases, the writers are presented as producing 'partial
mappings'. These are seen as offering perspectives of sufficient scope to
provide effective criticism of, and possible alternatives to, negative and
disorientating aspects of social relations affected by tendencies in capital
accumulation which might be seen as endangering elements of social justice and
equality, cultural heterogeneity, and ecological viability. The first part includes
consideration of the poet Charles Olson and a related aim is to suggest how
novels such as those by Williams and Sinclair might provide a significant
complement to both theory and modem epic poetry in relation to questions of
place
Vera Hall
No full textThis chapter describes the recordings of Vera Hall (1902–1964). On October 31, 1940, at the Livingston, Alabama, home of author, painter, and folksong collector Ruby Pickens Tartt, Vera sang “Another Man Done Gone” twice into Lomax's machine. During the first take, the partially filled recording blank ran out of space, abruptly ending the song. The second time, however, Lomax used a fresh side, allowing Vera to include all her verses. Just as she finished, but before he lifted the cutting arm and turned off the microphone, he remarked, “That's perfect.” Lomax's summation saluted more than an unmarred recording. “Another Man Done Gone” became Vera Hall's most celebrated performance. Carl Sandburg recalled listening to it more than a dozen consecutive times during a January 1944 visit to Lomax's Dallas home, later including it in his second folksong anthology and learning it himself. The poet termed it “one of the strikingly original creations of Negro singing art.”</p
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