509 research outputs found
Address by Governor Bob Straub
No full textTitle from PDF caption (viewed on February 16, 2017).Address given to the Oregon State Society of Washington, D.C. annual banquet, February 21, 1976.This archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Remarks by Governor Bob Straub commemorating the two-hundredth birthday of the United States, July 4, 1976
No full textThis archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF caption (viewed on July 1, 2016).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Concessions of Infrastructure in Latin America: Government-led Renegotiation
No full textThis paper completes Guasch, Laffont and Straub (2003), extending the analysis to the case of government-led renegotiations. We first extend the theoretical framework to a multiple-period context in which both Pareto improving and rent shifting renegotiations at the initiative of the government can occur. We then perform an empirical analysis based on the same sample of 307 water and transport projects in 5 Latin American countries between 1989 and 2000. While some of the main insights, for example concerning the importance of having a regulator in place when awarding concessions and the fragility of price cap regulatory schemes, are unchanged, there are also significant differences, in particular with respect to the effect of investment and financing, as well as the corruption variables. We also provide additional evidence showing that a good regulatory framework is especially important in contexts with weak governance and political opportunism.
Werksessie A: Slimmer, Ad Straub
No full textGooi het roer om. Maak slimmere combinaties van reparaties, klachten- en planmatig onderhoud. Betrek bewoners veel actiever bij het signaleren en uitvoeren van onderhoud
From Hollywood to Haiti: A filmmaker's journey with the poor
No full textAward-winning author and producer of General Hospital, Gerry Straub, shares his personal journey from being a renowned network producer to producing films that foster compassion for those who suffer from hunger and injustice.
Season 7 Episode 16: Fighting Poverty with Film
No full textImagine walking away from a successful Hollywood soap opera producer\u27s desk to the leper colonies of Brazil and the garbage heaps of the Philippines. Calvin College January Series guest Gerry Straub is a filmmaker, photographer, and author now devoted to “putting the power of film at the service of the poor.” He tells host Shirley Hoogstra how it all happened. Episode #716
“Actors Simply Explode”: To Act in the Cinema of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
No full textThis essay examines the political significance of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's work with actors in their cinema practice. Straub and Huillet's acting methodology is an essential aspect of their cinema and its struggle to undo militaristic, patriarchal, and capitalist modes of communication. The author identifies and analyzes key characteristics of this methodology, using them to mount a critique of the normative function of the amateur or nonprofessional actor in art cinema and socially committed cinemas. The creation of a generative encounter between actors and texts, a vocal training that works against the dictates of standard punctuation, and the organization of a discipline to act are the main components of a methodology that refuses to obey a specific martial order of reading, speaking, and acting. Attending to Straub and Huillet's comments on their methods, the essay envisages other resonances that such acting can have in thinking about freedom and constraint within the political and economic spheres of Western culture
Late baroque sculptor Joseph Straub and his works for the Church of Saint Mary in Sladka gora, Slovenia
No full textThis article presents the Church of Saint Mary in Sladka gora in
Styria, Slovenia. It focuses on baroque sculptor Joseph Straub and his works
for the church. I start with the historical circumstances regarding the building
of the church and its furnishing, presenting state of research. In the second part,
I focus on the façade sculptures and provide their iconographic and stylistic
analysis. The latter conforms that their author is indeed late baroque sculptor
Joseph Straub. Furthermore, I also analyse the other works in the church
attributed to this sculptor – sculptures from the pulpit as well as sculptures on
the organ case
A Pilgrimage From Hollywood to Haiti: Searching for God through Poverty, Prayer, and Action
No full textFrom filming the poor to living with the poor, Gerard Thomas Straub (gerardstraub.com) discovered a wisdom that can only be learned by living the Gospel in a radical way. He shares his story of conversion and his decision to love through select video clips from his films. He then weaves them together with reflections on pilgrimage, poverty, and prayer, inspiring participants to contemplate their own call to respond to God and choose to love in their own way.Gerard Thomas Straub is an award-winning filmmaker and author. He left a lucrative television career as an executive producer to put the power of film at the service of the poor, giving them a voice and introducing viewers to inspiring caregivers who chose to love them in radical ways. Gerry later decided to put down the camera and relocate to Haiti, where he founded Santa Chiara Children’s Center and Academy in his effort to follow the Gospel of Love more closely.Gerry’s résumé includes serving as adjunct faculty at the Pontifical Gregorian University, three honorary doctorates, 21 films, and 11 books, including Reading Thomas Merton and Longing for God in Haiti (available on Amazon), as well as producing television dramas on NBC, CBS and ABC
Infrastructure and Development: A Critical Appraisal of the Macro-level Literature
No full textThis survey reviews the existing macro-level empirical literature on the link between infrastructure and development in a critical light. After providing a general framework that casts the problem in the context of an aggregate production function, it signals what are the relevant empirical questions to be addressed. This guides the systematic review of a number of empirical studies and the discussion of the main econometric challenges to the identification of the effect of infrastructure on output and productivity. Finally, building on related research, in particular in contract theory and political economy, the article spells out several promising research avenues.
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