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Elizabeth Webber Correspondence
No full textEntries include brief biographical information, a handwritten postcard sent in 1940 with Webber\u27s date and place of birth, a letter typed to Miss Margaret Fallin Eicks, whose cookbook review had been noticed by the Maine State Library, requesting information concerning Webber, a letter typed on Boston Evening Transcript, Editorial Rooms, stationery from woman\u27s page editor Eicks, providing Webber\u27s Cambridge, Massachusetts, street address, a typed introductory letter from the Maine State Library to Webber about the Maine Author Collection, a typed letter of reply from Webber on Dinner Is Served ---- Your Room is Ready, A Pocket Guide to Smart Tea Rooms, Hotels and Inns, stationery inked in blue with a Quimper design, concerning the forthcoming publication of a spiral-bound book of recipes sent by east coast managers, of foods relished by guests -- an enlargement of her annual June pocket guide, with news of the opening of the Buttercup Hill Tea Room, and some information concerning her years at the Patten Free Library in Bath, Maine, a typed letter from the Maine State Library thanking Webber for the Dinner Is Served Cook Book for the Maine Author Collection, and a prepublication, biographical, book review newspaper clipping
Panel C: Author-Meets-Readers Session
No full textAuthor David Webber discusses his book The Rise of the Working Class Shareholder: Labor\u27s Last Best Weapon published on Harvard University Press
The influence of spreading rate, basement composition, fluid chemistry and chimney morphology on the formation of gold-rich SMS deposits at slow and ultraslow mid-ocean ridges
No full textSeafloor massive sulphide (SMS) deposits are variably enriched in precious metals including gold. However, the processes invoked to explain the formation of auriferous deposits do not typically apply to mid-ocean ridge settings. Here we show a statistically significant, negative correlation between the average gold concentration of SMS deposits with spreading rate, at non-sedimented mid-ocean ridges. Deposits located at slow spreading ridges (20-40 mm/a) have average gold concentrations of between 850-1600 ppb, however, with increasing spreading rate (up to 140 mm/a), gold concentrations gradually decrease to between ~50-150 ppb. This correlation of gold content with spreading rate may be controlled by the degree and duration of fluid-rock interaction, which is a function of the heat flux, crustal structure (faulting) and the permeability of the source rocks. Deposits at ultraslow ridges, including ultramafic-hosted deposits, are particularly enriched in gold. This is attributed to the higher permeability of the ultramafic source rocks achieved by serpentinisation and the inherent porosity of serpentine minerals, combined with relatively high gold concentrations in peridotite compared with mid-ocean ridge basalt. Variations in fluid chemistry, such as reducing conditions and the potential for increased sulphur availability at ultramafic-hosted sites may also contribute to the high concentrations observed. Beehive chimneys, which offer more favourable conditions for gold precipitation, may be more prevalent at ultramafic-hosted sites due to diffuse low-velocity venting compared with more focussed venting at basalt-hosted sites
Social Science for Natural Language Processing: A Hostile Narrative Analysis Prototype
No full textWe propose a new methodology for analysing hostile narratives by incorporating theories from Social Science into a Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline. Drawing upon Peace Research, we use the “Self-Other gradient” from the theory of cultural violence to develop a framework and methodology for analysing hostile narratives. As test data for this development, we contrast Hitler’s Mein Kampf and texts from the “War on Terror” era with non-violent speeches from Martin Luther King. Our experiments with this dataset question the explanatory value of numerical outputs generated by quantitative methods in NLP. In response, we draw upon narrative analysis techniques for the technical development of our pipeline. We experimentally show how analysing narrative clauses has the potential to generate outputs of improved explanatory value to quantitative methods. To the best of our knowledge, this work constitutes the first attempt to incorporate cultural violence into an NLP pipeline for the analysis of hostile narratives
Pre-Super Bowl ""Pops"" spectacular
No full textRecorded during a live performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, January 26, 1992, 3:00 p.m., the 240th concert of the School of Music’s 1991-1992 season.University Symphony Orchestra ; Robert Whaley, conductor ; Jun Wang, graduate student conductor (2nd work) ; soloists: Stephen Zegree, piano (3rd work) ; Trent Kynaston, tenor saxophone (4th work) with members of the Western Jazz Quartet (Stephen Zegree, piano ; Thomas Knific, bass ; Keith Hall, drums).Information from performance program.Light cavalry overture / Franz von Suppé -- Slavonic dances, op 46. Swaggerer’s dance ; Serbian dance ; Polka / Antonin Dvořák -- Rhapsody in blue / George Gershwin ; scored by Ferde Grofé -- Then and now for solo tenor saxophone, jazz trio and orchestra / Bob Mintzer -- Selections from The phantom of the opera / Andrew Lloyd Webber ; arranged by Calvin Custer -- Dance bacchanale from Samson and Dalila / Camille Saint-Saëns
LitCrit: exploring intentions as a basis for automated feedback on Related Work.
No full textLearning the skill of academic writing is critical for post-graduate (PG) students to
be successful, yet many struggle to master the required standard. Feedback can play a formative role in developing these skills, but many students do not find sufficiently helpful the kinds of feedback available to them. As the Related Work section is known to be particularly difficult for PG students to master that is the focus of this thesis.
To date, models of academic writing have been built on observational studies of
academic articles. In contrast, we carry out a user study to explore what content experts look for in Related Work and how this differs from PG students. We claim that by understanding what experts look for in Related Work and what aspects PG students struggle with, a useful author intention model can be developed to support writing feedback for Related Work sections. Our work demonstrates reliable annotation of the model intentions. Developing on existing algorithms, designed to identify rhetorical intentions in academic writing, we build a supervised machine learning classifier, showing how features focused on Related Work sections improve recognition of content aspects. Carrying out a study to rate the quality of Related Work, we demonstrate that the model is a good proxy for predicting quality, validating the choice of intentions in our model. In addition to recognising author intentions, we automate the generation of feedback based on observations of intentions that are present and missing, taking into account areas that PG students struggle to recognise.
The thesis also contributes a new prototype writing analytic tool, called LitCrit,
that supports visualising the intention narrative of Related Work and presents feedback. We claim this visualisation approach changes the PG student’s perception of Related Work, and demonstrate through a user study that it does draw attention to aspects previously missed bringing PG student responses in line with experts. Finally, we explore the performance of our classifier, originally set within the Computational Linguistics discipline, to that of Computer Graphics. This shows us that while performance may be lower when care is taken to understand those features which are discipline dependent, there is scope for improvement. Also, while a discipline may have the same intentions present in a section, their structural presentation may differ impacting feature choice
In conversation with M.G.Leanord
No full textVerity Jones and Amanda Webber caught up with M. G. Leonard, author of Beetle Boy, to talk about why getting the science right in children’s fiction is so important and how this book might inspire an interest in understanding and protecting insects
Interview with David Webber: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Labor\u27s Capital
No full textALVIN VELAZQUEZ: Good afternoon! My name is Alvin Velazquez. I am an Associate General Counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), where for the last fifteen years I have given advice on bankruptcy, corporate law matters, and tech matters. I’m also an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law School where I have taught employment law and am teaching a seminar called Systemic Racism, Colonialism, and Bankrupt Governments.1 Before arriving at SEIU I worked as a litigation associate at several large law firms. I also admit, rather sheepishly, that I am one of the few graduates of Cornell in the labor movement who did not attend the Industrial and Labor Relations school, but rather am a product of its government department who then attended Harvard Law School. I want to thank Claire Hill for organizing this excellent symposium and inviting me here to conduct this interview.
I am really excited to be joined by David Webber, the author of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon. David Webber is a familiar name in the corporate governance world, and among labor practitioners of capital stewardship due to his prolific scholarship examining labor and its capital. He is a professor and Paul M. Siskind Scholar at Boston University, and one of the best thinkers out there concerning the interaction of how labor unions have engaged and incorporated corporate governance into their thinking. His book has received reviews or otherwise been covered in the New York Review of Books, the Financial Times, Forbes, Dissent, the National Review, C-SPAN’s BookTV, Bloomberg Radio, Publishers Weekly, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, the Harvard OnLabor Blog, and elsewhere. It has also been the subject of op-eds for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. Finally, his book is assigned as part of the core curriculum for the Harvard Trade Union Program. David did his undergraduate work at Columbia University and obtained his law degree at N.Y.U. Law where he was a member of its law review.
Even though I had nothing to do with it being part of the core curriculum for the Harvard Trade Union Program, I recommend his book because it tells a sweeping story of where labor’s use of capital has been, and provides some important suggestions for where labor’s capital should be going. It is highly accessible to labor practitioners, finance practitioners, and legal audiences. On a personal note, let me just say that reading your book felt like a trip down memory lane for me. You really described what was going on in the labor capital stewardship space over the course of my career in a way that I had not conceived of previously. When you are doing the work on a day-today basis it is difficult to reflect. A lot of the time you are just trying to get things done. However, your book really helped me reflect on how far the conversation concerning labor’s role has changed since I started doing this work in 2008. It also provided me with some new ways of discussing the work that I do with our members.
Let’s get started with some general questions to kick off our interview. Can you tell us what motivated you to write the book
Harmony and discord within the English ‘counter-culture’, 1965-1975, with particular reference to the ‘rock operas’ Hair, Godspell, Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar
No full textPhDThis thesis considers the discrete, historically-specific theatrical and musical sub-genre of ‘Rock Opera’ as a lens through which to examine the cultural, political and social changes that are widely assumed to have characterised ‘The Sixties’ in Britain. The musical and dramatic texts, creation and production of Hair (1967), Tommy (1969), Godspell (1971), Jesus Christ Superstar (1970) and other neglected ‘Rock Operas’ of the period are analysed. Their great popularity with ‘mainstream’ audiences is considered and contrasted with the overwhelmingly negative and often internally contradictory reaction towards them from the English ‘counter-culture’. This examination offers new insights into both the ‘counter-culture’ and the ‘mainstream’ against which it claimed to define and differentiate itself.
The four ‘Rock Operas’, two of which are based upon Christian scriptures, are considered as narratives of spiritual quest. The relationship between the often controversial quests for re-defined forms of faith and the apparently precipitous ‘secularization’ and ‘de-Christianization’ of British society during the 1960s and 1970s is considered.
The thesis therefore analyses the ‘Rock Operas’ as significant, enlightening prisms through which to view many of the profound societal debates – over ‘faith’ and ‘belief’ in the widest senses, sexuality, the Vietnam war, generational conflict, drugs and ‘spiritual enlightenment’, and race – which were, to some considerable extent, elevated onto the national, political agenda by the activities of the broadly-defined ‘counter-culture’. It considers subsequent representations of the ‘counter-culture’ as the root of a contested but enduring popular legacy of ‘The Sixties' as a period of profound cultural change
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