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Economic evaluation of a stratified transport method for Atlantic halibut (Hippoglossus hippoglossus) juveniles
No full textThe objective of this study was to evaluate a convenient, low-cost modification to conventional transfer methods for Atlantic halibut juveniles. A series of wire mesh cages were stacked within transport tanks creating a stratified transport system (STS), increasing the surface area for settlement and facilitating a more homogeneous distribution of halibut throughout the tank compared with the conventional insulated box (Unstructured, UTS). A stochastic cost-benefit analysis determined investment into a STS to be cost-effective, generating a mean benefit-cost ratio of 1.31 (95% CI, 0.68–2.00) after 2 years and a mean 5-year net present value of 85,176(9546,906–$125,630). The implementation of a STS was found to be technically feasible and economically efficient method to improve Atlantic halibut transport.Peter J. Sykes, Carol A. McClure, Debbie J. Martin-Robichaud, Charles G. Caraguel, K. Larry Hammel
Roderick Sykes' mural, Alta Loma Elementary School, Los Angeles, 1972-1992
No full textRoderick Sykes' mural, Alta Loma Elementary School, untitled, Los Angeles, 1972-1992. Alta Loma School, exterior, 1745 Vineyard Avenue (between Saturn Street and St. Elmo Drive). There are four murals on campus, done over a period of several years. The most recent, designed by Oscar de Leon, in 1990, is of a bookworm, eating his way through the middles of eight books. It is located at the rear of the Administration building, just outside the library. Outside the Classroom building is a colorful portrait of five children designed by Roderick Sykes. Nearby, on the steps to the building's second floor are more faces. On the Saturn Avenue side of the school, in the outside lunch area, is a three-panel mural about food. First is a farm scene, then a grocery store, and third and early Thanksgiving with pilgrims and Native Americans. By children under the supervision of Roderick Sykes. Sponsored by School Beautification Project. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, p. 77, #66
Claud Sykes
No full textClaud SykesProfessional actor, co-founder of the English Players, writer, and MI5 agent. Born in Ipswich, England, in 1912 Sykes married Annie "˜Daisy' Race (1885-1969), his co-star in Octavia Kenmore's and Leigh Lovel's London company. Sykes acted in two dozen productions of Ibsen between 1908 and 1914 before he and his wife relocated to Switzerland in 1915, ostensibly for Sykes's health. He and JJ first encountered one another in early 1917, and by the end of the year, Sykes was overseeing typescript production on the early episodes of Ulysses. With a mix of professional and amateur actors, JJ and Sykes formed the English Players, whose first performance was The Importance of Being Earnest in April 1918. Through late 1919, the Players produced nineteen plays in Zurich and toured Switzerland. Sykes returned to England in 1920. In 1927 Sykes read proofs and provided suggestions for the German translation of Ulysses, published that year. In the 1920s, he wrote adventure fiction in the mold of John Buchan before, in the 1930s, establishing himself as a translator and author of First World War aviation writing, often under the pseudonym "˜Vigilant'. His translation work from German proved an effective cover for counter-intelligence work and, by the mid-1930s, he was reporting to his MI5 handler using the code name 'M/S'. In 1939, he worked briefly as a double agent, feeding disinformation to a Gestapo agent in Berlin. His interests in the theatre continued: he produced plays for the Letchworth Citizens' Company in the 1920s and published the Rutland-theory inspired Alias William Shakespeare? (1947). He died in Malta in 1963. William Brockman and Ronan Crowley</p
What is the point about Sykes-Picot?
No full textThe Sykes–Picot Agreement (1916) became (in)famous once again following a tweet announcing a propaganda video by the group that call themselves the Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) declaring “the end of Sykes–Picot”. In this essay I suggest that the point about Sykes–Picot is not about the “artificiality” of borders in the Middle East (for all borders are artificial in different ways) or the way in which they were drawn (for almost all borders were agreed on by a few men, and seldom women, behind closed doors) but (also) that it was shaped by a discursive economy that allowed for the International Society to decide the fate of those that were deemed as not-yet capable of governing themselves. ISIS preoccupation with the “end of Sykes–Picot” is conditioned by the same discursive economy that it apparently seeks to resist
Jm. P. Sykes & Daniels, 3/13/20
No full textTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves.Caption from caption list: The Baldwin Locomotive Works has presented to the Secty. of the Navy Josephus Daniels models of the Gun Mounts built for the Navy during the World War for operation on shore. Photo of the presentation made in the Secty's Office Left to right John P Sykes Vice Pres Baldwin Locomotive works Secty. daniels and Rear Adml. C.P.Plunkett.Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947
Jm. P. Sykes & Daniels, 3/13/20
No full textTitle from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves.Caption from caption list: The Baldwin Locomotive Works has presented to the Secty. of the Navy Josephus Daniels models of the Gun Mounts built for the Navy during the World War for operation on shore. Photo of the presentation made in the Secty's Office Left to right John P Sykes Vice Pres Baldwin Locomotive works Secty. Daniels and Rear Adml. C.P. Plunkett.Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947
Terebra celidonota Melvill & Sykes 1898
No full text<i>Terebra celidonota</i> Melvill & Sykes, 1898 <p>Melvill & Sykes, 1898: 42, pl. 3, fig. 2.</p> <p>Type locality: ‘Andaman Islands’.</p> <p>Label locality: ‘Andaman Is.’.</p> <p>Type material: Lectotype NHMUK 1898.4.30.5 and 1 paralectotype NHMUK 1898.4.30.6 (J.C. Melvill collection). Indirect lectotype selection by inference of holotype (Cernohorsky, 1969: 213).</p>Published as part of <i>Salvador, Andreia & Pickering, Joan, 2017, Type catalogue of Terebridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Conoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London, U. K., pp. 101-142 in Zootaxa 4250 (2)</i> on page 112, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.2.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/450745">http://zenodo.org/record/450745</a>
Flammulina (Allodiscus) chion Sykes 1896
No full textFlammulina (Allodiscus) chion Sykes, 1896 Pl. 2, fig. E Sykes, 1896. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 2: 107, text fig. Type material: Syntypes, NHMUK 1915.1.4.129 (1), NHMUK 1896.2.29.56–58 (4), NMNZ M.125083 (1) (dry shell material). Label details: NHMUK 1915.1.4.129, ‘ Inglewood, N. Island, N.Z.’ ‘figd. type 1896 P. Mal. Soc. II’; NHMUK 1896.2.29.56–58, ‘Taranaki, North Isla, New Zealand’; NMNZ M.125083, ‘near Inglewood, H.B. Preston’. Type locality: ‘ Near Inglewood, Taranaki, North Island’ (Sykes 1896: 107). Previous illustrations of type material: Sykes (1896: 107, text figure). Remarks: The type material of Flammulina (Allodiscus) chion was collected by the British conchologist Hugh Preston, during a trip to New Zealand in the late 1800s. Some early records of Helix venulata from New Zealand were based on misidentifications of Flammulina (Allodiscus) chion Sykes, 1896, according to synonymies of Marshall & Barker (2008: 111). Current Taxonomy: Listed as Allodiscus chion (Sykes, 1896) by Suter (1913b: 638), Powell (1979: 319), Marshall & Barker (2008: 111) and Spencer et al. (2009: 215), but preliminary results of a phylogenetic study (M. Kennedy & F. Brook unpub. data) indicate that the assignment to Allodiscus Pilsbry, 1892 requires re-evaluation. Distribution: New Zealand; southwestern North Island, and northwestern South Island (Marshall & Barker 2008).Published as part of Brook, Fred J. & Ablett, Jonathan D., 2019, Type material of land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) described from New Zealand by taxonomists in Europe and North America between 1830 and 1934, and the history of research on the New Zealand land snail fauna from 1824 to 1917, pp. 1-117 in Zootaxa 4697 (1) on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4697.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/354283
69939: Field glasses, Edward Sykes
No full textField glasses belonged to Edward Sykes, great-uncle of the contributor. Sykes was drafted in the last Tottenham-Edmonton area of London (Middlesex Regt). He survived the war and lived a long life. Served mostly in Belgium, wounded in the Somme area when a bullet went through leg. The glasses were issued to him.
War stories from E Sykes
Edward Sykes did not talk much about the war but a few stories survive.
At the end of the war he was walking down a road in Belgium when an officer on horseback announced armistice. Sykes and his compatriots didn't understand what that was (partly because they were tired).
On the day Edward was wounded in the leg, his mom claimed she also felt a sharp pain in the leg.
Sykes stayed in camps before demobilization. He took courses while in camp, enrolled in course at Northumberland Fusiliers barracks. He was there during a soldiers' mutiny at the barracks and felt compelled to join in the mutiny. He was not punished after the munity was put down and he was sent back to his unit. Walked back to his own camp and stopped for the night at a house that billeted with Canadian soldiers, stayed for three weeks, slept in the attic. After three weeks a Canadian NCO questioned them and they were driven back to their camp, confined to barracks for three weeks as punishment for AWL.
After the war, Sykes did not immediately find work. Ultimately he found work as a bottle-washer and eventually became foreman of bonded warehouse on the Thames. He used his skills as a rat-killer which he had acquired in the trenches to kill rats in the warehouse.
Moved to Gloucestershire after London. Family very religious.
The contributor only knew his uncle after he was retired. His aunt told him the story of the time when Edward's wife found him crying while watching television. It appears that the programme had reminded him of his friend Billy who was shot in the stomach and died in Edward's arms. He had never spoken about it - the first time was when he felt the memory while watching television.
The glasses were given to the great-nephew (contributor) a few years ago. The great-nephew doesn't remember much about why Edward gave him the glasses, though he remembers having shown some interest in history so this is probably why Edward gave him the glasses. He now keeps the glasses wrapped in cloth, in a cupboard. He only knew his great-uncle after he was retired.
(This story and material was shared at the Oxford at War 1914-1918 Roadshow on 12 Nov 2016)</p
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