110 research outputs found
Interview with Morgan Callen Rogers, Bath native and author of the novel Red Rub
No full textInterview with Morgan Callen Rogers, Bath native and author of the novel Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea
Rowell, Archer and Callen
No full textActress and author Victoria Rowell spoke to students, staff and faculty on her memoir, *The Women Who Raised Me.* She also announced a fundraising program she\u27s beginning, Loose Change for Change, for the Charleston, MS, SonEdna Foundation. Rowell poses here with Glenna Callen (l) and Pattye Archer
Love Don't Need a Reason
No full text"From a stage erected in front of the US Capitol, on April 25, 1993, Michael Callen surveyed the throng: an estimated one million people stretched across the National Mall in the largest public demonstration of queer political solidarity in history. “What a sight,” he told the crowd, his earnest Midwestern twang reverberating through loudspeakers. “You’re a sight for sore eyes. Being gay is the greatest gift I have ever been given, and I don’t care who knows about it.” He then launched into a gorgeous rendition of “Love Don’t Need a Reason,” the AIDS anthem he composed with Marsha Malamet and the late Peter Allen. As Callen finished singing, people stood cheering and flashing the familiar American Sign Language symbol for “I Love You.” For they knew the song’s sentiment rang true for Callen, who had recently announced his retirement from music and activism after a living for more than a decade with what was then called “full-blown AIDS.” After the March on Washington, Callen returned to his recently adopted West Coast home, Los Angeles. In the ensuing months, his health rapidly declined, and on 27 December 1993, Callen died of AIDS-related pulmonary Kaposi’s sarcoma.
Love Don’t Need a Reason focuses on Callen’s most important and lasting legacy: his music. A witness to the overlooked last years of Gay Liberation and a major figure in the early years of the AIDS crisis, Michael Callen chronicled these experiences in song. A community organizer, activist, author, and architect of the AIDS self-empowerment movement, he literally changed the way we have sex in an epidemic when he co-authored one of the first safe-sex guides in 1983. A gifted singer, songwriter, and performer, he also made gay music for gay people and used music to educate and empower people with AIDS. Listening again to his music allows us to hear the shifting dynamics of American families, changing notions of masculinity, gay migration to urban areas, the sexual politics of Gay Liberation, and HIV/AIDS activism. Using extensive archival materials and newly-conducted oral history interviews with Callen’s friends, family, and fellow musicians, Matthew J. Jones reintroduces Callen to the history of LGBTQIA+ music and places Callen’s music at the center of his important activist work.
Debt-deficit dynamics in India and macroeconomic effects: A structural approach
No full textThe structural approach adopted in this paper aims to trace out the evolution of public debt and deficits over a medium term horizon and its dynamic interaction with other key macroeconomic variables such as interest rate, inflation, trade gap and output. The policy simulations for India reveal that persistence of high level of fiscal deficits and debt may have adverse impact on interest rate, output, inflation and trade balance in the medium to long run. The passive evolution of fiscal deficits leads to an unstable regime over the medium to long term as debt-GDP ratio rises asymptotically. The findings of the paper imply that fiscal adjustment with compositional shifts in expenditure to achieve convergence not only leads to acceleration in the investment rate in the economy, it also facilitates monetary management by moderating inflation expectations and contributing to stable interest rate regime. The adjusted converging debt path is consistent with the higher growth trajectory. Such corrections also do not pose the challenge of growth inflation trade-off.Public debt; Fiscal deficit; Prices; Interest rates.
Revisiting the Classics to recover the Physical Sense in electrical noise
No full textThis paper shows a physically cogent model for electrical noise in resistors that has been obtained from Thermodynamical reasons. This new model derived from the works of Johnson and Nyquist also agrees with the Quantum model for noisy systems handled by Callen and Welton in 1951, thus unifying these two Physical viewpoints. This new model is a Complex or 2-D noise model based on an Admittance that considers both Fluctuation and Dissipation of electrical energy to excel the Real or 1-D model in use that only considers Dissipation. By the two orthogonal currents linked with a common voltage noise by an Admittance function, the new model is shown in frequency domain. Its use in time domain allows to see the pitfall behind a paradox of Statistical Mechanics about systems considered as energy-conserving and deterministic on the microscale that are dissipative and unpredictable on the macroscale and also shows how to use properly the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem
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No full textIntroduction Recent research has highlighted the adverse effect of high output volatility on economic growth, welfare, and poverty, particularly in developing countries 1 This underscores the importance of understanding the factors driving output volatility and the size of output drops, and the economic policies that could help reduce them. There are two strands of literature examining output volatility. The first strand is related to the literature on international business cycles and has focused on documenting stylized features of business cycles and their co-movement across countries. For example, Kose, Otrok, and Whiteman (2003) employ a Bayesian dynamic latent factor model to decompose output fluctuations into global, regional, and country-specific factors. Two key findings of this paper are, first, that there is a significant global component in individual countries' output fluctuations, and second, that country-* The paper has benefited from Chris Otrok's help in applying the Bayesian latent dynamic factor model. The author also thanks Tim Callen, Simon Johnson, Gene Leon, Sam Ouliaris, Raghuram Rajan, David Robinson, Miguel Savastano, and Marco Terrones for helpful comments and suggestions, and Stephanie Denis for research assistance. 1 It has been argued that economic crises resulting in output declines are not necessarily bad for long-run growth. Crises and recoveries, while intrinsically costly, can also facilitate resource reallocation from less to more efficient sectors and projects, à la Schumpeter, thereby possibly placing the economy on a higher--growth path. However
Modeling the effects of aircraft flight track variability on community noise exposure
No full textThesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2017.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121).The implementation of Performance Based Navigation (PBN) routes across the National Airspace System (NAS) has caused a significant concentration of flight tracks. This flight track concentration also creates a concentration of noise impacts on the communities surrounding airports, which has led to an increase in noise complaints at many airports that have implemented these routes. In order to understand these changes in noise, and to design procedures that could help mitigate any negative effects, it is important to have modeling tools capable of capturing the noise impacts of flight track variability. This thesis develops a model for this purpose. First, twenty days of radar flight trajectory data from 2015 and 2016 at Boston Logan International Airport (KBOS) is used to quantify the observed distributions of variability in speed, altitude, and lateral track position. It is shown that altitude and speed variability have relatively small impacts on noise, but that the impacts of observed lateral variability are significant. Using this information, a physics-based model is developed to capture the noise impacts of lateral flight track variability. This tool is then used to model several example scenarios. First, the changes in noise due to pre- and post-PBN procedures are examined for KBOS Runway 33L departures. Next, a hypothetical procedure is designed to intentionally introduce lateral dispersion to KBOS Runway 33L departures. Finally, the tool is used to rapidly model noise impacts on due to both arrival and departure operations on all runways at KBOS. The model is shown to reduce computational expense by 1-2 order of magnitude relative to traditional methods. The results of these example analyses show that increased lateral dispersion causes a significant noise reduction at higher noise levels directly below the flight track at the cost of wider contours at lower noise levels. Because of this, any decision to add or remove flight track lateral dispersion has highly localized impacts that depend on the geometry of the route and the population of the surrounding area, and thus must be closely analyzed on an individual basis.This work was sponsored by the FAA under ASCENT Center of Excellence Project 23, Cooperative Agreement 13-C-AJFE-MIT-008.by Callen T. Brooks.S.M
Estimates of Private Sector Wealth
No full textThis paper provides quarterly estimates of private non-human wealth at market prices in Australia over the past decade. These estimates are based on the methodology set out in Piggott (1987), although improvements have been made in several important areas. The estimates suggest that private non-human wealth stood at $1,428 billion in the June quarter 1990. The dwelling stock accounted for 52 per cent of the total, business assets for 37 per cent, with the remainder being made up of consumer durables, holdings of government bonds and holdings of currency. The paper also introduces an index of asset prices, based on the wealth estimates.
On annuities: an overview of the issues
No full textLongevity is increasing in the whole world, and savings for retirement are growing quickly. There is a potential demand for certainty in the income streams for pensioners since old-fashioned pay-as-you-go systems became financially stressed. A financial product, the annuity contract, offers longevity insurance but its market is not well developed, even in the small set of countries where it exists. The instrument, its market and its problems are analyzed, and a discussion is made in order to ameliorate the understanding of an apparent paradox: why an interesting instrument is not more demanded and supplied.annuity; insurance; pension
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