Lower Tanana flashcards

Master's Project (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2019As part of a study of Lower Tanana, I found it expedient to create a learning tool to help myself gain familiarity with Lower Tanana. I chose to employ Anki, an open-source tool for creating digital flashcard based learning tools. With Anki, I created cards for individual Lower Tanana words and phrases. In producing the computer flashcards for Lower Tanana, I realized that they could serve as a highly flexible system for both preserving and learning Lower Tanana. Further, because of the built-in system flexibility, such systems can be created to aid in preserving and teaching other endangered languages

Chasing That Ghost On Stage: The Haunted Continent And Andrew Bird\u27s Apocrypha

This thesis traces the various physical and metaphorical journeys south of Chicago musician Andrew Bird. Using what historical record is publicly available, I examine Bird\u27s formal musical training. I then explore the years between 1995 and 2001, or what I call Bird\u27s period of apprenticeship. Next is an exploration of the canonical narratives surrounding the blues of the Mississippi Delta, especially the music of Charley Patton. When Andrew Bird encountered a canon, or dominant histories and meanings of southern music that influence how musicians play and how audiences interpret that music, he began to react against that canon in his own compositions and performances. Next I investigate this notion of a canon of southern music with particular attention paid to Bird\u27s album Armchair Apocrypha (2007) - apocrypha being narratives that exist alongside a canon. I also address certain technological shifts in Bird\u27s performance methodologies in this time period that further the reach of bird\u27s apocrypha. I look at Bird\u27s recent engagement with gospel music, where Charley Patton raises his head again, and argue that Bird adopts a gospel-inflected performance model that invites an invisible third, or a ghost, into the relationship between performer and audience. Using the work of Avery Gordon and Joseph Roach, I argue that bird has taken on a condition of haunting in his recent recordings and performances, that his performances are spaces for his audiences to take on a similar condition of haunting, and that his performances are about, among other things, encountering and learning to live with the deep, unspeakable trauma of the colonization of the new world. I end with a forecast, looking at bird\u27s recent work in light of these patterns of haunting, and suggesting some themes to keep track of in Bird\u27s work - including Bird\u27s symbolic return to Chicago in light of his journeys south

Mass Media and Representation: a Critical Comparison of the CCTV and NBC Presentations of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Summer Games

A critical comparison of the CCTV and NBC broadcasts of the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics demonstrates how two sets of narratives that on the surface glorify China and the long Chinese cultural and historic tradition offer very different ideological projections about China\u27s rise as a power and engagement with the wider capitalist world. For CCTV, China has finally righted a longstanding historical injustice and established itself as a co-equal nation among nations. For NBC, ambivalence about China is the watchword, and further reforms that by implication will help clear China of its non-democratic, totalitarian, and economically mercantilist sheen are needed if the country is to be fully embraced. The ideological construction is more hidden in the NBC broadcast, but both depend on massive erasures of history and blurring of contemporary issues, causing both sets of narratives to fail tests of narrative coherence. Discursive struggles over the authorship of the Opening Ceremony underlie both media texts and expose their ideological positioning

How The Beijing Olympics Has Changed Chinese Popular Television, Entertainment, and People’s Everyday Lives

The 2008 Beijing Olympics was one of the greatest achievements for Chinese people around the world. It was an event that changed Chinese popular culture and made the Chinese people proud of themselves. In the past, China had lost its popular cultural identity because of historical upheavals and what cultural identity it did have was dominated by foreign-influenced ideas. Through hosting and preparing for the 29th Olympiad, China rediscovered its popular cultural identity, which I conclude is a reintroduction of its traditional culture. The country was also able to change how others perceived it. To conduct this study, I interviewed experts from the fields of television, Chinese history, Beijing Opera, and journalism. There was a period when the recirculation of Western-influenced television shows dominated Chinese popular entertainment. For the Chinese to host the Olympics meant so much more than it would have for any other country; therefore, hundreds of television shows and documentaries were produced and China’s television producing skills improved. The media also softened their style of reporting. All these changes and improvements throughout the society were a result of China’s urge to host the Games. Besides these changes, the Olympics restored to China its popular cultural identity. However, it did not just bring out untouched older traditions and turn them into popular culture. The country reinvented and polished old traditions and made them more appealing to a modern audience. In the future, it will be China that will influence others culturally and lead other nations, and not the other way around

Video Streaming Using Cell Phones for Property Surveillance

Video Streaming using Cell Phones for Property Surveillance or VStream is a project to control their belongings at anywhere far from theirplace. Security is synonym with private and confidential issue. People apply security to protect their belongings against intrusion. It is much more convenient as it is available and control by the cell phones. For this VStream project, video streaming elements will be added into the cell phones and this give beneficial people as another alternative to control and see what happen with their belongings through their cell phones. Besides that, another feature of this VStream project is that it is unique compared to other security application available whereby it is more interactive as there are two ways communication between the user andPC camera. For this project, it will applyGPRS elements which then can enable the reader to display video streaming from their cell phones. The methodology of this project consists of two parts which are the research part and the design part. For the research part, the questionnaire, observation and surveys will be the method applied while for the design part, 'Waterfall' methodology that consists of five different stages which are analysis, design, development ,testing and evaluation will be implemented. Last but not least, it is hope that the community will accept this product and make full use of it for benefits of all

Digital Transformation in Oil and Gas Industry: Opportunities and Challenges

Digital technology can benefit the oil and gas sector by increasing hydrocarbon recovery, ensuring safety throughout the corporate ecosystem, and improving operational reliability. This study addresses the oil and gas supply chain digital transformation tendencies as well as the Norwegian petroleum refining company Equinor's initiatives. The main objective is to explore the opportunities for digitalisation in the oil and gas industry as well as the state of the industry's digital strategy more generally. The findings support the industry's major players continuing to invest in their collaborative ecosystem by partnering with their suppliers and start-ups and sharing with them a platform where data that can help them improve their economic position can easily be shared. It is recommended that they should develop a digital strategy roadmap, as in the case of Equinor, as a matter of priority. Supporting innovation and technology adoption through continued investment and the hiring of qualified experts is also of critical importance. It is also important to improve the digital skills of employees and spread a digital culture throughout the company so that they can protect themselves against future cyberattacks or other potential risks. On a global level, the successful implementation of a digital solution will reshape market dynamics (in terms of supply, demand, and investment) as well as the way energy networks are managed

Trinity Reporter, October 1975

https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/reporter/2002/thumbnail.jp

The B-G News November 2, 1967

The BGSU campus student newspaper November 2, 1967. Volume 52 - Issue 27https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/3136/thumbnail.jp