The Anchor, Volume 94.21: April 8, 1982

The Anchor began in 1887 and was first issued weekly in 1914. Covering national and campus news alike, Hope College’s student-run newspaper has grown over the years to encompass over two-dozen editors, reporters, and staff. For much of The Anchor\u27s history, the latest issue was distributed across campus each Wednesday throughout the academic school year (with few exceptions). As of Fall 2019 The Anchor has moved to monthly print issues and a more frequently updated website. Occasionally, the volume and/or issue numbering is irregular

Mixing uses in the shopping center of the future

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2004.Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-113).(cont.) product allows municipalities an alternative strategy for large scale development than simply consenting to the construction of Wal-Marts and power centers. The alignment of private and public interests in the development of mixed-use projects create the potential for an attractive (and rare) win-win situation for developers and cities, alike, and the potential for lasting economic and social value.Changes in consumer preference, supply and public policy are producing momentum for the introduction of new real estate products into suburbia, calling into question the homogeneous propagation of entrenched forms. Suburbs need to be viewed as what they are in some places: underutilized real estate, underbuilt or emerging neighborhoods-ripe for future morphological alterations and untapped economic opportunities. Capitalizing on the potential to improve underutilized land, public willingness to create a sense of place in the suburbs, and the market demand for lifestyle centers and urban housing, developers have created a new product type that recreates the main street feel of a city--in short "Mallville." These mixed-use products have the potential to achieve returns and product differentiation for developers and property owners in an increasingly competitive retail sector, while simultaneously providing municipalities with social benefit. The point of this thesis is not to prognosticate the demise of the shopping mall like some industry critics contend and the website http://dcadmalls.com has made famous, because in reality well-situated, properly managed malls are still very viable and among the strongest performing asset classes in the real estate universe. Instead, this thesis explores the introduction of mixed-use and the development of town centers in suburbia and the incipient evolution of a new product types within the shopping center universe. Embracing innovative new uses such as hotels, museums, city halls and amphitheaters, urban style housing, open space, streetscape, these projects seek to craft new town centers for homogeneous suburban and low-density urban communities, instilling a "sense of place" where, hitherto, none had existed. The mixed-useby Todd O. Lieberman.M.C.P

Augmented manual fabrication methods for 2D tool positioning and 3D sculpting

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-75).Augmented manual fabrication involves using digital technology to assist a user engaged in a manual fabrication task. Methods in this space aim to combine the abilities of a human operator, such as motion planning and large-range mechanical manipulation, with technological capabilities that compensate for the operator's areas of weakness, such as precise 3D sensing, manipulation of complex shape data, and millimeter-scale actuation. This thesis presents two new augmented manual fabrication methods. The first is a method for helping a sculptor create an object that precisely matches the shape of a digital 3D model. In this approach, a projector-camera pair is used to scan a sculpture in progress, and the resulting scan data is compared to the target 3D model. The system then computes the changes necessary to bring the physical sculpture closer to the target 3D shape, and projects guidance directly onto the sculpture that indicates where and how the sculpture should be changed, such as by adding or removing material. We describe multiple types of guidance that can be used to direct the sculptor, as well as several related applications of this technique. The second method described in this thesis is a means of precisely positioning a handheld tool on a sheet of material using a hybrid digital-manual approach. An operator is responsible for manually moving a frame containing the tool to the approximate neighborhood of the desired position. The device then detects the frame's position and uses digitally-controlled actuators to move the tool within the frame to the exact target position. By doing this in a real time feedback loop, a tool can be smoothly moved along a digitally-specified 2D path, allowing many types of digital fabrication over an unlimited range using an inexpensive handheld tool.by Alec Rivers.Ph.D

Resistance in dystopian fiction

This thesis attempts to answer the fundamental question, "How does resistance function in dystopian fiction?" and considers the value of memory and technology within this context. It also articulates the themes of the research within a creative work, a dystopian novel titled The Department of Retribution. With the rising popularity of dystopian fiction, the findings of this project attempt to provide timely insight into why resistance is essential to the genre and how it can be employed via memory and technology. Within the scope of authoritarian structures and their ideological origins, this thesis examines the methods protagonists of dystopian fiction use to push back against oppressive means of control. It discusses memory and its value to characters who resist the state's official narrative of the past, and it examines the ways in which the pitfalls of humanity's reliance on technology are portrayed in dystopian works. The Department of Retribution takes place in a future United States where hard drugs such as methamphetamine have been legalized, fatal combat sports dominate television, and a fourth branch of government, the Corporate Council, wields dominant power. Seventeen-year-old Emile Winkler longs to avenge his little sister's death at the hands of a meth user, and when he turns eighteen he applies for a murder permit from the Department of Retribution that will allow him to achieve this. Legalized murder, however, has life-altering repercussions, and Emile sets out to discover the motivation behind the system that allows it. The exegetical discourse of technological hope and pessimism re-emerges in the novel as I explore the challenge of integrating androids into society as friends and companions, and the issues of equality that might arise. I also consider future psychological developments such as intra-cranial serotonin implants and a programmable re-prioritisation of thoughts and memories called amelioration that may help sufferers of trauma move on from painful, dominating thought patterns

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The Titus novels of Mervyn Peake : a critical and contextual study

PhD ThesisTitus Groan, Gormenghast and Titus Alone, written between 1940 and 1959, constitute the major body of Mervyn Peake's writing. Since the publication of Titus Groan in 1946, Peake has been acclaimed as a writer of undoubted, though highly individual, genius. The maverick eclecticism of his writing, however, has conferred upon his fiction a certain cult popularity, while at the same time discouraging serious academic consideration. Though there have been notable exceptions - and, in recent years, something of an upsurge in scholarly interest in Peake - serious study has largely tended to concentrate on biographical detail. While this study does not preclude such an approach - indeed, as the title suggests, it considers the ways in which the Titus novels articulate and respond to personal, social and cultural contexts - its organising principle is the internal structure of the literary work itself Peake began the novels with no clear idea of the final structure of the project. In fact, though the novels have frequently been called the "Gonnenghast Trilogy", they represent a work which is essentially unfinished. However, such an approach had the effect of creating an organic and therefore fundamentally coherent fiction. This study, in following Peake's organic method of development, therefore provides an interpretation of the novels which is both consistent with the author's approach, and suggestive of an inclusive and unifying framework for Peake's vision. Acknowledging the significance of Peake's organising criteria, the study considers in turn the three basic levels of contexture - world (Gormenghast), society (the inhabitants) and individual (Titus) - so as to establish the nature of the framework in which his fiction operates. The examination of the relationship between physical degeneration and psychological dysfunction, and the effects of this malaise on the emergence of the individual consciousness of the protagonist, reveals Titus as the representati~e of an intransigent world forced to accept radical change - thereby giving the novels a contemporary social and cultural relevance, as well as affirming their indebtedness to fundamental aspects of enduring Western literary traditions

Hyperinflation, Currency Board, and Bust

This book focuses on «Convertibilidad», the latest Argentine experience of exchange rate based stabilisation, and aims at isolating the main causes for its tragic collapse in 2001-2002. The characteristics of Argentina’s high and hyperinflation during the 1980s are analysed, and the theory of currency boards is expounded. The stabilisation tool, an institutionally highly credible currency board arrangement (CBA), though highly effective, could not be an optimal long-term solution, given the country’s structural and trade characteristics. The analysis of the causes of the CBA’s collapse yields a complex picture of interacting factors, among them invaliding ones that had created multiple vulnerabilities over years, and triggering ones that unfolded their worst potential in meeting such vulnerable conditions

Recognizing the networked city in forming a progressive urban economic development strategy

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2013.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Vita.Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-100).The architecture of the economy is in rapid transformation. ' As the innovation economy is the most influential segment of the economy because it creates a ripple of value throughout the broader economy, successful efforts to accelerate innovation will have the greatest overall effect. However, these innovation actors are no longer located in just one geographical location, and the money and resources that support their endeavors are spread across multiple cities, and are continually moving between them. Increasingly today, connectivity occurs both regionally (in innovation hubs and their satellite cities) and meta-regionally (between cities not geographically proximate), and few formal policy frameworks exist to support these expanded geographic networks. Lead institutional and corporate anchors in urban markets are not effectively engaged in this dispersed economic system, further constraining growth. Current Economic Development policies have been unable to catalyze and sustain a period of real sustained growth as they are outdated, restrained by a narrow political lens, subject to regional competition, or locked in a federal policy with little financial strength to do anything impactful. Missing is a layer of meaningful connective infrastructure, to help connect players beyond 'regional clusters,' via complementary linkages and along relational networks. As these economic currents shape human behavior across geographic boundaries, our relationship to place becomes even more important- policy and programmatic instruments now need to support hyper-local place initiatives as well as hyper-linked economic actors to best grow the economy. Additionally, with the lack of granular measures of innovation output to reflect the dynamically linked system, there is inefficiency and redundancy of economic development efforts by cities. The proposed strategies for accelerated innovation will recognize the connections between these specific places, their mutual dependency and complementarity, as well as the specific urban environments in order to boosts growth and economic sustainability.by Anne Gatling Haynes.M.B.A