Strengthening the ties that exist: Reexploring charted territory

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BEARING WITNESS: ANCIENT DNA ANALYSIS AND THE DYNAMICS OF FOOD PROCUREMENT IN A HISTORIC MISSOULA CHINESE COMMUNITY

In 2019, construction of a brewery called Cranky Sam Public House in downtown Missoula, Montana provided an unexpected opportunity to recover and preserve late nineteenth and early twentieth century archaeological evidence of a Missoula neighborhood that included a Chinese temple, a Chinese store, and dwellings with Chinese residents. The area, like many urban landscapes in the American West, also included a restricted, or red-light district. Teams of volunteer University of Montana graduate and undergraduate students conducted on-the-spot salvage archaeology monitoring and were able to recover a sample of artifacts and ecofacts from this once-bustling part of Missoula. The objectives of this thesis are based on analyses of the faunal remains from this collection, including both morphological analyses of the animal bones and shells, as well as ancient DNA (aDNA) analysis of bear paw fragments found at the site. Preliminary observations and contextual research indicated that the bulk of the faunal collection represented traces of meals, where some food items had the potential to serve as medicine, or memory foods for the consumers. Details about the origins of some of the remains sparked questions about transmuted foodways to the West and the diversity of procurement methods. The bear paw fragment influenced the use of aDNA methods to better understand the biocultural histories of bears and people in Chinese communities in places like Missoula in the American West. The information gathered from the faunal analysis revealed that non-domesticate species being utilized at the site included bear, turtle, multiple fishes, crab, multiples bivalves, and cuttlefish. The faunal analysis also concluded that local procurement surrounding Missoula, regional procurement from the Pacific Northwest, and international procurement from China were being used by the Chinese community at Cranky Sam Public House site to localize their food practices. Attempts at aDNA analysis of bear paw fragments found at the site revealed the need for methodological advances to obtain conclusive results that could speak to the procurement method of bear paw by the residents

Music and learning

The ideas and research that will be outlined and discussed here have been selected to show that music is more than a curriculum subject and that it can permeate many aspects of our lives and that it is important to our cognitive and physical development. Although the field of music education can sometimes be rather too focused on the development of young musicians, I am particularly interested in the development of young people and in ways that music can enhance and enrich their learning

British Reviews of Shikasta

[First Paragraph] British reviewers had mixed reactions to Shikasta, the first novel in Doris Lessing\u27s new series, Canopus in Argos: Archives. Favorable and critical comments balanced one another, often within the same review. Furthermore, reactions tended to be extreme: either it was a magnificent novel (Times 11/15/79) or reading it was a shameful waste of precious and irreplaceable time. (Sun Telegraph 11/18/79); or it was simultaneously great and boring. In general, British reviews of Shikasta were more perceptive than those of the second novel in Lessing\u27s new series, The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five. Because Shikasta has little plot and requires unusual concentration, perhaps its reviewers were forced to read more carefully than those of Marriages (which is, in my opinion, the most delightful and readable of Lessing\u27s novels). Whatever the explanation, I think many of the main issues that Lessing scholars will discuss during the next few years are posited by these reviews. Furthermore, I predict that the superlatives used to praise Shikasta in these reviews will accurately represent the awe and enthusiasm of future readers

Time to Start Over on Deferred Compensation

Government regulators would do well to follow simple heuristics like that. Writing good regulations-- good in the sense of promoting the public interest--always presents challenges. Regulators must hit a small but important target where private conduct is brought within appropriate government control, but unnecessary compliance burdens and other deadweight costs are minimized. Even if they see the government\u27s objectives clearly, regulators often have only a limited understanding of the underlying private activities. Moreover, regulators may be unaware of how their rules disrupt or distort those activities in socially harmful ways. Regulators occasionally hit the target exactly. More often, they miss--though not by an intolerably wide margin (good enough for government work, as the saying goes). However, sometimes regulators miss the mark so badly that the only responsible next step is to acknowledge the failure. That is the case with the final regulations under Internal Revenue Code (Code) section 409A. Those regulations are irreparably flawed--so flawed that the best members of the practicing bar cannot make sense of them for basic transactions. When the government issues rules that even experts cannot understand, the government should start over

Curs, crabs, and cranky cows: Ethological and linguistic aspects of animal-based insults

Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.Our attitude towards animals is highly inconsistent. Linguistic evidence of this is the many animal names that we use for characterizing other humans. Although terms like “beastly” draw a clear dividing line between mankind and the animal kingdom, we also see numerous similarities across species and coin expressions such as “eagle eyes” or “ostrich policy.” A treasure trove for such comparisons can be found in animal-based insults with which we mock the appearance or behavior of others. Based on English and German examples, this contribution intends to give some ethological reasons for the fact that we choose specific animals for insulting humans. As this topic has not yet been widely explored, the result can only be a general overview, combining ethological and linguistic aspects. There are many expressions preferably used in “joshing,” but the never-ending creation of new expressions is proof of human creativity

How Best to Rank Wines: Majority Judgment

Classifying and ranking wines has been a favorite activity of men and women since timeimmemorial. The intent of this article is to explain how and why the traditional methods for amalgamating the grades fail and how and why a new approach - majority judgment - does the job best

The Crescent - June 19, 1934

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