Values of property (properties of value): capitalization of kinship in Norway

This paper examines the multiple forms of value invested in holiday properties among some Norwegian families. Holiday homes – summer houses, mountain cabins and country houses – are common in Norway, as are many of the practices through which they are inhabited, shared and inherited. Within the legal practices of testaments and handovers can be found a wealth of kinds of value, some of which can be translated into each other. For example, the capitalization of ownership and use for the purposes of inheritance concretize the relations between family members in both financial and emotional terms. In exploring these relations, this paper considers the connections between people, property, landscape and movement through time

Short Story Collection: Final Project

This collection of six short stories all center their plots on the actions and responses of a strong female character. I took this approach because I feel there are too few female characters in the world of fiction. In the story \u27\u27Angie a young girl befriends a strange man Living under the family\u27s house. The story focuses on her mother\u27s fear and ultimately her acceptance of this odd friend. The story of Chelsea\u27\u27 centers on the decision that Chelsea, a common waitress, must make to change her situation. In the story she meets a trucker who is like many of the other truckers that have tried to pick her up from the small coffee house in which she works. But, at this point in her life, Chelsea thinks about making a decision that would change her life. Christine focuses on the supernatural as a young couple buys their first home. In the story, the events surrounding the borne test the couple\u27s relationship and their belief in the unknown. Christine ends with her knowledge and acceptance of a world that is unseen. An everyday plane ride gets a supernatural twist in Laura. Laura, who is traveling to her grandmother\u27s funeral, befriends an old lady who sits next to her on the plane. The old lady teaches Laura about accepting death and about grief and hope. In Monica, the female lead must decide if she should change her life\u27s path. Monica journeys with her city boyfriend to her family\u27s orchard after the death of her grandfather. The experience of being back at the orchard pushes Monica into reexamining her life. Sherri is based on the story of Rip Van Winkle. After a car accident and being stuck in a ravine by herself, she wakes to find the world around her changed. Much like Van Winkle, she is forced to face this new world, one in which she is old and gray

Report for NMDGF Permit: 3057, 2015

Document from New Mexico Department of Game & Fish Educational permit

Some theory of a dual-polarization interferometer for sensor applications

It is shown that by making straightforward approximations it is possible to simplify the analysis of the measurements of a well-established dual-waveguide interferometer for sensor applications. In particular we derive approximate algebraic formulae for the mode phase shifts that are measured in the interferometric sensor when a layer of the entity to be detected is deposited. Knowledge of the shifts of both the TE and TM mode phases allows the deduction of both the thickness and refractive index of a homogeneous deposited layer, and the formulae derived make that possible with significantly reduced numerical computation. More generally the algebraic formulae and the ease with which numerical results can be obtained for a wide range of layer parameter combinations provide opportunities to improve our understanding of device behaviour. In an application of the theory to a specific practical structure, the numerical results show that the ratio of the TE and TM mode phase shifts varies linearly with deposited layer refractive index but is only weakly dependent on layer thickness, as has been observed previously in some experiments. The numerical results are interpreted using the theory and a simple formula describing the linear dependence of phase shift ratio on deposited layer refractive index is derived

Letter to Philander Chase Jr.

License issued to Philander, Jr. allowing him to solemnize marriagehttps://digital.kenyon.edu/chase_letters/1099/thumbnail.jp

Habits Over Routines: Remarks on Control Room Practices and Control Room Studies

The evolution of computer tools has had profound impacts on many aspects of control rooms and control room studies. In this paper, we discuss some key assumptions underpinning these studies based on a new case of the electricity distribution control rooms, where the reliability of the electricity infrastructure is managed by a combination of planning and real-time maintenance. Some of these practices have changed remarkably little – partially because they have been considered to have been ‘digitalized’ since the 1950s and have continued to amass digital solutions from different periods. Hence, the gradual transformation of control room work demands nuanced attention, both conceptual and empirical. To outline a framework for this work, we provide a conceptualization of organizational routines, habits, and reflectivity and synthesize existing CSCW and control room literature. We then present an empirical study that demonstrates our concepts and shows how they can be applied to study cooperative work. By addressing these aims the paper complements, and advances, the important topics recognized in this special theme issue and hence develops new research openings in CSCW. We address the necessity to avoid implicit determinism when analyzing new digital support tools and suggest focusing on how working habits mediate social changes, distribution, and decentralization in representing the power distribution in control rooms