Is an Exemption from Historic Preservation Designation for Religious Institutions Needed in the District of Columbia?

In December 2007, the District of Columbia\u27s Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB), in a unanimous decision, landmarked the Third Church of Christ Scientist, built by the firm of famous architect I.M. Pei in 1970, because of the building’s architectural significance. The decision was controversial and drew community and media attention because the landmark was a modern structure and the designation was made over the opposition of the congregants and some community members. As a result of the landmark designation, the congregation’s ability to redevelop the church will be limited and will require HPRB approval. The church argued that the building is too expensive to maintain while some community members argued that the building is architectural blight. Still, HPRB found that the church is an important and significant example of Brutalism, an architectural style associated with the 1950s to 1970s known for the use of roughly cast concrete. Because of interest surrounding the Third Church of Christ Scientist landmark decision, city officials are now poised to engage in a conversation about the wisdom of passing an ordinance that specifically allows religious institutions to opt out of historic preservation designations. In fact, a bill that would allow religious exemptions for historic properties was recently proposed by a city council member then quickly withdrawn. Because the bill was withdrawn, this paper will not focus exclusively on this bill. However, the possibility remains that a similar bill may be introduced and the previously proposed bill will be used for a point of reference for how a potential city ordinance in the District of Columbia could look

A Lawyer Sits (The Practice)

A poem that shares the power of sitting in silence with other lawyers

A Lawyer Sits (The Practice)

A poem that shares the power of sitting in silence with other lawyers

Spontaneous production of figurative language and gesture in college lectures : a comparison across disciplines

Previous figurative language research has focused primarily on theories of comprehension and word meaning and has been conducted in highly controlled experimental situations. As a result, little is known about the spontaneous production of figurative language in ongoing discourse, how it functions in various contexts, and how it relates to the production of gestures. Corts and Pollio (1999) addressed these issues by examining of figurative language and gesture production in college lectures. Their results indicated that figurative language was often produced in bursts of novel, coherent figures and concerned the primary topics of the lecture. Figurative language outside of the bursts was more likely to concern the lecture itself and was less likely to be novel. Finally, when gestures overlap figures of speech, they present a representation of the same metaphor.The present research addresses two related goals: (1) to replicate the procedures of Cortsand Pollio (1999) including additional lecturers from diverse content areas and (2) to include additional lectures and content areas so that additional patterns and functions of figurative language use may be observed.Two lectures fi-om each participant (one Geology professor and one Classicsprofessor) provided the text for this study. Data for language and gestures were analyzed independently on the basis of a moving average procedure which identified areas of increased production rates (i.e., bursts). In accordance with Corts and Pollio (1999),figurative language within a burst was predominately novel rather than cliched, was coherent with a root metaphor, and centered around the main topics of the lecture. Also,IVfigures within bursts included analogies and metaphor, while topical figures outside of bursts often included other types of figures (hyperbole, litote, etc.). These results are interpreted to suggest that figurative language production proceeds at a fairly even rate including a variety of types of figures in all categories (novelty, topicality, coherence, and type of figure). Bursts, however, are characterized as a shift in the lecture to a concept which is understood metaphorically. At this point, the figurative language increases;typically in a burst of novel, topical, and coherent metaphors

Documentation Influence in Brazilian Library and Information Science: the Case of University of São Paulo

Johanna W. Smit studied under Jean Meyriat and Jean-Claude Gardin in France, and upon becoming a professor at the Library Science and Documentation Department of the School of Communication and Arts of the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, introduced to it the then current developments in French Documentation, mainly those related to documentary analysis. In 1986, Professor Smit and a group of professors of USP founded TEMMA Group, a research group devoted to issues concerning document organisation and representation, which lasted for 30 years and incorporated professors of São Paulo State University. In this paper, I present to a wider public the research related to document organisation and representation that was brought about by the professors of USP from 1981, when Johanna W. Smit became a professor. I focus on the research conducted by the members of TEMMA Group, presenting key concepts developed by them, how the studies of the group still influence USP, and the reason why their developments are relevant to current document studies

Semi-empirical mass formula for Λ-hypernuclei

Treballs Finals de Grau de Física, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, Curs: 2020, Tutora: Àngels RamosWe have studied the Λ-dependence of the separation energy, SΛ, of the Λ-hyperon in Λ-hypernuclei by fitting the parameters of a semi-empirical mass formula employed in previous works, which is based on the hypernuclear finite size. We extend this formula by considering two corrections: one takes into account the finite mass of the hypernucleus in terms of a Λ reduced mass and the other implements the effects of charge symmetry breaking (CSB). Both corrections are found non-negligible for finite hypernuclei. Moreover, our study reveals some inconsistencies in the SΛ data of mirror hypernuclei, preventing us from obtaining a well-determined CSB paramete

Jansenisme i regalisme a l'època de Carles III. Algunes observacions sobre l'episcopat català: Climent, Armanyà, Amat

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