CHA vs SSHRC

Response to the Memorandum from Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag, President of the Canadian Historical Association, dated January 24, 1994

National Register Nomination: the French House, 1287 Hope Street Bristol, Rhode Island 02809

This document serves as a National Register Nomination for the French House located at 1287 Hope Street in Bristol, Rhode Island. The French House is nominated under Criterion B for its association with Col. George T. French Esq., and Criterion C for its contribution to the Stick style of architecture in Bristol, Rhode Island. Built in 1881, the French House is a Vernacular Stick style cottage and gains its local significance under Criterion B for its relationship and association with Col. George T. French Esq., French was a lawyer, politician, patriot, and former Brown University student who dedicated his life to being a local influence on the Town of Bristol and the State of Rhode Island. French contributed to the development of the State of Rhode Island through his professional career of being a member on the Rhode Island Bar (1875-1885), a member of the House of Representatives, and a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly (1883-1885). French’s life was dedicated to the people of Bristol and the State of Rhode Island while serving on the General Assembly under Governor Augustus O. Bourne (1883-1885). French’s involvement in the policymaking and planning of the Bourne Amendment, which was added to Rhode Island’s Constitution, declared the removal of the real estate requirement for voting in state elections imposed in 1843 against naturalized citizens. This allowed citizens that did not own property to have the right to vote. This significant amendment highlighted French’s professional career as a politician because it altered the lives of countless naturalized citizens who previously were not entitled the right to vote in any state elections. This set the precedent for the future of democracy in the United States of America. In addition to being a politician and lawyer, French was a respected representative of the community. Bristol, Rhode Island is famed for having the oldest 4th of July Celebration in the United States of America. Since 1776, Bristol has been celebrating the Declaration of Independence, and for the 200th Bristol 4th of July Celebration in 1880 Samuel P. Colt acted as the chair of the planning committee. Since 1785, Patriot Speakers or the Speaker of the Day is chosen to speak to the entire community to launch the community celebration of the 4th of July. This position is reserved for respected and influential figures in the community. In 1882, the chosen 97th Patriotic Speaker was none other than Col. George T. French. This honor was indicative of French’s popularity and familiarity in the Bristol community. More recent Patriotic Speakers include nationally recognizable political figures such as Claiborne Pell, the namesake for the Claiborne Pell Bridge (Newport Bridge), and Ira C. Magazine, President William Clinton’s Senior Advisor Policymaker. The French House is nominated under Criterion C for its significance as a representation of Late Victorian Architecture in Bristol. Built in 1881, by local builder William Hall of Warren, Rhode Island, the French House is a Victorian cottage built in the Stick style as illustrated by its asymmetrical form, multiple paned window sash, spacious verandah decorated with simple diagonal brackets, steeply pitched gable roofs with intersecting cross gables, king posts and struts, and corbeled chimneys. The French House although does not have any applied high-style stick-work, yet characterizes an interpretation of ornamentation through its overall architectural elements, and massing. The Stick style, even at a vernacular level, is not prevalent in Bristol, making the French House one of the few, if not the only Stick style residential architecture in the town. The French House has retained most of its historic integrity and despite its neglected state, the house represents a style of architecture that scarcity deems it worthy of recognition and preservation

Walking out on the Check: How Missouri Abandoned Its Public Defenders and Left the Poor to Foot the Bill

This Note looks at the Pratte decision, which arose primarily from the MSPD\u27s most recent effort to cope with its drastically insufficient level of funding. In Missouri, as in many other states, the funding crisis has manifested itself in the form of extremely high caseloads for public defender offices. Straining to prevent a system-wide collapse, the Missouri Public Defender Commission (Commission) enacted regulations that gave each district office of the public defender the power to manage its caseload. These regulations effectively gave each district office the discretion to deny representation to indigent defendants who were otherwise entitled to counsel under Missouri law. When circuit court judges began rejecting public defenders\u27 attempts to employ the regulations, several different public defenders and the Commission sued to enjoin enforcement of the trial courts\u27 orders

Un corps professionnel renouvelé : les professeurs des universités québécoises francophones entre 1959 et 1976

At the same time as a new concept of universities was being developed, during the post-war period, a new professionalisation project emerged among Quebec's Francophone university professors, placing scientific research at the centre of university practices which, in order to be accomplished, required changes in university structures. This article attempts to show how, from 1959 onwards, these new conditions came about with more direct State funding of universities and very rapid institutional development along with the bureaucratization of the university system and unionization of professors. By 1976, the end of the period covered by our study, the unionization of professors was achieved and the outline of the movement toward professionalisa- tion characteristic of the 1980's already in place.Parallèlement à une nouvelle conception de l'université, on a vu s'imposer dans l'après-guerre, chez les professeurs des universités francophones du Québec, un nouveau projet de professionnalisation qui plaçait la recherche scientifique au centre des pratiques universitaires et exigeait, pour se réaliser, des transforma-tions dans les structures universitaires. L'article tente de montrer comment ces nouvelles conditions se sont réalisées à partir de 1959 avec une prise en charge plus directe de l'université par l'Etat et un développement institutionnel très rapide qui s'est accompagné d'une bureaucrati-sation du système universitaire et d'une syndicalisation des professeurs. Au moment où l'analyse se termine, en 1976, la syndicalisation des professeurs est chose faite et les grandes lignes du mouvement de qui professionnalisation caractérise les années 1980 sont déjà en place

The Techno-Politics of Food Security in New Delhi: The Re-Materialization of the Ration Card

In the early 2000s, millions of households suffered from starvation as waves of drought repeatedly hit the northern states of India. Despite the famine, the Indian authorities remained shockingly unresponsive to the needs of starving populations. In the ensuing decade, a unique configuration of experts, activists, law-makers and lay-persons occupied key spaces and institutions to formulate a right to food law that establishes the biopolitical duties of the statethat is, improving peoples well-beingin the domain of food security. This legislation was enacted in 2013: the National Food Security Act (NFSA). Based on 17 months of fieldwork in Delhi, this dissertation ethnographically explores the productive tension between the ethico-political nature of the NFSA and its rather technical implementation in urban centres. I ask: How do biopolitical interventions, designed to make the state transparent and accountable in the delivery of food entitlements, reconfigure bureaucratic practices and subjectivities? Articulated at the intersection of the analytics of governmentality and an anthropological reading of science and technology studies literature, I scrutinize the re-materialized ration card deployed in the aftermath of the NFSA to render bureaucratic practices transparent. I examine how the ration card mediates governmental attempts of policing relations of patronage, monitoring practices of corruption, and shaping empowered bodies. I argue that while the NFSA was formulated to improve the lives of the Indian population, the distribution of re-materialized ration cards contributed to make the population into a collection of individual bodies empowered to combat chronic hunger on their own. This dissertation probes the gap between what ration cards seek to accomplish, what they do, and the unanticipated effects of these bureaucratic instruments on peoples lives. First, through a reading of Indias policy archive, I document the historic and political trajectory of food policies to contextualize the emergence of right to food discourses in India. Then, I scrutinize how and why notions of governmental accountability and transparency took a predominant place in the formulation of the food security legislation. Finally, I examine how key documents and devices used to implement the NFSA have mediated norms of accountability and transparency in different urban contexts

Influence of hydrogen bonds on glass transition and dielectric relaxations of cellulose

The molecular dynamics in hydrated cellulose has been investigated by a combination of thermal analyses and dielectric spectroscopy. Differential scanning calorimetry shows the dependence upon hydration of the glass transition temperature Tg. A physical ageing phenomenon has been observed. At the molecular scale, bound water is hydrogen bonded to polar sites of cellulose macromolecules. At the macroscopic scale, water molecules play the role of a plasticizer for cellulose lowering its Tg. Dynamic dielectric spectroscopy combined with thermostimulated currents have allowed us to follow more localized molecular mobility. The β relaxation mode is characterized by activation entropies that vanish for higher water contents indicating molecular mobility localization. It is plasticized by water like the glass transition. This analogy is explained by a common origin of both mechanisms: the mobility of the cellulose backbone. The evolution of the γ mode upon hydration follows an anti-compensation law. Water acts as an anti-plasticizer in a hydrogen bonded network

A Market Analysis Of The Family Market In Las Vegas

The family market in Las Vegas is controversial. However, it already exists. It represents 8 percent of the total Las Vegas visitor market. Empirical data, based on a random sample of2,400 visitors to Las Vegas, are analyzed to provide information relevant to business strategy and public policy development. Research findings indicate significant differences between the family market and other markets

Physical structure of P(VDF-TrFE)/barium titanate submicron composites

Dynamic Dielectric Spectroscopy and Thermo Stimulated Current were used to investigate of the dielectric relaxation of hybrid Poly(vinylidene-fluoride-trifluoroethylene)/barium titanate 700 nm composites with 0–3 connectivity. The results obtained by this method allow us to describe the physical structure of these composites in the glassy state at a nanometric scale. The decrease of the activation enthalpies and activation entropies involved in the dynamics of the α relaxation is attributed to: the decrease of Cooperative Rearranging Region sizes and an increase of intra/inter macromolecular interactions in the amorphous phase with the volume fraction

La rigidité des réseaux spatiaux composés

Ce document se divise en deux parties; premièrement, la dépendance linéaire des droites, et deuxièmement, la rigidité des réseaux spatiaux. Il tente de définir une méthodologie permettant de faire l'investigation d'un réseau a u spatial afin d’en déterminer la rigidité ou la non rigidité. Le réseau étant constituté de liens (droites) et de nceuds (rotules) dont la configuration relie deux éléments rigides. Autrement dit, le réseau forme une attaché entre les deux éléments et il s'agit de déterminer si cette attache est rigide ou si elle n'est pas rigide (mouvement mécanique ou infinitésimal).This article is in two sections: first, on linear dependence of lines, and second, on the rigidity of spatial frameworks. Our purpose is to define a methodology which will permit us to investigate a spatial framework, to determine its rigidity or non-rigidity. The frameworks in question consist of bars (line segments) joining two rigid bodies, the bars being attached to the bodies at universal joints. In other words, the framework forms a link between two rigid bodies, and it is a question of determining if this linkage is rigid, or else is non rigid and permits either a mechanical or infinitesimal relative motion of the two bodies.Peer Reviewe

Electroactive influence of ferroelectric nanofillers on polyamide 11 matrix properties

Barium titanate ceramic powders have been incorporated in polyamide 11 to form homogeneous dispersion of particles in the matrix. Barium titanate/polyamide 11 nanocomposites have been synthesized using a solvent casting method with ultrasonic stirring to homogeneously disperse inclusions in the matrix. Composites with volume fraction of barium titanate / ranging from 0.01 to 0.4 were elaborated. Films were fabricated using a hot press method. Only the inclusions were poled in the matrix to form a ferroelectric particles/ unpoled matrix composite. Interactions between the particles and the matrix, pyroelectric and piezoelectric response were studied as a function of / by dynamic dielectric spectroscopy. Composites show interesting pyro-piezoelectric activity. Pyroelectric merit factor increases linearly and it reaches a limit value of 0.3 for a volume fraction / = 0.1