Take Me Out to the Ball Game: The Effect that Baseball Played on the Mining Community in the Four States during the 1940s and 1950s

The miners of the four state area lived a life of extreme hardships. Every morning wives, sons, and daughters would say good bye to their fathers hoping that this would not be the last time they saw their loved ones. This was the life of a miner family, with such horrible working conditions in the mining field people dealt and copped with death every day. Miners often came down with diseases because of the conditions Syphilis, silicosis, and tuberculosis were not uncommon. It was hard work with little pay, but it was an honest living that could support a family in these rough economic times of the mid-1940s

Taking Out the Trash: Or, a Discourse on Less Exalted Reading Material

When my father finds me immersed in inferior reading material, he likes to tell me that I read too much candy, and that I ought to satisfy my craving instead with something more worthwhile and filling. What he means is that I read too much trash — space opera, genre fantasy, romance, even the occasional murder mystery — and not enough real literature, books with substance and meaning. While I acknowledge that my father might well have a point about the quality of the mass market paperbacks I devour at a positively alarming rate, I don’t see any problem. Literature is well and good, and when I’m bored and have an hour, I like to curl up in my mother’s pink rocking chair and read Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Vladamir Nabokov, and others besides. There are other times, though, when I’m tired, stressed, or generally unhappy, and then trash fills its own less exalted but no less necessary niche in my life

Principals\u27 Self-efficacy in Low Scoring Middle Schools in Mississippi

This study investigated the self-efficacy (also often referred to as self-confidence) of principals as determined by school administrator certification credentials and teaching endorsements at low performing middle schools in Mississippi. In educational literature, the term “self-confidence” is often referred to under the nomenclature of self-efficacy. In the context of an educational environment, self-efficacy pertains to a principal’s capability to organize and execute courses of action required in leading and managing a school. Successful school management requires a leader who is task oriented, consistently stays focused, employs effective strategies, and utilizes managerial skills. The investigation focused on the self-efficacy, as determined by credentials and endorsements, of the principals charged with leading and managing the 24 Mississippi middle schools that received Mississippi Department of Education accountability ratings of “D” or “F” in relation to student academic performance. The overall research question that guided the investigation asked: Did the self-efficacy of the principals charged with leading and managing the 24 Mississippi middle schools that received low accountability scores suggest any connection to the ratings? Based on the findings of the investigation, it may be concluded that the self efficacy of the principals charged with leading and managing the middle schools that received low accountability scores didn’t appear to have any connection to the ratings. Also, neither the principals’ certification credential levels nor teaching endorsements appeared to be factors

Towards a self-dual geometric Langlands program

This thesis is comprised of two logically separate but conjecturally related parts. In the first part of the thesis I study theories of class S [32] via the formalism of relative quantum field theories [30]. From this physical formalism, and by analogy to the physical derivation of usual geometric Langlands [45, 86], I conjecture the existence of a self-dual version of the geometric Langlands program. In the second part of the thesis I study shifted Cartier duality for the moduli of Higgs bundles. The main results are: (1) a criteria for ramification of L-valued cameral covers, (2) a generalisation of the Langlands duality/mirror symmetry results for the moduli of Higgs bundles of [24, 37], and (3) the existence of a self-dual version of the moduli of Higgs bundles. This self-dual space is conjecturally the target space for a theory of class S compactified on a torus, and provides positive evidence for the self-dual geometric Langlands program.Mathematic

Letter from T. J. Derryberry to T. B. Larimore

Letter from T. J. Derryberry to T. B. Larimore. The one-page typewritten note on T. J. Derryberry Prescription Druggist and Stationer letterhead and is dated 13 November 1912

STRUCTURAL AND STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONSHIPS NEAR THE SOUTHERN TERMINUS OF THE PULASKI FAULT, NORTHEAST TENNESSEE

The Pulaski fault is one of the master thrust faults in the Appalachian Alleghanian fold-thrust belt. Detailed geologic mapping of Cambrian and Ordovician strata in northeastern Tennessee revealed key structural and stratigraphic characteristics for distinguishing the Pulaski thrust sheet from its footwall, the Saltville thrust sheet. Unlike most thrust systems in the Valley and Ridge, the Pulaski records at least two deformation phases. Geometric and crosscutting relationships along parts of the Pulaski thrust sheet in this study area and in southwestern Virginia suggest hanging wall and possibly some footwall deformation prior to the emplacement of the thrust sheet. The initial deformation in the Pulaski sheet, which consists of northwest-vergent, tight to overturned, pre-faulting macroscopic folds, may be a manifestation of the previously recognized late Mississippian to Pennsylvanian Lackawanna phase of the Alleghanian orogeny. Transport of the earlier deformed strata, analogous to deformation sequences that occurred in the Pulaski sheet near the Roanoke recess, would therefore be associated with the main (Early Permian) phase of the Alleghanian orogeny. In the study area, these two phases likely represent small changes in orientation during a single event of continued shortening. Type 3 fold interference patterns in the Pulaski thrust sheet here further support this notion. Substantially different facies occur on opposite sides of the fault. Upper Conasauga and Knox Group strata in the Pulaski thrust sheet consist predominantly of limestone and contain few identifiable stratigraphic markers suitable for subdividing the Knox northwest of the fault. Lower Conasauga Group rocks in the thrust sheet are more dolomitic and are interbedded with thin shale units. Geologic mapping during this study has successfully subdivided Honaker Dolomite in parts of the Pulaski thrust sheet by the tracing of the Rogersville Shale. Data suggest that the Pulaski fault was overridden by the thin-skinned Great Smoky fault. Kinematic and geometric interrelationships between the Pulaski and other Valley and Ridge faults provide useful insight into the processes of footwall/hanging wall deformation and thrust propagation in foreland fold-thrust belts. Findings here could also improve our understanding of deformation sequences between the southern and central Appalachians

The Dynamics Of Introgression Across An Avian Radiation

Hybridization and resulting introgression can play both a destructive and a creative role in the evolution of diversity. Thus, characterizing when and where introgression is most likely to occur can help us understand the causes of diversification dynamics. Here, we examine the prevalence of and variation in introgression using phylogenomic data from a large (1300+ species), geographically widespread avian group, the suboscine birds. We first examine patterns of gene tree discordance across the geographic distribution of the entire clade. We then evaluate the signal of introgression in a subset of 206 species triads using Patterson\u27s D-statistic and test for associations between introgression signal and evolutionary, geographic, and environmental variables. We find that gene tree discordance varies across lineages and geographic regions. The signal of introgression is highest in cases where species occur in close geographic proximity and in regions with more dynamic climates since the Pleistocene. Our results highlight the potential of phylogenomic datasets for examining broad patterns of hybridization and suggest that the degree of introgression between diverging lineages might be predictable based on the setting in which they occur