An Evening with Bob Edwards

Bob Edwards was the longtime host of National Public Radio\u27s Morning Edition, and is now the host of a morning show on XM Satellite Radio. He spoke at Sacred Heart University on June 16, 2004, interviewed by Tom Kuser at an event sponsored by WSHU. The transcription published here is lightly-edited, and makes reference to but does not include the text of clips from various radio broadcasts played during the talk

Planning Network UK (PNUK): a manifesto for planning and land reform

The Manifesto is an analysis of the shortcomings of the current planning and land policy system in the UK with a number of policy proposals for refor

White Power music and the mobilization of racist social movements

At the end of the 1970s a racist rock music movement known as White Power music emerged in Great Britain in connection with political parties of the extreme right and remains a vibrant force in racist social movements today. Throughout the 1990s, White Power music expanded significantly from its origins in a clandestine network of punk-inspired live shows and record promotions into a multi-million dollar, international enterprise of web-pages, radio stations and independent record labels promoting White Power musicians performing a wider range of musical genres. In this article, we view White Power music as a cultural resource created and produced by racist movements and used as a tool to further key movement goals. Specifically, we examine White Power music’s role when used to 1) recruit new adherents, especially youth, 2) frame issues and ideology to cultivate a White Power collective identity, and 3) obtain financial resources. In doing so we rely upon in-depth interviews with White Power musicians and promoters as well as representatives of watchdog and monitoring organizations. Interviews were conducted by the lead author from 2002-2004 or accessed through transcripts of similar interviews made available by another researcher. This research also relies upon an extensive examination of White Power music, lyrics, newsletters and websites. We conclude that White Power music continues to play a significant role in the mobilization of racist political and social movements by drawing in new youth, cultivating a racist collective identity, and generating substantial sums of money to finance a range of racist endeavours

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Gradient Activation of Speech Categories Facilitates Listeners’ Recovery From Lexical Garden Paths, But Not Perception of Speech-in-Noise

Published 2021 AprListeners activate speech-sound categories in a gradient way, and this information is maintained and affects activation of items at higher levels of processing (McMurray et al., 2002; Toscano et al., 2010). Recent findings by Kapnoula et al. (2017) suggest that the degree to which listeners maintain within-category information varies across individuals. Here we assessed the consequences of this gradiency for speech perception. To test this, we collected a measure of gradiency for different listeners using the visual analogue scaling (VAS) task used by Kapnoula et al. (2017). We also collected 2 independent measures of performance in speech perception: a visual world paradigm (VWP) task measuring participants’ ability to recover from lexical garden paths (McMurray et al., 2009) and a speech-perception task measuring participants’ perception of isolated words in noise. Our results show that categorization gradiency does not predict participants’ performance in the speech-in-noise task. However, higher gradiency predicted higher likelihood of recovery from temporarily misleading information presented in the VWP task. These results suggest that gradient activation of speech sound categories is helpful when listeners need to reconsider their initial interpretation of the input, making them more efficient in recovering from errors.This project was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant DC008089 awarded to Bob McMurray. This work was partially supported by the Basque Government through the BERC 2018-2021 Program and by the Spanish State Research Agency through BCBL Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2015-0490. This project was partially supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) through the convocatoria 2016 Subprograma Estatal Ayudas para contratos para la Formación Posdoctoral 2016, Programa Estatal de Promoción del Talento y su Empleabilidad del Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016, reference FJCI-2016-28019 awarded to Efthymia C. Kapnoula. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant 793919, awarded to Efthymia C. Kapnoula

A Comparative Assessment of Water Markets: Insights from the Murray-Darling Basin of Australia and the Western US

Water markets in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) and the US west are compared in terms of their ability to allocate scarce water resources. The study finds that the gains from trade in the MDB are worth hundreds of millions of dollars per year. Total market turnover in water rights exceeds $2 billion per year while the volume of trade exceeds over 20$4.3 billion (2008 $) spent or committed by urban buyers between 1987 and 2008. The two-market comparison suggests that policy attention should be directed towards ways to promote water trade while simultaneously mitigating the legitimate thirdparty concerns about how and where water is used, especially conflicts between consumptive and in situ uses of water. The study finds that institutional innovation is feasible in both countries and that further understanding about the size, duration, and distribution of third-party effects from water trade, and how these effects might be regulated, can improve water markets to better manage water scarcity.water markets, US west, Murray-Darling Basin, gains from trade

Strategic Incapacitation and the Policing of Occupy Wall Street in New York City, 2011

The US national response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks accelerated the adoption and refinement of a new repertoire of protest policing we call ‘strategic incapacitation’ now employed by law enforcement agencies nationwide to police protest demonstrations. The occupation movement which formally began 17 September 2011 was the most significant social movement to utilise transgressive protest tactics in the United States in the last 40 years and posed a substantial challenge to law enforcement agencies. This research seeks to better understand the implementation of strategic incapacitation tactics through a detailed analysis of the policing of the first 2 months of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests in New York City. Original data for this study are derived from 2-week-long field observations made in New York City during the first and second month anniversaries of the OWS occupation in Zuccotti Park. These are supplemented by activist interviews, activist accounts posted on OWS websites, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds as well as news reports, official police documents, press releases and interviews with legal observers