Should Theatre Disappear Like Soap Bubbles?

I recently read an excerpt from a 2004 interview with Peter Hall where he claims that he was happy for his materials to disappear like soap bubbles (Reason, 2006). One of the fundamentally difficult things about archiving theatre, aside from its ephemeral nature, is the approach that creatives take to their work. Not only do we need to battle the format of live performance but we also need to convince many creatives, not all I must add, that their work can and should remain in the Archive for use in the future. There are glimmers of potential in the area of documenting process with increasingly fertile discussions between academics, archivists and creatives so it is an exciting time to be a performing arts archivist

The Undefined Middle: Exploring the Role of the Union Representative in the Modern Teachers Union Structure

As an integral part of the teachers union, the union representative works to serve the needs of the union on a local level while also maintaining employment as a teacher within the school system. The continuously evolving political climate that surrounds this organization including shifting educational laws and leadership on the federal and state levels, has left the role of the union representative largely undefined in the current teachers union structure. As a necessary aspect of both the school and the union, the union representative must fulfill role requirements in two structures that are frequently at odds with each other, making it important to assess how the representative functions in these roles and manages the potential conflicts between actors in the structure

UAV-Based Photogrammetric Profiling of Lessor\u27s Quarry in South Hero, Vermont

Structure from Motion (SfM) Photogrammetry has been increasingly utilized as an effective tool for research in the geosciences. This study applies SfM photogrammetry to concepts of structural geology and uses it to illustrate the three-dimensional geometry of geologic structures at Lessor’s Quarry in South Hero, VT. This field site is important because it is widely used for teaching the three-dimensional visualization of geological features in Geology field classes. Three-dimensional visualization is a critical skill for success as a geologist, but typically is very difficult for students to learn. The goal of this project was to create interactive three-dimensional models of Lessor’s Quarry with illustrated projections of geologic features that can be used by students to observe the features from different viewpoints. I utilized an Unmanned Arial Vehicle (UAV) to obtain images of the quarry and used AgisoftTM Metashape photogrammetry software to produce the three-dimensional models of the quarry. I added illustrations of the projected geological structures using freely available 3D modeling software including Autodesk SketchUp and Autodesk Maya to explore how they relate across the walls. These 3D models will help students develop three-dimensional visualization skills that can be applied to common geological problems. They illustrate concepts such as apparent dip and show how features project into the subsurface. Understanding these concepts is necessary in order to visualize the trigonometric calculations needed to determine where geological resources can be efficiently explored or extracted. This technology is an important resource that can be applied to a wide range of studies

Gibbon classification : the issue of species and subspecies

Gibbon classification at the species and subspecies levels has been hotly debated for the last 200 years. This thesis explores the reasons for this debate. Authorities agree that siamang, concolor, kloss and hoolock are species, while there is complete lack of agreement on lar, agile, moloch, Mueller\u27s and pileated. The disagreement results from the use and emphasis of different character traits, and from debate on the occurrence and importance of gene flow

Decolonising the Eye: Visual Sovereignty in Sámi Film and Storytelling

The Sámi indigenous people, who hail from the northernmost territories of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Kola Peninsula of Russia, have in recent years undergone a burgeoning of productivity in their visual media and cinema industries. This proliferation of creative material has been accompanied by a significant amount of international attention, collaboration, acclaim, and honours at both mainstream and indigenous film festivals, from Sundance in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.A. to the imagiNATIVE Media Arts Festival in Toronto, Canada. However, this primacy of Sámi narrative agency, as well as input and ownership over their portrayals in broader global media, is relatively new and has emerged only within the last few decades. Indeed, prior to the 1960s and 70s, roughly, depictions of indigenous peoples, their lives, and traditions were largely dominated by outsiders. As a consequence, the Sámi and other global indigenous groups have been forced to grapple with the widespread misapprehensions of majority cultures as well as stereotypical, simplistic, and reductive depictions of their lives, epistemologies, and identities in both ethnographic media and other forms of global cinema. In this thesis, I will emphasise that the stereotypes that populate Nordic mainstream media, which often depict Sámi characters as victims, alcoholics, slum-dwellers, mystics, or as little more than combatants in territorial disputes, have emerged in part from narratives that have stemmed from the domestic colonial legacies of the nations they inhabit. Specifically, I will argue that Norwegianisation, a colonial paradigm that defined Norwegian politics from roughly 1850 to 1980 and aimed to acculturate and “civilise” the Sámi people for the benefit of the newly sovereign nation, still leaves a narrative trace that paints a reductive picture of the Sámi minority, and that this influence continues to impact the Sámi presence – or lack thereof – in Nordic media. Conversely, and perhaps more importantly, I will also explore how Sámi cinema constitutes a form of storytelling emancipation as well as visual sovereignty for indigenous peoples, allowing them to consume alternative, humanising, and diversified narratives and imagery related to their historical and contemporary lives and cultures. In this way, I will suggest that Sámi creativity is intimately related to a decolonial endeavour that has been blossoming since the events and activities associated with the Sámi Cultural Revival of the 1970s and 80s, one which champions self- determination, dignity, and the survival of indigenous epistemologies in Sámi communities

Determining Evidence Based Managment of Benign Diseases

Fibrocystic breast changes, also known as benign breast disease (BBD) can occur in as many as 50-60% of all women. Certain types of BBD have been shown to increase the risk of developing future breast cancer. As primaty health care providers, nurse practitioners should be knowledgeable of which conditions place a woman at higher risk in order to provide the best possible care and treatment. These women may have increased anxiety that they will develop breast cancer, since they could be at higher risk than a woman without BBD. Health care providers may not be aware of the current evidenced-based recommendations for proper surveillance of patients with benign breast conditions; thus a review of the current literature and clinical decision models will update clinicians on ctment practices. Further, the diagnostic tests associated with screening for breast cancer (such as mammography, ultrasound, and biopsy) may be costly, so determining appropriate intervals of screening for each type of BBD is critical to control health care costs and avoid unnecessary testing This project included a literature review of current risk models, clinical evaluation tools, and surveillance practices that are used to determine health care management in women with benign breast diseases. The information was summarized into a manuscript accompanied by a post-test and was submitted to The American Journal for Nurse Practitioners (NPs). The purpose of this project was to update the NP\u27s knowledge base of this clinical phenomenon by sharing evidence-based practice and ultimately helping to improve the health care management in women with benign breast disease

Childhood epidemics and the demographic landscape of the Aland Archipelago

Historically, the introduction of childhood diseases such as measles or smallpox resulted in the infection of nearly every susceptible individual in a community. While smallpox has long been considered the deadlier of the two childhood diseases, research has shown that the immune response to measles infection results in immune suppression that can last for weeks or even months. Higher mortality during measles epidemics has typically been associated with completely susceptible populations; however, in Aland, Finland--a population that experienced regular epidemics of both childhood diseases--mortality from all causes during the 1820-21 measles epidemic was 25% higher than that experienced during the 1823-24 smallpox epidemic. Excess mortality surrounding measles epidemics suggests that this disease may have larger impacts on the demographic history of populations than previously thought. This study uses archival records to investigate syndemic interactions between measles and other diseases during a 19th century measles epidemic in the Aland Islands, Finland. Comparisons to smallpox and a non-epidemic period indicated greater than expected mortality for individuals aged 5 to 9 years and over 50 years; though neither epidemic had long-term demographic consequences. These results are consistent with deaths from secondary infections due to measles-induced immune suppression, but not conclusive. The unknown impact of measles exposure on adults with antibodies, and the variety of other diseases and symptom descriptions, indicates that the possibility of co-occurring epidemics cannot be ruled out.Includes bibliographical reference

Investigating the cause(s) of benthic macroinvertebrate community impairment downstream of two Saskatchewan uranium operations

Past monitoring has noted benthic macroinvertebrate community impairment downstream of both the Key Lake and Rabbit Lake uranium operations in northern Saskatchewan, Canada. The objective of this research was to try to identify the cause(s) of these impacts using a weight-of-evidence approach. Given that sediments generally accumulate contaminants that are related to metal mining activities (such as metals and radionuclides), the initial hypothesis for this research was that contaminated sediments were the primary cause of benthic community impairment at both operations.In 2003 and 2004 a Sediment Quality Triad (SQT) approach confirmed the presence of an effect on benthic community structure, in addition to significant differences in surface-water, pore-water and whole-sediment chemistry at the immediate down-stream exposure sites at both uranium operations. However, no significant adverse effects were noted in 10-d whole-sediment bioassays with Hyalella azteca, although this lack of response could be partially due to sediment pore-water dilution resulting from the automated clean overlying water renewal process employed. Potential causes of benthic community impairment identified through the 2003 and 2004 SQTs for Key Lake include physical sediment composition, surface water pH and total ammonia, in addition to pore-water total ammonia and arsenic. Potential stressors identified at Rabbit Lake included high surface water manganese and uranium concentrations, and increases in pore-water total ammonia, manganese, iron, arsenic, and uranium levels.In the summer of 2004, 4-d in-situ bioassays using H. azteca were conducted along with the SQTs to investigate the role both contaminated surface water and sediment played in benthic community impairment in-situ. Results from the Key Lake in-situ bioassay demonstrated that surface-water was the primary cause of acute toxicity to H. azteca. Results from the Rabbit Lake in-situ study also demonstrated that surface water as the primary cause of acute toxicity to H. azteca, although the relationship was not as strong. The cause of in-situ toxicity at Key Lake could not be correlated with any of the variables measured within the in-situ study, including trace metals, total ammonia, and pH. Of the measured constituents at Rabbit Lake, only concentrations of uranium in both surface water and pore-water were suspected of causing the observed in-situ mortality. Two data sets from two methods of surface water and pore-water collection supported these conclusions.Due to time constraints and stronger cause-effect relationships, efforts were focused on the in-situ toxicity observed at Key Lake. Surface water collected in 2004 at the time of the related in-situ study was also found to be acutely toxic to H. azteca in separate laboratory surface water bioassays, thus verifying that contaminated surface water, not sediment, was the primary cause of the observed in-situ H. azteca mortality. Further information revealed that organic mill-process chemicals, which have been previously linked with sporadic effluent toxicity, were released at the Key Lake operation during the time of the in-situ experiment and associated surface water collection. Additional surface water samples collected in June and August, 2005, were not acutely toxic to H. azteca. Furthermore, a second bioassay with archived surface waters from the initial 2004 collection demonstrated that the water was no longer acutely toxic (i.e., acute toxicity disappeared after one-year storage). Chemistry comparisons of the toxic and non-toxic surface water samples, verified that trace metals, ammonia, pH, and major ions, including sulphate, were not the cause of toxicity, leaving only organic mill-process chemicals as a possible cause. Subsequent 4-d laboratory toxicity tests demonstrated that these process chemicals (kerosene, amine, and isodecanol) are toxic to H. azteca at the levels released in 2004, and are therefore believed to be the cause of the H. azteca mortality seen in the earlier in-situ experiment.In short, this weight-of-evidence research provided new information on the possible causes of benthic macroinvertebrate community impairment downstream of both the Key Lake and Rabbit Lake uranium operations