The King of Rockingham County and the Original Bridge to Nowhere

This chapter, reveals the story -- the clash of personalities, the economic tensions, and the political significance -- behind Rockingham County v. Luten Bridge Co. Since its publication in 1929, the opinion has proceeded to leave an impression on generations of law students. Luten Bridge, a staple in most contracts casebooks, is known today as the paradigmatic case that demonstrates the duty to mitigate damages in contract law, whereby a nonbreaching party is not compensated for performance that occurs after the other party announces an intention to breach. This chapter takes on three objectives: it identifies the case\u27s original importance, uncovers the opinion\u27s political and jurisprudential significance, and tells a remarkable story, one that arose within a heated tax revolt pitting the county\u27s farmers against its most celebrated industrialist. Much more than a crisp illustration of the duty to mitigate, Rockingham County v. The Luten Bridge Co. offers a window into a southern community\u27s struggles with a divided social order, the introduction of wealth into local politics, and a changing economy

Development and Enhancement to a Pilot Selection Battery for a University Aviation Program

There exists an imbalance between the number of pilots trained to practice in the field of aviation and the amount of those individuals who are qualified to fly airplanes. By putting a systematic selection system in place, it helps to ensure that the best possible candidates fill open positions in the field. Specifically developing a selection system to train and acclimate future pilots while they are in a university setting will not only help select top-tier candidates into the aviation program, but also prepare them for what to expect when they enter the job market. This research study built upon two iterations of a pilot selection battery for a Midwestern university aviation program. Participants completed a battery that was then used for research purposes to obtain information about the potential predictors of pilot performance. The measures include the IPIP Five Factor Scale, Assertive Interpersonal Schema Questionnaire, Cockpit Management Attitudes Questionnaire, Proactive Personality Scale - Short Version, Block Counting Measure, and Rotated Blocks Measure. Additionally, flight instructors evaluated their students based on several aspects of effective performance. Data from 30 student pilots were examined with bivariate correlations and linear regression and the results from the current sample indicated that a pilot personality profile, assertiveness, proactivity, cockpit management skills, and spatial reasoning did not consistently predict flight performance. Further research is warranted to accumulate a larger sample size in order to determine if these characteristics do, indeed, predict performance in the field

Development and Enhancement to a Pilot Selection Battery for a University Aviation Program

There exists an imbalance between the number of pilots trained to practice in the field of aviation and the amount of those individuals who are qualified to fly airplanes. By putting a systematic selection system in place, it helps to ensure that the best possible candidates fill open positions in the field. Specifically developing a selection system to train and acclimate future pilots while they are in a university setting will not only help select top-tier candidates into the aviation program, but also prepare them for what to expect when they enter the job market. This research study built upon two iterations of a pilot selection battery for a Midwestern university aviation program. Participants completed a battery that was then used for research purposes to obtain information about the potential predictors of pilot performance. The measures include the IPIP Five Factor Scale, Assertive Interpersonal Schema Questionnaire, Cockpit Management Attitudes Questionnaire, Proactive Personality Scale - Short Version, Block Counting Measure, and Rotated Blocks Measure. Additionally, flight instructors evaluated their students based on several aspects of effective performance. Data from 30 student pilots were examined with bivariate correlations and linear regression and the results from the current sample indicated that a pilot personality profile, assertiveness, proactivity, cockpit management skills, and spatial reasoning did not consistently predict flight performance. Further research is warranted to accumulate a larger sample size in order to determine if these characteristics do, indeed, predict performance in the field

Prevalence of the Metabolic Syndrome in a Midwestern Community

The metabolic syndrome (MS) has been linked to a significantly higher risk of heart disease and diabetes. It affects approximately 25% of Americans today with its prevalence continuing to increase as the population becomes heavier and more sedentary. With Pender’s Health Promotion model as a theoretical base, this study examined the prevalence of the risk factors, preventative and treatment measures for the metabolic syndrome among a Midwestern North American population. A non-experimental secondary data analysis comparative survey design approach was used through a chart review of 101 male patient charts and 101 female patient charts. Significance was established at p\u3c .05. Looking at the first of these risk factors it was found that 118, or 58.4% of the sample, had a diagnosis of hypertension while 33.7% (n=68) had a blood pressure reading over 130/85 mmHg. Of the 173 in the sample who had random glucose readings in their chart 16, six females and 10 males, had levels over 200 mg/dL. There were 78, 43 males and 35 females, or 38.6% of the sample, who had diabetes. Altogether 88 men and 88 women had a body mass index (BMI) over 30 kg/m2 with the mean BMI of the sample being 38.1 kg/m2 (SD=7.6). Over half, 50.9%, of the sample with triglyceride readings had a level over 150 mg/dL. The mean triglyceride level was 206.4 mg/dL (SD=136.3). There were 12 females, out of a total of 21 with an high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol level recorded, with an HDL level under 40 mg/dL and 32 males, out of 35 with an HDL level recorded, with a level under 50 mg/dL. The mean HDL level was 33.9 mg/dL (SD=12.3). Of the prevention and treatment measures studied several, such as the referrals for eye exams and to a dietician, were rarely found. Of those seen more often, the referrals for or foot examinations completed were seen in 55 charts, for 30 male and 25 females. Of those with diabetes 34.6% had a foot examination or referral made. Of the medications or type of medication on which information was collected four, aspirin, diuretics, and statins, were used by approximately one third of patients. Angiotensin converting enzymes inhibitors were being taken by just under a fifth of the patients. There were 130, 67 males and 63 females, in the sample who had a record of an electrocardiogram completed. As this study was retrospective using a chart review process, certain patients were not found to have all of the risk factors for the MS documented. Repeating the study with patients who had a record of each of these five risk factors would be beneficial as well as focusing more on the exact time when they were found to have these risk factors and what kinds of treatments were implemented. With the growing numbers of clients with the MS it is crucial that nurses be informed on current information on the MS so that they can be a resource to patients and other health care providers

Letter from Tho[ma]s R. Hanna to John Muir, 1909 Jul 20.

July 20 1909.Dear Mr Muir-Your note from Tuol. Meadows to hand. We all were glad to hear from you.We are all well here. Bertha improves steadily & [Strentzel?] is himself again. Can eat peppermints upon your return.Mother was called to Los Angeles on account of the sickness of my little niece, the same trouble [Strentzel?] had, so we had to get a nurse from Berkeley to help with the twins,. Wanda has about weaned the boy twice so her duties are letting up some.Bartlett pears are a good04547 2.price (1st F.O.B.) and I am busy disposing of them.We\u27ll be glad to see you when you return.Love from all-Thos. R. Hanna0454

Shut It Down, Open It Up : A History of the New Left at the University Of Virginia, Charlottesville

This thesis is a history of social and political activism in Charlottesville during the 1960s focusing on new left student organizing at the University of Virginia. It is a work of social history that establishes a community that has been generally ignored in traditional histories of the new left as one of the most influential centers of new left activism in the South and asserts that this prominence was due to years of activism by local liberals, civil rights advocates, and students during the city\u27s unique experiences on the front lines of the southern desegregation, civil rights, and anti-war struggles. It traces the evolution of social activism in the city and the university from the late 1950s through the early 1970s and demonstrates how local activists and issues interacted with regional, national, and global events during one of the most socially tumultuous decades in American history

Idealized bodies, embodied ideals: Young female audiences and their (re)negotiations of the bollywood heroine in Trinidad

Film heroines have been an integral part of Hindi cinema’s long-standing transnational circuits and, in more recent times, of global Bollywood. Due to current changes in the reception context, young audiences in Trinidad are confronted with the need to make meaning of heroines within disjunctive cultural formations, both in negotiating heroines of newly released films as well as renegotiating established icons. This paper offers a historical overview of Hindi cinema, related notions of idealized Indian womanhood, and marginalized viewing pleasures. Secondly, drawing on interviews conducted in Trinidad between 2010 and 2013, it gives insights into the signifying practices of young women. The focus is on how young women exert discursive and interpretative power to selectively reconfigure heroines and star texts, thereby signifying Indianness as well as a space to express their desires

Credibility Assessments as 'Normative Leakage': Asylum Applications, Gender and Class

Based on the assumption that credibility assessments function as 'normative leakage' within the asylum process, we analyse how narratives of gender and class are articulated, rendered meaningful, or silenced in credibility assessments. Two cases concerning male applicants are selected in order to illustrate these processes. In relation to the existing concepts of internal/external credibility, we wish to introduce the concept of social credibility, which focuses on how the assessors read different socio-cultural narratives. While previous research has shown that the postcolonial will to protect women favours women as victims of patriarchal cultures, we wish to point out the continuity of this line of argumentation in relation to male and female applicants by adopting a theoretical generalization: male applicants instead become situated at the other end of the spectrum of postcolonial notions of modernity as non-victims, victims of other circumstances or perpetrators. We argue that these processes are accentuated in relation to credibility assessments. In order to prevent processes of social exclusion and to enhance inclusive practice, authorities need to acknowledge the 'normative leakage' associated with the assessment process