being [t]here

When you awoke from the dream, in your early thirties, you knew, as you’ve never known anything else in all your seventy-plus years, that what you’d found was real. The dream began with you sitting in a church, head bowed in prayer. Your eyes opened slowly, and you noticed that you were wearing brilliantly colored, beaded moccasins. You stood abruptly, pushed open the mahogany gate that separated the pew from the center aisle of the church, and began to run. The dream then proposed a seemingly endless and entirely quotidian set of difficulties in The City, and led eventually to an arduous climb through a pathless woods, where you passed an unfinished house—framed out but not yet sided—and where (after how many false sightings of the summit?) you squeezed with great difficulty between two tall boulders, and suddenly emerged on the edge of a wondrous canyon. Below you flowed a wide, glistening river, and in the center of the river, partly submerged, sat a throne-like granite armchair. You awoke to the rest of your life with a gasp, exhilarated by the shimmering iridescence of the water in the dream and tantalized by the mystery of the chair. You have looked for that river ever since. [excerpt

President\u27s Notes: Challenge!

It was a practice in our Navy in the days of sail for seamen to have the letters for the words HOLD FAST tattooed just below the knuckles of each finger. A seaman\u27s life frequently hung on this brief maxim

What\u27s the Hang Up?: Exploring the Effect of Postmaterialism on Hung Parliaments

Elections in majoritarian states are supposed to produce single-party majority governments. However, the most recent elections in the three main advanced industrial majoritarian parliamentary democracies - the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia - failed to produce majority governments. No single party won a majority of the parliamentary seats in any of these three elections, a condition commonly referred to as a hung parliament. Despite the literature\u27s tendency to dismiss hung parliaments as electoral abnormalities, this recent wave of hung parliaments among such similarly situated states suggests the presence of an underlying causal factor that contributes to these outcomes. The current study analyzes the role played by the rise of postmaterialist values in advanced industrial societies in the occurrence of hung parliaments through multiple least squares regression. While the study is not able to arrive at a universal explanation for hung parliaments in all three cases, it is able to explain hung parliaments in Australia and Canada

Hung v. Evanko

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvani

Testing Raised Footlines in Virginia\u27s Striped Bass Fishery: A Gear Based Method of Reducing Sturgeon Interactions in Anchored Gill Nets

This project was conducted over a period of 39 days using two different net configurations and fishery locations in order to test methodologies to reduce the bycatch of Atlantic sturgeon while not affecting the striped bass fishery. Nets were hung using conventional methods allowing the net to rest on the bottom of the waters. Experimental nets were hung with a 3\u27 bottom panel with no mesh allowing bottom dwelling fishes to swim under the floated net mesh. Nets were hung using mesh sizes ranging from 5.5 to 8 . All catch was recorded and compared to determine the effects of the different hanging methods and fishing locations