Miscellaneous Report, August 3, 1954, Lorain Police Department

Report from Detective Hunker regarding Sargent Hubach\u27s visit to speak with two men who had been arrested on July 29 for intoxication and disorderly conduct. Hunker reported that the men had been bailed out and had left the hotel they were staying at using an alias. A third party was also interviewed who knew the men but did not know of their activities or whereabouts

Doris Stevens: A Fascist Feminist? Stevens, the Inter-American Commission of Women, and the Unión Argentina de Mujeres, 1936-1939

Doris Stevens (1888-1963) was a U.S. feminist, suffragist, and member of the National Women’s Party. After the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920, Stevens, among other U.S. feminists, involved herself in Latin American politics, working to pass women’s suffrage legislation in multiple countries. Stevens was chair of the Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW) from 1928 to 1939. Eventually, a number of Latin American feminists, as well as members of the Roosevelt administration, sought to remove her from the IACW when her political tendencies posed a threat to both. Accused of being a “fascist,” Stevens was voted out of the organization at the 1938 Pan-American Conference in Lima, Peru. One of the organizations affiliated with the IACW was the Unión Argentina de Mujeres (UAM), formed in 1936 in response to a proposed change to the 1926 Civil Code which would have reduced married women’s status to that of minors. Starting in 1936, Stevens worked with members of the UAM, including Ana Rosa Schlieper de Martínez Guerrero and Susana Larguía. This essay focuses on the correspondences between Stevens and Larguía to explain their initial incentives in working together and the eventual opposition Larguía and Schlieper had towards Stevens. The essay argues that that Stevens and UAM leaders initially collaborated because of their shared interest in international women’s civil and political rights with men; however, Stevens’s lack of an anti-fascist commitment eventually isolated her from Unión members, and from the Inter-American Commission of Women

In re Kagenvaema: An End-Run Around the “Applicable Commitment Period”

(Excerpt) Imagine a debtor who lives in New York State, where the median household income for 2007 was approximately $53,000. The debtor is a doctor and receives$80,000 of income from the hospital where she works. The good doctor, however, has gotten in over her head. She purchased a gigantic home she could not afford, has too many student loans to pay back, and regrets buying that expensive car. Her credit card debt is staggering, and she incurs thousands of dollars each month in interest and fees. She decides she can no longer handle the financial pressure and wants to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. However, because her income exceeds the median income in New York, the doctor is classified as an above-median income debtor, which requires a debtor to propose a repayment plan that lasts five years. The doctor is not thrilled about the prospect of subjecting herself to the five-year bankruptcy period, particularly because she has been offered a lucrative position as a partner in a prestigious medical practice. She decides to defer the offer because she does not want to increase her income during the time she is in bankruptcy and therefore have to pay more to her unsecured creditors. After filing for bankruptcy, she determines that, due to the amount of debt held by her secured creditors, her projected disposable income amounts to zero or a negative number. As a result, she is not subject to the five-year commitment period and proposes a plan to repay her unsecured creditors for 2 years. The plan is confirmed, although it guarantees the unsecured creditors recover only a fraction of the debt owed to them. After the two years has ended, she accepts a position with the medical practice and now receives $200,000 per year in compensation. The unsecured creditors, however, would not enjoy in her increased income because the bankruptcy period has ended. Is this a fair result? According to the Ninth Circuit, there is nothing wrong with increasing secured debt or deferring income as a means of cheating unsecured creditors out of their money

They Came and Built It Themselves: Working with Students to Curate Digital Exhibits

Presentation at the Digital Scholarship Colloquium: Pedagogy and Practices, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, November 6, 2014

Catalogers Unite! Creating Documentation through Collaboration

Recent changes have forced Bowling Green State University (BGSU) to reevaluate our documentation, workflows, and communication. There have been staff retirements, changes in staff responsibilities, and a new faculty cataloger. Additionally, BGSU is implementing a discovery layer, purchasing shelf-ready books, and adding more electronic resources. It has become apparent that documentation needs to be updated and, in many cases, created from scratch. Collaboration is critical as catalogers are currently few in number and are seeing the need to work with other departments in ways unheard of previously. The creation of a new cataloging manual is vital to the success of cataloging at BGSU

Effects of Adverse Birth Events on Maternal Mood, Maternal Functional Status and Infant Care

Unplanned, adverse events during labor or delivery may generate a negative response for the mother during the early postpartum period, resulting in disruption of usual functioning and mood. Alterations in maternal mood can lead to a more debilitating condition known as Postpartum Depression. Postpartum Depression negatively affects the quality of life and functional status of mothers and infants. High levels of maternal depressive symptoms are associated with parenting, infant attachment, behavioral problems and cognition (Beck 2002). Little research has been completed exploring the relationship of adverse, unplanned events in labor or delivery and maternal mood, functional status and infant care in the immediate postpartum period. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of adverse events in labor or delivery and mood, functional status and infant care at 2-weeks postpartum. The secondary aim was to explore the role of social support as a possible moderator in the relationship between adverse birth events and maternal outcomes. A secondary analysis of data was performed using data collected in a descriptive, longitudinal study examining the effects of antidepressant use during pregnancy. Participants included a convenience sample of 123 women. The main outcome measures included maternal mood, functional status, and infant care at 2-weeks postpartum. Adverse events in labor or delivery did not significantly predict mood (odds ratio =1.34, p=.536), functional status (R2 change = .001, p=.66), or infant care (R2 change=.004, p=.48) at 2-weeks postpartum when controlling for depression during pregnancy, antidepressant use at delivery, education level, age, and parity. Social support had significant effects on mood (p=.02), functional status (p=.014), and infant care (p < .001) but did not moderate the effect of adverse events when predicting mood (odds ratio=1.01, p=.045), functional status (R2 change =.009, p=.056) and infant care (R2 change<.001, p=.92). The occurrence of an adverse event in labor or delivery does not appear to predict alterations in mood, functional status, or infant care at 2-weeks postpartum. Although social support does appear to be related to mood, functional status and infant care, it does not appear to moderate the effect of adverse events on the selected outcomes

08302 Abstracts Collection -- Countering Insider Threats

From July 20 to July 25, 2008, the Dagstuhl Seminar 08302 ``Countering Insider Threats \u27\u27 was held in Schloss Dagstuhl~--~Leibniz Center for Informatics. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section describes the seminar topics and goals in general. Links to extended abstracts or full papers are provided, if available