Land Grant Application- Bailey, Israel (Minot)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of Israel Bailey for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Lucy.https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1045/thumbnail.jp

Land Grant Application- Bailey, John (Turner)

Land grant application submitted to the Maine Land Office on behalf of John Bailey for service in the Revolutionary War, by their widow Lucy B..https://digitalmaine.com/revolutionary_war_me_land_office/1047/thumbnail.jp

Epistolary Hauntings: Working “With” and “On” Family Letters

Lucy E. Bailey, Oklahoma State University, pursues multiple theoretical frameworks for analyzing her personal collection of family letters

Review of Felix Holt, the Radical

Felix Holt, with its large cast of characters, and above all with its notoriously complicated legal plot, presents a real challenge when adapting and reducing it for a three hour, serialized radio dramatization. Michael Eaton is to be congratulated on neatly simplifying the plot, by omitting Thomas Trounsem\u27s sale of his rights to Durfey and the exchange of names between Bycliffe and Scaddon. Admittedly this left a few loose ends, and listeners might have been puzzled by the name Scaddon, mentioned without explanation, but on the whole the necessary simplification was skillfully done and the main plot threads made clear. Inevitably the slow character and plot development characteristic of George Eliot have to be sacrificed. Such subtleties as the gradual development of Harold\u27s character from assertive bullying to growing human sympathy through his love for Esther, ending in the total collapse of his confidence when he discovers who he is, had to be sacrificed entirely. Listeners familiar with the book will miss this subtlety, but the adaptor makes some decisions that are helpful in guiding first-timers, and/or in making contrasts sharp. An example of this is the wish expressed (in Part 2 of the radio version) to Mrs. Transome by Jermyn (Jack Shepherd) that Harold Transome would \u27find a place for me in his heart\u27. This is emotionally more direct, and cruder, than Jermyn\u27s portrayal in the novel, cautious and slippery, but it is helpful in suggesting the past liaison of Jermyn and Mrs. Transome. Another example concerns the personalities of Esther (played by Hayley Atwell) and Felix (Elliot Cowan). In the novel, at their first meeting, Felix finds Esther\u27s Byron, and vehemently expresses his disapproval. The radio dramatization adds a later exchange in which Esther\u27s answer to Felix\u27s question as to what she\u27s reading is: \u27Rousseau\u27s Confessions - did you think it would be Pilgrim S Progress?\u27 It may seem unlikely that a Minister\u27s daughter would be reading Rousseau\u27s Confessions in the 1830s, particularly a girl portrayed (until later in the book) as rather frivolous, but it expands on the contrast between the two, and is perhaps prepared for by the fact that we are told, only in the radio dramatization, that Esther (whose mother was French and who teaches French), has recently returned from Paris

Improved Cranial Fracture Metrics For Assessing The Protective Benefits Of Helmet Systems

During defeat of high velocity bullets and fragmentation, large deformations have been shown to occur on the inside of non-metallic helmet shells. If these deformations contact the underlying head there is the potential to cause injury, termed as Behind Helmet Blunt Trauma (BHBT). A method of assessing BHBT is required to fully understand the protective capability of a helmet system. Existing methods using synthetic head models are limited in their ability to predict injury outcome as a result of a lack of available injury criteria. The aim of this study was to improve the prediction of cranial fracture outcomes associated with BHBT, focusing on the effect of impact curvature and flat face diameter. Representative impact curvatures and flat face diameters were derived from helmet back face deformation measurements in free-air. An instrumented projectile was used to deliver a repeatable impact to a Bovine Scapula Model (BSM); the BSM being a fracture analogue for the cranium. Cranial fracture risk curves were developed using BSM fracture outcomes. These were developed for the different curvatures and flat face diameters tested, using the parameters of peak impact force, impact velocity, bone thickness considered in conjunction with impact velocity, and the Blunt Criterion (BC). It was concluded that flat impact diameter and radius of curvature should be measured within BHBT assessment to improve the accuracy of cranial fracture prediction. To support application of the risk curves to BHBT assessment methods, it was recommended that fracture outcome should be investigated in terms of the effect of using a rigid projectile when compared to helmet deformation. BHBT assessment methods should consider how to achieve consistent and representative stand-off. Testing should also be completed on full helmet systems as opposed to flat material samples

Neither backpackers nor locals: the professional identities of TESOL Teachers in East Asia studying on an MA TESOL

This paper analyses accounts of professional identity constructed by teachers studying for an MA TESOL with a Western university. These teachers share a belief that commitment and competence are key professional attributes; however, contrasts are drawn between the ways in which Western teachers and teachers originating from countries in East Asia seek to demonstrate that they themselves possess these characteristics. The Western teachers distance themselves from the idea that they are itinerant backpackers whose worth lies only in their 'native speaker' status rather than any pedagog-ical skill, whereas the East Asian teachers distance themselves from inferences of linguistic/pedagog-ical incompetence

International Employability: Stakeholder attitudes at an international university in Malaysia

This paper critically examines conceptions of international employability. Drawing on a study of stakeholder views on the employability curriculum at the Malaysia campus of a British university, the paper questions whether there is an identifiable notion of international employability. Contrasting the perceptions of Malaysians and expatriates, both lecturers and students, it is suggested that employability is a blurred, evolving and culturally based concept. In questioning the existence of an identifiable notion of 'international employability', the paper suggests that universities with large numbers of overseas/ international students and staff need to give more attention to understanding competing notions of employability. Moreover, universities with nationally diverse student bodies may need to develop multiple employability curricula to meet their varied needs