Eighth District banks: back in the black

Bank profits ; Bank loans ; Federal Reserve District, 8th

A review of the Eighth District's banking economy in 1986

Bank profits ; Federal Reserve District, 8th

Love is Gender Blind : The Lived Experiences of Transgender Couples Who Navigate One Partner\u27s Gender Transition

This study investigated the experiences of romantic couples who maintained their relationship when one partner transitioned gender. For this phenomenology, 13 couples were interviewed as a dyad and individually from within systemic, feminist, and queer research theories. Couples were interviewed together to best encapsulate their couple narrative and honor their experiences. Themes that emerged from the interviews appeared overall consistent with research regarding transgender couple experiences. Couples discussed how much they loved each other and cared about their relationship above and beyond a partner’s gender identity, sharing they felt committed to their partners as people. Several common relationship changes were associated with gender transition including improved communication skills and language changes, affirming sexual relationships, and redistribution of power within the couple dyad. Benefits of the gender transition included improved relationships overall, emergence of support from communities and loved ones, passing privilege, and improved awareness to social issues. Couples also described challenges to navigating a gender transition within a relationship including losing close relationships, difficulty with remaining patient in transition, and adjusting to new identities such as feeling queer invisibility or a loss of heterosexual privilege. Many common relationship strengths and positive qualities were found in common across couples: love, acceptance, advocacy, commitment, respect, perseverance, friendship, flexibility, listening, humor, and sexual fluidity. Finally, couples shared that political issues in the current sociopolitical climate had a personal impact on their felt safety and daily lives. Suggestions were made for counseling psychologists to use in their work such as remaining unconditionally trans positive in work with transitioning couples and becoming competent in trans issues before taking on transgender couples. Future research could also be drawn from this work to continue celebrating the complexity of gender diversity and sharing positive, successful narratives of this often ignored population of families

Characteristics Associated With Dominant Mind Styles and Perceived School-Related Stressors of Louisiana Secondary Vocational Teachers.

The purpose of this study was to compare perceived stressors of selected secondary vocational teachers by their dominant mind styles. The objectives of this study were to: (1) describe secondary vocational agriculture, home economics and trade and industry teachers in Louisiana using selected demographic variables; (2) identify the dominant mind styles of secondary vocational agriculture, home economics, and trade and industry teachers; (3) identify perceived school-related stressors of secondary vocational agriculture, home economics, and trade and industry teachers; and (4) compare perceived school-related stressors of secondary vocational agriculture, home economics and trade and industry teachers. A questionnaire was mailed to a proportional, stratified, random sample of 429 Louisiana vocational teachers. The instrument consisted of two parts: (1) A researcher-designed questionnaire developed to measure perceived school-related stress and selected demographic characteristics; and (2) the Gregorc Style Delineator: Research Edition, a self-analysis tool for identifying dominant mind styles. Almost two-thirds of the total group and subgroups were identified as having Concrete Sequential dominant mind styles. No stressor for total group and subgroups was rated in the severe range of stress; however, the majority of items were perceived to be in the moderate stress range. Vocational teachers perceived Student apathy to be the most stressful item, while Interacting with students outside the teaching environment was perceived as the item creating the least stress. Responding vocational teachers in Louisiana with various dominant mind styles had similar perceptions regarding degree of stress. Recommendations included: (1) Teacher educators should increase the emphasis on student motivational techniques and strategies in teacher education programs; (2) Local school systems and State Departments of Education should provide inservice activities which focus on the development and application of coping strategies and techniques for dealing with stress; and (3) More research is needed to investigate the association between dominant mind style and aspects of career success/career choice

COMING TO THE SURFACE: THE ENVIRONMENT, HEALTH, AND CULTURE IN BUTTE, MONTANA

Butte is a small town in southwest Montana that was profoundly shaped by over a century of mining and smelting activities. Today, Butte is a post-industrial city that is the focal point of America\u27s largest Superfund site as well as the nation\u27s largest National Historic District. There are two types of remediation occurring in Butte: environmental and cultural. Environmental remediation occurs throughout the city, most notably at the operable units of the Butte Superfund sites. This remediation does not restore the environment to its original state but instead reclaims it to a level of risk deemed acceptable by the EPA. Much like environmental remediation, community members practice acts of reclaiming history, landscape, and community. These are acts of cultural reclamation. To understand the current interrelationship between the environment, health, and culture in Butte, it is first necessary to understand the cultural foundations. Butte is a mining town that practices mining culture. A mining culture has several characteristics: physical and/or cultural isolation; pride in resilience, toughness, and craftsmanship; strong sense of community and kin networks; distrust of institutions, politics, and positions of power; historic pride and romanticizing the past; and gender division. These cultural values are at the core of Butte\u27s culture and heritage. These values are a basis for historic preservationists who oppose environmental remediation and promote the preservation of the historic mining landscape. This is in sharp contrast to the environmental groups that promote environmental remediation and cite elevated risk levels and potential health effects in their reasoning. Debate about risk levels and the consequences of living in a toxic landscape do not provide answers regarding health issues, however. The community does not track disease rates and has never performed a longitudinal epidemiology study. By remaining unaware of disease rates, the community and those in positions of power are left with only opinions. As a remedy, this study set out to investigate mortality rates in Butte and compare them to the state of Montana and the United States. This study showed that the majority of the mortality rates in Butte are greater than the state of Montana and United States rates for all disease groups, and that mortality rates fluctuate over time but are consistently elevated. It also showed that mortality rates correlate with the target systems of concern. It did not show a clear reduction in mortality rates after remediation. Several diseases, such as neurological disease, did decrease after remediation, and this potentially correlates to the extensive lead abatement program in the city

District bank performance in 1987: bigger is not necessarily better

Bank profits ; Federal Reserve District, 8th