Comfort and Memory: Artist Kit Keith and the Oral History Process

This paper explores the career of St. Louis-based, self-taught artist Kit Keith and the development of my personal relationship with the artist through the interview process. While telling Keith’s story and exploring her art, I analyze my use of an oral history methodology. The paper is broken into four parts, following four days of in-person interviews (two in September 2019, two in January 2020). Part 1 opens with our first day of official interviewing and explores Keith’s permanent return to St. Louis in the late 2000s and several major events in her career around 2013, including her inclusion in the New York Armory Show, her award for Best Local Artist in St. Louis, and the screening of The Comfort of Memory, a short documentary about Keith’s life, at the St. Louis Film Festival. Through analyzing events during 2013, I grapple with questions of “greatness” and categorization in art history. Part 2 explores Keith’s childhood spent performing in a circus troupe, her diagnosis with bipolar disorder, and her move from Sarasota, Florida to St. Louis, Missouri. I introduce the difficult beginning of our interviews, brought on by unclear boundaries and painful memories. Part 3 analyzes our second day of interviewing and takes the reader into the 1990s, when Keith developed a signature style and began to have professional success in New York City. Part 4 jumps to January 2020 and my return to St. Louis to interview Keith, following her story into the 21st century as we viewed The Comfort of Memory and several reviews of her work together. I expand on the relational changes which occurred through the interview process and the disintegration of my art historical categorization framework. Throughout each of these sections, I expound on the changing dynamic of our conversations as we ventured out of the range of an impersonal, art historical narrative and analysis. Ultimately, the project attempts to demonstrate how the personal relationship between interviewer and narrator—preexisting or not—becomes inextricable from both the process of recording oral history, and the character of the resulting narrative itself. It is an addition to an expanding body of literature grappling with feminist and “human-centered” oral history.Art Histor

On the prediction of the curvature of cross roll straightened bars

A recently proposed procedure for the simulation of cross roll straightening allows to predict successfully the residual stress distribution in straightened bars as well as their yield stress. Although the procedure allows also to make predictions about the curvature of straightened bars, large discrepancies appear between predictions and exper- iments. The present study aims at understanding the causes of these deviations. The standard experimental setup for the measurement of curvature provides values on the assumption of a constant in-plane curvature. Using a modified procedure for the predic- tion of the curvature, this study shows that, according to the model, the curvature of straightened bars is not constant and not in-plane. The reason for the deviation observed between predictions and measurements is then obvious

Iron ooid beds of the Carolinefjellet Formation, Spitsbergen, Norway

Iron ooid beds are unusual deposits that have been linked to greenhouse conditions and the transgressive flooding of shallow shelves, and which were globally prevalent during certain periods. Within the marine, Aptian-Albian, Carolinefjellet Formation of Spitsbergen, chamosite ooids have been found within distinctive sandstone beds at six localities, and at a consistent stratigraphic position within the basal Dalkjegla Member. Distinctive characteristics include the iron ooids themselves, a coarser grain size, intercalation with silty siderites, grading, cross-beds indicating offshore or longshore transport, and a lack of burrowing. The enclosing sands display planar and hummocky crossstratification and abundant oscillation ripple marks, and are interpreted as lagoon-attached bar complexes. The stratigraphic position and traits of the iron ooid sands are consistent with seaward storm transport and preservation within interbar swales. Ooids vary in shape considerably, and display evidence for multiple growth events. Nuclei of quartz, opaques, carbonate clasts and laminated crusts are typically encircled by finer grained tangential chamosite and opaque laminae, sometimes with outer overgrowths of calcite and/or radial chamosite. The Dalkjegla Member is the marine portion of a large-scale transgressive tract, attached to underlying fluvio-estuarine Helvetiafjellet Formation strata. A lagoonal environment associated with the basal shales of the Dalkjegla Member represents a logical setting, where riverine iron concentration and iron silicate growth could occur. The Spitsbergen iron ooid beds extend the known occurrence of Cretaceous examples, representing a less common High-Latitude example, and one not directly associated with a transgressive flooding surface

Petrography of Lower Cretaceous sandstones on Spitsbergen

The sandstone petrography of sample suites from four sites spanning the Rurikfjellet (Hauterivian) to Carolinefjellet (Aptian–Albian) formations in central Spitsbergen was investigated. The sandstones show a distinct stepwise shift in composition from quartz arenites to sublitharenites and lithic arenites, typically within the upper part of the Helvetiafjellet Formation. This shift is related to the introduction of 10 - 25 % (grain %) plagioclase grains and volcanic lithics, and a notable increase in basement and sedimentary lithics. Quartz grain character also changes, and grain shapes become more varied. The shift is also associated with the transgressive arrival of marine sediments in the area, and the introduction of sands from the east-northeast by shore-parallel transport. Regional regression and subsequent transgression, and the change in sandstone composition is attributed to the development of the High Arctic Large Igneous Province in the region. The relative constancy of sand composition and volume of volcanic detritus within the Carolinefjellet Formation suggests long term (≈ 20 M) stability of the sediment system and a large volcanic source area, consistent with LIP (Large Igneous Province) derivation, along with significant exposure of basement rocks. Sample spacing and sediment recycling and mixing do not allow detection of events that would have changed sandstone composition that were less than ≈ 1 M duration. Preservation of significant amounts of plagioclase in a sediment-starved shelf can be explained by relatively cold climatic conditions

Les empreintes digitales et palmaires des lemuriens, des singes, des degeneres humains de toutes races, des pygmees et pygmordes du Bassin du Congo.

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Chronic pain management echo project learning collaborative network

"Virtual education and continuing medical education (CME) are on the rise. As the available technologies become more affordable and user friendly, it is expected that the acceptance rate will rise accordingly. While CPM ECHO offers a virtual platform for CME, its primary value is in its ability to create knowledge-sharing networks and increase collaboration between organizations and providers. It creates a community of learning, where all teach and all learn. Challenges with chronic pain management are well documented in current literature. In addition, rural providers may encounter barriers such as professional isolation. CPM ECHO uses disruptive innovation technologies (telemedicine) to provide guided practice and increase professional collaboration."--Conclusions

On the prediction of the curvature of cross roll straightened bars

A recently proposed procedure for the simulation of cross roll straightening allows to predict successfully the residual stress distribution in straightened bars as well as their yield stress. Although the procedure allows also to make predictions about the curvature of straightened bars, large discrepancies appear between predictions and exper- iments. The present study aims at understanding the causes of these deviations. The standard experimental setup for the measurement of curvature provides values on the assumption of a constant in-plane curvature. Using a modified procedure for the predic- tion of the curvature, this study shows that, according to the model, the curvature of straightened bars is not constant and not in-plane. The reason for the deviation observed between predictions and measurements is then obvious