The Old Tin Cup

The world of college football, always colorful and exciting, is perhaps at its best on chilly October Saturdays, with the stands packed for Homecoming. There is a grand parade, a Homecoming Queen, an exciting game between gridiron rivals prompting the large crowd to roar with delight as the hometown heroes march dramatically down the field to victory, or perhaps dig in to preserve the lead with time running out and their backs to their own goal. Perhaps a coveted trophy will be awarded to the winning team. Ceremonies will follow the game: a trophy presentation at midfield, in full view of the cheering fans, honors for the game’s best players, and a barren spot in the trophy case filled, for at least one more year, with a much-desired symbol of victory. It is easy to imagine such a scene taking place in Notre Dame Stadium after an epic struggle with the University of Southern California, or perhaps as Stanford turns over the massive Stanford Axe to Cal after another edition of The Big Game. Maybe it is not so easy to imagine the Gettysburg Bullets gathering around their own trophy after a hard-fought triumph over their own in-state rivals, the Muhlenberg Mules. Yet in 1954 an attempt to create such a tradition did take place. While it never reached the heights of intensity that those great long-time rivalries did, a trophy called the Old Tin Cup spent eleven years as the prize for the victor’s of the Gettysburg-Muhlenberg game. During that time, it was the focus of newspaper articles, parades, and even halftime ceremonies. [excerpt] Course Information: Course Title: HIST 300: Historical Method Academic Term: Spring 2010 Course Instructor: Dr. Michael J. Birkner \u2772 Hidden in Plain Sight is a collection of student papers on objects that are hidden in plain sight around the Gettysburg College campus. Topics range from the Glatfelter Hall gargoyles to the statue of Eisenhower and from historical markers to athletic accomplishments. You can download the paper in pdf format and click View Photo to see the image in greater detail.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/hiddenpapers/1025/thumbnail.jp

On Track: Integrated Efficiency for Equestrian Architecture

The semester spent preparing this graduate thesis document was the culmination of my studies at Roger Williams University. Under the direction of Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan, this project has evolved from a mere idea with an initial thesis into a body of work which embraces a new, more harmonious thesis than the original. The project focuses on a site in Ellenville, NY which was chosen for its geological history and damage done to rural land during the series of hurricanes in the recent years. The program was chosen based upon local study of land use and the surrounding vernacular culture within the context

Georges Renard’s legal institutionalism between philosophical suggestions and theological affinities

La doctrina filosófica de Georges Renard asume un planteamiento iusnaturalista desde el cual articula una auténtica concepción institucionalista del derecho. La filosofía iusnaturalista de Renard concibe el derecho natural, basado en el Bien Común, como un derecho natural de contenido progresivo y analógico en la medida en que se adapta a los diferentes ambientes históricos y a los cambios en las condiciones del hombre. Esta visión del derecho natural conduce a la asunción de una filosofía de la institución que profundiza en la perspectiva analógica y que plantea la institución y, por tanto, el derecho, como un instrumento de síntesis entre lo individual y lo social que permite la coordinación de los intereses individuales para la búsqueda del Bien común. Sin embargo, el pensamiento de Renard apoya esta concepción en consideraciones teológicas y religiosas que terminan desvirtuando el valor de la institución que aparece, finalmente, supeditada al orden social cristiano y a la voluntad de Dios.Georges Renard’s philosophical doctrine assumes an iusnaturalist Approach where an authentic institutionalist conception of law is constructed.Renard’s iusnaturalist philosophy considers natural law, based on the common good,as a natural law of progressive and analog content, insofar as it adapts itself to the different historical environments and changes in human being conditions.This view of natural law drives to the assumption of a philosophy of the institution that goes into the analog perspective in depth and considers the institution, and therefore law, as an instrument of synthesis between individual and society, what allows the coordination of individual interests for the search of common good. However, Renard’s thinking supports this conception in theological and religious considerations that finally Distort the value of the institution, appearing subordinated to cristian social order and the will of God

Diritti sociali e pluralismo giuridico in Gurvitch

Il concetto di diritto sociale, connesso ai valori transpersonali, opposto a quello di diritto individuale, che esprime valori personali, si lega alle differenti forme di socialità, da cui discendono le diverse modalità di estrinsecazione dei fatti normativi. Gurvitch procede, quindi, alla partizione del diritto sociale in una pluralità di livelli. Uno sguardo è, quindi, rivolto al contenuto della Dichiarazione dei diritti sociali

System and method for determining triage categories

Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, method, and computer program product for providing a triage clas- sification system. The triage classification system uses a computer model that is developed using historical patient data. The developed computer modelis applied to collected patientattributedatafromapatientinapre-hospitalsetting to generate a triage category. Based on the generated triage category, health care professionals can take desired actions, suchastransportingthepatienttoafacilitymatchingthe generated triage category.Board of Regents, University of Texas Syste

Generating nonverbal indicators of deception in virtual reality training

Old Dominion University (ODU) has been performing research in the area of training using virtual environments. The research involves both computer controlled agents and human participants taking part in a peacekeeping scenario whereby various skills-based tasks are trained and evaluated in a virtual environment. The scenario used is a checkpoint operation in a typical third world urban area. The trainee is presented with innocuous encounters until a slightly noticeable but highly important change surfaces and the trainee must react in an appropriate fashion or risk injury to himself or his teammate. Although the tasks are mainly skill-based, many are closely related to a judgment that the trainee must make. In fact, judgment-based tasks are becoming prevalent and are also far more difficult to train and not well understood. Of interest is an understanding of these additional constraints encountered that illicit emotional response in judgment-based military scenarios. This paper describes ongoing research in creating affective component behaviors used to convey cues for anger, nervousness, and deception in Operations Other than War (OOTW) training

A Review of Blood Substitutes: Examining The History, Clinical Trial Results, and Ethics of Hemoglobin-Based Oxygen Carriers

The complications associated with acquiring and storing whole blood for transfusions have launched substantial efforts to develop a blood substitute. The history of these efforts involves a complicated mixture of science, ethics, and business. This review focuses on clinical trials of the three hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOC) that have progressed to Phase II or III clinical trials: He-mAssist (Baxter; Deerfield, IL, US), PolyHeme (Northfield; Evanston, IL, US), and Hemopure (Biopure; Cambridge, MA, US). Published animal studies and clinical trials carried out in a perioperative setting have demonstrated that these products successfully transport and deliver oxygen, but all may induce hypertension and lead to unexpectedly low cardiac outputs. Overall, these studies suggest that HBOCs resulted in only modest blood saving during and after surgery, no improvement in mortality and an increased incidence of adverse reactions. To date, the results from these perioperative studies have not led to regulatory approval. All three companies instead chose to focus their efforts on large trials of trauma patients in the pre-hospital setting