Yearbook Analysis: The 19th Amendment

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Interview with Scott and Carrie Logan by Mike Hastings

Biographical NoteScott Logan was born on February 17, 1977, in Exeter, New Hampshire. His father, Terence Logan, held a Ph.D. from Harvard University and taught English at the University of New Hampshire. Scott’s mother was from rural southern Maryland, and they met at Newton College of the Sacred Heart, in Newton, Massachusetts, where Terence was a professor and Scott’s mother was a student. Scott grew up in Kennebunk, Maine, and was interested in collecting and selling antiques, and in local history. For this business, he received a scholarship from the National Association of the Self-Employed. He was also one of the first Mitchell Scholars, in 1995, attending Bowdoin College and graduating in 1999. He first met his future wife, Carrie, at Bowdoin through their mutual membership in Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. He worked at Christie’s Auction Company and then the auctioneering firm Skinner, Inc. He then attended law school at Boston College, and at the time of this interview, he was an attorney specializing in consumer bankruptcy. Carrie Logan was born on December 24, 1977, in Portland, Maine, to Donald McGilvery and Cheryl Poulin McGilvery. Her parents, both from Maine, met at Cony High School, and both were graduated from the University of Maine, Orono. Her father worked in architecture and construction management for the Maine State Housing Authority, and her mother worked in education and at the time of this interview was the secretary at William H. Rowe School in Yarmouth. Carrie grew up in Yarmouth, Maine, attended Yarmouth public schools, and was selected as a Mitchell Scholar. She attended Bowdoin College, where she met Scott, and was graduated with the class of 2000. Through the Teach For America program, she taught in Opelousas, Louisiana, for two years and then became an English-as-a-Second-Language teacher in Houston, Texas, before returning to Maine to study at the University of Maine School of Law. She took her law degree in 2007 and was practicing business and real estate law at Preti Flaherty in Portland, Maine, at the time of this interview. SummaryInterview includes discussion of: Scott’s family and educational background in Kennebunk; Scott’s antique bottle interest; Scott’s education; Carrie’s family and educational background in Yarmouth; the decision to go to Bowdoin College; paying for college; the Mitchell Institute and Mitchell Scholarship; life at Bowdoin and Alpha Delta Phi; Carrie’s work teaching in the South with Teach for America; coming back to Maine; Scott dealing antiques; and more recent involvement with the Mitchell Institute

The Impacts of Maple Syrup Production on the Herbaceous Layer in Appalachian Hardwood Forests

Vegetation data were collected from eight maple syrup farms (sugarbushes) and eight undeveloped maple-dominated sites to examine potential differences in understory plant communities due to disturbance effects. Understory plants were identified to the species level and percent cover of aboveground leaf-area for each species was estimated within 600 total quadrats. Overstory data and environmental data were collected to help determine if they had any effect on herbaceous-layer plant communities. Species richness, Shannon diversity, and Pielou’s evenness were calculated, with the analysis showing no significant differences between the site types. The absolute cover of plant functional groups was also compared between the two site types, again with no significant differences found. In addition, the leaf-area cover and presence/absence data of non-timber forest product (NTFP) plant species and non-native invasive plant species were analyzed and compared between the two site types. Some differences in cover and likelihood of occurrence (estimated from the presence/absence data) for these species were found between the two site types. Blue cohosh, one of the NTFPs, had greater cover on the control sites. In addition, several of the NTFPs were positively associated with north and east facing slopes, as well as the cover of other understory plants. The likelihood of occurrence and cover of several non-native invasive species was also significantly higher on the sugarbush sites compared to the control sites, as was the combined cover of all non-native invasive species. It was hypothesized that non-native invasive understory plant species have greater cover on sugarbush sites due to increased disturbance effects and altered site conditions. Sugarbush owners wishing to stop the spread of non-native invasive species within their stands or protect NTFPs from disturbance impacts may therefore wish to alter their management practices and/or utilize invasive species control methods

Investigation of Temperature Effects for Modelization and Simulation of the Treat Facility

From the initiation of operations in 1959, the Transient Reactor Test (TREAT) facility at Idaho National Laboratories possessed the potential to serve as the foremost transient testing site in the world. From 1959 to 1994, thousands of tests were conducted to investigate fission heating of test fuel, non-destructive test data through fuel radiography, and test fuels under severe criticality conditions. However, experiments have not been conducted since 1994. A resurging interest in fuel-motion testing has ignited new interest in the facility. Even after nearly 20 years, the return to operable conditions and resumption of testing at TREAT is believed to be feasible by the Department of Energy (DOE). As the facility prepares to resume testing, systematic and safety checks ensure the optimization of the facility. In preparation of testing resumption, models have been constructed to investigate the effects of temperature change in the experimental fuels on neutron flux observed in the hodoscope fuel-mass surveillance. Because of a wide range of expected fuel samples, it was necessary to determine the effects of temperature changes in the experimental test vehicle, if any, on neutron behavior at the center of the reactor system. Using Monte Carlo simulations, this study demonstrates that the temperature changes in the experimental test vehicle have no effect neutron flux response from the fuel samples tested within TREAT

The Incidence and Effect of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Post Office Workers

The present investigation has been undertaken with a view to discovering, if possible, what factors int he life of a Post Office emplyee and in the conditions of his occupation, influence the incidence and prognosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and to what extent can regular and efficient service be expected from those who have contracted the disease. The question is an important one for those employers who, like the Civil Service, give security of tenure, pay salaries during absence on sick leave and offer pensions on retirement whether on account of age or ill-health. Loss of time on the part of the employee means loss of revenue and substitutes have to be found to fill the vacant posts. The present writer is not a specialist in tuberculosis, being engaged in a large out-patient practice on the staff of the Post Office, examining candidates and reporting upon the fitness or otherwise of special cases sent for the purpose

Pennsylvania Residents Are without Standing to Challenge Both the Gaming Board\u27s Grant of Casino Licenses and the Constitutionality of Section 1204 of the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act: \u3cem\u3eSociety Hill Civic Association v. Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board\u3c/em\u3e

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania denied residents\u27 petition for review of the grant of casino licenses for lack of standing because petitioners failed to pursue intervention to achieve party status and were not aggrieved. Soc\u27y Hill Civic Ass\u27n v. Pa. Gaming Control Bd., 928 A.2d 175 (Pa. 2007)

A Rebellious Spirit: A Study of Women in John Foxe’s Martyrology

An examination of the female martyrs presented in The Acts and Monuments

HIGH VOLTAGE RESONANT SELF-TRACKING CURRENT-FED CONVERTER

High voltage power supply design presents unique requirements, combining safety, controllability, high performance, and high efficiencies. A new Resonant Self-Tracking Current-Fed Converter (RST-CFC) is investigated as a proof-of-concept of a high voltage power supply particularly for an X-ray system. These systems require fast voltage rise times and low ripple to yield a clear image. The proposed converter implements high-frequency resonance among discrete components and transformer parasitics to achieve high voltage gain, and the self-tracking nature ensures operation at maximum gain while power switches achieve zero-voltage switching across the full load range. This converter exhibits an inherent indefinite short-circuit capability. Theoretical results were obtained through simulations and verified by experimental results through a complete test configuration. Converter topology viability was confirmed through hardware testing and characterization

Open Rigging Through XML: Character Setup Utilizing Metadata and Node Based Editing

Modular rigging systems exist to automate many of the labor intensive tasks associated with setting up character motion and control systems for 3D animation production. In this paper, a modular rigging system is described that encodes rig definitions in extensible markup language (XML). This method provides for version control along with the construct of a metadata node network facilitating easy propagation of changes to existing rigs. A node based interface is also provided for easily authoring rig definition files. The interface presented to the user is sufficiently simple that a user with minimal knowledge of rigging can construct a variety of complex rigs. By providing a node-based interface and rig definition format that utilizes version control, this method makes available capabilities that are currently not present in other open rigging systems