The Life of James Williams, Better Known As Professor Jim, for Half a Century Janitor of Trinity College

Charles Hayden Proctor, a member of the Trinity class of 1873, wrote this Biography of James Williams or Professor Jim (1790 - 1878), janitor at Trinity College for over 50 years and founding member of the African Zion Methodist Church in Hartford. The book contains anecdotes and quotes from Jim about his life, beginning from his childhood in New York as a slave of Colonel John F. Robert, and includes accounts of the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, experience in the early 1800s working on ships and traveling the world, as a servant in Bishop Brownell\u27s service, and many years working as janitor of Trinity College.https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/w_books/1009/thumbnail.jp

Celebrating Garden Genius : A Handbook to Selected Gardens by Charles F. Gillette

Celebrating Garden Genius : A Handbook to Selected Gardens by Charles F. Gillette was created as part of the 1992 Charles F. Gillette Forum at The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia. W. John Hayden, Professor of Biology at the University of Richmond, and Sheila Hayden, Biology Research Associate at the University of Richmond, served as editors of the handbook. _________________________________________Charles F. Gillette(1886-1969) Arriving in Richmond on November 9, 1911 —a dull, damp, dreary day—Charles F. Gillette began his career in the Southeast as clerk of the record for landscape architect Warren Manning, who, working with architects Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson, was responsible for building the new campus of the University of Richmond in Westhampton. As one of Warren Manning\u27s apprentices at the Tremont Street studio in Boston, Gillette had received invaluable training in landscape art. Manning, moreover, had served his apprenticeship under Frederick Law Olmsted and had shared in the work at Biltmore in Asheville, North Carolina. A tradition from Olmsted to Manning to Gillette had thus been born. By 1914, Gillette, recently wed, made a momentous decision. He would practice landscape architecture in Richmond, Virginia. Since that rainy day in 1911 Gillette did nothing less than create the image of Virginia gardens as they are known and loved today. Developing a distinctly regional landscape architecture, one geared, as Professor Reuben Rainey has observed, to the Piedmont and the Tidewater, he won the admiration of men and women as remote in time and place as Douglas South all Freeman, Paul Green, Ellen Glasgow, and Francis Pendleton Gaines. His designs remain today the paradigm of the Virginia garden. The genius loci of the middle Atlantic, Gillette was drawn to the spiritual in nature. The garden, etymologically an enclosing, was instinctually real to him as the paradisus was to the medieval basilica. Like Emerson, he knew, after all, that nature was language whereby God speaks to man. One senses that today in the magic of a Gillette garden. Gillette\u27s eclecticism is rich in the traditions of landscape art. The Georgian Revival, the Country Place Movement, the English cottage garden, the designs and motifs of Capability Brown, Inigo Jones, or Gertrude Jekyll form organically, in the vernacular, the Gillette look or the Southern garden. English boxwood, Virginia cedar, azalea, camellia, crepe myrtle, Cunninghamia, daffodil and yew, brick, stone, water, and bronze form the palette of his art. The native and the imported thrive side by side. One leaves the Gillette garden with the echo of a John Hersey line, True genius rearranges old material in a way never seen . . . before. --George C. Longesthttps://scholarship.richmond.edu/bookshelf/1204/thumbnail.jp

Remote preparation of quantum states

Remote state preparation is the variant of quantum state teleportation in which the sender knows the quantum state to be communicated. The original paper introducing teleportation established minimal requirements for classical communication and entanglement but the corresponding limits for remote state preparation have remained unknown until now: previous work has shown, however, that it not only requires less classical communication but also gives rise to a trade-off between these two resources in the appropriate setting. We discuss this problem from first principles, including the various choices one may follow in the definitions of the actual resources. Our main result is a general method of remote state preparation for arbitrary states of many qubits, at a cost of 1 bit of classical communication and 1 bit of entanglement per qubit sent. In this "universal" formulation, these ebit and cbit requirements are shown to be simultaneously optimal by exhibiting a dichotomy. Our protocol then yields the exact trade-off curve for arbitrary ensembles of pure states and pure entangled states (including the case of incomplete knowledge of the ensemble probabilities), based on the recently established quantum-classical trade-off for quantum data compression. The paper includes an extensive discussion of our results, including the impact of the choice of model on the resources, the topic of obliviousness, and an application to private quantum channels and quantum data hiding.Comment: 21 pages plus 2 figures (eps), revtex4. v2 corrects some errors and adds obliviousness discussion. v3 has section VI C deleted and various minor oversights correcte

Piano Concerto No. 1, "Concert of Sages"

Concert of Sages comes out of the duality of my being a composer and a pianist, and my desire to express this duality. As the orchestra is a prime test of a composers’ mettle, a concerto is a prime test of a concert soloist’s, and thus writing a piano concerto served as the ideal marriage of my dual studies. In addition, the concerto acts as a survey of both my compositional technique and orchestration. The extramusical character of each movement comes through the thematic material and orchestration. “Sage of the Sky” is largely orchestrated in the upper register using high strings, high winds, high winds, and delicate percussion to create a windy atmosphere. Also contributing are the bright C lydian mode and jubilant 6/8 meter and irregular phrasing. “Sage of the Earth” contrasts the first movement with warmth and mellowness. This is expressed through the modality of F mixolydian, the use of earthier timbres from low winds and percussion, and more lush harmonic voicing. “Sage of Time” is the most mystical of the three movements, complete with unusual orchestral voicing and doubling throughout both the theme and its variations. In addition, the extramusical character of this movement is tied directly to its form, with each variation being a window into the life of this mystical chant. Regarding technique, “Sage of the Sky” serves as a demonstration of compositional fundamentals. The movement explores sonata form — two contrasting themes, development, recap — as well as other elements like fugue procedure. It also demonstrates economy of structure, adapting these elements into a cohesive structure with just four and a half minutes of music. “Sage of the Earth” is in ternary form, and functions as a Romantic character piece for piano and orchestra. The primary exploration of this movement is melody: the outer sections are built on a principal theme, and the middle section is built on its inversion. “Sage of Time” is a theme and variations movement, written to explore compositional and developmental tools associated with that technique. The “chant” theme is subject to rhythmic modification, fragmentation, octave displacement, retrograde and counterpoint, and various combinations of the above. The movement also demands a higher level of pianism, with several variations and a cadenza bringing involved passagework and figurations

Elizabeth River Surface Circulation Atlas

The Elizabeth River Surface Circulation Atlas is a compendium of maps which detail the surface circulation throughout the main branch of the Elizabeth River, in the port of Hampton Roads, Virginia. Data for the Atlas maps were obtained directly from field experiments using Remote Sensing and dye-emitting low-windage surface drogues. The maps show surface Lagrangian trajectories under various combinations of wind and tide. The Atlas is not intended to duplicate NOAA tidal current tables, but rather to supplement the tables with empirical trajectory data at increased spatial resolution. Knowledge of surface currents under different tide and wind conditions enables a user to predict the movement of floating debris, such as oil spills, within the Elizabeth River Basin

20 years of UNSW Australia\u27s Sunswift solar car team: A new moment in the Sun, but where to next?

The Sunswift Solar Car project has been running at UNSW Australia in Sydney for 20 years as of 2015. It is an entirely student-run endeavour which revolves around the design and development of a solar/electric vehicle nominally designed to compete in the World Solar Challenge rally from Darwin to Adelaide every 2 years. The student cohort is drawn from a range of schools, disciplines and backgrounds, and the team has been increasingly successful and high-profile particularly in its second decade. The excellent level of hands-on training that the project provides to students is not rewarded with academic credit yet many of the alumni credit the project with launching their careers and ambitions. The team\u27s world record-breaking latest vehicle, eVe, is the fifth constructed and presents a radical departure from previous cars in that it carries a passenger in a conventional layout and is based around a road-going sports car. The team is currently working to meet road registration standards, making it the most complex vehicle yet. However, the issues of high costs, safety concerns, ensuring representative student participation, and student workload management present ongoing challenges which must be met if the project is to continue its run of success

Design of a Novel Concept for Harnessing Tidal Stream Power

This project involved the design, manufacture, and testing of a novel water energy harvesting device. Through the use of a bio-mimetic ribbon fin, the device extracted power from flowing water with a competitive efficiency. Intended for use in tidal streams or rivers, this technology is suited for small hydro installations, with the potential for scaling to higher capacity generation

Impact of Summer Cattle Grazing on the Sierra Nevada Watershed: Aquatic Algae and Bacteria

Introduction. We evaluated periphytic algal and microbial communities to assess the influence of human and cattle impact on Sierra water quality. Methods. 64 sites (lakes and streams from Lake Tahoe to Sequoia National Park, California) were sampled for suspended indicator bacteria and algae following standardized procedures. The potential for nonpoint pollution was divided into three categories: cattle-grazing areas (C), recreation use areas (R), or remote wildlife areas (W). Results. Periphyton was found at 100% of C sites, 89% of R sites, but only 25% of W sites. Eleven species of periphytic algae were identified, including Zygnema, Ulothrix, Chlorella, Spirogyra, mixed Diatoms, and Cladophoria. Mean benthic algae coverage was 66% at C sites compared to 2% at W sites (P < 0.05). The prevalence of E. coli associated with periphyton was 100% at C sites, 25% of R sites, and 0% of W sites. Mean E. coli CFU/gm of algae detected was: C = 173,000, R = 700, W = 0. (P < 0.05). Analysis of neighboring water for E. coli bacteria >100 CFU/100 mL: C = 91%, R = 8%, W = 0 (P < 0.05). Conclusion. Higher periphytic algal biomass and uniform presence of periphyton-attached E. coli corresponded to watersheds exposed to summer cattle grazing. These differences suggest cattle grazing compromises water quality