Motion for a "Just Transition" in Response to Closure of the Mohave Generating Station

Mohave Generating Station closed on December 31, 2005. The Grand Canyon Trust organized an innovative proposal to the California Public Utility Commission to direct the use of revenues from the sale of Mohave's sulfur credits to benefit tribal communities affected by the closure of Black Mesa coal mine that supplied coal to the power plant. The "Just Transition Coalition" is engaged an developing alternative proposals that would reinvest approximately $30 million in annual revenues from the sale of sulfur credits with other sources such as clean and renewable energy bonds to create equity ownership options for tribes in wind and solar projects.Founded by an alliance of Navajo and Hopi interest groups, the Trust, and Sierra Club, the Just Transition Coalition is now supported by dozens of chapters, villages, and an increasing number of tribally elected officials

Vergilian Themes in Ovid\u27s Metamorphoses

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Working with the Kids at Home? Tips from an Experienced Parent

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The evolution of the genitive noun phrase in early Middle English

This paper looks at the evolution of the genitive noun phrase in early Middle English texts. Through an examination of six texts, representing three different regions and their separate textual traditions, I explore the development of genitive noun phrases, both in form and function. Each text is examined independently; early Middle English writing shows great dialectal variation, and each dialect, often each scribe, has a unique genitive system. It is through these individual "micro-systems" that we can see the details of the development of the genitive noun phrase, details which show that the genitive noun phrase did not develop uniformly throughout the country, but that speakers had several options for re-interpreting or replacing the Old English genitive constructions. I begin with the West Midlands, represented by The Lambeth Homilies and Layamon's Brut. It was in this region that the tradition of copying and studying Old English texts was maintained the longest, and here that the effects the Old English standard can still be seen even in the early thirteenth century. From here I move to the East Midlands, to The Peterborough Chronicle Continuations and Vices and Virtues. Unlike the other texts in this study, these two texts do not have a known source text; as such, they are invaluable for seeing how scribes wrote in their own native dialect. I finish with two texts from Kent, The Kentish Sermons and The Ayenbite of Inwit. These are translations of Old French texts, and as such are an excellent source for the possible influences of French upon the English genitive noun phrase. Within these texts, some of the issues I examine include: the gradual restriction of the genitive singular inflection; the very varied plural genitive forms; the rise in of-phrases; the decline of modifier genitive functions, and with them modifier genitive forms; the influence of a source text; and the non-genitive replacements of former genitive constructions. While there are some features which are common to all texts (such as the use of -es as the genitive singular inflection), there are many which are peculiar to a single scribe (such as the use of the pronoun his rather than -es or of), and which show how complex language change can be. There is no single genitive path along which all speakers went

Choosing What to Do or Not to Do on the Job

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A Narrative Inquiry Into the Impact of Chronic Within-Year Teacher Turnover on Students

This dissertation explored the impact of chronic within-year teacher turnover through the narratives of students who have experienced it. A three-part series of interviews were used to capture these lived stories, in addition to artifact collection and creation, by focusing on the perceptions of events through time and the impact of said events on students’ beliefs and understandings of teacher-student relationships. Participants included three junior students who had experienced within-year teacher turnover chronically, with three instances or more in their school career. The data collected from these series of interviews and collection of artifacts were analyzed and restoryed alongside participants using the conventions of narrative inquiry. Rather than shared as one story in multiple parts, each participant’s story was shared individually, braided together through any commonalities of theme in order to better explore the impact of chronic within-year teacher turnover on students. Findings included that across these narratives all students experienced positive or negative emotions and that all participants experienced academic or relational challenges due to their encounters of within-year teacher turnover. The implications of this work attend to systems of support in the face of within-year teacher turnover and more generally to teacher-student relationships

Chapter 2: Time Series

Time series is “simply a list of numbers assumed to measure some process sequentially in time” (Stergiou et al. 2004). Mathematicians have a more formal definition, that is, a set or a sequence of observations, with each one recorded at specific times, or at least sequentially (Brockwell and Davis 2002; Box et al. 2008). Time series are created from multiple sources for research purposes to understand various behaviors. For example, social scientists could collect graduation rates, physiologists record heart rates, economists study consumer spending, and climatologists examine weather patterns. Basically, any time observations are taken repeatedly over time, from any source or behavior, a time series is created

Chapter 5: Surrogation

One of the goals of time series analysis is to understand the underlying mechanisms that generate different dynamics for different time series. If a time series is not a product of random process, then we can assume that some kind of dynamics govern the time series. The question is what kinds of dynamics are controlling the time series. For nonlinear time series analysis, our focus is on nonlinear dynamics, and one of the goals is to characterize those dynamics by applying nonlinear tools. However, it is important to establish evidence of nonlinearity in a time series first in order to avoid obtaining possible spurious results by applying nonlinear tools to the system that does not contain nonlinearity. Second, nonlinearity is considered as one of the key features of time series that exhibit chaos, which has been shown to have a potential link with overall health of the biological system (Amato 1992; Buchman et al. 2001; Cavanaugh et al. 2010; Garfinkel et al. 1992; Goldstein et al. 1998; Orsucci 2006; Slutzky et al. 2001; Toweill and Goldstein 1998; Wagner et al. 1996). Therefore, in terms of detecting chaos in a time series, identifying the presence of nonlinearity in the system is essential