002 Transcription Notes

Notes about transcription and translation for the Sikaiana oral and recorded material

04 Taupule, a woman from Tuvalu

This recording was made by Johnson Siota was part of linguistic research conducted by Dr. Pita Sharples among the Sikaiana people of the Solomon Islands n the 1960s. The transcription in Sikaiana is by Priscilla Taulupo and the rough translation is by Bill Donner. The story of Taupule was well known to Sikaiana people during my stays in the 1980s on Sikaiana. She came from the Tuvalu and was dropped off on Sikaiana by a trader during her pregnancy, sometime in the late 1800s. She warned traders that life would change from contact with Europeans. her descendants felt a certain unity among themselves and with Tuvalu. There were several slightly different versions of the story. This one is told by her great grandson, Johnson Siota

In a New Land:Mobile Phones, Amplified Pressures and Reduced Capabilities

Framed within the theoretical lens of positive and negative security, this paper presents a study of newcomers to Sweden and the roles of mobile phones in the establishment of a new life. Using creative engagement methods through a series of workshops, two researchers engaged 70 adult participants enrolled into further education colleges in Sweden. Group narratives about mobile phone use were captured in creative outputs, researcher observations and notes and were analysed using thematic analysis. Key findings show that the mobile phone offers security for individuals and a safe space for newcomers to establish a new life in a new land as well as capitalising on other spaces of safety, such as maintaining old ties. This usage produces a series of threats and vulnerabilities beyond traditional technological security thinking related to mobile phone use. The paper concludes with recommendations for policies and support strategies for those working with newcomers

HD 219134 Revisited: Planet d Transit Upper Limit and Planet f Transit Nondetection with ASTERIA and TESS

HD 219134 is a K3V dwarf star with six reported radial-velocity discovered planets. The two innermost planets b and c show transits, raising the possibility of this system to be the nearest (6.53 pc), brightest (V = 5.57) example of a star with a compact multiple transiting planet system. Ground-based searches for transits of planets beyond b and c are not feasible because of the infrequent transits, long transit duration (~5 hr), shallow transit depths (<1%), and large transit time uncertainty (~half a day). We use the space-based telescopes the Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling Research in Astrophysics (ASTERIA) and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to search for transits of planets f (P = 22.717 days and M sin i = 7.3 ± 0.04M_⊕) and d (P = 46.859 days and M sin i = 16.7 ± 0.64M_⊕). ASTERIA was a technology demonstration CubeSat with an opportunity for science in an extended program. ASTERIA observations of HD 219134 were designed to cover the 3σ transit windows for planets f and d via repeated visits over many months. While TESS has much higher sensitivity and more continuous time coverage than ASTERIA, only the HD 219134 f transit window fell within the TESS survey's observations. Our TESS photometric results definitively rule out planetary transits for HD 219134 f. We do not detect the Neptune-mass HD 219134 d transits and our ASTERIA data are sensitive to planets as small as 3.6 R_⊕. We provide TESS updated transit times and periods for HD 219134 b and c, which are designated TOI 1469.01 and 1469.02 respectively

A first update on mapping the human genetic architecture of COVID-19

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Hanging of Susanna Cox

The hanging of Susanna Cox (1785-1809) has been performed at the Kutztown Folk Festival (originally called the Kutztown Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival) since the festival’s first year in 1950. It is a sad story of a poor Pennsylvania Dutch hired out as farm hand who became pregnant, probably from a member of her employer’s household. Her pregnancy was unknown to her employers who found a dead fetus. Susanna admitted to being the mother but claimed that child had been stillborn. There was evidence that the child had been put to death and Susanna was convicted of murder and put to death by hanging in Reading, Pa. There was considerable sympathy for her plight and a song was composed that became well known in the Pennsylvania German region. According to Florence Baver of the Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Culture Center in Lenhartsville, the song was still known in the middle of the 20th century. An early version of the story of Susanna Cox can be found here: https://www.berkshistory.org/multimedia/articles/susanna-cox/ A book about the event: Suter, Patricia, Russell D. Earnest, and Corinne P. Earnest. 2010. The hanging of Susanna Cox: the true story of Pennsylvania\u27s most notorious infanticide & the legend that\u27s kept it alive. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books. Broadsides with the song in English and Deitsch can be found in these locations: https://digital.libraries.psu.edu/digital/collection/frak/id/77/ http://librarycompany.org/broadsides/section2a.ht

05 Holau, the Voyage of Mr. Boe

This is the story of the last (or one of the last) voyages (holau) from Sikaiana. It was recorded by Mark Etua as part of linguistic research done by Peter Sharples among the Sikaiana. The transcription into the Sikaiana language was done by Priscilla Taulupo and the rough translation by Bill Donner (sorry for any errors). Traditionally, Sikaiana people were master voyagers, capable of traveling hundreds of kilometers. This voyage was probably conducted in the 1920s by a trader for Lever Brothers in his dinghy when he was short of supplies. He had several Sikaiana people help, including the father of Mark Etua

08 Invaders from Tona

This is a recording from Silas Tilikohu about a legendary invasion of Sikaiana people from a people from Tona recorded by Bill Donner as part of ethnographic research on Sikaiana from 1980-1993. It recounts the arrival of people from Tona who slaughtered the Sikaiana people. These invaders went on to Taumako where they were killed

July 4 Parade

Film of the July 4th Folk Festival Parade in 2017. Every year there is a parade to celebrate July 4. Festival performers and crafts makers walk around the infield displaying their arts and crafts. They are followed by tractors. Filmed by Bill Donner