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What does everyone think? I hope he's gone. I really liked Mackanin.
What does everyone think? I hope he's gone. I really liked Mackanin.
He shouldnt but he will. Bob and Walt will let him manage out his contract heck they may even resign him after next year...but I hope not. Bob needs to get Tony in Cincy right now.
Yes. He is owed way too much money for us to dump him.
I think Dusty does some things that I'll never understand and he's frustrated me beyond belief.
That said I think he's a good guy (and that does count) and he wants to win. I saw the tremendous stress and stain on his face after today's loss. After all he is a millionaire and doesn't really have to care (there's a bunch of ball players that simply don't care) but today I saw he obviously does.
Bad, bad season and some unbelievable let-downs. But no matter how exhausted I am I know come December I'll wish it was still baseball season.
Baseball in Cincinnati is better than no baseball in Cincinnati. I'm throwing the towel in for yet another season. Maybe next year.
I am sure Dusty cares. He actually has a famous quote about caring how putting rookies in the lineup would hurt his W-L record as a manager. Also keeping in mind the every single starter on this team has went on the DL except for Phillips and Taveras. They probaly shoulda when Phillips had the injury to the thumb and Taveras to the Hammy.
Bruce Broken wrist.
EdE Broken hand.
Votto stress.
Dickerson shoulder
Hernandez knee.
Gonzales for sucking.
ok not for sucking... but if there was a DL for suckitude he'd be on there with his .507 OPS...
Dusty can't do anything about a person (or person's) who are SO self absorbed and SO wealthy that winning no longer holds any reasonable incentives.
A team playing this badly should consider firing their manager.I'm not sure what it would take for the front office to make that decision but something tells me that even finishing in last place wouldn't do it.I just have a feeling that we are stuck with Dusty until next year.If we are out of it again a year from now they'll probably pull the trigger.
I would like Buddy Bell to get the job. No reasons of merit just because I would like to see a qualified ex-red have the job.
Would anybody consider Oester as they need a firery manager.
Given the tools the Reds have, do you think that having another manager would make that much of a difference? In no way am I a Dusty fan but how much control does he have over the holes in the outfield, (unless we know he pushed for Willy, which is entirely possible), SS, and 3B? Ultimately, how many games has Dusty cost us since he took over?
Maybe replacing Baker with someone else encourages Edwin to play better and we never pull the Rolen trade. Maybe we never sign C-Pat or Willy or get new hitting and pitching coaches or whatever. Then again, maybe our bullpen is absolute crap or Hanigan or Votto don't develop so well.
Every team within 7 games of their division has more runs scored than runs allowed. We need either to score 90 more runs, allow 90 less, or a combination of the two. That amounts to about .865 runs per game. If you increase the OBP of the 1 and 2 hitters by 70 points (which is sadly realistic), that gives you somewhere between 20 and 30 runs over 300 at-bats using only in-house options. If the Reds invested in a good lead off hitter, someone with a .370 + OBP, and subsequently increase the #2 hitter 100 points or more, and you may have halved your run deficit that quickly.
If you consider we're in the bottom 10 in runs allowed, that's a huge improvement. Letting starters continue pitching with 110 pitches is a start. All in all, I don't think this team has the tools to get there, but I think they're closer than what they look.
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Posted on 09/23/2012 1:11:04 PM PDT by markomalley
A few months ago we looked at a survey that showed that the vast majority of Americans have no idea whatsoever what percentage of the population is gay.
Mainstream studies indicate that percentage is somewhere in the low single digits, but Americans believed on average that 25 percent of the population is gay. Yes, 25 percent. This includes data showing that 35 percent of Americans think that more than 25 percent of the population is gay.
Ive long wondered why it is that Americans are so wrong on this, but I cant help but think that the mainstream media plays a significant role.
I was reminded of that study when I read this Religion News Service report showing that Americans are way off when estimating the percentage of Americans who belong to various religious groups:
The typical American underestimates how many Protestants there are in the U.S., and vastly overestimates the number of religious minorities such as Mormons, Muslims, and atheist/agnostics, according to a new study.
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The average response was that 24 percent of Americans are Catholic, 20 percent are Protestant, 19 percent are unaffiliated, 8 percent are Jewish, 9 percent are atheist or agnostic, 7 percent are Muslim, 7 percent are Mormon and 5 percent identify with all other religious groups.
Respondents were correct on Catholics 24 percent of the country is Catholic. But according to the 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey from the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, 51 percent are Protestant, 12 percent are unaffiliated, 2 percent are Jewish, 4 percent are Atheist/Agnostic, less than 1 percent are Muslim, 2 percent are Mormon and 4 percent identify with all other religious groups.
The article quotes Ron Sellers, the president of the research firm, theorizing that the word Protestant might have thrown people off. But this was the part that got me interested:
Sellers also mentioned that with Mitt Romney running for president as a Mormon and the current emphasis on Islamic-American relations, smaller faith groups also may be getting disproportionate media coverage.
This is undoubtedly true. But do we take this to an extreme? No one would claim that Mormonism and Islam or various tiny religious groups shouldnt get disproportionate coverage at times but I am sometimes surprised at the lack of good reporting on the majority of religious adherents in the coverage. If the coverage is disproportionate to the point that it is negatively affecting peoples understanding of the real world, that might be an argument for a bit more evenly distributed religious news coverage. Particularly since there are gobs of stories that go under-reported as it is.
Look at New England. I live in Massachusetts. It's practically a wasteland. I had to change churches a few years ago — an elderly, and very Christian pastor retired and was replaced by a left-wing, green, lesbian who clearly did not see Christ as a Savior. Took us months to find a new church with a Bible-centered mission.
Maybe the Catholics could post a few more stories about Protestants to the Religion Forum :)
That's because they do 25% of the talking. :)
Misleading...I don't see the God haters and heathens representing the Democrat party and Muslims here....
Hope you don't regard it as a slam. I thought it was pretty interesting.
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I grew up in Manhattan in the mid-60s. My family was Catholic and we knew a lot of Jewish people. I was aware of this religious difference mostly because of some kids getting days off from Public School because of the Jewish Holidays.
When I was in second grade (in Catholic school) we read in our social studies book that most Americans were Protestant. This was disturbing news to me because I had never heard that word before.
Imagine, learning that MOST of your fellow citizens were something you'd never even heard of.
When we got out of school that day I asked my mom "What's a Protestant?" And she looked at me shocked and said "You don't know?!?!?"
Oooh boy, I was really up the creek on this Protestant thing!
Then she said "Oh, of course you don't know, there aren't anymore Protestants around here any more." Then she sort of explained it to me. A few years later my friend introduced me to the tales of Henry VIII and the history started to fall into place.
I had to laugh seeing this thread, I'll never forget that day. Aside from the day JFK was killed that was pretty much the most confused I'd been up to that point in my life.
I notice that somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of the population consider themselves to be evangelical (another hard to define term) and that may be what people are picking up on when they estimate the percentage of Protestants to be in that range.
Or they may be thinking of the number of mainline, non-evangelical protestants which is roughly the same, though it declines as the Evangelical and unbelieving populations increase.
Add the Evangelicals and the other, mainstream Protestants together and you get the total Protestant population.
FWIW, I notice your map doesn't count Mormons as Protestants. I suppose that's true doctrinally, though those who don't belong to either group sometimes have a different impression.
Look at the names in the legend to the map. Take out the Baptists and the LCMS, and the rest are apostate IMO:
American Baptist Churches in the USA
Assemblies of God
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ
Episcopal Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Southern Baptist Convention
United Church of Christ
United Methodist Church
I think the pollsters have overestimated the Protestant population, myself.
The map was posted at Get Religion.
Mormons are not Christians. Of course they are not Protestants,
Mormons are Mormons.
The writings of their own founders indicate that Mormons did not consider themselves part of any Protestant church. They regarded Protestants in the same light as they regarded Catholicism, which is to say very negatively. Mormons wanted no part of either and regarded both Protestant and Catholic as being in serious error.
In all fairness, leftists are very adept at joining organizations with the intent of subverting their purpose to the leftist agenda. Any organization and every organization.
They have successfully done this in most religions in the US, and only after years are finally now being countered by religious schism, by the faithful in those religions rejecting the infiltration and the agenda, who split off from the religion and take their money and resources and faith with them for a reformed version.
But at the same time, this creates the impression that there are far more *believing* faithful than there actually are.
Call them PINOs if you like, Protestants In Name Only.
But their faith is not in religion but in the leftist agenda, so they truly neither believe in their articles of their denomination, or even in God for that matter. They continually afford to pretend that the doctrines of their church are identical to those of the left, despite all evidence and history to the contrary.
So how many *real* Protestants, Catholics and Jews are there in the US? Good question. But I suspect the real number may be closer to the "underestimation" than not.
It is 75% horse and buggy Old Order Amish. The surrounding counties are heavily Mennonite and other versions of Old Order Amish. You can tell by the pattern of the dresses on the women and the hats on the men.
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Well, looking at polling data and voting patterns, better than half of the Catholic population is apostate as well. We can't expect non-Christians to be able to make a distinction between the two if we don't ourselves.
I look at that sea of red in Missouri and have hope that McCaskill will be ousted, despite the efforts of certain Republicans to undermine or even destroy her opponent.
I look at that sea of red and know where the startling numbers turning out for CFA day can be primarily attributed, even in largely liberal states. Look at California. There's a large red coastal county right by the Bay Area.
Heck, look at Utah.
I look at that map and know why Sarah Palin had such an upwelling of support in 2008, too. All other criticisms aside, she spoke their language and walked the walk.
Every TV show has a token gay person on it now, so it's easy to presume that 20% of the population is gay if one is getting one's impression of the world through watching TV.
I wouldn't argue with that. I think the number of observant trinitarian believers, of all stripes, has steadily dropped over the last 100 years across this country.
We cant expect non-Christians to be able to make a distinction between the two if we dont ourselves.
You make an awesome point. Thank you!
Seems like that might also be the case for the Jews and Mormons (2% Jews & Mormons as well).
My late father-in-law had a tired old joke he'd pull out whenever he passed a cross walk marked "Pedestrian Crossing". He'd always ask, "Why do the Presbyterians get their own crossing? Where are the crossings for the Lutherans and the Catholics?"
Also, Baptists aren't even Protestant.
Very interesting. I'm surprised that there aren't more Southern counties with a majority of United Methodist congregants.
I think the article's mention of a problem with asking about "protestant" is valid, but it might also affect some of the respondents who belong to certain churches.
If memory serves, some object t the "Protestant" label. I think some Baptist don't regard themselves as technically deserving the name?
LOL, that's pretty bad.
As I said on another thread an Episcopal Bishop once told my brother that Presbyterians are "the secret force".
I'm just glad my Presbyterian mom-in-law did not live to see the whole magilla at the Chrystal Cathedral, that would have broken her heart.
Who declares which protestant denominations are "apostate"? You?
And odd you should lump all the "Baptists" in together as "non-apostate", there are many different Baptist denominations in America and they run the spectrum from very conservative to very liberal Christian theology. Not all are SBC. You even have nutty groups out there that are Baptist in name only, like Westboro Baptist Church. I'm pretty sure every Christian would consider Fred Phelps to be "apostate"
Same here. I would have thought the Methodist would be much larger and the Baptist much smaller.
I read recently that Methodists were the largest group in, I believe it was, the early 19th century.
As most know, Methodism was an off-shoot of Anglican.
"Also, Baptists arent even Protestant."
Thank you for pointing that out. Baptists were around way before Martin Luther who started the Protestant movement.
Might I ask, what church were you able to find bible teaching?
Might I ask, what church were you able to find bible teaching?
Iirc, Southern Baptist is the biggest Protestant denomination nationwide, but I'm surprised that on the county level there aren't more Methodist majorities. Around here (south-central NC) the oldest congregations are usually Methodist. I love visiting their cemeteries! We toured one during our recent vacation that included a Revolutionary War veteran who was a frontier Methodist pastor.
sorry .. I thought you were serious for a second.
NC was as Anglican colony, I'm guessing that helps explain it's deep Methodism.
I'm in Texas and I would guess that Baptist/Methodist are near co-equal in a great number of counties.
They truly were an integral part of our religious history, particularly on the fronteir. The circuit-riding Methodist minister... what an incredible American history!
thanks for your reply.
Baptists are Protestants. Many of them just aren't either intelligent enough to know it or honest enough to admit it.
I'll bet life is peaceful and quiet in your little county.
My county is too. Almost totally Protestant. Mostly Baptist and Church of Christ. A few Lutherans (German). It is also pretty peaceful.
The town I live in is about 600 people and we have 3 Baptist Churches.
Entire county population is about 5,000 people.
Evangelical Free Church of America. As an institution, it is not overly doctrinal, and while different congregations may be either very good or somewhat less good, with a good pastor, it can fulfill a mission of using Bible words to promote Biblical teaching and the doing of Biblical works.
The rest are the ones who also happen to be in communion with the Roman Catholic church
Then, where does one put the Oneness Pentecostals who do not believe in the Trinity? Or the various Jewish Christians or others?
It would be simpler to call all of these as non-Catholic or even to use the Freerepublic Religion Forum categories :)
The UMC are not apostate. Xzins has corrected me in the past for that wrong perception. From what I understand, they are still fighting with the liberals in their church. As conservatives — whether Catholic or Methodist or Baptist — we need to support the fellow conservatives in the UMC and not dump them in the same group as the liberals in their denomination
And Joseph Smith, took this idea and pushed it back even further in his teachings to apostolic times.
that depends on which Baptist you speak to. I believe it's not restricted to a particular Baptist group but certain Baptist individuals believe they are not Protestants and others don't. It's down to the individual
The concept of Baptist successionism wrongly ascribes Albigensians or paulicians or Montanists of having the same beliefs as modern-day Baptists
However Montanists seemed more like modern day pentecostals, and had female bishops and heavily believed in ongoing prophecy
paulicians were adoptionists in their belief that Jesus was adopted by God and they believed that Satan was equally powerful as God, not as mainstream Christians do
Albigensians/Cathari were Gnostics who took that dualism one step further and believed that the created world is maya or an illusion created by a false god and Jesus came to take us away from this false world to the higher god.
Baptists do NOT have any of these beliefs (or at least the Baptists that I know).
....my drawing line is support of abortion -- anyone who openly supports this can't be Christian. Yes, that's an absolute. If someone says that they don't want to comment, but won't support abortion, just not do anything, that's still bad, still bad Christian, but not as awful as one who would support killing of babies just to control the population
Our belief in the sanctity of unborn human life makes us reluctant to approve abortion. But we are equally bound to respect the sacredness of the life and well-being of the mother, for whom devastating damage may result from an unacceptable pregnancy. In continuity with past Christian teaching, we recognize tragic conflicts of life with life that may justify abortion, and in such cases we support the legal option of abortion under proper medical procedures. We cannot affirm abortion as an acceptable means of birth control, and we unconditionally reject it as a means of gender selection.You can read the history of this changing statement at First Things. Meanwhile, the OPC's official position on abortion is found in their 38th and 39th General Assemblies. That position is summarized as follows:
-- The United Methodist Church's official statement on "Social Principles - Abortion
Abortion. The 1971 Assemblytwo years before the infamous Roe v. Wade decision of the U.S. Supreme Courtdenounced the practice of voluntary abortion except possibly for the purpose of saving the mother's life.It would be appreciated if you would support conservatives in the OPC, EPC, PCA, and other Presbyterian denominations, and not dump them in the same group as the liberals in the PC(USA).
Why don't you practise what you preach first and then lecture?
It's fine talk coming from a poster whose posts constantly say "Catholics — go vote for the Democrats" — that's treasonous talk on FR and shouldn't be allowed. While conservative Catholics, Methodists, Baptists etc. are trying hard within their own groups and reaching out to help conservatives else, it's really strange to have a poster constantly post such articles over and over again.
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Wadley, Meredith Lynne (University of Oregon, June , 1989)[more][less]Wadley, Meredith Lynne 2016-09-07T22:52:12Z 2016-09-07T22:52:12Z 1989-06 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20084 196 pages Short stories and selections of a novel in progress. en_US University of Oregon Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US THOSE WHO WILL HAVE US Thesis / Dissertation
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Peña, Jaime (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Payne, Doris Peña, Jaime 2016-02-24T00:34:37Z 2016-02-24T00:34:37Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19730 This dissertation constitutes the first attempt at describing the grammar of Wampis (Spanish: Huambisa), a language spoken in the Peruvian Amazon. Wampis belongs to the so-called Jivaroan family of languages and is closely related to sister languages Awajun, Shuar, Shiwiar and Achuar. The grammar introduces the Wampis people and some aspects of their culture and history before analyzing the major aspects of the language from a grammatical perspective. Wampis possesses a complex prosodic system that mixes features of tone and stress. Vowel elision processes pervade most morphophonological processes. Nasalization is also present and spreads rightward and leftward through continuants and vowels. Every word in Wampis needs at least one high tone, but more can occur in a word. Morphologically, Wampis is a very rich language. Nouns and especially verbs have very robust morphology. Affixes and enclitics contribute different meanings to words. Some morphemes codify semantic categories that are not grammatically codified in many other languages, such as sudden realization, apprehensive and mirative modalities. An outstanding feature of Wampis is the pattern of argument indexation on the verb, which follows an uncommon pattern in which the verb agrees with the object (and not with the subject) if the object is a Plural Speech Act participant. Parallel to this pattern of argument indexation is the typologically uncommon pattern of object marking in Wampis, whereby a third person object noun phrase is not marked as an object if the subject is a first plural, second singular or second plural person. Wampis exhibits a nominative-accusative alignment. All notional objects (direct, indirect, object of applicative) are treated identically in the syntax. The preferred order is A P V. Wampis also possesses a sophisticated system of participant tracking, which is instantiated in the grammar via switch-reference markers. Another typologically uncommon feature of Wampis is the presence of a sub-system of switch-reference markers that track a participant that is not a subject. Throughout the twenty-one chapters of this grammar, other issues of Wampis related to different areas of phonology, morphology and syntax are also addressed and described from a functional and a typological perspective. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Amazonian Linguistics Jivaroan Languages Prosody Syntax Typology Wampis (Huambisa) A Grammar of Wampis Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Linguistics University of Oregon
Gutierrez, Fernando (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Dou, Dejing Gutierrez, Fernando 2016-02-24T00:34:06Z 2016-02-24T00:34:06Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19729 Information extraction (IE) is the process of automatically transforming written natural language (i.e., text) into structured information, such as a knowledge base. However, because natural language is inherently ambiguous, this transformation process is highly complex. On the other hand, as Information Extraction moves from the analysis of scientific documents to the analysis of Internet textual content, we cannot rely completely on the assumption that the content of the text is correct. Indeed, in contrast to scientific documents, which are peer reviewed, Internet content is not verified for the quality and correctness. Thus, two main issues that affect the IE process are the complexity of the extraction process and the quality of the data. In this dissertation, we propose an improved ontology-based IE (OBIE) by providing solutions to these issues of accuracy and content quality. Based on a hybrid strategy that combines aspects of IE that are usually considered as opposite to each other, or that are not even considered, we intend to improve IE by developing a more accurate extraction and new functionality (semantic error detection). Our approach is based on OBIE, a sub-area of IE, which reduces extraction complexity by including domain knowledge, in the form of concepts and relationships of the domain, to guide the extraction process. We address the complexity of extraction by combining information extractors that have different implementations. By integrating different types of implementation into one extraction system, we can produce a more accurate extraction. For each concept or relationship in the ontology, we can select the best implementation for extraction, or we can combine both implementations under an ensemble learning schema. In tandem, we address the quality of information by determining its semantic correctness with regard to domain knowledge. We define two methods for semantic error detection: by predefining the types of errors expected in the text or by applying logic reasoning to the text. This dissertation includes both published and unpublished coauthored material. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Information extraction Logic Reasoning Ontology A Hybrid Approach for Ontology-based Information Extraction Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Computer and Information Science University of Oregon
Baldwin, Thomas (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Steck, Daniel Baldwin, Thomas 2016-02-24T00:33:50Z 2016-02-24T00:33:50Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19728 In a semiconductor, negative charge is carried by conduction-band electrons and positive charge is carried by valence-band holes. While charge transport properties can be understood by considering the motion of these carriers individually, the optical properties are largely determined by their mutual interaction. The hydrogen-like bound state of an electron with a hole, or exciton, is the fundamental optical excitation in direct-gap materials such as gallium arsenide and cadmium telluride. In this dissertation, we consider charged excitons, or trions. A bound state of an exciton with a resident electron or hole, trions are a relatively pure manifestation of the three-body problem which can be studied experimentally. This is a subject of practical as well as academic interest: Since the trion is the elementary optical excitation of a resident free carrier, the related optical processes can open pathways for manipulating carrier spin and carrier transport. We present three experimental investigations of trion-based optical processes in semiconductor quantum wells. In the first, we demonstrate electromagnetically induced transparency via the electron spin coherence made possible by the trion transition. We explore the practical limits of this technique in high magnetic fields. In the second, we present a direct measurement of trion and exciton oscillator strength at high magnetic fields. These data reveal insights about the structure of the trion's three-body wavefunction relative to that of its next excited state, the triplet trion. In the last, we investigate the mechanism underlying exciton-correlated tunneling, an optically-controllable transport process in mixed-type quantum wells. Extensive experimental studies indicate that it is due to a local, indirect interaction between an exciton and a hole, forming one more example of a trion-mediated optical process. This dissertation includes previously published co-authored material. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. excitons gallium arsenide quantum wells trions Trion-based Optical Processes in Semiconductor Quantum Wells Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Physics University of Oregon
Pack, Justin (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Mann, Bonnie Pack, Justin 2016-02-24T00:33:17Z 2016-02-24T00:33:17Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19727 In my dissertation, I argue that the neoliberalization of higher education results in the university becoming less and less a place of wonder, self-cultivation and thinking and instead more and more a place to specialize, strategize and produce. This is a result of the volatile infusion and mixing of the logic of calculative rationality at work in consumer capitalism with the logic of scientific instrumental rationality already hegemonic in academia. This adds to the demands of the academic world of production the demands of the world of consumption. Now the academic (and also the student) is interpellated not only as a producer of knowledge but also as an object of consumption (to be consumed by others). These new pressures, previously kept at a distance from academia, explosively accelerate the already rapid process of rationalization of which science is already a key part and increasingly structure higher education as a field of strategic action in which students no longer have the time to think and to develop good judgment. I worry this undermines the opportunity for students to develop into good citizens that can truly think critically and judge carefully. Thinking and judgment are, according to Arendt, the only things that can save us if the powerful machines of science or capitalism begin to work in ways they should not. Arendt saw Nazi Germany use the newest science and the best economic management to systematically kill six million Jews. She saw the disturbing inability of the populace and the intellectuals to capably resist the Nazi machine once it got rolling. I argue than unless checked, neoliberalization threatens to turn the university into a place that discourages thinking and the development of judgment in favor of hyperspecialization and strategic action. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Hannah Arendt Neoliberalism Research University Thoughtlessness Academics No Longer Think: How the Neoliberalization of Academia Leads to Thoughtlessness Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Philosophy University of Oregon
Denning, Catherine (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Mondloch, Kate Denning, Catherine 2016-02-24T00:32:47Z 2016-02-24T00:32:47Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19726 This thesis addresses reenactment and archival practice in the work of Sharon Hayes, a mid-career multi-media artist renowned for her use of archival documents to pose questions about history, politics, and speech. I do this through analyses of two of Hayes's projects: the series In the Near Future (2005-2009) and a series of projects the artist refers to as "love addresses." While these projects appropriate and repeat historical documents, Hayes's work is especially interesting for the way it emphasizes difference over authenticity and explores the ways meaning shifts across temporal, geographic, and social contexts. In contrast to scholars who argue that Hayes's practice is nostalgic and serves to decontextualize and depoliticize history, my thesis argues that the pedagogical aspects of Hayes's work and her performative engagements with historical material are deeply political and contextual. My thesis demonstrates that Hayes's distinctive contribution is to model historical agency and imagine alternative futures. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. archival practice contemporary art feminism performance art queer studies reenactment Departing from History: Sharon Hayes, Reenactment and Archival Practice in Contemporary Art Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Department of the History of Art and Architecture University of Oregon
Fernandez, Inara (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Hindery, Derrick Fernandez, Inara 2016-02-24T00:32:28Z 2016-02-24T00:32:28Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19725 This thesis seeks to understand the intersection of cultural identity and food security in a country that has had a difficult time feeding its people. The discourse on food in Guatemala, in the realm of development and international studies, maintains a focus on the lack thereof. Moreover, the author examines the food traditions and beliefs people in Guatemala feel are important as well as the obstacles they face in realizing food self-sufficiency. Many Guatemalans have an intimate connection with their land, and unequal land distribution hinders farmers' abilities to access the foods they most value. In addition to this, the unfolding sustainable development agenda has resulted in biofuel projects that threaten the livelihoods of many rural farmers. Through interviews with chefs, agricultural workers, and agricultural commodity traders, the author pieces together the differing perspectives of various stakeholders to present a complex mosaic of Guatemalan foodways. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Agriculture Food Studies Gastronomy Guatemala Control and Continuity: Sustainability, Land Rights, and the Politics of Food in Guatemala Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Department of International Studies University of Oregon
Jiang, Shangpu (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Dou, Dejing Jiang, Shangpu 2016-02-24T00:32:13Z 2016-02-24T00:32:13Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19724 Machine learning and data mining have provided plenty of tools for extracting knowledge from data. Yet, such knowledge may not be directly applicable to target applications and might need further manipulation: The knowledge might contain too much noise, or the target application may use a different representation or terminology. In this dissertation, we study three problems related to knowledge management and manipulation. First, given a knowledge base (KB) automatically extracted from the text, we explore how to refine it based on the dependencies among the possible KB instances and their confidence values. Second, when the target application to which we want to apply our knowledge uses a different schema, we explore how to translate the knowledge based on the mapping between the schemas. Sometimes, the mapping between two schemas can be discovered automatically, so the third problem we consider is whether we can find the mapping more accurately using the corresponding knowledge contained in the two schemas. We notice that a large fraction of data and knowledge can be represented in relational models, which can be formalized with first-order logic. Moreover, uncertainty is a common feature existing in these problems, e.g., the confidence values associated with the KB instances, the probabilistic knowledge rules to be translated, or the schemas not perfectly aligned with each other. Therefore, we adopt statistical relational learning, which combines first-order logic with probabilistic models, to resolve these problems. In particular, we use Markov logic networks (MLNs), which consist of sets of weighted first-order formulas. MLNs are a powerful and flexible language for representing hard and soft constraints of relational domains. We develop the MLN formulations for each of these problems, and we use the representation, inference and learning approaches in the literature with certain adaptations to solve them. The experiment results show that MLNs successfully provide solutions to these problems or achieve better performances than the existing methods. This dissertation includes previously published and unpublished coauthored material. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Knowledge Base Refinement and Knowledge Translation with Markov Logic Networks Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Computer and Information Science University of Oregon
Meyer, Julianne (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Gilman, Lisa Meyer, Julianne 2016-02-24T00:31:49Z 2016-02-24T00:31:49Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19723 The FisherPoets Gathering is an annual event where expressive art performed exposes the explicit and implicit gender dynamics of the occupation of commercial fishing. Through these performances, women tackle gender issues that bridge the gap between the fishing industry and the event. Through performance and interactions with fellow female FisherPoets, the women validate themselves as fishermen and comment on the behavior of their male colleagues. These performance-based expressive art forms enable them to address the fishing industry's gender power dynamics and begin to make social change. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. commercial fishing fisherpoet folk poetry gender occupational folklore performance Words Carried in with the Tide: Boundaries of Gender in FisherPoetry Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Folklore Program University of Oregon
Parzuchowski, Kimberley (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Johnson, Mark Parzuchowski, Kimberley 2016-02-24T00:31:27Z 2016-02-24T00:31:27Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19722 My dissertation explores the role of narrative in the cultivation of empathy for ethical attitudes and behaviors. I begin by exploring an uncommon view of human nature, concluding that we are not autonomously individualistic rational deciders but ultrasocial moral intuitionists. Our intuitions are developed through our social engagements and the moral imagination. Intersubjective relations run deep in our psychology and provide the basis by which we shape the meaning of our lives as individuals in communities. It is because of this that we need to reconsider and redesign our moral cultivation programs both for the child-rearing years and throughout adult life. I look at empathy, the means of our mutual understanding, care, and help, as a key site for moral cultivation. I explicate the neurophysiological bases of empathy, both conscious and unconscious. Empathy is on the continuum with very primitive, automatic mirroring systems, which through varying levels of mimicry facilitate social cognition and moral insight and action. It is thus the ideal means of cultivating a skillful morality. Empathy enables us to enter the worlds and feelings of others in rich and full-bodied ways and so can reveal others in their full subjectivity. Such experiences can incite empathic regard and compassionate action, but empathy, like all of our psycho-social capacities, requires cultivation to develop its skillfulness in practice. Narrative is an obvious means of cultivating empathy because it is humanity's primary meaning-making structure, utilizing the empathic imagination to seduce us into the inner worlds of others. Through narrative dramatizations of experience, we learn to see and feel from another's point of view, sensitizing us to their inner states and outward behavior. Such sensitivity can facilitate improving our moral attitudes and action by dislodging preoccupation with self-concern and instigating higher regard for others. In narratives we can imaginatively practice various moral actions, witnessing possible results. Reflective engagement can then bring the moral insights of these imaginative experiences to life in our practical worlds by attuning us to what is morally salient. Narrative engagement is thus a natural and vital part of shaping empathic moral perception for compassionate action. By reading and feeling with others reflectively, we can expand empathy for the pluralistic communities in which we live, make meaning, and grow. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Empathy Intersubjectivity Mirror Neurons Moral Imagination Moral Perception Narrative The Enchantment of Ethics: Empathy, Character, and the Art of Moral Living Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Philosophy University of Oregon
Romero Montano, Luz (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Taylor, Analisa Romero Montano, Luz 2016-02-24T00:31:09Z 2016-02-24T00:31:09Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19721 In this dissertation, I argue against the idea that literary works that portray drug-trafficking, or "narconovelas," are mere apologias for drug-trafficking and governing failures unique to Colombia and Mexico. In order to problematize that statement, it is necessary to understand how drug-trafficking and its policies started, changed over time, and came to shape our contemporary practices of citizenship and our sense of justice. Drawing on Foucault's concept of "governmentality", I argue that a political reading of narconovelas will help us to rethink categories of governmentality such as governed subjectivities, governed bodies and inhabited spaces. In narconovelas, these categories reveal the construction of a criminal otherness, which is portrayed as antagonistic to an ideal middle-class model of citizen. In other words, readers of "narconovelas" do not learn about "narcoculture" or drug-trafficking but paradoxically about the markers of a middle-class citizen: "well spoken," educated, able to control his/her own pleasures, conservatively dressed, and responsive to the disciplining of security dispositifs. In the first part of this dissertation, I explain how the opium policies and wars in China during the 19th century as well as the colonialist efforts of the United States established a precedent for the governing of drugs on a global level. Colombian and Mexican governing of drugs is linked not only to that precedent but also to the neoliberal ways of the governing of drugs. The second part of this work contains the literary analysis. I found that feminine subjectivities are constructed by highlighting the differences between a middle-class woman and a subaltern woman, and the body of the criminal is constructed based on distinctions of social class; in addition, the micro-politics for the representation of bodies derive from the colonial assumption that bodies can be owned, abused and disposed. I also found that narconovelas reverse our understanding of the center and the periphery; some novels even depict a transforming sense of citizenship by reimaging the inhabited spaces. With this work, I demonstrate that cultural production and in particular the narconovelas reinforce, challenge or remain ambiguous to the various biases that shape contemporary categories of governmentality such as gender, body and space. This dissertation is written in Spanish. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Citizen Criminal Governmentality History of Drugs Narcoliteratura Representation of Drug trafficking Gubernamentalidad y Construcción de Sentidos de Ciudadanía y Criminalidad en la Narcoliteratura Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Romance Languages University of Oregon
Carroll, Anna (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Pyle, Forest Carroll, Anna 2016-02-24T00:30:37Z 2016-02-24T00:30:37Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19720 This dissertation reconsiders sacred tropes in the Romantic poetry of William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, and John Keats within the context of ascetic performances and written saints' lives. I argue that reading these poets as ascetic figures helps us to better understand Romantic isolation as a deeply social engagement, for an ascetic rejects his social milieu in order to call for the sanctification of a corrupt community. Asceticism redraws the lines of Romantic immanent critique of nineteenth-century England and newly explains the ghostly afterlives of poets whose literary personae transcend their biographical lives. Furthermore, this study takes up the ways in which the foundational ascetic tropes of Romantic poetry bind the major poets together in an impenetrable canon of writers with holy vows to poetry and to each other. My readings examine different kinds of ascetic vocation at play in the work of each poet, and I ultimately argue that this traditional support for the Romantic canon demands that we reconsider our critical attachments to Romanticism as the beginning of a secular literary tradition. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Asceticism Keats Romanticism Shelley Wordsworth Holy Ghosts: Romantic Asceticism and Its Figural Phantoms Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of English University of Oregon
Savenko-Moore, Anastasia (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Presto, Jenifer Savenko-Moore, Anastasia 2016-02-24T00:30:16Z 2016-02-24T00:30:16Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19719 This thesis explores Orphic mythologemes and tropes in Marina Tsvetaeva's works in order to identify whether they create a personalized semantic system in her oeuvre. I review such themes as the "supernatural powers" of the archetypal poet, the descent to the underworld, the return from the dead, and the dismemberment and subsequent appearance of Orpheus's head. I study in detail the trope of the severed head in Tsvetaeva's poetics and her understanding of poetry as Land with its physical and metaphysical realms. I discuss a question: which persons might Tsvetaeva have associated with Orpheus? I examine the guises of the lyrical "I" and its associations with mythological or literary personae. I argue that Tsvetaeva demonstrated resistance and opposition towards the Orphic/Apollonian paradigms; above the authority of the "archetypal poet Orpheus" she introduced and established the authority of the Genius who leads "poets with a history." en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Blok Mythologemes Orpheus Tsvetaeva Orphic Mythologemes in Marina Tsvetaeva's Oeuvre Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.A. masters Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Program University of Oregon
Fowler, Daniel (University of Oregon, February 23, 2016)[more][less]Herman, Victoria Fowler, Daniel 2016-02-24T00:29:51Z 2016-02-24T00:29:51Z 2016-02-23 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19718 Functional characterization of synaptic proteins is often precluded by compensation not only among converging signaling pathways but also between structurally and functionally similar genes. One such gene family, the synaptic cell adhesion molecules (SynCAMs), contains four nearly identical members of which SynCAM1-3 are highly localized to excitatory synapses. SynCAMs have been demonstrated to have a clear synaptogenic potential when ectopically presented, either artificially or by overexpression, to developing neurons both in vitro and in vivo. Despite these observations, conflicting reports from gain- and loss-of-function experiments prevent the development of a cohesive functional model for SynCAMs in excitatory synapse formation. To overcome potential SynCAM functional redundancy and simultaneously compare effects of SynCAM knockdown and overexpression in cultured rat hippocampal neurons, I developed a tool for efficient multi-gene knockdown using artificial microRNAs. I then applied this tool with a novel analysis method which I call Mosaic Expression with Differentially Localized Reporters (MEDLR). Using MEDLR, I uncover novel synaptic phenotypes due to SynCAM1-3 knockdown which suggest SynCAM1-3 function redundantly through postsynapse-specific mechanisms to regulate excitatory synapse number and size. This dissertation contains both published and unpublished co-authored material. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. The SynCAM Family of Cell Adhesion Molecules Function Redundantly to Shape the Excitatory Synapse Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Biology University of Oregon


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Baseball's Triple Crown hitters
Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers captured baseball's first hitting Triple Crown since 1967. Here are the other 14 hitters who have won the crown before him.
- Wentz keeps Eagles unbeaten, shreds Steelers
- Hilton, Colts outrun Chargers for 1st win
- Michael, Graham help Seahawks throttle 49ers
- Dolphins get much-needed win over winless Browns in OT
- Redskins rally, knock off Giants 29-27
- Bills return to run, roar past Cardinals
- Tucker kicks unbeaten Ravens past Jaguars
- Raiders force turnovers to shut down Titans
- Siemian leads Broncos past Bengals in first road test
- Reports: Lane Johnson suspended
- Wentz comes through again as Eagles beat Bears 29-14
- EAGLES: Wentz handling praise well heading into Bears game
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- Whitehall grad scores five TDs, but Lions fall to Pitt, 42-39
- Barkley rushes for 105 yards and a TD in Lions 33-13 victory
- Penn State QB Christian Hackenberg declares for NFL Draft
- Georgia holds off Penn State to take TaxSlayer Bowl
- OT win keeps Team North America alive
- Panthers want D Ekblad out of World Cup of Hockey
- Europe's win leaves Team USA near elimination
- Sweden overcomes loss of Lundqvist, tops Russia
- Panthers, Huberdeau agree to 6-year extension
- Hurricanes extend GM Francis
- Avalanche hire Bednar as new coach
- Arizona Coyotes hire NHL's 1st full-time female assistant coach
- Minnesota Wild to celebrate goals with Prince song
- Hurricanes agree to terms with veteran G Leighton
- Phantoms to host Charlotte in pair of preseason games
- Phantoms release 2016-2017 schedule
- NHL notebook: Sabres' Kane pleads not guilty to multiple charges
- Heat F Bosh fails preseason physical
- Bucks lose Middleton for six months
- Garnett, Timberwolves talking buyout
- Sacramento mayor Kevin Johnson hit with pie
- Metta World Peace reportedly returning to Lakers
- Bucks, Antetokounmpo agree to 4-year extension
- Heat's Bosh: 'I'm ready to play'
- Steph Curry backs Clinton for president
- Thunder F McGary suspended 15 games
- MLB roundup: Astros narrow gap in wild-card race
- Tebow top leads MLB jersey sales
- Tebow begins Mets career wearing No. 15 jersey
- Wife of Padres' Solarte dies following cancer battle
- Padres GM suspended 30 days following MLB probe
- Cubs are 1st in MLB to clinch division
- Brundage out, Wathan in as IronPigs manager
- Hall of Fame manager La Russa rips Kaepernick's stance
- Reports: Yankees sign veteran 1B Butler


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PITTSBURGH - Jose Contreras' pitching line in a Thursday rehab outing was a red flag, but general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said there is no reason for concern.
Contreras, on the disabled list and rehabilitating from elbow surgery last September, threw just 11 pitches in single-A Clearwater's opening-day game against Dunedin. Only four of his pitches were strikes and two were wild pitches.
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Thanks again to everyone who made this Kickstarter a success. As you can see, the project is 125% funded, so we'll have a couple hundred dollars available to promote the... Read more
New Rewards -- Original Art
Looking for the perfect rotting bird carcass to display in your parlor? Look no further! The next $100 backer at Grub Street Grackle's Kickstarter will get the original pen and... Read more
Jomes Interview Teaser
I'm writing up my interview with the bizarre and vexing Rictor Jomes.
An audio recording of the first ten minutes of that interview is now available on the website. Please... Read more
Misinformation Dissemination
For the next few days we'll be punching up the new Misinformation Dissemination on practical uses for advanced theoretical physics. It's going to be mercilessly ridiculous.
To whet your appetite,... Read more