The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Airship

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Öhrström
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Hydrogen Gas ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Hydrogen Atoms ◽  
Energy Applications ◽  
The Us ◽  
Single Chemical ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Positively Charged

Joseph Späh had to feed his dog; nothing strange about that. The problem was that Ulla, an Alsatian, was mostly confined to the freight room—off limits to passengers. Had everything gone according to schedule, this would not have been an issue either, except for gruff remarks from crewmen not appreciating the needs of this canine friend and co-worker in Späh’s stage act. But this flight did not go according to plan, and Späh’s frequent visits to the rear of the Hindenburg would give him problems in the years to come. The US Department of Energy, and its counterparts in Europe and Japan, are currently spending billions on developing the use of hydrogen for future energy applications—for example, as a fuel for cars and buses. The main advantage is the clean combustion of this fuel: two molecules of hydrogen gas will combine with one molecule of oxygen and give two molecules of water. The future belongs, perhaps, to the ‘hydrogen economy’, but unfortunately for its proponents, the popular history of hydrogen as a fuel is bound up with the tragedy of the Hindenburg. We will get back to Joseph Späh’s poor dog in a while, but for now ponder the fact that over the dog, and above everyone else aboard the comfortable and luxurious Hindenburg , there were huge ‘bags’ filled with hydrogen—the lightest of all the elements, with only one proton and one electron. It has the lowest density of any gas, and is formed by two hydrogen atoms combined together via a single chemical bond, made by sharing the two negatively charged electrons between the two positively charged nuclei. This H2 gas had carried the world’s largest airship from Frankfurt to Lakehurst outside New York, and before that on successful tours all over the globe during the preceding year. These days, we tend to wonder how people could even contemplate the idea of travelling around in what can be described as a flying bomb.

Functioning of Ukrainian Bureau in Washington D. C. (March 1939 – May 1940)

2019 ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
Danylo Kravets
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
College Degrees ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government ◽  
General Functioning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
History Of Journalism ◽  
The Military

The aim of the Ukrainian Bureau in Washington was propaganda of Ukrainian question among US government and American publicity in general. Functioning of the Bureau is not represented non in Ukrainian neither in foreign historiographies, so that’s why the main goal of presented paper is to investigate its activity. The research is based on personal papers of Ukrainian diaspora representatives (O. Granovskyi, E. Skotzko, E. Onatskyi) and articles from American and Ukrainian newspapers. The second mass immigration of Ukrainians to the US (1914‒1930s) has often been called the «military» immigration and what it lacked in numbers, it made up in quality. Most immigrants were educated, some with college degrees. The founder of the Ukrainian Bureau Eugene Skotzko was born near Western Ukrainian town of Zoloczhiv and immigrated to the United States in late 1920s after graduating from Lviv Polytechnic University. In New York he began to collaborate with OUN member O. Senyk-Hrabivskyi who gave E. Skotzko task to create informational bureau for propaganda of Ukrainian case. On March 23 1939 the Bureau was founded in Washington D. C. E. Skotzko was an editor of its Informational Bulletins. The Bureau biggest problem was lack of financial support. It was the main reason why it stopped functioning in May 1940. During 14 months of functioning Ukrainian Bureau in Washington posted dozens of informational bulletins and send it to hundreds of addressees; E. Skotzko, as a director, personally wrote to American governmental institutions and foreign diplomats informing about Ukrainian problem in Europe. Ukrainian Bureau activity is an inspiring example for those who care for informational policy of modern Ukraine.Keywords: Ukrainian small encyclopedia, Yevhen Onatsky, journalism, worldview, Ukrainian state. Keywords: Ukrainian Bureau in Washington, Eugene Skotzko, public opinion, history of journalism, diaspora.

scholarly journals The scattering of hydrogen positive rays, and the existence of a powerful field of force in the hydrogen molecule

1922 ◽  
Vol 102 (715) ◽  
pp. 197-209 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fields ◽  
General Scheme ◽  
Hydrogen Gas ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Scattering Medium ◽  
Hydrogen Atoms ◽  
Hydrogen Molecules ◽  
Nuclear Particle ◽  
Positively Charged ◽  
Made In

In view of the extremely important results obtained by Sir E. Rutherford and others from a study of the scattering of α -rays, it seemed worth while to investigate the scattering of particles moving with smaller velocities such as occur in the positive rays. The most interesting, because the simplest, are the rays of positively charged hydrogen atoms, which presumably consist simply of a nuclear particle, or proton. The experiments described in this paper were made in some cases with these rays, in others with the positively charged hydrogen molecules, systems consisting of two protons and one electron. The scattering medium was in all cases hydrogen gas. This was chosen largely for convenience, as the experimental arrangement is considerably simplified if the same gas is used to produce the rays and to scatter them, and also because, with the exception of helium, the molecule of hydrogen is the simplest known, and there seemed more hope of obtaining results which could be given a definite theoretical interpretation. The general scheme of experiment was to produce the rays in a discharge tube, analyse them by magnetic and electric fields in the ordinary way, cut off all except those of the kind required by a slotted diaphragm, pass the remainder through a chamber containing the scattering gas, and receive them in a Faraday cylinder arranged behind a slit of variable width. The experiment consisted in finding how the charge received by the Faraday cylinder varied with the width of the slit, when this was made wider than the geometrical “shadow” of the slot in the diaphragm. Any rays lying outside this “shadow” must have been scattered.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL NOTE VOL 2, NO 3 (2012)

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Solberg Søilen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Editorial Note ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Intelligence Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
A Company

JISIB has entered into an electronic licensing relationship with EBSCO Publishing. It has also been selected to appear in EBSCO’s Business Source Complete database, which according to the company publishes “Superior Academic Journals (…) with premium content of peer-reviewed, business related journals. “ JISIB now also fulfills the official criteria of Thomson Reuters to be cited in their ISI Web of Knowledge database. As such it has applied to be included in the database. However, by experience with other journals, we know this process can still take considerable time. After having had the journal’s first annual meeting for editors in December we would like to thank the old board members who are leaving and welcome the new ones. Most contributions continue to come from best papers from a number of conferences related to Intelligence Studies. Two out of five articles come from ECKM 2012, which was held 6-7 September in Cartagena, Spain. Track co-chairs for the Mini Track on Competitive Intelligence and KM was G. Scott Erickson, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY and Helen N. Rothberg, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York. Two other articles are revised versions of papers presented at ECIS, but not previously published in journals. The article by Helen N. Rothberg and G. Scott Ericksonis about how to benchmark competitive intelligence activities. The paper identifies and measures different circumstances in which knowledge development and knowledge protection can have greater or lesser importance for a company.  The authors believe that the results will start to move scholarly work in the field into the new areas of macro studies and strategic choice. The article by Stéphan Goria is on board wargames for businesses. It also gives a broad background of this field of study with the history of wargames and numerous historical examples. Moreover Goria shows the benefits with wargames by creating a new game and testing it for a market situation which found place in France between Nintendo and Sony. The article by Yasmina Amara, Klaus Solberg Søilen and Dirk Vriens proposes a way to evaluate business intelligence software by introducing a new model, the SSAV model. The article by Marisela Rodriguez Salvador and Luis Francisco Salinas Casanova applies a Competitive Intelligence model to analyze Thermoplastics Elastomers (TE), a class of polymers, for a company in Mexico. The model shows numerous novel findings with important implications for the company. Finally, the article by Klaus Solberg Søilen and Anders Hasslinger show how vendors of Business Intelligence software try to differentiate themselves in this market.

scholarly journals  Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in an Asymptomatic US Population 

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Rigatti ◽  
Robert L. Stout
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Heart Disease ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Cumulative Number ◽  
Positive Serology ◽  
Blood Draw ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
High Level ◽  
Age Range

Abstract Methods: We performed SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests with the Roche e602 SARS CoV-2 Immuno system on 50,257 consecutive life insurance applicants who were having blood drawn for the purpose of underwriting mortality risk. Other variables included height, weight, and blood pressure at the time of the blood draw, a history of smoking and common chronic diseases (hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer).Results: The overall prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 was 3.0%, and was fairly consistent across the age range and similar in males and females. Geographical distribution revealed a very high level of positivity in the state of New York compared to all other areas (17.1%). Using US Census state population data to adjust state specific rates of positivity, it is estimated that this level of seropositivity would correspond to 6.98 million (99% CI: 6.56-7.38 million) SARS-CoV-2 infections in the US, which is 3.8 times the cumulative number of cases in the US reported to the CDC as of June 1, 2020.Conclusions: The estimated number of total SARS-CoV-2 infections based on positive serology is substantially higher than the total number of cases reported to the CDC. There is no apparent increase of risk of infection for individuals self-reporting, smoking, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension or cancer.

The Black Legend of Texas

PMLA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 131 (3) ◽  
pp. 735-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Brickhouse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Colonies ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Foundational Work

Among The Many Significant Contributions of Raúl Coronado's A World Not to Come: A History Of Latino Writing and Print Culture is its vivid account of a lost Latino public sphere, a little-known milieu of hispanophone intellectual culture dating back to the early nineteenth century and formed in the historical interstices of Spanish American colonies, emergent Latin American nations, and the early imperial interests of the United States. In this respect, the book builds on the foundational work of Kirsten Silva Gruesz's Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing, which gave definitive shape to the field of early Latino studies by addressing what were then (and in some ways still are) the “methodological problems of proposing to locate the ‘origins’ of Latino writing in the nineteenth century.” Gruesz unfolded a vast panorama of forgotten Spanish-language print culture throughout the United States, from Philadelphia and New York to New Orleans and California, in which letters, stories, essays, and above all poetry bequeathed what she showed convincingly were “important, even crucial, ways of understanding the world” that had been largely lost to history (x). Coronado's book carries forward this project of recovery, exploring a particular scene of early Latino writing centered in Texas during its last revolutionary decades as one of the Interior Provinces of New Spain, its abrupt transition to an independent republic, and its eventual annexation by the United States. As a “history of textuality” rather than a study of literary culture per se (28), the book tells the story of the first printing presses in Texas but also evinces the importance of manuscript circulation as well as private and sometimes unfinished texts. A World Not to Come concerns both print culture and origins but refuses to fetishize either, attending to the past not to “the degree that it is a measure of the future,” as Rosaura Sánchez once put it, but for the very opposite reason: because it portended a future that was never realized (qtd. in Gruesz, Ambassadors xi).

Shirer's History of Nazi Germany

1961 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Epstein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Board Of Directors ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Nazi Germany ◽  
Great Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Board Of Directors ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
To Come

William shirer'sRise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (New York, 1960) has been widely hailed as a great work of history. Harry Schermann, chairman of the board of directors of the Book of the Month Club, says that it “will almost certainly come to be considered the definitive history of one of the most frightful chapters in the story of mankind.” The book has already sold more widely than any work on European history published in recent years. It is probable that tens of thousands of American readers will take theirviews on recent German affairs from Shirer's pages for years to come. For that reason, it is important to point out the serious shortcomings of this work.

Gas Contaminant Mobility at Subsurface Disposal Area

2002 ◽  
Vol 713 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne C. Downs ◽  
Chang H. Oh ◽  
Todd Housley ◽  
Jeff Sondup
Keyword(s):  
Vadose Zone ◽  
Department Of Energy ◽  
Physical Damage ◽  
Disposal Area ◽  
Phase Partitioning ◽  
Rocky Flats ◽  
Contaminant Mobility ◽  
The Us ◽  
Environmental Laboratory ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTBeginning in 1952, waste materials, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs)contaminated with transuranic radionuclides, were generated during the fabrication, assembly, and processing of nuclear weapons components in the US Department of Energy (DOE) weapons productions complex at the Rocky Flats Plant (RFP). Following processing and containerization, drums were shipped to the Subsurface Disposal Area (SDA) at the Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL). During 1968 approximately 9,691 drums were buried there.In subsequent years, observations made during drum retrieval studies indicated that many of the drums were compromised on impact or suffered physical damage by compaction equipment shortly after burial. Corrosion also appears significant on drums buried for a few years. A large vadose-zone contaminant plume composed of solvents buried in the drums has been found beneath the burial area.Phase partitioning calculations show it unlikely that separate-phase solvent has leaked from the compromised drums deep into the soil profile or that solvents have dissolved into infiltrating water. Rather, it appears that the solvents are evaporating out of the barrels into the air phase and further partitioning from there throughout the subsurface.This paper describes the history of mixed wastes buried at the SDA, phase partitioning, and preliminary computer simulation results on gas contaminant mobility in the vadose zone.

On Collection

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-174
Author(s):  
Kjetil Anders Hatlebrekke
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Intelligence Community ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Real Target

Blind belief in the force of history make intelligence operatives think that history repeats itself. But history, of course, never repeats itself. Nor do threats repeat themselves. However, they do appear in new forms and varieties, and these may easily be misjudged as historical echoes. This may lead to orthodox beliefs that fuel a classic threat discourse that easily misleads. The US intelligence community thus failed to capitalise on the collected material they already had, and they were therefore not able to identify the change that had occurred on their threat radar. This chapter demonstrates how the US intelligence community’s focus on Afghanistan and bin Laden indicates that bin Laden in practice operated as his own diversion and scapegoat, since he managed to have the US intelligence community focusing more on him than on his organisation and on the threat evolving on American soil. Whether it was intentional or not is unknown, but the focus of US intelligence on bin Laden and al Qaeda in Afghanistan led them away from the terrorists in the US. It led the focus of US intelligence away from al Qaeda’s real target; New York and Washington.

Bad Faith

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Feffer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Bad Faith ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Cold War

In late summer 1940, as war spread across Europe and as the nation pulled itself out of the Great Depression, an anticommunist hysteria convulsed New York City. Targeting the city’s municipal colleges and public schools, the state legislature’s Rapp-Coudert investigation dragged hundreds of suspects before public and private tribunals to root out a perceived communist conspiracy to hijack the city’s teachers unions, subvert public education, and indoctrinate the nation’s youth. This book recounts the history of this witch-hunt, which lasted from August 1940 to March 1942. Anticipating McCarthyism and making it possible, the episode would have repercussions for decades to come. In recapturing this moment in the history of pre-war anticommunism, Bad Faith challenges assumptions about the origins of McCarthyism, the liberal political tradition, and the role of anticommunism in modern American life. With roots in the city’s political culture, Rapp-Coudert enjoyed the support of not only conservatives but also key liberal reformers and intellectuals who, well before the Cold War raised threats to national security, joined in accusing communists of “bad faith” and branded them enemies of American democracy. Exploring fundamental schisms between liberals and communists, Bad Faith uncovers a dark, “counter-subversive” side of liberalism, which involved charges of misrepresentation, lying, and deception, and led many liberals to argue that the communist left should be excluded from American educational institutions and political life.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Commercial Television ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
Key Events ◽  
Near Future

This conclusion settles on 1948 as an apt, if provisional, endpoint for the history of the southern cinema, citing several key events of that year: the presidential election and its exposure of deepening racial fissures, the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc., and the launch of widespread commercial television programming. D. W. Griffith’s death, the last of James Agee’s brilliant film criticism, and the publication of William Faulkner’s novel Intruder in the Dust also made 1948 significant in these contexts of region, race, and media, suggesting the major events and transformations to come in the near future—not the least of which was the Civil Rights Movement.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document