The Digital Sousa and New Online Resources from the United States Marine Band

Notes ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-408
Author(s):  
Jane Cross ◽  
Patrick Warfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
United States Marine Band

Beyond the Digital Divide

2010 ◽  
pp. 133-154
Author(s):  
Seongyeon Auh ◽  
Stuart W. Shulman ◽  
Lisa E. Thrane ◽  
Mack C. Shelley II
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
Primary Focus

An essential, and rapidly-developing, aspect of electronic government is the growing use of online resources for government activities such as e-rulemaking, citizen participation, and the provision of information, referral, and assistance for users with needs for service delivery. Major developments in the use of electronic government resources for services needed by the elder and disability populations are the primary focus of this chapter. We focus here on the results of a large-scale statewide survey of residents of the state of Iowa, and on the findings from evaluations of aging and disability resource Websites in the United States and in other countries. Current and future trends in service delivery that may help to bridge digital divides for the elder and disability populations are discussed.

Online Resources in Blindness and Disability: An International Overview

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (3) ◽  
pp. 156-159
Author(s):  
L. Rosen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Computer Use ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Online Searching ◽  
Exchange Of Information ◽  
International Scale ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Existing Data

For professionals conducting research in the fields of blindness and disability, searching the literature by computer offers speedy access to existing data and facilitates the efficient exchange of information. As computer use becomes more prevalent on an international scale, it is useful for researchers to have knowledge of online searching procedures and resources. This overview outlines important databases produced in the United States and elsewhere, where relevant articles and information may be found.

A Presidential Musician

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Warfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
The Third ◽  
United States Marine Band

This chapter examines the first part of John Philip Sousa's tenure as leader of the United States Marine Band and shows how he worked to stabilize that ensemble's membership and modernize its repertoire. The following day after Sousa and his wife arrive in Washington in 1880, he enlisted in the Marine Corps for the third time, now as the band's seventeenth director, its youngest leader, and its first American-born conductor. Given the nature of Sousa's later fame, his appointment to the Marine Band seems only natural. But at this stage of his career he had never led a band or military ensemble. He was a published composer, but very little of his music was for ensembles of winds alone, and marches were not yet an important part of his output. Despite this lack of experience, Sousa's new appointment was little more than a fine-tuning of his career.

Beyond the Digital Divide

2010 ◽  
pp. 1646-1667
Author(s):  
Seongyeon Auh ◽  
Stuart W. Shulman ◽  
Lisa E. Thrane ◽  
Mack C. Shelley II
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Digital Divides ◽  
Primary Focus

An essential, and rapidly-developing, aspect of electronic government is the growing use of online resources for government activities such as e-rulemaking, citizen participation, and the provision of information, referral, and assistance for users with needs for service delivery. Major developments in the use of electronic government resources for services needed by the elder and disability populations are the primary focus of this chapter. We focus here on the results of a large-scale statewide survey of residents of the state of Iowa, and on the findings from evaluations of aging and disability resource Websites in the United States and in other countries. Current and future trends in service delivery that may help to bridge digital divides for the elder and disability populations are discussed.

Evaluating Online Resources

2011 ◽  
pp. 292-296
Author(s):  
Elaine Studnicki
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Web Site ◽  
The United States ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
The Web

In a matter of seconds, a person using the Web will make a decision. Do I stay on this Web site or click to another? There are many reasons for this reaction. For many the decisions are unconscious behavior and for others it is a matter of speed. Still others focus on content. Regardless, the ability to get users to a Web site and keep them there has become big business for both business and educational institutions. According to Internet Usage Statistics (2007), the Internet World Stats Web site, over 1 billion people use the Internet worldwide. The MIT home page is accessed about 2000 time a day from around the world. And use is on the rise. In 2009 the completion of an 18,000 km oceanic cable drop linking South Korea, China, and Taiwan with the United States Internet sends a clear signal that usage and dependency will only increase in the future and spread around the world. This creates an imperative that users are keenly aware of where they surf, what information they share, and, most importantly, if they can believe what they read and see.

A Capital Boyhood

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Warfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Early Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Bands ◽  
United States Marine Band ◽  
The City ◽  
Permanent Residents ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at John Philip Sousa's early education in Washington and his training as a member of the United States Marine Band. Looking back over his childhood, the March King remembered the 1860s as a period of adventure and the Navy Yard as a neighborhood that allowed youthful play to coexist with military pageantry. The soundtrack of this childhood was provided by military bands, some of which were accompanying Northern regiments to battle, while others were permanent residents of the city. The most important band was, of course, the Marine Band. By the age of thirteen he had largely committed himself to a career in music. He was helped along the way by a community of musicians that provided him with much more than playmates and an apprenticeship.

SOUNDS TO ESTABLISH A CORPS: THE ORIGINS OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE BAND, 1798–1804

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-132
Author(s):  
PATRICK R. WARFIELD
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
The United States ◽  
Thomas Jefferson ◽  
United States Marine Corps ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
United States Marine Band

AbstractThe Jeffersonian rise to power in 1801 ushered in sweeping political changes for the United States of America. It also focused attention on the newly established United States Marine Corps, as a group of hostile Congressmen sought to audit the service, dismiss many of its officers and do away with the executive function of its commandant. But Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) was also a supporter of the new capital's growing cultural life, and no organization better defined the connection between music and the federal government than the United States Marine Band. While this ensemble was not officially authorized by Congress until 1861, Commandant William Ward Burrows had already transformed his small group of sanctioned field musicians into an ensemble that could provide ceremonial and entertainment music for Washington, DC. This article traces the earliest history of the Marine Band, documents its development from eighteenth-century signalling traditions and suggests the ways in which its presence in the capital helped to stem the growing Republican tide against the Marine Corps itself.

scholarly journals Pandemic March: 2019 Coronavirus Disease’s First Wave Circumnavigates the Globe

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. e28-e32 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Shultz ◽  
Alanna Perlin ◽  
Russell Gary Saltzman ◽  
Zelde Espinel ◽  
Sandro Galea
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
Detailed Review ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Western Pacific

AbstractObjective:March 2020 was a pivotal month for the worldwide geographic and numeric expansion of the first wave of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). We examined the major storylines that depicted this explosive spread of COVID-19 around the globe.Methods:A detailed review of World Health Organization (WHO) situation reports, surveillance summaries, and online resources allowed us to quantify the increases in cases and deaths by region and by country throughout the month of March 2020.Results:During March, COVID-19 was officially declared by the WHO to be a pandemic. COVID-19 emerged from a focalized outbreak in the Western Pacific Region and rapidly proliferated across all continents worldwide. Globally, cumulative numbers of confirmed cases increased by a factor of nine throughout the month. During the entire month, cases rose exponentially throughout Europe. Starting in mid-March, confirmed cases accelerated coast-to-coast throughout the United States and, on March 26, the United States surpassed all other nations to rank first in numbers of cases. COVID-19 mortality lagged several weeks behind but by month’s end, death tolls were also rising exponentially.Conclusion:March 2020 was a consequential month when the COVID-19 pandemic wrapped completely around the planet, with outbreaks erupting in most nations worldwide.

scholarly journals Semi-supercentenarians in the United States

2020 ◽  
pp. 191-201
Author(s):  
Bert Kestenbaum
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Social Security ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
National Death Index ◽  
Insurance Program ◽  
Health Insurance Program ◽  
The Social

AbstractThis chapter discusses in detail the procedure followed to identify a 1-in-10 sample of persons born between 1870 and 1899 who resided in the United States at the time of their death at ages 105–109 for men and 108 or 109 for women. We tabulate the characteristics of these “semi-supercentenarians” and offer some observations about the level of their mortality. The procedure for identifying semi-supercentenarians consists of (1) casting a net to find candidates and then (2) determining for which candidates can both date of birth and date of death be validated. The net used to find candidates in the United States is different from the nets typically used in other counties: in the United States we use the file of enrollments in the federal government’s Medicare health insurance program. Some of the information needed for the verification step comes from another administrative file – the Social Security Administration’s file of applications for a new or replacement social security card. Verification of the date of death is accomplished by querying the National Death Index. Dates of birth are verified by using online resources to access the records of several censuses conducted many decades earlier.

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