Contemporary take on Caesar a triumph of style over substance [Review]

AFTER a great deal of success with last year's "emo" adaptation of Hamlet, David Berthold begins La Boite Theatre Company's 2011 season, his second season at the helm, with an adaptation of Julius Caesar.

Influence of damping systems on building structures subject to seismic effects

This paper investigates the response of multi-storey structures under simulated earthquake loads with friction dampers, viscoelastic dampers and combined friction-viscoelastic damping devices strategically located within shear walls. Consequently, evaluations are made as to how the damping systems affect the seismic response of these structures with respect to deflections and accelerations. In particular, this paper concentrates on the effects of damper types, configurations and their locations within the cut-outs of shear walls. The initial stiffness of the cut out section of the shear wall is removed and replaced by the stiffness and damping of the device. Influence of parameters of damper properties such as stiffness, damping coefficient, location, configuration and size are studied and evaluated using results obtained under several different earthquake scenarios. Structural models with cut outs at different heights are treated in order to establish the effectiveness of the dampers and their optimal placement. This conceptual study has demonstrated the feasibility of mitigating the seismic response of building structures by using embedded dampers.

Space Station Design Report 2007

Design Proposal for the Blue Lunar Support Hub The conceptual design of a space station is one of the most challenging tasks in aerospace engineering. The history of the space station Mir and the assembly of the International Space Station demonstrate that even within the assembly phase quick solutions have to be found to cope with budget and technical problems or changing objectives. This report is the outcome of the conceptual design of the Space Station Design Workshop (SSDW) 2007, which took place as an international design project from the 16th to the 21st of July 2007 at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR), University of Sydney, Australia. The participants were tasked to design a human-tended space station in low lunar orbit (LLO) focusing on supporting future missions to the moon in a programmatic context of space exploration beyond low Earth orbit (LEO). The design included incorporating elements from systems engineering to interior architecture. The customised, intuitive, rapid-turnaround software tools enabled the team to successfully tackle the complex problem of conceptual design of crewed space systems. A strong emphasis was put on improving the integration of the human crew, as it is the major contributor to mission success, while always respecting the boundary conditions imposed by the challenging environment of space. This report documents the methodology, tools and outcomes of the Space Station Design Workshop during the SSDW 2007. The design results produced by Team Blue are presented.

Historiebruk kring Nådendal : och den kommemorativa anatomin av klostrets minnesplats

This thesis examines the ruins of the medieval Bridgettine (Birgittan) monastery of Naantali (Vallis Gratiae, f. 1443) in Finland and the transformation of the site into a national heritage and a memory landscape. It was archaeologically surveyed in the 19th century by Professor Sven Gabriel Elmgren (1817 1897). His work was followed by Dr. Reinhold Hausen (1850 1942), who excavated the site in the 1870s. During this time the memories of Saint Bridget (Birgitta) in Sweden were also invented as heritage. Hausen published his results in 1922 thus forming the connection with the next generation of actors involved with the Naantali site: the magnate Amos Anderson (1878 1961), the teacher Julius Finnberg (1877 1955) and the archaeologist Juhani Rinne (1872 1950). They erected commemorative monuments etc. on the Naantali site, thus creating a memory landscape there. For them, the site represented the good homeland in connection with a western-oriented view of the history of Finland. The network of actors was connected to the Swedish researchers and so-called Birgitta Friends, such as state antiquarian Sigurd Curman (1879 1966), but also to the members of the Societas Sanctae Birgittae and the Society for the Embellishment of Pirita, among others. Historical jubilees as manifestations of the use of history were also arranged in Naantali in 1943, 1993 and 2003. It seems as if Naantali is needed in Finnish history from time to time after a period of crisis, i.e. after the Crimean War in the 1850s, the civil war of 1918, during World War II and also after the economic crisis of the early 1990s. In 2003, there was a stronger focus on the international Saint Bridget Jubilee in Sweden and all over Europe. Methodologically, the thesis belongs to the history of ideas, but also to research on the use of history, invented traditions and lieux de mémoire. The material for the work consists of public articles and scholarly texts in books or newspapers and letters produced by the actors and kept in archives in Finland, Sweden and Estonia, in addition to pictures and erected commemorative monuments in situ in the Western Finnish region. Keywords: Nådendal, Naantali monastery, Bridgettines, St. Bridget, use of history, lieux de mémoire, invented traditions, commemorative anatomy, memory landscape, Saint Bridget jubilees , S. G. Elmgren, R. Hausen, A. Anderson, J. Finnberg, J. Rinne, S. Curman, High Church Movement, Pirita, Vadstena.

Focus on Form : J. J. Tikkanen, Giotto and Art Research in the 19th Century

My doctoral dissertation is on Johan Jakob Tikkanen (1857 1930), the first professor of art history in Finland, and his significance and methods in the context of late 19th and early 20th-century European art history. Tikkanen was one of the pioneering scholars in the field of medieval art research, and, along with Anton Springer, Heinrich Wölfflin, Aloïs Riegl, Adolfo Venturi, Franz Wickhoff, Julius von Schlosser, Aby Warburg, Emile Mâle and others, one of the scholars who defined art history as an independent academic discipline. Tikkanen s scholarly interests and his methods resemble those of many formalistically oriented German and Austrian art historians of his time. He became well known throughout Europe, mainly for his studies on illustrated medieval manuscripts. Tikkanen s dissertation, Der Malerische Styl Giotto s Versuch zu einer Characteristik Desselben, from 1884 was regarded in its day as the best form-analytical study on the painter. It has a central position in the present thesis, as it already included nearly all the methods that Tikkanen used and elaborated upon throughout his career. Giotto also gives a good perspective for comparing Tikkanen s ideas with a long art-historical tradition. Tikkanen was profoundly interested in artistic creativity. In his own words, he wanted to study das künstlerische Können , artistic ability, instead of das künstlerische Wollen or artistic will, which was an important theoretical issue in art history in the late 19th century. This starting point led him to the history of style and iconographical research. Along with the Danish art historian, Julius Lange, he was one of the first scholars who began to study the meaning of gestures and postures in art. In my dissertation I have emphasized the importance of Tikkanen s personal art education. I regard it as having influenced both his scholarly argumentation and his working methods. I have also written a short overview of the situation of art history in Finland and in Northern Countries before Tikkanen s time in order to give an idea of his scientific background. My thesis is a critical and historiographical study on J. J. Tikkanen s role in the development of art history and its methodology.

Liivin kielen ajan perusyksiköihin perustuvat ajan adverbiaalit

Pro gradu –työni tutkimuskohteena ovat liivin kielen ajan adverbiaalit, jotka on muodostettu ajan perusyksiköiden pohjalta. Tutkimus on aineistolähtöinen ja perustuu 563:een esimerkkilauseeseen. Ne on koottu kolmesta kielennäytekokoelmasta: E. N. Setälän ja Väinö Kyrölän kokoelmasta Näytteitä liivin kielestä (1953), Seppo Suhosen kokoelmasta Liivin kielen näytteitä (1975) sekä Julius Mägisten kokoelmasta Muistoja Liivinrannasta (2006). Lisäksi esimerkkejä on Lauri Kettusen liivin sanakirjasta Livisches Wörterbuch (1938). Käsittelemäni ajan perusyksiköt ovat aikaa nimeäviä substantiiveja, kuten vuorokaudenaikojen, viikonpäivien, kuukausien ja vuodenaikojen nimitykset sekä merkitykset ’vuosi’, ’kuukausi’, ’viikko’, ’tunti’, ’minuutti’ ja ’sekunti’. Liivin kielessä näistä muodostetaan ajan adverbiaaleja leksikaalisin ja syntaktisin keinoin. Leksikaaliset ajan adverbiaalit rajautuvat semanttisin perustein: ne ovat sijamuodoissa taivutettuja substantiiveja. Syntaktiset ajan adverbiaalit ovat useampisanaisia adpositiolausekkeita ja kiinteitä sanaliittoja. Ne on muodostettu adpositioiden, kvanttoripronominien, demonstratiivipronominien tai muiden määritteiden avulla ajan perusyksiköiden pohjalta. Tutkielmassani käsittelen aikaa myös hieman laajemmasta näkökulmasta: käsittelen aikaa ilmaisevien yksiköiden muodostumista sekä ajan kielellistämistä. Esittelen myös aiempaa tutkimusta ajan adverbiaaleista sekä tähän mennessä laaditut liivin kieliopin kuvaukset. Ne ovat keskittyneet enemmän morfologian kuin syntaksin esittelyyn. Ajan adverbiaalit ovat jääneet vain maininnan asteelle, joten käsittelemäni aihe on varsin tutkimatonta aluetta liivin kielessä. Adverbiaalien ja tarkemmin ajan adverbiaalien määrittelyn olen perustanut Ison suomen kieliopin pohjalle. Yleisestikin läpi työni kulkee liivin kielen rakenteiden ja ilmiöiden vertailu erityisesti suomeen ja viroon. Taustaksi tutkimukselleni esittelen ajan perusyksiköt ja niiden etymologiaa Itämerenalueen kielistä suomessa, virossa, saksassa, ruotsissa, latviassa ja venäjässä. Liivin aineiston käsittely alkaa myös ajan perusyksiköiden ja niistä muodostettujen leksikaalisten ajan adverbiaalien esittelyllä. Leksikaaliset ajan adverbiaalit muodostetaan liivissä usean eri sijamuodon avulla. Yleisin on partitiivi-illatiivi. Muut käytetyt sijat ovat nominatiivi-genetiivi, illatiivi, inessiivi ja adessiivi sekä epäproduktiivinen essiivi. Leksikaalisten ajan adverbiaalien yhteydessä viittaan myös objektin sijaiseen määrän adverbiaaliin eli osmaan. Syntaktisten ajan adverbiaalien yhteydessä käsittelen sekä niiden muodostamista yleensä että niitä muodostavien elementtien muotoa. Adpositiolausekkeiden yhteydessä käsittelen myös adpositioiden ilmenemistä itämerensuomalaisissa kielissä. Aineistossani esiintyy 11 eri adpositiota tai adposition tavoin käytettyä nominia. Kuvaan sekä adpositioiden itsensä muotoa että adpositioiden täydennyksen muotoa. Ajan adverbiaaleja muodostavia kvanttoripronomineja esiintyy aineistossani viisi. Osa niistä ajan adverbiaaleina esiintyessään taipuu ja usein myös kongruoi täydennyksensä kanssa, osa on taipumattomia ja niiden täydennys on lähes aina nominatiivi-genetiivissä. Ajan adverbiaaleja muodostetaan myös kolmen demonstratiivipronominin avulla. Demonstratiivipronomini ja sen pääsana voivat kongruoida tai pääsana voi esiintyä samassa muodossa kuin yksin leksikaalisena ajan adverbiaalina. Muita määritteitä aineistossani on neljä. Kolme niistä on nomineja ja yksi on partisiippi. Ne eivät useimmiten itse taivu ja niiden täydennys on tavallisesti nominatiivi-genetiivissä, mutta joissakin tapauksissa myös paikallissijoissa. Työssäni olen viitannut myös leksikaalistumiseen. Liivissä useat muissa itämerensuomalaisissa kielissä esiintyvät sijamuodot ovat muuttuneet epäproduktiivisiksi. Tällaisia ovat ulkopaikallissijat sekä essiivi ja instruktiivi. Näitä kaikkia kuitenkin esiintyy ajan ilmausten yhteydessä ja ulkopaikallissijoista erityisesti adessiivilla näyttäisi olevan tärkeä asema sekä ajan että paikan ilmauksissa.

Meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee 1918 in New York

Reproduction of a painting of a meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee (representing the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Rellief Committee and the People's Relief Committee) and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee, with chairman Felix Warburg, secretary Albert Lucas, stenographer Mrs. F. Friedman, executive director Boris Bogen, comptroller Harriet Lowenstein, associate treasurer Paul Baerwald and treasurer Arthur Lehman; Office of Mr. Felix M. Warburg, 52 William Street, New York

Therese Godshaw's nee Molling 70th birthday party at the Krakauer home; Boston Portraits Family

Left to right behind table: John Krakauer, Donald, Michael and Robert Godshaw (Children of Hal and Anne), Grandma Therese Godshaw nee Molling, Julius Pick (Grandfather of Robert, Michael and Donald). In front of table: Wendy and Gerry Godshaw (children of Kurt and Edith.

Outdoor family portrait after the memorial services for Therese Godshaw nee Molling at Hal Godshaws house; Argonne Drive, Kenmore, New York.

Front row from left to right: Robert Godshaw, Wendy Godshaw, Rosel Pick (Anne Godshaw's mother), Debbie Godshaw born Mariner, Hal Godshaaw, Francis Schlosstein; 2nd row from left to right: David Dysert, Mickey Sloan born McMath, Edith Godshaw nee Osterer, baby (probably Gary Godshaw), Anne Godshaw born Pick, Julius Pick (Anne's father), Ursula Schlosstein born Gottschalk, Elizabeth Krakauer nee Gottschalk, Michael Godshaw; back row from left to right: Charles (Karl-Hermann Solomon) Sloan, Gerald Godshaw (partially hidden), unknown (probably Peter Godshaw), Kurt Godshaw, John Krakauer, Donald Godshaw, Tom Krakauer, Ralph Schlosstein, John Schlosstein.

Outdoor family portrait after the memorial services for Therese Godshaw nee Molling at Hal Godshaws house; Argonne Drive, Kenmore, New York.

Front row from left to right: Robert Godshaw, Wendy Godshaw, Rosel Pick (Anne Godshaw's mother), Debbie Godshaw born Mariner, Hal Godshaaw, Francis Schlosstein; 2nd row from left to right: David Dysert, Mickey Sloan born McMath, Edith Godshaw nee Osterer, baby (probably Gary Godshaw), Anne Godshaw born Pick, Julius Pick (Anne's father), Ursula Schlosstein born Gottschalk, Elizabeth Krakauer nee Gottschalk, Michael Godshaw; back row from left to right: Charlie Sloan, Gerald Godshaw (partially hidden), unknown, Kurt Godshaw, John Krakauer, Donald Godshaw, Tom Krakauer, Ralph Schlosstein, John Schlosstein.

Guests at Sophie Oppenheimer's 70th birthday celebration Portraits Groups

Handwritten on verso: (top l-r) Heinz Marcus, Hilde Marcus, Heinz Ascher, Else Stern, Gerhard Ascher, Hattie Wallerstein, Kurt Stern, Paula Stern, Lula Ascher and Hilde Marcus; (second row l-r) Otto Oppenheimer, Heinrich Ascher, Julius Stern, David Wallerstein, Max Marcus, Alex Goldschmidt and Ernst Oppenheimer; (third row l-r) Rose, Hans Oppenheimer, Gertrud Ascher, Oma Oppenheimer, Emma, Martha, Lene, Lucy, Hans, Lore; (front row l-r) Margot Ascher, Heinz Ascher, Golda Ascher, Edith Goldschmidt, Irma Ascher, Lotti Goldschmidt, Gretl Oppenheimer and Ilse Oppenheimer