Speaker at a New York Trade School Commencement Ceremony

An administrator from the New York Trade School speaks at the school's commencement ceremony. In front of the speaker several athletic awards are positioned on a table. Black and white photograph.

Omtvedt Innovation Awards Presented to Chris Calkins, Steven Jones, Rodger Johnson, and Sheila Scheideler

It's a great pleasure to welcome you to this very first recognition ceremony for the Omtvedt Innovation Awards. We are present here to honor innovation strengths of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and certainly the four faculty members receiving today's awards are greatly deserving of this recognition. Just hearing about their work is gratifying!

The tricks of the trade (un)exposed

One of the filmic trends which has been neglected by the Academy Awards is the metacinema, which for practical purposes I will consider to be a cross between the complexities of the self-reflexive cinema (highly connoted with modernism) and the Hollywood Film (the classical films about the urge to ‘make it’ in Hollywood). Indeed, these films have always existed and some, as Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, 1950, USA) and Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001, FRA/USA), have even made it to the ceremony, but were, predictably, defeated in the main categories, by other more ‘serious’ or less self-reflexive products. The United States has always insisted on not revealing the tricks of the trade while, ironically, generating films that deal with this theme, in order to cater to the curiosity of the metacinema-inclined spectator. For this reason such films are usually about the universe of cinema but not its medium, at least not in a way that discloses the operations of the technical apparatus. Why are these films not viewed as serious enough and artistic enough to be awarded Oscars by the Academy in the categories of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography? Are they being discarded for the same reasons that comedy and musicals usually are? Or are they being punished for being too unveiling? Or is the industry going for commercial products that can easily be pushed on a global scale and make a profit?

The Oraibi Powamu ceremony / by H. R. Voth -- George A. Dorsey

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Annual ceremony of the Pawnee medicine men / by Ralph Linton, Assistant Curator of North American Ethnology.

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The Arapaho sun dance : the ceremony of the Offerings lodge / by George A. Dorsey.

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The Oraibi Marau ceremony / by H. R. Voth.

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The Oraibi Soyal ceremony, by George A. Dorsey -- and H. R. Voth -- The Stanley McCormick Hopi expedition.

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The Oráibi Oáqöl ceremony, by H. R. Voth. The Stanley McCormick Hópi expedition. George A. Dorsey --

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HPSS Consultant and Distinction Awards Scheme (DMSAC)

HPSS Consultant and Distinction Awards Scheme (DMSAC)

New HPSS Clinical Excellence Awards Scheme (PDF 42 KB)

New HPSS Clinical Excellence Awards Scheme

A New Approach for Bounding Awards in Bankruptcy Problems

The solution for the ‘Contested Garment Problem’, proposed in the Babylonic Talmud, suggests that each agent should receive at least some part of the resources whenever the demand overcomes the available amount. In this context, we propose a new method to define lower bounds on awards, an idea that has underlied the theoretical analysis of bankruptcy problems from its beginning (O’Neill, 1982) to present day (Dominguez and Thomson, 2006). Specifically, starting from the fact that a society establishes its own set of ‘Commonly Accepted Equity Principles’, our proposal ensures to each agent the smallest amount she gets according to all the admissible rules. As in general this new bound will not exhaust the estate, we analyze its recursive application for different sets of equity principles. Keywords: Bankruptcy problems, Bankruptcy rules, Lower bounds, Recursive process