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Baroness Hyde de Neuville stepped out of the summer heat and into New Haven's Columbian Museum.The visit was likely a welcome distraction from life in a wartime city.The War of 1812 had entered its second year by the time Anne Margurite Josphine Henriette Rouill de Marigny, Baroness Hyde de Neuville, traveled to New Haven.Every day, newspapers warned of the growing Royal Navy presence in Long Island Sound, and some nearby towns had even been evacuated for fear of attack. 1 Inside the museum, the baroness temporarily escaped the pall hanging over the community.Hyde de Neuville made her way around taxidermied animals, cases of seashells, and paintings chronicling the Napoleonic Wars-perhaps an evocative sight for the exiled French noble-until she reached the hall of waxwork.Two wax Indians at the end of the gallery evidently caught her eye. 2 A talented artist, she took out her sketchbook and began to draw.Wax Indians were a common sight in the museums of the early republic.Indeed, nearly every museum in the country contained some variation of a waxen warrior or chief during this period. 3 Unfortunately, despite their past ubiquity, none of these models survived to the present. 4Indeed, Hyde de Neuville's drawing (Figure 1) is the only known depiction of such figures from the early national era.The exhibit captured by the baroness featured two wax Indians in a dugout canoe.

Abstract Research on youth and adolescents increasingly suggests that youths' aspirations are complex, multidimensional constructs. This is especially the case for rural youth, who may face conflicting goals when considering their educational, occupational, and residential aspirations. However, few studies have explored rural youths' aspirations from a MultiDimensional perspective. Using data from the younger cohort of the Rural Youth Education study, this research applies latent class analysis to examine the heterogeneity of rural youths' educational, occupational, and residential aspirations. Five distinct subgroups of youth are identified (1) ambitious stayers (27 percent), (2) ambitious yet uncertain youth (28 percent), (3) typical achievers (13 percent), (4) unambitious movers (8 percent), and (5) typical stayers (24 percent). These five subgroups of youth differ in their aspirations, the certainty of those aspirations, and perceived relationships among aspirations. Subsequent multinomial analysis shows strong associations of family, school, and community characteristics with youths' aspirational profiles. Youth with better family economic resources and good parent–child relationships are more likely to fall into the “typical achiever” category, relative to the other four categories. Understanding the interrelationship of rural youth's aspirations can help policymakers and community members develop strategies to assist rural youth in achieving an array of future goals.


 
 
 
 A conservatively-minded campus, Liberty University's administrators have, like many college campuses, struggled with creating an appropriate weapons policy. The policies in existence prior to 2011 were more traditionally anti-weapon, while those created after 2011 have been more forgiving. This article examines the background, both national and local, for these shifts in policy.
 
 
 

This chapter contains sections titled: Acute toxicity of carbofuran to birds and mammals Exposure routes for the liquid formulation Exposure routes for granular carbofuran formulations The time course of carbofuran intoxication Physiological effects and signs of intoxication Physical field evidence and necropsy findings in poisonings due to AChE inhibiting compounds, with special emphasis on carbofuran Chemical and biochemical diagnosis of a carbofuran kill Rehabilitation of poisoned wildlife Conclusion Acknowledgements References

Drawing on a survey of chief academic officers at 347 community colleges nationwide, this study examined the impact of institutional type (rural, suburban, urban) on reliance on and demand for adjunct faculty members. Findings indicated that rural institutions rely less on adjuncts, whereas both rural and urban institutions report high levels of unmet demand within specific disciplines.

This paper presents a case study of the use of a repeated single-criterion card sort with an unusually large, diverse participant group. The study, whose goal was to elicit novice programmers' knowledge of programming concepts, involved over 20 researchers from four continents and 276 participants drawn from 20 different institutions. In this paper we present the design of the study and the unexpected result that there were few discernible systematic differences in the population. The study was one of the activities of the National Science Foundation funded Bootstrapping Research in Computer Science Education project (2003).