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Father Nicolas Taylor (a Just call me Nick') is a complete contrast
to the dour Father O'Donnell. Naive and impressionable, he readily
accedes to Nadina's request for a recommendation to attend the
prestigious Convent School of the Holy Name. Fergus accosts Nick on
his first Sunday to tell him of the cover-up but the new priest is
unmoved, convinced of the absurdity of the allegations. Seeking
advice from the wily Monsignor O'Shea as to how to deal with the
unstable Irishman for a time he is reassured. However, when fellow
priest and friend, Guy Holdcraft hints that there may be some truth
in the assertions Nick is deeply troubled. Disturbing dreams
interrupt his sleep and he begins to doubt the Monsignor's
explanation of his predecessor's hurried visit to a dying mother in
Ireland. Rabid anti-cleric Superintendent Robertson is eager to
investigate the Irishman's claims and sends devout Catholic Chief
Inspector Charles Harris to investigate. Despite the ruthless
questioning of his colleague, sergeant Penhaligon. Nadina continues
to deny anything at all improper took place. Fergus decides to take
matters into his own hands and travels to O'Donnell's new parish to
kill him. However, the gun jams, O'Donnell kicks and beats him and
he is left unconscious in the churchyard. Struggling home and close
to death he is nursed back to health by the local GP with Ryan at
his side. News of the death of seventeen year old Foureyes further
illustrates Ryan's compassion when he gives the homily at the
funeral. Deeply angered by the injustice Fergus accidentally lets
slip to his son that Nadina was indeed abused by O'Donnell. Yet
Ryan is unwilling to believe that Nadina was the unwilling victim.
Enraged, he takes up with the provocative June Greengage. Bored
with June and missing Nadina, Ryan asks her to forgive him and the
couple are engaged. Temporarily, both now go their separate ways.
Nadina to Oxford University and Ryan, a soldier in Germany with the
Occupying British army for two years.
It is 1939, the outbreak of World War Two, and ten year old Ryan
Brannigan newly arrived from Ireland experiences the horrors and
excitement of war. A rebellious lad in conflict with the parish
priest, Father O'Donnell, his teachers, and his father, as well as
the Church, he forms an uneasy relationship with Nadina Brown, a
vulnerable, ultra-religious, highly sensitive, intelligent girl of
the same age. Ryan's father, Fergus, an armchair warrior of the IRA
due to a wound sustained in the Easter Rising of 1916, strongly
suspects the priest of abusing the girl, though she strenuously
denies it. Convinced that she is scared to tell the truth, he
hurries round to the presbytery to find O'Donnell gone back to
Ireland and a priest to replace him arriving the very next day.
Angry and frustrated, Fergus rushes to the police station to demand
action, but his complaints are contemptuously dismissed. Ryan,
confused over the turn of events has taken a thorough dislike
towards Nadina. But soon he will discover the truth and his
compassion for her and desire for revenge will know no bounds.
In the current push to convert to renewable sources of energy, many
issues raised years ago on the economics and the difficulties of
siting energy storage are once again being raised today. When large
amounts of wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources are
added to existing electrical grids, efficient and manageable energy
storage becomes a crucial component to allowing a range of
eco-friendly resources to play a significant role in our energy
system. In order to fulfill our intended goal of diminishing
dependence on non-renewable sources of energy and reducing our
carbon footprint, we must find a way to store and convert these
novel resources into practical solutions. Based on the efforts of a
University of Colorado team devoted to increasing the use of
renewable energy production within the current electrical power
grid, Large Energy Storage Systems Handbook examines a number of
ways that energy can be stored and converted back to electricity.
Examining how to enhance renewable generation energy storage
relative to economic and carbon impact, this book discusses issues
of reliability, siting, economics, and efficiency. Chapters include
the practicalities of energy storage, generation, and absorption of
electrical power; the difficulties of intermittent generation; and
the use of pumped and underground pumped hydroelectric energy
storage. The book highlights the storage of compressed air, battery
energy, solar thermal, and natural gas sources of energy. Heavily
referenced and easily accessible to policy makers, developers, and
students alike, this book provides contributions from those active
in the field for coverage of many important topics. With this book
as a foundation, these pioneers can develop the capacity of power
grids to handle high renewable energy generation penetration and
provide a brighter future for generations to come.
The five digital forces (mobility and pervasive computing, cloud,
big data, artificial intelligence and robotics, and social media)
are poised to bring great academic and industrial breakthroughs.
All stakeholders want to understand how to best harness these
forces to their advantage. While literature exists for
understanding each force independently, there is a lack of
knowledge on how to utilize all the forces together to realize
future enterprises. Advanced Digital Architectures for Model-Driven
Adaptive Enterprises is an essential reference source that explores
the potential in unifying the five digital forces to achieve
increased levels of agility, efficiency, and scale. Featuring
coverage on a wide range of topics including socio-technical
systems, adaptive architectures, and enterprise modeling, this book
is ideally designed for managers, executives, programmers,
designers, computer engineers, entrepreneurs, tool builders,
digital practitioners, researchers, academicians, ands students at
the graduate level.
How the controversial practice of quarantine saved
nineteenth-century Philadelphia after a series of deadly epidemics.
In the 1790s, four devastating yellow fever epidemics threatened
the survival of Philadelphia, the nation's capital and largest
city. In response, the city built a new quarantine station called
the Lazaretto downriver from its port. From 1801 to 1895, a strict
quarantine was enforced there to protect the city against yellow
fever, cholera, typhus, and other diseases. At the time, the
science behind quarantine was hotly contested, and the Board of
Health in Philadelphia was plagued by internal conflicts and
political resistance. In Lazaretto, David Barnes tells the story of
how a blend of pragmatism, improvisation, and humane care succeeded
in treating seemingly incurable diseases and preventing further
outbreaks. Barnes shares the lessons of the Lazaretto through a
series of tragic and inspiring true stories of people caught up in
the painful ordeal of quarantine. They include a nine-year-old girl
enslaved in West Africa and freed upon arrival in Philadelphia, an
eleven-year-old orphan boy who survived yellow fever only to be
scapegoated for starting an epidemic, and a grieving widow who
saved the Lazaretto in the midst of catastrophe. Spanning a
turbulent century of immigration, urban growth, and social
transformation, Lazaretto takes readers inside the life-and-death
debates and ordinary heroism that saved Philadelphia when its
survival as a city was at stake. Amid the controversy and tragedy
of the COVID-19 pandemic, this surprising reappraisal of America's
historic struggle against deadly epidemics reminds us not to
neglect old knowledge and skills in our rush to embrace the new.
In the current push to convert to renewable sources of energy, many
issues raised years ago on the economics and the difficulties of
siting energy storage are once again being raised today. When large
amounts of wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources are
added to existing electrical grids, efficient and manageable energy
storage becomes a crucial component to allowing a range of
eco-friendly resources to play a significant role in our energy
system. In order to fulfill our intended goal of diminishing
dependence on non-renewable sources of energy and reducing our
carbon footprint, we must find a way to store and convert these
novel resources into practical solutions. Based on the efforts of a
University of Colorado team devoted to increasing the use of
renewable energy production within the current electrical power
grid, Large Energy Storage Systems Handbook examines a number of
ways that energy can be stored and converted back to electricity.
Examining how to enhance renewable generation energy storage
relative to economic and carbon impact, this book discusses issues
of reliability, siting, economics, and efficiency. Chapters include
the practicalities of energy storage, generation, and absorption of
electrical power; the difficulties of intermittent generation; and
the use of pumped and underground pumped hydroelectric energy
storage. The book highlights the storage of compressed air, battery
energy, solar thermal, and natural gas sources of energy. Heavily
referenced and easily accessible to policy makers, developers, and
students alike, this book provides contributions from those active
in the field for coverage of many important topics. With this book
as a foundation, these pioneers can develop the capacity of power
grids to handle high renewable energy generation penetration and
provide a brighter future for generations to come.
"Some were warriors. Some were lawyers, some historians, some
moved by an inner passion so great that they appeared to move
against kingly power like moths to the flame, risking, and often
giving, their lives. They wrote, cajoled, and sometimes cried out
for all to hear that the law is above the king."
This fascinating treatise examines how Western ideals of
democracy have evolved and emerged through the ages and across
continents. Craig S. Barnes shares the inspiring stories of a
diverse group of men and women (whether they be leaders, poets, or
peasants) who pioneered due process, habeas corpus, and the balance
of powers. Exploring the premise that "democracy is not a given in
social evolution," Barnes contrasts the heroic figures of history
to those in recent administrations who he argues have ignored the
precious nature of our inheritance and have placed democracy at
risk. "Democracy at the Crossroads" is a stirring reminder of the
fragility of our rule of law and the need for vigilant protection
of our hard-won liberties.
Craig S. Barnes began his career as a public interest lawyer
dealing with women's rights and the environment. He was also active
in politics and civil rights, running for Congress in Denver as a
peace candidate in 1970. He is the author of "Growing Up True" and
"In Search of the Lost Feminine."
Explores the scientific and social factors that continue to
influence the public's lingering uncertainty over how disease
can-and cannot-be spread. Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of
odors enveloped large portions of Paris. As the stench lingered,
outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an
epidemic. Fifteen years later-when the City of Light was in the
grips of another Great Stink-the public conversation about health
and disease had changed dramatically. Parisians held their noses
and protested, but this time few feared that the odors would spread
disease. Historian David S. Barnes examines the birth of a new
microbe-centered science of public health during the 1880s and
1890s, when the germ theory of disease burst into public
consciousness. Tracing a series of developments in French science,
medicine, politics, and culture, Barnes reveals how the science and
practice of public health changed during the heyday of the
Bacteriological Revolution. Despite its many innovations, however,
the new science of germs did not entirely sweep away the older
"sanitarian" view of public health. The longstanding conviction
that disease could be traced to filthy people, places, and
substances remained strong, even as it was translated into the
language of bacteriology. Ultimately, the attitudes of physicians
and the French public were shaped by political struggles between
republicans and the clergy, by aggressive efforts to educate and
"civilize" the peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public's
ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th IFIP Working
Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, PoEM 2022, which
took place in London, UK, during November 23-25, 2022. PoEM offers
a forum for sharing experiences and knowledge between the academic
community and practitioners from industry and the public sector.
This year the theme of the conference is Enterprise Modeling and
Model-based Development and Engineering. The 15 full papers
presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from
a total of 45 submissions. They were organized in topical sections
as follows: models in information system development; modeling
enterprise architectures; modeling capabilities and ecosystems;
DSML and meta-modeling; and participatory modeling.
The five digital forces (mobility and pervasive computing, cloud,
big data, artificial intelligence and robotics, and social media)
are poised to bring great academic and industrial breakthroughs.
All stakeholders want to understand how to best harness these
forces to their advantage. While literature exists for
understanding each force independently, there is a lack of
knowledge on how to utilize all the forces together to realize
future enterprises. Advanced Digital Architectures for Model-Driven
Adaptive Enterprises is an essential reference source that explores
the potential in unifying the five digital forces to achieve
increased levels of agility, efficiency, and scale. Featuring
coverage on a wide range of topics including socio-technical
systems, adaptive architectures, and enterprise modeling, this book
is ideally designed for managers, executives, programmers,
designers, computer engineers, entrepreneurs, tool builders,
digital practitioners, researchers, academicians, ands students at
the graduate level.
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