Copyright (c) 2009 University of Iowa All rights reserved. http://ir.uiowa.edu Recent documents in Iowa Research Online en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:35:41 PST 3600 http://ir.uiowa.edu/ppc_transportation/5 http://ir.uiowa.edu/ppc_transportation/5 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:06 PDT Environmental justice is concerned with a variety of public policy efforts to ensure that adverse human health or environmental effects of governmental activities do not fall disproportionately upon minority populations and low--‐income populations. In the realm of transportation, environmental justice means that transportation system changes such as road improvements are studied carefully to determine the nature, extent, and incidence of probable impacts, both favorable and adverse. The objective of this project has been to develop a series of practical indicators of economic, social, and environmental impacts related to transportation system changes. Comparing the spatial incidence of these impacts with the locations of low--‐income populations and minority populations, it is possible to assess whether the impacts would adversely and disproportionately affect these populations. Our intent is to help make it possible for everyone who is likely to be affected by a particular transportation system change to understand the expected types and magnitudes of anticipated impacts. The objective of such an understanding is to enable those who would be affected to determine which impacts would be most important to them. David J. Forkenbrock http://ir.uiowa.edu/ppc_transportation/4 http://ir.uiowa.edu/ppc_transportation/4 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:00:05 PDT Paul F. Hanley http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_sl/45 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_sl/45 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:52:44 PDT In 1920, thinking he would find a job as a writer, Robert Josephy met with a new publisher, Alfred Knopf--and ended up as an office boy for eight dollars a week. After a few intense years he was promoted to production manager and learned to design books, an occupation he traded on for the better part of thirty years. He designed the nascent Viking Press first six books, worked for Simon and Sdiuster and Random House in their early years, became a freelancer in high demand, and served as president of and teacher at the Book and Magazine Guild both before and after it became a full-fledged union. Many of his books are now collectors' items. This is just one of the ways Josephy has been taking part in what has turned out to be an unusually full and intriguing life. Involvement and imagination have fueled the life and times of this book designer/farmer/political activist/environmentalist. Born in 1903 to a prosperous Long Island family, Josephy is still very much a self-made man. His acquaintances and experiences span a range that includes some of this century's brightest stars and most controversial issues--Alexander Calder, Lewis Mumford, Alfred Stieglitz, H. L. Mencken, Malcolm Cowley. He had to resign from the Bethel Democratic Town Committee for supporting Henry Wallace over Harry Truman. Called the "oldest living liberal Democrat in Connecticut," Josephy was twice persuaded to run as the heavily outnumbered Democratic candidate for the Connecticut state legislature--forty-two years apart. Exercising his design skills in a different field, he planted one of Connecticut's largest fruit farms, the Blue Jay Orchards in Bethel. He has served on the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, was a longtime board member of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, and has been a driving force in the farmland preservation movement. Fast-paced, multifaceted, opinionated, sometimes outrageous, and always interesting, Josephy and his life reflect the variety and breadth of changing experiences the United States has offered during the twentieth century. His vivid memoir serves to remind us that "ordinary people" lead singular lives: they have true stories worth the telling, stories that are often more than compelling--if not stranger--than fiction. Robert Josephy http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_sl/44 http://ir.uiowa.edu/uipress_sl/44 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:52:43 PDT Gildner's memoir captures the spirit of baseball in a culture that doesn't understand chatter, insists on protecting the baselines by covering them with carpet, and whose citizens are more likely to have grown up bouncing a soccer ball off their heads than playing catch. Amid the lack of equipment, reliable playing conditions, and regular practices, Coach Gildner is still able to track the progress of the Sparks-and of himself, the grandson of a Pole-both as a team and as individuals. Gary Gildner http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/8 http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/8 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:20 PDT Iran is test firing missiles. The focus was on re-tweeting. Caitlin Leehey http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/7 http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/7 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:19 PDT The 2016 Olympics will be hosted by Rio de Janeiro. Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo were the other bids. The focus of this report was on re-tweeting on the website, Twitter. Jacob Rosenberg http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/5 http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/5 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:18 PDT Will T. Allen http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/6 http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/6 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:18 PDT We began collecting Twitter data on October 2, 2009, utilizing sources like Archivist and Trendistic to gather general trends on the topic of the 2009 Filipino floods. We used search phrases like "Philippines", "Philippine floods", and "Philippines flooding" in order to collect the number of tweets. We discovered that "flooding" was not viable a search topic because of the flooding that was occurring simultaneously in India. As we read various news articles, it was difficult to discern exactly how many typhoons had hit the country and how many were predicted to hit. Different news agencies were calling the storms different names and searching for "Parma" often gave us tweets that focused on stories from U.S. sources however, searching "Pepeng", which was the same storm, gave us stories from more international sources; the same was true with Ondoy or Ketsana. One can see the difference between the spikes on Trendistic according to what name was used for the search in our data. With our search parameters set, we finished collecting data on October 12, 2009. In this report, we discuss the nature of re-tweets regarding the Philippine floods and follow this discussion with our collected data figures. Drew Bulman http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/4 http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/4 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:17 PDT http://www.boyntons.us/~multimedia09/Unemployment/ Eric D. Haberkorn http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/3 http://ir.uiowa.edu/polisci_nmp/3 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:28:16 PDT http://www.boyntons.us/~multimedia09/glennbeck/ Jacob Rosenberg