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Conclusion
Authors: Delsol Nicolas
Published: October 2024

This conclusion chapter sums up the results of the study by first recontextualizing the findings into each site. We follow the the site-by-site itinerary of the cattle-human assemblages in each location which highlights the many similarities between them particularly when it comes to the consumption and the diffusion of the animals’ byproducts. Open-range ranching seems to have been quite common across the different regions, except maybe in Mexico City. To highlight the recursive character of the cattle-human assemblage and emphasize how cattle also “made” humans in colonial Spanish America, we synthesize the discussion on the emergence of new subject positions among African and Indigenous workers as a consequence of the transplantation of cattle in the Western hemisphere. Workers in ranching and butchering are introduced here as the iconic human companions of cattle along their journey. To finalize this conclusion, we outline some potential further areas of research inspired in this work, like for example the study of the itinerary of other European domesticates in the Americas.
Introduction
Authors: Odom Brian C.
Published: October 2024

This introduction discusses the context of NASA in the American South while surveying the previous literature on the topic and introducing the various themes addressed by the included contributors to the volume. The introduction discusses how the federal funding for aerospace, particularly in the age of Apollo, provided a springboard for the complete transformation of the economic foundations of those communities that were home to NASA field centers, such as Huntsville, Alabama; Cape Canaveral, Florida; and Hancock County, Mississippi. This transformation unsettled previous social, economic, and cultural patterns while also creating positive as well as negative impacts on previous technology regimes and folkways.
Lyndon Johnson, NASA, and the South
Authors: Dunar Andrew J.
Published: October 2024

Lyndon B. Johnson was in key positions to influence the American space program in its formative years, from the launch of Sputnik in October 1957 until he left the presidency in 1969. Johnson's involvement with NASA had more impact on the South than on any other region. The location in the South of the major NASA centers involved in Apollo made this inevitable, and of course Lyndon Johnson had influenced the selection of Houston as one of these sites. But there were also factors involved. There were echoes of Franklin Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority in the economic impact of Apollo on the South. And NASA furthered other national goals, including Great Society programs, modernization, and particularly civil rights and poverty, despite the debilitating war in Vietnam. Much of this predated Johnson's presidency. For example, the John F. Kennedy administration pressured Johnson, as Space Council chair, to compel the NASA centers in the South to increase the hiring of African Americans, with the threat of transferring projects elsewhere if they did not do so.
Gateway to the Stars
Authors: Edwards Kari
Published: October 2024

Since the earliest days of the Space Race, fundamentalist radio preacher Carl McIntire argued that the fight against the Soviet Union for dominance in the heavens was a divine mission, with NASA’s scientific and technological achievements offering proof of God’s blessings on America. His longtime obsession with the United States space program led him to Florida in January 1971, where he announced the purchase of a large tract of land in Cape Canaveral. There he envisioned a Christian community called “Gateway to the Stars,” a fundamentalist Bible conference center with a hotel, condominiums, restaurants, and a Bible college. The highlight of the complex would be its view of the Kennedy Space Center’s launch area, a view that would encourage tourism. This chapter analyzes McIntire’s “Gateway to the Stars” community, arguing that it is a unique and relatively undocumented moment in the history of Christianity in the United States, exemplifying the often-precarious marriage between religion, fundamentalism, and scientific progress that characterized the Cold War-era American religious landscape.
Architectural Modernity in NASA’s Remote South
Authors: Nesbit Jeffrey S.
Published: October 2024

In 1965 the Kennedy Space Center Headquarters in Florida is completed. The same year, Madison Square Garden is in construction. Both buildings designed by the same architect, Charles Luckman. Madison Square Garden marks the rise of the architectural preservation movement in the United States. The project was heavily criticized for the destruction of Penn Station, a place recognized as a national monument. Coincidentally, Luckman’s KSC Headquarters building—which produced an image of blurred boundaries between military missiles and civilian space administration—is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Yet, the obsolete office building formerly supporting rapid advancements of NASA’s space development has now been demolished. This chapter suggests NASA’s rapid design planning deliberately produced a public image of efficiency and formed its political prowess supported by an architecture presence. To do so, it adopted an office landscape design preoccupied by mechanized infrastructure as a key element of architectural modernity.
“Whatever… It’s Only a Joke!”
Authors: Sánchez-Rivera R.
Published: October 2024

This chapter explores how memes are used as a way of contesting “official” stories by portraying the mismanagement of “natural” disasters on the archipelago. I explore how meme sharing, tagging, commenting, and reacting on Facebook and meme databases demonstrate a political consciousness that surfaces from humor to create—aside from a virtual site of contestation—a sense of identity. At the same time, however, memes also participate in proliferating detrimental social violences like racism, environmental racism, and others. Thus, I will also explain the paradoxical dynamics of meme production in Puerto Rico. I will focus on how they: 1) critique the political management behind crises, and 2) are, simultaneously, developed from pre-existing racializing, gendered, and ableist notions.
HolaSoyGermán
Authors: Poblete Juan
Published: October 2024

This chapter studies the YouTube–based comedic vlogging or video blogging series HolaSoyGermán (HSG), in which Germán Garmendia, a creator born in Chile—and like some famous YouTubers, one that has gone from amateur, to professionalizing, to full professional—who addresses in Spanish an audience with original comic content in short form and across more than 130 installments. The essay sees HSG as part of a new screen ecology of “social media entertainment”, embodying some of the new industry sector’s own forms, practices, and genres and mediatizing the social. Like YouTube, HSG depends on producing and combining two seemingly contradictory effects: first, that it is amateur, direct content produced by someone who looks like everybody else and, second, that it is the result of the high-quality work of media professionals. One could call this high-quality everydayness, and it is part of the blurring in so-called participatory culture of the traditional separation between popular culture as a site of consumption and economic exploitation by big corporations and popular culture as generated on the ground by regular people in their daily lives.
The Space Race during the Cold War
Authors: Whitman Cobb Wendy N. , Frazier Derrick V.
Published: October 2024

In addition to the conceptual foundation presented in chapter 1, this chapter provides a brief sketch of early space history. As discussed in chapter 1, much of space policy is path dependent, that is, future choices are influenced and conditioned by past actions. Therefore, to understand the shape of space policy today, we must understand the choices made in the past. This chapter covers Cold War space history including the development of rockets and missiles, the opening of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union (including major milestones in that competition), human spaceflight, and the development of early international law about space. Of particular note, this chapter focuses on the ways in which Cold War competition not only influenced the course of space history but how space developments ultimately influenced American military space in the Cold War.
Civilian Space Policy
Authors: Whitman Cobb Wendy N. , Frazier Derrick V.
Published: October 2024

Chapter 10 begins the final portion of the book which focuses on specific areas of space policy. This chapter examines civilian space policy including space science. While the focus of most of the book has been on human spaceflight and military space applications, this chapter begins by detailing some of the other major aspects of space policy in the United States including planetary defense, Landsat, and weather. It then turns to some of the major policy choices that must be made including the use of robots versus humans, the high cost and the possibilities of international cooperation, and increasing inclusion and diversity in the field of space. Finally, it turns to an emerging civil space policy question in terms of space situational awareness (knowing what is in space and where it is going) and space traffic management.
Bodies of Evidence
Authors: Lozada María Cecilia , Rakita Gordon F. M.
Published: October 2024

In this introduction to the volume, the editors provide a brief background to the development called the “Ontological Turn” and various ways that philosophical approach has manifested itself in anthropology and archaeology. They then review current applications of the Turn in archaeology and bioarchaeology with special attention to the cases presented in this volume.
Body Ontologies and Social Complexities in Precontact Florida
Authors: Wallis Neill , Krigbaum John
Published: October 2024

In Florida and adjacent areas of the American Southeast, monument construction, aggregated settlement patterns, and especially elaborate mortuary practices of the tradition known as “Weeden Island” have long been seen as indications of emergent social complexity during the Late Woodland (ca. 600 to 900 CE) period. This chapter bolsters this association by focusing on apparent shifts in ontologies of the body. Ontological principles of animacy and personhood that commonly apply to materials and objects across the Indigenous Americas help explain the Late Woodland trend toward secondary burial practices as well as zoomorphic and anthropomorphic effigies associated with mortuaries. The chapter reviews some of the parallel treatments of human remains and pottery vessels in the Weeden Island context that demonstrate shared principles of animacy and relational personhood, including disaggregation and partitioning, extended processing, movement, and reconfiguration as bundles. It is suggested that these mortuary practices were associated with corporate strategies of control within emergent hierarchies and were unrelated to signs of individual status, but osteobiographies and bioarchaeological investigations of individual life histories nonetheless have an important role to play in understanding past lives.
Ontological Insecurity and Social Transformation
Authors: Freiberger J. Cristina , Martin Debra L.
Published: October 2024

Indigenous forms of violence are frequently framed and interpreted through a Western lens. Collections of commingled remains of humans from the Prehistoric American Southwest have been pigeonholed into the Western assumption that they were caused by resource competition and warfare. By reexamining these cases through the frame of ontological insecurity, a rich cultural context and series of complex behaviors emerge related to personhood, corporeality, and acts of violence in the past. The Hopi idea of koyaanisqatsi, or life out of balance, fits well with the concept of ontological insecurity. Interpreting the processed remains within this framework aids in explaining the culturally specific behavior that led to ritual violence seen in the bioarchaeological record. Ontological insecurity and koyaanisqatsi show that this violence was purifying, regenerative, transformative and ideological.
Eating Death
Authors: Fitzsimmons James L.
Published: October 2024

The ancient Maya rationale for death appears to have involved a series of related ideas: (1) death was part of the agricultural cycle, in which all things must participate; (2) the earth was not only a source of life but also a source of death; and (3) death resulted from killing other things and eating them, thereby incorporating death into the body. Rationales like these influenced not only the ways in which people viewed death but also the relationships between plants, animals, humans, and gods—all of which ate one another in the Maya worldview. This chapter investigates such relationships and in so doing, explores what it meant to be human in the Maya Lowlands during the Classic Period (250–850 CE).
Epilogue
Authors: Geller Pamela L.
Published: October 2024

In the concluding chapter, Geller identifies the volume’s key themes. Shared concerns indicate how investigations of ontologies impel a disciplinary paradigm shift. She also seeks to extend bioarchaeology’s deliberations about ontology by linking the concept to ethics and epistemology. To this end, she turns to Karen Barad’s writings about “ethico-onto-epistemology,” a concept that weaves together doing right, being, and knowing. Many chapters in this volume demonstrate ethnography as one such mode of ethico-onto-epistemology and the emic/etic split it ameliorates. To situate Barad’s abstract ideas, Geller discusses her encounters with the agentive dead and living communities in two different contexts. Repatriation activities were the backdrop for the first set of encounters that involved her, Odawa and Seminole decedents in the Samuel G. Morton Cranial Collection, and their living descendants and descendant community. Her second set of encounters with agentive human remains occurred while conducting ethnographic work on Haitian Vodou in Milot, Haiti. These encounters demonstrate the need for a flexible ethico-onto-epistemology informed by a critical historicism of bioarchaeological methods, the cultural specifics of a case study, and researchers’ positionality.
Conclusion
Authors: Burrows Geoff G.
Published: October 2024

The conclusion is dedicated to examining the effects and legacies of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration’s public works program. This section will consider the decline of public authorities and corporations on the island and examine how New Deal programs inadvertently contributed to current and ongoing environmental and financial crises in Puerto Rico caused by the expiration of Section 936 of the U.S. tax code and the recent hurricanes María, Irma, and Fiona. It will examine the debt crisis, the history of PREPA, and the PRRA’s contributions to the war effort and postwar industrialization program called Operation Bootstrap. It will also look at the PRRA’s political legacy and influence on the emergence of a Puerto Rican brand of populism under Luis Muñoz Marín and the Partido Popular Democrático (Popular Democratic Party or PPD).
Mississippian Geographies of Fertility
Authors: Bengtson Jennifer , Alexander Toni
Published: October 2024

Human experiences occur within and link together places at multiple spatial scales, and this chapter explores the mutual benefit of geographical and archaeological perspectives for exploring these linkages in the context of fertility. Inspired by archaeologies of embodiment and engendered landscapes, this chapter delves into the human geography literature for further theoretical guidance in our consideration of Mississippian women’s use of place and space in their biological, emotional, cosmological, and ritual experiences of fertility. Attention is paid to highlighting the ways that households, villages, and outlying natural and cultural landscapes are linked by fertility, particularly via the practiced and idealized experience of fertility as a force disrupting the boundary between women’s biologically circumscribed bodies and their surrounding gendered landscapes. This disruption is material/physical as well as being emotional/spiritual, as women physically move between and among places of fertility and are linked to these places via their bodily products—such as spatially situated parturition and menstruation. The Hunze-Evans site in southeastern Missouri serves as a case study for situating a small Mississippian village within a multiscalar and embodied geography of fertility.
Fort Walton Women
Authors: White Nancy Marie
Published: October 2024

Though conclusive archaeological evidence is still meager for identifying women’s gender roles, identities, and activities in the late prehistoric Southeast, archaeological, ethnographic, and historical data do indicate complementary political and social power and labor for Mississippian women, men, and additional-gender individuals in matrilineal native societies. Within the Fort Walton region of northwest Florida/southeast Alabama/southwest Georgia, there are high-status burials of women and other hints of ritual, rank, and work. Fort Walton ceramics are Mississippian-like but not shell-tempered, implying that potters were manifesting distinctive group identities. Lithic assemblages are meager, though increasing use of bow-and-arrow technology is inferred. But the absence of palisaded villages or other signs of warfare suggest relative peace in the region. Understanding matrilineality in ethnographically recorded communities worldwide is crucial for our interpretations.
Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art
Authors: García Christina M.
Published: October 2024

This volume looks at Cuban literature and Cuban art that challenge traditional assumptions about the body. Examining how writers and artists have depicted racial, gender, and species differences throughout the past century, Christina García identifies historical continuities in the way they have emphasized the shared materiality of bodies. García shows how these works interact with ecologies of the human and nonhuman across diverse media, time periods, and ideologies. García examines corporeality in a variety of works, including the poetry of Nicolás Guillén and experimental writings of Severo Sarduy; transspecies drawings, paintings, and sculptures by Roberto Fabelo; Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s popular queer film Fresa y chocolate; and contemporary narrative fictions by Ena Lucía Portela, Antonio José Ponte, and Ahmel Echevarría. Using the lenses of new materialism, critical race studies, critical animal studies, queer studies, and poststructuralism, García engages with Cuban cultural production at the intersection of diverse social issues. In this book, García explores how certain artistic practices focus on portraying ecological relationships instead of recognizable subjects or shared identity. Corporeal Readings of Cuban Literature and Art demonstrates that through their attention to the connections that different kinds of bodies share, Cuban creators have long undermined rules of classification and unification, reimagining community as shared vulnerability and difference.
Intoxicated Subjects
Authors: Long Rebecca-Eli M. , McNeill Zane
Published: October 2024

Popular representations of Appalachia depict it as a toxic place, both culturally and environmentally. Appalachians are represented as backwards and intoxicated for falling victim to a host of toxic circumstances. This chapter interrogates these multiple registers of the toxin through more-than-human ecologies, arguing that the toxin is fundamental to Appalachian queerness. Expanding arguments about queer visibility and representation beyond LGBT identities, we contend that Appalachia is itself queer, existing as a longstanding other to the United States. In this model, Appalachian queerness is closely tied to place and materiality, shaped by nonhuman agents. Toxicity animates these relationships, drawing connections between deviant bodies, ecologies, and cultures, often justifying further damage through development and extraction. Presenting these toxins as an example of queer nonhumanism offers an environmental approach to Appalachian queerness.
Edible Kent
Authors: Regula Lis , Eckhouse MJ
Published: October 2024

This chapter discusses the process by which an ecologically and economically sustainable model for no-barrier community gardens was created in Kent, Ohio. It furthers the conversation on how to move beyond neoliberal nonprofit models to more progressive models through collaboration and intentional community building. It also discussed the importance of queering public spaces in the sense of Halperin's use of the term if the goals of food sovereignty and queer liberation are to be realized. This chapter can serve as a guideline or practice piece as it describes both the theory and process behind the Edible Kent experiment, now in its eighth year in existence. This provides both an introduction to the major concepts of relationship organizing in the queer community and a case study of what can be done through critical decolonization and people-centered progressive practices in an Appalachian community.
Seeing Sky Watch
Authors: Hudelson Emma
Published: October 2024

The first chapter opens with the narrator and her husband deciding to have children, which will require a vasectomy reversal. She worries about what pregnancy means for her riding career, which she's only just relaunched after fifteen years away. Concerned about the decline in spectators and breeding numbers she's seen since returning to Saddlebreds, she visits the American Saddlebred Museum in Lexington, Kentucky. There, she sees video footage of Sky Watch and becomes obsessed with him. Broodmare Aries Golden Gift gives birth to Sky Watch. Della Large, Sky Watch's wealthy Chicago socialite breeder and owner, reminds the narrator of her own maternal lineage with horses, and she delves into the golden years of Saddlebred history in the mid-twentieth century and detail the decline the breed faces today.
Difficult Horses
Authors: Hudelson Emma
Published: October 2024

The narrator reaches Michele MacFarlane, a role model, and interviews her. Sky Watch travels to Southern California, begins training with Rob Tanner, and enters Michele's breeding program. This chapter addresses the labor structure of working show barns and the race issues inherent in the horse industry. The narrator's horse, My Queen Bee, enters training with Mike McIntosh and begins preparation for the upcoming show season, with Mike's warning that she will never be truly competitive. Sky Watch's performance suffers with his new trainer, ultimately concluding with a lackluster show in the three-year-old World's Championship class, where the horse is unrecognizable. Sky Watch's soon-to-be rival Imperator is introduced. Mitch accepts Sky Watch back to training.
The Home Economist
Authors: Scaggs Deirdre A. , Settle Evalina Kremer
Published: October 2024

Elizabeth transitioned to domestic life but continued to impart her traditions and expectations for dining etiquette and formality to her daughters. Shared meals continued to be important, and Elizabeth became active in the church, preparing meals for a variety of events and activities. During this time, the family moved around because of Doc's job and both the location and world events shaped their lives. During World War II, Elizabeth leaned into towards rationing and raising a Victory Garden, her family menus inspired by cost-savings. Recipes in this chapter are from the World War II era, German family recipes, and beloved family meals.
Shaker Your Plate
Authors: Scaggs Deirdre A. , Settle Evalina Kremer
Published: October 2024

After the death of her husband, Elizabeth went to work at Shaker Village. A group had invested in the community for preservation and revitalization and Elizabeth was to manage the restaurant. The restaurant, Trustees' Table, became a great success and helped turn the village into a tourist destination. During this time, Elizabeth published two cookbooks and became much more widely known across the United States as she was featured and interviewed about her food and career. Recipes in this chapter include Shaker Village fare and other family favorites.
Writing about Star Wars
Authors: Howe Andrew
Published: October 2024

This chapter offers a historiography of the original Star Wars trilogy, spanning from the initial release of A New Hope (1977) through the conclusion of the sequel trilogy (2019). It encompasses articles, anthologies, and other perspectives focused largely or exclusively on the original space fantasy films, tracing over time the evolution of reception as impacted by a variety of different social, political, and economic factors. Specific categories explored include: the release of subsequent material (including para-canonical narratives, e.g., Expanded Universe books); a greater awareness of problematic depictions and elisions of racial, gendered, and LGTBQ+ characters; authorship; tie-ins and merchandising; fan culture (blogs, conventions, etc.); and, as compared to other franchises which have captured the zeitgeist in ways in which the prequel/sequel films failed to do.
Lucas Meets Luxo
Authors: Holliday Christopher , Pallant Chris
Published: October 2024

This chapter charts the industry narratives and creative collaborations that shaped the emergence and transformation of Pixar Animation Studios from a research and development group in the late-1970s into a hugely successful animation studio. Supported by first-hand interviews with key personnel such as Alvy Ray Smith and Steve Segal (a former Pixar animator), alongside an analysis of the work made during Pixar's early Lucasfilm period, it seeks to highlight the industrial, technological and aesthetic importance of the Lucas-era phase to Pixar. By focusing on the labor, creativity and technologies of this formative period, this chapter both shines a spotlight on early Pixar before they became newly independent in February 1986 (purchased by Steve Jobs from Lucasfilm for $5 million) and identifies the ways in which the work of the Graphics Group contributed to the evolution of Lucas's ILM.
Black Officer, White Navy
Authors: Green Reuben Keith , Cordle John P.
Published: October 2024

In Black Officer, White Navy, Lieutenant Commander Reuben Keith Green shares a compelling and enthralling account of how, as a Black man in the post–Vietnam War era, he navigated his unique career path from high school dropout to unrestricted line officer in the US Navy. Weaving history with personal narrative, Green's engaging, raw, and insightful storytelling style provides an insider's analysis of what was happening within the navy, ultimately exposing systemic racism throughout the US military. Using the "power of the pen," he offers uninhibited accounts of sometimes life-threatening confrontations that resulted from personal and institutional racial bias, describing what it was like to "sail second class" in the navy. Green, who retired as a decorated surface-warfare officer in the mid-1990s, presents an eye-opening account of the challenges, discrimination, and resistance he faced while serving in the military. Through it all, Green's characteristic sense of humor and honesty shine as he tells one hell of a sea story.
Equal Opportunity Program Specialist and Hard Knocks
Authors: Green Reuben Keith
Published: October 2024

This chapter recounts the author's time attending the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute as the junior student in his class and as one of few Navy students. The author describes the rigorous curriculum, conflicts with staff, and influential guest speakers. He describes being subsequently assigned to a Maintenance activity in Mayport Florida, where he was viewed as a necessary evil rather than an asset. His relationship dynamics with varying kinds of supervisors are also described in this chapter, as the author calls his conflict with one supervisor and being saved from professional destruction by another. During this time, the author earned his bachelor's degree, moonlighting part-time to supplement his income and teaching leadership classes to sailors and officers as part of a two-man training team. The chapter concludes with a follow-on tour as an office supervisor, where the author embraced a welcoming and supportive environment and eventual encouragement to obtain his commission.
An Oak with English Roots
Authors: Hunter Avalyn
Published: October 2024

The chapter presents the English origins of the idea that became the Kentucky Oaks. Arising from a suggestion by military general, politician, and playwright John Burgoyne to create a race specifically for three-year-old fillies, the original Oaks Stakes in England became the inspiration for Colonel Meriweather Lewis Clark, Jr., as he sought to create Kentucky races that would be American counterparts to the great races of England. The chapter concludes with the founding of Churchill Downs and the running of the inaugural Kentucky Oaks, won by Vinaigrette.
Anything but Modest
Authors: Hunter Avalyn
Published: October 2024

The chapter opens with brief discussions of the next four Kentucky Oaks winners (Longitude, Lucy May, Katie Creel, and Vera) and mentions John Stovall as the first jockey to win the Oaks three times before turning to the first great filly to win the Oaks, Modesty. In connection with coverage of Modesty's Oaks win and racing career, the chapter contrasts the personality and pugnacious behavior of her owner, Ed Corrigan, with the modesty and humility displayed by the filly's extraordinary jockey, Isaac Murphy. The chapter finishes by covering Modesty's broodmare career and the rises and falls experienced by Corrigan and Murphy in their later lives.
A Warrior Princess
Authors: Hunter Avalyn
Published: October 2024

After briefly discussing the Oaks victories and careers of 1920 winner Lorraine,1921 winner Nancy Lee, 1922 winner Startle, and 1923 winner Untidy, the chapter focuses on the controversial Kentucky Oaks win of Princess Doreen in 1924. Although her victory was the result of the unpopular disqualification of apparent winner Glide, Princess Doreen went on to a Hall of Fame racing career distinguished by toughness, adaptability, and versatility. She went on to have some success as a broodmare and became the ancestress of champion Brown Bess.
Hammer Time
Authors: Hunter Avalyn
Published: October 2024

The chapter begins with coverage of D. Wayne Lukas's third and fourth Kentucky Oaks winners, Open Mind (1989) and Seaside Attraction (1990). It then shifts its focus to 1991 winner Lite Light, who was a first-rate racehorse but was perhaps even better known for her flamboyant owners, headed by rapper MC Hammer (born Stanley Burrell). Hammer and his fellow Oaktown Stable owners (his father and brothers) had been longtime racing fans before Hammer's wealth allowed them to become owners, and Lite Light gave Hammer and his family the distinction of being the first Blacks to own a Kentucky Oaks winner since 1900.
Riches to Riches
Authors: Hunter Avalyn
Published: October 2024

In 2004, former D. Wayne Lukas assistant Todd Pletcher began establishing himself as the heir to Lukas's reputation—particularly with fillies—by training 2004 Kentucky Oaks winner Ashado, a champion at ages three and four. She was followed by 2005 winner Summerly and 2006 victress Lemons Forever, who set a record as the longest shot ever to win the Kentucky Oaks before becoming the first Kentucky Oaks winner to earn Broodmare of the Year honors. The chapter then turns to a discussion of the top colts of 2007, which was blessed by an above-average group of three-year-old males, as a background for the feats of 2007 Kentucky Oaks winner Rags to Riches. Pletcher's second Kentucky Oaks winner, she cemented her place in racing history by becoming the first filly in over a century to win the Belmont Stakes, defeating eventual Horse of the Year Curlin by a head.
Think Pink
Authors: Hunter Avalyn
Published: October 2024

The chapter begins with looking at the changes in Oaks media coverage following the transition of television rights from ESPN to NBC and also sketches the expansion of the charitable focus of Oaks Day, leading to the adoption of the color pink as a symbol of the emphasis on women's health initiatives. The chapter then turns to the career of 2010 Oaks winner Blind Luck and her rivalry with Havre de Grace, which (unlike the Rachel Alexandra–Zenyatta rivalry) played out on the racetrack in several exciting races, concluding with their meeting in the 2011 Delaware Handicap.
Hand Scrub Methods and Their Effect on Bacterial Flora
Authors: Eslami Majid , Ahmadpanahi Shahrzad , Asgari Mohamad Reza , Ghods Ali Asghar
Published: October 2024

Background: Hand disinfection is a critical component of infection control in surgery. Various solutions and techniques are used for hand scrubbing, but these often produce conflicting results. Objectives: This study aims to compare the effectiveness of four different hand scrubbing techniques in reducing hand bacterial colonies. Methods: A total of 30 participants were selected through convenience sampling based on specific criteria. They were randomly assigned to perform one of four hand scrub techniques: (1) Iodine scrub alone; (2) Decocept alone; (3) a combination of iodine scrub followed by Decocept; and (4) a combination of Decocept followed by an iodine soak. Microorganism cultures were taken before, immediately after, and one hour after scrubbing. Staff satisfaction was measured after each method using the Visual Analog Scale (VAS). Results: The study examined the effectiveness of the four scrubbing techniques in reducing skin microorganism levels. Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus was the most frequently detected microorganism, appearing in the majority of cases, with no significant variation between the groups. While all scrubbing methods reduced microbial counts, no statistically significant differences were found between the techniques. Conclusions: The use of Decocept alone may be considered a viable alternative to other hand scrubbing methods in operating rooms.
Technologies and artificial intelligence in the workforce
Authors:   Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, Burton Kathryn , Gajjar Devyani
Published: October 2024

Technologies in the workplace can increase efficiency and reduce costs. Challenges include a lack of guidelines, blurred work-life boundaries, and re-skilling workers.
The Defense Mechanism of the Colonel Kalawa’s Character in the Drama Script Our Beloved President by Agus Noor: Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis
Authors: Ahyudi Ahyudi , Burhanuddin Burhanuddin , Mahyudi Johan
Published: October 2024

The problem in this study is how the defense mechanism of the character Colonel Kalawa in the drama script of Our Beloved President by Agus Noor based on Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis study. The purpose of this study was to determine the defense mechanism of the character Colonel Kalawa in the drama script of Our Beloved President by Agus Noor based on Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis study. The theory used in this study is Sigmund Freud's defense mechanism. This research is qualitative. The source of data in this study is Agus Noor's beloved drama script President Kita. The data collection methods used are library methods, and documentation. Based on the results of data analysis conducted on the drama script of our Beloved President, it can be concluded that the character of Colonel Kalawa in the drama script of our Beloved President has 6 defense mechanisms based on the psychoanalytical perspective of Sigmudn Freud. The results of data analysis in this study, it can be known various defense mechanisms of Colonel Kalawa's figure, namely there are 3 data regarding the concept of repression defense that arises in the form of symbolization. There are 2 data included in the defense of sublimation in the form of self-adjustment and attitude change. Then there are 7 data on the concept of projection defense in the form of blaming others. Furthermore, there is 1 data regarding the defense of the diversion in the form of finding vent. Furthermore, there are 8 rationalization self-defense data in the form of seeking justification. As well as the last there are 6 data that belong to the defense of aggression and apathy in the form of anger and anxiety.
Development of a Menu of Mangroves to Increase Knowledge of the Mangrove Ecotourism Group (Pokdarwis) Sekotong West Lombok
Authors: Al-Idrus Agil , Bayani Faizul , Ferniawan Ferniawan , Sri Swati Ni Nengah , Rahmawati Sri , Liswijaya Liswijaya , Kusuma Wardani Intan
Published: October 2024

Mangrove ecotourism in Sekotong, Lombok Barat, holds immense potential for education and local economic development. However, there are still limitations in effectively communicating mangrove education information to tourists and local communities. This study aims to determine the role of "Menu of Mangrove" in raising awareness and knowledge about the mangrove ecosystem among Pokdarwis (tourism awareness groups) and visitors, as well as transforming the traditional perspective on ecotourism visits. The research employs a qualitative approach with a case study design. Data collection methods include participant and structured observation, in-depth interviews, FGD (Focus Group Discussion), and document analysis. The data analysis techniques used are descriptive and qualitative analysis. The findings of the study demonstrate that Menu of Mangrove is an effective innovation in enhancing awareness and knowledge about the mangrove ecosystem among Pokdarwis and visitors. Menu of Mangrove also successfully transforms the traditional perspective on mangrove ecotourism visits and motivates Pokdarwis to better understand and conserve the mangrove ecosystem.Keywords: Menu of Mangrove, Mangrove Ecotourism, Mangrove Education
Contextual Teaching Learning; An Approach to Improving Students’ Mathematics Learning Outcomes
Authors: Fathurrahman Fathurrahman
Published: October 2024

This research is motivated by the low level and lack of student activity in mathematics learning, where students tend to be relaxed and less motivated when learning takes place. This research was conducted in the form of Classroom Action Research with the research subjects being 36 class IV students at SD Negeri 21 Kota Bima. The aim of this research is to determine the improvement in student learning outcomes by using the Contextual Teaching Learning approach in mathematics subjects. The data used in this research is quantitative data obtained from teacher and student activities through observation, test questions on daily tests. The results of this research show that the average percentage of teacher activity during learning activities increased from 77.02% in cycle I, to 87.61% in cycle II. And the average percentage of student activity during learning activities increased from 83.93% in cycle I to 92.86% in cycle II. The average student learning outcomes seen from the test results have increased from the Basic Score obtained on average 69.73%. In the first daily test, it increased 4.8 points to 74.53%. And in the second daily test it increased again by 9.12 points to 83.73%. Overall, it can be concluded that the application of the Contextual Teaching Learning approach can improve the learning outcomes of class IV students at SD Negeri 21 Kota Bima.
Reading Interest Analysis eBook as a Learning Resource for STKIP Muhammadiyah Sampit Students
Authors: Hadianur Muhammad , Elliya Elliya , Qahfi Muhamat
Published: October 2024

The aims of this research is to describe the interest in reading digital books (e-books) as a learning resource for students of STKIP Muhammadiyah SampitThe sample were students majoring in Economics Education from 2018th until 2021th, it is used a proportional random sampling technique. The number of samples used in this study was 32 students, which was taken from 25% for each class. Data collection technique using a questionnaire. The research data was analyzed using the SPSS statistical program version 16 for windows. The data analysis technique used is descriptive quantitative.The results of this research, there are three categorizations of interest in reading digital books, they are the medium category which is 72% with the number of respondents being 23td students, the high category is 16% with the number of respondents 5th students, and the low category is 13% with the number of respondents 4th students.
Efl Students’ Perceptions Toward Watching Vlog Experience For Speaking Skill
Authors: Sanjaya Yunita , Ikhsan M Khairi , Autila Rani
Published: October 2024

This study has investigated EFL Students’ perceptions toward watching vlog experience for speaking skill. The focus of the research is to know student’s perceptions watching vlog for learning English in speaking skill including the advantages of watching Vlog and limitations from watching Vlog  experience for speaking skill  faced by them. The research was conducted at University PGRI Sumatera Barat. A qualitative method was employed to gather in-depth insights from the participants. The research involved semi-structured interviews with three EFL students from English Department from University of PGRI Sumatera Barat. The participants were selected based on their interest in watching vlogs for language learning and their willingness to share their experiences. Based on the findings of the interview data, watching vlogs experience for speaking skill was effective because has many advantages compared to disadvantages. Students perception towards watching vlog experience show that students has positive cognitive impression because all of the participants have been learning English since middle school, indicating a long term commitment to learning the language for improving their speaking skills. They reported that vlogs helped them improve their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and fluency. The participants also appreciated the real-life scenarios and authentic language used in vlogs, which helped them learn the type of English used in daily lives. This study is significant because its findings can be used to inform the development/ self learning for EFL students that might enchance their speaking skills in English language learning.
Leadership Principal Instruction in Implementation Independent Curriculum in Schools Upper Intermediate
Authors: Sungkalang Agustinus , Wicaksono Luhur , Ulfah Maria
Published: October 2024

This research aims to analyze and find out the principal's instructional leadership in implementing the independent curriculum, especially at Santo Fransiskus Assisi Pontianak High School, North Pontianak District, West Kalimantan Province. This form of research uses a qualitative approach with a case study type of research. There were four research subjects, namely, the principal, deputy principal for curriculum, deputy principal for student affairs, and teachers. The data collection method is carried out using techniques interviews , observations , and documentation . Data analysis uses data reduction , data presentation and withdrawal conclusion / verification . The results of this research show that the principal has carry out leadership teaching well and effectively so that in communicating vision and mission school as well as apply ikm carried out according to objectives . As for leadership strategies instruction carried out by the school principal namely , (1) give exemplary , (2) dialogue with teachers, (3) effective communication , (4) facilitating teachers, (5) supervising effective . Important steps have been taken taken show that the principal own commitment and focus on achievement implementation of SMEs. By applying leadership instructional show work climate created at St Francis High School Assisi Pontianak is running effective , conducive , and running optimally.
Perception Students Taking Pronounciation On English Phonetic
Authors: Asty Herfyna
Published: October 2024

Indonesia in order to be able to produce English pronunciation that is almost the same as native speakers. Therefore, this study was conducted to explore a series of problems that underlie the limitations of learners in producing accurate pronunciation based on their perceptions. This study used descriptive qualitative methods to present the results obtained from two instruments consisting of close-ended questionnaires with the approach of the sampling type used, namely participant in the samples, and semi-structured interviews with the type of sample, namely purposive sampling.
Pemetaan Dan Strategi Pemanfaatan Media Sosial Sebagai Penerapan UU Ite Dan Media Pembelajaran Agama Islam Di Masa Pemulihan Pandemi Covid-19 (Studi Kasus Generasi Z)
Authors: Habib Muhamad
Published: October 2024

Masa pemulihan covid-19 yang sudah berangsur membaik membuat anak-anak sekolah dasar sudah diperbolehkan untuk kembali ke sekolah untuk menuntut ilmu walaupun dengan penjadwalan khusus dan penggunaan protokol kesehatan yang ketat. Terdapat banyak strategi dalam mempelajari agama Islam yang secara umum kini para siswa bisa mengakses melalui media sosial. Dalam penggunaan media sosial siswa perlu mengetahui aturan aturan yang tertuang pada Undang Undang Informasi dan Transaksi Elektronik. bahwa selama masa learn from home para siswa lebih sering menggunakan telepon genggam baik untuk belajar maupun aktivitas sehari-hari di rumah. Penelitian ini rencananya memiliki beberapa tujuan yaitu dua diantaranya adalah  memetakan aturan dalam bermedia sosial yang digunakan anak-anak sekolah dasar dalam pembelajaran agama Islam serta mengetahui strategi yang tepat dalam penggunaan media sosial sebagai media pembelajaran agama Islam
Komunikasi dan Advokasi Kebijakan Terhadap Manajemen Publik Melalui Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat Kota Medan
Authors: Lubis Khairunnisah
Published: October 2024

This study aims to determine communication and policy advocacy towards public management through non-governmental organizations in the city of Medan. This research method uses library research by collecting relevant studies from books, literature, notes and reports. The results of this study indicate that the Pesada NGO has succeeded in implementing all elements of advocacy in non-profit organizations, judging from the success of the programs carried out by the Pesada institution.
Perlindungan Hukum Pemegang Hak Cipta Film Terhadap Pelanggaran Hak Cipta Yang Dilakukan Situs Penyedia Layanan Film Streaming Gratis Di Internet (Menurut Undang-Undang Nomor 28 Tahun 2014 Tentang Hak Cipta)
Authors: Ramadhan Muallim
Published: October 2024

Pelanggaran Hak Cipta dapat memberikan dampak negatif bagi Pencipta. Kerugian secara ekonomi maupun secara moral. Perkembangan teknologi saat ini pelanggaran Hak Cipta dilakukan tidak dilakukan dengan diwujudkan dalam bentuk kepingan VCD/DVD, tetapi sudah merambah ke media internet, yaitu dengan munculnya situs yang menyediakan layanan film gratis secara streaming. Perlindungan dan penegakan hukum diperlukan agar hak-hak yang dimiliki oleh Pencipta dapat diproteksi. Pengaturan perlindungan hukum atas Hak Cipta diatur dalam UU no. 28 tahun 2014 tentang Hak Cipta, serta peraturan pelaksana tentang penutupan konten dan/atau hak akses pengguna terhadap pelanggaran Hak Cipta yang ada di sistem elektronik yang termuat dalam peraturan bersama Menteri Hukum dan HAM nomor 14 tahun 2015 dan Menteri Komunikasi dan Informatika nomor 26 tahun 2015. Penegakan hukum juga perlu dilakukan agar peraturan yang telah diatur untuk melindungi Pencipta dapat terus dilakukan. Penegakan hukum dilakukan oleh Pemerintah dan Badan Peradilan. Pemerintah dilakukan oleh Kementerian Hukum dan HAM, Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika, Polisi. Badan peradilan dilakukan oleh Hakim. Upaya hukum yang dapat dilakukan seorang Pencipta ketika hak-haknya dilanggar dengan melakukan mediasi sebagai alternatif penyelesaian sengketa, gugatan ganti rugi, aduan tindak pidana, dan laporan penutupan konten dan/atau hak akses pengguna terkait pelanggaran Hak Cipta yang ada pada sistem elektronik dalam hal ini Internet.