The servants' staircase was taken out to widen the kitchen," she says. "That allowed for a huge butcher-block island to be placed in the centre. Gorgeous new white cabinets with glass centres and grey soapstone countertops were also installed, along with white tile and stainless appliances. "The look fits in well with the rest of the decor. "Even the closets are big and deep, which is a bit unusual for a home that's over 100 years old," [Pat Stecy] notes. "There's even a built-in armoire/dresser in the master bedroom. There's also a second-floor laundry room as well as an exercise room overlooking the river that can be used in the spring, summer and early fall, as it's not insulated." "The main portion of the third floor is now the family room," Stecy explains. "There are large window...
The principal purpose of a study is to report a hidden voice at an important juncture in the history of modern public accountancy. At the time of writing his letter, Alexander Thomas Nivin (1830-1918) was a junior and insignificant employee in a community of 96 public accountancy practitioners. Many of the latter were, eight years later, to form the Society of Accountants in Edinburgh and trigger a wider professional project that continues today on a global basis. The letter provides insights to the life of a junior accountancy clerk in mid-19th century Scotland and therefore informs its reader about a specific historical time of importance to modern public accountancy and accountants. It also provides its reader with knowledge of the social context in which Scottish public accountants ...
[George Mandler] admits to being "whiggish" (presentist) in his historical orientation and he is true to his word. The first four chapters cover old ground in every sense of the word. His treatment is like that of textbook histories and though he claims in his introduction to provide "sketches of the influence of larger social forces on the psychological enterprise", his "whiggish" narrative limits this exploration. Though Mandler inserts commentary on German and American society, he leaves the reader to decide on the nature of social content in the scientific productions of Wundt, James and the assembly of Gestalt Psychologists portrayed in his book. Mandler's choice to list and set forth brief descriptions (like those of the "Congress of the German Society for Psychology" from 1934193...
A major debate neglected by accounting historians is the importance of landlords in the English agricultural revolution. Accounting evidence from the historical literature is used to test Marx's theory that, from around 1750, England's landlords played a pivotal role by adopting and then spreading the capitalist mentality and social relations by enclosures and changes in the management of their estates and tenants. It gives an accounting interpretation of Marx's theory of rent and argues that the available evidence supports his view that the conversion of English landlords to capitalism underlay the later stages of the agricultural revolution. The conclusion explains the linkages in Marx's theory between the agricultural and industrial revolutions and calls on accounting historians to c...
Parks Canada has just completed an $800,000 makeover of the interpretive centre at Lower Fort Garry, one of eight national historic sites Ottawa administers in Manitoba. The $800,000 upgrade, financed entirely by Ottawa, is the latest piece of a $7-million series of Lower Fort Garry improvements that has also seen the St. Andrews facility upgrade its visitor centre building, water-and-sewer treatment and energy plant, [Dawn Bronson] said. The new interpretive displays are also welcomed by several Manitoba First Nations, as Treaty One -- the original treaty between the Crown and Manitoba's Swampy Cree and Ojibway -- was signed at Lower Fort Garry in 1871, added Glenn Hudson, chief of Peguis First Nation.
Chapter 1 examines the interpretation of studies on perception using the theme that "only human beings can know and perceive, not their brains" (p. 13); "the brain does not have a mind" (p. 13). Chapter 1 also criticises the concept of mental maps in the brain, mental rotation of objects in the brain and "the binding problem," which constitutes the "modularization of cellular functions in the neural processes involved in perception" (p. 32). Chapter 2 uses examples from Helmholtz, Broadbent, Weiskrantz, Triesman, and others to argue that "it is not the visual system that sees and discriminates, it is the human being, whose visual system endows him with the power of sight" (p. 63). In chapter 3, the research of Brenda Milner, LeDoux, Kandel, O'Keefe and Nadel, Bliss and others on memory ...
... important contributors to the history of modern neuroscience have been edited out. Let us suppose ...
Even though we had the second largest flood in modern history, the rest of the things we usually get involved in, we lucked out on," said Don Brennan, executive director of the Manitoba Emergency Measures Organization.
I would have to explain to the president that, in fact, this passage was penned by a more significant shaper of modern history than him -- the French revolutionary Jacobin leader Maximilien Robespierre. In 1794, in the midst of the Reign of Terror, which Robespierre had helped to instigate allegedly to save the revolution from its enemies, he sought to justify why it was essential to use the guillotine in order to preserve the purity and virtue of the Revolution's great raison d'etre, "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. [George W. Bush] regards the parameters of the Geneva Convention -- that among other things, bans the use of torture on prisoners -- as "vague" and suggested that as yet undefined "alternative techniques" could be employed. A proposed amendment to ensure those arrested a...
Wenchuan's Communist party secretary appealed for air drops of tents, food and medicine. "We also need medical workers to save the injured people here," [Xinhua] quoted Wang Bin as telling other officials who reached him by phone. It is my hope that during these trying times the affected communities in China will find strength in each other to face tragedy and rebuild together," Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz said in a statement. "I would encourage any Winnipegger who wishes to assist those affected by the earthquake in and around our sister city of Chengdu, China, to remain vigilant as relief agencies begin coordinating efforts in the coming hours and days to accept donations. The quake was the deadliest since one in 1976 in the city of Tangshan near Beijing that killed 240,000 -- although...
...,000 perished -- the most devastating in modern history. A 1933 quake near where Monday's struck k...
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