![]() As he would later tell the story to Caton, “There I was listening to what these folks were saying about ‘culture as symbols and their meanings,’ and wondering what on earth they were talking about, coming as I did from linguistics.” Of course, he was referring not to the linguistics of Chomskyian “transformational grammar,” (hailed as a “revolution” at the time) but to the structural linguistics of Roman Jakobson (among others) that viewed language as a form of communication and that was influenced by the semiotic theory of Charles S. The telescope is supposed to be in orbit in 2020.Caton considers himself fortunate to have been a graduate student in the 1970s in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, where a new cultural paradigm was being forged-variously identified with Clifford Geertz (before he went on to establish the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University), David Schneider, Victor Turner, and Nancy Munn-that has been called “symbolic anthropology” (among other terms), when into this mix stepped Michael Silverstein, at the time a very young PhD in linguistics who had studied under Roman Jakobson at Harvard University. ![]() Paul Greenberg, a NASA research scientist and physicist at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, is working on a project funded by Homeland Security to build sensor packages that first responders and firefighters can wear to monitor their exposure to airborne substances, as well as a telescope to send data back from deep space. “ Other federal workers are starting to feel the pinch. “‘We don’t want to unnecessarily burden them, but they are aware that the government is shut down and Daddy’s paycheck isn’t coming,’ said Ortega…” “Maria Ortega, 44, who lives near San Diego and is the wife of a Department of Homeland Security worker, said that she and her husband have tried to talk with their two children about the shutdown without scaring them.” Recent shutdowns have ended with funding bills that include back pay for furloughed federal employees, but there is no guarantee Congress will continue to do so.” “ Many federal workers are also reporting for work not knowing if they will be paid. Politico: Federal workforce starts to feel pinch of prolonged shutdown Several talked of forgoing or returning Christmas gifts.” Another described having to terminate a family member’s caregiver as funds dwindled. One man said he became homeless he broke his lease in anticipation of moving to another state to train for a new federal job - and the training was canceled. Yet their tales of hardship spread widely. “Many declined to identify themselves publicly, so their stories could not be confirmed. Twitter became a platform for them to share growing anxieties and fears, using the hashtag #ShutdownStories.” ![]() ![]() Some 800,000 federal employees have either been furloughed or will continue to work without pay during the partial shutdown, and it’s unclear how long it will last. “ As the government shutdown stretched into its fifth day on Wednesday, federal employees and contract workers across the country described a holiday season marred by increasing financial worries. An air traffic controller in California is avoiding any purchases that aren’t vital.” A paralegal for the Justice Department in Texas stopped using her ‘gas-guzzling’ pickup truck and pulled her motorcycle out of storage. “A Department of Transportation worker in Missouri picked up cashier shifts at Barnes & Noble.
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