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is a portable virtual cinema for the display of spatially distributed multichannel movies (“walkies”). The miniature experience engages participants’ proprioceptors and spatial memory, allowing them to orient themselves as they navigate a field of scattered video streams and localized sounds reproduced on a handheld computing device. Departing from one-way linear cinema played on a single rectangular screen, this multichannel virtual environment pursues a cinematic paradigm that undoes habitual ways of framing things, employing architectural concepts in a polylinear-video polyphonic-sound construction to create a kind of experience that lets the world reveal itself and permits discovery on the part of beholders. Interaction design for supports approaches to cinematic construction that employ the ambulatory, multiple and simultaneous viewpoints that humans exercise in everyday life.

Emotions are at the very heart of individual and communal actions. They influence our social and interpersonal behaviour and affect our perspectives on culture, history, politics, and morality. Emotions, Community, and Citizenship is a pioneering work that brings together scholars from an array of disciplines in order to challenge and unite the disciplinary divides in the study of emotions. These carefully selected studies highlight how emotions are studied within various disciplines with particular attention to the divide between naturalistic and interpretive approaches. The editors of this volume have provided a nuanced and insightful introduction and conclusion which provide not only an overarching commentary but a framework for the interdisciplinary approach to emotion studies.

Josephine died in 1916, and the next year Niblo joined Ince Studios as a producer/director of silent films. While in Australia, directing one of his first films, \"A Desert Wooing\" (sometimes noted as \"The Marriage Ring\"), he became acquainted with the film's star, Enid Bennett, who became his wife a few months later. Niblo's first notable film was \"The Mark Of Zorro\" starring Douglas Fairbanks, which was released in 1920. Joining three or four other movie producers and directors, Niblo founded and became the first vice president of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, known principally today as the organization that awards the Oscars. With his directing of \"The Three Musketeers\" and \"Ben-Hur,\" his career was at its peak but did not carry over well into the transition to sound pictures.

The next year, Buckstaff started two more businesses. The Lincoln Paper Manufacturing Co., which employed 40 men in their facility near Salt Creek at about Fourth and Calvert streets, made straw wrapping paper, rag paper and building board. The Vitrified Paving & Pressed Brick Co., which employed 150 men, was a joint company with contractor W.H.B. Stout. The brick-making plant turned out 100,000 paving bricks a day in a plant that covered four square blocks and supplied the contracting arm of the company, which paved most of Lincoln's streets with \"durable and noiseless pavement.\" This business was noted as one of the largest brickyards in the United States. Whether the general depression of the last decade of the 19th century was to blame is unclear, but the vast Buckstaff empire began to wane. [John A. Buckstaff] and [Sarah Montgomery] boarded at the Lincoln Hotel then moved to a house at \"Capitol Beach.\" [Aaron] operated Buckstaff Brothers on O Street for a time, but by World War I, his only business was the Buckstaff Auto Co. at 1021 N St., and he lived in an apartment at the Jefferson Flats at 1441 G St. By 1927, the N Street address had become a barbershop, and 726 O St. was a book and magazine supplier. In 1935, the era of the vast empire had ended: There was not a single Buckstaff in the city directory.

In late July 1804, Lewis and Clark reached a point in today's Washington County, Neb., above where Boyer's Creek entered the Missouri River, where they planned a meeting with \"neighboring tribes\" to \"cultivate their friendship.\" The site overlooking the river was termed \"Camp Councile Bluff or Handsom Prairie\" and later referred to as simply Council Bluff, which is often confused with the city in Iowa across from Omaha (which has an \"s\" at the end of its name). When Prince Maximilian visited, he referred to the trading post as \"a row of buildings of various sizes, stores and houses.\" Another observer said the \"house is rather firmly put together and has chimneys of brick\" while Paul Wilhelm said the surrounding hills \"enclose it almost like a wall.\"

Concurrent with the sale of First Congregational and First Presbyterian churches on South 13th Street to the Lancaster Hotel Corporation, First Congregational merged with its offspring Plymouth Congregational and moved to the latter's 17th and A streets building. It immediately began planning for a new edifice under the Rev. Benjamin F. Wyland, who had been called to First Congregational in 1926. Wyland envisioned a new form of church architecture that would be a living building not just for the congregation but for the entire community. And to cost no more than $500,000 complete with all furnishings. Three architects presented proposals for the new church building, including Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, whose design won the Nebraska State Capitol competition. The architect chosen for the church was Harold Van Buren Magonigle of New York City, also one of the 10 finalists in the Capitol competition and the first person to be awarded a doctor's degree in architecture in the United States. A large body of correspondence evolved between Magonigle and Wyland regarding the philosophy of the church's design.

As settlement began, it was immediately obvious Nebraska Territory was an alien landscape to many of its immigrants who were used to forested land or, at least, land with some trees. With statehood in 1867 the Legislature considered but did not enact a law that would require each settler to plant a minimum of 20 acres of trees to provide shelterbelts, promote rainfall and provide firewood and building lumber. The original state constitution did provide that \"improvements resulting from tree planting should not be included in assessment for tax purposes,\" and an 1869 law excluded $100 worth of property from taxation for every acre of trees planted. In 1872, Arbor Day was enacted as a further encouragement for tree planting. Implementation was fairly detailed, requiring five acres to be plowed the first year. The second year, that plowed land had to be planted with crops. During the third year, the original five acres was to be planted with trees and another five acres plowed. This continued with trees being planted on the second five-acre plot, resulting in 10 acres devoted to trees, which had to have a minimum of 270 trees per acre. At the end of 13 years, a minimum number of trees had to have survived. Then with written and witnessed statements, a final land certificate was issued.

Lawrie completed his bachelor's degree at Yale in 1908 and became an art instructor at Harvard from 1910 to 1912. Leaving his teaching post, he rejoined [Ralph Adams Cram], who was now in partnership with Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, until the two architects split when Lawrie decided to stay with Goodhue. When Goodhue's submission won the competition to design Nebraska's third Capitol, Goodhue specified that the architectural sculpture was to be done by Lawrie. When one of the members of Nebraska's Capitol Commission insisted that Goodhue could not choose a sculptor by decree because all contractors had to be subject to competitive bids, Goodhue reacted explosively. He contended that to put Lawrie on par \"with plumbers (was) preposterous.\" Goodhue, of course, triumphed, but it was to become one of a series of similar arguments with that particular commissioner. Goodhue's instructions to Lawrie were general but did state that there would be no \"images for their own sakes\"; all must relate to the building's theme. In practice, virtually all of the sculptures Lawrie designed were executed as reliefs \"integrated with the ... structure\" with the Sower being a three-dimensional exception. Of the dozens of stone reliefs throughout the Capitol, the 18 stone panels depicting \"the history of law\" and the pioneers frieze above the north entrance are the most recognizable. The pioneers looking forward, to the right, heading into the setting sun on a field of gold, perhaps apocryphally, is said to have used Buffalo Bill as a model, though it is far from obvious.

Bill was noted for his slovenly, bumpkinlike appearance. He was described as a \"medium-sized, chicken-headed, tow-haired\" man with blue eyes who walked with a shuffle, grinned from ear to ear and generally \"resembled an idiot.\" Frequently in disguise as a farmer, he might also appear as a doctor or merchant who would ask simple questions in a high, squeaky voice. Newspapers nationwide countered with stories saying: \"Omaha (is) a cesspool of iniquity,\" the town is full of \"mobs of Monte-men, pickpockets, faro dealers and criminal fugitives.\" And more: \"If you want to find a rogues rookery, go to Omaha.\" Said another: \"Whisky shops are innumerable and attached to each is a faro bank ... in full blast day and night.\" \"Canada Bill\" Jones \"the most notorious, smoothest-talking man that ever set foot on Nebraska soil... a card shark of which the world probably never produced an equal,\" died in 1877 in a charity hospital in Reading, Pa. His funeral expenses were ultimately reimbursed by a syndicate of Chicago compatriots, one of whom was willing to bet $1,000 two-to-one that Bill was not in the coffin. There were no takers.