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Rick Oliver portrait
No full textA portrait of Rick Oliver in jump gear. Oliver is a crew member at the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base.https://dc.ewu.edu/beck/1147/thumbnail.jp
Ray Osipovich and Rick Oliver at cabin raising party
No full textSmokejumper Ray Osipovich and Rick Oliver stand together drinking during a cabin raising party attended by smokejumpers.https://dc.ewu.edu/beck/1062/thumbnail.jp
The British ‘Bluesman’ Paul Oliver and the Nature of Transatlantic Blues Scholarship
No full textRecent revisionist studies have argued that much of what is known about music known as the blues’ has been 'invented' by the writing of enthusiasts far removed from the African American culture that created the music. Elijah Wald and Marybeth Hamilton in particular have attempted to sift through the clouds of romanticism, and tried to unveil more empirical histories that were previously obscured by the fallacious genre distinctions conjured up during the 1960s blues revival. While this revisionist scholarship has shed light on some previously ignored historical facts, writers have tended to concentrate on the romanticism of blues writing strictly from an American perspective, failing to acknowledge the genesis and influence of transatlantic scholarship, and therefore ignoring the work of the most prolific and influential blues scholar of the twentieth century, British writer Paul Oliver. By examining the core of Oliver’s research and writing during the 1950s and 1960s, this study aims to place Oliver in his rightful place at the centre of blues historiography. His scholarship allows a more detailed appreciation of the manner in which the blues was studied, through lyrics, recordings, oral histories, photography and African American literature. These historical sources were interpreted in accordance with the author’s attitudes to the commercial popular music, which allowed the ‘reconstruction’ of an African American ‘folk’ culture in which the blues became the antithesis of pop. Importantly, this study seeks to transcend dominant discourses of national cultural ownership or ethnocentrism, and demonstrate that representations of African American music and culture were constructed within a transatlantic context. The blues is music with roots in the African American experience within the United States; however, as Paul Oliver’s writing shows, its reception and representation were not limited by the same national, cultural or racial boundaries
Alexander von Humboldt. Die Russland-Expedition. Von der Newa bis zum Altai
No full textMit seiner Russland-Reise im Jahr 1829 erfüllt sich für Alexander von Humboldt ein Jugendtraum. Nach dem Südamerika-Unternehmen dreißig Jahre zuvor ist es seine zweite große Expedition - die bislang jedoch weitaus weniger bekannt ist.
Auf Einladung des Zaren Nikolaus I. bereist Humboldt die Weiten des eurasischen Kontinents bis an die chinesische Grenze. Mehr als 18.000 Kilometer werden er und seine Begleiter am Ende zurückgelegt haben. Während Humboldt die Natur erforscht - Berge und Gesteine, Tiere und Pflanzen und vor allem das Klima -, durchmisst er zugleich ein Imperium, das sich in einer Phase der Repression befindet. Von politischen Zwängen kann auch er sich nicht freihalten. Aus den Reisebriefen Humboldts an den russischen Finanzminister, an den Bruder Wilhelm und den Freund François Arago sowie dem Bericht seines Begleiters Gustav Rose hat Oliver Lubrich eine mehrstimmige Erzählung von dieser Expedition zusammengestellt. Sie vermittelt ein lebhaftes Bild des schon damals international berühmten Gelehrten, aber auch des einfühlsamen Bruders und Freundes
A Reading By Poet Mary Oliver
No full textMary Oliver\u27s poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world, has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery. As poet Stanley Kunitz has said, Mary Oliver\u27s poetry is fine and deep; it reads like a blessing. Her special gift is to connect us with our sources in the natural world, its beauties and terrors and mysteries and consolations. Please join Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver as she shares her joyous, accessible, and intimate observations of the natural world.
Mary Oliver is the celebrated author of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose. With her lyrical connection to the natural world, Oliver\u27s poetry has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. Oliver has been honored with the National Book Award for Poetry, the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, among others
"Hi, fellas. come on in." Norman Carlson, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Rise of Prison Fellowship
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in the Journal of Church and State following peer review. The version of record - Kendrick Oliver; “Hi, Fellas. Come on in.” Norman Carlson, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Rise of Prison Fellowship, Journal of Church and State, Volume 55, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 740–757 - is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/css05
Establishing Preconditions for Spanning the Boundaries in Public Private IT Megaprojects
No full textInter-organizational cooperations between public and private partners, called public private partnerships (PPP), are increasingly gaining more importance concerning renewal, standardization, and optimization of the information technology (IT) infrastructure of public sector organizations. Reasons for this trend include the search for partners with necessary technological and innovative knowledge of sourcing IT and the identification of cost-saving potentials. Unfortunately, IT-PPP-cooperations are particularly susceptible to failure due to the clash of different cultures. Divergent understandings, expectations, and pressure from the relevant stakeholders hinder a working partnership. Therefore, in this exploratory, qualitative single-case study from the German TollCollect IT megaproject, the authors draw on findings from boundary spanning literature to explain how establishing preconditions for boundary spanning and actively bridging the gap between the partners, moderated by external stakeholder support, affects the formation of mutual trust and success of an IT-PPP-megaproject.</p
Biography of Mary Jane Oliver
No full textTypescript of a sketch biography about Mary Jane (Oliver) Barlow, who came came from England around 1851 and with her husband, Oswald Barlow, helped to settle Saint George. Author unknown, but copied on January 13, 1937 by Virginia M. Lee of the Federal Writers Project, WPA, at Ogden, Uta
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