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Carissa Bryce Christensen
No full textCarissa Bryce Christensen is an internationally known expert on the space industry and technology forecasting. She led the creation of widely used data tools now considered global metrics for the commercial space and satellite sectors, providing non-advocate, data-driven insights. She is a frequent speaker and author on space and satellite trends, serves as a strategic advisor to government and commercial clients, and has been an expert witness and testified before Congress on market dynamics. Ms. Christensen is the CEO of Bryce Space and Technology, LLC (formerly a division of The Tauri Group), an analytic consulting firm. She is also an active investor in technology-focused startups and advises several companies she has helped seed. She serves on the board of QxBranch, an early stage quantum computing firm.
Ms. Christensen holds a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University\u27s Kennedy School of Government, where she specialized in science and technology policy. She also completed the General Course in Government at the London School of Economics and was a Douglass Scholar at Rutgers University.
Ms. Christensen is an Associate Fellow of The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Association.https://commons.erau.edu/space-congress-bios-2018/1022/thumbnail.jp
Kate Christensen, 37th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textKATE CHRISTENSEN is the author of six novels, including The Epicure\u27s Lament, the PEN/Faulkner award-winning The Great Man, and The Astral. She describes herself as a cook of the improvisational, what\u27s-in-the-cupboard school, which is also, possibly not coincidentally, [her] strategy with writing, and as someone who was raised in Berkeley in the 1960s, long before the Bay Area became the American locavore/foodie mecca. She now lives in Portland, Maine, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Her food memoir is Blue Plate Special: An Autobiography of My Appetites (Doubleday, 2013). She is currently collaborating with Barbara Lynch, the Boston chef, on her memoir
Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting
No full textArt critic Clement Greenberg described Dan Christensen (1942-2007) as one of the painters on whom the course of American Art depends. 1 This retrospective exhibition documents Christensen\u27s life-long quest to understand the possibilities of color, paint, and pictorial space. Though long associated with Color Field painting, Christensen\u27s relentless experimentation with style and technique places him among this country\u27s most ambitious abstract and gestural painters.
Christensen was born in Lexington, Nebraska and grew up outside of Cozad. As a teenager Christensen listened to music on radio stations from Shreveport and Little Rock and grew fond of soul, blues, and pop music. His early aspirations to reach beyond his Midwest roots and experience a larger world, coupled with a youthful sense of independence and self-reliance, contributed to his eventual move to New York City. In 1964 he graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute and after one year of graduate school moved to the East Coast where he spent the rest of his life. Although he was painting the figure when he arrived in New York, he soon made an abrupt break from this style.
Artists in Christensen\u27s circle met and shared ideas at Max\u27s Kansas City, a bar on Park Avenue South in New York City. There, Christensen met Minimalist artists Carl Andre and Brice Marden, whom he considered important early influences. Max\u27s is also where Christensen met art dealer Rich8rd Bell8my, who offered to represent him in 1966. Shortly afterward, Bellamy brought art collector and author James Michener for a studio visit. Michener bought a paintingthe first real sale Christensen mad
Microtransactions: Redefining Revenue in the Videogame Industry
No full textMicrotransactions. Hated. Loved. Adored. The fundamental base of the video game industry, microtransactions have been the eye of the storm for video game controversy. In this article, author Peter Christensen analyzes the conflicting views, and proposes a solution forward
Examining varieties of positioning
No full textThe purpose of this chapter is to explore the development and uses of modes/varieties of positioning by scholars across time. The first section of the chapter provides a brief overview of the modes of positioning that Harré and Van Langenhove introduced in 1991. Next, in the second section of the chapter, we present a review of literature about the ways that scholars across the past three decades have used modes/varieties of positioning in their own work. Then, drawing on key insights from our literature review, we present a reanalysis of one of our own’s (i.e., Pauline Harris) research projects illustrating the affordances that can be attained by careful attention to modes/varieties of positioning in a reanalysis of data. Finally, we conclude the chapter considering implications of use of modes/varieties of positioning and suggesting future directions for scholars who use modes/varieties of positioning in their work
'We will never get rich if we follow Buddhism' – The Rise of Brahmanism in Cambodia
No full textThis paper explores the growing demand for spirit rituals in Cambodia over the last two decades. Beginning with the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979, the author focuses on the revitalisation of “Brahmanism” (brahmaṇya-sāsanā), a term that in Cambodia describes religious practices involving spirits. Brahmanist practices have grown in popularity in parallel with the rapid revitalisation of Buddhism that has taken place since the end of the post-Khmer Rouge Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia in 1989. The author argues that the influence of ideas of pāramī, or spiritual power, is a significant reason for the popularity of Brahmanist rituals. In contrast to Buddhist practice which places emphasis on the accumulation of merit (puṇya), spirits and their human mediums may provide immediate cures, or help in the accumulation of power and money. Hence Brahmanism is appealing to many Cambodians – as the title of the paper suggests – because their offerings are traded for more immediate benefits than Buddhist merit-making. Because of their flexibility, Brahmanist rituals have been easily adapted to the new capitalist market, which was ‘liberalized’ in the 1990s. Unlike the well-documented development of Buddhism, the revitalization of Brahmanism has gone rather unnoticed by scholars of Cambodia. Nonetheless, it has become a modern phenomenon that provides revealing insights into a society that finds itself in politically troubled times
Spain, neutrality and the legacy of the Second World War: The strange case of John Christensen
No full textIn September 1941, the Wellington bomber piloted by Captain John Christensen was shot down over German-occupied France. Christensen survived and, with the help of French resistance forces, was able to escape into Spain. However, he was then interned for some time by the Francoist government, which claimed the status of a neutral power yet in many ways appeared to act as a functional ally of the Axis powers. In 2008, Christensen lodged a claim with the Australian federal government for an ex gratia payment of $25,000, which legislation in 2007 had provided for veterans who were interned by a European ―”enemy state” or a European ―”ally” of an enemy state during the Second World War. His case then turned on the issue of whether Francoist Spain could legitimately be described as an ”ally” of either Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy during the war. After initial applications were rejected by the department on the basis of cursory on-line investigation (including Wikipedia) on the status of Spain during the war, the Christensen family engaged two historians (including the author of this paper) to present full analyses based upon the most current scholarship. This paper will consider both the historical issue of Spain‘s wartime neutrality and the interesting legacy of this issue as it was caught up with an Australian legal claim over half a century following the war‘s end
Liftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
Christensen house at 806 South Jefferson Street in Moscow [02]
No full textMr. and Mrs. C.H. Christenson residence early 1900s on north side of Moscow-Pullman highway
Veteran Political Reporter Rob Christensen to Visit Gardner-Webb University on March 25
No full textVeteran political correspondent and author Rob Christensen will return to the campus of Gardner-Webb University on Monday, March 25 for a reception and guest lecture series at Hope Hall, located in the Tucker Student Center. A meet-and-greet time is planned from 9:15 a.m. to 10 a.m., with the guest lecture beginning at 10 a.m. The event is being coordinated by GWU Distinguished Visiting Professor—and former N.C. Lieutenant Governor—Walter Dalton.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/gardner-webb-newscenter-archive/2677/thumbnail.jp
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