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Interview of Donald Carpenter by Brian Shoemaker
No full text1. Bob Helliwell-pp.1,2,11-14,21-24,27-28,32,35
2. Ed Coleman-pp.5-7,9-10
3. Kingsley Davis-pp.11
4. Mollet Morgan-pp.12
5. Owen Story-pp.13,21,26
6. John Katsavrakas-pp.14,27,41
7. Thorrie-pp.21
8. Bob Smith-pp.21-22
9. Neil Brice-pp.23-24,30
10. John Behrendt, pp.24
11. Martin-pp.25
12. Ernst Gehrels-pp.26
13. Arnold Shostak-pp.27
14. Irene Peden-pp.28
15. Myron Swaron-pp.28
16. Don Reynolds-pp.28
17. Run Sefton-pp.31
18. Chung Park-pp.31
19. Michael Trimpi-pp.32-34,48,51
20. Mollet Morgan-pp.34
21. Bob Vanowski-pp.35
22. Constantine Greengals-pp.36-37
23. Sig Bauer pp.38
24. Ev Pascal-pp.41,46
25. Bill Tabucco-pp.41,46
26. Paul Kentner-pp.44
27. John Billay-pp.43
28. Ted Rosenburg-pp.45
29. Rob Flint-pp.45-46Dr. Carpenter and parents moved from Spokane, Washington to Portland, Oregon when he was 5 years old. His two grandfathers were faculty members at two different universities. His father became leader of communications for Northwest Bell. Dr. Carpenter’s first degree was in political science. While in the U.S. Navy he went to an electronics school and later was called for the Korean War. Academics were very important to him, though he was unfocused for a time. He studied a variety of subjects, including Russian at Columbia University. After not being cleared for positions with the U.S. Information Agency and with the CIA, he enrolled in electrical engineering at Stanford.
As a student, he was looking at the data from the "Whistler’s West" IGY program. Research workers were studying the influence of large solar storms on communications; they determined that the plasma around the earth diminished in density. Carpenter observed that the change in density was greater at the higher latitudes then at lower latitudes. Low frequency radio waves can interact with particles. He deduced the sharp discontinuity in space. The whistlers would reflect back and forth along the magnetic field. Siple Station in Antarctica was located to receive whistler activity from a wide range of latitudes.
From the data collected in 1963 and 1965 Carpenter was able to describe the plasmashere.
Dr. Carpenter stresses the contributions of persons like Mike Trimpi, who have unique talents in designing and collecting field data. Constantine Greengals, a Russian scientist, collected data that supported the drop in density. The data supported Carpenter’s data, but scientists in both countries were not convinced. He described the use of rockets launched from Siple Station in 1980-81 to observe properties of the wave as it entered the ionosphere.
Rob Flint directed a project at the Plateau Station to study the inactions of the low frequency radio noise with the optical emissions (Southern Lights),
Dr. Carpenter describes the tug-of-war between the earth and the sun on the plasma. Although radiation from the sun produces currents on earth, he is not sure that the sun causes "space weather".
Major Topics
1. As a graduate in electrical engineering, to analyze data about the "whistlers"; and lead to study of plasmapause.
2. School years were spent in Portland, Oregon.
3. Years in undergraduate studies and in military service are described.
4. At Whistler’s West network, found that the clearest tones came from lightning.
5. The changes in whistler activity related to the distribution of charge particles with height and associated with solar storms.
6. Something was causing the earth’s plasma to greatly diminish in density.
7. Propagation velocity of a pulse or wave packet along the Earth’s magnetic field is slower than the speed of light in a vacuum, a slow wave.
8. By placing a station at each end of the magnetic field, e.g. Byrd Station and Great Whale River, Canada, whistlers and other natural noises could be studied.
9. During the IGY, Carpenter compared the characteristics of whistlers received at various stations. He was able to deduce from the data that there is a sharp discontinuity in space.
10. The Eight Station in Antarctica had no local lightning activity. They verified that not only direct signals from the Navy transmitters but also delayed signals could be received.
11. Cold plasma provides the propagation medium for waves but hot plasma can exchange energy.
12. Siple was an ideal station because it was on a stable ice sheet, a conjugate point, signals could be received in an accessible region of Canada, and saw abundant whistler activity from many latitudes.
13. The studies of the wave environment of the earth were extended by using orbiting geophysical observations.Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation
Delph Carpenter, father of Colorado River treaties: text of Governor Ralph L. Carr's 1943 salute to Delph Carpenter
No full textSeptember 1991.Includes introductory material, text of Colorado River Compact.The rulebook for the Colorado River is the 1922 Colorado River Compact, a document now nearly 70 years old. Time said, "This critical document facilitated both the astonishing development of the West and the problems that followed as a result." The centerpiece of Delph Carpenter's career was the Colorado River Compact and the acknowledgement of his role came from no less a person than President Herbert Hoover. Hoover's admiration for the work of Carpenter is evident from the two letters included in the booklet. Not only was Delph Carpenter an institution in the field of western water law; he left a legacy through his son Donald, who became an attorney and accompanied his father to many water meetings including trips to see President Hoover. When Delph Carpenter became disabled with Parkinson's Disease but struggled to continue his work, his son Donald took care of his father's personal needs while he continued to work on the interstate water treaties. At the time that Governor Ralph Carr delivered the speech which is reprinted here, Donald was on the East Coast awaiting shipment to Europe in World War II. Ex-President Hoover arranged for Donald to attend the banquet. Donald Carpenter went on to a distinguished career as a district judge in Greeley, including presiding over the water court. Today's students of water resources management will benefit from the study of this speech and the vision held by Delph Carpenter and his peers about Western water management
Life is too short to be serious all the time: Donald Duck presents unconventional motivations for publishing in academia
No full textIn this food for thought article, we introduce the ‘Donald Duck Phenomenon’ to consider ten unconventional reasons for publishing in academia. These include (i) symbolic immortality, (ii) personal satisfaction, (iii) a sense of pride, (iv) serious leisure, (v) cause credibility, (vi) altruism, (vii) collaboration with a friend or family member, (viii) collaboration with a hero, (ix) conflict or revenge, and (x) for amusement. The article was inspired by the lead author’s social media search for a co-author with the surname ‘Duck’. Through LinkedIn, the lead author, Associate Professor William E. Donald, who is based in the UK and specialises in Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, found a collaborator, Dr Nicholas Duck, based in Australia and specialises in Organisational Psychology. While the collaboration may appear somewhat ‘quackers’, per one of Donald Duck’s famous phrases, “Life is too short to be serious all the time, so if you can’t laugh at yourself then call me… I’ll laugh at you, for you”. We hope that this article offers some interesting insights, particularly for academics at the start of their scholarly journey, and acts as a way to stimulate conversation around unconventional reasons for publishing in academia
William Morris and Edward Carpenter: back to the land and the simple life, 1880-1910
No full textThis thesis focuses on the influence of William Morris and Edward Carpenter on
aspects of the back-to-the-land and simple-life movements between the years 1880-
1910. Specifically, it seeks to define and explore the convergence and divergence of
both writers' return-to-nature ideology, and considers their influence on the
development of particular groups, who represented some of the multiplicity of backto-
the-land ideas and experiments current during this period. The thesis is divided
into three main parts; the intellectual framework for the study is broad, and takes into
account the historical context, the cultural significance and the character of the
material in each section.
The first part of the thesis undertakes an expository evaluation of key texts
from Morris's and Carpenter's political journalism, lectures and imaginative writing,
examining how both writers developed an appropriate language to convey their
social and political ideals. The critical method employed uses detailed textual
analysis, identifying and discussing the individual qualities of Morris's and
Carpenter's back-to-the-land writing, and reflecting on the differing emphases of
their utopian rhetoric. The second part of the research explores the take-up of
Morris's and Carpenter's ethos in four diverse and little known late-nineteenthcentury
journals, concerned with simple-life issues and a return to the land, namely
Seed-time, The New Order, Land and Labor and Land and People. It employs the
thinking of Pierre Bourdieu and Mikhail Bakhtin to establish an appropriate balance
between critical theory and empirical study. Lastly using a historical and descriptive
method the thesis uses archival material to examine the nature and extent of both
writers' influence on two Cotswold back-to-the-land experiments - the Whiteway
Colony and the Chipping Campden Guild of Handicraft. These provide a particular
opportunity to consider and compare the practical outcomes of return-to-the-land and
simple-life ideologies.
The study extends scholarship in this area by significantly re-appraising the
relationship between Morris's and Carpenter's back-to-the-land writing, and reinstating
Carpenter as a germinal influence. It also increases our understanding of the
values and function of the journals in the study, and establishes an insight into the
wider cultural assimilation of both writers' ideals
Author and literary critic Donald Shaw
No full textAuthor and literary critic Donald Shaw, b&w.https://mds.marshall.edu/parthenon_photo_morgue/1399/thumbnail.jp
Letter from Donald Hales to Hagan
No full textHolograph letter from Donald Hales, Via S. Nazaro 1- 10, Genoa, to Hagan. Having seen the proprietor of the bed [of Daniel O'Connell] stating that a carpenter will be needed to reassemble it. On Hagan's discouraging report from Ireland, stating that their nation's besetting sin is senseless disunion. 'If perhaps we had more of the calculating Saxon, and less of the impulsiveness of the fiery Celt we should succeed much better.' He will continue his anti-English propaganda. Republican strength outside the Dáil is nearly gone- maybe entering it in protest would have made allies on the continent and among those also under English domination
Donald Elder papers
No full textDonald Elder (1913-1965) was an editor with Doubleday, Doran and Co., which published the English translation of José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi's The Itching Parrot in Katherine Anne Porter's name. He was also the author of Ring Lardner, A Biography. The collection consists of correspondence between him and Porter. Important subjects include writers and writing and Porter's personal interests and opinions, as well as The Itching Parrot and Ship of Fools
"Letter with No Address" - Poem by Donald Hall
No full textDonald Hall reads his poem "Letter with No Address," an epistolary poem written for his late wife, the poet Jane Kenyon. Hall is a former U.S. Poet Laureate and the author of 16 books of poetry, as well as fiction.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/85036/1/letterwithnoaddress_donalhall.mp
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Letter from [Donald Hata] to Michi Weglyn August 25, 1977
No full textThis letter from Donald Hata to Michi Weglyn thanks her for her time and effort in her response to his student's request for assistance and information about the "Peruvian internees." He also informs her that the review he wrote of her book had just been published in the "Journal of American history," and also updates her on his promotion to full professor at the university.Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II
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