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Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travel of Dick Griffith
No full textDick Griffith journeyed across Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and the American West. According to Jon Krakauer, "Griffith is simply afflicted with an irresistible inclination to attempt what others say can't be done. When asked what possesses a man to repeatedly strike out alone across hundreds of miles of rugged, lonely country, he replies, 'Every so often, it's just time to walk.'" Kaylene Johnson is author of five books about Alaska including her memoir A Tender Distance: Adventures Raising My Son in Alaska
Lieutenant Colonel John Dick Edwards, Jon Milford, and Cathy Downer
No full textLieutenant Colonel John Dick Edwards, Jon Milford, and Cathy Downer at MSU Almuni Association eventhttps://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ua-photo-collection/10148/thumbnail.jp
Keynote: Jon Gertner
No full textThe symposium will start on the evening of April 16 with a keynote address by Jon Gertner. Jon is a journalist, historian, and feature writer for The New York Times Magazine
as well as the author of the NYTimes bestseller, The Idea Factory. His address will focus on the issue of intellectual property and the ethical questions around the huge amount of human-generated content that large language models use as they are developed
Jon Mirande eta ironia
No full textLa ironía es un elemento que ha ido siempre unido a la poesía, y especialmente a la poesía moderna.Tras un pequeño repaso a esta en diferentes épocas, se pasa a describir las tres diferentes ironías de Jon Mirande: la intelectual, la social y la filosófica. Todo ello acompañado de ejemplosIrony is an element that has always been united to poetry, and especially to modern poetry. After a small revision of irony in different eras, the author then describes the three different ironies of Jon Mirande: intellectual, social and philosophical irony. All this illustrated with example
Snider Brown and John Dick's carved tree, Cooper Creek, Queensland, 1972 /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from inscription.; Inscriptions: "Snider Brown at John Dick's carved tree, 1972 Cooper Creek, Queensland. Snider Brown was a Yandruwandha man who lived with his family just north of Tibooburra in north-western NSW. Most of his family now live in Broken Hill"--In pencil on reverse.; Also available online at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6488544; Donated by Jon Rhodes, 2014. In 1899 John Dick carved a likeness of Burke's face in a tree near the "Dig Tree" along with his initials, his wife's initials and the date
Detail of face and lettering and the inscription on the left hand trunk, November, 2001 [picture] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Part of the collection of photographs of the different sites and memorials of the Burke and Wills Expedition.; Title supplied by artist.; "It [inscription on left trunk] reads 'D.G.D. 21.11.98'. Information on a bronze plaque at the site states that the face was carved by a boundary rider, John Dick."--Note from photographer.; This tree is about 30 metres downstream (i.e. west) of the Dig tree, Cooper Creek, Queensland
John Dick's carved tree, Cooper Creek, Qld. [picture] /
No full textCondition: Good.; Title supplied by artist.; Part of the collection of photographs of the different sites and memorials of the Burke and Wills Expedition.; "Information on a bronze plaque at the site states that the face was carved by a boundary rider, John Dick."--Note from photographer
Jon Pineda, 32nd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textJon Pineda is the author of The Translator\u27s Diary, winner of the Green Rose Prize for Poetry, and BIrthmark, winner of the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry Open Competition. His memoir, Sleep in Me, is forthcoming in 2010 from the University of Nebraska Press. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte
Securing and sustaining the Olympic city: reconfiguring London for 2012 and beyond
No full textOften seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking, accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination. Since 1976, the defence of the spectacle has become the central feature of its planning, one that has assumed even greater prominence following the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta Games and, most importantly, 9/11. Indeed, the quintupled cost of securing the first post-9/11 summer Games in Athens demonstrates the considerable scale and complexity currently implicated in these operations. Such costs are not only fiscal. The Games stimulate a tidal wave of redevelopment ushering in new gentrified urban settings and an associated investment that may or may not soak through to the incumbent community. Given the unusual step of developing London's Olympic Park in the heart of an existing urban milieu and the stated commitments to 'community development' and 'legacy', these constitute particularly acute issues for the 2012 Games. In addition to sealing the Olympic Park from perceived threats, 2012 security operations have also harnessed the administrative criminological staples of community safety and crime reduction to generate an ordered space in the surrounding areas. Of central importance here are the issues of citizenship, engagement and access in urban spaces redeveloped upon the themes of security and commerce. Through analyzing the social and community impact of the 2012 Games and its security operation on East London, this book concludes by considering the key debates as to whether utopian visions of legacy can be sustained given the demands of providing a global securitized event of the magnitude of the modern Olympics.<br/
Interview with Jon Baskin--May 15, 2015
No full textJon Baskin is co-founder and editor of The Point magazine in Chicago. He is also a graduate student at the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought and the author of many essays and works of criticism for venues such as The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, n+1, The New York Observer, BookForum, Salon, and The Point. Earlier in his career he was a fact checker for various magazines, including Popular Science, Inc Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, and n+1. The interview was conducted at the office of The Point in Chicago on May 15, 2015.1_izzia9z
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