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Oral History Interview with John Perry, April 16, 2004
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Perry. Perry joined the Army Air Forces in February of 1943. He completed armament school, and aerial gunner training. He served as a waist gunner aboard a B-17 with the 96th Bomb Group, 338th Bomb Squadron. They deployed to England, and Perry was shot down in March of 1944 during his fourth mission over Brunswick, Germany. He was contained as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 4 and 6, and liberated in April of 1945. Perry returned to the US and was discharged in late 1945
Oral History Interview with John Perry, April 16, 2004
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John Perry. Perry joined the Army Air Forces in February of 1943. He completed armament school, and aerial gunner training. He served as a waist gunner aboard a B-17 with the 96th Bomb Group, 338th Bomb Squadron. They deployed to England, and Perry was shot down in March of 1944 during his fourth mission over Brunswick, Germany. He was contained as a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft 4 and 6, and liberated in April of 1945. Perry returned to the US and was discharged in late 1945
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Pop Chronicles Interviews
No full textRichard Perry interviews Fats Domino in Las Vegas. John Gilliland used this recording for the Pop Chronicles radio program series
Structural studies on high oxidation state nickel complexes and their nickel (II) precursors using EXAFS spectroscopy
No full textOctahedral nickel(III) complexes [Ni(L-L)3]X3 (L-L = diamine; X = Cl, Br) have been prepared by oxidation of the corresponding nickel(II) species with halogen in carbon tetrachloride under anhydrous conditions. The structures of the more stable products and all the precursors where investigated using nickel K-edge EXAFS spectroscopy and their Ni-N and Ni..Cbackbone interatomic distances were determined. The ability of this technique to detect substituents beyond the second coordination sphere was also investigated. Tetragonal nickel(III) complexes (Ni(L-L)2X20D (L-L = diamine, N-methyl substituted diamine; X = Cl, Br) have also been synthesised by halogen oxidation of the appropriate nickel(II) precursors. The structures of the starting materials were probed using nickel and bromine K-edge EXAFS data, and these were shown to have either a trans or a cis geometry, depending upon the degree of N-methyl substitution and the presence of aquo ligands. The more stable oxidation products have also been structurally characterized. Octahedral nickel(II), F4-diars and diphos have been prepared and their structures elucidated using a combination of nickel, bromine and arsenic K-edge EXAFS data. The interatomic distances obtained for [Ni(F4-diars)2Br2]BF4 have been compared with those determined by X-ray crystallography and were found to be in excellent agreement. Some Class II mixed-valence nickel(II)/(IV) linear chain complexes have been prepared and a structure re-investigated using XAS. The preliminary findings of a model study for these systems using some platinum and mixed-metal analogues are reported.</p
Lend me your watch and I’ll tell you the time: the thorny issue of leadership in training healthcare professionals in counselling and communication skills
No full textIt would clearly be risible if someone were to ask you for the time, and you in turn asked them to lend you their watch so you could tell them. Much criticism has been levelled at counsellors who will not give a direct answer but rather turn questions back on their clients. Many teachers, subscribing to the Socratic imperative, may do likewise and assume the role of a conduit rather than a leader. Whether they do so through a belief in the process, or a lack of belief in their own leadership skills, they risk evoking frustration or even resentment.We the authors make the following contentions: if the leadership of the teacher or therapist (as director or wise one) is reneged on in place of a laissez-faire client-centeredness, then are we willing to work without goals or outcomes, to set off on a journey without maps, and indulge in a relationship of pure process? Perhaps for the client or student who has made little contribution or sacrifice to be there, this may be acceptable. But in a time when students pay high fees, and clients of all services are increasingly charged, don’t these groups have a right to receive a degree of direction from the professionals they encounter?One assumes that even before Freud’s day, people were helped by being listened to. But today, talking therapies have been subsumed into the ‘toolkits’ of many professionals and, as a consequence, have been substantially demystified. Clients may not know ‘the answer’ but tend to be more able to formulate their questions. And they deserve the respect implicit in the professional’s honouring of their leadership commitment. Both teachers and clinicians therefore need to be able to address their own issues of power and influence, perceived expertise and validation of feelings and expectations. Professionals need to be accountable not only for what they can do, but also for what they cannot do. An honest understanding and acceptance of this does not preclude honouring a leadership role.<br/
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
[Newspaper Clipping: Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin #1]
No full textNewspaper article titled "Author Claims Evidence of Second JFK Assassin." The article states that author Richard J. Whalen concluded "that there is circumstantial evidence to support the theory of a second assassin in the shooting of President John F. Kennedy.
There and Back piece recounting author John McDonald\u27s first trip to Lewiston-
No full textThere and Back piece recounting author John McDonald\u27s first trip to Lewiston-Auburn. Driving a 1953 two-tone Chevy Powerglide, McDonald and his cousin visited the twin cities to hear John F. Kennedy speak as part of his 1960 presidential campaign against Richard M. Nixon
Double Executions.: John William Anderson, at Newcastle\u27 and Richard Charlton, at Morpeth, both for murdering their wives.
No full textA song about John Anderson and Richard Charlton murdering their wives and being hung for it.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/kgbsides_uk/2156/thumbnail.jp
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Apache reservation ::indigenous peoples and the American state /
No full text""Indian reservations" were the United States' ultimate solution to the "problem" of what to do with native peoples who already occupied the western lands that Anglo settlers wanted. In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its contemporary relationship to the American state, with comparisons to similar phenomena in Canada, Australia, and South Africa." "The San Carlos Apache Reservation of Arizona provides the lens through which Perry views reservation issues. One of the oldest and largest reservations, its location in a minerals- and metals-rich area has often brought it into conflict with powerful private and governmental interests. Indeed, Perry argues that the reservation system is best understood in terms of competition for resources among interest groups through time within the hegemony of the state. He approaches the Apache as players in a broad, complex arena in which control over their resources - and hence, over their lives - has been a central issue. He asserts that full control over their resources would address many of the Apache's contemporary economic problems." "The book provides a concise history of the Apache, from their prehistoric migration from the Subarctic through their interactions with Spanish, Mexican, Anglo-American, and indigenous Southwestern populations. It deals with such factors as the shift from gold to copper mining in Arizona, the local population's vested interest in a continuing military presence, the failure of peace initiatives, the appropriation of rich ore deposits and grazing land from the reservation, and the flooding of Apache farms for the benefit of agribusiness." "With its applicability to conflicts around the world between state systems and indigenous peoples, this book will be of interest to a wide public and scholarly audience. As in his previous works, Perry dispels the "warlike" Apache stereotype, showing them instead as competitors in a complex process of competition for control of resources."--Jacket
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