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Ms. Courtney Chartier, RWWL AUC, August 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Ms. Courtney Chartier. Ms. Chartier talks about her work on the "New Georgia Encyclopedia" and "Online Voter Education Project." Andrea Jackson, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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Amy Courtney: Freewheelin' Farm
No full textShareholders in Freewheelin’ Farm’s community supported agriculture program enjoy an unusual perk: delivery by bicycle-drawn trailer. Freewheelin’ founder Amy Courtney, a 1997 graduate of UCSC’s Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture, strives to produce fresh, healthy food while minimizing her environmental footprint. Courtney started the farm in 2002 with almost no motorized vehicles, incorporating used equipment and recycled materials wherever possible in the farm’s operations. She and her current farming partners, Kirstin Yogg and Darryl Wong, still haul all of their CSA shares by bicycle six miles into Santa Cruz.Courtney’s work as a farmer springs not only from a love of land and plants, but also from a commitment to social justice, community health, and cultural vitality. She majored in community studies as an undergraduate student at UCSC; before founding Freewheelin’ Farm, she worked with school gardens, Santa Cruz’s Homeless Garden Project, the United Farm Workers and the AFL-CIO, and an agricultural extension program in Cuba. Freewheelin’s website places the farm “at the forefront of the growing movement towards community renewal, addressing issues of environment, health, and social equity in a simple and delicious way.” The Freewheelin’ farmers have begun collaborating with “Food, What?!”—a youth empowerment program based at UCSC’s Life Lab Garden Classroom. Other cultural and educational initiatives at the farm have included an annual community art show, yoga classes, and cooking instruction with Zen Buddhist priest and Tassajara Bread Book author Edward Espe Brown.Courtney’s long, low house sits on the original Freewheelin’ acre, a stretch of cultivated land between the Coast Highway and the Pacific Ocean in northern Santa Cruz County. The house and land belong to Courtney’s friend and mentor Jim Cochran—proprietor of nearby Swanton Berry Farm, and the only organic farmer to have signed a United Farm Workers contract. Sarah Rabkin interviewed Courtney there on the late afternoon of January 16th, 2009: a day of clear blue skies and brilliant sunshine that heated Courtney’s southwest-facing living room—with its large windows looking over the ocean—to a tropical warmth. Courtney and her two farming partners were poised on the brink of big changes: they had just signed a lease for an additional parcel of land, multiplying the farm’s acreage eightfold, and they were laying plans to ramp up Freewheelin’s 40-share CSA to a membership of 100
PHYLOGENY OF THE EASTERN SWEETSHRUB (CALYCANTHUS FLORIDUS, CALYCANTHACEAE) AND THE GEORGIA ENDEMIC CALYCANTHUS BROCKIANA (CALYCANTHACEAE) USING A MOLECULAR APPROACH
No full textPHYLOGENY OF THE EASTERN SWEETSHRUB (CALYCANTHUS FLORIDUS, CALYCANTHACEAE) AND THE GEORGIA ENDEMIC CALYCANTHUS BROCKIANA (CALYCANTHACEAE) USING A MOLECULAR APPROACH
Dr. James T. Diggs, Katie Horton, Samantha Shea and Courtney Kitchens
Calycanthus (Calycanthaceae) is a basal angiosperm genus that has characteristic flowers and floral scent. The genus Calycanthaceae is present in California and in various states on the east coast of the United States with central concentration in Georgia, Florida, Alabama, the Carolinas and Tennessee. In the past, the genus Calycanthus has been split into as many as six different species and four varieties outside of cultivation. Weakley (2015) currently recognizes two species: C. floridus and C. brockiana. Calycanthus floridus is a highly variable woody shrub native to the East coast of the United States and is common in mesic hardwood forests throughout its range. Calycanthus brockiana has been described by one previous study (Ferry, 1987) but has not been re-located since. No studies have compared C. brockiana to other Calycanthus species. This study will use molecular phylogenetic techniques to determine the relatedness of C. brockiana to C. floridus. Plastid trnK/matK intron and nuclear ribosomal ITS1, 5.8S, and ITS2 will be used to obtain DNA sequences. As of Spring 2017 no results have been obtained, but sequencing and collection of new samples will continue.
Keywords: Calycanthaceae; Calycanthus brockiana; Calycanthus floridus; phylogenetic
Photograph of Courtney Brothers Tarred and Feathered
No full textPhotograph of two Black students Samuel and Roger Courtney tarred and feathered While at the time this incident was described as hazing incident carried out by University of Maine a modern interpretation, by scholars such as Karen Sieber, Humanities Specialist at the McGillicuddy Humanities Center, was that this was actually a racist attack.
Sieber has featured this incident in her, Visualizing the Red Summer database and archive on the topic of the Red Summer of 1919, a term given to a nationwide wave of violence against African Americans that year.
More information on this incident can be elsewhere in this collection
Microfabricated electrospray emitter arrays with integrated extractor and accelerator electrodes for the propulsion of small spacecraft
No full textMicrofabricated electrospray thrusters could revolutionize the spacecraft industry by providing efficient propulsion capabilities to micro and nano satellites (1–100 kg). We present the modeling, design, fabrication and characterization of a new generation of devices, for the first time integrating in the fabrication process individual accelerator electrodes capable of focusing and accelerating the emitted sprays. Integrating these electrodes is a key milestone in the development of this technology; in addition to increasing the critical performance metrics of thrust, specific impulse and propulsive efficiency, the accelerators enable a number of new system features such as power tuning and thrust vectoring and balancing. Through microfabrication, we produced high density arrays (213 emitters cm?2) of capillary emitters, assembling them at wafer-level with an extractor/accelerator electrode pair separated by micro-sandblasted glass. Through IV measurements, we could confirm that acceleration could be decoupled from the extraction of the spray—an important element towards the flexibility of this technology. We present the largest reported internally fed microfabricated arrays operation, with 127 emitters spraying in parallel, for a total beam of 10–30 ?A composed by 95% of ions. Effective beam focusing was also demonstrated, with plume half-angles being reduced from approximately 30° to 15° with 2000 V acceleration. Based on these results, we predict, with 3000 V acceleration, thrust per emitter of 38.4 nN, specific impulse of 1103 s and a propulsive efficiency of 22% with <1 mW/emitter power consumption
Au revoir Honolulu [music] /
No full textFor voice and piano.; Caption title.; "Author of 'Give me real Hawaiian,' 'Comeback and mend your broken doll,' 'The silver in my mother's hair,' 'My home,' &c., $c."--Cover.; Publication date approximated from 'Australian popular music : composer index", Snell, Kenneth R. 2nd ed., 1999, p. 29.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-vn3572216; NLA's NL copy from the collection of Keith Watson. ANL
Influences of porous reservoir Laplace pressure on emissions from passively fed ionic liquid electrospray sources
No full textPassively fed ionic liquid electrospray sources are capable of efficiently emitting a variety of ion beams with promising applications to spacecraft propulsion and as focused ion beams. Practical devices will require integrated or coupled ionic liquid reservoirs; the effects of which have not been explored in detail. Porous reservoirs are a simple, scalable solution. However, we have shown that their pore size can dramatically alter the beam composition. Emitting the ionic liquid 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(triflouromethylsulfonyl)amide, the same device was shown to yield either an ion or droplet dominated beam when using reservoirs of small or large pore size, respectively; with the latter having a mass flow in excess of 15 times larger than the former at negative polarity. Another source, emitting nearly purely ionic beams of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate, was similarly shown to emit a significant droplet population when coupled to reservoirs of large (>100 μm) pores; constituting a reduction in propulsive efficiency from greater than 70% to less than 30%. Furthermore, we show that reservoir selection can alter the voltage required to obtain and sustain emission, increasing with smaller pore sizeLMT
An Altar Boy with a Gun
No full textCourtney E. Martin\u27s books, Do It Anyway, explores the lives and motivations of eight activists–not superhuman heroes, but ordinary young people searching for their own way to make a difference. Among others, we meet Raul Diaz, a prison re-entry social worker at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles
About the Lecturers: Raul Diaz is a social worker at Homeboy Industries and Courtney E. Martin Courtney E. Martin is an American feminist, author, speaker, and social and political activist. She is known for writing books, speaking at universities throughout the nation, and for co-editing the feminist blog, Feministing.com
John Courtney Murray and Martin Luther on the Relationship between Church and State
No full textIn this Article, the views on the relationship between church and state of the twentieth century American Jesuit, John Courtney Murray, are compared with those of the sixteenth century theologian, Martin Luther. The author notes striking similarities between Murray\u27s position and that of Martin Luther as manifest in Luther\u27s doctrine of the two kingdoms. John Courtney Murray is credited with developing the theories that have enabled the Roman Catholic Church to establish a new and effective modern relationship with the state
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