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Dustin Thomas Interview
No full textThe interview focuses on Thomas’s military experience. He joined the Air Force out of high school and was deployed to Saudi Arabia after September 11th, 2001. His service ended before his enlisted time was completed, as he volunteered to end his service early. Thomas discusses how his family helped to sway him towards joining the military and the strains that the military put upon his relationships and personal life. Dustin now attends the University of South Carolina Aiken, studying mechanical engineering. He is married for the second time and has a 9-year-old stepson. He hopes to transfer to USC Columbia to continue working for his degree and wishes to travel more in the future
Ep. #183 - Solar Power, Solar Justice (feat. Dustin Mulvaney)
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic cover the stress (and joy!) of center directorships and sandwich-making on this week’s podcast. Then (13:53) Dustin Mulvaney (http://www.dustinmulvaney.com) visits the pod to tell us all the things we need to know about solar energy but were afraid to ask. He’s the author of the excellent new book, Solar Power: Innovation, Sustainability and Environmental Justice(U California Press, 2019). We start by talking about whether it’s possible to make a solar power revolution both rapid and just. That gets us to the toxic externalities of solar cell manufacture and his work with the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (http://svtc.org) to create a Solar Scorecard system that helps pressure manufacturers to clean up their production processes. Dustin breaks down for us the environmental advantages and disadvantages of both photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar (CSP) systems and then we turn to what he calls the “Green Civil War” brewing between animal rights activists and renewable energy activists over land use changes especially in the American Southwest. In closing we discuss whether a radically decentralized energy ecology could help advance environmental justice goals and what lessons should be learned from Obama era ARRA solar investments in terms of improving energy justice in the future
Thomas Breadon, bassoon
No full textAntonio VivaldiJohann Nepomuk HummelHenri DutilleuxElliott CarterThomas Breadon and Dustin Stahme
Jonesin': the life and music of Philly Joe Jones
No full textThis thesis explores the life of drummer “Philly” Joseph Rudolf Jones, one of jazz’s most renowned, unknown figures. As the drummer for the Miles Davis Quintet/Sextet and a later incarnation of the Bill Evans Trio, Joe achieved worldwide fame and success. Yet, his life story has always been told in the footnotes of the towering figures he performed with: John Coltrane, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, etc. Jazz history books recognize Joe’s contributions and nearly all provide a space, albeit a small one, to recognize his accomplishments. Leonard Feather’s The Encyclopedia of Jazz has an entry for Joe, Lewis Porter’s An Historical Survey of Jazz Drumming Styles lists Joe as an important figure in the evolution of jazz drumming, and The Oxford Companion to Jazz states that “just about anyone of consequence worked with Jones.” These texts and many others put Joe in a place of prominence for a handful of sentences. However, footnoting Joe’s success overlooks the fact that he recorded on more than one-hundred albums from 1955-1960 and was probably the most recorded American drummer in any genre during that time period. Despite his popularity and critical acclaim, no published author has delved into Joe’s complex life with any depth. This thesis explores Joe’s musical biography and seeks to illuminate the paradoxes therin. Joe’s story contains drug use, prison time, and abrasive behavior. On the other hand, he was an excellent musician and a generous man who mentored many young musicians. Joe’s life is intertwined in a web of circumstantial experiences: a fatherless upbringing, military service during World War II, integrating the Philadelphia Transit Company, and working to survive as a musician in New York. There are also lesser-known parts of his life including his roots as a Rhythm and blues drummer, his love for big band music, and his associations with the avant-garde. Joe overcame the obstacles of socioeconomic status, racism, evolving musical styles, and the drug culture to become a superb musician who still found time to educate the next generation.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Dustin E. MalloryIncludes discograph
Everything is gonna lead to the same place: Dogme 95 and Gus Van Sant's death trilogy
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2011O objetivo deste trabalho é observar a possibilidade de diálogo entre as regras propostas pelo movimento cinematográfico dinamarquês Dogma 95 e três filmes dirigidos pelo americano Gus Van Sant-Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003), e Last Days (2005), que constituem a Death Trilogy. Para atingir esse objetivo, eu analiso os textos fundadores do movimento Dogma, o Dogme 95 Manifesto e o Vow of Chastity, obtendo exemplos práticos dos três primeiros filmes Dogma: The Celebration (1998), dirigido por Thomas Vinterberg; The Idiots (1998), dirigido por Lars von Trier; e Mifune's Last Song (1999), dirigido por Søren Kragh-Jacobsen. Então, eu analiso a Death Trilogy, levando em consideração as análises anteriores dos filmes Dogma. Na Death Trilogy, Van Sant parece manter um diálogo com a abordagem Dogma ao realism fílmico em seu uso da luz natural e da locação. Também abordo o uso de estratégias de edição por Gus Van Sant e os diretores Dogma, o pois a edição constitui o principal contraste entre o realismo Dogma e os trabalhos de Van Sant analisados neste trabalho
Free Range Trailer 2006
No full textDescription: An initiation into the workings of our experiment. Credits Director/Writer/Editor/DP/Animator/Effects - Dustin Hurt Camera Supervisor for Broadcast Shots – Josh Queener Cast: AirPlane fonts used by permission of Thomas N. Mouat Anchor Man 1 – Zack Fine Anchor Man 2 – A.H. Fake entry 1 – Zack Fine, A.H., Lena Whitten Fake entry 2 – Thomas Boyd Music by (in order of appearance): Circus Waltz FX Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Mystery Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Rap 2 Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Catalytic Things The Geldings (http://myspace.com/thegeldings) ©2006 The Geldings, used with permission Running Time: 5:25 Additional Information Amazingly, the Geldings recorded Catalytic Things right here in the Studio using Pro Tools, our mics, and their own raw talent! A very special thanks to TVC. Please contact them at [email protected], if you want to make TV happen, on-campus, by students, for students
Golden, Oregon cultural landscape report
No full textby Susan Johnson and Dustin Welch ; prepared in collaboration with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and the University of Oregon.Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 4, 2020).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
High-resolution trace element geochemistry and sequence stratigraphy of the Middle-Late Devonian (Givetian-Frasnian) Frasnes crisis
No full textThe Middle–Late Devonian (Givetian–Frasnian) ‘Frasnes’ event is marked by a second order mass extinction approximately coeval with the deposition of black shale on a global scale and the ‘falsiovalis’ positive δ13C isotope excursion. These characteristics are also hallmarks of extensively studied mass extinction events such as the Late Devonian Kellwasser (Frasnian-Famennian) and the end-Devonian Hangenberg crises. However, the relative timing of black shale intervals, eustatic sea-level fluctuations, and the carbon isotope excursion is unknown, and any possible causative relationships cannot be determined. This research provides a high-resolution integrated geochemical dataset to evaluate the paleoenvironmental condition of the rocks deposited during the Frasnes interval in central Nevada and compares those results to the better understood Kellwasser and Hangenberg events. Geochemical data from the Frasnes event is tied to lithostratigraphic sections and used to build a sequence stratigraphic framework from which eustatic changes are identified and linked directly to elemental abundance data. These data, in conjunction with new biostratigraphic and carbon isotope data collected from the same samples, places these events within a chronostratigraphic framework and helps to further our understanding of this significant Earth history event.Restricted until 06/2023. To request the author grant access, click on the PDF link to the left
Differences in Critical Thinking Ability According to College Entry Pathway
No full textThe purpose of this study was to determine if entry pathway—direct from high school versus transfer from community college—influenced the critical thinking abilities of agricultural education students. Seventyfive senior-level agriculture undergraduate students completed a critical thinking assessment test. Although students entering the four-year university directly from high school had statistically significant higher ACT scores and semester GPA’s (which are known predictors of critical thinking ability), there were no statistically significant differences in critical thinking abilities between the two groups. When comparing students’ performance to national norms, regardless of entry pathway, students scored statistically lower than national norm data in the skill areas of identifying additional information needed to evaluate a hypothesis and providing relevant interpretations for a specific set of results. Further, agricultural education transfer students were shown to have a greater ability to think creatively than students who entered the four-year university directly from high school. Recognizing the importance of creative thinking to student success and overall critical thinking skill, curriculum and instructional development within agricultural education should focus on intentionally integrating creative and critical thinking.This article is published as Perry, Dustin K., Thomas H. Paulsen, and Michael S. Retallick. "Differences in Critical Thinking Ability According to College Entry Pathway." NACTA Journal 62, no. 2 (2018): 115-121. Posted with permission.</p
The Malleability of the Past: "Íslendingabók" as Narrative History
No full text"Íslendingabók" (Book of Icelanders) is the earliest surviving history of Iceland, written by the priest Ari Þorgilsson sometime between 1122 and 1133. Despite spanning the period from the Settlement in the ninth century to 1118, the work is concise, which suggests that a specific selection of information was made by the author during the composition process. This hypothesis is supported by the quality of the information conveyed, which seems to favour Ari himself and his patrons, and by Ari’s omission of material that would compromise his view, evidence of which is nevertheless present in other sources.
This article explores "Íslendingabók" as a careful reconstruction of the Icelandic past, thus as narrative history; the focus will be on the strategies and aims that lay behind the author’s project, not least on the ideological foundations that shaped Ari’s views. This approach will allow for a better appreciation of the text and its production context, as compared to the influential but often uncritical methods used to study the work that flourished during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and which still reverberate today, within both scholarly discussions of the work and popular contemporary attitudes in Iceland towards the country’s medieval history and culture
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