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Format for journal articles: Josa M, Khuri SF, Braunwald NS, VanCisin MF, Spencer MP, Evans DA, et al. Delayed sternal closure: an improved method of dealing with complications after cardiopulmonary bypass. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1986;91:598-603.
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Going further. Reaching deeper. Daring for more. "Women on the RISE" is an inspiring compilation of stories from 17 women who weren’t willing to settle. Instead, they created the careers and lives they needed to put them on a path to professional success and personal satisfaction. Their journeys all came together at RISE Collaborative Workspace, an inspiring community of female professionals in St. Louis. In this collection of stories are tales of channeling one’s strengths, changing careers, overcoming loss, supporting other women, and rising to the top. No one woman’s journey was the same yet they all find themselves further ahead today than they once dreamed possible. And none of them got there alone. Readers will be inspired by the stories of women helping women, of women asking for what they deserve and not taking ‘No’ for an answer. If readers believe in the power of women not only being at the table, but leading the discussion, they’ll be moved by these stories. And if readers are feeling stuck or in need of inspiration to create change for themselves and their futures, "Women on the RISE" will help light that spark. It’s impossible not to feel a connection to one—if not all—of these authors and take away an idea that will inspire movement.


This year Nordbib organized our second policymaking workshop on Open Access 'Workshop on research visibility - managing quality for better evaluation'. The workshop took place on 27 and 28 October 2008 at hotel Marienlyst in Elsinore, Denmark.
The aim of the workshop was to create and active debate concerning the theme research registration, research evaluation and Open Access to research results.
Prior to the workshop the survey Nordic Institutional Repositories and Current Research Information Systems was being made in order to investigate how Nordic HE-institutions present their research output. The survey is addressed to the Library Directors. Results were presented as a state-of-the-art report at the Workshop. The purpose of the report is to offer a background for creating a joint Nordic approach to further developments in Open Access.
Nordbib had invited key persons from the 5 Nordic countries representing:


|The middle Ages|
|Written by Agaredech Jemaneh|
|Tuesday, 20 December 2005|
Truely clash of religions has been and still is the shaping factor of our world and societies, and Ethiopia is not an exception from that rule. Jesuits made little headway in 15th century to be banished in the 17th by King Fasiledus, who established the then capital of Ethiopia, Gondar. Right before that, in the same century, Ahmed Ibn Ibrahim (Gragn) of Somali occupied Ethiopian highlands heading a Moslem army, strongly backed by Ottoman Turkey.
In the 10th century AD the Solomonic Dynasty of the Axumite kingdom was overthrown and the Empire was ruled by the Zagwe dynasty for nearly 300 years. This dynasty was established in Roha (now Lalibela) in Lasta, which was its capital as long as it lasted. It was during these years that the rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela were built. The Solomonic Dynasty was restored in 1270 by Yekuno Amlak.
In 1531, Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi, nicknamed Gragn (the left handed), a Somali Imam and General, occupied Ethiopian highlands heading a Moslem army, strongly backed by Ottoman Turkey.
As the result of earlier succesful diplomatic relations by Emperor Lebna Dengel the Portuguese sent a military assistance led by Christopher da Gama, son of the famous explorer Vasco da Gama, to the Ethiopian kingdom. Ahmed Ibin Ibrahim was killed near Lake Tana with the help of these Portuguese. In 1557, the pope had sent a Jesuit mission to Ethiopia in an attempt to convert the country to Roman Catholicism. The Jesuits made little headway, succeeding in converting Susenyos, but were eventually banished from Ethiopia in the middle of the 17th century by King Fasiledus, also widely known for establishing the then capital of Ethiopia, Gondar.
In the 18th century, the Ethiopian kingdom broke down into chiefdoms, resulting in incessant wars among the many warlords and their successors.
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"Dis soup needs mo spices!"
my dear granddaughter
helps me make a big pot of soup for the week.
Her job is to scoop the cut up veggies
out of the bowls and into the soup pot,
then go the the spice drawer
and pick out ANY 3 spices she wants
and add them to the soup
(and taste each one with her finger as she does so!).
Then, while the soup simmers away,
we head to the library and exchange books
(so baby sister can take her morning nap at home),
sip a lemonade in the library's coffee shop,
and finally walk over to the house next to the library
to look at all the yard ornaments
before heading back home for some soup for lunch!


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Probably each of us has heard the story about this mythical, wealthy city / kingdom. However, not everyone knows when exactly the term El Dorado was created, what is the dark side of his search and the blindness associated with it, or how deeply it is rooted in contemporary pop culture.
Let’s go back a few hundred years to the beginning of the 16th century. After Columbus reached the New World, the expansion of the Spanish Empire sped up, especially in South America, in what is now Colombia, Venezuela, and parts of Guyana and Brazil. The presence of the Spaniards in this area and its increased exploration was largely related to the story they heard about El Hombre Dorado (Golden Man) or El Rey Dorado (Golden King). Several decades before the first European ship landed on the shores of the newly discovered continent, there was a ritual with consequences in the modern Northern Andes. The leader of the Muisca tribe, previously covered with gold dust, washed it in Lake Guatavitá, while his subordinates threw into him richly decorated gold and platinum items and precious stones – all as part of the initiation of the newly elected leader. Of course, the information about this custom reached the conquistadors, who scoured the whole area and tried for years to extract valuables from the bottom of the lake (usually with disastrous results). Although the myth of Eldorado has evolved over time and its locations have changed, the story of the initiation of the chiefzips and riches of the Indians marks the beginning of an insane expedition.
A dazzling glow of gold
Why did the Spaniards believe in the existence of this mythical place for so long? It seems that they were not satisfied with plundering local residents; they could not accept the fact that gold in South America did not grow on trees and that it had a completely different value for the local population. The empire of King Charles V of Habsburg could not pay off the enormous state debts. Gold was the currency and the search for it (as a scarce material) was a priority. The conquistadors who came to the New World could not believe that this so-called The “king of metals” is not the same as it is for the people of Europe. Where in the Old Continent this yellow metal opened all doors, in the lands of the Inca, Maya or Muisca it served as an easy-to-process material for decoration. The Indians did not use cash, barter was in force – hence the Spaniards could not grasp the level of ignorance of gold and preferred to believe that the tribes had enormous resources of gold, but refused to say where to find it. Logical, right? An interesting fact about all this is that gold blinded prospectors so much that they did not care for other valuable minerals, such as, for example, very rare platinum (also often used by the local population). And so the myth continued, locations and details changed… and only people were still dying in search of the nonexistent. Even though nowadays nobody believes in a city / kingdom all covered with gold, it has firmly taken root in our art and pop culture. that gold blinded prospectors so much that they did not care for other valuable minerals, such as, for example, very rare platinum (also often used by the local population). And so the myth continued, locations and details changed … and only people were still dying in search of the nonexistent. Even though nowadays nobody believes in a city / kingdom all covered with gold, it has firmly taken root in our art and pop culture. that gold blinded prospectors so much that they did not care for other valuable minerals, such as, for example, very rare platinum (also often used by the local population). And so the myth continued, locations and details changed … and only people were still dying in search of the nonexistent. Even though nowadays nobody believes in a city / kingdom all covered with gold, it has firmly taken root in our art and pop culture.
El Dorado TV Tropes
Inspirations by the Golden City and attempts to transfer the myth can be found in many cultural texts. From books, comics, animated and fictional films to games and music. Just type a search on the Internet for “El Dorado-tropes” and you will see a wealth of results. I will focus on a few stories that I think deserve a recommendation.
Mysterious Golden Cities
If you were born in the 1980s or watched RTL7, this is an anime that you surely know. This extraordinary Franco-Japanese cooperation interested me in the past and the myths of Latin America, with the title Golden Cities woven together as a recurring theme. In addition to focusing on the fate of the three main characters (Esteban, Mendoza and Zia), the animation presented in an accessible way other curiosities and mysterious places as well as architectural curiosities (such as Machu Picchu or Drawings from Nazca) that fascinate both kids and adults. Let’s add a beautiful, catchy opening and brick nostalgia – I still feel it today!
Road to El Dorado
Ah! What a delightful animated film from DreamWorks! Everything was fine for me. There is great animation, music and an interesting story of two thieves who end up in the Golden City and become gods in the eyes of local residents. The myth of El Dorado as a place dripping with gold (inhabited by friendly Indians who do not know its value) has been pulled to the limit. The whole thing has been treated with humor as well as moral because it shows that wealth is really worthless if you lose friends. Pride and self-interest will ultimately lead to defeat.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Although the fourth part of the adventures of “Indi” is not very successful in my opinion, it combines the myth of the golden land (called in the movie Akator) with … aliens! If a little more attention had been paid to the thread of Indians and extraterrestrials, and the focus had been on a more grounded storyline (rather than lame special effects) it could have been a lot better!
The Lost City of Z
Even though the search for the Golden City at the beginning of the 19th century did not make any sense historically, there was a researcher who still believed in them. It was Percy Fawcett, a member of the Royal Geographical Society. Instead of Eldorado, he called it the Lost City of Z and spent many years of his life searching for it. The fate of the traveler and of the last expedition (which also included his firstborn son) is still shrouded in mystery. It is not known whether Fawcett was killed by tribes living in the Amazon or admitted to their group by force, but years later this character also entered pop culture. It is said that he was the inspiration for the creation of Indiana Jones, a book was written about him, and in 2016 a movie – The Lost City of Z– which I sincerely recommend. He is not so optimistic and out of touch with reality. It shows the hardships of exploring the so far unexplored lands, the burden of the researcher’s responsibility and his obsession, which, unfortunately, leads to a sad end. We must add a star cast (Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland), which makes the viewer really care about the fate of discoverers.
A comic twist
The Indian Tramp deserves a special recommendation from the newest “El Dorad” creations . This freshly published by Egmont has already been hailed by many as the best comic of 2020. I rarely say that something is the coolest or that I liked it the most, but here I have to admit that the critics and readers are right – it’s a veeeeeeery good comic and the BEST one I’ve read this year. The creator of Włóczęga is Juanjo Guarnido, previously involved in the great Blacksad series- which in itself should encourage you to reach for this position. In the latest work, the whole thing revolves around the changing fate of Don Pablos of Segovia, a man from the lowlands, who is once at the bottom, sometimes gains praise and wealth, but all the time plots his evil plan to stay at the top as long as possible. To achieve his goal, he goes to Latin America, then known as India. The driving force behind his actions is “selling” a credible story about El Dorado and convincing the magnates to it. The Golden City, as befits the Golden City, drips with ore in the stories of Don Pablos. What is most interesting, however, is everything that is happening around – what the settlements in Latin America look like, how the magnates live, how the local population and slaves try to cope – in a word, the multifaceted and multifaceted approach to those times. I will not reveal how this story ends, because it is not obvious and has many clever twists. Therefore, I sincerely encourage you to read the comic and see for yourself – because it is conducted neatly and witty. And if someone still doesn’t feel encouraged, I will add that it is also beautifully drawn. Each page is a small work, you can look at it like pictures. The experience is additionally strengthened by the first-league edition – in a large, hardcover. I recommend it a hundred times! The experience is additionally strengthened by the first-league edition – in a large, hardcover. I recommend it a hundred times! The experience is additionally strengthened by the first-league edition – in a large, hardcover. I recommend it a hundred times!
Wealth of wealth
As you can see, there is a lot of inspiration for the Golden City – the above is just the tip of the (golden) iceberg. There are many examples. However, I hope these few of these items are interesting enough to encourage you to explore the motives and stories of the Eldorado further. By writing this article, I awoke a lot of my nostalgia. I hope that I managed to kindle it, also in those who survived until the end of my discussions.
“This is an amazing city
It is a great work of divine hands,
it is a gift that fell from heaven to us
This is a piece of paradise
Peace and harmony in it is a gesture
Towards the deadly
You already know
That it’s El Dorado
A city that shines with gold
A castle from a thousand years ago


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I found this at Amazon. It seems a bargain at only 99 cents.
8 Killer Cozies in one collection!
Mayhem and murder abound in this Cozy Mystery collection. From the United States to the south of France, there’s a fun, quirky amateur sleuth ready to right a wrong and bring law and order back to her neck of the woods.
This bundle features 8 titles from established Cozy Mystery authors, including:
Out on a Limb: A Mercy Mares Cozy Mystery Prequel by Ava Mallory
Mercy & Mayhem: A Mercy Mares Cozy Mystery (Book One) by Ava Mallory
Even Witches Get the Blues by J.D. Winters
Asking for It by Geraldine Evans
Depth of Field by Audrey Claire
Ghost of a Chance by Cate Dean
An Unmourned Man by Issy Brooke
The Third Girl by Nell Goddin


A remote portable device that controls electronics using a basic library of thought commands using EEG and Bluetooth technology.
EX1: The User sets up Smart LED Bulbs in his room that are compatible with Bluetooth. As he enters the room, the user would only need to think about the lights turning on and they do.
How It Works
The user would put on the device and then first connect it to their computer. By launching the Application they can set up the device using their own neurological brain patterns. Once the device is synched up the user can they begin connecting their [IQ] to other devices. The Simple Library would consist of On/Off commands that allow them to control basic functions of most devices.
Turning on Electronics would be just a thought.
- Micro Arduino Controller
- Head EEG sensor
- Bluetooth 4.0 antenna
As technology increases and sensors become more accurate, the user would be able to expand the basic library into a large list of complex commands and macros. This would allow the users more control over the devices they are connected to. In example, They would be able to control the intensity of the light and dim them on command. They would also be able to turn on applications on their computer. Eventually iQs would be able to connect to one another and be able to send telepathic thoughts, changing the way we communicate between people.
Max Rodriguez & William Meshchery


In fact, my research project this semester involves studying the teaching methods that most encourage elementary school children to read for fun. Did you know that literacy is on a rapid decline in the US? For realsies. Encouraging children, and each other, to pick up a book is a must!
Ok, let's see the awesome book that Beatrice has for us today...
Hi, my name is Beatrice! I blog over at Still Simple Blog. I blog about my life living in a family of eight, my love for sewing, DIY's, my horses, recipes, and a little of everything else.
One of my favorite things to do whenever I get a chance is READ. I LOVE it! My parents usually have to tell me to get to bed because otherwise I would read all night. :)
When Jen asked me to write about my favorite book, I knew just the one!
This book is a story about Kristin and her Husband and how they start an AMAZING farm.. and all the fun stories that come with farming.
There is a love story, hard times, and good times. It is very well written and kept me wanting to find out what happened next. They start a CSA and have lots of crazy adventures throughout their farming season!
Since I own animals and we garden and live partially self sufficient I can relate to some of the things that happen in this book. But I think anyone who wants a good read would find much enjoyment reading this book!
Find this book and read it...it's great!
If you'd like, check out my blog and follow along to see how I handle living my crazy life. Thank You Jen for having me!
Beatrice, thanks so much for stopping by and for sharing your chosen book. It looks like a great story and one that's right up my alley...I can't wait to read it!
If you'd like to contribute to Good Reads Review then shoot me an email. I'll send you some information...
P.S. Be sure to stop by grimmricksen to read up on her Bookworm Series. You'll be oh-so-glad you did. Excellent stuff, creative ladies and even more book suggestions!


The Learning Resources Center provides access to an extensive media library of course related DVDs, CDs, and VHS tapes for a variety of subjects. Course specific multimedia software applications are also available on computers in the LRC Computer Commons. These media titles and software applications supplement instruction for a variety of subjects taught on the SBCC campus. Titles from the media collection can be viewed at individual viewing/listening stations and some media materials may be viewed on computer stations within the Computer Commons lab. Students and staff may search the collection by accessing the Media Resource Look-Up. You can also check digital resources out at the front counter Including Chromebooks, chargers.
Students can check in and out of media stations and computer stations at the LRC front counter. The front counter is located on the right side after entering the LRC main entrance.
To access video titles or multimedia programs available in the Computer Commons, students need to check in at the front counter and provide a valid SBCC student ID or K number. Students also need to provide the call number for the video title they would like to view. The call number can be found using the media look up station across from the front counter. Students using multimedia programs to complete class assignments in the computer commons need to know the title of the assignment that they are working on so that counter assistant can make sure they get credit. Students can watch media titles on individual or group viewing stations. Students may also watch some video titles at PC or Mac computer stations if compatible media is available. Media materials do not circulate outside of the Learning Resources Center.
Students may search media titles at the video look up station across from the Front Counter. This database may also be accessed online here.
Since the LRC media collection supplements instruction, the media materials need to be available to all students to access for plus hour and homework assignments. Thus, media materials do not circulate outside of the Learning Resources Center and may not be taken home.
The LRC provides supplemental instructional materials for a variety of subject areas including Anthropology, English, Culinary Arts, Film Studies, Music, Physical Education, Work Experience, and more. We recommend that students who need to access media resources in order to complete a specific assignment bring a printed copy of their syllabus and/or assignment along with you to help determine what you need to watch or do for class. Bringing a copy of your syllabus also helps us provide you with the correct resources. Some syllabi may be available for review at the front counter when the instructor has provided a copy to the Media Technician in advance.
All individual and group viewing stations are supplied with headphones for student use. However, students may bring their own headphones to use at viewing stations.
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I'm a geologist with over thirty years of field experience in Chile, Antarctica, Alaska, and the Dominican Republic where I specialize in geoarchaeology and earthquake hazards.
A passion for the wilderness and the people and animals who make their homes in remote regions led to my three award-winning memoirs and a historical novel: two travel/adventure memoirs about South America and Antarctica: Over My Head and The Cusp of Dreadfulness. In the third memoir, I chronicle a sometimes tempestuous and hilarious relationship with my donkey: Smart Ass.
My forthcoming historical mystery novel, Cradle of Storms, is set in the Aleutians Islands of Alaska. A new teacher at a small school stumbles upon the body of an elderly Japanese tourist. On the trail of the murderer, she uncovers a fifty-year-old story of forbidden love and sacrifice during WW II. Based on a little-known but true story of the Japanese invasion of the western Aleutians and the fate of the Aleut community on Attu Island.
Praise for Smart Ass: "I love Margaret Winslow's book and all it teaches us about the true nature of life, from the power of love to the reality of animal communication." —Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles.
Praise for Over My Head: “…a pioneering female geologist explores the topography of South America and the shifting landscape of women in the sciences…. A satisfying journey through 1970’s sexual politics and the lands of the southernmost part of the Earth.” — Kirkus Reviews
Praise for The Cusp of Dreadfulness: "Travel memoirs...rarely combine laugh-out-loud misadventures with inisights about the pioneering efforts of women to enter the almost exclusively male branches of field sicences" Palisades Free Library.
“A fascinating read. I stayed up all night to finish it!” Tony Killgallin, interview host of NapaTV Channel 18.
“I guess I’ll have to share bragging rights with this author. She’s outdone my own adventures in South America!” Sedge Thomson, host of West Coast Live radio, KALW, San Francisco.


This dictionary is compiled for students learning Spoken Arabic. It mainly includes:
- Vocabulary largely used in the Middle East.
- Explanations of proverbs and idioms.
- Thousands of etymological references to words in Spoken Arabic.
- Tables of conjugation of more than 50 types of verbs.
- Explanations of Literary Arabic terms and idiomatic expressions used in daily life.
Students of Modern Standard Arabic and Media Arabic will also greatly benefit from this dictionary since it includes other topics such as politics, trade, environment, etc., in Arabic script and transliteration system.
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"THE BIBLE FOR GROWN-UPS"
Part 2: Something Old, Something New
On Sunday 20th October we continued our series “The Bible for Grown-Ups . You can listen to the talk by clicking here.
Once you have listened, here are some questions to consider:
1. What do you think Jesus meant when he said he came not to abolish the Law and the Prophets but to fulfil them?
2. What are some of the questions people ask about the truth and validity of the New Testament? How do you view these in light of the mutually validating evidence contained within the accounts of Jesus’s life and the letters written about him?
3. How does recognising the bible as a collection of historical documents (as opposed to simply “a book”) change your understanding of its validity?
4. What are some of the questions that people ask about the Old Testament?
5. What are some of the questions YOU ask about the Old Testament?
6. How might you go about including some time to read about Jesus (in the New Testament) and about God in the Old Testament?
7. What might the bible be telling you today?
For a simple explanation of why we can trust the writings collected in the New Testament, listen to this short (7 minute) explanation by Canadian theologian Dr D. A Carson. Dr Carson holds degrees in maths and chemistry plus a Ph.D in the New Testament from Cambridge University (so, quite clever then!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF0BHErlsEQ
For a longer discourse on the bible and Jesus’s teaching on it, here is a longer (43 minute) talk by the late Dr R. C. Sproul, whom I reference in my talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n_cWZZzzec


A simulation/visualization developed with Dan Taeyoung for the Cybernetics Conference Library.
- The 2017 Cybernetics Conference
- The Cybernetics Conference Library
- The project's source code is available on GitHub.
Dan and I developed this simulation as a way to close the loop between the Cybernetics Conference Library, the speakers, and the attendees. We envisioned the loop as:
- people hear speakers and have conversations
- they visit the Library
- checkout books influenced by the speakers and their conversations
- those populate questions in the simulation (extracted from Library books)
- these questions show up on the projector during speaker Q&A's
- which compel the audience to ask certain questions
- which then feed into conversations and subsequent speakers.
Attendee badges had a QR code on them which uniquely assigned them a planet in the simulation. Their planet accumulates procedurally-generated debris based on the books they check out using their QR code.
We extracted all questions from the books we had the full text for, then curated the best questions from this pool by hand. When a book is checked out, we add the questions from that book into the pool of questions the Galaxy view displays, which is projected during Q&As.
The Library effort was led by David Hecht and Sarah Hamerman, and the Conference itself was organized by many, including Melanie Hoff, Sam Hart, Alexis Convento, Irene Alvarado, Austin Smith, Callil Capuozzo, and many volunteers and partners. The full credits are on the Conference site.


Adult Writing Workshops are held on Mondays from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at Thurber Center, 91 Jefferson Avenue. Workshops are $50 each, or $45 if you choose more than one workshop. You must be 18 to participate. All registrations are non-refundable.
MONDAY, APRIL 15
Writing Your Children’s Book
Instructor: Andra Gillum
Do you dream of writing a children’s book? Maybe you have lots of great ideas, but don’t know where to start. It’s time to stop dreaming, and get to work. Andra has published three children’s picture books. She will share her experiences about storylines, manuscripts, editors, illustrators, and publishers. Bring your ideas and stories. We’ll have fun learning and sharing together!
Andra Gillum is a freelance writer and the author of the children’s books Doggy Drama and Puppy Drama and Old Doggy Drama. She does frequent author visits to elementary schools to share her stories, and teaches writing to kids and adults. Learn more at www.doggydrama.com.


An Online Resource Library on Gender-Based Violence.
Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003
The law 'provides for the analysis of the incidents and effects of prison rape in Federal, State, and local institutions and provides information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape.'
Nonprofits play a key role in our efforts to end gender-based violence. This collection offers information on nuts and bolts of managing a nonprofit, and resources to support organizations in their journey to center racial equity.


SummaryThe discussion explores the theological significance of the Jewish people as God's chosen ones, examining their history, identity, and relationship with God through biblical texts. It addresses the complexities of this chosen status, including the failures and resilience of the Jewish people, theological debates within Christianity, and the broader implications of God's promises. Despite historical challenges, the narrative underscores God's faithfulness and extends the invitation of inclusion to all through faith in Christ.
- 🕊 The Jewish people's claim to their ancestral land is rooted in Divine promises and covenants, shaping the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East.
- 📜 The term "Jews" refers to descendants of the Hebrew people, tracing their lineage back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with a unique identity blending religious, cultural, and ethnic elements.
- ⛰ The Covenant between God and Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob forms the foundation of the Jewish people, spanning millennia of sovereignty, exile, and survival.
- ⚔ Throughout history, Jews have faced dispersion and persecution, yet their identity as God's chosen people endures, as affirmed in biblical passages from Deuteronomy to Romans.
- 🌱 The theological concept of supersessionism arises from Jewish rejection of Jesus as the Messiah, suggesting the Christian church has replaced Israel as God's people.
- 🌍 The narrative extends beyond Israel to include all who share the faith of Abraham, inviting participation in a future kingdom characterised by peace, justice, and redemption.
- 📖 Through faith in Christ and baptism, individuals from any background can partake in God's promises, symbolising inclusion in the overarching narrative of human history.


Unique gift ideas for mothers who enjoy natural, organic and sustainable pursuits.
Now that picnic season is nearly upon us, we rounded up the best baskets the web has to offer.
Seed catalogues can be excellent sources of information for planning a garden. What are some of your favourites?
Some fun and easy ways to bring the outdoors in.
Clever ideas for the gardeners on your gift list.
A Spanish company has introduced a raincoat made of compostable bio-plastic.
In winter months, when actual gardening gives way to mental planning, this book could be a good reference for preventing potential mistakes and mishaps before they happen.
This entertaining and practical handbook should be mandatory reading for urban dwellers considering a move to the country.


Jim Trelease is the expert on this subject. His book makes for engaging reading with many dramatic
anecdotes to back up the research. He talks extensively about why and how to read aloud. The end of
his book provides an annotated bibliography of suggested high interest read alouds. Books are divided
by genre to help you to build upon your child's interests. He also provides a grade range for a
book's suggested listening level. Trelease's book is an extremely valuable resource if you are
interested in getting started reading aloud to your child on a regular basis.
Return to Reading Aloud to Your Child: A Powerful Advertisement for Reading.


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| Dec 18
||Wendy's Burger Bash
|| Spirit of Giving Celebration
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|Dec 22-Jan 4
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||Yearbook Sale begins
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||GRE Movie Night
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On January 9th, Glacier Ridge will be hosting a special evening for our kids to join their friends and watch Disney Pixar's new animated movie "Planes: Fire & Rescue", a sequel to the original film "Planes"! A GREat opportunity for parents to have a date night! ;)
The Glacier Ridge Book Fair is being held through Wednesday, December 17, 2014. The book fair is open daily in the GRE Library to students and parents from 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.


Objectives and themes
Rodis. Journal of Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology is an archaeology journal which focuses, from a multidisciplinary perspective, on medieval and post-medieval archaeology in a very broad sense, both thematically and geographically. The aim is to disseminate previously-unpublished, original research contributions that provide new data or new methodologies that can help to improve research in this field.
Accordingly, the magazine accepts works devoted to specific locations as well as works of a more general nature, whether territorial or thematic.
Structure of the journal
The articles published in each issue are grouped into two main sections. The first, called the dossier, includes articles that refer to a particular theme, which may nevertheless be treated and studied in different ways, in accordance with the multidisciplinary nature of the magazine. The second section, called Varia, includes articles open to any subject within the broad field of study on medieval and post-medieval archaeology.
Rodis. Journal of Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology is published annually.


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The Cheyney University National Alumni Association met for the first time on commencement day in May 1862. The meeting was held in Sansom Hall in Philadelphia where graduation exercises were scheduled. The association proved to be very active during its early years taking on projects of significant social and economic importance. Being acutely aware that education was perhaps the best means at the time to help eradicate prejudice against their race, the members set up a project that involved determining the number, location, and condition of all black schools in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Ohio. Their purpose was to supply black teachers to schools that needed them. Thus, the first organized attempt at placing graduates was through the efforts of the alumni association.
Over the years, the alumni association has grown and taken on broader responsibilities. In 1970, the association was incorporated and a nonprofit organization known as Cheyney State College General Alumni Association was formed with its purpose being as follows:
To promote the advancement of education by sponsoring, supporting, encouraging, aiding and conduction educational activities of all kinds through scholarship aid to individuals, the granting of funds for the support of research and study; the development of facilities, physical plant, program and administration; purchasing capital equipment, books, libraries, laboratories or other facilities for the purchase, lease, construction or provision of the same in any manner whatsoever.


Updated: Jul 12
A political activist and author who was a revolutionary presence and voice.
By: Ana Palacios
"I often like to talk about feminism not as something that adheres to bodies, not as something grounded in gendered bodies, but as an approach- as a way of conceptualizing, as a methodology, as a guide to strategies for struggle." - Angela Davis
Perhaps less famous than other activist counterparts, Angela Davis is one of the most revolutionary minds of the twenty first century and a feminist worth recognizing. A prominent activist since the 1960s, Angela Davis is known for her feminist literature and revolutionary activism.
Born in 1944 in Birmingham Alabama, Ms. Davis grew up in the small-town ambiance, both her parents were involved in the community. This also meant however, that from an early age, she was exposed to racism, segregation, and racially provoked violence. She excelled as a student, although recounting in her autobiography: “[I could] see an all-White school nearby, a beautiful brick building surrounded by a lush, green lawn,” some miles away from her own school, an all-black school in “ram shackled” conditions. As an accomplished student, Ms. Davis graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University in 1965, and then went on to study in Paris-Sorbonne University and went on to the University of Frankfurt to where she studied philosophy for two years.
Ms. Davis is renowned as a scholar, and as a prominent activist and revolutionary. Member of both The Black Panthers and The Communist Party for some time, Ms. Davis was well-known around revolutionary circles. Notably, she helped found Critical Resistance and Sisters Inside, organizations for Black women. In The Communist Party, Ms. Davis spent most of her time within the “Che-Lumumba Club,” an all-Black branch of the Communist Party. Alongside the group's chairman, Ms. Davis organized and led the efforts against police-brutality, racial equity, and the rights of women, specifically those most vulnerable. As an assistant professor of philosophy in UCLA, and regardless of her success amongst students and faculty, her ties with the Communist Party were the cause of her dismissal in 1969.
Thereafter, she became a recognized activist for prison reform, most notably, as she became involved in the case of the Soledad Brothers, where George Jackson and two other inmates of the Soledad Prison were arraigned for the murder of a prison a guard. In an attempt to negotiate their release, Jonathan Jackson, the 17-year-old brother of George Jackson, took over the courtroom, taking the Judge and two other jurors’ hostage, while arming the defendants. This resulted in the murder of the defendants, the Judge and of Jonathan Jackson. Ms. Davis was accused of purchasing the weapons and forced to flee, facing arrest, and put on the FBI’s most-wanted list. Although found not guilty by an all-white jury, Ms. Davis had to face sixteen months in prison, while activists all over the globe rallied for her release.
Angela Davis has been a prominent figure in the fight for prison reform, and an important scholar in the study of intersectional feminism, namely in her book “Women, Race & Class.” Ms. Davis has advocated for other types of reform, emphasizing rehabilitation, and the heinous and racist roots of the prison industrial complex. In her 2010 book, “Are Prisons Obsolete?” She writes: “During my own career as an anti-prison activist, I have seen the population of U.S. prisons increase with such rapidity that many people in Black, Latino, and Native American communities now have a far greater chance of going to prison than getting an education" (Davis,2010). In her life, Ms. Davis continues to be an important scholar in the study of race, class, and feminism in America.
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While my characters are all fictitious, parts of their back story are often based on real historical figures or events. For Jeremiah Ransom, I drew upon the tragic story of Tod Carter.
Theodrick Carter was born in 1844 in Franklin, Tennessee. Tod most likely received a classical education at Harpeth Academy in Franklin. He aspired to be a lawyer. In 1861, he joined Company H of the Twentieth Tennessee Regiment of the Confederate Army. The bright Tod was quickly promoted to the rank of Captain in the Quartermaster Department, according to records found in the National Archives in Washington. On October 24 he was appointed Assistant Quartermaster.
Tod also passed his time as War Correspondent from Middle Tennessee for The Chattanooga Daily Rebel, writing under the name, “Mint Julep” where he detailed camp life under his friend and (then) young colonel, Thomas Benton Smith.
In November, 1864 the 20,000 strong Army of Tennessee crossed the Tennessee River at Tuscumbia and Florence, Alabama, and marched toward Columbia, Tennessee. Captain Carter had not returned home to Franklin since that day three and one-half years before when he had enlisted in the Confederate Army so you can imagine how anxious he was to reunite with his family. He did not, however, expect to find the Union Army heavily entrenched outside his beloved home. Knowing his family was behind enemy lines, Tod Carter drew his sword and dashed forward on his horse, Rosencrantz. Despite orders from Smith he sought to lead the charge. His horse plunged and those near him knew he had been struck. He had been mortally wounded only about 525 feet southwest of his home.
After the battle, Tod was borne home on a litter carried by two soldiers from Alabama. Surgeons operated and removed the bullet from over his eye, but their efforts were in vain. As Tod slipped away, his sister was heard to remark, “Brother’s come home at last.”
Comparison to Jeremiah Ransom
Can a heart still love once it stops beating?
In Eternal, Jeremiah Ransom grew up on his family’s plantation. The youngest of three sons, he made a promise to his parents that he would remain home and study law while his older brothers went away to fight. After the death of his brothers, an enraged Jeremiah defied his parents and ran away to join the Confederate Army, catching up with Hood’s army just outside of Decatur, Alabama.
Here is an excerpt from Eternal where the heroine, Wren Darby, after having a brief encounter with the ghost of a young man, reads a magazine article about the history of her new home:
I brushed my fingers along his name. “Jeremiah Ransom,” I whispered. An unexplainable knowing trickled through me. Jeremiah Ransom was the ghost I had seen. I bit my bottom lip and continued reading.
Bedraggled and war-weary, the Army of Tennessee had passed through Mt. Pleasant and Columbia on their way north to the ill‑fated Battle of Franklin where they marched into virtual slaughter at the hands of Union forces. Jeremiah’s parents had pleaded with him to leave the army but he’d refused, determined to avenge the deaths of his brothers.
During the fighting in Franklin, Jeremiah had been struck in the temple with a minie ball, which I assumed was some sort of Civil War bullet. Delirious, he’d survived only long enough to be brought back home.
The next statement sent a shiver of shock through me. I read it aloud. “The surgeon operated on Jeremiah Ransom in the room where he’d been born.”
My gaze drifted to the threadbare braided rug that barely concealed the bloodstained floor.
Trembling, I squinted at the blur of black ink on the page and forced myself to focus in order to finish reading--even though I knew what the article would reveal next.
“After the bullet was removed, Jeremiah Ransom languished in his bed for two days before he died and was buried alongside his grandfather in the family plot.”


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Stand by for critical analysis! My second book, Andersons’ Supersonic Centuries: The Retrofuture Worlds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, will be published in March 2022 by Telos Publishing.
Andersons’ Supersonic Centuries is an essay collection which celebrates and examines the television and film works of producers Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The book’s coverage stretches from the early days of Supermarionation to the live action works of the 1970s, Gerry’s ‘solo’ career following his and Sylvia’s separation, right up to recent works inspired by the Andersons’ worlds. Throughout just over 40 chapters spread across five distinct sections, Andersons’ Supersonic Centuries casts Gerry and Sylvia’s work in a forthright, intelligent, and passionate style of analysis. Around 60 years’ worth of television and film productions are subjected to in-depth critical explorations here.
The series and films with the most significant coverage in the book include Four Feather Falls (1960), Supercar (1961), Fireball XL5 (1962), Stingray (1964), Thunderbirds (1965), Thunderbirds Are Go (1966), Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967), Thunderbird 6 (1968), Joe 90 (1968), The Secret Service (1969), Doppelganger (1969), UFO (1970), The Investigator (1973), Space: 1999 (1975), Terrahawks (1983), New Captain Scarlet (2005), Thunderbirds Are Go (2015), Firestorm (2018) Thunderbirds: The Anniversary Episodes (2016) and Nebula-75 (2020).
The topics range from how the techno-disaster world of Thunderbirds is imperative to the series’ identity, how UFO’s balance of sci-fi action and human drama gives it such a powerful identity, Stingray’s portrayal of an underwater Cold War, how Terrahawks evolved its approach to comedy across its run, how a Zero-X television series may have come to life and much more. The book also includes a countdown of Thunderbirds’ definitive episodes and a cross-examination of Captain Scarlet’s characters, enhanced by original interviews with some of the series’ directors, writers, model makers and designers.
Andersons’ Supersonic Centuries is a spirited and comprehensive critical encapsulation of an incredible body of work of British science fiction and cult television. Gerry and Sylvia’s creative output bursts with intelligent and imaginative subtext. Whilst many of their works were intended for young audiences, they rarely talked down to those young audiences. This book pays tribute to that perspective which unites much of their work.
Armed with the marvellously vibrant cover courtesy of Martin Baines and a splendid foreword from UFO’s Ayshea Brough, Andersons’ Supersonic Centuries: The Retrofuture Worlds of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson will be published on the 18th of March and will be available, physically and digitally, through the good folk at Telos Publishing.
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The blessings offered in these pages are an attempt to put some words on that wordless sense of blessing that perhaps all of us come to know when we remain faithful to the journey. I have used these blessings in many settings and have marveled at the ways the Spirit works through them in retreats, workshops, discernment times, and any number of faith-sharing gatherings. ~ from the introduction to Blessing upon Blessing by Maxine Shonk, OP
The books Blessing upon Blessing and Silver Linings contain more than 200 blessings written by Sister Maxine. This webspace is a place for sharing ways the blessings have been used and how they have touched lives.
Benedicere = to say good things


Extracts as credited in the individual biographies are taken
* Boroughmuir School Magazine, 1914-1918 and
* George Heriot's School Roll of Honour 1914-1919, War Memorial Committee, 1921
* George Heriot's School Roll of Honour 1939-1945, War Memorial Committee, 1950
* The Watsonian War Record 1914-1918, War Memorial Executive, 1920
* The Watsonian War Record 1939-1945, The Watsonian Club, 1951
* Kill the Prisoners! by
Don Wall. ISBN 0-646-27834-7 Published by Don Wall & printed in Australia.
It is hoped to add some photographs, in the near future,
of those who attended Daniel Stewart's School.


The town of Sparrow is cursed, and during Swan Season, tourists flock to the town to try to see the curse for themselves. What's the cause of the curse? Well, two centuries ago, the town of Sparrow accused three sisters of witchcraft, and they were drowned in the harbor. Every year, during part of the summer, it is said that the sisters each inhabit a body and they lure boys into the water, to their deaths.
I'm not going to lie; I picked this book up because of its cover.
The beginning of the book started out pretty slowly. We got introduced to the characters, and we learned more about the town of Sparrow and the main character Penny Talbot. It soon picked up, and from there I was hooked.
My favorite part of this book was the writing. Erin Shaw was able to give the readers the feeling that characters were subtly holding onto secrets, which was something that I enjoyed. Later, when the secrets were revealed, I felt as if I understood the characters more because of what I had learned.
I also really enjoyed how there were flashbacks in the story. They helped me to understand the Swan sisters more, and it provided a backstory that added more depth to the story. I also appreciated how the chapter headings changed when there were flashbacks.
There were lots of twists and turns in this book; some that I expected, some that I thought might happen but didn't, and lots that I didn't see coming. In the town of Sparrow, during Swan Season, townspeople will easily turn against each other, and I had my suspicions as to who the witches might be. I enjoyed watching the season progress and seeing how the townspeople reacted.
The Wicked Deep is set in the modern-day world, in a small little town, the last stop on the bus line. The weather is always foggy and the only time people visit is for the Swan Season. It is the classic setting for a mysterious book, but it works for this story. The small town size allows for the townspeople to quickly turn on one another as the danger of being killed is known by all.
The ending is what changed my rating from a 5 to a 4. The ending was so predictable, and it was kind of messy. Maybe not at first, but as the story continued, the end became so apparent. It also really frustrated me how somethings were tied up because, for me, it seemed unfinished or at least unsatisfactory. I won't go into too much detail to avoid spoilers but there was one part that was tied up in a way that was annoying for me. I also wish there was some explanation about how the curse worked as we just knew of the curse, and nothing really about it.
In conclusion, I greatly enjoyed this book. I haven't read a story about witches for a long time and this book barely disappointed. The disappointing part for me was the ending. There were loose ends/ portions that weren't tied up correctly, and the ending was also very predictable. However, the setting and the writing made the story absolutely amazing!


By Lawrence Toppman
This may sound like a goofy question. He revolutionized genres with audaciously difficult symphonies, complex piano sonatas, a vast Missa Solemnis, etc. His profound string quartets and mysterious piano trios surpassed anything his old teacher Haydn imagined.
Yet in each case, Beethoven reinvented a familiar form. And in other areas, such as dramatic opera and oratorio, he put his own stamp on materials without altering their structures. His piano concertos, great as they are, differ from Mozart’s mainly in length and demands on the soloist, not to mention the keyboard itself.
As far as I can tell, he came up with only one idea from scratch, one we don’t associate with him: the song cycle. As the first major composer to link songs programmatically, he triggered outpourings from every major Romantic composer, all of whom outstripped him. Schubert and Schumann, Berlioz and Brahms, Dvorak and Mahler used Beethoven’s “An die ferne Geliebte” (“To the distant beloved”) as a jumping-off point for the great song cycles of the next 90 years.
Scholars debate whether the title refers to a woman who’s geographically far away or in heaven. He wrote these six songs – the only such cycle he composed – in 1816 at 45, though the lyrics express a dreamy passion that sits more easily on a younger man. Tenors usually sing it; my preferred recording comes from Fritz Wunderlich, whose death at 35 robbed the world of the greatest lyric tenor of the 1960s. If you want to see the 15-minute cycle being sung, try this performance by masterful baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and pianist Gerald Moore.
Vocal works were flowing from Beethoven’s pen at that point: He’d written 42 songs and canons the previous year and would write 29 more in 1816 after “Geliebte.” This cycle musicalizes poems by physician Alois Jeitteles, who at 22 was a published poet; Beethoven asked Jeitteles to provide related pieces expressing loneliness in solitude, pleasure in the contemplation of nature, rapture that the brook and clouds and birds see his beloved wherever she is, and hope for eventual reunion.
Unlike his predecessors, who wrote concert arias or piano-accompanied songs to create single moods, Beethoven wanted to take listeners on a brief but varied emotional journey. We often consider him the first great Romantic composer today, and this modestly pioneering cycle is one reason why.


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Cardinal Bembo, Luigi Alamanni and Baldassare Castiglione were among her literary friends. She was also on intimate terms with many of the Italian Protestants, such as Pietro Carnesecchi, Juan de Valdes and Ochino, but she died before the church crisis in Italy became acute, and, although she was an advocate of religious reform, there is no reason to believe that she herself became a Protestant. Her life was a beautiful one, and goes far to counteract the impression of the universal corruption of the Italian Renaissance conveyed by such careers as those of the Borgia. Her amatory and elegiac poems, which are the fruits of a sympathetic and dainty imitative gift rather than of any strong original talent, were printed at Parma in 1538; a third edition, containing sixteen of her Rime Spirituali, in which religious themes are treated in Italian, was published at Florence soon afterwards; and a fourth, including a still larger proportion of the pious element, was issued at Venice in 1544.
A great deal has been written about Vittoria Colonna, but perhaps the best account of her life is A. Luzio's Vittoria Colonna (Modena, 1885); A. von Reumont's Vita di Vittoria Colonna (Italian corrected edit., Turin, 1883) is also excellent; F. le Fevre's Vittoria Colonna (Paris, 1856) is somewhat inaccurate, but T. Roscoe's Vittoria Colonna (London, 1868) may be recommended to English readers; P. E. Visconti's Le Rime di Vittoria Colonna (Rome, 1846) deals with her poems. (L. V.*)
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- Look at this. It's the perfect height.
- I wonder what could be in here.
- I will pretend there isn't a cat sitting up here.
- This shelf is a great height but I worry about the reading choices.
- This is even better with a friend.
- Hey Josh? Who do you think is back there?
June 17, 2011
Summer's favorite place to pull herself up is the cat tree, although book shelves work well, too.Back to Articles


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A Mystery Story About Silver Demonetization
By Gary Christenson
Zach Chandler, a private detective in Dallas, Texas, is a throw-back to the 1950s. He doesn’t use Google or a 9mm handgun. Instead he thinks and listens.
His world turns upside down when the wealthy and eccentric Mildred MacDougal asks him to investigate a crime he does not understand. Mrs. MacDougal remembers honest money, silver dollars, and low prices from the 1940s and 1950s. Her father taught that silver was a Doctor, a natural healer of economic and physical diseases, and that silver dollars were often called cartwheels. She wants Zach to investigate the murder of Doctor Silver Cartwheel.
After Zach explains to Mrs. MacDougal why silver is no longer used as money, she asks him to predict the price of silver in five years. Zach enlists the aid of the mysterious Mr. Mystic and seeks insight from various silver analysts.
“Who Killed Doctor Silver Cartwheel” is a detective story that explores the history of silver and what caused its demonetization. It also proposes several methods to estimate future prices for silver.
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DIGGERS & DREAMERS
MightnMay by Love Enqvist - 16mm film
Diggers and Dreamers -Intentional communities in a new age, is a long-term project. It consist of photographs, lectures, sculptures, films, drawings and an artist book.
Social documents from: Open City of Ritoque - Chile, Christiania - Denmark, Yamagishi Toyosato - Japan, Auroville - India, Järna - Sweden, Valley of the Dawn - Brazil, Eclectic City - Brazil, Tui - New Zealand, Riverside - New Zaeland, Slab City - USA, Findhorn - Scottland, Dornach - Switzerland, Damanhur - Italy, Arcosanti - USA
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Diggers and Dreamers- Intentional Communities in a New Age, draw upon a myriad of utopian visions which are expressed through architecture, communities and personal reflections. What sets these intentional communities apart from other utopian dreams of a society, free from private property and from commercial exchange either of goods or of labor is that they survived into the present, seemingly against historical odds. The "social documents" gathered in the spiritual communities, eco-villages and communes found in Diggers and Dreamers could read these communities as counter sites or mirrors of an outside world. Or as urban laboratories where people who are dissatisfied with the gap between their ideas and the world have experimented with new communities and ways of living together and thus more quickly been able to see the result of their experiments. The common ground of these communities is mainly common ownership, decisionmaking, living and goals.Each community manifests a different mode of dissent, refusal, or withdrawal from capitalist rationality. Together they add up to a multifaceted portrait of a counter-modernity. The work is also trying to ask how we might recognize a phenomenon as seemingly untouchable or unrecoverable as New Age to be an important historical symptom of the post-68 moment.
The artist take interest in the dilemma of beeing situated between excluding and including: of compromising and of how dreams transforms to body and practise.
The work suggests moreover what might account for their longevity or persistence, is the failure to yet fully realize their grandiose visions. Now forty years have passed and we can learn from their experience.
Felicity D. Scott suggests: While Enqvist clearly remains fascinated by the dreams of anon-alienated life, symptoms of which are shown to have materialized in the intentional communities depicted, his revisiting of these acts of withdrawal from extant work ethics, normative lifestyles, and their functioning within capitalist modes of productivity should not be read simply as nostalgic, nor as claims to the ability of New Age lifestyles to bring about a more progressive or more ethically sound form of life. Rather, what is being divined from this strange archive is a type of knowledge regarding these utopian longings and how they derive from and attempt to counter dominant techniques of power, how they at once seek extrication from and remain fundamentally haunted by (while simultaneously troubling) capitalist structures which themselves come to seem distinctly fictional and constitutively riven with strange detours. Here we find that the everyday have taken on a fictional and magical quality.
DOCUMENTATION FROM LOUISIANA, BONNIERS, GOTHENBURG BIENNALE AND UPPSALA ART MUSEUM
INTENTIONAL COMMUNITY AND UTOPIA AS A WAY OF LIFE
The term "intentional community" was coined in the 1940s to function as a catch-all identity encompassing communities ranging from communes and ecovillages to separatist spiritual movements. Common to many of these communities are ideals of collective ownership, collective living, and consensus decision-making processes. In some cases the communities have a separate, internal economic system. Perhaps most important for these communities is the search for meaning and common values.
My work focuses on communities that exist today and that have created physical manifestations of their visions, especially through architecture. Many were founded between 1968 and 1975. They are to some extent grounded in modernism and they reflect the modern spiritual struggle for deeper meaning and higher consciousness – the so-called New Age. How have these places changed with a new generation of communards, and where are they going? Are they becoming museums or are they living urban laboratories?
Intentional communities mirror the outside world and questions our national and local identities, and they can function as a model of collectivity after the collapse of Ideology. Is there an archetypical utopian building, an architecture that can create and renew loyalties and that can affect the way we live together? This work attempts to show the explosive power and the many failures of the utopian project.
Who decides our future in the post-utopian, post-Ideological present? Idealism has shown both its positive and negative sides. People who are unhappy with the gaps between their ideas and their reality have always experimented with the development of new communities, both exclusive and inclusive. Despite short-lived projects and occasionally power-mad leaders, intentional communities continue to be places where individuals can test new ideas and where the results of their experiments can be quickly seen.
Love Enqvist 2009
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I'm Professor Jonathan Morris, aka The Coffee Historian. My latest book Coffee A Global History traces coffee's journey from the forests of Ethiopia to the fincas of Latin America, from Ottoman coffee houses to 'Third Wave' cafes, and from the simple coffee pot to the capsule machine. It explains how the world acquired a taste for coffee, yet why coffee tastes so different throughout the world. I was one of the editors of Coffee: A Comprehensive Guide to the Bean, the Beverage and the Industry, and was Director of the Cappuccino Conquests project tracing the spread of Italian-style coffee around the world.
I am a professional historian specialising in coffee history. As well as writing books and articles on coffee, I am a frequent speaker at industry and consumer events such as the London Coffee Festival and HOST, and am a Judge for the Best New Product in Show awards at the Specialty Coffee Association's annual World of Coffee event.
I am Vice President of the Royal Historical Society, Professor of Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire, UK; and an Associate Professor of the MUMAC Academy in Milan, Italy.
You can follow my journey into coffee by following me on Twitter @coffeehistoryjm, and accessing my publications, videos, podcasts etc from my archive pages at https://jonathanmorris.academia.edu/