Lightning Evolution of Humanity R evolution Awakening Volume 1 Spiritually Religiously Philosophically Psychological rEvolution IMHO
Osho Reason is powerless in the expression of Love Rumi Forgiveness is the key to Love. You must forgive everyone including yourself any harm done to anyone including yourself. This will free your heart and mind from [almost?] all ...
Author: Lukasz Czepulkowski
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc
I. Mass wrong or fake spirituality and how to make it right. Fixing the wrong aspects of the sick and Evil spiritually-religiously-philosophically-psychological SYSTEM of this world.. Reasons for the rEvolution, aims, outlines, strategies and solutions.. II. Simple steps, indications [working] how to reach the state of the Real and True Love=Wisdom=True Awareness=True Life=AWAKENING on a personal level.. yes.. Awakening=True Love.. just as simple.. also steps for the lightning evolution of mind.. III. Healing the hearts and minds programmed and conditioned by the SYSTEM on Fear and Anxiety, greed, callousness towards suffering, passiveness and indifference to Evil.. The book was originally one with the socially-economically-political aspects of the Lightning Evolution of Humanity of which the book is to be a valid part but I decided to split it into two Volumes.. both underwent serious revisions in the process.. I encourage you to read Volume 2 which is available in the same channels as this one..
I Love You No Reason
Volume 1 Mo Li. room were still on. The surroundings were still brightly lit without a trace of darkness, the air was filled with the smell of disinfectant ... A man's expression towards emotions was always more reserved than a woman's.
Author: Mo Li
Publisher: Funstory
In a daily job, as the coordinator of organ donation, Xia Zhanen met his ex-boyfriend Chen Shuihan and his' current girlfriend 'in the hospital. Back then, his ex-boyfriend purposely broke up with Xia Zhanen because of his body, and just as Xia Zhanen was arguing with his' current girlfriend ', Yi Zeyu appeared, and Yi Zeyu and Xia Zhanen ran away because of Chen Shuihan's illness. After that, because they were plotted to have Chen Shuihan die, Xia Zhanen found out about the truth behind their breakup ...
Volume 1 The Dancing Hand of God
The original King James translation of Song of Solomon 1:4 says, "Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright ...
Author: James Maloney
Publisher: WestBow Press
The Dancing Hand of God: Unveiling the Fullness of God through Apostolic Signs, Wonders, and Miracles combines two purposes in each of its two volumes. This first volume begins the journey that will unveil the qualities of God by telling the story of the life of its author, James Maloney, and by exploring the apostolic witness to God. He likens the approach to discovering "a balance between storytelling and teaching" that helps the reader "to turn the face of a hurting world toward God." This volume of The Dancing Hand of God explores God's fullness, fatherhood, otherness, acceptance, burden, glory, rule, and availability. Each of the chapters concludes with an outline that lists the main insights offered by each of the sections in the chapter, making the book useful both for one's personal reflection and for shared conversation. When you take stock of your spiritual life, you might find yourself confronting a series of challenges, such as loneliness, anxiety, and a lack of godliness. The Dancing Hand of God proposes a remedy for these sources of spiritual sickness: a full-contact embrace in the strong and healing hands of God. By learning from James Maloney's own journey and his studied explorations of the teachings of the faith, you will find the energy to play your part in unveiling God's fullness through your working of apostolic signs, wonders, and miracles.
Emma Goldman Vol 1
A Documentary History of the American Years, Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 Emma Goldman Candace Falk ... and second, I long ago came to the conclusion that language is too weak, too powerless to express what one feels.
Author: Emma Goldman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These volumes collect personal letters, lecture notes, newspaper articles, court transcripts, government surveillance reports, and numerous other documents, many of which appear here in English for the first time. Supplemented with thorough annotations, multiple appendixes, and detailed chronologies, the texts bring to life the memory of this singular, pivotal figure in American and European radical history. Volume 1: Made for America, 1890-1901 introduces readers to the young Emma Goldman as she begins her association with the international anarchist movement and especially with the German, Jewish, and Italian immigrant radicals in New York City. From early on, Goldman's movement through political and intellectual circles is marked by violence, from the attempted murder of industrialist Henry Clay Frick by Goldman's lover, Alexander Berkman, to the assassination of President William McKinley, in which Goldman was falsely implicated. The documents surrounding these events illuminate Goldman's struggle to balance anarchism's positive gains and its destructive costs. This volume introduces many of the themes that would pervade much of Goldman's later writings and speeches: the untold possibilities of anarchism; the transformative power of literature; the interplay of human relationships; and the importance of free speech, education, labor, women's freedom, and radical social reform.
French Film Theory and Criticism Volume 1
We have not read Faublas , 4 yet , despite failures and disillusionments , we will not let the image of love that we ... vices for the powerless ; sensuality , on the contrary , is a justification of all forms of life and expression .
Author: Richard Abel
These two volumes examine a significant but previously neglected moment in French cultural history: the emergence of French film theory and criticism before the essays of André Bazin. Richard Abel has devised an organizational scheme of six nearly symmetrical periods that serve to "bite into" the discursive flow of early French writing on the cinema. Each of the periods is discussed in a separate and extensive historical introduction, with convincing explications of the various concepts current at the time. In each instance, Abel goes on to provide a complementary anthology of selected texts in translation. Amounting to a portable archive, these anthologies make available a rich selection of nearly one hundred and fifty important texts, most of them never before published in English.
Love Ethics in Gower s Confessio Amantis
2194 - 99 ) retained one Will again stands paradoxically for that which Amans is powerless to reject , that which he ... one ' s own Reason to escape from love , and Amans ' inability to make that choice provides another expression of ...
Author: Peter Nicholson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
In Love and Ethics, Peter Nicholson offers a comprehensive and accessible reading of Gower's Confessio, as well as a guide to the issues that it poses, linking all of the diverse elements of Gower's complex poem into a single broad view of its purpose and structure. Beginning with an investigation of the literary antecedents of the poem, the author then distinguishes the Confessio from its predecessors in order to discover what is most unique about it. In viewing the Confessio both as a poem and as a work of moral instruction, Love and Ethics illustrates the work's concern with the laws that govern human love, and its understanding of the elusiveness of moral certainty in a fallen world. Intended for both specialists and non-specialists, Love and Ethics addresses many of the specific concerns of current Gower criticism, provides complete translations of all foreign quotation, and guides the novice reader through Gower's Middle English.
Volume 1 Tome I Kierkegaard and the Bible The Old Testament
The themes of suffering, providence, and divine love are also developed in the works Kierkegaard published in these years. ... God«s love is always greater than our love, ̄ and thus our sufferings are never without purpose, but express ...
Author: Jon Stewart
Exploring Kierkegaard's complex use of the Bible, the essays in this volume use source-critical research and tools ranging from literary criticism to theology and biblical studies, to situate Kierkegaard's appropriation of the biblical material in his cultural and intellectual context. The contributors seek to identify the possible sources that may have influenced Kierkegaard's understanding and employment of Scripture, and to describe the debates about the Bible that may have shaped, perhaps indirectly, his attitudes toward Scripture. They also pay close attention to Kierkegaard's actual hermeneutic practice, analyzing the implicit interpretive moves that he makes as well as his more explicit statements about the significance of various biblical passages. This close reading of Kierkegaard's texts elucidates the unique and sometimes odd features of his frequent appeals to Scripture. This volume in the series devotes one tome to the Old Testament and a second tome to the New Testament. Tome I considers the canonically disputed literature of the Apocrypha. Although Kierkegaard certainly cited the Old Testament much less frequently than he did the New, passages and themes from the Old Testament do occupy a position of startling importance in his writings. Old Testament characters such as Abraham and Job often play crucial and even decisive roles in his texts. Snatches of Old Testament wisdom figure prominently in his edifying literature. The vocabulary and cadences of the Psalms saturate his expression of the range of human passions from joy to despair. The essays in this first tome seek to elucidate the crucial rhetorical uses to which he put key passages from the Old Testament, the sources that influenced him to do this, and his reasons for doing so.
Before That Night
For some reason, she liked that though. ... Though his expression softened, he remained silent, waiting for more. ... Addison and her siblings would be evicted from their now powerless and waterless apartment unless all four thousand ...
Author: Violet Duke
Publisher: Violet Duke
-- A USA TODAY Bestseller -- Before that night, Addison Milan had been just a college dropout secretly raising her two young siblings in a beat-up minivan she'd bought with her first semester's tuition refund--the only money her addict mother hadn't taken off with when she'd abandoned them nearly two years ago. Before that night, Caine Spencer had been just a rough, gruff cop sent to check out the phoned-in claims of suspected child neglect involving the same woman he'd met just months prior when she'd first served him the city's worst diner coffee...which he'd been drinking daily ever since. Before that night, Addison would never have thought the man she'd been fighting hard not to fall for--her only friend in her new shadow of a life--would be in a position to rip her family apart. Before that night, Caine would never have believed any woman could make him fall head over heels, let alone make him feel so damn compelled to look the other way when it came to his job. Then that one perfect night changed everything. "Hot, sweet, and filled with tender moments, Violet Duke writes heroes who make me swoon!"-- New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan BEFORE THAT NIGHT (Bk 1 of 2) chronicles the events that take place seven years prior to EVERY NIGHT WITHOUT YOU (Bk 2 of 2), which is the conclusion of Caine & Addison's story of love, sacrifice, and the lengths one will run--and chase--when their past threatens their future. NOTE: Each of the four couples in the Unfinished Love series have TWO books (duets) that take place years apart. Each duet is a two-part second chance romance, meaning each couple is separated after their first book and reunited in the second book of their duet. As noted in the title, this is Book ONE of TWO; the second book in this duet reunites this couple seven years later, and concludes their story. The UNFINISHED LOVE Series Four brothers. Each fighting for their second first chance at love. Years be damned. (Caine & Addison) -- Book 1 of 2: Before That Night -- Book 2 of 2: Every Night Without You (Drew & Skylar) -- Book 1 of 2: Before That Promise -- Book 2 of 2: Every Promise Unspoken (Gabe & Hannah) -- Book 1 of 2: Before That Kiss -- Book 2 of 2: Every Kiss Goodbye (Max & Kennedy) -- Book 1 of 2: Before That Chance -- Book 2 of 2: Every Chance We Lost
Love Ban
Volume 1 , Zhenyinfang ... Her head was in incomparable pain, but for some reason, even her heart began to hurt. ... at sher with some disbelief, An Ke smiled lightly as if he was satisfied with her pale and powerless expression.
Author: , Zhenyinfang
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Cinnamon Girl Second Chance at Love Series Book 1
Mike's expression suggested she'd slapped him. "That's quite a thing to say. Why are you under the impression that Jesus saves is nonsense?" "Because it isn't true. ... powerless to stop them. "Maybe that's true," she said, ...
Author: S.J. MacIver
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Crime reporter Lacy Erikson struggles with the accidental death of her husband and the feeling that God betrayed her. Then an unusual murder puts her in the path of former police officer Michael Lindahl. A gorgeous hunk of a man with a rocky past, Mike rekindles Lacy's desires, showing her a future she never imagined. How can she not love a man who makes his own marshmallows? But first Mike and Lacy must learn to trust—in each other as well as the Lord. Recipe included. OTHER TITLES by S.J MacIver Cinnamon Girl Ghost of a Chance
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Environment Climate Change
A prolonged stretch of hot weather in southern British Columbia has seen tinder-dry forests burning for over a month. Out-of-control wildfires, evacuation orders, and dangerous to breathe smoke that blankets communities for weeks, are now annual events in the BC Interior.
On June 29, Canada's highest-ever recorded temperature, 49.6 C, was reached in Lytton, BC. The day after, the village of 250 inhabitants was destroyed by fire — buildings razed to their foundations and the hulking wrecks of cars left smoldering.
The "heat dome" that covered much of western North America at the end of June, shattering temperature records, isn't the only weather event making headlines. Forest fires caused by extreme heat and drought are releasing record carbon emissions from Siberian forests and driving Greeks to flee their homes by ferry.
The monstrous wildfires happening in the United States are the latest consequence of a 21-year drought in the southwestern US (and into the northern states including Oregon), as depicted in the latest map by US Drought Monitor. Red areas are extreme drought, brown areas show exceptional drought. The current dry stretch started in 2000 and hasn't let up, putting it second only to a highly arid period in the last 1500s.
An estimated 579,614 acres of forest has been burnt in California, plus 400 structures destroyed (remarkably, there are yet no deaths). The nation's largest wildfire, the Bootleg fire in southern Oregon, is currently at 413,765 acres, though luckily after burning for over a month it is 98% contained.
Source: US Drought Monitor
A still image from video shows land burnt by the Bootleg fire in southern Oregon. Source: US Forest Service, ODF, National Incident Team 2
There have also been unprecedented rains followed by catastrophic flooding in China and Europe, and a flash frost in Brazil that killed most of the young coffee plants.
Earlier this week, tourists waded through ankle-deep water in Venice's St. Mark's Square.
In Barrie, Ontario, a tornado designated as EF-2 (wind speeds up to 217 km/h) slammed into a residential neighborhood destroying homes and injuring 11 people. The twister, not normally seen that far north, was one of five recorded in southern Ontario in June.
We don't have to wait years for the worst impacts of climate change to occur. They're already here.
A report this week by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says global warming is on the verge of becoming out of control (if it isn't already), and warns that the world is certain to face further climate disruptions for decades if not centuries to come.
Drawing on more than 14,000 scientific studies, it gives the most complete picture yet of how climate change is altering the natural world and what could lie ahead.
In language couched stronger than previous IPCC reports, which have become standard and easy to ignore, much like the boy who cried wolf, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) says that unless rapid and large-scale action is taken to reduce carbon emissions, the average global temperature is set to cross the 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold within 20 years. That, my friends, is within most of our life times.
A rise of 1.5 C is considered to be the tipping point, beyond which further warming is expected to have disastrous economic, political and environmental consequences.
The report says emissions have already pushed the global temperature up by an average 1.1 degrees beyond the pre-industrial average, and that pledges to cut emissions are nowhere near enough to start reducing the level of greenhouse gases that have accumulated in the atmosphere.
Reuters teases out a few more key points from the 60-page report, including:
The deadly heat waves, gargantuan hurricanes and other weather extremes that are already happening will only become more severe.
The 1.1C warming already recorded has been enough to unleash disastrous weather. Further warming could mean that in some places, people could die just from going outside. [569 people died as a result of the extreme heat wave that hit southern BC at the end of June. Most were seniors living in apartments without a/c – Rick]
Some changes are already "locked in". Greenland's sheet of land-ice is "virtually certain" to continue melting, and raising the sea level, which will continue to rise for centuries to come as the oceans warm and expand.
But even to slow climate change, the report says, the world is running out of time. If emissions are slashed in the next decade, average temperatures could still be up 1.5C by 2040 and possibly 1.6C by 2060 before stabilising.
And if, instead the world continues on its the current trajectory, the rise could be 2.0C by 2060 and 2.7C by the century's end. The Earth has not been that warm since the Pliocene Epoch roughly 3 million years ago – when humanity's first ancestors were appearing, and the oceans were 25 metres (82 feet) higher than they are today.
It could get even worse, if warming triggers feedback loops that release even more climate-warming carbon emissions — such as the melting of Arctic permafrost or the dieback of global forests. Under these high-emissions scenarios, Earth could broil at temperatures 4.4C above the preindustrial average by the last two decades of this century.
Source: IPCC
To the report itself, more granular climate data is revealed, showing the extent of global warming in its various manifestations. An edited summary of the main points follows:
The scale of recent changes across the climate system as a whole and the present state of many aspects of the climate system are unprecedented over many centuries to many thousands of years.
It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.
Each of the last four decades has been successively warmer than any decade that preceded it since 1850. Global surface temperature was 1.09°C higher in 2011-2020 than 1850-1900, with larger increases over land (1.59 °C) than over the ocean (0.88°C).
Global surface temperature has increased faster since 1970 than in any other 50-year period over at least the last 2,000 years. Temperatures during the most recent decade (2011-2020) exceed those of the most recent multi-century warm period, around 6,500 years ago (0.2°C to 1°C relative to 1850-1900). Prior to that, the next most recent warm period was about 125,000 years ago.
It is virtually certain that heat waves have become more frequent and more intense across most land regions since the 1950s, while cold waves have become less frequent and less severe. Marine heat waves have approximately doubled in frequency since the 1980s.
Changes in the land biosphere since 1970 are consistent with global warming: climate zones have shifted poleward in both hemispheres, and the growing season has on average lengthened by up to two days per decade since the 1950s in the northern hemisphere.
Climate change has contributed to increases in agricultural and ecological droughts in some regions due to increased land evapotranspiration.
Since 2011 (measurements reported in AR5), greenhouse gas concentrations have continued to increase in the atmosphere, reaching annual averages of 410 ppm for carbon dioxide (CO2).
In 2019, atmospheric CO2 concentrations were higher than at any time in at least 2 million years and concentrations of methane and nitrous oxide were higher than at any time in at least 800,000 years.
It is likely that well-mixed GHGs contributed a warming of 1.0°C to 2.0°C. It is very likely that well-mixed GHGs were the main driver of tropospheric warming since 1979.
Global average precipitation over land has likely increased since 1950, with a faster rate of increase since the 1980s.
Mid-latitude storm tracks have likely shifted poleward in both hemispheres since the 1980s, with marked seasonality in trends (medium confidence).
The frequency and intensity of heavy precipitation events have increased since the 1950s over most land area.
It is likely that the global proportion of major (Category 3–5) tropical cyclone occurrence has increased over the last four decades, and the latitude where tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific reach their peak intensity has shifted northward.
There has been an increase in the chance of compound extreme events since the 1950s. This includes increases in the frequency of concurrent heatwaves and droughts on the global scale; fires in some regions of all inhabited continents; and compound flooding in some locations.
Glaciers & Arctic sea ice
There has been a global retreat of glaciers since the 1990s and a decrease in Arctic sea ice between 1979-1988 and 2010-2019 (about 40% in September and about 10% in March).
The global nature of glacier retreat, with almost all of the world's glaciers retreating synchronously, since the 1950s is unprecedented in at least the last 2,000 years.
There has been a decrease in northern hemisphere spring snow cover since 1950, and surface melting of the Greenland ice sheet over the past two decades.
In 2011-2020, annual average Arctic sea ice reached its lowest level since at least 1850. Late summer Arctic sea ice area was smaller than at any time in at least the past 1,000 years.
Sea level rise & ocean warming
Global mean sea level increased by 0.20m between 1901 and 2018. The average rate of sea level rise was 1.3mm between 1901 and 1971, increasing to 1.9mm between 1971 and 2006, and further increasing to 3.7mm between 2006 and 2018.
Global mean sea level has risen faster since 1900 than over any preceding century in at least the last 3,000 years.
The global ocean has warmed faster over the past century than since the end of the last deglacial transition (around 11,000 years ago).
The global upper ocean (0-700m) has warmed since the 1970s. CO2 emissions are the main driver of current global acidification of the surface open ocean. Oxygen levels have dropped in many upper ocean regions since the mid-20th century.
A long-term increase in surface open ocean pH occurred over the past 50 million and surface open ocean pH as low as recent decades is unusual in the last 2 million years.
Collapsing polar vortex, wandering jet stream
We understand that climate change causes odd weather patterns, due to the wandering jet stream.
Because the Arctic is warming faster than the rest of the planet, the jet stream is thrown off course, with increasing frequency of meandering pockets of air, which create stormy weather.
The polar vortex is a seasonal atmospheric phenomenon whereby high winds swirl around an extremely cold pocket of Arctic or Antarctic air. The winds are like a barrier that contains the cold air, but when the vortex weakens, the cold air "escapes" from the vortex and travels south, bringing with it a cold blast of Arctic weather.
The scientific evidence suggests the same phenomenon is responsible for heat waves.
A recent example is the "heat dome" that settled above western North America in June. CBC News describes a heat dome as essentially a mountain of warm air built into a very wavy jet stream, with extreme undulations. When the jet stream — a band of strong wind in the upper levels of the atmosphere — becomes very wavy and elongated, pressure systems can pinch off and become stalled or stuck in places they typically would not be.
Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The bigger question is, what does the wandering jet stream mean, and should we be concerned, even if we're not affected by unseasonably strange, bad weather?
The short answer is yes, because it shows the consequences of climate change are coming sooner than we think. It all starts with warming poles, and melting Arctic ice.
A recent scientific report found that Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Even worse is what's happening in the Arctic, where the temperature has risen 2.3 degrees C compared to 70 years ago. Add another degree of warming during winter, states the report from Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Greenland has been seeing many more hours than normal of above-freezing temperatures. In June 2019, 40% of the large northern landmass was melting, causing a loss of 2 billion tons of ice in a single day. That sounds bad, but it was actually worse in 2012, when the entire Greenland ice sheet saw melting, the first time that has happened in recorded history.
As ice melts during the summer, the Arctic Ocean warms. That heat gets radiated back to the atmosphere in winter, which reduces the intensity of the northern polar vortex winds. The polar vortex gets disrupted, allowing cold air in the center of the swirling cyclone above the pole to migrate south, resulting in meteorological aberrations like snowfalls in Florida.
While occasional breakdowns of the polar vortex are nothing to be concerned about, they are becoming more common. A study in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society found that a weakening polar vortex has become more common during the past four decades, and that a weaker polar vortex, brought on by a melting Arctic, explained 60% of the cooling in Eurasia since 1990.
The scary part of all this is the spectre of the polar vortex collapsing. This would mean a total disruption of normal atmospheric warming and cooling. Without halos of swirling Arctic and Antarctic winds serving to cool the poles, they would be left to heat up, accelerating global warming.
So far in this article, everything we've written is based upon a gradual warming scenario, albeit happening at a faster clip than expected. The fable of the boiling frog seems appropriate. If a frog is suddenly put into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. But if the frog is put into tepid water, it won't perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. Like a society of frogs, we perceive the danger of climate change, but we are content to marinate in the warm bubbles, unconcerned about how hot it's getting to do anything about lowering the temperature.
But the really frightening scenario is not our climate changing slowly, almost imperceptibly, but a sudden lurch forward, like shifting a sports car into high gear.
The North Atlantic Current
Crucial to an understanding of global warming are the changes to the North Atlantic Current, a vast movement of water that extends the Gulf Stream north-east, starting around the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The current flows east before sharply veering north, transporting warm tropical waters from the Gulf Stream like a giant conveyor belt to northern latitudes and eventually the Arctic Ocean. The current bounces off Greenland and Iceland, then heads back south, carrying cold water with it.
In places where the warm, salty water near the surface meets cold, less salty water at depths, the water is pushed down in huge, rotating columns called chimneys, some of which churn almost to the bottom of the ocean, 2.5 km from surface.
Little is known about these mysterious structures except that there are less of them, and that their reduction corresponds with loss of ice (a survey done in 2004 found two chimneys in the Greenland Sea, whereas previous surveys found many more chimneys).
Meanwhile another current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), exchanges warm water from the equator with cold water from the Arctic, transporting warm and cold water to the North and South Poles.
Watch the circulation of the currents in this video
Without climatic disruptions, the currents work to move water around the globe, along with nutrients key to the survival of marine species. The Gulf Stream, one of four currents known as the North Atlantic Gyre, even played a role in the exploration of the New World, with European explorers catching the winds in their sails from the Gulf Stream as they searched for new lands.
However in recent times climate scientists have been raising concerns that rising temperatures could throw a wrench into the conveyor-like currents system. Sensors stationed along the North Atlantic show that the volume of water moving northward has been sluggish, potentially affecting sea levels and weather.
But the more disruptive scenario involves the AMOC. Scientific American states:
As global temperatures rise with the levels of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, the AMOC could be disrupted by an influx of freshwater from increasing precipitation in the North Atlantic and the melting of sea ice and glaciers on land. The added freshwater lowers the water density in the zone where deep water forms, backing up and weakening the overall flow of the AMOC like a clogged sink. That slowdown means less heat is transported northward, leading to cooler ocean temperatures in a region below Greenland, and warmer temperatures off the US east coast. That warming leads to higher sea levels along the coast and raises sea temperatures where economically valuable cold-loving species like cod and lobster live.
The slowing of the AMOC could also mean colder winters across the eastern US, and increases the likelihood of summer heat waves across Europe. Two recent studies show that the amount of water surging through the AMOC has slowed to a 1,600-year low.
The Younger Dryas
The prevailing theory of what caused an abrupt freezing 20,000 years ago involves a large influx of fresh water from a very large lake, called Lake Agassiz (now the Great Lakes), into the Atlantic Ocean likely via the St. Lawrence Seaway, which stopped the North Atlantic Current in its tracks, plunging Europe and much of the northern hemisphere into interminable winter.
Another intriguing theory that supplements the Younger Dryas explanation of the sudden onset of an ice age involves a comet striking the earth. The website Science details the story of a geologist at the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, who gathered proof of a 31-kilometer wide impact crater under a kilometer-thick sheet of ice known as the Hiawatha Glacier, in Greenland. Some researchers on his discovery team believe the massive impact on the ice sheet would have sent meltwater surging into the Atlantic Ocean, thereby disrupting the conveyor belt of ocean currents — just as the spilling of the contents of Lake Agassiz did.
The Younger Dryas refers to an interruption in the heating of the climate that occurred after the last global ice age that started receding about 20,000 years ago.
Within decades temperatures dropped 2 to 6 degrees C, causing the advance of glaciers and dry conditions. The mini-ice age is thought to have lasted between 1,000 and 1,300 years, and like it started, also ended abruptly, within 40 to 50 years.
Could it happen again? An alarming news story last week strongly suggests it could. Reuters reports on a study by the Potstdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, published in the journal 'Nature Climate Change', wherein climate models show that the AMOC is at its weakest in a thousand years.
We already know from three paragraphs above that the current is at a 1,600-year low, so what's new here? The study's author says it's not only the strength of the current that is at risk but its stability.
"The loss of dynamical stability would imply that the AMOC has approached its critical threshold, beyond which a substantial and in practice likely irreversible transition to the weak mode could occur," said Niklas Boers.
"The findings support the assessment that the AMOC decline is not just a fluctuation or a linear response to increasing temperatures but likely means the approaching of a critical threshold beyond which the circulation system could collapse."
Yes. The very same scenario envisioned by the movie 'The Day After Tomorrow'. Truth being stranger than fiction, Reuters warns that A potential collapse of the system could have severe consequences for the world's weather systems.
If the AMOC collapsed, it would increase cooling of the Northern Hemisphere, sea level rise in the Atlantic, an overall fall in precipitation over Europe and North America and a shift in monsoons in South America and Africa, Britain's Met Office said.
Other climate models have said the AMOC will weaken over the coming century but that a collapse before 2100 is unlikely.
Well that's a relief. But how can they be sure? The mini-ice age that resulted from the emptying out of Lake Agassiz, a huge inland waterbody in North America, started and ended quickly, each within four to five decades, a blink of an eye in Earth science terms.
Applying the Younger Dryas theory to current global warming, and all the evidence we have of it, including melting sea ice, glaciers and permafrost, rising sea levels, disruptions to the polar vortex, freak storms, heat waves, forest fires, etc., it's interesting to speculate what could happen.
We know that during the Younger Dryas, a long period of global warming after the last major ice age suddenly ended and resulted in "global cooling". Is that what's in store for planet Earth, if we compare our current warming trend? If so, Europe and North America's east coast won't be so worried about heat waves, but instead, could be looking at a frozen landscape more resembling 'A Game of Thrones'.
Then again, the climatic conditions of today are totally different from 12,000 years ago. How will the depletion of Arctic sea ice, warming oceans, collapsing polar vortices and wandering jet streams, when tossed into the equation of a warming planet, affect our future climate? It's hard to say, and difficult to predict, which areas will be most and least affected by climate change. We truly are moving into uncharted territory.
Prepping for change
For many people uncertainty brings anxiety. Climate change may not be top of mind for the majority, who are preoccupied with the more immediate issues of putting food on the table, getting children up every morning and off to school, looking after elders, etc., but there is one thing for certain: it affects everyone.
One way to confront the unknowns of a warming planet, and thereby reduce worry around it, is to prepare. Recent events particularly in the United States are providing fuel for a growing movement of "preppers" who are waking up to the worsening reality of supply chain interruptions and food shortages.
Covid is a good example. At the beginning of the pandemic, shoppers rushed into supermarkets, grabbing what they considered to be the most important grocery items for riding out a crisis, including toilet paper, pasta and meat. The sight of empty shelves shocked many people into planning for what they would do in the event of a natural disaster like an earthquake. A power grid failure in Texas this past February, when millions of homes were plunged into darkness during a freak winter storm, is another example that got Americans thinking about "armageddon-type" scenarios.
These folks aren't your regular survivalists living in a log cabin and running around the back 40 with a loaded shotgun. Travis Maddox, a Missouri man who in 2009 launched his own Youtube channel, 'The Prepared Homestead', tells The Epoch Times an increasing number of people are sending him really personal emails. They're not crazy extremists. These are single moms, elderly people, disabled people, regular working people. They're realizing that things are changing. They can just feel things are changing rapidly," he said…
In the last year alone, roughly 45 percent of Americans, or about 116 million people, said they spent money preparing for hard times or spent money stockpiling survival goods, according to Finder.com.
As a former Boy Scout, I like the idea of being prepared. It's about time we realize that the old order, a time of ubiquitous consumption, of globalization involving unfettered and conflict-free trade, of long uninterrupted supply lines, is over.
Covid was a warning, a shot heard loud and clear that we are entering a different, far more uncertain period. Covid-19 is very unlikely to be the last pandemic. With a global population approaching 10 billion, the opportunities for strange and new viruses to grow and mutate are only going to increase.
The storming of the US Capitol in January, and the Black Lives Matter protests, are a reminder of the political and social tensions hiding under the veneer of American democracy.
In an uncertain future, we need to live more "local", we need to be more self-reliant. Above all, if we've learned nothing else from covid, we need to shorten our supply chains. Stop buying strawberries from Peru in February and start canning local fruit and vegetables in summer for storage the following winter.
Being a prepper doesn't have to mean constructing a bunker and filling it floor to ceiling with canned food. We can simply live more like our ancestors. "Prepping is something most people did all the time" in bygone years. "Our grandparents were preppers," Maddox says in The Epoch Times story.
Back to climate change, I just can't imagine if the Earth keeps warming as we know it will continue to do, according to its natural cycles, how bad things could get. I see a world where cities no longer function properly — with coastal cities either drowned or inundated with frequent flooding from storms made worse by rising sea levels, and freshwater aquifers polluted by saltwater intrusion. I see more people moving inland, seeking a simpler, safer rural life.
Places that seem fine now will become uninhabitable. There will be cities that simply become too hot for human survival. More people will be on the move, like the BC wildfire evacuees we see now. Higher temperatures will mean more extreme heat, droughts and forest fires.
However, we can't underestimate the power of human ingenuity and the impulse to survive. We will make it, we just need to be smarter about where we choose to live, and how we live. There is still time to think about, and plan for the future.
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MIAMI, Dec. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ – Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) today announced the appointment of Amy C. McPherson, former president and managing director of Europe for Marriott International, to its Board of Directors. Her appointment was effective as of December 21, 2020.
"I am honored to welcome Amy to our board of directors," said Richard D. Fain, Royal Caribbean Group's chairman and CEO. "Her many years of involvement in the growth of the travel industry, as well as her deep experience in the development of international markets, will be a valuable addition to the board."
McPherson spent more than 30 years in leadership roles at Marriott International, including 10 years of service as the company's president and managing director of Europe, until her retirement in 2019. While at Marriott, she was recognized as one of 25 outstanding "Women Who Mean Business" by the Washington Business Journal.
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Racism triggers deep emotions in the U.S.
It is a word with different meanings for diverse populations. It can bring about shame and avoidance for some and justifiable resentment for others.
Can some good happen from the racial tension of today? Social workers with experience in this area believe it can. But they say it will take courage to dig deep and allow honest communication to bring about professional and personal growth.
It will also take greater awareness of how institutions and systems continue to negatively impact people of color and other marginalized populations, they say.
NASW member Karen Bullock is a professor and head of the Department of Social Work at North Carolina State University, in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
"I believe there is a good-faith effort on the part of many around the country and the world to address the racial tension and violence of contemporary time," Bullock said. "I believe there are pockets of calm and what appears to be harmony in communities, which is great, but it leaves far too many on a larger scale disinterested in change."
Racism is a difficult topic for Americans to discuss because it has "a perpetual connection to our country's heritage of hate and brutality for some, while being for war, peace, honor and dignity for others," Bullock said.
"Our country was founded on hate, segregation and subjugation, which are the pillars of racism," she said. "So people in our country who have the most power, wealth and privilege have typically been the direct or indirect beneficiaries of racism. That's difficult for us to talk about."
Bullock said it is a topic the nation is divided on in terms of our pure ideology and its beliefs.
"As long as we have economic injustice and political dominance of one race over another, we still see this racial imbalance," she said. "As long as there is this pervasive dominance of one group over another, racism will not be a comfortable topic for us."
Bullock also works to make a difference as a member of the NASW National Committee on Race and Ethnic Diversity, or NCORED.
"I am committed to the advancement of policies that address diversity and inclusion issues for social workers," Bullock said of why she serves. "I believe practitioners on the front line look to these policies to guide our practice approaches and framework."
It's critical that these policies are applicable to demographic, political, social and economic trends in society in contemporary times that impact the lives of the clients that social workers serve, she said.
"It's essential that we continue to do work around racism to come together to learn and explore how racism impacts us as colleagues and how it impacts our clients," Bullock said. "It's a difficult topic, but as long as people stay silent about it, we can't learn from individual experiences on either side of things."
Bullock said it's vital that social workers continue to create forums to hear personal stories about racism.
"Unless we are engaged in it for greater knowledge and awareness, we're closing out an opportunity for us to achieve our professional obligations," she said.
America's Narrative
NASW member Vivian Jackson is a faculty member at the National Center for Cultural Competence at the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development.
She has more than 30 years of experience as a practitioner, supervisor, manager and trainer in health, mental health, substance abuse, child welfare, managed care, system reform and cultural competency.
She is also a former NASW staff member who has once again been appointed to serve on the NASW NCORED, where she previously served from 2000-2008.
It was during Jackson's tenure at NASW that the advent of managed care in social work was beginning.
"I was very much aware that decisions were being made about people of color who were Medicaid recipients without taking into account their unique circumstances and needs," Jackson said of how her interest in achieving racial equity at institutional levels began to take shape.
When she left NASW as an employee, she agreed to serve on NCORED and on the NASW president's Diversity Task Force.
"My participation on NCORED gives me another opportunity, another potential lever to help facilitate change that will benefit oppressed populations," she said. "It's an opportunity to participate in a process that can move us forward."
Social workers need to take a seat at the tables where questions of racism by authority figures have been pushed into the spotlight, Jackson said.
"The police action that has gained so much attention in recent times echo the distress we saw in African-American communities when lynching was so prevalent in our society," she said. "The reverberations of those days, the feelings are still there."
Racism is a difficult topic to discuss in the U.S. due in part to the nation's mythology and history, Jackson said. From an early age, citizens are taught that America is a place of freedom and opportunity.
"But when you really confront racism, you have to confront a different side of our history," Jackson said. "That what became America took land from other people, that our economy was built on people who were not compensated for their labor. That positive economic impact on the North and South and Europe was due in large part because of enslaved Africans."
Today, people may feel at risk if they dare speak up about the current scenarios of racism, for fear it could threaten their own status and privilege, she added.
"I think it's a complex situation. I don't think it's an impossible scenario to change, but it does require a level of authenticity," Jackson said, adding that it requires people to step back and examine their unconscious racism — even social workers, who are mostly motivated by the desire to do good.
Personal and professional beliefs can change and social workers can look inside their actions and beliefs and move forward, she said.
"We are in a time when it's incumbent on us to recognize unconscious bias," Jackson explained. "We need to acknowledge the history and the pain, and then participate in the process of making it right and redefining relationships in a new reality."
There are societal models that exist that can help people move beyond racism as well, Jackson noted. The truth and reconciliation processes in post-apartheid South Africa is but one example of strategies to make a change.
"We've been conditioned to not speak on this negative narrative," she said. "Instead, let's acknowledge it and make it right. We can do that as a profession. We can take that stand if we dare."
Sandy Bernabei is a liberation psychotherapist in New York City and president of the NASW New York City Chapter. She is a founding member of the Anti-Racist Alliance, which aims to achieve racial equity from all fields of social work practice and other community members. The Alliance teams with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, a private, nonprofit organization headquartered in New Orleans, and its Undoing Racism® workshop. More information is at antiracistalliance.com.
The alliance coordinates with the People's Institute to host workshops in the New York City metropolitan area on a regular basis and to encourage schools of social work to participate as well.
The workshops help highlight that America's institutions have systematically poor outcomes for people of color, Bernabei explained.
"Whites will fair better in every single institution bar none," she said. "This includes housing, employment and higher education.
"Once we have that deeper understanding, we see the work is not to understand people's culture," she said. "The work is to undo structural racism in these institutions. It's a much more difficult task, but unless we tackle that, we're just left being pawns and enablers."
Her suggestions for social workers: "Undoing racism is linked with community organizing," she said. "You can't teach racism away. It is incumbent that we work with each other. You have to have principles, which you can find online at www.antiracistalliance.com."
Not Business as Usual
Social work leader Joyce James, of Texas, is a pioneer in addressing racial inequity in the state's child protective services.
Her career spans from a CPS caseworker to assistant commissioner of Texas CPS, to leader of the Center for Elimination of Disproportionality and Disparities (the Center) and the Texas State Office of Minority Health at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission.
Today, she provides training and consulting services to multiple groups and community leaders.
James said she has taken the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond's workshop on undoing racism at least 60 times since 1998. Her first workshop brought to light her awareness of the systemic factors that occur at the core of institutionalized racism, in spite of her own, and other people's, best intentions to avoid such actions.
"It really all connected for me that there are deep-rooted issues in systems," she said. As an example, she said CPS staff had an automatic unconscious response to many child welfare calls involving poor communities and communities of color.
"Even for me personally, (the workshops) allowed me to examine why I had been silent for such a long time before I even started to ask questions about the disproportionality in the child welfare system," James said. "It helped me understand what racism had done to me. And what it was doing to hold in place the inequities that existed."
As James moved up and became the assistant commissioner of Texas Child Protective Services, she examined statewide data.
Data from 2005 showed that African-American children in Texas were more than twice as likely as Anglo or Hispanic children to be reported as victims of child abuse and neglect, she noted in a Child Welfare League of America report.
As a result, Texas was one of the first states to pass a law that addressed disproportionality in its handling of CPS cases. One of the requirements was to train CPS staff in cultural competency, James said.
"I made it a point as a leader that I would be in the room with my staff as they went through these (Undoing Racism) workshops," she said. "I recognized the importance of conveying the freedom to have these difficult conversations and of learning and struggling with my staff."
James pointed out there is a misunderstanding about racism that perpetuates: that it represents people who are mean, hateful and bigoted.
"But that's not what it's about," she said. "One of the things I share is that you can get rid of all those people and it would not change the outcome in our systems."
James said a different perspective is needed.
"We keep doing business as usual and blaming individuals, but that doesn't work," she said. "We have not come to that place of deeper analysis of institutions."
Respect for All Cultures
NASW member Chathapuram Ramanathan, from Michigan, recently completed a term on the NASW NCORED.
"I am a firm believer in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s view.
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,'" Ramanathan said.
He says social workers need to recognize the multicultural nature of the U.S. and to follow King's pursuit of a just society where all people are treated fairly. In light of this, he noted that over the last several years, Asian- and South Asian-Americans are also being targeted in hate crimes with increased frequency.
He cited the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's 2004 Gallup poll results on employment discrimination, which was released on the 40th anniversary of the passage of Civil Rights legislation of 1964.
The results showed that 15 percent of all workers perceived that they had been subjected to some sort of discriminatory or unfair treatment.
Discrimination is bad no matter who experiences it, Ramanathan said. But when broken down into subgroups, 31 percent of Asians surveyed reported incidents of discrimination, the largest percentage of any ethnic group, with African-Americans constituting the second-largest group at 26 percent.
More alarming, Ramanathan noted, the survey results showed that only 3 percent of Asians filed race discrimination charges.
"We are kind of an invisible minority," he said, adding that cultural traditions and immigrant status among Asians result in lower number of claims that get filed.
Another area that needs greater awareness in terms of equality is teaching social workers that besides race and ethnicity many people suffer from religious, immigration, sexual orientation, disability, and income biases, Ramanathan said.
"I believe in the goodness of people," he said, noting that too often people are simply unaware of their bias and ignorance toward others whose lives appear unfamiliar.
He said the racial unrest in America should be looked at as a human rights issue.
Social workers need to practice "cultural humility," he said. "It means I may not have all the answers. It's a way of maintaining a point of view that does not mean I am culturally superior. We need to say, 'teach me more about you.'"
NASW Resources
NASW is committed to social justice for all. Discrimination and prejudice directed against any group are damaging to the social, emotional, and economic well-being of the affected group and of society as a whole.
For more information on NASW standards and practice perspectives on the issue, visit: naswdc.org/diversity.


The Republicans Who Are Concerned About Big Tech Censorship Are Censoring Other Texans
Critics say Republicans who passed a law to protect conservative speech on social platforms have worked to restrict the speech of people with other views.
By Paul FlahiveSeptember 24, 2021 9:45 amGovernment & Politics, Partner Organizations, Texas Newsroom, Texas Public Radio
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Gov. Greg Abbott at a press conference in January 2021.
From Texas Public Radio:
The Texas Republican Party believes its views are being silenced by big tech. The Republican-led legislature passed a bill that prevents so-called deplatforming, where users are banned from YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
"Freedom of speech is under attack in Texas," said Gov. Greg Abbott when he signed the bill into law earlier this month.
Now Texans, including the Attorney General, can sue social media companies who ban users for their political views. But — based on his own words — Abbott isn't interested in protecting all voices and views.
"It is now law that conservative viewpoints in Texas cannot be banned on social media," he said at the end of his video message announcing the law.
WATCH LIVE: Signing House Bill 20 into law, which protects Texans from wrongful social media censorship: https://t.co/VXu8pMPRPn #txlege
— Gov. Greg Abbott (@GovAbbott) September 9, 2021
The statements protecting the First Amendment have been increasingly at odds with the actions and legislation of elected Republican leaders. Texas Republicans officeholders have been notably aggressive this last year and legislative session in silencing other points of view.
The legislature passed a bill banning how teachers can talk about current events and systemic racism in the classroom. The so-called "" bill has been attacked by educators and historians who believe the state should be passing standards for educators, not scripts of what can and can't be said.
"Once you start making prohibitions, and restricting the ability of the teacher to discuss — particularly things that that to many individuals and students and to their parents, may be controversial — I think that that's getting into a dangerous area of censorship," said Armando Alonzo, a professor of history at Texas A&M University.
The bill banning CRT wasn't the only one concerned with how Texas and its history are talked about. The so-called 1836 Project would provide a patriotic history through official committee pamphlets.
"We must never forget why Texas became so exceptional in the first place. And law creating the 1836 project does that the 1836 Project promotes patriotic education about Texas," said Abbott.
Historians like Alonzo argued the bill is an overreaction to the nation's moves to highlight and address systemic racism. It derives its name from The New York Times'"1619 Project," which charted the nation's history from when the first slaves arrived in North America.
Alonzo said it will likely gloss over the negative parts of the state's complex history — like the violent history of the Texas rangers at the border or the racist legislation passing for years in the Texas legislature. And forget the 100 years of Texas history that occurred before 1836.
And because the state is rolling out these pamphlets and determining what can't be said in classrooms, rather than a private organization, the effort takes on a more sinister appearance.
"Unfortunately it resembles some of the dictatorships that, you know, that we are familiar with in the recent past where you have nation-states that only teach the history the way they want to teach it," Alonzo said.
Chris Tomlinson recognizes what he sees in Texas. Before he was an author and columnist for the Houston Chronicle, he was an Army intelligence analyst during the Cold War.
"You know, the 1836 Project and all of these bills about what parts of Texas history are allowed and not allowed, come straight out of the Soviet Union," he said.
Elected leaders have been aggressively trying to tamp down discussions about race in Texas history this past year, he said.
He finds it hypocritical when he hears the governor talk about conservative voices being silenced.
"Governor Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick oppressed my free speech when they canceled the book talk we had scheduled at the Bullock Museum, just three hours before we were to take the stage," he said.
Tomlinson cowrote the book "Forget the Alamo." It examines the role of maintaining slavery in the state's battle for independence. The book challenges what he called the "white supremacist" legend of the Alamo Defenders motivations.
The lieutenant governor admitted he pressured the museum to cancel the book talk calling "Forget The Alamo" a rewriting of history. After a backlash, Patrick tried to organize a counter book talk that would include Tomlinson and his co-authors. Tomlinson called the event an attempt at a "Kangaroo Court," where non-experts would try to impugn the authors' work.
Texas demographics are changing fast, and soon Latinos will be the largest ethnic group. Tomlinson said these state leaders are trying to tap into the fear of that change to drive people to the polls.
An ad targeting those same voters was recently pulled from a University of Texas football game.
Anti-Trump-conservative activists The Lincoln Project bought a 60-second ad during the University of Texas vs Rice University game, airing nationally on the Longhorn Network. The game was a blowout 58-0 for the Longhorns, but the ad, called "Abbott's Wall" never aired.
In emails provided by the Lincoln Project, it appeared the ad was purchased, scrutinized by ESPN (a co-owner of the Longhorn Network) and approved to air.
The ad featured a row of caskets set on their ends like a wall as a ticker counted off 60,000 Texans dead from COVID, criticizing Abbott's handling of the pandemic. Abbott has been fighting cities, counties and school districts over their attempts to prevent the spread of the disease.
Lincoln Project co-founder Reed Galen said they found out about 10 minutes before kickoff that it had been pulled by the university, which also co-owns the network.
Galen said he thought the governor — who appointed the University's Board of Regents — had it pulled.
"It's just highly convenient that an ad that is disparaging and highlighting of his failure, suddenly… somehow disappears from the air," Galen said.
The governor's office referred TPR's questions about the issue to the governor's campaign, which flatly denied allegations they had anything to do with the ad being pulled.
University of Texas officials have not responded to multiple emails from TPR. But in a recording of a faculty council meeting Provost Sharon Wood said the ad was pulled Friday by the company Learfield which handles all national ad placements for the network.
"For over a decade, Learfield has followed a standing policy of not selling political advertisements other than candidate-backed ads. And it is our understanding that Learfield pulled this particular advertisement on Friday evening, which is consistent with this long standing policy," Wood said.
Wood did not explain why the ad was sold to begin with. Her office did not respond to follow up questions. Learfield did not respond to TPR questions, including a request of the policy the ad violated.
Regardless of what happened with this one ad, it may be true that freedom of speech is under attack in Texas, just not from the people the governor says.
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Mathematics in female education.
Rutgers female college, New York. [from old catalog]
Created / Published
New-York, J. A. Gray, printer, 1860.
- Women--Education
- Also available in digital form.
17 p. fornt. 23 cm.
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LC1671 .R8
https://lccn.loc.gov/10026550
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Rutgers Female College, New York. Mathematics in Female Education . New-York, J. A. Gray, printer, 1860. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/10026550/.
Rutgers Female College, N. Y. (1860) Mathematics in Female Education . New-York, J. A. Gray, printer. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/10026550/.
Rutgers Female College, New York. Mathematics in Female Education . New-York, J. A. Gray, printer, 1860. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/10026550/>.
Address to the first graduating class of Rutgers female college; Also available in digital form.
Contributor: Pierce, Henry Miller
Living at our best; teacher's manual,
Contributor: Hill, Mabel
Living at our best,
Contributor: Sharp, Grace Hastings - Hill, Mabel
The living authors of America. 1st ser.
Contributor: Powell, Thomas
The living Bible : a course of Bible-reading, covering the entire Bible, a chapter a day, ...
Contributor: Wells, Amos R. (Amos Russel)
An historical geography of the United States,
Contributor: Maccoun, Townsend
Siége de Sébastopol. Journal des opérations du génie, publié avec l'autorisation du ministre de la guerre;
Contributor: Niel, Adolphe - France. Ministère De La Guerre
Cross word puzzle book. (N.Y.) Irregular Also available in digital form. Holdings in 3x5 and visible files. In Progress.
Report on the examination of foods, drugs and public water-supplies ("Water survey") Also available in digital form.
Contributor: New Jersey. Laboratory of Hygiene, Trenton
Reports of secretary and treasurer of the Third army corps union. Serial. Also available in digital form.
Contributor: Third Army Corps Union


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Review: 'Duck' by Tom Block at the Highwood Theatre
Nicole Hertvik
What difference does 1% make? In the case of Duck, a new play by Tom Block currently playing at the Highwood Theatre in Silver Spring, 1% can be the difference between life and death.
Duck follows the internal struggle of Duck, a CIA statistician who earned that eponymous nickname because, under periods of great stress, he loses the ability to speak and instead quacks at people like a duck.
Duck (Shaquille Stewart) in the cage of his mind being harassed by his brother Crumb (James Nelson). Photo by Nerissa Hart.
Over the course of the 60-minute one act, Duck wrestles with his involvement in two deaths. The first death – of a suspected Middle Eastern terrorist – was carried out after Duck determined the man was 60% likely to carry out an act of violence against the United States. (Duck later admits that he rounded up from 59%, not knowing that 60% was the threshold the CIA used to approve executions.) The second death is that of his father, who, in the early stages of Alzheimer's, had asked Duck to sign a right-to-die document that allowed the hospital to euthanize him when his disease became severe.
As we watch Duck unravel under the burden of his guilt, the central tenet of the play is clear: To what extent does Duck believe himself complicit in these deaths even though he did not carry them out with his own hands? And how can he come to terms with his role in these deaths?
The show is successfully framed through a series of flashbacks, during which Duck's brother Crumb (James Nelson) acts as a sort of "ghost of Christmas past," allowing Duck to revisit key moments in his past that have brought him to this point of crisis. Shaquille Stewart is convincing as the unhinged Duck as he tries to reconcile the fact that some consider him a hero and others a villain.
Clare Shaffer's crisp and well-paced direction keep the play moving seamlessly and the lighting (E-hui Woo) and sound design (Drew Moberley) add depth and intrigue to the show.
Playwright Tom Block, a visual artist who uses his own paintings to adorn the intimate black-box spaces where his shows take place, has written over 50 theatrical works. He is also the producer of the New York International Human Rights Art Festival. (In an interesting side note, Block is currently involved in a much-publicized dispute with Cardinal Timothy Dolan over the inclusion of two plays with gay and transgender themes in this year's festival.)
Duck (Shaquille Stewart) in therapy with the Army Psychologist (Amanda Spellman). Photo by Nerissa Hart.
Duck raises interesting questions of universal relatability: We may think we are prepared to follow orders, but are we able to live with the consequences of those decisions?
Running Time: One hour with no intermission.
Duck plays through October 29th at Highwood Theatre – 914 Silver Spring Avenue, in Silver Spring, MD. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or online.
Playwright: Tom Block
Director: Clare Shaffer
Assistant Director: Nerissa Hart
Lighting Designer: E-Hui Woo
Sound Designer: Drew Moberley
Stage Manager: Rebecca Talisman
Duck: Shaquille Stewart
Crumb: James Nelson
Abbie/Dr. Susan Friedman (Duck's Mother)/Tess: Jasmine Jones
Frates/Priest/Dr. Marvin Friedman (Duck's Father): Craig Houk
Dr. Weigert/Dutch Doctor of Euthanasia/Commanding Officer: Amanda Spellman
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A reformed child actor, Nicole got her B.A. in English Literature before wandering the globe for a decade, writing and teaching English in Prague, San Francisco, Buenos Aires, and Paris. She eventually landed in NYC where she received a Master's Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and dabbled in theater as an actor, script reader and dramaturg. Thrilled by the strong and diverse theater community she discovered in DC, Nicole wakes up every morning excited to contribute to DC Metro Theater Arts. Nicole is currently working on a master's degree in journalism at Georgetown University. Email: nicole@dcmetrotheaterarts.com, Instagram: @nicolehertvik, Twitter: @nicolehertvik, Facebook: Nicole Hertvik.


The office building
Location: Oulu, Finland
Program: Offices
Client: Hongisto Oy
Area: 5600 m2
The present project is a wooden construction system – applications of a system is a design-based project, the aim of which is to create detailed sketches of buildings making use of modularity and of a wooden construction system. In the fall of 2015, a mechanical contractor called Hongisto Oy
based in Oulu organized an architecture competition under the theme "The Best Office Building in the World" in collaboration with the Oulu School of Architecture and the City of Oulu.
The purpose of the competition was to find a new, innovative, ecological and a flexible typology for a wooden office building that was to be constructed on a plot in Toppila in Oulu owned by Hongisto Oy, and to invent a wooden construction system that would enable the
materialization of different building projects ranging from small-scale pavilion constructions to larger-scale building complexes.
The aim was also to further develop the winning proposal into a holistic and commercial export product. This project is based on the further development of the winning proposal "KUDOS" – and on the design, the aim of which is to finally result in a concrete realization of the building as well as the commercialization of the wooden construction system supporting the building concept. The inspiration behind the idea of the competition, entry was the shape of a regular hexagon – a honeycomb shape – and its use as a spatial as well as a structural concept. The aim of the development has been to further research and crystallize the core idea of the competition entry, as well as to further, analyze and detail the structure of the building to enable its future materialization. As the development process has opened up new points of view together with new challenges, we have striven to look at those with the help of the frame set by the original idea. The aim has thus been to preserve as well as to develop the original architectural idea.
© KOAN Architecture Ltd. 2022


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