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Carl Gustaf Carlfeldt papers, 1917-1950
Size: 2.5 linear feet, 2 boxes (1 oversized)
Acquisition: Transferred from the LCA archives
Access: The collection is open for research
Control Num.: SSIRC MSS P:47
Biographical Sketch
Carl Gustav Carlfeldt was born on April 27, 1893 in Hällefors, Sweden. He came to the United States at the age of 10. Carlfeldt graduated from Augustana College in 1922 and from the Seminary in 1925. He was ordained on June 14, 1925 and served the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Detroit, Michigan between 1925-1928 and the Bethesda Lutheran Church in Chicago between 1928-1938. Carlfeldt received his MA and Ph.D. from University of Chicago in 1931 and 1934. In 1938, he joined the faculty of the Augustana Seminary where he remained until 1954. He also served the board of Swedish Pioneer Centennial Association in 1948. Carlfeldt married Helen Gunnerson on May 20, 1922 in Moline, Illinois.
Content Note
The material includes correspondence brochures, and pamphlets relating to the Swedish Pioneer Centennial in 1948, the Middle West Tercentenary Festival in Paxton, and the Delaware Tercentenary.
Folder inventory
1. Swedish Pioneer Centennial Celebration 1946-1948 - Correspondence, brochures, printed matters
2. Swedish Pioneer Historical Society, Constitution and By-Laws Adopted December 8, 1950
3. Correspondence dealing with the Augustana Chapter of the American Scandinavian Foundation 1944-1945
4. Program material and leaflets. Delaware Tercentenary, 1938 and Swedish Pioneer Centennial 1948
5. Delaware Tercentennial and Swedish Pioneer Centennial - Clippings and fragments 1938-1950
6. Various printed matter re: Swedish Mentality 1941-1945
7. Printed Booklets: Gustav V in Memoriam 1950
8. Articles re: Swedish Pioneer Centennial
9. Swedish Pioneer Centennial Association - Printed report 1948, minutes from executive and Chicago committees 1947-1950


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Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity
"A Semple Mistake" first appeared in the October 2008 issue of Touchstone.
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A Semple Mistake
S. M. Hutchens on Misplaced Adoration & the Cult of Personality
In last January's Touchstone I wrote a positive review of Matthew Avery Sutton's prizewinning Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America. This book, written by a cultural historian, impressed me (and many other reviewers) as fair and nicely rounded, doing a particularly good job of drawing the evangelist and founder of the Foursquare Churches in the context of her place and times, and giving a critical but sympathetic view of Sister Aimee herself.
Sexual Contexts
The book came up once again for discussion when another review, this one published in Books and Culture by a professor at Azusa Pacific University, herself a licensed minister of the Foursquare Church, because of a rather remarkable statement it contained. This reviewer praises Sutton for his contextualization of McPherson's "sexuality both within the genteel evangelical circles of the day and the very different culture of the Hollywood beauty machine."
Now this is a corker. If Azusa Pacific University is, as its presentments state, an Evangelical school where people "seek to develop a creative Christian lifestyle whose purpose flows from a commitment to God through Jesus Christ," it would appear this earnest professorial lady would place a heavy accent on the developmental and creative aspects of Christian lifestyle.
Or perhaps this is just the way, given the university's stated belief that "a person who engages in sexual unions outside the bond of marriage sins against his or her own body, which is the temple of the Holy Spirit," that perfectly chaste Evangelicals talk in California, and is wholly consonant, in a way readily explainable by the school's administration, with one of its teachers' jeremiad on "the mantle of purity that is the burden of all Pentecostal women" rather than simply the vesture of every Christian.
But I wouldn't send one of my daughters there, since long experience has taught me that how a school in the phase of existence where it still identifies itself as "Christian" advertises itself to potential donors and students, and what its teachers actually believe and teach, are, with distressing regularity, very different things.
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What does emerge quite clearly from this book is a credible portrait of a personality type: the driven enthusiast who finds an outlet for her carbonations in religion, but is plagued with habits and desires that militate against the achievement of anything approaching sainthood—the very sort of thing apostolic instructions about the selection of presbyters is meant to minimize. Here, instead of the rather unspectacular males envisaged by the Epistles, is a young woman not rising within the church, but creating her own, and then living in it as its queen.
Her numerous drones recognized the problem quite clearly, and spent large amounts of time and effort dealing with her need for male attention and other consolations. In the process they also built a denomination that was soon, and remains to this day, despite its egalitarian constitution, led almost exclusively by men—a denomination whose foundress has to be explained and made the best of by its leadership.
There is, to be sure, a peculiarly feminine enthusiasm in McPherson and similar female cult leaders, but the complex of histrionic personality (I use the term broadly here, not as it is more precisely defined by psycho-therapists) and those attracted by it, while often highly sexed, does not appear to be sex-specific. Men and women can equally become the subjects and objects of misplaced adoration.
The problem is universal and pervasive. It was, for example, expressed in many of the priests Leon Podles wrote about in Sacrilege, and something at least on the borders of it appears to be necessary for the "successful" Protestant minister. During the history of the Church a number of counter-measures, particularly those involved in the necessity of being responsible for accreditation—even in Congregationalism—to the exterior authority of bishop or synodical body, have functioned against religious celebrity and the personalities that crave it.
In the end, the book may be considered, as the excessively interesting Books and Culture reviewer also noted, a monitory treatise on the cult of personality in its religious expression. Anyone who grasps its principal lesson should be, I would think, doing what he can to keep the lowest seat at the Table, prizing obscurity in this world as a gift from God, and regarding death as the only really happy summons to "come up higher."
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Older psychology approaches which tried to get by without taking the reality of energy and the human energy body into consideration had an impossible task in trying to understand what metaphors are, where they come from, how they work and what they do. In Energy Psychology, we have a completely different approach to the definition of metaphor and how and why metaphor work can be conducted in a structural, positive manner.
by Silvia Hartmann
Older psychology approaches which tried to get by without taking the reality of energy and the human energy body into consideration had an impossible task in trying to understand what metaphors are, where they come from, how they work and what they do. In Energy Psychology, we have a completely different approach to the definition of metaphor and how and why metaphor work can be conducted in a structural, positive manner.
In modern energy psychology, we no longer talk about the unconscious or subconscious mind, but instead take the tack that this other part of human consciousness is indeed the energy mind - the head of the human energy body, to put it simply.
The energy mind deals with data streams of energy which carry information. These data streams of energy are translated into living metaphors; internal representations or rather experiences that use all six senses to represent an autogenic reality.
In most human beings today, this internal autogenic reality representation is not fully accessed and only partially complete; this leads to seeing images, hearing voices and having feelings apparently separately.
Yet these separate autogenic experiences are only what is consciously noticed and in fact the tip of an iceberg that in full, is a fully six sensory, full modality lucid experience, like a lucid dream.
Linguistically expressed metaphors are a third level abstraction; they are a description of an intrapersonal experience, which in turn is a translation of the original data stream of energy into the living metaphors of the autogenic intrapersonal representations.
From this simple observation flows likewise simple and straightforward approaches to dealing with metaphors and linguistic metaphor work in therapy and in life.
1. Metaphors are to be taken at face value and must not be argued with.
Rather than to get hung up about any type of linguistic format of metaphorical representations or expressions, we deal with that metaphor which is presented. We do not try to change it, to translate it, to explain it or to psycho-analyse it - instead, we play it straight.
2. Metaphors are not to be taken in isolation.
Any linguistic metaphor is a representative of a much larger metaphorical universe from which the excerpt we are being given originates. Without at least having some sense of the environment, the context of that metaphor world from which the metaphor, simile or symbol originates, the metaphor doesn't make sense, can't make sense.
3. Metaphors need to be evolved.
Instead of trying to undo or replace any metaphor, we evolve the metaphor to bring about first of all, movement into systems that may have been stuck for a very long time.
4. Metaphors can only be evolved from within the metaphor.
Any linguistic occurrence of a metaphor, or any other occurrence such as a visual representation or a symbol, cannot be evolved in any other way than to step inside the metaphorical world from which it originates, and to evolve the metaphor from within.
5. The evolution of metaphors leads to threshold shifts.
Any metaphor that presents itself strongly in consciousness - through linguistic markers, or directly through visions, hallucinations, dreams and ideas - requires an evolution towards a threshold shift. The threshold shift represents a different state which likewise, reflects back in the metaphor and the linguistic and other devices designed to describe it.
Working with metaphor allows the practitioner of energy psychology to directly affect the systems of the energy body. These may be extremely complex and well beyond the ability of the conscious mind to understand them; but through the interface of the living metaphors, the autogenic reality representations a person makes, we can easily evolve metaphors and achieve threshold shifts, events of healing and change that evolve the energy system. In so doing, these threshold shifts bring about enlightening cognition and a change in emotions and behaviour as a result.
It is also interesting to note that when metaphors are dealt with in this simple and structural way, no particular specialist knowledge is required. Simple common sense based on normal human experiences with the real world generally suffices to be able to spot obvious problems with a living metaphor, and to have some ideas on how to evolve the story towards a threshold shift.
Finally, the intention and act of consciously attempting to evolve any presenting metaphor is in and of itself the success of the treatment; we sum this up by saying, "You don't have to solve it, only evolve it." As long as the metaphor evolves and keeps on evolving, it is inevitable that a threshold shift will be reached eventually.
Silvia Hartmann
March 2011
For further information about autogenic metaphor work and the data stream please see Project Sanctuary by Silvia Hartmann
Short Free Introduction Course to Metaphor Online: https://silviahartmann.com/metaphor-article-metaphor-course.php
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Here, on the pages of the Black Youth Project, us bloggers engage in a tradition of writing opinion pieces that may interest other Black youth. Often we comment on popular culture, racism (naturally), and politics; and most of the time we criticize heavilly, at least I do. Something feels incomplete, though, about the meditations I place in front of you all. Even though comments creep into my inbox and I can see readers show love on Facebook, the impact I hope for never actualises. This is a space that usually ends with the writer and the reader expressing their point of view, and as a result, ideas may change. Mind changes are not insignificant, but they relate to an outside world that still maintains the problems that upset the individual in the first place. The resolution of the outside world, that of that of the government "righting their wrongs," others stoping their profiling, etc., is what every voice that speaks (whether verbally or in writing) desires.
6-Year Old Author Fights Stigma Of Child Obesity
6-Year Old Author Fights Stigma Of Child Obesity
NPR | March 15, 2011
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LaNiyah Bailey, 6, follows a healthy diet and exercises regularly. Yet, due to a health condition, she struggles with being overweight. After being constantly teased by children and adults about her size, Bailey decided to write about her experience. Her new book, Not Fat Because I Wanna Be, aims to help kids understand that bullying others because of their weight is wrong. Host Michel Martin speaks with LaNiyah Bailey about her book and her life. They are joined by her mother LaToya White and father Sango Bailey.
The Dark Continent: The Island and Robben
I got the opportunity to visit Robben Island. This is the location that Nelson Mandela was jailed at for 27 years of his life. It still amazes me the sacrifices given by activists in the name of freedom and equality. I am only 20 years old, meaning he was in jail for a longer amount of time than I have been alive. It is a troubling thought, but also an encouraging one. It is encouraging because finally we find a true story with a happy ending. (well…kind of). Finally we find a moment in history where war did not rule over peace, we find a moment where the oppressors realized they could no longer sustain their oppression. And we find a moment in history when a political prisoner turns into a Nobel prize winning president, a man that left Robben Island willing to forgive the people who initially jailed him. We can find the reality and hardship of the jail inside the world of theater.
Racial disparity grows for graduation rates (Study)
Racial disparity grows for graduation rates (Study)
Associated Press (via CBS Sports) | March 14, 2011
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) – A study released Monday shows growing disparity between graduation rates for white and black players at schools in the men's NCAA basketball tournament.
An annual report by the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport found a 2 percent overall graduation rate increase to 66 percent for Division I players, but showed the rates for white players is increasing at a higher rate.
The gap has grown from 22 percent in 2009 to a current level of 32 percent. White players show a 91 percent graduation rate, which is up 7 percent. Black players have a graduation rate at 59 percent, up 3 percent from last year's study. This is the third straight year the gap has increased.
Richard Lapchick, the institute director and primary author of the study, said the gap makes it hard to celebrate the overall progress.
"To say that it's troubling is an understatement," Lapchick said. "It is a staggering gap, but I think you've seen an increased percentage among African-American athletes over the years because of the (Academic Progress Rate) thresholds. Losing scholarships is a big lever there. But I think now you have to raise the expectation level of the rates."
Information was collected by the NCAA from member institutions for the study. The institute reviewed the six-year graduation rates of each school's freshman class that enrolled in 2003-04, then calculated a four-class average. Princeton was not included in the overall graduation rate figure because it, like other Ivy League schools, doesn't report graduation rates. (Read more)
Gay Is the New Black: limitations of identity politics
By Justin Hill
In 2008, when I first read "Gay is the New Black" on the cover of the Advocate, I CRINGED at its implications. Even as I write, "Gay is the New Black," it is unsettling because it elides, obfuscates and erases many tensions and concerns. You may be asking, "Why speak about it now, three years after the article was published?" The answer is simple—I feel the need to talk about my concerns and fears on the matter because of the Obama Administration's legal/political move to position/add gay people as a protected class of citizens.
This is What Democracy Looks Like!?
League of Young Voters | March 14, 2011
Members of the League of Young Voters traveled to Wisconsin's capitol to see how they can get more African Americans involved in the protests.
March 7, 2011 – March 13, 2011
Skills fund to prioritise Black and Coloured youths
Chantall Presence, Eye Witness News, March 13, 2011
4th Annual African American Men Read – In 'Brothers Mentoring Youth Through Reading'
J. Williams, The Westside Gazette, March 13, 2011
Teacher encourages students to discover themselves
Kevin Tremain, The State-Journal Register, March 12, 2011
Why black Africans are paying the price for the real or perceived use of mercenaries in Libya
Colin Freeze, The Globe and Mail, March 12, 2011
Local doctors use education to wage war on HIV/AIDS among Black Youth
Charles Moseley, The Westside Gazette, March 11, 2011
Principal Blames Black Students For School's Poor Scores
News One, March 11, 2011
Multicultural students at top of list for Black Cultural Center
Alli Kolick, Iowa State Daily, March 10, 2011
Juvenile Justice Week Raises Awareness About Plight of Incarcerated Youth
Alex Garcia, The Sun New, March 10, 2011
Parents of minority students criticize culture at top high school
Patrick Wall, Gotham Schools Report, March 9, 2011
Grand Rapids schools hit with sanctions for suspending blacks, students with disabilities at higher rates
Monica Scott, The Grand Rapids Press, March 9, 2011
Clubs seek to engage students
Jermaine Harrison, Accent Advocate, March 8, 2011
Program to encourage minority students to study abroad
Brett Anderson, TCU Daily, March 8, 2011
An artist inspires creativity in youth
Erica Newport, Herald-Tribune, March 8, 2011
Project reaches out to St. Paul's young black men
Chao Xiong, Star Tribune, March 8, 2011
Hurricanes relying on youth movement
Javier Serna, McClatchy Newspapers, March 8, 2011
Togetherness Supreme: Kenyan Youth, Hipness and Hope on Screen
Ruth Starkman, Huffington Post, March 7, 2011
Paddling smacks of violence, not education
Star-Telegram, March 7, 2011
Vocational courses: Is it because I is black?
Michael Mumisa, The Independent, March 7, 2011
Finding Fairness for Rural Students
Education Week, March 7, 2011
Students were ready and willing to debate
Melissa Tait, The Record, March 7, 2011
African-American Youth Achievement Awards Recognize Evanston/Skokie Students
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Reinserting queer names into black history
Andrea Houston, Xtra News, March 7, 2011
Study Finds That Blacks With Strong Racial Identity Are Happier
Study Finds That Blacks With Strong Racial Identity Are Happier
Atlanta Post | March 2011
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Black people who identify more strongly with their racial identity are generally happier, according to a study led by psychology researchers at Michigan State University. The study, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, appears in the current issue of Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, a research journal published by the American Psychological Association.
"This is the first empirical study we know of that shows a relationship between racial identity and happiness," said Stevie C.Y. Yap, doctoral candidate in psychology at MSU and lead researcher on the project. Previous research has found a relationship between racial identity and favorable outcomes such as self-esteem, Yap said, but none has made the link with happiness.
For the study, the researchers surveyed black adults in Michigan. The results suggest the more the participants identified with being black – or the more being black was an important part of who they are – the more happy they were with life as a whole, Yap said.
The study also explored the reasons behind the connection. Yap said it may be fueled by a sense of belongingness – that is, blacks with a strong sense of racial identity may feel more connected to their racial group, which in turn makes them happy. (Read more)
March Madness: The Fab Five
Last night I caught ESPN's 30 for 30 installment, The Fab Five. The documentary chronicles the two years the University of Michigan men's basketball team captured the imagination–and ire–of the sports watching public. I was a young kid when Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson, and Chris Webber revolutionized college basketball and rocked my basketball-loving world, even more so than the Larry Johnson-led UNLV Runnin' Rebels who came a few years before them. Growing up in basketball obessed Indiana, loyalities were given to either the Purdue Boilermakers or the Indiana Hoosiers. I had always been rather uninspired by the rivalry, couldn't care less about Gene Keady or Bob Knight. But the Fab Five? I wanted to be their little tomboyish sister or something. I wanted the baggy shorts, the black socks, the black sneakers–that I had to convince my dad to buy me, because according to him, "girls don't wear black gym shoes."–and maybe even the bald head. The Fab Five documentary took me back to those inevitably heartbreaking two years when Jalen Rose was my favorite Fab Fiver and the Duke Blue Devils were exactly that–devils. Although the film primarily spoke to the part of me that never got over the Wolverines losing in the NCAA tournament, what also coalesced in the film was perhaps a incredibly pivotal moment in black cultural when desire for respect and the pursuit for respectability were abandoned, inevitably resulting into a hyper-commodified and commericialized black culture that has now reached an extremely nihilistic moment.


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If you learn nothing else from the poorly written and shoddily conceptualised ABC doco series Love is in the Air, understand this: when it comes to pop music, Australian artists tend to be two to three years behind the rest of the world and imitation, rather than innovation, is the go.
This quite naturally brings us to Kylie Minogue, whose career has never had an original thought. Not that there's anything wrong with that. After all, it's a career that's had some fabulous pop high points, both early (Shocked, Better the Devil You Know, Step Back in Time) and in her second coming (Limbo, Spinning Around, Can't Get You Out of My Head and Come into My World).
Body Language has picked up the electroclash trend of 2001: the return of '80s synthesised rhythms and sounds with more than a hint of the short-lived vogue scene. So you can hear traces of the Prince copies that once flooded the radio, Madonna (of course), Janet Jackson and a bevy of anonymous Detroit/Italian/Belgian DJs.
But except for Sweet Music, what Minogue has forgotten to order from the long list of songwriters she's employed this time is what brought her back to the charts. That is, supremely hooky pop songs. It's as if Minogue has ignored the lesson of the (actually rather good) Impossible Princess album that nearly killed her career: her audience doesn't want arty-farty pretense, it wants straightforward fun. They will find little of it here.
Holly Valance, of course, is even more amusing in that she's not only copying the arch copyist Minogue (you could even exchange the sleeve photos and many people wouldn't notice) but on and off stage she veers towards the comic/tragic Minogue, Dannii. State of Mind is Minogue somewhere between Light Years and Fever with laughably shallow attempts at synth disco-pop done with breathy vocals and a Giorgio Moroder guidebook. It's dumb-as but does have three or four more hooks than Body Language.
Unlike Minogue though, Valance doesn't have the accumulated personality that 15 years of celebrity confers and enforced listening to State of Mind reminds me of that B-grade '80s band, Berlin. You don't remember them? Exactly.
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About the Book
Le Belle Ballerine
The Beautiful Ballerinas is about Anna who finds herself dancing centre stage in her first ever ballet.
Anna experiences all the excitement of a successful performance with the elegance and grace ballerinas are renowned for... she is the star and Principal of
Le Belle Ballerine.
It has also been produced in Large Format – Image Wrap Hardcover book, which will enable children to fully enjoy and be immersed in Anna's Performance and to appreciate the
beautiful illustrations that accompany it.
Featuring all 8 Prints of the Watercolour Artwork of the Series called Le Belle Ballerine painted by Patricia La Rossa - Perugina
The 18 x 18 cm Story Book shown here available in Softcover, Hardcover with Dust Jacket and Hardcover ImageWrap also include small pictures of the Watercolour Artwork of the Series called Le Belle Ballerine by Patricia La Rossa - Perugina
It would make a perfect Gift and Keepsake for the little girl who loves everything Ballet and dreams of becoming a Ballet Dancer and perhaps even a Prima Ballerina.
Features & Details
- Category Children
Small Square, 7×7 in, 18×18 cm
22 Pages
- Publish Date May 29, 2008
- Tags Children's Story Book, Ballerina Pictures, Ballet Dancer, Ballerina, Watercolour, Pink, Ballet
About the Creator
Patricia, known as Perugina, is mainly self taught and has had a love of drawing and painting all her life. Based in Sydney and working from her studio at home, Perugina spends her time exploring different mediums, techniques and styles producing works in Graphite, Oils, Acrylics and Watercolour that depict her love of Flowers, Cats, Still Life and Female Figure forms. She has finished working on her current watercolour series Le Belle Ballerine A series that has been incorporated into a Children's Story & Picture Book and Birthday Book. You can visit more of her works at PERUGINA ART http://peruginaart.blogspot.com/ Drop in and leave your thoughts.
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Blagoveshensk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 15, 2013
Russia will develop new technology including huge new rockets for manned flights to the Moon and Mars by 2030, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.
Rogozin, who oversees the space and military industries, said on Friday Russia is going to design a carrier rocket with a payload of 130 to 180 tons as well as powerful interplanetary vehicles.
The new technologies will lay the ground for manned flights to the Mars, Rogozin said.
Rogozin made his remarks while opening a meeting on the space industry in Russia's Far East on Friday, as Russia marks the anniversary of Yury Gagarin's first manned space flight on April 12, 1961.
Russia plans to start test of a new-generation spacecraft in the next two decades which could potentially be used for manned flights to the Moon, Rogozin said.
The Russian space industry is also set to develop a robot system for Moon exploration, as well as construct a permanent research base and a takeoff and landing pad there, he said.
The Soviet Union was developing a large rocket called the N-1 in the late 1960's for a lunar landing, but the project was abandoned after the United States won the race to land on the moon in 1969.
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1986 Statue of Liberty Half
Dollar - Clad
An Anniversary Commemorated - GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR,/ YOUR HUDDLED MASSES / YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE
The 100th anniversary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty in New York City harbor in 1886 furnished the occasion for the issuance of commemorative coins in 1986. Officially known as Liberty Enlightening the World, the statue was the work of French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and had been presented to the United States by the government of France. Since that time it has been America's most visible symbol of freedom.
Conceived by Bartholdi in 1865, the statue was planned to be ready for the 1776-1876 centennial anniversary of United States independence. Only a small part of the work had been completed by then, and Bartholdi exhibited only the hand and torch of Miss Liberty at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. This element of the statue stayed in America drawing visitors until its return to France four years later. In 1884 the statue was completed in Paris, after which it was dismantled and shipped to the United States in 214 numbered crates. Erection work commenced on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor and was completed on October 28, 1886, when the Statue of Liberty was dedicated by President Grover Cleveland. In 1924 it was designated as a national monument. By the early 1980s it was realized that the statue was in serious need of restoration. Beginning in 1982 plans were made to do the necessary work and to restore the vacant buildings on nearby Ellis Island, which had been used to process the immigration of millions of Europeans and others who sailed past Lady Liberty.
The 1986 Statue of Liberty silver dollars, also known as Ellis Island silver dollars, were made possible by legislation enacted into law on July 9, 1985, which provided for the coinage of up to 10 million silver coins of the dollar denomination, to assist in fundraising for restoration of the Statue of Liberty and the structures on Ellis Island. President Ronald Reagan appointed Lee A. Iacocca, chairman of the board of the Chrysler Corporation, to head the project.
The design of John Mercanti, engraver at the Philadelphia Mint, was chosen for the silver dollar. Matthew Peloso, also of the Engraving Department, worked on certain lettering on the reverse utilizing Mercanti's concept.
The obverse depicted the Statue of Liberty in the foreground, with the main building at Ellis Island in the distance to the left, with the inscription ELLIS / ISLAND / GATEWAY TO / AMERICA above. The reverse illustrated a hand holding a torch, taken from the Statue of Liberty, and an excerpt in four lines from Emma Lazarus' poem, The New Colossus:
GIVE ME YOUR TIRED, YOUR POOR,/ YOUR HUDDLED MASSES / YEARNING TO BREATHE FREE. Mercanti's original design included a family behind Liberty, and a ship, but it became too crowded. He removed the family, leaving the Statue and Ellis Island.
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I have been living as a missionary with Cru in Tokyo for the last year and a half.
But as of right now, I am safely in Kyoto with the rest of my ministry team.
This decision to move was made after concerns began to arise over the recent events regarding the nuclear power plants. Kyoto is over 600 miles away from Fukushima and we are a safe distance from the radiation.
As you already know, on March 11, a massive earthquake hit Japan in the Tohoku region. The current death count is around 8,450 and the number continues to rise as bodies wash up on the shore.
Officially, there are 12,931 people still reported missing. Hundreds of thousands of people are left homeless in the wake of the earthquake and resulting tsunamis.
Just last week we ended our yearly student conference with Cru. Although I was reluctant of how many students would come to the city of Tokyo, I was amazed and humbled to see about 100 students come from all over Japan, even one coming from Sendai.
Since some of the seminars (and even one of the main events) were cancelled, I had ample opportunity to talk with many students and friends. My heart broke as I heard of family members being in Sendai, homes being completely destroyed, and lives that will never be the same as a result of the earthquake and subsequent tsunamis.
Soon after, I heard about the situation in Fukushima and the problems regarding radiation. Things just seemed to be getting worse and worse and there was rumor being put around that I might have to evacuate out of the country.
When some of my friends in Japan asked me what I would be doing, it was so difficult to tell them that I might be leaving Tokyo and perhaps Japan. Soon after, we were directed to leave for Kyoto from our leaders.
My heart broke as I heard this decision, because if I were given a choice, I would have wholeheartedly decided to stay with the students and friends that I have met in Tokyo. I was seriously considering ways of how I could remain in Tokyo and perhaps make my way to Sendai.
I consider my friends in Japan like my family. I have shared so many occasions of laughter and joy that they have made my last year and a half in Japan seem like a minute.
I wanted to be right at their side with them during, probably, their most difficult trial of their life (and now that I'm 600 miles away from them, I can still recall one of the students saying "No, don't go Mike! Don't go!").
But as I began to plan what I was to do, I realized I couldn't act so rashly on emotions.
I needed to just stop and pray.
Although I so desperately wanted to stay in Tokyo, I also knew that this would take a toll on my parent's mental health (they were urging me to come back to the U.S. or at least to Hong Kong).
I finally came to a conclusion that I probably should've reached much sooner: there is absolutely nothing I could do to mess up God's plan.
I heard a whisper in my heart to have faith, faith that the God who made the country of Japan shake is the same God who sent His son to die for Japan.
I'm reminded of a quote Mother Teresa once said: "God hasn't called me to be successful; He has called me to be faithful."
I originally thought that going to Kyoto was an act of fear, escaping from the danger of the radiation and earthquake, and by staying in Tokyo I would be "proving" my faith. But a Christian brother I just met quickly reminded me that I have nothing to do to "prove" my faith.
Becoming a martyr doesn't give you a badge of faith; unnecessary suffering is just masochism rather than faithfulness. God knew how desperately I wanted to stay behind, but I also know that God wanted me to trust in Him.
Plus, if my leaving for Kyoto was an act of fear, I knew that God would just send a whale to swallow me up and spit me back in Tokyo (it'll at least be cheaper than taking the bullet train and probably more comfortable than taking the night bus. I'm secretly praying for this to happen).
So I took a deep breath, and began to pack.
I understand that not everyone who is reading this letter shares the same faith in God as I do, but that's ok. What I do want to do is ask is this: what do you have faith and hope in?
Because we just saw an earthquake and tsunami completely destroy in an instant what a person may have worked their entire life for.
For the last 4 months I've volunteered at a weekly food distribution to the homeless community in Tokyo. One of them was a manager in a prestigious Japanese investment firm who made one mistake that landed him homeless.
We are heading into the Sakura (cherry blossom) season. For a couple weeks these leaves will bloom, and when they all do finally bloom it will be beautiful. Yet it only lasts like this for 3 days until they all slowly begin to fall down, a symbol of the ephemeral nature of life.
One of the parables that Jesus taught is of 2 men who built castles, one on stone and the other on sand. In an instant, the castle that was built on sand, what was once a symbol of pride, was wiped away from rain and wind.
For me, I have a foundation built on God, in hope, and in love (all things that, in my vocabulary, are synonymous.). This foundation of mine is rooted in things that nothing on this earth could ever take away from me, neither natural disaster nor small little mistake I am so prone to making.
And when my life is over, it will be far from the end, rather the beginning of eternity. I will be face to face with God in an eternal party (and there will be dancing) where I long to hear the words "Well done, good and faithful servant."
My friends and I have already signed up and taken the steps to head straight to the Tohoku area to help with relief efforts. While there are people heading the opposite direction, we're going straight towards the exact places they are fleeing from.
Everyday I read different reports of the varying dangers that might be involved, whether it is radiation or strong aftershocks.
Some people take this as crazy, but do you know what I think is even crazier? To look at the photos and videos of all the destruction, to look into the eyes of the tens of thousands of people whose lives will never be the same, and do nothing about it.
When I applied to come to Japan with Cru in 2009, God knew that this earthquake would happen. And so here I am.
Many, many, people are wondering why this has happened; how can anyone even say that there can be a God amidst all this suffering? I can't really give an answer to that as there is probably a different answer to everyone, but to just trust and know that God knows what He's doing.
And as His hands and feet, I am to do something about it.
This all sounds well and good written on a computer screen, but I know that it'll be a million times harder to actually go through with it. So please pray for God's continued wisdom and faith, faith that remembers there is absolutely nothing I can do to mess up God's plan.
Please continue to pray for Japan, that amidst all the suffering, they will remain hopeful.
And finally please pray for my team and myself that as we go out, we will be filled with an infectious attitude of love, hope and grace.


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Profiles in a DU Pioneer Education
Josef Korbel School of International Studies
Q&A with Dean CHristopher R. Hill, JOsef Korbel School of International Studies, part one
Q: Give us a brief overview of your school-a general snapshot of the education you provide to students.
A: The Josef Korbel School is a professional school that combines training with education. Training is needed to equip students with the skills required in today's job markets, and education will kick in over the lifespan of their careers. The training element teaches students how to reach the bottom rung of the career ladder, and their education will help them climb up those rungs.
Right now the School is very much a professional master's program, with some PhDs and a growing number of undergraduates. I would like to see a greater number of those undergraduate students continuing on to a master's program here.
A: Name recognition is a priority. I personally try to be very visible and make sure the Korbel School name is visible. Whenever I do press interviews, I mention the Korbel School to make sure that news sources are aware of where we are. We have a good marketing effort within the school; it's something we're constantly working on.
International studies has evolved to include a great deal of current policy. The challenge is to make sure our students get exposed to policymakers, and we put a lot of effort into bringing guests here to speak on contemporary issues with our students.
Q: What distinguishes the Josef Korbel School from its competitors, the other schools in the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA)?
A: At the Korbel School we have a strong focus on human rights, including an MA in human rights and an international human rights law certificate that we offer together with the law school. We have a strong interdisciplinary program that enjoys synergism with other DU professional schools. We encourage our students to maintain their personal values while preparing for their careers.
Additionally we have strong overseas programs. For example, the Sié Chéou-Kang Center features the Korbel in Geneva program, where we offer students the opportunity to spend six months in Geneva, Switzerland, as part of an academic program with our sister institution, the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies. The Institute has a long-standing reputation of excellence and shares strong ties with the international and non-governmental organizations in Geneva as well as being home to a diverse and vibrant group of students and faculty from all over the world.
We also have an in-house career services office devoted to serving the students at the Korbel School and alumni, which, in addition to career coaching and development, manages the credit-based MA student internship program. Internships and hands-on experience are critical to an international studies education; most of our degree programs require an internship.
I personally call a lot of companies looking at our students as prospective employees and serve as a reference; it is a core part of my job. The success of the School is ultimately judged on the jobs of our alumni.
Q: Peace Corps recently recognized DU as the top volunteer-producing graduate school in the U.S., with 23 graduate students currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers. Tell us about your commitment to volunteerism.
A: We're very proud to be a strong Peace Corps program. I was a Peace Corps volunteer myself; I served in Cameroon, West Africa, where I supervised 28 village and plantation credit unions, auditing their books (what would now be called micro-finance).
The Peace Corps Master's International Program allows students to combine Peace Corps service with their graduate studies, and we offer the Paul D. Coverdell Fellows Program for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV), where we help take the experiences they've gained while in the Corps and mold them to serve the rest of their careers. Our active RPCV community ensures our returned volunteers will have opportunities to interact with each other, along with impacting the community.
By Katie Watt
Posted April 1, 2014
Q&A WITH DEAN CHRISTOPHER R. HILL, JOSEF KORBEL SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, PART Two
Q: The Josef Korbel School is home to a number of research centers; how does the work your students do in these centers embody DU's vision of being dedicated to the public good?
A: Our research centers are intended to serve a number of purposes. They maximize synergisms among professors; we don't want 35 professors doing 35 different research projects, and the centers aid in helping them work together. The centers also provide a considerable amount of student employment where they can also develop area and functional expertise.
For our PhD students, the centers are becoming an organizing principle. Their main purpose is to develop research and publication, and they give students an opportunity to work with like-minded professors.
Right now we don't have the space to further open our doors to visiting professors and other researches, but that will change enormously in the coming years.
Q: The Josef Korbel School recently received its largest single private gift, from Anna and John J. Sie. The gift will support the construction of a 43,000-gross-square-foot building, which will adjoin the existing Cherrington Hall and the Sié Chéou-Kang Center to form the Anna and John J. Sie International Relations Complex. What does this mean to the school?
A: The entire Josef Korbel School community is thrilled and humbled by the Sie family's ongoing commitment to our students and the future of the Korbel School.
We are building a structure for the next century. We need to connect with the rest of the world, and this new building will provide a meeting place where we can do that through technology.
We're looking to encourage collaboration with other top schools and guests, and to accomplish that the wires and antennas in this new facility will be as important as the brick and mortar. The new building will provide opportunities for our professors to give lectures here, while sharing them internationally in places such as Africa and the Middle East, and vice-versa.
Additionally we'll have the space to host events like never before. We'll be able to host dignitaries from around the globe, bringing world leaders right here to DU.
Q: What do you want people to know about the Josef Korbel School?
A: We are part of a broader campus with superb professional schools; we have a new generation of professors who embrace the DU campus as a whole and have reached out to find areas of cooperation as never before.
We embrace thinking outside the box, while also understanding why the box is there in the first place. We strive to be open-minded: as an international school we should be bringing former U.S. presidents, world leaders and diplomats to campus, and we are doing just that.
Our alumni span the globe in the realms of commerce, education, government, diplomacy, law, conflict resolution, military affairs, economic development, global health and humanitarian relief. We have a number of noteworthy alumni such as Condoleezza Rice, 66th U.S. Secretary of State; Javad Zarif, Iranian Foreign Minister; George W. Casey, Jr.,36th chief of staff of the United States Army; and Heraldo Muñoz, former assistant secretary-general and director of the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and now Foreign Minister of Chile.
By Katie Watt
Posted April 8, 2014


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Environmental Services
Marking a departure from the company's highly effective chartering strategy of the past 30 years, three self-owned newbuilds are being phased into Contship Containerlines' core Australasian trades during the 2002 second-half. The 4,115-teu Contship Aurora class is technically distinguished by its considerable scope for perishable cargo, in that 1,300 plugs have been incorporated for integral type refrigerated containers. The trio ordered from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering is replacing tonnage deployed on Contship's Eagle service between Europe, Australia and New Zealand, operated in partnership with P&O Nedlloyd's eastabout and Mediterranean strings, and will ultimately contribute to a new, weekly eastabout, round-the-world schedule. The dimensioning and engineering of the design for up to 1,300 reefer units equates to a potential, temperature-controlled cargo volume of around 2-million cu. ft., one of the biggest concentrations of reefer transport capacity at sea today. Underscoring Contship's long-term commitment to the business, the investment in the Contship Aurora, Contship Australis and Contship Borealis has been shaped not only by considerations of through-life economic performance and asset value, but also with due regard to rising expectations as to environmental protection. A circumspect approach to the ecological properties of the design is reflected in each ship's construction to the parameters set by Germanischer Lloyd for its new Environmental
Coast Guard Investigates Cause of Oil Spill
The Coast Guard and the U.S. Environmental Service are coordinating efforts to investigate and clean up an oil spill found 30 miles west of New Orleans on the Mississippi River at approximately mile marker 135 on Oct. 5, 2008. Coast Guard Sector received the report that nearly 630 gallons of number 6 fuel oil had discharged from the bulk freighter the, Jimilta II.The cause of the spill is under investigation.
MN100: Tidewater Transportation and Terminals
The Company: Nearly 85 years ago, Tidewater pioneered commercial transportation on the upper Columbia Snake River system and opened up one of the nation's most isolated regions to global markets. Today, Tidewater Holdings is comprised of Tidewater Barge Lines, Tidewater Terminal Company, and since 2014, Tidewater Environmental Services, Incorporated. Tidewater Terminal Company works in conjunction with its Barge Lines, using key intermodal connections to railroads, highways and pipelines
Crew Boat Delivered to MES
SeaArk Marine and Alan C. McClure Associates (ACMA) teamed to design, build and deliver a customized crew boat to Maryland Environmental Services (MES). The 48-ft. Dauntless Class all-welded aluminum crew boat is a deep-vee hull designed to transport officials and dignitaries to view the progress being made in reclaiming wetlands for the Poplar Island Project on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the Chesapeake Bay. ACMA's initial efforts were focused on defining the requirements and general
Jones Day Advises J.F. Lehman on Acquisitions
Jones Day has advised long-standing client J.F. Lehman & Company, a mid-market private equity firm focused on the defense, aerospace, and maritime sectors, in connection with the £32 million (approximately $50 million) acquisition and related financing of the UK, Spanish, German and Australian marine distress signals business of Chemring Marine, which designs and manufactures SOLAS and MED approved products including hand flares, linethrowers, smoke-signals
Antwerp Port led Consortium Formed
The ports of Antwerp, Mannheim, Rotterdam, Strasbourg and Zwitserland signed a cooperation agreement for the introduction of LNG in the European inland shipping sector. The cooperation includes studies, promotion, knowledge transfer, regulations and bunker infrastructure.The agreements are set up in the framework of the LNG Masterplan for Rhine-Main-Danube, a project in which all five ports are partners. The goal of the LNG Masterplan is to introduce LNG as a fuel for inland shipping
Houston Conducts Oil Spill Response Drill
Local, state and federal agencies are holding an oil spill response exercise at the Port of Houston, April 25-26. The exercise scenario simulates an explosion, fire onboard the ship Cape Trinity, and a 252,000 gallon oil spill in the turning basin of the Houston Ship Channel. The Cape Trinity is a Maritime Administration (MARAD) ship used for transporting military equipment and supplies overseas. The exercise, called Trinity 2006
NRC Aquires ENPRO Services
National Response Corporation ("NRC") announced today it has acquired ENPRO Services, Inc., adding to its national footprint and expanding its full line of environmental, emergency response, and industrial services. Since 1983, ENPRO has been providing essential environmental, emergency response, and industrial services to the energy, transportation, industrial, insurance, and municipal sectors. Employing over 250 personnel
Mass. Maritime Academy, $1.5m for Stadium
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The mission of the Instructional Technology Department of Johnson City Schools is to encourage and support transformative uses of technology that promote student learning through best teaching practices in accordance with the Tennessee State Standards.
Dr. David Timbs, Supervisor of Instructional Technology
Dr. Carleton Lyon, Instructional Technology Coach
Click here to access the JC Tech Coach website (resources for teachers)!
Technology Transformation in JCS:
JCS Digital Transformation Initiative
Digital Citizenship
Personalized Learning
STEM Integration
Digital and Cloud Resources in JCS:
Office 365 (Log-In Required)
Moving Your Files Into the Cloud (OneDrive)
Canvas LMS Resources:
Canvas (Log-In Required)
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Canvas User Resources
Canvas Community (Find Answers)
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- Johnson City Schools Student Quick Start Guide
Additional Tool Resources for Canvas:
- Creating and Using Rubrics in Canvas
- Using the CK-12 External Tool in Canvas
- Using NBC Learn Resources in Canvas
- Canvas and PowerTeacher Gradebook
- Using BrainPop in Canvas
- Using the SAS Curriculum Pathways External Tool
- Integrating Office 365 with Canvas
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Angie Stanton is the author of several books, including her latest, Snowed Over, which she writes about here. You can enter to win a copy of Snowed Over at the end of this guest post!
Since I was a teenager, I've always loved Christmas stories. There is something magical about that time of year. I guess it's the twinkling tree lights, crackling fires and romantic candlelight. Throw in wrapped packages, delicious food, everyone decked out in their finest and it's a perfect time of year.
For years I've read a couple of Christmas books each year, and now I finally have written one of my own, Snowed Over. When I tried to decide what to write for my Christmas book, the first thing that came to mind was being stranded in a remote cabin during a blizzard. I live in Wisconsin, and we usually have at least a couple huge snowfalls a year where schools are cancelled and much of the city shuts down.
When weather reports predict these big snows, I always go to the store and stock up on supplies to make hot chocolate, stew or chili, and chocolate chip cookies. Always. I hunker down with a good book, start a blaze in the fireplace and watch the snow fall. It's magic.
There's a whole lot of snow in Snowed Over. Readers have even commented on the feeling that they were transported into the blustery storm and needed hot chocolate. In Snowed Over, Katie and Alex are two college students riding north for the Christmas holiday. They've never met until that day. All Katie knows of Alex is that he is engaged to his high school sweetheart. What she doesn't know is that Alex is dreading going home and harbors a secret. Of course, the weather turns into a nightmare when light snow rages into a full-scale blizzard. Katie and Alex end up forced to work together to survive a dangerous situation. Much fun ensues.
Here's a teaser from Snowed Over:
Alex slowed to take the turn. "River Road hasn't been plowed." The truck fishtailed as he took the corner.
"Whoa, don't do that!" Katie gripped the dash.
"Sorry." Alex peered out at the deep, unmarred snow before them. Someone had driven by from the other direction not too long ago; he used their tire treads to help guide the way.
"So where's the river?" Katie peered into the darkness with nothing but snow flying all around.
"I don't know. I've never been this way before. It could be right next to us for all I know. I can barely see the road." He gripped the steering wheel and peered through the mesmerizing snow.
"At this rate, you're going to end up staying the night with me at camp dysfunctional. Ha!" she taunted, sounding more nervous as they neared her destination.
"You'd like that, wouldn't you? To make me suffer alongside you?" He might not mind staying at her place. The closer he got to home, the more he dreaded his task ahead.
"Anything to save me from facing Mom and Not the Boyfriend alone. I feel like I'm going to death row, not celebrating Christmas. How messed up is that?"
"Pretty messed up, but isn't that what the holidays are about? Forcing families to spend time together so they can be reminded how odd everyone is."
"Look out!" she yelled.
He snapped his head forward. A deer stood in the middle of the road, staring transfixed at the headlights. The truck careened forward.
"Shit!" He slammed on the brakes. Unable to get any traction, the truck slid, turning sideways. The four-wheel drive was useless in the deep snow.
Alex turned the steering wheel to keep the tires pointed forward. He laid on the horn. The deer bolted. He struggled to get the truck under control.
A second deer ran across their path. This one wasn't so lucky. Alex had no choice. The truck clipped the deer's hindquarter and sent them spinning.
The truck turned like a Tilt-a-Whirl, and with the heavy snow falling, he had no idea which direction was forward, or if they were about to hit a tree. "Hang on!"
The truck careened off the road, back end first, then turned sideways. He felt sure the truck would flip. He thrust out his arm to hold Katie in place. Each nanosecond passed in slow motion.
The truck bounced down a steep embankment, turning forward and finally sliding to a halt.
Then Katie screamed like he'd never heard anyone scream before.
The headlights revealed rushing water splashing at the front of the truck.
They were in the river.
Thanks for stopping by to share a little Christmas cheer. I wish you and your loved ones a safe and happy holiday. And if you like the sample of Snowed Over, I hope you scoop it up for your own secret pleasure this Christmas season.
~Angie Stanton
For more about Angie and her books, you may find her at:
Blog: angiestanton.wordpress.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AngieStantonAuthor
Angie Stanton Bio
She never planned on writing books, she wanted to be a Rockette. However, growing up in a rural setting with her brothers' 4-H pigs as pets, dance didn't work out. Instead she became an avid daydreamer. After years of perfecting stories in her head she began to write them down, and the rest is history.
Angie is excited to announce that she just signed a four-book contract with HarperCollins. They will be publishing her best sellers Rock and a Hard Place and Snapshot. Angie will be writing two additional books for them as well.
She loves dipping french fries in chocolate shakes, all natural disaster movies and Broadway Musicals. When not writing, Angie is concocting ways to make more dreams come true, whether it be tickets to a Broadway show or convincing her family they should rent an RV and travel the country. She's still working on that one.
Angie is a proud double finalist of the 2011 National Readers Choice Awards for Love 'em or Leave 'em, as well as a finalist for the Golden Quill Awards.


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Do you have items that you want to sell??? Come and join Single Mothers Outreach for our upcoming Garage Sale event. Reserve a space to sell your items while supporting SMO.
* There is a $25.00 fee for each space. ONLY 25 spaces are available. The money will be collected at the end of the sale.
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When & Where
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26640 Bouquet Canyon Road
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Saturday, June 1, 2013 from 7:30 AM to 12:00 PM (PDT)
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