W88-0817. World Alliance of Reformed Churches. Records, 1963-1981. 0.50 linear ft.

The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) has its early roots in the 16th-century Reformation, but was officially founded in 1970 with the merge of two separate religious bodies consisting of an alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed churches and the International Congregational Council. With over 75 million members in 214 church bodies across the globe, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches constitutes its dedication to spreading the word of God and inspiring the acts of the Holy Spirit within each and every individual with whom it comes into contact. The alliance is best known for the Belhar and Accra Confessions of 1982 and 2004, in which the group opposed any church doctrine that sanctioned the separation of peoples on account of color or race and acknowledged the Christian calling to advocate social and economic justice. In 2005, the WARC and the Reformed Ecumenical Council (REC) came together under one banner with the REC becoming a subgroup of the WARC. A year later, however, the name of the group was changed to the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), which is the current title of the organization that is continuously called to communion and committed to justice. The World Alliance of Reformed Churches collection consists of articles, thirteen issues of the Bulletin, numerous conference packets, correspondence, and meeting minutes; pictures of the RCA attendees at a General Assembly, reports, sermons, a publication of the Department of Theology of the World Presbyterian Alliance and the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and publications from the 1982-1983 apartheid trauma

Unpacking Multilingualism in Tourism Peripheries in Bali: Taking a Look into Private Shop-fronts

This article reports on the discussion of linguistic landscape in the course of tourism peripheries. The central aim is to unravel the salience and visibility of language practices manifested in the shop-fronts in Bali tourism peripherals. Drawing on Bourdieu’s language as social power (1983; 1993), presentation-of-self (Goffman, 1963; 1981), and good-reasons perspective (Boudon, 1990) we explore the language choices made by the local shop owners and the principles driving these choices. The findings conclude that English is the dominant language Bali tourism peripheries, and it is driven by the perceived power attributed to English and the economy benefits associated to English; the principle of presentation-of-self is not prioritized. We argue that local shop owners’ perception of targeted clients is the determining factor influencing it. Mandarin language need to be present more to cater the Chinese tourists for they constitute a big portion to the body of international tourists in Bali

Had Feminists Only Thought Of Food: Men\u27s and Women\u27s Relationship with Food, 1963-1981

This thesis explores whether the women\u27s movement changed how men and women interacted with food between 1963 and 1981. Through the examination of popular magazines Esquire and Mademoiselle , this thesis analyzes articles and advertisements to gauge where there was change. Men\u27s relationship with food did not change. Men continuously cooked only as a hobby, recreating dishes they ate at fine-dining restaurants promoting themselves as connoisseurs. On the other hand, women experienced positive and negative changes as well as stagnation. Sexual liberation allowed women to embrace the sexual connotations of food for the first time in over a century. Yet, women still remained subservient in the home as they kept their role as primary food preparer. Women also experienced an increased pressure on women to control their food consumption in order to be thin by the 1970s. During the first leg of the women\u27s movement, women were somewhat constricted by their relationship with food

Евсей Григорьевич Либерман

Либерман Евсей Григорьевич (1897—1981) - экономист, доктор экономических наук. Автор концепции экономической реформы 1965 года.В 1963 – 1981 рр. – профессор кафедры статистики и учёта Харьковского государственного университета им. Горького. В 1970 г. опубликовал книгу «Экономические методы повышения эффективности общественного производства» , которая переиздавалась во многих странах. В этой книге Евсей Либерман анализировал ход реформы и отстаивал её главные идеи. Евсей Григорьевич Либерман был «поклонником» идеи интеграции науки, преподавания и обучения. Внедрял этот принцип на протяжении всей своей деятельности

Worldwide malaria incidence and cancer mortality are inversely associated

BACKGROUND: Investigations on the effects of malaria infection on cancer mortality are limited except for the incidence of Burkitt’s lymphoma (BL) in African children. Our previous murine lung cancer model study demonstrated that malaria infection significantly inhibited tumor growth and prolonged the life span of tumor-bearing mice. This study aims to assess the possible associations between malaria incidence and human cancer mortality. METHODS: We compiled data on worldwide malaria incidence and age-standardized mortality related to 30 types of cancer in 56 countries for the period 1955–2008, and analyzed their longitudinal correlations by a generalized additive mixed model (GAMM), adjusted for a nonlinear year effect and potential confounders such as country’s income levels, life expectancies and geographical locations. RESULTS: Malaria incidence was negatively correlated with all-cause cancer mortality, yielding regression coefficients (log scale) of −0.020 (95%CI: −0.027,-0.014) for men (P < 0.001) and-0.020 (95%CI: −0.025,-0.014) for women (P < 0.001). Among the 29 individual types of cancer studied, malaria incidence was negatively correlated with colorectum and anus (men and women), colon (men and women), lung (men), stomach (men), and breast (women) cancer. CONCLUSIONS: Our analysis revealed a possible inverse association between malaria incidence and the mortalities of all-cause and some types of solid cancers, which is opposite to the known effect of malaria on the pathogenesis of Burkitt’s lymphoma. Activation of the whole immune system, inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by Plasmodium infection may partially explain why endemic malaria might reduce cancer mortality at the population level

Melanosuchus, M. niger

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Post-mortem rituals and party reform: Australian Labor debates, 1963-1981

After election defeats, parties usually engage in post-mortem rituals. These can take a wide variety of forms. Committees of inquiry may be established. 'Rankand- file' members may be given opportunities to have their say about 'what went wrong'. Parliamentary leaders may attempt to convince voters that the party has mended its ways. Within the party, matters of organisational structure, programme and ideology may be debated, although post-mortems are often effectively confined to a narrow range of topics. Post-mortem ritual talk generally includes reference to more effective campaigning, intra-party democracy and 'adaptation' to 'social change'. 'Managerial' discourses, emphasising electoral success, efficiency and party professionalism jostle with the 'participatory' discourses embodying activists' aspirations (emphasising the party's mission, 'rank-and-file' rights and 'educating' the electorate). Commentators often dismiss these rituals as meaningless exercises, interesting only insofar as they provide a backdrop for vealpolit-ik power plays about who is to be 'blamed' for the defeat. However, if we analyse postmortem rituals seriously, we have a useful vantage point for examining what goes on within political parties. Both 'managerial' and 'participatory' forms of 'rationalistic idealism' may be little more than camouflage for realpolitik manoeuvre and machination. However, party reform involves the crystallisation of new meanings as well as factional struggles. 'Rationalistic idealism' may help new meanings to crystallise and a new self-understanding to emerge within a party. Of course, the connections between post-mortem rituals and party reform are contingent. Post-mortems may, or may not, lead to party reform. They take place at a time when party leaders have suffered a loss of confidence. The study of post-mortem rituals allows us to examine intraparty processes when, at least potentially, they are in a state of flux. By comparing different post-mortems in the same party over time, we can also address the vexed question of 'social change' and party 'response'. The literature on parties abounds with generalisations about the 'effects' of 'social change'. Such generalisations often rely on little more than hunches about what goes on within parties. This thesis explores post-mortem rituals in the Australian Labor Party in two periods, 1963-67 and 1977-81. In each of these periods, there were some connections between the postmortems and attempts at party reform. Comparison of the two cases can help us appreciate some of the complexities involved in the relationship between changes in Australian society and changes in the ALP. In contrast with previous arguments about the 'middle-classing' of the ALP in a 'middle-class' society, distinctions are drawn between the emergence of Australian Social Democracy, Mark 1 as a model for 'new' Labor practice in the 1960s and the conflicts between Australian Social Democracy, Mark 2 and Labor Managerialism in 1977-81. Changes in ALP practice cannot simply be derived from changes in Australian society. They require analysis in their own right