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    Remember the Sabbath

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    Excerpt: Microwaves. Smart phones. Cars. Our culture has more time-saving devices, technological conveniences, and cheaper mobility than any point in history. We now live in a 24/7 world in which every good and service is available around the clock at the touch of a button. We have more information at our fingertips and more options at our disposal and yet we are ominously dissatisfied. The rhythms that mark the success-obsessed West have taken their toll on our minds, bodies, relationships, and environment

    The Crooked frame

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    Every weekend when I was growing up, I could be found glued to the television set in my Spider-Man pajamas, inhaling my favorite frosted covered cereal, basking in the glow of the Saturday morning cartoons. My favorites were the reruns of the classic Looney Tunes shorts, featuring the famous chases between that long eared hare Bugs Bunny and the egg-headed hunter, Elmer Fudd. Even as a child I was in awe of their timeless sense of humor and their limitless ability to parody any subject matter. Twenty years later, I strove to capture the same style and spirit that the Warner Bros. Studio made famous during the golden age of animation with my thesis film, The Crooked Frame. During my graduate studies of 2D animation, I developed a knack for using the chase as a theme; both of my first two animation projects dealt with similar stories. However, my initial efforts were rather simple, without much development beyond the initial chase structure. With my thesis, I wanted to develop a more complex chase sequence that played with different humorous situations. The animation would challenge both my narrative and comedic skills, which made it an overly ambitious undertaking, as I tend to bite off more than I can chew. I decided to use the history of art as the vehicle to drive the film because of its potential for great visual humor and compelling imagery. Having studied fine art in my undergraduate career, I understood how its rich history and context could be used to create humor. Individual pieces of artwork provided inspiration based on its design and composition, while the contrast of two different paintings hanging side by side offered another comedic outlet. Through careful planning I was able to use my fine arts background to parody the world of fine art

    In Animate Praise: The Heavenly Temple Liturgy of the Apocalypse and the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice

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    This article engages with contemporary research by drawing out evocative lines of continuity between the description of angelic praise in the heavenly realm in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, and scenes of worship in the celestial temple in the Apocalypse (especially Rev 4-5). Three aspects will be picked-out for detailed scrutiny in this comparative analysis: â—Ź The architecture and plan of the celestial temple â—Ź The animate praise of the celestial architecture and furnishings â—Ź The prominence of 'seven' as a structural principle The article concludes that the celestial temple liturgy of the Apocalypse shares a wealth of conceptual parallels with the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice as both texts visualise the heavenly realm as the interior of a celestial temple re-imagined as a living, animate structure of praise. The 'rhapsodic' meditation on the number seven in both texts suggests that the potential liturgical context of the Apocalypse's reception (Rev 1:10, Lord's Day), analogous to the Sabbath setting of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, may merit renewed investigation

    Congregation Beth Ahabah: Sabbath Service

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    Student perspectives on worship services from Instructor Jennifer Garvin-Sanchez\u27s Religious Studies 108 Human Spirituality course at Virginia Commonwealth University

    Sabbath Observance, Sabbath Innovation: The Hasmoneans and Their Legacy as Interpreters of the Law

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    Both 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees portray the Sabbath law as a central point of con- tention during the struggle over Judean law and tradition in the second century BCE (e.g., 1 Macc 1:41-50; 2 Macc 6:4-6). The Hasmonean family in particular is at times high- lighted as holding the Sabbath in high regard (2 Macc 5:27). In every available source, there is no question of the commitment to the inherited traditions concerning the Sabbath. However, in two passages, 1 Macc 2:29-41 and 9:43-53, the Hasmoneans are portrayed as acting in a way supported by few extant writings associated with Judean legal tradition: they engage in battle on the Sabbath. First Maccabees presents this as innovation on the part of the Hasmoneans. Josephus, who summarizes these events based upon 1 Maccabees, even recognizes this decision as the basis for normative prac- tice (Ant. 12.272-277). As several scholars (e.g., Bar Kochva, Weiss, Scolnic) have pointed out, this event could hardly have been the first time in Judean history the issue arose. They argue against this reading of the sources. This paper contends that the plain read- ing of the texts is correct and 1 Maccabees is being used as the basis for legal practice in Josephus’ writings

    Social Work Services and Social Work Training for African Americans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1900-1930

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    The longstanding presence of African Americans in Philadelphia explains the establishment of social welfare institutions and agencies by more affluent African Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Armstrong Association of Philadelphia and Women\u27s Christian Alliance are two of the more prominent and enduring efforts initiated by African Americans to serve their own. Both also provided a vehicle for training for African Americans who desired to join the new profession of social work

    Challenges facing public procurement information in some African countries namely: South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe and Tanzania.

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    This article seeks to find out challenges facing the procurement laws in Africa. The article examines the meaning and purpose of public procurement, drawing parallels between its essential elements, and stages with the need and requirement to enhance transparency and accountability to attain its objectives. It also seeks to provide analysis of traditional procurement reform objectives and identifies the importance of transparency and accountability as well as value for money in procurement to their achievement of joint goals. The article then examines broadly the access to information provisions of the procurement laws in a number of African countries namely -South Africa, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Tanzania and concludes that these laws contribute to improving access to information across Africa, particularly where an access to information law is absent, but are not robust enough to sufficiently provide comprehensive access to information. It examines the level of constraint posed by administrative charges for access to information. Also the article concludes based on the Tanzanian experience that limited access to information, laws already exist may be more as a result of; limited capacities in both the citizens sector and public sector to capture and maintain information in a retrievable format; deliberate delays by public officers to frustrate applications for access; poor information management practices and half hearted efforts within the citizens sector to apply existing law, than any application of administrative fee or other limiting provisions of the law, WITTING, W.A (2002)

    A Reintroduction of Sabbath as a Biblical Practice for the Spiritual Formation of Inman First Baptist Church Inman, South Carolina

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    Inman First Baptist Church received Sabbath as a biblical practice through a three-stage project. The project is adapted from James Brian Smith’s components for spiritual transformation. A control group received the first stage through narrative teaching in a Sabbath Study. An experimental group received the first stage, along with second (Sabbath practices) and third stages (Sabbath discussion). The thesis stated, “Members who received all three stages of the experiment would have a higher appreciation of Sabbath for Spiritual Formation.” The study measured appreciation of Sabbath through a Sabbath Survey. The evaluation of the quantitative and qualitative data indicated that the experimental group’s rise of Sabbath appreciation was greater than the control group’s

    A phenomenological criticism: A phenomenologically based methodology for analyzing theatrical works

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    The thesis, using Husserlian phenomenology, presents a descriptive, analytical approach for theatrical works. The methodology consists of two parts: feeling and meaning. Feeling covers the reader/viewer\u27s experience of the work; meaning covers the source of that experience in the work. An introductory portion asks the analyzer to describe the autonomous aspects of the work. The evaluative conclusion asks the reader/viewer to describe change or lack thereof in the personal perspective; Abraham Maslow\u27s hierarchy of needs, Edith Stein\u27s treatment of empathy, and Ernst Cassirer\u27s paradigms of cultural expression are all used to enrich the analytical approach. Two plays, Caryl Churchill and David Lan\u27s A Mouthful of Birds, and Jean Genet\u27s The Screens, and one performance piece, Holly Hughes\u27 Dress Suits for Hire, demonstrate the approach
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