More Mysteries, or, Why We Still Come to Church Anyway

(Excerpt) Two years ago, on a brilliantly sunny day in February, I spoke to a small session of this Institute on the subject of preaching. In an address entitled Behold I Tell You a Mystery: We Shall Not All Sleep, I attempted to initiate a discourse with clergy about preaching, in which the lay voice was not simply a mumbled sentence of praise or criticism given at the church door on Sunday morning, but was instead a participant in a more fully engaged meeting of minds and hearts. I commented at the outset on my claims to a purely lay status, since as far as I knew there had been no clergy in my family since the Civil War. However, I must stand corrected on that point. Mrs. Henrietta Stemmler, now 87 and a resident of Ft. Wayne, has written to tell me that as my grandmother\u27s cousin, she wishes to assure me that one of her sister\u27s grandsons is a Lutheran pastor in Texas, and so I do have a clergy relative after all. I was pretty well floored by this; revelations about one\u27s family background have a way of reordering the way you look at the world--witness Tarzan, Tom Jones, Oedipus, Moll Flanders and so on. So I come before you this time somewhat humbled from my previously proud, purely lay position. I am closer to being one with the clergy, however hard that is to swallow, and thus I cannot take the high and mighty tone that some people said characterized my last talk

NGOs as Learning Organizations: Evaluating Female Sports Development in Jordan Through the Lens of Women’s Soccer

This Independent Study Project (ISP) explores how NGO programs measure the success of their impact on female sports development in Jordan and the impact thereof on improving women’s opportunities in sport. This research relies on several theories, including Sport for Development theory (Lyras and Welty Peachey, 2011), organizational learning and learning organizations (Roper and Pettit, 2002), and monitoring and evaluation (Peters, 2016) to discover the effect of NGO programs on women\u27s sport development in Jordan. It centers on the intersection of gender, social expectations, and non-governmental work for development. This paper aims to answer the following questions: Roper and Pettit suggest that organizations should strive towards bottom-up learning to allow constituents to define NGO practices. How might bottom-up learning redefine how female sports empowerment NGOs in Jordan assess their program’s success? How do female sports empowerment programs (NGOs) in Jordan understand the lives and aspirations of their constituents and how might they collaborate with them to increase women’s sport access? What social and cultural factors influence challenges to visibility and access for women’s sports in Jordan? The research includes five interviews with program providers and local experts on women’s sport in Jordan. It postulates that in order for women’s sport to expand and be sustained on a national platform, the efforts and emphasis on sport for development as implemented in refugee-specific initiatives may serve as a foundation for shared learning and collaboration among women’s sports activists, but should ultimately be tailored to the needs of the Jordanian society as a whole

Herstellung eines Satellitenbildmosaiks von Palpa/Peru mit Daten des Satelliten QuickBird

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschreibt die Herstellung eines Satellitenbildmosaiks von Palpa (Peru) mit Daten des Satelliten QuickBird. Die zur Verfügung gestellten Kartenmaterialien werden hinsichtlich ihrer Genauigkeit untersucht. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich weiterhin mit dem zur Verfügung gestellten digitalen Geländemodell (SRTM-Daten). Als Ergebnis wird ein umfangreiches Kartenmaterial präsentiert, welches zur GPS Messgrundlage in Palpa dienen soll

Object files in UNIX

Object files are named active entities (processes) in the UNIX file system graph which provide services. Services are solicited by using the object file's pathname in any system call. Other continuing services can be obtained by opening an object file (which creates an communication path to the object) or by changing the current directory of a process into the object file. An object file is not necessarily a single named entity. A full namespace may be implemented by the object file which is mounted on the path to the object file node. Entities in this namespace are referenced by the suffix string which follows the path to the object node. These entities can be any anything which is managed by the object process (e.g. new types of files, devices on a network, windows, ...). The object process is the common site which is contacted for all manipulations of these entities. Communication between the object and client processes is handled by a remote procedure call (RPC) protocol which passes parameters of the following types: data, channels and identification. When used between two processes on different machines, this protocol provides the basis for a distributed file system. The remote file manipulation occurs by executing system calls on a file passed as a channel parameter to a site which is not the native site of that file. This RPC protocol uses IP as its transport layer for communication between the two sites. In a network environment, object files insulate the object and client processes from nameservers, network addresses, and protocols. The basic interface between the client and object is the system call protocol (SCP). This layer of software converts individual system calls into RPCs. It is the individual SCP operations which form the alphabet in which the object process reads service requests and writes replies to these requests. This thesis will describe the UNIX implementation of object files and how object files can be used to implement software which previously would have required extensive kernel modification

Endogenous endophthalmitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a preterm infant: a case report

Endophthalmitis is an infection of the vitreous or aqueous humor of the eye. Although it rarely occurs in the neonatal period it has been previously diagnosed in preterm infants

The Recursive Record Semantics of Objects Revisited

In a call-by-value language, representing objects as recursive records requires using an unsafe fixpoint. We design, for a core language including extensible records, a type system which rules out unsafe recursion and still supports the reconstruction of a principal type. We illustrate the expressive power of this language with respect to object-oriented programming by introducing a sub-language for «mixin-based» programming

Effectiveness of ophthalmic solution preservatives: a comparison of latanoprost with 0.02% benzalkonium chloride and travoprost with the sofZia preservative system

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Although in vitro and in vivo laboratory studies have suggested that benzalkonium chloride (BAK) in topical ophthalmic solutions may be detrimental to corneal epithelial cells, multiple short- and long-term clinical studies have provided evidence supporting the safety of BAK. Despite the conflicting evidence, BAK is the most commonly used preservative in ophthalmic products largely due to its proven antimicrobial efficacy. This study was designed to characterize the antimicrobial performance of two commonly used topical ocular hypotensive agents that employ different preservative systems: latanoprost 0.005% with 0.02% BAK and travoprost 0.004% with sofZia, a proprietary ionic buffer system.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Each product was tested for antimicrobial effectiveness by <it>European Pharmacopoeia </it>A (EP-A) standards, the most stringent standards of the three major compendia, which specify two early sampling time points (6 and 24 hours) not required by the <it>United States Pharmacopeia </it>or <it>Japanese Pharmacopoeia</it>. Aliquots were inoculated with between 10⁵and 10⁶colony-forming units of the test organisms: <it>Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Candida albicans </it>and <it>Aspergillus brasiliensis</it>. Sampling and enumeration were conducted at protocol-defined time points through 28 days.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>BAK-containing latanoprost met EP-A criteria by immediately reducing all bacterial challenge organisms to the test sensitivity and fungal challenges within the first six hours while the preservative activity of travoprost with sofZia did not. Complete bacterial reduction by travoprost with sofZia was not shown until seven days into the test, and fungal reduction never exceeded the requisite 2 logs during the 28-day test. Travoprost with sofZia also did not meet EP-B criteria due to its limited effectiveness against <it>Staphylococcus aureus</it>. Both products satisfied United States and Japanese pharmacopoeial criteria.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>Latanoprost with 0.02% BAK exhibited more effective microbial protection than travoprost with sofZia using rates of microbial reduction, time to no recovery for all challenges and evaluation against EP-A criteria as measures. The rapid and complete reduction of all microbial challenges demonstrates that antimicrobial activity of latanoprost with 0.02% BAK exceeds that of travoprost with sofZia preservative system in these products and provides a more protective environment in the event of contamination and subsequent exposure to microorganisms during use.</p