Bryophyte floras of tropical Pacific islands

A review of the status of bryological research in each of the nations, states or governmental units of southern Melanesia, Micronesia and tropical Polynesia shows the imperfect state of knowledge about the Pacific tropical islands. Best known overall are Hawaii and Micronesia with Wallis and Futuna, the Marquesas and the high mountains of Fiji seeming to be the least known potentially species rich areas. Involvement of residents from Pacific islands in botanical study and preservation of ecosystems should be encouraged by tropical bryologists

A Discussion Starter on the Possibilities and Implications of Cultural Intelligence for Worship

Globalization influences the development of international interactions among leaders serving in cross-cultural settings and creates challenges for those who are unprepared to lead cross-culturally. For this project, cultural intelligence is the phenomenon investigated as a recommendation for cross-cultural worship. Cultural intelligence (CQ) refers to a person’s capability to adapt to the cultural environments they engage. This research examines how CQ may influence the strategic design of a church congregation’s worship practices, while honoring their cultural and biblical behaviors. Leading worship with CQ is of paramount importance if churches desire to engage people inside and outside their congregations effectively. One observation from thriving businesses in multicultural communities is that they implement CQ to equip their teams with the ability to distinguish behaviors that are unfamiliar and blend in with complementary responses. As the ethnographer of this research, I believe some of these business principles are adaptable in equipping church leaders with CQ for their multicultural congregation. The logic of the argument for this research is to equip readers with “a conceptual framework and practical model to better understand” and lead worship “effectively to various types” of audiences. Chapter One explores cultural identity and its significance in society. Chapter Two surveys cultural intelligence and its four dimensions: drive, knowledge, strategy, and action. Chapter Three provides a broad overview of worship, its purpose and the diversity found in corporate worship. Chapter Four broadly examines biblical worship and its relationship with culture. Chapter Five provides a possible blueprint to create culturally intelligent worship. Without applying these principles, a person’s actual self-concept may affect how they engage worship cross-culturally

Habeas Corpus - Procedural Prerequisites - Motion Denied for Failure to Appeal Convicion Despite Failure Being Excusable

Plaintiff was convicted of robbery in a federal district court and, although represented by counsel, failed to appeal within the statutory ten-day period. Three months later he filed a motion in the same court under section 2255 of the judicial code to vacate the sentence on the ground that the conviction, because it was based on a coerced confession, was unconstitutionally obtained without due process of law. The motion was denied and the denial affirmed, in the absence of any attempt to excuse the failure to appeal. On reargument, plaintiff attempted to excuse his failure to appeal by alleging that neither the court nor his counsel advised him of his right to an appeal or that such appeal had to be taken within ten days. On reargument before the court en bane, held, affirmed, three judges dissenting. Even if the failure to appeal was excusable, such failure precludes relief by motion under section 2255 since collateral attack may not be used as a substitute for an appeal. Hodges v. United States, 282 F.2d 858 (D.C. Cir. 1960)

Transmogrifying Fuzzy Vortices

We show that the construction of vortex solitons of the noncommutative Abelian-Higgs model can be extended to a critically coupled gauged linear sigma model with Fayet-Illiopolous D-terms. Like its commutative counterpart, this fuzzy linear sigma model has a rich spectrum of BPS solutions. We offer an explicit construction of the degree$-k$ static semilocal vortex and study in some detail the infinite coupling limit in which it descends to a degree$-k$ \C\Pk^{N} instanton. This relation between the fuzzy vortex and noncommutative lump is used to suggest an interpretation of the noncommutative sigma model soliton as tilted D-strings stretched between an NS5-brane and a stack of D3-branes in type IIB superstring theory.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX(JHEP3