Reflections on Virginia\u27s Baptist Heritage

This paper focuses on the struggle for religious liberty in Colonial America and the part Baptists played in securing it. In particular certain individuals in the Virginia colony are credited for their courage and initiative in ensuring this important principle

Guided by Your Secret Life

The soul may be thought of as that part of the personality that processes an individual’s highest values. Humanly this may also be thought of as the conscience, an integral part of the soul. This short essay suggests that a Christian has a wonderful secret life within him that must be managed to help him through the day-to-day challenges of life

John Waller 1741-1802

Among the Baptist preachers imprisoned during the Colonial period of American history was an individual named John Waller. His story stands out because he comes on the scene as a juror in a trial of another Baptist preacher arrested on charges of preaching without a license, yet later on was himself in jail several times for the same charge. This paper tells his encouraging story in the long battle for religious liberty

James Ireland 1748-1806

During the Colonial period of American history (1768-1778) a number of Baptist preachers were imprisoned for preaching without a license. This paper presents the case of Rev. James Ireland, who suffered more than most because of physical and emotional deprivation. He, along with many others, stood his ground for religious liberty

John Weatherford 1740-1833

This paper describes the dramatic confrontation between an older Baptist preacher arrested for preaching without a license and a strong-willed sheriff doing his duty. Set in the Colonial period between 1768 and 1778, the confrontation was really between the state church in Virginia and those taking a stand for religious liberty

Elijah Baker 1742-1798

A Baptist preacher is imprisoned and his case eventually dismissed. But rather than gaining his freedom he was put on a ship with orders to take him anywhere but America. He was literally shanghaied for the Lord

Bull management for efficient reproduction

"Superior herd sires properly managed are the greatest asset in a cow-calf operation. Generally, the herd bull contributes 50 percent of the total genetic variation of your calf crop annually. In most closed herds, however, the past three herd sires contribute 85 to 90 percent of the total genetic variation in the herd. This high percentage is due to selection intensity or replacement rate of cows and bull."--First page.John W. Massey and Homer B. Sewell (Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture)New 8/82/10

Rations for bulls on performance test

1/81/8MHomer B. Sewell and John W. Massey (Department of Animal Science, College of Agriculture

Global optical/infrared - X-ray correlations in X-ray binaries: quantifying disc and jet contributions

The optical/near-infrared (OIR) region of the spectra of low-mass X-ray binaries appears to lie at the intersection of a variety of different emission processes. In this paper we present quasi-simultaneous OIR - X-ray observations of 33 XBs in an attempt to estimate the contributions of various emission processes in these sources, as a function of X-ray state and luminosity. A global correlation is found between OIR and X-ray luminosity for low-mass black hole candidate XBs (BHXBs) in the hard X-ray state, of the form L_OIR is proportional to Lx^0.6. This correlation holds over 8 orders of magnitude in Lx and includes data from BHXBs in quiescence and at large distances (LMC and M31). A similar correlation is found in low-mass neutron star XBs (NSXBs) in the hard state. For BHXBs in the soft state, all the near-infrared (NIR) and some of the optical emission is suppressed below the correlation, a behaviour indicative of the jet switching off/on in transition to/from the soft state. We compare these relations to theoretical models of a number of emission processes. We find that X-ray reprocessing in the disc and emission from the jets both predict a slope close to 0.6 for BHXBs, and both contribute to the OIR in BHXBs in the hard state, the jets producing ~90 percent of the NIR emission at high luminosities. X-ray reprocessing dominates the OIR in NSXBs in the hard state, with possible contributions from the jets (only at high luminosity) and the viscously heated disc. We also show that the optically thick jet spectrum of BHXBs extends to near the K-band. (abridged)Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRAS; 19 pages, 7 figure

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 18, No. 1

• Tanning in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 1711-1850 • Chester County Widow Wills (1714-1800), A Folklife Source • Folk Elements in Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Communities • The Thomas Massey House • Passengers on the Ketch Endeavour • The Medical Plants of Berks County, Pennsylvania • Notes and Documents: A Dunkard Love Feast ; Jacob Graeff\u27s Reminiscences of Reading • Symposium on the Pennsylvania Dutch Dialect • Farm Dress: Folk-Cultural Questionnaire No. 9https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/1033/thumbnail.jp