On the February 2, 1960, episode of The Danny Thomas Show, entertainer Danny Williams (Danny Thomas) is arrested for a traffic violation by a small-town sheriff named Andy Taylor, played by a good-natured Southern actor named Andy Griffith. Thus was born one of the most popular television shows of the 1960s--The Andy Griffith Show. From the time it officially debuted in October 1960, The Andy Griffith Show was a perennial favorite on CBS, finishing its eight-year run as the top-rated show on television. It also produced some of the most remembered characters (Andy, Opie, Aunt Bee, and Barney Fife) of the era. Each of the show's 249 episodes is fully detailed here, including air dates, cast and production personnel, guest stars, and a bevy of facts about that particular episode. The 1986 television movie Return to Mayberry is covered in detail. Brief biographies of the show's major stars, producers, directors and writers are also provided.
Living into a less colonial way of being together. Methodism and American Empire investigates historical trajectories and theological developments that connect American imperialism since World War II to the Methodist tradition as a global movement. The volume asks: to what extent is United Methodists’ vision of the globe marred by American imperialism? Through historical analyses and theological reflections, this volume chronicles the formation of an understanding of The United Methodist Church since the mid-20th century that is both global and at the same time dominated by American interests and concerns. Methodism and American Empire provides a historical and theological perspective to understand the current context of The United Methodist Church while also raising ecclesiological questions about the impact of imperialism on how Methodists have understood the nature and mission of the church over the last century. Gathering voices and perspectives from around the world, this volume suggests that the project of global Methodism and the tensions one witnesses therein ought to be understood in the context of American imperialism and that such an understanding is critical to the task of continuing to be a global denomination. The volume tells a tale of complex negotiations happening between United Methodists across different national, cultural, and ecclesial contexts and sets up the historical backdrop for the imminent schism of The United Methodist Church.
In a city divided by upper and lower class, a single corporation, known as Ilium, with strong political ties, had been granted rights to protect the luxurious downtown core with its technologically advanced security detail, the IDC Mechanical Guards, while the ill-equipped police departments remain constricted by corrupted city officials to remain only within city's slums. The cardinal rule is that each force may only enter in the other's territory by word of the City Councillors.Head of the IDC, James Grey, finds himself in a life-altering scenario, believing that his past was once so far behind him that nothing could stop the growth of his power and persistence for technological control. Yet, he remains haunted of what he had left behind, until one day, his past came strolling through the front lobby of Ilium Towers.Across Antium, in the slums, a woman, Jacqueline Moore Chu, has recently come across the true nature of her biological parents' death and begins her journey in finding why the twenty year old case went cold while having credible evidence and a suspect of interest. Her curiosity leads her and her close friend Dresden Malko to side with people they had been convinced by the media were labelled dangerous activists or terrorists.The tension throughout Antium City grows exponentially when Jacqueline's stepfather, a local police officer, is falsely arrested in a murder case of an Ilium paralegal. This turn of events has many residents of the core, slums, as well as its police force up in arms when the City Council grants the IDC to place Antium under a strict lockdown. The result, the local police take up posts along the expressways leading to and from the downtown core. However, a brazen escape by Jacqueline's stepfather, aided by an Ilium doctor leads to a deadly pursuit along the streets of the downtown core and into the slums. The cardinal rule has been broken.Enter the Seraphim Network, a self-aware artificial intelligence designed by James Grey and Ilium technicians. Created to monitor, maintain and control the IDC's security detail and other outsourced IDC units without human intervention. However, as truths emerge and lies begin to burn, James' emotions and mental frustration gets the better of him as he commands the A.I. to protect itself at all costs from any outside intervention. This order causes Seraphim to release itself from the protected Ilium network and installing onto an onboard hard drive mounted inside an IDC aerial drone as it begins to strategize every IDC unit in the downtown core while categorizing Antium's citizens to what it believes are threats to the Seraphim's longevity.The result is something that Jacqueline, nor James, the citizens of Antium, police, and Ilium itself ever expected to occur. A brewing conflict between the IDC and the local police erupts when Jacqueline becomes determined to show the world the true nature, corruption and murderous tactics staged in order for one corporation to keep its strangle hold on a city dying for its freedom and women who is willing to sacrifice her life to prove it all.In a story covered with layers, Jacqueline Moore Chu, and James Grey find themselves in a world they had never imagined, a world that crosses their paths, as fate holds no boundaries when the past collides with the present.
What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another? "Warm, wise, and overflowing with generosity, this is a love story so epic it embraces all of creation. Yet another reminder of how blessed we are to be in the struggle with elders like David and Tara.” – Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis What You Won’t Do for Love is an inspiring conversation about love and the environment. When artist Miriam Fernandes approached the legendary eco-pioneer David Suzuki to create a theatre piece about climate change, she expected to write about David’s perspective as a scientist. Instead, she discovered the boundless vision and efforts of Tara Cullis, a literature scholar, climate organizer, and David’s life partner. Miriam realized that David and Tara’s decades-long love for each other, and for family and friends, has only clarified and strengthened their resolve to fight for the planet. What You Won’t Do for Love transforms real-life conversations between David, Tara, Miriam, and her husband Sturla into a charmingly novel and poetic work. Over one idyllic day in British Columbia, Miriam and Sturla take in a lifetime of David and Tara’s adventures, inspiration, and love, and in turn reflect on their own relationships to each other and the planet. Revealing David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in an affable, conversational, and often comedic light, What You Won’t Do For Love asks if we can love our planet the same way we love one another.
Este livro apresenta cultura, os jogos e as lendas do Curupira, Juruparí e Poronominare, das comunidades da etnia Baré, localizadas próximas aos municípios de Santa Isabel do Rio Negro e São Gabriel da Cachoeira, às margens do rio Negro no estado do Amazonas. O projeto contempla uma região com uma forte desestruturação social, que tem sofrido inúmeras pressões desde a chegada dos europeus até a mais recente invasão de garimpeiros, e que chama a atenção pela dramática taxa de suicídios entre sua população jovem. O devastador processo de aculturação implica a perda dos saberes tradicionais, a tradição oral e técnicas artísticas de grande valor, levando as populações indígenas a se sentirem desvalorizadas e negarem sua identidade indígena.
Looking around their surroundings, Jamie and Megan come to realize that everything they use and see, from their sheets to the air they breathe, derives from the environment, in a celebration of the cycle of life, enhanced with simple activities, glossary, and colorful illustrations.
Remote sensing is the acquisition of information of an object or phenomenon, by the use of either recording or real-time sensing device(s), that is not in physical or intimate contact with the object (such as by way of aircraft, spacecraft, satellite, buoy, or ship). In practice, remote sensing is the stand-off collection through the use of a variety of devices for gathering information on a given object or area. Human existence is dependent on our ability to understand, utilize, manage and maintain the environment we live in - Geoscience is the science that seeks to achieve these goals. This book is a collection of contributions from world-class scientists, engineers and educators engaged in the fields of geoscience and remote sensing.
A fast paced changing world requires dynamic methods and robust theories to enable designers to deal with the new product development landscape successfully and make a difference in an increasingly interconnected world. Designers continue stretching the boundaries of their discipline, and trail new paths in interdisciplinary domains, constantly moving the frontiers of their practice farther. This book, the successor to "Industrial Design - New Frontiers" (2011), develops the concepts present in the previous book further, as well as reaching new areas of theory and practice in industrial design. "Advances in Industrial Design Engineering" assists readers in leaping forward in their own practice and in preparing new design research that is relevant and aligned with the current challenges of this fascinating field.
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