Jan Wheeler spent many years in prison ministry. Ministering in Several California State Prisons. She was involved as a volunteer chaplain, as a staff member of Match Two and working with Here's Life Inner City as Prison Ministry Coordinator in Bakersfield, CA. During these years she developed a passion for helping those who were held in bondage to experience the freedom that comes with a walk with God. This book is a result of the thesis she wrote for her Masters in Theology from Summit Bible College in Bakersfield.
In 1960, the College Entrance Examination Board became an unexpected participant in the movement to desegregate education in the South. Working with its partner, Educational Testing Services, the College Board quietly integrated its Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) centers throughout the Deep South. Traveling from state to state, taking one school district and even one school at a time, two College Board staff members, both native southerners, waged "a campaign of quiet persuasion" and succeeded, establishing a roster of desegregated test centers within segregated school districts while the historic battle for civil rights raged around them. In the context of the larger struggle for equal opportunities for southern black students, their work addressed a small but critical barrier to higher education. Shedding light on this remarkable story for the first time, Jan Bates Wheeler tells how the College Board staff members -- Ben Cameron and Ben Gibson -- succeeded. Their candid and thoughtfully written records of conversations and confrontations, untouched for nearly fifty years, reveal the persistence required to reach a goal many thought unachievable and even foolhardy. Indeed, their task placed them in the unusual position of advocating for school desegregation on a day-to-day basis as part of their jobs. This positioned Cameron and Gibson squarely in opposition to prevailing laws, customs, and attitudes -- an ill-advised stance for any nascent business venture, particularly one experiencing competition from a new, rival testing organization purported to accommodate openly those same laws, customs, and attitudes. Cameron and Gibson also accepted the personal danger involved in confrontations with racist school officials. The officials who cooperated with the pair assumed even greater risk, and in order to minimize that threat, Cameron and Gibson pledged not to publicize their efforts. Even years after their work had ended, the two men refused to write about their campaign for fear of compromising the people who had helped them. Their concerns, according to Wheeler, kept this remarkable story largely untold until now.
This book, “Beacon of Hope” is compiled of inspirational poetry and other works. Its contents have transpired over a period of years. At different intervals in life, a poem would be birthed as inspiration brought it forth. The purpose of this book is to fulfill a longtime dream of the author, Jan Wheeler, who at an early age, recognized that God had blessed her with talent. This talent was in the writing down of her thoughts…creating poetry. She believes that by divine instruction from God, the publication and circulation of this material, through it’s simplicity, will minister to others, as well as give a greater understanding of God and His purpose for all human kind. Although small in content, there’s a treasure trough of truths wrapped in this small package. The author’s hope is that all who read it will receive a bounty of enjoyment and that they may compare some of the instances to their own lives.
While probabilistic logics in principle might be applied to solve a range of problems, in practice they are rarely applied - perhaps because they seem disparate, complicated, and computationally intractable. This programmatic book argues that several approaches to probabilistic logic fit into a simple unifying framework in which logically complex evidence is used to associate probability intervals or probabilities with sentences. Specifically, Part I shows that there is a natural way to present a question posed in probabilistic logic, and that various inferential procedures provide semantics for that question, while Part II shows that there is the potential to develop computationally feasible methods to mesh with this framework. The book is intended for researchers in philosophy, logic, computer science and statistics. A familiarity with mathematical concepts and notation is presumed, but no advanced knowledge of logic or probability theory is required.
This highly illustrated book explains the effects of scars and adhesions on the body through the lens of biotensegrity, a concept that recognizes the role of physical forces on their formation, structure and treatment. It includes contributions from specialists in the fields of fascial anatomy, biotensegrity, movement, surgery and other manual therapies. It takes a comprehensive approach to providing a better understanding of these complex issues and will be valuable to every hands-on practitioner. The text is supported with online videos demonstrating five ScarWork therapeutic techniques.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. Being reprints of rare and curious narratives of old travellers in India, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. First series, comprising Purchas Pilgrimage, and the Travels of Van Linschoten.
The automatic laboratory lights clicked on, flooding the complex with artificial daylight. With a start, Nova blinked the sleep out of her eyes. She slowly looked around the small lab room. Dorian was still asleep in his bed box, which was next to hers. Nova made a little rabbit-type yawn, licked her front paws, and washed her face. She stretched and hopped out of her bed box. Nova looked like a small black ball of fur with tiny black ears. She and Dorian were Black Dwarf rabbits that had been carefully raised and studied under controlled laboratory conditions for eleven successive generations. Her name was at the bottom of a large chart as NOVA 11/N. This meant she was an eleventh-order rabbit with 2,046 carefully raised and charted ancestors. Dorian was also an eleventh-order rabbit but from another complete line of Black Dwarfs.
Does the real world, defined as a world of objects that exist independent of human interests, concerns, and cognitive activities, really exist? Jan Westerhoff argues that we have good reason to believe it does not. His discussion considers four main facets of the idea of the real world, ranging from the existence of a separate external and internal world (comprising various mental states congregated around a self), to the existence of an ontological foundation that grounds the existence of all the entities in the world, and the existence of an ultimately true theory that provides a final account of all there is. As Westerhoff discusses the reasons for rejecting the postulation of an external world behind our representations, he asserts that the internal world is not as epistemically transparent as is usually assumed, and that there are good reasons for adopting an anti-foundational account of ontological dependence. Drawing on conclusions from the ancient Indian philosophical system of Madhyamaka Buddhism, Westerhoff defends his stance in a purely Western philosophical framework, and affirms that ontology, and philosophy more generally, need not be conceived as providing an ultimately true theory of the world.
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