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MUSEUM PR ACTICE Edited by CONAL MCCARTHY Museum Practice covers
the professional work carried out in museums and art galleries of
all types, including the core functions of management, collections,
exhibitions, and programs. Some forms of museum practice are
familiar to visitors, yet within these diverse and complex
institutions many practices are hidden from view, such as creating
marketing campaigns, curating and designing exhibitions, developing
fundraising and sponsorship plans, crafting mission statements,
handling repatriation claims, dealing with digital media, and more.
Focused on what actually occurs in everyday museum work, this
volume offers contributions from experienced professionals and
academics that cover a wide range of subjects including policy
frameworks, ethical guidelines, approaches to conservation,
collection care and management, exhibition development and public
programs. From internal processes such as leadership, governance
and strategic planning, to public facing roles in interpretation,
visitor research and community engagement and learning, each
essential component of contemporary museum practice is thoroughly
discussed.
The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump
campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and
the Obama administration. The media-Democrat "collusion narrative,"
which paints Donald Trump as cat's paw of Russia, is a studiously
crafted illusion. Despite Clinton's commanding lead in the polls,
hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an
"insurance policy" against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the
collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced "dossier,"
secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a
former British spy. Though acknowledged to be "salacious and
unverified" at the FBI's highest level, the dossier was used to
build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump's campaign.
Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused
to accept the voters' decision. Their collusion narrative was now
peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents,
Justice Department officials, and media ideologues-the vanguard of
the "Trump Resistance." Through secret surveillance, high-level
intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was
led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the
election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President
Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head
when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House
testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite
privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of
partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special
counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the
administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete
evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion
narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom?
Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers
forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and
accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within
American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear
that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective
policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously
into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to
forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing
down President Trump?
As one of the leading specialists in hip arthroscopies, Dr. Joseph
McCarthy's proposed text Early Hip Disorders promises to become a
definitive addition to the field. Featuring full color,
arthroscopic views and contributions from such prestigious figures
in the orthopaedic community as John McGinty, Richard Villar and
James Bono, this text will cover all the essentials of hip
arthroscopy including: examiniations, arthroscopic procedures for
loose bodies, labral injuries, defects of the femoral head and
acetabulum, treatment for infections, tumors, differential
diagnosis and, most uniquely, a section on pediatric hip injuries.
In addition, this text will provide the surgeon with detailed
analysis of cost considerations and comparison with open hip
procedures as well as outcome analysis. This text is a must- have
for any orthopaedic surgeon interested in learning the newest
procedures in the treatment of hip injuries and providing their
patients with the safest, most effective treatment available.
The real collusion in the 2016 election was not between the Trump
campaign and the Kremlin. It was between the Clinton campaign and
the Obama administration. The media-Democrat "collusion narrative,"
which paints Donald Trump as cat's paw of Russia, is a studiously
crafted illusion. Despite Clinton's commanding lead in the polls,
hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an
"insurance policy" against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the
collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced "dossier,"
secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a
former British spy. Though acknowledged to be "salacious and
unverified" at the FBI's highest level, the dossier was used to
build a counterintelligence investigation against Trump's campaign.
Miraculously, Trump won anyway. But his political opponents refused
to accept the voters' decision. Their collusion narrative was now
peddled relentlessly by political operatives, intelligence agents,
Justice Department officials, and media ideologues-the vanguard of
the "Trump Resistance." Through secret surveillance, high-level
intelligence leaking, and tireless news coverage, the public was
led to believe that Trump conspired with Russia to steal the
election. Not one to sit passively through an onslaught, President
Trump fought back in his tumultuous way. Matters came to a head
when he fired his FBI director, who had given explosive House
testimony suggesting the president was a criminal suspect, despite
privately assuring Trump otherwise. The resulting firestorm of
partisan protest cowed the Justice Department to appoint a special
counsel, whose seemingly limitless investigation bedeviled the
administration for two years. Yet as months passed, concrete
evidence of collusion failed to materialize. Was the collusion
narrative an elaborate fraud? And if so, choreographed by whom?
Against media-Democrat caterwauling, a doughty group of lawmakers
forced a shift in the spotlight from Trump to his investigators and
accusers. This has exposed the depth of politicization within
American law-enforcement and intelligence agencies. It is now clear
that the institutions on which our nation depends for objective
policing and clear-eyed analysis injected themselves scandalously
into the divisive politics of the 2016 election. They failed to
forge a new Clinton administration. Will they succeed in bringing
down President Trump?
This collection, marking the centenary of Avery Dulles's birth,
makes an entirely distinctive contribution to contemporary
theological discourse as we approach the second century of the
cardinal's influence, and the twenty-first of Christian witness in
the world. Moving beyond a festschrift, the volume offers both
historical analyses of Dulles's contributions and applications of
his insights and methodologies to current issues like immigration,
exclusion, and digital culture. It includes essays by Dulles's
students, colleagues, and peers, as well as by emerging scholars
who have been and continue to be indebted to his theological vision
and encyclopedic fluency in the ecclesiological developments of the
post-conciliar Church. Though focused more on Catholic and
ecumenical affairs than interreligious ones, the volume is
intentionally outward-facing and strives to make clear the diverse
and pluralistic contours of the cardinal's nearly unrivaled impact
on the North American Church, which truly crossed ideological,
denominational, and generational boundaries. While critically
recognizing the limits and lacunae of his historical moment, it
serves as one among a multitude of testaments to the notion that
the ripples of Avery Dulles's influence continue to widen toward
intellectually distant shores.
While Americans focus on terrorism, a more insidious Islamist
threat to our way of life lurks. It is the agenda of sharia, Islama
(TM)s authoritarian legal and political system. The global Islamist
movement aims, in the words of the international Muslim
Brotherhood, to destroy the West by sabotaging it from within. Its
principal strategy is not mass-murder but the exploitation of
Western freedoms and the insinuation of sharia principles into
Western legal systems. Because those principles are hostile to our
core liberties - indeed, hostile even to the bedrock premise that
people are free to govern themselves as they see fit - shariaa
(TM)s advance gradually undermines our culture. The sharia agenda
has found a friend in the Obama administration, which has embraced
its vanguard, including the Brotherhood and the Organization of the
Islamic Conference. President Obama is actively abetting the
Islamist platform: promoting sharia in his foreign policy, easing
enforcement of laws that stop Islamic "charitiesa from diverting
funds to jihadist terror, and even sponsoring a United Nations
resolution that - under the guise of insulating Islam from
criticism - would stifle First Amendment rights.
With the Obama Justice Department under Attorney General Eric
Holder's direction, Americans are learning what really happens when
law-enforcement power is co-opted by politics.
In this eye-popping Broadside, Andrew C. McCarthy shows that the
biggest beneficiaries have been jihadists. For the past eight
years, a group of lawyers volunteered their services to America's
enemies. Now, the Justice Department is rife with some of those
same lawyers as it enhances due process for terrorists and feeds
the international Left's call for war-crimes charges against
President Obama's political adversaries. Just consider how the
administration has disclosed national defense secrets during
wartime or granted the 9/11 mass murderers a civilian trial. The
department, moreover, is working to tighten the Democratic Party's
grip on power, ignoring the Constitution and green-lighting
election fraud and abuse.
An in-depth understanding of a comprehensive approach to the
management of radius fractures and their complications. The authors
-- world renowned experts in the field -- present practical,
clinical information from their extensive experience in the
treatment of these fractures. Topics include the authors'
classification as well as decision- making and tactics in the
conservative and operative management of all types of radius
fractures. Topics covered include: bending fractures of the
metaphysis, shearing and compression fractures of the joint
surface, avulsion fractures, radio-carpal fracture and dislocation,
combined fractures, high velocity injury and malunions. In
addition, chapters deal with surgical techniques and approach as
well as with complications. With over 500 illustrations, this is
the definitive volume on these challenging fractures, their
complete treatment, and the management of complications.
We still imagine ourselves a nation of laws, not of men. This is
not merely an article of faith but a bedrock principle of the
United States Constitution. Our founding compact provides a remedy
against rulers supplanting the rule of law, and Andrew C. McCarthy
makes a compelling case for using it. The authors of the
Constitution saw practical reasons to place awesome powers in a
single chief executive, who could act quickly and decisively in
times of peril. Yet they well understood that unchecked power in
one person's hands posed a serious threat to liberty, the defining
American imperative. Much of the debate at the Philadelphia
convention therefore centered on how to stop a rogue executive who
became a law unto himself. The Framers vested Congress with two
checks on presidential excess: the power of the purse and the power
of impeachment. They are potent remedies, and there are no others.
It is a straightforward matter to establish that President Obama
has committed "high crimes and misdemeanors," a term signifying
maladministration and abuses of power by holders of high public
trust. But making the legal case is insufficient for successful
impeachment, leading to removal from office. Impeachment is a
political matter and hinges on public opinion. In Faithless
Execution, McCarthy weighs the political dynamics as he builds a
case, assembling a litany of abuses that add up to one overarching
offense: the president's willful violation of his solemn oath to
execute the laws faithfully. The "fundamental transformation" he
promised involves concentrating power into his own hands by
flouting law--statutes, judicial rulings, the Constitution
itself--and essentially daring the other branches of government to
stop him. McCarthy contends that our elected representative are
duty-bound to take up the dare. What are "High Crimes and
Misdemeanors"? Impeachment is rare in American history--and for
good reason. As the ultimate remedy against abuse of executive
power, it is politically convulsive. And yet, as the Framers
understood, it is a necessary protection if the rule of law is to
be maintained. But what are impeachable offenses? There is
widespread confusion among the American people about the answer to
this question. Article II of the Constitution lists treason and
bribery, along with "other high crimes and misdemeanors as the
standard for impeachment. Despite what "crimes" and "misdemeanors"
connote, the concept has precious little to do with violations of a
penal code. Rather, it is about betrayal of the political trust
reposed in the president to execute the laws faithfully and
"preserve, protect and defend" our constitutional system, as his
oath of office requires. At the constitutional convention in 1787,
the delegates concurred that the "high crimes and misdemeanors"
standard captured the many "great and dangerous offenses" involving
malfeasance, incompetence, and severe derelictions of duty that
could undermine the constitutional order. The Framers were clear
that "high crimes and misdemeanors" involved misconduct that did
not necessarily break penal laws; it might not even be considered
criminal if committed by a civilian. It would apply strictly to
"the misconduct of public men ...or the abuse or violation of
public trust," as Alexander Hamilton put it. "High crimes and
misdemeanors" are of a purely political nature as they "relate to
injuries done immediately to the society itself." To be clear,
"high crimes and misdemeanors" is not a standard conceived for
normal law enforcement. It applies instead to oath, honor, and
trust--notions that are more demanding of public officials than the
black and white prohibitions of criminal law. While the standard is
high-minded it is not an abstraction. The Framers were very clear:
betrayals of the constitutional order, dishonesty in the
executive's dealing with Congress, and concealment of dealings with
foreign powers that could be injurious to the American people were
among the most grievous, and impeachable, high crimes and
misdemeanors. Above all, the Framers had in view the president's
oath of allegiance to our system of government, a system in which
the president's highest duty is faithful execution of the laws. The
mere attempt to subvert the constitution would be a breach of trust
that warranted impeachment and removal. A free country requires the
rule of law. But the rule of law is a sham if lawlessness is
rampant among those who govern. This was the deep political truth
that the Framers of this country recognized in the providing for
the impeachment of an errant executive. It is a truth that we
ignore at our peril. Faithless Execution Author Q&A You are a
well-known conservative commentator -- how would you answer the
accusation that Faithless Execution is just a partisan stunt?
McCarthy: Well, 'conservative' does not mean 'Republican'--in fact,
the book is not very flattering when it comes to GOP fecklessness
in the face of the president's lawlessness. But the main point is:
Faithless Execution argues against partisan hackery. I analyze the
legal case for impeachment as a former prosecutor who would not go
to court without a sufficient case. And as far as the politics
goes, I argue that, despite the sizable majority Republicans hold
in the House, articles of impeachment should not be filed unless
and until there is a strong public will to remove the president
from power--one that transcends party lines. Many Republicans say
an effort to impeach Barack Obama is political suicide for the
Republican Party. How do you respond to this? McCarthy: The failure
to pursue impeachment is likely to be suicide for the country,
which is much more important than the political fate of the
Republican Party. But, again, making the case for
impeachment--which would probably help not only Republicans but any
elected official who defends our constitutional framework--is not
the same as moving forward with articles of impeachment, which
should not happen absent public support. How does the case for
Barack Obama's impeachment compare to the campaigns to impeach
Nixon and Clinton? McCarthy: Obama's presidency is a willful,
systematic attack on the constitutional system of separation of
powers, an enterprise that aims to bring about a new regime of
government by executive decree. This is exactly the kind of
subversion the Framers designed the impeachment power to address.
The Nixon and Clinton episodes involved misconduct that did not aim
to undermine our constitutional framework. You describe impeachment
as a political and not a legal remedy. What's the distinction?
McCarthy: Legally speaking, a president may be impeached for a
single offense that qualifies as "high crimes and misdemeanors"--a
breach of the profound public trust vested in the president, a
violation of his constitutional duty to execute the laws
faithfully. But real impeachment requires the public will to remove
the president from office. You can have a thousand impeachable
offenses, but without that political consensus, impeachment is not
an appropriate remedy.
The first fundamental truth about the "Arab Spring" is that there
never was one. The salient fact of the Middle East, the only one,
is Islam. The Islam that shapes the Middle East inculcates in
Muslims the self-perception that they are members of a civilization
implacably hostile to the West. The United States is a competitor
to be overcome, not the herald of a culture to be embraced. Is this
self-perception based on objective truth? Does it reflect an
accurate construction of Islam? It is over these questions that
American officials and Western intellectuals obsess. Yet the
questions are irrelevant. This is not a matter of right or wrong,
of some posture or policy whose subtle tweaking or outright
reversal would change the facts on the ground. This is simply,
starkly, the way it is. Every human heart does not yearn for
freedom. In the Islam of the Middle East, "freedom" means something
very nearly the opposite of what the concept connotes to Westerners
-- it is the freedom that lies in total submission to Allah and His
law. That law, sharia, is diametrically opposed to core components
of freedom as understood in the West -- beginning with the very
idea that man is free to make law for himself, irrespective of what
Allah has ordained. It is thus delusional to believe, as the West's
Arab Spring fable insists, that the region teems with Jamal
al-Madisons holding aloft the lamp of liberty. Do such
revolutionary reformers exist? Of course they do ...but in numbers
barely enough to weave a fictional cover story. When push came to
shove -- and worse -- the reformers were overwhelmed, swept away by
a tide of Islamic supremacism, the dynamic, consequential mass
movement that beckons endless winter. That is the real story of the
Arab Spring -- that, and the Pandora's Box that opens when an
American administration aligns with that movement, whose stated
goal is to destroy America.
The essays in this volume pose the question common usage has
obscured: was ""the Enlightenment"" truly enlightened or
enlightening? Scholarly investigation has sometimes avoided the
question by confining itself to historical particulars of
18th-century Europe. Yet the most visible proponents of the
Enlightenment, the ""philosophers"", insisted that their project
originated a century earlier, in the writings of the first
self-proclaimed modern ""philosophers"". This volume seeks
philosophical clarity of modernity's enlightenment by beginning
with Bacon, Descartes and Hobbes. Consideration of Pascal, Spinoza,
Leibniz, Hume, Roussea, Lessing and Kant - all philosophical
critics, or reformers, of the Enlightenment - furthers the study of
its legacy by displaying its diversity. Finally, the book indicates
the Enlightenment's vitality by outlining ways it continues to hold
philosophical sway in this century. The contributors discuss
several themes pertaining to the ambition of Enlightenment reason:
justice, tradition and authority; the mastery of nature;
metaphysics and scientific method; enlightened and unenlightened
""dogmatism""; the utilitarian revision of the common good and the
commonly true; Christianity and the limits of enlightened theology;
""theodicy""; aesthetics and political rhetoric; myth, history and
human freedom.
FROM THE AUTHOR: Pearl Harbor galvanized America to convert
peacetime production capacity to war levels, intensify recruiting,
and expand every facet of its military training system. Those of us
who wanted to fly found on Monday, 8 December 1941, that a
difficult written test would satisfy the two years of college
prerequisite to enter the Aviation Cadet aircrew-training program.
We still faced a rigorous physical exam and batteries of
psychological and intelligence evaluations plus specific aptitude
tests. The process was intense, demanding, and time consuming. Only
41 survivors of several hundred original applicants in the Boston
area became aviation cadets on 18 March 1942. Five days later, we
reported to Santa Ana Army Air Base, California, for preflight
training-the first of four phases en route to pilot, navigator, or
bombardier wings. Santa Ana was a new base with no roads or
buildings. Tents were used for every purpose. The wettest rainy
season in years converted the base into a muddy quagmire.
Amazingly, the program stayed on schedule despite almost impossible
living and working conditions. I found a remarkable can-do attitude
to be characteristic of Army personnel in every step of the
training process. Our class opened a new primary flight school in
Scottsdale and a new basic flight school in Marana, both in
Arizona. Neither was ready for occupancy, but the Army made do and
opened on time, producing graduates who met course completion
standards despite obvious handicaps. On 4 January 1943, Class 43-A
graduated from Luke Field on schedule with more than 400 new
pilots. Other advanced flying bases produced similar numbers to
provide a steady flow of young Americans to support theater
requirements for combat aircrews. Operational P-40 training in
Sarasota, Florida, started two weeks later. The schedule provided
the necessary 40 hours for each of us in eight weeks. By the end of
March, we reported to Dale Mabry Field, Tallahassee, Florida, for
overseas processing. With our gear, we boarded a new four-engine
C-54 for Africa via Miami, Trinidad, Belem, Ascension Island, and
Accra. Many of us volunteered to ferry P-40s from Lagos (down the
coast from Accra) through equatorial Africa to Cairo-an unlikely
saga, completed successfully-without maps or navigational aids.
That ferry trip was the first example of an indomitable can-do
determination to complete the mission. That attitude became the
defining characteristic of leadership philosophy in the 57th
Fighter Group. Those selected for positions of greater
responsibility had to demonstrate leadership capability-the ability
to think under pressure and the determination to get the job done.
The last two chapters focus on highlights of the more memorable
missions that took place during two years of bitter fighting
between implacable enemies-one who never gave ground willingly, and
one who never quit trying to find a better way to get the job done.
For the most part, the events are accurate accounts with due
allowance for fallible memories of participants who have survived
some 60 years since these events demanded and received complete
concentration from all who were part of the 57th Fighter Group. At
a recent gathering of old fighter pilots, everyone agreed with the
sequence of the missions but each of us had a different memory of
where we were flying in the formation. Air University.
Imagine if you will, assembling all the great Archeological and
Anthropological Writers of the current century, in one room and
asking them to write a factual book on the Origins and History of
the Human Race. (Objective Researchers and Writers like Von
Daniken, Sagan, Sitchen, Cremo, Wilkens, Hancock, West, Hapgood,
Dunn, Childress, and on and on). Well, for various reasons, this
has never been done, SO I DID IT. After 30 years of quiet research,
visiting sites, and pouring over ancient documents and writings, I
have brought it all together into one "BIG PICTURE" that can be
read and understood by everyone. This "Big Picture" will leave you
amazed, if not angry, that you and millions like you have been so
deceived, for so long. As the expression goes, "The Cat is out of
the bag.."
Romanticism and Speculative Realism features a range of scholars
working at the intersection of literary poetics and philosophy. It
considers how the writing of the Romantic era reconceptualizes the
human imagination, the natural world, and the language that
correlates them in radical ways that can advance current
speculative debates concerning new ontologies and new materialisms.
In their wide-ranging examinations of canonical and non-canonical
romantic writers, the scholars gathered here rethink the
connections between the human and non-human world to envision
speculative modes of social being and ecological politics. Spanning
historical and national frameworks-from historical romanticism to
contemporary post-romantic ecology, and from British and German
romanticism to global modernity-these essays examine life in all
its varied forms in, and beyond, the Anthropocene.
Romanticism and Speculative Realism features a range of scholars
working at the intersection of literary poetics and philosophy. It
considers how the writing of the Romantic era reconceptualizes the
human imagination, the natural world, and the language that
correlates them in radical ways that can advance current
speculative debates concerning new ontologies and new materialisms.
In their wide-ranging examinations of canonical and non-canonical
romantic writers, the scholars gathered here rethink the
connections between the human and non-human world to envision
speculative modes of social being and ecological politics. Spanning
historical and national frameworks-from historical romanticism to
contemporary post-romantic ecology, and from British and German
romanticism to global modernity-these essays examine life in all
its varied forms in, and beyond, the Anthropocene.
Whether the rapt trances of Romanticism or the corpse-like figures
that confounded Victorian science and religion, nineteenth-century
depictions of bodies in suspended animation are read as
manifestations of broader concerns about the unknowable in Anne C.
McCarthy's Awful Parenthesis. Examining various aesthetics of
suspension in the works of poets such as Coleridge, Shelley,
Tennyson, and Christina Rossetti, McCarthy shares important
insights into the nineteenth-century fascination with the sublime.
Attentive to differences between "Romantic" and "Victorian"
articulations of suspension, Awful Parenthesis offers a critical
alternative to assumptions about periodization. While investigating
various conceptualizations of suspension, including the suspension
of disbelief, suspended animation, trance, paralysis, pause, and
dilatation, McCarthy provides historically-aware close readings of
nineteenth-century poems in conversation with prose genres that
include devotional works, philosophy, travel writing, and
periodical fiction. Awful Parenthesis reveals the cultural
obsession with the aesthetics of suspension as a response to an
expanding, incoherent world in crisis, one where the audience is
both active participant and passive onlooker.
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