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In "My Universe A Transcendent Reality," Vary describes the
transcendent nature of human consciousness and its relation to
physical being. A theme throughout "My Universe" is that you and I
are simultaneously in transcendent and material domains. Our
consciousness transcends the material and elevates and entwines our
spirits. The foundation for perceiving a transcendent reality
begins with quantum phenomena by means of which we may
experimentally observe evidence of the intertwining of the
transcendent and material - the universe and the cosmos,
respectively. From this foundation we may educe spiritual
interactions that join the universal transcendent reality with the
coagulate material reality, consciousness with physical being, the
implicate with the explicate, separated only by a tenuous
interface. Vary contends that it is incorrect to equate the cosmos
with the universe because the cosmos and all possible multiple
separate cosmoses are but minuscule material subsets of "the
universe" which transcends material reality beyond description or
measure. The gift and power of consciousness is that it joins us to
the transcendent reality and the Mind of God by means of what Vary
terms impossible loops which are revealed by analysis of
quantum-physical phenomena. "My Universe" differs from the current
literature by identifying phenomena that underlie, implement, and
mediate the transcendent nature of consciousness. These reflections
prompted Vary to muse about subtitling "My Universe" as
"Atheist-Scientist's Guide to God."
An unusual life story of an immigrant, who lived through World War
II, went to school under Stalin in Budapest. She studied chemical
engineering and married a fellow engineer. After a short, happy
marriage came the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and she escaped to
Austria, pregnant, without her husband. Mother came to help and
baby arrived in refugee camp. They started a new life in
California, making progress from factory worker, to chemist, to
graduate student, while raising daughter as single parent with
mother's help. Job opportunity offered on East Coast enabled her to
climb up on pioneering female management track to high levels in an
international chemical company. An inspirational story with
reflections and insight into both historical world changes and the
American success story from the perspective of a successful first
generation leader and woman.
Support, celebrate, and grow your best teachers so that they stay
in your school and continue to have maximum impact. Burnout and
teacher turnover are on the rise, yet we often spend more of our
energy on the underperformers. In this powerful book from
bestselling authors Todd Whitaker, Connie Hamilton, T.J. Vari, and
Joseph Jones, you'll learn why it’s crucial to recognize your
best teachers, going beyond superficial gestures of appreciation
and investing in them in deeper ways. The authors show school
leaders how to identify your best teachers and then reveal
strategies for supporting them, including recognizing the
value-cost of teachers’ time; prioritizing appreciation;
controlling the narrative; tailoring professional learning; helping
teachers grow through peer observations as we as beyond the school;
applying data informed feedback; and nurturing self- and
collective-efficacy. Each chapter begins with a powerful story, an
overview of our blind spots, strategies on what we should invest
in, and how to ensure that the whole school profits from your
efforts. There’s also an Initial Deposits feature that provides a
quick, tangible way to get started with each idea. With the helpful
models, tips, and tricks in this book, you won’t just be inspired
to make a change but will be well-equipped to take action. As your
best teachers get better-and-better, your students and the entire
school culture will benefit!
During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the
Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however,
possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent
free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life.
The essays in this volume examine sites of socialist escapes, such
as beaches, campgrounds, nightclubs, concerts, castles, cars, and
soccer matches. The chapters explore the effectiveness of state
efforts to engineer society through leisure, entertainment, and
related forms of cultural programming and consumption. They lead to
a deeper understanding of state-society relations in the Soviet
sphere, where the state did not simply "dictate from above" and
inhabitants had some opportunities to shape solidarities,
identities, and meaning.
Planning for the management of nuclear wastes, whatever their level
of radioactivity, is one of the most important environmental
problems for all societies that produce utility, industrial,
medical, or other radioactive waste products. Attempts to site
low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Western
industrial societies, however, have repeatedly engendered conflicts
between governments, encountered vehement opposition on the part of
local citizen groups, and given rise to overt hostilities among
involved parties. "LLRW Disposal Facility Siting" is the result of
a study designed to learn more about the causes underlying failed
and successful efforts to site LLRW disposal facilities. The study
is based on case histories of LLRW disposal facility siting
processes in six countries. Siting processes in five states within
the United States and in five additional countries are analyzed
using information obtained from public documents and supplemented
by interviews with key participants. The selected states and
countries are major generators of LLRW and each has made efforts to
establish LLRW disposal facilities between 1984 and 1994. They vary
widely in the approaches they have adopted to LLRW management, the
institutional structures developed for managing the siting process,
the means used to involve stakeholders and technical experts in the
facility siting process and the amount and type of data used in
making decisions. The analysis of these case histories provides
general lessons about the advantages, disadvantages, strengths, and
weaknesses of the various approaches that have been attempted or
implemented. The text provides data for academics and researchers
working in the area of environmental management.
Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the
media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating
environmental impacts of the intensive and careless
industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is
known, however, about the social, political and institutional
background of environmental risk management which led to the
present situation, as well as about recent changes. Environment and
Democratic Transition: Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern
Europe provides an overview of the mechanism of policy making, the
role of the scientific community, the environmental movements, and
the public in risk controversies in Central and Eastern Europe from
the 1970s until 1991. The book brings together studies by leading
social scientists from the East and the West who investigate the
economic, legal, institutional, behavioral, social and political
aspects of environmental policy. In addition to analyzing past
histories, most contributions focus also on challenges, pitfalls
and dilemmas that the region's policy makers and environmentalists
must face during the period of transition and into the future.
Support, celebrate, and grow your best teachers so that they stay
in your school and continue to have maximum impact. Burnout and
teacher turnover are on the rise, yet we often spend more of our
energy on the underperformers. In this powerful book from
bestselling authors Todd Whitaker, Connie Hamilton, T.J. Vari, and
Joseph Jones, you'll learn why it’s crucial to recognize your
best teachers, going beyond superficial gestures of appreciation
and investing in them in deeper ways. The authors show school
leaders how to identify your best teachers and then reveal
strategies for supporting them, including recognizing the
value-cost of teachers’ time; prioritizing appreciation;
controlling the narrative; tailoring professional learning; helping
teachers grow through peer observations as we as beyond the school;
applying data informed feedback; and nurturing self- and
collective-efficacy. Each chapter begins with a powerful story, an
overview of our blind spots, strategies on what we should invest
in, and how to ensure that the whole school profits from your
efforts. There’s also an Initial Deposits feature that provides a
quick, tangible way to get started with each idea. With the helpful
models, tips, and tricks in this book, you won’t just be inspired
to make a change but will be well-equipped to take action. As your
best teachers get better-and-better, your students and the entire
school culture will benefit!
Transboundary rivers and lakes are often the remaining new
sources of water that can be developed for human uses. These water
sources were not used in the past because of the many complexities
involved. Written and edited by the world 's leading water and
legal experts, this unique and authoritative book analyses the
magnitudes of the transboundary water problems in different parts
of the world. It also examines difficulties and constraints faced
to resolve these problems.
Sunny cats, sad cats, grinning cats, bad cats, cats with scowls and
cats with jowls ...hand-bound with a silk screened cover, "I Like
Cats" features a gallery of irresistible feline characters from
some of the best-known tribal and folk artists of India. A delight
for cat lovers, art lovers, and artsy cat lovers!
Judyth Vary was once a promising science student who dreamed of
finding a cure for cancer; this expose is her account of how she
strayed from a path of mainstream scholarship at the University of
Florida to a life of espionage in New Orleans with Lee Harvey
Oswald. In her narrative she offers extensive documentation on how
she came to be a cancer expert at such a young age, the
personalities who urged her to relocate to New Orleans, and what
led to her involvement in the development of a biological weapon
that Oswald was to smuggle into Cuba to eliminate Fidel Castro.
Details on what she knew of Kennedy's impending assassination, her
conversations with Oswald as late as two days before the killing,
and her belief that Oswald was a deep-cover intelligence agent who
was framed for an assassination he was actually trying to prevent,
are also revealed.
This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural
history. Studies on the history of urban popular culture and the
entertainment industries increasingly engage with the European or
global circulation of genres, actors, and shows, especially during
the period of massive growth and expansion of the sector from the
1870s to the 1930s. Nevertheless, a large part of this research
remains focused on exchanges between Western and Central European,
and North American metropolises. To provide a fuller picture of the
emergence and cross-border transfer of different genres of popular
culture, this volume investigates Northern, East Central, and
Southern European cities and their relations with each other and
the West. The authors analyze the mediating agents, transnational
networks, and local responses to new forms of entertainment from
Madrid to Vyborg, and from Istanbul to Reykjavik. These examples
re-focus the history of urban popular culture in Europe in view of
multidirectional transfers and a wider range of regional
experiences. Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment will appeal to
researchers and students alike interested in the history of popular
culture in modern societies, particularly those studying urban
centers in Europe, and their transnational and transregional
connections.
In Retention for a Change, we give precise strategies for
motivating, inspiring, and energizing a staff. The goal is to make
your school a place of success for everyone. Teacher retention is a
huge issue that continues to grow, and we believe that this book is
one-of-a-kind in that it tackles a tough topic with practical
solutions.
In Retention for a Change, we give precise strategies for
motivating, inspiring, and energizing a staff. The goal is to make
your school a place of success for everyone. Teacher retention is a
huge issue that continues to grow, and we believe that this book is
one-of-a-kind in that it tackles a tough topic with practical
solutions.
Enables readers to understand the latest developments in speech
enhancement/transmission due to advances in computational power and
device miniaturization The Second Edition of Digital Speech
Transmission and Enhancement has been updated throughout to provide
all the necessary details on the latest advances in the theory and
practice in speech signal processing and its applications,
including many new research results, standards, algorithms, and
developments which have recently appeared and are on their way into
state-of-the-art applications. Besides mobile communications, which
constituted the main application domain of the first edition,
speech enhancement for hearing instruments and man-machine
interfaces has gained significantly more prominence in the past
decade, and as such receives greater focus in this updated and
expanded 2nd edition. In the Second Edition of Digital Speech
Transmission and Enhancement, readers can expect to find
information and novel methods on: Low-latency spectral
analysis-synthesis, single-channel and dual-channel algorithms for
noise reduction and dereverberation. Multi-microphone processing
methods, which are now widely used in applications such as mobile
phones, hearing aids, and man-computer interfaces. Algorithms for
near-end listening enhancement, which provide a significantly
increased speech intelligibility for users at the noisy receiving
side of their mobile phone. Fundamentals of speech signal
processing, estimation and machine learning, speech coding, error
concealment by soft decoding, and artificial bandwidth extension of
speech signals Digital Speech Transmission and Enhancement is a
single-source, comprehensive guide to the fundamental issues,
algorithms, standards, and trends in speech signal processing and
speech communication technology, and as such is an invaluable
resource for engineers, researchers, academics, and graduate
students in the areas of communications, electrical engineering,
and information technology.
During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the
Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however,
possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent
free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life.
The essays in this volume examine sites of socialist escapes, such
as beaches, campgrounds, nightclubs, concerts, castles, cars, and
soccer matches. The chapters explore the effectiveness of state
efforts to engineer society through leisure, entertainment, and
related forms of cultural programming and consumption. They lead to
a deeper understanding of state-society relations in the Soviet
sphere, where the state did not simply "dictate from above" and
inhabitants had some opportunities to shape solidarities,
identities, and meaning.
The time has come for human cultures to seriously think, to
severely conceptualize, and to earnestly fabulate about all the
nonhuman critters we share our world with, and to consider how to
strive for more ethical cohabitation. Reconfiguring Human, Nonhuman
and Posthuman in Literature and Culture tackles this severe matter
within the framework of literary and cultural studies. The emphasis
of the inquiry is on the various ways actual and fictional
nonhumans are reconfigured in contemporary culture - although, as
long as the domain of nonhumanity is carved in the negative space
of humanity, addressing these issues will inevitably clamor for the
reconfiguration of the human as well. The Open Access version of
this book, available at
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/reconfiguring-human-nonhuman-posthuman-literature-culture-sanna-karkulehto-aino-kaisa-koistinen-essi-varis/e/10.4324/9780429243042,
has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non
Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
The Whole Building Handbook is a compendium of all the issues and
strategies that architects need to understand to design and
construct sustainable buildings for a sustainable society. The
authors move beyond the current definition of sustainability in
architecture, which tends to focus on energy-efficiency, to include
guidance for architecture that promotes social cohesion, personal
health, renewable energy sources, water and waste recycling
systems, permaculture, energy conservation - and crucially,
buildings in relation to their place. The authors offer a holistic
approach to sustainable architecture and authoritative technical
advice, on: * How to design and construct healthy buildings,
through choosing suitable materials, healthy service systems, and
designing a healthy and comfortable indoor climate, including
solutions for avoiding problems with moisture, radon and noise as
well as how to facilitate cleaning and maintenance. * How to design
and construct buildings that use resources efficiently, where
heating and cooling needs and electricity use is minimized and
water-saving technologies and garbage recycling technologies are
used. * How to 'close' organic waste, sewage, heat and energy
cycles. For example, how to design a sewage system that recycles
nutrients. * Includes a section on adaptation of buildings to local
conditions, looking at how a site must be studied with respect to
nature, climate and community structure as well as human
activities. The result is a comprehensive, thoroughly illustrated
and carefully structured textbook and reference.
Efficient and equitable water, wastewater and stormwater management
for the megacities is becoming an increasingly complex task. The
special issue will focus on water management in its totality for
megacities, including their technical, social, economic, legal,
institutional and environmental dimensions through a series of
specially invited case studies from different megacities of the
world. At present, around one out of two of the earth's 6.3 billion
people live in urban areas. Each year, the world population grows
by around 80 millions. Practically all of this growth is urban,
primarily due to migration. World's urban population is expected to
reach 5 billion by 2030, which is nearly 2/3rd more than in 2000,
and would mean that 60% of world's population will live in urban
areas. The case studies analysed include some of the most
interesting and challenging megacities of this planet, Dhaka,
Istanbul, Jakarta, Johannesburg, Mexico City, Riyadh and Sao Paulo.
They assess different aspects of how water is intermingled in the
overall development milleau. The book considers the magnitudes,
nature and extent of the present and future challenges and how
these could be meet in socially acceptable and cost-effective ways.
The contributors are all acknowledged water experts from different
parts of the world. This book was previously published as a special
issue of the International Journal of Water Resources Development.
A detailed survey of the main areas of bio-energy and biomass,
solar energy and hydro, wind and water power. The authors address
the advantages and disadvantages of renewable energies, their
appropriateness, and their socio-economic implications.
Guides the reader systematically through the basic methods of
hydrology and site survey and describes how to set up an
appropriate scheme, with detailed technical information; also
covers the essential economic considerations and maintenance
requirements.
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