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    Supporting Information - Gallagher et al. (2023) Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora. Plants, People, Planet.

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    Supporting Information, including all data and code to reproduce analyses, from Gallagher RV, Allen SP, Govaerts R, Rivers MC, et al. (2023) Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora. Plants, People, Planet

    Early childhood studies in a polarised dystopia: Pedagogy as ethical leadership in education

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    Young children today face intergenerational inequality as a consequence of ecological, economic and humanitarian crises. ‘The future’ is characterised by unpredictability and insecurity. So how might early childhood education and care adapt to this dystopian global picture? This chapter explores the use of Levitas’s (2013) Utopia as Method in an Early Childhood Studies (ECS) undergraduate module that explicitly aims to engage students with future-oriented practice. This method sees students articulate characteristics of ‘the good life’ as seen by a variety of perspectives, including their own personal viewpoint and from the point of view of national policy, and synthesising these perspectives into a vision of childhood utopia. Students propose practicable and critical action to improve children’s experiences of childhood. Predictably, students’ visions of childhood utopia frequently share common characteristics: a child-centred focus, active engagement with key people, community spaces and meaningful relationships. Predictably, too, students’ visions of the good life differ. This chapter analyses the various ways ‘ethics’ are brought into focus through the module. It addresses the compatibility and incompatibility of students’ respective constructions of the good life and how these might be resolved when we find ourselves to be poles apart in what constitutes our respective utopia. It also analysis the way in which students’ and tutors’ explorations of utopia suggest directions for the leadership of ECS in dystopian times

    Adam Gallagher and Solomon Garçon as Jogmode, Performance as part of Fake Barn Country at Jaguar Shoes

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    "Join us for an event accompanying the exhibition Fake Barn Country at Raven Row, with readings, performance and music by Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Stuart McKenzie, Rachal Bradley, Adam Gallagher and Solomon Garçon as Jogmode, and The Rebel.

    Tennessee roads / Jesse Stuart. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.

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    This picturesque poem was written by then-sophomore (and future celebrated author) Jesse Stuart about the roads of Tennessee

    No. 617 Stuart Ruckman

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    Transcript (12, 40 pages) of two interviews by Matt Driscoll with Stuart Ruckman on April 9, 2010, and July 7, 2011Ruckman (b. 1966) was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Stuart shares how his family, particularly his father, played a significant role in introducing him to the outdoors. Some of his initial explorations included a hike to the top of Mount Olympus when he was five years old, backpacking trips in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, and a successful summit attempt on the Grand Teton when he was twelve. Stuart discovered technical rock climbing due to the influence of his older brother Bret, five years Stuart\u27s senior. Bret learned under Dennis Turville, a well-respected Salt Lake climbing instructor. Stuart shares his observations on the Salt Lake climbing community of the late 1970s and 1980s, noting the intimacy of the community, while also pointing out the significant influence of a handful of climbers, including Merrill Bitter, Les Ellison, and Brian Smoot. He briefly describes the proliferation of new-route development in the Wasatch during his first decade in climbing. In collaboration with his brother Bret, Stuart published comprehensive guidebooks on climbing in the Wasatch Mountains. Stuart\u27s contributions as a first-ascensionist and co-author of Rock Climbing the Wasatch Range attest to his lasting impact on Utah climbing. Interview is part of the Outdoor Recreation History Project. Interviewer: Matt Driscol

    George MacLeod’s open-air preaching: performance and counter-performance

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    Stuart Blythe uses the methodology of performance to analyse George MacLeod’s open-air preaching. He points out that MacLeod’s preaching was derived from a theology of the incarnation, and an understanding of the paradoxes and dichotomies of common human life. This preaching, Blythe suggests, was also a counter-performance in the context of outlooks and ideologies inimical to the gospel. The paper raises interesting issues related to preaching as performance, and the further question as to whether or not the life and work of the Church as a whole might now be better understood as a counter-performance.Publisher PD

    Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart

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    The idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since 1949, suggest that it is impressive and important. First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work. Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work

    John Stuart Mill’s projected science of society: 1827-1848

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    The purpose of the thesis is to examine John Stuart Mill’s political thought from about 1827 to 1848 as an exercise in intellectual history. It focuses, first, on Mill’s view, formulated by the late 1830s, that contemporary society was ‘civilized’, and second, on his project of a science of society, which he aspired to develop in the late 1830s and early 1840s. By the late 1830s, Mill came to the view that his contemporary society was a ‘commercial society or civilization’, dominated by the middle, commercial class. The first part of my thesis, constituted by Chapters 2-4, discusses the way in which Mill formed his notion of civilization, and what he meant by the term ‘civilization’. Mill paid attention to the implications of the rise of the middle class, and regarded such phenomena of contemporary society as the corruption of the commercial spirit and excessive social conformity as an inevitable consequence of the rise of the middle class. The second part of the thesis, constituted by Chapters 5-9, examines Mill’s projected science of society. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Mill attempted to develop a new science of society whose subject-matter was the nature and prospects of commercial, civilized society. This aspiration culminated in A System of Logic, published in 1843. In examining Mill’s projected science, I pay particular attention to the fact that he conceived new sciences of history and of the formation of character, both of which were indispensable in his project, although he failed to give a complete account of these sciences. My thesis shows that the implications of his interest both in history and in the formation of character are more significant than Mill scholars have assumed

    Improving productivity with dairy farm performance

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    How productive can a dairy farm be? What options are available to dairy farmers to increase their productivity and profitability? How can you reduce milk production costs effectively? These are the kinds of questions that dairy farmers are, or should be, asking leading up to and immediately after deregulation. These questions, and many more, can be answered by participating in Agriculture Western Australia\u27s (AGWEST) Dairy Farm Performance (DFP) Program. David Windsor, Ken Crawford, Stuart Gallagher and Vicki Staines report on DFP and the benefits being generated for dairy farmers in Western Australia

    Improving productivity with dairy farm performance

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    How productive can a dairy farm be? What options are available to dairy farmers to increase their productivity and profitability? How can you reduce milk production costs effectively? These are the kinds of questions that dairy farmers are, or should be, asking leading up to and immediately after deregulation. These questions, and many more, can be answered by participating in Agriculture Western Australia\u27s (AGWEST) Dairy Farm Performance (DFP) Program. David Windsor, Ken Crawford, Stuart Gallagher and Vicki Staines report on DFP and the benefits being generated for dairy farmers in Western Australia
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