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Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textOne of the things I have always loved about summer was camping. It was the type of vacation my family could afford, so that is what we did every summer. There was something about the smell of the canvas tent and sitting in there alone with my thoughts, surrounded by nature, that was sacred to me. I find it interesting, that in that particular setting one does not distinguish between plants and weeds (except for maybe poison ivy), but rather appreciates the whole of nature in its splendor.||One of the things I disliked about summer was pulling weeds. Everyday, my mom made us do fifteen minutes of weeding in the yard. I would go out and make a half hearted attempt to clear my section of the yard, waiting impatiently for the fifteen minutes to be up. My mother's words of "make sure you get the roots out, or they'll just grow back" created the sense of guilt I had from my own laziness, as I would just pull the tops in an effort to be done with the chore, As I impatiently pulled away waiting for her to say "time is up", it was rare that I ever pulled the weeds up roots and all despite the tremendous guilt I had laid upon myself.|As I have matured in life, I have tried various ways of eradicating the guilt in my life. My first attempts were through the experience of prayer I had learned as a child. That wasn't working, so I tried various other means. One of these was meditation. It might have been the garden image that attracted me to the guided meditation at a retreat I attended. It gave me a vehicle to relate to my interior landscape. At first all I saw was the beauty of my garden, then through deeper exploration, the weeds began to appear. I started pulling the weeds, but it wasn't until I started pulling down deep to the roots, and trying to throw them into the fire to eradicate them, that I felt my own weeping and gnashing of teeth, through painful experiences that would come up in my life on a regular basis.|It was on an eight-day retreat, as I walked along the road next to a field, picking "weeds" to create a flower arrangement to brighten my room, that I recognized the flower within the weed. As a result of that change in my perspective, my own internal landscape was radically changed. Now I am learning to cultivate my interior garden from this new perspective, weeds and all. Rather than trying to eradicate the weeds, I have begun to cultivate a relationship between the weeds and the plants, so that one does not overtake the other, and the garden can continue to flourish. I am learning to see my own garden the way I saw God’s garden when I was a camper in a tent..
On Nietzsche’s genealogical mode of inquiry
No full textThe subject of this thesis is Friedrich Nietzsche’s methodology, the genealogical mode of inquiry, which came to fruition in On the Genealogy of Morals. The precise nature of the genealogy, as a mode of inquiry, is a site of contest amongst scholars, with the central debates pivoting around four questions which arise upon considering the methodology: (1) what is the critical import of Nietzsche’s genealogical mode of inquiry? (2) What form of critique does it take? (3) To whom does Nietzsche address his reflections? And (4) what role, if any, does history play in Nietzsche’s genealogical narratives? Accordingly, this thesis seeks to offer and to defend answers to the central questions that are generated by the consideration of Nietzsche’s methodology.In order to get a foothold into these debates and to provide the boundary within which these disagreements occur the first chapter has as its object of inquiry an examination and evaluation of Nietzsche scholars’ responses to these issues. In chapter two I defend my interpretation against these rival views, and contend that the genealogy takes the form of an immanent critique, and that it is intended, at least, to reach all of Nietzsche’s contemporaries.The adage “genealogy is history correctly practiced” is treated in the remaining three chapters, in which I attempt to morph what appears to be at present an uninformative formulation into an informative one by arguing that for Nietzsche historiography is best seen as a form of artistry. And, this I submit, serves to shed light upon the genealogical mode of inquiry, and to shape the boundary by which the equation of genealogy as methodology with history becomes instructive
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No full textmug up nmugupThis is Merrick himself writing, on one of his tripsnear [Churchill] Falls, so we could claim and include.MAY. 29 1977Used I and SupUsed I and SupNot use
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
<i>End-of-life decision making: A cross-national study</i>, edited by Robert H. Blank and Janna C. Merrick
No full text Robert H. Blank and Janna C. Merrick, End-of-life decision making: A cross-national study, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005, reviewed by Katherine Wayne </jats:p
Snacks 80--Why Second Life?!
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Snacks 4 the Brain! - Podcasts - Snacks 80--Why Second Life?!" Artist is Vanderbilt University. Composer is Scott Merrick. Snacks 80 brings you a talk I gave to my colleagues at the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach on Friday, Feb. 20th, called "Why Second Life?" Music from guitar virtuoso David Modica and a brief but illuminating TechTipTidbit round out this show
Snacks 42 -- It's a GAS!!!
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Snacks 4 the Brain! - Podcasts - Snacks 42 -- It's a GAS!!!" Scott Merrick talks about Girls and Science Summer Camp (a.k.a. GAS Camp), a project of the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach, and shares audio clips from the camp. One clip is from a session dealing with how physical anthropologists determine the sex of a skeleton; in another clip, Merrick talks to some of the girls at lunch. The podcast opens with an audio clip from the horror spoof movie "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra," leading to the line, "I'm a scientist--I don't believe in anything." Three songs performed by Scott H. Miller are also included, as is a "tech tip tidbit" about how to transfer huge computer files easily.Vanderbilt University. Medical Cente
FIGURE 1 in First records of Hamacantha species from seamounts off eastern Australia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Merliida), with description of four new species
No full textFIGURE 1. Sampling sites of Hamacantha species described in this study.Published as part of <i>Ekins, Merrick, Baker, Soraya & Hooper, John N.A., 2023, First records of Hamacantha species from seamounts off eastern Australia (Porifera, Demospongiae, Merliida), with description of four new species, pp. 382-400 in Zootaxa 5318 (3)</i> on page 384, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5318.3.4, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/8166946">http://zenodo.org/record/8166946</a>
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No full textboil vThe famous berry banks are just above Mininipi, and when we went ashore to boil we picked nearly a quart.PRINTED ITEM (Merrick is using his own version. JH)Nfld or not ? WKW. Kirwin 11/77 JH 11/77Used I and SupUsed I and SupNot use
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
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