The Ties That Bind Online Free
Toccara Delacerda
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Around the same time we rescued Kiko, Pea and Pod came into our care. These orphaned ostrich chicks were unexpectedly handed to our Keepers during an elephant rescue mission in northern Kenya. While Pod was always very independent, as male ostriches are wont to be, Pea adored her Nursery family. She would shepherd the baby elephants around with great importance, allowing them to suckle her legs and blanketing them protectively with her wings. We see echoes of Pea in Bristle, the orphaned ostrich we are currently raising at our Kaluku Field HQ. Bristle has grown very fond of Rukinga the oryx, and the pair often spend time resting side-by-side in the soft grass. While Bristle prudently gives Apollo a much wider berth, he often joins the rhino down at the mud bath for a wallow in companionable proximity.
Interspecies friendships are very common in our world, but some still take us by surprise. Over at Voi, we are seeing the most remarkable bond blossoming between Ngilai the elephant and Ivia the buffalo. These two are like brothers, drawn together by a shared love of play. Not a single day passes without one seeking out the other for friendly pushing matches and races. After exhausting all the games in their repertoire, they often settle down for a cuddle. It is quite incredible to witness Ngilai gently wrapping his trunk around Ivia, one friend hugging another.
Angela Sheldrick produces Field Notes as a special monthly email, providing her personal insight into varying aspects of Kenya's wildlife and habitats, along with the work of the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. To be the first to receive future editions of Field Notes, please subscribe here.
Part of the Historical Essay Series, this essay focuses on orphans shipped from eastern cities to live with Minnesota farm families. This essay describes orphan train children's lives and the harsh lives that many were forced to live in the West.
The Historical Essay Series is edited by Dr. Joseph Amato, former director of Rural Studies, with the assistance of Donata DeBruyckere, Janice Louwagie, and Dr. Thaddeus Radzilowski. It is published by the Southwest Minnesota State University History Department, the History Club, the History Center, and the Rural Studies program. It is partially sponsored and distributed by the Society for the Study of Local and Regional History. Assisting with the publication are Southwest Minnesota State University Word Processing Center and Duplicating Services. Additional thanks for supporting go to the State University Q7 Initiative Fund.
In partnership with AidData, CSIS, and ASPI, the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore co-hosted a conference to launch the report on June 26th, 2018. Four panel discussions and a lunch keynote, all featuring experts from around the world, dove deeper into the reach and influence of Chinese public diplomacy and the policy implications for countries across the Asia-Pacific. Visit the event page to watch the conference recordings.
There is a growing consensus that Beijing has dramatically increased the volume and sophistication of its public diplomacy efforts under President Xi Jinping. Yet there has historically been a lack of quantifiable data to assess the scope and downstream consequences of these activities.
In addition to extensive quantitative data, the reports draws from on-the-ground insights from over 70 government officials, civil society and private sector leaders, academics, journalists, and foreign diplomats in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Fiji, and interviews with public diplomacy scholars and practitioners.
This study was conducted with generous support from the United States Department of State and in partnership with the Asia Society Policy Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The report's findings and conclusions are those of its authors alone, and do not necessarily reflect the views of funder and partner organizations.
In this one-week NCTA Summer Institute, 17 participants will explore Chinese, Japanese and Korean culture and history in Honolulu, with the goal of deepening their understanding of the connections between the U.S. and East Asia through the people, places and events found there--both in the past and the present. The institute will feature daily field trips, hands-on cultural experiences, and guided tours by local experts. Topics to be covered will likely include historical events in China, Japan and Korea with a Hawaii connection; where immigrants came from and why; current ties; prominent historical figures; and cultural identity. This institute is ideal for US History, World History and Geography teachers at the secondary level.
Application is open to full-time, in-service K-12 NCTA alumni nationwide, with priority given to educators from the Northeast. Applicants must have completed at least 20 hours of NCTA programming, preferably an introductory multi-session seminar, conducted by one of the seven NCTA national coordinating sites. Participants will be required to complete a series of online pre-departure orientation modules, including readings and online discussion forum responses, in April-May 2023, and a follow-up project to be completed by August 25, 2023.
Funding: Ties that Bind: Honolulu is funded by the Freeman Foundation for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia at the Five College Center for East Asian Studies. Please read the Program Expenses section in the information and application document for important information.
The summer institute is administered by FCCEAS director Dr. Anne Prescott, director of the Center, and NCTA consultants John Frank and Lynn Parisi. Questions about the summer institute should be directed to Anne at apre...@fivecolleges.edu; 413-585-3754.
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First NRC had its origins in a group that left First Christian Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1868. The NRC group was composed almost completely of Zeelanders who had arrived within a few years of each other. They shared a similar Dutch regional dialect, ethnic heritage, and in many cases direct family ties. Many also had come from the same Reformed denomination in the Netherlands, the Church Under the Cross, which was a more conservative-minded offshoot of the 1834 Seceders who formed what eventually became the Gereformeerde Kerken in the Netherlands and the Christian Reformed Church in North America. (In 1868 the CRC was known as the True Dutch Reformed Church.)
Now existing as a separate congregation, the group sought to call a minister whom they felt shared their doctrinal and cultural background more closely than the Christian Reformed congregation had. They found such a person in Rev. Cornelius Kloppenburg, a pastor serving in the Church Under the Cross, in the Netherlands.
The congregation met in a Swedenborgian church building on the corner of North Division and Lyon Street until 1872, when its own building was ready. Their first elders were Klaas Smit and John Sinke, and their first deacons were Gerrit De Graaf and Willem Freeze. They eventually named themselves the Nederduitsche Gereformeerde Gemeente, or Netherlands Reformed Congregation.
Two months after the congregation was organized, discord within its ranks resulted in the consistory being discharged. At a meeting on 3 May 1871, the congregation elected a new consistory, this time without Smit who with his family left yet another congregation.
Kloppenburg served the First Netherlands Reformed Congregation until his death in 1876. Shortly after this, a minister and elder from First CRC attended a council meeting of First NRC. He attempted to persuade the congregation to return to the CRC, since the two were so closely aligned in doctrine.
Formal relationships with other Reformed congregations were a source of debate during these times. This was particularly true as it concerned the Covell Avenue congregation, another group of Zeeland immigrants. Generally, The Covell Avenue congregation had a lower socioeconomic status and had a different emphasis on immediate religious experience than First NRC. Despite on-and-off and sometimes strained relationships between the two congregations, Covell Avenue would eventually become part of the Netherlands Reformed Churches.
In 1947, the Rev. William C. Lamain, also a Zeelander by birth, arrived from the Netherlands. Taking English-language studies at Calvin College with Professor Albertus J. Rooks, Lamain preached at both the Dutch-speaking First NRC and the English-speaking Ottawa Avenue NRC. Lamain was a respected and generally beloved figure in his congregation. Under his leadership, First NRC grew. By 1970, one century after its founding, the congregation listed 640 professing and 707 baptized members. For thirty-seven years, Lamain served First NRC until his death in 1984.
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