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Los Romeros : royal family of the Spanish guitar
Spanish âemigrâe guitarist Celedonio Romero gave his American debut performance on a June evening in 1958. In the sixty years since, the Romero Family--Celedonio, his wife Angelita, sons Celâin, Pepe, and Angel, as well as grandsons Celino and Lito--have become preeminent in the world of Spanish flamenco and classical guitar in the United States. Walter Aaron Clark's in-depth research and unprecedented access have produced the consummate biography of the Romero family. Clark examines the full story of their genius for making music, from their outsider's struggle to gain respect for the Spanish guitar to the ins and outs of making a living. Their concerts and recordings, behind-the-scenes musical careers, and teaching have reshaped their instrument's very history. At the same time, the Romeros have organized festivals and encouraged leading composers to write works for guitar as part of a tireless, lifelong effort to promote the guitar and expand its repertoire.
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Archbishop Romero and spiritual leadership in the modern world
This book conclusively demonstrates that by respecting transparency and with dogged perseverance, a nonviolent public leader can become an influential leader, even in times of the most savage repression and marginalization. Archbishop Romero of El Salvador accomplished precisely that through determination, courage, and honing his public skills.
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Dark Directions
A Nightmare on Elm Street . Halloween . Night of the Living Dead . These films have been indelibly stamped on moviegoers’ psyches and are now considered seminal works of horror. Guiding readers along the twisted paths between audience, auteur, and cultural history, author Kendall R. Phillips reveals the macabre visions of these films’ directors in Dark Directions: Romero, Craven, Carpenter, and the Modern Horror Film . Phillips begins by analyzing the works of George Romero, focusing on how the body is used cinematically to reflect the duality between society and chaos, concluding that the unconstrained bodies of the Living Dead films act as a critical intervention into social norms. Phillips then explores the shadowy worlds of director Wes Craven. In his study of the films The Serpent and the Rainbow , Deadly Friend , Swamp Thing , Red Eye , and Shocker , Phillips reveals Craven’s vision of technology as inherently dangerous in its ability to cross the gossamer thresholds of the gothic. Finally, the volume traverses the desolate frontiers of iconic director John Carpenter. Through an exploration of such works as Halloween , The Fog , and In the Mouth of Madness , Phillips delves into the director’s representations of boundaries—and the haunting consequences for those who cross them. The first volume ever to address these three artists together, Dark Directions is a spine-tingling and thought-provoking study of the horror genre. In analyzing the individual works of Romero, Craven, and Carpenter, Phillips illuminates some of the darkest minds in horror cinema.
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Óscar Romero, Ecclesiology, and the Church: Nourished by the Preached Word
Preaching provides a nourishment that both satisfies and creates hunger. The church is a place of preaching, as well as a subject, an object, and a recipient of preaching. In the multidimensional ecclesial–homiletical relationship, proclamation affirms and enhances ecclesial identity, ponders and interprets the received word of the sacred scriptures, offers challenge and consolation, inspires missionary and cultural extension, celebrates holiness, and proclaims temporal and eschatological hope. These six characteristics offer a lens for homiletical exploration and evaluation. The sermons of Óscar Romero, the martyred Archbishop of San Salvador, provided critical nourishment for the people of his country and beyond. This article provides a brief overview of the biographical, pastoral, and theological details of Romero’s life. It then places the six characteristics of the ecclesial–homiletical relationship as a pulpit canopy over a selection of his sermons, revealing the abundant homiletical feast for the church. The preaching ministry of this shepherd nourished his flock through effective and creative engagement with scriptural, magisterial, theological, political, and cultural sources. Óscar Romero shines as an exemplar of homiletical proclamation for ecclesial nourishment.
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Óscar Romero: una teología del símbolo
This article explores the concept of symbol from the perspective of liberation. It applies the notion of symbol to the people who participate in the processes of liberation of those who are poor and excluded from society. They are symbols of God the liberator. In this sense, our study understands the person of Oscar Romero as someone who represents the people who struggle for their liberation, and therefore, as someone who is a symbol of God the liberator. Methodologically, as a first step, this article defines what a symbol is, especially from the perspective of Karl Rahner. Hence, this study understands a symbol as a reality that represents or makes present another reality. As a second step, this article applies the concept of symbol to the figure of Romero in three ways. Firstly, Romero is a symbol of the crucified people, which includes, on one hand, those who are passive and innocent victims of social injustice, and on the other hand, those who actively give their lives and are killed for defending the rights of the poor. Secondly, Romero symbolizes the spirituality of liberation. Having the option for the poor as a basic principle, this spirituality includes love for the poor, the integration between prayer and praxis, the discernment of the signs of the times, and the work for justice and reconciliation. Finally, Romero is a symbol of God’s self-communication in grace. God reveals God’s self in and through symbols. Thus, Romero is a symbol of God the liberator, that is, a God who loves and cares for the poor. However, Romero is a symbol of his people. Therefore, the crucified people represented by Romero are also symbols of God. This analysis concludes that God the liberator, in and through the symbolic figure of Romero, invites all men and women to be symbols of liberating grace.
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Elaboración de nanopartículas de plata sintetizadas a partir de extracto de hojas de romero (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) y su uso como conservante
Las nanopartículas son materiales que pueden llegar a medir entre 1 a 100 nm de longitud, y en la actualidad la propiedad antimicrobiana de las nanopartículas de plata es aprovechada por las industrias para la fabricación de productos de belleza y medicamentos. Las nanopartículas pueden ser sintetizadas a partir de plantas, algas o microorganismos, y también pueden ser obtenidas como productos de combustión. En este estudio se utilizaron extractos de las hojas de romero (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) para la síntesis de nanopartículas de plata (NPs-Ag) con la finalidad de producir un compuesto antimicrobiano para usarse como conservante de frutas. Las NPs-Ag se caracterizaron cualitativa y cuantitativamente mediante análisis fitoquímicos y espectroscopia UV-VIS, presentando una absorción en el rango de 389-418 nm, que corresponde a la resonancia de su plasmón superficial. Además, se empleó la microscopía electrónica de barrido para determinar el tamaño y morfología de las NPs-Ag, observándose una forma esférica de 10 nm de diámetro. Se emplearon dos cepas bacterianas en los ensayos antimicrobianos realizados, la gramnegativa (Escherichia coli) y la grampositiva (Staphylococcus aureus) para comprobar la actividad antimicrobiana de las NPs-Ag. Para E. coli se obtuvo una mejor actividad antibacteriana con un halo de inhibición de 3,21 mm. Posteriormente se usaron las NPs-Ag en manzanas para determinar su uso como conservante, usando la cera de abeja como control untada en la superficie de las frutas, observándose que las nanopartículas sintetizadas alargaron el tiempo de maduración de la frutas.
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The Fornes Frame
A key way to view Latina plays today is through the foundational frame of playwright and teacher Maria Irene Fornes, who has trained a generation of theatre artists and transformed the field of American theatre. Fornes, author ofFefu and Her FriendsandSaritaand a nine-time Obie Award winner, is known for her plays that traverse cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic borders.InThe Fornes Frame: Contemporary Latina Playwrights and the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornes, Anne García-Romero considers the work of five award-winning Latina playwrights in the early twenty-first century, offering her unique perspective as a theatre studies scholar who is also a professional playwright.The playwrights in this book include Pulitzer Prize-winner Quiara Alegría Hudes; Obie Award-winner Caridad Svich; Karen Zacarías, resident playwright at Arena Stage in Washington, DC; Elaine Romero, member of the Goodman Theatre Playwrights Unit in Chicago, Illinois; and Cusi Cram, company member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City.Using four key concepts-cultural multiplicity, supernatural intervention, Latina identity, and theatrical experimentation-García-Romero shows how these playwrights expand past a consideration of a single culture toward broader, simultaneous connections to diverse cultures. The playwrights also experiment with the theatrical form as they redefine what a Latina play can be. Following Fornes's legacy, these playwrights continue to contest and complicate Latina theatre.
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Where myth and archaeology meet: Discovering the Gorgon Medusa’s Lair
Here we report the discovery of ceramic fragments that form part of a Gorgoneion, a ceramic image representation of the Gorgon Medusa. The fragments were found in a deep part of Gorham’s Cave, well known to ancient mariners as a natural shrine, between the 8 th and 2 nd century BCE. We discuss the context of this discovery, both within the inner topography of the cave itself, and also the broader geographical context. The discovery is situated at the extreme western end of the Mediterranean Sea, where it meets the Atlantic Ocean. The location was known to ancient mariners as the northern Pillar of Herakles, which marked the end of the known world. We relate the discovery, and its geographical and chronological context, to Greek legends that situated the lair of the Gorgon sisters at a location which coincides with the physical attributes and geographical position of Gorham’s Cave. We thus provide, uniquely, a geographical and archaeological context to the myth of Perseus and the slaying of the Gorgon Medusa.
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Improvement project in higher education institutions: A BPEP-based model
Improvement projects (IPs) are a fundamental element in any quality management system from any organization. In Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), IPs are constantly implemented to maintain excellence in academic and administrative processes. In this study, we propose a model for IP implementation that is based on the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP). As a part of the model, we propose a series of research hypotheses to be tested. The data used to test the hypotheses were gathered from a questionnaire that was developed after an extensive literature review. The survey was administered to Mexican public HEIs, and more than 700 responses were collected. The data were assessed in terms of convergent and discriminant validity, obtaining satisfactory results. To test the proposed relationships between the model constructs, we utilized Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using the software IBM SPSS Amos. The analysis confirmed the statistical validity of both the model and the hypotheses. In conclusion, our model for IP implementation is a useful tool for HEIs that seek to attain excellence in their processes through IPs.
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