Situating safari tourism within the discourses and practices of development, Selling the Serengeti examines the relationship between the Maasai people of northern Tanzania and the extraordinary influence of foreign-owned ecotourism and big-game hunting companies. It contrasts two major approaches to community conservation—international NGO and state-sponsored conservation efforts on the one hand and the neoliberal private investment in tourism on the other—and investigates their profound effect on the Maasai’s culture and livelihood. It further explores how these changing social and economic forces remake the terms through which state institutions and local people engage with foreign investors, communities, and their own territories. And finally it highlights how the new tourism arrangements change the shape and meaning of the nation-state and the village and in the process remake cultural belonging and citizenship. Benjamin Gardner’s experiences in Tanzania began during a study-abroad trip in 1991. His stay led to a relationship with the nation and the Maasai people in Loliondo lasting almost twenty years; it also marked the beginning of his analysis of and ethnographic research into social movements, market-led conservation, and neoliberal development around the Serengeti.

It knows what scares you… A cursed mansion puts a curious house sitter’s free will to the ultimate test. An old polaroid camera holds a monster that yearns to be released. And two brothers encounter a demonic force in the caverns just beyond town… Enter a dreamscape of supernatural terror with Scare Street’s latest collection. This diabolical volume contains fifteen terrifying tales of fear and horror. And each story pulls you deeper into the realm of perpetual night. There’s something eerily familiar about the shadowy landscape you find yourself in. The crumbling old house on the hill, the pale fog rolling through the cemetery, the stone gargoyles perched above ancient tombs…you swear you’ve been here before. But as your breath quickens and your heart beats faster, you realize this is no déjà vu. Something has pierced your consciousness and delved into your darkest nightmares. The spirits have brought your greatest fears to life. And now, they’re hunting you through the darkness… This bone-chilling supernatural collection contains: 1. Down the Stairs by Lewis Brett Smiler 2. Polaroid by Tim Sturk 3. Feline Instinct by Justin Boote 4. Mother Spook by Elin Olausson 5. Review: The Let of Dark by Benjamin Gardner 6. Satan's Harley by Brian Malachy Quinn 7. Shadows of Time by Bradley Walker 8. The White Suits by Richard Beauchamp 9. The Moaning Caverns by Karl Melton 10. The Thing in the Dark by Faith Pierce 11. This Time of Night by Bill Davidson 12. The Black Pumpkin by Mike Weitz 13. The Lightning Dwellers by Michael Maguire 14. The Detective by J. M. White 15. Reading a New Book by Ron Ripley

Petition, Charleston, South Carolina, of J.B. Gardner, candidate for alderman from Ward 11 on the Stoney ticket, citing reasons for requesting a second count and tabulation of the poll watchers for Stoney and John P. Grace and other persons present. Includes petition signed by Gardner stating, "that the boxes from Ward Eleven now under consideration by the [City Democratic] Executive Committee [of Charleston, South Carolina], to wit Ward Eleven Club 1, A to L, and Ward Eleven Club 1 M to Z, should be counted and tabulated" for six enumerated reasons, with sworn testimonies from managers and watchers of Ward Eleven Club 1, A to L (Power, Johnson, Strobel, LaVergne, Millar, Healy) and M to Z (Wade, Bikle, Hilton, Smith, Garvin, Phillips, Poppenheimer, Moorer), along with those of nearby onlookers (Lee, Hoffing, Downs, Cottingham).

This case study will take you through the development and implementation processes of a study utilizing an innovative design strategy: ecological momentary assessment plus (EMA+). EMA+ studies involve repeated quantitative sampling of participants' current psychosocial and behavioral experiences with qualitative supplemental components. As an example of how EMA+ can reveal insight into dynamic behavioral and psychosocial experiences, we describe our study on a unique work roster style, fly-in, fly-out, in which workers are temporarily relocated for on-shift times and return to their residency for off-shift times. We take you through our decision-making and implementation processes from idea generation to dissemination of scientific publications. The topics we cover include managing an EMA+ study with a modest budget, coordinating project management, and how to capture rich qualitative and quantitative data across time to reveal comprehensive perspectives on the participants' experiences. What started as interest in the dynamics of partners managing physical and mental health amid arduous work rosters of fly-in, fly-out workers resulted in the very first study to investigate the day-to-day mental and physical health of both fly-in, fly-out workers and their partners, enriched with qualitative data. Our EMA+ design allowed us to investigate dyads (worker and their partner) across time (daily assessments for 14 days) and between contexts (on-shift at work [partners living apart] and off-shift at home [partners living together]). Relations between behavior and psychosocial experiences can be complex and change rapidly over time; such dynamic processes can be studied and analyzed cost-effectively through EMA+ designs.

Transmedia design is a vital and growing practice in digital entertainment. In transmedia storytelling, a narrative is told across multiple physical and digital platforms. By taking inspiration from the interactive stories and emergent systems found in video games, I hypothesize that well-designed visual art, music, and interaction can deliver a compelling transmedia narrative. As a case study, I recount and analyze the conception, design, development, execution, and iteration of an original transmedia franchise, Rite of Passage. By drawing comparisons between pixel and ASCII art, trance music, the philosophy of the microcosm, and the dynamics of community gathering, I describe a personal process of worldbuilding for transmedia design. My collaborators and I then reveal the world of Rite of Passage through a cassette release, various forms of graphic design, and the production of an immersive audiovisual event. In order to develop the visual content for this production, I explore a media design workflow consisting of intertwined technical development and aesthetic curation. In this workflow, the technical development of generative visual systems and the curation of those systems result in a dialogue between the designer and the computer. A cohesive narrative is thus devised retroactively in accordance with the established worldbuilding. I consider this an emergent system, which is a system that experiences unique properties and behaviors that arise from the interactions of its individual elements

Daily Prophetic Decrees from God's Heart to the Christian woman today. Words of hope, encouragement, directions, instructions, and Divine Revelatory declarations, that will change your life forever.