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https://www.williamsandcopublishing.com/freeebook | 2023-10-01T18:42:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510924.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001173415-20231001203415-00653.warc.gz | 0.928423 | 133 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__215675636 | en | Join my email list to get your FREE copy of Fountain of Power, an exciting prequel short story of the Fountains of Power series.
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https://doc.dakaiweixin.com/channel/HJ_BizEnglish/2650331750001.html | 2018-06-25T15:51:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267868135.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625150537-20180625170537-00275.warc.gz | 0.850481 | 1,012 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__219678532 | en | The Chinese movies and TV dramas of these days are sick.
This has become a common sense now.
No matter how ridiculous the plot is, no matter how absurd the background is, as long as it’s a major IP in net literature, there would always be people willing to film it. And they would undoubtedly film them with some young hype-celebrities.
Actually you can find a lot of big-budget productions among them, but usually they ended up really bad.
Movies like Once Upon A Time and Legend of Ravaging Dynasties are almost provocation against the bottom line of the Chinese audience.
But right in such a morbid market, there is a woman striding against the storm.
Her novels are not really highly popular. And in fact they belong to serious literature. But famous directors keep recomposing her novels into movies and the movies usually became not only commercial triumphs but also creative masterpieces.
Most of the cases were that the movies got phenomenal and in return boasted the sales of the books.
The directors who came to her include Li’an, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Aijia.
And the original book for the Feng Xiaogang movie was even a requirement from Feng himself right in the beginning.
That movie is the upcoming Youth.
And the name of that woman behind this movie is Yan Geling.
So far, there have been more than 10 Yan Geling books which were recomposed onto the big-screen.
The most famous one among them all may be The Flowers of War.
Before that, there were The Sent-Down Girl and Siao Yu.
The Sent-Down Girl was starred by Li Xiaolu. Siao Yu was starred by Liu Ruoying. And their bright careers both started from the roles they played in Yan's movies.
After that, there was Coming Home.
The astonishing acting skills that Gong Li and Chen Daoming showed in it were really marvelous.
The high frequency of having works recomposed into movies made Yan Geling quite unique among the serious writers.
If not for her, the Chinese movie industry would be in unbearable darkness.
The reason that all these major directors are so fond of Yan Geling is that her novels really have a signature touch.
Her words are not just words. They are words with images. And this makes them superbly suitable for recomposing into movies.
For example, these sentences are a description from Youth:
“Right at the moment that Ding Ding turned her head, her earphones dropped on the floor. Liu Feng eagerly bent down to pick them up for her, and when he tried to straight up again he suddenly felt a chill from the back of his neck. A drop of water sneaked in along the collar of his white polyester shirt.”
This is her style: sharp.
When she tells a story, she does not just use sentences. She uses scenes.
Her personal life experience contributed a lot in her writing.
Originally, she was a playwright.
In the 1980s, Yan Geling had published her own plays and some of them were even filmed.
Early in her twenties, she was already a playwright with some fame.
And as time went by, this sense of scenes became an intuition for her. It became ubiquitous in the words she wrote.
But she didn’t just wanted to be a playwright.
The role she set for herself was a novelist.
And her rich experience made this so natural.
She spent her childhood as a little girl in the community of the writers’ association.
She served in the army when she was a teenager.
After she turned 30 she set out on her journey to study in the USA and later became an outstanding icon among the overseas Chinese writers.
After that she married to Laurence, a US diplomatist, and traveled the world as the wife of an ambassador.
Now she is also a Hollywood scriptwriter.
Her novels are touching, and so are the movies that they became.
If you watch The Flowers of War, you’ll feel how exquisite and subtle the emotions in it are.
And interwoven among these emotions is the complexity of humanity.
What’s precious is that these are all real feelings, not some forged sentiments.
Yan Geling herself once said: “What I hate the most is forged sentiment.”
And that’s why she loves movies but does not like TV dramas at all.
She is trying to tell this country through her works: Our audience does have patience and what’s popular can also be serious at the same time.
It’s just that the kind of people who know how to hold all these elements together are really rare.
And too many other people are just fickle. | literature |
http://derekearis.tripod.com/evser.html | 2019-05-24T03:57:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257497.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524024253-20190524050253-00504.warc.gz | 0.984601 | 878 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__124815370 | en | Tr 17b Ev “Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down.” So the Negro spiritual celebrates one of the best known stories in the Bible. The Israelites led by priests sounding the trumpet, marching round the walls of Jericho which finally, by God’s mighty power, crumbled to the ground.
The OT does indeed contain wonderful stories asnd episodes fo which this is one. Surely there is more than a grain of truth in it for the Israelites clearly did reach and conquer the promised land and they must have defeated the city of Jericho in order to make progress.
To understand the capture of Jericho we should go a few stages back to when Moses was alive. For Moses had already defeated two important kings – Sihon, king of the Ammorites and Og king of Bashan. Sihon’s capital was at Hesbon and his domains lay to the east of the Dead Sea. He refused peaceful passage to Moses and paid the price, for Moses and the Israelites attacked and defeated him and took all his lands. They caught him at an unlucky moment for he had recently expanded his kingdom in the war against the Moabites but had not had time to establish sure control. As for Og, king of Bashan, he was a larger than life character in every sense of the word. Renowned for his enormous bulk, he had a massive and specially constructed iron bedstead to lie on – the Daniel Lambert of Bashan. He also was attacked and defeated, the Israelites picking off the kings one by one. All of this is important because reports of the Israelites rapidly spread to surrounding Kingdoms and cities like Jericho. Here was an invader with fearsome and highly skilled troops who had already defeated mighty kings and nations. Moreover they were rumoured to have a supreme deity on their side who was invincible. No wonder foreigners were afraid, no wonder the morale of those in Jericho was low. There had been thorough preparations for the capture of the city. Spies had been sent and looked after by a woman of dubious morality called Rahab. Seeing which way the wind was blowing she helped the Israelites escape by a rope over the city wall. The time was ripe for invasion. The military tactics were unorthodox to say the least – marching round the wall blowing a trumpet for several days and then uttering a mighty shout. Or were they also unorthodox. For if fear was the name of the game there can hardly be any more effective tactics than these. The Israelites did not have conventional siege equipment but they did have skill and cunning and were convinced of the protection of almighty God, the commander of the Lord’s army. The inhabitants hearing the enemy, learning more about them, fearing them, their morale ground ever lower and lower. When finally all or part of the wall crumbled they were easy pray. Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and won it by the walls tumbling down. Walls, no doubt crumbled with decay and complacency collapsing aginst the new force of God’s people. We too erect walls round ourselves. Walls that insulate us from others, that seek to keep our assets and resources for ourselves and ourselves alone, walls that try to contain our thoughts so that we are not disturbed by ideas from God’s Holy Spirit. Walls of complacency and pride and selfishness, like Oscar Wilde’s famous story of the selfish giant who walled himself in a garden of perpetual winter so that no one else could enjoy it until at last seeing the error of his ways he let the spring in and the children and the birds and bees and the garden came full of love. God does not use conventional battery equipment to breach our walls. He uses the persistence of his presence, just like he used the persistence of the presence of the Israelites in that brief siege of Jericho. The trumpet of worship heralds his presence and love, the love shown to us by Christ, can melt down all that stands in the way of us and God. May we be open to the love in our lives and let the fresh air of his presence invade all that is cold and dark. May our surrender be not defeat but victory, victory that enters us into our promised land, the land where God and his love dwells for ever. Amen | literature |
http://www.abhinavpandey.com/blog/ | 2017-12-17T21:32:49 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948597585.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217210620-20171217232620-00357.warc.gz | 0.967542 | 4,130 | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__169415659 | en | The picture can only be hopelessly ironic, for the billions of atoms that have come together over a billion years to create Life, when the realization dawns upon that their combined whole (human being) has got no idea what to do with his Life.
The answer to this universal question should be an equally universal one. What is it?
The answer— and, in a sense, the tragedy of life— is that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your perspective has changed. It’s not the fireman who has changed, but you. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.
So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything other than galloping neurosis?
The answer, then, must not deal with goals at all, or not with tangible goals, anyway.
A man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal), he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform to his own abilities and desires).
In short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a predefined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important.
Let’s assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all predefined paths, of course). And let’s assume that you can’t see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN— and here is the essence of all I’ve said— you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH.
It is important that we understand the obstacles that we face and not run from them.
- Acknowledge that all emotions come from within. It is not outside forces that make us feel something, it is what we tell ourselves that create our feelings.
- Find someone you respect, and use them to stay honest. This isn’t an exercise of comparison, but a pragmatic way to learn from your heroes.
- Recognize their is life after failure. No failure, no growth. To grow without failure requires extremely driven individual. Neither success nor failure, nothing should stop you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all other qualities that maketh a man.
- Read purposefully, and apply your knowledge. Books are the training weights of the mind. Exemplify that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person, and ultimately spark action and facilitate wiser decisions.
- Challenge yourself to be brutally honest. A consciousness of wrongdoing is first step to salvation. Play the first part of prosecutor, then of judge and finally of pleader in mitigation.
- Reflect on what you spend the most time on. The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object; better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.
- Remind yourself: you weren’t meant to procrastinate. You weren’t born to feel ‘nice’, but to do things and experience them. The plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees are going about their individual tasks. So should you.
- Put the phone away and be present. Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company. We are not living in an age of distractions, but rather an age where we are failing to teach and embrace mindful motives. When you are working, be ruthlessly present.
- Time is our most precious resource. To regret, even more so to die with regret, is the most horrible human emotion. Therefore, our self-respect, work ethic, generosity, self-awareness, attention and grown are evermore important.
The way we lead our lives and do our work must embody the principles that we practice. Less comparing, criticizing, and consuming; more creating, learning and living.
Destructive emotions result from error in judgement, and a person of “moral and intellectual perfection” would not suffer from such emotions.
What I learnt from my favorite anime character:
- Persevere against all odds, because you must, you can, and you shall.
- Bring happiness everywhere you go.
- Always try to go to the next level.
- Push others to new levels of greatness.
- Stand-up for those that need your abilities.
Ends up me being always happy, and finding positives in every situation.
People only buy something if they believe it will solve a problem. Therefore, if you want to sell more stuff than there are problems, you have to encourage people to believe there are problems where there are none.
The problem with most people today is, they believe that they are as smart as their smartphones
The incessant hunger and subsequent gratification of monkey-see-monkey-do-like approval and admiration on social media has got most people so addicted that in the face of most minimal of disapproval or criticism, a kind of self-defense module powered by ego, rage, diversion and mood-swings gets triggered, and transports the self into a shell, wherein no scope of logical arguments exists.
Is it worth a tear, is it worth an hour,
To think of things that are well outworn;
Of fruitless husk and fugitive flower,
The dream foregone and the deed foreborne?
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.
Freedom aggravates at least as much as it alleviates frustration. Freedom of choice places the whole blame of failure on the shoulders of the individual. And as freedom encourages a multiplicity of attempts, it unavoidably multiplies failure and frustration. Freedom alleviates frustration by making available the palliatives of action, movement, change and protest.
Unless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.
The Western colonizing powers offer the native the gift of individual freedom and independence. They try to teach him self-reliance. What it actually amounts to is individual isolation. It means cutting off an immature and poorly furnished individual from a corporate whole and releasing him to the freedom of his own impotence.
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
This minding of other people’s business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor’s shoulder or fly at his throat.
The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. We are therefore more ready to imitate those who are different from us than those nearly like us, and those we admire than those we despise. The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.
Imitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure.
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need of something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives. Hence the embracing of a substitute will necessarily be passionate and extreme. We can have qualified confidence in ourselves, but the faith we have in our nation, religion, race or holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising. A substitute embraced in moderation cannot supplant and efface the self we want to forget. We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it. The readiness to die is evidence to ourselves and others that what we had to take as a substitute for an irrevocably missed or spoiled first choice is indeed the best there ever was.
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like giving a hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.
Not one of our contemporary movements was so outspoken in its antagonism toward the family as was early Christianity. Jesus minced no words: “For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.”
The permanent misfits are those who because of a lack of talent or some irreparable defect in body or mind cannot do the one thing for which their whole being craves. No achievement, however spectacular, in other fields can give them a sense of fulfillment. Whatever they undertake becomes a passionate pursuit; but they never arrive, never pause. They demonstrate the fact that we can never have enough of that which we really do not want, and that we run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.
The permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement. By renouncing individual will, judgement and ambition, and dedicating all their powers to the service of an eternal cause, they are at last lifted of the endless treadmill which can never lead them to fulfillment.
Those who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. It is a device to camouflage their shortcomings. For when we fail in attempting the impossible, the blame is solely ours; but when we fail in attempting the impossible, we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task. There is less risk in being discredited when trying the impossible than when trying the possible. It is thus that failure in everyday affairs often breeds an extravagant audacity.
The readiness for self-sacrifice is contingent on an imperviousness to the realities of life. He who is free to draw conclusions from his individual experience and observation is not usually hospitable to the idea of martyrdom. For self-sacrifice is an unreasonable act. It cannot be the end-product of a process of probing and deliberating. All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and there is no truth or certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.
So tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.
To rely on the evidence of senses and of reason is heresy and treason. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. Strength of faith manifests itself not in moving mountains but in not seeing mountains to move.
It is obvious, therefore, that in order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but rather has to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength. Once we understand a thing, it is as if it had originated in us. And, clearly, those who are asked to renounce the self and sacrifice it cannot see eternal certitude in anything which originates in that self. The fact that they understand a thing fully impairs its validity and certitude in their eyes. The devout are always urged to seek the absolute truth with their hearts and not their minds.
If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to unverifiable. One has to get in to heaven or distant future to determine the truth of an effective doctrine. When some part of doctrine is relatively simple, there is a tendency among the faithful to complicate and obscure it. Simple words are made pregnant with meaning and made to look like symbols in a secret message. Thus there is an illiterate air about the most literate of true believer. He seems to use words as if he were ignorant of their true meaning. Hence, too, his taste for quibbling, hair-splitting and scholastic tortuousness.
The fanatic is convinced that the cause he holds on to is monolithic and eternal. Still, his sense of security is derived from his passionate attachment and not the excellence of his cause. The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness and holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold on to.
The fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to his reason or moral sense. He fears compromise and cannot be persuaded to qualify the certitude or righteousness of his holy cause. But he finds no difficulty in swinging suddenly and wildly from one holy cause to another. He cannot be convinced but only converted. His passionate attachment is more vital than the quality of the cause to which he is attached.
There is perhaps no surer way of inflicting ourselves with virulent hatred toward a person than by doing him a grave injustice. That others have a just grievance against us is a more potent reason for hating them than that we have a just grievance against them. We do not make people humble and meek when we show them their guilt and cause them to be ashamed of themselves. We are more likely to stir their arrogance and rouse in them a reckless aggressiveness.
“When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o’er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: “Thru Time I’ll save my love!” he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . .
-Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: “Who’d learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there”. . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.”
Nothing is Impossible, but most of it is Unbelievable.
- Never lose hope until its over.
- Never celebrate too early.
- Never leave your you place before the battle is over.
The only thing more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack is finding a needle in a needlestack.
The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes. It occurs because we fail to recognize that our future selves won’t see the world the way we see it now.
Anything one needs to market heavily is necessarily either an inferior product or an evil one.
What Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.
Keeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man/ People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas there are.
In political systems, a good mechanism is one that helps remove the bad guy; it’s not about what to do or who to put in. For the bad guy can cause more harm than the collective actions of good ones.
It is completely wrong to use the calculus of benefits without including the probability of failure.
To understand the future, you do not need technoautistic jargon, obsession with “killer apps”, these sort of things. You just need the following: some respect for the past, some curiosity about the historical record, a hunger for the wisdom of the elders, and a grasp of the notion of “heuristics”, the often unwritten rules of thumb so determining of survival.
Our perceptions are not the result of a physiological process by which our eyes somehow transmit an image of the world into our brains, but rather, they are the result of psychological process that combines what our eyes see with what we already think, feel, know, want, and believe, and then uses this combination of sensory information and preexisting knowledge to construct the perception of reality.
Once upon a time there was a bearded God who made a small, flat earth, pasted it in the very middle of sky so that human beings would be at the center of everything. Then physics came along and complicated the picture with big bangs, quarks, branes, and superstrings, and the payoff for all that critical analysis is that now, several hundred years later, most people have no idea where they are.
Our desire to control is so powerful, and the feeling of being in control so rewarding, that people often act as they can control the uncontrollable. For example, people bet more money on games of chance when their opponents seem incompetent than themselves – as though they believed they could control the random drawing of cards from a deck and thus take advantage of a weak opponent.
We just can’t make the best of a fate until it is inescapably, inevitably, and irrevocably ours.
Although the word fact seems to suggest a sort of unquestionable irrefutability, facts are actually nothing more than conjectures that have met a certain standard of proof.
If we set that standard high enough, then nothing ever can be proved. If we set the standard low enough, then all things are true and equally so. Because nihilism and postmodernism are both such unsatisfying philosophies, we tend to set our standard of proof somewhere in the middle. No one can say precisely where that standard should be set, but wherever we set it, we must keep it in the same place. | literature |
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The most inspiring book I have ever read! This book is very inspiring! It helps the reader to learn more about themselves and to understand animals in a beautiful way. I felt very good after reading this book, it helped me to realize that my dreams can come true. It increased my understanding of my dogs greatly as well. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to feel uplifted. From Kate Hinner, Tucson AZ
A Soul Searching Insightful Book! This book helped my husband and I to look at life from perspectives other than what we were used to. Dr. Lefebvre's gift is her ability to be so compassionate and in touch with not only her patients but also their parents and the life around us. Dr. Lefebvre's book encouraged us to think deeply about our own life and its impact on the planet. It gave me ideas on how to improve my interactions with my own patients and also the environment. A must-read for anyone who believes there is more out there. We can all become become better citizens of our planet with a little bit of this knowledge. Thank you Dr. Lefebvre. From Melanie Olson, DVM
Dear Joanne, thank you so much for helping us with Zoot and for the nice card. I saw your video and I have been reading your book, which is wonderful. Thank you for doing so much to make the world a better place. Shifting consciousness is very important and something I have been studying myself. However, it has been somewhat depressing and I have been feeling like the problems of this world are just too big for me to do anything about. However, my interaction with you and your book reminded me that even the little things count so I have decided to move toward vegetarianism by giving up beef and pork immediately and then eliminating chicken and seafood in time. I have also changed my dog's diet. Thank you for your personal story and your dedication. Thank you for letting your sweet soul radiate goodness out into the world. In the past 3.5 years we have lost a total of 5 pets, 2 parents and one friend and I have been starting to get very negative, but meeting you renewed my hope. Thank you so much for that, Melissa Mauzy
Dearest Joanne, thank you so very much for helping our Bridget to leave this world and enter heaven with such ease. We really struggled with trying to save her life and it was a blessing not to struggle with her trying to end it. I have read your book and if everyone felt like you do, no one would have to suffer when ready to leave this world. Thank God for people like you. It takes a thoughtful individual like you to help others in their time of greatest need. The Reece family
An excellent read and thought-provoking! A must-read for anyone who has pets and/or people they care about! After reading this book you will have a whole new perspective on caring for your animals and advocating for your family and friends when they are ill or in need of medical care. Read with an open mind and know that even if your own philosophies do not align with those of Dr. Lefebvre, you will come away with an improved understanding of your pets and their needs. From Pam Stabach, Veterinary Hospital Office Manager
Insight into helping your pet and yourself! Working in the veterinary field for years, I have walked out of many exam rooms, saying to myself 'I wish this "pet" could really tell me what's going on'. If you could find a way to communicate with your most beloved companion, wouldn't you want to? If your pet was ill and you needed assistance in finding what to do, and conventional medicine couldn't provide that, what would you do? Dr. Joanne Lefebvre, DVM has brought intuitive medicine to light, and is helping pets and people because of it. Although intuitive medicine has been around forever, it has sadly become forgotten by many in our modern society. Thanks to Dr. Lefebvre, everyone can now learn how to awaken their dormant intuition to reach maximum health and happiness, as well as how to express their full potential during their journey on Earth.
Dr. Lefebvre is using intuitive medicine in conjunction with conventional medicine to assist in finding the cause of a physical or emotional condition in animals. When combining the two approaches, your pet gets the best results. In this book, Dr. Lefebvre shares some of her communications and success stories during her journey of learning how intuitive medicine wants to use her. It's amazing to read some of these experiences and communications and to truly feel the connection. I highly recommend this book if you want insight into helping your pet and/or yourself, discovering who you and your pet truly are on a soul level, and learning to live your life while staying in tune with your life purpose at all times. From Lisa Schrope Certified and Registered Veterinary Technician
Thank goodness there was you! Joanne, I don't even know what to say that you probably haven't heard a thousand times already, so I'll just say what I'm feeling and what echoes the many letters you've received from others. I want to thank you so much for helping Maggie cross over. I can't even explain to you how happy I am that one phone call led me to you. This was difficult for us and you helped us with the process and gave us space to say goodbye and didn't make it feel rushed or uncomfortable. And as trivial as it might seem, it was special to me to see her leave looking so beautiful wrapped up in that pretty pink blanket. I told my husband if she had to leave with anyone, you were the one! Such a loving, kind spirit. What you do and who you are is a HUGE blessing in this world. I could feel that from you, but after I read your book I feel like it confirmed it. What a gift that you shared so much of yourself in your writing. It really gave me a lot to think about as well - not only in dealing with animals, but about life in general. I've been reading the peace exercise at the end of chapter 11. I'm hoping if I read it every morning it will sink in before long! Thank you so much, Christa
Healing the mind, body and soul of animals and of people Dr. Joanne Lefebvre's new book, "Animal Teachings," forever removed from my mind the false division between what, in our Western cultures, are referred to as the scientific and the spiritual domains. Not that she has not admirably distinguished herself in her difficult area of science, Veterinary Medicine; far from it. As an animal doctor, she draws on a vast compendium of solid, detailed, technical knowledge; but Dr. Lefebvre has more than the current science models operating when she strives to cure and care for the animals under her care: it's a deep, intuitive response to a dimension of knowing we simplistically refer to as the spiritual. Tell me another exceptional veterinarian who not only seeks deep, hidden communication with such creatures as whales, but has the professional courage to say so in a widely published book? In the end, this physician tells us what all the greatest physicians have, through time, always told us: scientific facts belong to the five physical senses and logical rationality; spiritual facts belong to another sense we call intuition and expand through a welcoming, open intelligence determined to heal the whole person, or the whole animal--not just their bodies. Joanne Lefebvre makes ample use of both. Listen deeply to the animals, Dr. Lefebvre counsels us, and you will accomplish things only formerly dreamed of. From Sammie Ann Wicks, Ph.D., Musicologist, Folklorist, Anthropologist, Americanist, and a grateful client with a grateful kitty | literature |
https://www.transparimed.org/single-post/2017/03/03/trump-releases-new-study | 2024-04-24T12:49:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00493.warc.gz | 0.949217 | 228 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__59128616 | en | Pharma-sponsored drug and device trial studies are about 30% more likely to have results and conclusions that favour the sponsor, a new Cochrane Library review has found.
The review found that studies run by pharma companies routinely show greater efficacy and less harms. The authors outlined some common ways in which sponsors can influence study outcomes, including the framing of questions and selective reporting of favourable results. They pointed out that medical journals often do not effectively enforce the now-common requirement to disclose sponsors’ role in designing, conducting and publishing studies.
Cochrane’s review encompassed 75 papers including cross-sectional studies, cohort studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses that quantitatively compared primary research studies of drugs or medical devices sponsored by industry with studies with other sources of sponsorship.
The Cochrane review was authored by Andreas Lundh, Joel Lexchin, Barbara Mintzes, Jeppe B Schroll, and Lisa Bero; it was published on 16 February 2017. The Canberra Times covered the review in an excellent article featuring an interview with senior author Lisa Bero of the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney. | literature |
http://www.lawn-tractor-buyers-guide.com/lawn_and_gardening_survey-thankyou.html | 2018-02-19T11:31:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812584.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219111908-20180219131908-00704.warc.gz | 0.939751 | 172 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__69871872 | en | Thank you so much for completing the survey.
It will really help me focus on delivering exactly the content that my readers want.
If you are interested in receiving details about the new lawn and gardening content once it’s created, please add your email adress to the form below and I’ll send you a free preview.
The book I promised to point you to is called ‘Making a Lawn by Luke Joseph Doogue’.
It is a classic lawn/gardening book, originally published in 1912 and fascinating to read.
It is now available through the Gutenberg project and to can be accessed here in various file formats, including for kindle.
If you’re anything like me, once you get onto the Gutenberg project website, you might find it hard to leave. There are so many treats there. | literature |
https://jdiannedotson.com/book-signings/a-read-local-book-signing/ | 2019-05-22T02:35:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256724.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522022933-20190522044933-00414.warc.gz | 0.95827 | 389 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__152825681 | en | Today I enjoyed being part of the Read Local booth at the Encinitas Holiday Street Fair! This was made possible by Publishers and Writers of San Diego (PWSD). I shared the booth with fellow local authors Sylvia Melena, Jennifer K. Crittenden, and Bill Vallely.
I had one regret today. I wished I had brought a chair. Authors, don’t make the same mistake I did! Bring a chair! Of course, I brought my signature Book Signing Brownies that I bring to every signing. That was an empty platter at the end of the event!
It was great to see familiar faces as well as new ones. The lively discussions with readers and science fiction fans kept everything vibrant. As a science fiction novelist, I love these opportunities to talk about my book, about science fiction in general, and about science as well. I relish hearing about others’ joy in reading and pondering the Universe. New readers, I am so grateful you stopped by! Thank you!
Working alongside fellow local authors continues to be a rewarding experience. No two book signings have been alike. My only regret has been that I wished I had more time to speak to each author individually! We are all at various stages in our careers. And no matter what stage that is, I learn something from every author.
If you are a writer, consider joining a local writer group in your city. You will have the ability to mingle with other writers, whether published or otherwise, and the lessons you learn are priceless. You may also learn about opportunities like this signing the you might not have otherwise! Better still, the new connections will enrich your life! Thank you, PWSD, for helping make this event possible.
Image Credit: J. Dianne Dotson at Encinitas Holiday Street Fair, November 18, 2018. By J. Dianne Dotson Copyright 2018. | literature |
https://www.wildmoonfiberarts.com/ | 2024-04-13T13:30:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00870.warc.gz | 0.968668 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__170816630 | en | For thousands of years the making of cloth, baskets and nets has been the work of a village. Shepherds provided the wool. Farmers and foragers gave us flax, cotton and silk, and the dyes for all the myriad colors. Then there was the washing and carding and spinning and dying and weaving. And finally, the cloth was made into clothing or bags or blankets.
It still takes a village. It takes a village to not only produce, but to remember and to dream.
Wild Moon Fiber Arts dreams of that village here in the high desert of Joshua Tree. And, more than dreaming, it is the goal to create it. We may be starting small and quiet, but the dream is big and the potential is real. Welcome to our journey. | literature |
http://english.arpp.ru/21492-read-russia-prize-global-shortlist-announced.html | 2017-04-30T10:49:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125074.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00187-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.934579 | 371 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__125381699 | en | Published on Friday, 12 September 2014 07:20
Moscow, August 2014—The Read Russia Prize’s organizational committee has announced the Read Russia Prize’s global shortlist of 17 translators and translations of Russian literature into other languages worldwide. The competition, open to works published between 2014 and 2012, received 112 nominations from 16 countries around the world: Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, China, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The Read Russia Prize was established in 2011 by the Institute of Translation in Moscow, a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering the development of the theory and practice of literary translation. The competition is conducted every two years with support from the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication and the Boris N. Yeltsin Presidential Center. The prize is awarded to a translator or group of translators for outstanding translations of prose and poetry works from Russian into a foreign language and published by a foreign publisher during the previous two years.
The Read Russia Prize aims to popularize works of Russian literature; encourage foreign translators who translate Russian literature into other languages; encourage foreign publishers who publish translations of Russian literature, and strengthen and develop cultural ties between Russia and other countries. The shortlist of 2014 nominees include two titles published in the United States:
For 19th-century classic Russian literature:
1. Vera Bischitzky for her translation of Ivan Goncharov’s novel Oblomov (Germany);
2. Alejandro Ariel Gonzales for his translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella The Double (Argentina); and
3. Jorge Ferrer Diaz for his translation of Alexander Herzen’s work My Past and Thoughts (Spain). | literature |
http://thisworldview.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-top-five-regrets-of-dying.html | 2018-12-15T19:33:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826968.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215174802-20181215200802-00581.warc.gz | 0.98776 | 837 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__209010689 | en | 5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.
This is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realize until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.
4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
Often they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.
3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.
Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result. We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.
2. I wish I didn't work so hard.
This came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence. By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.
1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
This was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honored even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it. When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.
The truth is, we're all dying. In the words of the late Jim Morrison, "No one here gets out alive." It may be 50 years from now, it may be tomorrow. None of us know.
For those who are in Christ, death is not something we should fear. We should actually look forward to it! As the apostle Paul said, "To live is Christ and to die is gain." If we live, we have the privilege of helping lead people to eternal life. There is no greater way to spend our days. When we die, we receive the reward of our faith, to live in glory with Christ forever. With that in mind, we can make the most of each day, each moment, each opportunity to share the eternal life giving message of Jesus.
Live today in light of eternity. | literature |
http://darthroplasty.com/2016/11/03/darthroplasty-history/ | 2023-09-26T02:24:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510130.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926011608-20230926041608-00868.warc.gz | 0.840354 | 1,373 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__309047019 | en | DARthroplasty – brief history
In human medicine, the augmentation of the femoral head support by an extracapsular bone graft has been used for a very long time in the treatment of hip dysplasia. It was first described by König in 1891 and was the principal method of acetabular reconstruction during the first half of the 20 th century (1). Several techniques using this principle have been used. The main difference being the method used to stabilize the graft. This group of techniques are generally known by the term Shelf Acetabuloplasty, in the sense that the bone graft works as an extension of the true acetabulum. In recent decades the early diagnosis of the disease in humans permitting the correction by harnesses and by rotational osteotomies conferring hyaline cartilage coverage to the femoral head have reduced the number of shelf operations. Nevertheless, it is present in the armamentarium of many surgeons, being used mainly in late presentation cases (late childhood, adolescents and young adults) (1,2,3,4,5). It remains as one of the few alternatives in complex late presentation cases (1), as a rescue technique should the rotational osteotomies fail to correct the deficient coverage (6) and as probably one of the best options for severe late onset Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (7,8,9,10,11,12,13). In recent years it has been performed using minimally invasive methods (14).
In 1998 Barclay Slocum and Theresa Devine Slocum published the description and results of a shelf surgical technique for dogs that was named DARthroplasty (15). The name signifies Dorsal Acetabular Rim plasty. More than 300 hips were operated in their 6 year experience with the technique before publication (15). The technique is indicated, according to these authors, for dysplastic hips too far advanced (in the disease process) for triple pelvic osteotomy (TPO) but not yet candidates for end-stage salvage procedures (15).
Since this publication very little has been written about the DARthroplasty. The data was never collected to clarify it’s definitive place in Veterinary Surgery.
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http://muhsinilyassubasi.org/MISbiography.htm | 2020-07-15T04:41:50 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657155816.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20200715035109-20200715065109-00586.warc.gz | 0.974375 | 605 | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__99800856 | en | The Poetry of Muhsin Ilyas Subasi
Biography of Muhsin Ilyas Subaşı
Poet, writer, historian, journalist, and educator
This prolific Turkish writer was born on July 25, 1942 in the village of Şarkışla in the Sivas province of Turkey.
He started his primary education in the village of Talıaltın, and completed it in the Şarkışla Elementary School (1956). He then graduated from the Kayseri Imam Hatip High School (1966) and the Kayseri Advanced Institute of Islam (1972).
Subaşı started his professional life as a journalist from 1966-1973, and then as a teacher in Malatya and Kayseri (1973-1995).
From 1995 onwards, he has devoted himself entirely to research and writing for his journalistic career. He was the Kayseri representative of the Anatolian Agency and the Turkish News Agency, and was the Chief of the Editorial Department at the Hakimiyet and Yeni Sabah newspapers (1966-1973). It was in these newspapers that Subaşı started his literary career by organizing their art pages.
His first published poem appeared in Islam Magazine in 1962. He became well-known after the publication of his first volume of poety, Vuslat Türküsü (Reunion Folksong). From 1965 on, his poems, essays, critiques and research writing have regularly appeared in publications such at Hareke (1965-1975), Türk Yurdu (1965-70), Hisar (1975-1980), Töre (1975-1980), Küçük Dergi (where he served as the Director from 1979-81 in Kayseri), Türk Edebiyatı (1980-2000) and Erciyes and Somuncu Baba Magazines. His articles on politics and current events have been published in the Yeni Devir, Türkiye and Zaman newspapers.
He won the Kayseri Artists Association Poetry Award in 1981 and the Kayseri Journalists Association Press Award for excellence in the field of research in 1984 and 1985.
He has also received the Press Award of the General Directorate of Press and Broadcasting, and in 2013 was honored with the ESKADER Literary Prize.
Many of his poems have been set to music, and translated into English, German and Arabic.
He also writes under the pen name of Selçuk Yurdagül.
Subaşı currently resides in the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri, where he devotes his time to research and writing and to his beloved family (wife Saadet Hanimefendi, 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren).
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https://calebjmurphy.com/tag/laura-hillenbrand/ | 2018-01-23T13:22:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891976.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123131643-20180123151643-00635.warc.gz | 0.961068 | 206 | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__255386985 | en | This is the most detailed non-fiction book I’ve ever read, even down to every moment before Louis Zamperini’s plane crashed. Hillenbrand covers what each member of the flight crew was thinking and feeling right before the plane hit the water. The details make this a thick book and such a pulling read, like a vacuum.
Here are the highlights:
- Olympic runner joins the Air Force as a bomber
- His plane crashes, he and two other crew members survive and float on a raft for a long time
- Captivity as a POW, emotional and physical turmoil, and being pushed to the edge of what his body can take (thanks to The Bird)
- Redemption (best part of the book)
Along the way, Hillenbrand is invisible, as she should be, but is still able to inject humor where it’s needed.
Bravo, Hillenbrand. And bravo, Zamperini, for fighting through all of it. | literature |
https://www.thesouthasiantimesbd.com/nationwide/news/21744 | 2024-04-22T10:34:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818105.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422082202-20240422112202-00092.warc.gz | 0.949233 | 456 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__35349901 | en | Deepak Kumar Acharjee, editor of ‘The South Asian Times’, also a writer, has opened a novel “Shesh Mohonay” at the “Cover Opening Centre” of Bangla Academy in the book fair on Friday. After opening the cover of the novel, Deaapak Kumar Acharjee said that the Shesh Mohonay is a romantic novel written by Samiron Halder.
“It is well written and everyone will like it,” he said.
He said, several employees in different sectors are indulging themselves in writings besides their professional work to enrich the Bengali literature.
Mr. Acharjee is hoping that this novel, “Sesh Mohonay” will receive the best seller book in the Ekushe book fair.
In the novel, the author has beautifully portrayed teenage life where we first experience our first love. Painting a vivid picture of younger age, capturing the delicate beauty and awkward innocence of first love. We follow the journey of Mitali, whose world changes as a friendship blossoms into something deeper. The author portrays the joy and excitement of newfound love, the nervous butterflies in the stomach, the stolen glances across the classroom, and the shared secrets whispered under the moonlight.
However, the novel doesn't shy away from the bittersweet nature of teenage love. We witness the inevitable challenges, misunderstandings, and heartbreaks that come with navigating this new and complex emotion. Which is about learning to navigate the complexities of love, loss, and self-discovery.
The author also blends imagination with the harsh realities of society. Where the imagination meets reality, and how the hopeless love that was once heavenly becomes life’s biggest tragedy.
Overall, it is a heartwarming and relatable experience that will resonate with anyone who remembers the unique experience of teenage love. It's a reminder of the beauty and pain, the joy and tears, and the unforgettable experiences that shaped our lives in those formative years.
Among other, poet, writer, and entrepreneur Jashimuddin Joy, Publisher of the novel Md. Nazmul Islam, publisher of Morium Publishing House, attended the novel cover ceremony. | literature |
https://emetnews.org/post/the-chosen-land | 2023-12-11T06:25:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103558.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211045204-20231211075204-00678.warc.gz | 0.968754 | 1,052 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__218899596 | en | The Chosen Land
[This article is an excerpt from the book, Our Challenge: The Chosen Land, written by Rabbi Meir Kahane, in 1974.]
It is time for the Jew in Israel to throw away those negative attitudes that he retains from the Galut, the Exile. Chief among these is an unwillingness to look at bitter reality. We may not enjoy hearing it, but the truth is that for many years at least there will not be sincere de jure peace with the Arabs. It may affect the tender souls of the more spiritually intellectual among us, but one can never attain either peace or security by "compromise" with bitter enemies who have no intentions of compromising with you. Those in Judea, Samaria and Gaza who do sit down with you because they have no choice, do so only in the hope of getting rid of you as soon as possible. Our enemy, in the long run, is weariness. It is against this enemy that we must struggle. We must gird ourselves with tenacity and determination never to tire of what appears to be a never-ending struggle. For that is what it might very well become: a struggle for Jewish existence and a Jewish state that will never cease to be a struggle; a realization that between us and the Arabs stands a massive barrier that may never be reached; a determination by two peoples to live in a land that at least one will never compromise on. There will grow the weariness of having to send our children to the army without stop. There will grow the weariness of having to leave each year for reserve duty. There will grow the weariness of terrorist attacks on the borders or at the Lod airport or at the Tel-Aviv bus terminal. There will, perhaps, again grow the weariness — and the heartbreak — of victims of a new war of attribution. There will grow the weariness of all this, rising to a crescendo with the frustrating cry: "When will it finally end?"
Only the weak succumb to such frustrations; only the weak surrender to time. A strong and tenacious people know that there may never be an end to the struggle and the sacrifice. But they also look about them and see what their refusal to surrender has accomplished: a state, and today a big one, in much of our Eretz Yisroel; a Jewish state with nearly three million souls [now nearly seven million—ed] and many more to come; the creation of a new and proud Jew. None of these things would have come about had we listened to the intellectual precursors of our modern-day intellectuals and doves. In the name of "peace" there would be no Jewish state; in the name of "morality" there would be no free Jewish nation.
If we hope to survive in the literal sense of the word, let us not succumb to the siren call of easy answers and the tempting promise of "peace." Above all, let us, please, have no illusions. The Arabs intend to wipe us out; we must be strong enough to stop them. The Arabs who live with us in Eretz Yisrael, both those who have done so for twenty-five years and those for just five, do not love us and never will — and one cannot blame them. Let us not play games with them or with ourselves. We give them civil rights and political freedom, but what Jew will ever agree that they should become a majority? What Jew will ever agree to allow Arabs to come in on the same terms as Jews do today under the Law of Return? Israel was formed as a Jewish state. Arabs may have social, economic, and much political equality but, in the end, it is not their state. For the individual Arab we offer much, but for the Arab nation, Israel offers nothing. It is not an Arab state, it is a Jewish state. It came into being because Jews knew that for them there was no hope in a world that thirsted for their bodies and souls. It came into being under the realization that neither king nor Republican nor Marxist had the solution to the Jewish problem. That in the end it was the words of the rabbis that proved to be eternally true:
"It is a law, it is known that Esau hates Jacob."
And so, Eretz Yisrael, the land of the Jewish people, exists. It can never be anything but that and both we and the Arabs know it. Such a fact allows for few illusions over peace. Perhaps peace will come some day; I for one, doubt it. Until it doesn’t let us not listen to the delusions that float down to us daily from the ivory tower or from the self-hating Left.
Strength and tenacity – they and they alone assure Jewish survival.
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[ Rabbi Meir Kahane's ZT"L | Published: July 19, 2020 (Orig. 1974) ] | literature |
https://canibrands.com/blog/post/3-cbds-role-in-inflammation.html | 2020-02-27T19:45:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146809.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20200227191150-20200227221150-00493.warc.gz | 0.921452 | 284 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__178543373 | en | CBD’s Role in Inflammation
Adenosine is a chemical compound that plays a role in inhibiting the inflammatory actions of the body. Adenosine receptors in the heart also help to modulate blood flow. The graph below shows how cellular uptake of adenosine was decreased in cells that were pretreated with varying amounts of CBD and THC.
The 2006 study “Inhibition of an equilibrative nucleoside transporter by cannabidiol: a mechanism of cannabinoid immunosuppression” concluded that both molecules inhibit adenosine uptake. By inhibiting adenosine uptake, CBD (and, less potently, THC) could play a therapeutic role in pain and inflammation.
“These studies demonstrate that CBD has the ability to enhance adenosine signaling through inhibition of uptake and provide a non-cannabinoid receptor mechanism by which CBD can decrease inflammation.”
By helping to reduce excess inflammation, CBD could play a role in maintaining healthy immune function. This is an area of particular interest to athletes and all those seeking an alternative to anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals.
Inhibition of an equilibrative nucleoside transporter by cannabidiol: a mechanism of cannabinoid immunosuppression - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 2006, Volume 103, Number 20, Pages 7895–7900 | literature |
http://great1india.com/holy-books/ | 2020-01-21T16:48:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250604849.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20200121162615-20200121191615-00420.warc.gz | 0.934792 | 1,205 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__17942020 | en | Ved and Upnishads: Spirituality is the biggest science in the world and India is the mother of that science. Ved is to life as constitution is to any country, which when followed religiously can fill your life with enormous joy and satisfaction. There are four Vedas, namely, Rig ved, Sam Ved, Yajur Ved and Atharva Veda. Vedas are considered to be primary text of Indian culture. Scholars believe that existence of Vedas dates back to 1500 B.C. The contents of Vedas include hymns, incantations and rituals of ancient India. However, Upnishads are believed to be prolongations of the Vedas. The history of Upnishads can be traced back to 400 B.C.
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Bhagwat Gita: Bhagwat Gita is essence of Vedas and upnishads. But it is not limited to Hinduism only. If interpreted correctly it has huge amount of lessons for entire mankind as to how to exist in this world, how to attain materialistic success, how to get peace of mind and so on. It is in the form of philosophical dialogue version between Lord Krishna and Arjuna. The word “Bhagwat” means God and “Geeta” means song. Therefore, Bhagwat Gita means song of God. Bhagwat Gita is eternal reflection of spiritual wisdom from ancient India. The eminence and glory of this sacred text can be predicted by the fact that it has been translated into more than 20 languages. Western countries are deeply interested in this Holy book as they are seeking for their inner peace and calm.
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Ramayana: Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit tale of Hindu Mythology narrated and written by the sage Valmiki. It is story of Lord Ram, who sacrificed the Throne of Ayodhayaya in order to keep the promise of his father. He fell prey to a political trap in the family. But, he accepted his exile of fourteen years very gladly. During exile, his wife Godess Sita is kidnapped by Ravana, a ten headed monster king of Srilanka. Then, the entire story revolves round the freedom of Godess Sita. There is a significant mention of Lord Hanuman, who helped Rama in his battle against Ravana. Ramayana preaches us a lesson to concentrate on our duties and responsibilities, rather than crying for the rights only. This epic reminds us of ancient Indian culture, where a son can go for 14 years of tough exile just to keep the promise of his father. Ramayana is often referred to as Adikavyam (the first epic) and Valmiki as the Adikavi. It is because of the reason that all spiritual literature prior to Ramayana existed in the form of mantras, Ramayana was the first epic in which mantras has been converted into poetic form.
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Mahabharata: Mahabharata is one of the important epics of ancient India which was written by Vedvyas.It is more than 3000 years old. Mahabharata is portrait of the war of Kurukshetra and tale of destiny of Kauravas and Pandavas.Moreover, Mahabharata is the longest known epic in the world. It is all about details and description of 18 day long battle between Pandavas and Kauravas. It also includes the propagation of Lord Krishna being given to Arjun during the battle when he was in two minds and was not completely ready for the battle. The central philosophy of Mahabharat revolves around the actual execution of teachings of Vedas. Great thinkers and scholars believe that The Mahabharata is inclusive of economics, sociology, politics, chemistry, astronomy,art of war , spirituality and philosophy. History is a combination of old incidents along with preaches and teachings. This marks a demarcation line between the Vedas and Mahabharata. Mahabharata is history whereas Vedas are original and true forms of preaching.
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Purans: The word “Puran” means old and ancient. Puranas are post vedic literature including complete narration of the history of universe. It includes stories of genealogies of kings, Gods and sages. Broadly, there are 18 Puranas including Vishnu Puran, Narad Puran, Srimad Bhagwat puran, Garuda Puran, Padm Puran, Varah Puran, Brahma Puran, Brahmananda Puran, Brahma Vaivarta Puran, Markandey Puran, Bhavishye Puran, Vamana Puran, Matsya Puran, Kurma Puran, Linga Puran, Shiv Puran, Skanda Puran and Agni Puran. Each Puran depicts the divine story of a God or Hero. According to Swami Sivananda, Puranas have five distinctive characterstics, history, cosmology, secondary creation, geneology of kings and Manvantaras i.e the era of Manu’s rule which consisted of 71 celestial yugas. Puranas are just dissolution of high philosophy of Vedas. In order to make ordinary people understand the basics of Vedas, in the form of stories and tales which were otherwise difficult to understand.
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http://kekeechelon.tumblr.com/ | 2014-09-18T23:42:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657129409.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011209-00090-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | 0.991451 | 327 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__110530495 | en | "It wasn’t going to be like last time. I’ve got Finn now. It wasn’t going to be like last time."
I’m sorry but I have to reblog this.
Look at his face. Night before last this guy was worried that he’d blown it with his girl. Thought he might have pushed her too far, too fast and he’d scared her off. He probably spent his Sunday chewing on his cuticles and nothing much else because he’s been so anxious. Probably needed to talk to his dad about it just to get the noise of it out of his head; and even though Gary assured him everything would be okay over endless cups of tea, Finn couldn’t help but still feel worried. He probably wanted to talk to Rae too, but didn’t want to make matters worse. Now it’s Monday morning and this face is just so pleased and grateful that everything is okay. That she still wants him. That he’s not going to have to face walking into to a place he doesn’t really want to be without her. Having her there is what’s going to help him get through it. There’s love in that face and in the way he slowly caresses her whole hand before sliding his fingers through hers, taking a firm hold and squeezing, reassuring himself that she’s still his. There’s joy in that face too, as she offers him her hand. His faith in what they have evidenced in how perfectly they fit together. | literature |
http://ignitehealth.blogspot.co.uk/2006_03_19_archive.html | 2017-04-26T06:05:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121165.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00140-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.946269 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__18962381 | en | Former Pfizer sales rep Jamie Reidy's memoir "Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman," will form the basis for a fictionalized film about the pharmaceutical supply business, according to a report in the Hollywood trade publication Variety.
The book is a "witty exposé" of the pharmaceutical industry that reveals the questionable practices of drug reps, nurses, and physicians, according to the book's publisher, Andrews McMeel Publishing, based in Riverside, NJ. In the book, Reidy traces his ups and downs as a sales rep for giant drug manufacturer Pfizer, maker of some of the most widely prescribed and used drugs in existence, including Viagra.
The film version of the book will be set at a fictionalized company, according to Variety. Universal studios producers reportedly purchased the rights to the book for an amount in the "high-six figures." | literature |
https://meeraoommen.weebly.com/publications.html | 2021-09-17T16:35:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780055684.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20210917151054-20210917181054-00391.warc.gz | 0.752808 | 2,578 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__202277689 | en | BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS
Adams, M.A., M.A. Oommen, and A. Sridhar (eds.). 2018. Contested cultures: knowing, using and conserving the wild. Seminar Magazine, February 2018.
Oommen, M.A. 2017. Understanding conservation challenges: investigating conflict in a forest-agriculture fringe in southern India using multidisciplinary approaches. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Technology, Sydney.
Sridhar, A. and M.A. Oommen. 2014. Representing Knowledge: LEK and Natural Resource Governance in India. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Dakshin Foundation. 192 pages.
Bawa, K. S., R. Primack and M. A. Oommen. 2011. Conservation Biology: A Primer for South Asia (book). Universities Press.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Oommen, M.A. Forthcoming. The pig and the turtle: an ecological reading of ritual and taboo from ethnographic accounts of Andamanese hunter-gatherers.
Oommen, M.A. Forthcoming. Conflict, coexistence and conservation: cultural and material entanglements between people and pigs in India. In, Nature's Present, Mahesh Rangarajan et al. eds.
Oommen, M.A. and K. Shanker. 2021. Signals from the hunt: widening the spectrum on male pursuits of dangerous animals. Journal of Anthropological Research 7(7)3, Fall, 2021. doi.org/10.1086/715404
Oommen, M.A. 2021. Beasts in the garden: human-wildlife coexistence in India's past and present. Frontiers in Conservation Science. doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.703432
Shanker, K. and M.A. Oommen. 2021. The authoritarian biologist reloaded and deep ecology redux: conservation imperialism and the control of knowledge, money, and space. In, 'A Functioning Anarchy? Essays for Ramachandra Guha', eds. Srinath Raghavan and Nandini Sundar. Pp. 37-54, Penguin Random House.
Oommen, M.A. 2021. Colonial pig-sticking, imperial agendas and natural history in the Indian subcontinent. The Historical Journal 64(3): 626-649. doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X20000308
Assaga, F. et al. and M.A. Oommen. 2021. Operationalising the “One Health” approach in India: facilitators of and barriers to effective cross-sector convergence for zoonoses prevention and control. BMC Public Health doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11545-7
Assaga, F. et al. and M.A. Oommen. 2021. ‘None of my ancestors ever discussed this disease before!’ How disease information shapes adaptive capacity of marginalised rural populations in India. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009265
Shanker, K. and M.A. Oommen. 2020. India's strategies for conservation and sustainability. In, 'India's Marathon: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order (Kotasthane, P., A. Kanisetti, N. Pai eds.) Takshashila Institution Press, 336 pages.
Purse, B. et al. and M.A. Oommen. 2020. Predicting disease risk areas through co-production of spatial models: the example of Kyasanur Forest Disease in India’s forest landscapes. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17(4): e0008179.
Oommen, M.A., R. Cooney, M. Ramesh, M. Archer, D. Brockington, B. Buscher, R. Fletcher, D.J.D. Natusch, A.T. Vanak, G. Webb and K. Shanker. 2019. The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology 33(4): 784-787.
Oommen, M.A. 2019. The elephant in the room: histories of place, memory and conflict with wildlife along a southern Indian forest fringe. Environment and History 25: 269-300.
Oommen, M.A. and M. Ramesh. 2019. Tides of change in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Ecology, Economy and Society 2(1): 145-149.
Oommen, M.A. 2017. Famine and elephants: remembering place-making along a southern Indian forest fringe. In: 'Telling Environmental Histories: Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment' (K. Holmes and H. Goodall, eds.), Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Palgrave Macmillan.
Shanker, K., M.A. Oommen and N.D. Rai. 2017. Changing natures: a democratic and dynamic approach to biodiversity conservation. In: Alternative Futures: India Unshackled. (Eds. A. Kothari et al.).
Jaini, M., S. Advani, K. Shanker, M.A. Oommen, N. Namboothri. 2017. History, culture, infrastructure and export markets shape fisheries and reef accessibility in India's contrasting oceanic islands. Environmental Conservation 45(1): 41-48.
Oommen, M. A. 2012. Treeshrews of south Asia. In: Mammals of South Asia (Eds. A.J.T Johnsingh and N. Manjrekar). Universities Press & Orient Longman.
Oommen, M. A. and K. Shanker. 2010. Shrewd alliances: Context dependant foraging associations between treeshrews, greater racket-tailed drongos and sparrowhawks on Great Nicobar Island. Biology Letters 6(3):304-307.
Oommen, M. A. and K. Shanker. 2008. Ecology and behaviour of an endemic treeshrew (Tupaia nicobarica Zelebor, 1869) on Great Nicobar Island, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 105(1):55-63.
Oommen, M. A. and K. Shanker. 2005. Regional species richness patterns emerge from multiple local scale mechanisms in Himalayan plants. Ecology 86:3039–3047.
Oommen, M.A. 2018. Endangered enemies: culture, history and human-wildlife conflict. White Horse Press Blog, available at https://whitehorsepress.blog/2018/04/10/endangered-enemies-culture-history-and-human-wildlife-conflict/
Oommen, M.A. 2018. Book review. Jairam Ramesh. Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature. History and Sociology of South Asia 12(1): 1-4.
Oommen, M.A. 2018. Book review. Madhu Ramnath. Woodsmoke and Leaf cups: Autobiographical Footnotes on the Anthropology of the Durwa. Seminar, February 2018.
Oommen, M.A. 2017. Friction along the fringe. Seminar Special Issue: Nature's Present: Dilemmas, Conflicts, Opportunities (M. Rangarajan et al. Eds).
Oommen, M.A. and A. Sridhar. 2014. A place for knowledge: tracing natural resource governance from the late colonial to contemporary India. In, Representing Knowledge: LEK and Natural Resource Governance in India. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Dakshin Foundation. 192 pages.
Oommen, M.A. and M. Adams (eds.) 2013. Special Issue on Indigenous Knowledge, Current Conservation 7(1):32-35.
Advani, S. et al. and M. A. Oommen. 2013. Marine Fisheries in the Andaman Islands: An Account of their Emergence and Transformation. Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore and Andaman Nicobar Environment Team, Port Blair.
Advani, S. et al. and M. A. Oommen. 2012. Taking it from the top: Managing apex predator fisheries in India. Position paper for CBD-COP 11. Dakshin Foundation, Bengaluru and Foundation for Ecological Security, Anand.
Oommen, M. A. 1996. Biodiversity and sustainability of the Upper Beas Basin, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh – M.A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.
'Before we blame the forest-dwellers...' - The Hindu, 2020 (with Kartik Shanker)
'Engaging communities in resource monitoring: The political ecology of science as the language of power' - Radicalecological democarcy.org, 2018
'Hunting for solutions: on trophy hunting' – The Hindu, 2017 (with Kartik Shanker)
'Human-wildlife conflict: the new wildlife action plan is an inclusive start to a long journey' – The Hindustan Times, 2017
'Islands in Peril: Develop and Perish? Great Nicobar Island' - The Hindu, 2012
'Shrewd Alliances' – Sanctuary Asia, 2010
'Mountain Men' – Current Conservation, 2009
'Mathe Budda' – Current Conservation, 2009
'Nicobars' - The edge of the world', Sanctuary Asia, 2003
Elephants and people: place memory and conflict along a southern Indian forest fringe. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. 17 December 2019.
Circumventing the wild boar: human entanglements with an obligate opportunist AAS in Asia, New Delhi, 5-8 July 2018.
Tracing conflict: integrating interdisciplinary understandings to inform human-wildlife conflict. Opportunities and Challenges: Symposium on Environment, Flame University, Pune, 15 March 2018.
Fear and hunger on the forest fringe: the long reach of Travancore's famine. Workshop on Famine Stories and Survival Legends: Legacies to the following generations. Third CMPOT Workshop, Uppsala University, Sweden, 28th September - 1st October 2017.
Simplifying predictions of species-habitat relationships for diverse tropical hotspots: a case study from India. The Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, 27 June - 5th July 2016.
The elephant in the room: settler memories of famine and wildlife conflict underlie resistance to conservation in a southern Indian forest fringe, 2016 Oral History Association Annual Meeting, October 12-16, Long Beach, California.
Exploring multidisciplinary possibilities in understanding human-wildlife conflict along a forest-agriculture fringe in the Western Ghats hotspot in southern India, 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology, Montpellier, 2-6 August 2015.
Linking historical contexts with conservation: stakeholder engagements with place in a forest fringe landscape in the Western Ghats mountains of southern India. International Congress of Historical Geographers, Royal Geographic Society, London, 5-10 July, 2015.
The persistence of memory: understanding stakeholder links to place, experience and conservation conflict along a southern Indian forest fringe. Invited talk, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 22nd May 2015.
Unequal burdens: Environmental justice in settler landscapes along southern Kerala's forest fringe. Invited talk at, 'Interrogating Environmental Justice' Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the World's Worst Industrial Disaster, the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, UTS, Sydney, November 10 & 11, 2014. | literature |
https://paulakennedybooks.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/review-walking-disaster/ | 2018-07-23T17:03:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676599291.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723164955-20180723184955-00502.warc.gz | 0.986536 | 291 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__245234211 | en | Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Read from December 07, 2015 to January 31, 2016
I loved Walking Disaster as much as Beautiful Disaster. The passion Travis Maddox has for the people he loves had me swooning more than a few times and I’m sad the book is over. For a guy I started out hating, I’ve certainly made a complete turn around and can’t seem to get enough of him now.
My all time favourite point in this book happens just after the Thanksgiving dinner at the Maddox’s and Travis has brought Abby home. He returns to his father’s house, desolate and depressed to the core, and his brothers are there waiting for him. They surround him and place their hands on him in silent support. The moment was perfect and I wanted to cry! Seeing how much Travis has needed his brothers after the loss of his mother didn’t really hit me in the chest until this moment.
The epilogue was like the icing on the cake and I enjoyed this glimpse into the future. Overall, a fantastic read! Highly recommended. I need more Travis!!
Head on over to Goodreads and follow along as I start Built by Jay Crownover or, even better, read along with me. I’d love to hear your thoughts as you update your reading status. Can’t wait to start this one! Happy reading! | literature |
https://nerdyalerty.com/index.php/2014/09/03/writing-wednesday-there-was-too-much-dust/ | 2023-12-10T19:48:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102637.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210190744-20231210220744-00161.warc.gz | 0.978492 | 1,336 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__309129880 | en | In an effort to keep my writing skills up to par and to keep up on blogging, my friend Nicki and I have decided to do a prompt fueled Wednesday every couple of weeks that we’re calling “Writing Wednesdays” (yay alliteration!!)
Here is how it works: This will be a semi-monthly feature here and at Nicki’s Blog. On the first and third Wednesday of every month we’ll post a prompt that we’ve either found or thought up ourselves along with our drabble for said prompt. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join in, all we ask is that you link back to one of us on your own Writing Wednesday posts.
Also, be sure that you comment on this post with a link to your own post so that everyone can check out the other blogger’s stories.
PROMPT: There Was Too Much Dust
The first thing I heard was the creaking of the floorboards under someone’s weight. It was a slow groan that echoed through the rest of the house. I half expected the culprit to call it in and return to where he or she came from. Alas, I was not that lucky.
Soft whispers carried down the corridor of the long emptied house. Shushing and whispered yelling followed as the intruders began making their way into my house.
I had visitors often. It wasn’t my choice. It seemed that the local youth thought it would be funny to test their bravery by going into the deserted Isaac’s house. Not caring that someone actually lived here.
If you could call what I do living.
I let out a disgruntled sigh and stood from the chair I had been seated at in my room. Soundlessly I walked across the room toward my door watching as the beams from the intruder’s flashlight blinked across the doorways.
They wouldn’t see me. No one ever saw me.
“Lydia.” A female voice cracked, terror obvious in the sound.
“Shhhhh!” a second and more confident female voice quickly replied.
“Lydia. I don’t think we should be here. It’s giving me the heebie jeebies.” As she spoke the light in the hallway outside my room shook.
“Jen! Come on. Its just a house.”
But it wasn’t just a house. It’s never just a house.
I peeked around the door frame of my room toward the light at the end of the hallway. The outline of two figures shown behind the lights. One figure stood tall and seemed to be bouncing with excitement, while the other was hunched around her flashlight looking as if she were ready to drop it and run out at any moment.
“Jen, do you know the story of this house?” Lydia asked, pointing it at her friend causing her to jump and back up against a wall. Jen just shook her head her mouth opening and closing with no words coming out.
Lydia let out a giggle that sent chills down even my spine and held the flashlight against her chin in the classic scary story fashion.
“A long time ago,” Lydia started.
“Actually, it was just a few years ago, but whatever,” I corrected her, talking only to myself as I continued to spy on the intruders of my home.
“A young man, of about 20.”
“21.” I corrected again.
“Named Henry Isaacs lived in this house with his parents. One day, Henry and his parents were driving down a country road on their way to visit a relative in a distant city when Henry realized he forgot something very important back at home…” Lydia continued with the story.
“What did he forget?” Jen piped up, now pulled into Lydia’s web of storytelling.
“He forgot his grandfather’s pocket watch. You see, Henry never went anywhere without it, it was like a security blanket for him. So, it was very important for him to have it.”
I gulped down a boulder in my throat. This was unlike any version of the story I had heard from previous intruders.
Primarily because so far (with the exception of how long ago it was and my age), it was correct. I looked back at the chair I had risen from, on the table next to it was a pocket watch. One that was covered in a thick layer of dust.
“His parents turned around, knowing how important this pocket watch was to him. On their way back, they were pushed off the road and into a frozen lake. The only person who was able to be pulled out of the water was Henry.”
I could feel myself shaking as I listened to the story. The walls in the house creaked as I continued to listen to Lydia tell the story. Tell my story…
I heard the floorboards creak again as the lights got closer and closer to my room. Lydia continued with her story as she she approached.
“Henry was unconscious for three months.” She continued, now standing in the doorway of my room. I stood in front of the girls as they glanced around the room. The girl, Lydia, looked right at me, took a deep breath and stepped right through me.
“After three months, Henry passed away. But it’s said he still resides in this house, just trying to get his pocket watch.” Lydia touched a finger to the brass pocket watch on the table. Wiping the dust from it to reveal the inscription.
For times when you think time isn’t on your side. Just know, I always will be.
I screamed for her to stop touching it.
But they didn’t see me. No one ever saw me.
There was just too much dust.
The prompt for next time will be: First Line- “It was the only road out of town but in retrospect, taking it was a terrible decision.” on September 17th.
You can find Nicki’s post here.
Please leave comments, future ideas and links to your own posts below! We’d love to see what you come up with. | literature |
https://en.briefly.ru/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi_(Henry) | 2022-08-12T20:42:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00340.warc.gz | 0.987931 | 468 | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__90816732 | en | Haggling with the greengrocer, grocer, and butcher so that her ears burned, Della only collected a dollar and eighty-five cents.
With these pennies she had to buy Jim a Christmas present.
Jim and Della were renting a furnished apartment whose furnishings were not so much blatant poverty, but rather eloquent poverty. Jim's earnings had recently declined considerably, and the young couple had not had an easy time. The family had two treasures: Della's luxurious hair, before which the jewels of the Queen of Sheba herself would pale, and Jim's gold watch, which King Solomon himself would have envied.
After a few tears of disappointment, Della stared into the narrow truce, and a brilliant idea occurred to her. She dressed quickly, went outside, and soon stopped near a sign for "All Kinds of Hair Products." For twenty dollars she sold her luxurious braids and used the proceeds to buy Jim a platinum chain for his watch.
When she returned home, Della was suddenly afraid that her husband would dislike her with this short haircut, and she "set about repairing the damage done by generosity combined with love. She heated a pair of tongs, curled her hair into fine curls, and looked remarkably like a boy who had escaped from school.
When Jim came home, frozen without gloves, he looked at his wife with either surprise or horror or anger. Neither the new haircut nor any other reason could have made Jim dislike his wife, but he could not fathom the fact that Della no longer had cos. At last Jim pulled out a bundle containing a set of tortoiseshell combs with shiny stones - the object of Della's secret desires. In return, she presented her husband with the chain. But her gift, like Jim's, had to be hidden for now: Jim had pawned the watch to buy his wife the combs.
...Of all the givers, these two were the wisest. Of all those who give and receive gifts, only those like them are truly wise. Everywhere and everywhere. They are the wise men.
The retelling is based on a translation by E. Kalashnikova from The Works of O. Henry in Three Volumes (M.: Pravda, 1975). | literature |
https://capt-facepalm.dreamwidth.org/23355.html?mode=reply | 2017-10-18T05:25:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822747.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018051631-20171018071631-00690.warc.gz | 0.969527 | 4,358 | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__53512382 | en | Beta: goldvermilion87 (Awesome! All Hail!)
Fandom: AU (BBC Sherlock & Harry Potter Crossover)
Characters: John Watson (aged 11 years), Hogwarts students, Sherlock Holmes (Durmstrang exchange student).
Disclaimers: My Muse is giving me a tour of an Alternate Universe. Hogwarts and its settings belong to J.K.Rowling; BBC Sherlock characters belong to Moffat & Gatiss (with a nod and a wink to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle); if there is anything left, it might be mine.
Summary: Muggle-born John Watson is having a hard time adjusting to his new life at Hogwarts School. Sherlock thinks that 'retail therapy' in Diagon Alley might be fun.
Warnings: Alternate Universe and ART!FLAIL
Word Count: 2750 plus dubious ART
A Study in Slytherin is my crossover alternate universe where we meet the BBC Sherlock characters as children in the J.K. Rowling Hogwarts universe.
John Watson is in his first year at Hogwarts School and he is being bullied because he is in Slytherin (NO WAY, you say... but it makes sense if you read A Study in Slytherin: The Chat in the Hat.) Sherlock is the boy-genius exchange student from Durmstrang. Also in this series: A Study in Slytherin: How to Train Your Broomstick.
Now, this story is set after John and Sherlock have been introduced, but before they become good friends.
Feedback is always appreciated
There was not much to do at Hogwarts School on Saturday mornings so Sherlock welcomed this little puzzle. Five sets of running foot prints ended at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Four people had stopped, but not the fifth. The trainers of the one being chased had plunged down the path without pausing. Sherlock smiled. The bigger students had not managed to catch John this time.
Sherlock paused for a look around before trailing the footprints deeper into the woods. Their spacing and depth told him that John had slowed to a walk and was being careful with his steps. Sherlock slowed as well, exercising caution. Suddenly, in a cluster of trees, the footprints just stopped. He looked around the base of the trees, when... THOK! An acorn bounced off his head.
‘Very funny, John.’ Sherlock said as he looked up into the lower branches. If John had not smiled and waved, Sherlock was not sure he would have been able to spot him. John climbed higher.
‘Wingardium Leviosa is a simple charm, John. I would be happy to teach it to you,’ he called up.
‘That’s all right. I already know it. We learned it last month,’ John replied, reaching for a higher branch.
‘Its permutations are infinitely useful. You could levitate and you would not have to climb these stupid trees.’
‘I like climbing. And trees aren’t stupid. Some of them are...’
Tell that to the whomping willow! John snorted as he tested the next branch and pulled himself higher still. Now he could see the turrets of Hogwarts and the glimmer of the lake. Sherlock muttered the self-levitation charm and drifted up to John’s level.
‘I’m going to London. Do you want to come?’
‘There are no trains today.’
‘Don’t be an idiot. Trains take too long. I’m going to apparate.’
John nearly lost his grip on the branch in surprise.
‘Sherlock, you can’t apparate!’
‘Why not?’ he grinned.
‘For one: you’re underage, so it’s illegal. Two: it’s dangerous. And three: we’re still on Hogwarts property. Nobody can apparate or disapparate in or out of Hogwarts.’
‘Really, John? How predictable! The law prohibiting minors from apparating is centuries out of date. And it’s not dangerous if you know what you’re doing. Oh, and technically, since we are in the Forbidden Forest, we are no longer on Hogwarts’ property. Speaking of which, what part of forbidden don’t you understand? Were you not expressly forbidden from entering the Forbidden Forest on more than one occasion?’
‘That’s different. You know why I have to...’
Instead of replying, Sherlock reached over and grasped John’s arm.
‘Don’t fight it. Resisting will only make it worse.’
‘Make what worse? Sherlock, let me go! Don’t you dare…’
John suddenly felt as if he was being squeezed. He lost his grip and started to fall. Only instead of falling to the forest floor, John found himself on his hands and knees in a dirty alley, trying to catch his breath.
When he could breathe again, he looked around. Sherlock was standing there with a triumphant look on his face. Traffic passed on the street beyond... London traffic. Unmistakably London traffic. Home! John looked back at Sherlock.
‘That… that was… awesome!’ he exclaimed as he willed his legs to stop shaking.
‘Really? Er, I mean, hurry up. We should get to Diagon Alley before the shops get too busy. There are a few things I want to see and you really need an owl of your own.’
‘Erm, Sherlock? I haven’t got any wizard money on me, maybe five Muggle quid, and that isn’t enough to buy anything.’
‘Oh, don’t worry about that. The manager at the Owl Emporium owes me a favour.’
The two boys started down the street. London, this early Saturday morning, was not very busy. The streets contained only early shopppers, intrepid tourists, and street people. A block later, John spotted a phone booth and went inside to call home. Sherlock just rolled his eyes impatiently.
‘Hi, Harry, it’s me, John... Can I speak to Mum? What do you mean, no? She can’t be gone shopping already... Because she worked the late shift last night, that’s why... Please wake her... Why not? I’m not trying to upset her! I didn’t mean to... Don’t be such a … Oh, come on... Harry... Please! I need to talk to her! That’s none of your business... It’s not like that... Please, Harry... No, don’t hang up! Don’t...’
John slammed the receiver home with an explicative.
Sherlock could not help overhearing John’s conversation and was unsure what to say. John was fuming.
‘Older brothers can be such turds,’ Sherlock offered.
‘Your brother, Harry. He’s a controlling wank, just like my older brother.’
‘Harry is short for Harriet. She’s my sister. Other than that, you are right about the controlling wank.’
‘Would she make a nice frog? How about a face full of pimples? You’re a wizard now. Why not turn the tables on her?’
John smiled as he considered the possibilities. He and Harry never got along. ‘Forget about it. Diagon Alley is far more interesting than my sister could ever hope to be.’
No one seemed to notice as the two boys slipped into a disreputable tavern called the Leaky Cauldron. They were just passing though, so they did not stop to chat with the barkeeper. Their first point of business took them to the Owl Emporium. The bells above the door jingled, announcing their presence. Rows of owls in cages blinked their sleepy eyes in the direction of the two boys.
‘Sherlock, it’s good to see you!’ said a middle-aged woman, enveloping the squirming taller boy in a hug with the wings of her shawl. John liked how she smiled with her eyes, and not just with her mouth.
‘This boy,’ John grinned as the shopkeeper squeezed Sherlock in another smothering hug. ‘This boy saved my shop. I would have been out of business if not for him!’
‘Angela was being swindled by three of her suppliers. I just helped a little.’
‘If not for Sherlock,’ she told John, ‘I would have been up to my eyebrows in illegal species. Sherlock, anything you want is yours, free of charge.’
‘Angela, this is John. He’s first year at Hogwarts and he needs an owl.’
‘Welcome, John. Anything for a friend of Sherlock’s! You are welcome to choose any one from the stock on hand. I’m sorry there isn’t as much selection as at the beginning of the school term. This great horned owl is the best I can offer. He’s yours if you want him.’
John walked slowly down the aisle under the curious scrutiny of the shop’s inhabitants. Rows of owls hooted softly to get his attention. They ranged in size, were all in good condition, and seemed to find him of interest. Poor things, he thought. Not much of a life, living in a store, longing to be purchased and allowed to fly again. Regrettably, he would have to decline the offer of the great horned owl. He needed to get an owl that would not stand out too much. He feared that any bird he chose would also become a target just like him.
Impertinent hooting startled John from his thoughts. It was coming from the last cage on the right. John peered in at the large black raggedy bird. It hooted at him again using the call of yet another kind of owl.
John’s eyebrows shot up in surprise.
‘You’re a raven!’ He unnecessarily exclaimed, ‘A Tower raven.’
The raven’s chuckle sounded surprisingly human. John smiled.
‘You must be a good flyer,’ The Raven seemed to glare at him. ‘OK, a very good flyer.’
The bird stretched out a tattered but serviceable wing.
‘Oh, you’ve seen a bit of trouble too… do you want to see some more?’
The raven snapped to attention.
‘Miss Angela, I think I have found my owl.’
‘As much as I would like to be clear of him, that one suffers from an excess of personality. I’d go with something more conventional and reliable if I were you, dear.’
‘No. He’s the one.’
‘If you insist... but I warn you: he makes lots of inappropriate sounds.’
Cool! John thought: a bird that was both smart and tough enough to handle himself in a crisis. Perfect! Sherlock sidled up next to John while Angela retrieved the raven’s cage and the associated paperwork.
‘Are you sure about this?’
‘Yes. Yes, I am. Why do you ask?’
‘I thought you didn’t want to attract further attention.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Oh, I don’t know! How about Evil Johnny Watson and his great black carrion bird? You might as well get a vulture... or perhaps a vampire bat! And you thought you didn’t belong in Slytherin!’
‘Ravens aren’t evil, Sherlock, and neither am I… ’
‘Oh, don’t worry. I approve! I just wanted to know if you’d thought this through. Actually, I think it’s brilliant!’
As they exited the store, John’s raven called out to the remaining birds inside with the sound of a child blowing a raspberry. Angela and the owls let out a collective sigh of relief as the door swung shut.
‘What do you want to go down there for?’
‘I need some ingredients for Potions.’ Sherlock replied.
‘Don’t lie to me. All of the ingredients for class can be purchased in Diagon Alley. Why do you really want to go down there?’
‘Knockturn Alley has some brilliant shops, and they have greater variety of specialty items and amazing books. I wouldn’t want to go there at night, but it’s perfectly fine in the daytime.’
‘Maybe so... but it feels odd. Like there is something wrong... ’
‘If you’re scared, you can stay here, where it is safe.’
‘I’m not scared!’ John protested even as the short hairs on the back of his neck stood on end.
The raven shifted restlessly in his cage, and gave the boys an inquiring look. John moved to unlatch the door.
‘What are you doing? He might fly away.’
‘I’m not carrying this cage through that street, and I won’t leave him here. He’d be helpless.’
John released the latch and held the door open. The raven sidled along its perch and with a small hop landed on the cobble-stoned street. With another hop and a stretch of his wings, the raven took flight, disappearing beyond the rooftops with a great echoing cackle. The two boys watched; one in disappointment, the other with great amusement.
‘Well, that solves the problem of the raven. Well done, John!’
‘Shut it, Sherlock,’ he replied and followed Sherlock into the gloomy alleyway.
They had only passed a handful of stores when the smirk suddenly left Sherlock’s face. He stopped in his tracks. Three shadowy characters blocked the path ahead.
‘Well, well! If it isn’t that Holmes whelp!’
‘Grab his wand, Spider! He won’t get away this time!’
Sherlock spun and ran. So did John, but a jinx hit him square in the chest, knocking him off his feet. White pain shot through him, reaching all way to his fingers and toes. The skin on his face and hands was scraped raw as his momentum slammed him into the cobblestones. Magic crackled through the air above him.
Sherlock felled one and was still exchanging spells with the remaining two, trying to keep them away from John.
‘Get up, John! Get out of here!’
Try as he might, John could not regain his feet. His limbs refused to co-operate and he flopped about like a freshly landed trout. Sherlock yelped.
‘Got ‘em!’ cried one of their attackers.
Suddenly, John was being roughly shaken and someone was trying to snatch the wand from his hand.
‘Give it over, kid, or you’ll regret it!’
John refused to let go, and received a punch in the face in return. John knew he had to resist. He would be helpless, (more helpless) without his wand. The pain from the initial jinx was wearing off, but the abrasions from his fall were stinging like mad.
‘Conjunctiva!’ he gasped and his attacker fell away furiously rubbing his eyes.
John looked around to see the other attacker throttling Sherlock and lifting him bodily off the ground. Sherlock continued to struggle but the man outclassed him in both size and strength. John tried to rise but his attacker recovered too quickly. A second jinx was followed by a solid kick to his stomach. More blows fell as a fog threatened to overwhelm his consciousness. Retaining his wand was his only thought.
Suddenly the sounds of a siren could be heard approaching.
‘It’s the muggle police! Run for it!’
‘I ain’t stayin’ to find out!’
John heard the sounds of their footsteps as their assailants fled down the alley. All was quiet. Sherlock lay in a heap where he had been dropped. Where were the police? John stumbled over to his friend. Sherlock was unconscious and had a nasty burn mark on his right arm.
‘Sherlock? Sherlock, please wake up.’
Where were the police? John looked at his watch. He had only been dazed for a few minutes at most. The police should still be here. He nudged Sherlock again and still received no response. John could feel the eyes of Knockturn Alley watching them and he knew he could not fend off another attack alone.
‘Sherlock, please get up. We cannot stay here.’
Still no response. Shadows appeared to be spreading. John spotted his raven, perched on a nearby lamppost. Had it been there all this time? The raven urged John to follow with a low, impatient hoot.
‘Wingardium Leviosa,’ said John, taking Sherlock’s arm and hoisting his now near-weightless form into a standing position.
The raven led the way with John and Sherlock close behind. By the time they reached the gateway back to Diagon Alley, John was in a lot of pain. His stomach hurt and one of his eyes had swollen shut. Sherlock groaned as he started to regain consciousness.
Once safe again in the sunlit corridors, John sat himself and Sherlock down on the steps in front of the sweets shop. He needed to rest his head against the handrail just for a moment... just long enough for the dizziness to pass. Sherlock came to his senses and shook himself.
'Diagon Alley? How'd we get back here? John?'
The sight of his friend's bedraggled condition, the marks on the ground, and the residual magic surrounding them both told Sherlock more than John's words could have. They had been extremely lucky. The raven perched near John's ear and hooted softly. John grimaced and opened his good eye.
‘You all right, Sherlock?’
‘Yeah... I think so. Just a bump on the head. What happened?’
‘No I didn’t! I don’t faint!’
‘Sure, Sherlock. Whatever you say.’
‘You’re a mess. Are you hurt?’
‘I’ve had worse. Can we go back to Hogwarts now? I’ve had enough of London.’
With his finger, John lightly stroked the sleek feathers on the raven’s back. The saucy bird purred like a cat. Although it pained him to do so, John could not help but smile.
‘I bet you can do police sirens too, can’t you?’
The raven replied with the jingling of the Owl Emporium doorbells.
‘He needs a name, John. Something fierce.’
‘He has a name. It’s Murray.’
‘What kind of name is that?!’
‘Ha! What kind of name is Sherlock?
The Boggart, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
John Watson had not slept a wink that night. Studying through the night had two benefits: one, he was finally caught up in his transfiguration lessons, and two, nobody could sneak in and prank him if he remained awake. He entered the Great Hall for breakfast barely awake, but starving.
‘Hey Watson, I hear they’re going to rename the detention room after you!’
‘I heard it was the infirmary!’
John sighed. No original taunts this morning.
Alternate Universe Crossover | literature |
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✘ Current Age: 47
✘ Occupation: Unemployed
✘ True Identity: The Queen of Hearts
✘ Memories: Full
✘ Availability: Taken
✘ Chosen Face Claim: Barbara Hershey
Once upon a time, there lived a woman named Cora, her husband, Henry, and her daughter, Regina. Coming from humble beginnings, Cora always hoped that Regina would get a more successful life than she had gotten herself, even if it meant taking it. One day, she found a way to secure Regina’s future. Cora met a young princess named Snow White, and when the princess’s mother fell ill, Cora tricked Snow White into killing her, and in turn, opening the “position” of queen in the land. A few months later, when Regina was at her riding lesson, Snow White and her father were also at the stables. Cora frightened the young princess’s horse, causing it to take off running, with the girl riding. Regina saved Snow White and Cora escorted the girl. Snow told her father about the woman who saved her. With great gratitude, the king promised to marry his daughter’s savior. There was just one problem: Cora’s daughter refused to marry anyone but Daniel, a stable boy Regina had fallen in love with. In order to assure that Daniel wouldn’t get in the way of her plan, Cora decided that he would have to die. She sent Regina to magic lessons with her old, dear friend, Rumplestiltskin. While Regina was learning the art of dark magic, Cora tricked Daniel into meeting her at the stables. Once he arrived, she tore out his heart and crushed it with her bare hands. When Regina returned from her lessons, she discovered her love on the floor of the stables. Her mother explained that it was the only way if her daughter ever wanted to have power, but because of this act, Regina was never the same again. When Cora, her daughter, and her husband arrived at the castle of Snow White’s father, Regina conspired with her teacher, the Dark One. He promised her that she could get rid of her mother forever. Regina used dark magic and an enchanted mirror to send Cora to another world. That world was called Wonderland, and Cora decided to turn her punishment into a reward. After a long battle, the land was in ruins. Cora used her magic to rebuild and take over the court. From then on, she was known only as the Queen of Hearts. She remained there for a very long time, but when word of a terrible curse in another land spread throughout court, Cora immediately knew it had to be Regina. Hoping that she could reunite with her daughter, Cora asked for the help of a portal jumper, who also happened to be her royal hatter. With the help of this man, Cora was able to travel back to the Enchanted Forest just before the curse was cast. The two of them hid in a corner of the land until they, along with many others, were transported to our world.
In Storybrooke, Cora has been hiding from everyone, living in a small cottage in the forest. The only person that has ever known of her whereabouts was Jefferson. Now that the curse is broken, Cora has been awaiting the perfect time to reveal herself to her daughter, Regina. For all of their time in Storybrooke, Cora has been watching Regina. She’s very proud of the decisions Regina made this far. She hopes that her daughter will trust her again so that she can help her get back to the Enchanted Forest and rule, just as Cora had always planned. | literature |
https://jim.nuttz.org/?p=94 | 2021-10-28T17:47:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588398.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028162638-20211028192638-00257.warc.gz | 0.975412 | 248 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__258295189 | en | If you’re not already reading Tony Woodlief over at Sand in the Gears, you really should be. Today’s essay has a wonderful insight into parenting and how it echoes the relationship between us and God:
Last weekend I stood behind him as he climbed a step ladder to the top rung, and then tried to climb atop the curved bar at its pinnacle, and all the while I thought: he’ll fall and I’ll catch him but on the way down he’ll learn a little something about not risking life and limb so readily.
But of course he didn’t fall, instead he twisted around to see me standing there and hooted and wiggled in his triumph over Mt. Stepladder, until the hubris was too much and I had to extract him, to wails of protest, followed by the stubborn set of chin and deliberate stomping crawl back to the bottom rung. And I thought, this is what God has to put up with, every single day. This is the point of parenting, from his perspective, his way of saying See? Do you see what you people are like?”
Read the whole thing… | literature |
http://carolinweinkopf.de/365-days/ | 2023-12-01T00:03:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100258.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130225634-20231201015634-00435.warc.gz | 0.984318 | 492 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__151278348 | en | one year ago I thought I’d die. It had been almost two days since my water broke, two weeks before your due date, I had been in inducted labour for almost 24 hours, I had been moved from the oh so natural birth house to the oh so hated hospital – and still you didn’t seem to get out.
I was absolutely desperate at that very moment, starting to give up on myself, as my body appeared to be incapable to birth you. I have no idea how it eventually happened, with a lot of help of the doctors and midwives and two of the dearest people in my life, and a miraculous well of strength in absolutely despaired exhaustion.
But suddenly, you were there, like you had always been. You were perfect, you were healthy, and you were mine. For minutes, you looked at me like a wise, old man, as if you already knew it all, like you had already lived.
The past 365 days have been the most beautiful and the most exhausting of my life. I have learned to value time in a way I could never imagine before. I have grown quite a few grey hairs. I have never slept so little, I have never been so tired, ever before. Never in my life have joy and desperation been so close together. I have never been so proud of something I have accomplished as of you.
You are one year old today. You are the happiest baby I know. You are lively and social, you smile all day, you flirt with strangers on the street, you scream of joy and you have a very dirty laugh. You are shameless and demanding, you know exactly what you want and you are very skilled in getting there, no matter how. You steal hearts all the time. You give wet kisses to everyone you get a hold of. You have inspired friends and strangers to make babies. You tickle smiles out of miserable people. You can never sit still, wiggling and jiggling around. You have the most beautiful, (still!) toothless smile. You love dancing and you use everything as a phone. You are about to take your first shaky steps, to form your first proper words and truly start exploring the world around you. You drive me crazy. You make me proud. I love you so.
Happy Birthday, Mini-Me.
All photos: Carolin Weinkopf | literature |
https://queenwarmates.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/thankful/ | 2018-05-25T16:52:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867140.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525160652-20180525180652-00033.warc.gz | 0.998393 | 118 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__203104586 | en | She was so thankful as she gazed into his lovely eyes. He was so beautiful. He made her so complete. Not that she was incomplete but they simply just fit… All her weaknesses were his strengths and all his weaknesses were her strengths.. She smiled and said what she had been holding back for years ” I love you”.. He smiled and said ” That wasn’t so hard now was it? I love you, you crazy sweet being .. all of me, loves all of you always” She leaned in and gave a kiss that sealed their love forever…. | literature |
http://www.kunstfort.nl/en/public-program/randprogramma-toon-fibbe-laura-wiedijk-cloning-the-ghost/ | 2018-02-17T19:33:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891807660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180217185905-20180217205905-00465.warc.gz | 0.909567 | 150 | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__180650265 | en | Toon Fibbe & Laura Wiedijk – Cloning the Ghost
On 7 November Toon Fibbe (NL, 1987) and Laura Wiedijk (NL, 1985) present the research material that is at the base of the intervention Cloning the Ghost. Inspired by Darwin’s book Fertilisation of Orchids, orchids have been appropriated by popular science, fiction and science fiction writers since the late 19th century. The orchid changed the popular imagination of a beautiful, yet passive, flower to a cunning, seductive killer. During the lecture the hidden aspects of the orchid will be revealed, and the role of the orchid in literature will be examined. A curious mix of science and fiction. | literature |
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-pollution/evaluating-new-substances/biotechnology-living-organisms/risk-assessment-decisions/summary-12961.html | 2020-02-17T18:48:27 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143079.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20200217175826-20200217205826-00389.warc.gz | 0.884328 | 3,087 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__97297026 | en | New substances: risk assessment summary 12961
This document has been prepared to explain the regulatory decision taken under Part 6 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999) regarding the manufacture or import of Trichoderma reesei P210A by Iogen Corporation in a contained facility located in Ottawa.
Trichoderma reesei P210A was notified pursuant to subsection 29.11(4) of the CEPA 1999 New Substances Notification Regulations (NSNR).
The New Substances Branch of Environment Canada and the New Substances Assessment and Control Bureau of Health Canada have assessed the information submitted by Iogen Corporation and other available scientific information in order to determine whether T. reesei P210A is toxicFootnote 1 or capable of becoming toxic as described in section 64 of CEPA 1999.
Based on the hazard and exposure considerations, the joint risk assessment conducted by Environment Canada and Health Canada concluded that Trichoderma reesei P210A is not considered to be toxic to the Canadian environment or human health as described in section 64 of the CEPA 1999.
Therefore, the manufacture in or import to a contained facility of T. reesei P210A for use in the contained facility or for export only, may proceed after February 13, 2004.
This evaluation does not include an assessment of human health risk in the occupational environment nor does it include an assessment of the potential exposure and risk to humans associated with the use of the organism in or as an item that falls under the purview of the Food and Drugs Act.
NSN schedule: XVI (manufacture in or import to a contained facility of a micro-organism that is not for introduction outside a contained facility or is for export only)Footnote 2
Organism identity: Trichoderma reesei P210A
Notifier: Iogen Corporation, 310 Hunt Club Rd. East Ottawa, Ontario K1V 1C1 Canada
Date of decision: February 12, 2004
Proposed use: Commercial production, in a contained facility, of a novel thermophilic and alkalophilic xylanase II (xln2) enzyme by genetically engineered Trichoderma reesei P210A.
Strain history/genetic modification
Trichodema reesei P210A was derived from an auxotrophic mutant of the parental strain M2C38 (ATCC 74252) by the introduction of a fragment of the transformation vector pc/xITX1-TV. The selection cassette used in the construction of the transformation vector contains a Neurospora crassa gene functioning as a selectable marker. The expression cassette consisted of the modified version T. reesei xylanase II structural gene (xln2) under the control of T. reesei regulatory sequences. Strain M2C38 is a derivative of the T. reesei strain RUTC30. RUTC30 (ATCC 56765) was obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), and is a mutagenic derivative of the founder strain QM6a (ATCC 13631) which was isolated in the Solomon Islands from cotton canvas during World War II (Kuhls et al., 1996).
In addition to the information provided by the notifier, a review of in-house reference material and a comprehensive search of the scientific literature were conducted to gather information on potential harmful environmental and human health effects attributable to T. reesei.
Trichoderma species are common soil saprophytes and are metabolically versatile, aerobic, mesophilic, imperfect fungi (Nevalainen et al., 1994). The Trichoderma species are differentiated primarily by patterns of conidiophore branching and conidia morphology. They are widespread in nature, quick-growing, easy to culture and they can produce large amounts of conidia with long lifetime (Manczinger et al., 2002).
In general, large scale industrial manufacture of T. reesei enzyme preparations have a history of safe use in many industries including starch and animal feed processing, grain alcohol fermentation, malting and brewing, extraction of fruit and vegetable juices, in pulp and paper, and in textiles (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). Based on the criteria outlined in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development guidelines entitled Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations (OECD, 1986) and the European Communities Council (ECC) Directive 90/219/EEC on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms (ECC, 1990), Trichoderma species can be regarded as safe host organisms.
Trichoderma reesei has been shown to be non-pathogenic and non-toxic to healthy laboratory animals (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). Trichoderma reesei is not reported to be a frank pathogen of plants or animals including humans. However, this species can act as an opportunistic pathogen to immunodepressed animals under extreme experimental conditions (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). Some Trichoderma species have been cited as rare and newly emerging fungal pathogens (Fleming et al., 2002).
While certain species of the genus Trichoderma can be used as biocontrol agents in agriculture for their ability to produce antifungal compounds against several plant pathogenic fungi, T. reesei P210A is not one of them. Some species of Trichoderma may also produce toxins under certain conditions; however, experience with T. reesei indicates that it is not likely to be toxigenic (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). Tests conducted on commercial enzyme preparations confirm that neither antibiotics nor inhibitory substances are produced during the growth of industrial T. reesei strains (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). A carbohydrase enzyme product manufactured by the notifier using the parental strain M2C38 was tested for aflatoxin with negative results. The native xylanase as well as the novel thermophilic/alkalophilic xylanase II belong to a large family of structurally and biochemically related xylanases. Xylanases have been reported as allergens in industrial settings; however, studies on toxicity and mutagenic effects of native xylanases to humans did not reveal any positive results (Pico et al., 1999; Perderson and Broadmeadow, 2000; Dersjant-Li et al, 2001; Harbak and Thygesen, 2002).
Toxicity studies on native xylanases from Aspergillus and Thermomyces administered orally to rats and mice did not result in adverse effects (Pederson and Broadmeadow, 2000). Native xylanases were not found to be mutagenic in the Salmonella typhimurium reverse mutation assay, nor did they cause chromosomal aberrations in cultured human lymphocytes (Pederson and Broadmeadow, 2000).
Neurospora crassa, the fungal source of the selectable marker gene used in the construction of the transformation vector, is not reported to be a frank pathogen. The N. crassa gene product makes selection of T. reesei strain P210A, from a mixture of other microorganisms, easier and is unlikely to pose a risk to the environment since it has many functional equivalents in most living organisms.
Both T. reesei and N. crassa are listed as ‘Biosafety Level 1’ organisms by the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). In addition, T. reesei has been designated as a ‘Risk Group 1’ organism by the Office of Laboratory Security of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
The DNA fragments used in the construction of the transformation vector are well characterized and do not contain any large undefined fragments. It is unknown whether the ampicillin resistance gene present on the transformation vector was integrated onto the host genome. Nevertheless, the ampicillin resistance gene used in the construction of the transformation vector is under the control of a bacterial promoter that will not function in T. reesei. In addition, the vector DNA has been shown to be stably integrated into the chromosome without loss or rearrangement of the sequence even after several generations on non-selective media. Therefore, the potential for lateral gene transfer from this organism to humans, animals or other microbes in the environment is extremely low.
Genetic modifications performed to develop T. reesei P210A do not give rise to concerns of altered virulence or pathogenicity to humans, animals, plants or altered hazards to the environment. The phenotype resulting from the modification is well characterized and is not likely to influence the normal behavior of T. reesei.
Trichoderma species, including T. reesei are common soil saprophytic fungal species found in all climate zones and are particularly prevalent in the litter of humid, mixed hardwood forests (Nevalainen et al., 1994).
Trichoderma reesei P210A is manufactured solely as an intermediate in the production of a novel thermophilic/alkalophilic xylanase II enzyme in a contained facility. The notifier indicated that the manufacturing process meets the standards for the Good Large Scale Practice (GLSP) level as defined in Appendix K of the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (NIH, 2002). The notified strain is not intended for release outside the contained facility. Consequently, the potential exposure to the general population and the environment is expected to be low.
The notifier describes procedures which will limit potential worker exposure. These include the use of protective equipment, such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) approved respiratory masks with particulate filters, face shield, or safety goggles with side shields, rubber gloves, lab coats or overalls for workers who are chronically exposed to enzyme dusts or aerosols during such procedures as transfers of fermentation broths.
Precautions are in place and used by the notifier to ensure that exhaust and aerosols from the fermentor are decontaminated by UV irradiation to kill any organisms and volatiles and odours are removed by a cyclone and scrubber system. The fermentor is equipped with an alarm to indicate high pressure, foam-over and low-level and is diked in case of massive leakage. Trichoderma reesei P210A is not intrinsically hazardous, thus, inadvertent release from the manufacturing facility is not expected to pose significant risk to the environment and human health.
When enzyme production is complete, the spent cell mass is chemically inactivated using a quaternary ammonium compound with 99.999% effectiveness prior to disposal in a registered landfill or composting sites in accordance with provincial regulations. Given that T. reesei P210A lacks pathogenicity and toxicity potential, the likelihood of significant harm to the environment or human health resulting from the disposal route of exposure is expected to be minimal.
Dersjant-Li, Y., Schulze, H., Schrama, J.W., Verreth, J.A. and Verstegen, M.W. 2001. Feed intake, growth, digestibility of dry matter and nitrogen in young pigs as affected by dietary cation-anion difference and supplementation of xylanase. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition (Berlin). 85(3-4): 101-109.
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Harbak, L. and Thygesen, H.V. 2002. Safety evaluation of a xylanase expressed in Bacillus subtilis. Food Chemistry and Toxicology. 40(1): 1-8.
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Nevalainen, H., Suominen, P. and Taimisto, K. 1994. Minireview on the safety of Trichoderma reesei. Journal of Biotechnology. 37: 193-200.
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https://thompsongenealogy.com/2011/12/rebecca-kruttschnitt-drew-well-she-drew-very-well/ | 2022-07-03T18:03:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104248623.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703164826-20220703194826-00702.warc.gz | 0.974378 | 657 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__215515803 | en | I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise given how many people in my family draw well. Nevertheless, I was astonished to discover recently that Rebecca de Mendes Kruttschnitt (1889-1974), my great grand aunt, was a professional illustrator.
Rebecca Kruttschnitt adeptly illustrated a drawing-room novel — that’s right, a roman de salon — published in 1910. The book, “In Town, and Other Conversations,” written by Janet Ayer Fairbank, includes more than a dozen of Rebecca’s delicate pencil drawings. You can read it by clicking here, though no one should be blamed for just looking at the pictures.
Rebecca de Mendes Kruttschnitt was the daughter of Julius Kruttschnitt, the former board chairman of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Rebecca married Henry de Clifford Woodhouse when she was 22, one year after the book was published. A Canadian, Woodhouse was a veteran of the Boer Wars in South Africa.
As we have previously blogged, Woodhouse was no good to Rebecca. He notoriously carried on during wedlock with the poet Elinor Wylie, who wrote love sonnets about him in her last book. Elinor and Rebecca were friends. Elinor frequently visited the Woodhouses after they had moved to England at their household at Henley-on-Thames. She visited too frequently, if I may say so.
It goes without saying that Rebecca’s illustrations are the most interesting part of the book, which began as a play that was serialized in the Sunday editions of Chicago Record-Herald under the name, “The Tea Table.” The same characters appear in each scene to talk about issues of the moment, according to one reviewer, who adds that the talk is handled “in an amusing and highly natural manner.”
I can’t vouch for this because I have no interest in reading the book. Someone else can read it and tell me if it’s any good. But I can tell you that I completely agree with the reviewer when he characterizes the drawings as being of “uncommon delicacy.” This is a book that you can definitely judge by its pictures, starting with the covers.
Sadly, the covers are the only illustrations in color. The front cover features a lone passenger in an early automobile, about to set off on a weekend adventure, no doubt. I guess I’m not sure why the driver is all covered up when leaves are still on the trees. Maybe that’s because I haven’t read the book.
Inside, there are lots of lovely pictures of beautifully dressed, thoughtful women doing exciting things — pouring tea, wearing furs, getting dressed by maids to go to the opera, stirring tea, that kind of thing. They are all really, really good.
Interestingly, men really aren’t a factor in the illustrations, except to hide behind newspapers, sit dully in an armchair, or wear old military outfits. That may be one reason why I have no interest in reading the book. | literature |
https://sga.com.au/sgas-industry-leading-approach-to-food-safety/ | 2023-12-10T16:47:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102612.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210155147-20231210185147-00247.warc.gz | 0.903969 | 1,078 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__96426396 | en | Salmonella, a name that often elicits fear in those who have encountered its unwelcome presence, is a well-known term. But what precisely is salmonella, and how does it manifest in various forms? This article is our hope to break down the plethora of salmonella types, the incidence across different states, common sources of infection, affected age groups, and the proactive measures undertaken by Sanikleen Group Australia (SGA) to mitigate salmonella infections.
Diverse Salmonella: Over 2500 Types & Counting
Salmonella, a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family, is a bacterium notorious for causing foodborne illnesses. Its remarkable diversity is a notable characteristic, with over 2500 distinct serovars identified to date. These serovars can be broadly categorized into two groups: Typhoidal and non-typhoidal.
1. Typhoidal Salmonella: This category comprises serovars such as Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi, known for causing systemic infections like typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. These diseases are frequently linked to contaminated water and inadequate sanitation, making them more prevalent in regions with limited access to clean water and sanitation facilities.
2. Non-Typhoidal Salmonella: The majority of salmonella infections fall under this category, featuring serovars like Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium. These bacteria typically result in gastrointestinal illnesses and are often transmitted through the consumption of contaminated food, particularly poultry and eggs.
However, a distinct difference exists between serovars. S. bongori primarily infects cold-blooded animals, while S. enterica can infect a variety of warm-blooded animals, including humans, making it a more common cause of human salmonella infections.
Regional Variations In Salmonella Incidence
Salmonella infections can occur anywhere, but their prevalence varies by region in Australia. Different states have unique median percentages of salmonella cases per population:
- Victoria (VIC): 4.7% of the population
- New South Wales (NSW): 5.8% of the population
- Queensland (QLD): 9.5% of the population
- Northern Territory (NT): 2.6% of the population
- Tasmania (TAS): 0.6% of the population
- South Australia (SA): 7.5% of the population
- Western Australia (WA): 7.5% of the population
These variations are influenced by factors such as population density, food handling practices, and the local food supply chain. Moreover, an article by Fearnley et al. (2018) and the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (2023) suggest that subtropical states are more susceptible to salmonella.
Common Causes & Sources Of Salmonella
Salmonella infections are most frequently associated with the consumption of certain foods, with chicken and nuts being among the primary culprits. However, it’s essential to note that the sources of salmonella are not limited to these items. Contaminated raw eggs, unpasteurized dairy products, and under cooked meat are other common sources. Cross-contamination between raw and cooked foods, as well as improper food storage and handling, can also contribute to the spread of salmonella.
Age Groups At Risk
Salmonella infections can affect individuals of all ages, but certain age groups are more vulnerable. Infants, young children, the elderly, and individuals with weakened immune systems, such as those with chronic illnesses or undergoing chemotherapy, are at a higher risk of experiencing severe symptoms when infected with salmonella. However, healthy adults can also contract salmonella, experiencing mild to moderate symptoms like diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps.
In the realm of food safety and hygiene, SGA stands out as a trusted partner with a rich history of safeguarding food processing facilities against the threat of Salmonella. Their blend of experience, industry expertise, customized solutions, and a strong focus on education and innovation, along with the incorporation of Phageguard, positions them as a leader in ensuring that food products meet the highest safety standards, safeguarding both the industry and the consumers it serves. With SGA’s advanced technology and comprehensive approach, food processing facilities can rest assured that they are taking the necessary steps to prevent and combat Salmonella and other foodborne pathogens.
1. Fearnley EJ, Lal A, Bates J, Stafford R, Kirk MD, Glass K (2018). Salmonella source attribution in a subtropical state of Australia: capturing environmental reservoirs of infection. Epidemiology and Infection 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095026881800222 2.
2. Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, September 05, (2023) National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) public dataset – salmonella, https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/national-notifiable-diseases-surveillance-system-nndss-public-dataset-salmonella?language=en | literature |
http://www.gis.ba/en/multiobjective-optimal-positioning-of-the-cluster-heads-in-the-heterogeneous-geosensor-networks/ | 2021-09-20T04:41:57 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057018.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210920040604-20210920070604-00290.warc.gz | 0.816787 | 2,696 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__18600860 | en | Multiobjective optimal positioning of the cluster heads in the heterogeneous geosensor networks
A geosensor network embedded in a geographic space is a distributed ad-hoc wireless network of sensor-enabled miniature computing platforms that monitors environmental phenomena (Nittel et al., 2004, Worboys and Duckham, 2006). It can be employed in diverse application domains each with different application requirements. Optimization approaches, techniques and strategies at different design levels help meet these application requirements (Munir and Gordon-Ross, 2011).
Geosensor networks pose various optimization problems which consider investigation and search for new optimization techniques. The techniques can be at different design levels (e.g. architecture, network topology, node component level) depending of problem type and application requirements (e.g. dynamic or static). One of the resarch problems (covered by this work) is multiobjective optimal positioning of cluster heads or the high powered relay heads (HPRH) serving clusters of the sensor nodes in a heterogeneous geosensor network for data transfer to the base station. This problem is known to belong the NP-Hard class of optimization problems (de Smith et.al., 2010). To address this problem we can use the Pareto based multiobjective genetic algorithm (PBMOGA) as a search technique. The PBMOGA is suitable to provide good solutions for optimization problems assuming competitive and conflict objectives (e.g. quality of area detection and density of sensor network, in order to find the minimum tolerable density with maximum efficiency (Xiao, 2010), or sensors coverage, cardinality and survivability in surveillance applications (Yourdan and de Weck, 2004)).
Research Statement and Objectives:
This study concerns the development and testing of the multiobjective genetic algorithm applied to clustering of sensor nodes in a heterogeneous wireless ad-hoc geosensor network. The aproach will be tested on problems in which the various classes of sensor nodes are randomly distributed over a geographical area. The multiobjective GA based mechanism will be used to search for the pareto optimum positions of cluster heads represented as artificial chromosomes within a pre-specified number of node clusters which belong to two or more various sensor types.
Research objective is to examine potential and efficiency of PBMOGA as a searching tool for alternative sets of cluster head positions in heterogeneous geosensor networks. The research also considers some questions related to the optimization, geosensor network heterogenity and in-network data processing.
Performance optimization in wireless geosensor networks can be achieved through proper physical layers design for energy savings and increased throughput. It considers application of various configuration scenarios with objectives for surveillance applications, power allocation strategies for networks lifetime maximization, throughput and lifetime maximization in clustered networks, and integration of radio control technology for high energy efficiency (Medagliani and Ferrari,2011). Various perspectives, approaches and objects of in-network processing optimization have been considered e.g. development localization algorithms (Kealy and Duckham, 2009), dynamic query optimization (Galpin et al., 2008), distributed algorithms (Rabbat and Nowak, 2005), cross-layer (Cui and Goldsmith, 2006.) and multi-query algorithms (Trigoni et al., 2005.), environmental monitoring aproaches (Worboys and Duckham, 2006) and many others.
There are few examples with multiobjective algorithm application in real-world spatial optimiziation problems, including geosensor networks field, which are characterized with the complexity of the multiple conflict objectives and large searching space. Related to sensor networks and the optimization problems, the genetic algorithm applications have been considered for clustering dynamic geosensor networks to minimize the total communication distance and prolong the network life (K.Raman and P.Vaidya, 2006), for clustering of the nodes into groups and forming a backbone for data transfer (R. Sachdev and K. Nygard, 2009), in multiobjective optimization of wireless geosensor network layouts (D. Jourdan and O. de Weck, 2005), for multiobjective placement of water quality sensors in water distribution systems (Z. Yi Wu and T. Walski, 2006) and others. Generally, this area of multiobjective GA application is not broader covered and this represents a motivation reason for more research efforts.
To detect the conditions or events in a wide-area geographic space, a monitoring application requires a large-scale geosensor network including various kinds of sensors. As well, many large, autonomous sensor platforms will be integrated with the deployment of small-form sensor networks providing rapid rates of real-time sensor data of various type, scale and location. The application of domain knowledge is also necessary in order to interpret and understand an environmental condition, based on the collected data (Jung and Nittel, 2008).
The deployed geosensors fulfill sensing, communication andcomputation functions. The sensing can be of different types (chemical, seismic, optical, acoustic, temperature and humidity statistics,..), and the communication is performed wirelessly (within a shorter or longer range) (Jourdan and de Weck, 2004).
To transmit their data to the base station (central monitoring server), for a specific network arhitecture, all the sensors are required to be connected to one or more high powered relay heads (cluster heads). The sensors are assumed to have different computation and communication abilities, i.e. properties which can significantly vary depending on the type of sensing performed. The criterial properties (e.g. environmental affects to communication or sensing rang) can be formulated by fuzzy aproach as well, and involved in the modelling.
This framework can be used to test a Pareto based multi objective genetic algorithm (PBMOGA) for the cluster head placement, where the competing objectives considered are the objectives (e.g. minimized total power consumption) related to the clusters of different type sensor nodes sharing the same geographic area. The objectives should be conflicted, and their evaluation should meet the requirements of the iterative process of searching solutions.
The algorithm aims at minimizing or maximizing all the objectives of the heterogenous geo-network simulatously, yielding Pareto front (PF) from which the user can choose the prefered alternative solution. The number of cluster heads (hubs) can be investigated as a design variable, as well as different sensing objectives.
The research methodology is based on theoretical considerations, modeling, simulation of different variants of the problem by using test examples, implementation of the proposed mechanism and analysis of the results.
The steps of the research are as follows:
review and analysis of genetic algorithm applications in the field of geosensor networks;
define the clustering problem in heterogeneous geosensor networks and develop a detailed research methodology;
define the approach in the application of genetic algorithm for multiobjective optimization through the presentation of its building blocks (crossing, mutation, selection…) and consideration of its specific parameters;
modeling the test problem environment and defining the objective functions;
initial application PBMOGA and its parametric adaptation in order to improve its performance;
final PBMOGA implementation;
testing and evaluation of the results and
drawing conclusions and directions for further research.
Software tools and laboratory resources:
resources available at the Civil Engineering Faculty in Sarajevo and Mining, Geology and Civil Engineering Faculty in Tuzla (tools for spatial data analysis),
available lab resources at the Laboratory for Intelligent Management of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo (MatLab, GA Tools, GAOP; tools for the creation, development and application of genetic algorithm)
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Wu, Z. and Walski, T. (2006): Multi objective optimization of sensor placement in water distribution systems, 2006 Annual Symposium on Water Distribution Systems Analysis, Cincinnati, Ohio | literature |
http://ptonice.com/blog/hip-to-the-literature-1 | 2017-05-30T09:02:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463614620.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170530085905-20170530105905-00285.warc.gz | 0.887342 | 1,277 | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__704332 | en | Hip To The Literature
The British Journal of Sports Medicine recently released an excellent issue with some great insight on current concepts regarding femoral acetabular impingement (FAI). Of note, is the open access consensus statement regarding current best practice in regards to diagnostics and treatment and the promotion of individualized care for individuals with FAI syndrome.
Yes, the consensus’ addition of the word syndrome to FAI is important, as we have learned that there is more to this topic than just hip joint morphology. Symptoms of hip pain, clinical signs of decreased range of motion, painful hip flexion-adduction-internal rotation (FADIR/Impingement Test), hip strength and motor impairments combined with diagnostic injections and pathoanatomical findings via diagnostic imaging are required to make the correct diagnosis. This is the easy part.
The expert panel recommended that the patient should then be exposed to all treatment options and requires individualized care. The literature offers us no clear path on choosing that course of care. The debate of conservative or surgical care remains challenging. With physiotherapy-led rehabilitation, the goal is to regain hip strength, stability, and motor control while improving (and protecting) appropriate mobility and movement impairments. The surgical goal is eliminate a potential pain generator and restore impingement-free motion. Then the individual will undergo a course of rehabilitation, tackling the same goals previously mentioned. Ultimately, all paths eventually lead to physical therapy.
The FaSHioN randomized controlled trial (Wall) offers suggestions on current best practice of a conservative course of care. Of importance for success includes proper patient subgroup selection and intervention selection. Freke’s review of symptomatic FAI revealed consistent impairments of hip mobility, hip strength, motor control, and single leg deficits. It makes sense that that the FaSHioN group attempts to take on these functional limitations. However, what those terms mean to each physical therapist is different, and falls in line with a lack of consistency of care in the literature. (All Open Access! Go Read Now!)
When clinically reasoning through these cases, it makes sense to be careful about pushing mobility, considering morphological blocks and irritants. Without irritating the key lesion, assessing and treating lumbopelvic and soft tissue mobility, along with pragmatic inferior and posterior glides of the hip joint, may create increased pain-free mobility and movement. This serves as a gateway to the desired avenue of exercise. Loudon & Reiman (PT in Sport 2014) provide an excellent review on potential pathomechanics and provide clues on mechanisms that could be assessed and treated conservatively. After appropriate assessment, exercise intervention may benefit by paying attention to tiny details provided in the research of Selkowitz, (JOSPT September 2016, February 2013) and Khuu (IJSPT April 2016), in that subtle technique variations to bias motor recruitment and biomechanical function has the potential to feed or attack potential impairments. How we choose to gain mobility, stability, dose exercise and achieve motor recruitment and control matters.
So what did we really learn from this influx of new evidence? The consensus is that there is no consensus beyond diagnostics and complexity remains in treating this syndrome. The picture is less clear than ever, as we spin our wheels slowly moving forward and awaiting clinical trials to comparing conservative and surgical care. At the minimum, a patient-centered and individualized plan of care is a must. Regardless of the course of care, similar impairments will be present and targeting regional mobility, hip strength, single leg stability and motor control of the hip and pelvis are necessary. If you are still with me, check out a few of our current ways of addressing these through exercises on the video posted below!
Disclaimer: This is not medical advice and these opinions are independent of any entity. These thoughts were likely fueled by consumption of too much coffee and great music.
Griffin DR, Dickenson EJ, O'Donnell J, Awan T, Beck M, Clohisy JC, Dijkstra HP, Falvey E, Gimpel M, Hinman RS, Hölmich P. The Warwick Agreement on femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI syndrome): an international consensus statement. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016 Oct 1;50(19):1169-76.
Freke MD, Kemp J, Svege I, Risberg MA, Semciw A, Crossley KM. Physical impairments in symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement: a systematic review of the evidence. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016 Oct 1;50(19):1180-.
Wall PD, Dickenson EJ, Robinson D, Hughes I, Realpe A, Hobson R, Griffin DR, Foster NE. Personalised Hip Therapy: development of a non-operative protocol to treat femoroacetabular impingement syndrome in the FASHIoN randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016 Oct 1;50(19):1217-23.
Loudon JK, Reiman MP. Conservative management of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) in the long distance runner. Physical Therapy in Sport. 2014 May 31;15(2):82-90.
Selkowitz DM, Beneck GJ, Powers CM. Comparison of Electromyographic Activity of the Superior and Inferior Portions of the Gluteus Maximus Muscle During Common Therapeutic Exercises. journal of orthopaedic & sports physical therapy. 2016 Sep;46(9):794-9.
Selkowitz DM, Beneck GJ, Powers CM. Which exercises target the gluteal muscles while minimizing activation of the tensor fascia lata? Electromyographic assessment using fine-wire electrodes. journal of orthopaedic & sports physical therapy. 2013 Feb;43(2):54-64.
Khuu A, Foch E, Lewis CL. NOT ALL SINGLE LEG SQUATS ARE EQUAL: A BIOMECHANICAL COMPARISON OF THREE VARIATIONS. International journal of sports physical therapy. 2016 Apr;11(2):201. | literature |
https://qac.org.au/is-it-possible-to-teach-art-and-culture-to-our-kids/ | 2022-09-29T17:15:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335362.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929163117-20220929193117-00577.warc.gz | 0.972738 | 703 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__138149775 | en | It is clear that the social and cultural environment play an indispensable role in the development of children. Just as children are in need of responsible adults around them, to cover basic needs for growth and guide them in their behavior, the context is also determinant in parameters as important as beliefs or the transmission of values. There is no single successful formula for such transmission. The study “The culture and education of young children. Preparing staff to teach children from many cultural backgrounds”, conducted at the National Black Child Devolopment Institute in Washington, noted that the differences observed between cultures for cultural transmission to children do not mean that there is the right way versus the wrong way.
The term “art” is even more specific than that of “culture”. It refers to the expression of human activity through plastic, linguistic or sound resources, and also plays a fundamental role in the development of the child. It develops creativity in the face of problems and conflicts, helping to think. It invites children to reflect and ask themselves questions to overcome barriers such as prejudices. It helps them to use their senses, to approach different contents in an entertaining way. Improves the perception of what surrounds them. That is why it is so important that they are in contact with art and culture.
The benefits of telling them a story
Reading is a basic tool for children to gain new vocabulary and learn to express themselves, as well as to convey differences between what is right and what is wrong, in a way adapted to their level of understanding that they will be able to understand.
That from an early age they are instilled with the value of reading is essential so that, tomorrow, they will be avid readers. Children tend to imitate, they reproduce the behaviours they see in their immediate surroundings, from which the importance of being a good reference can be deduced. If a parent or guardian usually reads, it is more than likely that the child will read as well.
A good way to awaken their curiosity to learn is to read them a story, for example, before they fall asleep. Because this will also strengthen the relationship between parents and children, will strengthen a bond that, tomorrow, can contribute to closeness and trust.
The Internet has many resources, such as free children’s stories that parents should select carefully. Sleeping stories on mevoyadormir.com are accompanied by songs and lullabies for babies that can be very interesting.
From the nearest and best known
When it comes to children, any everyday situation is presented as an opportunity to learn. It is only necessary to have a little will and not to dispel all their questions with an invented explanation that, due to their capacity to reason, will seem credible.
To awaken their curiosity is to have a perception of themselves, of their ego. Invitations to reflection and learning can be constant, starting with their own name, by knowing more about the onomastics of Mary, John, Albert, Daniel, Sophie or Anne, or whatever their name. You can know the meaning of your name for free here, and it can be articulated as an invitation to search and read something that concerns them so directly.
Given their age and scope, the child will begin to be interested in what has to do with them, their family and their particular context. Exploiting all this knowledge will help his desire to learn to grow little by little, to expand beyond what affects him or concerns him directly. | literature |
https://qumc.com/index.php/component/jevents/eventsbyday/2021/5/27/-?Itemid=101 | 2021-06-24T16:10:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488556133.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20210624141035-20210624171035-00217.warc.gz | 0.943225 | 705 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__99251434 | en | One of my favorite books is Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The book consists of various introspective chapters, each centering around a “shell” metaphor, a “gift” from the sea, where Anne spent time alone to refresh her mind and spirit from the hustle and bustle of city life.
Examining the configurations of the shells prompts Anne to think differently about life, relationships, marriage, and the aesthetic beauty of the human mind and heart.
A similarly touching book by Elisabeth Tova Bailey is titled The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. In her book, Elisabeth describes what she observes around her during a long, debilitating illness. When she receives a plant complete with a woodland snail living within its soil, she becomes fascinated with the simplicity of its life. Soon, she develops a kind of relationship with the small creature, caring for it and feeding it leaves, its quiet munching a solace in her loneliness. While others might have found the tiny snail insignificant, Elisabeth realizes that each part of creation, whether human or creature, is part of an entire interwoven network of relationships that make our world fascinating and exquisitely beautiful. In understanding the mysterious life of the snail by her bedside, Elisabeth gains new insights into her own place within the world. In calling attention to the remarkable phenomena of the natural world around us, the book celebrates the resilience of human existence even in our darkest times.
As we leave the dark, cold barrenness of winter and enter into spring, we too notice the budding branches, the sound of returning birds, the green of unfolding, new leaves, the bursting forth of color. Warm winds blow white and pink petals across the roadways and paths. Rains pool and form muddy birdbaths. Bees begin pollinating flowers. Flower beds fill with tulips and daffodils. And with spring comes a feeling that life is in the air. Indeed it is.
Life is a theme that God has developed from micro to macro in every part of the world from the first day of creation. As we continue in May celebrating the resurrection life of Jesus, his post-resurrection appearances to his stunned disciples, and the birth of the early church, we can get an awe-filled sense of how wondrous Life as a disciple can be.
Being a disciple of Jesus is a commitment to paying attention to the little miracles around us, the way life always springs from death and darkness, the way no matter how many times we try to “nail” Jesus down or wipe Him away, He always reappears powerfully and mightily in the world in new and exciting ways with His healing hand and loving heart.
This month as you prepare to be touched by the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, remember that Life starts with a seed. You are that seed. And now is your time to burst forth with the love and beauty of the Gospel message so that all the world can experience the life-giving love of Jesus.
Never for a moment believe that your contribution is not enough. You just may be the next small miracle in someone else’s life.
If you have a need to talk about something happening in your life, whether in sadness or joy, the pastor’s door is always open and her ear always listening. Just give a call or email.
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https://www.kaylaheisler.com/ | 2023-12-02T05:45:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100327.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202042052-20231202072052-00555.warc.gz | 0.974507 | 260 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__8191477 | en | Kayla Heisler is a New York–based writer, editor, and arts administrator. She is a graduate of Columbia University School of the Arts, where she earned a Writing MFA and of Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, where she earned a Literary Studies BA. As a student, she held teaching fellowships at both institutions. She has over a decade of writing and editing experience and has worked with several outlets including Cleveland Review of Books, Columbia Journal, Eleven and a Half, Fairygodboss, and Witch Craft Magazine. As an administrator in higher education, she wrote and edited copy for website pages, staff and student guidebooks, bulletins, and other projects. Additionally, she independently managed all internal and external award processes and coordinated multiple student and academic events. Clients have hired Kayla to elevate their projects on the sentence, paragraph, and story level. She has been a featured reader at Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she was interviewed by Susanne Mueller for the Take It from the Ironwoman podcast. In 2023, she was awarded residencies to Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences. She is currently working on a cultural memoir-in-essays. | literature |
https://eddvick.wordpress.com/about/ | 2019-03-18T18:16:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201521.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190318172016-20190318194016-00339.warc.gz | 0.97545 | 190 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__97591376 | en | Edd Vick is the son of a pirate. He grew up in Texas, California, and England. MU Press, his publishing company, produced several hundred comics by creators like Donna Barr, Matt Howarth, and Cathy Hill between 1990 and 2005. His first professional fiction sale was “Defender” to a Magic: The Gathering anthology in 1995. His next sale, to Asimov’s, was concurrent with his attending Clarion in 2002. He has since sold about forty other stories to Analog, Asimov’s, and to many anthologies, often in conjunction with his writing partner Manny Frishberg. Edd’s story “Moon Does Run”, first published in Electric Velocipede, was chosen for inclusion in Year’s Best SF 12.
Edd lives in Seattle with SF author Amy Thomson, their daughter Katie, a dog, a cat, and three chickens. | literature |
https://www.dietenlightenment.com/ | 2022-06-30T17:25:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103850139.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630153307-20220630183307-00643.warc.gz | 0.947529 | 551 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__169221917 | en | Discover exactly how to lose weight and keep it off for good, and why you don't need to sacrifice the food you love or go hungry in order to be thin.
Learn how to use your favorite foods to lose weight and tap into your natural ability to stay thin. If you've tried other diets with limited success, given up on weight loss or just assume you can't lose weight because of your metabolism, this book is for you.
"Thought provoking and engaging, this book is a great resource to elucidate the confusing path toward weight loss. Pires makes the journey accessible by giving you tools and information to become successful. Adding humor and insight, she helps you to see that weight loss is not difficult with the right knowledge. Using data and references from the New England Journal of Medicine, BBC news, Mayo Clinic and American Journal of Preventative Medicine illustrate how well versed and well researched this book is. Overall an excellent and helpful book!"
"I have recommended this book to coaching clients and psychotherapy patients because it is scientific, psychologically minded, and promotes healthful eating and exercise. It is well written, easy to comprehend, and worth the time. Rachel Pires has made a contribution. Her book is a treasure!"
Dr. Judy Logue
"This book was such a breath of fresh air. Written in a positive, reassuring tone, Pires never lectures but lays out her message in a clear, concise manner. Taking a subject that elicits extreme emotional responses from tears of despair to elation, and teaches the reader that dieting should not be something to be feared, but is actually a battle that can be overcome. With no gimmicks, just boatloads of honesty and fun, simple, easy to understand techniques - Diet Enlightenment is a permanent fixture on my counter top and my new secret weapon in the battle against the bulge!"
"There must be thousands of diet books out there. In such a crowded landscape, it's hard to believe that a new book could come out with a new approach and with simple, effective ideas. But this is exactly what Ms. Pires has achieved. Rachel teaches how to determine the daily caloric intake that will enable anyone to slowly and efficiently lose weight down to their target level. She provides many great insights on how to accomplish this in both a healthy and effective fashion. As someone that has struggled with my weight since passing the age of 40, I am very excited to try Ms. Pires' approach. This method really appeals to my mathematical mind and my palate!"
"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." Lao Tzu | literature |
https://eyeswideopen.world/category/poetry/ | 2023-11-28T16:58:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099892.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128151412-20231128181412-00885.warc.gz | 0.949539 | 1,442 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__131417122 | en | I want free life and I want fresh air;
And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,
The crack of the whips like shots in a battle,
The medley of horns and hoofs and heads
That wars and wrangles and scatters and spreads;
The green beneath and the blue above,
And dash and danger, and life and love —
Lasca used to ride
On a mouse-gray mustang close by my side,
With blue serape and bright-belled spur;
I laughed with joy as I looked at her!
Little knew she of books or of creeds;
An Ave Maria sufficed her needs;
Little she cared, save to be by my side,
To ride with me, and ever to ride,
From San Saba’s shore to LaVaca’s tide.
She was as bold as the billows that beat,
She was as wild as the breezes that blow;
From her little head to her little feet
She was swayed in her suppleness to and fro
By each gust of passion; a sapling pine
That grows on the edge of a Kansas bluff
And wars with the wind when the weather is rough
Is like this Lasca, this love of mine.She would hunger that I might eat,
Would take the bitter and leave me the sweet;
But once, when I made her jealous for fun,
At something I’d whispered, or looked, or done,
One Sunday, in San Antonio,
To a glorious girl in the Alamo,
She drew from her garter a dear little dagger,
And — sting of a wasp! — it made me stagger!
An inch to the left, or an inch to the right,
And I shouldn’t be maundering here tonight;
But she sobbed, and, sobbing, so swiftly bound
Her torn reboso about the wound,
That I quite forgave her. Scratches don’t count
In Texas, down by the Rio Grande.Her eye was brown — a deep, deep brown;
Her hair was darker than her eye;
And something in her smile and frown,
Curled crimson lip and instep high,
Showed that there ran in each blue vein,
Mixed with the milder Aztec strain,
The vigorous vintage of Old Spain.
She was alive in every limb
With feeling to the finger tips;
And when the sun is like a fire,
And sky one shining, soft sapphire,
One does not drink in little sips.
The air was heavy, and the night was hot,
I sat by her side, and forgot – forgot;
Forgot the herd that were taking their rest,
Forgot that the air was close opprest,
That the Texas norther comes sudden and soon,
In the dead of night or the blaze of noon;
That, once let the herd at its breath take fright,
Nothing on earth can stop the flight;
And woe to the rider, and woe to the steed,
Who falls in front of their mad stampede!
Was that thunder? I grasped the cord
Of my swift mustang without a word.
I sprang to the saddle, and she clung behind.
Away! On a hot chase down the wind!
But never was fox hunt half so hard,
And never was steed so little spared,
For we rode for our lives, You shall hear how we fared
In Texas, down by the Rio Grande.
The mustang flew, and we urged him on;
There was one chance left, and you have but one;
Halt, jump to ground, and shoot your horse;
Crouch under his carcass and take your chance;
And, if the steers in their frantic course
Don’t batter you both to pieces at once,
You may thank your star; if not, goodby
To the quickening kiss and the long-drawn sigh,
And the open air and the open sky,
In Texas, down by the Rio Grande.
The cattle gained on us, and just as I felt
For my old six-shooter behind in my belt,
Down came the mustang, and down came we,
Clinging together — and, what was the rest?
A body that spread itself on my brest,
Two arms that shielded my dizzy head,
Two lips that hard on my lips were prest;
Then came thunder in my ears,
As over us surged the sea of steers,
Blows that beat blood into my eyes,
And when I could rise—
Lasca was dead!
I gouged out a grave a few feet deep,
And there in Earth’s arms I laid her to sleep;
And there she is lying, and no one knows;
And the summer shines and the winter snows;
For many a day the flowers have spread
A pall of petals over her head;
And the little gray hawk hangs aloft in the air,
And the sly coyote trots here and there,
And the black snake glides and glitters and slides
Into a rift in a cottonwood tree;
And the buzzard sails on,
And comes and is gone,
Stately and still like a ship at sea.
And I wonder why I do not care
For the things that are like the things that were.
Does half my heart lie buried there
In Texas, down by the Rio Grande?
Apache Wedding Vows
“Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you. May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years. May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.”
“Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves. When frustration, difficulties and fear assail your relationship, as they threaten all relationships at one time or another, remember to focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong. In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives — remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.” | literature |
https://www.viewlocity.com/resources/white-papers/managing-risk-maximizing-profits-using-visibility-to-mitigate-supply-chain-risk-1/ | 2021-09-27T06:27:36 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780058373.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20210927060117-20210927090117-00428.warc.gz | 0.927342 | 189 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__96288118 | en | Managing risk, maximizing profits: Using visibility to mitigate supply chain risk
Every day companies face an increasing number of events that can cause supply chain disruptions. That is why managing risk across the global supply chain network has become a critical necessity.
While it would be nice to simply avoid risks by transferring them to our supply chain partners, it is just not realistic. Today most companies continue to experience supply chain inefficiencies as a direct result of increased risk. Manufacturing disruptions, bloated inventories, transportation delays, stockouts and obsolete inventories are just some of the negative results.
Many supply chain executives are using improved supply chain visibility to help overcome a variety of risks. This white paper reviews four key types of supply chain risk:
- Rising variable costs
- Supplier failures
- Logistics disruptions
- Natural disasters
The paper then discusses how improved visibility can help mitigate each of these risks and ultimately improve overall supply chain performance. | literature |
http://www.kohlchildrensmuseum.org/programming/storytime-prek/ | 2018-07-23T15:49:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676596542.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723145409-20180723165409-00131.warc.gz | 0.948118 | 166 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__140237842 | en | Story Time – Preschool
Story Time takes place every Monday at 11 a.m. Walk into the pages of a different book every two weeks with our interactive storytelling led by Museum professionals. Pre-school age stories on Mondays at 11 a.m. are chosen based on age appropriateness but all ages are welcome to attend.
Follow the charming story of a greedy caterpillar that transforms into a beautiful butterfly.August 6, August 13, August 20, August 27: Here In the Garden by Briony Stewart
Experience the change of seasons with a young boy who shares the magic of his garden with a special friend.September 10, September 17, September 24: Counting With Apollo by Caroline Gregoire
Learn how to count to ten with the very amusing, good looking, kind and clever, Apollo! | literature |
https://ims-web.com/project-failure-statistics-among-capital-intensive-industries/ | 2023-12-09T20:40:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100972.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209202131-20231209232131-00724.warc.gz | 0.868181 | 1,120 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__148764682 | en | Project Failure Statistics Among Capital Intensive Industries
Abstract capital-intensive industries face significant challenges in successfully delivering large-scale projects. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of project failure statistics in these industries, examining the prevalence of cost overruns, schedule delays, and failure to meet objectives. This paper concludes with recommendations for improving project performance based on industry best practices and lessons learned.
Capital-intensive industries, such as construction, oil and gas, and infrastructure, often face substantial project failures due to the complex nature and scale of their projects. This paper aims to provide an in-depth analysis of project failure statistics, drawing from multiple sources and studies to give a well-rounded view of the current state of project performance in these industries.
Project Failure Statistics
- McKinsey & Company (2016): Nearly 50% of large capital projects were over budget, with an average cost overrun of 43%. Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/the-construction-productivity-imperative
- Jergeas & Ruwanpura (2017): 64% of large oil and gas projects faced cost overruns. Source: Jergeas, G. F., & Ruwanpura, J. (2017). Reasons for cost overruns on large oil and gas projects. International Journal of Project Management, 35(4), 663-674
- Flyvbjerg et al. (2020): 66% of capital-intensive infrastructure projects experienced cost overruns, with an average overrun of 44%. Source: Flyvbjerg, B., Ansar, A., & Budzier, A. (2020). Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale. International Journal of Project Management, 38(1), 50-63
- McKinsey & Company (2016): Over 75% of large capital projects were behind schedule. Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/the-construction-productivity-imperative
- Jergeas & Ruwanpura (2017): 73% of large oil and gas projects experienced schedule delays. Source: Jergeas, G. F., & Ruwanpura, J. (2017). Reasons for cost overruns on large oil and gas projects. International Journal of Project Management, 35(4), 663-674
- Flyvbjerg et al. (2020): 61% of capital-intensive infrastructure projects faced schedule delays. Source: Flyvbjerg, B., Ansar, A., & Budzier, A. (2020). Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale. International Journal of Project Management, 38(1), 50-63
Failure to Meet Objectives
- Independent Project Analysis (IPA) Institute (2016): Approximately 65% of industrial capital projects failed to meet their objectives (cost, schedule, and business requirements). Source: Merrow, E. W. (2016). Assessing the maturity of a company’s capital project system. Independent Project Analysis.
Recommendations for Improving Project Performance Based on the project failure statistics presented, the following recommendations can be made to improve project performance in capital-intensive industries:
- Conduct detailed feasibility studies to ensure project viability.
- Develop comprehensive project schedules with clear objectives, deliverables, and performance indicators.
Effective Risk Management
- Identify, assess, and prioritize potential risks.
- Develop risk mitigation plans and assign responsibilities.
- Monitor and control risks regularly throughout the project life cycle.
Strong Project Governance
- Establish clear roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.
- Implement effective decision-making processes.
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and communication.
- Identify and engage all relevant stakeholders, including suppliers, contractors, and regulators.
- Communicate project objectives, expectations, progress and performance regularly through a simple and intuitive dashboarding tool.
- Address stakeholder concerns promptly to maintain their support and commitment.
- Adopt agile methodologies to adapt to changing conditions and requirements.
- Implement regular progress reviews and adjust plans as needed.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and innovation.
- Ensure adequate availability of resources, including financial, human, and material.
- Monitor resource utilization and make adjustments as needed to avoid overruns.
- Manage resource dependencies and conflicts effectively.
- Employ experienced project managers and technical experts.
- Provide adequate training and development opportunities to enhance the team’s capabilities.
- Leverage industry best practices and lessons learned from previous projects.
Quality Assurance and Control
- Implement quality management systems and processes to ensure the project meets the desired quality standards.
- Conduct regular audits, inspections, and tests to verify compliance and identify areas for improvement.
- Employ a lessons-learned approach to identify and correct quality issues.
- Develop accurate cost estimates and budgets.
- Monitor and control project costs to prevent overruns.
- Implement a robust change management process to handle scope changes and budget adjustments.
In conclusion, project failures in capital-intensive industries are a significant concern, as evidenced by the high prevalence of cost overruns, schedule delays, and failure to meet objectives. By implementing the recommendations provided, organizations can enhance their project management capabilities and improve the overall success rate of their projects, ultimately reducing waste and improving profitability. | literature |
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To whom can you liken me as an equal?says the Holy One.Lift up your eyes on highand see who has created these things:He leads out their army and numbers them,calling them all by name.By his great might and the strength of his powernot one of them is missing!Why, O Jacob, do you say,and declare, O Israel,“My way is hidden from the LORD,and my right is disregarded by my God”?
Do you not knowor have you not heard?The LORD is the eternal God,creator of the ends of the earth.He does not faint nor grow weary,and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny.He gives strength to the fainting;for the weak he makes vigor abound.Though young men faint and grow weary,and youths stagger and fall,They that hope in the LORD will renew their strength,they will soar as with eagles’ wings;They will run and not grow weary,walk and not grow faint.
Responsorial Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 8 and 10
R. (1) O bless the Lord, my soul!Bless the LORD, O my soul;and all my being, bless his holy name.Bless the LORD, O my soul,and forget not all his benefits.R. O bless the Lord, my soul!He pardons all your iniquities,he heals all your ills.He redeems your life from destruction,he crowns you with kindness and compassion.R. O bless the Lord, my soul!Merciful and gracious is the LORD,slow to anger and abounding in kindness.Not according to our sins does he deal with us,nor does he requite us according to our crimes.R. O bless the Lord, my soul!
R. Alleluia, alleluia.Behold, the Lord comes to save his people;blessed are those prepared to meet him.R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Gospel Mt 11:28-30
Jesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
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I write both fantasy and contemporary romance with a paranormal twist. I live in beautiful New Zealand where I enjoy writing books over a cup of earl grey tea or a glass of rosé wine, and eating all the delicious foods! I love learning and have studied herbalism and completed a diploma in hypnotherapy. I’m also a total astrology geek!
A Taste of Spice and Splendor
A reverse harem romance with a reincarnation theme
When life hands you lemons, why not swap them with limes and make margaritas with your four sexy Mediterranean soul mates?
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I was so excited when it became possible to publish book through Amazon—I could start to put together all the knowledge I had gained about tea into books that would be accessible to everyone.
In the first book, "Three Basic Teas & How to Enjoy Them," I began my discussion of taste and flavor, and how tea processing leads to the differences in flavor we experience with green, oolong, and black teas. After tasting many many different teas, I was able to describe my experience with them and to make recommendations for brewing and pairing these teas with food. Also included some myth busting and fun facts, and also a bit of chemistry explained for non-chemists so you can understand why the flavors work the way they do.
My next book, "Tea: a Nerd's Eye View", expands on the information in my first book, to include much more about our flavor systems, the plant Camellia sinensis itself, and details about how growing and processing leads to the different kinds of tea with their different flavor profiles. I included history about the plant and its cultivation as well—the book is indeed somewhat encyclopedic.
Loved the book. Provides scientific explanations for how we taste and smell, that is easy to understand. Can tell author is a tea lover. Good introduction to the many facets of tea drinking.Love to carry out experiments in my kitchen, so my next book is called "A Nerd's Tea Lab.". It's filled with experiments you can carry out in your kitchen, so you can really understand your teas and how to brew them for the most enjoyable flavors.
For those of you who are interested in a spiritual side of tea, my latest book, "A Nerd Contemplates the Japanese Tea Ceremony" brings you the elements and development of the chanoyu as a meditation practice. Here's what a tea person who previewed the book said:
I feel absolutely enlightened. This is a different aspect to tea I have not come across before...a unique blend of science, history, religion, culture and tea appreciation. The book is also very personal with snippets of your personal stories, experiences and what you do currently. Pure poetry. | literature |
http://www.360degreehead.com/ | 2017-02-23T06:58:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171162.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00163-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.954984 | 244 | CC-MAIN-2017-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__238412007 | en | I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars. Absorbed in these illusory images, I forgot my destiny of one pursued. I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day worked on me, as well as the slope of the road which eliminated any possibility of weariness. The afternoon was intimate, infinite. The road descended and forked among the now confused meadows. A high-pitched, almost syllabic music approached and receded in the shifting of the wind, dimmed by leaves and distance. I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
– Jorge Luis Borges. “The Garden of Forking Paths.” Trans. Donald A. Yates. In Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. New York: New Directions, 1964, p. 23. | literature |
https://periodismoenlared.com/exploring-the-invisible-architecture-of-cities-with-roman-mars.html | 2023-02-07T21:17:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500641.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207201702-20230207231702-00182.warc.gz | 0.922383 | 289 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__299737214 | en | On a walk through your city or town, there are all sorts of sights and sounds to take in—big buildings, parks and patches of green space, roaring vehicles, and people strolling around. But according to Roman Mars, host of the 99% Invisible podcast, you need to look at the smaller, often unseen details to decode what’s really going on in the city.
In the new book The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, co-authors Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt show that you can learn a lot about the place you live in by taking a closer look at tucked-away architecture and pavement markings. There’s meaning behind the etchings on the covers of maintenance holes and water lines, and the cryptic spray painted symbols on the street that signify network and telecommunication cables. These signs and structures can tell stories about a city’s past and present. Ira chats with Mars about the overlooked details built into our cities and how our urban environments are adapting to the pandemic.
- Read the new book, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design.
- Listen to episodes and read stories on 99% Invisible.
- Learn more about hidden infrastructures and spotting telecom lines in New York City in Ingrid Burrington’s Seeing Networks project and illustrated guide. | literature |
http://www.joshuarem.com/the-darkest-depths.html | 2020-03-30T04:12:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370496523.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20200330023050-20200330053050-00288.warc.gz | 0.972094 | 243 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__185679477 | en | Rufino Endicott's attempt to reclaim a part of his lost life hasn't gone well thus far. Betrayed and left for dead by the druid-sorceress, Kiralyn Frostwhisper, the little vampire now finds himself enslaved by the dark magic of an unstable necromancer. To make matters worse, his captor has raised an entire army of zombies for the purpose of assaulting the nearby township of Tundora, home of twenty thousand innocent people.
Rufino is now faced with an awful choice. He can do nothing, which will guarantee his own survival at the cost of his soul, or he can risk almost-certain death to try to save a town full of people who would kill him in a heartbeat simply for being a vampire.
The road to recovery is seldom smooth, but Rufino's is full of potholes. Betrayed by Kiralyn and enslaved by Teo'edal, my little vampire is worse off now than he was at the beginning of Leap of Faith. The Darkest Depths is about hitting rock bottom not once, but twice, and finding the courage to keep fighting. One must never stop fighting. | literature |
https://nftnewsherald.com/ten-love-poems-by-william-shakespeare/ | 2024-04-20T00:33:38 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817463.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419234422-20240420024422-00690.warc.gz | 0.889232 | 1,589 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__158164702 | en | O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.
What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.
TAKE, O take those lips away
That so sweetly were forsworn,
And those eyes, the break of day,
Lights that do mislead the morn:
But my kisses bring again,
Seals of love, but seal’d in vain,
Seal’d in vain!
Love Sonnet 154
The little Love-god lying once asleep
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep
Came tripping by; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warm'd;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd.
This brand she quenched in a cool well by,
Which from Love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
Love Sonnet 1
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
Love Sonnet 2
When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
And dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,
Thy youth’s proud livery, so gaz’d on now,
Will be a tatter’d weed, of small worth held:
Then being ask’d, where all thy beauty lies,
Where all the treasure of thy lusty days,
To say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,
Were an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.
How much more praise deserv’d thy beauty’s use,
If thou couldst answer ‘This fair child of mine
Shall sum my count, and make my old excuse,’
Proving his beauty by succession thine!
This were to be new made when thou art old,
And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.
Love Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee.
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Love Sonnet 40
Take all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine before thou hadst this more.
Then if for my love thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;
But yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Although thou steal thee all my poverty;
And yet, love knows, it is a greater grief
To bear love’s wrong than hate’s known injury.
Lascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,
Kill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.
Love Sonnet 44
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way.
For then, despite of space, I would be brought
From limits far remote where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth removed from thee.
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah, thought kills me, that I am not thought,
To leap large length of miles when thou art gone,
But that, so much of earth and water wrought,
I must attend times leisure with my moan,
Receiving naught by elements so slow
But heavy tears, badges of either’s woe.
Love Sonnet 55
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;
But you shall shine more bright in these contents
Than unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time.
When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.
‘Gainst death and all oblivious enmity
Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room,
Even in the eyes of all posterity
That wear this world out to the ending doom.
So, till the judgment that yourself arise,
You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes. | literature |
http://townhall.innis.utoronto.ca/event/innis-college-indignation-screening-with-james-schamus-and-sarah-gadon/ | 2018-07-21T03:40:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592309.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721032019-20180721052019-00456.warc.gz | 0.92041 | 161 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__168394141 | en | - This event has passed.
Innis College — INDIGNATION Screening with James Schamus and Sarah Gadon
September 7, 2017 @ 6:50 pm - 10:00 pmFree
Innis College and the Writing and Rhetoric Program invite you to a screening of INDIGNATION on Thursday September 7th at 7PM.
A discussion with filmmaker James Schamus and actor and Innis alumna Sarah Gadon, moderated by acclaimed broadcaster and writer Eleanor Wachtel, will follow the screening.
Registration is required to secure your space at this free event.
Doors open at 6:50PM
This event is co-sponsored by Innis College, the Writing & Rhetoric Program, the Department of English, and the Centre for Comparative Literature. | literature |
https://gorillatangobook.com/ | 2021-06-13T13:38:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487608856.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613131257-20210613161257-00540.warc.gz | 0.974572 | 608 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__92705553 | en | After losing all his money in a business venture gone wrong, Warren Stelman does the unthinkable. He gets involved in a sweepstakes scam and makes dirty money.
In August of 2012, his world comes crashing down when he is arrested by Interpol in Santo Domingo and extradited to the Southern District of New York by the United States Government to face justice for the crime he committed.
This is his story—his journey through hellish conditions in third-world jails, fourteen months in the super-max Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, and four more years in a United States Federal prison.
Released in January 2018, he is now home and reunited with his wife and four children. In Gorilla Tango, he recounts the harrowing events that took him from a cushy life-style in the Caribbean to the bowels of prison and how at fifty-three years old he had to adapt to survive in a brutal, violent and unforgiving world. It is a story of personal redemption, spiritual growth, and survival.Click Here to Buy Now
A truly remarkable story of survival in the US prison system! A MUST READ!
I loved this book because there were a lot of life lessons taught about loss, getting your normal life stripped away from you and getting back up again from the deepest darkest place. The author pulls no punches, he tells his story of how he spends his days in prison and how he survived it.
A great read! Couldn't put it down from page 1!
Loved this book. If you have ever wanted to know what life is like in the U.S. prison system, this book will give you as close to the experience as you'll ever want to get. Stelman does an amazing job of describing day to day life, the culture, the economy and the emotional rollercoaster of incarceration. Beautifully written.
I highly recommend this book!
Great book, that is fast paced with detailed narrative of the day to day life of a white collar prisoner. Warren really connects by sharing details of what it is like to put himself in a really tough spot. He shares his perspective of prison life with hardened criminals and disconnected prison staff I couldn't put the book down!
True insight Into what happens in prison.
A compelling and true story of one person‘s experience in the federal prison system. Stelman writes a straightforward and stark book on what he experienced in jail. His life went from steak and lobster to prison fare overnight. His writing style grabs quickly as he discusses his years in prison, the impact on his family and what he ultimately learns.
Good read, can’t put the book down!
While reading I felt connected to the author and his family and could not put the book down until I finished reading. Very touching look into a very personal experience. I will recommend this book to all. Can also be a very good resource for students, teenagers and anyone who has a loved one in prison. | literature |
http://kleurrijkmyidealhome.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-mark-twain-house-museum-has.html | 2018-06-17T23:59:41 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267859904.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180617232711-20180618012711-00325.warc.gz | 0.982361 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__134587240 | en | The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author's Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
Mark Twain and his family enjoyed what the author would later call the happiest and most productive years of his life in their Hartford home. He wrote: 'To us, our house...had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see with us; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence and lives in its grace and in the peace or its benediction.' Financial problems forced Sam and Livy to move the family to Europe in 1891. Though he would complain about other places the family lived compared to the Hartford house ('How ugly‚ tasteless‚ repulsive are all the domestic interiors I have ever seen in Europe compared with the perfect taste of this ground floor')‚ the family would never live in Hartford again. flickrphotos | literature |
https://www.dougsirois.com/thepath | 2024-04-23T02:09:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818452.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423002028-20240423032028-00207.warc.gz | 0.973014 | 235 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__197123243 | en | Douglas A. Sirois Illustration
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A children's book written and illustrated by Douglas A. Sirois
About the Book
Micah is upset because he can't find his imagination.
With helpful suggestions along his journey down a wooded path from some forest friends, Micah learns a few key lessons to help find his imagination before returning home.
A sweet enduring picture book with a how-to-find creativity hook, detailed natural and fantastical illustration, THE PATH is sure to inspire and spark any child's imagination.
About the Author
Douglas A. Sirois was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has since illustrated and designed everything from toys, children’s books, graphic novels to clothing and apparel. His children's book, The Path, is Doug's first book as author and illustrator. After living in sunny southern California for ten years and earning a MFA in illustration, Doug currently resides back in Massachusetts with his wife and two children and a dog named Ginger. | literature |
http://www.anthempress.com/visuality-in-the-novels-of-austen-radcliffe-edgeworth-and-burney | 2017-04-26T05:56:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121165.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00167-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.900276 | 865 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__136822822 | en | Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney
About This Book
‘We’ve long understood that late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British culture was structured around seeing and being seen, but it’s taken Jessica Volz’s fine book to reveal how four famed women novelists of the era used visual patterns and cues to promote social change. With its perceptive readings, marshalling theories of visuality, gender and aesthetics, Volz’s book persuasively argues that fiction writers narrated images – visual and verbal portraiture – to push back at and shed light on gendered constraints. Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney is a compelling study of a surprisingly under-examined set of narrative patterns that have been hiding in plain sight.’
—Devoney Looser, Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA
There are many factors that contributed to the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gaze in women’s fiction of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. 'Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney' argues that the visual details in women’s novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more significant than scholars have previously acknowledged. Its innovative study of the oeuvres of Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney shows that visuality – the continuum linking visual and verbal communication – provided women writers with a methodology capable of circumventing the cultural strictures on female expression in a way that allowed for concealed resistance. Visuality empowered them to convey the actual ways in which women ‘should’ see and appear in a society in which the reputation was image-based.
The discussion moves from self-referential coordinates exterior to the self in the novels of Austen and Radcliffe to the drama of reflections, fashion and the minutiae of coded self-display in the novels of Edgeworth and Burney. The analysis engages with scholarly critiques drawn from literature, art history, optics, psychology, philosophy and anthropology to assert visuality’s multidisciplinary influences and diplomatic potential. The non-chronological structure embraces overlapping themes rather than the illusion of a conclusive departure from the reciprocity between the appearance and the essence.
'Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney' explores how in fiction and in actuality, women negotiated four scopic forces that determined their ‘looks’ and manners of looking: the impartial spectator, the male gaze, the public eye and the disenfranchised female gaze. In a society dominated by ‘frustrated utterance’, penetrating gazes and the perpetual threat of misinterpretation, women novelists used references to the visible and the invisible to comment on emotions, socioeconomic conditions and patriarchal abuses. Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney provide ideal case studies in this regard because they were culturally representative figures who also experimented with and contributed to different approaches to the novel. This book thus offers new insights into verbal economy and the gender politics of the era spanning the Anglo-French War and the Battle of Waterloo by reassessing expression and perception from a uniquely telling yet largely overlooked point of view.
Dr Jessica A. Volz is an independent British literature scholar and international communications strategist whose research focuses on the forms and functions of visuality in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women’s novels.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Caroline Jane Knight; Preface; Introduction: Visuality in Profile; 1. Jane Austen’s Aesthetic Vocabulary of Character; 2. Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic Reconstructions of Female Identity and Experience; 3. The Gendered Gaze and ‘Made-up’ Women in Maria Edgeworth’s 'Castle Rackrent', 'Ennui' and 'Belinda'; 4. Optical Allusions in Frances Burney’s 'Evelina' and 'The Wanderer'; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index. | literature |
http://levensverlenging.pilliewillie.nl/veroudering/levensverlenging.5h.php | 2021-06-24T21:52:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488559139.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210624202437-20210624232437-00179.warc.gz | 0.894994 | 3,456 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__97188793 | en | - The use of dehydroepiandrosterone therapy in clinical practice
Clinical trials suggest that 50mg of oral DHEA, but not <30mg, can increase serum androgen levels to within the physiologic range for young adults with primary and secondary adrenal insufficiency, possibly improve sexual function, improve mood and self-esteem, and decrease fatigue/exhaustion.
- The effect of six months treatment with a 100 mg daily dose of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on circulating sex steroids, body composition and muscle strength in age-advanced men and women
Biotransformation to potent androgens near and slightly above the range of their younger counterparts occurred in women with no detectable change in men. Given this hormonal milieu, an increase in serum IGF-I levels was observed in both genders but dimorphic responses were evident in fat body mass and muscle strength in favour of men. These differences in response to DHEA administration may reflect a gender specific response to DHEA and/or the presence of confounding factor(s) in women such as oestrogen replacement therapy.
- Replacement of DHEA in aging men and women. Potential remedial effects
DHEA in appropriate replacement doses appears to have remedial effects with respect to its ability to induce an anabolic growth factor, increase muscle strength and lean body mass, activate immune function, and enhance quality of life in aging men and women, with no significant adverse effects. Further studies are needed to confirm and extend our current results, particularly the gender differences
- Effects of replacement dose of dehydroepiandrosterone in men and women of advancing age
Aging in humans is accompanied by a progressive decline in the secretion of the adrenal androgens dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate (DS), paralleling that of the GH-insulin-like growth factor-I (GH-IGF-I) axis. Although the functional relationship of the decline of the GH-IGF-I system and catabolism is recognized, the biological role of DHEA in human aging remains undefined. To test the hypothesis that the decline in DHEA may contribute to the shift from anabolism to catabolism associated with aging, we studied the effect of a replacement dose of DHEA in 13 men and 17 women, 40-70 yr of age. A randomized placebo-controlled cross-over trial of nightly oral DHEA administration (50 mg) of 6-month duration was conducted. During each treatment period, concentrations of androgens, lipids, apolipoproteins, IGF-I, IGF-binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1), IGFBP-3, insulin sensitivity, percent body fat, libido, and sense of well-being were measured. A subgroup of men (n = 8) and women (n = 5) underwent 24-h sampling at 20-min intervals for GH determinations. DHEA and DS serum levels were restored to those found in young adults within 2 weeks of DHEA replacement and were sustained throughout the 3 months of the study. A 2-fold increase in serum levels of androgens (androstenedione, testosterone, and dihydrotestosterone) was observed in women, with only a small rise in androstenedione in men. There was no change in circulating levels of sex hormone-binding globulin, estrone, or estradiol in either gender. High density lipoprotein levels declined slightly in women, with no other lipid changes noted for either gender. Insulin sensitivity and percent body fat were unaltered. Although mean 24-h GH and IGFBP-3 levels were unchanged, serum IGF-I levels increased significantly, and IGFBP-1 decreased significantly for both genders, suggesting an increased bioavailability of IGF-I to target tissues. This was associated with a remarkable increase in perceived physical and psychological well-being for both men (67%) and women (84%) and no change in libido. In conclusion, restoring DHEA and DS to young adult levels in men and women of advancing age induced an increase in the bioavailability of IGF-I, as reflected by an increase in IGF-I and a decrease in IGFBP-1 levels. These observations together with improvement of physical and psychological well-being in both genders and the absence of side-effects constitute the first demonstration of novel effects of DHEA replacement in age-advanced men and women.
- The use of dehydroepiandrosterone therapy in clinical practice
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) therapy is controversial due to sensationalized reports of epidemiologic studies and the over-the-counter availability of DHEA. Human clinical trials have investigated the potential efficacy of DHEA therapy in multiple conditions with resultant inconsistencies in findings. DHEA is unique compared with other adrenal steroids because of the fluctuation in serum levels found from birth into advancing age. The lower endogenous levels of DHEA and DHEA sulfate found in advancing age have been correlated with a myriad of health conditions. Also, some studies suggest gender-specific actions of endogenous and exogenous DHEA.We reviewed only pharmacokinetic studies and human clinical trials investigating the efficacy of DHEA therapy that were placebo-controlled as these provided the most reliable scientific basis for the evaluation of DHEA therapy. Pharmacodynamic studies suggest that doses of 30-50mg of oral DHEA may produce physiologic androgen levels, especially in women. These studies report a dose-dependent effect and lack of accumulation of serum androgen levels. Pharmacologic studies also reveal a gender-specific response to DHEA therapy such that testosterone levels are increased in women but not in men.Clinical trials suggest that 50mg of oral DHEA, but not <30mg, can increase serum androgen levels to within the physiologic range for young adults with primary and secondary adrenal insufficiency, possibly improve sexual function, improve mood and self-esteem, and decrease fatigue/exhaustion. Whereas DHEA replacement therapy may be effective in treating patients with adrenal insufficiency, human clinical trials investigating its efficacy in conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus, HIV, Alzheimer disease, advancing age, male sexual dysfunction, perimenopausal symptoms, depression, and cardiovascular disease have not provided consistent findings.
- Dehydroepiandrosterone replacement therapy
Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) replacement therapy has attracted considerable attention over recent years. Significant beneficial effects of DHEA replacement have been reported in patients representing the pathophysiological model of complete DHEA deficiency, in other words, adrenal insufficiency (AI). This includes effects on well-being, energy levels, mood, and libido, which is usually impaired in AI, particularly in female patients. DHEA exerts its action mainly indirectly via downstream metabolism to sex steroids, and conversion to active androgens is likely to play a major role. In addition, DHEA has well-described neurosteroidal properties, and by exerting anti-gamma aminobutyric acid(GABA)ergic action it may have antidepressive potential.
- A prospective study of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, mortality, and cardiovascular disease
It has been postulated that dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate ester, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), the major secretory products of the human adrenal gland, may be discriminators of life expectancy and aging. Our conclusions are limited by the single determination of DHEAS levels, but the data suggest that the DHEAS concentration is independently and inversely related to death from any cause and death from cardiovascular disease in men over age 50.
- Is dehydroepiandrosterone an antiobesity agent?
The steroid hormone intermediate, DHEA, has been proposed as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of obesity. Its effects on lipogenesis, substrate cycling, peroxisome proliferation, mitochondrial respiration, protein synthesis, and thyroid hormone function have been reported. The results of these studies suggest that the antiobesity function of DHEA is not simply one of inhibiting fat synthesis and deposition but is one of affecting a number of pathways that contribute to the maintenance of the isoenergetic state rather than the promotion of positive energy balance.
- DHEA(S): the fountain of youth
It has been known that DHEA can lower the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). It should be pointed out that chronic inflammation is known to play a critical role in the development of the killer diseases of aging: heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and certain types of cancer. In conclusion, DHEA or DHEAS administration combined with conventional treatment may be implicated in particular conditions to improve the quality of life.
- Low dehydroepiandrosterone and ischemic heart disease in middle-aged men: prospective results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study
The adrenal steroid dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate (DHEAS) have been characterized as "protective" against ischemic heart disease (IHD), especially in men, on the basis of sparse epidemiologic evidence. The authors used data from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, a random sample prospective study of 1,709 men aged 40-70 years at baseline, to test whether serum levels of DHEA or DHEAS could predict incident IHD over a 9-year interval. Low serum DHEA was similarly predictive. These results confirm prior evidence that low DHEA and DHEAS can predict IHD in men.
- Age-related decrease of dehydroepiandrosterone concentrations in low density lipoproteins and its role in the susceptibility of low density lipoproteins to lipid peroxidation
The incidence of atherosclerosis and related diseases increases with age. The aging process may enhance lipoprotein modification, which leads to an increase in the susceptibility of low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) to oxidation. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), the most abundant steroid hormone in humans, has been shown to have antiatherogenic effects. This hormone also decreases dramatically with age. Our results suggests that DHEA exerts an antioxidative effect on LDL, which could have antiatherogenic consequences. Careful clinical trials of DHEA replacement should determine whether this ex vivo effect could be translated into any measurable antiatherogenic (cardioprotective) action.
- Altered salivary dehydroepiandrosterone levels in major depression in adults
Lowered dehydroepiandrosterone levels are an additional state abnormality in adult depression. Adrenal steroid changes are thus not limited to cortisol. Because dehydroepiandrosterone may antagonize some effects of cortisol and may have mood improving properties, these findings may have significant implications for the pathophysiology of depression.
- Pharmacology and therapeutic effects of dehydroepiandrosterone in older subjects
Man and higher primates have adrenals that secrete large amounts of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) [prasterone] and its sulphate (DHEAS) [PB 008]. A remarkable feature of plasma DHEAS levels in humans is their great decrease with aging. Researchers have postulated that this age-related decline of DHEAS levels may explain some of the degenerative changes associated with aging. Moreover, administration of DHEA to laboratory animals has demonstrable beneficial effects such as prevention of diabetes mellitus, obesity, cancer, heart disease and positive immunomodulator effects.
- Androgen therapy with dehydroepiandrosterone
The physiological role of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulphate (DHEAS) is poorly understood. It depends in a large part on their transformation into testosterone and estradiol. The capacity of DHEA as a neurosteroid, the recent discovery of putative specific DHEA receptors on endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells, the steady decrease of DHEA production from the 40s on, together with certain human epidemiologic data as well as various beneficial effects of DHA supplementation in rodents have suggested the possibility that this steroid is involved in cognitive and memory, metabolic and vascular, immune and sexual functions and in their aging. However, epidemiologic studies are conflicting, and no well-designed clinical trials have definitely substantiated the role of DHEA in these functions in humans, or the utility and safety of DHEA supplementation. However, beneficial effects seem plausible in women with several conditions according to the results of double-blind placebo-controlled trials: the dose of 30 to 50 mg seems beneficial to the mood, sense of well being and sexual desire and activity of women with adrenal insufficiency. The only long-term trial of supplementation devoted to women over 60 reported significant increases in bone mineral density and, in the 70-79-year-old subgroup, in sexual desire, arousal, activity and satisfaction. The dose of 200 mg also proved to decrease disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus. Lastly, high DHEA doses have improved mood in various groups of patients of any age and gender with depressive symptoms.
- Androgen replacement therapy with dehydroepiandrosterone for androgen insufficiency and female sexual dysfunction: androgen and questionnaire results
This study revealed that there was a significant decrease in sexual distress, a significant increase in sexual function in the domains of desire, arousal, lubrication, satisfaction, and orgasm, and a normalization to values within the physiologic range in the following androgens measured: total testosterone, free or bioavAilable testosterone, DHEA, DHEA-S, and androstenedione. Side effects included increased facial hair (11%), weight gain (7%), acne (5%), temporary breast tenderness (1%), loss of head hair (1%) and skin rash (1%). Preliminary results suggest that androgen replacement therapy with dehydroepiandrosterone is a safe and effective treatment for androgen insufficiency and female sexual dysfunction. However, further research is needed, including prospective, multi-institution, placebo-controlled double-blind studies.
- Postmenopausal serum androgens, oestrogens and breast cancer risk: the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition
Considerable experimental and epidemiological evidence suggests that elevated endogenous sex steroids - notably androgens and oestrogens - promote breast tumour development. Our results have shown that, among postmenopausal women, not only elevated serum oestrogens but also serum androgens are associated with increased breast cancer risk. Since DHEAS and androstenedione are largely of adrenal origin in postmenopausal women, our results indicated that elevated adrenal androgen synthesis is a risk factor for breast cancer. The results from this study caution against
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https://joomlabucket.com/easy-to-understand-bible | 2023-09-30T14:06:35 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510676.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930113949-20230930143949-00318.warc.gz | 0.904506 | 634 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__319766218 | en | Easy to understand Bible is an application by Bibles free. Easy to understand Bible was first published on April 15, 2022. The app is available on the following platforms: Android, Other.AndroidIf you are a proud owner of the Android device, Easy to understand Bible is compatible . The most current version is 4.0 Before diving headlong into Easy to...
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https://www.hereinduluth.com/blog/2011/04/10/books-to-buy-and-read | 2019-08-21T03:12:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315750.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821022901-20190821044901-00503.warc.gz | 0.981904 | 324 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__22701135 | en | I'm a sucker for a good title, so when I first heard about Ted Orland's classic photography book Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity I had to have a look, and quickly purchased a copy. The title continues on... The Photos and Writings of Ted Orland, so you know at least some text is involved, and there is plenty of text actually, but also enough interesting, beautiful, and often just plain funny photographs to keep the visual side of your brain engaged too.
Ted Orland's book in my back yard...
The book is part memoir, part rambling art philosophy, and part photo album. Orland worked for years as a printer for Ansel Adams in the 1970's, and doing so allowed him to meet a great number of the West Coast photographers of note. He recounts in some detail many of these meetings and outings, though the general impression is that he leaves a lot of detail for historians to figure out, likely a good thing. If he had called this book "The True Story of Ansel Adams' Underpaid Printer from The Crazy 70's" he might have sold a few more copies, but he likely would have had to deal with a little blowback from readers over accuracy, as I've noticed Sam Kashner has on Amazon for his similar young-guy-with-masters memoir, When I Was Cool
Orland had the advantage of not hanging out with so many intravenous drug users, perhaps. The book is fun, and something I keep picking up and paging through even after a thorough read. Certainly worth adding to your bookshelf. | literature |
https://www.ecccpta.org/leadership-chair-resources/honoring-our-heroes/ | 2023-06-06T06:39:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652235.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606045924-20230606075924-00330.warc.gz | 0.969854 | 113 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__79931439 | en | Honoring Our Heroes is a voluntary student writing contest that was sponsored by the East Cobb County Council of PTAs. Students of all ages wrote about their everyday hero, a real life role model that made an impact on their lives. The Council is no longer sponsoring this program, but it is a great program to host at your local unit. Past entry forms and details are here for reference if you would like to host this at your local unit. ***Check with your local unit PTA if they are hosting this program.
Documents needed to run your successful program: | literature |
https://www.davidsonlearns.org/previous-instructors/scott/denham | 2024-04-18T19:27:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817239.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418191007-20240418221007-00033.warc.gz | 0.947872 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__108088110 | en | Scott Denham, PhD
Scott Denham, E. Craig Wall Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Charles A. Dana Professor of German Studies, has taught at Davidson College since 1990. He received the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award in 2002 and the Thomas Jefferson Award in 2015. He studied at Chicago, Marburg, the FU Berlin, and Harvard, working primarily in German studies, but also in comparative literature and history. His teaching and research interests include German studies; modernism and narrative theory; the Holocaust and its representation; literary translation; second-language and writing pedagogy; and questions of identity, loss, and memory in the central European context. He is currently working on translations of the novels and essays of Jagoda Marinić. | literature |
https://www.madabout-kitcars.com/forum/showthread.php?s=cacd776dfc53f74125aedc96bf287cce&t=5529&goto=nextnewest | 2021-10-19T12:54:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585265.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019105138-20211019135138-00616.warc.gz | 0.931157 | 183 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__270990256 | en | I’VE WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT MY PROJECT.
I have designed, built and now have raced a 750 formula car. My book tells the story from the first thoughts to the first race. Its not a technical manual, it’s simply my story and charts the mistakes along the route as well as the successes.
The book is titled “Getting to the Start Line” and as a self- published book is only available from me. Postage is £2 and the book costs £12. (Europe postage is £4)
Please email me so that I can send you an invoice and hopefully you will enjoy hearing my story.
Attached is a picture of the car, racing at Donington.
This link is to a series of pictures of the build - Please take a tour of the site.
This video is from Silverstone at the weekend. | literature |
http://completeinhim.org/ | 2015-01-28T09:09:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122691893.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124180451-00122-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.965148 | 418 | CC-MAIN-2015-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__14417436 | en | Complete In Him – Online Devotionals
There are many challenges that are faced daily. In the current culture, there are many pressures, demands, and false perceptions of what a man or woman should be. The pressures experienced can lead to feelings of inadequacy, frustrations, insecurities, fear, anger, bitterness, and wrong choices.
Multiple implications presented by the media and the culture can lead to various distractions and discontentment. The constant struggles to meet the expectations that are presented are never attainable and seem insurmountable as the world continues to place expectations on what a “perfect” man or woman should be.
In the book of Colossians, Paul addressed the saints at Colossae and warned them of the various deceptions and delusions that were presented through persuasiveness of elementary principles of this world from traditions of men rather than from Christ and the true Gospel (Colossians 2, New American Standard Bible). Just as the saints at Colossae faced various deceptions as it pertained to the true Gospel and the finished work of Christ, which made them complete in Christ, as a believer in Christ, you face persuasiveness, deceptions, and traditions of men that evoke pressures to follow elementary principles of this world rather than Christ. These types of pressures will always lead to discontentment and seeking to pursue completeness through acceptance from people, relationships, and success. As these endeavors are sought, frustration, pain, and fear may result as you will never meet the never-ending unrealistic expectations that accompany them. If you are a believer in Christ, you have been made complete in Christ, by His sacrificial work alone (Colossians 2:10, NASB). In Christ, there is completeness and it is not of your own merit but it is by grace through faith in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8, NASB). As you read various devotionals, I pray that you come to know Christ intimately and that your relationship with Christ is strengthened as you grow in learning to love God and love others. | literature |
https://s-sm.org/students/summer-reading-2015/ | 2017-04-27T12:53:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122167.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00615-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.960298 | 154 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__217911667 | en | The 2015 summer reading requirements for Shattuck-St. Mary’s School are as follows:
- Middle School Students (Grades 6-9) must read two choice books.
- Upper School Students (Grades 10-12 and Post Graduates) must read three choice books.
- Students with assigned summer books for Advanced Placement (AP) classes may count them as part of their three choice book requirement. (Note: Not all AP classes have an assigned book to read.)
- The Summer Reading form issued with Health and Permission forms needs to be submitted with the titles of the books read by the student by August 21, 2015.
Photo source: iltaccodibacco.it/puglia/eventi | literature |
https://thetranslatedworld.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/lust-and-fury-a-cup-of-rage-by-raduan-nassar/ | 2018-07-22T07:01:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676593051.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180722061341-20180722081341-00165.warc.gz | 0.944607 | 949 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__87809846 | en | A Cup of Rage by Brazilian author Raduan Nassar is without a doubt the odd one out on this year’s long list for the Man Booker International prize. 80-year old Nassar is the oldest nominee and at a mere 64 pages, his book is by far the shortest on the list. It has also been around for the longest. Originally published in 1978, the novel arrived in its current English version with a forty year delay.
In the run-up to the Olympic Games with the world’s attention on Brazil, this book and Nassar’s only other novel Ancient Tillage from 1975, have been released in new translations by Penguin Modern Classics. These two novels almost comprise Nassar’s entire literary output. Shortly after publishing A Cup of Rage he gave up writing and set up a model farm which he ran until 2011. Not counting a collection of short stories written in the 1960s and 70s and published in book form much later, his considerable reputation as one of Brazil’s great modernists rests on an oeuvre barely exceeding 200 pages.
The plot of A Cup of Rage is deceptively simple. It is the story of an odd couple: he, an older, conservative land owner; she, a younger, progressive journalist. He arrives at his farm, while she is already there, they spend the night making love and the next morning have an enormous fight. Nassar chronicles the descent from erotic rapture, to rage, to utter despair, in only seven chapters told in one long sentence each.
It is an amour fou, a red-hot dance of domination and submission told in the first six chapters from the perspective of the landowner, and with a liberal dose of machismo thrown in. The last chapter, like the first, entitled “The Arrival”, starts the cycle again, this time, however, shifting to her perspective.
Despite its brevity, the book is by no means an easy read. It is not the barely-there tale that matters here, but the telling. The story unfolds in breathless detail. Heaping clause upon clause, piling phrases and sentence fragments onto each other, the language threatens to overwhelm and bury the reader like the erotic passion and rage that finally crushes the narrator. The style has elements of a stream of consciousness but with the clauses separated by commas and the occasional semi-colon, it is more tightly constructed and develops its own hypnotic rhythm.
Imagination “is very quick, or its time is different, and it uses and simultaneously confuses separate and unexpected things,” Nassar’s narrator muses early on and the text spreads out accordingly in an associative cascade of words intertwining the personal, political and even spiritual. It is a web of observations, emotions and ideas that incorporates literary allusions and gross insults, the trivial, the profane and the transcendent in one big sweep.
Nassar manages to build up to and then sustain an agitated, almost manic tone in the longest section of the text, “The Explosion”, propelled by a restlessness expressed in a series of clauses searching for grammatical as much as emotional closure. A style that works itself up to a climax of fury, artfully teetering on the brink of outright hysteria and only occasionally over-egging it, as in Nasser’s (or possibly the translator’s) phrase “I started punching holes in the haemorrhagic discourse of my cerebral stroke.” Yet, even though this makes very little sense, it still conveys the irrational frenzy gripping the narrator at the height of the fight with his lover.
The style for which A Cup of Rage is rightly famous achieves the paradox of simultaneous compression and expansion. The outer world is reduced to key moments, snapshots registered by the consciousness of the narrator: the “rope of her arms”, the “brazen greenness” of the mulberry trees, the “fucking leaf-cutter ants” which, irrationally, trigger the fight between the lovers. At the same time, this insistent accumulation of detail in close-up opens inner and outer vistas that belies the shortness of the text. It is this sensuous quality of the writing that makes Nassar’s take on the battle of the sexes unique, and makes the readers’ effort of cutting a path through the torrent of words a worthwhile and rewarding exercise.
Raduan Nassar. A Cup of Rage (translated from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler). Penguin Modern Classics | literature |
https://www.bellsisd.net/273318_4 | 2019-05-19T15:06:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232254889.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519141556-20190519163556-00336.warc.gz | 0.975794 | 271 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__108645576 | en | Learn about Dr. Seuss
Fun Facts About the Doctor!
1. On March's second day, we must say "Hooray!" with a "Yip, yip, yippee, yay!!" He was born on March 2, 1904!!
2. His full name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. He used Dr. Seuss as his pen name, but he was not a doctor. However, his alma mater, Dartmouth University, eventually bestowed upon him an honorary doctorate.
3. His first book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, was not a success to begin with. It was rejected by 27 publishers before he finally found a publisher for it in 1937.
4. He coined the word, NERD. The first recorded instance of the word, nerd, is found in Dr. Seuss's book, If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950.
5. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and an Academy Award winning filmmaker. He won an academy award for writing an animated short called, Gerald McBoing-Boing, in 1951. Watch it below.
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Visit The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That Page! | literature |
https://biblicagothica.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/emergence/ | 2022-06-27T03:09:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103324665.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220627012807-20220627042807-00502.warc.gz | 0.975394 | 351 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__247512586 | en | I know, I know – …yet another goth blog, and if you’re sick and tired of these, I’m not going to twist your arm and make you stay.
I wanted to write this blog because I – as a goth – have an inherent passion for educating people, and the goth subculture is victim to a myriad of misconceptions I aim to put straight, in a manner of speaking. In this blog I will attempt to explain what the goth subculture entails, where it came from, what it means to be “a goth”, and hopefully correct at least a few of the misconceptions. Also, and perhaps more importantly from a (sub)cultural stand point, this might serve as a source of information for aspiring babybats out there.
Be forewarned, however, this will be a biased blog, as it is written by someone who identifies as “one of them gothy types.” This blog will be based upon my own interpretation and understanding of what goth is, what it is not, how the culture evolved over time, and so on.
I am in no way, shape or form any sort of “authority” on the subject of goth subculture as such. I am, however, a goth – and I have been one for several years: Going on my twentieth as I write this. I didn’t always ‘proclaim’ myself as one, but I always felt more at home in the “goth” crowd than anywhere else, and now I’m old enough to confidently say that I am – in fact – a goth. | literature |
https://storiesbyeija.com/about | 2023-02-06T02:27:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500303.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230206015710-20230206045710-00374.warc.gz | 0.953893 | 1,091 | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__131610551 | en | One of my favourite things as a child was looking at our family albums. I loved seeing things I couldn’t remember and traveling to times when I wasn’t even existing. Who my parents and my brother were before me, how they looked and what they did. There was so much nostalgia in those pictures.
As a child, I also loved books and drawing. I remember dreaming in the evenings about the colours and subjects I would draw the next day. And with all the side-paths (bachelor of media engineering, office work, etc) I’ve taken in life and being a stay-at-home mum for three years, I keep coming back to those same things over and over again: visuals and stories.
So here I am. Documenting honest stories about life, love and connection. The beauty of life, little things, quiet moments and real wild love. The messiness, the whimsy and weird, the dreamy and magical, and the ordinary. Those fleeting memories you want to hold on to. Everyone’s story is unique and I want to tell yours.
“Finding beauty in the ordinary”
The image here of my daughter holding my hand is one of the most cherished photographs I have of her. I just love that image and the story in it. It’s a simple image of something very common. We are walking together, hand in hand. She’s observing the world around us with the wonder that only a child could have. It’s a real and beautiful moment, something that’s our everyday now but someday it’s only a memory.
I believe happiness is in the little things and moments like that. And I think that’s what my purpose here on earth is. Seeking the beauty of life that lies in the most simplest things and to document those honest moments with my own style.
“Inspiration is found in everyday life, little things and connection with others”
My inspiration comes from people and their different stories, human connection, natural light, movement, nature, blue hour, traveling, films, the little things that often go unseen, the in-between moments, summer nights with friends, sitting in the silence, seeing the world through the eyes of my 4-years and listening to her playing.
“Simple living, a good story and endless ideas of things to create”
Drawing, painting, cooking - creating with my hands is something I truly enjoy. I’m one of those people who always has an endless list of things they want to learn and create.
Reading, watching good documentaries and films - I surely love a good story!
Swimming in a lake, riding bikes around the city, having picnics with friends - I enjoy the simple things in life. I truly value being with my family and loved ones. Exploring nature, bathing in a sauna and walking around our neighbourhood. I also love traveling. It always leaves me very happy and inspired.
My approach to shooting is documentary, natural and simple with an artful touch. It’s about real moments and genuine feelings. I follow what unfolds before my eyes to create honest photographs of you.
I’m a silent director. When I’m shooting I’m quiet but I’ll also give you cues and direction when needed. I might ask you to walk, sit down or lean to each other or something like that. But I won’t put you in stiff poses and ask you to smile for the camera. We’ll keep it simple and natural, true to you.
It doesn’t matter if you are feeling nervous and awkward. I get that it is extremely vulnerable to be in front of the camera and I’m forever grateful for the people who are willing to do that. I work hard for you to feel comfortable and natural by having a lot of time for the session.
I am allowing you to be yourselves while embracing the beauty and the unexpected, the in-between moments. So don’t mind if everything doesn’t go as planned. Windswept hair, clothes getting dirty, kids running away. Because it doesn’t matter. Life is not perfect and I want to capture all that.
My style is a reflection of the people and their story, the place and the weather. So it’s not about doing everything the same way every time. It’s about you and your story.
The photo shoot was a real fun experience and we felt completely at ease during the whole time!
The shooting session with Eija felt easy and natural. Eija gave us instructions, which were easy to follow. At times, we almost forgot the presence of the camera.
For us being photographed hasn’t felt that easy and natural before but Eija’s gentle approach and compassionate persona made us both feel relaxed and enjoy the new situation.
We felt trustful being photographed by Eija – it was easy to relax and the photoshoot felt natural and wonderfully special. She understood our wishes perfectly and fulfilled them even more beautifully than we could hope for.
Everyone has a story. My mission is to capture memories of this moment in your life through beautiful imagery. | literature |
https://historycollection.com/family-8-cases-historical-incest/5/ | 2022-05-26T20:02:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662625600.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526193923-20220526223923-00556.warc.gz | 0.992911 | 517 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__252030448 | en | Not every incestuous relationship is consenting. Some occur as a type of sexual abuse, visited upon the victim by members of their own family. Such was the case of Virginia Woolf who was assaulted by both of her older half-brothers when a child and a young woman- actions which may well have been at the root of the mental health problems Woolf suffered for her whole adult life.
Virginia was born on January 25, 1882, to Julia and Leslie Stephens. Both of her parents had been previously married, and each had children from these earlier relationships. Julia had three other children besides Virginia, her sister Vanessa and their two brothers: George, Stella and Gerald Duckworth. Julia and her new husband were distant parents – which probably explains why they had no idea what was happening with their youngest daughter.
Virginia recorded her incestuous abuse in her diaries and later in her novels and memoirs. The abuse began when she was six, with her eighteen-year-old brother, Gerald. Virginia later recalled in “Moments of Being” how Gerald would stand her in front of a mirror just outside the dining room and explore her private parts. These events had a profound effect on Woolf. They stayed in her memory and left her with an intense distaste for sexual contact.
After the death of their parents, George took over the abuse of Virginia. He was then twenty-nine. She was thirteen. In âReminiscences” which she wrote at age twenty-five, Virginia recalls her initial hero worship for this brother, which declined over the years, taking him from someone thought of “strong and handsome and just” to “little better than a brute.”
It was clear that Virginia felt this abuse bitterly because it made a lie of the person she had believed her brother to be, as much as anything else. She began to satirized George, likening him to a pig.
The effects of sexual abuse by her much older brothers, one at least who had been well-loved, had a profound impact on Virginia. She suffered depression from a very early age, as well as anorexia and body dysmorphia. On her marriage, the strain brought on by her distaste of sex brought about a breakdown. Such illnesses are common amongst abuse victims. In the light of her history, the mental illnesses that blighted Virginia Woolf’s life- but never her writing- can be seen as a direct result of her incestuous abuse. | literature |
https://communicaretraining.com/when-thinking-about-the-future-becomes-overwhelming/ | 2024-04-24T03:38:31 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00278.warc.gz | 0.965411 | 955 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__41739776 | en | By Denelle ‘Elle’ Justine Ramos
Have you ever found yourself disregarding your present because you are thrilled with the endless possibilities the future can offer? But at the same time worried, and frantic if you will ever achieve these goals. When did we start overthinking? When did we become ahead of ourselves? Can we ever stop this?
Let me share one of my favorite quotes in Patrick Rothfuss’ book, ‘The Name of the Wind’. It says: “When we are children, we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our innocence behind.” We are no longer children. Now, we are adults trying to figure out everything. Once we become aware of the societal issues, experiences, and hurdles we are about to face in life, the ‘tendency to overthink’ is inevitable. Why? Because our survival instinct (self-preservation) starts to emanate.
It is terrifying to be left behind, right? To seemingly feel that everyone around you has it all figured out. Well, let me tell you this. We are all trying to figure out life. No one has it all figured out. Every day we learn, witness, discover, and experience new things. What we want today might not be what we want tomorrow. Often, life can be puzzling and complicated.
Besides, I applaud you for the fear you have within you. That is normal and healthy because it means you want to succeed. Fear can both; be considered as the driving factor to your success or failure. But who desires failure? No one. We always want the best for ourselves. There are things simply more favorable to some. That’s what we call ‘privilege.’ But that doesn’t mean you will not achieve your goals in this life. How you measure your success and happiness depends on you and only you. Do not let societal standards dictate how you should live your life. Each of us moves at a different pace. You are not in a hurry; you will never be too late. Remember that. And if you feel overwhelmed with your future, below are three things you may do.
Focus on Yourself.
When you know what you want in life, you will feel happier. Thus, it lessens the tendency to get insecure, bitter, or intimidated by others’ success. Instead, you will let the success of others serve as an inspiration to better yourself. The tendency to compare lessens when you are firm with your goals. You will be supportive and happier for them.
Enjoy the Present.
Today is your day. To ponder your future is completely fine but to let it control your present is wrong and unhealthy. Keep in mind, that you would never experience your present the second time around. Make the most of it and focus on what you can control. Your future depends on how you live your present. Stop thinking that your present is not your day. Because every present is a blessing which you must treasure and enjoy.
Trust the Process.
A tiny voice in your head might suddenly pop up at unexpected times wondering: ‘Am I doing this right?’ ‘Was this the right decision?’ ‘Should I have picked the other decision, would I have felt better?’ You are skeptical about life decisions. You are doubting yourself and the process. Thus, you attract negative energy. If you are firm with your values, principles, and beliefs in life, you would know that you have made the right decision. There is nothing to be worried about. If it does not work, another door would open for you. Accept, and move on. Stop letting your past drag you around.
See if these work for you. Remember that everyone is busy with their own lives. Focus on yourself. You are far more capable than you think. Success starts with believing in yourself.
You can do this… now.
The opinions expressed here by Communicare contributors are their own, not those of Communicare Training and Development.
About the Contributor
Denelle ‘Elle’ Justine Ramos, 22, is an incoming fourth-year student majoring in writing at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. One of her dreams is to be part of a Broadway musical. During her pastime, she tries to write some songs that she someday wishes to share with the world. Today, she is focusing on her education, volunteer work, and self-development. | literature |
https://www.collinsfamilysingers.com/i-dont-see-the-monkeys.html | 2020-02-26T11:58:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146342.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20200226115522-20200226145522-00083.warc.gz | 0.983053 | 247 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__22751641 | en | I Don't See The Monkeys
This fanciful children's book by Kathy Collins Barber is a story about a group of monkeys who disappeared one day from their treetop home and a resulting search to find out where they went. It was inspired by and is dedicated to her grandson, Logan, who first noticed the monkeys were missing. This book is extra special because it was illustrated by Jayden Bryce Chester, our sister Janice's eight year old grandson (he was seven when he drew the pictures). "I Don't See The Monkeys" can be purchased by contacting Kathy Barber at [email protected].
Jayden's Debut as an Illustrator
This is the picture of Jayden that is on the back of the book, and here's his bio:
Jayden Bryce Chester is the son of Amber Hill and Jeremy Chester. He lives in Clintwood, Virginia with his mother and his older sister, Allie. He is eight years old and is in third grade at Longs Fork Elementary. Jayden loves to draw anything he sees and is an avid fan of Peyton Manning and the Indiana Colts. He wants to be an artist or a football player when he grows up. | literature |
https://www.theprepperjournal.com/2014/02/25/winners/ | 2020-02-23T19:59:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145839.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20200223185153-20200223215153-00333.warc.gz | 0.990241 | 251 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__151659901 | en | Now, its my favorite time of the contest and that is to announce who our winners are. It just so happens that we had two contests going on at the same time. The first was in celebration of our one year anniversary on January 23rd. The contest for that event was a Bug Out Bag with 12 survival items thrown in there. We received almost 21,000 entries and I am so excited that this contest was a success. The winner of that contest was Craig T. Craig is going to be receiving a great Bug Out Bag to use for her family. Congratulations Craig!
The next contest we had was our first book giveaway. The winner of this contest received a free signed copy of When there Is No FEMA by Richard Bryant. The winner of this contest was Tres who was chosen randomly. Congratulations Tres!
I have contacted both of them to get the shipping information.
Stay tuned for more contests. I have a feeling we will have a new one this week! My goal is to be able to give away great survival gear from time to time as resources allow as a way of saying thank you for making the Prepper Journal what it is today. I really appreciate all our readers and hope this shows it in some small way. | literature |
http://seededinadistantland.blogspot.com/2018/12/ | 2020-01-20T06:38:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250597458.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20200120052454-20200120080454-00175.warc.gz | 0.988223 | 784 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__129939833 | en | The next day was not any better; in fact, in Maria’s eyes, it was worse. Prince Emil had one of the male workers bring down the painting and asked his brother, who had come that morning, whether it looked more like Lady Thea or Maria.His brother, Prince Malthe, was basically a younger version of Prince Emil, with the exception that Malthe had telltale sideburns, and his dimples were not as obvious as Emil’s. For a few seconds, he stared at the painting and even cocked his head to get a better angle. “Definitely looks like her,” Prince Malthe concluded, pointing at Maria. “Her eyes and nose are not as . . . established as Lady Thea’s.”
That night, when Maria entered the kitchen, a small bag with her belongings was sitting on the table. The cook, who was a very wide lady, was standing behind the counter and abruptly said, “She kicked you out.” Then, she passed Maria a note that simply stated that her help was no longer needed and that she would need to be gone by dawn the following day.
Not saying a word, Maria trudged out onto the rainy streets that she had called her home for so many years. Six years of serving Lady Thea with great honor and respect, and now, she was rewarded with a new home, back out on the streets. At least, her lowly uncle would give her a job at his cafe, even if it was long, underpaid hours; it was a job nonetheless.
“What do you mean she’s gone?” Prince Emil questioned. “According to your staff, she was one of the best workers you had!”
“Why worry yourself about her? She’s simply a servant,” Lady Thea laughed at the breakfast table.
Prince Emil, in his anger, stood up from the table, motioning his brother, who hesitated, but then, followed him into the hall.
“Let us search the city; she could not have gone far,” Prince Emil whispered, and donned his coat, making his way to the door. Prince Malthe just rolled his eyes and followed him. Searching for a girl in the thick fog instead of sitting and eating seemed ridiculous, but Prince Emil was older, and he always got what he wanted.
“Can we get a drink? At least a bite? It is lunchtime,” Prince Malthe prodded his older brother. After an hour of nagging, Emil finally gave in and headed to a local eatery, where Maria was serving another table. Emil elbowed his brother and whispered something in his ear.
“Can I have a table please?” Emil tapped Maria’s shoulder.
“Of cour-” Maria stopped in her tracks and just stared at the two princes in her uncle’s cafe.
Eight Months Later
As the carriage turned the bend, Princess Maria gasped in amazement. “It’s so beautiful. Large,” she paused. “That must be a pain to clean,” she sighed, leaning back in the velvet seat.
“You will not have to lift a hand, Maria,” Prince Emil laughed softly at his wife, who was clearly new to the ways of the royals.
“Then, what will I do all day?” Maria retorted.
“If you want to clean the oven, then I suppose I cannot stop you,” Emil replied shaking his head softly. A gentle smile spread on Maria’s face-indeed, this was going to be an adventure. | literature |
https://www.hellomynameis.org.uk/books/ | 2023-12-02T02:41:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00346.warc.gz | 0.961337 | 219 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__4667872 | en | All profits from the sale of the books are being donated to the Leeds Hospitals Charity (formerly YCC) which is the fundraising arm of St James’s Institute of Oncology, where Kate was treated.
The Other Side
A true story of one doctor’s journey as a patient coming to terms with a terminal cancer diagnosis. The hope is that by reading it healthcare professionals will be better able understand exactly what being the patient is really like and how their behaviours, no matter how small can impact massively on the people they look after. It is also a story of personal battles with control, learning how and when to relinquish this.
The Bright Side
The Bright Side tells the on-going story of a young doctor who is living with a rare and aggressive type of sarcoma that will end her life prematurely. It explores her return to work after a prolonged period of absence, her innermost thoughts and reflections about dying and her continuing interactions with health services. It also portrays her determined attitude to maintain positivity despite her tragic circumstances and her openness about dying. | literature |
https://www.ucnbib.dk/en/page/chicago | 2022-11-30T21:27:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710771.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130192708-20221130222708-00212.warc.gz | 0.749843 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__200790197 | en | The Chicago style includes two different systems: (1) notes and bibliography and (2) author-date.
The notes and bibliography style is mostly used in the humanities, for example literature and history. The notes and bibliography system presents bibliographic information in notes and a bibliography.
The author-date system is mostly used in the natural, and social sciences. In this system, sources are briefly cited in the text in parentheses by the author’s last name and date of publication. The short citations are amplified in a list of references, where full bibliographic information is provided.
The most commonly used version of Chicago in UCN studies is the author-date system.
Chicago A - example
Rienecker, Jørgensen and Skov, The good paper
Rienecker, Lotte, Jørgensen, Peter Stray and Skov, Signe. 2013. The goood paper: a handbook for writing papers in higher education. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur.
Chicago B - example
(Rienecker, Jørgensen and Skov 2013)
Rienecker, Lotte; Jørgensen, Peter Stray og Skov, Signe. 2013. The good paper: a handbook for writing papers in higher education. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur | literature |
http://chicagolandmomsblog.com/celebrate-friendship-month-in-february-with-rainbow-fish/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382261/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00088-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938171 | 458 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__161767210 | en | As a preschool teacher, I am always looking for books and activities to go along with the theme of sharing and “Being a Good Friend”. I always go back to the classic by Marcus Pfister, “Rainbow Fish”. This year, we are reading this book in February which is National Friendship Month.
If you want to create your own little Valentine’s Day/Friendship Day party, here are some ideas for a fun day:
#1 :: Read “Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister
Set the tone for the story by sitting on a cozy blue blanket, near a fish tank or by listening to some under the sea sound effects. Begin by discussing the cover of the story and the special colors on the Rainbow Fish. While reading, ask your child some questions about the story such as “How do you think the little blue fish felt when Rainbow Fish said no?” Then discuss how Rainbow Fish feels after he shares his beautiful shiny scales. I like to give the children a piece of tin foil or shiny wrapping paper and share with them just as Rainbow Fish begins giving his scales away. They like to flaunt these shiny pieces just as much as the fish in the story. We practice giving each other scales and sharing.
#2 :: Enjoy a Rainbow Fish Snack
Goldfish crackers and “Sea Water” are perfect for a snack after the story. You can choose regular Goldfish crackers, but I prefer to buy the colored fish for a Rainbow theme with the story. “Sea Water”- just a fun name to put on regular drinking water.
#3 :: Create Rainbow Fish Sensory Bins
For this type of party play, I like to create wet and a dry sensory bin for those little hands to enjoy. Sensory bins are great for infants, toddlers and preschoolers to explore different textures and increase vocabulary.
Dry Sensory Bin :: sand, seashells, long strips of different colored blue construction paper, colored felt fish cut-outs, and small pieces of aluminum foil.
Wet Sensory Bin :: water, plastic magnetic fish, fishing rods, seashells, plastic octopus and starfish (other story characters) | literature |
http://greenbaize.atspace.cc/ | 2018-12-12T23:33:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376824180.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212225044-20181213010544-00105.warc.gz | 0.975454 | 130 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__109313752 | en | In 1999 I published a collection of 103 of the best articles I have written for the Glasgow Herald during my 40 years as their Bridge Correspondent. The book sold out within six months of publication.
Since then I have had to disappoint many people who have requested a copy. To meet this demand all 103 articles have now been published on this web site. Click on the book to continue.
My father, Carl Dickel, died in 2010, aged 101. I have kept his web site alive and will do so for the foreseeable future.
e-mail any comments to: [email protected] | literature |
http://pbrettk.tumblr.com/post/24125763376/currently-reading-the-known-world | 2014-09-02T23:39:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535923940.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909035918-00301-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.985186 | 253 | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__73480886 | en | The Known World by Edward P. Jones
I am currently reading The Known World by Edward P. Jones. I’m not far enough into it to talk about the story or over-arching themes, yet. But I am loving the style. Each sentence feels like a story on its own: it hints at events yet to come and reveals details of the past that color the present and will direct the future. Yet the sentences also feel like a conversation you might have sitting on the porch in the evening in the company of an older friend who knows all the histories of everyone in your little town, knows the gossip, meanders through the stories, but never once judges, just tells the tales.
That being said, it does make for tough reading sometimes and I find myself dodging back and forth through the pages to make sure I know the stories of the character who is currently the focus of the writing.
I found this brief interview with Jones at NPR which I enjoyed. I think I would like the opportunity to have a glass of iced tea with Jones and listen to the stories in his head: of his characters and of his life. He seems much like the narrator of his novel, with all the stories, but also, no judgements. | literature |
https://parmbud.pl/literature3ly/mae-and-nathaniel-a-romantic-tale-of-erotica-1810.html | 2020-04-02T14:36:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370506988.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200402143006-20200402173006-00169.warc.gz | 0.936011 | 450 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__189931005 | en | |About the Book|
Romantic yet superbly erotic, Mae & Nathaniel - A Romantic Tale of Erotica, is erotic historical fiction at its best. It is the winsome tale of a restless young woman and the eye-opening night of sexual adventure she experiences with a rusticMoreRomantic yet superbly erotic, Mae & Nathaniel - A Romantic Tale of Erotica, is erotic historical fiction at its best. It is the winsome tale of a restless young woman and the eye-opening night of sexual adventure she experiences with a rustic stranger who brazenly appears at her bedside one fateful night. The stranger, a confident lover as well as a sensual teacher, is a man perfectly suited to guide the young belle, Mae, through her first foray into sexual intrigue and adventure. Mae is a sheltered woman of the old American South, who has been raised within the oppressive boundaries put upon women of the 19th century, and she is more than ripe for an illicit sexual tryst with the stranger when the opportunity suddenly presents itself. Maes adventure begins when the stranger unexpectedly appears in the moonlight of her bedroom and announces he has come to help her fulfill her sexual longings. Their unforgettable adventure begins the moment he climbs into bed with Mae and proceeds to take her on a one-night journey of sexual discovery. Set in the 19th century, Comfort Quinns charming yet explicit story takes the reader along as Mae and the stranger share a night of sexual exploration and pleasure, and, unlike most erotic stories, Mae & Nathaniel - A Romantic Tale of Erotica, offers the reader a thoughtful, intriguing story. It is a story told with warmth and intelligence, but without the crudeness of many contemporary erotic stories. Though Mae & Nathaniel is loosely set in the 1800s, Comfort Quinns prose is more interested in dealing with senses and sensuality than with facts or events. And Quinns feminine point of view brings a refreshing charm to her eroticism. In Mae & Nathaniel, Quinn weaves a lyrical tale of sensual exploration and the unexpected fondness that can develop when strangers meet. It is a celebration of sexual ecstasy and beautifully combines engaging writing with titillating sexual escapades. | literature |
http://mcmaenza.blogspot.com/2008/06/chance.html | 2018-05-28T03:21:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794870771.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20180528024807-20180528044807-00144.warc.gz | 0.979304 | 190 | CC-MAIN-2018-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__132074331 | en | Monday, June 2, 2008
Robert B. Parker's 23rd Spenser novel, published in 1996, is called Chance. In it, the famous Boston private eye is hired by a local mobster and his daughter to help find the daughter's missing husband Anthony. Anthony, it turns out, works for the family business and he has a few vices like women and gambling. With the help of his good friend Hawk, Spenser tracks across the country and back to find the man and, in doing so, ends up uncovering a web of lies and criminal activity that leads to a murder.
What I liked about Chance is that Parker uses some established characters and history from earlier books to build upon this one's main plot points. This tight continuity again helps ground the books into an established growing and changing universe for the Spenser novels. It also rewards long-time readers with some appearances of characters from earlier novels. I like that. | literature |
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/video/show/wolf-vs-bear/66107 | 2021-10-16T20:28:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585025.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016200444-20211016230444-00695.warc.gz | 0.963664 | 113 | CC-MAIN-2021-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__89198108 | en | Wolf vs. Bear
Spring has arrived in Finland's vast forests, and the brown bears have awakened from hibernation to a grand feast of carcasses left over from the brutal winter. From now until late fall, these thousand-pound beasts will rule the land, but they're not alone. A mother gray wolf and her mate have seven pups to feed, and the only source of food is in the heart of bear country. The stage is set for an epic battle of speed, agility, and wit versus size, strength, and very bad tempers. | literature |
http://ahan-analytics.drduru.com/thoughtblog/tag/e-book/ | 2021-06-17T18:12:05 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487630518.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20210617162149-20210617192149-00011.warc.gz | 0.953339 | 987 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__67711503 | en | I intended to write a detailed examination of Amazon’s pricing problem with e-books. However after doing just a little research, I found there are plenty of people who have already provided excellent opinions and recommendations. So, instead of providing my classic unsolicited advice, I am posting links to the two most insightful pieces I found in addition to a general news story if you just want an overview on current events.
ChannelWeb: “Amazon Gives In To Publisher’s Demands For Higher E-Book Prices”
BusinessWeek: “Amazon’s E-Book Price Reversal: A Mixed Blessing” – considers the impact of pricing on demand for e-readers and e-books.
Maneker recognizes that sales of e-books will inevitably dominate sales of physical books and recommends the following:
“There is…a compromise that might benefit all parties. Amazon has been pushing the Kindle to heavy users of frontlist books. But the agency terms offer an opportunity for backlist books that gives everybody a win. With the agency model, a backlist book becomes a goldmine for publishers, authors, Amazon and Apple. Priced at $9.99, the publisher receives pretty much the same amount of money under agency terms as it would have for the wholesale book. Still protecting their preferred terms for electronic books, the publishers could maintain their 20-25% of net receipts formula for author royalties because the author would be getting more money ($1.75 vs. $1.05 in paperback royalties on a $13.95 physical paperback). Leaving the publisher with $5.25 in margin, more than they’d get from the physical paperback. When you include the savings in paper, printing and binding, freight and warehousing, the margin jumps even more.
This detente would flood the book market with titles that have stood the test of time where demand remains strong–a good incentive for Kindle and iPad buyers–while protecting the physical book distribution business. It would also buy publishers some time to divest the distribution assets that will inevitably erode as e-book selling takes off.”
Buckell write an extremely long piece, but it is worth the read given it comes from a concerned author. He laments that Amazon is attempting to abuse its market power to fix prices and thwart publishers’ ability to implement dynamic pricing. Buckell also describes process of making books in extraordinary detail. He explains his interest in writing this piece in personal terms:
“I’m not trying to exhort anyone to do anything, but to explain the situation I’m in, and to educate. I’m seeing a lot of people state things with certainty (points I try to knock down above) who have no involvement in the trade.
A lot of readers are going to take this out on authors, and I wanted to basically show my homework to explain things that people may not be aware of. People toss out prices of what eBooks ‘should be’ who’ve never even stopped to understand how the math of something like this works. They demand things they’d never demand of a jacket salesman, just because they think economics and supply and demand and volume don’t apply to eBooks. They do.
Seriously. I’ve thought about these things a lot. Mostly because I have a novel series that has not been renewed, and I keep running the numbers to see if I could write it as an eBook, and when I run these numbers, I come up looking at making a few thousand dollars for half a year’s worth of work based on how eBook sell now. Yes, there are a few J.A. Konrath’s selling well on Amazon, but as I’ve linked, other authors aren’t automagically selling thousands of eBooks there. Most who follow these footsteps sell hundreds. Not everyone becomes JK Rowling.”
The last point reminds me of Nassim Taleb’s “The Roots of Unfairness: the Black Swan in Arts and Literature“. Taleb notes that artists and writers work in a field where a few successful people take the majority of the rewards in the industry. He attributes this situation to largely unrecognized random events (luck!) that are highly improbably but have large impact (“Black Swans”). Moreover, he observes:
“The occurrence of the Winner-Take-All effect in any form of intellectual production has been accelerating along with the speed of reproduction and communications.”
So, ironically, e-books will continue the democratization of publishing and reading (through convenience, easy access, and low costs), but the percentage of winners may narrow further even while providing those winners more wealth than ever. | literature |
https://christiansciencenashua.com/rescourcs/ | 2024-04-18T17:55:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817222.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418160034-20240418190034-00511.warc.gz | 0.920048 | 241 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__70160215 | en | Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.
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https://mollusk.inhs.illinois.edu/2019/05/02/freshwater-mollusks-of-the-world-a-distribution-atlas/ | 2023-09-23T02:11:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506429.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922234442-20230923024442-00880.warc.gz | 0.938208 | 178 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__178682436 | en | It was a chilly day in late February when Kevin Cummings found an unexpected package in his mailbox: an advance copy of his new book, Freshwater Mollusks of the World: A Distribution Atlas.
Nearly four years earlier, snail expert Chuck Lydeard had contacted Kevin to see if he would be interested in helping compile the atlas. Lydeard’s vision was to create the first comprehensive summary of systematic and biodiversity information on the world’s 43 freshwater mollusk (snail, mussel, and clam) families.
As a renowned expert on freshwater mussels, Lydeard thought Kevin— an Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) scientist and curator of mollusks—would make a great co-author.
Lydeard and Kevin dove into the project feet first. Read about the Freshwater Mollusks project. | literature |
https://thesciencespotlight.com/2023/08/25/antibodies-to-covid-19-may-provide-partial-immunity-to-sars-and-mers/ | 2024-04-24T15:59:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819668.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424143432-20240424173432-00415.warc.gz | 0.961635 | 628 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__75381919 | en | In light of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic and vaccine campaigns, researchers have discovered that antibodies developed against the virus may provide some level of immunity against other coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS. This finding has significant implications for future outbreaks of these viruses.
Background: SARS and MERS
SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first emerged in China in 2002, causing a global outbreak that resulted in a high mortality rate. MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) is an even deadlier coronavirus, with a mortality rate of 1 in 3 infected individuals. Although control measures have largely stopped the spread of these viruses, sporadic MERS outbreaks still occur when the virus jumps from camels to humans.
In a study conducted by Florian Krammer and his colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, blood samples were collected from 85 individuals in the US who had received mRNA-based vaccines against covid-19, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes covid-19), or both. These samples were compared to blood samples taken prior to the pandemic.
The blood samples were tested for antibodies against 21 different coronaviruses, including variants of SARS-CoV-2, SARS, MERS, and common cold-like coronaviruses. The results showed that the pre-pandemic blood samples had no antibodies that could bind to the tested coronaviruses, except for some binding to two cold-causing coronaviruses and a virus affecting cows.
In contrast, the samples taken during the pandemic showed antibodies that bound to most of the tested viruses to some degree. This suggests that individuals have developed a level of immunity that may not prevent infection, but could protect against severe illness and death. Additionally, T-cells, another arm of the immune system, may provide additional protection against coronaviruses.
Understanding the Immune Response
It is unclear why infection with SARS-CoV-2 and covid-19 vaccines generated such broad immunity compared to other coronaviruses. Previous research suggests that infection with a specific cold-causing coronavirus only leads to immunity against that particular virus. However, the pandemic may have triggered changes in the immune system, resulting in cross-reactivity of antibodies and immune memory.
Furthermore, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes covid-19 is different from other coronaviruses, which could explain the broader immune response. The severity of the infection may have played a role in the development of stronger immunity.
Implications and Future Research
While the findings are promising, they do not negate the need for preparedness against future pandemics caused by related viruses like SARS or MERS. The possibility of new coronaviruses or entirely different viruses triggering future pandemics still remains. However, this research could aid in the development of vaccines that provide robust protection against the entire coronavirus family. | literature |
https://skylineuniversity.ac.ae/knowledge-update/lifestyle-and-trends/too-much-exercise-may-be-bad-for-your-heart | 2023-06-10T08:01:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224657144.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610062920-20230610092920-00542.warc.gz | 0.94897 | 376 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__195003353 | en | Super User Lifestyle and Trends
Too much exercise may be bad for your heart
Toronto, Feb 25 (IANS) Just as most therapies have a dose-response relationship whereby benefits diminish at high doses and the risk of adverse events increases, high level of intense exercise may also be bad for the heart, suggests a new study.
The researchers reviewed studies that looked into the relationship between exercise and heart problems and found that there is growing evidence that high levels of intense exercise may be cardiotoxic and promote permanent structural changes in the heart.
There is already fairly compelling evidence supporting the association between long-term sports practice and increased prevalence of atrial fibrillation -- abnormal heart rhythm characterised by rapid and irregular beating.
"Much of the discussion regarding the relative risks and benefits of long-term endurance sports training is hijacked by definitive media-grabbing statements, which has fuelled an environment in which one may be criticized for even questioning the benefits of exercise," explained study author Andre La Gerche from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.
"This paper discusses the often questionable, incomplete, and controversial science behind the emerging concern that high levels of intense exercise may be associated with some adverse health effects," La Gerche noted.
The study was published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.
"The answers regarding the healthfulness of 'extreme' exercise are not complete and there are valid questions being raised," La Gerche said.
"Given that this is a concern that affects such a large proportion of society, it is something that deserves investment. The lack of large prospective studies of persons engaged in high-volume and high-intensity exercise represents the biggest deficiency in the literature to date, and, although such work presents a logistical and financial challenge, many questions will remain controversies until such data emege," La Gerche observed. | literature |
https://www.childhealth2.com/publications | 2022-12-05T05:12:24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711003.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205032447-20221205062447-00626.warc.gz | 0.79655 | 2,619 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__69220866 | en | Recent Relevant Writing from the Team
Michaelson, V., King, N., Davison, C., Ascough, H., Pickett, W. “Inequalities in Spiritual Health: A Canadian Study.” BMC Public Health, accepted September, 2016. (Forthcoming)
Michaelson, V., Trothen, T., Ascough, H., Pickett, W. “Spirituality and Child Health: a Canadian Profile.” Journal of Pastoral Care and Counselling, accepted August, 2016. (Forthcoming)
Michaelson, V., Pickett, W., Davison, C. (2016). “Adolescent Perceptions of Health: A Mixed Methods Study.” Int J of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 11:32891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v11.32891
Michaelson, V., Pickett, W., King, N., Davison, C. (2016). “Testing the Theory of Holism: A study of Family Systems and Adolescent Health.” Preventive Medicine Reports, 4, 313-329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.07.002 (role: co-·
Michaelson, V., Trothen, T., Davison, C., Pickett, W. (2016). “Bodies and Behaviours: A Study of Body Image in Adolescent Girls and the Canadian Church.” Practical Theology, 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2016.1223395 (role:
Michaelson, V., Brooks, F., Jirásek, I., Inchley, J., Whitehead, I., King, N., Walsh, S., Davison, C., Mazur, J., Pickett, W. (2016). “Developmental Patterns of Adolescent Spiritual Health in Six Countries. Social Science and Medicine: Population Health, 2, 294-303.
Michaelson V, Trothen TJ, Davison CM, Pickett W. (under review). Church and the health of adolescent girls: A focus on the body.
Davison CM, Michaelson M, McKerron M, Pickett W. (under review). Holism Revisited: Perspectives for public and pediatric health promotion. Health Promotion International, submitted March 31, 2015.
Hawe P, Bond L, Ghali L, Perry R, Davison CM, Casey D, Butler H, Webster CM, Scholz B. (2015) Replication of a whole school ethos-changing intervention: Different context, similar effects, additional insights. BMC Public Health 15(1), 265.
Edwards N & Davison CM. (2015). Strengthening Communities with a Socio-Ecological Approach: Local and international lessons in whole systems. Lars K. Halstrom, N. Guehlstorf and M. Parkes (Eds.). Ecosystems, Society and Health: Pathways through diversity, convergence and integration. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Michaelson V; McKerron M; Davison CM. (2015). Forming ideas about health: A qualitative study of Ontario adolescents. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 10, 1-12.
Michaelson V, Robinson P, Pickett W. (2014). Participation in church or religious groups and its association with health: a national study of young Canadians. Journal of Religion and Health, 53(5), 1353-1373.
Walsh S, Huynh Q, Kukaswadia A, Harel-Fisch Y, Molcho M, Varnai D, Aaasvee K, Ravens-Sieberer U, Ottava V, Pickett W. (2013). Physical and emotional health problems experienced by youth engaged in physical fighting and weapon carrying. PLoS ONE, 8(2).
Huynh Q, Craig W, Janssen I, Pickett W. (2013). Exposure to public natural space as a protective factor for emotional well-being among young people in Canada. Bmc Public Health, 13(1), 407-407.
Burford BJ, Coren E, Davison CM, Thomas S, Doyle J, Armstrong R and Waters E. (2012). Cochrane Update- Evidence to support the needs of children and young people: Upcoming reviews from the Cochrane Public Health Group. Journal of Public Health 34(3), 467–470. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fds072
Freeman JG, King M, Pickett W, with Craig W, Elgar F, Janssen I, Klinger D. (2011). The health of Canada's young people: a mental health focus. Ottawa: Public Health Agency of Canada. Cat. no.: hP15-13/2011E-PDF, ISBN: hP15-13/2011E, 194p.
Family Based Health Promotion
Davison CM, Michaelson V and Pickett W. (2015). It still takes a village: The role of social supports in understanding unexpected health states in young people. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 295.
Michaelson V, Trothen T, Davison CM, Elgar FJ & Pickett W. (2014). Eucharistic eating, family meals and the health of adolescent girls: A Canadian study. The Journal of Practical Theology, 7(2), 125-143.
Adolescent Health and Equity
Parpia A, Davison CM, Freeman J. (under review). A Comparative Study of Emotional Well-Being of School-Aged Children Born in and Outside of Canada. 2014.
Walsh, S.D., De Clerq, B., Molcho, M., Harel-Fisch, Y., Davison, CM., Rich Madsen, K., Stevens, G.W.J.M and members of the HBSC immigration writing group. (under review). The relationship between ethnic school composition, classmate support and involvement in physical fighting and bullying among adolescent immigrants and non-immigrants in 11 countries. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, submitted June 20, 2015.
Byrnes J, King N, Hawe P, Peters P. Pickett W, Davison CM. (under review). Patterns of youth injury: A comparison across the northern territories and other parts of Canada. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, submitted March 16, 2015.
Pulver A, Davison CM, Parpia A, Purkey E, Pickett W. (under review). Nonmedical use of prescription opioids and injury risk among youth. Under review Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, submitted February 10, 2015.
Pickett W; Michaelson V; Davison CM. (2015). Beyond Nutrition: Hunger and its Impact on the health of young Canadians. International Journal of Public Health, 60(5), 527-538.
Pulver A, Davison CM, Pickett W. (2015). Time-Use Patterns and the Recreational use of Prescription Medications Among Rural Youth. The Journal of Rural Health, 31(2), 217-228.
Pulver A, Davison CM, Pickett W. (2014). Recreational Use of Prescription Medications Among Canadian Young People: Identifying disparities. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 105(2), 121-126.
Davison CM (2013) Adding Nuance to our Discussions of Inequalities in Canada: Urban-Rural Health Differences. The Broadbent Institute Equality Paper Responses.
Christensen J, Davison C & Levac L (2012) Chronic housing needs in the Canadian North: Inequality of opportunity in northern communities. The Broadbent Institute Equality Paper Responses.
Davison CM & Hawe P (2012). School engagement among aboriginal students in northern canada: Perspectives from activity settings theory. Journal of School Health, 82(2), 65-74.
Janssen I, Boyce WF, Pickett W. (2012). Screen time and physical violence in 10 to 16 year old Canadian youth. Int J Public Health, 57(2), 325-331.
Pickett W, Davison C, Torunian M, McFaull S, Walsh P, Thompson W. (2012). Drinking, Substance Use and the Operation of Motor Vehicles by Young Adolescents in Canada. PLoS ONE 7(8): e42807. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042807
Davison CM, Ghali LM & Hawe P. (2011). Insights into the School Environment that Surveys Alone Might Miss: An exploratory study using photovoice. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion 4(1), 44-51.
Carson V, Pickett W, Janssen I. (2011). Screen time and risk behaviours among 10-16 year old Canadian youth. Prev Med, 52(2), 99-103.
Vafaei A, Rosenberg M, Pickett W. (2010). Relationships between income inequality and health: A study on rural and urban regions of Canada. Rural and Remote Health, 10(2), 1430.
Currie C, NicGabhainn S, Godeau E, Roberts C, Smith R, Currie D, Pickett W, Richter M, Morgan A, Barnekow. Inequalities in young people’s health. HBSC International Report from the 2005/2006 Survey. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2008, 205 pages.
Oral Presentations of our Ideas
Favotto, L., Pickett, W., & Davison, C. Connection with a Screen: The Impact of Computer Mediated Communication on the Health of Canadian Adolescents. Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University. Kingston, ON. July 20, 2015
Davis L. Prevalence and Patterns of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Canadian Youth: The role of parental support. Department of Public Health, Queen's University. July 20, 2015.
Favotto, L., Davison, C., & Michaelson, V. Connection with a Screen: The Impact of Computer Mediated Communication on the Health of Canadian Adolescents. Health Research Trainees Day, Queen's University. Kingston, ON June 10, 2015
Niclasen B, Davison CM, King N, Pickett W. The context of food poverty in school children: A comparison of northern Canada and Greenland. The 16th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Oulu, Finland. June 6-8, 2015.
Favotto, L., Davison, C., & Michaelson, V. (2015) The Impact of Computer-Mediated Communication on the Health of Canadian Adolescents. Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Conference. Mississauga, ON. June 3, 2015
Haq F & Davison CM. What are hunger and food insecurity to Canadian adolescents? A qualitative study of youth perspectives and content validity analysis of a national survey item. Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics Conference, Mississauga, ON. June 1-4, 2015.
Davis L & Davison CM. Prevalence and patterns of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Canadian youth. Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics,Mississauga, ON. June 1-4, 2015.
Davison CM & Michaelson V. Child nutritional intervention research in the north: What are the possibilities? An introduction to the program of research for potential collaborators. Yellowknife, NWT. March 4, 2014.
Michaelson V. The potential relationship between spirituality and child health. Department of Public Health Sciences Seminar Series, Queen's University, Kingston, ON. February 26, 2014.
Pickett W. Beyond Hunger: Food insecurity as a potential determinant of health among Canadian adolescents. Department of Public Health Sciences Seminar Series, Queen's University, Kingston, ON. January 15, 2014.
Michaelson V & Pickett W. Space, time and stories: Nurturing the spiritual lives of children. Professional development workshop. Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, ON. January 8, 2014. | literature |
http://legacy.uspharmacist.com/oldformat.asp?url=newlook/files/Feat/herbals.htm&pub_id=8&article_id=737 | 2014-12-20T22:10:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770403.126/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00056-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.889983 | 4,266 | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__14787944 | en | The immunosuppressive medications used to prevent allograft rejection after transplantation present a host of patient monitoring challenges for the pharmacist. Continuous monitoring is essential because of the potential for infection, malignancy, drug side effects, and drugdrug or drugnutrient interactions. Immunosuppressive agents may also be used to treat other disease states, including rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, and lupus nephritis. Therefore, pharmacists will be called upon to provide pharmaceutical care to a diverse population of patients using immunosuppressive medicines.
Pharmacists must be ready to monitor and counsel transplant patients or other patients who are taking immunosuppressants concurrently with herbal products. The increased popularity of herbal medicines may place these patients at risk for an herbalimmunosuppressive interaction.1,2 In the transplant patient this could result in potentially devastating toxic side effects or the loss of the transplanted allograft. Some herbal medicines are also potential nephrotoxins. Renal transplant patients and other patients on a cyclosporine-based regimen (Sandimmune, Neoral) should especially avoid herbal medicines. The initial transplant patient assessment and continued follow-ups should include questions on the use of herbal therapies.
Unfortunately, little is known or reported on interactions of herbals with immunosuppressants. The herbal medications selected for this review have a reported interaction in the literature or have the potential to interact with immunosuppressants pharmacokinetically or pharmacodynamically.
Cytochrome P-450 and P-glycoprotein
Potential pharmacokinetic drugdrug and drugnutrient interactions with cyclosporine, tacrolimus (Prograf) or sirolimus (Rapamune) that may pose a substantial clinical risk to the patient on immunosuppressants are well-known based on a growing wealth of knowledge about the cytochrome P450 (CYP) system. CYP3A represents the most abundant subfamily of enzymes within this system.3 It accounts for approximately 30% of all CYP content in the liver and as much as 70% in epithelial cells (enterocytes) of the small intestine. Major improvements in the scientific tools available to research this system allow the prediction of potential drugimmunosuppressive interactions.
|There are at least 10 constituents, or groups of components that may contribute to the pharmacologic effect of St. John's wort on cyclosporine.|
PGP has also been located in the enterocytes of the small and large intestine, where its role is to carry lipophilic molecules from the enterocyte back into the intestinal lumen for elimination. Many hydrophobic drugs are either metabolized by CYP3A or pumped back into the lumen by PGP after intestinal absorption and enterocyte uptake. Therefore, CYP3A and PGP, acting in tandem, may decrease the oral absorption and delivery of cyclosporine, tacrolimus or sirolimus.
Pharmacokinetic Immunosuppressive-Herbal Interactions
Cyclosporine/St. John's Wort: Case reports of St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) causing decreased serum levels of digoxin and indinavir were discussed previously in U.S. Pharmacist.1 Similar case reports of an interaction of St. John's wort with cyclosporine were documented in The Lancet.7 Both of these cyclosporine cases involved patients with stable heart transplant allografts who were maintained on a standard regimen of cyclosporine, azathioprine (Imuran) and corticosteroids. These cases are reviewed below.
* Case One: A 61-year-old patient was admitted for elective endomyocardial biopsy.7 The heart transplant had taken place 11 months earlier, and cyclosporine plasma levels were stable prior to being admitted for the biopsy. There were no signs of infection or hemodynamic compromise. The only patient complaint was a feeling of nonspecific fatigue. Three weeks prior to admission the patient started self-medicating with St. John's wort for mild depression. The biopsy revealed acute transplant rejection. A St. John's wortcyclosporine interaction was suspected. St. John's wort was discontinued, the cyclosporine dose was increased and bolus corticosteroids were administered; however, this therapy was ineffective in reversing the acute rejection. A second biopsy performed seven days later showed prolonged rejection. Azathioprine was switched to mycophenolate mofetil (Cellcept) and intravenous antithymocyte globulin was given for 10 days. Cyclosporine plasma concentrations remained within therapeutic range after the patient stopped taking St. John's wort. Further episodes of rejection were not noted.
* Case Two: A 63-year-old heart transplant recipient was started on St. John's wort by his psychiatrist because of anxiety and depression, three weeks before being admitted for elective endomyocardial biopsy.7 Prior to admission, the patient had an event-free course with stable cyclosporine plasma levels; however, on admission, cyclosporine plasma levels had dropped below the therapeutic range. Physical examination and laboratory values did not reveal a cause of rejection. The endomyocardial biopsy, however, showed acute heart transplant rejection. Cyclosporine returned to normal concentrations after the St. John's wort was discontinued. Further episodes of rejection were not documented.
In both of these cases, the strong temporal relationship suggests that treatment with St. John's wort caused the acute rejection, due to a drop in plasma cyclosporine concentration. There are at least 10 different constituents or groups of components that may contribute to the pharmacologic effect of St. John's wort. One component, naphtodiantron, is a known inducer of CYP3A. In addition, it has been suggested that St. John's wort extract may induce PGP.8 Overall, the combination of these two pharmacokinetic interactions decreases the oral bioavailability of cyclosporine. The same interaction should be considered in patients taking tacrolimus or sirolimus.
Cyclosporine/Rosemary: Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis [Labiatae]) is used externally to improve circulation in hypotonic circulatory disorders, rheumatic conditions, eczema, and as a poultice for poorly healing wounds. Rosemary is taken orally for dyspeptic disorders, loss of appetite, liver and gallbladder complaints, and blood pressure problems.9 It inhibits the binding of doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and vincristine (Oncovin) to PGP, thereby increasing the intracellular accumulation of these chemotherapy agents.10 Rosemary may thus also increase cyclosporine plasma concentrations by increasing its oral bioavailability, through inhibition of PGP activity. Literature documentation or case reports of cyclosporinerosemary interactions do not exist. However, a potential drug-herb interaction exists, and patients on cyclosporine-based regimens should be advised to avoid using rosemary for medicinal purposes.
A summary of the cyclosporineSt.
John's wort and cyclosporinerosemary interaction is provided in TABLE
Table 1. Documented and Potential
|Drug||Herb||Mechanism of Action||Description of Interaction||Counseling and Monitoring|
|Cyclosporine||St. John's wort||Induces CYP3A enzyme,
increases drug metabolism
Induces PGP in gut, reduces drug absorption
|cyclosporine drug levels||Advise patients to avoid taking St. John's wort while on cyclosporine|
|Cyclosporine||Rosemary||Inhibits the binding of cyclosporine to PGP||Potential in cyclosporine drug levels||Advise patients to avoid using rosemary for medicinal purposes while on cyclosporine|
Herbals with Purported Immunostimulating Effects
Pharmacists must also monitor the use of herbal medicines that have purported immunostimulating effects. Various agents have been recommended by herbalists as immunotonics or in patients with immunodeficiencies. In theory, these herbals may interact with immunosuppressants, possibly decreasing or offsetting the effects of the immunosuppressive regimen.1,2 Patients taking immunosuppressants should be counseled to avoid these immunostimulating herbs to prevent competing effects on the immune system. When considering the drug history of a patient, pharmacists should include questions on the use of echinacea, astragalus, ginseng, licorice root and alfalfa. Questions should also be asked on the use of zinc supplementation. It is important to keep in mind that these herbals may also be found in protein powders and other nutritional supplements. TABLE 2 summarizes information on immunostimulating herbs.
Echinacea: Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) is used as an immune stimulant and lymphatic system antiseptic. It is also used for colds, cough, fever, bronchitis, tonsillitis, wound healing, asthma, glandular swelling, UTIs, and as a nasal decongestant.9 Given orally or parenterally, echinacea affects the immune system by increasing the number of white blood cells and activating the capacity for phagocytosis by human granulocytes. Other effects include increased production of T-helper cells and cytokines, such as interleukin-1, interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha.2
Astragalus: Astragalus (Tragacanth) is used as a laxative because it stimulates stretching of the intestinal wall, resulting in increased peristalsis.9 Astragalus may also potentially stimulate T-cell activity.
Ginseng: Ginseng (Panax ginseng) is used to improve athletic ability because it increases stamina, and may possibly lower cholesterol.9 It is also used as an immune stimulant to potentially nourish major immune system glands in an unspecified manner.
Licorice Root: Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) may stimulate the production of interferon.2 It is used as an antispasmodic and to promote healing of peptic ulcers by inhibiting gastric acid. Licorice is also used for colitis, diverticulitis, asthma, cough, bronchitis, eczema, and hypoglycemia.9
Alfalfa Sprouts: Patients may be using alfalfa sprouts (Medicago sativa) for arthritis, to improve thyroid function and to decrease cholesterol. It may also be used as a blood purifier, a diuretic, and an antiulcer and antidiabetic agent.9
Zinc: Although zinc
is not considered an herbal product, patients may use zinc gluconate lozenges
to prevent or treat the common cold. The mechanism of action of zinc is unknown;
however, studies suggest that zinc may induce interferon production and prevent
formation of viral capsid protein.2
Table 2. Herbals with Purported Immunostimulating Effects
|Herb||Purported Use||Contraindications||Adverse Reactions||Drug Interactions/ Comments|
|Arthritis, blood purifier, diuretic, antiulcer, cholesterol-lowering, anti-diabetic, improve thyroid function||1||Pancytopenia, SLE||Contains
vitamin K, can decrease INR with warfarin.
Do not exceed recommended dosage
|Rare allergic reactions||Take with adequate amounts of fluid.|
|Immune stimulant, lymphatic system antiseptic, colds, cough, fever||Multiple sclerosis, HIV, tuberculosis, leukosis, collagenosis, pregnancy||Fever, nausea, vomiting, allergic reactions||Additive hepatotoxic effects with anabolic steroids, amiodarone, methotrexate, ketoconazole. Patients with renal impairment should not use for more than 10 days.|
|Stimulate immune system, improve athletic ability, increase stamina, possibly lower cholesterol||Hypertension, pregnancy, hematologic disorders, renal failure, anticoagulant therapy, in infants||Ginseng abuse syndrome with overuse, nervousness, hypertension, insomnia, tachycardia, dermatitis, fever, bleeding||May increase clotting time with aspirin, dipyridamole, warfarin; avoid excessive caffeine; avoid with antidepressants; may increase toxicity of steroids|
Herbal Medicines that are Potential Nephrotoxins
Medicines that may be nephrotoxic (e.g., aminoglycosides and amphotericin B) should be used cautiously or avoided in patients on immunosuppressants. This is especially important for renal transplant patients, because of the potential for additive nephrotoxicity with cyclosporine or tacrolimus. Herbal medicines may also be potential nephrotoxins (TABLE 3).9 Pharmacists must continuously monitor patients on immunosuppressants and educate them on potentially nephrotoxic herbals, such as Acorus calamus, birch bark, Ruta gravolens, Aristolochia clematitis, Stephania tetranda, and Magnoliae officinalis.
Acorus Calamus: A. calamus (calamus) has spasmolytic, carminative (antiflatulent), and sedative effects.9 It is used as a tea for dyspeptic disorders to stimulate appetite and digestion and may also be used for gastritis and ulcers. In addition, calamus may be used externally for its hyperemic effects in rheumatism, gum disease, and angina (it improves blood circulation). Even though it is a relatively safe herbal medicine when administered properly, patients should be counseled against using it long-term and exceeding recommended dosages.
Birch Bark and Birch Leaf: Birch bark and leaves (Betula species) have been used in folk medicine for centuries as blood purifiers, for gout and rheumatism, and for hair loss and dandruff.9 They are also used as flushing-out therapy in bacterial and inflammatory diseases of the urinary tract, and for kidney and bladder stones. Birch should not be used in patients with impaired cardiac or renal function or in patients with an aspirin sensitivity because it contains high amounts of methylsalicylate.
Ruta Graveolens: R. graveolens (Rue) has been used as a folk remedy for menstrual complaints, as a contraceptive and as an abortive agent.9
Aristolochia Clematitis: A. clematitis (birthwort) is used as an immunostimulant and in allergically induced gastrointestinal colic and cholecystitis.9 Pure aristolochic acid acts similarly to the gout medication colchicine. Birthwort is a highly toxic drug and should not be administered even in small doses. Acute intake of toxic doses leads to gastroenteritis, vomiting, spasms, and severe kidney damage. The United Kingdom Committee on Safety of Medications placed an emergency ban on the import, supply and sale of aristolochia on July 28, 1999.11 This ban resulted from case reports of end-stage renal disease caused by ingestion of a Chinese herbal remedy that contained aristolochia.12 The herbal preparations were from different sources and were prescribed for eczema.
Stephania Tetranda and Magnoliae Officinalis: Case reports have also been published regarding S. tetranda and M. officinalis.13 Two women under the age of 50 were diagnosed with a rapidly progressive fibrosing interstitial nephritis after starting a therapy for weight loss. Both women received the treatment from the same clinic and eventually required dialysis. The case reports prompted the authors of the article to perform an epidemiological survey. Upon analysis of the data, the authors discovered that the weight loss clinic had initially used the same slimming regimen for 15 years. No cases of renal dysfunction or renal failure had been reported on this old regimen; however, before the two reported cases, the clinic had changed to a new regimen that included the herbs in question. Other nephrotoxins or adulterants, such as diuretics or anti-inflammatory agents, were not found in the herbal treatment. In total, the survey identified nine young women on dialysis or with preterminal renal failure who had followed the same weight loss regimen.
|Inquire about herbal use in an open, nonjudgmental fashion to provide an opportunity for patients to learn about the risks and benefits of these therapies.|
Phenylbutazone has also
been found as an illicit ingredient in herbal remedies. Renal toxicity associated
with phenylbutazone has been well-documented; proteinuria, hematuria, anuria,
oliguria, renal papillary necrosis and hypersensitivity-related renal dysfunction
may occur during therapeutic use.20,21 Traditional Chinese herbals
used to treat various forms of arthritis have been found to contain phenylbutazone.22
These formulations are readily available from Chinese medical halls and stipulate
that the only active ingredients are Chinese herbs.
Table 3. Nephrotoxic Herbal Medicinals
|Herb||Purported Use||Contraindications||Adverse Reactions||Comments|
External: rheumatism, gum disease, angina
|1||Nephrotoxic, bloody diarrhea, dermatitis||Used to make tea or put in bath water; avoid long-term use: do not exceed recommended dosage|
|Stimulate immune system, allergically induced GI colic and cholecystitis||1||Gastroenteritis, renal failure, carcinogenic||Highly toxic administration is prohibited; may be toxic as currently marketed|
|Diuretic, UTI, renal calculi||Aspirin sensitivity, impaired cardiac or renal function||Hypersensitivity reactions||Contains high amounts of methylsalicylate|
|Magnoliae officinalis||Flatulent dyspepsia, cough, asthma||1||Mucous membrane irritation or numbness, dermal irritation, hypersensitivity, CNS stimulant or depressant||Primary agent in Chinese herbal "Houpo;" may be nephrotoxic|
|Tetrandine has antiphagocytic, antioxidant, antitumor, analgesic, hypotensive, and antiplatelet effects||1||Other adverse effects unknown||Contains 21 compounds (19 are alkaloids); may be nephrotoxic|
|Antispasmodic, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Bell's Palsy, induce menstruation||1||Abortifacient, hepatotoxicity, photosensitizing||Fatal outcomes reported with overdose; may be toxic as currently marketed|
Role of the Pharmacist
It is the responsibility of the pharmacist to educate patients on the safe use of herbal products.23,24 The lack of scientific data on herbals makes it imperative for the pharmacist to take an active role, especially with patients on immunosuppressants. Pharmacists must keep an open dialogue with patients currently taking or contemplating the use of herbal medicines.
Because herbal medicines
are not considered drugs by some individuals, they are frequently not listed
by patients or mentioned during drug history interviews. Pharmacists recording
patient drug histories should include questions on herbal medicines or dietary
supplements. Pharmacists must inquire on the use of herbals in an open, nonjudgmental
fashion to provide an opportunity for patients to learn about the risks and
benefits of these alternative therapies. Patients should be asked the specific
reasons for using the herbal medicine. Pharmacists should also review the patient's
drug regimen to determine if herbal use is appropriate and not used to replace
conventional therapies that may be more effective in the patient's disease state.
During this review process, any herbal-related adverse events experienced by
the patient should be reported to the institution's Pharmacy and Therapeutics
Committee and, if warranted, to the FDA's MedWatch program. | literature |
https://beerandabookblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/the-reivers-william-faulkner/ | 2018-07-20T18:02:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591719.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720174340-20180720194340-00080.warc.gz | 0.965474 | 1,437 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__103276826 | en | The list of William Faulkner books I own and have read, often multiple times, is long. I know I missed a few titles along the way, but certainly I would have claimed to have read all of the Faulkner essentials and then some. No one ever mentions The Reivers when listing Faulkner’s major works, and it turns out I find that to be a shame. No, it’s not The Sound and the Fury, but this is not a work to be dismissed and unread. After all, isn’t it likely that even the worst work by a Nobel Prize winner has a good chance of being far better than the best book by an average writer? For my birthday my brother bought me a copy of The Reivers, published in 1962, a month before Faulkner’s death. A couple lines in the front jacket mirror my own conclusions, “The Reivers is, with no reservations whatsoever, one of the funniest books in our literature,” and, “But to those readers who have only sampled his work, The Reivers will be an especial delight.” Having believed I had read all of Faulkner’s good books, The Reivers truly was a wonderful surprise.
Turns out The Reivers is well loved and highly regarded by fans of Faulkner. For readers new to Faulkner, it may be a great place to start and for good reason. It’s one of the more accessible Faulkner books, it truly is comic, and it’s an adventure story not that dissimilar to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is a kind of coming of age story about an 11 year old who on a short trip to Memphis, learns an immense deal about men, women, race, and the society he exists in.
This is definitely not a book you want to give too much of the plot away. In short, Lucius Priest (now 60) is reminiscing to his son about the time in 1905 when his grandfather bought the first automobile in Jefferson, Mississippi. 11 years old then, Lucius and older friend of the family, Boon Hogganbeck borrow/steal the automobile to drive up to Memphis. Soon after starting, they discover a stowaway hiding under a tarp in the back–Ned William McCaslin who is Black and a distant relative to Lucius. As with many Faulkner books, The Reivers includes many of the characters and relatives from the McCaslin/Edmondses family tree found in other works.
Soon after arriving in Memphis, Ned trades the automobile for a stolen race horse that won’t run, with the grand scheme to set up a horse race in which they can win the automobile back and keep the horse too. Ned has a secret that he believes will get the horse to “run”, a secret that was previously successful in getting a mule to win any race it entered. Arriving in Memphis, Boon visits a brothel where we meet Miss Reba, Boon’s “gal” Miss Corrine, and Minnie, a Black maid with a gold tooth that has Lucius smitten.
1905. Road trip. Brothels. Horse racing… and all under the treatment of Faulkner. Say. no. more. Similar to some of the stories in Go Down Moses, in Faulkner’s hand this “road trip” story unfolds on a scale of fabled proportion. Characters appearing in the novel are drawn out so vibrantly: Ned William McCaslin the brilliant con man and reader of men, Miss Reba who runs the bordello, Otis a 15 year old monster visiting his aunt Corrine at the brothel, and Butch, the horrific bastard of a White sheriff who embodies all that was so wrong for Blacks in the South. The language and dialogue is so rich and intelligent, even when coming out of the mouths of the ignorant.
I am going to mention as well that I began reading the book on a day that officially heralded in the era of “make America great again,” or so it is said anyway. As I began to read The Reivers I couldn’t help but think that, no, what makes America great is not an ugly rhetoric based on misinformation and lies, what makes America great (at least in part) are its artists, musicians and storytellers who distill the American experience into something we universally recognize and share. It’s literature like The Reivers that both makes America great, as well as depicts its greatness. Certainly I’m not suggesting that the South of 1905 is a benchmark in America we should be striving to return to. The racism and Jim Crow era is on full display in The Reivers, especially embodied in the sheriff, Butch. But counter to that darkness are some of the most dignified human portraits of Blacks, as well as relationships between Black and White, found in American literature. It shows its people’s shared humanity, intelligence, pluck, and ability of its people to have a solidarity with one another that is based not on color, but on character. The novel is a depiction of American people and of a society beginning to find mutual respect for each other, while also living with the realities of its persistent racism.
Given the age of Faulkner when he wrote it, coupled with the subtitle, “A Reminiscence,” this should be enough to inform readers that The Reivers will be something of a golden, wistful remembrance of childhood in the South, of a time when the very first automobiles ever seen were appearing on the roads. If you can imagine the novelty and wonder of even sitting in the first automobile to appear in town, let alone taking a road trip in it, then this may be the book for you. The novel is all of that, and yet a profound book as well. There is a fable-like quality to it, with larger than life characters and a depiction of a post Civil War America growing into itself.
Lastly, there is a hook in the story that once set, will keep you reading to the end: the secret of how Ned can make a horse who doesn’t want to run, run. I would absolutely love to tell you Ned’s secret ingredient–it’s really too good not to share. When I finally found out what that secret was, I laughed, and I mean really laughed. But I could never live with myself if I ever stole that opportunity to experience joy from someone. So I’ll leave you with this. Feeling uncertain about the world? Bogged down with social media posts and “Breaking News” about Beyonce’s pregnancy status? Cable news got you pulling out your hair? Stop, turn it off, buy a copy of The Reivers, and regain some hope in humanity. | literature |
https://geom-center.ontu.edu.ua/en/site/page/open_access | 2024-04-20T06:28:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817491.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420060257-20240420090257-00708.warc.gz | 0.912328 | 261 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__192260948 | en | Journal “Proceedings of the International Geometry Center” is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
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https://shop.handhcomms.co.uk/product/tough-at-the-top-book/ | 2021-06-21T22:48:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488504838.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621212241-20210622002241-00537.warc.gz | 0.938615 | 354 | CC-MAIN-2021-25 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__184231628 | en | Tough at the Top follows the story of a naive new circus owner as he learns first-hand what it takes to be an engaging leader.
Adam has always dreamed of owning a circus. But when he becomes the new ringmaster of the Starlight Circus, he has to contend with an anxious tiger-tamer, a frustrated carousel owner, a delinquent trick-rider, a knife-thrower who hates his partner, and a troupe of clowns who work strictly to rule.
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https://tamara-allen.net/why-storytelling-is-more-powerful-than-photography/ | 2023-09-29T07:30:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510498.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929054611-20230929084611-00371.warc.gz | 0.946043 | 315 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__152191611 | en | Storytelling is more powerful than photography when it comes to capturing memories and moments. Photography can be beautiful and nostalgic, but it often lacks the ability to convey the emotion or feeling behind a particular moment. Storytelling can do that-it can evoke memories and feelings in a way that no photograph ever could. What’s more, stories can be passed down from generation to generation, ensuring that memories will never be forgotten.
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In a world where we are constantly bombarded with images, it’s easy to forget the power of storytelling. But the next time you’re feeling nostalgic, take a moment to sit down and tell a story. You’ll be surprised at how powerful it can be. | literature |
https://bayofplentynz.com/stories/katikati-haiku-pathway/ | 2024-04-21T08:05:06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421071342-20240421101342-00546.warc.gz | 0.944919 | 232 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__123524457 | en | The Haiku Pathway is a one-of-a-kind in New Zealand and unique outside Japan.
It features over 40 haiku poems, the vast majority engraved on to river boulders, alongside a pathway that meanders either side of Uretara Stream and forms a peaceful park in the heart of a bustling country town.
The poems have been specially chosen to reflect their location and feature work by poets from New Zealand and overseas to form what is the largest collection of haiku “stones” in English and the only “haiku walk” outside Japan.
The pathway, which was a Millennium Project for the town, links into two other popular walks, the Bird Walk and Yeoman Walkway at The Landing, or visitors can enjoy the pathway to The Landing and then walk through town to view the murals.
Guidebooks to the pathway, which include a map to the poems, are available to purchase from Katikati Information Centre (The Arts Junction).
Look for the Haiku sign on the Main Road (beside Robert Harris café) for the entry to the car park. | literature |
http://brandeisinterfaith.weebly.com/the-haberdashery/category/reading | 2019-03-25T03:54:22 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203548.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325031213-20190325053213-00085.warc.gz | 0.933317 | 228 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__57459318 | en | blessed be He, prays.
What does He pray?
R. Zutra the son of Tobi said in the name of Rav: ‘May it be My will that My mercy may suppress My anger, and that My mercy may prevail over My other attributes, so that I may deal with My children in the attribute of mercy and bring inside the circle of justice’.
It was taught: R. Ishmael the son of Elisha said: I once entered into the innermost part of the Temple to offer incense and saw Akathriel Jah, the Lord of Hosts, seated upon a high and exalted throne. He said to me: Ishmael, My son, bless Me. l replied: May it be Your will that Your mercy may suppress Your anger and Your mercy may prevail over Your other attributes, so that You may deal with Your children according to the attribute of mercy and bring them inside the circle of justice. And He nodded to me with His head.
From this we learn that the blessing of an ordinary person must not be considered lightly in your eyes. | literature |
https://www.alamedapaulistaimoveis.com.br/how-you-can-date-efficiently/ | 2024-02-22T21:18:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00091.warc.gz | 0.949074 | 906 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__136630925 | en | If you want to master how to time frame successfully, you should learn how to get new members. Understanding latin feel how to get focus is the key to attracting the appropriate person. You need to know whom you are, what makes you attractive, and what you want right from a relationship. You should also really know what traits you want within a mate. These kinds of traits will assist you to find the best match for yourself. Look at the following ideas to learn how to time successfully.
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by Rich Manning
For decades, the city of Ashland, Oregon was so strongly linked to the works of William Shakespeare that many people thought the play’s the only thing that happened in town. At first blush, it is easy to see why this was the case, since the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has lured people from around the globe to see the works of the nearly mythical literary icon performed at a world-class level for over seventy years. Yet as anyone who has recently visited Ashland can tell you, the association with The Bard merely scratches the surface of what is possible to enjoy within this modest community that lay between San Francisco and Portland. Indeed, there is a host of sumptuous yet rejuvenating activities to explore here; visceral life experiences that simultaneously provide a means of luxury while maintaining a feeling of escape. | literature |
https://katherinekelpstebbins.com/ | 2024-04-14T20:23:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816893.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414192536-20240414222536-00619.warc.gz | 0.932638 | 179 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__35516922 | en | I am Associate Professor and Director of the Comics Studies Program in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. I am also affiliated faculty in New Media and Culture as well as Women’s and Gender Studies. My books include the monograph How Comics Travel: Translation, Publication, Radical Literacies, and the edited volume The Art of the News: Comics Journalism. My work has been published in a number of edited volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, The Comics of Alison Bechdel, Comics Studies Here and Now, and Horrors of War. I have published articles in the journals PMLA, Studies in Comics, Feminist Media Histories, Media Fields, and Sport in Society. I am the curator of the traveling museum exhibit The Art of the News: Comics Journalism, which debuted at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in September 2021.
Contact me by email. | literature |
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