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https://www.timescall.com/2012/12/09/longmont-based-tolkien-fan-group-celebrates-hobbit-holiday-at-library/ | 2019-06-25T10:48:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999817.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190625092324-20190625114324-00280.warc.gz | 0.934721 | 330 | CC-MAIN-2019-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__31455007 | en | LONGMONT — Families and fantasy fans of all ages gathered at the Longmont Public Library on Sunday afternoon to celebrate family literacy and J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel, “The Hobbit.”
The Grey Havens Group — a Longmont-based organization of fans and followers of Tolkien, who also wrote “The Lord of the Rings” — sponsored “Hobbit Holiday: A Celebration for Young Hobbits and Their Families.”
With featured costumed characters, readings, an interactive presentation on “the natural history of hobbits” and other activities crafted to appeal to “the young hobbits in the family,” as Grey Havens Group founder Kelly Cowling said, the event was time to coordinate with Friday’s theatrical release of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,” the first movie in a trilogy of films to be based on Tolkien’s classic novel.
“We really want to encourage young people to read the book as well as attend the movie,” Cowling said Friday.
Grey Havens, founded in October 2010, has about 30 people of all generations who regularly attend its twice-weekly meetings, Cowling said.
Events such as Sunday’s Hobbit Holiday aren’t just about Tolkien’s works or literature with mythical themes.
“We want to show people that reading is really a family affair,” Cowling said.
John Fryar can be reached at 303-684-5211 or [email protected]. | literature |
http://news.wef.org/wef-energy-roadmap-serves-as-user-guide-for-utilities-of-all-sizes/ | 2017-04-28T04:31:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122739.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00245-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.900934 | 264 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__286845873 | en | The Water Environment Federation (WEF; Alexandria, Va.) has released The Energy Roadmap: A Water and Wastewater Utility Guide to More Sustainable Energy Management. Published earlier this year, the book is a guide for utilities to take advantage of sustainable energy sources.
The book details approaches to cost-effective recovery and reuse of “wastes” to transform them into resources. Designed as a user guide, it outlines six stops on the path to resource recovery, with insights and models for strategic management, creating an organizational culture, effective communication and outreach, demand-side management, energy generation, and innovating for the future. It includes steps for all sizes of utilities with a variety of energy sustainability goals and a guide for setting priorities and choosing practical approaches.
“The Energy Roadmap: A Water and Wastewater Utility Guide to More Sustainable Energy Management will help to innovate and cost-effectively turn treatment facilities into ‘green factories,’” said Edward H. McCormick, wastewater engineering manager at East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland, Calif.
WEF began working to develop this book and other related resources in 2012.
For more information, read Energy Roadmap Version 1.0: Driving Water and Wastewater Utilities to More Sustainable Energy Management and the WEF Highlights articles | literature |
https://www.jimmyharney.com/ | 2023-10-03T00:30:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511023.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002232712-20231003022712-00628.warc.gz | 0.945282 | 204 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__297910266 | en | Jimmy Harney is a New York Times-published essayist and music industry communications executive. An NYU graduate with a concentration in creative writing, Harney’s writing about his own life has garnered international attention. His 2020 personal essay “In Defense of My Emu Tattoo” was published by The New York Times for the outlet's internationally acclaimed "Modern Love" column and has since been translated into multiple languages and published for readers across the globe. For over ten years, he’s also crafted messaging and compelling editorials alongside some of the biggest names in entertainment - from Oscar-winning actors and influential athletes to Grammy-winners and global music legends like Alicia Keys, Justin Timberlake, Motley Crue, and Janet Jackson, to name a few.
He can be contacted directly at [email protected].
For literary rights, he is represented by Rachel Cone-Gorham. She can be contacted at [email protected]. | literature |
https://www.onlinebeta.website/copy-of-golden-circle | 2021-01-18T12:55:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703514796.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210118123320-20210118153320-00510.warc.gz | 0.971927 | 175 | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__83293487 | en | Silver Circle 1
Silver Circle Ritual 1//Sisters in Beta Sigma Phi, you stand once more as you have so many times in the past before the Ritual Table. You stand not in darkness as once you did, for the light of Beta Sigma Phi shines forth from you. The torch you have carried so well lights the way for those who follow you. Now its light falls upon these candles of colors red, yellow, blue, orange, green and violet, representing the six virtues to which you have for so long been pledged. Let us recall them together.//We light now the red candle, and the red of that flame shall be courage, such courage as you have demonstrated in your many years of membership. It is the courage with which you have pursued our ideals and by which you have overcome many difficulties, achieving your goals, making the most of your talents. | literature |
http://www.hepworth-acoustics.co.uk/standards-a-legislation/environment/minerals-technical-advice-note-2coal | 2013-05-23T20:42:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703788336/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112948-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.935982 | 137 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__33720156 | en | MTAN 2 was produced by the National Assembly for Wales in January 2009 to provide detailed advice on the policy for both surface and underground working of coal in Wales.
Annex 2 identifies the significant effects of noise from surface minerals operations, identifies good practice in controlling noise, and states how the planning system can keep noise emissions within environmentally acceptable limits without imposing unreasonable burdens on mineral operators.
Advice is provided on dealing with potential noise issues through the development control process. Recommendations are provided for acceptable noise levels, both for normal site operations, and for short term operations. Guidance is also given on compliance monitoring of noise limits and specific examples of good practice in noise reduction are detailed. | literature |
http://www.ultrakulture.com/orchestrating-fate/ | 2018-07-20T00:34:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591455.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720002543-20180720022543-00007.warc.gz | 0.907969 | 107 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__255716597 | en | When you enter intimately with the Fabric of Life, you observe an opportunity to pull certain particular strands of the Weaving of the Universe.
To reach into the weaving and take one particular strand and pull that strand in such a way that it changes the shape of the weaving, that’s an Orchestration of Fate…
In that analogy, the thread that you use for the orchestration that changes the shape of the weaving of the Universe… is your own Life.
– JLL –
LIVE LIKE LEGENDS | literature |
http://www.summitoaks.org/metformin-associated-lactic-acidosis-in-a-low-risk-patient.html | 2015-10-09T05:00:23 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737913815.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221833-00001-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.89338 | 245 | CC-MAIN-2015-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-40__0__112090882 | en | (dimethylbiguanide) is an orally administered drug used to lower blood glucose concentrations in patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM). lowers blood glucose concentration by improving insulin sensitivity and decreasing insulin resistance. Other mechanisms of action that may contribute to lower blood glucose concentrations are decreased basal hepatic glucose output, increased intestinal use of glucose and decreased fatty-acid oxidation.
Lactic acidosis is a rare but serious complication of metformin therapy, with an incidence in Canada of nine cases per 100,000 people per year . In most patients it occurs because one or more contraindications were overlooked, most commonly renal failure . Renal failure leads to high plasma metformin concentrations. Other factors that contribute to increased blood lactate concentrations are hypotension with low tissue perfusion, hypoxia, liver disease and alcohol abuse. Mortality in metformin-associated lactic acidosis is 50% . In practice, metformin-associated lactic acidosis is not regarded as a major problem when the exclusion criteria are adhered to. A case of severe metformin-associated lactic acidosis in the context of acute renal failure, without underlying chronic renal insufficiency, is described. | literature |
https://questalibrary.org/services/ | 2023-12-06T08:30:07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100583.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206063543-20231206093543-00116.warc.gz | 0.930098 | 604 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__106463544 | en | Services for Children
The Library offers board books for toddlers, picture books and chapter books, books for junior and senior high readers, including a collection of graphic novels.
The Library’s DVD collection includes many family movies. Movies can be checked out for 1 week and a maximum of six movies can be checked out at once.
We have two very special computers especially for kids. They are loaded with dozens of activities and books. Only the best for our younger crowd.
We offer Stories for all Ages on Fridays at 1:00. Also watch for special programing on Fridays. Summer reading is still on. Children receive rewards for reading books.
The Library has a large collection of books covering the history, geography, geology, art, and photography of the Southwest, including stories about the settling of Questa and the San Luis Valley. We also feature biographies and fiction of the southwest. Other categories covered are women’s studies, poetry, drama, mysteries, popular and literary fiction, and nonfiction.
We are constantly adding to our collection, so if you don’t find something you want to read, just ask. We participate in interlibrary loan and can obtain specific books from other libraries in the state.
DVDs are popular items in the Questa Public Library. Our collection of over 1,000 DVDs includes popular movies, classics, PBS and BBC presentations, and other television series.
There are seven computers with Web access and headphones available for adults. Two of the the computers are laptops with webcams and headphones that can be used for Skype. Computer access is limited to 60-minute sessions; longer sessions are available if no one is waiting.
Computer classes available and will be announced. Sign up to be on list for classes.
The Library sponsors book readings, discussions, and musical programs; the dates and times for scheduled programs are listed on the Programs page.
Used Book Sales
As we purchase materials and receive donations, room needs to be made for more books. We use a process called “weeding” to remove old, dirty, or never-been-checked-out books. In areas where information changes quickly, we weed aggressively. These books and duplicates end up for sale.
Currently, we are selling hardback books for $1 and paperbacks for 50¢! There are great bargains waiting for you to snap up.
Most used children’s books are free. Look for the box in the children’s area. Adult sale materials are in the book case near the entrance door.
Watch for information about the next event.
The Dropped Stitch
An informal group of handcrafters—The Dropped Stitch—meets at the Library every Thursday at 2:30 pm to knit, crochet, sew, and catch up with local news. This group personifies the role of the Questa Public Library as a social center as well as a learning center. | literature |
https://www.bookclubschool.com/pages/english-book-club-online | 2023-09-25T17:15:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233509023.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925151539-20230925181539-00628.warc.gz | 0.945873 | 327 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__275489618 | en | Online English Book Club - Which book to get?
Buying the book for your English book club online
How do you choose the books for the English book club online?
Should I read an adapted or original book?
Classic or Modern Novel - what difference does it make?
Reading a classic novel in the original English language can be a joy - and a real achievement for a non-native speaker in an online book club in English. Of course, a classic book is usually more difficult to read than a modern novel - some of the language might be old fashioned, and some of the linguistic structures might be quite formal. However, there will always be unknown words in any novel you read so don't let this put you off. Ask me if you want an honest assessment of the difficulty level.
The other issue is about cultural knowledge. Classic books often refer to events from the past, or refer to customs or social rules which have now changed. Don't worry - we discuss these issues in the English book club online and you gain a wider understanding of these cultural aspects.
E-book, Audiobook, Paperback, Hardback?
Choose the type of book for your online English book club that suits you best. Audio-books can be good if you commute or spend time alone when you can listen while doing something else - cooking, cleaning, gardening! E-books can be helpful if you like to look up the meanings of words. But many people prefer to read and relax with the paperback or hardback - which also reduces your screen time!
Enjoy your book club! Geoff Hardy-Gould | literature |
http://life-with-the-landins.blogspot.com/2011/03/strength-for-today-and-bright-hope-for.html | 2019-08-20T22:49:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315681.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820221802-20190821003802-00203.warc.gz | 0.86932 | 120 | CC-MAIN-2019-35 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__15558764 | en | So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble,
you preserve my life;
you stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes,
with your right hand you save me.
2 Corinthians 13:11
Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be one of mind, live in peace.
And the God of love and peace will be with you. | literature |
https://kjc.nxu.edu.cn/info/1041/2902.htm | 2019-02-16T23:58:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481249.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216230700-20190217012700-00509.warc.gz | 0.709395 | 400 | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__236718652 | en | 报告题目一：Dietary Selection of Free-Ranging Sheep and Goats Raised by Bedouin in the Negev Desert
报告题目二：Allometry：inter/intea- specific comparisons, empirical views, base models, flaws and conventional modern appeoach
Professor Emeritus, Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev（以色列班古里昂大学）.
Livestock production under desert conditions.
Energy and water balances in captive and in free-living desert birds and mammals. Use of isotopes and time energy budgets in field studies.
Reproduction in captive and free-living desert mammals and birds.
Secondary compounds as anti-nutritive agents against grazing herbivores.
Biotic and abiotic effects on behavioral and physiological responses of animals.
Host – parasite relationships and reciprocal physiological and immunological effects.
Prof. of Wyler Department of Dryland Agriculture, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research,Ben- Gurion University of the Negev（以色列班古里昂大学）.
Physiological and behavioral adaptations of birds and mammals to extreme environments.
Energy and water budgets in captive and free-living animals.
Energy allocation during reproduction in captive and free-living animals.
Consequences of energy requirements in free-ranging animals.
Effects of parasites on energy expenditure and reproduction of their hosts.
Diet selection, fiber digestion and utilization of secondary compounds in mammals – basic and applied perspectives.
Efficiency of utilization of metabolizable energy for maintenance, growth and production. | literature |
https://outorah.org/p/18704 | 2023-03-22T13:52:54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943809.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322114226-20230322144226-00004.warc.gz | 0.984302 | 1,302 | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__124941213 | en | Introduction to Sefer Yeshaya
The book of Yeshaya is essentially a roller-coaster of prophecies which range from extreme and harsh reproach to comforting and revealing peeks into the future and the final redemption. To get a bit of context we will take a brief look at who Yeshaya was, when he lived, and finally some information about the sefer itself.
a) Yeshaya the Prophet
Yeshaya was from royal descent: he was the cousin of one of the kings of Yehuda, and he was well-known to the people of Yehuda before he began his ‘career in prophecy.’ In fact, Chazal suggest that Yeshaya was able ‘to get away’ with such harsh and damning prophecies without being rejected by the people because they had a personal relationship with him from years before. Chazal also record Hashem’s statement that ‘There is no-one who loves my children as much as Yeshaya does.’ Perhaps this is another reason why Yeshaya’s rebukes could be so forceful –they were clearly stemming from love for the people and a genuine desire for the people to change their ways and enjoy the benefits of a loyal relationship with Hashem. Yeshaya was a prophet for 80 years (619-533 BCE) during the period of the first Beis Hamikdash, from the reign of King Uziyahu until King Menashe (who was Yeshaya’s grandson). Yeshaya was actually killed by Menashe in his ruthless ‘search and destroy’ pursuit of the prophets. Yeshaya prophesied to the kingdom of Yehuda while Hoshea prophesied to the kingdom of Yisrael. Other contemporaries were Micha and Amos.
Yeshaya’s father Amotz was a prophet too, and there is a dispute among the Rishonim as to whether Yeshaya’s wife was a prophetess. Chazal compare Yeshaya to none other than Moshe Rabbeinu in terms of clarity of his prophecy, and it is interesting to note that both lived for 120 years and both were called ovdei Hashem by Hashem. Chazal give us a glimpse of Yeshaya’s righteousness; the Midrash relates that it was in the merit of Yeshaya and Chizkiyah’s Torah study on the night of Pesach that the army of Sancheirev was miraculously destroyed. Furthermore, the Tanna De’Bei Eliyahu says that Yeshaya merited receiving and conveying such greatly comforting prophecies because he accepted the yoke of Hashem upon himself with a great degree of joy. However, Yeshaya was punished for (twice) criticizing Bnei Yisrael by describing them as ‘a people of impure lips;’ as a punishment for this sin, he was murdered by Menashe. In fact, Chazal tell us that it was after Yeshaya saw that Hashem was unhappy with this statement that he began defending Bnei Yisrael instead of berating them.
There is a debate between the Judaica and Me’or Nach introductions as to how evil the people were in Yeshaya’s time. The former claims it was only a minority of the people who were sinning, but since all of Bnei Yisrael are held responsible for one another (especially when the majority do not aim to rectify the deeds of the sinners) the sins of the minority can have major (destructive) effects. One gets the impression from various commentaries (see for example Radak 1:2) that the majority of the nation were acting disloyally to Hashem
a) Yeshaya the Sefer
The Gemara tells us that Sefer Yeshaya was written by King Chizkiyah (Yeshaya’s son-in-law) and his colleagues. However, as Tosafos points out, since Chizkiyah died a while before Yeshaya, it was Chizkiyah’s colleagues who authored Sefer Yeshaya. Why then did the Gemara attribute the writing (at least in part) to Chizkiyah? It was due to Chizkiyah that his colleagues were able to spend their time learning Torah and recording these prophecies.
Finally, in the Abarbanel’s fundamental ‘Introduction to Yeshaya’ (in which, among other things, he highlights 14 points about Techiyas Hameisim), the Abarbanel highlights five reasons why Sefer Yeshaya was chosen to be the first sefer in Neviim Achronim. First, Yeshaya’s prophecies came first chronologically. Second, Yeshaya had royal and prophetic importance, as well as pristine traits (courage), and a high level of rhetoric. Third, his level of prophecy surpassed that of the other Neviim Achronim in that it was a clearer form of prophecy. Fourth, his sefer has the most prophecies of nechama, comfort, and of the future redemption. In fact, the Abarbanel even suggests that the name Yeshaya is taken from the word teshua (salvation), for Yeshaya prophesied about our future salvation. Finally, his prophecies had the important goal to bring man to his ultimate purpose and potential.
The Gemara tells us that there are 55 recorded Jewish prophets in our history; 48 men and 7 women. Yet, the Gemara notes, there were over a million prophets across our history whose prophecies were not recorded. What were the criteria for recording prophecies? The Gemara reveals that only those prophecies which had relevance for [all] future generations were recorded. Thus, we are not to regard these recorded messages as archaic and out of date. On the contrary, these prophecies were written solely because of their enduring relevance.
Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 10:2.
Psikta Rabbati 33:20.
Megilla 14a. | literature |
https://www.genevaparks.org/event/the-enchanted-bookshop-a-playhouse-38-youth-production-2022-05-22/ | 2022-07-02T07:32:33 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103989282.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702071223-20220702101223-00646.warc.gz | 0.890865 | 159 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__203967067 | en | The Enchanted Bookshop – A Playhouse 38 Youth Production May 22 @ 3:00 pm
An ordinary used book shop by day, A Likely Story becomes a magical place each night. Thanks to a spell from the Book Fairy, the characters inside the books come alive each and every night. Six of those characters – Dorothy Gale, Robin Hood, Pollyanna, Sherlock Holmes, Heidi, and Tom Sawyer – long to help Margie, the scatterbrained owner, save her struggling store. But they’re not allowed to leave the building or be seen by human eyes.
Youth production tickets: $10 each
Location: Playhouse 38
Tickets are available online at genevaparks.org or at the Stephan D. Persinger Recreation Center or Sunset Community Center. | literature |
https://othernessarchive.com/archive/i-m-just-anneke | 2024-02-23T19:42:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474445.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223185223-20240223215223-00417.warc.gz | 0.937931 | 158 | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__134966486 | en | I’m Just Anneke
Anneke’s not sure if she wants to be a girl, a boy, or something in-between when she grows up. To give her more time to decide, her doctor has put her on a medication that will suppress the hormones that are causing her body to change before she’s ready. Even though she’s been rejected by her friends and struggles with depression and suicidal thoughts, Anneke is determined to be her true self. To do that she’s decided to maintain a fluid gender identity—she wants to make sure her insides matches her outsides. I’M JUST ANNEKE looks into the heart of a new generation of children who don't always fit into a binary conception of gender. | literature |
https://koshep.wordpress.com/porch-time/ | 2018-07-21T09:10:29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592475.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721090529-20180721110529-00240.warc.gz | 0.970104 | 2,409 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__149934652 | en | “What if today were our last?”
I. The California Coast
It took me 12 hours and 400 miles to drive from Anaheim to San Francisco. I took the long way – two highways, one interstate, and hundreds of miles of coastline. I watched the carpet of fog draw back to reveal the ocean and the horizon. The road, twisting and turning, nestled itself against the folds of coastal bluffs. Every now and then, I rumbled onto a turnout, and clambered down nearer to the water. Two teenagers, in slick black wetsuits, plunged into the surf, seaweed swirling around them like tangled locks of mermaid hair. I drove with the windows down and tucked the smell of wild dill, scottish broom, and coyote brush into my olfactory memory. I watched the landscape give way to rounded hills the color of caramel, oak trees tucked into their smooth cleavages. No one is waiting for me, I’m not running out of gas, there’s no traffic; I try not to rush.
II. Purisima Creek Redwoods
In the morning, I rouse myself from the couch into the stillness of my sister’s empty house. I am still pacing myself, still trying to not rush the delicious victory of my temporary escape. Within the hour, I will be walking alone amongst second growth redwoods, the path damp and soft. Listening to the fog drip from the boughs, feeling the forest inhale and exhale, I will feel my soul unclench. I will press the backs of my hands against the soft moss along the trail. I will encourage the tired and sweaty mountain bikers I encounter with a small, but well-meaning lie: “Don’t worry! You are almost there!” And, I will feel something I haven’t felt in months. I will feel…good.
III. 1396 La Playa Street, San Francisco
Sitting at Java Beach Cafe in San Francisco. I can hear the trolley rumble by. I know the Pacific Ocean is behind me, just a few hundred yards on the other side of Highway 1. An old man at the bar chats with the barista and I am delighted to find out that a particular beer he likes can be found at a store up on Divisidero, but hell if he’s gonna go all the way up there for it. A young man with a loud voice stirs his coffee, proclaiming, “I’m just like the Beastie Boys, I like my sugar with coffee and cream.” I try to eavesdrop on two software engineers, their laptops crowding the small table that totters between them. In two minutes I realize that I don’t know the meaning of any of the words they bandy back and forth. Nonetheless, I am endlessly delighted. I come here to fall in love, over and over again, with this city. And I do, without fail. Even though I often get stuck in traffic coming down 19th, and forget that it’s better to take Lincoln into the Outer Sunset rather than suffer the stuttering journey through the stop signs to reach the end of Judah, or that trying to find parking anywhere here can make or break a night. I don’t know if the city loves me back. But, such is my nature, I will keep returning, in hopes that someday it might.
IV. Mision Flamenca
I can see Bissap Baobab’s flashing sign as I stroll down 19th Street towards Mission. A busker on the corner is singing the blues, God bless his soul. I stop to listen for the length of a red light, and drop a dollar or two into his hat for this audible treat. I can safely say that Bissap is my favorite Senegalese restaurant, as I believe their aloko and yassa are unparalleld in flavor, but also because it’s the only Senaglese restaurant I’ve ever been to. Half of San Francisco seems to share my opinion, as the place is packed. Please, I entreat the hostess, I’ve come a long way to be here, couldn’t you find a place for just one more? She finds me a seat at a long table near the flamenco stage. My luck continues as the gentleman to my right, David, who is also alone, happens to be a flamenco guitarist, and a friend of the artists on stage. In between sets, we share conversation, he helps me find the beat in the flamenco rhythm that has always eluded me. I share my aloko with him, and savor the last sip of my ginger honey
tea. That lady, he points out, she’s the grand dame. I can tell, I reply, she dances as if this was her only and last dance. Yes, exactly, he agrees. David and I exchange the pleasantries that signal the end of the evening, and I think of a question posed by a dear friend, if somewhat rhetorically. This. This is what I would do.
Bodhisattvas (click for audio version)
It’s been a thick summer for me and for a lot of people I know. The luster in my eyes, that beacon that shines outward from my soul, is in need of a serious revival. This brilliant light is much like that one trusty headlamp you take on every adventure and keep as close to you as a prayer, or, for the non-religious, as close as a multi-tool. It’s the light you rely on to cut through the darkness, the one that illuminates the way whether you’re trying to make it up a mountain, or back down. In the Methow, I had a really crappy headlamp. Hundreds of feet above the ground, my climbing partners and I had to put our heads close together and shine our synchronized lumens in order to find the next rap station. Friends – the ones you can count on one hand, the ones that would always make first draft pick on your kickball team even if they had two broken legs, the ones that say, “I asked for help so you didn’t have to” – are remarkable for that sort of thing.
Tonight, with their gospel rock sound, Whiskey Dick Mountain shone their light in my direction, and so did a very honest conversation with one of my good friends. I met Jack in 2008, when we found ourselves the only two students in an anthropology class who hadn’t decided to drop after the first week. Jack appreciates a good Tom Collins, knows how to wear a pea coat and scarf without looking like a d-bag, and once arrived unexpectedly on my front porch as dusty and travel worn as if he’d just stepped off a bus from Kinshasa. He is also a combat veteran. Jack has experienced life and death in ways so outside of my reality, and understands the world with such a unique perspective, that I’m in constant awe that he hasn’t yet transcended into nirvana. He’s Christian, so maybe they transcend into a different place. Anyway. Keep with me here. Like most, if not all people who have seen war, and waged war, Jack didn’t come out unscathed.
The night was getting chilly. We were sitting on the lip of a sidewalk that was still warm from the long gone day, waiting for my other friend who was ordering a pint of liquid courage from the bar. I don’t make it a habit to ask vets about their war time experiences, but Jack and I had known each other a while now, and he knew how heavy life had become for me, too.
“Tell me about your troubles, Jack. I need to hear about other people’s troubles, so I don’t feel so alone in mine. Would you take it back? What was it like?” I asked. Jack paused, then looked at me thoughtfully.
“You know, it’s crazy, it’s like nothing else, with all the adrenaline and stuff…you feel most alive when you are so close to death. I was a gunner, so I was mostly exposed on top of the MRAP. All of a sudden, you’re getting shot at, and I can hear the bullets coming at me, I can feel them go by my face. And then I turn around and look at the wall behind me and it’s just blasted, full of holes. And I’m like, “I’m alive! I’d better get down.” When we first got to Iraq, our commanding officer told us to look at the guy to our left, and then to our right. Then he said, “Before the end of this, one of the three of you will be dead.” So, it was like we were already dead. We had to think of ourselves as dead men. That’s what we had to do in order to make it through.”
What do you say to something like that? Nothing. I just nodded.
“On a single day, we got hit with eighteen IEDs.” Eighteen chances for you, or the soldier to your right, or your left, to meet their maker. Jack told me the hardest thing for him was when he worked as a medic assistant, but the thing he cherished most was the time he was able to help an Iraqi man, whose home had been destroyed in the fighting.
“What are your days like now?” I asked.
“Some good, some bad. Like, sometimes I’m driving downtown, and there are all those potholes in the road, and suddenly I’m already calculating the distance and time I have to get around them like there are explosives in them.”
I’d wrapped my arms around my knees, “How was today? Good? Bad?”
“Both.” he said.
I asked Jack once what he wanted to do with his life. Help people, he told me. And he does, as a disaster relief worker with the Red Cross, and in his goal to help other vets who made it home, but are still embattled by what they’ve seen, maybe even by what they’ve done, or should have done.
The last time I was in Asia, I’d brought back a small medallion depicting a Bodhisattva and gave it to him as a gift. My mentor said that a Bodhisattva sacrifices their own chance at transcendence in order to aid in the awakening of all beings – to aid all rather than themselves. According to the New World Encyclopedia, the bodhisattvas emerge from “an engaged form of Buddhism that does not run away from the suffering of the world, but actively seeks to end it for all beings. They are famous for embodying compassion and other noble qualities.” They are the beacons that shine when your own is not enough.
I let our conversation trail off, and slip away with the evening. Our beacons were both a little dim, I understood, but there were at least two shining in the same direction tonight, and I knew there was at least one more coming, to help light our way. | literature |
https://workshops.killyourdarlings.com.au/p/introduction-to-memoir | 2019-05-19T23:08:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255182.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519221616-20190520003616-00188.warc.gz | 0.968553 | 295 | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__8614848 | en | Memoir is a booming genre in the publishing industry. Many of us have stories we want to tell, though we don't quite know where to start, or how to navigate the complexities about writing not just about ourselves but about family and friends, and how this project might impact them,
This workshop is designed for writers of all levels and experience who would like to develop that deeply personal creative project - whether it be autobiography, family history, memoir or essays - and are starting to think about where such a manuscript might be published.
Through a series of dynamic writing exercises and key insights into the creative practice, this workshop will assist you drawing out memories and shaping them into a story, crafting a sustained and interesting narrative structure around your fragmented life experiences, and how to work through the inevitable legal and ethical considerations typical of the genre.
The course is designed to take you 4-5 hours to complete, but can be accomplished in short stages, or at your convenience.
Rebecca Starford is the co-founder and publishing director of Kill Your Darlings. Her debut memoir, Bad Behaviour (Allen & Unwin), was published in 2015 and is currently in development with Matchbox Pictures. Rebecca is a former editor at Text Publishing, and has worked for Affirm Press and Australian Book Review. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, Age, and Weekend Australian. She is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland and is currently working on her second book. | literature |
https://pliny.wordpress.com/2005/05/13/complexity-nostalgia-and-open-source/ | 2017-04-27T03:14:08 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121865.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00270-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.892893 | 232 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__122021257 | en | Interesting article on self-organizing productive networks in the May issue of First Monday.
Rave review of Steven Webers book on Open Source by Rob Vega, User Services Librarian, Valparaiso University:
– Steven Weber’s The Success of Open Source is a remarkable synthesis of political science, economics, law, sociology, and the history of technology, to name but some of the fields his impressive monograph encompasses. His excellent work is perhaps the best multi–disciplinary analysis (of any phenomenon) I have read.
The Success of Open Source. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004. cloth, 312 p., ISBN 0–674–01292–5, US$29.95. Harvard University Press: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/
Another item for summer reading ….
I was also happy to see an article on the 1984 Interdoc meeting in Velletri, south of Rome. Of fond memories. I was one of the HURIDOCS people and brought a small portable with all of 32 K memory.
(Vellatri is a typo). | literature |
https://jacquelynpless.com/publications/ | 2022-10-04T12:16:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337504.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20221004121345-20221004151345-00281.warc.gz | 0.692208 | 775 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__140610152 | en | Pless, J., Hepburn, C., and Farrell, N., 2020. “Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation”, Nature Energy. Available without a paywall here.
Pless, J., Fell, H., Sigrin, B., 2020. “Information Searching in the Residential Solar PV Market”, The Energy Journal.
Pless, J. and van Benthem, A., 2019. “Pass-Through as a Test for Market Power: An Application to Solar Subsidies”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 11(4), p. 367-401. (previously NBER Working Paper No. 23260).
O’Shaughnessy E., Nemet G., Pless J., and Margolis R., 2019. “Addressing the soft cost challenge in U.S. small-scale solar PV system pricing,” Energy Policy, 134.
Hepburn C., Pless J., and Popp D., 2018. “Encouraging Innovation that Protects Environmental Systems: Five Policy Proposals,” Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 12(1), Winter, p. 154-169.
Heidari-Robinson S., Heywood S., and Pless, J., 2018. “How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success,” Harvard Business Review [online article only]
McKenna E., Pless J., and Darby S., 2018. “Solar photovoltaic self-consumption in the UK residential sector: new estimates from a smart grid demonstration project,” Energy Policy, 118, p. 482-491.
Pless J. and Fell H., 2017. “Bribes, Bureaucracies, and Blackouts: Towards Understanding How Firm-Level Corrupt Behavior Impacts Electricity Reliability,” Resource and Energy Economics, 47, 36-55. Coverage: Selected for “Research Highlights” in Nature Energy. Finalist for IAEE Best Student Paper Award (2014).
Pless J., Arent D., Logan J., Cochran J., and Zinaman O., 2016. “Quantifying the value of investing in distributed natural gas and renewable electricity systems as complements: Applications of discounted cash flow and real options analysis with stochastic inputs,” Energy Policy, 97, p. 378-390.
Sigrin B., Pless J., and Drury E., 2015. “Diffusion into new markets: Evolving customer segments in the solar photovoltaics market,” Environmental Research Letters, 10(8).
Arent D., Pless J., Mai T., Wiser R., Hand M., Baldwin S., Heath G., Macknick J., Bazilian M., Schlosser A., and Denholm P., 2014. “Implications of high renewable electricity penetration in the U.S. for water use, greenhouse gas emissions, land-use, and materials supply,” Applied Energy, 123, p. 368-377.
Bazilian M., Pedersen A., Pless J., Logan J., Medlock K., O’Sullivan F., and Nakano J., 2013. “Shale Gas in China: Prospects, Concerns, and Potential International Collaboration,” Intl. Shale Gas & Oil Journal.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
Popp, D., Pless, J., Hascic, I., and Johnstone, J., 2020. “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Energy Sector,” Chapter in The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, National Bureau of Economic Research | literature |
https://4realestatehelp.com/simplified-spaces-amplified-life-the-joy-and-strategy-of-downsizing/ | 2024-04-21T18:27:32 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817790.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421163736-20240421193736-00505.warc.gz | 0.92887 | 2,944 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__67591983 | en | For many aging couples, the family home—once a bustling hub of activity filled with the laughter and chaos of childrearing—now feels like an oversized remnant of years past. As time marches on and children leave the nest, the empty rooms and unused spaces can become a burden, both emotionally and practically.
This is the reality faced by countless homeowners in Southern California and beyond: the realization that their cherished two-story home no longer fits their current lifestyle and needs.
However, the prospect of downsizing, or “right-sizing,” can be daunting, fraught with a complex mix of sentimentality, uncertainty, and fear of change.
This article aims to guide you through this transformative journey, illuminating the path from the home of your past to the home of your present and future. By focusing on the emotional and practical aspects of downsizing, we will explore how this transition can be not just a necessary adaptation but a joyful embrace of a new chapter—one that prioritizes experiences, comfort, and simplicity. As we delve into the strategies for selecting and adapting to a smaller home, we invite you to approach this process with a spirit of optimism and renewal, recognizing that the true essence of “home” lies not in square footage but in the life you create within those walls.
Are you ready to embark on this journey of simplifying your space and amplifying your life?
Understanding the Emotional Journey
For many elderly homeowners, the decision to downsize from a long-lived family home is not just a practical one; it is an emotional journey that requires acknowledging and processing a range of complex feelings. The sentimental value attached to a home cannot be overstated—it is a repository of memories, a witness to the joys and sorrows of family life, and a symbol of stability and comfort. As you embark on this journey, it is essential to:
Recognize the significance of your emotional attachments:
Your home is more than just a physical structure; it is a sacred space that has housed your family’s traditions, milestones, and everyday moments. Acknowledging the depth of your emotional connection to your home is the first step in preparing yourself for the transition.
Allow yourself to feel the full spectrum of emotions:
Downsizing can trigger a mix of feelings, from sadness and nostalgia to excitement and relief. It is normal to experience a sense of loss when letting go of possessions and the spaces they once occupied. Embrace these emotions as a natural part of the process and give yourself permission to feel them fully.
Focus on the opportunities that lie ahead:
While it is important to honor the past, it is equally crucial to embrace (and prepare for) the future. Downsizing presents a chance to simplify your life, prioritize your well-being, and create new memories in a space that better suits your current needs. Shift your perspective from what you are leaving behind to what you are gaining—a home that enhances your quality of life and allows you to focus on what truly matters.
Create tangible reminders of your cherished memories:
To help cope with the emotional aspects of downsizing, consider preserving your memories in a meaningful way. Create memory books or digital photo albums that showcase the special moments and traditions tied to your family home. You may also find comfort in commissioning hand-drawn illustrations of your, which can provide you with a beautiful, personalized keepsake to treasure in your new space.
Seek support from loved ones and professionals:
Remember that you do not have to navigate this emotional journey alone. Lean on the support of family and friends who can offer a listening ear, practical assistance, and encouragement throughout the process.
By acknowledging and addressing the emotional aspects of downsizing, you lay the foundation for a more positive and fulfilling transition. Remember that your home, no matter its size, reflects the love, memories, and experiences you carry within you. As you prepare to embark on this new chapter, trust in your resilience and ability to create a meaningful and joyful life in your new space.
Practical Steps to Downsizing
Embarking on the downsizing journey can feel overwhelming, but with a methodical approach and the right support, you can navigate this process with greater ease and confidence. Here are some practical steps to guide you through the transition:
Start with decluttering:
Begin by sorting through your belongings, deciding what to keep, donate, or discard. Consider the items that truly hold value and meaning to you and let go of those that no longer serve a purpose in your life. Ask yourself: “Does this item bring me joy or enhance my quality of life?” If the answer is no, it may be time to part with it.
Browse for new homes that align with your needs:
When choosing your new, downsized space, prioritize your current health requirements and lifestyle preferences. Look for a home with features that promote accessibility and comfort, such as single-level living and ample natural light. In doing so, we can showcase homes that have the features mentioned and many more. Consider the proximity to healthcare facilities, social activities, and amenities that are important to you. When partnering with The Whitney Team, we provide you complimentary access to RealScout.
Plan your move strategically:
Timing is key when it comes to a successful move. Start planning well in advance, giving yourself ample time to sort through your belongings, make necessary arrangements, and coordinate with professionals. Consider hiring experienced movers who specialize in assisting seniors or enlist the help of family and friends to make the process more manageable.
Prepare your long-time home for sale:
To maximize the value of your current home, take care of any deferred maintenance tasks and tackle those long-overdue items on your honey-do list. Simple updates like applying fresh paint in neutral colors, replacing outdated flooring, and enhancing curb appeal can make a significant difference in attracting potential buyers.
Seek assistance from professionals:
Remember, you don’t have to navigate this process alone. All of us here at The Whitney Team are here to offer personalized support and guidance throughout your downsizing journey. From helping you find the perfect new home to coordinating the sale of your current one, our team is dedicated to making this transition as smooth and stress-free as possible.
Remember, downsizing is not about sacrificing your quality of life; it’s about simplifying your surroundings to focus on what truly matters. By approaching this process with intention, preparation, and a positive outlook, you’ll be well on your way to creating a home that supports your well-being and enhances your daily life.
Maximizing Your New Space
As you settle into your downsized home, it’s essential to make the most of your new, smaller space. By incorporating multifunctional furniture, personalizing your surroundings, and implementing innovative storage solutions, you can create a comfortable and efficient living environment that suits your needs and reflects your unique style.
When selecting furniture for your new home, opt for pieces that serve multiple purposes. For example:
- A coffee table with built-in storage compartments can provide a place to store remote controls, magazines, or even extra blankets, while also serving as a surface for snacks or drinks during family gatherings.
- An expandable dining table can accommodate guests when needed, but can be easily reduced in size for everyday use, saving valuable floor space.
- A sofa bed or Murphy Bed can transform your living room into a guest room when family or friends come to visit, without the need for a dedicated spare bedroom.
By choosing furniture that adapts to your needs, you can ensure that your downsized space remains functional and versatile.
Personalizing your new home is key to making it feel like your own.
Display cherished family photos, artwork, and mementos that evoke happy memories and showcase your personality. Remember that hand drawn photo of your previous home? Frame it and display it front and center! You could also consider creating a gallery wall featuring your favorite images or curating a shelf with meaningful objects that tell your story. By surrounding yourself with items that hold special significance, you’ll cultivate a sense of belonging and comfort in your new space.
To maximize storage without cluttering your home, explore innovative solutions that make use of vertical space and hidden areas. Install shelving units that reach from floor to ceiling, providing ample room for books, decorative items, and storage baskets. Utilize the space beneath your bed with low-profile storage containers or invest in a bed frame with built-in drawers for extra bedding and clothing. In the kitchen, consider installing pull-out pantry shelves or hanging pots and pans on a ceiling rack to free up cabinet space.
Another effective strategy for maximizing space is to regularly reassess your belongings and declutter as needed. Every few months, take the time to review the items in your home and ask yourself if they continue to serve a purpose or bring you joy. By letting go of unnecessary possessions, you’ll maintain a clutter-free environment. This ensures that your downsized home remains organized and manageable.
Remember, maximizing your new space is an ongoing process. As your needs and preferences evolve, don’t hesitate to adjust your living environment. Embrace the flexibility and adaptability that comes with downsizing and allow your home to grow and change with you over time.
By thoughtfully selecting multifunctional furniture, personalizing your space, and implementing smart storage solutions, you’ll transform your downsized home into a haven that supports your well-being and enhances your daily life. Embrace this new chapter with optimism and creativity, knowing that a smaller space doesn’t mean sacrificing comfort or style—it simply means making the most of every square foot and focusing on what truly matters to you.
Living Larger in a Smaller Home
Embracing a minimalist mindset is key to appreciating and enjoying the simpler lifestyle that comes with downsizing. By focusing on the essentials and letting go of unnecessary possessions, you’ll discover a newfound sense of freedom and contentment in your smaller space. Remember, living larger isn’t about the square footage of your home, but rather the richness of your experiences and the quality of your relationships.
To maintain an active and fulfilling life in your downsized home, prioritize engaging in hobbies, building community connections, and creating meaningful experiences. Consider the following suggestions:
Explore new hobbies or rediscover old passions:
Downsizing presents an opportunity to dedicate more time and energy to the activities that bring you joy. Whether it’s painting, gardening, or learning a musical instrument, pursuing your interests will keep you mentally stimulated and emotionally fulfilled.
Engage with your local community:
Seek out opportunities to get involved in your neighborhood or town. Join a book club, volunteer at a local charity, or participate in community events. By forging connections with others who share your values and interests, you’ll build a strong support network and a sense of belonging in your new surroundings.
Prioritize experiences over possessions:
Rather than focusing on accumulating material goods, invest in creating meaningful experiences with your loved ones. Plan regular outings, such as picnics in the park, visits to museums, or day trips to nearby attractions. These shared experiences will strengthen your relationships and create lasting memories that enrich your life far more than any physical possession could.
When considering your downsizing options, it’s worth exploring age-qualified communities that cater to the needs and interests of older adults. These communities often offer a wide range of extracurricular activities and amenities designed to promote an active, engaged lifestyle. From fitness classes and educational workshops to social clubs and organized outings, these communities provide ample opportunities to pursue your passions and form new friendships with like-minded individuals.
In addition to the social and experiential benefits, downsizing to a smaller home also offers practical advantages, such as lower maintenance and reduced costs. With less space to clean, maintain, and furnish, you’ll find yourself with more time and energy to devote to the activities and people that matter most to you. Moreover, a smaller home often translates to lower utility bills, property taxes, and insurance premiums, freeing up financial resources that can be allocated towards travel, hobbies, or other enriching experiences.
The reduced stress and increased happiness that come with a simpler, more manageable lifestyle cannot be overstated. By letting go of the burdens of maintaining a larger home, you’ll create space in your life for greater peace of mind and contentment. Embrace the opportunity to focus on what truly brings you joy, whether it’s nurturing relationships, pursuing personal growth, or simply savoring the quiet moments of everyday life.
Remember, downsizing is not about sacrificing your quality of life, but rather about redefining what it means to live well. By adopting a minimalist mindset, staying active and engaged, and prioritizing experiences over possessions, you’ll discover that living larger in a smaller home is not only possible, but immensely rewarding. Embrace this new chapter with open arms, knowing that the best is yet to come.
Downsizing to a smaller space can be a liberating experience—a chance to simplify, focus on what truly matters, and amplify the joys of life. By decluttering possessions, selecting a home that aligns with current needs, and personalizing the new space, aging homeowners can transform this period of change into an exciting opportunity for growth and renewal. The key lies in embracing the change with optimism: view downsizing not as a loss, but as a doorway to a more fulfilling lifestyle.
With practical strategies for making the most of smaller living quarters and a mindset that prioritizes experiences over possessions, this next chapter can be filled with confidence, excitement, and a renewed sense of purpose. Remember, less space doesn’t mean less life—it means more room for what brings genuine happiness and contentment. So take a deep breath, trust in the journey, and get ready to simplify your space and amplify your life.
Reach out to us today, and let’s get you on the right path to right-sizing. | literature |
https://fashion-history.lovetoknow.com/fashion-history-eras/stephane-mallarme | 2022-05-16T19:15:20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662512229.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220516172745-20220516202745-00657.warc.gz | 0.922102 | 2,429 | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__170726894 | en | The French poet and critic Stéphane Mallarmé was born in Paris in 1842 into a bourgeois family of civil servants. He was expected to follow into his father and grandfather's profession but, influenced by Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier, he turned to writing poetry. After leaving school he went to England, and while in London, he married Marie Gerhard. They had two children, Geneviève and Anatole, who died at the age of eight.
Mallarmé taught English in Tournon, Besançon, and Paris until his retirement in 1893. Throughout Mallarmé's life his literary output was sparse and deliberate. His first poem was published when he was twenty-four. The famous "L'après-midi d'un faune" appeared in 1865, but between 1867 and 1873 his principal poems were left unfinished. From the 1880s he was at the center of a group of French artists that included Édouard Manet and Paul Valéry. Mallarmé died in Valvins, Seine-et-Marne, in 1898. His modernist masterpiece, "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard" (A throw of the dice will never abolish chance), was published posthumously in 1914.
Unique Approach to Fashion
Mallarmé's relationship with fashion is marked by his association with the exponents of two literary movements of the late nineteenth century, the Parnassians and the symbolists. However, his is not the use of clothing or accessories as mere metaphors or symbols for character or sentiment, which occupied the literary output of his contemporaries. Mallarmé's singular contribution lies in his recognition of fashion as a social, cultural, psychological, and economic force in itself, and in the way in which this recognition finds poetical expression in different forms of writing, from occasional quatrain, via complex prose poem, to journalism.
La Dernière Mode
Mallarmé's artistic expression found its most potent voice in journalism. In the autumn of 1874 he single-handedly wrote and edited a magazine entitled La dernière mode (The latest fashion). It was composed of a number of stylistically well-defined columns on such topics as couture, accessories, and hair and makeup. The poet wrote each of these columns under different female pseudonyms, slipping easily into each mode and adopting, with a mixture of reverence and irony, various poetical voices as well as mannerisms of the commercial prose of the Second Empire.
Albeit short-lived-only eight issues were published before it went into receivership-the richly illustrated La dernière mode became a gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art on fashion and style, crossing and quoting artistic disciplines in the spirit of the fin de siècle.
Fashion as Cultural Form
Mallarmé's development from a symbolist poet to a modernist writer, from an esoteric style to pared-down aesthetics, finds its unique expression in his attitude to fashion, to a mode dressing as well as sociocultural existence. There are, of course, a number of central subjects around which he built respective works, but fashion-with its haptic qualities, its shaping of the human form, and its metaphoric potential-appears as one of the most significant themes in Mallarmé's oeuvre. In what proved to be the last issue of La dernière mode (20 December 1874), he concluded, "No! for a compendium that intends to view fashion as art, it does not suffice to say 'this is what is worn'; one has to state 'this is the reasoning behind it'" (p. 2).
Here is Mallarmé's credo in regard to fashion. It is not simply an industry that creates material objects, nor is it a medium for a merely typified, gendered, or socialized representation. Fashion is a cultural form that demands critical investigation on a par with other artistic media, like plays, paintings, or novels. Moreover, it possesses a unique structure that lends itself to a redefinition of habitual rules and expressions. Mallarmé realized that, just as he used and reused a hermetic, musical vocabulary, where words take on very different meanings or are brought into an alternative syntax, so fashion invents its own forms anew each season. The look of a familiar piece of clothing is changed beyond recognition, or its use is radically redefined. As a structuralist before the advent of structuralism, Mallarmé found in fashion a willful and skillful reshaping of formal appearances, and thus a technique that he himself pursued from his early, fragmentary poems (such as "Hérodiade" of 1869) to the open spaces of his late, formal experiment, "Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard."
Fold and Word
Mallarmé's work is characterized by a quest for pictorial composition and at the same time by a forceful rejection of the subject. In fashion he found both his visual stimulus, through the colorful, sweeping fabric of French couture between the 1850s and 1890s, and a subject matter that was regarded as marginal within the contemporary cultural hierarchy. The topic of fashion allowed Mallarmé to work against narratives, to remain resolutely subjective within the nonlinear, associative rhythms of his verses, but, simultaneously, to remove himself from the sublime, weighty subjectivism that was considered necessary for symbolist poetry.
La dernière mode ran a dialogue with imaginary correspondents, where the poet celebrated the "profound nothingness" that pervades the life and sartorial consumption of the bourgeois female. Unlike Gustave Flaubert, Mallarmé used the seemingly empty existence and ennui of a female readership not for narrative drama, as Flaubert did with the character of Emma Bovary, but for a concentration on formal questions. Fashion, seen as insignificant and ephemeral by the cultural status quo, thus becomes a carte blanche for a poetically elaborate, yet curiously precise, description of fabrics, ribbons, pleats, and folds, as the journal aimed at fulfilling its commercial function as a source of sartorial information.
The fold in particular operates, as pli modal-an abstract fold that primarily exists in semantic form-in a material analogy to syntactic or stylistic innovation. Thus, a notion is either hidden within the surface of a specific word, or else one word refers to another unknown one and needs to be drawn from the depth of the linguistic fabric through combinative or connotative efforts. Fellow poets credited La dernière mode with the "invention of the word" (Burty, p. 587); indeed, the vocabulary in the journal surpasses the mere description of clothes or accessories and moves to constitute fashion in the abstract, as a verbal equivalent of sartorial innovations in contemporary haute couture.
The professed independence from the material aspect of clothing, and the deliberate ignorance vis-à-vis stylistic minutiae, rendered La dernière mode less than commercially viable among competitive fashion journals. However, the formal yet radical nature of its prose (such as the metaphysical musings of Marguerite de Ponty in her column, "La Mode") and the irony of its stylistic quotations (repeated references by Miss Satin to Charles Frederick Worth and Émile Pingat) create a unique and extended text that floats unconstrained by a specific stylistic period. Indeed, the prose speaks as eloquently of the sartorial as of the literary form.
A further removal from the habitual approach of the artist to fashion, whether critical or celebratory, occurs through the exclusive choice of female pseudonyms. This technique was not new in itself. Honoré de Balzac and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, for example, preceded Mallarmé as "female" fashion journalists in the 1830s and 1840s. Yet Mallarmé does not hide behind or subsequently disavow his feminine personae but becomes them. A mental cross-dressing allows the poet to indulge in the transitory and ephemeral, unobserved by the patriarchal mainstream, and thus free to subvert a commercial medium for the dissemination of formal experiments to a readership hitherto unaccustomed to such an approach.
Personal and Historical Impact
At the end of his life Mallarmé reminisced about the literary significance and the personal impact of the autumn of 1874. "I tried," he said, "to write up myself clothing, jewelry, furnishings, even columns on theaters and dinner menus, a journal La dernière mode, whose eight or ten issues still, when I undress them from their dust, help me to dream for a long time" (Correspondence, Vol. 2: Paris: Gallimard, 1965, p. 303). Such remembrance, aided by fashion's mode of existence in modernity as quotations from a past source book, prepared the ground not just for Marcel Proust's literary form, but also for Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history. The view of fashion in Mallarmé's writing, therefore, accounts for the coming hallmarks of modernity itself.
Brown, Peter. Mallarmé et l'Écriture en mode mineur. Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard, 1998.
Burty, Philippe. Undated letter. In Stephane Mallarme: Correspondence. Vol. 4: 1890-1891. Paris: Gallimard, 1973.
Deleuze, Gilles. Le pli: Leibniz et le baroque. Paris: Minuit, 1988.
Dragonetti, Roger. Un fantôme dans le kiosque: Mallarmé et l'esthétique du quotidien. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1992.
Faye, Jean-Pierre. "Mallarmé: l'Écriture, la mode." Change 4 (1969): 56-57.
Fortassier, Rose. Les Écrivains français et la mode: De Balzac à nos jours. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1988.
Kleinert, Annemarie. "La Dernière Mode: Une tentative de Mallarmé dans la presse féminine." Lendemains 5, nos. 17-18 (June 1980): 167-178.
Lecercle, Jean-Pierre. Mallarmé et la mode. Paris: Séguier, 1989.
Lehmann, Ulrich. Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.
Lewis Shaw, Mary. "The Discourse of Fashion: Mallarmé, Barthes, and Literary Criticism," Substance 68 (1992): 46-60.
Mondor, Henri. Vie de Mallarmé. Paris: Gallimard, 1941.
Nectoux, Jean-Michel Un clair regard dans les ténèbres: Peinture, musique, poésie. Paris: Editions Adam Biro, 1998.
Peyré, Yves, ed. Mallarmé, 1842-1898, un destin d'Écriture. Paris: Gallimard/Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998.
Thibaudet, Albert. La poésie de Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris: Gallimard, 1912. | literature |
http://billygonyou.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-review-abraham-lincoln-vampire.html | 2013-12-11T10:57:53 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164034642/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133354-00022-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.967127 | 273 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__194884802 | en | Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is, by far, one of the most amazing books I have ever read. A break from the increasingly popular and utterly annoying teenage Vampire novels, Grahame-Smith takes the history of the United States of America, and adds both a unique and incredibly interesting twist: Vampires.
Before deciding to read this book, I kept avoiding it because of the want-to-be authors that keep publishing crappy Vampire novels. I expected to find a loosely put together written novel whose sole benefit was to bring in money. A friend convinced me to give this book a chance; I could not put it done and finished in a few short hours.
The execution of this novel was flawless. Grahame-Smith brilliantly intertwines our history with the story of Early American Vampires. My father taught me a lot about Lincoln growing up, but at times, I would forget that this was a work of fiction. The book is written in such a way that you think the reason you exist today is because of a notorious Vampire Hunter, Abraham Lincoln. With pictures throughout the book to act as "supporting evidence," Grahame-Smith should be highly commended for this literary masterpiece.
If you are looking for a great thrill ride, definitely pick yourself up a copy of Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter. | literature |
https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/review-index/2008-seventh-sense-lone-wolf-adventure-books/ | 2022-10-01T13:47:34 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030336674.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001132802-20221001162802-00380.warc.gz | 0.946281 | 493 | CC-MAIN-2022-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__39693145 | en | In July of 1984 the first installment of the Lone Wolf gamebook series, Flight from the Dark, was published, spawning a franchise that would sell over ten millions copies to date.
The set up is classic: you are Lone Wolf, the only surviving Kai Lord – an order of holy warriors blessed with psychic and physical powers that opposes the Darklords. It’s a simple tale of good guys versus bad guys, but the implementation is masterful.
Created by young musician Joe Dever together with his artist friend Gary Chalk, the series would stamp upon young minds a narrative, a look and an identity that would shape their idea of fantasy for years to come. Sadly, by the late ‘90s the game book market withered, prematurely ending the series.
In recent years however there has been renewed interest in the series thanks to Project Aon, a fan-created site that re-released the books in HTML, with permission of Joe Dever, who approved the free dissemination of his work online as a gift to the fans.
Seventh Sense is a free, fan-made playing aid for the Project Aon versions of the Lone Wolf gamebooks. It automates and aids the playthrough, tracking all stats, rolls, skills, items and page-jumping, while also allowing players to greatly customize the book’s rules, art style and even seek special challenges.
The books are intended to be played in order, as one huge adventure. In the first one you create your character, rolling stats, choosing skills (Camouflage, Hunting, Weaponskill, Healing, Mind Blast, etc) and your initial equipment. These choices will all greatly impact the options available during your quest.
Each subsequent book allows you to keep your current equipment and choose one extra skill, taking Lone Wolf all the way from an apprentice to a Grand Master with mythical weapons and powerful spells.
The series spawns 29 books, and as of this writing Seventh Sense supports up to book 17, The Deathlords of Ixia, and it’s regularly updated with more content.
To return to Lone Wolf after a few decades away is a pleasurable experience. The adventures of the last of the Kai Lords are short, sharp shocks: full of daring escapes, sudden deaths, exotic locales, crazy plots and fantastical elements that enchant young minds and cloud old ones with a perfect miasma of nostalgia. Neanderthal | literature |
http://www.sunriseseniorliving.com/blog/categories/alzheimers-and-memory-care.aspx | 2015-04-27T10:29:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246658061.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045738-00176-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.949013 | 100 | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-18__0__3522691 | en | By Tim Watt |
March 23, 2015
The literary world let out a collective sigh of despair on March 12, as Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved series of fantasy novels "Discworld," passed away. Pratchett was one of millions of seniors who battle with Alzheimer's disease and dementia every year. His passing at 66 highlights the prevalence with which the ailment affects the older demographic, and further cemented the importance of the myriad research being conducted regarding treatment and detection options. | literature |
https://www.navalorder.org/awards/2015/10/16/neptune-by-craig-l-symonds-2015-samuel-eliot-morison-award-for-naval-literature | 2019-01-20T16:42:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583728901.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190120163942-20190120185942-00115.warc.gz | 0.930246 | 1,889 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__76076003 | en | Neptune, The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
by Craig L. Symonds
Craig L. Symonds, winner of the 2015 RADM Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, will be received by the New York Commandery and speak at our Annual Book Award dinner, to be held at the Racquet & Tennis Club in New York City on Wednesday evening, 18 November 2015.
• A riveting story of the greatest sea-borne assault in human history
• Discover the often overlooked naval arm of the D-Day invasion just in time for the 70th anniversary of the invasion
• Expertly told by one of the foremost naval historians writing today, author of the highly acclaimed Battle of Midway
Craig L. Symonds is Professor of History Emeritus at the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of many books on American naval history, including The Battle of Midway and Lincoln and His Admirals, co-winner of the Lincoln Prize in 2009.
Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France. It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the ships landed the soldiers have become immortal: Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, and especially Omaha, the scene of almost unimaginable human tragedy. The sea of crosses in the cemetery sitting today atop a bluff overlooking the beaches recalls to us its cost.
Most accounts of this epic story begin with the landings on the morning of June 6, 1944. In fact, however, D-Day was the culmination of months and years of planning and intense debate. In the dark days after the evacuation of Dunkirk in the summer of 1940, British officials and, soon enough, their American counterparts, began to consider how, and, where, and especially when, they could re-enter the European Continent in force. The Americans, led by U.S. Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, wanted to invade as soon as possible; the British, personified by their redoubtable prime minister, Winston Churchill, were convinced that a premature landing would be disastrous. The often-sharp negotiations between the English-speaking allies led them first to North Africa, then into Sicily, then Italy. Only in the spring of 1943, did the Combined Chiefs of Staff commit themselves to an invasion of northern France. The code name for this invasion was Overlord, but everything that came before, including the landings themselves and the supply system that made it possible for the invaders to stay there, was code-named Neptune.
Craig L. Symonds now offers the complete story of this Olympian effort, involving transports, escorts, gunfire support ships, and landing craft of every possible size and function. The obstacles to success were many. In addition to divergent strategic views and cultural frictions, the Anglo-Americans had to overcome German U-boats, Russian impatience, fierce competition for insufficient shipping, training disasters, and a thousand other impediments, including logistical bottlenecks and disinformation schemes. Symonds includes vivid portraits of the key decision-makers, from Franklin Roosevelt and Churchill, to Marshall, Dwight Eisenhower, and Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay, who commanded the naval element of the invasion. Indeed, the critical role of the naval forces--British and American, Coast Guard and Navy--is central throughout.
In the end, as Symonds shows in this gripping account of D-Day, success depended mostly on the men themselves: the junior officers and enlisted men who drove the landing craft, cleared the mines, seized the beaches and assailed the bluffs behind them, securing the foothold for the eventual campaign to Berlin, and the end of the most terrible war in human history.
Reviews and Praise for Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings
"Excellent... Symonds has produced a terrific account of the heroic role the U.S. Navy played in making the D-Day landings a success." --Charleston Post and Courier
"Symonds employs his extensive knowledge and skill at synthesis to turn an oft-told story into vibrant on-the-scene history... Symonds touches all the bases... The landing is especially well narrated. Solid writing has the reader feeling the suspense, where the outcome is already known." --Sea History
"[A]n impressive account... Most accounts of the D-Day invasion start with landing craft opening their gates as courageous men rush out into German gun fire, Symond's brilliant narrative starts years earlier with American entry into WWII. The reader gains an incredible appreciation for the logistical masterpiece completed by Allied leaders and the careful, all-important buildup of the 'special relationship' between the United States and Great Britain... a must read for this year's important 70th Anniversary of D-Day." --Breitbart.com
"Neptune is unquestionably a work that makes major contributions to the field... a finely written piece of history... It is very readable and hard to put down." --Proceedings
"In this well-written, engaging volume, Craig Symonds, Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, makes an original contribution to the historiography of the Normandy landings... Symonds masterfully mixes the big picture, operational descriptions with colorful, illuminating firsthand accounts from the sailors.... Symonds has an especially strong feel for naval command. His personal profiles and assessment of the key leaders such as Bertram Ramsay, Alan Kirk, Morton Deyo, Philip Vian, and Don Moon are arresting and unforgettable. One suspects that his analysis of these important personalities will substantially influence and inform subsequent generations of Neptune historians...Neptune is a truly original and important contribution, one that substantially rounds out our understanding of the Normandy invasion." --Robert C. McMannus, Journal of Military History
"[A] fascinating, multi-layered story... Symonds has an excellent eye for telling details and arresting quotes from the ordinary participants." --Daily Beast
"This superb volume is the first comprehensive account in a half century of the vital naval operations that lifted the liberating legions to France, landed them on D-Day, and supported them. Craig Symonds ranges with easy command from often fractious strategic planning sessions to the searing experiences of young sailors in the crucible of fire-drenched beaches.Neptune is at once an important scholarly contribution and a great read." --Richard B. Frank, author of Guadalcanal and Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
"Craig L. Symonds, one of America's greatest military historians, scores a triumph withNeptune. In this masterpiece of historical scholarship Symonds sheds new light on how FDR mobilized the U.S. Navy for the D-Day landings of June 6, 1944. His archival work is dazzling. Highly recommended!" --Douglas Brinkley, Professor of History at Rice University, CBS News Historian, and author of The Boys of Point du Hoc
"Craig Symonds brings to vivid life the Allied assault from the sea on Normandy. He has written a clear, comprehensive, and often thrilling account of the massive and complex invasion--a tale of heroism and folly, genius and muddle. Neptune is an invaluable contribution to the history and literature of D-Day." --Evan Thomas, author of Sea of Thunder and Ike's Bluff
"The prose is distinguished by the author's ability to simultaneously present an academic history supported by excellent research while captivating the reader with the individual narratives of soldiers and sailors who participated in the operation. Symonds has crafted an enjoyable and informative read for anyone interested in the history of WWII." --Publishers Weekly
"Acclaimed naval historian Symonds has the teacher's patient touch and big-picture knowledge to accessibly present the truly incredible scope of this largely naval endeavor." --Kirkus Reviews
"Neptune is a sweeping account . . . Symonds is lucid and incisive. His writing is as good as Rick Atkinson's . . . accessible, sharp and faithful to the human foibles of the protagonists whose plans and courage bore fruit on June 6, 1944." --ARMY
"In Neptune, prolific naval historian and longtime US Naval Academy professor (now emeritus) Craig Symonds describes in fascinating detail Allied planning and preparation for the defeat of Germany in 1944 . . . Neptune fills a lacuna in D-day literature by its unusually thorough treatment of the naval requirements for the successful invasion of northern Europe. And, too, his extensive use of archival materials and relevant personal papers and documents allows him to elucidate the naval planning, preparation, and organization for Operation Neptune in far greater detail than do previous works." --Michigan War Studies Review
"[A] magnificient achievement. By framing the primary problem of the Normandy Invasion as the landing, Symonds is able to show one element that made the success of the invasion so impressive. The book is well researched and cited, and is a strong addition to an already crowded historiography. It certainly merits a thorough read." --On Point: The Journal of Army History
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https://pentoprint.blogspot.com/ | 2023-05-28T13:44:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528114832-20230528144832-00147.warc.gz | 0.90623 | 1,031 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__77154033 | en | So this year, I thought and I thought, I wrote, and I tossed. Then, I wrote some more. I confess it was a toss up whether I would have something to enter, but I finally have an entry worthy (I think) of the contest.
Here are the rules:
Write a children's story (children here defined as approximately age 12 and under) in which wild weather impacts the holidays! Your story may be poetry or prose, silly or serious or sweet, religious or not, based on Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or whatever you celebrate, but is not to exceed 350 words (I know! So much freedom after the Halloweensie Contest :)) (It can be as short as you like, but no more than 350! Title not included in word count.) Any kind of weather will do: sun, rain, sleet, heatwave, blizzard, tsunami, monsoon, hurricane, hail, tornado, etc! Weather may be atypical for your setting (rain in Maine, frost in Florida), it may be extreme (blizzard instead of regular snow, drought instead of lush greenery), or it may be unheard of (spring flowers in Antarctica, snow in the Sahara, bathing suit weather at the North Pole), but whatever you choose, make us feel the impact on the holidays! The wild weather may be a hindrance, a wish-come-true, a threat, a pleasant surprise, etc. The field is wide open! Have fun! The wilder and wackier the better! No illustration notes please. (And yes, if you feel compelled to submit more than one entry you may, just remember you're competing against yourself!)
Here's my entry, at 342 words:
Here's my entry, at 342 words:
A LITTLE CHRISTMAS WISH
By Margaret Greanias
Jack Jingle wishes he could be a bigger part of Christmas. But he’s too little to help in Santa’s workshop, too little to dress the reindeer, too little to load the sleigh.
It’s Christmas Eve and Jack’s kicking up snow when Santa’s hat tumbles by. Up and away it blows.
No one’s chasing it, so Jack jumps at his chance. He could be the biggest thing since Rudolph!
But first, he needs transportation. He commandeers a toy airplane. BADUMP-A-DUMP-A-DUMP. It’s a bumpy takeoff.
There’s the hat! Near Santa’s workshop!
NEEEOOOOW! Jack buzzes by.
Bernard, dozing at his workbench, startles awake.
“Thanks Jack!” calls Bernard.
Jack doesn’t hear him. His eyes are trained on the hat.
It dances away and darts into the stables.
Jack zooms in after it. He ducks as he enters, swiping left, swiping right. But from his fast-flying plane, the hat’s a blur. Jack exits with a handful of harnesses. JINGLE, JINGLE, JINGLE.
He tosses them to Victor, who’s grooming the reindeer.
“Thanks Jack!” calls Victor.
But Jack’s already out of earshot. He speeds to intercept the hat.
He swerves and swoops, and loop-de-loops. He doesn’t see the bag of presents, waiting for Quigley to haul.
It hitches onto the plane’s wing as Jack barrels by.
Oops. He detours to the sleigh.
“Thanks Jack!” calls Quigley.
But the roar of the engine drowns out everything.
It’s just Jack…and Santa’s hat. Time is running out.
The wind whisks the hat up, up, and up.
Hmmm…can an elf my size climb so high? Then, Jack’s eyes widen. Can Santa deliver Christmas cheers with icicles dangling from his ears?
Jack hunkers down. He twists and turns; his stomach churns. He rockets through clouds, sunshine, stars until…Santa’s hat begins to fall!
Down, down, down it dives – into Jack’s outstretched hands.
“YIPPEE!” Jack shouts.
Back home, he shyly returns the hat.
“Why Jack Jingle!” Santa ho-ho-hos. “Thank you! I shiver to think what Christmas would have been without you.”
Jack’s cheeks grow warm. He gets his Christmas wish at last.
Check out the other fun entries into Susanna's holiday contest. Enjoy! | literature |
http://www.douglasteacher.com/the-book-of-teaching-english-abroad | 2017-07-22T04:34:04 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423901.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170722042522-20170722062522-00029.warc.gz | 0.947655 | 222 | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__111733111 | en | Read this book before you Teach English Abroad.
The Book of Teaching English Abroad is a must read for anyone preparing to move overseas and change their life forever. As you read you'll hear stories of action packed adventure and some hilarious misfortune as well as some practical advice for all things teaching English.
Rummell Douglas takes you through his 10 year journey from leaving his small hometown in America to teaching and living Abroad in South Korea and Turkey. All the while finding the girl of his dreams.
The Book of Teaching English Abroad will inspire you to explore, dream, and discover a new adventure for yourself.
You'll read about
*Teaching Insights and Anecdotes,
*Types of Students
*Private Lesson Hustling $$$
*Dating and Romantic Relationships Abroad
*Suggestions for Personal Finance Abroad
*Traveling, Vacations, City Breaks and Getting out of Town
*The Ultimate Exit Strategy
The Book of Teaching English Abroad will inspire you to jump on a plane and move somewhere you've never been. | literature |
https://go.nethealth.com/l/125911/2021-03-23/7kmbgj | 2024-04-21T19:13:11 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817790.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421163736-20240421193736-00150.warc.gz | 0.922885 | 198 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__148081948 | en | Give your team the insights and knowledge to improve outcomes, ROI, and patient quality of life
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https://www.honeyourmind.co.za/psalms/psalm-23.html | 2020-02-25T20:48:56 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146160.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20200225202625-20200225232625-00361.warc.gz | 0.782814 | 638 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__151789829 | en | PSALM 22 (23), Latin Vulgate (Clementine)
Dominus regit me.
PSALM 22 (23).
The Lord is my shepherd.
A psalm for David.
1. Dominus regit me, et nihil mihi deerit:
THE Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.
2. in loco pascuae ibi me collocavit. Super aquam refectionis educavit me,
He hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:
3. animam meam convertit. Deduxit me super semitas justitiae, propter nomen suum.
he hath converted my soul. He hath led me on paths of justice, for his own name’s sake.
4. Nam, etsi ambulavero in medio umbrae mortis, non timebo mala, quoniam tu mecum es. Virga tua, et baculus tuus, ipsa me consolata sunt.
For though I should walk in the midst of the shadow of death, I will fear no evils, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they have comforted me.
5. Parasti in conspectu meo mensam, adversus eos qui tribulant me; impinguasti in oleo caput meum; et calix meus inebrians quam praeclarus est!
Thou hast prepared a table before me, against them that afflict me. Thou hast anointed my head with oil; and my chalice which inebriateth me, how goodly is it!
6. Et misericordia tua subsequetur me omnibus diebus vitae meae; et ut inhabitem in domo Domini, in longitudinem dierum.
And thy mercy will follow me all the days of my life. And that I may dwell in the house of the Lord unto length of days.
KJV Psalm 23 - audio
23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.
23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.
23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
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"The Big Chaos" is a speech/poem performed by Omar Musa at the very first Google Big Tent event held in Australia, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
Poem written by Omar Musa.
The last line is an interpolation of a line by Jorge Luis Borges.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Fam & friends, poetry buffs & producers. Aural & mental & sample gold! People told me they liked the book but wanted to hear the poems as I would read them. So I recorded "Parang" at the One Day studio with DJ Joyride. Hear me get my BBC radio voice on. Gwan! Enjoy:
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Friday, May 17, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Review in Overland Literary blog by Ali Alizadeh: http://overland.org.au/blogs/poetry-fiction-reviews/2013/04/portrait-of-poets-as-young-men/
Review in Stash Everything: http://www.stasheverything.com/lifestyle/book-review-omar-musa-parang/
"I savored this. Omar Musa is a special writer with his own beat, cutting through worlds" - Mohsin Hamid, Booker shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"Never mind page versus stage, this is poetry: listen" - Jeet Thayil, Booker shortlisted author of Narcopolis
"Parang is as brutal as it is delicate, poems romp between the urban landscape and foreign humidities... I love these poems, they are a clarion call to the listless, to take up the parang, or the pen, the instrument of the book and make something happen. A balm for the conflicted, Musa is a rhapsodist like no other" - Tara June Winch, author of Swallow the Air | literature |
https://solomonrobsons.blogspot.com/2017/04/ewan-mclennan-george-monbiot-breaking.html | 2023-12-10T14:59:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102469.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210123756-20231210153756-00821.warc.gz | 0.97266 | 615 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__221408246 | en | In 2014 he contributed an article "The Age of Loneliness is killing us" that went viral, big-time. In a manifesto that resonated with people all over the planet, he wrote that "the religion of our time is a celebration of extreme individualism and universal competition". The resulting loneliness, he argued, is a deadly condition that kills as many people as smoking or obesity.
The Guardian and several book publishers wanted more but Monbiot realised he would be researching and writing at his computer in a solitary endeavour for several years and, in a light bulb moment, surmised that music, which brings people together and unites us, would be a much better vehicle to develop these concepts. With this in mind, George wrote some lyrics and given that, as he says himself, there are international treaties to prevent him from singing, he shared his ideas with critically acclaimed Scottish folk singer Ewan McLennan.
After an exciting collaboration via email, this wonderful project took shape. McLennan had carte blanche to do as he wished with the words - some he kept, and some he re-wrote - and his softly understated Scottish brogue lends them a certain earthiness and poignancy. His sparse arrangements feature harmonium, cello, fiddle and banjo to accompany his own fine vocal, guitar and harmonica work to great effect. Each song wrestles with a different issue. "The Child Inside" addresses the fact that a child's area in which they free-range, either on their own or with their friends, has shrunk by 90% in just one generation. For many urban children, any connection with nature is now all but lost.
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The Funeral Papers explores the estranged relationship between Josh and his father, Arnie. The memoir begins at the funeral of Josh's father where Josh receives a packet of his father's writing, which was chock full of short stories, journalistic pieces, oddball poetry, and more. The memoir moves from Josh's writing to Arnie's and back again. This narrative style gives Josh a unique territory in which to explore reasons for his estranged relationship with his dead father.
Originally published in 1982, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies is the first comprehensive collection of black feminist scholarship. Featuring contributions from Alice Walker and the Combahee River Collective, this book is vital to today's conversation on race and gender in America.
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AbstractOne of the most widespread methods to the nonlinear analysis of structures is the Finite Element Method (FEM). However, there are phenomena whose behavior is not satisfactorily simulated by the standard FEM and this fact has quickened the development of new strategies such as the Generalized Finite Element Method (GFEM), understood as a variation of the FEM. In parallel, nonlinear analysis of concrete structures requires the use of constitutive models that represents the nucleation and propagation of cracks. In this paper it is used an anisotropic constitutive model, based on the microplane theory, which is able to represent the behavior of concrete structures, together with the GFEM approach. These resources are incorporated on the INSANE system (INteractive Structural ANalysis Environment), used in the numerical simulations presented here to demonstrate the feasibility of using the GFEM enrichment strategy, in the nonlinear analysis of concrete structures, with validation made from comparisons with experimental results available in the literature. | literature |
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John 14:6, Jesus said unto him, I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life no man comes unto the Father but by me.
John 6:48-56, I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
This is the Truth, that the Blood Sacrifice of Christ is the only way into the Throne Room of the Father. Going to the Cross of Christ with faith in his Blood is the only way you can approach, and partaking of His Body on a daily basis through faith is the only place you will have abundant life and victory. This is not communion as in the Lord’s Supper but a daily walk of faith. This is the faith that the Holy Spirit will honor and move on your behalf to cause Victory, Life and an abundant supply of the Holy Spirit flowing in your spirit.
Hebrews 11:19, Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the Blood of Jesus, by a new and living way
Hebrews 4:16, Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
- Having on the Breastplate or Righteousness
Isaiah 59:16-19, And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him. For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke. According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompense. So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
Romans 4:13-16, For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect: Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,
The Righteousness that come from God is only obtained through faith in the Sacrificed Body of Christ and what he did for us on the Cross, which is the only Sacrifice the Holy Spirit will honor and cause a standard to rise for you, a standard of Righteousness that protects you from the Law of Sin and Death being fulfilled in your members.
Romans 1:16-17, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
- Your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace.
Before there is a publishing and spreading of the Gospel there is a time of preparation and learning to publish the True Gospel. A true Soldier of under Christ’s command is properly prepared for battle who knows and understands the armour and weapons he has and has mastered them properly, inasmuch as that the Truth will go forward with True Power and Anointing converting and recompensing evil with the full Judgement of God confirming his Word.
2 Timothy 2:15, Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Corinthians 10:6, And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.
Isaiah 52:7, How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Isaiah 61:1-3, The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that arebound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified. | literature |
http://1hd.tv/news/a-new-book-about-harry-styles/ | 2023-12-02T14:08:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100427.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202140407-20231202170407-00810.warc.gz | 0.977953 | 155 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__285410709 | en | A new book about Harry Styles
The book about Harry Styles is officially out! Inside its pages, you'll find three fascinating sections. The first one delves into his music, allowing you to immerse yourself in his musical world and understand his creative journey. The second section focuses on his style, revealing his unique taste in clothing and fashion.
The third section is all about his charisma, explaining what makes Harry so attractive. Additionally, the book features stunning images, including the outfits he chose for iconic events like Coachella 2022 and the Met Gala.
If you're a fan of Harry Styles and interested in his music, style, and life, this book is a must-read. Don't miss the chance to learn more about this exceptional star. | literature |
https://curtperkinsdesign.com/sallie-bissell/ | 2024-04-18T17:34:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817222.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418160034-20240418190034-00646.warc.gz | 0.948993 | 258 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__173777580 | en | Web Development, design, book cover design and layout for Author Sallie Bissell; author of the critically acclaimed Mary Crow adventures.
Nashville native Sallie Bissell is the author of novels of suspense featuring the half-Cherokee prosecutor, Mary Crow. Educated in the Nashville public schools, Bissell graduated from Peabody College and embarked on a career in advertising, where she worked on various media campaigns, including radio spots for the Grand Ole Opry.
Motherhood interrupted her advertising career, and when she returned to her typewriter after raising three children, she devoted herself to writing fiction. An avid horsewoman, she was a ghost writer for Bonnie Bryant’s popular Saddle Club series for young adults, penning seven novels before launching her own adult fiction career.
We were pleased to work with Sallie Bissell in setting up her web home. We also designed new book covers and setup distribution for her Mary Crow Adventure series with IngramSpark.
- Theme Setup and customization
- Graphic Design
- Custom CSS for WordPress
- Basic Search Engine Optimization
- Book Cover design
- Book layout assistance through Pressbooks
- Book Distribution setup through IngramSpark | literature |
https://dungeonfantastic.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-do-i-get-royalties-on.html | 2021-12-04T23:09:10 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363125.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20211204215252-20211205005252-00052.warc.gz | 0.957637 | 187 | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__55128851 | en | So, someone asked what books I get royalties on. Here is the list:
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 12
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 15
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 1
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 3
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Barbarians
GURPS Dungeon Fantasy Treasures 3: Artifacts of Felltower
GURPS Low-Tech Companion 2
GURPS Martial Arts (and the POD version)
GURPS Martial Arts: Gladiators
I'll edit later with links.
Now, this is not to say you shouldn't buy my other works - I was paid fairly for them, and the continued sales of them provides incentive for companies to keep offering me work or accepting my proposals. But if you want to buy a book that results in money going to be as a direct result of your payment . . . it's those books, above. | literature |
https://www.thornetimes.co.uk/invite-to-build-houses-for-fairies/ | 2020-12-02T08:55:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141706569.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20201202083021-20201202113021-00009.warc.gz | 0.954862 | 200 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__168756120 | en | Friends of Thorne Community Wood are inviting families to take part in a fairy house building competition.
The friends are hosting a ‘Fairy Folk’ fun day with fairy & elf themed crafts and a poetry workshop held by visiting poet & children’s author, Addy Farmer.
Judging for the fairy house competition will take place on the day of the event and a ‘secret glade’ will be created within the woodland for the houses.
The fun day is being held on Sunday 14 April between 1.00pm – 3.00pm and is free to attend. Entry to the poetry workshop on the day is also free but there are limited spaces available for this. To reserve a place, book your ticket through Eventbrite: LINK
The Fairy Folk fun day, at the wood off Lock Lane in Thorne, is run by the Friends of Thorne Community Wood in partnership with the Isle of Axholme and Hatfield Chase Landscape Partnership. | literature |
https://englishlanguagelearningstudio.wordpress.com/2018/01/ | 2023-05-31T04:44:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646257.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20230531022541-20230531052541-00137.warc.gz | 0.945067 | 1,594 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__183849406 | en | Reading is far from being a passive process, it is a constant process of guessing, hypothesising, anticipating and confirming, in which the knowledge “one brings to the text is often more important than what one finds in it” (Grellet, 1982 in Ball & Hockly n.d.). Consequently, the practices in which we involve while reading in a second language (L2) should resemble the practices of reading in the mother tongue (L1) if we intend to make the L2 reading experience an authentic one.
Types of reading strategies
With regards to the approach to reading, there is a distinction between two main types of strategies that readers use when they are faced with a written text: top-down strategies and bottom-up strategies. Top-down strategies use macro-level cues to decode a text in order to acquire a more global understanding of its contents. These cues may include considering the layout of the text, making hypotheses and anticipating contents. Bottom-up strategies involve the decoding of the passage step-by-step from small textual elements like words or phrases. This process was for several years the traditional way of analysing a text and many courses are still based on this approach to reading.
The problem with an exclusive focus on bottom-up strategies is that the individual parts of the text are given more importance than the text as a whole. According to Grellet (in op. cit.), this might encourage reading all texts at the same speed, which might not be appropriate in all cases, and that there would be a reluctance to infer the meaning of sentences and paragraphs from what comes before the text. This author concludes that it is always preferable to start with the overall meaning of a text (top-down strategy), its function and aim, then move towards a more detailed analysis.
What is an authentic text? A different view of ‘authenticity’
There is an important issue to consider when selecting texts for our learners and it is the idea of authenticity. Widdowson (in Ball & Hockly, n.d.) distinguishes between ‘genuineness’ and ‘authenticity’. Genuineness is a ‘characteristic of the text itself and is an absolute quality’ (op. cit.: 32), it is what teachers usually refer to as authenticity. On the other hand, his definition of authenticity is how the reader responds to the text. Not adapting a text would make it ‘genuine’ in Widdowson’s sense. However, a genuine text is not necessarily better than an adapted text. If the reader is allowed to respond as they would do it in real life we have what Widdowson calls an ‘authentic text’.
In which types of reading activities do we involve in real life?
People read for many different purposes and depending on these purposes we may gist to check if the matter is relevant to us, for example when we read our friends’ post on Facebook; we may read to extract the main idea of a product ad to check it is what we are looking for; we may also read to infer the purpose of a literary text for a class assignment; it is also possible to read just for pleasure and while doing so we may find ourselves reacting to the text or creating mental images derived from it. Whatever purpose we may have for reading, the strategy we use will differ and the same should happen when we are learning to read in other languages.
Reading activities in the language class
According to Greenall and Swan (1986 in Ball & Hockly n.d.: 17-18), reading activities can be described as follows:
- Extracting the main idea (read in a general sense to distinguish between important and unimportant information).
- Reading for specific information (looking for the important information needed to perform a specific task).
- Understanding text organization (recognising how sentences are joined together to make paragraphs).
- How paragraphs form a passage and how this organization is signalled.
- Predicting (see what information is new and which one is known so that there is not an overload of new information).
- Checking comprehension (finding specific information in the passage).
- Inferring (when the writer decides to suggest something indirectly, the reader has to infer information).
- Dealing with unfamiliar words (guessing a word or expression by looking for clues in the context).
- Linking ideas (seeing how different words are related to the same idea).
- Understanding complex sentences (seeing how long and complicated sentences can be simplified).
- Understanding a writer’s style (a number of stylistic devices and features are discussed to appreciate why a writer chooses a certain word or expression).
- Evaluating the text (evaluating why the passage was written and the purposes that certain sentences serve).
- Reacting to the text (separating what the writer says from what the reader thinks).
- Writing summaries (the ability to write accurate summaries requires accurate comprehension of the passage).
- Speed reading (to prevent the tendency ‘to stumble on unfamiliar words’ thereby failing to ‘grasp the general meaning of the passage’).
You can choose one or several activities from the ones mentioned above based on your students’ need regarding reading strategies and use it/them with any type of text, but how about assigning an authentic activity to deal with an authentic text and engage students in authentic reading? By authentic activity, I mean a reading activity which relates to the type of text used and how that type of activity is used in real life. Just think about this, what are the odds that you need to summarize an e-mail? Instead, you should probably need to focus on the subject, the author and the main information (who, what, when, how).
The concept of ‘action knowledge‘ (Barnes, 1976) can help us to support the idea of authentic reading. Students come to school with an amount of knowledge they have incorporated during their lives, they have unintentionally learnt many aspects of the world and how to behave in different types of situations. The same is true for their reading experience in their L1. Even younger learners, whose literacy skills in L1 are in the first steps, have grown up watching their family members reading different types of texts and what they do with them. They have watched their older siblings writing a summary of a History book and they have also observed that their siblings do not do the same while reading a comic.
We may also go back to Grellet’s words in the introduction of this post to support the idea of authentic reading, “(the knowledge) one brings to the text is often more important than what one finds in it” (1982 in Ball & Hockly n.d.). Surely, as a reader yourself you can think about types of reading activity that are ‘natural’ to a specific text type or genre, bring that knowledge and the learners’ knowledge into the class and enhance their reading experience both in the L2 and in the L1.
What types of reading activities would you suggest for a short story? For a piece of news? And for a blog post? Write a comment with your suggestions.
* If you want to read about the differences between reading in the L1 and reading in an L2 click this link to my previous post
Ball, P. & Hockly, N. (n.d.). Developing Language Skills in the Classroom. Funiber
Barnes, D. (1976/1992). From Communication to Curriculum. London: Penguin. (Second
edition, 1992, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann.) | literature |
https://citeblackauthors.com/cba-article/sustaining-culture-expanding-literacies-culturally-relevant-literacy-pedagogy-and-gradual-release-of-responsibility-in-k-8-classrooms/ | 2023-05-28T02:20:40 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643462.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528015553-20230528045553-00643.warc.gz | 0.707391 | 125 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__148733111 | en | Citation: Turner, J.D. & Mitchell, C.H. (2019). Sustaining culture, expanding literacies: Culturally relevant literacy pedagogy and Gradual Release of Responsibility in K-8 Classrooms. In M. McVee, E. Ortlieb, J. Reichenberg, & P.D. Pearson (Eds.), The Gradual Release of Responsibility in Literacy Research and Practice Vol. 10. (pp. 229-244). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited. | literature |
http://thefash-ist.blogspot.com/2012/01/ | 2018-07-16T04:39:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589179.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716041348-20180716061348-00309.warc.gz | 0.972944 | 629 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__156916121 | en | A little over a year ago I made one of the hardest decisions of my life. I chose to veer off of what had been my lifelong course. I was sad, confused and frustrated. My heart was telling me to abandon ship, abandon this dream that had never truly been mine in the first place. It told me to be brave and seek out something that I knew in my bones to be right. Most importantly, it told me to stop fretting about disappointing those I love because the only person I should worry about disappointing... is myself.
It was in those dark hours that I realized I would rather risk failure than spend my entire life on a path that I would constantly have to justify, because my heart wasn't in it.
That was when my most recent journey began; the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011. Now a mere year later I find myself presented with a wondrous opportunity, unlike anything I would have anticipated. Everything about it feels right, and I no longer feel as if I'm lying to myself. It's a whole new chapter; another journey. The comfort that accompanies this knowledge is one of the best feelings I've ever experienced.
In celebration of this accomplishment, my boyfriend and I went out for a romantic dinner at the Livingston restaurant in the Georgian terrace. The night was nothing short of remarkable, and my handsome partner was the perfect gentleman.
|Blouse, Blazer & Skirt: Forever 21 / Heels: Nine West|
I really can't think of a better time to share my resolutions for the New Year:
1. Be more patient with myself; with everything.
2. Learn to enjoy the journey.
3. Stretch for at least 10 minutes every day.
4. Complete Slim in 6 within the assigned time frame! (<-- workout regiment)
5. Speak to my nephew and younger sister more.
6. Center myself at least 3 times per week; whether through meditation, singing, yoga, or self reflection. (I need to make an effort to not lose touch with myself. It has been a real challenge lately.)
Sometimes in life one must take huge risks if they wish to see great rewards... personal rewards that is. My hope for all of you, and for myself, is that we may all begin to see these challenges and risks as exciting new prospects, as opposed to potential opportunities to fail. The latter mentality does absolutely nothing for you, other than inflict corrosive self-doubt! Thinking in such a manner won't make you any wiser or spare you from falling flat on your face. It will only hold you back. As I consciously embark on this new chapter in my life I can offer but one concrete piece of advice: There is no point to self-doubt; it does absolutely nothing for you. Let it go or at least begin to as soon as you can.
I'm going to hop on the bandwagon here and say that I too feel this is going to be a pretty awesome year. :o) I wish the same for all of you.
Til Next Time, | literature |
http://eestinoorsooteater.ee/en/news/wordless-production-young-children-being-premiered | 2024-04-16T22:54:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817112.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416222403-20240417012403-00050.warc.gz | 0.943555 | 416 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__181191932 | en | On 12th September, the Estonian Theatre for Young Audiences is premiering The Boy and the Butterfly, a wordless visual theatre production for young children. The production is based on a miniature by the classic author Anton Hansen Tammsaare and on the music created by Ardo Ran Varres.
According to director Leino Rei, The Boy and the Butterfly is born as a wordless musical journey into the heart of the world, to the nearest meadow in the familiar forest grove, to a place that contains the whole world – a world to be happy about and to worry about, to love and to cherish.
The production is based on Tammsaare’s miniature The Boy and the Butterfly, which was written down by the author in 1912 in Crimea – in the Estonian resettlers’ village Krasnaya Polyana – and which was published in 1915. A boy comes to a blooming meadow. Marvelling at the sea of flowers, he is distracted by a sparkling butterfly that catches his attention; and the boy rushes to chase it, forgetting about the flowers. When he finally gives up on chasing the butterfly, unable to catch it, the boy notices the trampled meadow, where there are no flowers left.
According to the director, the production makes it possible to talk to children in an age-appropriate language consisting of symbols about topics that could resonate with a human being throughout their life. The visual theatre production The Boy and the Butterfly, which makes use of puppetry and object theatre, is suitable for children who are 3-5 years old, regardless of whether they understand Estonian. The performance lasts for about 25 minutes.
Performers: Laura Nõlvak and Mirko Rajas. Author: Anton Hansen Tammsaare, dramatizer and director: Leino Rei, designer: Erki Kasemets, composer: Ardo Ran Varres, lighting designer: Triin Rahnu. Premiering on 12th September 2021 in the Small Hall. | literature |
http://www.creationtips.com/jonah.html | 2016-06-25T14:10:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783393332.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154953-00118-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.973708 | 489 | CC-MAIN-2016-26 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-26__0__78880092 | en | Did a whale or fish swallow Jonah?
Was Jonah swallowed by a fish, or a whale?
The Bible account of Jonah being swallowed by a whale is well known to Christian adults and Sunday school children. God told the eighth century BC prophet Jonah to go to the city of Nineveh in Assyria and preach against the people's utter wickedness.
During a storm at sea, Jonah was thrown overboard. In the Book of Jonah we read that “The LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.” (Jonah 1:17, King James Version).
In the New Testament we read Christ's words that He (Jesus Christ) will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, just as Jonah was “three days and three nights in the whale's belly.” (Matthew 12:40.)
A whale is not a fish
Now a whale is not a fish; it is a mammal. So in the Old Testament we are told Jonah was swallowed by a “great fish,” and in the New Testament we are told it was a “whale.” Is this a contradiction?
No. And this is why.
The Bible was written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek — not in English. And both “whale” and “great fish” are English translations of the original words. If we look in a Greek New Testament dictionary, such as the popular James Strong's Dictionary of the Words in the Greek New Testament, we find the explanation.
The Greek word translated “whale” is ketos (pronounced kay-tos), and it means “a huge fish (as gaping for prey).” Other scholars say it can mean a huge aquatic creature, which could be a fish, a whale, or some other giant sea animal. In any case, the Bible says God prepared the creature to swallow Jonah, so it could have been a creature created for this particular purpose and no other.
When the King James Version of the Bible was released in 1611, our modern taxonomic distinctions between fishes and mammals had not yet been decided on, so the translators were justified in choosing a whale as the giant “fish.” It was the greatest sea creature known to them. | literature |
https://aniedireland.com/2022/08/14/happy-vet-visits/ | 2023-06-03T14:13:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649293.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603133129-20230603163129-00348.warc.gz | 0.945447 | 580 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__94554809 | en | A surge in dog ownership and ongoing Pandemic effects on an entire generation of dogs, plus the changes experienced by older dogs, have impacted dog behaviour, and owner interactions, in the veterinary context (Brand et al, 2022).
These dogs have experienced changes to the world that have rocked them, and with two years of vet visits on their own without their humans behind them, may be impacting their comfort and stress related behaviour during vet visits (Williams 2022).
The absence of their human during veterinary examinations is associated with the dog demonstrating increased distress related behaviours (Csoltova et al, 2017) and repeated exposure to the veterinary context is associated with sensitisation of fear responses (increasing in response), rather than habituation (getting used to the context) (Doring et al, 2009).
You can see that it’s been a bit of a recipe for disaster…
Happy Visits are a foundation to counterconditioning to vet visits and setting dogs up to be more comfortable. A Happy Visit should consist of a visit for the dog as far into the process with which they are comfortable.
Can that dog remain somewhat comfortable as far as the car-park? That’s the starting point. Visit the car-park regularly, have a treat-party, hang out when all is calm & quiet, and go home.
Can the dog just about enter reception willingly? That’s the starting point. Have a treat-party in the car-park, scatter some treats to snuffle in reception and go home.
Happy Visits don’t start with meeting staff or having cuddles. This doesn’t need to be a part of this process. We consider the function of the dog’s behaviour and stress related behaviour functions to escape the stressor.
Dogs likely experience fear in anticipation of going to the vet’s.
Counterconditioning is one approach to help improving their feelings and attitude. We take a version of the scary thing and associate that with pleasant things, such as yummy food and safety.
The scary thing predicts the availability of the yummy things!
But counterconditioning is just one part of the puzzle; by keeping exposure long-duration-&-low-intensity, we are also incorporating some desensitisation, habituation and social learning.
With increasing comfort, the dog can be taught to step up onto the weighing scales willingly, something that many dogs find daunting and associate with coercion.
Guiding dogs onto weighing scales can be done simply, with our hands-off approach as much as possible and is a great way to get them into playing the cooperative-game.
Discuss Happy Visits for your dog, with their vet-team, and come up with a plan that increases everyone’s comfort.
Of course, we can help too! | literature |
http://gyalwagyatso.org/yoga-the-12-step-path-recovery-weekly-classes/ | 2013-05-19T08:51:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697232084/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094032-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.955651 | 322 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__129812315 | en | With Kyczy Hawk, Author & Yoga Instructor
Every Monday 7:00-9:00pm
1 hour topic discussion meeting
1 hour Basic Hatha yoga practice
(No class on March 25th and April 1st 2013)
This class is open to anyone and everyone dealing with addictions to substances or behaviors. It is also open to those who are in relationship to people who have these addictions. Spouses, children, friends and family are all affected by the addictive attitudes and behaviors of the people they love. Discussing the impacts and sharing positive solutions is useful and necessary. Releasing the trauma and memories from our bodies is a key component to finding recovery in body mind and spirit. Join this class to find additional tool to relieve the pain and suffering that addiction brings.
Kyczy Hawk, RYT 200, has studied with Nikki Myers, Durga Leela and Annalisa Cunningham gaining a deep well rounded understanding of relationship between yoga and recovery. She teaches an ongoing Y12SR; Yoga and 12 Step Recovery class, yoga for those in recovery as well as conventional yoga classes at Willow Glen Yoga. She also teaches for well known non-profits such as The Art of Yoga Project and the Niroga Institute. She has written a book, Yoga and the 12 Step Path, published by Central Recovery Press, due out in April 2012.
Cost: suggested donation $10
No pre-registration required. Drop-ins welcome!
Yoga and Recovery at a Buddhist Center: Blog with Venerable Drimay
Additional information: Yoga Recovery | literature |
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Sharp Ends - Joe Abercrombie - 2016
Stories from the World of the First Law
By: Joe Abercrombie
Narrated by: Steven Pacey, Joe Abercrombie
Series: First Law World
Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
Release date: 04-26-16
Categories: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Anthologies & Short Stories
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
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Sharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award-winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie.
Violence explodes, treachery abounds, and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of sideshows, backstories, and sharp endings from the world of the First Law.
The Union army may be full of bastards, but there's only one who thinks he can save the day singlehanded when the Gurkish come calling: the incomparable Colonel Sand dan Glokta.
Curnden Craw and his dozen are out to recover a mysterious item from beyond the Crinna. Only one small problem: no one seems to know what the item is. Shevedieh, the self-styled best thief in Styria, lurches from disaster to catastrophe alongside her best friend and greatest enemy, Javre, Lioness of Hoskopp. And after years of bloodshed, the idealistic chieftain, Bethod, is desperate to bring peace to the North.
There's only one obstacle left - his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine....
Sharp Ends combines previously published award-winning tales with exclusive new short stories. Violence explodes, treachery abounds and the words are as deadly as the weapons in this rogue's gallery of sideshows, backstories and sharp endings from the world of the First Law.
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http://whiteoaklibrary.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=18681&lib=1001&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2019/10/01 | 2020-02-22T23:11:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145729.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20200222211056-20200223001056-00263.warc.gz | 0.948469 | 354 | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__155801930 | en | Meet popular author Gail Lukasik, who is the author of the best selling book "White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing."The Washington Post named White Like Her one of the most inspiring stories of 2017. The book is the story of her mother’s “passing” for white, her struggle with the shame of mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption.
Gail will talk about "White Like Her" as well as her appearances on PBS's Genealogy Roadshow and the Megyn Kelly Today Show. She will share her personal and genealogical journey to uncover her mother's racial heritage and how tracing her family back to eighteenth-century Louisiana led her to a deeper understanding of race and racial identity and the discovery of a lost family.
The book captured national attention and led to Gail’s appearance on NBC’s Megyn KellyToday Show (February 2018). She’s also appeared on WTTW’s Chicago Tonight, WGN-TV Morning News Show.
FGW Productions in partnership with ICM (International Creative Management) has optioned the film and TV rights for White Like Her. The book is in development as a TV dramatic series.
There will be a Q&A session and signed books will be available for purchase.
Appetizers along with wine and beer will be served.
Attendees must be 21 years of age or older to attend.
*Registration is required due to limited space. If you are not able to attend, please inform us 24 hours in advance, so we can offer your spot to someone else. No Shows may be wait listed for future programs. | literature |
http://jmel.com.ng/index.php/jmel/article/view/232 | 2019-07-23T04:40:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528869.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723043719-20190723065719-00492.warc.gz | 0.759211 | 1,020 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__42061690 | en | DOUBLE STANDARDS FOR THE SEXES IN THE WORKS OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR AND IHECHI NKORO
Previous studies in the area of women and gender studies have dwelt on oppression of women in the society and suggested ways to overcome it. However, the double standards on which oppressive behaviours toward women are based, as mirrored in literary texts, have not yet been adequately explored. The present study therefore, sets out to examine double standards in the societal values used in determining the worth of women and men, married or unmarried. The paper examines how internalised cultural self-worth of male and female members of the society play out consciously or unconsciously in influencing their views and actions as well as how these work against the interests of women. The works of two female authors, namely, Les belles images by Simone de Beauvoir, a European, and Ma vie m’appartient by Ihechi Nkoro, an African, are chosen for the investigation. This is considered a vantage point from which to explore established conventions and how these reinforce female oppression in both societies. The study draws from feminist principles in carrying out the analysis of the selected works and points to ways that oppressive double standards can be undermined, resulting ultimately in a reduction of oppression against women.
Key words: Double standards, sexual freedom, social conventions, female oppression, marriage, child bearing.
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https://michaelfaloticoart.wordpress.com/home/comic-books/our-own/ | 2021-07-30T11:29:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153966.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210730091645-20210730121645-00205.warc.gz | 0.947131 | 160 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__126892398 | en | “Our Own” is a collaborative comic created by Michael Falotico and Laura Bellmont. Inspired by “Alien” fan fiction, each artist wrote a script and exchanged it to be illustrated by the other.
‘Home and Hearth’ written by Laura Bellmont and illustrated by Michael Falotico: After humanity’s return to a xenomorph ravaged earth, a family struggles with this new way of life.
‘Green House’ written by Michael Falotico and illustrated by Laura Bellmont: A disillusioned woman finds peace and clarity in the midst of a deep-space nightmare.
*this comic is unofficial and is not in any way endorsed by the creators of the “Alien” series. *this book is not for sale | literature |
http://mybeautymusings.blogspot.com/2010/12/recent-reading-material.html | 2018-12-14T14:18:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376825916.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20181214140721-20181214162221-00040.warc.gz | 0.980214 | 209 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__242545397 | en | This post is in no way beauty related. I recently came across a list of 100 books that you should read at some point in your life (some are series of books, so the total comes to over 100). I love to read and have a small library worth of books, so when I came across the list I naturally had to read everything on it. I have already read nearly a quarter of the books on the list, and have about six that I intend to finish before the new year. (As it is already December 17th, I have to get cracking!)
The ones I am finishing up in the next week and a half are:
I am already half way through Jane Eyre and love it so much, I can't wait to see the new screen adaptation of it. I am a quick reader, but may need some luck finishing all these what with the holidays taking of most of my time. If anyone is interested, I'll post the list of books. Just let me know :)
Wish me luck! | literature |
http://heprp.blogspot.com/2011/01/for-beauty-of-earthfor-beauty-of-skies.html | 2018-07-18T05:04:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590051.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718041450-20180718061450-00189.warc.gz | 0.911234 | 145 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__35596261 | en | For the beauty of the earth,For the beauty of the skies,
For the love which from our birth Over and around us lies,
Lord of all to Thee we raise,This our hymn of grateful praise.
For the beauty of each hour Of the day and of the night,
Hill and vale,and tree and flower,
Sun and moon,and stars of light,
Lord of all to Thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.
Again we have been blessed with another wonderful year of,safety,food,clothing,family,friends and most of all the freedom to worship our Creator and Saviour.
May you all have a blessed new year. | literature |
https://actorsguild.livejournal.com/160498.html | 2018-04-23T13:38:42 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946011.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423125457-20180423145457-00183.warc.gz | 0.965172 | 242 | CC-MAIN-2018-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__110343348 | en | I am very pleased to announce that my best-selling book, THE ABC'S OF SOAPS: All You Need for a Career in Daytime TV, is now in its third printing. The book is the only text of its kind that is readily available to both aspiring actors and theatre majors who wish to know all the ins and outs of working in Soaps on Daytime and Primetime Television.
It includes how to interview, audition, and book work as an actor, contract player, writer, and director- all with potentially high six-figure incomes on one or more of the many network daytime TV Dramas. Recognized in the TV industry as "The Manual" on the subject of Daytime TV. Many colleges and universities are now including...THE ABC'S OF SOAPS: All You Need for a Career in Daytime TV as required text for the BFA/MFA Theatre Degree curriculum.
The event includes a reading from the book/ Q&A, followed by a book signing and a special appearance by Ginger Kroll (from "Guiding Light" and the feature film "Notorious")! Please feel free to invite your friends, family, neighbors, whoever! | literature |
https://musingsincatholicland.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/two-lenten-passion-poems/ | 2019-01-18T03:20:55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583659677.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20190118025529-20190118051529-00129.warc.gz | 0.98698 | 465 | CC-MAIN-2019-04 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__198997370 | en | Lorraine Monteiro from Good Shepherd Church, Andheri West, has always had a talent with words. She is an avid poet and has penned many beautiful compositions. I would like to share two of them which are particularly relevant as we approach the Lenten season.
The way to Calvary on which walked my Lord
Was filled with such hardship and pain
A crown of thorns on his head was lain
Carrying a cross on his bruised back
Tread the road which was so steep.
Stumbling with each step he took
My heart with sorrow shook.
The crowds jeered and mocked at him
Beatings and insults adorned his way
His eyes were filled with agony
He bore it all for you and me.
The journey seems so long and painful
As he reached the mount of Calvary.
Nails in his hands and feet tore him apart
The spear finally pierced his heart
Out flowed blood and water like a river
The sight of it all makes me shiver.
Inspite of all the pain and sorrow
He forgave us for a brighter tomorrow.
Bowing his head he gave his life
Finally redeeming us from all sin
As darkness and fear covered the earth
Lightning and thunder gripped the place
What an awesome sight it was
For truly he was the Son of God.
My Friend and the Cross
What a symbol of suffering the cross became
My Lord died on it with such shame
Why did it happen so ?
Looking back I feel so low.
He was a man with majesty and splendour
Who always loved everyone so tender
Why then did he have to go thru so much pain
For a man who came into the world without stain.
The nails that pierced his hands and feet
Crown of thorns that lay on his head
Think of how much the Lord must have bled
The pain that etched on his face
Speaks but a thousand words.
As I sat in front of the cross today
A few words would like to say
There was a light that shone in his eyes
He called me with arms open wide
Suddenly felt all my troubles wash away
My Friend and the Cross with me will always stay. | literature |
http://tvtakesall.blogspot.com/2011/10/morning-joe-team-to-write-joint-memoir.html | 2018-07-21T07:52:48 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592420.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721071046-20180721091046-00476.warc.gz | 0.959785 | 126 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__5558533 | en | |More book signings are in store |
for the Morning Joe team.
The MSNBC morning duo, former Florida Congressman Joe Scarborough and TV veteran Mika Brzezinkski, of Morning Joe will write a book together to be called "Mika and Joe: Our American Stories."
According to Politico's Mike Allen, the book is billed as a joint memoir and will be published by Random House editor John Meacham, the former editor of Newsweek who is a frequent Morning Joe guest.
Allen reports that the book "will explore their lives leading up to their remarkable collaboration in creating the hottest brand in political television." | literature |
http://teeoff4tucker.com/2018-honoree/ | 2022-01-26T04:14:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00015.warc.gz | 0.981091 | 688 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__118906380 | en | In loving memory of Ed Gulley
by Tony Thayne
With a heavy heart we announce this years TOFT pay it forward recipient as Carol Gulley.
Carol is the wife of Ed Gulley (my in-laws) who passed away after a battle with brain cancer.
I came to know Ed and Carol 18 years ago after meeting Maggie and driving to the farm for the first time. Maggie told me not to be offended because he wouldn’t talk to me but my competitive spirit kicked in and took it as a challenge. To Maggie’s amazement we quickly became friends and shortly after I became part of their family. I always felt I owed them a debt of gratitude for they gave me the best gift anyone could ask for in their daughter.
As time moved on Ed and I became pretty close. We had hard discussions, gave advice to each other and shared countless laughs. Ed was a strong man, a farmer true and true, that on many occasions had to explain to me, “why he did it”. It wasn’t about the money, it wasn’t so much about working for yourself because you worked for the animals they didn’t work for you. It was truly the only lifestyle he could have imagined. To care for animals unconditionally whether in driving rain storms, hard blizzards or the oppressing heat it was what was in his DNA.
The farming industry was never anything I had an understanding for until coming into the family. Hearing stories on how animals are bred for better genetics, all the quality checks they look for in feed and in the milk and something as simple of how a sore foot impacts that cows production. There was so much science behind the “simple” label of Farmer that I found it fascinating. Dairy farming to this day is one of, if not thee most regulated industries in the country. As milk prices go, the general consumer thinks wow milk is up $4 per gallon in places the Farmers are making a killing. Dairy Farmers are paid per 100lbs of milk. The latest study for the Northeast shows it takes $24.50 per 100lbs to just break even and as I’m writing this the current milk price is $13.00 per hundredweight. That’s roughly $1.25-$1.50 per gallon yet $3-$4 sometimes even higher is being paid in the store. Imagine going to your job everyday knowing if everything goes smoothly and I ration everything properly I’m going to lose $11+ per hundred. This is so perplexing for an “outsider” but it goes back to the lifestyle conversation and the mentality that regardless of the market the unrelenting love of a farmer for his animals will prevail.
My heart hurts for Carol, who had to say good bye for now to her Farmer, my heart melts for my wife who lost her “first man” but my heart also rejoices because those other feelings come from how much Ed touched this world in a positive manner. Hurt comes from the love felt for another human being and Ed’s passing has proven how much he was loved.
The TOFT team is honored to pay it forward to Carol and help cover funeral expenses and outstanding medical bills.
Thank you all that support TOFT in making it one of the best events we can share. | literature |
https://helensteadman.com/audio-books/ | 2021-09-23T17:18:01 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057427.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923165408-20210923195408-00429.warc.gz | 0.932588 | 138 | CC-MAIN-2021-39 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__51988600 | en | Widdershins audio book available from Audible, AppleBooks, iTunes and Amazon.
Try a short sample below. Narrated by Christine Mackie from Downton Abbey, Coronation Street, etc.
The Sunwise audiobook was published on 07/09/21 and The Running Wolf will be available later in autumn 2021. Christine Mackie is narrating Widdershins and its sequel, Sunwise. You may recognise her dulcet tones from TV series such as Downton Abbey, Wire in the Blood and Coronation Street.
All three novels will be available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes by the end of 2021. | literature |
http://digitalnewsreleases.com/archives/category/entertainment | 2013-05-24T08:56:58 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00083-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.938984 | 345 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__72345445 | en | After the widely successful film adaptation of the post apocalyptic teen novel, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is making waves in libraries as well.
The Auckland libraries are no exception, as currently 2610 people are currently in line to borrow the book.
As of this writing, the novel tops a list of the most requested titles. Although the Auckland libraries collectively house 229 copies of the book, and four more are on order, a three month waiting period is set for readers looking to borrow a copy, according to Louise LaHatte, Auckland libraries regional resources manager.
Library readers hunger for hit book – Books – NZ Herald News http://t.co/Ve8MMGCr
— AbacusEduBooks (Abacus Edu Books) (@AbacusEduBooks) Tue May 1 2012
The book, by American Suzanne Collins, heads a list of the most requested titles. Even with 229 copies available and four more on order, readers are waiting up to three months for a copy, Auckland Libraries regional resources manager Louise LaHatte said.
According to a report by the New Zealand Herald, in the capital 226 people are queuing for city libraries’ 51 copies and in Christchurch 365 people are waiting for 75 books.
The book follows 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen and her experience at being chosen to participate in the Hunger Games, along with 12 boys and 11 other girls who are expected to fight for their lives until only one is left.
The story is about 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who is selected by lottery to take part in an annual event in which 12 boys and 12 girls battle for their lives until only one is left. | literature |
https://www.satot.es/2020/04/23/transplant-candidate-kdigo/ | 2022-07-02T03:02:45 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103983398.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702010252-20220702040252-00620.warc.gz | 0.921906 | 206 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__8548239 | en | Transplantation is the kidney replacement therapy of choice for suitable patients with kidney failure. However, not all patients are suitable candidates for transplantation, and suitability is often determined by the perceived risks of transplantation relative to the risks of not receiving a transplant. Estimation of risk is therefore a key part of the transplant candidate evaluation. Should a decision to proceed to transplantation be made, consideration of how to minimize risks and maximize the chances of a successful outcome are additional aspects of the candidate evaluation process.
The KDIGO Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Candidates for Kidney Transplantation systematically examines current evidence concerning the risks of transplantation associated with specific conditions and provides recommendations as to how clinicians may wish to deal with specific risk factors in isolation. In practice, patients are frequently complex and exhibit multiple risk factors for poor transplant outcomes. Ultimately the clinician will be required to synthesize the total risk burden that each candidate presents in deciding on suitability for transplantation. | literature |
http://sarahreed.squarespace.com/news/2017/9/6/new-paper-stewardship-of-conservation-developments | 2019-04-20T10:39:18 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578529606.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420100901-20190420122901-00436.warc.gz | 0.933996 | 350 | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__26220591 | en | Conservation Development (CD) is a strategy for conserving private lands with the potential to protect biodiversity while meeting growing demands for housing. Although CD is increasingly common, little is known about how CDs are implemented, and whether developers and homeowners follow best practices and achieve conservation objectives. We formally assessed the presence and content of management plans and conservation easements for CD subdivisions (n =302) in six Colorado counties and documented the land uses and stewardship activities that are prohibited, permitted, encouraged, or required in the protected open space of each CD. We found that a majority (69%) of CDs had management documents on file, but their prevalence varied from 0 to 82% among the six counties. Fewer than one-third (29%) of the management documents stated a value or purpose for preserving the land, and objectives associated with human values (e.g., preservation of scenic or agricultural values), were far more prevalent (65–78% of documents with stated reasons for preservation) than objectives associated with conservation goals (e.g., preservation of wildlife, ecological/environmental values) (12–46%). Restrictions on land subdivision and regulation regarding the number and type of structures were most frequently included in management documents (84%), whereas guidelines for wildlife habitat improvement, species-specific monitoring and management, homeowner education, and access to the open space by domestic pets were rarely mentioned (all < 18%). By identifying common deficiencies in management documents, this study will help planners, developers, and homeowners more successfully implement CDs that effectively protect and maintain biodiversity on private lands over the long term.
Download the full paper here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204617301949 | literature |
https://signalmountaintn.gov/departments/library/friends_of_library.php | 2024-04-16T04:55:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00041.warc.gz | 0.948497 | 161 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__148356446 | en | Friends of Library
The Friends of the Signal Mountain Library is an independent organizational board that supports the library by raising funds for material and programs. Members meet quarterly to review library needs.
The chief fundraiser for the Friends is the Book Nook, our used bookstore featuring a wide selection ranging from children and young adult titles to adult fiction and nonfiction, including travel guides and cookbooks. Volumes for the store are provided by donations from both the community and items weeded from the library’s collection. The Friends stock and organize the Book Nook, located on the library’s lower level.
All money raised by the Friends supports the library’s various programs, including children’s summer educational events, media for the library’s collection, and special library projects. | literature |
http://michiganradio.org/post/join-great-michigan-read-story-writing-contest?nopop=1 | 2014-09-18T23:49:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657129409.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011209-00027-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz | 0.916501 | 347 | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__45685417 | en | Podcasts & RSS Feeds
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Thu April 10, 2014
Join the Great Michigan Read story-writing contest
The Deadline for this contest has expired.
The Michigan Humanities Council’s Great Michigan Read program aims to connect Michigan citizens by exploring our history, our present, and our future as discussed in a single literary title. This year’s Great Michigan Read book, Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg, is a story about family secrets, personal journeys, genealogy, mental disability and illness, poverty, and immigration.
As a sponsor of the Great Michigan Read program, Michigan Radio is presenting a “one minute” short story writing contest.
You are invited to submit a micro-story on the theme: “Hidden branches of your family tree: Unexpected stories that changed the way you think of yourself or your family.”
The contest is open to anyone with a personal and original story to tell on the topic. Stories should be a maximum of 120 words.
Winners will have their stories recorded and read on Michigan Radio, receive an autographed copy of “Annie’s Ghosts” by author Steve Luxenberg, and be invited to the Great Michigan Read closing event in Ferndale. | literature |
http://www.wias-berlin.de/people/tabelow/index.jsp?lang=0 | 2020-01-19T02:56:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250594101.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119010920-20200119034920-00205.warc.gz | 0.759709 | 325 | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__42653308 | en | Dr. Karsten Tabelow - personal homepage
I am a member of the research group Stochastic Algorithms and Nonparametric Statistics of the Weierstrass Institut for Applied Analysis and Stochastics. My current research interest is in image processing and neuroscience applications, adaptive smoothing methods, dimension reduction methods and statistical modelling.
I am author of a large number of articles in scientific journals and book chapters, see the publication site for details.
- adimpro - Adaptive Smoothing of Digital Images (with J. Polzehl)
- dti - dMRI Analysis (with J. Polzehl)
- fmri - Analysis of fMRI Experiments (with J. Polzehl)
- ACID-Toolbox for Artifact Correction in dMRI for SPM (with S. Mohammadi, J. Polzehl, L. Ruthotto)
- aws4SPM - toolbox for SPM (with Devy Hoffmann) -currently under reconstruction
- AWS for AMIRA - plugin for AMIRA (TM) (with Devy Hoffmann)
- Adaptive smoothing plugin for BrainVoyager QX (with Felix Anker)
Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und
Stochastik, Mohrenstraße 39, 10117 Berlin, phone: +49-30-20372-564, fax: +49-30-20372-303
last reviewed: Mar 1, 2016, Karsten Tabelow | literature |
http://heather.therichins.net/ | 2017-04-30T09:01:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124478.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00099-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.984403 | 1,160 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__253213885 | en | My first child is a voracious reader. Miss Bug reads from morning to night. If I don’t know where she is, she is probably in her room reading. Her favorite place is the library. And her constant complaint is the lack of new books. She has pushed me to read new books. She has read many books that I haven’t. She was also an easy child to teach to read. We read to her, taught her the alphabet, and helped her sound out her first words. Then she was off and running.
My second child, T-Rex, has been a different story. And he has taught me how to help a slow reader.
Every child is different. Each has different strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes. So the items on this list might not be as helpful to you as they were to me. But hopefully they will be a starting point.
1. Read to your child
Read from real books that he/she enjoys. Let reading time be a time of pure enjoyment, not teaching. I know my son began to really dislike reading because he couldn’t do it well. Even though I was able to see small improvements in him, he felt like he was constantly failing. Reading to him with no goal other than enjoyment was key to keeping him from turning completely off to books.
2. Read a lot
Read from books. Read from magazines. Read websites, encyclopedias, scriptures, dictionaries and newspapers. Have you child read the instructions in their math books, history books and handwriting books. Read one page, and have them read one page. Pick a subject they are excited about and check out books on it from early readers to middle school readers. Have them read to their younger siblings, older siblings, grandparents, or the dog. And . . .
2a. Write a lot
Writing is an extension of reading. Have your child copy poems, quotations, scriptures and songs. Have them keep a journal, even one sentence a day. Have them write book reports, state reports, current events and stories. If they hate handwriting, have them type. Have them write whatever amount they are comfortable with, and maybe one sentence beyond.
3. Find what works for them
A lot of advice I hear given goes something like this: ‘Boys just need to find a book they are interested in, then their reading takes off.’ This is true for some, not so much for others. For my son, he loved the ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ books. We read them with him, each taking a page at a time. Truth be told, this didn’t cause him to immediately begin reading quickly and fluently. But it did respark his interest in books.
Another thing that worked well for us was finding readers that he enjoyed. I had on my shelf the Bob books, a set of Usborne readers, and the McGuffey primers. He read through parts of all of them, with varying levels of success, interest and enjoyment. Then I finally found the readers that my mother had taught me with.
The Sullivan Programmed Reading Series was interesting to my son, and taught him in ways that he was able to grasp quickly. He really enjoys these readers, and I’ll do a fuller review of them at a later date.
4. Sign up for a reading contest
Summer reading programs and contests can be found at many libraries and bookstores across the country. You might think that this would be counterproductive to your child, as it would compare him to others with better skills. But many contests have basic prizes or rewards for participation, or reading a set number of books. Exodusbooks.com holds a summer reading program each year, and every child who reads five or more books at his or her reading level receives a $5 gift certificate to the website (this is taken from a fee of $5 per child to enter the program). My son has been very excited to enter this contest the last three years, and while his sister puts up 100 books and thousands of pages each summer, he works his way through five to ten books or so, and proudly claims his prize at then, choosing whatever books he would like with his gift certificate.
You could also make a family reading program. A chart where each book read adds a scoop to an ice cream cone, toppings to a pizza, or helps a rockets take off can be very motivating, especially if the everyone gets an ice cream party after ten scoops!
5. Have your child tested
If your child is having difficulties that you can’t help them with, struggles that are taking years to resolve, or other problems in connection with reading, have them tested for learning difficulties. If your child has dyslexia or other learning disabilities, they will need specialized help. Knowing what they need can help guide you in you teaching. Finding out that your child doesn’t have any of those problems can also be helpful, as you will know what not to worry about. Our son, thankfully, does not have any learning disabilities. But it has taken 3 years of patient work to get him reading with some fluency. He is still progressing, but we finally feeling confident that he is getting where he needs to be.
All of these things can be part of a plan to help you. Something of interest to note is that some countries in Europe do not start formal schooling until children are 7, but still have excellent results. I hope this article is a good starting point for you.
Note: I was not paid or compensated to mention any product in this post. | literature |
http://delphidb96.blogspot.com/2010/07/ | 2017-04-28T17:50:14 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123046.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00011-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.957857 | 317 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__72984634 | en | That's right, a 6" x 9" trade paperback version of Carl Bussjaeger's fascinating libertarian novel, "Net Assets" is now available over at CreateSpace
for $18.95. If you haven't had a chance to pick up the ebook at Amazon, or if you feel more comfortable reading dead-tree versions, now's the time to order this first book in the "Net Assets" trilogy! An anthology of Carl's SF short stories will be released in August, 2010, and the second of the NA trilogy will be released in ebook and trade paperback format Fall, 2010.
The synopsis for "Net Assets" is:
"Once upon a time, there was an agency of the American government called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA was tasked with the exploration and development of space. Being a government agency, it was very bad at the job. But also, being a government agency, NASA made damned sure that no one else would do a better job.
"And then the bureacrats' world came to an end."
In the early 21st century, someone has finally had it with the lost dreams and broken promises of government-sponsored space access. It begins quietly on the Internet, then grows into a small private company determined to do what many believed impossible: Private, affordable, regular orbital launches. For anyone. For everyone.
But as has been noted, "Ad astra per aspera."
This is a stimulating and provocative libertarian science fiction novel - don't miss it! | literature |
https://www.pamelahartpoet.com/ | 2019-10-14T15:13:03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986653876.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014150930-20191014174430-00558.warc.gz | 0.951377 | 318 | CC-MAIN-2019-43 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__79919121 | en | PAMELA HART is author of the award-winning collection, MOTHERS OVER NANGARHAR, published in 2019 by Sarabande Books. She is writer-in-residence at the Katonah Museum of Art where she manages and teaches an arts-in-education program. She received the Brian Turner Literary Arts Prize in poetry in 2016. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowship as well as a fellowship from the SUNY Purchase College Writers Center. Toadlily Press published her chapbook, The End of the Body. She is a teaching artist in the schools and lives in North Salem, New York. She is a poetry editor for the Afghan Women’s Writing Project and for As You Were: The Military Review.
MOTHERS OVER NANGARHAR is like no book of poetry I’ve read. It tells of the mothers whose “beautiful and dangerous” children and partners fight our world’s wars. Their emotions are difficult to imagine, but we don’t need to imagine them, since these poems deliver them with lyric precision directly to our hearts. — Kathleen Ossip, The Do-Over
Hart reveals and maps the layered psychological strata of the stateside terrain, war’s home front. This collection is part of a necessary dialogue on war and conflict that stretches from one generation to another now, and yet rarely makes the nightly news or the kitchen table. Thankfully, Hart refuses to add to the silence. — Brian Turner, Here, Bullet | literature |
http://writeabooktogrowyourbusiness.com/optin18365914 | 2021-04-16T22:27:15 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038092961.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20210416221552-20210417011552-00490.warc.gz | 0.957344 | 333 | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__248942290 | en | Georgia Kirke is an entrepreneur, author and speaker based in the UK, with a passion for helping successful business leaders communicate their ‘why’ and connect with others by sharing their values, personality, creativity and unique capabilities. As Founder and Director of Write Business Results Ltd, a revolutionary business book company created specifically for entrepreneurs, accelerating unique individuals’ journey to the next level is at the heart of what Georgia does.
Established in 2015, Write Business Results works with busy, growth-focussed entrepreneurs to become published authors in order to grow their business, become the industry expert and own the space they’re in.
Using Georgia’s own uniquely developed Book Creation Process, formed from her knowledge of writing techniques and formats, academic training and experience of the requirements for simplification, focus and value creation for busy entrepreneurs, Write Business Results turns business owners into established experts, whatever your industry, location or message.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur herself, Georgia gained commercial experience working with large multinationals as well as small entrepreneurial businesses. More recently, she spent 3 years with internationally acclaimed business coaching company Strategic Coach® as their UK Business Development Manager and UK Program Advisor, supporting around 100 business owners implement the Strategic Coach® tools and methodologies into their teams and businesses.
She now focuses on helping others to tap into their own form of creativity and potential, and turn that into a life that makes them happy.
The Entrepreneur's Guide To Book Marketing Success: Grow Your Business, Become The Expert & Own The Space You’re In is available to buy on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com. | literature |
http://400squareftliving.blogspot.com/2011/06/fireworks.html | 2018-07-23T05:58:37 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676594954.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723051723-20180723071723-00614.warc.gz | 0.959803 | 193 | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__94642178 | en | A crowd gathered on the beach at 11pm. Families snuggled in their cars, kids played on the beach, teenagers lingered in the trees, and lovers sat on top of the lighthouse. A dog swam by to collect driftwood from the shallows of the lake. At 11pm, the Western sky was still revealed faint traces of light on this Summer Solstice night. And then, the first fireworks shot into the sky and the crowd "ooohed" and "ahhhed". A little girl snuggled up to her mom at the loud crack of the explosion, but kept her eyes to the sky in awe.
The lights in the sky were reflected on the lake..
The fireworks looked like stars and solar systems.
The crowed cheered and applauded and cars honked their appreciation. The crowd cleared out quickly to take sleepy kids to bed and we enjoyed a walk home in the cool night of the first day of Summer. | literature |
https://www.pljonasbooks.com/post/new-book-in-the-works | 2023-12-01T17:26:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100290.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201151933-20231201181933-00480.warc.gz | 0.963917 | 190 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__139537145 | en | I'm Typing As Fast As I can!
Updated: Sep 20
Exciting news for fans of my romantic suspense "Hall of Deception", a sequel is in the works!! I am busy, busy, busy writing every day.
"A Sea of Doubt" follows Hugh, Dee, Ellen, and new characters in the next stage of their lives. In 1960, six years after the wedding, Hugh moved his family to a small California beach community south of San Francisco.
With Hugh away too much with his new business, Dee is bored and unhappy with the move, and Ellen struggles to fit in at the public school. Suspicion and doubt surround the family as misunderstandings mount.
But when damaging rumors about Ellen and Dee spread through the community, their family’s happiness is put to a test.
Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.
Projected Release: Fall 2024 ( corrected) | literature |
http://entlebucher.us/memorial.htm | 2023-06-08T20:53:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655143.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608204017-20230608234017-00074.warc.gz | 0.985938 | 1,357 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__103483780 | en | I dedicate the following poem to the dogs that I have lost in the past, the dogs that I live with now and the dogs that will be in my future.
Where to Bury a Dog
For if the dog be well remembered,
if sometimes she leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, laughing, begging, it matters not where that dog sleeps.
On a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, of beside a stream she knew in puppy hood,
or somewhere in the flatness of a pastureland where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is one to a dog, and all one to you,
and nothing is gained and nothing lost -- if memory lives.
But there is one best place to bury a dog.
If you bury her in this spot, she will come to you when you call --
come to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path to your side again.
And though you may call a dozen living dogs to heel, they shall not growl at her nor resent her coming, for she belongs there.
People may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by her footfall,
who hear no whimper, people who have never really had a dog.
Smile at them, for you shall know something that is hidden from them.
The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of her master… - Anonymous
Flip was our family dog when I was going up. He was the puppy of Margie, the first dog in my life. Flip was given to a family that lived down the street when I was a child, before moving to the country. My Mother would call the owners and ask if Flip could come and play with me. They would let him out and he would come over for a play visit. Flip was evidently an escape artist and had been picked up by the Dog Warden one too many times. So they said he could come live with us as long as he went to the country. Flip was the supervisor of our house construction, waiting for us to move in. We lived next door to my Grandmother, Aunt and Uncle. Flip walked us kids to the bus every day. Flip would get excited when asked if he wanted to go to school. That is when he would walk my brother and I to the end of our street to catch the school bus. He waited patiently for the bus to arrive, then would walk back home (we lived on a dead end street). Flip taught me unconditional love and devotion. He was my best friend in the early years of my life.
Paula's Heidi Ho CDX
Heidi was my constant companion for 15 and 1/2 years. She understood my feelings and was always there for me. Heidi entered my life when I was in eighth grade. When Heidi was older she went deaf and due to her obedience training, she would respond to hand signals. Heidi was the first dog to introduce me into the world of dog shows. She was not a show dog, but loved pleasing me and was a wonderful obedience dog. That is why I encourage anyone to have a good obedience foundation in their dog, whatever breed you chose. Obedience is a lifetime of learning and living with your dog. She was my 4-H dog for 4 years and she passed away 3 weeks shy of my 30th birthday. Everyone should have the opportunity to have the love and devotion of a dog like Heidi.
Buckeye Buttercup CDX
Susie was my first Miniature Pinscher. I purchased Susie with the money I made from selling my horse. Susie did not want to be a show dog, but enjoyed obedience. She would go into the ring and roach her back, act scared then go outside the ring and prance around wagging her tail. The show life was not for her. She did produce four AKC Champions in her lifetime which introduced me to the world of AKC conformation dog shows. I have traveled all over the country showing my Miniature Pinchers in shows and Miniature Pincher Club of America National Specialties. Susie was loved by everyone in my family. Words cannot describe how we all felt about Susie.
Hanna am Flaschee CD
Hanna was my first Entlebucher. When my German Shepherd Heidi, passed away I thought that I could never care as deeply for a dog again. Hanna came into my life as a 10 week old puppy and was a blessing. You may read that Entlebuchers are reserved with strangers… well Hanna never read that in the standard for the breed. Hanna loved everyone. When I planned to breed Hanna for the first time, I had heard that some Entlys had temperament traits that I did not want in my breeding. So I went to California to meet the male and make sure that he was what I wanted for the foundation of my breeding. I am particularly proud of the temperament traits of the puppies that I breed!
Hanna was a wonderful show dog. We traveled all over the country showing in ARBA (American Rare Breed Association) dog shows. At that time it was one of the few venues available to us. Hanna won multiple Best in Show awards with ARBA. We were unable to show in AKC Conformation since Entlebuchers were not accepted in the AKC at that time. When we were accepted into the FSS (Foundation Stock Service) the prelude to our journey into full AKC recognition, Hanna was the first AKC Obedience titled Entlebucher in the breed. I will always be very proud of our accomplishments. Hanna passed away at the age of 14 and 1/2.
Bello VD Weirhalten RN
Bello was a wonderful ambassador for the breed and an incredible addition to our family! We lovingly called him, "Mello" Bello.
He was also the ultimate show dog. When Bello was in the show ring he had a presence that would make you just stop and watch him. He won multiple Best in Shows with ARBA. He was the number seven dog in the country, all breeds with ARBA when he was about 5 years old. We had the opportunity to travel to Washington DC to receive his award.
Bello also has a first for the Entlebucher Mountain Dog breed:
Bello is the first AKC Rally titled Entlebucher. Bello passed away 2 weeks shy of his 15 birthday. | literature |
https://puffy-alpaca-25c.notion.site/Download-free-OMFS-textbook-b9daf4f81cd9470988fd6e2bafd5cfec | 2023-12-11T12:53:09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679511159.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211112008-20231211142008-00619.warc.gz | 0.960814 | 252 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__23541979 | en | BAOMS are pleased to announce the publication of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) for Medical Students and Allied Healthcare Professionals which is now available as a free PDF to download via this link
This beautifully illustrated and easy to read book should be of interest to medical students, doctors at an early career stage as well as other allied healthcare professionals who wish to gain greater understanding of OMFS, and the wider head and neck conditions that the specialty treats. It provides a wealth of information including details about skin cancer, salivary gland disease and neck lumps that many students and early career doctors might encounter as part of their practice. In addition, the book gives an insight into facial trauma and deformity, oral cancer and free flap reconstruction as well as many other areas.
We hope that this free PDF resource, which has been funded by BAOMS, will provide valuable information and generate interest and enthusiasm for our unique specialty.
As mentioned the book is free for all to download as a PDF and hard copies can be obtained from the publishers, Libri - With the code HL25, the hard copy book price is just £11.25 including delivery.
Professor Peter Brennan, co-author and Chair of BAOMS Council | literature |
http://johnnmarsh.com/professional-accomplishments/ | 2018-12-10T21:34:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823445.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210212544-20181210234044-00552.warc.gz | 0.807059 | 355 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__167044962 | en | 2006: Advisor/Consultant to “A Faith-Based Sexuality Education Guide for the Inclusion of Children and Youth with Special Needs” by Sally Patton (scheduled to be available online by summer 2007). This guide is to supplement the “Our Whole Lives” (OWL) curricula.
2004: Unitarian Universalists for Ethical Treatment of Animals Special Award for various works, including commencing an annual service for the “Blessing of the Animals” at the San Francisco Unitarian Universalist Church.
2003: “Margaret Laurence,” a biographical essay published in The Online Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography at: www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/
2000: “Practicing the Scales of Rejoicing” in Essex Conversations (Skinner Press, UUA, Boston, 2001).
1999: “Choose Life” in Sermons, Homilies, Reflections on the Death Penalty (published by the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, PA).
1998: “Reflections of a Fish Tank Man” in U.U. and ME: Church of the Larger Fellowship Children’s Magazine, September 1999, (Vol. 3 No. 2).
1996: Annual Social Justice Award of the Western Canada District of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
1995: “The Unitarian Church of Edmonton,” a history printed in Northern Lights, edited by Joan Montagnes, (Moosemilk Press, Edmonton, Alberta).
1994: editor, Sweetgrass and Cottonwood Smoke by Mary Scriver (Moosemilk Press, Edmonton, Alberta). | literature |
https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/society/societyaims | 2017-04-29T03:35:30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123270.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00023-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.944761 | 180 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__279608618 | en | The Society aims to encourage interest in and a deeper understanding of the life and work of the writer
Author of over fifty books including Tarka the Otter.
Photograph copyright © Oswald Jones
Permission granted for use by
The Henry Williamson Society
Copyright: Life does not come to an end when an author dies. Copyright exists for 75 years from death. Henry Williamson’s Literary Estate is a living entity and is managed by Anne Williamson, the wife of his son Richard. Every day there is something to be dealt with and most days there is several hours’ work involved. New editions of many of his books have been published since he died.
Enquiries about copyright permissions should be addressed to:
Mrs Anne Williamson, Manager of the HW Literary Estate,
Keepers, West Dean Woods, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0RU, England | literature |
http://www.henle.de/jp/the-publishing-house/artists/index.html | 2013-12-05T01:53:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163038079/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131718-00056-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.960155 | 343 | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__108916972 | en | Ever since its foundation, G. Henle Publishers has received lavish praise, recognition and most importantly valuable suggestions from musicians around the world. Amongst them are very prominent artists. As an example, here is a passage from a letter sent by Maestro Evgeny Kissin:
“I would like to congratulate from the bottom of my heart everybody who works or has worked for this wonderful publishing company and to express my gratitude for everything they have done and continue to do. I'm convinced that many musicians will join me in saying how useful and valuable your work is. May the G. Henle Verlag prosper continuously – for the benefit and joy of so many musicians and music lovers!
Evgeny Kissin to G. Henle Publishers; see also original letter
Günter Henle knew and was friends with many great artists of the time, including Rudolf Serkin, Edwin Fischer, Arthur Rubinstein, Walter Gieseking, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrach. Günter Henle’s autobiography contains wonderful descriptions of his encounters with these distinguished musicians. He also talks about the foundation of his publishing house during a difficult time lasting into the 1970s. We offer all historically interested persons free downloads of all biographical documents by Günter Henle.
Today we continue to maintain close contact with a great many musicians, and, following in Günter Henle’s footsteps, we try to incorporate their advice and expertise in our Urtext editions. If you are interested to have a look at those prominent artists who esteems our publications, click through the following list: | literature |
https://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/3763/Fielding-Dawson.html | 2019-03-24T15:38:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203462.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190324145706-20190324171706-00475.warc.gz | 0.942599 | 358 | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__170495299 | en | Fielding Dawson Biography
(1930–2002), The Black Mountain Book, Open Road, The Mandalay Dream, A Great Day For a Ballgame
American novelist, short-story writer, and painter, born in New York City; he grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri and was educated at Black Mountain College from 1949 to 1953. The Black Mountain Book (1970; revised and expanded, 1991) remains the most valuable memoir of the college during its Olson era and the experience clearly set the agenda for Dawson's future development as a writer. A master of the kind of kinetic writing promulgated by and the Beats, Dawson is also a Jungian who pays great attention to the material presented in his dreams. This gives his work a steady but flexible centre and helps to explain much of the intellectual and emotional engagement in his writing. He is a prolific writer whose novels include Open Road (1970), The Mandalay Dream (1971), A Great Day For a Ballgame (1973), and the Penny Lane series (1977–81). His collections of stories include Krazy Kat/The Unveiling (1969), The Dream/Thunder Road (1972), The Sun Rises Into the Sky (1973), and The Man Who Changed Overnight (1976). The Orange in the Orange (1994) comprises a novella and two stories which, like many of his other books, are closely interrelated. Like Kerouac, he is deeply sensitive to the world of the child and, again like Kerouac, recognizes the degree to which that world persists into the world of the adult.
- Jennifer Dawson Biography - (1929–2000), The Ha-Ha, The Bell Jar, Fowler's Snare, The Cold Country
- Other Free Encyclopedias | literature |
https://coins-mag.com/is-blockchain-the-future-of-our-medical-system/ | 2023-05-28T18:59:26 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644506.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528182446-20230528212446-00673.warc.gz | 0.947243 | 574 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__82448895 | en | The European Blockchain Observatory published a sixty-six page report in April 2022 entitled Applications of Blockchain in Healthcare. The authors of this document believe that blockchain could help the healthcare sector to carry out the Healthcare 4.0 revolution. The latter is based on fundamental principles, such as interoperability, digitization, decentralization, etc. This foundation would be compatible with the possibilities offered by blockchain.
Blockchain and health: for better knowledge management
Blockchain would allow the healthcare sector to address concerns related to the need for a :
- knowledge and data management that is flexible and digitized ;
- easy and user-friendly for patients to access their health data;
- allowing the decompartmentalization of the data stored in the current tools.
Such a system would respond to the growing complexity of healthcare. Indeed, these must be supported by an adequate knowledge management tool.
Blockchain is also presented as a technology that could adequately organize the exchange of information at the global level in healthcare. Thus, it could solve some of the problems that hinder collective learning in the sector.
Decentralization for a better follow-up in care
So is centralization necessarily detrimental to the evolution of the health care sector? The problem would lie mainly in the difficulties relating to the implementation of effective centralization. A blockchain would then be an alternative that would allow, for example:
- decentralized monitoring of the use of medical equipment by healthcare institutions ;
- identify deficiencies or surpluses of devices in different geographical locations.
Blockchain is also known to be a tool for improving the tracking of medical products. The goal? To fight against counterfeits that are dangerous to public health, among other things:
“By using blockchains as a ledger to record provenance, vaccines and other life-saving medicines could be monitored and tracked from their origin to their current location, reducing drug placement or labeling errors and the risk of counterfeiting.”
On-chain and off-chain, a synergy to be found for health data storage
However, blockchain does have its drawbacks when it comes to data storage. The transparency and immutability of data stored on a blockchain would be incompatible with the necessary confidentiality of patient data.
However, the authors of the report mention the possibility of combining blockchain with an off-chain solution to comply with legal requirements on the storage of this data:
“To comply with the GDPR, products can use blockchain on a layer above databases: it would therefore be possible to monitor transactions on the data exchange and access the information, while all personal health data is stored off-blockchain.”
The prospects for using blockchain in the healthcare sector are not new. Some companies have been on this path to decentralized healthcare as far back as 2018. In practical terms, have we made enough progress since then? | literature |
https://byfinessegroup.com/finesse-writers-club/ | 2022-12-05T14:17:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711017.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205132617-20221205162617-00393.warc.gz | 0.92669 | 151 | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__65359312 | en | Whether you’re a seasoned copywriter, a writer growing your portfolio, or someone hoping to start a commercial content writing portfolio and to professionalise, writing can be very lonely! But every good writer needs an outside eye and a place to go for advice about everything from writing the best headlines to finding new job opportunities.
At Finesse, we have over 15 years’ experience in the writing world, with millions of words published for clients across the globe. Now, after the HUGE success of our first edition membership in June, we’re opening our close-knit writing circle to new members! So you too can experience the benefits of having writing buddies on hand for coaching, conversation and collaboration. We look forward to welcoming you! | literature |
https://fieldstonecommunityfarm.org/conept | 2020-11-28T04:40:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195069.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128040731-20201128070731-00188.warc.gz | 0.954964 | 129 | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__205412014 | en | A farmer walks his field & comes across a stone. He picks it up and mutters “cursed stone” as he tosses it to the side. He travels further and finds another stone, so he tosses it beside the first. By the time he has walked the entire field he has a whole pile of stones. Being a person of vision, he ends up building a stone fence, or fireplace, or whole house -- a thing of strength, beauty & purpose.
Our thought is that you can take one ordinary stone whose purpose is not apparent and meld it with other stones and concrete giving it function and beauty. | literature |
https://camerahacker.com/Forums/DisplayComments.php?file=Print/Print_Like_a_Pro | 2022-07-05T01:23:28 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104506762.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704232527-20220705022527-00121.warc.gz | 0.932775 | 367 | CC-MAIN-2022-27 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__205285305 | en | Thank you for the detailed and honest review of my latest book. The feedback on chapters one and five is especially useful and hopefully I can improve on this in future revisions. Having written a book yourself, I'm sure that you know the kinds of space restraints that are imposed and the trade-offs in choosing the depth and breadth of subject coverage.
Of course, I appreciate the kind words as well and I'm glad that you find Print Like a Pro a useful addition to your library!
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:06:46 -0800
You are welcome. Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my review and your kind words. I thrive to be honest in my reviews to provide constructive criticisms and praises where they are due. I think your book screams quality in most aspects and could see that you made a lot of hard decisions and put a lot of hard work into it. I will definitely recommend it to other photographers.
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https://www.bartletttree.co.uk/resources/technical-reports/abiotic-disorders | 2020-04-10T03:53:52 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371883359.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20200410012405-20200410042905-00237.warc.gz | 0.958522 | 127 | CC-MAIN-2020-16 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__81972717 | en | A Technical Report from The Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories
Landscape plants are exposed to many stresses caused by (non-living) agents including environmental, cultural, and site disorders. The impact of these disorders on plant health is influenced by many factors including the type, severity, and duration of the stress, species susceptibility to the specific disorder and age and initial condition of the plant. Often decline results from several abiotic agents that work in concert. Stress created by abiotic pathogens frequently predisposes landscape plants to secondary biotic pests such as borers, bark beetles, canker, and root disease fungi that contributes to decline and death. | literature |
https://cabometyxhcp.com/mechanism | 2018-12-09T20:43:44 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823009.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20181209185547-20181209211547-00018.warc.gz | 0.888414 | 1,011 | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__71383195 | en | Hemorrhage: Severe and fatal hemorrhages have occurred with CABOMETYX. In RCC trials, the incidence of Grade ≥3 hemorrhagic events was 3% in CABOMETYX patients. Do not administer CABOMETYX to patients that have or are at risk for severe hemorrhage.
Gastrointestinal (GI) Perforations and Fistulas: In RCC trials, GI perforations were reported in 1% of CABOMETYX patients. Fatal perforations occurred in patients treated with CABOMETYX. In RCC studies, fistulas were reported in 1% of CABOMETYX patients. Monitor patients for symptoms of perforations and fistulas, including abscess and sepsis. Discontinue CABOMETYX in patients who experience a GI perforation or a fistula that cannot be appropriately managed.
Thrombotic Events: Thrombotic events increased with CABOMETYX. In RCC trials, venous thromboembolism occurred in 9% (including 5% pulmonary embolism) and arterial thromboembolism occurred in 1% of CABOMETYX patients. Fatal thrombotic events occurred in the cabozantinib clinical program. Discontinue CABOMETYX in patients who develop an acute myocardial infarction or any other arterial thromboembolic complication.
Hypertension and Hypertensive Crisis: Treatment-emergent hypertension, including hypertensive crisis, increased with CABOMETYX. In RCC trials, hypertension was reported in 44% (18% Grade ≥3) of CABOMETYX patients. Monitor blood pressure prior to initiation and regularly during CABOMETYX treatment. Withhold CABOMETYX for hypertension that is not adequately controlled with medical management; when controlled, resume CABOMETYX at a reduced dose. Discontinue CABOMETYX if there is evidence of hypertensive crisis or for severe hypertension that cannot be controlled with antihypertensive therapy or medical management.
Diarrhea: In RCC trials, diarrhea occurred in 74% of CABOMETYX patients. Grade 3 diarrhea occurred in 11% of CABOMETYX patients. Withhold CABOMETYX in patients who develop intolerable Grade 2 diarrhea or Grade 3-4 diarrhea that cannot be managed with standard antidiarrheal treatments until improvement to Grade 1; resume CABOMETYX at a reduced dose.
Palmar-Plantar Erythrodysesthesia (PPE): In RCC trials, PPE occurred in 42% of CABOMETYX patients. Grade 3 PPE occurred in 8% of CABOMETYX patients. Withhold CABOMETYX in patients who develop intolerable Grade 2 PPE or Grade 3 PPE until improvement to Grade 1; resume CABOMETYX at a reduced dose.
Reversible Posterior Leukoencephalopathy Syndrome (RPLS): RPLS, a syndrome of subcortical vasogenic edema diagnosed by characteristic finding on MRI, occurred in the cabozantinib clinical program. Evaluate for RPLS in patients presenting with seizures, headache, visual disturbances, confusion, or altered mental function. Discontinue CABOMETYX in patients who develop RPLS.
Embryo-fetal Toxicity: CABOMETYX can cause fetal harm. Advise pregnant women of the potential risk to a fetus. Advise females of reproductive potential to use effective contraception during CABOMETYX treatment and for 4 months after the last dose.
The most commonly reported (≥25%) adverse reactions were: diarrhea, fatigue, nausea, decreased appetite, hypertension, PPE, weight decreased, vomiting, dysgeusia, and stomatitis.
Strong CYP3A4 Inhibitors: If concomitant use with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors cannot be avoided, reduce the CABOMETYX dosage.
Strong CYP3A4 Inducers: If concomitant use with strong CYP3A4 inducers cannot be avoided, increase the CABOMETYX dosage.
USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS
Lactation: Advise women not to breastfeed while taking CABOMETYX and for 4 months after the final dose.
Hepatic Impairment: In patients with mild to moderate hepatic impairment, reduce the CABOMETYX dosage. CABOMETYX is not recommended for use in patients with severe hepatic impairment.
Please see accompanying full Prescribing Information. | literature |
https://physivantage.com/pages/our-founder | 2021-07-28T05:09:51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153521.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20210728025548-20210728055548-00702.warc.gz | 0.9676 | 234 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__287911736 | en | Eric Hörst is an international best-selling author, published researcher, renowned climbing coach, and accomplished climber of 40+ years. He is author of Training for Climbing which, along with his seven other books, have sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide, including translations to Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Persian.
Hörst has written hundreds of magazine articles and appeared on numerous TV broadcasts; his training philosophy, techniques and photos have been featured in countless publications around the world. He has co-authored one research paper: “Behavior Analysis and Sport Climbing”, Journal of Behavioral Health and Medicine, 2010, with Dr. Richard Fleming. Hörst maintains the popular Training4Climbing.com site and he broadcasts a monthly climbing science and training podcast available on iTunes, Spotify, and elsewhere (search for Eric Hörst’s Training for Climbing podcast).
A self-professed “climber for life”, Eric remains active at the cliffs in his 50s, traveling widely with his wife, Lisa, and sons, Cameron and Jonathan. Read more >> | literature |
https://www.eliasfischer.com/ego-the-false-self-perception/ | 2023-10-03T17:51:46 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511170.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003160453-20231003190453-00742.warc.gz | 0.965525 | 753 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__58321519 | en | According to Eckhart Tolle in his book New Earth, the ego is the mental disease of our time and a lot of people are suffering from it. The ego generates the false self-perception of oneself, which makes unhappy. We are destroying ourselves, others and the environment around us.
You can recognize it by means of hate, resentfulness, anger, inner disorder, unhappiness, impatience, bad temper, haste, uptightness, envy, avarice, jealousy, fear and every other emotion that makes us unhappy. The ego turns out to be in the moment we identify ourselves with something we are not. People with a false self-perception of themselves think that they are their wealth, reputation, bank account and social status.
THE EGO COMPARES AND JUDGES
If the ego dominates you, then everything you see is compared and judged. As a consequence, you create your own world, where things and people are either good or bad. A world where your supposed happiness depends on the possession of things or people, on the social position or on people’s actions. This is to say, everything that is outside of yourself. You can be happy only if you do something or something happens.
WHAT DOES ‘EGO’ MEAN?
Ego means “I”. When we say “I”, we mean actually a deceitful, false image of ourselves, which we have created through an illusion. We establish our unreal identity through experiences and things we are made up of, for example possessions, skills and knowledge. The ego supplies you with a feeling of self-worth. This deceptive feeling of identity and “I” is the Ego: “I am what I own, what I can, what I know and the people I know.”
SINK IN THE EGO EFFECTS
Ego makes you addicted. I can only be happy if I have something or if something happens. It interferes with your real “I”. you can be long-term happy if you stay by yourself without thinking constantly. Everything you need is consciousness. Be aware of your ego and of your thoughts. In the moment you are thinking about your thoughts, you will be aware that there is more than just your thoughts. Consciousness. As long as you can enjoy every single day of your life, you have no reason to question your thoughts.
Be aware of the ego of people around you. If they do something bad, it is not them, it is their ego. They don’t know what they’re doing because they lost the control on themselves and their awareness. The ego lives through sorrows from the past, that scoops the feeling of self-worth and, as a consequence, it identifies with the victim role.
KEEP AN EYE ON YOUR EGO AND BE AWARE OF YOURSELF
An absolute book suggestion is “A New Earth – Awakening to your life’s purpose” by Eckhart Tolle. Tolle describes the false self-perception in all its facets. It is really a book of enlightenment to me, because I didn’t have any idea of how involving, subtle and expansive the ego could be.
This book has helped me to recognize my ego and to handle with it. A lot of what we wouldn’t like to have in mind can be dissolved just by looking at our thoughts. Through this process we can find our real self and discard the false one. This is not easy, since our ego is as clever as we are. Though, a steady consciousness helps a lot. | literature |
http://alistaird221b.blogspot.jp/2012/06/book-review-sherlock-holmes-on-screen.html | 2013-06-19T08:24:39 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708145189/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124225-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.973081 | 330 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__64807982 | en | I’m glad I caved into curiosity and bought it.
In my opinion there is a strong parallel between the books of Barnes and Davies and the Conan Doyle biographies of Russell Miller and Andrew Lycett. In the case of Lycett and Miller both authors were, on paper, covering exactly the same thing and both produced books with positive and negative aspects. I found that owning both ensured that all bases were covered. Each one compensated for the other’s deficiencies (such as they were).
The same can be said of the film books of Barnes and Davies. Both have their up and down-sides and both complement each other. I would advise that any Sherlockian film buff buys both rather than relying on one or the other. Davies’ book is not as current as Barnes’ but I personally find Davies’ more readable and less like the reference book that both undoubtedly are. Davies’ book also has the major advantage that he lists his entries chronologically rather than alphabetically which is the approach Barnes takes. In my opinion this is Barnes’ biggest mistake and this shows up most when you endeavour to look up a non-English adaptation. I have even found myself using Davies’ book as a means to locating an entry in that of Barnes’.
Barnes’ book presents the information in a uniform and accessible way but I also found it a little clinical (but perhaps that’s just me). It could be said that where Davies’ book is full of opinion Barnes’ tends to be more “just the facts ma’am”. | literature |
http://www.lycocard.com/index.php/lyco_pub/results/ | 2017-04-30T13:01:02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125532.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00369-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | 0.844711 | 2,626 | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__182947324 | en | Publications from April to December 2011
V. Stangl, C. Kuhn, S. Hentschel, N. Jochmann, C. Jacob, V. Böhm, K. Fröhlich, L. Müller, C. Gericke, M. Lorenz: Lack of effects of tomato products on endothelial function in humans: Results of a randomised, placebo controlled cross-over study - Br. J. Nutr. 105 (2011) 263-267.
L. Müller, V. Böhm: Antioxidant activity of β-carotene compounds in different in vitro assays - Molecules 16 (2011) 1055-1069.
A. Mordente, B. Guantario, E. Meucci, A. Silvestrini, E. Lombardi, G. E. Martorana, B. Giardina, V. Böhm: Lycopene and cardiovascular diseases: An update - Curr. Med. Chem. 18 (2011) 1146-1163.
L. Müller, P. Goupy, K. Fröhlich, O. Dangles, C. Caris-Veyrat, V. Böhm: Comparative study on antioxidant activity of lycopene (Z)-isomers in different assays - J. Agric. Food Chem. 59 (2011) 4504-4511.
L. Müller, K. Fröhlich, V. Böhm: Comparative antioxidant activities of carotenoids measured by ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), ABTS bleaching assay (αTEAC), DPPH assay and peroxyl radical scavenging assay - Food Chem. 129 (2011) 139-148.
R. E. Simone, M. Russo, A. Catalano, G. Monego, K. Fröhlich, V. Böhm, P. Palozza: lycopene inhibits NF-kB -mediated IL-8 expression and changes redox and PPARγ signalling in cigarette smoke-stimulated macrophages - PLoS ONE 6 (2011) 1-11.
Verónica García-Valverde, Inmaculada Navarro-González, Javier García-Alonso & María Jesús Periago. Antioxidant Bioactive Compounds in Selected Industrial Processing and Fresh Consumption Tomato Cultivars. Food Bioprocess Technol. DOI 10.1007/s11947-011-0687-3. Published online 22 September 2011.
F. J. García-Alonso, V. Jorge-Vidal,G. Ros & M. J. Periago. Effect of consumption of tomato juice enriched with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on the lipid profile, antioxidant biomarker status, and cardiovascular disease risk in healthy women. Eur J Nutr. DOI 10.1007/s00394-011-0225-0. Published online 14 July 2011.
A number of epidemiological studies have shown the protective potential of lycopene in relation to different illnesses, in particular to cardiovascular diseases. The responsible mechanisms are often not specifically examined, since lycopene is fat-soluble and many laboratory studies are only carried out with cell systems in aqueous solutions.
Therefore, different institutes in LYCOCARD have investigated both the stability of lycopene in cell systems and the suitability of non-aqueous transport systems for the transfer of lycopene into cell models. It was conspicuous that the low density proteins (LDL particles) and the bovine serum albumin protein were equally suitable as physiologically relevant systems for transporting lycopene into the adipocytes (fat cells). For these two transport systems, lycopene stability and uptake rates were comparable to tetrahydrofurane which is often used as solvent [Gourantan et al. 2008]. In a comparable way tetrahydrofurane and micelles (physiological system) were examined as transport systems, in order to carry lycopene into three different, physiologically relevant types of vascular cells (BAEC, THP-1, RAT-1). Compared to the THP-1-cells, the lycopene uptake was higher with both transport systems in BAEC and RAT-1 fibroblasts [Lorenz et al. 2009].
So far, the uptake of lycopene into different cells of the human organism by passive diffusion has generally been assumed. LYCOCARD investigations in human intestine cells and in mice showed that the scavenger receptor type BI (SR-BI), identified as a membrane transporter responsible for the uptake of cholesterol, is also involved in the transport of carotenoids, such as lycopene, into cells. An active transport mechanism for carotenoids could thus be proved [Moussa et al. 2008].
β-carotene-rich tomatoes inhibited HT-29-colon cancer cell growth more strongly than pure β-carotene. This result proves that tomatoes contain ingredients besides carotenoids which provide protective effects [Palozza et al. 2009]. This supports a preference of the natural complex food over the isolated food ingredient. In another cell experiment with human macro phages (THP-1), lycopene was able to prevent the oxidative stress released by a cholesterol oxidation product better than β-carotene [Palozza et al. 2010]. This result proves that the anti-oxidative effect of lycopene is stronger than that of β-carotene.
Analysis of factors affecting extraction and quantitative determination of lycopene content in raw tomatoes and tomato products showed that the test portion, the quantity of neutralising agents and the quantity of water for phase separation all have a major impact on the extraction [Periago et al. 2007]. With this work, this LYCOCARD partner has contributed extensively to the understanding of the analytic conditions present in the determination of lycopene content. Further investigations provided a folate content in raw tomatoes of 4-35 mg/100 g, which was dependant on sort, stage of maturity and year of harvest. Short heating phases (40 seconds, 98 °C) during the pasteurisation of tomato puree improved the extractability of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, whereas higher temperatures (108 °C, 128 °C) reduced the content. During the storage of tomato juice, folate content decreased independently of storage temperatures (8, 22, 37 °C). The decreases were higher in glass bottles than in Tetra Paks [Iniesta et al. 2009].
Homogenisation steps during the production of tomato puree had little influence on the contents of bioactive tomato compounds (carotenoids, polyphenols, vitamin C). While the carotenoids endured the pasteurisation (40 seconds, 98 °C) relatively unchanged, the contents of phenolic compounds and ascorbic acid (vitamin C) were lowered by the heating. Single-step and two-step homogenisation improved the extractability of bioactive compounds and thus created tomato products with higher quality [Pérez Conesa et al. 2009].
The 12-month storage of tomato juice in glass bottles and in Tetra Paks at three temperatures (8, 22, 37 °C) showed a comparable stability for lycopene and phenolic compounds unaffected by its packing material. In contrast, the ascorbic acid content clearly decreased during the storage [Garcìa Alonso et al. 2009].
So far, the EU project LYCOCARD has gained important insights for science, industry and the consumer. Improved experimental conditions within cell experiments as well as new knowledge for the absorption of lycopene into cells have provided the base for ongoing mechanistic and human intervention studies. Investigations of the stability of bioactive tomato compounds and on the influence of processing and storage conditions enable the food industry and the consumer to manufacture and/or consume tomato products with higher contents of bioactive ingredients.
Accompanying the investigations described above, a literature search related to epidemiological studies and further studies dealing with tomatoes and cardiovascular health has been done within the fourth project year. Currently, LYCOCARD is collaborating with the Framingham Heart Study of Boston University, USA, to have the Framingham data re-evaluated in relation to lycopene uptake and the use of tomatoes/tomato products to reduce the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
This project provides information on the connection between the consumption of lycopene and/or tomato products and the risk of heart illnesses. In addition, nutritional information is to be evaluated five times within 20 years with regard to this context. The total aim of LYCOCARD is to show that high long-term consumption of lycopene is linked to a reduced risk of cardiovascular illnesses. The connection between lycopene absorption and heart diseases is studied and, in addition, the link between the consumption of tomato products and heart diseases. Thus, the LYCOCARD network provides mechanistic data as well as results from intervention studies; it can both complete these data and strengthen their long-term importance.
• Garcìa-Alonso J, Bravo S, Casas J, Pérez-Conesa D, Jacob K, Periago MJ: Changes in antioxidant compounds during the shelf-life of commercial tomato juices in different packaging materials
J. Agric. Food Chem. 57 (2009) 6815-6822
• Gouranton E, El Yazidi C, Cardinault N, Amiot M J, Margotat A, Borel P, Landrier J-F: Purified low-density lipoprotein and bovine serum albumin efficiency to internalise lycopene into adipocytes
Food Chem. Toxicol. 46 (2008) 3832-3836
• Lorenz M, Stangl V, Jacob C, Daemen K, Böhm V, Fröhlich K, Simone R, Baumann G, Stangl K, Palozza P: Delivery of lycopene in physiologically relevant vascular cells
J. Food Lipids 16 (2009) 259-272
• Moussa M, Landrier, J-F, Reboul, E, Ghiringhelli O, Coméra C, Collet X, Fröhlich K, Böhm V, Borel P: Lycopene Absorption in Human Intestinal Cells and in Mice Involves Scavenger Receptor Class B Type I (SR-BI), but Not Niemann Pick C1 Like 1 (NPC1L1)
J. Nutr. 138 (2008) 1432-1436
• Iniesta, M-D, Pérez-Conesa D, García-Alonso J, Ros G, Periago M J: Folate content in tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum) as influence of cultivar, ripeness, year of harvest, pasteurization and storage temperatures
J. Agric. Food Chem. 57 (2009) 4739–4745
• Palozza P, Bellovno D, Simone R, Boninsegna A, Cellini F, Monastra G, Gaetani S: Effect of β-carotene-rich tomato lycopene β-cyclase (tlcy-b) on cell growth inhibition in HT-29 colon adenocarcinoma cells
Br. J. Nutr. 102 (2009) 207-214
• Palozza P, Simone R, Catalano A, Boninsegna, A, Böhm V, Fröhlich K, Mele M-C, Monego G, Ranelletti FO: Lycopene prevents 7-keto-cholesterol-induced oxidative stress, cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in human macrophages
J. Nutr. Biochem. 21/1 (2010) 34-46
• Pérez-Conesa D, García-Alonso J, García-Valverde V, Iniesta M-D, Ros G, Periago M J: Changes in bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity during homogenisation and thermal processing of tomato puree
Innov. Food Sci. Technol. 10 (2009) 179-188
• Periago M J, Rincón F, Jacob K, García-Alonso J, Ros G: Detection of Key Factors in the Extraction and Quantification of Lycopene from Tomato and Tomato Products
J. Agric. Food Chem. 55 (2007) 8825-8829 | literature |
https://www.mindfulwellness.us/awareness1/sugar-industry-suppressed-research-linking-sugar-to-heart-disease-and-cancer | 2023-10-04T07:09:17 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511361.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004052258-20231004082258-00450.warc.gz | 0.880851 | 1,203 | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__230303431 | en | In 1965, researchers conducted an experiment on rats exploring the health effects of sugar and fat. The rats were divided into two groups: one group of rats was a fed diet containing 75% fat and no sugar, while the other group was fed a diet containing 15% fat and 60% sucrose. The results of this experiment led the researchers to believe that rats fed sucrose, a simple carbohydrate, developed thiamine deficiency, often leading to cardiovascular disease, while more complex carbohydrates helped create gut bacteria that synthesized thiamine (Nutritional Reviews, 1965). Based on internal documents, the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) has discounted evidence linking sucrose consumption to cardiovascular disease.
This research prompted funding, among the SRF, to understand the relationship between sugar and any metabolic effects related to chronic disease beyond its caloric effects. The foundation (which has organizational ties to the Sugar Association, the International Sugar Research Foundation [ISRF], and ISRF's successor, and the World Sugar Research Organization) led a group of researchers, referred to as Project 259, to study the effect of sugar on gut bacteria in 1967. The researchers observed a positive association between rodent sugar-rich diets and triglyceride levels, which contributed to higher urinary concentrations of beta-glucoronidase, a well-established marker of bladder cancer (Paigen, Peterson and Paigen, 2017). Albeit, the Sugar Association has consistently denied that sucrose has any metabolic effects related to chronic disease.
In 2016, the Sugar Association issued a press release criticizing findings from a study published in Cancer Research using multiple mouse models that suggested that dietary sugar induces increased tumor growth and metastasis when compared to a nonsugar starch diet. The Sugar Association stated that no credible link between ingested sugars and cancer has been established. In contrast, evidence suggests that that the sugar industry terminated funding of an animal study that was finding unfavorable results with respect to the association between dietary sugars and cancer, with possible translational importance to humans (Sugar Association, 2016).
Researchers have discovered internal documents that suggest the sugar industry muffled research indicating a significant relationship between sugar and adverse health effects including, heart disease and cancer (Kearns, Apollonio & Glantz, 2017). And this isn't the first time the sugar industry has been caught in the act. Researchers uncovered evidence suggesting the sugar industry systematically misrepresented research linking sugar to cancer, obesity, and heart disease (Kearns, Schmidt and Glantz, 2016).
In response to the study, the sugar industry released a statement, saying: “The article we are discussing is not actually a study, but a perspective: a collection of speculations and assumptions about events that happened nearly five decades ago, conducted by a group of researchers and funded by individuals and organizations that are known critics of the sugar industry” (Foley, 2017).
Basu, T. (2017). Researchers Publish Bombshell Report That Suggests Sugar Industry Conspiracy. [online] The Daily Beast. Available at: https://www.thedailybeast.com/researchers-publish-bombshell-report-that-suggests-sugar-industry-conspiracy?source=twitter&via=desktop [Accessed 3 Dec. 2017].
Foley, K. (2017). An investigation suggests Big Sugar hid evidence of sucrose’s health effects. [online] Quartz. Available at: https://qz.com/1134313/sugar-health-effects-50-years-ago-the-sugar-industry-hid-evidence-from-the-public/ [Accessed 4 Dec. 2017].
Kearns, C., Apollonio, D. and Glantz, S. (2017). Sugar industry sponsorship of germ-free rodent studies linking sucrose to hyperlipidemia and cancer: An historical analysis of internal documents. PLOS Biology, 15(11), p.e2003460. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003460
Kearns, C., Schmidt, L. and Glantz, S. (2016). Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research. JAMA Internal Medicine, 176(11), p.1680. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.5394
Nutritional Reviews. (1965). Dietary fats and intestinal thiamine synthesis in rats. Nutrition Reviews, 23(11), pp.334-336. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-4887.1965.tb02053.x
Paigen, K., Peterson, J. and Paigen, B. (2017). Role of Urinary β-Glucuronidase in Human Bladder Cancer. [online] Cancer Research. Available at: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/44/8/3620.long [Accessed 3 Dec. 2017].
The Sugar Association. (2017). The Sugar Association Response to University of Texas MD Animal Study Linking Sugar to Cancer - The Sugar Association. [online] Available at: https://www.sugar.org/the-sugar-association-response-university-of-texas-md-animal-study-linking-sugar-to-cancer/ [Accessed 4 Dec. 2017].
The Awareness domain contains research, news, information, observations, and ideas at the level of self in an effort to intellectualize health concepts.
The Lifestyle domain builds off intellectual concepts and offers practical applications.
Taking care of yourself is at the core of the other domains because the others depend on your health and wellness. | literature |
https://www.wanderful.design/en/designers/leo-timmers/ | 2023-12-02T08:31:21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100381.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202073445-20231202103445-00526.warc.gz | 0.993384 | 194 | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__315605503 | en | Leo Timmers was born in Belgium in 1970. After studying advertising and graphic design he worked for 10 years as a freelance children’s book illustrator.In 2000 he wrote his first picture book called ‘Happy with me’ which he also illustrated. He received a Bookfeather award for the illustrations. From then on Leo wrote most of his books himself which where awarded many times. He won the annual Children’s and Youth Jury Award five times and in 2012 his book ‘Bang’ was awarded the prestigious Bookpeacock award for best illustrated book of the year. His books have been translated in more than 25 languages.
Recently Leo is very involved with animation as a first TV- series based on his work is currently in production ( Ziggy & the Zootram), and a second show is in development. (Deep sea Doctor Derek). He supervises all stages, like scriptwriting, design, modeling and direction. | literature |
https://www.tammyplunkett.com/grandparents-of-trans-children/ | 2023-05-29T06:34:00 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644683.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529042138-20230529072138-00541.warc.gz | 0.971609 | 813 | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__226717158 | en | No matter at what age our children come forward with their truth about their gender identity, once we start affirming them and supporting a social transition, we eventually must have conversations with extended family. I have dedicated a whole chapter around this in Beyond Pronouns, focusing mainly on the need to let the child take the lead, the parent’s experience coming out to service providers, and especially how to protect the transgender person from microaggressions and outright transphobia.
Since writing the book, I have had some excellent conversations with grandparents of trans children about their experiences. It was pretty enlightening to hear their point of view. There is a unique quality of love felt by a grandparent, but it is love just the same. So let’s look at the nuance outside the binary of being a perfectly affirming grandparent and a transphobic one.
Many self-aware grandparents understand their place in the pecking order of decision-making with children in the family. Many a mother-in-law over history has been told to keep her opinions to herself. Because of that, grandparents have said to me that they feel lost and have no control when they are told about their grandchild dealing with gender dysphoria. I could relate to that loss of power as a parent myself. Still, at least I was in the doctor’s office and making therapy appointments and had some sense of participation and immediacy in the process. In contrast, grandparents often hear about it after the fact.
No room for grace
One grandmother told me she struggled with being told by her daughter how she was to feel when she learned that her grandchild was a trans girl. She was only to feel happy about the transition, not ask questions, and there was absolutely no room for occasional mistakes with chosen names or pronouns. Further, her daughter threatened to remove access to the grandchild if grandma couldn’t be completely affirming immediately. While I fully understand the want and need to protect transgender children from harm, this description didn’t sound very fair when I consider how I made my own mistakes early on in my son’s transition, and I am a fierce ally and advocate. Sometimes grandparents need to be seen for their humanity and given some grace.
No access to support
While extended family can easily read my book, the subtitle says specifically it’s for parents of trans children and most of the support groups out there are also focused on parents, even though we welcome all caregivers. Grandparents may not realize they are welcome to access those supports. Add to that the reality that grandparents come from a generation where gender diversity was never discussed or taught in schools. So they are coming at this completely in the dark. Further, they were mostly raised not to discuss this type of topic in polite company, and if the child has chosen to be stealth, they won’t be able to discuss the transition with friends. It is difficult to process a major life change alone.
Again, protecting trans children from painful rhetoric and microaggressions is very important. We also need to consider the perspective of grandparents who love their grandchildren and need more education and opportunities to practice using a chosen name and correct pronouns. That might look like sharing resources like an Understanding Gender webinar with the grandparent or going coffee alone as adults and having an open, loving conversation about the new terminology.
One last word for grandparents, I understand having a heart full of love and also feeling fear about something you don’t understand. Please learn as much as you can on your own from reputable sources such as Trevor Project, and be patient with your children as everyone is processing a significant change that can be stressful for everyone involved. You’ve got this. Just keep leading with love.
Download the ebook Defining Transgender here to stay in touch through my newsletter and don’t forget to grab your copy of Beyond Pronouns: The Essential Guide for Parents of Trans Children. | literature |
https://www.voiceactorwebsites.com/meditate-gods-light/ | 2019-07-21T06:45:13 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526931.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190721061720-20190721083720-00343.warc.gz | 0.930536 | 173 | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__153027348 | en | Close your eyes. Forget the darkness around you and watch the bright red color within your eyelids. Look intently into that violet-red color. Meditate on it, and imagine it is becoming bigger and bigger. Behold around you a dimly shining sea of violet light. You are a wave of light, a ripple of peace floating on the surface of the sea. Now watch carefully. You, the little wave, are tossing on an ocean of light. Your tiny life is part of the all-pervading Life. As your meditation deepens, you, a little shallow wave of peace, are becoming the deep, wide ocean of peace. Meditate on the thought, “I am a wave of peace.” Feel the vastness just beneath your consciousness. The wave should feel the sustaining life of the vast ocean beneath it. | literature |
https://muslimjapan.com/2011/07/07/hadith-15-good-manners-in-speech/ | 2024-04-13T13:46:19 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00184.warc.gz | 0.961345 | 2,294 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__81678976 | en | Hadith 15: Good manners in speech
Abu Hurairah, radiyallahu ‘anhu, reported that the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, said:
“Let whosoever believes in Allah and in the Last Day either speak good or be silent. Let whosoever believes in Allah and in the Last Day honour his neighbour. Let whosoever believes in Allah and in the Last Day honour his guest.”
[Al-Bukhari & Muslim]
This hadith contains the rulings concerning the tongue and the behaviour of Muslims towards others. It also emphasises that we are responsible for what we say.
Imam Haithami points out that this hadith is very similar in meaning to Hadith 13 that says: “None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.” He says that everyone is a neighbour to someone else. Therefore if this hadith is properly practiced and applied, then there will be a strong bond and love within the society or community.
The responsibility of the Muslim regarding what he says is mentioned in the Qur’an:
“Not a word does he utter but there is a watcher by him ready to record it”
[Surah Qaf (50): ayat 18].
There are also other hadiths which state that the Muslim should be careful about what he says. His words can either, if they are pleasing to Allah, raise him to a higher level; or if his words displease Allah, they may cause him to be thrown into the Hellfire – as stated in a hadith recorded by Imam al-Bukhari. This shows that what we say can have a direct effect on whether it will benefit us or not.
One hadith (which illustrates the example of a bad consequence resulting from what a person says) states that the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, said that a pious man from Bani Israel use to see his fellow man always committing sins. On day the pious man swore to the sinner: “By Allah, He will never forgive you.” Allah was displeased with what the pious man said because only Allah knows what is our destiny, whether someone will end up in Paradise or Hell. Because of this, when the two men died, the pious man was punished and put into Hell and the sinner was forgiven by Allah. [Sunan Abu Daud]
What we can learn here is that either we say something beneficial and good or else we should keep silent.
There are many Islamic guidelines which help us to say good things and to refrain from saying bad things, or things which displeases Allah subhana wa ta’ala. When we talk to others, whether it is relatives, friends, neighbours, etc., we should select the best terms/words and say them in a nice way. We should ensure that what we say is clear and easily understood. If we are not careful and we do not choose the right words, what we say may be misinterpreted and may lead to conflicts.
As a listener, we have to listen positively and interpret what we hear in a good way. We should not ‘over interpret’ what we hear; we should not try to ‘read between the lines’. Thus, as a speaker we say things in a positive manner and as a listener we interpret things in a positive manner. By doing so Islam encourages us to minimise disputes and conflicts.
If we find ourselves in the middle of a dispute between two people, e.g. between relatives, we should not take sides. We should try to help and reconcile the differences; try to resolve the problems and end the dispute.
If we are being consulted by someone and asked for our advice, we should try our best to give good advice. What we say should help the person and not add to his confusion or doubt. If we do not have enough knowledge and we cannot provide proper advice, then we should keep silent.
Even if we have information which, as a result, may add to the person’s confusion, we should keep it to ourselves.
We should keep away as best as we can from unnecessary or non-beneficial talk. People can talk or chat for hours but a lot of what is said is unimportant or trivial and does not benefit anyone. It wastes our time and this continuous talking may even lead us into areas where we might say something which displeases Allah subhana wa ta’ala.
When it comes to saying good things, there are many examples available: dzikrullah (remembrance of Allah), reciting the Qur’an, du’a, giving advice, etc. These are all things which are pleasing to Allah.
When we meet people who are sick, sad, feeling down, in a low frame of mind, etc., we should say things that will make these people feel better, have patience in facing their calamity, be positive, be strong, etc. This is known as al-muasah – to say good things of encouragement to help those facing problems; to not make them panic. The scholars have defined sabr (patience) as ‘to refrain from panicking’ – to refrain from being out of control – and to refrain the tongue from complaining.
Complaining, e.g. simply saying that the weather is hot, will lead us to impatience; it can affect our attitude and hence our work. If we want to lament we should lament only with Allah. If we do it with Allah it is munajah – it will turn into ibadah. If we do it with others it will be complaining (tashakki) – we will be violating the ibadah itself, which is sabr. So we should learn to minimise and ultimately eliminate the act of complaining.
We should refrain from saying bad things or things which may be untrue. When we hear some news, we shouldn’t simply repeat it or spread it without first verifying if the news is true. This could lead to us spreading lies or rumours. We must refrain from:
- spreading rumours, especially those that will cause harm to the community.
- slandering, back-biting, etc.
- sarcasm and making fun of others – this is one of the most common social ills today. It is a sin to make fun of others.
Sometimes we may encounter a situation which involves fitnah or al-fitan. We have to be careful of what we say. There are people who will take advantage of the situation and they may say things which may worsen the situation. When there is fitnah, people are in a panic and might believe anything. That’s why we have to be careful of what we say because it may add to the people’s fears and problems. What we should do is to help by saying positive things that will give the people hope; to uplift them and motivate them to face the problems; and not to make it worse.
The second part of this hadith stresses on being courteous and generous to our neighbours and guests. This is stated in the Qur’an – Surah An-Nisa'(4): ayat 36: “…do good to parents, relatives, orphans, the poor, the neighbour who is near of kin, the neighbour who is a stranger, the companion by your side, the wayfarer (you meet), and those (slaves) whom your right hand possess.”
In one hadith, the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, said: “Jibril kept advising me concerning the neighbour to the point that I thought that he would inherit from his neighbour.” [Al-Bukhari and Muslim]. In another hadith [also recorded by Al-Bukhari and Muslim], it is stated: “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should not harm his neighbour.”
Another hadith records the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, as saying that the person who does not have complete faith (iman) is the one from whose affairs the neighbour is not safe. Al-Bukhari and Muslim also records another hadith which states that when you cook stew, you should add a little bit more water and give some to your neighbours. This sharing of food between neighbours can strengthen the relationships between them. We should be nice to our neighbours and share our food even if they are not Muslims.
We should be patient with our neighbour even if he causes annoyance to us. In a hadith, the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, said that there are three types of people whom Allah loves. One of them is a person who has a neighbour who causes him harm or annoyance but he remains patient and tolerates the neighbour.
The ‘guest’ mentioned in the last part of the hadith is generally interpreted as a travelling visitor who has come to stay for a short while. One hadith states: “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day should be generous to his guest. His special gift (to the guest) is one day and night. He (the guest) is to be entertained for three days. Whatever is beyond that is an act of charity. It is not lawful for a guest to stay with his host to the extent that he makes things difficult for him (the host).” [Al-Bukhari]. Thus, the visitor should not take advantage of a generous host.
Regarding this ruling, the majority of the scholars are of the opinion that hosting, in general, is recommended (mustahab) and not obligatory (wajib), even though it is a great and noble act. According to many scholars, the recommended act of hosting does not extend to evildoers or heretics. But some great scholars of today say that we should entertain even evildoers. This is because if we are good Muslims, when we host them and be good to them, we might influence them and cause them to change and become better people. But we should be very cautious if we were to host these sorts of people – we should only do so if we know there will not be any harm that may be inflicted on us.
Hosting evildoers would be following a general principle of Fiqh which allows us to tolerate a minor harm (e.g. allowing an evildoer to stay with us) in order to attain a major benefit (e.g. influencing him into becoming a good Muslim).
This hadith teaches us the proper manners pertaining to speech and entertaining guests. Following the advice given by the Prophet, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, will lead to a more peaceful life and harmonious Islamic society in this life, and attaining the pleasure of Allah in the Hereafter.
Dr. Jamal Ahmed Badi | literature |
https://meenakshisundaramwriter.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-shepherds-discovery-of-rajakesari.html | 2021-08-04T00:06:16 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154486.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20210803222541-20210804012541-00301.warc.gz | 0.962605 | 778 | CC-MAIN-2021-31 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__281284534 | en | With an ancient highway running from ‘Ulku Idam’, the place where taxes being collected, ( Ukkadam) to Walayar through a deep forest, kings, queens, soldiers and merchants from various places in India and abroad must have journeyed through it on chariots, horses and mules to reach the west coast. Since robbery was also rampant those days, the traders had to hide their valuables at certain spots on the highway and communicated their whereabouts among themselves in riddles, which could be understood only to them.
And a folksong related to such riddles, is still narrated by the peoplof Ettimadai, a village near the ancient highway Rajakesari Peruvazhi.
“Aaalaa Marathula Ambu, Velaamarathula Villu, Angundu Panam, Ingille, Ingundu Panam, Angille (Roughly translated – The arrow is in the banyan tree, the bow is in the babul tree. The money is there, but not here, the money is here but not there)”
“Though the meaning of the song cannot be interpreted exactly, it is still recited by some elders of our village to say how the merchants confused the highway robbers and prevented them from stealing their valuables” informs Anbarasu, a shepherd-turned- businessman at Ettimadai.
Pointing at the three hills Sorimalai, Thimilmalai and Attamalai in Ettimadai, Anbarasu says:
“Look, you can have a clear view of Rajakesari Peruvazhi between those mountains”
Interacting with K.R. Babu, a poet and historian of Coimbatore at Rajakesari Peruvazhi on Friday, Anbarasu informed:
“I have been to the forests of Ettimadai ever since I was a boy, as I used to take my goats for grazing on the hills. Though elders in our family would say that there existed an ancient highway, I came to know its name as ‘Rajakesari Peruvazhi’ only after I read an article in 2002 by eminent archeologist late Karunanandham in Kalaikathir, an exclusive magazine for science in Tamil”
Anbarasu used to read books while grazing goats near the highway. But, it was a coincidence that he discovered the highway’s name as ‘Rajakesari Peruvazhi’ while reading the magazine at the same Rajakesari Peruvazhi!
“If you go deep into the forest and reach the spot Thekkanthittu between Thimilmalai and Attamalai, you can come across the highway’s name inscribed on a large rock in Vattezhuththu. You can also notice a Venba (A conventional Tamil poem) inscribed on the rock in praise of the Chola king, who strengthened the highway. The inscription, which dates back to 10th century A.D, is still safe, as it is far away from human reach” adds Anbarasu.
Pointing at the ancient highway, which runs between the long stretches of cacti along its sides, poet K.R.Babu averred:
“It is pleasant to imagine the chariot travels of kings and queens through Rajakesari Peruvazhi over 1000 years. It brings to mind the scenes from historical novels by celebrated Tamil writers like Kalki and Sandilyan”
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https://www.qpsemployment.com/about/leadership/bio/dan-burnett | 2024-04-18T15:00:59 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00802.warc.gz | 0.955609 | 125 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__135412369 | en | Since joining QPS in 2020, Dan has been expanding continuous learning and development opportunities that impact the company’s bottom line. A workplace learning professional with over 20 years of experience, he enjoys helping others realize potential and experience success.
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My name is Amanda and I am going into 10th grade at Lakeland High School. I am going on my third year in a leadership position in my Student Council. I am a two sport athlete participating on both the high school swim team and tennis team. As the daughter of a retired law enforcement officer, I am grateful for all of the freedom that the state of Idaho provides for its citizens. I believe it’s important for my generation, as the future leaders of America, to pay attention to what is going on in our country and actively participate in government. I’m grateful to be selected as a winner in the 2023 Kootenai County Republican Women Federated Americanism Essay Contest! | literature |
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http://mestradosustentabilidade.usuarios.rdc.puc-rio.br/en/noticias/aluna-egressa-do-curso-carla-pimentel-lanca-livro-guia-jardins-terapeuticos-em-instituicoes-de-saude/ | 2024-04-20T10:44:25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817576.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420091126-20240420121126-00090.warc.gz | 0.86771 | 303 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__43961650 | en | Student of the first class of the Professional Master’s Degree in Sustainability Science, Carla Pimentel launched her guide book “Jardins Terapêuticos em Instituições de Saúde: benefícios, características e implementação”. The launch was part of the inauguration of the Brazilian Institute of Therapeutic Gardens (IBJT), in Rio de Janeiro, which aims to disseminate knowledge about the use of green spaces and their great potential to promote benefits for health and well-being.
While studying the Professional Master’s Degree in Sustainability Science, Carla developed her dissertation entitled Therapeutic Gardens as a global trend that, in turn, guided the creation of the IBJT. The latest studies and inexhaustible research on the subject led the author to define a niche in a deeper way, generating the possibility of creating her guide book, which will serve as a reference for architects, landscape designers, health professionals and for anyone interested in design a garden with a focus on well-being.
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https://sussexcarz.com/spinning-fortunes-exploring-the-slot-world/ | 2024-04-18T22:36:47 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00118.warc.gz | 0.901792 | 556 | CC-MAIN-2024-18 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__141178088 | en | The Casino Chronicles reveals the secrets of these triumphs and the strategies employed by those who dare to challenge the odds. Yet, the world of gambling is not without its share of tragedy. Behind the bright lights and the thrill of the game, there are tales of devastating losses and shattered dreams. The Casino Chronicles explores the stories of those who found themselves on the wrong side of fortune, unraveling the emotions and the lessons learned in the face of adversity. It’s a reminder that even in the world of gambling, where luck plays a significant role, the human element remains at the core. But beyond the tales of triumph and tragedy, there are also moments of pure entertainment and sheer spectacle. The Casino Chronicles takes you behind the scenes of extravagant shows and performances that captivate audiences night after night.
From breathtaking acrobatics to mesmerizing magic acts, the world of the casino is a stage where the extraordinary becomes the norm. In conclusion, The Casino Chronicles is a glimpse into a world where chance and destiny collide. It’s a collection of stories that showcase the heights of human audacity, the depths of despair, and the extraordinary moments that unfold within the realm of the casino. Whether it’s tales of triumph, tragedy, or pure entertainment, The Casino Chronicles invites you to experience the exhilaration, drama, and unforgettable stories that await at the tables.Spinning Fortunes: Exploring the Slot World Slot machines have been captivating players for decades, offering an exhilarating combination of luck, entertainment, and the possibility of spinning your way to a fortune. Whether you’ve visited a land-based casino or tried your luck at an online gambling platform, the allure of the slot world is undeniable.
In this article, we delve into the fascinating realm of slots, exploring their evolution, features, and the thrill they bring to millions of players worldwide. The history of slot machines 프리카지노 dates back to the late 19th century when the first mechanical slot machine was invented by Charles Fey. Since then, these humble machines have undergone significant transformations. Today, we find an array of slot games with vibrant graphics, immersive themes, and captivating soundtracks. The spinning reels, adorned with colorful symbols, create an enchanting experience that keeps players coming back for more. One of the remarkable aspects of slot machines is their accessibility. Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned gambler, you can enjoy slots with ease. The rules are simple: insert your wager, spin the reels, and hope for a winning combination. The excitement lies in the anticipation as the reels come to a stop, revealing whether fortune is on your side. | literature |
https://siskinbob.com/page/177/ | 2022-01-21T21:10:43 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303709.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121192415-20220121222415-00564.warc.gz | 0.968427 | 449 | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__103638434 | en | I want to tell you about a series of books to which I have just been introduced by my friend Eric.
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When I was at school I had no interest in history, the curriculum seemed to be obsessed with dates and dry facts. On this date Caesar fought this battle, on that date Caesar became Consul…… bleugh !!!
If only my tutors could have enlivened the classes with stories such as these.
Since starting to read these books I have been prompted to research the backgrounds of many of the characters. In part to determine the reality but also to understand a bit more about the times. Thank you Mr Iggulden for peeking my curiosity.
Also, having travelled around in Europe, many of the places mentioned in the books are places that I have visited. This gives more substance to the books and to a degree fills in gaps that I didn’t know existed in my travels.
The author Conn Iggulden, goes to great lengths in the back of the books, to explain when he has played fast and loose with history for the purposes of maintaining narrative flow. He is the first to point out that it is nigh on impossible to cover everything that Caesar achieved and so there is some telescoping of events.
I only started the first book (The Gates of Rome) some two weeks ago but I am now racing towards the end of the fourth (The Gods of War). The pace in these books never lets up and I am already mentally applying the brakes because I don’t want the story to end but, at the same time, I want to see what happens. All this despite knowing the historical ending.
Thank you Eric, for introducing me to Emperor. | literature |
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