{"url": "https://stories.soonersports.com/austin-stogner-the-journey-back-home/", "date": "2024-02-23T23:04:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474470.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223221041-20240224011041-00127.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9834457635879517, "token_count": 1557, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__38157208", "lang": "en", "text": "I’ve never been in more pain in my entire life.\nMy dad played football at Baylor, so I come from a football family. Pain and toughness come with the territory. But I’ve never felt something like this.\nIn 2020, an injury I sustained in a game revealed an infection in my leg, and the severity of the infection left me with more questions than answers at the time. I was a tight end for the Sooners, and I can honestly say I wasn’t worried about never playing football again.\nI was worried if I’d ever be able to walk again.\nI was incredibly scared when they took me to the surgery room.\nNo one knew how far the infection had spread and if they could save my leg.\nAs they were wheeling me through the hospital, though, I recalled a Bible verse my dad instilled in me at a young age.\n2 Timothy 1:7, “For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self-discipline.”\nAs I said that verse to myself over and over, I was no longer scared. I was reminded of God’s love and the sound mind he gave me to take charge of any situation I found myself in, including this one.\nEven beyond my injury, that verse has become a major theme in my life, especially during my collegiate career.\nThere have been plenty of setbacks and obstacles along the way. As crazy as it sounds, though, even when I was at my lowest, I wouldn’t trade any of it for the world.\nMy journey, with the tremendous highs and devastating lows, has made me into the person I am today.\nAnd it’s helped me (re)discover the place I was always meant to call home.\nThe highs before the lows\nWhile the recruiting process was a little overwhelming at times, I took to OU almost immediately. I committed during my sophomore year of high school, so I didn’t waste much time.\nI visited a bunch of schools, but OU seemed like the perfect fit to me.\nThe offense they had, the success of their team, and the proximity to my home – it just felt right.\nNevertheless, the transition to college was a big step, especially being away from home for the first time. But I was lucky to have a great support system. I had teammates and friends who helped me navigate through that transition and made me feel comfortable.\nTo be honest with you, the start of my OU career couldn’t have gone any better. But football, and life in general, has a way of humbling you when you least expect it.\nA home game against Kansas during the tail end of my sophomore season would soon change everything.\nA life-changing hit\nBefore I took the field against Kansas, I remember feeling sick. I was pretty sure I had strep throat, but I wasn’t about to miss a game because of a sore throat.\nDuring the game, I took a hit to my thigh that initially felt like a Charley horse. But the pain worsened throughout the day, and my knee started swelling up. It got to a point where walking became difficult, and I was in excruciating pain.\nI called up my then-trainer Chris Watson in the middle of the night, begging him to take me to the hospital.\nAfter days of tests and uncertainty, it turned out that I had an infection in my leg caused by strep throat.\nI had to undergo surgery and spent several days in the hospital. I lost a lot of muscle in my leg and had to work harder than ever just to be able to get back on my feet and walk again.\nBut with the help of the OU medical staff and trainers, I was able to make it back eight weeks later to play in the 2020 Cotton Bowl against Florida. Stepping back onto the field meant everything to me. It symbolized overcoming adversity and the determination to not let anything hold me back.\nDespite a life-changing and potentially career-ending injury, I was playing football again, and my goals and dreams remained ahead of me.\nTo this day, it’s hard to put into words how grateful I am for OU’s support during this incredibly testing time.\nA Sooner for life\nWhen I came back, I wasn’t exactly myself, though.\nIt wasn’t until I was about halfway or three-fourths through my junior season that I finally started to feel good again and play better football.\nAnd after the season, things started to change at OU within the program. When Coach Riley left, that took its toll on the team.\nAt that time, I made the difficult decision to transfer to South Carolina for the 2022 season, wanting to make the best decision for myself and my career as a student-athlete.\nBut life has a funny way of bringing you back to where you belong.\nI enjoyed my time at SC, but I found myself yearning to be back at OU.\nThe camaraderie, the history, and the standard of excellence — there’s just something special about being a Sooner.\nI believed I had unfinished business in Norman.\nSo, I decided to take advantage of my fifth year and do something that’s quite unusual in college athletics — I transferred back to the place I transferred away from.\nAnd ever since, the support I’ve received from the OU athletic department has been nothing short of incredible. The athletic director, Joe Castiglione, went out of his way to ensure that I could still graduate as a Sooner even after I transferred from OU.\nThat tells you everything you need to know about this university.\nOnce you’re a Sooner, you’re a Sooner for life, and it’s not just a catchphrase.\nOU has looked out for me since the first day I arrived on campus, and I can’t tell you how much their support and guidance has meant to me these past few years.\nFinishing what I started\nOne of the many joys of my return to OU has been establishing a relationship with Coach Venables. He’s truly an amazing person, as he genuinely cares about us as individuals and wants to see us grow not only as football players but also as people.\nMy hopes for this season are simple: I want to win football games.\nAs I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that winning is more important than individual stats or accomplishments. It’s about the love and bond you share with your teammates, and the feeling of achievement that comes with a victory.\nLooking ahead, I want to pursue a career in the NFL and play football as long as I can. But I’m also mindful of life after football.\nMy leg injury taught me so many things, but above all else, I learned that my career could come to an end at any moment, and I need to be prepared for the day when I hang up my cleats for good.\nI never could have predicted this roller coaster ride, but I remain grateful for every twist and turn along the way. It led me back to where I belong in what’s become my home in Norman.\nSo, here’s to a great season and ending my college career in the Crimson and Cream.\nI wouldn’t want it any other way.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://onceuponawrittenword.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/connections-and-character-landscape-in-jane-eyre/", "date": "2023-05-28T22:35:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644571.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528214404-20230529004404-00759.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9688119292259216, "token_count": 5595, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__160637155", "lang": "en", "text": "By way of introduction, I should mention that Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre holds a special place in my heart in a rather unique way: It may be my least favourite book in the entire English literary canon.\nFor what reason? Take your pick! Nearly all of the characters irk me in ways I cannot put into words, the storyline drags dismally, and the whole tale seems shrouded in a sort of feverish darkness. (Also, narrowing down your protagonist’s options for a husband between Rochester and St. John is nearly as dismal of a choice as when the USA had to opt for either Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton.)\nNever has a person tried so desperately to like a book as I have tried to like Jane Eyre… The first time I read it, I was 16 years old and reading it as part of a bargain. I had a good friend who was a reader and had never read The Lord of the Rings, possibly my favourite book of all time. She told me that she’d read it if I read a few of her favourite books: the Eragon series and Jane Eyre. I don’t think either of us particularly enjoyed the other’s suggestions — I don’t know if she ever even got through LOTR, and I passionately disliked both Eragon and Jane Eyre. I had wanted to enjoy it for my friend’s sake, but much to my chagrin, I could not.\nA few years later, once I’d mellowed out a little, I decided to give JE another chance — it was a classic after all, and I probably ought to like it. Undoubtedly, I was just too young to appreciate its nuance the first time. Alas, I came to the same distressing conclusion: I simply did not like the book! Halfway through my university degree, I determined to give it one more chance in a 19th century literature class. After all, I reasoned, surely studying the literary aspects would help me to understand why it is such a well-loved and revered classic.\nSadly, the third swing struck out, too. I doubt I’ll ever read JE again, and will likely go to my grave still baffled at how many people legitimately enjoy the story and its characters. However, I have finally come to a place of grudging respect for it, thanks to a nearly 4,000 word essay I wrote as part of my third attempt to give it a chance. (Told you I tried desperately hard.) That essay is presented as follows, because it actually is quite interesting and I’m rather proud of it. Hopefully you enjoy it, even if you’re not a Jane Eyre fan.\n(And if you are a Jane Eyre fan, please do comment and explain to me why you like this book so much!)\nNow without further ado,\nConnections and Character: Landscape in Jane Eyre\nThere is a moment in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in which Jane, as the narrator, asks her reader to imagine a new chapter in the novel as the curtain going up after a scene change in a play. There is a short description of the room where Jane is sitting, and then the play continues, with dialogue, character, and emotion being the chief items of importance. Many scholars and critics of Jane Eyre seem to take this note to the reader to heart, treating the book almost as though it were a play, quickly glancing over each new set before settling into the continuing action. No doubt this is still an effective way to read the story, but the difference between a novel and play lies in the very thing that is overlooked in the former and omitted in the latter: landscape. Though landscape in Jane Eyre is usually only considered when focussing on the quintessential Gothic elements of the book, its plays a much more involved role than simply setting the iconic scene; it is every bit as important to the story as the dialogue, plot, and characters are. Paying close attention to landscape in Jane Eyre allows readers a deeper understanding of the story by seeing how it aids Jane’s personal development in crucial moments as she matures, illustrates her feelings and responses towards various situations in her life, and offers a potent means of describing the nature of several characters in the story, including Jane herself.\nJane’s life is influenced by a fascination with landscape from nearly the first moment the reader begins to know her. She introduces herself almost instantly as reading a book, Bewick’s History of British Birds – hardly a stirring title. But what she seems to love in the book is not necessarily the descriptions of the birds themselves, but the places which they inhabit, “the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with ‘the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space’” (Brontë 64). Jane finds herself fascinated by the “strangely impressive” landscapes she encounters, and her imagination feeds not on pictures of birds as one might expect from the title of the book, but rather on the “vignettes…[from] the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast; to the cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking” (64, 65). Jane’s solace and happiness even at the outset of the book is absorbed with stark, wild, almost desolate landscapes. A few pages and chapters later, Jane also shows a fascination with tales from Gulliver’s Travels, the content of which she conceives as “a narrative of facts,” sure that she can one day access the Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians through their lands, which she considers “solid parts of the earth’s surface” (78). To young Jane, landscapes are the connections to other places, realms, and realities. Though the definition of fairies, imps, and elves may vary according to imagination, the landscapes in which they live are within the mind’s grasp; Jane herself, disappointed at not being able to find any of these elves, “at length made up [her] mind to the sad truth that they were all gone out of England to some savage country, where the woods were wilder and thicker, and the population more scant” (78). Thus, it is not difficult to see how Jane’s character is heavily influenced by the concept of place, specifically natural landscape, and how she is especially drawn to those which are wild, strange, and far off, as they are a means of accessing a different or otherworldly place or people.\nYet though Jane is fascinated by imagined landscape, though delving into a book seems to be her favourite pastime, her desired place to sit in order to read her books is in the window seat, where she can “at intervals, while turning over the leaves of [her] book… stud[y] the aspect of that winter afternoon,” or look out at the horizons of her real world as well (64). The concept of Jane sitting at the window is a crucial one for connecting her with nature, as the panes of glass are “protecting, but not separating” her from the outdoors (64). The horizons that she can see from these window seats are important as well, as they often intimate her attitude towards each particular dwelling in which she finds herself. At Gateshead, for instance, she describes the view as “an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched,” a landscape where she finds “no pleasure,” just as she finds the house to be lonely and devoid of pleasure, warm life, and nourishment (97). Once she leaves Gateshead and lives instead at Lowood school, Jane describes the garden there as “a wide enclosure, surrounded with walls so high as to exclude every glimpse of prospect” (108). It is clear that Jane initially feels somewhat trapped at the school, but even when she has lived at the school for eight years, the trapped feeling has not gone away. Wondering what the future holds, Jane looks out of a window and realizes her situation by looking at the horizon: “there was the garden; there were the skirts of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon. My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks: it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits” (151). Brontë depicts this scene so that the reader’s imagination adds layer upon layer to the landscape, filling it in with the immediate details and then gazing further and further as Jane herself does – essentially seeing through Jane’s eyes. This is a turning point in Jane’s character, since her comprehension of the distance and the yearning to go physically beyond it is what prompts Jane to tire “of the routine of eight years in one afternoon,” to leave Lowood, and to seek a new dwelling somewhere else (151).\nOnce at Thornfield, Jane yet again does not seem initially fully content, and continues her characteristic habit of gazing out at the horizon. She frequently goes to the attic and looks out at “sequestered field and hill, and along dim skyline… then [longs] for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life” (178). Now, gazing out at the landscape around Thornfield, Jane realizes her desire more concretely, that she wants a spark of liveliness and interest in her life. When Rochester arrives at Thornfield, Jane once again “walked to the window, but nothing was to be seen thence: twilight and snow-flakes together thickened the air and hid the very shrubs on the lawn” (189). This time she is unable to yearn for another horizon past her own; she has no need to desire a far-off life, for Rochester has brought that life to her. She leaves the window, “let[s] down the curtain,” and is summoned to formally meet Rochester downstairs. Here, it is the noticeable absence of a concrete landscape to prompt longing which ushers in the next turning point of Jane’s life, coming to know and love Rochester.\nYet even though this is the end of Jane’s window gazing, the landscape continues to play an important role in enhancing the reader’s understanding of Jane’s true feelings towards her situation. When she has fallen in love with Rochester and thinks he will marry Blanche Ingram, she resents the idea of going to Ireland since the sea will separate the two of them, physically forcing them apart. Later on, when she is ready to marry Rochester herself but finds out that he already has a wife, Jane feels uncomfortable and almost trapped by him. Rochester tries to use a physical change of scene to put Jane at ease, attempting to give them both an escape from the situation by proposing a “place I have in the south of France: a white-walled villa on the shores of the Mediterranean. There you shall live a happy, and guarded, and most innocent life” (394). Here, just as with Ireland, Rochester again uses the ocean as a motif for separation from Thornfield. However, the way Brontë words Rochester’s solution suggests that it would not be out of place to draw a parallel between his French villa and the white-walled garden at Lowood, the school where Jane learned to speak French. Since the emotions accompanying Jane’s description of the Lowood garden were those of being trapped and enclosed with no clear future, it is not unreasonable to apply the same feelings to her current situation; and just as with Lowood, Jane now makes up her mind to leave in search of a new servitude. This time, however, she has no destination and simply needs to go “in the contrary direction to Millcote… not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward” (412). The lack of a clear direction or an aim, which up to this point in the story has been provided by longing for a distant horizon, leaves the reader feeling as lost and isolated as Jane does. The landscape must change once more, but it is now completely unknown, both to Jane and the reader.\nWhile Brontë uses a specific idea of place to better describe Jane’s feeling of being trapped in her situation and in her love for Rochester, Brontë also uses landscape to illustrate Jane’s situation when St. John urges her to marry him later in the story. The conversation does not take place in a house, but in the beautiful landscape surrounding it, which Brontë describes in detail. But though it is described in a way that the reader understands it as beautiful, it is never explicitly stated as such; instead, Bronte has Jane speak of treading “soft turf, mossy fine and emerald green… the hills, meantime, shut us quite in; for the glen, towards its head, wound to their very core” (499). Though beautiful and potentially a solace, this landscape that Jane describes has an eerie hint to it, for it leads down an isolating, winding way. Usually when a horizon is described, it reaches only as far as Jane can physically see; this time, however, she appears to know exactly where the road ends up, even though the end is impossible to literally see. This unique moment in which Jane sees more of this road than she should be able to, suggests that in some sense, this path is allegorical to the one that Jane would be following if she chose to marry St. John. From this path, there would no hope of return; beautiful in its own right, but not warm or comforting, only long and isolating, taking her far away with no potential return. Interestingly, travelling to far-off lands was Jane’s original desire as a child, and she used to yearn for what lay beyond the horizon. However, Jane has changed at this point in the story; now, Rochester satisfies her desire for strange, new life, and there is no longer any joy for her in the prospect of exploring a land which will take her further away from him.\nThe allegorical nature of the landscape here continues through the rest of the scene. When St. John and Jane begin to argue, and St. John gets ready to convince her to marry him, “he leaned back against the crag behind him, folded his arms on his chest, and fixed his countenance, I saw he was prepared for a long and trying opposition” (501). St. John’s resolve is firm, as unmoveable as the very landscape that he leans against in confidence. His position is enhanced by his following remark asking Jane to lean on the Rock of Ages, to trust his judgment. However, the more Jane considers the situation and becomes convicted in her heart that she must not marry St. John, she too “rose up and stood before him, leaning [her] back against the rock,” standing her ground as immovably as he stands his (508). St. John then looks out towards the hills one last time before they both return home, retracing their steps and physically walking away from the path they might have trod together.\nThis scene between St. John and Jane is one of several that suggest a parallel or connection between landscapes and characters. Jane herself seems rather obsessed with “sketching a character” of those around her, figuratively as well as literally (173). When Jane describes characters to her readers, the descriptions often employ language reminiscent of landscapes. When she first meets Rochester, she relates the sound of his approach breaking the silence as “in a picture, the solid mass of a crag, or the rough boles of a great oak, drawn in dark and strong on the foreground, efface the aerial distance of azure hill, sunny horizon and blended clouds” (181). He is abrupt, unavoidable, and striking, but rather than using such adjectives, Jane calls to mind a landscape, letting the idea of the picture speak to Rochester’s character before the reader has even met him. Only a few pages later when she describes Rochester in more detail, his face is “dark, strong and stern,” similar to the bleak, hard landscape that surrounds their first meeting, and he disappears “like heath that in the wilderness / The wild wind whirls away,” evoking a picture of nature to portray a character (185). Jane also describes the character of Blanche Ingram like a landscape: “her mind was poor, her heart barren by nature: nothing bloomed spontaneously on that soil; no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness” (264). This natural imagery allows the reader to see and better imagine the character of Blanche as easily as they might picture her physical features when Jane draws her portrait a few chapters earlier.\nThough Jane draws many implicit parallels between characters and landscapes in her narrative, she draws a few explicit ones as well, quite literally. Almost all of her paintings are either portraits of those around her or depictions of landscapes she sees. But when Rochester first discovers Jane’s sketchbook, he finds a number of paintings that are a blend of portrait and landscape which are described in great detail for the reader. The Evening Star and Death are just two of these paintings, but each feature a definite figure that is integrated with and yet distinct from the landscape upon which it is painted. The paintings depict neither a person nor a place, but rather an essence, or, one might say, a character. Thus, Jane describes a person’s nature by using nature itself, evoking the earth and specific horizons or vistas which the reader may understand in order to give a distinct impression of the person’s essence.\nThough Jane sketches the character of those around her by using landscape, she herself is connected to landscape as well. Rochester often calls Jane a fairy or an imp, strange and other-worldly, hearkening back to the wild landscapes she was obsessed with as a child. Jane herself assures Rochester that she is “naturally hard – very flinty… [with] divers rugged points in [her] character” (360). Such a description indeed seems to portray a landscape rather than a human being and draws a connection between Jane and the place “up where the moors spread and grey rocks are piled” (79). Like the moors, Jane is striking but not beautiful, rugged but soft. She is at once straightforward and full of hidden thoughts and feelings, like the flatness of the heath which covers a labyrinth of mysterious spaces to be explored. As Rochester keenly notes, she does not smile or laugh very often, but when she does it is pleasant, like a sudden patch of vibrant flowers on the muted colours of the moors. The moors are where Jane feels safe and at home, where she finds solace and protection. Even though Jane cannot survive completely alone on the moors and needs a human dwelling where she can be “protected, but not separated” from nature, the dwelling that she comes across is right up against the landscape and is aptly named Moor House (64). In fact, the inhabitants of Moor House are literally family to Jane, as she finds out later on that they are her blood cousins. Thus, Jane is intricately connected to the moors; they provide a haven for her, and it is only after dwelling on them that she comes into her own, and can return to Rochester as her “own mistress… an independent woman now” (536). In short, where Rochester’s nature is wild and Blanche Ingram’s nature is fallow, Jane’s is moorish: solitary, soothing, and strange.\nBronte also highlights Jane’s deep connection to the physical world by using landscape to bring her to revelations of truth, and even the divine. In some ways it seems like a stretch to claim that the natural world can communicate truth or allow for a recognition of the spiritual, but as Jennifer Gribble puts it in her article on imagination in Jane Eyre,“it is essential to Charlotte Brontë’s intent…that she should attempt to blur such distinctions between the observer and the scene and to make the world of nature contiguous with the human mind” (Gribble 290). The key idea in this definition is that the human mind can somehow be influenced by nature in such a way that it is able to realize new things of which it was previously unaware. These moments are generally turning points for Jane in the story and mark stages where she grows up, especially when considering the novel as a bildungsroman, a story in which the protagonist progresses from adolescence to adulthood following a “pattern of personal growth” (Baldick 39). In Jane Eyre, these crucial moments of personal growth come through the revelation of landscape.\nThe first such instance is at Lowood, prior to Helen passing away. Jane has been out playing all day, and then looks at the many aspects of the beautiful evening, “noting these things and enjoying them as a child might, when it entered [her] mind, as it had never done before: – ‘…This world is pleasant – it would be dreary to be called from it, and to have to go who knows where?” (Brontë 144). This moment is highly significant for Jane: one minute she is childlike with simple thoughts and pleasures in mind, the next minute she has lost that naivety and comprehended death. Jane suddenly understands the implications of what is happening to Helen, realizing that she is dying. Such a turning point in the story is crucial to Jane’s character and maturation, but it does not come about through a conversation or the aftermath of someone’s death; Jane lands on this truth through the landscape, once again reinforcing her character’s connection to nature.\nJane experiences one other potent revelation through nature when she is out on the moors after having run away from Thornfield. In this instance, Jane is hurting as much as she possibly can be, and though nature offers her shelter, she still finds herself utterly “worn out with…torture of thought” (416). But as she looks up at the sky stretching out over the moors, she reflects that “we feel [God’s] presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us: and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence” (416). Jane’s struggle with her idolization of Rochester is ultimately banished by her conviction that “he was God’s, and by God would he be guarded,” a realization that comes to her only through looking at the night horizon, in the solitude and safety of the moors (416). Though Jane initially runs to the moors to “ask repose” of Nature, which “seemed to [her] benign and good,” it is not nature in and of itself which comforts her, but it is through nature that she realizes the overwhelming presence, peace, and benevolence of God (415). It is entirely plausible that in writing this scene, Brontë was thinking of Psalm 19:1-3: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. / Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. / There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard” (KJV). This would be an ironic and striking reversal of Jane’s childhood sentiment that “Psalms are not interesting,” indicating yet again that Jane has reached another stage of maturation at this crucial moment; and once again, this revelation comes not from a conversation or event, but through a landscape (92). Perhaps Jane’s other-worldliness, her fairy or elf-like qualities, stem from the fact that she seems to connect with the spiritual world through the physical one.\nLandscape and place in Jane Eyre are far from simply inert background; rather, they are a means of connecting all aspects of the book to one another, and also connecting the reader to the story in a more nuanced and subtle fashion. Jane herself is obsessed with landscape from the onset, as it is the way in which she seeks to find a connection to strange and far-off places. Landscape, specifically horizons, often serve as a way of illustrating Jane’s situation and prompt a change of scenery, both figuratively and literally. Similarly, character itself is intrinsically linked to landscape in Jane Eyre. This can be seen explicitly in Jane’s drawings and implicitly in her descriptions and portrayals of the characters of those around her, like Rochester and Blanche Ingram. Jane’s own character is not exempt from such a parallel, as she is deeply connected to the moors. Finally, as she grows up, Jane’s strong relationship with landscape acts as a catalyst for connecting her to deep truths such as death, and later even brings her to a truer understanding of God. Clearly, then, landscape plays a crucial role in Jane Eyre, and by considering the significance of descriptions of place throughout the story, the reader may gain significantly deeper insight into Charlotte Brontë’s classic tale.\nBaldick, Chris. Oxford Dictionary of Literay Terms. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Print.\nBrontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Richard Nemesvari. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 1999. Print.\nGribble, Jennifer. “Jane Eyre’s Imagination.” Nineteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 23, no. 3, 1968, pp. 279–293. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2932556.\nThe Holy Bible. The King James Bible Online: 2018.\nOne thought on “Connections and Character: Landscape in Jane Eyre”\nWay cool, some valid points! I appreciate you making this article available, the rest of the site is also high quality. Have a fun.\nLikeLiked by 1 person", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.sustainabletropics.org/publications", "date": "2019-10-15T20:12:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986660231.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20191015182235-20191015205735-00539.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.903082013130188, "token_count": 555, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__42591396", "lang": "en", "text": "Alliance partners participate in cross-cutting, timely, and innovative research across the globe.\nIncreasing REDD+ benefits to indigenous peoples & traditional communities through a jurisdictional approach\nIn this brief, we (1) review the current situation of indigenous peoples (IP) and traditional communities (TC) with regards to climate change, REDD+ and low-emission rural development (LED-R) in the Tropics; (2) present a conceptual framework for Jurisdictional REDD+ to demonstrate how IP and TC could receive greater and more lasting benefits from climate change mitigation strategies (including possible climate finance) under certain conditions; (3) present six regional case studies on Jurisdictional REDD+; and (4) summarize recommendations for the road beyond Paris. In particular, we examine which actions can be supported by IP and TC, governmental decision-makers, and other key stakeholders to ensure equitable and sustainable low-emission rural development.\nnavigating climate change mitigation and sustainable development in the tropics\nIn this paper for Outreach, a multi-stakeholder publication produced for the UNFCCC negotiations, the STA describes its transformational framework for large-scale, bottom-up solutions through Low-Emission Rural Development strategies. The full Outreach publication can be reached here.\nAbout the sustainable tropics alliance\nThe Sustainable Tropics Alliance (STA) is a strategic partnership of independent, non-governmental organizations that draw on research, multi-stakeholder engagement, and local knowledge to develop low-emission rural development (LED-R) models in the Tropics.\nindigenous peoples and low-emission rural development\nIndigenous peoples and traditional communities are key players in the race to slow climate change, yet often on the sidelines of climate change dialogues. In this report, we explore opportunities for greater inclusion and improved benefits-sharing for indigenous peoples and traditional communities in the context of Low-Emission Rural Development (LED-R).\nfostering Low-emission rural development from the ground up\nThe STA analyzes progress made in implementing low-emission rural development (LED-R)—a jurisdictional or regional approach to sustainability—using examples from eight regions in the Tropics. LED-R provides a framework for integrated implementation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and helps to address challenges related to implementation. We define LED-R and assess each region’s potential for and progress in moving toward LED-R. We also identify the key actor groups in each region, describe their dynamics, and discuss the potential roles each group could play in the transition to LED-R. We also summarize the barriers and opportunities for LED-R to take hold across the regions.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.lnbc.com/event/womens-tuesday-am-christmas-study/", "date": "2023-11-28T10:20:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099281.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128083443-20231128113443-00241.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8045351505279541, "token_count": 137, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__260180108", "lang": "en", "text": "Join the Women’s Ministry for our Tuesday Morning Bible study! Childcare Provided.\nStudy // Book: Because of Bethlehem by Max Lucado\nStart Date // November 14 at 9:30am-11:30am // Fellowship Hall\nLeader // Sharon Rhoads and Lori Williamson\nCost // Simply Purchase the Book at this link.\nJoin with Max Lucado in this lively, heartwarming six-week celebration of all things Christmas. Because of Bethlehem features stories both insightful and whimsical. On every page, Max’s words will encourage, captivate and inspire you, but most importantly, they’ll point you towards the One worth celebrating.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.theserviette.com/blog/", "date": "2019-10-21T09:57:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987769323.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021093533-20191021121033-00186.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9890338182449341, "token_count": 1083, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__202036641", "lang": "en", "text": "Last night we said goodbye—yet again—to an international friend.\nI remember the first time my husband had him over for coffee, maybe a week or two after he showed up at our Sunday fellowship. We found out that a coworker in the city where he had done his PhD had often invited him to events where the Bible was discussed. While completing his doctoral work, he began to think that the faith he had previously mocked had some substance to it. When taking a post-doctoral position meant he needed to move to our city, his coworker directed him to our fellowship. I think he would say that he was not yet a follower of Jesus when he arrived in our city. But he was curious and close.\nWe knew he was transient, but we befriended him anyway. We shared our table with him, over and over. He graciously ate anything we served him, and visited with anyone whom we placed at the table with him. We celebrated milestones and grieved losses together. We met each others’ parents when they came to town, and got to know each others' coworkers. We watched him declare his desire to follow Jesus by being baptized, grow in his understanding of the Bible, and develop friendships with Jesus followers of all different ages and walks of life.\nTwo autumns ago, we started a weekly gathering with him to eat, read the Bible, and pray. Some weeks we ate supper with 10 people, and some weeks we ate just with him. But if he was in town, he was at our table on Thursday night…even last night, before he flew out to his new job in a new country this morning.\nLast night he emptied all the leftovers from his kitchen into mine. In my freezer are his leftover strawberries, in my fridge his German sausages, and on my counter his butter in his butter dish. There’s a tote bag in the corner which I think contains his vinegar, oil and salt.\nHe even left his umbrella in our umbrella holder, and said “I hope it’s not raining on the way home, so I can leave this here.” Standing in our narrow hallway last night, saying goodbye, my heart squeezed. Why do we do this? Why do we love when we know the people we love will leave?\nThe scripture that comes to mind whenever I think about this is from John 13:1. “Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” He calls us to love and to love to the end. Christians are taught to “love one another deeply as brothers and sisters” (Romans 12:10). From the way our hearts were squeezed last night, I knew we had loved our international friend like the brother that he is. And it was only right to love him “until the end”.\nIt is worthwhile investing in transient people like international students and immigrants because…\n…God says it is worthwhile.\nThere are only two things in this world that will last into eternity: God’s Word and human souls. When I see the new life that flourished in our friend’s heart in his few years in our city, I am sobered to think what a loss it would have been for eternity, if that friend in his last city had never invited him to investigate the Bible’s claims, and if no one in our fellowship had noticed and welcomed this newcomer.\n…you get the chance to invest in another corner of the world.\nIt boggles my mind to consider this: when one of our international friends comes to Christ (or even comes into contact with His Words), we indirectly have the chance to influence that person’s network, too. As our friend shares what he’s learning in another language, on another continent, in another culture, he reaches people we could never have reached ourselves. Last night our friend asked for prayer for his students and colleagues at his new job, a reminder that part of what he has learned here will affect how he influences others for many years to come.\n...many people won’t.\nThere are many people who dismiss deep relationships with transient people because they don’t see what God sees in them, they don’t have a global vision for what God can do through that investment, or they’re too busy with the relationships they already have.\nWhen my husband first had our international friend over for coffee, we could not have known that he would become one of our best friends in this city. We took a chance on friendship with him, and our lives were enriched because of it.\nWe gain much more than we lose, by following God’s command to love the internationals and immigrants He brings into our lives. Today it feels like we lost: we lost our neighbour. But the net result of our relationship with him is gain: we gained a friend and a brother. We gained all the things we learned with and through him. Maybe we will gain more brothers and sisters through him. And someday we’ll eat together again in our Father’s house, and say no more goodbyes.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://events.goucher.edu/event/presentation_and_qa_with_author_charles_johnson", "date": "2020-05-31T01:36:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347410535.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20200530231809-20200531021809-00029.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9604439735412598, "token_count": 248, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-24", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__117078168", "lang": "en", "text": "Q&A with author Charles Johnson\nThe Kratz Center for Creative Writing at Goucher College is pleased to welcome Charles R. Johnson as the Fall 2019 Kratz Center Visiting Author.\nJohnson is the second African American man (after Ralph Ellison) to win the National Book Award, for his novel Middle Passage, and he has also received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a MacArthur Fellowship, and numerous other prizes and awards. His novels and short stories have been translated into many languages.\nJohnson will give a presentation and Q&A in Soper Room in Julia Rogers on Tuesday, October 15, 2019, at 3 p.m.\nAt 8 p.m. on the same day, Johnson will read from his work in Kraushaar Auditorium at Goucher College. Both events are free and open to the public, but tickets must be reserved for the evening event at www.goucher.edu/tickets. For more information, contact the Kratz Center at email@example.com.\nTuesday, October 15, 2019 at 3:00pm\nJulia Rogers Building, Soper Room 1021 Dulaney Valley Rd.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://frontroomdojo.com/lineage/", "date": "2023-06-07T11:49:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653764.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607111017-20230607141017-00444.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9582604765892029, "token_count": 1498, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__286655104", "lang": "en", "text": "Ueshiba Morihei, Osensei (1883–1969)\nAikido was created by Ueshiba Morihei from his lifetime of martial experience and spiritual practice. Following a challenge by a naval officer, which involved repeatedly avoiding being hit with a bokken, Osensei experienced a major shift in his awareness. Alone in his garden, “At that moment I could understand that my life’s work in budo was actually based on divine love and the laws of creation” (Ueshiba).\nHe thus came to the realization that the source of true budo is love. From this perspective, competition had no place in his system. “There is no room in Aikido practice for conceptualization or opinion: no perfection, no right or wrong, only the reality of experience” (Ueshiba). Further, “Within love [ai], there is no competition, no enemy, no antagonism toward anyone else or anything” (Ueshiba).\nFor him, “Budo is a divine path established by the gods that leads to truth, goodness, and beauty; it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe and the ultimate grand design of creation” (Ueshiba). The principles of heaven and earth could be perceived through the virtue which would come from devoted practice.\nIn practice, “one must polish one’s ki and forge the spirit within the realm of life and death. . . . Realize that your mind and body must be permeated with the soul of a warrior, enlightened wisdom, and deep calm” (Ueshiba). He made a clear distinction between the manner of practice of sports as useful bodily exercise, and practice as budo. “Warriors, too, train the body, but they also use the body as a vehicle to train the mind, calm the spirit, and find goodness and beauty, dimensions that sports lack” (Ueshiba). Making the body strong and healthy was but a part of what came with practice. Sincerity, valor, goodness, and beauty are also nurtured and encouraged.\nThe ideal state of Aikido is considered as being “able to respond to, embrace, and blend with anything offered, without any conditions or preconceived notions” (Ueshiba).\nOur techniques employ four qualities that reflect the nature of our world. Depending on the circumstance, you should be: hard as a diamond, flexible as a willow, smooth-flowing like water, or as empty as space.\nThe body should be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes serenity and perfection, the source of unlimited techniques. The square stands for solidity, the basis of applied control. (Ueshiba)\nAikido may also be called the way of peace, as the practices are focused on harmonizing one’s body and spirit with the natural forces of the universe.\nAiki reflects the grand design of the cosmos; it is the life force, an irresistible power that binds the material and spiritual aspects of creation. Aiki is the flow of nature.\nAiki signifies the union of body and spirit and is a manifestation of that truth. . . . Aiki is the ultimate social virtue. It is the power of reconciliation, the power of love. (Ueshiba)\nDo symbolizes both the cultural path of Aikido and the way of Aikido. This shows in how we relate to self, other, society as a whole, as well as how we deal with nature. Takemusu Aiki sums this up succinctly.\nTake stands for “valor and bravery”; it represents the irrepressible and indomitable courage to live. Musu typifies birth, growth, accomplishment, fulfillment. It is the creative force of the cosmos, responsible for the production of all that nourishes life. Takemusu Aiki is code for “the boldest and most creative existence!” (Stevens)\nStevens, J. (1995). The secrets of Aikido. Boston, MA & London, UK: Shambhala.\nUeshiba, M. (1991). Budo. New York, NY: Kodansha.\nUeshiba, M. (1993). The essence of Aikido. New York, NY: Kodansha.\nKato Hiroshi, Shihan, 8th dan\nKato Hiroshi (1935–2012) lived in Tokyo, when he was not travelling to spread his knowledge of Aikido. In 1953, when he was 19, Kato sensei began his Aikido training at Aikido World Headquarters (Hombu Dojo) under the instruction of the Founder of Aikido, Ueshiba Morihei. From 1975, he taught at his own dojo in the Ogikubo district of Tokyo.\nHe regularly traveled to affiliated dojo in Texas and California twice a year, as well as to other places around the world where he was invited to share his depth of experience and dedication to the ideals and principles of Aikido. Having studied directly with the founder, and having trained himself for over 56 years, he demonstrated an uncommon wealth of knowledge as he cultivated a world-wide community of practice dedicated to the art of harmony / peace.\nKato sensei focused upon the nonverbal aspects of instruction and practice, and emphasized that seeing is far better than hearing about something. He recommended that everyone try to do what he showed, even if you did not understand it. In his words, “Results come as you practice.” His style could be described as moving with a unified body, powered by one’s hips with knees soft, from a compact base, both grounded and fluid.\nKato sensei hiking January 2009\nCultivation of respect for the natural world was an intrinsic aspect of his training and experience. Hiking in the mountains was part of his training with Osensei, and integral to my experience of training with him during my 10 years in Tokyo. This served multiple functions: as physical exercise, as a time of community building, and as offering a welcome opportunity to shift perspective from one’s life in the city. Body, mind, and spirit were honored, respected, and interwoven on such outings.\nSusan J. Newton, 4th dan\nI began my study of Aikido as part of my doctoral program in transpersonal psychology in 1992. Following licensure as a Clinical Psychologist in CA, I traveled to Tokyo to deepen my practice in its home culture. While serving the international community as a psychotherapist, I had the great good fortune to study for 10 years with Kato Hiroshi Shihan, 8th dan, a direct student of Ueshiba Morihei, Osensei. With direct authorization from Kato Shihan, I opened Front Room Dojo in 2011. Now living in Kapa’a, HI, I work as a psychologist / processworker and consultant in private practice, as a free-lance editor, and continue to deepen my Aikido practice.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://en.daz3ddl.com/products/rera-and-rera-hair-for-genesis-8-females?f=siderbar_favorite_log", "date": "2022-12-08T00:26:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711221.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20221207221727-20221208011727-00778.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9282466173171997, "token_count": 159, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__150171843", "lang": "en", "text": "Introducing Rera and Rera Hair for Genesis 8 Females!\nRera is a spy from a futuristic world. After completing arduous tasks time and time again, she became numb and ruthless. All that exists in her consciousness is the task and the gun in her hand. Smiling? That's a luxury for her.\nRera comes with fixed expressions, her own makeup — her design is inspired by comics, anime, and sci-fi characters.\nBring the edgy Rera and Rera Hair for Genesis 8 Females into your stories for your fill of boldness!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.ukessays.co.uk/essays/health/adverse-outcomes.php", "date": "2017-02-21T00:58:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501170614.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104610-00042-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9672770500183105, "token_count": 1634, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__111580570", "lang": "en", "text": "The adverse outcomes experienced by young people may vary according to the specific type of disability or health condition that the parent has. For example, young people caring for a parent with a physical disability report a variety of physical ailments resulting from the caring role, including muscle strain, fatigue and exhaustion (Gays 2000). Young people living with a parent with mental illness may experience greater social isolation as a result of the stigma attached to mental illness, as well as the stress of coping with the parent's condition.\nFigure 3.8 presents disability prevalence rates among parents for four disability groups: intellectual/ learning, psychiatric, sensory/speech, and physical/diverse. Intellectual/learning disability is associated with impairment of intellectual functions, with limitations in a range of daily activities and with restriction in participation in various life areas. Psychiatric disability is associated with clinically recognisable symptoms and behaviour patterns frequently associated with distress that may impair personal functioning in normal social activity. Sensory/speech disability is associated with impairment of the eye, ear and related structures, and of speech structures and functions.\nActivity limitations may occur in various areas, for instance communication and mobility. Physical/ diverse disability is associated with the presence of an impairment, which may have diverse effects within and among individuals, including effects on physical activities such as mobility.\nThis report discusses the current overall health status of young Australians in the 21st century with that of young Australians in the 1990's by making reference to morbidity and mortality data and to positive measures of well being. In finishing this report, data from the specified years were studied and analysed.\nSelf-assessed health is often a good indicator of the positive measures of wellbeing. A series of studies have also shown that people's perception of their own health status to be a powerful, independent predictor of their future health. Table 2.1 below indicates the ‘self-assessed health statuses' of those aged 15-24. Surveys performed by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) asked respondents to assess their own health against a five-point scale.\nIn 2004-05, 70% of young Australians aged 15-24 years assessed themselves to be in either a state of excellent or very good health; another 24% rated their health as good and the remaining 7% to be either fair or poor. Young males outnumber females aged 15-17 years in either a state of excellent or very good health (85% of males compared to 80% of females), results were very similar in the 18-24 age group. There is a slight increase in the proportion of young people stating their health to be excellent or very good from 65% in 1995 to 70% in 2004-05. Likewise, the proportion of young people who assessed their health as fair or poor declined from 9% in 1995 to 7% in 2004-05.\nMorbidity rates often refer to disease and disabilities. Communicable diseases such as Hepatitis B and C for example, remain a threat to human health. Fortunately, the number of hepatitis B notifications have almost halved between 1995 and 2005, from 100 notifications to 55. Hepatitis C on the other hand increased since 1996 from 1.1 per 100,000 young people to a peak of 9.4 per 100,000 in 2001; it did however decline again to 3.5 per 100,000 in 2005. There are also chronic diseases such as Hayfever and allergic rhinitis which are considered the most frequent long-term conditions reported (14%), followed by short-sightedness (12%); and then asthma, with a prevalence rate of 8.5% during the 1990's and 13% in 2004-05.\nA population's experience of mortality provides a key set of indicators of its health and wellbeing. Even though death rates for young Australians are quite low during the 1990's and the 21st century, the trends and differences are still significant in the planning of future public health care.\nIn 2004, there were 1,470 deaths among those aged 12-24 years, 1,012 (69%) were males. As indicated by Table 2.26 above, the leading cause of death for young Australians was transport accidents which make up 30% of all deaths in this age group; followed by intentional self-harm (19%), and accidental poisoning (5%). These three causes accounted for over 50% of all deaths. Cancers also featured among the leading causes of death for young Australians having been responsible for 3% of all deaths. High levels of distress between young males (12%) and females (19%) aged 18-24 has also been reported, an increase from 1997 when the corresponding proportions were 7% and 13%.\nIn 1997, there were 2,082 deaths among those aged 12-24years, 1,523 males and 559 females. The causes for two-thirds of all deaths during this decade were very similar to that of the 21st century. On a positive note, the mortality rates among young Australians aged 12-24 years over the past two decades has halved, mainly due to decreases in deaths caused by injury which accounts for a majority of deaths. Suicide and transport accidents have too declined by 40% and 35% respectively between 1995 and 2004 and deaths due to drug dependence disorder decreased from 142 deaths in 1997 to 3 deaths in 2004.\nPART 2e: Asthma\nAsthma is one of the most common long-term health problems amongst adolescents in Australia. It is a disease caused by the narrowing of one's airways, resulting in symptoms of wheezing and shortness of breath. For most asthmatics, the condition can be effectively controlled through medications on a regular basis; in some cases, people with severe asthma may lead to premature death. In spite of the difficulties in precisely measuring asthma prevalence, studies have indicated that Australia has one of the highest prevalence rates in the world and is indeed on the rise, having increased in the early-to-mid 1990's.\nThe burden of disease due to asthma is significant, accounting for 7,995 DALYs or 4% of the total disease burden for young Australians aged between 15-24 years in 2003. In 1996, asthma accounted for 2.6% of total DALYs (2.1% for males and 3.1% for females). This 2.6% is made from 4.8% of YLD and only 0.6% of all YLL, indicating the fact that asthma is a major cause of chronic disability rather than death.\nDuring the 1990's, 11.3% of the then population had asthma, an increase on the 8.5% prevalence in 1989-90; whereas in 2004-05, estimates based on the ABS have indicated a prevalence rate of 13%. Between 1996-97 and 2004-05, females were overall more prevalent to asthma (14%) than males (11%). As shown in Figure 2.14 above, the difference was largest in the 20-24 year age group where the prevalence rate for females was 1.7 times the rate for males. However, among those aged 12-14 years, the prevalence rates for both genders were close (14% and 13% respectively).\nIt may also be of interest to acknowledge the significant reductions in asthma hospital separation rates between years 1996-97 and 2004-05. The number of separations has fallen from 189 to 88 separations per 100,000 young people for males and from 283 to 131 separations per 100,000 for young females, a decline of 54%.\nIn terms of mortality rates in 2004, there were 14 deaths due to asthma which accounts for less than 1% of all deaths in this age range. Between 1995 and 2004, deaths from asthma almost halved. This shows that asthma is not the main cause of deaths in Australia; and is also a clear indicator that young Australians today are much healthier than their counterparts were during the 1990's. This decrease in mortality rates can be largely due to a reduction in the severity of asthma, changes in treatment practices or environmental factors or through improved asthma management.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://clearwatercog.org/2018/03/meet-cog-stephanie-shank/", "date": "2019-03-20T15:37:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202433.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20190320150106-20190320172106-00316.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9914152026176453, "token_count": 643, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__46525502", "lang": "en", "text": "Next up in our Meet the COG series is Stephanie Shank!\nStephanie is the Program Developer for the COG and she was interviewed by Nancy Richards.\nWhat ridiculous thing has someone tricked you into doing or believing?\nStephanie is quick to play tricks on others but it is pretty hard to pull one over on her. She has two boys at home that are known to try often but haven’t been successful yet. She says with a smile, that they are still pretty young so their pranks are still very obvious.\nStephanie did recall a time when she was in the 3rd grade that her dad got one over on her. Her family went to Cedar Point for some summer fun. She was convinced that roller coasters were very scary things and that she was not ready to ride one and then came her dad, a determined man. He convinced her that the Gemini was no big deal and not really scary at all. “Be brave, I will ride with you” he said. So off she went hand in hand with him and boarded the coaster. The trick was on. Little did she realize that he had tricked her into sitting in the very front seat. She says within seconds she was screaming like crazy and kept her head in her dad’s lap for the entire ride. Her family tells her she parted the Gemini with some wise words, “I AM NOT RIDING ANY MORE ROLLER COASTERS EVER! OR AT LEAST UNTIL THE 5TH GRADE!”\nWhat’s the most useless talent and what is the most useful talent you have?\nStephanie’s most useless talent is towel snapping. She would give herself a gold medal for her towel snaps. She and her brother practiced for hours perfecting their skill while running around their house as young children. Or, in reality, he perfected his skill on Stephanie and her sister. It was a game of survival. She continues the tradition by playing the game with her boys. She is quick to note, it is all in fun and the laughs abound.\nStephanie considers her most useful talent to be that of a writer. We at the COG couldn’t agree more. She told me all about how she has journaled since she was a young child and would spend her days writing if she could. She also happened to mention she is an avid reader and has been known to read five (5) books a month. Reading that many words in a month would sure give you a lot to write about.\nWhat is something you think everyone should do at least once in their lives?\nStephanie said she thought about this a lot while she was getting ready to be interviewed because there are so many things that came to mind. She then settled on telling me how she believes everyone should have the privilege of being immersed in a culture that is not their own. It gives you a whole different perspective of people and the world. She challenges us all to go somewhere different, don’t be afraid to be uncomfortable, experience a new culture fully –it just might change your world.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://fixyfix.com/blog/why-the-little-things-you-do-for-others-go-a-long-way/", "date": "2024-04-25T08:28:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00742.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9595098495483398, "token_count": 360, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__159579753", "lang": "en", "text": "While ‘tis the season for giving, it’s the little things you do for others — over the course of time — that ultimately go a long way. Whether you’re well off (or not), a business entity, or underprivileged, helping those in need is one of the most rewarding contributions you can make for both yourself and society. Be it physical, monetary, or sheer hardship, there are numerous reasons someone could be in dire need of a helping hand.\nAs the popular Ralph Waldo Emerson saying goes: “Life is a journey, not a destination.” However, sometimes on that beautiful yet unpredictable path, things can go unexpectedly awry. Although the resilient ones manage to get through major setbacks on their own, some of us — be it our misconstrued ways of thinking, or lack of resources — benefit greater from those who are willing to give them a small nudge. That very nudge could come in the form of an opportunity such as a place to crash for a brief stint, or a much needed job opportunity.\nRegardless of the predicament, each circumstance serves as an opportunity for those contributing to their respective causes. From the contributor side, the biggest benefit you receive is that feeling you get inside knowing that you made a difference. Essentially, the little things you do for others are, utterly priceless, for both the giver and receiver.\nIn closing — to summarize Forrest Gump’s well known quote, life is “like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get.” However, regardless of its twists and turns — and debts and credits — we can make the world a better place if we find it in our hearts to assist others along the way.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://edpub.tapity.com/review-how-to-publish-a-book/", "date": "2016-06-24T23:41:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-26/segments/1466783391634.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20160624154951-00116-ip-10-164-35-72.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9598036408424377, "token_count": 802, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-26__0__127369453", "lang": "en", "text": "The book is APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur—How to Publish a Book, by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch. It is available on Kindle for $9.99. The bottom line is: Get this book if any of the following apply to you:\n- You have any interest whatsoever in publishing your own book, print or digital;\n- You are an author who wants an overview of best practices in social marketing using the latest tools available, even if you already have a publisher; or\n- You want to know what the future of publishing is looking like from the point of view of authors.\nIn APE, Kawasaki and Welch present about the greatest possible amount of useful information per page. Yet they do it in a style that makes you feel like you are sitting down with Guy over coffee. Much of the information presented is practical and even technical, but it is never dry because every bit is so directly relevant and applicable to the reader who wants to write and publish a book. Also, APE has witty quotes and quick anecdotes scattered throughout, making it nearly as fun as it is informative.\nThe primary premise of APE is that if you want to write a book, you may be best off publishing it yourself, especially since the authors are going to tell you just what you need to know to pull it off. The key sub-premise is that to pull it off, you will need to wear the hats of author, publisher, and entrepreneur. The book’s title is thus also its table of contents. The first section tells you how to write your book, how to be an author. The second section tells you how to produce and distribute your book, how to be a publisher. The third section tells you how to market your book, how to be an entrepreneur. By “entrepreneur,” they really mean “marketer,” but they probably couldn’t find a picture of an APM for the cover.\nAPE can be read from cover to cover as an inspirational book (while guiltlessly skimming some of the more specific detail) and then can be used as a reference that you can lean on as you actually go through the process of publishing a book. As an inspirational book, the authors make it clear that publishing your own book is hard work, but they also make you realize that you can do it, and you can do it well. And they include tons of great advice and pearls of wisdom throughout. As a reference book, APE feels comprehensive, but curated; that is, the authors have gathered what they feel are the best resources and methods to help you at every stage of your publishing journey, so you are not overwhelmed with every possible way to do something. In this way, the authors are giving you their advice all along the way and saving you from frustrating dead ends and inferior ways of doing things.\nThe “Entrepreneur” section of APE is actually a great primer in how to use social marketing to market your book. Most of this section is applicable even if you have a publisher; for that matter, most of it is applicable even if you are selling something besides a book. This section summarizes Kawasaki’s wisdom on social marketing in general—it is a great read and worth the price of admission on its own.\nWhat APE cannot do for you (and does not claim it can): make you a good writer if you are a poor writer; tell you what to write about; make it easy to publish your own book (though it can make it easier); guarantee that you will get rich from your book. As long as you do not have any such unrealistic expectations, if you want to publish your own book or market your own book, you will love APE. It will give you the kick in the pants you need to get started, and it will be your constant companion all along the way.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.crowdrise.com/wisdompublications", "date": "2017-09-26T17:39:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818696653.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170926160416-20170926180416-00693.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9457555413246155, "token_count": 278, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__5594240", "lang": "en", "text": "For over three decades, Wisdom Publications has been committed to publishing contemporary and classic Buddhist books. As the leading ecumenical and nonprofit publisher in this field, publishing everything from His Holiness the Dalai Lama's works to the classic \"Mindfulness in Plain English,\" we have made it our mission to:\n- help cultivate and share the phenomenal and multifaceted resource of Buddhism, enriching the world by preserving and sharing the wise, compassionate, and profound teachings of Buddhism and mindfulness\n- advance critical scholarship, nurture communities of authors and readers, and\n- preserve Buddhist literary culture.\nWe are committed to providing readers with polished, thoughtful, and carefully-chosen works, available at reasonable prices. We also donate many books each year to schools, prisoners, sanghas, and libraries, and all our profits are invested back into the creation of new works.\nWe recently had a new website built (www.wisdompubs.org), where we now offer thousands of pages of free content from our books available to read online, as well as direct and instantaneous ebooks for sale.\nWe have already raised $5,000 this fall, and hope to raise $5,000 more by December 31st so we can continue developing and improving our new website, and fulfilling the work of our mission.\n(Tibetan flags photo by Chris Majors)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.reemazaman.com/letters/letter-to-a-past-love", "date": "2017-09-25T13:22:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818691830.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170925130433-20170925150433-00045.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9737287759780884, "token_count": 1424, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__58089246", "lang": "en", "text": "A final gesture of love. “Marie” is his ex-wife. Six months into our relationship, he moved cross continent. We ended our relationship six months after the move.\nI realized today that the connection I’d actively created with you involves my helping you process present and past events. Given this understanding, it feels unkind, dishonorable, irresponsible, and premature to leave your life without properly responding to your feelings and thoughts from last night. I’m writing this letter in respect of the roles we had created, and my responsibility as that person.\nYou say you haven’t been able to feel better despite having moved closer to family and the people you love. I fear and feel this is because the transformation you seek is internal; changing external circumstances will not accomplish that feat. I hope you devote the emotional effort of looking closely within, into your thought, behavior, and speech patterns. I fear that your negativity and general ingratitude towards the little and big things are obstacles that challenge your ability to be happy, calm, loving, and emotionally present. I hope you start AA, or something similar, a framework for support and guidance that isn’t a romantic relationship or partner. I feel alcohol is one of your numbing agents. It allows you to evade the inner turmoil that demands tackling, healing, and release. Ultimately, the quality of our relationships, both interpersonal and intrapersonal, determines our quality of life. So I feel all the above are factors that have kept you from true fulfillment. Moving from one geographical state to another isn’t the same as truly moving, from one state to another. I think you’ll feel better only after doing the necessary, deep, difficult, and continual inner work. It’s the task we all have in common, simply in different manifestations.\nFor me, our relationship began on our first date when, while waiting for dessert, you reached over, took my hand and said “I would never do this on a first date, usually. I hope there is a second one. I hope I haven’t repulsed you.” My heart broke for you. Earlier, you had told me the story of Marie calling you “repulsive”, something that is incredibly cruel and untrue. I wasn’t going to accept a second date given our vast differences and the fact that you were clearly very focused on your ex-wife, and broken. But when you said that, I made myself a vow: I would sign up to be the person who’d show you that you were deserving and capable of being loved even though you didn’t think that was possible. I would give you love and remain by your side knowing full well that I would receive very little respect, affection, or attention in return. I would love you without conditions or expectations, for that was the only way. I would give you a year. I would do this because you deserved the gift and opportunity to heal and move beyond your present and past, because you are inherently good, decent, and highly intelligent. You were and are worth the work. What I would receive in return is the contentment that comes from helping someone with something that only I could give and do for the person. Arguably, that incentive is both loving as well as egotistical. We dance this fine line in the matters of love.\nSomething you and I spoke of often is the hard-to-swallow truth that so much in life, and especially in love, is uncontrollable. By extension, so many parts of a person and the relationship forged with them will remain ever mysterious. Unknowable spots that will remain blurry given the nature of life and being human. It is the highly intelligent and the young who believe ardently that we can understand, and thereby determine or control or know, anything and everything we wish to. For the highly intelligent, it is a necessary and humbling step to realize and accept that not all are within our minds’ grasp. As for the young, life will teach them the same truth. The journey is sweetly ironic: The older we grow, the more we learn. The more we learn, the more we realize we know so little. The more we learn, the more clear it becomes that learning is an ever unfurling path.\nGive yourself time. You deserve it.\nOne of the things that pains me most is that nowadays, you show such interest in my life and my work, when for the most part of our relationship and synergy, I was invisible. I was the other woman, and Marie and you were the ones in focus. I loathe that you ask me so often about my book when in the past, I begged you for nine months to read something from it, and you couldn’t and wouldn’t make the time because you preferred to focus on yourself, your move, your job search, your ex, your pastimes and your addictions. It’s like lavishing affection on a teenager after refusing to embrace her as a child. Contraband love, sullied gifts, the kind which accepting means one’s auctioned oneself to the dark.\nI cannot be your Reema anymore. Meaning that I cannot and will not give, and give, and give to you anymore. You have nothing to give me in return, and my past reasons for giving you love, time, support, counsel and friendship are no longer valid. A hard lesson I’ve learned is that in all my relationships, my role as a daughter, sister, friend, girlfriend, wife, ex-girlfriend, ex-wife involves that I counsel. This is my approach to intimacy. At times it is also how I avoid it. My calling and my crucifix. Invariably, unless I’m careful, I grow depleted and resentful from the constant outpour of words, thought, synthesis, and love I devote to my beloveds. That is on me, a tightrope I choose to string, a balancing act I’m still navigating. My doing and my responsibility — no expectations, yet I try, yet I beg. Such an agreement, and its results, are ultimately unfair on both the beloved and myself. In terms of you and I, we know only an unbalanced synergy. I feel it would be deeply unhealthy for both of us to continue this. You need to take care of yourself — you deserve to become self-healing, self-sustaining, and self-empowering. There is so much to you that is remarkable, extraordinary, and good — hence my commitment to you. This is my final offering of love. If you read this letter, I hope you can receive it as such.\nPlease seek help. You are worth the work. You are worth the commitment. You are worth the love you need now to give yourself.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://hospice-of-san-luis-obispo-county.networkforgood.com/events/6586-stephen-jenkinson-canadian-culture-activist-and-author", "date": "2018-05-20T20:56:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794863689.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20180520205455-20180520225455-00504.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.934903085231781, "token_count": 254, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__38789392", "lang": "en", "text": "'Come of Age' Reading and Reportage\n\"Getting older is inevitable; becoming an elder is a skill.\" - Stephen Jenkinson, MTS, MSW\nAcclaimed Canadian culture activist and author Stephen Jenkinson returns to San Luis Obispo to discuss his upcoming book, Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble. In his signature provocative style, he makes the case that we must birth a new generation of elders, one poised and willing to be true stewards of the planet and its species. With lyrical prose and incisive insight, Jenkinson explores the great paradox of elderhood in North America: how we are awash in the aged and yet somehow lacking in wisdom; how we relegate senior citizens to the corner of the house while simultaneously heralding them as sage elders simply by virtue of their age. Part critique, part call to action, Come of Age is a love song inviting all of us to grow up, before it's too late.\nWe invite you to an evening book reading and reportage by Stephen Jenkinson for young folk and old folk, for elders in training.\nFor more information, please visit www.hospiceslo.org or call (805) 544-2266", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.adamrogers.online/the-intrepid-traveler-preface", "date": "2023-12-05T08:45:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100550.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205073336-20231205103336-00226.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9609275460243225, "token_count": 3876, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__86128749", "lang": "en", "text": "The Intrepid Traveler — Preface\nby Adam Rogers\n“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”\n— Samuel Johnson\nThe Greek poet, Constantine Cavafy, wrote in the late nineteenth century of the importance of enjoying the trip, any trip, and not only longing for a journey’s end. It’s a metaphor that can be extended to many of life’s processes and what this book is ultimately about.\nThis book is about travel – not tourism per se, but travel – experiential travel; the kind of travel that benefits both the visitor and the visited. And not just the travel where you go for a good time – though if you follow the guidance in this book carefully, I do believe you will have the time of your life, far beyond what you ever thought possible.\nIn the history of this world there has never been a better time to explore and never a greater need for increased awareness of the principles and practices of responsible, ethical, sustainable, and experiential travel. This is what I like to call intrepid travel, as the word intrepid suggests a lack of fear in dealing with something new or unknown – indeed seeking out the new and unknown to better understand the world as well as oneself. The adjective comes from Latin intrepidus, formed from the prefix in (or \"not\") plus trepidus (\"alarmed\").\nIntrepid travelers are among a group of daring individuals who want—indeed thirst—for a deeper understanding of the world in which we live. To travel is to step beyond the comfortable surroundings of the familiar world. I believe this is one of the greatest adventures we can take in life.\nWhether you are planning a trip to Argentina, Bangladesh, China, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, or Germany (or Haiti, India, Jamaica, Korea, or Lichtenstein), traveling offers an opportunity for the ultimate adventure and the highest education, if you are open to it. To travel is to live life at its fullest.\nI believe that travel is best when one pursues a three-dimensional experience, with three separate but interlinked facets of reality. There are the things we can see with our eyes—images captured on postcards, the monuments left behind by past civilizations, the architectural remnants of yesteryear. And then there are the people—the descendants of those who built the pyramids, the Great Wall of China, or the temples of Machu Pichu. The second dimension of intrepid traveling involves getting to know these people and their culture, gaining a glimpse of empathy into how life is experienced through their eyes. The third dimension involves nature—tuning into the vibration of the land and listening to it with all five senses.\nThis book is part travelogue, part travel guide—to anywhere. The insights that I share in these pages took years to develop, and I am still working on them. My first real travel experience occurred at the age of ten, when my parents packed up the Chevy Suburban, loaded me and my two sisters into the back, and then set off from the south of Arizona to the Yukon Territory in the far north of Canada. I wasn’t sure where we were going or why were we leaving, or even what Canada was, although I distinctly remember two words that often came up in the conversations emanating from the front seat: Nixon and Vietnam.\nMy next big travel experience came at the age of sixteen, when I hitchhiked from the Yukon, down the Alaska Highway to Los Angeles and then back by way of Wyoming and a short stint at the National Outdoor Leadership School. The following year, I bought a used motorcycle and spent a summer exploring the Pacific Coast of North America from Haines, Alaska to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico – reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by the light of campfires along the way. By the age of eighteen, I had run out of exciting places to explore on my own home continent and so I set my sights further East—so far East that my goal was to arrive back in the West. This journey took me around the world, lasting five years and took me to fifty countries throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia on a shoestring budget of less than one hundred dollars per month.\nDuring those five years, I practically lived five lifetimes. Each country, town, and village touched me in some way. Every person I encountered enriched me with a new understanding of life. It is often said that seeing new outer horizons broadens one’s inner horizons, and indeed for me, traveling caused my worlds to expand far beyond what I thought possible at the time. Not a single day passed in the five years I spent on the road that my awareness did not expand through a new insight or revelation.\nA word about past editions of this book\nThe first and second editions of this book were not necessarily written for the jet setter. I started out with the backpacker in mind, like myself many years ago. I have since learned that the jet setter, the business traveler, or a UN Advisor “on mission” can all be experiential travelers, intrepid travelers; responsible adventurers with an appetite to partake of the banquet of life, traveling to explore and experience what is beyond the horizons—the horizons “out there” and those that lie within us.\nIndeed, during the twenty-two years I spent working with the United Nations between the second edition of the book and this one, I was able to explore an additional 50 countries in a way that would have been much more difficult had I been an independent traveler on a shoestring budget. From remote rural areas of Mozambique and isolated villages of Cambodia to the deserts of the Sahara and the mountains of Nepal, I was tasked with connecting with, interviewing, and photographing villagers and local authorities throughout the Least Developed Countries (LDCs). LDCs are a group of 47 developing countries that, according to the United Nations, exhibit the lowest indicators of socioeconomic development, with the lowest Human Development Index ratings of all countries in the world. Some of the images and insights in this edition are from those experiences.\nWhether your budget is $100 per month or $1,000 per day, the two things I believe you must bring with you as an Intrepid Traveler are an open mind and curiosity. You can be eighteen or eighty years old and travel with a backpack, a duffel bag, or a suitcase. You can wear jeans or a suit. The externalities are secondary. A wise monk in a monastery in Thailand once told me that it is the motivation behind the action that determines the quality of the experience. It is precisely your motivation to travel that will be the greatest determining factor behind both the quality of your experience and whether it builds you up or breaks you down.\nThere are as many reasons to travel as there are travelers themselves, but there is something that ties even the most diverse of travelers together: a sense of adventure, a heightened self-confidence, and a positive outlook on life. Travelers seldom sit still; they are always wondering what is on the other side of the mountain. The tourist tours, usually in groups, and focuses most of his attention on seeing, on “window shopping.” Travelers are usually highly motivated, intensely interesting, and wonderfully inquisitive. Their experiences have shown them that the world is indeed a wonderful place. They have a good understanding of global events and feel comfortable with anyone in most any circumstance. She focuses on experience—on meeting people and attempting an empathic understanding of life as viewed through another’s paradigm.\nIt is my vision that through increased travel and a greater understanding of the world in which we live, that the world will become a better place one traveler at a time. Global peace and global stability can only come through global understanding. Understanding comes through connecting and interacting. Connecting and interacting is what you do when you travel.\nEvery traveler is intrepid—fearless and self-confident. This confidence arises from being able to perceive a goal and achieve it. It also comes from trusting the universe to provide your needs and knowing with confidence that every situation, no matter how complicated or uncomfortable, is an opportunity to learn. We are never presented with a challenge too great to overcome with the right attitude, and every challenge brings with it new understanding and awareness.\nIt is commonly thought that to see the world one needs a lot of money. The opposite can be true as well; quite often the amount of money spent on a trip is inversely proportional to the depth of the travel experience. In other words, the more money you spend on a trip, the more you may insulate yourself from the people and the reality of the country you are visiting. If you travel to Mexico City, stay at the Four Seasons, eat American food, and travel to all the tourist sites with groups of Americans in air-conditioned tour buses, you may not really be in Mexico City. Rather, you could be merely “seeing” an image through the framed perspective of a tinted glass window. You could probably get better views from watching a documentary on the National Geographic website.\nOn the other hand, being too frugal carries an opportunity cost, causing you to miss out on potentially valuable travel experiences. I have met travelers who have passed up a visit to a museum or ancient ruins because of a five-dollar entrance fee. If your budget is too tight to allow a visit to a local museum, it may be time to reevaluate your travel plans.\nGetting to the part of the world you have planned to visit may the biggest cost you encounter. However, if you plan, compare prices, or make more stops with longer layovers, you can significantly reduce this expense. Once you arrive at your destination, especially if your journey takes you to the developing (and often much more interesting) part of the world, the cost of living and traveling could very well be much less than you expected.\nBy spending less than the contemporary “tourist,” you are more likely to encounter locals and engage them in conversation. By avoiding lunch at the Radisson and eating in a local restaurant, by avoiding the tourist bus and taking local transport, and by staying with a local family in a bed-and-breakfast or at an Airbnb, you are more likely to spend time with people who are from the area, which should be one of the three reasons you are there in the first place. The geography and nature may be attractive, the cultural sites and monuments may be interesting, but it is the people you meet while traveling that will make your travel experience one that will enrich your life beyond compare. When you return home from your travels, you will have made new friends with whom you may be in contact for the rest of your life.\nTravel slows down time – and we live longer\nI have found that in many ways when we travel, and our senses are exposed to new experiences, we pay more attention to the details surrounding us: We become more mindful of the people, the food, the smells, the architecture, etc. Thus, we live more in the here and now because it is in the present moment where we experience reality. When we do this, our perception of time slows down, like when we were children marveling at and learning about the world around us. Remember how long the month before a birthday seemed as a child? Then, as we get older, we fall into routines and an entire year can go by in the blink of an eye.\nI believe we are only truly alive when our consciousness is anchored in the here and now. When our mind is mired in memories of the distant past, we get lost in movies of our own making. We are not here, now. When we are anticipating or worried about events that may or may not happen tomorrow, we are not here, now – we are literally somewhere else in our minds. We are only alive, when we are here, now, in this moment. Thus, the secret to longevity could be as simple as staying present and mindful in the present. Ponce de Leon's Fountain of Youth as it turns out, is not in some hidden faraway Floridian fable—it is right here where I am, in this moment. It is in observing and appreciating the details of my now.\nInward/outward simultaneous travel\nWhile you are on your outward global journey to faraway lands, you may discover another journey occurring simultaneously. You will see, hear, smell, taste, and feel things that will stimulate your spirit and awaken your senses. These new senses will inspire you to contemplate different paradigms about life and how it is lived. Traveling can transform nearly anyone into a philosopher and poet, for life on the road is revealed to you in a wonderful tapestry of contradictions and the kind of raw beauty that defies definition.\nSeeing the world as it is in its true nature is what gives the traveler a perspective of life that is often different from those who have never traveled. The journeyer is more apt to view him or herself as a citizen of the world, of the human race, rather than citizen of a country or representative of a specific race.\nI have found that for me, traveling quite often awakens a primordial nomadic instinct that creates a desire to forever want to see and experience what is beyond the next horizon. The more we experience, the more we want to experience.\nFor those who have never tried it, the traveler’s wanderlust can be a curious and rather incomprehensible type of behavior. Some non-travelers even look upon the traveler with either contempt or detached awe, saying to themselves, “I wish I could do that if only _____.”\nIf you want to travel, there is no excuse to delay. Settle your accounts, pay your bills, take an indefinite leave of absence from work, and hang a sign on the window that says, “Gone fishing – in Tasmania.”\nA few notes on the third edition and some acknowledgements\nTwenty-five years in the making, I do hope this third edition of The Intrepid Traveler will be of use and interest to travelers who are embarking on their first journey and to those seasoned travelers who can ever-so-well relate to the autobiographical experiences I have included to illustrate a few of my points. I also have tried to write it in such a way that it would appeal to readers who are embarking on the journey of life without transporting their physical bodies to the far reaches of the planet. Armchair travelers can be intrepid as well, gaining every bit as much insights to feed their curiosities and open minds.\nThis third edition includes a lot of material that simply did not exist when I was doing and living the research for the first two editions. In the early 1980s when I first set out to discover the world there was no email, no internet, and no ATM machines. Placing an international phone call could take three days if there was even a phone available. A letter could take three months to reach its destination. Now all that is required to let mom know you are safe is a Facebook account and access to an internet café or a smartphone.\nAlso, in the twenty-five years since the first edition of this book was published, I have more than doubled the number of countries I have visited—many during the past two decades of work with the United Nations. I have expanded the sections on traveling as a couple, having experienced much of the world from Marrakesh to Manhattan and from Cairo to Cape Town with my patient and loving wife, Gillian. I also have experienced the joy and adventure of traveling with children and have journeyed to and through several countries from Egypt to Morocco and from Chile to Canada with my two sons, Sage Mandela and Addison Tafari. Traveling with kids opens new opportunities for experiencing a country in ways I had never imagined.\nThis is a good place to acknowledge that nothing of substance is ever accomplished without the benevolence, understanding, and assistance of friends, family, and higher powers. In recognition of this, I would like to express appreciation to my mother, Nancy Dryden Lorieau and to my publisher at Earth News, Judy Rae. These two women (and their husbands) gave me the push I needed in the early 1990s to put pen to paper and to produce the first edition of this book. I feel enormous gratitude toward my Grandmother Ruth Wyatt Dryden and to her son, my uncle Chuck Dryden. I would also like to thank the late Ted Harrison of the Yukon for believing in me, Ella Cisneros of the Together Foundation for inspiring me, and to Lennie and Alena, for creating a new haven in New Haven. Thanks also to Wes Bernard, who first taught me how to take photos, and to Laura Kullenberg, my first boss in the UN system, who pushed me to take those skills to the next level. Thanks to Jim MacIntyre for an open door; Simona Marinescu for an open mind, and Jamrad Saoman for an open heart and for reminding me to breath. Thanks also to Jamie Birdwell-Branson and Gillian Rogers for editing the third edition of The Intrepid Traveler, and to Dennis Lundø Nielsen of Phoenix Design Aid, for publishing it.\nOf the many, many people who helped me out and inspired me along my own journeys around the world: My deep appreciation goes out to Sebastian Copeland (who provided the foreword to this edition), Reinhard Struve of Germany, Salwa el Habib of the Sudan, Martin and Annette Edney of Australia, Zeynep Sinal of Istanbul, Gert Paul Nowosadko of Everywhere, Keven Lafey of Jerusalem, and the Nazmuddin Family of Eritrea and now of Phoenix, Arizona. Thanks to Dimitry Elias Léger, with whom I worked in the post-earthquake rubble of Haiti and who inspired me with his tenacity for writing and the insights of his book, God Loves Haiti. I would also like to recognize, with appreciation and gratitude, the Lebanese monk on Mt. Athos, who changed my life one evening with a single conversation about moments and journeys. Lastly, I would like to express my appreciation to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and the Little Prince, who wrote that “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”\nThis book, as with the two previous editions, is dedicated to the Little Prince in all of us.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.novusvinum.com/gifts/cocktails/bartendingwriters.html", "date": "2018-06-25T08:08:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867579.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625072642-20180625092642-00161.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9582482576370239, "token_count": 366, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__102971259", "lang": "en", "text": "WRITERS BEHAVING BADLY\nHemingway & Bailey’s Bartending Guide to Great American Writers\nIllustrated by Edward Hemingway\nWritten by Mark Bailey\n(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, Workman Publishing, $15.95)\nby Becky Sauer\nCertain 20th century authors–F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker and Raymond Carver, to name a few–were just as famous for their hard living as they were for their fine writing. Taking inspiration from that theme, Mark Bailey has compiled this unique bartending guide designed for the literary lush. Forty-three American writers are arranged alphabetically and matched up with a signature cocktail recipe, mini biography and an excerpt from their work devoted to the subject at hand—drinking. Illustrator Edward Hemingway supplied the whimsical caricatures of the literary masters, including one of his grandfather, Ernest Hemingway.\nAlso featured are amusing anecdotes of particularly memorable benders, such as the time Jack Kerouac passed out at a portside bar and in the morning found himself on a ship headed for Greenland. Legend has it that he called his parents to say he would be home “a little late.” As far as the cocktail recipes go, the selections range from the classic (Manhattan, Bloody Mary) to the old-fashioned (Brandy Alexander, Gin Rickey) to the obscure (Ward Eight, Between the Sheets). And though you may not learn any nuances to fixing a Screwdriver, you may find it interesting to know that Truman Capote referred to it as “my orange drink.” This handy little book is less a tome for the serious mixologist and more of a novelty gift for those who enjoy a stiff drink and a great read.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://strangecoach.blogspot.com/2010/06/jonah-hex-two-gun-mojo-review.html", "date": "2018-06-17T23:45:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267859904.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180617232711-20180618012711-00072.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9651350378990173, "token_count": 1790, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__74797901", "lang": "en", "text": "Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo\nBy Joe R. Lansdale, Tim Truman, and Sam Glanzman\nVertigo Comics 1993\nCopyright © DC Comics, Inc.\nJonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo wasn’t my first experience with weird westerns, but it might as well have been. This is the story that inspired me not only to try my hand at penning weird westerns, but also to read about the history of the Old West—something no schoolteacher or college professor could ever claim. It also set me on the trail to finding every bizarro western I could get my hands on and is thus responsible for Strangecoach as well.\nIt’s also the first story I ever read written by Champion Mojo Storyteller, Joe R. Lansdale.\nI’d been searching for books by Mr. Lansdale ever since I read Stanley Wiater’s Dark Dreamers: Conversations with the Masters of Horror, a birthday present from my brother who encouraged my interest in horror fiction with this collection of interviews featuring such usual suspects as Stephen King and Clive Barker, and several other authors whose books I sought after being introduced to them in these pages.\nIt was Joe R. Lansdale’s books I was most interested in finding after reading this line from Mr. Wiater’s introduction of the author: “[Mr. Lansdale’s] Western-horror novel Dead in the West reads like Zane Grey’s (and George A. Romero’s) worst nightmare in it’s unflinching descriptions of mutilation and mayhem.” As a fan of Clint Eastwood’s westerns (thanks to my Mom, who insisted Mr. Eastwood played roles other than Dirty Harry, and rented The Good, the Bad & the Ugly on video to prove it to me) and George A. Romero’s living dead flicks (thanks again to my brother, who had no problem warping my young impressionable mind when we were kids, but has since turned his back on Romero’s zombie epics now that he’s a respectable husband and father), Mr. Lansdale sounded like a writer who was up my alley.\nBut in the suburbs of Long Island, Mr. Lansdale’s books were nowhere to be found in either used or new bookstores. Worse still, the booksellers stared at me with blank expressions when I asked if they carried any of his books, having never heard of him.\nSo when DC Comic’s Vertigo imprint launched in 1993 with an announcement that Jonah Hex—DC’s scar-faced bounty hunter, whose title survived longer than any other western comic book (92 issues in 1985)—was going to receive a makeover in the hands of Mr. Lansdale and his collaborators, artist Tim Truman (Grimjack) and inker Sam Glanzman in a horrific and humorous adventure of dark magic and western gunplay, I was thrilled that I was finally getting the opportunity to read this author’s work—and on one of my favorite characters too.\nInvited to a necktie party he just couldn’t refuse, on account of being trussed up and dragged behind a horse, Jonah Hex is nearly done in by some outlaws when he’s rescued by Slow Go Smith, an older bounty hunter with poor sight and even poorer aim, who manages to kill the outlaws…and most of their horses. Obliged to Slow Go, Jonah accompanies him to Mud Creek, Texas (a fictional town featured in many of Mr. Lansdale’s stories), to collect the reward for the outlaws’ heads.\nMud Creek is, as Hex observes, “a regular paradise—if you was a maggot.” Folks there charge two bits for pictures taken with dead outlaws and prepare picnics to watch hangings, while their sheriff works hard searching for justice at the bottom of a bottle. It’s the perfect environment for Doc “Cross” Williams to ply his trade.\nAdvertising himself as an alchemist, physician, and paraphysicist, Doc is a pointy-eared, pointy-toothed, goggle-sporting snake oil salesman, traveling across the west in his “Wagon of Miracles” with a trio of circus freaks selling his Sweet Brown Tonic, guaranteed to cure whatever ails folks. He’s also a body snatcher, using parts as ingredients for an elixir much stronger than his tonic—a voodoo potion that turns people into zombies, not the flesh-eating kind, but the obedient kind Doc can command and who suffer from such useful side effects as increased strength and agility.\nUnfortunately, Hex and Slow Go are in the wrong place at the wrong time, catching Doc in the corpse-stealing act and trading gunfire with his star zombie—Wild Bill Hickok, who’s a better shot half-dead than he ever was alive. When the smoke clears, Slow Go is a goner, Doc and his troupe are gone, and Hex swears to track them down, avenge his friend, and put Hickok back in the grave where he belongs.\nJoe R. Lansdale’s one-of-a-kind imagination fills Two-Gun Mojo with strong characterization, funny dialogue, relentless action sequences, and unexpected moments. Even if he had left out the supernatural elements, it would still qualify as a horror story of frontier life in its depiction of violence, bigotry, and general absence of human decency.\nHex’s point-of-view narrative drives the story with a wicked sense of humor that remains intact no matter how dangerous or strange the situation. The origin of Hex’s scar becomes a running gag as he offers different explanations of how he acquired it for everyone who asks from “damn toothpick slipped” to “damn chigger bite.”\nA man of principle, Hex follows his own moral code, righting wrongs as he sees fit, relying on his wits just as much as his guns. A loner by nature, he doesn’t seek companionship, but values those friends he makes along the way, however brief their time together, trading insults with them faster than lead with his enemies.\nIt is his friendship with Slow Go that puts Doc Williams on Hex’s most wanted list. Despite his ineffectual gunfighting abilities, Slow Go earned Hex’s respect because of his courage in helping others regardless of how the odds were stacked against him. By contrast, Doc is a dangerous coward, literally using others for his own benefit and to do his dirty work while keeping himself out of the line of fire. Encountering more brave souls who fall victim to numerous gutless ones, Hex is driven to see justice done.\nTim Truman’s and Sam Glanzman’s artwork is palpable, bombarding the reader’s senses with such Old West atmosphere you can hear flies buzz, smell manure, and taste Hex’s cheroot smoke. Each and every character is distinct from one another, attired in a variety of period clothing and brandishing a wide array of firearms, demonstrating the artists’ commitment to authenticity, and their genuine love for the era.\nAnd Hex’s visage has never been more horrific. Long-time readers know his face was branded with the “Mark of the Demon,” and even though it’s not mentioned in this story, the description is apt.\nRounding out the art team, color artist Sam Parsons adds striking depth to the already raw characters and gritty environment, and his use of moonlight and shadows for night scenes are especially impressive. Letterer extraordinaire Todd Klein amplifies Doc’s ramblings with clever designs that brings the insanity out of the character’s voice.\nTwo-Gun Mojo remains my favorite Jonah Hex story. It was also the perfect introduction to Joe R. Lansdale’s writing, and I’ve been a faithful reader of his novels, short fiction, and comic books ever since, regardless of genre, because Mr. Lansdale is his own genre and his stories never fail to entertain me.\nCollected into trade paperback in 1994, Two-Gun Mojo is currently out-of-print in book form, but is now available as a motion-comic—released to drum up interest in the Jonah Hex film.\nBased on the trailer, the film could use all the help it gets.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://tyndalemomentum.com/staff/kristenmagnesen/", "date": "2023-05-31T19:09:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647409.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20230531182033-20230531212033-00469.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.946505069732666, "token_count": 184, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__20078090", "lang": "en", "text": "Kristen Magnesen is a Senior Marketing Manager. She has worked with a myriad of authors from David Jeremiah and Chuck Swindoll to Tyndale’s up-and-coming authors. Kristen specializes in working with our memoir authors and enjoys sharing their testimonies. Kristen created the MemoirAddict.com website and blog, along with the @MemoirAddict Facebook and Twitter pages as a hub for these incredible stories and to meet rising consumer demand for memoirs. Kristen comes to Tyndale with a rich consumer package background; working with such companies as SC Johnson and Mondelēz (formerly Kraft) in the integrated marketing, promotions and retail space. Kristen holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. In her free time, Kristen likes to channel creative activities such as sewing, interior decorating, and crafting her latest Pinterest find.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://lendinglibmystery.com/", "date": "2023-12-06T13:34:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100599.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206130723-20231206160723-00872.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9256904721260071, "token_count": 928, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__204252299", "lang": "en", "text": "MURDER AT 3 CENTS A DAY:\nAn Annotated Crime Fiction Bibliography of the Lending Library Publishers: 1936-1967\nWilliam F. Deeck\nFROM THE BACK COVER:\nMurder at 3¢ a Day is the first and only reference volume devoted entirely to the lending-library publishers that flourished from the mid 1930s into the 1960s. More than ten years in compilation, it contains full listings of mystery and detective fiction published under such imprints as Phoenix Press, Hillman-Curl, Mystery House, Gateway, Arcadia House, Dodge, and Caslon.\nIncluded are dust jacket blurbs, settings, and leading characters for each title, as well as descriptions of jacket illustrations and names of the artists who designed them. Also included: an article about the lending-library trade written in 1939 by Charles S. Strong, who specialized in this type of novel; a tongue-in-cheek article on Phoenix Press mysteries by Bill Pronzini; brief biographies of many lending library writers; and selected period newspaper reviews of various titles.\nReaders and aficionados alike will find a wealth of fascinating and often amusing information about this little known variety of crime fiction. Murder at 3¢ a Day is a must for any reference shelf.\nWilliam F. Deeck (1936-2004) was a well-known mystery fan and collector who had a special affinity for lending-library fiction. In addition to the present volume, he was the author of numerous articles and reviews for The Armchair Detective, Mystery Readers Journal, and other publications.\nAll inquiries and orders:\nGeorge A. Vanderburgh, Publisher\nThe Battered Silicon Dispatch Box™\ne-mail: gav (at) bmts.com\nFax: (519) 925-3482\nINTRODUCTION TO THE PRINT EDITION:\nWhat you hold in your hands is a labor of love.\nThere have been scores of biographical and bibliographical reference works devoted to quality mystery fiction, but only a couple – Gun in Cheek (1982) and Son of Gun in Cheek (1987), both written by yours truly – that pay tribute to the genre’s lesser lights. And until the present volume, there has been no detailed source of information on the hundreds of mysteries published by, and the writers who wrote primarily or exclusively for, the lending-library markets that flourished in the 30s, 40s, 50s, and lasted well into the 60s.\nMurder at 3¢ a Day was conceived by Ellen Nehr, as a similar volume to her Doubleday Crime Club Compendium (1992), with Bill Deeck acting as assistant. A relatively small amount of material had been gathered when Ellen died late in 1995; it was Bill, with help from various other collectors and aficionados, who did most of the work of researching, compiling, and annotating the entries and who therefore earned the solo byline. After Bill’s death in 2004, I inherited the project – the adding of new material when found and the search for a publisher. Others deserving of heartfelt thanks for their efforts include Allen J. Hubin, Steve Lewis, Richard Moore, and Mark Terry.\nAny reader and collector of crime fiction, whether or not a fan of the odd, obscure, and delightfully absurd (Bill’s original title for the volume was Mostly Awful), will find much to entertain and enlighten them here. Some who were previously inclined to scoff at “alternative” mysteries might well join the growing number of us who consider them irresistible.\nFor you, Bill, and Ellen too, with gratitude. I wish you were both here to see it published.\n– Bill Pronzini\nGATEWAY BOOKS (1939-1942)\nTHE WILLIAM CASLON COMPANY (1936)\nDODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY (1935-1938)\nWILLIAM GODWIN, INC. (1933-1936)\nALLIANCE PRESS (1935)\nALLIANCE BOOK CORPORATION (1941-1942)\nJONATHAN SWIFT PUBLISHERS (1941-1942)\nMYSTERY HOUSE (1940-1948)\nARCADIA HOUSE (1939-1947)\nCopyright © 2006 , 2007, 2008 by the Pronzini-Muller Family Trust on behalf of William F. Deeck.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.holafusion.com/en/manifiesto", "date": "2024-04-20T18:52:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817674.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420184033-20240420214033-00236.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9458458423614502, "token_count": 223, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__491887", "lang": "en", "text": "This is why we do what we do.\nAt Fusion we look for true inclusion. We do not believe in \"inclusion\" that offers alternatives for those who \"do not fit in\" or in proposing different products for those who are outside the norm: we celebrate the diversity of people and individual differences, because they are opportunities for the growth of everybody.\nWe do not settle for the addition or the coexistence of separate parts, we seek the real Fusion.\nFusion means union of interests, real integration. Impies the conjunction of two worlds until they’re not allowed to separate. It requires understanding that every right must be respected and it is not about changing those who are different, but about comprehending them, and giving them opportunities to develop with their particularities.\nIt is not about setting molds, but about offering frameworks within which each one can be as they are. We are all different and the path will be more enjoyable if we travel it by being close and accepting each other, rather than pigeonholing ourselves and forcing us to be identical.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://montliban.wordpress.com/2015/11/19/the-voices-of-mont-liban/comment-page-1/", "date": "2018-07-17T17:23:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589757.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717164437-20180717184437-00096.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9637348651885986, "token_count": 289, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__170554049", "lang": "en", "text": "Growing up in a small town, I got used to the stories told by men and women of all ages and especially the older ones, it always seemed like everyone had a story to tell, all it took was a cup of coffee and your willingness to hear them out, although the last part wasn’t always necessary 🙂 The thing is, I wish I could recall 1% of all the stories I’ve heard since those days and till my present ones… That’s why I created this blog, for the sole purpose of saving and sharing the many stories of a Beautiful historic province and its people, Mont-Liban. Located in the heart of Lebanon and the Fertile Crescent, this ancient Mediterranean province has been taking part in shaping world history for more than 7000 years and still holds an important ethnographic trait that some people would describe as dire for an area in constant instability.\nThe stories I’ll share with you in my coming posts will be told by locals of Mont-Liban. I’ll Leave the choice of tale to the teller, and the joy of reading to the reader. As for myself, I’ll try my best to embed every single emotion and memory supplied by my narrators in the following posts.\nThey have a lot to tell you, if you’re willing to hear them out.. although the last part isn’t really a necessity 🙂", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://westwood-cottage.ca/2020/10/13/not-just-any-old-trunk/comment-page-1/", "date": "2023-05-29T22:17:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644913.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529205037-20230529235037-00192.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9727635383605957, "token_count": 943, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__11579575", "lang": "en", "text": "There are four trunks in my home. Each one different with its own compelling journey and story to tell. Their age is showing, but they don’t care; they earned every dint, scratch, bump, bang and paint job and they are proud of it.\nThe oldest one resembles a beat up rusted metal box with missing hinges and broken clasps. It came to Canada from England on a ship with my great grandfather, traveled by train and horse drawn cart to finally arrive at a small farm on the Manitoba prairies. All of his possessions, hopes and dreams were in this one small trunk. It has been the minder of hand stitched quilts, precious books, important papers, calves born on cold winter nights, the secret spot to stash moonshine, toys, tools, and sundry bits and pieces. It has lived in a house, a barn, a garage and my basement. This old trunk makes me sentimental. It symbolizes my roots, brings me family and stories and strength, grit and grace. It’s time to bring it out of the basement into the light and give it something to take care of.\nThe second trunk has a rounded top and has been painted many times so that it is neat and tidy. It belonged to my father in law. He journeyed to Canada with it from England in 1952 by ship and then by train to BC. When he joined the armed forces it traveled with him to France and then back to Manitoba. This trunk has stories to tell and secrets to keep. Its last job was to look after the supplies for changing the oil in the car and now that it is in my home it holds my yoga mat. I too gave it a tiny face lift, scraping the paint off of the wooden slats. It reminds me that like it, we move in and out of our roles adapting and reinventing ourselves as we go. It takes time, gets messy and mistakes are made. Like painting every single part of this beautiful trunk black. It’s ok that I don’t know who I will be next or how to get there. The reinventing is in the journey not the destination.\nThe third trunk joined my family in the 1990’s. It’s a rescue. The local volunteer firefighters were burning down an old abandoned house as a training exercise. My husband discovered the trunk in the house and brought it home. It was dirty, beat up, musty and contained dead bugs. But as they say, it had good bones. With a bit of TLC and some paint, voila, a toy box by day a cool retro coffee table by night. As my children grew up it housed different things and lived in different rooms. It has new marks of a life well lived with us. This resilient survivor tells me that in 2020 in the middle of a worldwide pandemic that amongst the tragedy and uncertainty that the virus brings us, that there is hope, we may feel beat up and discouraged right now, but we can find encouragement, good news stories, growth and light in unexpected places waiting to be discovered.\nAnd finally, the fourth trunk is really what’s known as a hope chest from the 1980’s. It was given to me by my grandparents the Westwoods and the Beevers as a gift on my graduation from high school. Inside were hand stitched linens. I was the first person in my family going off to university in the big city. My first piece of brand new furniture. It has traveled with me to many different homes. It has been through two weddings, one divorce, two babies and the loss and grief of my wonderful grandparents. It is the memory keeper. Tiny snippets of my life; notes from grade school crushes, 4-H projects, letters, lace gloves I wore as a brides maid, the dried roses from my wedding bouquet and the hand stitched linens that so long ago were stitched in Westwood Cottage to go into a granddaughters hope chest. Every now and then I open it up and take a walk down memory lane and bathe in the comfort of the memories of the past. Then I close it up and courageously move my life forward, for just like the four trunks in my home there are more things to experience and learn, more memories to be kept and more journeys to go on.\nBeautiful trunks! I love the history. I have one of two trunks that my parents came to Canada with, from Switzerland over 60 years ago. It’s one of my most precious possessions!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://tchakayiti.com/home/en/guava-green-ripe/", "date": "2019-11-21T00:43:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670643.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121000300-20191121024300-00220.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9861364960670471, "token_count": 674, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__384803", "lang": "en", "text": "Guava, green or ripe?\nIt’s amazing how big of an impact childhood memories can have on the one who recalls them. Just yesterday, I caught myself giggling at the sight of the small green unripe guavas hanging from our guava tree right outside our kitchen.\nI giggled because that sight brought me back in time; back to at least 20 years ago to my six-seven year-old self who thoroughly enjoyed those green fruits. For some odd reason, I loved picking unripe guavas from the tree to eat them. My child’s palate loved its bitter, sometimes sour flesh, which had a leafy taste to it, that I had to spit out after sucking the juice out of it for the fruit was so unripe that I couldn’t swallow it.\nIt was a constant battle with the grownups around me as I ignored their warnings that eating an unripe fruit would make me sick. Truth is, back then, I strongly believed they only said so because they wanted me to let the fruits ripen so they could enjoy them without me. I didn’t like the ripe fruit at all, not necessarily because I disliked its taste, but because it terrified me.\nNow before you start calling me all sorts of crazy, let me tell you that there was a reason to my six year-old self’s madness. It was based on those childhood stories they tell you to either impress or scare you without thinking of the impact it could actually have on you. I have no idea where that came from, but I had been told that the yellow fully ripe fruit got its pink flesh from the many worms that penetrated it. This statement was enough to scare me. The few times I was handed a ripe guava, I saw its flesh moving. I never could decide whether it was really moving or a fruit of my vivid imagination, especially since I had seen so many pink earthworms in our yard. There was simply no way they wouldn’t climb up that guava tree and colonize its fruits. For otherwise, how could its flesh be so pink? Such was my reasoning back then. Eating unripe guavas was thus my only recourse to avoid eating worms while still enjoying the fruit as much as everyone else did.\nToday, at 28, I know my imagination played many tricks on me as a child. I also know that, though guavas can have worms, it doesn’t mean that they all do. Yet, I still can’t get myself to take one bite of that fruit. I am still reluctant to bite its pink seedy flesh.\nI am proud to say that I have, however, made a strong effort to try and get used to guava’s taste. Though I may eat it in small quantities, I try to train my palate to appreciate the guava pastries sold here. Hopefully, I will also eventually acquire a taste for the guava jelly and guava paste we make here in Haiti. Something tells me, eating the real fruit will take a while. I blame it on that story that scarred me for life.\nAs I giggle one last time, I vow never to scare my kids from a fruit with such stories.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thelettlife.blogspot.com/2016/03/becoming-real.html", "date": "2018-12-12T16:24:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376824059.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212155747-20181212181247-00529.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9890792965888977, "token_count": 663, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__228202396", "lang": "en", "text": "Today Hank began his fourth round of Chemo. This week he will receive a drug that requires him to go in for an hour and a half long transfusion treatment. This will take the place of one of the more toxic drugs in his treatment plan, the one that made him vomit the first week. It has the potential to be less toxic, so the doctors like to alternate it with the heavy hitter. Since Hank will be going in each day this week, the access cords to his chest port were left on... covered with a huge, clear, protective sticker/bandaid so he can't knock it loose. Because of this bandaid needing to remain in place, baths are a little more \"sponge bath\" than usual. As I knelt beside the tub tonight, scrubbing his head with a soapy washcloth... I cried. Patches of hair were noticeable missing. It was becoming real. Our son has cancer.\nI bent to rinse the soap from the washcloth, so that I could rinse Hank's head, but noticed the amount of hair stuck to the fibers of the cloth. I stared as I tried to rinse them off. I stared as I wiped Hank's head to remove the soap... as the little hairs began to cling to the back of his neck on the wet skin. I stared as my sweet little four year old boy smiled up at me saying, \"That feels good mom. Will you rub my back with the washcloth again?\" Tears smoldered down my cheeks. I couldn't get all the hairs to release from his neck and upper back. The thought that I can't wipe away his pain, his suffering, his sickness... it stung in the deepest recesses of my heart.\nI stared at him as he continued to smile in his moment of playing with the bath toys. He, only being four, knew to take care to keep his port bandage dry. He, being only four, knew to not squirt the water into his mouth as he used to... and knew not to drink the bath water as he used to... and knew not to splash as he so wanted to... he, being only four. His life has been altered. Hank will forever be changed by this cancer. And to me, those little hairs clinging to the washrag made this journey all the more real.\nI often don't have time to sit and reflect on this whirlwind of a journey we were forced to embark upon. When I do, it is most often met with a sense of thanksgiving... of awe at how gracious the Lord has been in the many answered prayers. But tonight, I was struck by the worldly side of it all. I saw the brokenness, the pain, the sadness. I didn't question why Hank, or what if... I just mourned the loss of his hair, his health, his future. I mourned the loss of playing in the mud puddles, sonic happy hour drinks, and playing in the sun without a shirt. I mourned the things that normal four year old boys do, like drinking the bathtub water... however gross that may be, I wish he could... but he can't. I wish I could wash his hair without crying... but I can't.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://bloomsday.net/testimonials/", "date": "2021-08-01T22:39:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154277.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20210801221329-20210802011329-00327.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9670567512512207, "token_count": 305, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__2512556", "lang": "en", "text": "Donovan’s extraordinary talent as both a writer and editor has completely won my confidence. Initially, I believed that what I wanted was a competent line-editor. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I needed an editor who not only had the capacity to make suggestions, but to dig deeply into my work. After a complete and thorough edit of the first few chapters, Donovan ‘found my voice’. His recommendations have proved to be spot-on, and I heed his advice with the utmost confidence. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that with Donovan’s editing, my book has evolved from a good work to a publishable one.\nDonovan is sharp. He gets the job done, all the while consulting and checking-in. His earnest and committed approach is a bonus to his strong skill set. I couldn’t be more pleased, or recommend Donovan Reves with more enthusiasm.”\n— Ann Marie Etheridge,\nauthor of memoir, “Long Way Home”\nDonovan’s editing experience and critical insight have been instrumental to my writing. As an editor myself, I understand the need for a second opinion that asks the important questions. His own pieces have a polished, consistent quality, from prose to grammar to voice. Donovan is simultaneously thorough and timely with feedback, a rarity amongst editors.”\n— Marissa Byfield,\nauthor of the novel, “The Soft Fall”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://sassrocket.blogspot.com/2010/05/full-circle-moment-with-emma.html", "date": "2018-07-23T11:48:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676596336.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723110342-20180723130342-00303.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9840511679649353, "token_count": 320, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__22317679", "lang": "en", "text": "The other night, I had a total full circle moment with my daughter Emma.\nFrom the time Emma was a baby, we read her the book Goodnight Moon. I think bedtime routines and reading to your child are two of the most important parts of the day. We still read every night with Emma but as she got older and realized that other books existed, Goodnight Moon sort of fell by the bedside if you will. The bedtime routine changed from reading Goodnight Moon to reading any two books of Emma's choosing.\nThis went on up until about the last 6 months. Then, she started learning to read on her own. She now comes home every night with a book from the Reading Room at school. She has to read it and then take a short 5 question test on it the next day. I may be a little partial but I have to say, she is an AMAZING reader and I am so proud of her...she gives even the most daunting-looking words a good ol' college try. And most of the time she gets them right!\nWell, two nights ago, she brought home Goodnight Moon. Call me sentimental if you must but I almost got teary eyed when I saw it. She read it absolutely beautifully to me and then I asked if I could read it to her when she finished...for old times sake. I also told her the story that I just told you and she loved it. :)\nI love full circle moments and don't feel like they happen all that often but this one was truly amazing for me!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://aiimsrajkot.edu.in/dr-sagard", "date": "2023-05-28T06:04:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643585.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528051321-20230528081321-00009.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6605554819107056, "token_count": 2453, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__34100710", "lang": "en", "text": "Dr. Sagar Dholariya\nMBBS, MD BIOCHEMISTRY\nPublications (Research papers):-\n- Clinical efficacy and safety of dasiglucagon in severe hypoglycemia associated with patients of type 1 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Expert Rev Clin Pharmacol. 2022 Oct 25:1-11. doi: 10.1080/17512433.2023.2138343. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36266088.\n- COVID-19-related liver injury: Focus on genetic and drug-induced perspectives. World J Virol. 2023 Jan25;12(1):53-67. doi: 10.5501/wjv.v12.i 1.53. PMID: 36743658; PMCID: PMC9896591\n- Role of the tumor microenvironment and the influence of epigenetics on the tumor microenvironment in oral carcinogenesis: Potential implications January 2022. Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis. DOI: 10.1615/CritRevOncog.2022047088\n- Integrating cutting-edge methods to oral cancer screening, analysis, and prognosis. Critical Reviews in Oncogenesis. DOI: 10.1615/CritRevOncog.2023047772\n- Growth differentiation factor 15 as an emerging novel biomarker in SARS-CoV-2 infection. World J Methodol. 2022 Sep 20;12(5):438-447. doi: 10.5662/wjm.v12.i5.438. PMID: 36186744; PMCID: PMC9516548.\n- Potential of cytochrome P450, a family of xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes, in cancer therapy. Antioxid Redox Signal. 2022 Oct 14. doi: 10.1089/ars.2022.0116. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36242099\n- CRISPR/Cas9: A Molecular Tool for Ovarian Cancer Management beyond Gene Editing. Critical ReviewsTM in Oncogenesis 2022: 27(4):1–22.\n- Preeclampsia and Oxidative Stress: A Review. Current Innovations in Medicine and Medical Science. 2022. Vol. 5, 102–109. https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/cimms/v5/ 16536D\n- Association of the Human Leptin Receptor Gene (rs1137101;Gln223Arg) Polymorphism and Circulating Leptin in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome in the Indian Population. Ind J Clin Biochem (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12291-022-01065-5.\n- Global research trends of interleukin-6 in SARS-CoV-2 infection. Indian Journal of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IJBB). 2022. DOI: 10.56042/ijbb.v59i5.60924\n- Emerging Variants of SARS-CoV-2 Virus: A Quick Glance. Indian J Clin Biochem. 2021 Oct;36(4):451-458. DOI: 10.1007/s12291-021-00991-0. Epub 2021 28th June. PMID: 34219999; PMCID: PMC8237041.\n- Utility of P-SEP, sTREM-1 and suPAR as Novel Sepsis Biomarkers in SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Indian J Clin Biochem. 2021 Oct 6:1-8. DOI: 10.1007/s12291-021-01008-6. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34642555; PMCID: PMC8494168.\n- NGAL/MMP-9 as a Biomarker for Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: A Case-Control Diagnostic Accuracy Study. Saudi J Med Med Sci. 2022 Jan-Apr;10(1):25-30. DOI: 10.4103/sjmms. sjmms_581_21. Epub 2022 12th January. PMID: 35283706; PMCID: PMC8869267.\n- Analysis of Prediagnostic Circulating Levels of Gonadotropins and Androgens with Risk of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. J Lab Physicians. 2022 Jan. DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1741443.\n- A New Hope in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Management: Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors. Cureus. 2021 Sep 26;13(9):e18300. DOI: 10.7759/cureus. 18300. PMID: 34722075; PMCID: PMC8548046.\n- A Molecular Insight of the Role of PIN-1 Promoter Polymorphism (− 667C > T; rs2233679) in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism. Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry. 2021. Aug. DOI: 10.1007/s12291-021-00997-8.\n- Analysis of the Prevalence and Severity of Dysregulated Bone Mineral Homeostasis in Nondialyzed Chronic Kidney Disease Patients. J Lab Physicians. 2021. Jul. DOI: 10.1055/s-0041-1732495.\n- Epigenetic Silencing of DAPK1and p16INK4a Genes by CpG Island Hypermethylation in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer Patients. Indian J Clin Biochem. 2021 Apr;36(2):200-207. doi: 10.1007/s12291-020-00888-4. Epub 2020 May 16. PMID: 33867711; PMCID: PMC7994475.\n- Hyperinsulinemia and Hypoadiponectinemia are Associated with Increased Risk for Occurrence of Ovarian Cancer in Non-diabetic Women of North Indian Population. Indian J Clin Biochem. 2021 Apr;36(2):221-227. doi: 10.1007/s12291-020-00891-9. Epub 2020 May 13. PMID: 33867714; PMCID: PMC7994492.\n- Potential impact of (rs 4645878) BAX promoter -248G>A and (rs 1042522) TP5372Arg>pro polymorphisms on epithelial ovarian cancer patients. Clin Transl Oncol.2015 Jul 25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26209050\n- TP53 Gene Polymorphism in Epithelial Ovarian Carcinoma Patients from North Indian Population and its Pro/Pro Variant is Potentially Contributing to Cancer Susceptibility. J Genet Syndr Gene Ther. 2013;4(5):145.\n- Association of Anti-TPO Antibodies with Insulin Resistance in Patients of Hypothyroidism with Metabolic Syndrome: A Cross-sectional Study. J Clin of Diagn Res.2020;14(10):BC09-BC13. https://www.doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2020/45695/14123\n- Association of High Levels of High-Sensitive C-Reactive Protein with Metabolic Syndrome- A Cross-sectional Study. National Journal of Laboratory Medicine. 2021 Jan, Vol-10(1): BO01-BO05.\n- Evaluation of serum vitamin B12 level in patients of metabolic syndrome. Int J Clin Biochem Res 2019;6(4):474-478.\n- Utility of serum HE4 level to diagnose epithelial ovarian cancer - A cross sectional study. MedPulse International Journal of Biochemistry. September 2018; 7(3): 69-72\n- MDM2 promoter polymorphism (rs2279744) andserum estrogen level are associated with increased risk of epithelial ovarian cancer: A case-control study. International Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Research. 2018;5:526-32.\n- Study to evaluate serum sodium, potassium and chloride level in malaria and its association with severity of malaria. International Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Research. 2018;5:565-69.\n- Association of serum calcium level with metabolic syndrome: A case-control study. MedPulse International Journal of Biochemistry. September 2018; 7(3): 60-63.\n- Effect Of Hypothyroidism And Its Treatment On Proatherogenic Lipid Levels. International Journal Of Scientific Research, Volume-6 | Issue-9 | September-2017 | ISSN No 2277 - 8179 | IF : 4.176 | IC Value : 78.46\n- Serum level of CA-125, Salivary Amylase and CEA in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer in North Indian Population. Sch. Acad. J. Biosci.2014; 2(9): 633-639.\n- RASSF1 and PTEN Promoter Hypermethylation Influences the Outcome in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer. Clinical Ovarian and Other Gynecologic Cancer.2014;7:33–39.\n- Promoter Methylation of MGMT Gene in Ovarian Cancer. Int. J. Gen. Can. 2015; 2(1&2)\n- Job Related Stress is The Source of Stress among Male Partner of Infertile Couples. Journal of Psychology and Psychotherapy Research, 2015, 2, 42-49.\n- Plasma cell leukemia of IgG secreting type: A rare case. International Journal of Case Reports and Images. 2013;4(12):748–749\nPublications (Book Chapters):-\n- IL-1 gene polymorphisms in solid tumors, accepted for publication by Elsevier publishers (In Press)\n- Dholariya SJ, Orrick JA. Biochemistry, Fructose Metabolism. 2022 Oct 17. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan–. PMID: 35015453.\n- Sonagra AD, Dholariya SJ. Electrophoresis. 2022 Aug 8. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan–. PMID: 36251838.\nAwards and Honours:-\n- 1st Prize in Association of Medical Biochemists of India Conference (AMBICON) National P.G. Quiz, November, 2013.\n- 1st Prize Association of Medical Biochemists of India Conference (Delhi Chapter)-scientific meeting quiz, March 2014.\n- The utility of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin/matrix metallopeptidase-9 complex as a novel biomarker to diagnose epithelial ovarian cancer’ was adjudged for the “Award by the Organizing Committee-Oral Presentation Category during Association of Clinical Biochemists of India Conference (ACBICON) 2021 held virtually on 12th-15th December 2021.\nAreas of Interest:-\nClinical chemistry, Endocrinology, Oncology and molecular biology\nMembership of Professional/Academic/ Research bodies\n- Life Member of Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (A.C.B.I.)\n- Life Member of Association of Medical Biochemists of India (A.M.B.I.)\n- Life member of Society of Cancer Research Young Scientists Society\n- Life member of National Medicos Organization (N.M.O.)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://missteensouthernmanitoba.com/canada-is-great/", "date": "2018-10-19T11:04:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583512395.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20181019103957-20181019125457-00126.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.956902265548706, "token_count": 607, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__184670391", "lang": "en", "text": "The home of polar bears, agriculture, hockey, and diverse ethnic groups. The home of beavers, Tim Hortons, and la crosse. Canada, my home. I revel in the fact that I get to call myself Canadian. I am Canadian, I constantly apologize, and I pronounce the last letter of the alphabet “zed” instead of “zee”. You may wonder what makes Canada great? What makes Canada special or different? What makes Canada the friendliest nation in the world?\nOur diversity and multi-culturalism, our family like atmosphere, our willingness to put others before ourselves. As a nation, we choose peace instead of war, hope instead of futility, and love instead of hate. We accept others for who they are despite race, sexuality, or beliefs. We believe in equality and justice in everything we do. I am extremely blessed to have grown up in a country as amazing as Canada. My life has been filled with all of these things Canada stands for, and all of the things it houses.\nI remember family ski trips to Banff, Alberta, visits to the CN tower in Toronto, Ontario with my closest friends, vacations at the cabin on Lake of the Woods, Ontario, road trips through the flat lands of Manitoba through Saskatchewan, and choir tours across British Columbia. Each of these adventures and experiences have shaped me into who I am today, and have illuminated the beauty within our incredible country.\nI love how at ease I feel in Canada, whether it be within my familiar community or in another province. I love how parents are all “block parents” and look after the neighborhood children without being told. I love how we never judge a “book by its cover”, and are open to new relationships and different people.\nWe take pride in being Canadian. We celebrate our nationality. We celebrate Canada’s reputation. We celebrate our independence.\nTogether, we understand what it means to live in this breathtaking nation. From coast to coast, we keep Canada clean. The crisp air and white powdered mountains in British Columbia, the sharp smelling pine trees throughout the territories, the brilliantly colored prairies, and the rocky terrain and clean water towards the east, we take as much care in our environment as we do in human interaction. This goes to show that that is quite a bit.\nWe have grit and determination in every aspect of life. We downplay the weather and treat minus forty-five, as if it were minus ten. We have grit, and determination when it comes to innovation and union. We have strong morals and self respect. We never give up when the going gets tough.\nCanada is my home, and will forever be my home, no matter where I may end up. My character was built through Canada and is based off of what Canada stands for. This country will forever be a part of me, and to have that affect on someone goes to show just how amazing this nation really is.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://healthybeautifulblessed.com/his-plans/", "date": "2019-04-20T17:24:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578529898.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420160858-20190420182008-00039.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9860579967498779, "token_count": 707, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__146506649", "lang": "en", "text": "“’For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” Jeremiah 29:11\nThough I have always believed this, I haven’t been the best about practicing it. I know God has a plan. Always have. I just always took it upon myself to worry (sometimes constantly) about what that plan was, and whether I would be able to handle the outcome. The thing is…God already knows the end. He already knows you can handle the outcome. Not only can you handle it, but you will come out the other side stronger. You will come out the other side closer to the person He wants you to be. I used to think I knew who I was. I was the quiet one. I was the fat girl. I liked to eat and I didn’t like to move. This is why I failed so many times at losing weight. Being fit just wasn’t who I was. At least that’s what I thought.\nI am so grateful that God knows more than I do. He knows who I really am, even when I don’t. These past several months, He has been revealing it to me. I am a healthy person. I enjoy being active and eating healthy food. I not only love doing all of those things, I love talking about them! My comfort zone was always to hide…to stay invisible. If no one noticed me, and if I never talked about it, no one would know I was fat. It would be my little secret. God has been pushing me so far out of my comfort zone with this new life. He is making me realize that with Him, I am capable of more than I ever thought possible. I can be strong. I can be brave. I can be anything.\nWhen you have spent the majority of your life overweight, you tend to look back at your life with anger and frustration. “Why did I do this to myself? How did I let it get this far? I wasted so much time.” These are all things I used to say to myself over and over. It was a new way to feel badly about myself. I didn’t feel badly about my body anymore, so I could feel badly about the body I used to have. God taught me something recently….and by recently, I mean today. Do I truly believe that I am becoming the person I was always meant to be? Yes, I do. If I really believe that, I have to accept that the person I used to be was all a part of God’s plan. That girl is a part of me and always will be. Everything I went through, everything I put myself through, has brought me to this day…this very moment. God knew I would get here before I was even born. He knows me through and through. Instead of regretting my past, I will thank God for my past. My past brought me here, to a place I never thought I could go. Truthfully, I never knew it was a place I wanted to go. I am eternally grateful that He did. “For I know the plans I have for you…” Thank you, Lord, for creating beauty from what I thought was a mess. For making me…me.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thelupylady.com/about/quotes-i-3/", "date": "2013-05-22T11:18:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701614932/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105334-00072-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9325492978096008, "token_count": 820, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__61789927", "lang": "en", "text": "I am in love with lyrics and quotations. They bring out things within you that are ordinarily hard to grasp onto. So I will post some of my favorites here !!!\n“Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.”\n“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.”\nAre you doing what you’re doing today because you WANT to do it, or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?” –Dr. Phil\nBe who you are and say what you think because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter dont mind. -Dr. Seuss\nIf you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.\nAchievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.\nGod, grant me the serenity\nto accept the things I cannot change;\nthe courage to change the things I can;\nand the WISDOM to know the difference.\nIf you judge people, you have no time to love them.\nI would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. –Elbert Hubbard\nI believe that hope survives, love prevails, tears cleanse, memories comfort, faith soothes. good thoughts reassure, and our belief in a better place calms the heart.\nSome people think it’s holding on that makes one strong— sometimes it’s letting go.\nBut if I wanted silence I would whisper. If I wanted loneliness I’d choose to go. If I wanted rejection I’d audition. And if I didn’t love you, you would know.\nThe best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. -Paul Valery\nLive for today, pray for tomorrow.\nGood judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. -Will Rogers\nAn eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind -Gandhi\nAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer, but wish we didn’t.\nThe truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to…\nAnger rests in the hearts of fools.\nWhen all else is lost, the future still remains. -Christian Bovee\n“Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned, forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.” ~Luke 6:37\nAnyone perfect must be lying\nAnything easy has its cost\nAnyone plain can be lovely\nAnyone loved can be lost\nNothing lasts forever, so live it up, drink it down, laugh it off, avoid the bullshit, take chances & never have regrets, because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted\nThere comes a point in your life when you realize who matters, who never did, who won’t anymore, and who always will. So don’t worry about people from your past, there’s a reason why they didn’t make it into your future.\nImperfection is beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. -Marilyn Monroe\nLife is short, break the rules, forgive quickly and kiss slowly. Love truly, laugh uncontrollably , and never regret anything that made you smile.\nThere is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.thefairhavenseries.com/manliness-romance/", "date": "2023-09-25T13:09:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233508977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925115505-20230925145505-00160.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9744147658348083, "token_count": 794, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__123076713", "lang": "en", "text": "As I near the end of the journey writing my debut memoir, Destiny Lives On Fairhaven Street, I’m now find myself shifting focus to the business side of the process: marketing.\nThe goal is to get as many eyes on my book as I can, and that means building up my book’s Facebook page. Likes and followers equal potential sales. I want to take this moment to thank each of you who have been kind enough to like the page.\nBut, as great as this experience has been, I’ve noticed some unfortunate downsides as I’ve moved closer to publication. Once I created this Facebook page, I noticed some people, many of them men, leaving nasty comments about my decision to not date anyone in the eight years I was apart from Danielle. I debated quoting some of them here, but I don’t want to give them any more attention.\nI’ve been hearing this same sophomoric drivel about how “unmanly” my story is since before I started writing it. And though it comes as no surprise, I’ve never been able to answer the question: Why do so many men hold me in contempt for being a romantic? What is so unmanly about loving a woman and being devoted to her? Why do some men find it unacceptable that I spent 1/10th of my life dedicated to a girl when I wasn’t required to? The happiest part of my childhood was when I was with her, so it was only natural that I wanted to get that back. When I returned, I wanted to show her just how much I truly loved her, so I sacrificed the one thing I knew I could never get back: time.\nI am the man I am, the husband I am, the father I am, because of her.\nThe same neaderthalistic thinking these “men” display is the same type my father forced on me growing up. This was the same man mind you, who had four marriages, three of which ended by infidelity on his end.\nWriting a memoir makes you vulnerable to the world. I knew this before I started writing, and I wrote anyway, because I am strong enough to withstand vulnerability. I’m proud of what I did, and I’m secure enough in my manhood to share it with the world.\nAs a father, I want my boys Max and Collin to learn that it’s okay to love someone. A man is devoted to the one he loves. He keeps his word. There is no shame in being romantic and vulnerable under the right circumstances.\nThis is more than a book. I want it to start a dialogue about outdated male stereotypes and dogmas.\nI’m here today as a soon to be published author, a six-foot-tall husband and father, the proud protector and provider of my family, with over thirty years of martial arts experience. My message is simple: If you allow yourself to love, and you allow yourself to feel, you allow yourself to grow into a truly powerful man. I don’t care what these people feel about it.\nMy uncle was one of my idols growing up. He’s a man’s man, a complete badass and yet he loves his wife, my Aunt, openly and proudly. If I am a quarter of the man he is when I reach his age, that will be a massive accomplishment.\nI love my wife, and I’m proud of it.\nA real man loves without shame. He does not stray. He does not put others down for their devotion to another. It’s time we return to that.\nDestiny Lives On Fairhaven Street – book one of The Fairhaven Series, Coming in 2022.\nSome things are worth the sacrifice…", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.derekoverfield.com/blog/fight-over-the-body-of-patroclus-new-painting", "date": "2023-03-25T20:35:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945372.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325191930-20230325221930-00531.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9280540347099304, "token_count": 166, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__225802387", "lang": "en", "text": "After the death of Patroclus, the dear companion of the great hero Achilles, other Greek heroes fought hard to protect his body from the Trojan forces. Seen as a great moral victory for both sides, the body was furiously fought for and over. \"So Ajax stood his ground over brave Patroclus now - the fighting Atrides right beside him, standing fast\". But the Trojans would not give up,their \"hearts fired with hopes of dragging Patroclus' body out from under Ajax... but the Argives faced them, standing fast in a ring around Patroclus, one fury seizing their hearts.\" - The Iliad, Homer\nFight over the body of Patroclus, latex paint on canvas, 55 x 60\", 2018\nLeave a Reply.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.mynewroots.org/cookbook/", "date": "2016-12-07T10:27:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542060.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00074-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9394311308860779, "token_count": 923, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__27274446", "lang": "en", "text": "INSPIRED PLANT-BASED RECIPES\nFOR EVERY SEASON\nMy New Roots – Inspired Plant-Based Recipes for Every Season features over 100 vegetarian dishes, most of which are vegan, many are gluten-free and some are totally raw. The book includes a wide range of meals from the very easy, to those that are more fun food “projects” that require fermentation and such. There are fancy things to impress your best guests, and tasty basics for weeknight family-style meals. Snacks, desserts, and sweet treats are also a very welcome part of this collection of vibrant and inspiring new recipes.\nVery much like the blog, my cookbook is inspired by the seasons and eating in connection with nature, as often as possible. Each recipe features health and nutrition information on the key ingredients, so you will always know a little something special about the health benefits in your favourite dishes.\nThe Essential Techniques section clearly explains, step-by-step, how to master the basic processes that I use on a daily basis in my home kitchen. This section also features my tips and tricks on how to make your vegetarian meals as flavourful as they can be!\nThe book features full-colour photography, all shot by yours truly, at home in my kitchen and in the garden. I am so proud of the images inside – each one tells a story of the dish and reflects the season it was made.\nIt has been an amazing year of growing, making, and enjoying ridiculously delicious food. I can't believe the day has come when I can share that with you all.\n“My New Roots is beautiful proof that eating with nutrition in mind need not be a compromise. This is an unabashedly enthusiastic riff on the food-as-medicine approach to cooking and eating. Sarah’s playful and encouraging voice is infectious; you get the sense that she is waiting on the other side of each recipe to give you a high five.”\n— Heidi Swanson, author of Super Natural Every Day\n“My New Roots is filled with good ideas for fresh new ways of using plant foods. Sarah Britton shows that truly alive ingredients can result in more interesting and better-tasting recipes and are always worth seeking out.”\n— Deborah Madison, author of Vegetable Literacy and The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone\n“Sarah is a veggie-lovin’ culinary goddess! Her unique and seasonal plant-based creations will inspire you to fall head over heels in love with vegetables. There are so many beautiful recipes I can’t wait to make!”\n— Angela Liddon, author of The Oh She Glows Cookbook\n“I have been waiting for this book since I first started reading Sarah’s blog years ago. She has a gift for writing truly wonderful recipes, vibrant with produce, and has the knowledge to explain why these plant-based foods are good for us. Her sweet spirit shines through every page. So thrilled to have this keeper in my kitchen!”\n— Sara Forte, author of The Sprouted Kitchen\n“Sarah’s creativity always inspires. With its vibrant recipes, evocative visuals, witty combinations, and approachable ways to live better, this book is a must for anyone interested in optimal, delicious health.”\n— Laura Wright, thefirstmess.com\n“Sarah always treads the beautiful line between making whole foods practical and also appealing, leading the way in this new real food movement.”\n— Sarah Wilson, author of I Quit Sugar\n“Being healthy and happy is so easy when you’re cooking with Sarah. Her gentle approach, love and passion for whole foods, and flair for pairing mind-blowing flavors create fabulous and fresh food that looks stunning and is bursting with personality and life-affirming goodness. With unbelievable tastes and textures, My New Roots takes you on an exquisite journey that seduces you with every lift of the fork, leaving you voracious for vegetables.”\n— Tess Masters, author of The Blender Girl\n“It’s a rare book that delivers inspiration through its every page, yet each one of Sarah’s recipes sings with flavor and originality. The entire collection is a seductive introduction to a more wholesome way of eating and an irresistible call to the kitchen.”\n— Clotilde Dusoulier, author of The French Market Cookbook and Edible French", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://perefrederic.ca/en/a-spiritual-being/his-great-passion-jesus-of-nazareth/", "date": "2024-02-22T01:13:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473598.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221234056-20240222024056-00587.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9640874862670898, "token_count": 455, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__109315542", "lang": "en", "text": "One of the very first things to extract from the life of Father Frederic, is his passion for Jesus of Nazareth.\nHis early education pointed him toward the Gospels. His formation with the Franciscans, his plans to become a missionary in the Holy Land, his writings and books all his preaching on Jesus the son of man and son of God, everything reveals to us that the Blessed Frederic is the missionary to the Holy Land par excellence. His work orients us to know Jesus in the mysteries of His humanity, His birth, His public life, His passion and Resurrection.\nIt is he who walked about the country of Jesus in every sense during the 14 years that he lived in the Holy Land. The Stations of the Cross which had been banned since 1621, he negotiated with the Muslim Arabs the right to preach the Stations of the Cross along the Via Dolorosa and in the arched souks of Jerusalem. He directed the construction work of the church of Saint Catherine next to the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem. For this construction, he then went to beg in France and in Canada, hence his first journey in 1881.\nHe is a pioneer in the dispersion of the gospels in Canada. From 1893 to 1907, his Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, a text in harmony with the Gospels, enjoyed eight printings, which represent a total of 42,000 copies “It was without a doubt the greatest publishing success in Canada” (Legare – Baillargeon, Good Father Frederic, Montreal, Pauline Ed. 1988, p. 277).\nBlessed Frederic could be the patron of the seekers of meaning and truth who study the Gospels and especially the life of Jesus of Nazareth, thus the man Jesus.\n“Father Frederic’s entire life was to serve the earthy country of God made man, of making Him known, venerated and loved. What is most striking about him, is his unceasing devotion to the Holy Sites sanctified by the Passion of the Divine Savior.”\nRomain Legare, The Memory, vol. 14, no. 2 (April-June 1967), p.3.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://blogs.birminghampost.net/news/2011/11/so-whats-so-good-about-poetry.html", "date": "2013-05-19T06:43:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696384181/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092624-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9636179208755493, "token_count": 1398, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__83914569", "lang": "en", "text": "So what's so good about poetry?\nEvery now and then (if you're lucky) a piece of literature - be it a novel or a poem - will come along and shake your heart; it'll rock your world. And, I swear, your perspective of yourself and the space around you, will never be the same again.\nI came across such a poem, powerful piece that really touched me, when I was at secondary school. I was no more than 13 or 14 when a very attractive young trainee-teacher came to teach us English for a term and read us W.B. Yeats', She Weeps for the Cloths of Heavens:\nHad I the heavens' embroidered cloths,\nEnwrought with golden and silver light,\nThe blue and the dim and the dark cloths\nOf night and light and the half-light,\nI would spread the cloths under your feet:\nBut I, being poor, have only my dreams;\nI have spread my dreams under your feet;\nTread softly because you tread on my dreams.\nNow I don't know whether it was her tone - a lovely genteel accent that sort of juxtaposed beautifully in an inner city world of my comprehensive schooling - or Yeats words per se that moved me to something close to love. Whatever it was, I kind of felt something stirring in my teenage heart, a sort of awakening at the sheer magic of the words and what they could do. I remember going away after the lesson and re-reading the poem again and again until I knew it by heart. Even today whenever I teach Yeats, I always recite that poem because it takes me back to that time when I first fell in love with poetry - or developed a crush on a woman who was way out of my league!\nAnd that's the essence of some words, put together or poetically arranged in such away that they linger in your spirit level, almost giving you another dimension to yourself as a human being. Sometimes they help you to 'see better' - bring you closer to your limitations. But, more often than not, they give you an awareness of your possibilities - nothing is beyond your reach.\nNow there are people who say I don't like poetry 'cause I don't get it!. The irony is that sometimes they're the very same people who recite or quote sections from songs or better still, holy books. And they will act as if the quote said it all: end of discussion. Or they'll sing a line or two from song or a hymn like to make a point:\nYea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,\nI will fear no evil; for you are with me;\nYour rod and your staff, they comfort me.\nNow, I ask you, what are those - those lines - if they're not poetic in some way. They're beautiful words because they're original; they capture a thought, an idea in a fresh way that make them memorable. Holy texts are poetic no matter whether you consider them as the actual word of God or the product of wordsmiths sitting around a camp fire.\nThe thing is that poetry matters - all kinds of poetry, not just the stuff we have to read at school as part of the National Curriculum. To say that I hate poetry because you had to suffer the ordeal at trying to grasp the meaning of difficult language is like saying I hate all people under five feet tall! It's ludicrous to state such things because it's limiting and shows your inability to connect with complexity. Now surely that is not what you should broadcast to the rest of the world. Instead wouldn't it be better if you said, I don't like the stuff of Shakespeare's sonnets, or Milton's epic poetry or the meta-physical poetry of 17th century but I do like the sufi poetry or mysticism of Kabir, Tagore or Gibran. Or failing that, you could say I'm not generally partial to poetry but I do like the nonsense poetry and/or limericks of Milligan, the stuff of light-heartedness and frivolity. Now that's a far cry from simply saying I hate poetry! and brushing the whole poetry genre/form aside as being insignificant.\nThe point is that there is such a colourful array of poetry of all types, in all kinds of linguistic shades and tones.\nBut there's another important reason why poetry matters in our world. Arthur Scargill's father used to sleep with a dictionary because he believed that words used properly are a powerful tool to mobilise people and politics. Everyone should learn words.\nAnd there's a certain truth in that. Poetry is used in all aspects of our lives, it's all over the place - on billboards, in advertising, in songs, in politics as rhetoric, in films, in news and the dissemination of information - and, dare I say it, in everyday conversation. Even this article, the way I'm putting it together to make a case for poetry, is using the tools and techniques associated with that form. Poetry can be powerful and because it's powerful, it can be political.\nPoetry is a voice of dissent, a voice of the people who feel they're unheard, displaced, forgotten. It's a tool for those who want to challenge the world in which we live, take on the mass of conventional ideas we get used to in our daily existence. In the words of Craig Raine, it defamiliarizes our familiarity.\nSo next time you're having a chat about poetry with someone, think about why you're so hostile to words, the very language you're happy to quote in other context. Why does poetry fill you with dread and boredom? It's the very stuff that gave enlightenment to many of the gurus, prophets and mystics. They recited language, the mantra, day in and day out to create a spiritual epiphany. They wanted to connect with a higher being, what some refer to as God, what some poets call the Spirit of the universe and what the Romantics referred to as Nature\nPoetry was, to some extent, the metaphorical vehicle for that journey guiding our souls away from the material world to that serene state of nirvana like this piece of Punjabi verse:\nBhul na jaye o maan meriya\nMotiya te mandir dekh ke\n(Do not get lost, oh soul of mine,\nGazing at these pearly walls)\nRoshan Doug will be reading from his new collection of poems, What light is light... at the University of Birmingham, School of Education, Room G39, 6pm- 7.30\nMonday 21st November 2011.\nRSVP to email@example.com", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.romansthedivinemarriage.com/2011/07/", "date": "2020-02-25T02:04:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146004.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20200225014941-20200225044941-00423.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9449625611305237, "token_count": 1607, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__14114363", "lang": "en", "text": "If there is one book that you should read and have in your library, this Romans commentary is the one. It is a massively important work for all who love the Lord Jesus Christ. Holland’s labour of love brings forth the rich Jewish theology and corporate worldview of the Apostle Paul that is so often overlooked by our individualistic Western presuppositions. Seeing Romans afresh through the lens of the Apostle’s Jewish mindset is both engaging and enlightening. Holland delves into the text with all the integrity and acumen of a true biblical scholar, seeking at every turn to discover the root context of the corporate Hebrew understanding. He shows that Yahweh has covenanted himself in marriage, through Jesus Christ, to his redeemed people, thus fulfilling the entire Messianic hope of the Old Testament scriptures. The salvation accomplished by Jesus is shown to be the grand eschatological fulfillment of all that Israel’s Passover and Exodus redemption prefigured. This commentary is thoughtfully written at a level for all Christians to enjoy and is both warmly pastoral and deeply instructive. This work is a gift of love to the Church of Jesus Christ. May the Lord add his heavenly blessing upon it for the edification of the new covenant community.\nTom Holland in his Romans commentary interacts with the controversial teaching of the New Perspective theologians – and much more besides.\nBut rather than retreat into Reformed formulations, he engages with the latest views, re-evaluates traditional positions, and breathes new life into Reformed teachings without repudiating them. For example (writing as a self-styled biblical, rather than systematic, theologian) he sees that the “Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness” of Genesis 15:6 has been pressed too readily into service by the Reformers as a text that teaches imputed righteousness – and yet Holland does not reject that doctrine.\nFurthermore he brings clarity to the complex area of covenantal nomism. He agrees with the New Perspective theologians that Paul, along with his compatriots, rejoiced in the law – indeed Paul considered himself blameless (Philippians 3:6); but this was only before his conversion, not afterwards, when he came to see that the law in fact condemned all men and women before God (Romans 4:15).\nIn addition Holland brings insights of his own – he sees that in many passages where Paul speaks of the “body” he means a body of people. He gives detailed linguistic arguments for this perspective, and shows that the “body of sin” is fallen mankind who entered into a covenant with Sin (Satan) via their federal head Adam. This body is the counterpart to the “body of Christ” – the church. Although this perspective is not unique to Holland he applies it more consistently in his exegesis than others. At first, if you are not familiar with this concept, it can seem strange – but if you stay with it there is a reward as light is cast on some verses that have always been considered to be ‘difficult’.\nFor me the climax of his commentary is his exposition of chapters 6 & 7. Holland sees that Paul is telling us that Christ died in the place of the bride of Satan (the body of Sin) to break the legitimate authority the law gives a husband. This explains Paul’s comments at the centre of these two chapters where he reminds us that the death of a spouse ends a marriage. We can now see it is the death of Christ that releases the elect from her former ‘husband’ for her to become Christ’s bride and his body. This, to my mind, is a convincing exegesis – and reveals the cosmic implications of Christ’s death and the “Divine Marriage” in a new and exciting way.\nSo, if you want a quiet read to reassure yourself that there is nothing new to learn other than what the great Reformers taught – this commentary is not for you.\nBut, if you want a stimulating, thought provoking, mind stretching, Christ-exalting journey through Romans that interacts with recent scholarship and yet respects the Reformers’ teaching – I think you will be hard pushed to find a commentary to best this one.\nIf there is intellectual integrity in the evangelical world, I am convinced this reading of Romans will win the day eventually.\nRomans: The Divine Marriage – Dr Tom Holland\nThis commentary follows Dr Holland’s striking development of the ‘new exodus’ motif as a key background concept to understanding Paul in ‘Contours of Pauline Theology’. The first book provided some astonishing new ways of reading Paul, and brought out the significance of the ‘new exodus’ as a paradigm for understanding the New Testament. The Romans commentary pursues the new exodus motif in further detail.\nThe new exodus exploration opens up Romans in some fresh ways, not least the revisiting of Romans 3:20ff, where the key term hilasterionis provided with new exodus significance, drawing especially on Ezekiel’s use of the term in the eschatological temple’s celebration of Passover in Ezekiel 45. Dr Holland also introduces us to the influence of Ezekiel’s new exodus themes more widely in Paul.\nThe new exodus line of thinking leads to a rigorously corporate interpretation of passages in Romans which have conventionally been interpreted as individualistic. So the corporate emphasis of Romans 5 (full of echoes of return from exile, a key new exodus theme), continues into Romans 6-8, with surprising results. A major challenge to conventional interpretation is the locating of the word flesh within a covenantal, and therefore corporate framework. Dr Holland is careful to explore the various nuances of the meaning of the word within the biblical corpus, but the result is a much more satisfying connection of the word with its OT roots, and a shift from the usual ontological understanding with its myriad complexities and psychological introspectiveness.\nThe commentary develops a crucial distinction in the way justification is used in Romans 4, between its applications to Abraham and David. Through this distinction, Dr Holland is able to build on the New Perspective understanding of the term as developed by Tom Wright (in relation to Abraham), and the way the Reformers used the word (in relation to David). Dr Holland develops an argument for reinforcing the view that justification is not merely a declaration of righteousness, as asserted by the New Perspective, but includes within its semantic domain the Reformation ideas of forensic justification and being brought into a covenant relationship with God. He then incorporates the use of justification language in Israel’s ‘new exodus’ restoration from exile, relating this to the key ‘justification’ section of Romans, chapter 5.\nThe excursuses on righteousness, the flesh and justification are treasure troves in themselves, and the commentary is bristling with insights. The book dialogues with contemporary theological discussion, and takes on board the best results of these, whilst staunchly defending the faith of the Reformers, and presenting strong arguments for their position. Along the way, Dr Holland points out what he takes to be some key shortcomings of New Perspective positions. All agree that Holland has moved the debate on Paul decisively forwards and that a significant counter-proposal to the proponents of the New Perspective on Paul has been launched.\nAbove all, the commentary brings Romans alive in fresh ways, and as with ‘Contours’, drives us back to the biblical text armed with fresh insights and equipped with fresh tools for mining the gold from this letter, which proves its worth for the 21st century as for all preceding ages. Dr Holland illustrates well the maxim of the pilgrim fathers in relation to Romans: ‘The Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy Word.’", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://cassopolis.wordpress.com/last-weeks-sermon/", "date": "2018-03-17T04:04:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257644271.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180317035630-20180317055630-00057.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9813542366027832, "token_count": 3024, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__10740785", "lang": "en", "text": "“Biting Ourselves to Death”\nCassopolis/ White Pigeon, March 11, 2018, FOURTH SUNDAY IN LENT\nText: Ephesians 2:1-10; Numbers 21:4-9; John 3:14-21\nOur reading from Numbers 21 this morning, one of the most peculiar readings in the Old Testament for its odd details, is also one which gives many Christians some discomfort to read—at least it does me. For every time I read it I wonder about the particular method of discipline that God employs here with His restive children of Israel in the wilderness. This is certainly not the first time they have become dissatisfied with their wandering lot and the discomforts that come with it—they have done so many times. But this is the first time God has acted against them in such a harsh way, sending, according to the text, poisonous—some translations say “fiery” serpents among them to bite them and even kill many. As I say, this makes me uncomfortable, not that it’s God’s job to make me comfortable with His actions. But I still always wonder, couldn’t God have achieved the same ends in a gentler and less fatal way?\nBut perhaps not. In the book of Numbers, this event marks the seventh time that the people have risen up in angry rebellion, and this time a rebellion more intense, their anger directed not only against Moses, but against God Himself as well, both of whom they accuse of “bringing us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness!” They have obviously, at this point, forgotten about their slavery and the brutal way the Egyptians treated them—all they seem to recall now is that there was a lot of food available back there, and food better than “this miserable” manna that God has been feeding them with. So perhaps the rebellion of the people is so great at this time that only equally drastic measures on God’s part is able to deal with it, lest the whole intention of God to make Israel a nation be put in jeopardy.\nOf course, one can also read this story in another way, one in which the poisonous serpents aren’t directly sent from God at all—they just happen to appear at the same time the rebellion is under way. However God uses their appearance to touch the consciences of the rebels, and the people, recognizing what they are doing as sin, interpret the snakes as punishment, and repent. Whatever the case is in this particular story, one thing that has always occurred to me every time I’ve read it with all its odd details about serpents, fiery and biting and bronze, set up on a staff. It seems that we can also read it as a parable, an account in which physical events are employed to help us think about things going on at another level—the spiritual level—in the lives of these people themselves, and perhaps, at times, in the lives of all people.\nThere can be little doubt as we hear this story that the people of Israel are frustrated and angry in it, with anger that derives, in all likelihood, from a deeper kind of hurt in their hearts—a fear—or really, many fears—fears of being lost, fears of going hungry, fears of being abandoned. And when someone—at least someone in a biblical or faith context—is afflicted by fear, they have two choices in how to deal with it. They can, if they are wise, look to God in their fear and seek God’s help, as Peter wrote to the church in 1st Peter, “Cast all your anxiety—including your fear—upon Him, for He cares for you.”\nHowever, this can be a tough thing to do, especially if one of your fears is that God doesn’t really care about you, which seems to have been the case sometimes for the Israelites. They appear to have had a consistently difficult time believing that God was really all that concerned about their good. In that case, if you will not, or can not, look to God, you can only look to yourself—and often, if not always, this is not enough of a resource to get real relief. So rather than having the anxiety lifted, it becomes more deep-seated. And as it become deep-seated, one reacts with anger—or bitterness—or by trying to secure one’s self, make one’ self safe from threat, by any means necessary no matter what it might mean to someone else. And when these things begin to occur, especially in a whole community—a society—humans often become themselves like stinging fiery snakes. Our angers and fears and anxieties begin to manifest in our attitudes and actions as we start to bite others and devour them, striking out like animals caught in a trap or cornered in pursuit. And in that process, we begin to bite and devour ourselves, from the inside out, like an acid slowly eating us away.\nAnd perhaps this is something of what this story in Numbers is trying to convey—that when these people in the wilderness lose sight of God—lose faith in God, they became serpents themselves and began stinging and burning and biting themselves to death from the inside out—spiritual death at a minimum, with perhaps physical death to follow as well.\nAnd this kind of a reading makes a lot of sense out of the remedy that God gives Moses to relieve His people’s hurts—the bronze serpent on the pole. Read as a simple physical detail, it seems like something out of folklore, almost smacks of some kind of magic, certainly an odd kind of thing for God to tell Moses to rely upon. But if he people have become their own worst enemy because of their fear and anger and defiance, then it make perfect sense. For when they take a moment of pause in their rebellion, and look up at the serpent on the staff, what they begin to see there is themselves—what they have become. And as they see what they have become, and admit it, in their hearts and in their prayers, they also come to discover what they need as remedy—to again depend on God—to throw their fears on Him and know Him as their Creator and Lord and Savior, and thus find in God the healing and care only God can provide. Such an understanding makes a lot of sense in Numbers, and such an understanding also makes clearly appropriate the use Jesus makes of this story as He talks in the third chapter of John.\n“As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,” Jesus asserts there, “that whoever believes in Him may have eternal life.” The plight of humanity before Jesus came into the world was very much the same as that of the rebellious spirits of Numbers 21. Over years of history, sin in the life of humanity had eroded our relationship with our Maker. It was not completely gone—God had continued to work toward in through Abraham and Israel and the Law and the prophets, had continued always to stand against sin’s incursion into the world. But so weakened had our sense of life become under sin that the drift away had continued, robbing most, if not all humans of their sense of truth, of any real sense of the love of God, and any realization that we needed God. And in that continuing drift, humans and human society suffered, often devolving into our becoming a stinging biting ball of snakes, attacking each other in panic and terror and in the process attacking our own souls. Or in the words of John’s gospel, finding ourselves in darkness, unable to find a way to get out of it, out of the wilderness we had become lost in.\nBut it is into that darkness, in these last days as scripture calls them, that God sent light—a light, as John says in his opening chapter, that would shine in the darkness so strongly that no darkness, no sin, could overcome it, a light that God put in our midst for us to see and be saved. However, for that light to open blind human eyes—for that love of God made flesh in Jesus to heal hurts we had inflicted upon ourselves for years untold, there was one necessary step—we had to look—we had to do what the Israelites did in Numbers—to look up at Jesus and at Him lifted up on the cross and see there two things—our need for God, and God’s love for us given fully in response to that need to whomever would accept it. And what became truest tragedy, the greatest grief indeed to God’s own heart, was that some would refuse to do so. Some who struggled in darkness would refuse to see God’s light, refuse to accept God’s relief, refuse to understand their need. And “this is the judgment” writes John—“that the light has come into the world—the cure has come into the world—and people loved darkness more than the light—refused to give up even their own self-destruction to turn and look and be healed. But of course, some would—they would believe and take it as truth that “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whosoever believes will not perish.” And it is to these and of these that Paul writes in Ephesians 2.\nPaul minces no words as he appraises the former state of those to whom he writes—“You were dead,” he says—not just hurting, but dead, dead to God, dead to your own best good—“through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived”—we were, as he says, “children of wrath”, those in whom the course of the world as sin steered it drove us daily further and further away from God and closer and closer to our own hurt. And we could do nothing about it. We could not halt our own lemming march—we could not heal our own wounds, and be cured—we were blind and lacking understanding of what was even wrong in us—we needed something more than we were or had or could have. But then, says Paul, “God who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which He loved us—even when we were dead in our trespasses—even, “as he says in another passage, “when we were still enemies of God”—even then, God “made us alive together with Christ—for by grace, you—we—have been saved!”\nThis is an epic moment in Paul’s letter, this announcement of our salvation. But lest we congratulate ourselves on achieving such an end, Paul goes on—“But it is a gift of grace, a gift of God, not our own doing that we might boast.” But it is nonetheless our gift to claim because God in Christ has given it and will not take it back—and no other power, no darkness, no sin, no human frailty can separate us from this Christ, turn this gift away from us, stop us from looking at the cross and seeing there the love of God and to be healed from our self-biting ways, set alight by the unconquerable light of Jesus.\nAnd in that light—as we look up to the gift of God for healing—we are changed. Or rather, we are remade—we are remade into what we were intended to be from the start, not reptiles, not blinded eyes, but God’s children. For as Paul writes as he concludes this passage of Ephesians, when we have been brought from death to life, darkness to light, injured to whole, we become “what He has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God created beforehand to be our way of life.” We were never made to be hissing, biting serpents, hostile to God and to each other. This world was never made to be the ball of confusion and anger and enmity that we too often see about us. And as our healing comes to us, we become agents of healing to the world, made for good, made for good works, made to tell the world of God and God’s gift of love raised up on the cross to restore us to life and bring life into us.\nThere is, in 2 Kings 18, an odd biblical postscript to the story of the bronze serpent that God had Moses make back in Numbers. Apparently, according to that text, the serpent on the staff, in memory of what God did in Numbers, was saved as an artifact by the Israelites and given a place in the Temple. It was even given a name, Nehushtan. However, human nature being what it is, it seems that some folks forgot what the serpent was supposed to represent and began treating it almost like a god—they “had made offerings to it,’ 2 Kings tells us, causing one of Judah’s more faithful kings, Hezekiah, to destroy it, breaking it into pieces.\nThis is an instructive look into the unique talent sin has to get its way with us—it is able to take even what is good in the world, even the gifts God has given us, and make them into idols—warp them into things they were never meant to be, pulling us away from rather than toward God—the thing that was to save the serpent-bitten became the bite of the serpent itself. And if sin can do this with good things, think what it can do with our fears and doubts and hurts and anxieties. And only the appearance of the truest gift, the gift of God Himself in human flesh, lifted up for all the world to see—and if they would—believe—can defeat that—can change us—can counteract the poison that runs through the veins of human life and bring us to healing. This is what God has done—what God is doing. This is why Jesus came—not to condemn the world for its sin, but to save the world from it. For God did so love the world that He gave His only Son to be lifted up even on a cross that all who looked and believed would find life—and not just life in its most minimal definition, but life abundant, life worthy, life eternal—good for us and good for reaching out to others with—life that God has always intended. +++", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.irishmonarchy.com/memories/our-family-book-advent-calendar/", "date": "2023-12-06T02:03:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100575.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206000253-20231206030253-00181.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9760935306549072, "token_count": 532, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__54839265", "lang": "en", "text": "I have never been more excited for December to start. Each year we do various advent calendar (usually Lego) and thought this year we would spice it up with a Funko Pop Harry Potter Advent Calendar. But I still felt like something was missing. Then, one of my favorite local independent bookstores posted something on their IG feed. I was hooked. I just had to do it. And only two more sleeps before it begins!\nWe decided to go out on a limb and have Madison Street Books select 24 books, wrap them and number them for us to enjoy over the next month. Our own advent book calendar countdown to Christmas! Selecting the books was not a small task. We have 5 people in the house, ranging from two 40-something parents, a freshman in college, junior in high school, and a 7th grader.\nHow are the books selected?!?\nThankfully this part was super easy. They asked a few quick questions, such as what books we liked and types we wanted to avoid. I gave a few requests and went from there. Once done, they sent a list over and just LOVED most all the selections! Some books we actually had, some were a big heavy for the 7th grader, and didn’t want this to feel like an extended homework night opening each book! After sending back a handful of suggestions, I had the 24 books selected and all I had to do was wait until they were wrapped and ready for pick up!\nThe plan is to have everyone read each book. Since it’s our first book advent calendar, I am hopeful that all will be “keepers” and write little notes into each book. Right now, I am just excited that they are all excited!\nIs it too late for this year?\nIt’s not too late to do this yourself ! Reach out to your local bookstores, see if they can help select, and maybe even wrap the 24 books. Or maybe start your order on Cyber Monday for curbside pick up. Wrap with plain brown paper, or even foil if you are a time cruchIf you’re too indecisive, maybe ask to start with four and gather the rest this weekend?!? You can always add more books to your pile next weekend!\nMore hopeful this will turn into a yearly tradition (along with the Lego Advent Calendars or Funko Pops) and that our book selection grows as we all grow! Make sure you follow along on INSTAGRAM for daily pics and stories on the books we receive! So excited – only two more sleeps!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://dpaiton.github.io/publications/", "date": "2022-08-19T22:24:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573849.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819222115-20220820012115-00427.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7950724959373474, "token_count": 442, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__147240136", "lang": "en", "text": "Published in International Conference on Learning Representations, 2021\nWe construct and analyze new datasets for evaluating disentanglement on natural videos. We also propose a temporally sparse prior for identifying the underlying factors of variation in natural videos.\nPublished in Journal of Vision, 2020\nUsing differential geometry we explain how sparse coding networks bend their response surfaces, which results in improved selectivity and robustness for individual neurons.\nPublished in Neuro-Inspired Computational Elements, 2020\nWe present a 2-layer recurrent sparse coding network for learning higher order statistical regularities in natural images.\nPublished in UC Berkeley Thesis, 2019\nMy PhD thesis provides an in-depth account of a recurrent network for sparse inference, including novel analyses, comparisons, and extensions.\nPublished in IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), 2018\nThe first published approach for storing digital natural images onto resistive random access memory arrays.\nPublished in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2018\nA hierarchical sparse coding model that decomposes scenes into constituent parts and linearizes temporal trajectories of natural videos.\nPublished in Data Compression Conference, 2018\nA convolutional autoencoder with divisive normalization enables digital image storage on simulated emerging memristive devices.\nPublished in Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies, 2016\nA hierarchical sparse coding network that learns bandpass decompositions of natural images.\nPublished in IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation (SSIAI), 2016\nA convolutional sparse coding network facilitates better depth inference than comparable feedforward networks.\nPublished in arXiv Preprint, 2014\nExploring the tradeoff of patch size, stride, and overcompleteness in convolutional sparse coding.\nPublished in The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2013\nComputer simulations of distributed sensor networks using a retina-inspired communication protocol to amplify signals.\nPublished in IEEE Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation, 2012\nLabeling videos with objects using independent color/texture and shape/form processing streams.\nYou can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://leacockfoundation.org/get-ahead-college-nalibali-book-club/", "date": "2022-01-16T10:49:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320299852.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220116093137-20220116123137-00690.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9536246061325073, "token_count": 447, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__243300742", "lang": "en", "text": "In the Xhosa language, Nal’ibali means “it starts with a story”. This term is used as a national campaign slogan by the Nal’ibali Foundation, an organization existing to promote a culture of reading across the entire country of South Africa. In May 2013, Leacock volunteer Maureen Cassidy, founded the Nal’ibali Book Club at Get Ahead College, in an effort to do what the Nal’ibali Foundation does- promote a culture of reading.\nThe first book the Nal’bali Book Club read was “The Housemaid’s Daughter” by Barbara Mutch, a South African author who grew up in the Eastern Cape. In August 2013, the Book Club traveled from Queenstown to the historic town of Cradock in the Eastern Cape to attend the Karoo\nWriter’s Festival and meet the author, Barbara Mutch. The experience was fantastic for Nal’ibali Book Club members, as they were able to ask Mutch questions about the book they had just finished reading.\nBeyond improving literacy and promoting independent reading for fun, the Nal’ibali Book Club also facilitates teamwork and leadership.\n“Other students see how passionate they [Nal’ibali Book Club members] are about reading and want to share in the experience too.”\nLeacock’s support of technology integration into the school has also supported the Book Club. E-readers and wifi access make it quick, easy, and affordable for students to access and download books and other reading materials in a wide variety of languages and topics.\n“The culture of reading is deeply entrenched in the school- we don’t have a library but we don’t need one because now we have Kobo e-readers, which alleviate the prohibitive cost of books in South Africa. New books can be loaded immediately and cost-effectively.”\nOver the past year and a half, the book club has grown from 9 students to over 25, and has truly nurtured a student-led culture of literacy through reading.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://micalepublications.com/", "date": "2019-01-20T06:54:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583700734.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20190120062400-20190120084400-00113.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9178462028503418, "token_count": 2387, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__150133552", "lang": "en", "text": "Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008), 366 pp. Over the course of several centuries, Western masculinity has successfully established itself as the voice of reason, knowledge, and sanity—the basis for patriarchal rule—in the face of massive testimony to the contrary. Hysterical Men boldly challenges this triumphant vision of the stable and secure male by examining the central role played by modern science and medicine in constructing and sustaining it. Mark Micale reveals the hidden side of this vision, that is, the innumerable cases of disturbed and deranged men who passed under the eyes of male medical and scientific elites from the seventeenth century onward. Since ancient times, physicians and philosophers had closely observed and extravagantly theorized female weakness, emotionality, and madness. What these male experts failed to see—or saw but did not acknowledge or noted but refrained from theorizing—were masculine nervous disorders among all classes and in diverse guises. While cultural and literary intellectuals pioneered new languages of male emotional distress, European science was invested in cultivating and protecting the image of male middle-class detachment, objectivity, and rationality, despite rampant counter-evidence in the clinic, the laboratory, and on battlefields. The reasons for suppressing male neurosis from the official discourses of science and medicine as well as from popular view range from the personal and psychological to the professional and political. They make for a history full of profound silences, omissions, and amnesias Now, however, under the greatly altered circumstances of today’s gender revolution, Micale’s work allows this story to be heard.\nThe Mind of Modernism: Medicine, Psychology, and the Cultural Arts in Europe and America, 1880-1940, edited and introduced by Mark S. Micale (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2004). This vanguard collection of original and in-depth essays explores the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances that it did. These changes occurred precisely when the distinctively modern disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis established their “scientific” foundations and achieved the forms in which we largely know them today. Micale’s volume examines the dense web of connections joining the aesthetic and psychological realms in the years of early and high modernism, charting the historical emergence of modernist discussions surrounding such issues as the psyche and the self, dream life, the normal and the pathological, the psychology of sexuality, and double and multiple consciousness. The contributors form a distinguished and diversified group of scholars who write about a wide range of cultural fields, including philosophy, the novel and poetry, drama, cabaret, dance, film, and photography, as well as medicine, psychology, and the occult sciences.\nApproaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995) Few diseases have exercised the Western imagination as chronically as hysteria—from wandering wombs of ancient Greek medicine, to the demonically possessed witch of the Renaissance; from the “vaporous” salon women of Enlightenment Paris through to the celebrated patients of Sigmund Freud, with their erotically charged symptoms. In this fascinating and authoritative account, Mark Micale surveys encyclopedically the range of past and present readings of hysteria. Intellectual historians, historians of science and medicine, scholars in women’s and gender studies, art history, psychoanalysts, psychologists, and neurologists have all converged in the last decade on “the new hysteria studies.” What does this burgeoning corpus of writing tell us? Why in recent years has the history of hysterical disorders carried such resonance for commentators in the sciences and humanities and beyond? What can we learn from the textual tradition of hysteria about writing the history of disease in general? What is the broader social and cultural meaning of the new hysteria studies? In the second half of the book, Micale discusses the many historical “cultures of hysteria.” He reconstructs in detail the past usages of the hysteria concept as a concept, a language, and a powerful, descriptive trope in various nonmedical domains, including poetry, fiction, theater, social thought, political criticism, and the arts. His book is a pioneering attempt to write the historical phenomenology of disease in an age preoccupied with health, and a prescriptive remedy for writing histories of disease in the future.\nBeyond the Unconscious: Essays by Henri F. Ellenberger in the History of Psychiatry, edited, translated, and introduced by Mark S. Micale (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1993). Henri F. Ellenberger, the Swiss-Canadian medical historian, is best known today as the author of The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry (1970), a 900-page, brilliantly encyclopedic study of psychiatric theory and practice from primitive times to the mid-twentieth century. However, in addition to this well-known magnum opus, the polyglot Ellenberger wrote over thirty essays in the history of psychiatry, psychology, neurology, and psychoanalysis. Mark Micale’s collection unites fourteen of Ellenberger’s most interesting and important essays, many of which draw on new and rich bodies of primary source materials. Several of the articles appear here in English translation for the first time. The essays in Beyond the Unconscious deal with subjects such as the prehistory of psychoanalysis; Freud’s teachers; Jean-Martin Charcot and the French hysteria tradition; the role of “the great patients” in the history of psychiatry, the psychology of the secret, the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung and Hermann Rorschach, and the cultural history of medicine. The publication of these writings, which corresponds with the opening of the Institut Henri Ellenberger in Paris, truly establishes Ellenberger as a founding figure of the historiography of psychiatry Accompanying the essays is an extensive interpretative introduction and a detailed bibliographical essay by the editor.\nDiscovering the History of Psychiatry, edited and introduced by Mark S. Micale and Roy Porter (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 466 pp. The field of psychiatry has exercised enormous influence in our century, not only among scientists and mental health professionals, but also in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, which shape the cultural life of millions. This vitality has been accompanied by a profusion of historical material. Yet, while rapidly growing, the documented history of psychiatry has been ridden with controversies due to the great variety of interpretive stances and ideological perspectives among writers. This book brings together leading international authorities—physicians, historians, sociologists, and others—who explore the many complex interpretive and ideological dimensions of historical writing about psychiatry. The book includes chapters on histories of the asylum, Freud, anti-psychiatry in the United States and abroad, feminist interpretations of psychiatry’s past, and historical accounts of Nazism and psychotherapy, as well as discussions of many historical figures and movements. Discovering the History of Psychiatry is the first attempt to study comprehensively the multiple mythologies that have grown up around the history of madness and the origins, functions, and validity of these myths in our modern psychological society. The audience includes every person interested in the state of discussion and reflection taking place today in the compelling, powerful sciences of the human mind.\nEnlightenment, Passion, Modernity: Historical Essays in European Thought and Culture, edited and introduced by Mark S. Micale and Robert L. Dietle (Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2000). During the 1970s and 1980s, the study of intellectual history was often denigrated for its allegedly elitist, canonical, and Eurocentric nature. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. Enriched by the methods and insights of such neighboring areas of inquiry as social history, the history of mentalities, linguistics, anthropology, literary theory, and art history, intellectual and cultural history are today experiencing a renewed vitality. The far-ranging essays in this volume, by an internationally distinguished group of scholars, represent a generous sampling of these new studies. The essays have been written in honor of Yale professor Peter Gay, one of the most prolific, provocative, and influential historians of the twentieth century and a world renowned scholar of European thought and culture. The essays reflect major themes and issues running through Professor Gay’s lifework: The Enlightenment and Its Heritages; Mind and Culture in the Victorian Middle Classes: European Cultural Modernism: Culture, Politics, and Society in Modern Germany; and Freud and the History of Psychoanalysis. The contributors include W. F. Bynum, David Cannadine, Stefan Collini, Robert Darnton, Peter Jelavich, Marion Kaplan, Tom Kohut, Martin Jay, Quentin Skinner, John Toews, Dora Weiner, and Jay Winter.\nTraumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry, and Trauma in the Modern Age, 1870-1930, edited by Mark S. Micale and Paul Lerner (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001). “Trauma” is invoked today to describe a wide range of physical or emotional injuries, from victimization and suffering at the individual level (child and domestic abuse, for example), to the long-term effects of large-scale accidents (Chernobyl), severe natural disasters (the Japanese earthquake and tsunami), and mass cataclysmic events, such as the Holocaust, affecting entire societies over a period of generations. As Traumatic Pasts reveals time and again, trauma turns out to be not an event per se but rather the experiencing or remembering of an event in the mind of an individual or the life of a community. To understand the shifts and layers of the clinical and cultural meaning of trauma is to understand the very struggle of modern societies to comprehend and cope with life in a violent, chaotic, ceaselessly changing world. This book offers a unique, historical exploration of trauma in Europe and America from the 1870s, when trauma first began to take on psychological in addition to physical and medical definitions, through the 1930s, spanning the decades most associated with modernity. The authors cover the overlapping political, cultural, medical, and military approaches to mental trauma within the context of four distinct developments: the spread of railroads during the last quarter of the nineteenth century; the introduction of accident insurance and the early welfare state beginning in the 1880s; the rise of modern psychological psychiatry around the turn of the century; and the First World War and its myriad social and cultural aftermaths. The advent of railway accidents, new industrial technologies and related work accidents, female sexual trauma, and shell shock resulting from the anonymous, technological warfare of the early twentieth century are all featured here as windows onto the critical intersection of trauma, science, and social change. Micale’s and Lerner’s volume provides a generous sampling of the best of the new historical scholarship about trauma, indicating the empirical, analytical, and historiographical scope of this new work and presenting the important conceptual and methodological issues inherent in writing about the subject. One of the most influential works on psychological trauma in the past generation, Traumatic Pasts operates on the assumption that the historical humanities have something important to say about trauma; its essays may be read in part as attempts to introduce a deep historical dimension into present-day debates and controversies.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://martcult.hypotheses.org/date/2020/09", "date": "2023-12-01T09:17:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100286.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201084429-20231201114429-00490.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9057552814483643, "token_count": 3413, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__176247088", "lang": "en", "text": "The Middle English romance Off Arthour and of Merlin (AM) has been somewhat overlooked in terms of narrative because the main story consists of a sequence of battles considered repetitive and therefore boring. Although it is true that the outcome of the battles is predictable (King Arthur and his knights will prevail), the text includes detailed descriptions and specific word choices of how this happens: Arthurian knights win because they have excellent fighting knowledge. Among them, Ywain, fighting to free London from the Saracens, demonstrates mastery of the blade from various binds (the time and position where opposing weapons are engaged). His skill is confirmed by the importance given to the topic in fight books.\nA unique copy of the romance AM is preserved in the Auchileck Manuscript at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh under the signature Advocates’ MS 19. 2. 1. Written exclusively in English, it is of paramount importance for the history of English literature and literary taste in the first half of the fourteenth century. The manuscript is a miscellany of 44 secular and religious texts; among the former, there are eighteen romances. Linguistic, palaeographical, and internal evidence point to the origin of the manuscript being in London in the 1330s, where a rich merchant probably commissioned it.\nAlthough in its current state the Auchinleck MS comprises 331 leaves of 250×190 mm, codicological studies of both the manuscript and fragments thereof have revealed that it originally contained at least 386 leaves of 264×203 mm. The manuscript was compiled on vellum by five or six scribes in 48 quires of eight leaves each (with the exception of one gathering of ten). Scribe α acted as the “editor” of the manuscript and wrote most of it. He also copied AM.\nAlthough only surviving in the Auchinleck ms (fols 201rb-256vb), AM originates in late-thirteenth century London. The text, written in rhyming couplets and 9938 lines long, was introduced by an illumination, which has unfortunately been cut out (like many from the same manuscript). As a result, ten lines on the other side of the folio have been lost. A further 200 lines towards the end have also been lost due to a missing leaf; the text is otherwise intact and clearly readable.\nThe first third of the romance is concerned with the antecedents to Arthur’s reign and it is a close translation of the French Lestoire de Merlin. The remaining two thirds are more autonomous and describe Arthur’s early reign as a sequence of protracted battle scenes, starting with kings of various territories in Great Britain (whose leader is Lot) rebelling to Arthur’s right to rule. Although Arthur wins two battles, the Rebel Kings still refuse to recognise him as their leader. However, the British internal fights must cease when each king, Arthur as well, must fight separate battles against external invading forces: Danes, Irish, Saxons and Angles, who in the text are typically collectively named ‘Saracens’. The text focuses on two armies: one led by Arthur and the other by Gawain. Despite being Lot’s son, Gawain recognises Arthur legitimacy to rule. While Arthur is fighting in Leodegan’s lands (Leodegan is Guinevere’s father), Gawain, together with his brothers Gueheres, Agrevein, Gaheriet, and with his cousins Galathin and Yvain, leads an army in Arthur’s name to protect London. The romance ends with Arthur and Gawain being successful in freeing those key territories.\nLondon is prominent in the romance. However, it is not described in detail and its political relevance is only inferred. Arthur holds court there for important and lavish occasions: he gives a feast ‘ƿat last ful fourten niȝt’ (l. 3582) and a tournament in honour of Ban and Bohort (two of his late father’s allies) joining his legitimacy cause; it is also there that he celebrates his second victory against the Rebel Kings with another 14-days long feast. Furthermore, London is where he prepares against the Saracens’ invasion by ordering that every town should be supplied with food and by appointing a constable for each of them; Arthur focuses on London first, choosing Sir Do, an earl who already has experience in running a town, to administer it, rather than a knight who had distinguished himself in battle.\nThe text also offers some clues on the considerable size and cultural aspects of the town. The number of pack-horses (700), of carts (700), and of wagons (500) that were meant to supply London with food (but were robbed by Saracens instead) speaks of a large population. As a big city, London has a lot to offer, which is why Gawain, his brothers, and cousins decide to reside there for months after the first battle.\nThe population itself, and perhaps a glimpse of its political structure, only makes an appearance during the first battle for London. Seeing that Gawain and his army are bravely fighting against the Saracens but that they are greatly disadvantaged in numbers (1200 against 7000), Sir Do gathers the aldermen at the assembly point at Aldgate and quickly convinces them to raise their banners and go in support of Gawain with an army of 5000 men in total (both citizens and knights) ‘[f]or alle chaunce Londen to kepe’ (l. 5126). Conversely, neither Sir Do nor the aldermen are mentioned as leaders of a London contingent in Gawain’s army in the second battle outside the town. The focus there is solely on Arthurian knights and their skills.\nUnsurprisingly, Arthur, Gawain, and the other Arthurian knights win against the invaders. However, the text does not assume that they are better a priori: it demonstrates it by employing specific choices in vocabulary and fight descriptions. King Arthur and his knights are very skilled fighters and they have a deep knowledge of fighting practices.\nDuring the final battle for the control over London, Gawain admires Yvain’s fighting skill: ‘He [Gawain] hadde wonder of his [Yvain’s] pruesse | Þat so leyd doun hard and nesse’ (ll. 8165-66). ‘Hard and nesse’ is interpreted by Macre-Gibson as ‘every sort of adversary’, meaning both strong and weak ones (‘nesse’ means ‘weak’, ‘pliant or yelding’). However, it is improbable that Gawain would commend Yvain for killing weak opponents; instead, it is much more likely that this sentence refers to Yvain’s ability to work from strong and weak binds. Simply put, depending on the circumstances, when two swords clash, the opponent can put a lot of pressure on the bind (i.e. a strong bind) or very little (i.e. a weak bind). A follow-up attack from a specific bind will not necessarily have a positive outcome if executed from a different one. Immediately performing a successful attack depending on the type of bind is not easy; it requires understanding of blade mechanics and training. In the late-fourteenth century glosses to Liechtenauer’s verses, the anonymous author of Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, ms 3227a writes that knowing how to act according to the situation (whether it is a weak or a strong bind) is essential.\nVor, noch, swach, stark, indes: an den selben woerten leit alle kunst meister lichtnawers und sint dy gruntfeste und der kern alles fechtens […] Dy weile her denne ieme noch an syme swerte ist, […] zo sal her gar eben fuelen und merken ab iener […] an syme swerte weich ader hert, swach ader stark sey.\n[Before, after, weak, strong, indes: on these words lay master Liechtenauer’s entire art and they are the basis and core of all fencing […] While he [the fighter] is still on [the opponent’s] sword, […] he shall quite precisely feel and note whether the other is soft or hard, weak or strong on his sword.]\nJust a couple of lines before Gawain’s assessment of his cousin’s fighting skill, the audience is told that Yvain kills many enemies in various ways: he cuts two enemies at the waist, decapitates other two, and inflicts fatal wounds to a fifth. This demonstrates that Yvain is able to employ different and successful techniques depending on the circumstances. By mentioning that he can use to his advantage both strong and weak binds and that he kills all his enemies, Yvain’s fighting skills are emphasised: he clearly knows what he is doing.\nIn Off Arthour and of Merlin, Arthurian knights save London from the invaders not because they are implicitly better fighters, but because they demonstrate better fighting skills and knowledge. This is achieved through the choice of specific vocabulary that finds parallels in fight books, and therefore by creating links and associations between two literary genres that approached martial culture from a different perspective. For Yvain, this is expressed through his mastery of the bind.\nMacrae-Gibson, O. D., ed., Of Arthour and of Merlin, 2 vols (London: Oxford University Press, 1979)\nNuremberg, Germanisches Nationalbibliothek, ms 3227a <http://dlib.gnm.de/item/Hs3227a> [accessed 18 August 2020]\nBliss, Alan Joseph, ed., Sir Orfeo (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966)\nByrne, Aisling, ‘West and East: The Irish Saracens in Of Arthur and of Merlin’, Nottingham Medieval Studies, 55 (2011), 217-229\nHanna, Ralph, ‘Auchinleck ‘Scribe 6’ and Some Corollary Issues’, in The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, ed. by Susanna Fein (York: York Medieval Press, 2016), pp. 209-221\nLiedholm, Astri, A Phonological Study of the Middle English Romance Arthour and Merlin (Ms Auchinleck) (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1941)\n‘nesse’, in Middle English Dictionary [online], <https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED29350/track?counter=1&search_id=4141698> [accessed 18 August 2020]\nPearsall, Derek, and Cunningham, I. C. (eds), The Auchinleck Manuscript: National Library of Scotland Advocates’ MS 19.2.1 (London: Scholar Press, 1977)\nRamey, Lynn Tarte, Christians, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature (New York and London: Routledge, 2001)\nSklar, Elizabeth, ‘Arthour and Merlin: The Englishing of Arthur’, Michigan Academician: Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 8: 1 (1975), 49-57\nSchmidt, Herbert, Sword Fighting: An Introduction to Handling a Long Sword, trans. by David Johnston (Atglen: Schiffer Publishing)\n O. D. Macrae-Gibson, ed., Of Arthour and of Merlin, 2 vols (London: Oxford University Press, 1979), II, p. 9; Astri Liedholm, A Phonological Study of the Middle English Romance Arthour and Merlin (Ms Auchinleck) (Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1941), p. xxi.\n In The Sayings of the Four Philosophers there are ‘Anglo-Norman macaronics’ and Latin insertions are present in The Harrowing of Hell, Speculum Gy de Warewke, and David þe King (Derek Pearsall, and I. C. Cunningham (eds), The Auchinleck Manuscript: National Library of Scotland Advocates’ MS 19.2.1 (London: Scholar Press, 1977), p. viii).\n Alan Joseph Bliss, ed., Sir Orfeo (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), pp. ix-x; Laura Hibbard Loomis, ‘The Auchinleck Manuscript and a Possible London Bookshop of 1330-1340’, in Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 75: 3 (1942), 595-627, p. 601; 627; Macrae-Gibson, II, p. 62; Pearsall and Cunningham, p. vii.\n A recent study proposes that the writing hand identified as the sixth actually should be understood as a second moment in scribe α’s writing (Ralph Hanna, ‘Auchinleck ‘Scribe 6’ and Some Corollary Issues’, in The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, ed. by Susanna Fein (York: York Medieval Press, 2016), pp. 209-221).\n Pearsall and Cunningham, pp. vii-xvi.\n Elizabeth Sklar, ‘Arthour and Merlin: The Englishing of Arthur’, Michigan Academician: Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 8: 1 (1975), 49-57 (pp. 52-54).\n In high and late medieval literature, it is not unusual to find that the term ‘Saracens’ designates any type of foreigners, rather than a specific group of people from the Near East. In AM, this idea of otherness is strongly connected to the emerging sense of a national language and identity present both in other parts of the romance (cf. ll. 21-22: ‘Riȝt is ƿat Inglische vnderstond | ƿat was born in Inglond’; Macrae-Gibson, I, pp. 3-5) and in other Middle English texts of the same period: ‘Saracen’ means ‘the Other’, ‘the non-British’ (Aisling Byrne, ‘West and East: The Irish Saracens in Of Arthur and of Merlin’, Nottingham Medieval Studies, 55 (2011), 217-229 (pp. 218-19); Lynn Tarte Ramey, Christians, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature (New York and London: Routledge, 2001), p. 8).\n Macrae-Gibson, I, p. 205.\n Macrae-Gibson, I, p. 246.\n Macrae-Gibson, I, p. 325.\n Macrae-Gibson, II, p. 193.\n ‘nesse’, in Middle English Dictionary [online], <https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED29350/track?counter=1&search_id=4141698> [accessed 18 August 2020]).\n Herbert Schmidt, Sword Fighting: An Introduction to Handling a Long Sword, trans. by David Johnston (Atglen: Schiffer Publishing), pp. 30; 132.\n Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalbibliothek, ms 3227a, fol. 20r-v.\n Transcription and translation are mine. The editorial principles are the following: abbreviations have been silently expanded, the letters u and v have been modified according to modern standards, and the punctuation has been made in accordance with the translation.\n ll. 8153-58 (Macrae Gibson, I, pp. 324-25).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.shawnakaszer.com/product/memoir/", "date": "2021-10-20T14:07:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585321.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20211020121220-20211020151220-00239.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.957938551902771, "token_count": 450, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__191998493", "lang": "en", "text": "Sometimes, the most courageous thing we can do to fight for the life we know we were created to live comes down to one single word. It can be the hardest word, but the start to a great adventure: YES.\nIn her debut memoir, Shawna Kaszer shares the story of her own ‘yes,’ inviting readers on an intimate journey across the country, and across her heart. Nearly ten years after losing her mom, Shawna found herself stuck, still dealing with the aftermath of her mother’s death. Faced with failed efforts to start a family of their own, and the many ‘somedays’ they were forced to put on the shelf during her mom’s illness, Shawna and her husband pack up their New York City apartment and take off across the country in an ’88 Bronco to find freedom from their past and hope for their future.\nDespite her best efforts to remain present on the trip of a lifetime, memories buried behind closed doors begin to spill out on the open road, confronting her on sand dunes, beneath waterfalls, and amongst the wild as past and present are woven together on an epic road trip and an adventure within. With her husband by her side, their bucking Bronco takes them on a wild ride of redemption, to divine meetings with colorful characters, through extraordinary encounters and magical moments with God on a journey to find healing, wholeness, and hope restored.\nI believe in the freedom to choose value for value, the power of exchange, the joy of generosity, and that the gifts of God are given freely. That is why here, exclusively on my website, I’m offering you the option to pay what you choose for ‘Mountains Into Roads,’ and why I have made the e-book available online for just ninety-nine cents. Because I want you to have this book, and I’m confident it will bless you! Pay what you choose below, or you can purchase the e-book on Amazon. I pray this book ignites a spark within that sends you out on your own great adventure of freedom, healing, and wholeness. – Shawna Kaszer", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.puffinreview.com/content/content/interview-stephen-may", "date": "2017-04-27T05:17:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121869.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00327-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9835416078567505, "token_count": 1203, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__66428818", "lang": "en", "text": "Your first novel, Tag, won the Media Wales Prize whilst your second, Life! Death! Prizes! was shortlisted for the 2012 Costa. The popular belief is that novelists toil in obscurity for years before being noticed, so what’s the secret to your success?\nI began writing seriously in about 1998. And my first novel came out in 2008, so that is ten years of false starts, blind alleys and writing things that no one wanted to read. And in fact my first book came out in quite a small way - tiny print run - and remained pretty hard to get hold of even after winning that Welsh prize. It's only been the last couple of years that I have begun to find a readership. You just have to keep writing about what interests you, to tell the stories only you can tell, and hope it interests other people too. I try to be fearless in writing and I think my books aren't like those of anyone else. I like to write about ordinary people trying to show grace in difficult or strange situations. Under-achievers, daydreamers, people whistling in the dark - these are the people I know about and hopefully their stories resonate with lots of readers. Also, I still feel pretty obscure.\nWas there specific pressure on you when writing your second novel given that Tag was a prize-winner?\nNo pressure. I wrote Tag assuming that no one would like it. And approached Life! Death! Prizes! the same way. If you start to worry about prizes, the market, or what people like - then you'll drive yourself mad. I just wanted to write a realistic - but hopeful - book about young men in small town England now. They are a much maligned group. And I felt I had the right story to tell and it wouldn't really let me go till I'd got it out. I felt more pressure with the third because I less time and more difficult subjects. (money, friendship, how to be happy, murder...)\nYou are fond of giving public readings and inter-acting with the audience. Is it crucial, these days, for an author to be visible and make public appearances rather than being a fashionable recluse like Salinger et al?\nI'm a former drama teacher. And, therefore, a show-off. I'm also a good reader and a lot of novelists aren't (poets tend to be better) But I'm also semi-crippled by shyness, so there's always a tension in my live readings. I like conversations with audiences, they always know so much. I don't think it's essential to do it. I'm actually trying to develop more of an interactive show to go along with my latest book, rather than just do readings.\nWhat about social media? You are active on Twitter so is this a good source for both communicating with readers but also in acquiring new readers?\nI don't think a tweet has sold so much as a single book. In fact, I don't think even 1000 tweets sell even one book. I think people with 100 followers can sell as many books as those with 100, 000. I spend about twenty minutes a day on Twitter, seeing what people think about stuff, sharing that which seems more than usually interesting. Occasionally I join in with the conversation, though it can feel like shouting next to a waterfall. I think that Twitter, like Facebook, is probably past its peak. One day we will all look back and nudge each other and say 'hey, do you remember when we all used to tweet?' and there'll be an embarrassed sniggering. It'll go the way of Bebo, and ra-ra skirts... Facebook too is probably going - it won't disappear entirely any more than shop window advertisements in the local newsagents have, but in the end it'll begin to seem similarly quaint.\nYou also teach creative writing, but many say that it is an art which cannot be taught. What do you say to that? Did you attend any such classes before you were published?\nIt seems to me that there is 'creative writing' which is something that happens in colleges and other institutions, and then there is writing, which is what writers do. Sometimes they over-lap. I think you can save time by attending a course. I went on an Arvon course and that helped. I did an MA which didn't so much. What the MA gave me was a supportive gang and there was between us all an unspoken desire to impress and surprise one another and that helps too. Otherwise you simply have to read a lot. You also have to ask yourself constantly 'why should anyone read MY book, when there are so many brilliant others out there?' My classes are mostly about getting people to pay close attention to other books, and to the world around them. And then about giving opportunities to practice writing in ways they perhaps haven't thought about.\nFinally, are you working on a new novel at the moment?\nMy third novel - Wake Up Happy Every Day - is published by Bloomsbury on March 13. It's a departure and a step forward for me. I think (hope) it demands more of a reader maybe. And I have just finished a rough draft of my fourth - and I'd actually like someone to come along and ask me to write another play. I'm busy now. (I also have a full-time job). I spent the first fifteen years of my adult life face down in my dinner or dazedly wondering where my shoes were - generally off my face in other words - or chasing girls, or haphazardly trying to help raise children. Quite a few of valuable years went by before I got down to any proper writing. I'm trying to make up for a lot of lost time... (though of course it turns out to have been material too...)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.therealmattdaddy.com/2012/08/saying-goodbye-to-campa.html", "date": "2013-05-24T19:32:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704986352/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114946-00055-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9962236285209656, "token_count": 1079, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__186909459", "lang": "en", "text": "I didn't expect to have to talk to my daughter about death again so soon. We just had a conversation about it when Nana passed away six months ago. My wife's father, David (or \"Campa\" as my daughter calls him), had been in declining health for a little over a year now. He went into the hospital last Sunday, and never turned the corner to get better. Time in the hospital took its toll on his weakened body, and on Friday, he was moved to hospice and passed away a little over eight hours later.\nI choked up as I told my daughter, while we were on our way to visit him in hospice, that this would be the last time she ever sees her \"Campa\". He was going away to heaven to be with Jesus, just like Nana did. Being only two and a half, her response to me was, \"We need to hurry up if he's going away! I need to say goodbye.\" And say goodbye she did. She sang him the \"ABC's,\" \"Jesus Loves Me,\" and \"I Love You A Bushel And A Peck.\" She gave him hugs and kisses, and she wasn't even scared. I was so proud of my little girl.\nThe service for him last night was great. So many people came out to support the family, and we heard lots of great stories about David's fifty-five years on this earth. I also shared a story about David, and I wanted you to be able to read it as well. David loved reading about his granddaughter on this blog, and I thought it would be a great tribute to him to share this story.\nMy Tribute To David\nMy relationship with David didn't get off to a great start. The first time I met him, he was driving his unmarked State Police cruiser into the parking lot of my high school. His daughter was late coming home from drama practice, and she was sitting in my car. We were talking about things that were important to high schoolers; things that, at the time, seemed important enough to make her late. Truthfully, I was working up the nerve to tell his daughter how I felt about her.\nI eventually got the courage to ask David and his wife if I could date their daughter. As I sat at their kitchen table, I told them how I felt about her. I'm not sure you'd call what I received from David a \"blessing,\" but after thoroughly questioning me about my intentions, he seemed willing to allow us to begin dating.\nLet's fast forward through a few years of college, and I found myself at that same kitchen table with David and his wife. This time, I was asking permission to marry their daughter. I can't remember if he actually used the word \"no,\" but it was clear that he didn't think it was a good idea to get married right out of college. We clearly didn't agree, and although we delayed our wedding a year to save money, we did eventually get married.\nFor a long time, I thought he was just being hard on me, and I couldn't understand what I had done to deserve it. I also couldn't figure out what I would have to do in order to earn his respect. It wasn't until I had a daughter of my own that I finally realized that the hard time he gave me had nothing to do with me and everything to do with protecting his only daughter. When I thought he was being tough on me, he was really showing his love for her.\nThe arrival of my daughter changed a lot of things about our relationship. His eyes would light up when she entered the room. He would beam with pride at her accomplishments. Our conversations became easier as we could always talk about her latest milestones. We shared a lot of smiles and laughs because of her, and David was often the first one to comment on this website when I wrote about her. I could tell that he respected me as a father, and that meant a lot to me.\nA few months ago, I sat at that same kitchen table with David for one of the last times. I had grown to appreciate his zany sense of humor, but there was no humor in his voice when he asked me, \"Matt, did I really say \"no\" when you asked if you two could get married?\"\nNot wanting to be rude, I began to say, \"Well, I don't think you actually used the word 'no'...\"\nHe cut me off, \"I can't believe I did that!\" Then he added with a laugh, \"I'm really glad you didn't listen to me.\" He let me know that he was happy to have me in the family, and that he was proud to be the grandpa of such a wonderful, little girl.\nI know, someday, I will be sitting at a kitchen table with a young man who is interested in dating my daughter. Now that David is gone, I will need to be twice as protective of my little girl's heart. Because I know, first hand, that David wouldn't have let him off easy. Thank you, David, for teaching me the importance of protecting those who are most important to you. And I promise, I won't let you down.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ultimateamy.blogspot.com/2011/02/autobiography-of-reading.html", "date": "2021-12-03T00:10:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964362571.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20211203000401-20211203030401-00360.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.975642740726471, "token_count": 2707, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__22516375", "lang": "en", "text": "Some of my earliest memories involve my mother and I sitting on a flowered, 70’s style sofa reading the stories of Thornton Burgess and E.B. White in front of the large windows of our post and beam house. Burgess was a local author from Massachusetts and my mother tells me we frequented the Burgess Museum located in the town in which we lived. In particular from this era, I remember crying with my mother over the death of Charlotte in Charlotte’s Web. Sometimes my mom had trouble continuing to read aloud and we had to take a break to garner strength to go on. I think my mother taught me empathy through her emotional connections with Wilbur, Charlotte, Peter Cottontail, Jimmy Skunk, and many other characters. While these may have been the first times I cried over a book, they were certainly not the last.\nAt the age of three and a half, I became a big sister. My brother was born very prematurely and was in the hospital for quite some time before he could come home. During this time, my paternal grandparents spent a lot of time with me. Grandpa enjoyed reading me the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Though the reading of stories did not make me any kinder to my new little brother (I would hit him over the head with my mother’s hair brush when she was not looking), I think reading helped me adjust to the new family dynamics.\nAccording to my mother, we often went to the local library for story hour and regularly checked books out of the library. Along with the books, I frequently listened to musical versions of stories like Cinderella and Snow White on my little record player. My mom says I really loved to read and listen to stories, but I do not have many memories of this. Though they often read to me, my parents did not try to teach me how to read as they were not sure how to do so. They thought my teachers were better prepared for this task.\nJump ahead to the age of seven when I was in first grade and welcoming my second brother. We lived in a small town in Kentucky and I was a student in the class of Mrs. Neuman. It was in Mrs. Neuman’s class that I learned how to read. While I do not remember the process of learning to read, my mother tells me that I picked it up right away and never looked back. By the end of first grade, I was reading chapter books and helping my mom read to my brothers. One particular memory I have from this age is my mother reading E.B. White to my brothers and I, telling us to shut our eyes and imagine what the characters and the settings looked like. She told us the joy of reading was in the freedom to use and develop our imaginations. Given my brothers’ lust for life, these were some of the quieter moments in our household.\nAt age eight, my family moved again to a town in Massachusetts in the middle of January. I was the new girl in school with buck teeth, glasses and a Kentucky accent. During this adjustment phase, I was reading the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, L.M. Montgomery, and Margeurite Henry. These books took me away from the snowy, new town to places of wonder, beauty, and intrigue. In springtime, I discovered the joys of reading in the shade of the pine grove in our backyard and on the branches of the Weeping Willow just beside our carport – quiet, tranquil places away from my rambunctious brothers.\nBy third grade, I was well settled in to my new town and had formed a lovely relationship with the school librarian, Mrs. Wolkenbreit. In me, Mrs. Wolkenbreit recognized a voracious, curious reader who was open to many genres and ideas. She told me that I would have the responsibility of helping her choose books for the library’s collection. I needed to report back to her on all the books I was reading so she would know what books to choose for the library. At the time, it was the most wonderful thing anyone could have told me. I do not remember specific authors from that period, but I do know I was exposed to many types of books: novels, biographies, non-fiction, novellas, short stories, memoirs, and more.\nThe summer of my fourth grade year, I was finally allowed to ride my bike to a branch of the public library and pick out my own books. The librarian there was my summertime Mrs. Wolkenbreit. She remembered what kinds of books I liked to read and would have some selected when she thought I might be visiting her again. She always asked what I thought of the books I was returning and what I might like to read next. Beyond her kindness, I remember her fingers – always dry with paper cuts, but quick to pat me on the back. She was a part of my life for the next five years we lived in Massachusetts.\nFrom fourth grade to seventh grade, I developed a deep curiosity about World War II, the Holocaust, the A-bomb, and the Vietnam War. I began reading books like Memoirs of Auschwitz, Number the Stars, The Devil’s Arithmetic, So Far from the Bamboo Grove, Fallen Angels and others. During this time, I asked a lot of why questions. In sixth grade a classmate of mine asked our teacher, Mr. Noel, how many people he had killed in Vietnam. Mr. Noel immediately sent Charlie to the principal’s office and left the room. This tense moment only fueled my need to understand how human beings could do such damage to each other. Something I think I still seek in the books I read today.\nTo take a break from these serious themes, I read the Nancy Drew, Babysitter’s Club, Sweet Valley High, and R.L Stine thriller series. Starting in third or fourth grade, I discovered my mother’s stash of Harlequin romance novels kept in paper bags in her closet. I would sneak a few into my room on a regular basis and hunt through them for the “steamy” parts. Much was learned from these books. Now I call these books pallet cleansers – a way to clear away or absorb the taste of the more serious books to prepare for further heavy reading.\nIn junior high school, I continued my exploration of humanity through John Grisham, Bryce Courtenay (particularly The Power of One), and young adult level romance novels like Dance With Me by Jahnna Beecham. Beyond these few authors, I do not really remember what I read during this period. I do not even remember what books were assigned for summer reading or in English class.\nAt the age of fifteen, my family moved again, to Rhode Island. Again, I was the new girl only this time I was no longer plagued by buck teeth, glasses or a southern accent. Sadly, that did not make the transition any easier. Instead, I was the “hippy, grunge” girl in a very “preppy” high school. The first year did not go well, with regular snubs from sports teammates and most other people. It was during this adjustment year that I was exposed to Shakespeare for the second time. In ninth grade, at my old school, we had read Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth and I had really liked them. They were tough, but also really lovely. In tenth grade, at my new school in Rhode Island, we read Julius Caesar and I grew to hate Shakespeare. When we moved on to The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway, I began to wonder if I still liked to read. It seemed like my teacher was killing my love of reading. The Great Gatsby, Heart of Darkness and A Separate Peace, read the following year, began to renew my faith, but only a bit. School reading was just no longer fun.\nOutside of school, I do not recall what I was reading in high school, but I know I was always reading. Following the birth of my second brother, I almost always had a book with me. When my family went on road trips, I brought a stack of books with me out of necessity. While my brothers poked, prodded, and tortured each other and my parents, I had my nose in a book. Survival instincts at their best! Sadly, many of those titles now escape me.\nCollege was a time of copious reading. My freshman writing course, “Sex, Love, and the Twentieth Century Novel” introduced me to the likes of Zora Neale Hurston, F. Scott Fitzgerald (beyond The Great Gatsby), and James Baldwin. After the course, I explored more of their writings to my great pleasure. Given my major in Theatre and Dramatic Literature, I soon fell in love with plays while reading Arthur Miller, Shakespeare, Athol Fugard, Paula Vogel, William Wycherley, and many more. I also discovered the works of James Herriot, Barbara Dimmick, and David Sedaris. My junior year of college saw the beginning of my love affair with the Harry Potter series. Friends always asked me how I could read so many books while also maintaining good grades. My secret – reading for pleasure every night before bed, whether it was one page or a whole book.\nIn my twenties, I began to read much more. Fiction had always been my go-to genre, but some forms of non-fiction caught my eye. I read wonderful books such as Bachelor Girls by Betsy Israel and Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz – non-fiction books that explored history and human nature with humor and wit. In my fiction-reading world, I read Jasper Fforde, Gregory Maguire, Cormac McCarthy, and Jonathan Safran Foer to name a few. During this period, I also decided to read some of the “classics” I had missed in high school and college. I discovered The Grapes of Wrath, On the Road, Brave New World, The Count of Monte Cristo, and the Sherlock Holmes series. Over and over again, books from past and contemporary authors broke my heart, gave me hope, challenged my opinions, and brought me to new, unexplored places. My joy of reading had returned in great force and has not abated since.\nIn my late twenties and early thirties, I continue to read a variety of authors and genres. Some books that really stick out include On Foot to the Golden Horn by Jason Goodwin, White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar, and most things by Walter Moseley. A good friend of mine also recommended some graphic novels, including Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (for whom I plan to name a daughter, should I have one) and Fables by Bill Willingham. As I move into my thirties, I have developed a deep interest in reading books that have been translated from other languages, or that deal with the migration/immigration experience.\nYoung adult literature reappeared in my life when I was about twenty-six. My best friend became a school library teacher and reminded me of the joys of young adult literature. I explored classic children’s and young adult authors including Lewis Carol, Roald Dahl, and Frank Baum while discovering new authors such as Markus Zusak, Philip Pullman, Sherman Alexie, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Suzanne Collins, Meg Cabot, and Scott Westerfeld. The authors listed here are my particular favorites because they transport me into other worlds, question my morals/values/opinions, ask me to dream bigger, command me to feel something, and often make me laugh while doing so. The strong feelings elicited by these authors cause me to rave about them to anyone and everyone I speak with about reading – my topic of choice at parties.\nIn the past ten years, I have also developed a strong relationship with my pallet cleanser authors. I am currently in passionate relationships with Jennifer Crusie, Mary Kay Andrews, Sue Grafton, Stella Rimington, Janet Evanovich (the Stephanie Plum series), John Le Carré and Kathy Reichs. Jennifer Crusie and Mary Kay Andrews serve as my adult pacifiers, reading them over and over again, particularly in times of great stress or sorrow. They are my friends – knowing just what to say to make everything better.\nMy reading life has been one of depth and commitment, fluffiness and laughter, and sometimes both. Without books, I am not sure what kind of person I would be or what kind of dreams I would have for myself. Because of reading, I am a more articulate, empathetic, balanced, and creative person. Having traveled all over the world and into many time periods through the experiences of children, teenagers, adults and adults of all ages, fictional and real, I have lived a thousand blessed and full lives.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://takingthelilongwe.wordpress.com/", "date": "2017-11-21T10:08:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806338.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121094039-20171121114039-00525.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9556020498275757, "token_count": 1360, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__246776563", "lang": "en", "text": "4 July 2013\nThe summer session one interns departed on Tuesday and the summer session two volunteers arrive today. That means today Karen and I will be joined by five new high school volunteers and one more coordinator, Maysam. Orientation starts today and then camps start on Tuesday. I am excited to see what summer session two has in store for us all.\nWith no volunteers here that meant I got to run alone for the first time since May. Although I don’t love running I do enjoy it, because it always helps me to relieve stress and clear my mind. This morning on my run I felt especially recharged and motivated. My strides were a little longer, my knees lifted a little higher, and my arms pumped a little faster. My pace even increased from my normal jog to something that felt more like a run. And yes this could all be because I am slowly getting back into shape, but I don’t see it that way. As I ran I felt inspired, therefore I pushed myself harder.\nIn honor of my inspirational run I decided to share some quotes and sayings that help me get through everyday with a big smile. Enjoy!\n“You can’t really begin to appreciate life until it has knocked you down a few times. You can’t really begin to appreciate love until your heart has been broken. You can’t really begin to appreciate happiness until you’ve known sadness. You have to struggle up the mountainside to appreciate the breathtaking view at the mountaintop.”\n“Life would be so different if you stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your perception with their words and opinions. Happiness is derived from the way you see your own life. It depends on your thoughts, not on what you have or what you do not have, or by what other people think you should have.”\n“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain\n“As we grow older, we realize what matters most. We discover ourselves. We find out what we want…what we need….what we deserve. As we mature, we finally say, “I don’t know everything.” As we age, our family and our true friends, they all become vital in our existence.”\n“Just remember that yesterday doesn’t matter. Five minutes ago doesn’t matter. What you do right now and going forward is everything.”\n“Once we realize that we are here for a much greater purpose that just for ourselves, a purpose to serve others, to live for others, knowing that the self and its ego is temporary and can only hinder one’s spiritual pursuits, than we can humble our minds and understand we are here by the grace of a higher force. We are so much smaller than what we claim ourselves to be, so it is important to remember that at any time of any day, our ego can be re-adjusted for the better or for the worse, and we can control the ego by allowing it to be without letting it be you.”\n“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”\n“The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson. Don’t give up in the middle.”\n“We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others to work on ourselves.”\n“Don’t give up on your dream because it is not going in the direction you want. There are different routes to the same destination.”\n“Extraordinary things are always hidden in place people never think to look.”\n“Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.”\n“The measures of life will not be in what you accumulate but in what you give away.”\n“Every act of kindness grows the spirit and strengthens the soul.”\n“Worry less, smile more, accept criticism, take responsibility, listen and love, don’t hate, embrace change, and feel good anyway.”\n“Treat everyone with the same level of respect; people will notice your kindness.”\n“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”\n“One day in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”\n“The nature of life is to change, but the beauty of life is to give.”\n“Did you say it? ‘I love you. I don’t ever want to live without you. You changed my life.’ Did you say it? Make a plan. Set a goal. Work toward it, but every now and then, look around; Drink it in because this is it. It might all be gone tomorrow.”\n“Be weird, be random, be who you are, because you never know who would love the person you hide.”\n“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.” -Henry David Thoreau\n“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” ~The Dalai Lama\n“What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.”\n~ Nelson Mandela\nTo the mind one day may seem ordinary, when another may seem remarkable. Really each day is ordinarily-remarkable. To see it you just have to open your mind heart and soul. Each day we all have the choice to put on a smile and be happy, and yes I realize that is not possible every single day, but we do have that choice. Sometimes the best way to see the positive is not to open your eyes, but to close your eyes, quite your mind, take a deep breath, and open your heart. -Haley\nOh yeah, Happy 4th of July, drink an American beer and shoot off some fireworks for me!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://snowtreebooks.com/author_visits.htm", "date": "2023-02-06T19:50:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500357.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20230206181343-20230206211343-00651.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9750945568084717, "token_count": 410, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__297237375", "lang": "en", "text": "Programs presented by author/illustrator Yetti Frenkel give children an inside look at the life of a working artist. Presentations include readings of her books, slides of her work as an artist and muralist, and the process of creating a children's book from storyboard to finished product. By presenting a progression of early sketchbooks, Yetti shows children that drawing is a learning process like math or reading and that with perserverance they can also achieve their goals.\nTo schedule a program, or for more information, please contact Yetti Frenkel.\n\"The children were obviously enthralled with your presentation and fascinated by seeing the artwork of your picture books. Your lively reading and entertaining personal style were obviously appreciated by our young patrons- as well as by their parents and caregivers who later gave great commendations! With great polish and skill, you brought the picture book creation process alive much to the delight of our visitors, young and old.\" Paula Hayes, Supervisor The Rey Children's Room Boston Public Library Boston, MA\n\"Yetti had a genuine rapport with the classes and thoughtful answers to all questions. She showed her sketchbooks and explained to students that drawing is a learning process, like learning to read or do mathematical problems, and that they should not be frustrated if it takes a long time to learn how to draw. Part of her wonderful presentation was to explain the process of creating a book, from the original idea to a book on the library shelf. Several of my students had specific questions about her artwork and one even offered his original drawings to her.\" Karen Kosko, Library Media Specialist Haggerty School, Cambridge, MA\n\"I want to thank you for coming to the Children's Room and sharing your books and illustrations with us. It was a treat to hear the stories and see your beautiful, full-scale artwork and compare it to what we see in print.\" Lorraine Der, Children's Librarian Hamilton-Wenham Public Library\n© Snow Tree Books 2004 - Site by IBFX Consulting", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://abuse.wikia.org/wiki/Opioid_Replacement_Therapy", "date": "2021-06-14T22:16:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487613453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20210614201339-20210614231339-00094.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9507412910461426, "token_count": 469, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__119308134", "lang": "en", "text": "Opioid Replacement Therapy (ORT) is the medical procedure of replacing an illegal opioid drug such as heroin with a longer acting but less euphoric opioid, usually methadone or buprenorphine, that is taken under medical supervision. In some countries (e.g. Switzerland, Austria) patients may be treated with slow-release morphine where methadone is deemed inappropriate in the circumstances. In Germany, Dihydrocodeine has been used off-label in ORT for many years, however it is no longer frequently prescribed for this purpose. Extended-release dihydrocodeine is again in current use in Austria for this reason. Research into the usefulness of piritramide, extended-release hydromorphone including polymer implants lasting up to 90 days, dihydroetorphine and some other drugs for this purpose is in various stages in a number of countries at present. The prescription of medicinal heroin or morphine for long-term addicts, particularly those having difficulty with methadone programmes, is also done in some countries.\nSome formulations of buprenorphine are manufactured in pill form with the opiate antagonist Naloxone to prevent addicts from crushing the tablets and injecting them instead of taking them sublingually (under the tongue).\nThe driving principle behind ORT is that an opiate addict will be able to regain a normal life and schedule while being treated with a substance that stops him from experiencing withdrawal symptoms and cravings, but doesn't provide strong euphoria. In many countries regulations require that ORT should be applied for a limited time only, as long as needed for the patient to consolidate his economic and psychosocial situation. (Patients suffering from HIV/AIDS or Hepatitis C are usually excluded from this demand.) In practice however only a small fraction of patients manage to attain abstinence.\nORT has been shown to be the most effective treatment for improving the health and living condition of patients. It is also the most effective in reducing mortality as well as overall costs for society. (e.g. those caused by drug-related crime, the prosecution thereof, the spreading of diseases, etc.)\n- Heroin assisted treatment\n- Michel et al.: Substitution treatment for opioid addicts in Germany, Harm Reduct J. 2007; 4: 5.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://seantscott.com/blog/blogitem.php?a=2020090101", "date": "2023-03-30T11:25:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949181.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330101355-20230330131355-00119.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9928800463676453, "token_count": 2415, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__130436753", "lang": "en", "text": "The walk. A short story.\nThe man woke to the sound of his dog whining. “Do you need to go outside, girl?” He reached over and touched her head gently. “Ok, come on, let’s go.” He rose from his bunk and went to the door. He picked up his rifle, which was sitting in its usual place, next to the door; and opened the door slowly, peeking out the crack between the door and the jamb.\n“I don’t see any bears this morning,” he said to no one but the dog. He opened the door and walked out onto the porch. The dog followed him and then continued on down the steps and into the yard. She was walking slowly, even more slowly than usual. The man could tell her pain was getting worse—much worse than last month. “I am sorry you are hurting, girl, I wish I could take the pain for you.”\nThe man sat in the porch chair staring out at the familiar, but still beautiful scene; waiting for the dog to finish. As he sat there, he decided that today was the day to go over to the mountain. He went back inside and packed his bag and threw it over his shoulder, then he picked up his rifle and headed back outside.\nThe dog was lying in the shade, half asleep, but woke up as the man closed and latched the door to the cabin. She watched the man approach and started to get up as the man got close. “Come on, girl,” the man said. “We have a long walk.”\nThe dog followed the man slowly. It wasn’t obedience, she would have followed if he had said nothing. Maybe it was habit, as she had been following him for almost twenty years, or perhaps it was love. Who can say why a dog follows.\nThe man walked slowly down the hill toward the creek, the fall leaves crunching under his feet. He winced as he walked through a spider web, and then struggled to get it off his face. As he reached to pick up a stick to protect himself from other webs, he remembered all of the spring days he sat on the porch and threw sticks out into the yard for the dog to chase. He would throw the stick dozens of times and the dog would dutifully bring it back. Eventually the dog would tire and lay down in the cool grass, chewing on her stick as if it were a delicious bone.\nThe creek had standing water in it, but it wasn’t running, since it had been a few weeks since it rained. The man stopped in the middle of the creek and stood on a large slab of rock, looking back at the dog approaching the creek. She stopped as she got to the bank and looked down. In the past, she would have jumped down onto the flat rock with the man, but today she stopped and looked. She walked up the creek a few paces, then back down a few, looking for an easier path down.\nThe man walked over to her and sat on the bank of the creek. He reached around the dog’s neck and pulled her head into his lap. “You are a good girl,” the man said to her as he stroked her head. They sat there for a while, the dog remaining completely still, while the man continued to caress her head. “You are the best dog ever,” the man said.\nThey sat there for a few minutes until the man reached back and put his hand under her tail and picked her up. He carried her up the creek a few yards and put her down by a clear pool of water. “Are you thirsty, girl,” he said as he put her down next to the pool. He wished he could carry her the entire way to the mountain. But he knew he couldn’t, she was just too heavy.\nThe dog walked into the pool and began to drink. The man stood and watched her patiently as she wandered around the pool drinking the cool, clear water. She eventually got her fill and approached the man. He reached down and rubbed her ears, and then headed down the creek, picking out the high spots, while the dog followed.\nThe sun was filtering through the leaves making the forest much darker than it had been while they were still in the yard. It was a hot day, hotter than normal and, while the forest blocked the sun, it also kept in the humidity. The man brushed the sweat out of his eyes and continued walking.\nHe finally reached a spot in the creek that provided an easy way up the hill. He started up the hill, zig-zagging slowly so the dog could keep up with him. Before he reached the top, the forest ended and a large grassy field appeared.\nThe man and the dog had been here many times before. They often crossed this field when they were hunting. He remembered bringing her up here the first time she saw snow. As they cleared the trees and the dog saw the large open field of white, she took off running through the snow. She ran directly away from the man, then turned to run in big circles. The man watched her for several minutes and then called her. She made one more lap and ran back to him. That was the day he decided she was the best dog ever. Most puppies would have ignored a call, but she never ignored him. It was as if she wanted to be near him as much as he wanted to be near her.\nA fly landed on the man’s face and brought him out of his trance. He brushed it away and began walking again. The grass was taller than the man’s waist. He left a trail of bent stalks, as the dog got lost from view. The stalks waved in the breeze, but the movement of the grass caused by the dog could still be easily seen. “I’m over here, girl,” the man said. He stopped walking and called her as she continued her slow progress through the grass.\nAs the dog approached, the man sat down in the grass and called her. She quickened her pace as much as she could and laid down next to the man. They sat there for a while so the dog could rest again. But it wasn’t long before the gnats made it uncomfortable for both man and dog. The man stood and looked toward the other side of the field. “Come on, girl,” he said. “let’s keep moving.”\nThey continued down the other side of the hill toward the lake, stopping occasionally to rest. The sun was high in the sky by the time they reached the lake. The man walked along the bank slowly as the dog followed him. He stepped onto the dock and walked out to the end. He dropped his bag, laid his rifle on the dock, and sat down, his legs hanging over the edge of the dock.\nHe opened his bag and took out a small bundle. He moved the bag away and laid the bundle on the dock, where he unwrapped it to reveal a stick with fishing string and a hook, and several dry minnows. The man baited the hook and dropped it into the water.\nHe loved to fish. He and the dog had come here often. Usually, the dog would jump into the water and swim while the man was fishing. Of course, this always made it harder to catch a fish, but the man didn’t mind. Eventually, the dog would get tired and come up on the dock and give the man a chance to catch a fish.\nBut, today, the dog didn’t go swimming. She laid on the dock next to the man and tried to sleep. The pain seemed to come and go. She would sleep for a while and then half-awaken with a quiet yelp, only to quickly fall back asleep again.\nThe man pulled the hook in and threw it back out again. Normally, fishing was just something to do while he sat on the dock and enjoyed the view of the mountain on the other side of the lake. But today he really wanted to catch a fish.\nHe continued to cast and pull the hook back in until he finally caught a small lake trout. He cut the head, tail, and fins off and cleaned it out. He wrapped the filets and string up in the cloth and threw what he had cut off into the lake.\nHe put his bag and rifle in his row boat and then helped the dog get in, before he climbed in and untied the boat. The man paddled across the lake toward the mountain. He paddled slowly, like he wasn’t in any hurry. So, even though the lake wasn’t very big, it took him a while to get across. As he reached the bank, he heard a flock of geese fly overhead. The dog looked up expectantly. “Not today, girl. It’s getting late. We need to keep moving.”\nThe man started up the mountain trail, with the dog following behind. He walked the trail for about a mile until he found the cairn that marked the spot where he needed to head into the forest. He built the cairn several years ago. He and the dog came up here and found just the right spot together.\nThe man picked up another stick, remembering his encounter with spiders in the forest near his cabin. He headed into the forest, following the blazes on the trees he had made years before. The last cairn was in a clear area under a large oak tree. The man sat down next to the cairn and looked down at the lake. His eyes found the dock and then scanned up the hill. He could see his cabin, a small wisp of smoke still coming out of his chimney.\n“Look, girl, there’s the cabin, right there,” the man said pointing. “Isn’t this perfect?” He pulled the dog in and hugged her. “You are the best dog ever,” he said. He laid his rifle on the ground and opened his bag. He gently opened the bundle containing the fish and cut it into pieces. He held a piece in front of the dog’s nose and she gently ate it from his hand. He continued to feed her until the fish was gone.\n“Let’s just sit for a while, huh, girl,” the man said. He sat there, petting the dog and rubbing her ears as she laid next to him with her eyes closed and her head in his lap. She was a good dog. A brave dog. The man wished they could be together forever. But they couldn’t. He knew that. It wouldn’t be fair.\nThe man put his fishing gear back in his bag and then got up slowly. The dog was still lying on the ground, her eyes closed. The man threw his bag across his shoulder, and grabbed the rifle. He took aim and squeezed the trigger. The shot rang loud in his ear, and echoed all around him. He stood there for what seemed like an eternity, with the echo reverberating in his mind.\nThe man looked down at the dog’s body, and was glad she was no longer in pain. But he would feel the pain of her loss for the rest of his life. He had managed to take her pain on himself after all.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://legacy.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert/v5i3/ed53.htm", "date": "2021-08-04T18:09:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154897.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20210804174229-20210804204229-00431.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9288159012794495, "token_count": 3906, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__275851539", "lang": "en", "text": "Copyright © 2001 by Deborah Wyrick, all rights reserved. This text may be used and shared in accordance with the fair-use provisions of U.S. Copyright law, and it may be archived and redistributed in electronic form, provided that the editors are notified and no fee is charged for access. Archiving, redistribution, or republication of this text on other terms, in any medium, requires the notification of the journal and consent of the author.\nDoris? She's the one who's always reading War and Peace. That's how I know it's the summer, when Doris is reading War and Peace.--Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus, 7\n- A few weeks ago, I took my car to the repair shop to get a new tire. I'd come equipped for the wait with a book -- Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters. When I paid the bill, the clerk-mechanic noticed the book's rather garish cover and asked me what I was reading. After I told him, he shook his head. \"You must teach up at State,\" he said. \"Don't you all ever read anything fun, even in summer?\"\n- Well, it is summer, at least here in the Northern Hemisphere, and we academics are faced with the dilemma of summer reading. Do we emulate Roth's Doris and attempt to tackle 'should-read' (or 'should-have-read') books -- serious, profession-specific or otherwise 'important' texts? Or do we succumb to what we in North Carolina call 'beach books' -- big-print, mass-market paperbacks that usually involve romance or murder? Like many of my students, my mechanic believes that reading is either work or fun, and never the twain shall meet (unless perhaps in a book by Mark Twain). It's hard to avoid being infected by this culturally dominant false choice, and I feel guilty when I exceed a self-imposed limit of two best-selling thrillers per summer month. But working in postcolonial studies provides an easy solution. As Dogeaters itself suggests, there are many recent and relatively recent novels in our field that are both escapist and substantive, that mix dollops of crime, suspense, and love with innovative style, political critique, and historical-cultural information. In this essay, I recommend three such novels, plus some new non-fiction and, for good measure, a couple of films. To honor the relaxation regime controlling American summers, I refrain from mentioning any books of literary criticism and theory.\n- Rajeev Balasubramanyam's novel, In Beautiful Disguises (2001), layers comedy, social satire, and myth upon a coming-of-age narrative. Its heroine is an unnamed South Indian teenager who escapes an unsavory arranged marriage by running away to The City (presumably Delhi) and working as a maid. There she joins a gaggle of obstreperous servants who manage the household of Mr. Aziz, his horrid French wife, and their dissolute son. (If you've ever wondered what would have happened if E. M. Forster's Aziz had hooked up with Adela and lived [un]happily ever after, In Beautiful Disguises is the book for you.) She also escapes mundane reality by believing she's a film-star-in-training -- specifically, an avatar of Holly Golightly from Breakfast at Tiffany's -- and by weaving her life with strands from the Ramayana -- for instance, Hanuman and his legions become performing orangutans at the municipal zoo. Balasubramanyam writes with an entrancingly light touch, but the novel moves toward darker sensibilities when the heroine returns to her home. If she is the Ramayana's female paragon Sita as well as Holly Golightly, is the demon-ruled land of Lanka the 'authentic' rural countryside rather than the corrupt urban environment? Or is it an interior topography contoured by identity-fantasy and gender confusion? In Beautiful Disguises does not resolve all the issues it raises, and the book somewhat strangely elides matters of class and caste (perhaps disclosing the diasporic position of its author), but it is nonetheless an accomplished and ambitious debut novel.\n- Identity performances of a different kind structure Anchee Min's Becoming Madame Mao (2000). This astonishing historical novel, a product of careful research as well as of artistic vision, portrays the serial reformulations of the Great Helmsman's first (actually, third) mate from a poor concubine's daughter to a Shanghai actress to a revolutionary cadre to the 'white boned demon' directing the Cultural Revolution. Min sees Madame Mao's life as a sequence of roles drawn from Chinese opera, suggesting how fictional artifice can offer seductive templates for self-actualization in the real world. Another source for Min's Madame Mao is Taoist philosophy: the relationship between Mao Zedong and his wife becomes the dance of yang and yin, a dance of exquisite postures more than of passion, a dance that whirls out of balance due to Madame Mao's 'masculine' ambition and to Mao's 'longevity program,' which required frequent intercourse with virgin girls. Despite the potential for burlesque or for vilification, Min demonstrates a certain sympathy for, even attraction to Madame Mao. To young proletarians like Min, who worked for a time in Madame Mao's opera troupe, the Chairman's wife could be seen as a glamorous, strong-willed, modern woman whose vengeful excesses were not evident until later. Even though Min now lives in the U.S., and this book evenhandedly presents its protagonist's monstrosity as well as her vulnerability, it also recreates the spell Madame Mao cast over millions of Chinese young people. Part of its ability to do so stems from its narrative style. Min combines first-person, third-person, and free-indirect discourse in surprising and supple ways, keeping readers in suspension between empathy and objectivity. She also invests her prose with the texture of translation (although the book was written in English) through unusual turns of phrase and sentence rhythms, delicate allusions to Chinese classics, and references to folk beliefs and practices.\n- An even more bravura linguistic performance is Ernesto Mestre's The Lazarus Rumba (1999). Writing contrapuntally between American English and Cuban Spanish languages, cultures, and histories, Mestre spins a magical narrative of a contemporary Cuba forever lost and longed for by its exiled citizens. The most War and Peace-like of the books I discuss here -- at least in length (486pp.) and scope -- The Lazarus Rumba is impossible to encapsulate in a paragraph. It contains multitudes: of characters (contortionists, santeros, revolutionary heroes, talking roosters); of plots (dealing with romance, with murder, with revenge, with enlightenment); of tones (sensual, realist, phantasmagoric, satiric). And of genders -- Mestre turns the gay-straight polarity into a spiral of fluid sexualities that wondrously replace the customary gendered metaphors underpinning the nation-state. Such replacement also intervenes in Cuban literary history. Mestre's hybrid creations (hybrid in ethnicity as well) challenge Rubén Darío's suffering female motherland, Fernando Ortíz's gendered and racialized binary of sugar and tobacco, Nicolás Guillén's two grandfathers. At the same time, Mestre's baroque style and linguistic parody affiliate with Cuban literary predecessors such as Alejo Carpentier and Guillermo Cabrera-Infante. Like the Afro-Cuban orisha San Lazaro/Babalu-Aye, the crippled leper whose wounds are licked by dogs and who represents the ambivalent force of disease and its remedies, The Lazarus Rumba lacerates conventional perceptions only to heal them with new and empowering knowledges.\n- For pure escapism (one ostensible purpose of summer reading), I find non-fiction as serviceable as fiction. Michela Wrong's In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz (2001), for instance, presents a world as absorbing and surreal as any fictional locale -- the world of Mobutu Sese Seko's Zaire. The book depicts the Zairean kleptocracy as an opera bouffe that veers toward Kafkaesque nightmare, Mobutu presiding over the mix like a crazed and largely invisible Wizard of Oz. Wrong's reportage pays admirable attention to ethnic and economic politics, yet its bemused irony contains a whiff of gonzo journalism. In this, she joins the growing group of reporter-stylists who transform job assignments into compulsively readable, self-reflexive, highly mannered narratives (Bob Shacochis's over-the-top account of the second U.S. occupation of Haiti, The Immaculate Invasion , being a notable example). Wrong's book might have been titled \"In the Footsteps of Mr. Conrad\" or \"In the Footsteps of Mr. Stanley,\" as it revisits the odd positionality of the 'foreign correspondent'; for centuries, Western writers have been crucial in producing knowledges of Central Africa, in speaking for its inhabitants, and in fashioning its histories. One therefore may wish to read Footsteps along with other contemporary Western accounts of the Congo and its neighbors (unfortunately, I've not been able to locate contemporary African accounts). Adam Hochschild's King Leopold's Ghost (1998) succeeds not only because of its meticulous, compelling historiography but also because it focuses on Western (mis)uses of the Congo. Philip Gourevitch avoids the 'speaking for' trap in a different way. His stunning account of the Rwandan holocaust (We Wish to Inform You . . . 1999) is composed largely of eye-witness narratives, and it resists molding that particular chaos into a shapely historical plot.\n- Sometimes, even holding a book violates vacation relaxation protocols. On those occasions, renting a movie provides a pleasant alternative. For people introduced to the extravagant world of Asian martial arts films via Ang Lee's much heralded Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), I recommend the real deal: Tsui Hark's Once Upon A Time In China (1991). Starring Jet Li (the only living man who looks good in a queue), Once Upon A Time In China chronicles the exploits of Wong Fei Hung, an actual folk hero from the late Ching era. A traditional healer as well as a martial artist, Wong was associated with protests against foreign trade practices, dramatized in this film as U.S. attempts to hoodwink poor Chinese laborers into servitude and to kidnap Chinese women for overseas prostitution. The film's ideology is as subtle as an eye gouge (albeit appropriate cover for postcolonial scholars who might otherwise be reluctant to enjoy choreographed mayhem), but the humor characteristic of the genre redeems the plot from unbearability. Yet no one watches 'kung fu movies' for the plot -- it's the fighting that counts.\n- The fight sequences in Once Upon A Time in China are fabulous, and frequent, and occasionally fearsome (as in the struggle between an imprisoned woman and her captor). Jet Li's combination of grace and strength is unparalleled; an elaborately inventive ladder-fighting scene eclipses the famous tree-fight in Crouching Tiger; the thematic conflict between Western and Chinese values takes satisfyingly bellicose form in fights between gun-wielders and martial artists. The film's ample supply of gore and its semi-salacious depiction of violence against women, however, may be unpalatable for some viewers. In that case, Once Upon A Time In China II (1993) would be a better rental. This sequel (also starring Jet Li as Wong Fei Hung) sanitizes its predecessor's violence while retaining its dazzling action. Unfortunately, the plot has lost its Manichean edge, as the villains in China II are fanatic White Lotus sect members and the maliciously meddlesome Westerners are relegated to the background. Loosely based on the Boxers, the White Lotus group -- headed by a crazed shaman who engages Wong Fei Hung in a marvelous fight waged on a teetering stack of tables -- is both anti-Western and anti-non-White Lotus Chinese. Dr. Sun Yat Sen makes cameo appearances, and one supposes that the film's political message has something to do with the lost promise of Sun's revolution. Nonetheless, like Once Upon A Time In China, China II is terrific entertainment, its masterful display of martial arts enhanced by sophisticated filming, beautiful sets, and award-winning music.\n- An infinitely more serious work now out on video is Bahman Gohbadi's A Time For Drunken Horses (Zamani barayé masti asbha), the first Kurdish-language film to reach international markets. Using non-professional actors (many from the Ekhtiar-dini family) and a documentary film technique, Gohbadi tells a moving story of Iranian Kurdish orphans living on the border with Iraq. Young Ayoub (Ayoub Ahmadi) is responsible for his three sisters and his severely handicapped brother Madi (Madi Ekhtiar-dini), who circulates through the film as a sort of floating signifier of misery. The plot involves the children's sacrifices for each other and particularly for Madi, who needs an operation to prolong his life. The oldest sister acquiesces to an arranged marriage on the soon-to-be-broken promise of help for Madi, and Ayoub joins a band of adult smugglers in order to earn enough money for Madi's medical treatments. The bleak winter landscape underscores the film's restrained evocation of border politics, the unseen presences of trade embargoes and landmines and national ideologues and systemic poverty; locked into the documentary camera's dispassionate point-of-view, we are reminded of our own complicity in the harsh conditions assaulting these Kurdish children. Nonetheless, the film's crystalline ending rescues it (and us) from utter desolation. A Time For Drunken Horses has won a variety of awards, including the Camera d'Or at Cannes.\n- Of course, I hope your summer (or winter) reading includes this issue of Jouvert. You can virtually vacation in Historic Waikîkî, courtesy of Andrea Feeser, or in a satirically envisioned Toronto, courtesy of Donald Blais. You can travel through a transnational Caribbean via Cynthia James's analysis of works by Paule Marshall and Erna Brodber. You can explore cultural controversy in India: Monika Mehta discusses Bollywood-related film and music censorship; Nandita Ghosh examines the three-languages policy and its impact on Indian journalism and English-language fiction writing; Sharada Nair re-contextualizes teaching canonical English poetry within present-day Indian history. You can journey south to Australia, from whence Carolyn D'Cruz looks at another cultural controversy, the question of who can speak for Aboriginal peoples. You can enjoy the powerful poetry of Mohammad Tavallaei, whose spiritually and politically charged work suggests the complexities of contemporary Iran. Finally, you can plan the rest of your vacation reading with the help of reviews by Charles William Miller (Rethinking Indigenous Education), Tabish Khair (Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial), Benjamin Noys (Monsters and Revolutionaries), Mala Pandurang (Before I Am Hanged), and Robert Clarke (The Cultures of Globalization).\n- Allow me this opportunity to thank Tom Lisk for his crucial and continuing support of Jouvert. As Head of NC State's English Department, Tom backed this project from the start, providing the resources necessary to launch and sustain the journal. Tom is stepping down as Head; he will devote his time to teaching and writing. The entire Jouvert community owes him a deep dept of gratitude. I'd also like to thank my colleague and good friend Jim Morrison for his important contributions to the journal. Not only has Jim written articles for Jouvert (on Hitchcock's Ireland and on Roland Barthes's \"On Cinemascope\"), as an in-house editorial board member he has reviewed many manuscripts and has been a key policy advisor. Jim has accepted a new position at Claremont McKenna College in California; I wish him every success, and remind him that he'll keep receiving manuscripts for review thanks to the wonders of e-mail attachments. Speaking of Jim, let me offer a final summer reading recommendation. Although Jim's recently published memoir, Broken Fever (2001), cannot be categorized as 'postcolonial' (unless one considers Detroit, Michigan, to be a far country), its lyrical, moving, frequently humorous evocations of otherness should find appreciative readers in all parts of the world.\n- Ang Lee, director. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Distr. by Columbia Tri-Star, 2000. In Mandarin; subtitled.\n- Balasubramanyam, Rajeev. In Beautiful Disguises. New York: Bloomsbury, 2001.\n- Ghobadi, Bahman, director. A Time for Drunken Horses. Distr. by The Shooting Gallery, 2000. In Kurdish; subtitled.\n- Gourevitch, Philip. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. New York: Picador, 1999.\n- Hagedorn, Jessica. Dogeaters. New York: Penguin, 1991.\n- Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's Ghost. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.\n- Mestre, Ernesto. The Lazarus Rumba. New York: Picador, 1999.\n- Min, Anchee. Becoming Madame Mao. Boston/New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.\n- Morrison, James. Broken Fever: Reflections of Gay Boyhood. New York: St. Martin's, 2001.\n- Roth, Philip. Goodbye, Columbus. 1959; New York: Vintage, 1987.\n- Shacochis, Bob. The Immaculate Invasion. New York: Viking, 1999.\n- Tsui Hark, director. Once Upon A Time In China. Distr. by Media Asia, 1991. In Cantonese; dubbed.\n- Tsui Hark, director. Once Upon A Time In China II. Distr. by Media Asia, 1993. In Cantonese; dubbed.\n- Wrong, Michela. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://augmentedrobot.medium.com/rejectionship-4885ea2df01?source=user_profile---------8----------------------------", "date": "2022-12-03T21:51:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710941.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203212026-20221204002026-00688.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9696341156959534, "token_count": 505, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__63155414", "lang": "en", "text": "It used to anger me.\nNow, it doesn’t even faze me.\nRejection started early.\nFrom never being invited to birthday parties. To not being invited into conversations.\nI was never bullied. Nobody was ever mean to me. It didn’t however mean that I was included. It was in a sense, just as bad.\nAnd it’s followed me throughout life. Whenever someone else was in control of my faith, I was rejected.\nI always did very well in school. I was always good in anything that had metrics, anything that could be quantified. Things that could be quantified could be used to gain ground and fight rejection. That is how I got into a good school, ivy league university, research programs.\nBut when it comes to friends, love, jobs. All things founded on subjective merrits, I loose. (Sure you can be a better candidate at either one of those based on merits, but not get chosen anyway).\nAnd coming second, means you were the first, the first to lose.\nAcademia taught me to not take rejection so harsh, to distinguish criticism from beratement. But it didn’t teach me how to handle my CV being thrown in the trash before it was read. Or to process my coworkers going for dinners and drinks without inviting me, being rejected from a romantic partner.\nTime and endless amounts of rejection taught me that.\nAnd it taught me this: being rejected for who you are can be a merit for self analysis. But it can also be a reflection of the person rejecting projecting its negative perceptions, racism, sexism and a million other variables you can’t control.\nThe worst thing about these types of rejections, when they come in abundance, you start to internalise and normalise being rejected, so you do it to yourself. You start with self-rejection.\nYou don’t work on that idea you really believed in\nYou don’t ask the person you like out for a date\nYou don’t apply for your dream job\nSo, the lesson here is to take rejection for what it is. And not make it who you are. Because once you do, you’ll enter a rejectionship with yourself and that never ends well.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.joelkyhan.com/research", "date": "2021-08-04T01:41:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154500.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20210804013942-20210804043942-00675.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9307317733764648, "token_count": 272, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__61091226", "lang": "en", "text": "Trends and Patterns in Intergenerational Mobility in Education (with Jason Fletcher). Journal of Human Capital. 2020.\nHigh Schools and Educational Mobility (with Jason Fletcher)\nWork in Progress\nNeighborhoods, Well-being, and Families (with Margarida Madaleno)\nParental Investments in Residential Location and Parenting Behavior\nParental Involvement and Neighborhood Quality: Evidence from Public Housing Demolitions in Chicago\nI present novel estimates showing how parental involvement responds to changing neighborhood quality. To estimate causal effects in the presence of residential neighborhood selection, I exploit the mass closure and demolition of public housing projects in Chicago. I derive an instrumental variable for neighborhood quality, based on the spillover effects of demolitions on other neighborhoods. On average, parents compensate for decreased neighborhood quality by increasing parental involvement. Hence, without accounting for parental mediation, existing estimates may understate the direct impact of neighborhoods environment on children. These parental responses are mainly driven by non-discplinary parenting. In contrast, non-parenting household activity does not respond to changing neighborhood quality. Finally, there is evidence of heterogeneous neighborhood quality effects: most notably, parents with low initial involvement decrease parental involvement even more when neighborhood quality decreases. Within a neighborhood, socioeconomically advantaged parents compensate more when neighborhood quality declines.\n[Back to Top]", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://stephenjosephcorell.medium.com/beloved-the-haunting-of-sethe-d2ab958962d7?source=author_recirc-----d7febf2314cf----3---------------------2c1d8b80_984c_4392_b100_27ce3260e409-------", "date": "2023-12-07T12:22:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100674.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207121942-20231207151942-00803.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9726609587669373, "token_count": 1324, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__25322821", "lang": "en", "text": "I recently finished my second journey through Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and her magical realism is still flawless. “Beloved”, the titular character, enters the narrative first as a disembodied feeling of haunted anger connected to 124 Bluestone Road, a small house on a low-traffic road somewhere in Ohio. The narrator plays her hand immediately:\n“124 was spiteful, full of a baby’s venom.”\nHere the reader is immediately notified that something isn’t right here, that the house itself lives in some way, and that the spirit is that of a child.\nHowever, as the story moves on, Beloved (the character) becomes more corporeal until, at the end of the book, she fades back into the house’s memory. She becomes “just weather”, an event that washes over a place from time to time then leaves again. This is a perfect, layered analogy for Toni Morrison’s grappling with the harrowing history of the main character’s life (Sethe).\nI can’t help but feel that on my first read-through I missed some of the depth that Toni Morrison put into this book, both in its dialogue and in the nuances of what Beloved represents to the different characters (spoilers ahead). It isn’t simple and it can’t be reduced to one thing.\nYes, Beloved is the ghost of a child that Sethe killed in order to save her from a fate worse than death (letting slaveholders, or slavecatchers, make her less than human). Surely this is the first layer, but in reading through this book a second time and listening to the way the characters interact with each other and themselves, the emotions are immensely complex. The anger, loneliness, and sorrow are intermingled with a confusion of how or what to direct those emotions towards. I think it is more than just Sethe’s daughter that haunts Sethe. I think it is Sethe’s completely justified anger at the world and the slavers that destroyed her life to a point where she would rather her infant bleed out and rest in death than to go through what her mother had to go through.\nIt is Sethe’s daughter that haunts her, yes, but it is also Sethe that haunts Sethe; An African-American woman in a society that will not allow her to address her ghosts, because they still — on a systemic level — will always haunt her even through the people she meets on a daily basis.\n“Sweet Home” (the plantation where she was held captive as a slave) is another layer of the haunting, added to the pile of things that led Sethe to mentally dissociate from her own life, including the betrayal that she feels towards existence and the apprehension she feels even towards allegedly generous and kind white people.\nPerhaps it is even more than that though. Toni Morrison is so skilled at making her characters multi-dimensional that seeing a single motive in any action of the characters leaves me feeling like I have missed something. The dialogue is laced with layers that go beyond just the specific character and into the ethos of what it meant for Sethe to be a combination of freed slave, mother, lonely, and black. In many ways it is a brilliant, passionate exploration of human intersectionality.\nPerhaps the most layered part of the book, however, are the phases of Beloved’s character and how Beloved aggressively (and dangerously) forces Sethe to change how she interacts with her past. Written into the dialogue is the eerie, scarring realization that the past is something that really couldn’t ever be forgotten, just pressed back into the landscape of the characters’ lives like Beloved as she becomes, in the final paragraph of the book, the weather and the grass.\n“Not the breath of the disremembered and unaccounted for, but wind in the eaves, or spring ice thawing too quickly.”\nBeloved, like the bitter evils of slavery, rape, dehumanization, torture, and helplessness inflicted upon Sethe, is something that sinks into the land and taints it, rising up every now and again like brisk wind to remind Sethe of the evils that she suffered — and suffers. When it rains and the damp smell lifts from the earth and then recedes when the sun has dried it again, so too the past rises up, so too Beloved exists.\nIn all of the horror though, there is growth. When we first meet Sethe, she is hunched over, the tree-like whipping scars on her back brilliantly written to carry a tangible weight in the words themselves. At the end of the book, Sethe has in some ways risen up from that weight, left with enough of it to not forget, but she is as free as she ever can be. Beloved has left, perhaps signaling Sethe’s process of working out how to relate to her past and what it means for her future, and working out her mixed feelings of guilt and love towards her murdered daughter, guilt at her morbid actions mixed with a burdened duty that she felt driven to the act. She feels that she can only truly love her Beloved in death, as letting her live would not have been love. In some ways she does not want to let go of Beloved. As a ghost, she can have a relationship with her daughter that she never had, albeit one riddled with guilt.\nToni Morrison leaves us here, with Beloved sinking back into the landscape; more at peace, but never gone. We are left without simplistic answers, without a full recovery, but with a character that has grown despite the evils inflicted on her, without cheapening those evils as mere catalysts for her growth.\nIf I could have met Toni before she passed away, I would have asked her about the pain she experienced to be able to pen this narrative that feels close enough to her to be brutally real, but distant enough to be well-crafted, timeless, and meaningful.\nI will never tire of this book, and, I think, until there is no longer a need for this heart-breaking story to be told, I hope it will not tire of me either, and I hope that its lessons — and its characters — never leave me.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.akomp.info/", "date": "2023-12-03T05:30:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100484.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203030948-20231203060948-00108.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.902795672416687, "token_count": 2822, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__56508608", "lang": "en", "text": "about the book\nIn 2009, writer Sandy Allen got something in the mail from their uncle Bob. It was his autobiography, typed on sixty pages in all-capital letters. Bob was a self-described \"hermit\" who lived in the desert in northern California. Sandy didn't know Bob well. On the phone, Bob said he wanted to get his story \"out there\" because it was \"true.\" In A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia, Sandy shares Bob's story with the world.\nAKOMP is written in two fonts. In one font, Sandy tells Bob's life story faithfully to his account. He was a Hendrix-obsessed kid coming of age in tumultuous late sixties Berkeley, CA. His world was forever changed when one day in 1970, at about age sixteen, he was driven to a mental hospital, locked in a cell, injected with drugs and thereafter, as Bob put it, \"labeled a psychotic paranoid schizophrenic.\" In a second font, Sandy interlaces familial, historical, and medical contexts, seeking especially to better understand the 'label' he received.\nThe result is an utterly unique and electrifying work, one that has changed the conversation about schizophrenia and about mental illness generally.\nHardcover, ebook, paperback now available from Scribner\nBuy online from your favorite local bookshop via Bookshop or from any bookseller, today. Or get it from your local library!\nread by Sandy Allen and actor Pete Simonelli\nAlso out in French from Belfond\nTop Work of Journalism of the Decade (nominee) – NYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute\n40 Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 – Esquire\n21 Books to Read in 2018 – The Week\n“This book is an act of radical empathy through which the author—and, vicariously, the reader—enters intimately into a life that would otherwise be unintelligible.”\n– Anne Fadiman, author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down\n“To pay great attention and devote steady care to the perspective of another is, in itself, almost miraculous—especially when the Other has been cast as mad and dangerous.[Sandy] Allen has brought forward [their] uncle’s life, rendering in exquisite detail what his experiences as a stigmatized, struggling man allowed him to see. This is a truly original piece of work. I urge you to read it.”\n– Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family\n\"I know the decision to write this story wasn't an easy one.... I’m really, really grateful that you did 💖 Thank you for bearing witness. Thank you for being kind, and curious, and thorough, and honest. Just, thank you. 📚😭\n– Heben Nigatu (host, Another Round)\n\"Timely . . . An excellent contextualized first-person narrative of schizophrenia . . . My hope is that it will become a classic and universally read by all psychiatrists.\"\n– Howard L. Forman, MD, Psychiatric Times\n\"Thrilling writing . . . The interest and the quality of the story make honesty about each aspect of this strange life worth including . . . A watershed in empathetic adaptation of 'outsider' autobiography.\"\n– Jo Livingstone, The New Republic\n“A book of many strange and often oddly beautiful pieces that together combine into a story that will make you tremble. [AKOMP] is a resurrection of sorts, a profound retrieval of a life from beyond the veil with which so many of us obscure the realities of illness and family, loneliness and intimacy.”\n– Jeff Sharlet, author of The Family\n\"It is an odd thing, paranoia. It’s easily lampooned and culturally accessible, but it’s seldom experienced or portrayed so elegantly as Allen does here.\"\n\"In a searing new memoir, a niece tries to make sense of [their] uncle's mental illness.\"\n“[They call] the beautiful final product a cover version—rather than a translation—and it is a marvel.”\n\"Insightful . . . Allen offers readers an incredible glimpse into the life of a person battling with schizophrenia.\"\n\"A glimpse of how schizophrenia looks and feels from the inside.\"\n“Deeply affecting . . . Evokes what it’s like to try to make sense of a troubled loved one from afar . . . The picture of a distinct but impenetrable life”\n“[A] compelling debut . . . Allen is a skillful writer.\"\n– Library Journal (starred review)\n\"Allen has crafted a fearless narrative about what it is really like to grow up under the weight of mental illness . . . Honest, heartbreaking, and often humorous, this remarkable book offers a window into an experience of mental illness that many people often never get the chance to see through.\"\n“Compulsively readable . . . A fascinating and important work.”\n\"\"[AKOMP ] is an extraordinarily empathic journey into the mind and lived experience of a man who struggled to understand and explain his life . . . I urge you to let Allen introduce you to [their] uncle Bob.\"\n“Shows a burgeoning critical mental health gaze . . . [Sandy] allows Bob’s story to flow without neatly fitting into one model of thought around what it means to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.\"\n– ISPS UK\n– for The Boston Globe with Kate Tuttle, president of the National Book Critics Circle\n– for The Cedar Rapids Gazette with Rob Cline (\"A unique and effective effort to honor [their] uncle’s story while placing it in a larger context . . . Allen asks [their] readers to expand their notion of what is 'normal.'\")\n– for The Daily Iowan with Haley Triem\n– for The Essay Review with Nicolás Medina Mora\nradio & podcast appearances\n– This American Life – \"Applied Bob Studies\"\nProduced during the pandemic by Bim Adewunmi for the \"How to Be Alone\" episode, a piece on the ways Sandy looked to their Uncle Bob's story as a road map for how to survive isolation\n– KCRW's \"The Organist\" a feature on AKOMP and outsider art (featuring Uncle Bob's music)\nSince the book's publication, Sandy has continued writing and publishing about mental health, in pieces such as:\nThe Cut - \"It's Not Just Britney\"\nIn the wake of Britney Spears speaking out against her conservatorship, an essay on the broader problem of coercive psychiatry\n99% Invisible – \"The Kirkbride Plan\"\nA long radio story produced by Sandy about the surprising history of mental health care in America\nGuernica – \"Out of the Maze\"\nThe story of Sandy encountering the painting on the AKOMP paperback, and about grappling with whose truths to listen to, when it comes to \"mental illness\"\nMad in America – \"Media Errors in Covering Mental Health: Advice to Fellow Writers and Editors\"\nA long essay looking back on a previous experience of reporting about police violence against a psychiatric patient, and the errors that media tend to make when covering these topics\nGay Magazine – \"'That's So Crazy': Why the we talk about mental health matters\"\nAn essay about a month Sandy tracked instances they heard people use words like \"insane\" and \"crazy\" and what this language reveals about our attitudes towards people diagnosed with psychiatric disorders\nLit Hub – \"The Challenge of Book Tour as a Nonbinary Author\"\nSandy reflects on coming out as nonbinary after their book initially published\nBuzzFeed Books – \"How Pie Keeps Me Steady\"\nAn essay about a small thing that helps Sandy, and about how writing AKOMP changed their thinking around 'self-care'\nPowell's Blog – \"The Madness Shelf\" –\nAn essay about Sandy reading all the books they possibly could \"about schizophrenia\" and what that did and didn't yield\nCNN Opinion – \"This Toxic Lie Hurts Society's Most Vulnerable\"\nAn op-ed calling out the bigotry of the NRA and GOP's as they blame people with psychiatric disabilities for gun violence\nJanuary 15, 2019 // Iowa City, IA\nPrairie Lights (Paperback launch), 7PM\nJanuary 17, 2019 // Bronx, NY\nAlbert Einstein College of Medicine (Grand Rounds), 10:30 AM\nJanuary 25, 2019 // Brooklyn, NY\nBooks Are Magic (w/ Kevin Nguyen), 7:30PM\nFebruary 7, 2019 // St. Paul, MN\nSubtext Books 7PM\nFebruary 19, 2019 // Oakland, CA\nEast Bay Booksellers (w/ Rahawa Haile), 7:00 PM\nJanuary 24, 2018 // Brooklyn, NY\nGreenlight Bookstore (Hardcover launch w/ Meredith Talusan), 7:30PM\nJanuary 27, 2018 // New York, NY\nYou Get a Spoon, 4PM\nJanuary 30, 2018 // New York, NY\nHouse of Speakeasy, (w/ Elif Shafak, Christopher J. Yates, and Michael Wolff), 7PM\nJanuary 31, 2018 // Portland, OR\nPowell’s Books, 7:30PM\nFebruary 1, 2018 // San Francisco, CA\nBooksmith @ The Bindery (w/ Esmé Weijun Wang), 7:30PM\nFebruary 3, 2018 // Marin County, CA\nBook Passage, (w/ Anita Badejo), 1PM\nFebruary 7, 2018 // Los Angeles, CA\nSkylight Books (w/ Amanda Chicago Lewis), 7:30PM\nFebruary 8, 2018 // Providence, RI\nBrown Bookstore (w/ Lucas Mann), 6PM\nFebruary 9, 2018 // Cambridge, MA\nHarvard Book Store, (w/ Matthew Spellberg), 7PM\nFebruary 13, 2018 // Kingston, NY\nRough Draft Bar & Books (w/ Elmo Keep), 7PM\nFebruary 22, 2018 // New York, NY\nNYU Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute (w/ Robert Boynton), 6PM\nMarch 5, 2018 // Coral Gables, FL\nBooks & Books, 8PM\nMarch 9, 2018 // Tampa, FL\nThe Hub (University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program alumni reading), 6:30PM\nMarch 18, 2018 // Woodstock, NY\nThe Golden Notebook, 3PM\nMarch 26, 2018 // Annandale-on-Hudson\nBard College 6:30PM\nMarch 29, 2018 // South Hadley, MA\nOdyssey Bookshop (w/ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc), 7PM\nApril 5, 2018 // Chicago, IL\nWomen & Children First (w/ Jessica Hopper), 7:30PM\nApril 6 // Iowa City, IA\nCarver College of Medicine, 12PM\nMission Creek Festival Lit Walk, 7PM\nApril 9, 2018 // Minneapolis, MN\nMoon Palace Books, 7PM\nApril 10, 2018 // Excelsior, MN\nTrinity Church panel on Mental Health in Literature (w/ Marya Hornbacher and Andy Steiner), 1PM\nApril 18, 2018 // Missoula, MT\nFact & Fiction (w/ Anne Helen Petersen), 7PM\nApril 22, 2018 // Los Angeles, CA\nLos Angeles Times Festival of Books (Memoir: The Unexpected Hard Stuff), 11AM\nMay 14, 2018 // Brooklyn, NY\nFranklin Park Reading Series, (w/ Alexander Chee, Gregory Pardlo, Hanif Abdurraqib, and Mike Scalise), 8PM\nMay 17, 2018 // New York, NY\nSusan Eley Fine Art “Self and the Other” Literary Salon (w/ Akwaeke Emezi), 7PM\nMay 21, 2018 // Brooklyn, NY\nPOWERHOUSE Arena (Memoir Monday w/ Nuar Alsadir, Minda Honey, and Tom McAllister), 7PM\nSeptember 2, 2018 // Spencertown, NY\nSpencertown Academy of the Arts Festival of Books\nOctober 12, 2018 // Fairfax, VA\nGeorge Mason Fall for the Book Festival 6:00 pm\nOctober 26, 2018 // Iowa City, IA\nThe Examined Life Conference, 12:45PM\nOctober 28, 2018 // Austin, TX\nTexas Book Festival (w/ Melissa Stephenson), 3:30PM\nNovember 18, 2018 // Miami, FL\nMiami Book Fair (w/ Jean Guerrero), 12:30PM\nabout the author\nSandy Ernest Allen (he/they) is a queer and trans journalist and author. His work tends to focus on gender and mental health, especially when it comes to debunking false constructs of normalcy. His debut book, a critically acclaimed work of nonfiction called A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise: A True Story about Schizophrenia (Scribner) was long-listed as a top work of the decade by NYU's journalism school. Sandy has appeared on This American Life and produced stories for 99% Invisible. He has written for many publications, including Esquire, The Cut, Bon Appétit's Healthyish, CNN Opinion, Them, and BuzzFeed News, where he was once a features editor. Though no longer on social media, he writes a newsletter about staying alive on earth called What's Helping Today. He lives in the Catskills.\nPhoto credit: Louie Tomás\nWebsite designed by Andy Dubbin", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://bouldernablus.org/palestinian-writing-workshops-book-storytelling-project/", "date": "2023-09-29T13:47:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510516.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929122500-20230929152500-00009.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9383743405342102, "token_count": 360, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__15070267", "lang": "en", "text": "The Palestinian Writing Workshop’s (PWW) Book & Storytelling Project is publishing five new children’s books (in Arabic) using local Palestinian writers, illustrators and printer. This effort will produce 1000 copies of each book (5000 books total); 300 books will go directly to the 60 Nabulsi’s who will be trained in storytelling (see below). The creation of these locally produced books are one of a kind as there are very few locally written children’s books (most children’s books in Palestine are from Jordan, Lebanon, other nearby countries, or English-only books from abroad).\nThe PWW is training women and men to read aloud (storytelling) using these books (and other books) in libraries and public centers in five Palestinian cities (Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Hebron, Nablus, Ramallah). Approximately 60 participants will be trained in each city. Participants will also be encouraged to take these books into homes and villages to do storytelling.\nWhy storytelling and reading aloud?\n- Among other things, reading aloud builds word-sound awareness in children, a potent predictor of reading success.\n- The nurturing and one-on-one attention during reading aloud encourages children to form a positive association with books and reading.\n- Reading aloud is a proven technique to help children cope during times of stress and tragedy.\n- Reading aloud in the early years exposes children to story and print knowledge as well as complex words and ideas not often found in day-to-day conversations or other media.\n- Reading aloud gives children the opportunity to practice active listening.\n- The value of the book is enhanced as an essential tool for knowledge and entertainment.\nBelow are the five new covers for the five new books:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://contrarianmormon.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/the-oath-covenant-of-the-priesthood-an-alternative-view/", "date": "2018-03-22T23:00:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257648103.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322225408-20180323005408-00126.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9616842269897461, "token_count": 2324, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__245403889", "lang": "en", "text": "An alternative view of the Oath & Covenant of the Priesthood –\nThere have been a gazillion talks in the church on the oath and covenant of the priesthood. Virtually all of them state the same thing. I have a different take. Here is my understanding of this scripture:\nThe sons of Moses are the Melchizedek priesthood holders who are sanctified. The sons of Aaron are the holders of the priesthood of Aaron who are sanctified. The Lord explains that “whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these two priesthoods…and…are sanctified by the Spirit…become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and…the elect of God.” (See D&C 84: 33, 34.) Also, the elect (chosen) of God is defined as the sanctified.\nThere has been a day of calling, but the time has come for a day of choosing; and let those be chosen that are worthy. And it shall be manifest unto my servant, by the voice of the Spirit, those that are chosen; and they shall be sanctified; and inasmuch as they follow the counsel which they receive, they shall have power after many days to accomplish all things pertaining to Zion. (D&C 105: 35-37)\nSo, if we have obtained the two priesthoods but have not been sanctified by the Spirit, we are not the sons of Moses and of Aaron, nor are we the elect.\nThe Lord said, “For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies.” (D&C 84: 33)\nMost GAs and other speakers interpret the above scripture to mean that if we magnify our calling, we will become sanctified by the Spirit. Then they talk of ways we can magnify our calling so that we can become sanctified. I, however, do not share this view.\nThe Lord is explaining in this verse how to discern between a faithful priesthood holder who is magnifying his calling, and a faithless priesthood holder who is not magnifying his calling. The key to that discernment is in the last phrase: the faithful ones are sanctified by the Spirit.\nSanctification by the Spirit is always attendant with the powers and gifts of the Spirit. This is why the Lord said that “the sons of Moses and of Aaron shall be filled with the glory of the Lord” in D&C 84: 32. This is why the Lord said the chosen “shall have power” in D&C 105: 37. Sanctification by the Spirit with attendant powers and gifts is the key to determine the faith of the saints or the faith of the priesthood holders. This is why there are signs that follow those that believe on the Lord, so that we may determine who has faith and who does not.\nMormon said, “For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to all his disciples, in the hearing of the multitude: Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature; and he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned; and these signs shall follow them that believe—in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover; and whosoever shall believe in my name, doubting nothing, unto him will I confirm all my words, even unto the ends of the earth. (Mormon 9: 22-25)\nThis is why the very definition of good works, the scriptural definition, is to work by the power and gifts of God, in other words, good works are the work of the sanctified, who are attended with the powers, gifts and fruits of the Spirit and the signs of true believers in Christ. Only the sanctified do good, as they exercise faith as a principle of power, as “without faith it is impossible to please [God]” (Hebrews 11: 6.) All others are in a state of unbelief, with no attendant powers of heaven to magnify their calling.\nMoroni said, “And now I speak unto all the ends of the earth—that if the day cometh that the power and gifts of God shall be done away among you, it shall be because of unbelief. And wo be unto the children of men if this be the case; for there shall be none that doeth good among you, no not one. For if there be one among you that doeth good, he shall work by the power and gifts of God” (Moroni 10: 24, 25)\nSo, the magnifying of our calling comes from working by the powers and gifts of God, which comes from being sanctified by the Spirit and not the other way around. We first become “sanctified by the reception of the Holy Ghost” (3 Nephi 27: 20) and are then enabled to magnify our calling by working by the powers and gifts of the Spirit.\nJesus said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.” (Matthew 5: 16)\nMagnifying a calling means making it easier to see. The light we are shining are the good works, which is defined as the powers and gifts of God. So, when we magnify our calling, men can witness the powers and gifts of the Spirit and then turn and glorify God. This is the meaning of the scripture, but before any of this happens, we must be sanctified by the Spirit.\n“All they who receive this priesthood receive me, saith the Lord” in D&C 84: 35. The expression “receive this priesthood” is defined in verse 33 as those who obtain the priesthoods and who are sanctified, which santification magnifies their calling. The unsanctified do not “receive the priesthood,” they only have the priesthood conferred upon them. Two vital elements must be present for one to “receive the priesthood”: the priesthood must be conferred and sanctification by the Spirit must have happened.\nOnly the sanctified priesthood holders receive the oath and covenant of the Father. Only the sanctified priesthood holders receive the promised blessings: receiving Jesus, receiving the Father and finally, receiving the Father’s kingdom, which means receiving all the Father hath. And only the sanctified priesthood holders receive the penalty for breaking the covenant and altogether turning therefrom, the penalty being the second death, meaning that they “shall not have forgiveness of sins in this world nor in the world to come.”\nSo, what, then, is the covenant of the priesthood? The Lord said, “All those who receive the priesthood, receive this oath and covenant of my Father.” The covenant is to “receive the priesthood” as defined in verse 33, meaning to obtain the two priesthoods and to become sanctified by the reception of the Spirit unto the renewing of one’s body. If those two parts aren’t completed, you don’t receive the priesthood, nor do you receive (or enter into) the covenant of the priesthood. The covenant is part of the priesthood, it is connected to it, or, as the Lord says, the “covenant…belongeth to the priesthood.” The covenant of the priesthood is received or entered into when you “receive the priesthood.” As a covenant is an agreement between two persons, in this case, between a mortal son of God and God himself, if you keep your end of the agreement, which is to keep receiving the priesthood, or, in plainer words, to continue to possess and use the priesthood in a sanctified state, the Father promises with an oath that you will receive what he says you will receive (all that he hath.)\nThe final verses that are often quoted (43 and 44 of section 84) are not the covenant of the priesthood, as many will proclaim. The covenant is found in verse 33. The oath is found in verse 38. Verses 43 and 44 are a warning and a commandment, as the Lord has just finished explaining that the sanctified priesthood holders can receive the second death if they break and altogether abandon the covenant and also that those who do not “receive the priesthood” are also in big trouble, as they have no oath or promise of the Father. So, the Lord is giving very helpful instructions to those who haven’t received it, yet, and to those who have received it already, namely, “to give diligent heed to the words of eternal life…[and]…to live by every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God.”\nThe Lord said, “Therefore, as I said concerning the sons of Moses—for the sons of Moses and also the sons of Aaron shall offer an acceptable offering and sacrifice in the house of the Lord, which house shall be built unto the Lord in this generation, upon the consecrated spot as I have appointed—and the sons of Moses and of Aaron shall be filled with the glory of the Lord, upon Mount Zion in the Lord’s house, whose sons are ye; and also many whom I have called and sent forth to build up my church. For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies. They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and the seed of Abraham, and the church and kingdom, and the elect of God. And also all they who receive this priesthood receive me, saith the Lord; for he that receiveth my servants receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth my Father; and he that receiveth my Father receiveth my Father’s kingdom; therefore all that my Father hath shall be given unto him. And this is according to the oath and covenant which belongeth to the priesthood. Therefore, all those who receive the priesthood, receive this oath and covenant of my Father, which he cannot break, neither can it be moved. But whoso breaketh this covenant after he hath received it, and altogether turneth therefrom, shall not have forgiveness of sins in this world nor in the world to come. And wo unto all those who come not unto this priesthood which ye have received, which I now confirm upon you who are present this day, by mine own voice out of the heavens; and even I have given the heavenly hosts and mine angels charge concerning you. And I now give unto you a commandment to beware concerning yourselves, to give diligent heed to the words of eternal life. For you shall live by every word that proceedeth forth from the mouth of God.” (D&C 84: 31-44)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://blog.europepmc.org/2024/01/discovering-reviewed-preprints.html", "date": "2024-02-26T18:28:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474661.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226162136-20240226192136-00810.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9116596579551697, "token_count": 1139, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__116543586", "lang": "en", "text": "Preprinting has soared in popularity in the life sciences and is increasingly recognised as an excellent method to share research outputs quickly and freely. While preprints have gained popularity, an important consideration is ensuring their scientific quality. This prompted the development of platforms where researchers can comment on, evaluate, and review preprints.\nPreprint review benefits\nPreprint review offers several notable benefits to the scientific community. Firstly, it provides an avenue for rapid feedback from experts in the field, helping authors improve the overall quality and rigour of their research. The public availability of the preprint review process expands the number of potential reviewers in comparison to traditional peer review. This fosters a collaborative environment where knowledge exchange is more open and equitable.\nFinally, as preprint reviews are freely available they can aid in contextualising research, making scientific findings more accessible to non-experts and promoting broader engagement. This ultimately fosters a more inclusive scientific community.\nGrowth of preprint peer review initiatives\nExcitingly, preprint review is an evolving concept, allowing researchers to experiment with innovative review approaches and encouraging the exploration of new, more effective methods for research evaluation. A recent publication identifies 23 platforms for preprint review and notes the range of different approaches taken. For example, eLife’s model allows authors to submit a preprint which is then evaluated by expert reviewers using specific assessment criteria, followed by author revisions. Meanwhile, ASAPbio-SciELO Preprint crowd review circulates a preprint to crowd members, whose comments are then collated into a public review. Other platforms, such as preLights, highlight community-selected preprints with a summary of their thoughts on the significance to the biological community. There are many more examples of new review models being developed as preprint peer review adoption grows.\nAddressing the challenges in discovering preprint review\nAs the number of review platforms increases, navigating preprint reviews scattered across them poses a significant challenge. Review aggregators, like Sciety and EMBO’s Early Evidence Base, provide a single access point for reviews from different communities. However, few preprint discovery tools connect preprint versions to their evaluations. This makes it increasingly difficult to discover preprint peer reviews linked to preprints, constraining their utility.\nTo address this challenge a community-endorsed framework known as DocMaps has been developed in a collaborative project led by Knowledge Futures. DocMaps can be used to share information about the preprint review, including a link to the reviewed preprint, review platform and author, evaluation date and more. The DocMaps format is machine-readable, which enables other platforms and databases to “read” review information automatically and display it for their users, making preprint reviews easily discoverable.\nEnriching preprint reviews in Europe PMC\nTo link preprints included in Europe PMC with associated reviews, Europe PMC has set up a process to pull information about the review from Sciety and EMBO’s Early Evidence Base in the DocMaps format. To do this Europe PMC developed a piece of open source software called docmap-parser which converts a DocMap file into the XML format used by the Europe PMC database. Review information is then displayed on the Europe PMC website and shared via a dedicated API module to display links to preprint reviews in a visually appealing way.\nUsing the DocMaps framework has allowed Europe PMC to develop new tools and features that support the wider preprint community.\nFor example, preprint review status can be easily identified in the banner on the preprint page and in the version history. This provides clarity on which preprint version the review is assessing and improves the transparency of the preprint review process.\nThe ‘Reviews & evaluations’ section on the preprint page in Europe PMC summarises all information about available preprint feedback and links to the full evaluation on the relevant review platform. This section was designed with user needs in mind and is based on extensive user research. Reviews are grouped by review platform. To help build trust and easily identify the review group, the platform logo and name are shown at the top. For non-anonymous reviews the evaluator’s name is displayed, providing credit to reviewers. Reviews, including author responses, are listed in chronological order, allowing readers to explore the review timeline and ensuring greater transparency of the review process.\nTo improve the discoverability of reviewed preprints Europe PMC offers a search filter to quickly find preprints with linked evaluations.\nThe future of preprint review in Europe PMC\nPreprint review is a rapidly developing area with the opportunity to create an ecosystem that best meets the needs of the scientific community.\nThanks to essential work from Sciety and EMBO’s Early Evidence Base over 8,000 DocMaps have been created for preprint reviews by 15 different review groups. As work on expanding this further to represent more communities continues, Europe PMC started including preprint review information available in Crossref. This allowed us to add reviews from 5 new providers and we hope it will enable more communities to link their reviews to preprints in Europe PMC in the future.\nAs preprint review is taking shape, it is very important to lay technological foundations and develop community standards that accommodate many different approaches to preprint review. As a supporter of innovative publishing practices, Europe PMC together with ASAPbio co-organised the ‘Supporting interoperability of preprint peer review metadata’ workshop to define best practices and create a roadmap for action. Sign up to join the conversation.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ibogahealing.com/testimonials/", "date": "2023-06-07T01:36:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653501.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607010703-20230607040703-00665.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9885442852973938, "token_count": 468, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__164271753", "lang": "en", "text": "During my first ceremony, I traveled deep in the medicine. With my eyes closed, I could see the stars, and everything around me. It was amazing. The visions I had were amazing as well, and they came quickly all night one after the other. Iboga showed me a memory of a trauma. I was able to heal this wound. During my second ceremony, I didn’t travel as deeply. The shaman asked my soul the questions I had. I feel as though I received answers from my soul, and then I merged more deeply with my soul. After the ceremony, it felt like there was still so much going on. It felt very healing. I slept well. My mind was completely empty and peaceful. My soul felt at peace. I started to feel a knowing, knowing that I was expressing myself from the center of my being. I no longer worry about anyone else, trying to please others. I know my only responsibility is to my soul, to stay connected and re-connect when I drift away. I know in such a profound way that I need to love myself and that is a key to everything. As each day passes, I feel more and more at peace, clearer than I have ever been. I am free.\nThe people at Iboga healing are truly gifted, loving healers. I would trust them with my life. Steve is one of the most resourceful, compassionate beings I have ever met. Jenny and Nyla each have special gifts, both such loving souls. If you have the slightest hint that your soul wants you to experience this form of healing, please listen. Please go. I think Iboga is particularly helpful for addiction, anxiety, PTSD, obsession, compulsions, depression and so much more. It helps put the mind in its proper place, as a tool and not a ruler. Iboga is an intelligent medicine that gives you exactly what you need. My intention was to connect more strongly with my soul, and I did.\nI truly felt at home and as though I have met more of my tribe, my soul family. As the plane left the runway, I was overwhelmed with joy. I felt so grateful, whole, peaceful. It felt like I was being launched into a new world.\nGod bless you.\nLove you all!!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.bayportyearbook.com/get-involved", "date": "2019-11-13T13:15:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667260.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20191113113242-20191113141242-00128.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9245685935020447, "token_count": 216, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__75395702", "lang": "en", "text": "Get Involved with the Anchor\nLiterary Arts Festival\nThe Anchor Yearbook staff coordinates the annual Literary Arts Festival, a school-wide celebration of texts, poetry, readers, writers, speakers, music, culture, and more.\nThe theme of the Festival correlates with the yearbook theme and tries to invite guest attendees and speakers to kick-off the day including poets from Project Voice in 2016 and Nick Jaina, author, and Stelth Ulvang from The Lumineers in 2017.\nThe Festival will seek submissions from any students in areas of photography, art, panel discussion, acoustic music, spoken word poetry, play performance, monologue presentation, and more.\nGet ready to share your talent in a unique literary, artistic, and musical experience!\nThe Yearbook staff annually publishes The Vessel, a Bay Port Literary Magazine which celebrates student and staff voice through fiction, poetry, photography, and art. We encourage you to apply for this unique opportunity as a way to share your artistic and literary talent and gain publication experience. Apply Here!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://literock993.iheart.com/articles/daily-428682/a-listeners-love-at-first-sight-12354930/", "date": "2017-07-25T00:44:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424945.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20170725002242-20170725022242-00145.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9925016164779663, "token_count": 296, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__204360473", "lang": "en", "text": "When I was 8 years old my mom ran a day care out of her home. One day, the cutest little girl came to the day care with her brother, and it was love at first sight, as least as much as is possible for an 8-year-old to be in love. We went to the same grade school, we walked home together, and we became best friends.\nAfter about a year my family moved to Maine. On the day we said goodbye, my best friend was inconsolable. Totally sincere, I said to her, \"Don't cry; if you wait for me, I'll come back and marry you some day.\" We kept in contact by letters, which became more frequent as we got older.\nNine years later, after high school, I returned to southern California and reconnected with my childhood sweetheart. After a dizzying 1-year courtship, we were married. I was 18, she was 17. Everyone told us how foolish we were. But we were young and stubborn. We went to college together, graduated, and both of us became high school teachers.\nWe are still teachers and have raised four beautiful daughters. This summer we will celebrate 34 years married, and I'm more in love than ever. Fairy tales still do come true. I would sure appreciate it if you could play Dan Fogelberg's song \"Longer\" and dedicate it to Tammy, the love of my life.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.boulderbookstore.net/breannas-recommendations", "date": "2023-03-25T14:19:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945333.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325130029-20230325160029-00633.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9492781162261963, "token_count": 904, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__19934923", "lang": "en", "text": "Breanna, Business and Education Sales Coordinator\nFavorite Genres: Middle grade, anything fantasy (especially epic, the larger the better), YA (but mostly fantasy), stories based in mythology or fairy tales, witchy books\nFavorite Authors: Robert Jordan, Samantha Shannon, Brandon Sanderson, Rick Riordan, Margaret Owen, Natalie Goldberg\nAfter Luz’s brother is run out of Denver by a white mob, she receives visions of her ancestors’ origins. As she struggles to navigate life in 1930s Denver, she understands how her Indigenous Chicano family flourished and how they were threatened. Fajardo-Anstine crafts an incredible generational saga—poignant in its realism, tragic in its circumstance, and absolutely beautiful in its resiliency.\nWhat an amazing matriarchal fantasy! Scorpica has it all—warrior women, mysterious sorcerers, an ancient power rising, and a devastating Drought of Girls. The writing is rich and complex, building the layered world and epic conflict as each woman contemplates the ends she will go to in order to leave her legacy in the Five Queendoms. If you want epic fantasy written by and about women, this is absolutely the one.\nWould you go back in time, even if you knew the present wouldn’t change? In this novelization of a Japanese play, a particular seat in this cafe lets you do just that. But you can’t change the present, you can’t leave the cafe seat, and above all—you must return before the coffee gets cold. I was captivated by this beautiful story, a simple yet touching look at how we choose to live the life we are given.\nHelen Lambert doesn’t believe that she is cursed, but that’s before the demon arrives and she dreams of past lives that eerily echo her own doomed love affair. In this life, finally, Helen may be able to break the curse—if she kill the one she loves. My heart broke repeatedly as I read this book, unable to put it down. This is an incredible blend of fantasy and historical fiction perfect for fans of A Secret History of Witches.\nThis book utterly consumed me. When I wasn't reading it, I couldn't stop thinking about it. In Norse myth, Angrboda is only mentioned briefly as the giantess who births Loki’s three monstrous children. In The Witch’s Heart, she becomes a powerful tragic figure: a witch who has altered the course of the world, a mother devoted to her children, a woman betrayed by her lover. I can’t put this in your hands fast enough.\nRed’s only purpose in life is to be sacrificed to the Wolf of the Wilderwood, but from the moment she steps into the woods, everything she knows is completely wrong. Fraught with sharp words, dripping in shadows and blood, driven by the love of sisters, this book will consume you. Familiar fairy tale elements are twisted into a dark, brilliantly original tale reminiscent of The Hazel Wood and Uprooted. I’m dying for the sequel!\nInspired by Chinese myth, Xingyin is the secret daughter of the imprisoned moon goddess, Chang'e. Determined to free her mother, our bold and driven heroine sets off on epic quests through a full and beautiful fantasy world, finding a gentle prince and a badass, magic bow along the way. If you're like me and want more epic fantasy written by women, you must absolutely be swept up in this dazzling, gorgeous adventure.\nSaoirse Island was shattered fourteen years ago when August Salt was accused of murdering Emery Blackwood’s best friend. Now he’s returned, and as he and Emery rekindle their love, a haunted past and dangerous present tangle as the island goes to any lengths to preserve its secrets. Fans of Addie LaRue, let yourself be drawn into this beautifully haunting saga that will steal the breath from your lungs.\nThe Stardust Thief is simultaneously a thrilling and dangerous quest for a magic relic and a beautiful, lyrical story about found family and inner demons. While reading, I was transported to the desert land filled with jinn magic and could not read fast enough. Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, this is the kind of storytelling you’ll want to luxuriate in.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://themitchellfamilyoffive.blogspot.com/", "date": "2017-12-12T19:29:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948517917.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20171212192750-20171212212750-00319.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.970095157623291, "token_count": 654, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__64046285", "lang": "en", "text": "…not a single one has passed that I haven’t thought of her.\nFive years. How has it been five years since the longest and shortest 26 hours of my life? So much has happened in the years since Kate’s birth. It sometimes feels like compassionate Father Time is smoothing the jagged, painful edges of the memories into something more gentle and palatable. I don’t know whether to say thank you or to lash out in protective anger. Part of me appreciates the dulling of the pain while a huge part of me is rebelling at its fading… wanting to feel every second of it, willing to bleed…to know and remember forever.\nNo matter how much time passes these yearly anniversaries are the biggest hurdle. They continue to be arresting and suffocating. Perhaps a disguised mercy is that because Kate’s life was so brief I was spared many of the more frequent, surprising triggers that affect others who have lost loved ones. We never shared mornings, milestones or a lifetime of memories...just brief moments that pack themselves into two unforgettable days.\nIn the past five years I have been called upon to reach out to, support and counsel other grieving mothers. Also, I have been asked multiple times by my friends and family for advice or words of love and encouragement to share with grieving parents they know. My love and dedication to Kate has made these missions of support and understanding possible. In these moments, I have the unmistakable feeling that Kate is with me serving as my foundation of strength and support so I can in turn share strength, experience and an exemplified promise of tomorrow with others that are hurting.\nI treasure these moments when I feel Kate is close, but I feel closest to Kate through my sweet Ben. Even though he was only two and a half when she was born he has the deepest most amazing connection with her. While my body will forever have the most direct physical connection to her life and our hearts once beat together, Ben’s tender heart has a direct connection to her spirit for which I am so very thankful. (Their connection really is incredible to experience!)\nMy grief continues to and will forever be a journey. Kate’s life and death fractured my foundation and have forever changed my life, but I have found my path and continue to walk in the shoes of a grieving mother. The painful shoes I put on five years ago are beginning to soften as I break them in more and more every day...every year. I am ready to take the next step in celebrating Kate’s life and legacy.\nThank you for your outpouring of love and support over the past five years. As cliche as it sounds, I could not have made it through without you. I look back at my \"Drowning\" post when things were the darkest and realize how far I have come. I made it out of the rabbit hole, out of the trenches, out of the darkness. I am forever changed, but I am okay. I am stronger. I have been blessed with good, lasting and meaningful experiences that were made possible by Kate. She continues to make a difference...she inspires me to be better and do better every day.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.jdtolson.com/memories/family-friends/papaw-the-babysitter", "date": "2022-12-06T03:52:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711069.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206024911-20221206054911-00058.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9707314372062683, "token_count": 190, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__114906649", "lang": "en", "text": "Papaw would pick me up from preschool-kindergarten every day in his old Toyota truck, Trusty Rusty. He’d give me a stick of Trident Gum -the kind that still lines our kitchen drawers today- and take me back to his and Nana’s house. Once there, we’d watch TV, eat snacks, or read from the giant shelf of children’s books that he collected for my mom and I. But what stands out most to me is when he’d sit me at the top of the stairs to the basement and he’d pop my toes. I’d try and squeal and squirm away, yelling “No, Papaw! No!!” because I’d always forget it didn’t hurt, and he‘d laugh as he pulled my toes one by one. I miss that sweet laugh.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://katyperry.wikia.com/wiki/Katy_Perry:_A_Life_of_Fireworks", "date": "2017-08-20T20:57:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886106990.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20170820204359-20170820224359-00134.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9016266465187073, "token_count": 200, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__197874848", "lang": "en", "text": "|Katy Perry: A Life of Fireworks|\n|Publication date||October 1, 2011|\n|Published by||Omnibus Press|\n| Preceded by|| Followed by|\nKaty Perry: A Life of Fireworks (by Chloe Gotan) is an unauthorized biography all about Katy Perry.\nHere is a compelling account of how Katy Perry made her transformation from demure choirgirl to sexy household name. This in-depth account delves into her ill-fated early career, her eventual rise to fame and her controversial first chart-topping single “I Kissed a Girl.” Details her bisexual affair, the struggle Katy faced between her sexuality and her religious background, and her recent marriage to the notorious Russell Brand. Featuring exclusive interviews with Katy’s religious mentors, friends, teachers, co-songwriters, producers, video directors, journalists, and fellow artists, this is a must-read for Katy Perry fans.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.southsidesox.com/2013/6/13/4428796/rrrr-way-to-be", "date": "2014-08-29T18:08:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500832738.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021352-00002-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.962527334690094, "token_count": 661, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__86404577", "lang": "en", "text": "In 2007, when I dragged my heavy Chicago heart away from the only place I had ever called home, I committed myself to two years living in Seattle - what I deemed at the time to be a fair enough shot. I truly envisioned reaching that milestone and heading home soon thereafter. Everyone here and there will tell you that I wear my Chicago love on my sleeve. In some twisted interpretation of logic, I left there because I loved it so much.\nThis past April marked my six-year anniversary here and sometimes this segment of time - the bulk of my 20s - feels like it's passed by in the blink of an eye. Other times, it feels like I've packed an irreplaceable ass-ton of life and growth into these long, extraordinary years in Washington. I believe it's impossible to hit the road with only yourself, and evade evolving and being shaped by whatever new environment greets you. If you can, you're probably doing it wrong.\nI've hit my two-year milestone for the third time now. Sometimes I feel ready to return to Chicago, sometimes I feel ready to try a new place, and sometimes I look around me and fear that I may really love it here. Part of me envies folks who know without question where they want to be. And how.\nNo, really, I want to know. There are many of us on this site who have moved from Chicago, and I wonder why some of you left and then stayed (or perhaps kept moving). And for those who never left, how did you know that's where you wanted to be? Why do you all exist where you exist?\nMy own decision to remain in Seattle is directly linked to its proximity to other things. I don't stay here for my job, nor any other person, nor because I think Seattle is some fantastic city (don't get me wrong, it is pretty far out). I live here for the ocean and the Olympic Peninsula - the first place I ever stepped foot in Washington State, that fateful July weekend in 2006 - and the same reason that I moved here.\nI stay here because quirky, beer-loving Portland and the wave-happy Oregon coast is a quick skip south; and stunning vivacious Vancouver, is but a notch to the north. I live here because sometimes I like to take a break from surfing in the rugged Olympics rainforests, and drive east through the mountains, to the dry desert heat for a weekend instead.\nI live here-\nFor my wandering spirit and aesthetic-driven eye, I find it tough to top the landscape here, no matter what direction I face. Call me crazy, but I enjoy how small and insignificant the nature here makes me feel. The clean air ain't so bad either.\nI miss Chicago constantly (Chicagoans especially) and always consider moving back. But something still prevents me from pulling that trigger. The wonder of where plagues me endlessly. And even though it doesn't roll off my tongue totally effortlessly yet, in recent years, I've caught myself referring to Washington as home.\n*all photos taken on my phone, other than the unedited Seattle shot from my roommate's phone, and the pic of me low-tide jumping, taken by a friend", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://onlineresearchhub.com/the-social-experience-of-aging-with-a-chronic-illness/", "date": "2018-06-19T10:03:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267862248.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619095641-20180619115641-00135.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9709846377372742, "token_count": 1356, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__41121481", "lang": "en", "text": "The social experience of aging with a chronic illness: Perspectives of older adults with multiple sclerosis’ (Fong 1), is well laid out from the top to the bottom, it has a nice structure from the subheading to the references. To start with, it has an articulated subheading with lowercases apart from the begging words ‘The and Perspectives’, which appear at the begging of the sentence. All the researchers are indicated below the heading in uppercase. The article well detailed and comprehensive abstract, which contains the purpose of the study, the method used results of the analysis, and the conclusion. The phenomenon to be studied is clearly identified in the abstract as the ‘purpose’ of the study. The purpose of the study is precise but detailed enough to highlight the objective of the paper. It has a clear statement that reflects the entire paper.\nMarkedly, the article has two research questions at the end of the introduction. One research question seeks to identify the factors that influence the social experiences of persons aging with MS. The second research question identifies the effects of social experiences on individuals aging with MS. Arguably, the research question and the aspects of interest in the article are consistent. This is because the methodology includes a scrutiny of data that is a component of the exploratory study, using a phenomenological approach that focuses on the service needs and health concerns of older adults with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). Markedly, the report uses a phenomenological approach that focuses on the service and health concerns of older adults, as indicated in the research question.\nThe literature review is detailed and comprehensive enough and gives a background of the subject ‘Multiple Sclerosis’. I find the literature review very informative mainly because of its high quality. For instance, it gives a background of the subject matter in the beginning. It also has a solid base study of a projected 400,000 people in the U.S of ages between 20 to 50 years (Fong 1). In the study, the author given full details of the disorder, how it affects people, how people perceive it, and its effect in the society. However, the study is not dated; it is open and dateless, which would suggest that either the authors forgot to include the dates, or they chose not to include them.\nDespite lacking dates, the literature review coherently supports the need of the study. For instance, the qualitative case study investigates the lived experience of ten persons between the age of 40 and 59 with the relapse form of MS. Successively; the research identifies a number of potential outcomes of social support. It has also outlined various aspects of social support that are considered to be detrimental or beneficial to adaptation to MS. From my point of view, the study goes into details and identifies a conceptual framework to support the study.\nWith regard to methodology, the interview that was conducted followed the right guidelines and procedures. The design was descriptive and cross-sectional. Its protocol was approved after the Institutional Review Board of Illinois University in Chicago reviewed it. In addition, the participants were fully aware of the exercise because they were initially recruited through unique strategy of convenience sampling. Therefore, a registered and established body ‘IRB’ ensured that participants were first made to know the procedures they would undertake. After being informed of the study and the procedures, the participants agreed to proceed with the interview. However, the article does not state the actual steps that were taken to protect participants in the study. It appears that before the interview, these participants were notified of their protection because the interviews were conducted at the participants’ homes.\nThe study used a qualitative approach where twenty-seven interviews were imported and transcribed into a qualitative analysis software program. Markedly, there was no explanation given in using the qualitative study. In addition, there is no autonomy or confidentiality that is guaranteed of the participants. Based on the research, I find the approach appropriate for the research because it the entire research including the interviews was successfully carried out. In the qualitative research, the researchers provided evidence of their expertise. There were four interviewers, two of whom were graduate students. These graduate students are noted to have received eight hours of special training for collecting data, while the other two were highly experienced in quantitative and qualitative research. Results of the interviews conducted are proof that these interviews were competent to conduct the research. Notably, the average time spent during the first interview was 107 minutes, while the second interview was scheduled within one to three weeks after the first interview. The second interview averaged one hour. It is noted that this duration was enough because it allowed an opportunity to clarify points.\nSubsequently, coherent steps were taken to ensure conformability and credibility of the analysis and results. Based on the methodology used, data analysis plan was suitable for the research tradition. Additionally, all these methods were coherently described in the article, and the imperative model was displayed to communicate coherent processes.\nQuestionnaires and re used to collect data where interviewees filled the questionnaires based on the questions they were asked. There was a clear rationale used in data collection. Similarly, the methods used to collect data for the qualitative approach were appropriate and rational because the recording procedures were satisfactorily described. Subsequently, the all the methods used to collect data appropriate and well described in the article. The researchers were keen to describe and discuss assurance of rigor including dependability, and credibility, transferability, and integrity. Therefore, this resulted to adequate description of the methods used in the methodology.\nFindings of this research were appropriate and in accordance with the study. Additionally, these findings were placed in the right context of what MS entails. Findings of this research are comprehensive and detailed as they give an authentic, insightful, and meaningful picture. Therefore, the initial purpose of the study has been addressed at length. Therefore, the purpose of the study achieved because all social experiences of individuals aging with MS were explored. To sum up the research paper, the conclusion has entailed everything stated in the research question including the implications (Fong 1). Subsequently, the implications of the clinical practice and process were fully discussed in the conclusion. The conclusion has showed ways in which social experiences of older persons with MS are influenced by values and expectations, experience of MS, and social needs. On the other hand, the participants described distinct concerns regarding aging, which included the future adequacy of support.\nFong, Terry, Marcia Finlayson, and Nadine Peacock. “The social experience of aging with a chronic illness: Perspectives of older adults with multiple sclerosis.” Disability & Rehabilitation 28.11 (2006): 695-705.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.homeworkknight.com/category/literature-and-languages/", "date": "2023-02-01T11:58:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499934.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201112816-20230201142816-00381.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9323934316635132, "token_count": 829, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__238517626", "lang": "en", "text": "From the choices below, please write an essay on one of the short stories read in class. You should respond to the essay question by using evidence from the text and the provided scholarly source, as well as a second credible or academic source found on your own using the Hostos Library website.\nMake sure to include a clear thesis statement in your introduction that fully addresses the essay question and makes an original claim or argument about your chosen story.\ndemonstrate understanding of literary terms and elements of fiction.\nMake sure to use direct quotes and examples from the story and both of your outside sources, following the rules for MLA citation.\nLength and Formatting:\n4 pages typed, double-spaced, size 12 Times New Roman font\nHeading in MLA Format\nIn-Text Citations in MLA format. Example: (Carver, 8).\nWorks Cited Page\nHostos Writing Center\nThe Hostos Writing Center is available to provide online assistance with your essays, at any stage of the writing process. You can sign up for a live virtual session with a tutor, or you can request written feedback on a draft. Appointments can be made here: https://hostos.mywconline.com, or by e-mailing email@example.com.\nIn “Cathedral,” the narrator admits that all he knows about blindness “comes from the movies,” and that cathedrals for him are just “something to look at on late-night TV.” But by the end of the story, even though he knows he is sitting in his living room, he doesn’t feel like he’s “inside anything.” For this topic, please write an essay focused on the story’s ending—do you think the narrator truly learns to see things from a new perspective? Why or why not?\nIn your essay, be sure to include discussion of the following secondary source, plus one other: “Cathedral by Raymond Carver, 1983” by Carol Simpson Stern from The Reference Guide to Short Fiction.\n2). Raymond’s Run:\nBy the end of this story, Squeaky comes to an understanding not only of her relationship with her brother, Raymond, but also the way in which she wants to live her life as an adolescent approaching young womanhood. Based on the story’s ending, what kind of person do you think Squeaky hopes to become? How is this reflected in her changing relationships with Raymond and Gretchen?\nIn your essay, be sure to include discussion of the following secondary source, plus one other: “Raymond’s Run” by Judith Barton Williamson from Masterplots II: Short Story Series.\n3.) The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas:\nIn Omelas, every citizen is faced with an ethical dilemma—the knowledge that their happiness is dependent on the misery of an innocent child. Some are able to accept this from a utilitarian standpoint (the happiness of the many outweighs the suffering of the few), while others choose to leave. Do you think the people who walk away from Omelas are making a moral choice, or do you think they are taking the “easy” way out by removing themselves from the situation altogether?\nIn your essay, be sure to include discussion of the following secondary source, plus one other: “Le Guin’s ‘Omelas’: Issues of Genre” by W.A. Senior from Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.\ndigital_copies_of_sources_used = 0\nplagiarism = 0\npref_writer = 0\nurgent_writer_assign = 0\nversion = 4; Technical line. Don’t touch!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.protestinharmony.org.uk/songs/we-shall-be-known/", "date": "2024-04-15T12:32:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816977.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415111434-20240415141434-00705.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9267117381095886, "token_count": 158, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__160559866", "lang": "en", "text": "We Shall Be Known\nKarisha Longaker of MaMuse\nWe shall be known by the company we keep,\nby the ones who circle round to tend these fires.\nWe shall be known by the ones who sow and reap\nthe seeds of change alive from deep within the earth.\nIt is time now, it is time now that we thrive,\nit is time we lead ourselves into the well.\nIt is time now, and what a time to be alive,\nin this great turning we shall learn to lead in love,\nin this great turning we shall learn to lead in love.\nWe Shall be Known SAT Key G as original", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://deepspring.org/introducing-barbara-brodsky-and-aaron/", "date": "2017-06-24T15:47:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00561.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9870765209197998, "token_count": 1214, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__157746363", "lang": "en", "text": "Introducing Barbara Brodsky and Aaron\n(Excerpted from the book Aaron.)\nBarbara: Many of you have asked me how I met Aaron. I’d like briefly to share the story.\nI lost my hearing in 1972, soon after my first child was born. I coped well with the loss, on the surface. I continued with my sculpture and teaching and had two more children. Through those years I was aware that although I did what I needed to do for myself and my family, I was very bitter about the isolation my deafness seemed to impose.\nThis anger didn’t negate the fact that my life was full. I had a loving and beautiful family, work I loved, and caring friends. I honor in myself that I was able to cope well with so difficult a situation. But in striving to cope, I didn’t allow myself to feel the pain of my isolation, which is real. Afraid that pain would overwhelm me, I denied it, and turned my anger to outward things. I couldn’t see that it was the anger, not the deafness, that deepened my sense of separation., I was angry at people who talked near me when I couldn’t understand, and angry at God. I lost all sense of a spiritual aspect to my life.\nSlowly I became aware that I had to look at what was happening. It had been years since I’d attended Quaker Meeting; I began to go and to look forward to that weekly hour of silent communion with spirit. In time, I began to meditate again as a daily practice, although with no clear sense of direction. I also wrote daily in a journal, a tool that put me into deeper touch with my subconscious mind. I felt drawn to read from spiritual work, especially those ideas from eastern religions concerning reincarnation and karma. As I opened to myself and became more caring and forgiving, I found an increasing inner peace.\nDespite all that I was learning, I began to feel rather stuck. I was still bitter, cut off from normal human communication, and blaming God for my situation. I began to pray for help, understanding that I just couldn’t go any further on my own.\nAs the weeks passed, I began to notice that in the question/answer format I often used in my journal, the “answer” part was beginning to speak from a new perspective, pushing me to open myself to new ideas and ways of thinking.\nSoon after that, I met Aaron. Suddenly, one day during meditation, I was aware of a figure standing just off to one side. I asked him who he was and very simply he told me he was Aaron, and was my guide.\nI’m not going to suggest that I took this casually. The idea of a “spirit guide” was new to me; I wondered briefly if I was hallucinating. But every time I looked, Aaron was there, just patiently waiting for me to be ready to move ahead. It was important that I never felt any pressure to accept him. He made it clear from the beginning that we had all the time I needed to be ready for any learning that he offered. I wasn’t frightened because I felt so much love, felt a gentleness and connection dimly remembered from some unknown past.\nAt first my rational mind tried to ask, “Who is Aaron?” Slowly I realized it didn’t matter. I began to listen with my heart, and not play mind-games. I understood that it was irrelevant whether Aaron was simply a deeper part of my subconscious or was external. I was getting information that I needed for growth and to which I hadn’t had previous access. As I began to trust that information, and my own ability to hear it, I became clearly aware of Aaron’s existence as a separate entity.\nHe tells me he is a being who has evolved beyond the need to return to the physical plane. He is from “beyond the causal plane.” He defines himself as a “being of light,” which he says we all are. I’ve come to know him as a being of infinite love, compassion and wisdom. He also has a wonderful warmth and sense of humor. He is a teacher.\nAs my trust deepened, Aaron led me on a beautiful journey into myself, into past lives to unearth the sources of some of the pains of this life, examining the questions of isolation and separation on which my deafness forced me to focus. Together we healed the suffering of that deafness and went on to investigate the origins of these issues of separation and isolation. The journey has been both painful and joyous, frightening and beautiful. Always, Aaron’s love was there to help me through the rough places.\nYes, my deafness is still painful. I doubt that I’ll ever be completely used to this silence. But I also embrace it. Twenty-six years of silence is a profound teacher, and I thank it for the ways it’s led me to deepen in understanding. I no longer fight with it. I no longer feel this silence as my pain. It is our pain, the aloneness of us all, and its arising serves as a reminder for connection and compassion.\nConstantly, I see Aaron’s wisdom and compassion touching other’s lives, as it has touched mine. Many others have come to love him and trust his guidance, first my friends, then their friends, and on in an expanding circle around the globe. It humbles me to see myself as part of this chain of sharing, to be permitted this part in it and to learn and watch others learning. It brings me much joy! I am in awe of the process.\nAnd so, with great love, I offer you Aaron.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jessiesun.me/publication/sun-2018/", "date": "2022-09-25T14:45:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030334579.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220925132046-20220925162046-00568.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9441099166870117, "token_count": 405, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__93238494", "lang": "en", "text": "Serotonin (5-Hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is one of the most extensively studied neurotransmitters in the central nervous system. Also expressed in peripheral tissues, 5-HT participates in vasoconstriction and in aggregation of platelets through 5-HT2A receptor (5-HT2AR). However, there have been few studies regarding the interaction between 5-HT and 5-HT2AR in the immune system. In the current study, we analyzed the role of 5-HT and its 5-HT2AR in the activation of antigen-specific Th1 and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) in mice. RT-PCR and western blotting analyses confirmed the expression of 5-HT2AR in both CD4 and CD8 T cells. Both antigen-specific and anti-CD3 stimulation of IL-2 and IFN-?? production from these cells were inhibited by a selective 5-HT2AR inhibitor, sarpogrelate hydrochloride. Concanavalin A (ConA) activation of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, which were purified from mouse spleen following depletion of endogenous 5-HT, was enhanced by a selective 5-HT2AR agonist, (R)-1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenyl)-2-aminopropane (DOI). Such DOI-induced T cell activation was nullified by sarpogrelate. Moreover, an ELISPOT study showed that sarpogrelate also reduced antigen-specific induction of both CTL and Th1 cells in vivo following immunization of mice with cognate antigens. These data suggest that antigen-specific Th1 and CTL cells might be regulated by 5-HT signaling through 5-HT2AR on their surfaces and that 5-HT2AR inhibitor might have an immunosuppressive effect in vivo. ?? 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://pippablog.com/against-the-day-pynchons-journey-into-the-real/", "date": "2019-12-15T01:24:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575541297626.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20191214230830-20191215014830-00028.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9321171045303345, "token_count": 3884, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__155281742", "lang": "en", "text": "One of the hallmarks of postmodern authors is their treatment of time as imaginary. Postmodern novelists such David Foster Wallace in Infinite Jest, Thomas Pynchon in Gravity’s Rainbow, Jonathan Foer in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Don Delillo in Falling Man treat time as a purely human construct—something that can be broken, bent, manipulated, and twisted on a whim. Postmodern literature is rife with segmented, meandering, or divergent timelines—in postmodern narratives, time is an illusion.\nAt first glance, it appears that Pynchon is up to the same narrative tricks in Against the Day. He seems to begin in the present, take halting steps forward in the narrative and chronology, and then rewind the world several years back with narrative threads like the one that follows Merle Rideout and Erlys Zomboni. Likewise, when Pynchon describes Reef Traverse and Yashmeen Halfcourt’s romance or Frank Traverse’s first encounter with his eventual lover Stray, Pynchon is fond of beginning paragraphs with “years later” as he seems to leap forward chronologically, even while the narrative stands still. This apparent time-travelling technique is nothing new to postmodern fiction, but Pynchon is actually very though subtly different mechanism to manipulate the narrative. In fact, far from using the postmodern model of time as a merely human idea to be played with, Against the Day is Pynchon’s illustration that time is the only one of the four dimensions that is not a construct.\nPynchon does not manipulate time, at least not in what his character Kitt Traverse would call the imaginary fourth term in vector mathematics and indeed what most readers would call the imaginary term in postmodern fiction. Pynchon manipulates everything else instead by changing the reader’s frame of reference. Pynchon does not leave the reader in the familiar and comfortable world bounded by an x,y, and z axis of three dimensional matter, free to play with time as if it were an imaginary construct. Instead, Pynchon approaches the world as a Quaternionist, a devotee of an obscure branch of turn-of-the-century pure mathematics. He approaches time as the constant instead of the variable, and the rest of the physical universe being imaginary axes i, j, and k. Time, in Against the Day, is unchanging and unchangeable—instead it is the rest of the world that changes. Quaternionist Umeki Tsurigane explains Pynchon’s conceit to the reader when she explains Quaternionism to Kitt:\nActually, Quaternions failed because they perverted what the Vectorists thought they know of God’s intention—that space be simple, three-dimensional, and real, and if there must be a fourth term, an imaginary, that it be assigned to Time. But Quaternions came in and turned that all end for end, defining the axes of space as imaginary and leaving Time to be the real term, and a scalar as well—simply inadmissible. Of course the Vectorists went to war. Nothing they knew of Time allowed it to be that simple, any more than they could allow space to be comprised of impossible numbers… (351)\nPynchon urges his readers to make a cognitive switch away viewing the world through the traditional Vectorist lenses where time is something to be manipulated around what we understand to be the “real.” Pynchon asks his readers to see the world as a Quaternion would, with time as the only real value—a world where everything else is imaginary. Pynchon then proceeds to take his readers across constant unwavering time, all the while changing the imaginary world of the physical. Time, so commonly stretched, bent, and broken in postmodern narratives, becomes a solid line, Pynchon’s Archimedean lever large enough to move the world. Although perhaps are not immediately intuitive, Pynchon gives his readers plenty of clues to understanding his narrative technique.\nWhile time never changes, the physical world of the novel, which is the truly imaginary one, starts, stops, and transforms. The transient and ethereal nature of the physical is a consistent theme in Against the Day.\nPynchon’s most obvious clues that the physical world is imaginary come when he writes about the Chums of Chance, the novel’s perennial teenage boys. Fittingly, they give the simplest and most obvious clues to Pynchon’s Quaternion mindset. The Chums fly through the center of a hollow earth through the poles (Pynchon 117). The Chums search for a mysterious and strangely mobile mystical city of Shambhala while traveling underground and literally walking through the earth (Pynchon 437). To erase all doubt of the transmutability of the physical, Pynchon sends the Chums of Chance from earth to Antichthon, the other earth, by flying their airship through the sun (1021).\nElsewhere in the novel, Pynchon has Kit Traverse ponder the difference between those ashore and those leaving on a boat with the sad acknowledgement that those leaving “would never be here, never exactly here, again” (747). Kit understands that “here” in the sense that it is a place, is also a time, and that time will never come again. Later, Pynchon gives what is perhaps the best metaphor for Against the Day’s Quaternion worldview: Kit Traverse travels through the Asian great rock arch called Tushuk Tash. As Kit’s companion Lieutenant Prance explains, “This great Archway known as Tushuk Tash. Which means ‘a rock with a hole in it’” (Pynchon 764).\nPynchon asks his reader to see the hole in the physical universe that many suppose to be solid and real. Fittingly, it is the passage of time that causes rock formations like arches and columns—it is time that creates these gates that are holes in what ought to be solid. Without this knowledge, Pynchon seems to tell readers, the world cannot truly be understood for what it is. Lieutenant Prance warns Kit that “Unless we enter by way of it, we shall always be on the wrong journey.” (Pynchon 764) It is not the rock that is real and permanent, but the hole in it.\nHe continues this theme of the physical as illusionary when Reef, Yashmeen, and Cyprian travel across Europe at the dawn of the First Balkan War. Pynchon takes his readers through a dizzying number of towns, valleys, passes, and hamlets, each one given scant attention aside from being defined as someplace on the way to someplace else. Some of these places, such as the Macedonian cities of Prilep and Veles, exist. Others, such a mountain cult monastery, do not. To the vast majority of his readers without an atlas handy to check whether all those Balkan towns and passes are real, one is just as real as another; this is Pynchon’s point. If the reader cannot recognize what places are real and what places are created, he seems to say, who is to say that any place is real at all?\nWhen Against the Day’s narrative thread returns to the Americas, Pynchon uses a relentless motif of holes and the physical impermanence of what the reader thinks of as the real to push his readers to embrace the Quaternion. His Mexico is a place of caves, holes, and ancient cities long destroyed while the American West of Against the Day is full of mines in Colorado. Again, Pynchon uses the imagery of rock as an illustration of the physical world. His mines betray the idea that the earth is solid, that everything is what it seems. Revolutionaries Webb Traverse, Frank Traverse, and Ewball Oust consistently use dynamite to blast holes in the very matter that frames their world. Pynchon’s characters remake with ease what the unenlightened reader takes to be eternal.\nEven New York City, with all its physically imposing buildings, is nothing but “the Cabinet of Ultimate Illusion.” ( Pynchon 353) Everywhere he takes the reader, Pynchon points out the inescapable truth of the Quaternion concept of the world: time is the only constant, the only real value in what we can appreciate in space-time. Those who say otherwise are charlatans, tricksters, or worse.\nWhen Miles Blundell confronts the mysterious Trespasser Thorn who claims to have travelled through time to warn the pre-World War world, Miles has a sudden revelation: “…in fact no ‘time travel’ at all—the presence in this world of Thorn and his people had been owing only to some chance blundering upon a shortcut… by whatever terrible singularity in the smooth flow of Time had opened to them.” (Pynchon 555) Time is real, Pynchon tells his readers, and nothing can change that fact. Indeed, a few paragraphs later, Miles tells his friend Chick Counterfly, “There is nothing immortal about them, Chick. They have lied to all of us, including those… fool enough to work for them, in exchange for ‘eternal youth.’ They cannot provide that. They never could” (Pynchon, 555). With depressing finality, Miles tells readers what they intuitively already know about attempts to manipulate time: “I simply knew, the minute I saw him, that it was all false, the promise was nothing but a cruel confidence game” (Pynchon 555).\nPynchon rejects the concept of time as a human illusion and in doing so rejects the human hope against hope to somehow escape time and its consequences:\n“Time,” explained Dr. Rao, “is the Further Term, you see, transcending and conditioning i, j, and k—the dark visitor from the Exterior, the Destroyer, the fulfiller of the Trinity. It is the merciless clock-beat we all seek to escape, into the pulselessness of salvation. It is all this and more.”\n“A weapon based on Time…” mused Viktor Mulciber. “Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later…” [bold in original text] (558)\nWhen the reader finally embraces Pynchon’s Quaternionist worldview that time is the only real value it begs the question “is there any point to anything?” If only time is real, and the physical universe the reader inhabits an imaginary one, does anything matter? Pynchon, while rejecting the idea that the physical world is real, has his characters expressly reject nihilism (Pynchon 922). Instead, Pynchon uses mathematics to prove that real things can come out of the junction of the one real dimension and the three imaginary ones.\nYashmeen Halfcourt explains this to turn-of-the-century mathematics genius Dr. David Hilbert in an attempt to prove the Reimann hypothesis: “There is also this… spine of reality… Though the members of a Hermitian may be complex, the eigenvalues are real.” (Pynchon 604) These eigenvalues are based on the interplay of the imaginary ijk with the “spine of reality” that is, time, but are still real themselves. An eigenvalue is a mathematical term used in matrix mathematics, but a very telling a literal reading of the German word would be “own values” or “innate values.” This reading implies that not only is time real, but some innate value, some “self” is real, and by extension others’ “selves” as well—Pynchon uses eigenvalues, not just a singular eiegenvalue.\nWith time and his characters’ “innate values” being the only real things in the world, Pynchon pushes his worldview to its narrative limit and turns the world “end for end” (351). Understanding this Quaternion perspective explains the novel’s focus on light and the bifurcating properties of lenses—refraction can literally skew the imaginary physical world and rotate it about its axis. This allows Pynchon to turn the physical world into a place where the cruise liner the Stupendica is also the battleship Emperor Maximilian (515). It lets Pynchon’s characters build fanciful technology to use photographs to see the world as it might have been—still the same, but slightly altered—the world as rotated about Yashmeen’s “spine of reality” (1061). Tellingly, this technology works by following a person in a photograph forward or backwards through time; the eigenvalues, being the core identities of Pynchon’s characters, retain their identity even as the imaginary physical world shifts and distorts around them. Pynchon even bifurcates his characters: the professors Renfrew and Werfner are mirror images of each other in their temperament and interest in Balkan politics. As one Pynchon scholar puts it, “their obsession reveals how much they are alike” (Aghoro, 44). Indeed, they are the same person, because their essential nature—the eigenvalue—remains the same. In the novel, detective Lew Basnight even comes “to accept the professors as a single person” (Pynchon 771).\nThe underlying theme of Against the Day—that self and time are all the only “real” things in an imaginary world, is one that it seems many critics and scholars seem to have missed. Tom LeClair makes mention of Pynchon’s frequent use of bifurcation as a theme and his use of lenses, particularly the double refracting Iceland spar, but seems at a loss as to why, ending his review by hoping “some future scholar will read the novel twenty times and either illustrate how it recapitulates the whole history of narrative or demonstrate how every piece fits together into a fourfold design that will replace four-base genetics as a model of all life” (Leclair “Lead Zeppelin”). Lewis Menand also sees the math—even going so far as to title his piece “Do the Math”—but misses the point, citing a character’s discourses on Quaternion mathematics but then dismissing it with “And on into the night” (“Do the Math”). Others point to its sprawling plot and seemingly strange spatial manipulations and write them off as Pynchon being Pynchon (Rankin “’Reader Beware…’,” Peck “Heresy of Truth”) or, like Liesl Schillinger, spend pages writing about Against the Day’s author and various different sections of the book without really addressing the book as a whole (“Dream Maps”). Peck quotes from one the novel’s repudiated Trespassers to explain the novel (“Heresy of Truth”) and Shillinger confuses the novel’s Quaternion travel through three dimensional space with travel through time (“Dream Maps”). Scott Borchert takes the book’s title quite literally and links “the Day” of the novel’s title to references in Mason & Dixon to present Pynchon’s novel as a stand against “capitalist modernity” (80).\nCritical confusion notwithstanding, Against the Day is not merely a meandering genre pastiche, nor is it merely a novel about technological change at the dawn of the 20th Century (Menand “Do the Math). Borchert’s reading of it as an anti-capitalist manifesto is not wholly incorrect given the book’s treatment of anarchist revolutionaries and unrestrained capitalists, but such a reading misses the fundamental reason why Pynchon is frustrated by naked capitalism and its materialistic trappings: because materialism is not merely empty, but the materials themselves are illusionary. Instead, the novel is Pynchon’s plea for his readers to acknowledge what he sees as the only reality left in a modern era of uncertainty and change—that things change and disappear, but time and the self remain.\nAghoro, Natalie. “Bilocated Identities: Taking the Fork in the Road in Against the Day,” AS Peers. 2. 2009 (33-52). Web.\nBorchert, Scott. “Against Accumulation: Moby Dick, Mason & Dixon, and Atlantic Capitalism.” English Honors Papers. Connecticut College, 2008. Web.\nLeClair, Tom. “Lead Zeppelin.” Bookforum. Rev. of Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. Dec/Jan 2007. Web. 12 February 2011.\nMenand, Lewis. “Do the Math.” The New Yorker. Rev. of Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. 27 November 2006. Web. 13 February 2011.\nPeck, Dale. “Heresy of Truth: Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.” National Book Critics Circle. Rev. of Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. 10 December 2010. Web. 13 February 2011.\nPynchon, Thomas. Against the Day. New York: The Penguin Press, 2006. Print.\nRankin, Ian. “’Reader Beware…’.” The Guardian. Rev. of Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon. 18 November 2006. Web. 14 February 2011.\nShillinger, Liesl. “Dream Maps.” New York Times. Rev. of Against the Day by Thomas\nPynchon. 26 November 2006 Sunday edition. Web. 14 February 2011.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://promisesbygod.com/tag/deliverance/", "date": "2018-02-23T20:38:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814833.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180223194145-20180223214145-00432.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9566910862922668, "token_count": 208, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__260730792", "lang": "en", "text": "A Promise by God…Salvation…\nOnly conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or remain absent, I will hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel; in no way alarmed by your opponents-which is a sign of destruction for them, but of salvation for you, and that too, from God.\nPhilippians 1:27-28 NASB\nHEBREW TRANSLATION –\nOnly, behave yourselves worthily of the Good News of Messiah, in order that whether I come and see you or am absent, I hear about you, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one being, striving together for the belief of the Good News,\nwithout being frightened in any way by those who oppose, which to them truly is a proof of destruction, but to you of deliverance, and that from Elohim.\nPhilippians 1:27-28 TS2009", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://jumpinginpuddles-lookingforstars.blogspot.com/", "date": "2018-01-16T11:26:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886416.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116105522-20180116125522-00197.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9870812296867371, "token_count": 684, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__132500002", "lang": "en", "text": "People often tell me I am brave – and if I am, it's because of my mother.\nPeople often tell me that I am kind – and if I am, it's because of my mother.\nPeople often tell me I am resilient – and if I am, it's because of my mother.\nPeople often tell me that I have great faith – and if I do, it's because of my mother.\nIf I am brave in the face of the hardships life has given me as of late, it's because my mother has taught me how. Long before I became ill, I watched my mother suffer. I can't even remember a time when it wasn't so. And all through growing up, I watched her struggle with it, and win. I watched her bravery in facing early-onset Parkinson's and still raise five children. I watched her shake and tremble and be unable to feed herself, yet still she taught us our school, and guided us through life, and encouraged us in every pursuit. I am brave because I had the very best model of bravery. I am brave because my mother showed me how to be.\nIf I am kind to others, it's because my mother showed me what kindness is. She, who suffered long before I ever did, takes time out of her hard life to talk to lawyers for my family, to help us kids understand and complete paperwork, medical bills, and college grants. Even though we are often tight on money, she finds money to buy things for the food pantry. Since I was small, I have always seen my mother's kindness. I needed no definition aside from her actions. When she offers gentle words to new mothers at camp, when she talks to the hurting people around me and offers them her help, when she makes phone calls for me when I can't do it myself... A thousand things she does every day has shown me what true kindness is. So if I am kind, it is because of my mother.\nIf I have great faith in face of hardship, it's because my mother led the way. Life has always been hard for my family - the way that life is hard for everyone. But I never once saw my mother's faith waver. Never in my lifetime could I say that I saw her doubting. She taught me the greatest part of faith – the one thing I have always truly needed to make it through life. And that is: God is Enough. Even if everything is taken from us, even if we have nothing left, God is Enough. She taught me that keeping my eyes on Him would get me through anything life could throw me, because He is greater than all life's worst twists and turns. She did not have to say it. She didn't have to lay it out before me like a map. I saw it in every action. I heard it in every word.\nIf I have great faith, it's because God has shown me His light, through her.\nEverything I am, I owe to her.\nPeople often say that I am a lot like my mother - and if that's true, then I can think of no better compliment.\nHappy birthday, Mama. I love you. Thank you for being the lighthouse through which Jesus shone so brightly. Thank you for teaching me all the best things I know. : )", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://imnotthe10thstar.deviantart.com/art/Tea-fluffy-Frerard-one-shot-260258139", "date": "2015-03-04T22:39:31Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936463660.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074103-00091-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.989666223526001, "token_count": 681, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-11", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-11__0__39156431", "lang": "en", "text": "I glanced at the clock as I made my way through the cramped kitchenette of the tour bus; 3:29 a.m, it read. I sighed. Frank was trailing behind me like the caboose of a train, exhousted out of his mind.\nI stopped to open a shoddy cupboard for a mug. When I did, I felt the force of a small body impact the middle of my back. It stumbled backwards a few steps.\nI turned to see Frank rubbing at his tired eyes with sweater-covered knuckles; blue and black stripes, oversized, which made him look more like a child than ever.\nNot to mention his Star Wars pajamas.\n\"Watch where you're goin', sleepy head,\" I said, laughing hypnotically. He sure was, too; his hair was tumbled all over the place, red and black swirled unnaturally around his puffy cheeks.\n\"Whatever,\" he moaned lackadaizically, \"You're comfy.\"\nHe wrapped his noodle-of-an-arm around mine, and leaned his head against my shoulder, eyes shut. I grinned, letting the warm breath from between his teeth depress into my skin.\n\"I gotta make this, though,\" I said quietly, \"Why don't you go wait for me at the table, 'kay?\" I brushed his shoulder persuasively.\nHe lifted his head as if it weighed a hundred pounds, and looked up at me through completely closed eyes.\n\"Mm'kay,\" he mumbled, dragging his little bare feet to the table near the window. He scaled one of the bar-stools and slumped onto the cushion like a sack of potatos.\nI turned again to focus in front of me when a hard knock called from behind. I swiveled back to see Frank with his temple against the wood.\n\"Ow,\" he slurred.\nI rolled my eyes with a dopey smile and snatched a mug from the cupboard. I filled it with water, got out a package of 'Sleepy Time Tea,' and slid it in the microwave above one of the counters. I set the time as directed, and turned toward the table in which Frank sat waiting.\n\"Aww,\" I whispered, smiling. Frankie was sprawled out over the length of the table, his chest rising and falling silently and smoothly. His nose was tucked between the bend of his elbow.\nI sat down across from him as soundlessly as I could, keeping my eyes on him with bated breath.\nSteeling my lungs completely, I reached out and tenderly engulfed his tiny, tattooed hand. Still, he made not a sound or movement. There was something absolutely precious about the way his lips were parted, and the way his head was turned, and the way his hair fell around his plush, rosey cheeks, and the way his silent breaths fogged up the surface of the table, and the way his pretty little eyelashes quivered as he slept; everything. He was absolutely precious.\nI took a final, achey note, and rested my head against the table's cool surface, shutting my eyes. A triple beep rang from the microwave, but I ignored it.\nI nodded off, his delicate little hand in mine.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://dessert-darling.blogspot.com/2012/04/light-and-warmth-and-love.html", "date": "2018-07-18T20:14:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590329.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718193656-20180718213656-00034.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.971876859664917, "token_count": 460, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__187245052", "lang": "en", "text": "Taking a break from the usual food posts. Here is a more personal one for you darlings.\nMy little one. The reason why I wake up every morning, the reason why I continue to smile and hope and thrive to find myself. Often times it is difficult as she is slightly impatient as toddlers usually are... But my little one is so loving, that each warm hug and gentle kiss melts my heart.\nIt is a challenge, a challenge to be a better mother... a challenge to nurture her, help her gain weight when she is so picky with food, to teach her in every way that I can... to simply be a mother that I would look up to, if it weren't me in that position.\nShe is the light of my life. Perhaps even the heart of my craft and this blog. She scoots herself up a chair beside me while I weigh out the ingredients and she says \"Mommy, tulong ako\" (Mommy, I'll help). Her favorite chore is to mix anything she sees that has a fork or a mixing utensil with it. It can be messy, and most of the time, especially when it is a paid job, I ask her to play or ask Mr. DD to carry her away to eat or play or watch Princess movies that she loves. She cries, asking for me... And comes back when she smells the sweet aroma from the oven envelop the house. She takes a peek in the oven door, careful not to get too close. I ask her for a kiss and tell her that I love her, she always answers.\nWhen it is done, and I take the baked cupcakes out of the oven, she approaches and says \"Mommy, cupcake?\" and I say, \"Yes, baby.\"\nShe eats what I bake, sometimes she doesn't. But when she shows so much interest with the things that I love, watching with me while I play baking videos on my phone... it touches my heart, knowing that maybe one day she'll be a great cook or baker or pastry chef in the future.\nOr she'll be running Dessert Darling with me.\nWhatever the future holds, I know that I will love her for the rest of my life.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lifeofhy.com/books/", "date": "2023-06-04T03:59:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649439.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20230604025306-20230604055306-00301.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9109551906585693, "token_count": 184, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__90705789", "lang": "en", "text": "I am very excited to announce that my debut novel, BON VOYAGE, is now available on Amazon and Amazon Kindle. The book is available for purchase in paperback, hard cover, and e-book formats.\nBON VOYAGE is a comedy adventure novel that takes readers on a trip around the world. When an eccentric billionaire debuts an international gameshow with a big-money prize, 18 dreamers sign up for the challenge. For many of them, winning is paramount, and they’ll do whatever it takes to claim the winnings. BON VOYAGE tells the story of one special contestant told from the perspective of another as they travel across the globe in hopes their trying efforts will amount to immeasurable fame and a life-changing fortune.\nORDER A COPY\nKindle e-Book Download", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://drbulb.com/potential-led-health-risks", "date": "2023-12-10T00:51:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100989.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209233632-20231210023632-00113.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9619946479797363, "token_count": 801, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__200012699", "lang": "en", "text": "Potential LED Health Risks\nA recent report requested by the European Commission assessed the potential health hazards LEDs have on the general population. This provisional report examined multiple segments of the population to discuss the possibility of LEDs causing harm to vulnerable and susceptible populations such as children, adolescents, and the elderly. The report also examines the effects on skin optic fundamentals, eye health, and the penetration of LED lights on the skin. Examining temporal light modulation (flicker), and its potential effects on each segment was a fundamental concern in this report.\nThis provisional report—carried out by the scientific committee on health, environmental, and emerging risks (SCHEER)—suggests that eyes and skin are the most susceptible to the effects of LEDs. However, the exposure to optical radiation from LEDs is insignificant compared to other light sources, including natural lighting. In order to provide accurate results, all exposure variables were taken into account and tested. Irradiance, radiance, and exposure duration were significant variables in this study, which allowed researchers to carry out detailed reporting. Intensity of the LEDs, general exposure duration, specified exposure duration to skin and eyes, and direct staring vs. active eye movement were all considered. These variables accounted for a significant part of the results reported by SCHEER.\nLED Health Effects on the General Population\nIn general, very few studies have been carried out regarding LED health hazards, and, because LED technology is continually advancing, it is difficult to provide a definite conclusion on any adverse health effects caused by LEDs. It is commonly known that throughout the progression and success of LEDs, concerns have been raised regarding the potential health effects on the general population. The most common concerns raised were regarding long-term vision effects, optical discomfort, and disruptions to circadian rhythms.\nSCHEER reported that a major concern was for children below the age of three, who are often exposed to high-luminance LEDs from electronic toys and screens. They noted that the European standard for toys with LED emissions can induce photochemical retinopathy (damage to the eyes retina). Another concern included the use of LEDs in virtual-reality headsets due to the proximity of the screen to the users’ eyes. However, this report found that the luminance in these cases was too low to cause any adverse health effects. The report also stated that, although LEDs can be distracting in some forms (e.g., car lighting, specific colors), distraction, dazzle, and glare effects do not result in direct harm to your vision.\nLEDs Are Safe\nIn addition to possible effects on the eyes, concerns were raised regarding the effects LEDs have on our skin. This report briefly touches on the possibility of LEDs causing harm by penetrating the skin beyond its intended depth, however, no formal research has been published to confirm this theory.\nSCHEER acknowledges that the scientific research currently available does not provide enough evidence to prove that LEDs cause adverse effects to skin and eyes when the “total exposure is below the international agreed exposure limits (ICNIRP).” There was little evidence to suggest that disruption to sleeping patterns after using an LED screen was a direct result of exposure to the light; the disruptions could have been due to the kind of mental activity required to use and engage with the device. In addition, SCHEER reported that, when compared to other light source technologies, there was no evidence to suggest LED lamps cause photosensitivity. However, unlike other light sources, LEDs do not emit much ultraviolet radiation, which may actually reduce the risk of photosensitivity.\nThis preliminary report states that LEDs cannot be proven to cause direct, adverse health effects to the general, healthy population. It notes that discomfort and glare can be temporary consequences of LEDs but are not of major concern. The effects, thresholds, and damage mechanisms do vary from person to person. SCHEER suggests that more formal research is required to establish how LEDs can positively or negatively affect the general population.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thepossibilityofeverything.blogspot.com/2009/08/", "date": "2017-05-24T02:08:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607731.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524020456-20170524040456-00521.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9412069320678711, "token_count": 102, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__91614177", "lang": "en", "text": "Born in the 60s, grew up in the 70s, now raising two daughters in 2013. Learning how to do it with an adventurous spirit, a sense of humor, and an open mind. I'm the author of six books, including the memoir The Possibility of Everything and the international bestseller Motherless Daughters. But to my own daughters, I'm just the one who--horrifyingly--sings along with Led Zeppelin on the radio. I still remember all the words.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://florencefragrances.com/awaken-your-senses-and-embrace-the-beauty-of-life/", "date": "2024-03-05T04:15:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948217723.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305024700-20240305054700-00600.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9066994190216064, "token_count": 549, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__130440921", "lang": "en", "text": "Welcome to our blog, where we invite you to unleash your senses and embark on a journey of self-discovery and appreciation for the world around you. In today’s fast-paced world, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life and forget to take a moment to truly experience the beauty that surrounds us. But we believe that by awakening your senses, you can unlock a whole new level of joy and fulfillment.\nSo, let’s dive into the wonders that await!\nSection 1: Sight\nThey say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, and we couldn’t agree more. From vibrant sunsets painting the sky with hues of orange and pink to the delicate petals of a flower blooming in your garden, there is so much visual beauty to behold.\nTake a moment each day to truly see the world around you. Notice the intricate details of nature, the smiles on people’s faces, and the architecture that surrounds us. Let your eyes be open to the wonders of life, and you’ll be amazed at how it can uplift your spirit.\nSection 2: Sound\nClose your eyes for a moment and listen. What do you hear? The gentle rustling of leaves in the wind, the melodic chirping of birds, or the soothing sound of raindrops hitting the ground.\nSound has a unique way of transporting us to different places and evoking a range of emotions. Whether it’s listening to your favorite music, attending a concert, or simply taking a walk in nature, let the soundscape around you awaken your senses and fill your heart with joy.\nSection 3: Taste and Smell\nOur sense of taste and smell are closely intertwined and have the power to transport us to different times and places. A whiff of freshly brewed coffee can bring back memories of a cozy morning at a local café, and the taste of a home-cooked meal can instantly make us feel loved and nurtured.\nTake the time to savor each bite and appreciate the aromas that surround you. From trying new cuisines to exploring the world of essential oils, let your taste buds and olfactory senses guide you on a sensory adventure.\nAs you embark on this journey to unleash your senses, remember that life is meant to be savored and enjoyed. By taking the time to truly see, hear, taste, and smell the world around you, you’ll discover a newfound appreciation for the beauty that exists in everyday moments.\nSo, go ahead and embrace the wonders that await. Awaken your senses, and let the world amaze you!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.genevieveschmidtdesign.com/arcata-landscape-poem/", "date": "2017-04-26T00:10:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121000.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00013-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9609829187393188, "token_count": 321, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__82156372", "lang": "en", "text": "I was absolutely floored and honored the other day to open an email from a client and friend, Dan Duncan who owns Small World Construction, and find a poem he’d written about his garden.\nI’ve worked with Dan for about eight years now, creating four new garden areas in his home garden and maintaining them, as well as working with his construction company to do some beautiful collaborative work for others.\nDan gave me permission to post this excerpt from his poem:\nMy one maple tree was planted to\nbe the queen of the front yard.\nEach year at this time she turns\nyellow, then red, then brown.\nHer perfect leaves\nfloat downward, like feathers,\nfalling on the driveway, making\na dizzying unspecified pattern\nas satisfying as can be.\nIn the secret garden lives\na princess, no kidding, that’s its\nname, no competition has this bush\nfor the best place and the best\nview in the garden. Beside it\nIn the cottage lives my daughter.\nThe princess unloads her deep\nblue petals shamelessly,\nleaving the ground\nat her feet full of her gaudy\nprettiness, a blue without\npeer in all of California.\nI’ve been caring for Dan’s gardens for so long that they feel almost a part of me, and to have them immortalized in poetry is a gift beyond compare. Thank you, Dan!\nWant to see more of Dan’s garden? See his front garden here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://tll.mit.edu/optimize-your-mentoring-practice/", "date": "2023-12-11T13:10:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679511159.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211112008-20231211142008-00809.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8718156814575195, "token_count": 4419, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__158374589", "lang": "en", "text": "Optimize Your Mentoring Practice\n- Strong mentorship has been linked to increased productivity, self-efficacy, and career satisfaction in mentees, among other positive outcomes. However, few mentors and mentees have received formal training on how to be a more effective mentor or proactive mentee that communicates their needs to a mentor.\n- Recommendations for how to improve mentorship relationships from the 2019 National Academies report, “The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM,” are detailed in the article.\nOn January 13, 2020, Dr. Christine Pfund, director of the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research (CIMER) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, presented a talk on the science of effective mentorship as well as the 2019 National Academies Report “The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM,” which Dr. Pfund participated in creating as a committee member. Dr. Pfund’s work primarily focuses on STEMM (science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine) subjects in an academic setting. However, the tools and strategies discussed during the seminar can also be applied to mentorship in other disciplines.\nDuring the talk, Pfund began by defining mentorship as “a professional, working alliance in which individuals work together over time to support the personal and professional growth, development, and success of the relational partners through the provision of career and psychosocial support.” (The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2019). The term “mentorship” is used in place of “mentoring” to emphasize that mentorship is a working partnership between the mentor and mentee to support each other across different domains, rather than a relationship where the mentor is dominant.\nResearch on mentoring shows that strong mentorship has been linked to increased research productivity (Steiner & Lanphear, 2002; 2007; Wingard et al., 2004), enhanced science identity, sense of belonging and self-efficacy (Palepu et al., 1998; Garman et al., 2001; Paglic et al., 2006; Lopatto, 2007; Bland et al., 2009; Feldman et al., 2010; Cho et al., 2011; Chemers et al., 2011; Thiry & Laursen, 2011; Byars-Winston et al., 2015), persistence (Gloria et al., 2011; Solorzano, 1993; McGee & Keller, 2007; Sambunjak et al., 2010; Williams et al., 2015; Bordes-Edgar et al., 2011; Campbell & Campbell, 1997), higher career satisfaction (Schapira et al., 1992; Beech et al., 2013), and enhanced recruitment of underrepresented minorities (Hathaway et al., 2002; Nagda et al., 1998). Trainees in underrepresented groups, particularly, are less likely to receive support from their mentors (Noy & Ray, 2012). Although mentorship is not the only factor in mentee success, it is still a major determinant in the likelihood of success (Brunsma et al., 2017) and is often the most important yet most disappointing aspect of training for students (Katz & Harnett, 1976).\nIn a 2016 paper, Dr. Pfund and colleagues proposed five core categories of effective mentorship based on existing literature and factors shown to impact academic persistence. Those categories are:\n- Research: learning technical skills, building research self-efficacy.\n- Interpersonal: listening actively, aligning expectations, building trust in the relationship.\n- Psychosocial and career: finding motivation, developing coping efficacy, developing science identity and belonging.\n- Cultural responsiveness/diversity: advancing equity and inclusion, reducing the impact of bias and stereotype threat.\n- Sponsorship: fostering independence, promoting professional development, establishing professional networks, advocating for one another.\nAlthough the list of factors necessary for an effective mentorship might seem daunting, it is supposed to provide a framework for starting productive conversations between mentors and mentees. In an effective mentorship, mentees identify their needs and can express them to their mentor, while mentors assess which categories they are skilled in providing support and which categories they might need outside expertise to optimize the mentorship relationship. Not every mentee requires guidance in every category at any given time, and a mentor/mentee pair does not need to provide every category to each other. In effective mentorship relationships, a broad range of needs can be satisfied across a mentoring network.\nDespite the importance of mentorship, many mentors and mentees have not received formal training (Balster et al., 2010). As a result, mentees may not know how to engage proactively with their mentor to express their needs, and many faculty mentors are not aware of or believe that the socioemotional functions are part of their mentorship role, such as creating a sense of belonging or demonstrating active listening during conversations with mentees (Laursen et al., 2010). Due to the lack of formal mentorship training, in recent years, there has been a lot of increased national focus on mentorship, with calls to action from the National Academies, National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, National Science Foundation, and the Sloan Foundation among others for optimizing mentorship relationships in academic training.\nOptimizing Mentorship Practices\nBuilding on over a decade of work by Dr. Pfund and colleagues, the seminar focused on two sides of optimizing mentorship practices: mentor training and mentee training.\nMentor training focuses on helping mentors learn skills to optimize mentorship relationships by working on competencies such as: aligning expectations, maintaining effective communication, assessing understanding, fostering independence and mentee research self-efficacy, addressing equity and inclusion, cultivating ethical behavior, promoting professional development, and fostering wellbeing. These competencies were adapted from organizational research and used to build a nationally recognized, process-based curriculum called Entering Mentoring that focuses on collective problem solving among mentors across a range of career stages and disciplines. This curriculum utilizes case studies built around common, real experiences that mentors and mentees face to show example strategies and provide resources to better assess how a mentorship is progressing, as every mentorship relationship will be unique. To study the effectiveness of the curriculum, a randomized control trial was conducted with mentors who went through six hours of the process-based curriculum compared to a control group, and this showed significant improvements in mentors’ skills in several competency areas, such as maintaining effective communication, aligning expectations for the mentorship, and assessing mentees’ understanding of research (Weber-Main et al., 2019).\nMentee training helps mentees learn the skills they need to proactively and effectively engage with mentors. These skills include thinking about what they are seeking from mentors, recognizing that effective mentoring is not just mentors guiding mentees but also mentees guiding mentors, understanding what core attributes they need from a mentor (i.e. identifying the specific needs a mentee needs from a mentor and assessing whether that mentor can meet the need), and learning about resources that help them build their skills as mentees. Like the mentor training curriculum, mentee training is designed using tested active learning exercises and case studies exploring these competencies. Examples of mentee training programs are:\n- Entering Research curriculum, designed to “level the research playing field for undergraduate and graduate students,” particularly from underrepresented backgrounds, introducing them to the culture of research and the skills needed to navigate mentoring relationships successfully.\n- Mentoring Up curriculum, developed for postdoctoral and junior faculty to help them navigate their careers and proactively manage their mentoring relationships.\nTo learn more about the curricula mentioned in this section, please visit the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) website here. CIMER also provides assessment services for institutions implementing mentoring education programs. This national data repository is used to analyze what mentorship strategies work for different populations in different contexts.\nResources for Mentorship Education\nThe National Academies report contains an online guide which covers a variety of topics around mentorship such as: functions of mentorship, how identities and disciplinary context affect mentorship in STEMM, the role of the institution, program assessment, and developing a culture of effective mentorship. Some other resources provided in the online guide include:\n- Recommendations for how to create a culture of intentional, inclusive, and effective mentorship:\n- Provided for all levels of participants, from individual mentors and mentees to institutional leadership (presidents, provosts, deans). Many of the recommendations are applicable to non-STEM disciplines as well\n- Mentoring tools and examples for each:\n- Individual development plans\n- Mentoring plans\n- Mentoring compacts\n- Guidance for developing and managing mentorship programs:\n- Mentorship education\n- Program assessment\n- Matching mentors and mentees\nAdditional mentorship resources mentioned during the seminar include:\n- Curricula for Entering Mentoring, Entering Research, and Mentoring Up\n- Tools for evaluating mentorship education\n- Online mentor/mentee training programs, video case studies, self-paced mentor training\n- Humanities PhD Project\n- Resources for mentoring graduate students\n- Council of Graduate Schools\n- Resources for mentors, mentees, and institutions\nRegardless of the specific role one plays in a mentorship ecosystem, whether as an institutional leader, program leader, department chair, mentor, or mentee, it is important to continue to engage in mentorship education and support the use of evidence-based approaches in mentorship. Program leaders should ensure that there are guidelines and tools for mentors and mentees to set clear expectations, engage in regular assessments, and participate in mentorship education.\nBalster, N., Pfund, C., Rediske, R., & Branchaw, J. (2010). Entering research: A course that\ncreates community and structure for beginning undergraduate researchers in the STEM disciplines. CBE- Life Sciences Education, 9(2), 108–118. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.09-10-0073\nBeech, B. M., Calles-Escandon, J., Hairston, K. G., Langdon, S. E., Latham-Sadler, B. A., & Bell, R. A. (2013). Mentoring programs for underrepresented minority faculty in academic medical centers: a systematic review of the literature. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 88(4), 541–549. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0b013e31828589e3\nBland, C. J., Taylor, A. L., Shollen, S. L., Weber-Main, A. M., & Mulcahy, P. A. (2009). Faculty success through mentoring: A guide for mentors, mentees, and leaders. R&L Education.\nBordes-Edgar, V., Arredondo, P., Kurpius, S. R., & Rund, J. (2011). A Longitudinal Analysis of Latina/o Students’ Academic Persistence. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 10(4), 358–368. https://doi.org/10.1177/1538192711423318\nBrunsma, D. L., Embrick, D. G., & Shin, J. H. (2017). Graduate Students of Color: Race,\nRacism, and Mentoring in the White Waters of Academia. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 3(1), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332649216681565\nByars-Winston, A. M., J. Branchaw, C. Pfund, P. Leverett, and J. Newton (2015). Culturally\ndiverse undergraduate researchers’ academic outcomes and perceptions of their research mentoring relationships. International Journal of Science Education 37(15), 2533–2554.\nCampbell, T. A., & Campbell, D. E. (1997). Faculty/Student Mentor Program: Effects on Academic Performance and Retention. Research in Higher Education, 38(6), 727–742. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40196285\nChemers, M. M., E. L. Zurbriggen, M. Syed, B. K. Goza, and S. Bearman. (2011). The role of\nefficacy and identity in science career commitment among underrepresented minority students. Journal of Social Issues, 67(3), 469–491.\nCho, C. S., Ramanan, R. A., & Feldman, M. D. (2011). Defining the ideal qualities of mentorship: a qualitative analysis of the characteristics of outstanding mentors. The American journal of medicine, 124(5), 453–458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2010.12.007\nFeldman, M. D., Arean, P. A., Marshall, S. J., Lovett, M., & O’Sullivan, P. (2010). Does mentoring matter: results from a survey of faculty mentees at a large health sciences university. Medical education online, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.3402/meo.v15i0.5063\nGarman, K. A., Wingard, D. L., & Reznik, V. (2001). Development of junior faculty’s self-efficacy: outcomes of a National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine. Academic medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 76(10 Suppl), S74–S76. https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200110001-00025\nGloria, A. M., & Kurpius, S. E. (2001). Influences of self-beliefs, social support, and comfort in the university environment on the academic nonpersistence decisions of American Indian undergraduates. Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology, 7(1), 88–102. https://doi.org/10.1037/1099-9809.7.1.88\nHathaway, R. S., B. A. Nagda, and S. R. Gregerman. (2002). The relationship of undergraduate\nresearch participation to graduate and professional education pursuit: An empirical study. Journal of College Student Development, 43(5), 614–631.\nKatz, J., & Hartnett, R. T. (1976). Recommendations for Training Better Scholars. In Scholars in the Making: The Development of Graduate and Professional Students, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Company.\nLaursen, S., E. Seymour, A. B. Hunter, H. Thiry, and G. Melton. 2010. Undergraduate research in the sciences: Engaging students in real science. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.\nLopatto D. (2007). Undergraduate research experiences support science career decisions and active learning. CBE-Life Sciences Education, 6(4), 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.07-06-0039\nMcGee, R., and J. L. Keller. (2007). Identifying future scientists: Predicting persistence into\nresearch training. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 6(4), 316–331.\nNagda, B. A., S. R. Gregerman, J. Jonides, W. von Hippel, and J. S. Lerner. (1998).\nUndergraduate student-faculty research partnerships affect student retention. Review of Higher Education, 22(1), 55–72.\nNational Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. (2019). The Science of Effective\nMentorship in STEMM. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/25568\nNoy, S., & R. Ray, (2012). Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Their Advisors: Is There Systematic Disadvantage in Mentorship? The Journal of Higher Education, 83(6), 876-914. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2012.11777273\nPaglis, L. L., Green, S. G., & Bauert, T. N. (2006). Does Adviser Mentoring Add Value? A Longitudinal Study of Mentoring and Doctoral Student Outcomes. Research in Higher Education, 47(4), 451–476. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40197412\nPalepu, A., Friedman, R. H., Barnett, R. C., Carr, P. L., Ash, A. S., Szalacha, L., & Moskowitz, M. A. (1998). Junior faculty members’ mentoring relationships and their professional development in U.S. medical schools. Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 73(3), 318–323. http://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-199803000-00021\nPfund, C., Byars-Winston, A., Branchaw, J., Hurtado, S., and Eagan, K. (2016). Defining\nattributes and metrics of effective research mentoring relationships. AIDS and Behavior, 20, 238-248. PMID: 27062425\nSambunjak, D., Straus, S. E., & Marusić, A. (2006). Mentoring in academic medicine: a systematic review. JAMA, 296(9), 1103–1115. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.296.9.1103\nSchapira, M. M., Kalet, A., Schwartz, M. D., & Gerrity, M. S. (1992). Mentorship in general internal medicine: investment in our future. Journal of general internal medicine, 7(2), 248–251. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02598026\nSolorzano, D.G. (1993). The Road to the Doctorate for California’s Chicanas and Chicanos: A Study of Ford Foundation Minority Fellows. CPS Report.\nThiry, H., and S. Laursen. 2011. The role of student-advisor interactions in apprenticing\nundergraduate researchers into a scientific community of practice. Journal of Science Education and Technology, 20(6), 771–784.\nWeber-Main A., Shanedling J., Kaizer A., Connett J., Lamere M., El-Fakahany E. (2019). A\nrandomized controlled pilot study of the University of Minnesota mentoring excellence training academy: A hybrid learning approach to research mentor training. Clinical and Translational Science. 1-13.\nWilliams, M. M., & George-Jackson, C. (2014). Using and doing science: Gender, self-efficacy, and science identity of undergraduate students in STEM. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 20(2).\nWingard, D. L., K. A. Garman, and V. Reznik. 2004. Facilitating faculty success: Outcomes and\ncost benefit of the UCSD National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine. Academic Medicine 79(suppl. 10), S9–S11.\nWisconsin Center for Education Research and the Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nChristine Pfund, Ph.D. is a senior scientist with the Wisconsin Center for Education Research and the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). Dr. Pfund earned her Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology, followed by post-doctoral research in Plant Pathology, both at University of Wisconsin-Madison. For almost a decade, Dr. Pfund served as the Associate Director of the Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning and the co-Director of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching helping to train future faculty to become more effective teachers. Dr. Pfund is now conducting research with several programs across the UW campus including the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research. Her work focuses on developing, implementing, documenting, and studying interventions to optimize research mentoring relationships across science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).\nDr. Pfund co-authored the original Entering Mentoring curriculum and co-authored many papers documenting the effectiveness of this approach. Dr. Pfund is the principal investigator of the National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) Coordination Center. She is also director of the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research at UW-Madison (CIMER). She is a member of the National Academies committee that recently published the consensus report and online guide, The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.thefamilyfreestylers.com/places-to-stay-old-lighthouse-upper-lundy-island/", "date": "2018-03-18T21:25:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257646176.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180318204522-20180318224522-00318.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9229589104652405, "token_count": 375, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__49139573", "lang": "en", "text": "I’ve hankered to stay in a lighthouse since I was a young girl, my nose buried in countless Famous Five novels. I still can’t think of a more exciting prospect of bedding down for the night, perched on a blustery headland, the rough seas lashing salty spray against the windowpanes.\nMy childhood wish was finally realised, amid the blowy Atlantic westerly winds on our recent stay in the charming Old Lighthouse Upper on Lundy Island.\nAnd although the salty sea spray didn’t exactly reach our windows, waking every morning to the chatter of bird song, the baahing of contented sheep, and the thundering waves crashing far below, Old Lighthouse – you didn’t disappoint. Rather you’ve hooked me.\nIf you’re seeking adventure, have a thirst for the outdoors, and love wildlife, I strongly recommend a visit to Lundy. And, if you want it to be a memory that lasts forever, one of those special ingrained warm memories that make you feel fuzzy inside, book one of the Landmark’s exceptional properties, and be one of the few when the boat leaves. You’ll be in paradise.\nOld Lighthouse Upper sleeps 5, no dogs allowed, and costs from £267 for a two-night stay. Book well ahead as Lundy is very popular even in Winter. You can book 2-3 years in advance!\nYou can also camp on Lundy (National Trust members can camp for free!).\nHave you been to Lundy? I’d love to hear your stories and which accommodation you stayed in. (I’m longing to try out Tibbets next, the old signal and watch station and the remotest property of the island with no electricity!)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.elitehealthclub.com.au/post/how-many-sets-and-reps-for-hypertrophy-bodybuilding", "date": "2024-04-13T00:22:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816465.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412225756-20240413015756-00120.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.948466956615448, "token_count": 840, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__191285", "lang": "en", "text": "Hypertrophy bodybuilding is a popular training method aimed at maximising muscle growth and size. One of the most common questions among trainers and bodybuilders is how many sets and reps are ideal for achieving hypertrophy. In this article, we'll review studies and evidence-based recommendations on the optimal number of sets and reps for hypertrophy bodybuilding.\nWhat is Hypertrophy Bodybuilding?\nHypertrophy bodybuilding is a form of resistance training that focuses on stimulating muscle growth and size. This is typically achieved by performing exercises that target specific muscle groups, such as the chest, back, legs, and arms. To achieve hypertrophy, the body must undergo a process of muscle damage, repair, and growth, which is achieved through progressively challenging resistance training.\nHow Many Sets and Reps for Hypertrophy?\nThere is no one-size-fits-all answer to the question of how many sets and reps are ideal for hypertrophy bodybuilding. The ideal number of sets and reps can vary depending on factors such as fitness level, training program, and individual goals. However, recent studies provide some evidence-based recommendations on the topic.\nSets and Reps for Hypertrophy\nA review of studies published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine found that performing 3-5 sets of 8-12 reps per exercise, using a variety of exercises targeting multiple muscle groups, is effective for increasing muscle size and strength in both novice and advanced lifters. They suggest that performing more than 5 sets per exercise may provide marginal additional benefits but may also increase the risk of overtraining and injury.\nAnother study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found that performing multiple exercises targeting the same muscle group in a single workout session (i.e., a \"muscle group\" training split) was more effective for increasing muscle size and strength than performing a single exercise per muscle group in each workout (i.e., a \"total body\" training split).\nProgressive Overload for Hypertrophy\nWhile the number of sets and reps is important for hypertrophy, progressive overload is also crucial for continued growth and adaptation. Progressive overload refers to gradually increasing the resistance (weight) lifted over time to continue challenging the muscles and stimulating growth. This can be achieved by increasing the weight lifted, the number of sets and reps performed, or the frequency of training sessions.\nRecovery and Nutrition for Hypertrophy\nFinally, it's important to note that proper recovery and nutrition are also essential for hypertrophy. Adequate rest between training sessions and adequate sleep are necessary for the body to repair and grow muscle tissue. A well-balanced diet with adequate protein intake is also crucial for providing the building blocks necessary for muscle growth.\nIn conclusion, the ideal number of sets and reps for hypertrophy bodybuilding is typically 3-5 sets of 8-12 reps per exercise, using a variety of exercises targeting multiple muscle groups.\nThis approach provides a balance between training volume and intensity and has been shown to be effective for increasing muscle size and strength in both novice and advanced lifters. However, it's important to individualise training programs based on goals, fitness level, and preferences and to prioritise progressive overload, recovery, and nutrition for continued progress and adaptation.\nIf you're looking to achieve the best results with your hypertrophy bodybuilding program, working with an ELITE personal trainer can be highly beneficial. Our personal trainers will provide individualised guidance and support, helping you to develop a program that is tailored to your specific goals, fitness level, and preferences. Our coaches can also help you to maintain proper form and technique during exercises, reducing the risk of injury and maximising the effectiveness of your workouts. Additionally, an ELITE coach can help you to stay motivated and accountable, providing the encouragement and support you need to stay on track and achieve your goals.\nWhether you're a beginner or an advanced lifter, working with an ELITE personal trainer can help you to optimise your training program and achieve the best possible results. Contact us today to learn more.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://karijocook.tumblr.com/page/3", "date": "2014-08-30T16:11:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500835505.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021355-00094-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9658929109573364, "token_count": 996, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__181278613", "lang": "en", "text": "I’m always soft for you, that’s the problem. You could come knocking on my door five years from now and I would open my arms wider and say ‘come here, it’s been too long, it felt like home with you.’\nThe most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.\nIt hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t coma back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain. Damn, there’s nothing like that, is there? I’ve been there and you have too. You’re nodding your head.\n—Henry Rollins, The Portable Henry Rollins (via observando)\nThere’s all this bullshit going around about wanting to be missed at 3AM. That is crap. I don’t want you to miss me at 3AM. I want you to miss me when you wake up in the morning after dreaming about me, missing the days when I wasn’t\njustin your dreams. I want you to miss me when you take a look at your phone and realize you can’t call me or talk to me like you used to. I want you to miss me when you’re drunk and stumbling through the room, wishing I was there for you to look for. I want you to miss me when you’re out and you walk past someone who smells like me or has the same color eyes as me. I want you to miss me when my favorite song comes on. I want you to miss me when you’re with your friends, realizing that you’d rather be with me. I want you to miss me when you gaze at your empty hands, missing my touch.\nThenI want you to miss me when you’re still awake at 3AM and you’re lonely without me there to hold you. I want you to miss me in every waking hour, not just when it’s after midnight and the loneliness forces you to think about all that went wrong. I want you to miss me every waking hour; I want you to miss me the way I miss you.\nHome’s the place we head for in our sleep.\n—Louise Erdrich, from “Indian Boarding School: The Runaways” (via litverve)\nI love being horribly straightforward. I love sending reckless text messages (because how reckless can a form of digitized communication be?) and telling people I love them and telling people they are absolutely magical humans and I cannot believe they really exist. I love saying, Kiss me harder, and You’re a good person, and, You brighten my day. I live my life as straight-forward as possible.\nBecause one day, I might get hit by a bus.\nMaybe it’s weird. Maybe it’s scary. Maybe it seems downright impossible to just be—to just let people know you want them, need them, feel like, in this very moment, you will die if you do not see them, hold them, touch them in some way whether its your feet on their thighs on the couch or your tongue in their mouth or your heart in their hands.\nBut there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate.\nAnd there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care.\nWe are young and we are human and we are beautiful and we are not as in control as we think we are. We never know who needs us back. We never know the magic that can arise between ourselves and other humans.\nWe never know when the bus is coming.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://letspraytoday.com/speaking/sue-cameron/", "date": "2017-12-18T03:05:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948604248.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20171218025050-20171218051050-00351.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9831506609916687, "token_count": 162, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__66592029", "lang": "en", "text": "Sue and her husband, Craig, have been married 29 years. They live in El Paso, TX, where Craig works as an Orthopedic Oncologist. Sue is a Bible teacher, speaker and author. Over the last twenty years, her writing has appeared in Christian magazines such as Focus on the Family as well as in secular newspapers and devotional books. She enjoys worshiping through dance and drama, mentoring younger women, and being called “Grammy.”\nSue shares, “One of my favorite things is speaking with women about loving their husbands. Understanding our own husband’s need for our respect and for a satisfying sexual relationship within our marriage are vital components of a strong marriage.”\n- You can read Sue’s blog here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://wherethemagichappensbook.com/", "date": "2019-08-23T07:43:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027318011.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190823062005-20190823084005-00117.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9558210372924805, "token_count": 992, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__192629302", "lang": "en", "text": "For all those wanting more from life Caspar’s message is incredibly motivating, providing plain-speaking practical guidance mixed with an exhilarating tale of adventure. The book goes behind the scenes of how exactly the Craven family made their magical plan happen, and gives clear advice on how we can follow in their footsteps, before taking us on a fantastic voyage around the world in their boat Aretha.\n– Sir Ranulph Fiennes\nIt’s a great story and the book is really really good. I was so impressed. It’s brilliant.\n– Steve Wright, BBC Radio 2\nA captivating book that you won’t want to put down!\nWow! What a captivating book! Right from the start, your vision, making it clear about your plans…not deviating from your goal.\nThe planning processes, the preparation (so much to consider) I have to admit I wasn’t aware that so much planning, training and prep was required. It was great to read about your vision, how you involved everyone, how you planned and ultimately achieved everything you set out to.\nYou have allowed us, as readers, an insight into such an epic, momentous journey all all that it involved. Your book was such a joy to read! I was delighted to hear the adventures of each and every one of you along the way.\nCongratulations on such an amazing read – I hope to read more books by you in the not too distant future!\nIf you do not want your life to change for the better then do not read this book.\nIf you do not want your life to change for the better then do not read this book and do not attend any workshops delivered by Caspar Craven. I did this week and I’ve been inspired to build high performing & happy teams which will create life changing experiences.\nThrough the medium of adventure along this round the world sailing trip Caspar reminds you why you must act now to realise your dreams and why and how you must ensure that you are bringing you team (be it family, friends, or business colleagues) with you.\n– Ben Pullen\nA masterpiece… an incredible personal development and business book all told through the lens of a gripping real life transformation and adventure story.\n– Dr John Demartini – bestselling author of The Values Factor\nTruly inspirational. Lessons for life and business in team work, grit, courage and delivering on the vision.\nThis book arrived on Saturday am – and it took up all my free time until I finished it on Monday evening. At first glance, you think it’s going to be a heart-warming tale about a family coping with all matter of adventure and adversity sailing round the world. And for those, looking for that, you won’t be disappointed. But it also cuts far deeper.\nThe lessons shared are relatable to business and family – and will inspire and compel you to make changes. Not necessarily changes as significant as selling up and sailing round the world (but for those looking to do that, it’s packed with knowledge and resources, so that may happen too!) – but certainly changes in thinking and mindset. I’m an avid reader of business books, and yet, this story has compelled me in a very short time to take more action than many I read.\nThe values piece for family was something I’ve never even thought of – and it’s something both my husband and I are behind. The other key takeaway for me was the belief and conviction that it really is necessary to make a life on your terms and doing what you want. As Caspar reminds us, we are here for a heartbeat in this amazing world. And yet, we are often shackled to routine and conforming to the ‘norms’.\nGreat story, great impact, incredible courage and determination and team work. Well done Cravens. Truly inspirational. I look forward to watching what happens next.\n– Michelle Carvill\nIf you want to live your best life possible – read this now.\nThe sun shone all weekend yet I had my head firmly in Caspar’s awe inspiring book, staying up well past my normal Sunday night bedtime just so I could read to the end. I have the pleasure in knowing Caspar and have already benefited from his wisdom and direction both with my small business and personally with my family and daughter. That’s what I love so much about this book, whether you are a budding entrepreneur, sailing aficionado or just want to make sure you and your family are living the best possible life, there is so much to learn here. I would highly recommend it and look forward to putting into action some of the guidance offered to create my own adventure!\n– Hillary Williams\n© Caspar Craven 2018", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://academic.copernicus.ltd/article?article_id=2075787", "date": "2022-08-12T13:11:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00127.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8992978930473328, "token_count": 547, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__89019532", "lang": "en", "text": "Original ArticleThe Incidence of Subsequent Surgery After Outpatient Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair\nReview articleOpen access\n2016/08/01 Full-length article DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2016.01.039\nJournal: Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery\nPurposeTo quantify the incidence and risk factors associated with subsequent shoulder procedures in individuals undergoing outpatient arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (ARCR).MethodsWe examined the New York Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative Systems outpatient database from 2003 through 2014 to identify patients undergoing isolated ARCR with or without concomitant acromioplasty. Patients were longitudinally followed up for a minimum of 2 years to determine the incidence of subsequent ipsilateral shoulder surgery. The impact of age, sex, insurance, concomitant acromioplasty, and tobacco use on reoperation was explored.ResultsBetween 2003 and 2012, 30,430 patients underwent isolated ARCR. The mean age was 56.6 ± 11.5 years, and 55.1% were male patients. A total of 1,826 patients (6.0%) underwent subsequent ipsilateral outpatient shoulder surgery a mean of 24.3 ± 27.1 months after the initial ARCR. Of patients who underwent repeat surgery, 57.3% underwent a revision cuff repair. Patients who underwent additional outpatient shoulder surgery were significantly younger (53.7 ± 10.9 years v 56.8 ± 11.5 years, P < .001). Tobacco use was associated with an increased rate of subsequent surgery (7.3% v 5.9%, P = .044) and accelerated time to reoperation (16.9 months v 24.7 months, P < .001). Independent risk factors for subsequent ipsilateral surgery after initial ARCR were presence of a Workers' Compensation claim (odds ratio, 2.11; 95% confidence interval, 1.89-2.36; P < .001) and initial ARCR without acromioplasty (odds ratio, 1.20; 95% confidence interval, 1.09-1.34; P < .001).ConclusionsWe identified a 6.0% incidence of repeat ipsilateral surgery after isolated ARCR. Although reasons for reoperation are likely multifactorial, younger age, Workers' Compensation claim, and absence of acromioplasty at the time of initial ARCR remained independent predictors of subsequent outpatient procedures, whereas a history of tobacco use was associated with accelerated time to subsequent surgery.Level of EvidenceLevel III, retrospective comparative study.\nRequest full text", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.elibellarts.com/about", "date": "2023-09-22T19:26:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506421.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922170343-20230922200343-00523.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.973121702671051, "token_count": 142, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__120024004", "lang": "en", "text": "A storyteller at heart...\nWhether through art, writing, theater, dance, music, or a combination thereof, ultimately I tell stories. Each method of storytelling informs the rest. Even my work as a Shiatsu practitioner influences my art. It has taught me that presence is the root of all healing.\nThis has inspired me to return to art with a focus on moments of connection, often as a means of processing aspects of my own life. I view creative expression as an opportunity for personal growth, meditation, expression, and healing.\nMy hope is that my work lets people feel seen, heard, and understood. May it inspire people to see the beauty that exists within and around them.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://tedxsantamonica.com/pdf/us/book/1291729643/bluestone-vine-donna-kauffman-pdf-download", "date": "2018-09-21T19:20:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267157503.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180921190509-20180921210909-00528.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9845134019851685, "token_count": 370, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__118703587", "lang": "en", "text": "She's done it again! Oh man, Donna Kauffman is on a roll, people! Take note. First, this book grabbed my attention because it's about the rough yet flirty Seth. He's the one we had dreams about when he popped up in the previous Blue Hollow Falls book.\nSeth has this effortless charm and when Pippa comes along it draws her in just like it did me! She is looking for a quiet place to heal her voice and work on overcoming the fear of performing. Seth might not have known it upon first meeting, but he was looking for someone to do more than flirt with-- and he gets it. Pippa satisfies him, if you know what I mean. Even more, she brings peace to the community.\nAt first I kind of thought she was being too pushy, but I realized that through building this relationship with such a small community she was pushing herself through the fear. I really liked the vulnerability of both Pippa and Seth in that respect. If you're wondering what I'm talking about, then stop reading my review and go read the book!!! I'm not spoiling a thing! It's too good not to read for yourself.\nBluestone and Vine is the second Blue Hollow Falls book by Donna Kauffman, and I love how the story just keeps giving.\nSeth Brogan is tending to his animals and getting his vines ready for spring when his sister tells him that she’s swapped houses with someone from Ireland, except she swapped his house for the singer to stay while she recovers from over use of her voice. The first meeting between Pippa and Brogan sparks fly even in the cold, snowy weather.\nYou’ll enjoy this book as much or more than the first. I know I did!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://birthfaith.org/midwives/hopes-birth-the-right-words", "date": "2017-03-30T00:52:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218191444.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212951-00493-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9891217947006226, "token_count": 2283, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__143681673", "lang": "en", "text": "That’s when I dropped my pants.\nFunny how few circumstances there are when going bottom-less in front of other human beings is totally appropriate, but childbirth is one of them. I was ready to get in the tub. So I settled into the warm water, my husband held my hand, and Cherise knelt beside us and started pouring water over my belly. A few moments later, Mary came and stood at the foot of the tub. She must have known somehow that I was still feeling guilty about giving birth on Christmas, and she knew I needed a way to let that guilt go. The words she said to me… oh those words… those beautiful, beautiful words. Perhaps I’m not quoting her exactly right, but she looked straight into my eyes and said words very similar to this:\nThere is no greater gift to God’s service than what we’re doing right here right now.\nAs soon as her message penetrated my heart, it was as though the guilt instantly released its grip on me, and I began to cry. It was a massive, monumental, beautiful release. I sobbed, “Thank you…” and Mary didn’t skip a beat before responding, “Thank YOU.” Cherise and Mary both encouraged me to cry and let it out. This was the first time I had ever cried in labor, and it felt good. Releasing those trapped negative emotions allowed my body to move forward, and the contractions became even stronger.\nAs Cherise poured water over my belly, she would periodically say positive words, such as, “Opening. Releasing.” I’m not sure if it was her words that reminded me, but as I lay in the water, I remembered a story I had read a day or two prior in Ina May’s Birth Matters. She told of a woman whose cervix had opened a significant amount (while Ina May was doing a vaginal exam in labor) simply because the woman had declared, “I just want to open up and have this baby!” Ina May explained: “When I told her what I was feeling, her joy at hearing this enabled her to open even more” (p. 29).\nIn this birth more than any of my previous four births I saw how intimately intertwined our bodies and minds are, especially during childbirth. After remembering Ina May’s story, I started thinking to myself, “I am opening. I am opening.” Almost without fail when I would say those words to myself, I would have a contraction. Whenever the labor seemed to be slowing down, I simply had to say to myself, “I am opening,” and inevitably things would pick back up again. I really felt like I was in control, like the pace of the labor was up to me, and that things could go as gently or quickly as I wished.\nAs things moved along, it was as though I would come to an emotional roadblock, and as I came to each roadblock, the right words would be spoken to me, usually by Cherise. My birth attendants were so exquisitely attuned to my process and my needs. It was incredible to hear exactly what I needed without even having to tell them what I was feeling. They just knew. I didn’t say a word of what was going on in my heart, but they knew. Each time this happened, their words would bring me to tears, and I would release the emotion that had been holding me back, and the labor would pick up and progress again. And then I would cry even more out of gratitude to them for the gift of those words.\nAs I soaked in the tub, I remember thinking that it felt like we had been there all day… that hours and hours and hours had passed. Time passes strangely when you’re in laborland. I asked my husband what time it was, and I remember being surprised that it was still morning. Some time after 10:00 a.m. It was around this time that they started pumping me full of herbal labor tea and coconut water. From this point on, someone was always putting a cup with a bendy straw in front of my face, saying, “Drink some more.”\nEventually I started feeling restless, so I announced that I wanted to get out of the tub. They wrapped me in towels and helped me climb out. I remember at that moment, Kelly started to say something like, “Do you want to sit on the toilet?” But Mary quickly stopped her and said, “Just do whatever your body tells you to do.” I did need to pee, and the toilet was close-by, so I sat right down. Getting my body upright and sitting on the toilet led to some pretty intense contractions, so I stayed put for awhile, moaning and gripping tightly to my husband when the intense waves rolled through me.\nIt was soon after this that my daughter came into the room, like my angel in Gethsemane, to give me strength for the finish. She asked me, “Are you OK, Mom?” And I quickly told her, “Yes.” Feeling her loving touches and her tender empathic energy was so beautiful. I was completely surrounded by love and support. I had never felt so protected, respected, and free in labor before. Once again I was in tears. Gratitude and pain mingled together and dripped down my cheeks as I sobbed and moaned through a few contractions. And Mary wiped my tears with a warm washcloth.\nAfter a bit, I started to feel restless again, like I needed to do something different. I stood up. Mary said, “Yes, just do whatever you feel you want to do.” But I sort of looked around undecidedly, feeling a bit confused, and said, “I don’t know what I want…” Once again, she looked me right in the eyes and said, “Oh, but I think you do.” Instantly, she gave my power back to me. It was exactly the right thing to say. I went from feeling confused and frazzled one moment to feeling strong and courageous the next. I walked determinedly into the bedroom. I wanted darkness and privacy again.\nAfter a few contractions standing and swaying, I lay on the bed, facing my husband. Cherise came in again and rubbed my feet. Things slowed down again for a bit, which was fine with me. At this point, I was so exhausted. Part of me felt like it was never going to end. But I said to my husband, “This won’t last forever, right?” He said, “Nope. It won’t.” I told him, “I don’t want to do this anymore.” I can’t remember what he said in response, but I think it was something excellent like, “You’re doing so great. I’m so proud of you.” At some point as we lay there in the dark, I heard Cherise pulling something out of my birth bag, and just moments later I felt her drape something over my body. Oh, my dear Cherise, I thought… You remembered. It was my white scarf, and I had forgotten about it. As I lay there, feeling like I couldn’t do it any more, she knew exactly what I needed. Under His wings you will find refuge. It was a tangible reminder that I was safe and supported and that everything would be fine.\nMary encouraged me to eat. She said that sometimes the body just needs to refuel so it can produce those strong end-of-labor contractions. I told her I was actually feeling pretty nauseous (which told me I was probably moving into transition), but I ate a date and some crackers, and Mary made a smoothie with oatmeal, dates, and powdered greens (sounds gross, but it actually tasted pretty good). After drinking and eating, I needed to use the bathroom again, so back to the toilet we went. Then I tried the birth sling for a bit. Then I stood up. Then I got that sickening feeling no one likes to feel, promptly turned around, and heaved the contents of my stomach into the toilet… over and over and over. Wow. Never done that in labor before. So much for refueling, I guess.\nCherise told me that it was around this point that Mary asked if she had any peppermint oil, so she grabbed some as well as some Ylang Ylang, and rubbed it on my arms. She says I inhaled deeply and seemed to take comfort in the scent. I sat back down on the toilet, and they helped me wipe the vomit off my face, asking if I wanted some water to wash out my mouth. But I was so out-of-it that I just shook my head.\nAt this point I think I started crying again. But this time it was because I was so incredibly tired and didn’t want to feel the pain anymore. Mary was kneeling on the floor in front of me, and I told her, “I just want to be done.” But even as I said the words, there was still a part of me holding back, still a part of me that was afraid to let my baby out of my body, worried about what the future would hold.\nMy eyes were closed as I leaned on my husband, but I heard Cherise’s voice next to me:\nRemember… you’re under His wings. Right now, two hours from now, two days from now, two months from now, two years from now.\nThe right words. The perfect words.\nAnd the tears erupted again, and I released the fear.\nI was ready.\nI stood up, and I got in the sling.\nOnce I told my body I was ready, I knew she would come. And she did.\nI wailed as I felt Hope descend deeper and deeper, opening me wider and wider. It hurt so bad, but I was so ready for it to be over that the pain just made me push harder. Mary said the amniotic sack was hanging down between my legs. Then it burst, and I felt her head stretching me, crowning. I start breathing through pursed lips, little breaths, easing through the ring of fire. And then her head was out, and her slippery body followed. And I felt like I had never been so relieved before in my life.\nShe didn’t make a sound. Not even a tiny cry. She just started breathing, calm as can be. It was 11:54 a.m.\nOur Hope was here. Our first Christmas gift of the year, and our best Christmas gift of all time.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://fhmin.org/groups", "date": "2013-05-26T04:58:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706628306/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121708-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.931405782699585, "token_count": 168, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__31745311", "lang": "en", "text": "Fair Haven Ministries\nSaturday, May 25, 2013\nFueling a Passion for God\nSmall Groups at Fair Haven are one of the best ways to connect, meet new friends, find belonging, and experience life in community with others. If you are interested in meeting new people, growing in friendships and in your faith, you might consider joining or starting a small group.\nJoin a Group: If you are interested in joining a small group, please email Pastor Greg and let him know.\nSmall Group Leaders: click here for resources to use in leading your group.\nStudy Guides are available from the First Love: Ephesians Message Series . You can use these guides for your small group, for your family, or individually.\nStudy Guides are available from the Radical Together Message Series based on the book by David Platt.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://brittanycharris.com/2020/07/13/giving-up-my-lives/", "date": "2023-06-08T22:30:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655143.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608204017-20230608234017-00503.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9689904451370239, "token_count": 1620, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__190480327", "lang": "en", "text": "I have another blog that I’m working on, but I had to get this out! I’ll finish that one later, but this was burning in my heart. And y’all know I use this blog to process and share.\nI’m in this season where God is pruning and pruning and picking and sharpening and molding and challenging, etc. It’s been a tough spot. Not even gonna lie or sugarcoat it. It is what it is. I had an entire temper tantrum. I was mad like, “God. What else do you want?! Haven’t I grown? Haven’t I made progress in that area? Can we not do this?” Y’all. I had a whole moment. Like crying and everything. If I could have, I would have thrown my body on the floor and start kicking and screaming. But I’m in my 30s so that’s not a good look.\nAnyway- God is showing me one simple truth. My life doesn’t belong to me. Now, I know that in theory. I sing it in worship all the time. And honestly, I gave up my life to God. Well, some of my life. See, what I’m coming to realize right now is that I have multiple lives. Like a cat, but not. Essentially, there are different aspects and shades of my life. And some of them I’ve turned over to God. Those are the ones that are toxic and not in line with the Word of God or those things that are not becoming of a Christian.\nI mean, in the grand scheme of things, those were the ones that were easy to give up. They made sense! Yup! I stopped drinking and sleeping around, etc, etc. That made sense to give up. I even went as far as to go into ministry. Got ordained as a minister. Made sense! Ooo! even further- I moved across the country (8 hours drive) away from my family and my friends and the life I knew to obey and follow God. I gave up my life!\nBut there are other lives, or aspects of my life, that God has His finger on that I haven’t given up yet. Some of them are hidden in the recesses of my subconscious but others I guess I didn’t see the harm in it. What I do with my free time, what hobbies I like, how I use social media as an outlet, who I connect with… As long as these things don’t oppose what God requires, it’s fine, right?\nIt’s not fine. Why? Because those “lives” aren’t mine either. I’ve been fighting to hold on to parts of me that I feel like I should be able to govern and control and make decisions about. But, how can I say that Jesus is Lord, but not allow Him to be Lord in EVERYTHING?\nLord – a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler; a person who exercises authority from property rights; an owner.Dictionary.com\nWe don’t like that word, control, but the reality of the matter is, when Jesus gave His life for us, He purchased our freedom. Our life now belongs to Him. We weren’t freed from sin into our own recognizance. We were freed into the lordship of Jesus Christ. Therefore, because He purchased our freedom, we belong to Him. EVERY PART OF OUR LIVES.\nPaul made this point in a couple of different ways:\nFor you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.Colossians 3:3\nMy old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.Galatians 2:20\nNothing in my life, and I mean nothing, belongs to me. And to be honest, this realization sucks. It sucks because it shows me where I don’t trust God. I want to hold on to the areas of my life that I want to control, the areas that I don’t want God to strip and the areas that I don’t know if He really will work in. That’s a hard thing to say, but it makes me realize that I have to give up my life, all of my lives, if I truly want Him to be Lord. I have to put my faith in His goodness and His trustworthiness and in His sovereignty.\nI’m not saying it’s going to be easy. It’s going to require me to give up my time, my attitudes, my thought processes, my comforts, my desires (or lack thereof in some cases!) all in adoption of the life that He has designed for me. I have to give up my idea of what I thought my life would be like and instead embrace the one He’s painting for me. I have to stop fighting God’s way and let Him have His way in me. Thankful that the Holy Spirit is our helper and enables us to do those things that we couldn’t do in an of ourselves.\nToday, I’m making the commitment to make Him Lord. My pastor says it this way, “Either He’s Lord of all or He’s not Lord at all.” I want Him to be Lord of all my lives to the point that there truly is only one life. That there are fragments and aspects of me that are divided. I want the message that I portray at all times is a reflection of my wholehearted trust in and devotion to God.\nFather in the name of Jesus, I give you full control of my life. God, point out in me those areas that I haven’t invited you in. I want you to be Lord in my life. Not just in word, but in deed. Holy Spirit, help me to relinquish full control. Help me to trust beyond what I can understand. Help me to acknowledge in all my way. Show me that your ways are right and your ways are best. Give me the discipline to submit to you, even when it hurts. Even when I don’t want to. Even when my desires pull me away from your will. Form your will in me until it becomes my own. I lay down my life, all of them, and take up the cross that you gave me. Your word say that if anyone hold on to their life, they would lose it but if they give up their life for your sake, they would find it. God, as I commit to lay down my all aspects of my life today, help me to find my life in you. Help me to find my satisfaction in you and the things you have for me. Help me to find my identity and my security in you and you alone. In your plans, in your call, in your purpose and in your timing for my life. I submit and I devote to you again. Thank you for doing your work in me. You be glorified in my life.\nIn Jesus Name, Amen.\nI hope that my musing and my processing helps someone to understand what God has for us. This walk isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s worth it! If I can pray with you in any way or be a support or an encouragement, don’t hesitate to reach out to me!\nSign up to receive blog posts, encouragement, and more directly in your inbox!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://cevios.com/foucauldian-discourse-analysis-moving-beyond-a-social-constructionist-analytic/", "date": "2023-09-28T05:06:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510358.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928031105-20230928061105-00213.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.895118236541748, "token_count": 11616, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__225682561", "lang": "en", "text": "Foucauldian Discourse Analysis: Moving Beyond a Social Constructionist Analytic\nAlthough social constructionism (SC) and Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) are well established constructionist analytical methods, this article propose that Foucauldian discourse analysis is more useful for qualitative data analysis as it examines social legitimacy. While the SC is able to illuminate how the “meaning” of our social action is constructed through our everyday interaction in socio-cultural and political contexts, questions emerge that are beyond the scope of the SC. These questions are concerned with understanding how the construction of “meaning” is connected to the power imbalance in our society, as well as how a particular version of reality comes to us as truth, having excluded other versions. Moreover, SC does not distinguish between successful and unsuccessful/marginalized claims. This article reflects on how using FDA addresses weaknesses in SC when used in qualitative data analysis, using specific examples from different literature.\nKeywords: social constructionism, Foucauldian discourse analysis, qualitative data analysis, poststructuralism, power/knowledge\nQualitative data analysis is shaped by the presence of researchers’ own insights and experiences in terms of his or her class, gender, sex, race, ethnicity, and other identities, regardless of analytical method. Although some researchers view the researcher’s presence as a pressing challenge (Kahlke, 2014; Staller, 2013), this article argue that this contributes to the beauty and strength of qualitative inquiry because qualitative researchers analyze how people interpret their social world or reality, which is a meaning-making process (Nowell et al., 2017). The purpose of qualitative research is to analyze how people understand, experience, interpret, and construct the social world (Bhatasara et al., 2013). Qualitative research is thus interpretative and grounded in the living experiences of people (Erlingsson & Brysiewicz, 2013, 2017; Marshall & Rossman, 2014; Yilmaz, 2013). Instead of analyzing a fixed, pre-established, and pre-determined social reality, qualitative researchers observe the social world, knowledge, meanings, and notions of reality as contingent and dynamic in order to understand the socio-culturally constructed meaning of the individuals’ experiences. As people experience themselves through the mediation of language, culture, symbols, and networks of meaning, this complexity of human lives or experiences must be navigated by the qualitative researcher at different stages of research, including data analysis (Nowell et al., 2017). Brinkmann (2014) used the term, “dilemma” for interpretive enquiry which is driven by astonishment, mystery, and breakdowns in one’s understanding, as well as “black holes” in understanding of phenomena (St. Pierre & Jackson, 2014). As noted by Teman, who embarked on qualitative research methods after a long period of working with quantitative methods, “It was a beautiful moment. I felt freed, liberated, and unshackled” (Teman & Lahman, 2019, p. 57). Lastly, but not least, qualitative research produces knowledge obtained from self-reflection rather than casual analysis, inferences from numerical data, measurement, and techniques (Agger, 1991; Khan, 2018; Khan & Raby, 2020). As a consequence of the researcher’s interpretive role, data analysis in qualitative research is intertwined with varied ontological, epistemological, and methodological issues and contexts (James, 2013; Mykhalovskiy et al., 2018; Nowell et al., 2017). The decision of choosing a qualitative data analytic (e.g., thematic analysis, thematic decomposition analysis (DA), content analysis, grounded theory, discourse/critical discourse analysis, constant comparative method or analysis) is also influenced by how data are socially produced and collected, as well as the purposes and context of the study. Whatever the design, purposes, and analytic of qualitative research, it heralds scholarship that can move beyond “bare bone” descriptions and conventional assumptions of a problem under study (Mykhalovskiy et al., 2018). Social constructionist approaches (hereafter SC), as an analytical method, can uproot dominant or established structures by calling attention to subjective processes. However, they generally do not distinguish between successful claims (e.g., made by powerful/successful people) and unsuccessful/marginalized claims (e.g., the voice of heterosexual versus homosexual people). In contrast, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis (hereafter FDA) takes “power” into consideration in data analysis and can promote inaudible speakers as legitimate claimants (Cheek, 2004). The FDA approach also recognizes alternative forms of knowledge as legitimate and allows for consideration of power as circuitous with multiple sources and relations, rather than as something that is possessed. Thus, this approach promotes qualitative researchers to look for difference, absence, and local contexts rather than for similarity, presence, and universal contexts (Kaufmann, 2011). This article also argues that qualitative research using FDA could be an effective way in order to revisit “social legitimacy” (Denzin & Lincoln, 2008), by promoting questions about the establishment and structure of social conditions. This paper argues that compared with SC analysis, Foucauldian discourse analysis is a relatively useful analytical method for qualitative data analysis because it allows for the examination of social legitimacy and that this approach is particularly useful for policy analysis. The following sections of the paper provide a detailed overview of the historical origins and epistemological developments of SC and FDA. This article then reflects on the use of FDA in qualitative data analysis, drawing on examples in the literature.\nSocial Constructionism (SC): Theoretical Origins and Development\nSocial constructionism tells us about how we construct our knowledge or reality through our experiences derived from stories, histories or narratives what we deal with in our everyday lives. It is important to first distinguish between social constructivism and social constructionism, as the two terms are used sometimes interchangeably. Unlike social constructivism, which stresses individuals’ mind reflecting and representing the reality (e.g., radical or psychological constructivism), social constructionism focuses on individuals’ roles (e.g., interactions) (Galbin, 2014; Gubrium & Holstein, 2014). SC emerged from the collective influence of a number of North American, British, and continental writers approximately 30 years ago (Burr, 1995). It is derived from several intellectual or epistemological roots, such as existential phenomenological psychology, social history, hermeneutics, and social psychology (Galbin, 2014). In the early stages, the ideas of Gimbasttista Vico, Karl Marx, and Immanuel Kant reflected both social constructionist and constructivist constructs that included both individualistic (e.g., psychology) and collective (e.g., sociology) assumptions. Similarly, SC was also echoed in early sociologists’ writings, such as those of Emile Durkheim, Karl Mannheim, and W.I. Thomas (Conrad & Barker, 2010; Gubrium & Koro-Ljungberg, 2005; Vance, 1991). Gradually, SC was then developed at the hand of Herbert Mead’s (1934) symbolic interactionism, Harold Garfinkel’s (1950s to 1960s) ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionists (e.g., Erving Goffman), and Blumer and Schutz’s phenomenology (Galbin, 2014; Gubrium & Holstein, 2014; Gubrium & Koro-Ljungberg, 2005; Vance, 1991).Later, major contributions to SC were heralded by Berger and Luckmann (1966), “The Social Construction of Reality,” implying that human beings produce and sustain social phenomena together with the help of their social practices. This version of social reality that we can see is constructed through a system of socio-cultural and interpersonal interactions in our everyday life (Berger & Luckmann, 1966). According to Berger and Luckmann (1966), this happens through three levels of processes: externalization, objectivation, and internalization.In terms of externalization, people express words or actions, which in turn create artifacts or practices. For example, Bangladeshi people have the idea that sexuality outside of marriage is not normal, and externalize it by means such as telling stories, or writing books (Khan, 2018). Then, these expressions enter into the social world: other people retell the story, read the books, and reproduce the ideas (Burr, 1995). These expressions of ideas become an object of consciousness (objectivation)for people in that society and turned into a kind of factual existence of truth, as a natural, objective feature of the world (Burr, 1995). Finally, they internalize or make it part of their everyday practices and future generations are born into a world where these ideas already exist (Burr, 1995). Thus, Berger and Luckmann (1966) were concerned with the subjective and objective construction of meaning (Segre, 2016). For example, it is now natural for a Bangladeshi to think that that sex out of marriage is abnormal behavior. Thus, the world is socially constructed by people’s social practices and, at the same time, by peoples’ experiences by them as if the nature of their world is pre-given and fixed (Galbin, 2014). Essentially, knowledge is historically structured and embedded in cultural values and practices. As well, meanings are socially constructed via the interaction of people in their various encounters, so are always fluid and dynamic. In this context, the epistemology of social constructionism can be analyzed two ways: procedurally and reflexively. The procedural version underlines the interpretation and saturated meaning that constructs the world itself; the reflexive version recognizes the fuzziness of social interaction and considers reordering of knowledge of social world (Gubrium & Koro-Ljungberg, 2005). In Gubrium & Koro-Ljungberg’s analysis, they centralized “intentionality,” which denotes a close and active relationship between subject and object. In this framework, “meaning” is product of interaction, not merely created by the subject or object (Gubrium & Koro-Ljungberg, 2005). Thus, self (e.g., individual identity) is the by-product of this interaction, which is socio-culturally, historically, and politically produced in a given context (e.g., society, social institutions). This is a relational self, therefore “individuals are relational beings that create constantly changing meanings in interaction with others” (Gubrium & Koro-Ljungberg, 2005, p. 693).Berger and Luckmann’s project was followed by a German American sociologist, Burkart Holzner (1972), who received relatively less attention when he published a similar tone detailing “the social construction of reality.” He agreed with Berger and Luckmann (1966), as both were concerned with processes of reality construction (Conrad & Barker, 2010; Vance, 1991) and inspired by similar theoretical sources. Holzner (1972) shed light on the individuals’ experiences and interpretation of past and present reality, and anticipation of future reality, dealing with the shared symbolic and cognitive universe of meaning. However, Holzner differed from Berger and Luckmann (1966) in terms of his theoretical pursuits. While Berger and Luckmann (1966) ideas are focused on the construction of shared symbolic world, which is endowed with both objective and subjective reality, Holzner (1972) dealt with the social distribution and control of reality construction (Segre, 2016).SC has gained incredible popularity among the qualitative researchers (Gubrium & Koro-Ljungberg, 2005; Kaufmann, 2011) because of its epistemological strengths, including its capacity of application and explanation of human being’s complex social experiences and actions. However, it has some pragmatic pitfalls, which we argue, create room for FDA approaches. Although SC embraces constructed realities, some have argued that it is still a modernist approach because it, in fact, rearticulates Enlightenment perspectives on knowledge, rationality, and truth to render these as relative (or perspectival), instead of facilitating an outright rejection of Enlightenment ideas (Kamberelis & Dimitriadis, 2016). Another challenge is that SC does not solicit unsuccessful, marginalized, untold, and unspoken voices/silences. Even though this approach challenges taken-for-granted ideas, it does not resist established power relations or structures, which we argue should be the heart of qualitative data analysis. It is argued that SC approaches merely analyze the surface meanings of action or text, such as simple cataloging and observation of patterns or categories, and miss critical dimensions of the reality (Lupton, 1992). In terms of meaning-making through interaction between an interviewer and participant in qualitative interview, for example, Gubrium and Koro-Ljungberg (2005) argue that during interviews, some “constructions” are produced, which help to maintain some patterns of social actions/practices and exclude other patterns. This inclusion/exclusion is reproduced in social constructionism.In contrast, FDA uses a “power lens” that may resist or disrupt the established constructions and inclusion/exclusion processes (Frost et al., 2010; Khan, 2017, 2018). Additionally, when using SC, the final product of an interview is an understanding of meaning. However, FDA allows room for further analysis because this perspective considers that meaning making processes cannot be suspended with the end of an interview. This process continues through different readings of the presented document in various socio-cultural contexts (Gubrium and Koro-Ljungberg, 2005). In relation to definitions and key roles of SC in qualitative data analysis, Burr (1995, pp. 2, 3) provided comprehensive, but precise explanations of how it can be utilized in qualitative data analysis. According to Burr (1995), social constructionism has still compelling appeal in qualitative data analysis because it is a critical stance toward taken-for-granted knowledge, and it challenges phenomena as taken-for-granted, implying that alleged objective facts are neither objectively knowable nor inevitable. It further explains the way we understand our world in terms of historical and cultural specification, and stresses that knowledge is produced and sustained through social processes, in which knowledge and social action also go together. Thus, SC approaches focus on how we make meaning about our everyday lives or knowledge production, in the context of symbols and institutions.\nA Passage to Foucauldian Discourse Analysis: Origin and Development\nRegardless of whether Foucauldian discourse analysis is conceptualized as poststructuralist or postmodernist, it is a constructionist approach because it focuses construction of meaning of social actions, practices, and a text using a lens of power relations (Agger, 1991; Burr, 1995; Hodges et al., 2008; Sharp et al., 2017). Scholars have argued that the epistemological roots of the FDA are derived from structuralism (Smith, 2010). In this section, the origins and development of structuralism and post-structuralism are highlighted in order to provide a historical and intellectual background for FDA. Against a backdrop of social movements and historical incidences in the West and beyond, including the May 1968 historical student movement at the Sorbonne in Paris, the second wave of feminism, the Vietnam war, and the American civil rights movement, poststructuralism emerged as an intellectual movement out of France in 1960s (Mann, 1994; Norris, 2002; Khan, 2018). This incidence challenged the historical legacy of a popular school of thought, that is, structuralism or structuralist reductionism, and introduced an understanding of the world through a lens of deconstruction (Khan, 2018; Khan & Raby, 2020). This transition from structuralism to poststructuralism had a profound influence on social thought and brought forward counterarguments against key aspects of humanism and the Enlightenment legacy (Agger, 1991).The idea of structuralism derived from the two leading scholars, linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (Khan, 2018), who asserted that language and culture follow the same structural relation between subject and object (Han, 2013; Mann, 1994). This is a scientific view of language and culture, which suggests that a “center” or underlying system organizes and sustains a whole structure (Khan, 2018). It sees the overarching systems of structure organized around laws, rules, principles, individuals’ behavior, and practices (Norris, 2002). Thus, every system, such as culture, health, illness, language, and sexuality, has a structure governed by consistent rules and determining elements. In this sense, structures are real things that lie beneath appearances and that regulate and construct meaning. Epistemologically, therefore, structuralism sees the truth “behind” or “within” a text (Khan, 2018). By contrast, poststructuralism emphasizes the interaction between a reader and a text in terms of a context, implying that a text is not passive, but active in the production of meaning (Han, 2013). This notion is echoed in Roland Barthes (1967) expression: “the death of the author,” suggesting that a text is able to produce different meaning in view of different readers’ interpretations (Han, 2013). Thus, poststructuralism stresses critiques of the classical Cartesian conception of the unitary subject with mastery and control over language depending on a reader’s experiences (Mann, 1994) which may vary over time and across individuals because different individuals experience meaning differently in relation to their own knowledge (Agger, 1991).Through deconstruction, one of the pioneer ideas of poststructuralism, Derrida challenged the idea that one can determine the definite meaning of a text, having refused to accept the claim of a generalized and absolute conclusion. According to Derrida (1997), all texts lead to different and multiple interpretations. As well, meanings of texts are diffused rather than fixed or settled, and there is no absolute interpretation or truth. Thus, textuality always provides a surplus of possibilities (Khan, 2018). In this sense, we cannot stand outside of textuality to find objectivity because there is no “outside of the text” (Derrida, 1997, p. 158). Therefore, deconstruction raises the question of whether everything is depthless, loosely attached to concepts but not really proven. It brings out the hidden mechanisms behind systems to create transparency in order to harness awareness and deeper understanding for certain processes. In terms of analyzing texts or cultural practices, poststructuralist approaches assert that the author is destabilized or decentered, and the interpreters or readers are the focal point. Philosophically, this approach does not accept the totalizing (e.g., will of God), essentialist (e.g., there is reality or truth), and foundationalist (e.g., stable system) ideas. Instead, it holds that subjects (people, such as men or women) are culturally and discursively created and structured. So, in this view, reality is fragmented, diverse, multiple, tenuous, and culturally specific.Unlike modern enlightenment thoughts (e.g., Western humanism and reasons), poststructuralists assert that there is not a point of reference, no single truth, and no ultimate reality, but subjective, relative, and is a creation of human minds (Agger, 1991). Similarly, postmodernism provides nuance as well as basic and far-reaching critiques of the myth and illusions around modern thought, including the obsession in research with the scientific method, measurement, and generalizability (Smith, 2010). Historically and epistemologically, both—poststructuralism and postmodernism boarded in the same boat when French philosopher Jean François Lyotard (1979/1984) used the term in his book, entitled “The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge” (Agger, 1991). However, their geographical roots are different because postmodernism originated in America in the 1950s (Mann, 1994).Initially, Foucault was interested in the “analysis of systems,” such as health systems, sexuality, and governance (Mills, 2003). However, socio-political changes in Europe (the 1960s–1970s) directed his thinking from philosophical and psychological analysis (pre 1960s) to historical analysis (post-1960s). As a result, he was concerned with analyses of the production of knowledge and discourses, such now called Foucauldian archaeological analysis. This type of analysis is concerned with examining, based on history, the relations between different statements, the ways these systems are grouped together, and the conditions under which they emerge. Therefore, archaeological analysis does not offer an explanation of what happens in the past. Rather, it looks at the discursive conditions in which it happens. Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge is important in order to understand the later method of analysis: genealogy. After the 1960s, Foucault moved his attention to analysis of the internal structure of knowledge and discourses in terms of the processes of power relations (“power/knowledge”), and their impact on individuals or society as a whole. “The History of Sexuality” (1978) is a vivid example of Foucault’s genealogical analysis where he was concerned with functions of power and describing the “history of the present,” including the processes of how truth is formed and the conditions under which some utterances, statements, propositions, and a particular version of knowledge come to be seen as truth, rather than merely analyzing of truth. Accordingly, this truth-making process is a discursive process, in which power relations are embedded, and an individual engages in constructing his/her subjectivity (Waitt, 2005). In this context, Foucault sheds light on the “ontology of ourselves,” which brings “analytic gaze to the condition under which we, as individuals, exist and what causes us to exist in the way that we do” (Mills, 2003, p. 25). This analytic gaze of self-construction is a historical product in terms of ethical, political, and cultural values. In fact, Foucault combined historical analysis with psychological and philosophical analysis through the transition of archaeology to genealogy. He examines disciplinary knowledge in terms of its historicity, and via this epistemological and ontological trajectory, Foucault moved from a structuralist to poststructuralist approach.A number of discourse analysis methods have been used in empirical qualitative and textual data analysis, such as discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, post structural discourse analysis, linguistic discourse analysis (Cheek, 2004). Graham (2011) distinguished Foucauldian discourse analysis from critical discourse analysis: the former focuses less on the micro (the structural/grammatical/linguistic/semiotic figures) aspects that make up the text, and more on the macro that is what is made up by the text itself. Of the three roots of discourse analysis (Cheek, 2004), such as linguistic, social theoretical, and post-structural roots, we are interested in post-structural FDA, which constructs objects in the context of power relations (Parker, 1992).In order to understand FDA, it is necessary to be clear about how Foucault defined “discourse (Foucault, 1972, 1981).” He defined discourse in many ways throughout “The Archaeology of Knowledge” (1972) and “The Order of Discourses” (1981). In the chapter related to “statement” (1972), which is a central concept in defining discourse, he used this term to refer to the general domain of all statements encompassing all utterances and statements which have been constructed to provide meaning and which have some effects in society. Then, discourse is defined as an individualizable set of statements, including all statements and utterances which seem to form a grouping (e.g., child sexuality, heterosexuality, disability) (1972). Finally, discourse is sometimes defined as a regulated practice, implying the unwritten rules, regulations, cultural and value structures that produce particular utterances and statements (e.g., socially and culturally prescribed rules for sexual relations) (1972). Thus, instead of thinking of discourse as a set of statements which have some coherence, according to Foucault (1981), discourse is a complex set of practices which try to keep statements and utterances in circulation or try to seclude them from others and “exclude” those statements from circulation (Mills, 2003). There is a power relationship embedded in the inclusion/exclusion process, which is discussed below.Foucauldian discourse can be further distinguished through mutually supplementary ideas, including power/knowledge, resistance, normalization, and truth/common sense truth. Foucault asserts that power is everywhere. Unlike traditional views of power that position it as something people use to oppress or control individuals or force individuals to do something (e.g., through the military), Michel Foucault (1978) positions power as relational. He notes that power is also productive (Foucault, 1978), in that it produces the way we construct ourselves and each other in society. According to Foucault (1978), this is how power, including both disciplinary power (e.g., via school, religion) and bio-power (e.g., via the subjugated physical body), produce “discursive practices” or “discursive knowledge” in which individuals are expected to behave in certain ways bolstered by common sense truths. As a result, an individual is judged by how closely he/she fits into the expected norms. Therefore, power is what makes us what we are through the processes of normalization. Simply put, Foucauldian power is omnipresent, productive (not just destructive), circulating, diffused, enacted, discursive, embedded in discourse, knowledge, and regimes of truth, constituting (the subject), embodied, and consensual rather than coercive. As power is relational, according to Foucault (1978), resistance is an integral component of power relations and overlaps with it. Since power is diffusive, Foucault illustrates that resistance to power must then be diffused across social systems and incorporated into the everyday. Both domination and resistance power are “fragmented and inconsistent, with each always containing elements of each other” (Raby, 2005, p. 161). Thus, resistance is about local struggles that challenge institutions and normalizations rather than revolutionary attacks to the state. Therefore, in modern societies, self-surveillance and self-regulation, rather than force, are a mechanism of social control. Discipline becomes the technique (or an instrument) of power and body becomes the object of and target of disciplinary power (Foucault, 1978).\nImplications of FDA in Qualitative Data Analysis: A Reflection\nEven though both SC and FDA are social constructionist analytics (Sharp & Richardson, 2001), poststructuralist/Foucauldian discourse analysis is a particularly necessary or useful way for qualitative data analysis (Cheek, 2004). Simply put, SC can be criticized because it “fails to deal adequately with power-laden political context in which presumably open dialogue occurs and genuine understanding is constructed” (Kamberelis & Dimitriadis, 2016, p. 14). Even though SC is a critical analytic approach, in our view it is a relatively “bare bones” project that examines meanings given to events and the ways in which discourses (e.g., mental health) are constructed (Winges-Yanez, 2014). In contrast, the main tenants of discourse analysis are that our social actions are intertwined with socio-cultural, historical, and political contexts, and our social relations are produced, reproduced, and resisted (Janks, 1997). Understanding meaning only in an interactional context is insufficient for dismantling existing reality or truth, which is why Foucault was not interested in reducing discourse to merely “meaning” (1972). A Foucauldian discourse analyst is concerned with how “games of truth” are played out in socio-political contexts, instead of focusing on how meaning is constructed in interactional settings (Arribas-Ayllon & Walkerdine, 2008). For example, what are the underlying questions (and embedded power relations) we may consider if we want to conduct a discourse analysis of occupational health and safety policy of a given country. Therefore, we may ask: how are the discursive formation of occupational health, safety, regulations are constructed? Which perspectives of workplace safety are legitimized, and which are silenced? Who produces the knowledge and which knowledge? And who can exercise their power in relation to this regulation and with which strategies? In short, when a discourse analysis is consistent with Foucauldian insights, it does not reveal a true meaning in terms of what is said or not said. It looks at statements in terms of what they do, not what they say because “discourses are not objects but rules and procedures that make objects thinkable and governable, and they do not “determine” things but intervene in the relations of what can be known, said, or practiced” (Arribas-Ayllon & Walkerdine, 2008, p. 120). The bottom line is that it is that FDA allows for understanding of political or constitutive effects of social actions (Graham, 2011). Thus, Foucauldian discourse analysis is concerned with power, which investigates how particular discourse systematically constructs a version of the social world (Hodges et al., 2008; Talja, 1999).FDA helps us to understand “how people think, what they know and how they speak about the world around us, and how their knowledge is culturally embedded” (Raby, 2002, p. 30). For instance, Hodges et al. (2008) detail how, in his study of madness, Foucault revealed three different discourses, which constructed three different types of madness in terms of three different historical epoch and places: madness as spiritual possession, madness as social deviancy, and madness as mental illness (Hodges et al., 2008). Likewise, Speed (2006) illustrated how different discourses of “mental health services” construct three different types of people’s identity: patients, consumers, and survivors. Thus, FDA helps us to unveil the multiple ways to define a discourse, or multiple discourses, to construct reality, which is linked to the power and objectives of particular institutions.FDA does not position methodology simply as a set of technical procedures in order to manipulate data (Kamberelis & Dimitriadis, 2016). Rather, it enables us to consider the hidden motivations behind the choice of a particular method of research to interpret particular texts or social actions. This is a Foucauldian genealogical analytic (gaze), which considers the ontological and epistemological assumptions behind a project, a statement, a text, and participants’ talk (Hallett et al., 2000). It can open up a window of understanding about what individuals, organizations, and even whole societies really think, rather than what they show with their manifested meaning.In qualitative data analysis, coding, as well as thematic analysis is a popular undertaking. However, it does not allow for the representation of socially produced silences because it underlines the presence over absence and spoken voice over silence (Rosiek & Heffernan, 2014). In this context, that which is not expressed or expressed with gestures and postures becomes meaningless (Rosiek & Heffernan, 2014). Silence is often seen as resistance or an impediment in qualitative data analysis (MacLure et al., 2010). However, silence is full of people’s untold and unspoken chronicles and can be a strength for qualitative data analysis (Bengtsson & Fynbo, 2018; Khan, 2017). In addition, silence can create something new, instead of merely reproducing pre-existing structures (Bengtsson & Fynbo, 2018). Thus, silence in an interview may be a resource in qualitative data analysis as it creates diverse possibilities for forming diverse expressions. In a study using FDA, Hamed et al. (2017) were able to consider women’s narratives on obstetric Fistula via non-verbal communication, as well as the use of space, body language, and silent moments in their qualitative data analysis. Thus, FDA may enable us to listen to socio-culturally produced silence in qualitative data analysis.FDA has been a growing analytical method in policy research, across fields of study, including environmental policy and planning (Hajer, 1995; Jensen, 1997; Mazza & Rydin, 1997; Sharp & Richardson, 2001), public health (Lupton, 1992; Teghtsoonian, 2009), occupational health and safety policy (Zoller, 2003), education policy (Rogers et al., 2005; Stevens, 2003; Thomas, 2002). The popularity of this method in policy lies in its ability to solicit critical assumptions regarding how policy formation and reformation are intertwined with broader social changes and stakeholders (e.g., policymakers, consumers or benefited people, and implementing agencies), which are complex and messy interactions that construct the policy processes in which the stakeholders are actively engaged (Liz Sharp & Richardson, 2001). It is applied as a way of understanding the dynamics of political processes, socio-economic and environmental lives, which are immanently embedded in public or social policies (Hewitt, 2009). In fact, these processes of policy formation are “the production of discourses,” which question the practices of government and how public policy is formed, shaped and reshaped, having refuted to institutional histories or taken for granted ideas (Hewitt, 2009). Thus, FDA promotes us to ask, in relation to a policy instrument, how, why, and by whom the reality is attributed in a context of power-relations (or arguments) rather than just asking about the reality, having excluded other arguments (Sharp & Richardson, 2001). This approach deconstructs and therefore denaturalizes and critiques, what forms a particular embedded social reality, compelling us to question it as truth or reality (Winges-Yanez, 2014).In addition to “power/knowledge” as an analytical framework in FDA, policy analysis has also leaned on “Foucauldian Governmentality” lens in order to understand policy critically. By governmentality, Michel Foucault (1977) drew on the metaphor of the “panopticon,” implying that way of self-surveillance and self-regulation, rather than force, are mechanisms of social control. Thus, discipline becomes the technique of power and body becomes the object of and target of disciplinary power. Using this FDA lens, for example, Zoller (2003) analyzed critically how workers consent to occupational health hazards, and how they regulate themselves in relation to the regulatory mechanism (e.g., occupational health and safety policy) through produced and reproduced the common identity norms and values by the employers. She argued that occupational health and safety is a political discourse at both policy and everyday organizational levels and provides insight on the suppression of conflicts at each level of organization. This study also revealed that one of the reasons why employees do not report work-related injury and illness is “disciplinary norms” (discursive and ideological construction of social reality) created by the organization through their policies related to workplace health and safety. Hence, employees themselves subjugated their physical body (e.g., self-surveillance) and normalized their illness and hazards related to work, which reduced reporting and produced consent to existing protection systems that exclude their experiences (Zoller, 2003). Another example is hegemonic masculinity ideals, such as self-reliance, autonomy, and an emphasis on agency (Sloan et al., 2010). A culture of healthism encourages people to monitor themselves to present as healthy, which, in turn, functions to discipline their potentially rebellious minds and bodies. In this context, Sloan et al. (2010) did not merely analyze how healthy masculinities were constructed; using FDA, they also revealed how these construction processes are shaped by the discourses of self-surveillance and Western neo-liberal politics/policies. Thus, FDA helps us to gain a (re)view of the problem from the “outside” and think (differently) about the present by taking up a position outside of our current regimes of truths, in order to recognize the hidden assumptions and practices that form the rules of discourse formation (Arribas-Ayllon & Walkerdine, 2008; Hewitt, 2009).\nIs SC Necessary When FDA Is Applied?\nIn this penultimate section, we move from theory to application by providing a specific example of the use of FDA analysis derived from the lead author’s study (Khan, 2018) of sex education gaps in Bangladesh. Using the lens of SC and FDA, this study addressed the research questions: How do Bangladeshi young men receive sex education during adolescence? How do they interpret their experiences? How do their narratives reproduce and/or disrupt dominant discourses related to sex education, including discourses around sexuality, masculinity, and manhood? This study identified dominant discourses around sex education, which were intertwined with social institutions, including schools; it also illustrated instances that reproduced and disrupted these dominant discourses. Some participants embraced dominant discourses while others disrupted them, and some contradicted themselves. In this case, SC provided insights into the ways that the participants interpreted their experiences. However, this interpretation lacked critical engagement by not informing how the young men’s construction (production or reproduction) of experiences had been shaped by power-relations, where knowledgeable authorities (such as schools, religion) played a pivotal role in forming their experiences. It is the participants who are the product of discourses. As well, the analyst or qualitative researcher is also a product of discourses. As such, the meaning-making or construction process of experiences, which is the final contribution of SC, is the first step of FDA. This step is then further examined using different Foucauldian lenses, such as power/knowledge, resistance, truth games, and genealogy. Given these analytic conditions, the lead author published a paper (Khan & Raby, 2020) using only FDA, showing how Bangladeshi young men constructed, produced and /or reproduced, and contradicted their experiences (discourses) around sex education. This analysis is one example of how SC is unnecessary, if we use FDA. In addition, the two approaches are philosophically distinct. SC favors a conventional humanist qualitative methodology, while FDA favors post qualitative methodology (St. Pierre, 2020); as such, they cannot go hand by hand, as realized by St. Pierre (St. Pierre, 2018):I realized those two structures could not be thought together, that their ontologies and epistemologies were incompatible because of their very different descriptions of human being, language, discourse, power, agency, resistance, freedom, and so on. (p. 603)\nThis article has explored opportunities provided to qualitative researchers in FDA, which allow for an understanding of the “complexity” of human experiences, ranging from basic human communication to the internal functioning systems of power-relations, and which provide us with a version of the truth or reality about the problems encountered by researchers. This article proposes that it is imperative to develop and promote a sound analytic that can capture the important and implicit components/assumptions of that complexity. Against this backdrop, FDA may be a fairer analytic than SC because it not only analyzes what participants have said as well as the way they said it, by looking not only at how they interpret their experiences, but also how their experiences reproduce and/or disrupt dominant discourses around the problems under study. 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Health on the line: Identity and disciplinary control in employee occupational health and safety discourse. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 31(2), 118–139.\nTauhid Hossain Khan, School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, ON N2L 3G1. Email: [email protected]\nKhan TH, MacEachen E. Foucauldian Discourse Analysis: Moving Beyond a Social Constructionist Analytic. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. January 2021. doi:10.1177/16094069211018009\n- Title: “Foucauldian Discourse Analysis: Moving Beyond a Social Constructionist Analytic”\n- Authors: “Tauhid Hossain Khan and Ellen MacEachen”\n- Source: “https://journals.sagepub.com/”\n- License: “CC BY-NC 4.0”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.clpress.com/publications/deacons-handbook", "date": "2017-04-24T11:24:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119356.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00458-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9689738154411316, "token_count": 273, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__164867789", "lang": "en", "text": "An invaluable resource for all who are, or will be, involved in the church's ministry of mercy. Includes chapters on the nature and history of the diaconal office, concrete advice regarding budget and finances, suggestions for enlisting congregational participation in diaconal service, and thought-provoking perspectives on giving and stewardship. Profoundly Christ-centered, solidly based on Scripture, lucid in presentation and down-to-earth in application.\nLet your loins by girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home for the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truely, I say to you, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants!\nPeter said, 'Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?' And the Lord said, 'Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the proper time? Blessed is the servant whom his master when he comes will find so doing' (Luke 12:35-38; 41-43)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://conference.bluepenbooks.com/users/admin/", "date": "2024-04-13T03:05:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816535.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413021024-20240413051024-00490.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9156151413917542, "token_count": 232, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__167932817", "lang": "en", "text": "Victoria is the organizer of the Blue Pen Writers’ Conference. She is a fiction author, book editor, and speaker based in East Tennessee. Her short fiction has appeared in more than forty publications, and she is represented by Sandy Lu of Book Wyrm Literary Agency.\nShe is the founder and owner of Blue Pen, which provides editing and book design services for authors. Her team at Blue Pen has supported the development of more than a hundred books.\nVictoria spends her free time backpacking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, hanging out with her husky, and practicing leathercraft. She is a member of the Editorial Freelancers Association, the Knoxville Writers’ Guild, and the Appalachian Studies Association.\n|Offering Critiques without Session", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.liveyourretirement.com/blog/book-recommendations-for-valentines-day-on-elderly-love/", "date": "2019-12-14T03:39:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540579703.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20191214014220-20191214042220-00303.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9270073175430298, "token_count": 755, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__11508029", "lang": "en", "text": "Book Recommendations for Valentine’s Day on Elderly Love\nHappy Valentine’s Day! Whether you are in a relationship, single, divorced or widowed, these ten reading recommendations for seniors are full of romance, dating tips and the best relationship advice. Enjoy!\n1. Late Life Love: Romance and New Relationships in Later Years\nThis amazing book by Connie Goldman will make you believe in true love again! Connie interviewed twenty-two older couples and shares their romances and later in life relationships. A must read!\n2. Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex\nAging should not interfere with sensuality and sexuality. Joan Price gives some valuable information and advice for senior men and women (straight and gay). It encourages you to explore, continue and reclaim your sexuality!\n3. Autumn Romance: Stories and Portraits of Love After 50\nIf you are interested in reading a sweet and heart touching book, then this one is for you! It contains twenty-nine stories of older couples that proves romance is ageless. It’s a beautiful book that also includes black and white portraits. Truly inspiring!\n4. How 50 Couples Found Love After 50\nIf you are single, divorced or widowed, we suggest you read this book. Tom Blake shares the stories of fifty couples who found love later in life. It’s sincere and encouraging. A true manifest that it’s never too late to find a new love or to love again.\n5. All Night Long: How to Make Love to a Man Over 50\nIt is true that certain things change with age, but sexuality does not have to be one of them! More than a guide, this book is full of positive information. It contains exercises for both men and women to improve their libido and lovemaking in a supportive relationship.\n6. Apples Should Be Red\nIf you prefer reading a romance novel, then this one is for you! Apples Should Be Red is the story of two seniors, a woman in her late fifties and a man in his late sixties, that fall for each other under the most awkward circumstances. It is fun, delightful and a short read! We love it and hope to find more books with seniors as main characters.\n7. Free Fall: A Late-in-Life Love Affair\nIn her memoir, Rae Padilla Francoeur, shares her story of finding a new love at fifty-eight. Her writing is authentic, provocative and erotic. It might make you blush, but you will appreciate her passion and honesty.\n8. Getting Naked Again: Dating, Romance, Sex, and Love When You’ve Been Divorced, Widowed, Dumped, or Distracted\nClinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Judith Sills, PhD, writes with humour, eloquence and wit. Even though the cover of her book and title might imply that it is only about intimacy, it discusses everything to do with getting back into the dating scene later in life.\n9. The Winning Dating Formula For Women Over 50: 7 Steps To Attracting Quality Men\nHere is another perfect book for single, divorced and widowed women over fifty who would like to find love again. Lisa Copeland, a dating coach for women over fifty, gives you the tools, skills and confidence you need to start dating again.\n10. 99 Things Women Wish They Knew Before Dating After 40, 50, & Yes, 60!\nIf you are looking for a fun, quick read, full of good dating advice, we recommend this book. It contains detailed explanations, dating suggestions and wonderful stories that will inspire you!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://yongestreetphysio.ca/news/quick-response", "date": "2023-12-10T07:51:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679101282.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210060949-20231210090949-00105.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.970329999923706, "token_count": 539, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__246519642", "lang": "en", "text": "By Lucy Piper, Senior MedWire Reporter\nPatients with low back pain (LBP) undergoing chiropractic treatment who respond to treatment are likely to improve very quickly, study findings show.\nThis appears to be true for those with acute (3 months) pain.\nThe researchers found that treatment response on the Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC) scale 1 week after treatment was a good indicator of outcome.\nIndeed, patients with chronic and acute LBP who were “much better” or “better” on the PGIC scale at 1 week were four to five times more likely to be improved at both 1 and 3 months after treatment than patients who had not improved at 1 week.\nThe team also points out that “an important and unique finding in this current study is that although 123 (23%) of the patients with acute LBP and 71 (24%) of the patients with chronic LBP were diagnosed by their chiropractors as having radiculopathy, this finding was not a negative predictor of improvement.”\nCynthia Peterson (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and colleagues investigated the outcomes of 523 patients with acute LBP and 293 with chronic LBP receiving chiropractic treatment.\nAfter 1 week of treatment, 65% of patients with acute pain and 32% of patient with chronic pain reported that they were either “much better” or “better.” The respective rates were 81% and 59% at 1 month and 88% and 69% at 3 months.\nThe most consistent factor predicting outcome was self-reported improvement at 1 week, which was independently associated with improvement at 1 month (odds ratio [OR]=2.4 for acute LBP and 5.0 for chronic LBP) and 3 months (OR=2.9 and 3.3, respectively).\nAmong the patients with chronic pain, other prognostic factors included trauma onset as the reason for LBP, a history of LBP episodes, and the Oswestry baseline score for every 1-point increase in the baseline Oswestry score, patients with chronic pain were 6% less likely to improve at 1 month.\nThese findings could help practicing chiropractors “make more confident decisions about patient prognosis based on how quickly individual patients respond to their treatment,” the researchers report in the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics.\n“Chiropractors can also expect most of their patients with acute and chronic pain to continue to improve at least up to 3 months after the start of treatment, even if they are no longer being treated.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.rhondagreen.org/product/my-exit-plan-getting-my-house-in-order-audiobook", "date": "2024-04-16T01:42:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817036.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416000407-20240416030407-00778.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9745662212371826, "token_count": 292, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__203856468", "lang": "en", "text": "My Exit Plan: Getting My House In Order (Audiobook)\nThe author, Rhonda Green is a person whose calling in life, from a very young age, has been to compassionately walk with people and their loved ones as they transition out of this life. Her emphasis in this book is to encourage and guide everyone to prepare for their eventual transition by completing what she calls an “Exit Plan” in order to save them much practical and emotional heartache.\nThis will be an extremely helpful book for all who are interested in “getting their house in order.” It also might well cultivate such an interest in those who haven’t yet thought about how to prepare for their own death.\nGreen has done a superb job of creating a handbook for the process of dying through her life-giving stories and guidance. She somehow manages to companion the reader into the nitty gritty of the “business” of death and dying while keeping a wonderful energy flowing throughout. Her focus on death is for the purpose of helping people live well and be fully present both in death and life.\nThis book is well written with strong logical flow and transitions in general. It’s obvious that the writer knows what she’s talking about from a lifetime of experience; her roots go deep. The author is to be highly commended for sharing her lifetime of wisdom through this effective book.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.diydharma.org/Thanissaro", "date": "2016-04-30T05:17:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860111612.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161511-00044-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9468991756439209, "token_count": 227, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-18__0__43829814", "lang": "en", "text": "Everything that happens in the mind is part of a causal chain. Meditation is the simple practice of watching the activity of the mind honestly and witnessing their results. Skillfulness is choosing to cultivate what brings benefit and letting go of what increases suffering. Simple common sense. And though tedious on the surface, much less tedious and much less painful that not training the mind.\nTaking an interest in the breath is taking an interest in the present moment. Being on good terms with the breath is being on good terms with yourself and therefore with the whole world.\nLife is shaped by the friends we choose. Meditation, in allowing us to be comfortable with ourselves, give us great strength to choose our friends and our way in the world.\nSecure in solitude.\n\"A Sangha is a community of resistance, resisting the speed, violence and unwholesome ways of living that are prevalent in our society. Mindfulness is to protect ourselves and others. A good Sangha will lead us in the direction of harmony and awareness. The substance of the practice is most important. The forms can be adapted.\" ~ Thich Nhat Hahn", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://oxadventure.com/i-went-to-the-wood/", "date": "2023-09-30T06:27:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510603.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930050118-20230930080118-00588.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9834587574005127, "token_count": 258, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__183138801", "lang": "en", "text": "“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\nI did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.\nFor most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to ‘glorify God and enjoy him forever’”.\n– Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://citemytitle.com/mla-book-citation-guide/", "date": "2023-06-03T13:35:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649293.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603133129-20230603163129-00631.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8723406195640564, "token_count": 1320, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__199001504", "lang": "en", "text": "A MLA book citation follows a specific format that allows the reader to quickly and accurately identify key information. Here’s everything you need to know how MLA cite book works.\nStandard MLA Format Book Citation Format\nCiting a book is important for several reasons. First of all, it gives the original author credit because books are intellectual properties. When you fail to cite a source, you commit plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty. On the other hand, if you added the correct citation, you display yourself as scholarly with proof of research conducted.\nCore Elements of a MLA Book Citation\nSo, how do you create a book citation for MLA? Actually, it depends on the book. For example, the citation looks differently if it is written by two authors rather than one author. Also, an anthology citation contains more information than a novel.\nEven though this is true, all book citations contain specific basic information that is common to all books.\n- The name of the author listed last name first.\n- The title of book in italics.\n- The name of the publisher.\n- The year of publication\n- The city of publication is optional unless called for by rare situations.\nProperly formatted, it will look like this:\nAuthor last name, First name. Book Title. Publisher, Year.\nMLA Citation for A Book Chapter\nIf you are citing a chapter of a book, you will need to include more information. Along with the name of the author of the chapter, you will have to add the name of the editor/s. The page ranges within the book for the chapter you are citing should be cited as well.\nFor One Author/Editor\nNow would be a good time for an example. So, let’s start with something simple like a citation for a book chapter with one author/editor.\nHere is the proper MLA format for citing a chapter of a book with one author/editor:\nAuthor(s) of Chapter. \"Title of Chapter: Subtitle of Chapter.\" Title of Book, edited by Editor of Book, Publisher, Publication Date, page numbers.\nAnd, here is an example:\nKang-Brown, Jason, et al. “Zero-Tolerance Policies Do Not Make Schools Safer.” School Safety, edited by Noah Berlatsky, Greenhaven Press, 2016, pp. 50-52.\nFor Multiple Authors/Editors\nSometimes, a book may have two or more authors. So, let’s take a look at a citation for each situation.\nFor a book with two authors use the following format:\n1st Author's Last Name, First Name, and 2nd Author's First Name Last Name. Title of the Book. Publisher, Year published.\nHawkins, Stan, and Sarah Niblock. Prince: the Making of a Pop Music Phenomenon. Ashgate, 2011.\nFor 3 or more authors, this is where it changes significantly. So, again here is the format:\n1st Author's Last Name, First Name, et al. Title of the Book. Publisher, Year published.\nInterestingly, et al. simply means “and all” in Latin.\nSo, how does it look with real book information?\nBear, Donald R., et. al. Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction. 6th ed., Pearson Education, 2015.\nFor Missing Author/Editor\nA book can also have no author. Well, technically, it would be called a missing author. Basically, the author hasn’t been given credit for the book. This happens with reference books like an encyclopedia.\nSo, if there’s no author how do you cite the book? You start with the title.\nAnd, it the citation looks like this:\nBook Title: Subtitle. [Edition information], Publisher, Year.\nMerriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 11th ed, Merriam-Webster, 2014.\nMLA Citation for Whole Collection\nSo that’s how you cite a single book. But, what if you want to cite a whole collection? Don’t worry. There’s a format for that, as well.\nAnd here it is:\nAuthor's last name, First name. Title of Book. Year of publication for the Title cited. Title of the multi volume publication, volume number, Publisher, Year of publication for the collection.\nDamrosch, David, et al. The Longman Anthology of World Literature. 2nd ed., vol. C, Pearson Education, 2009.\nMLA Citation for Book Editions\nWhat if you want to cite a book that’s a specific edition? Of course, you have to include the edition number. But how do you format the citation? Your citation will look like this:\nAuthor last name, First name. Book Title. Edition. Publisher, Year.\nNewcomb, Horace, editor. Television: The Critical View. 7th ed., Oxford UP, 2007.\nMLA Book Citation for Ebooks\nOf course, books aren’t only found in print anymore. You have to also consider ebooks. So, this is how you cite ebooks:\nAuthor’s last name, First name. Title of the e-Book. E-book ed., Publisher, Year published. Name of e-reader device.\nO’Brien, T. (1990). The things they carried [Kindle Fire version]. Retrieved from Amazon.com\nMLA Citation for Translated Books\nAnother special type of book is a translation. Therefore, it has a special citation:\nAuthor’s Last name, First name. Title of the Book. Translated by First name Last name, Publisher, Year published.\nHammesfahr, Petra. The Sinner. Translated by John Brownjohn. Bitter Lemon Press, 2007.\nAs you can see, there are many different MLA book citations. Which one you use depends upon the information included on the book’s publication page. For your citation to be accurate, you must be sure that you have included all of the relevant information provided.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://favoritemormonbooks.blogspot.com/2012/02/life-of-joseph-smith-prophet-by-george.html", "date": "2018-05-22T13:19:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794864790.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20180522131652-20180522151652-00408.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9833194017410278, "token_count": 375, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__117188906", "lang": "en", "text": "Friday, February 10, 2012\nLife Of Joseph Smith The Prophet By George Q. Cannon\nIn the fall of 1842, young George Q. Cannon, a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, arrived in Nauvoo, Illinois, where the Saints were headquartered. There he met the Prophet Joseph Smith. He writes:\n“The author sought with a boy’s curiosity and eagerness, to discover those whom he knew, and especially to get sight of the Prophet and his brother Hyrum, neither of whom he had ever met. When his eyes fell upon the Prophet, without a word from anyone to point him out, or any reason to separate him form others who stood around, he knew him instantly. He would have known him among ten thousand. There was that about him, which to the author’s eyes, distinguished him from all the men he had ever seen.”\nFrom that moment, George Q. Cannon bore strong testimony of the divine calling and the accomplishments of the Prophet and the gospel that had been restored to the earth through him.\nIn Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet, the author presents firsthand, accounts, letters, and memories of those who knew and loved the Prophet. The story follows the life of Joseph, from his birth in Vermont in 1805 through his martyrdom at Carthage, Illinois, in 1844. In concluding the book with the Prophet’s death, President Cannon writes:\n“The enemies of truth were sure that they had now destroyed the work. And yet it lives, greater and stronger after the lapse of year! It is indestructible for it is the work of God. And knowing that it is eternal work of God, we know that Joseph Smith, who established it, was a Prophet, pure and holy.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.reinventyourwaste.com/fables-books-goshen-meet-the-authors-february-first-fridays/", "date": "2024-02-23T06:49:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474361.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223053503-20240223083503-00015.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9318478107452393, "token_count": 235, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__161084196", "lang": "en", "text": "Fables Books, Goshen – Meet the Authors | February First Fridays\nMeet the Authors | February First Fridays, Friday February 2nd, 2024 @ 6:00pm – 8:00 pm\nWhile you’re indulging in your favorite downtown shops, swing by Fables Books and treat your shelf to a new read or two. Bring the kiddos in from 5 pm – 7 pm for a fun craft hosted by Triple P Elkhart County. Learn more about how you can protect our environment through waste management with Tyler Kanczuzewski and his book “Reinvent Your Waste.” Or dive into a new mystery with Bruce Cashbuaugh‘s newest novel, “None So Blind.” Tyler and Bruce will be available to answer questions and sign their books from 6 pm to 8 pm.\nFinally, grab a gift for your Valentine, Palentine, or Galentine. Our booksellers are happy to help you find the perfect book or gift to show how much you care.\nFor more information about what’s happening in Downtown Goshen, visit downtowngoshen.org.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.girlscoutsnebraska.org/blog/a-book-and-a-game-to-strengthen-the-brain/", "date": "2016-05-30T10:37:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464050960463.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524004920-00039-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9651630520820618, "token_count": 309, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-22__0__25930314", "lang": "en", "text": "Improving early childhood literacy is one of the most pressing issues facing our nation today. Kids who struggle with reading can quickly fall behind in school and also have a higher chance of not completing high school or going on to college. It can have a lasting, negative impact on their lives.\nAllison Tietjen understands the importance of working to improve early childhood literacy and so she decided to make it the focus of her Gold Award Take Action project.\n“A Book and a Game – to Strengthen the Brain” focused on improving early childhood literacy in Allison’s community, Chester, Nebraska. She joined forces with area elementary school teachers and librarians and together they selected books for students in preschool through first grade and created a game to accompany each book. The books and games were based on National Reading Standards and the school district’s objectives.\nStudents participating in Allison’s program can check out a book/game tote bag from their school library and take it home to share with their family. The project had three goals: increase parents’ knowledge of their child’s reading skills, enhance students’ reading performance and create a lasting bond for reading and learning between a child and adult.\n“A Book and a Game – to Strengthen the Brain” has been a huge success and with support from school staff, will continue to be part of the early childhood curriculum.\nWay to go, Allison! You are truly helping to make the world a better place.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://multdems.org/race-informed-social-justice-wednesday-aug-1/", "date": "2023-11-28T16:29:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099892.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128151412-20231128181412-00054.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9276309013366699, "token_count": 132, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__56595786", "lang": "en", "text": "Please join Multnomah County Democrats in an informative event and discussion about systemic racism in schools at\n6:30 to 7:30 PM\n3551 NE Sandy Blvd\nWe will be joined by author Susan Anglada Bartley, an Educator and an advocate for students in Multnomah County largest school district, the Portland Public School district. Ms. Bartley will be reading from her recently published book A Different Vision A Revolution Against Racism in Public Education. The book is available in independent books store and online. Please RSVP Rachelle Dixon at: ViceChair1@Multdems.org.\nLight refreshments will be served.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.studiomainst.com/products/yoga-bunny-simple-poses-for-little-ones", "date": "2024-02-22T12:24:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473738.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222093910-20240222123910-00736.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9321697354316711, "token_count": 196, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__50112385", "lang": "en", "text": "Yoga Bunny by Sarah Jane Hinder\nA delightful new board book teaches babies and toddlers 10 yoga poses inspired by woodland creatures\nYoga Bunny invites you and your little one on a woodland yoga adventure with 10 adorable forest critters. Bunny, raccoon, owl, and deer—the gang’s all here! From Hero and Half Lotus to Cat and Cow, Yoga Bunny leads babies and toddlers through these authentic poses and more, with guidance from some of their favorite animal friends.\nWith the fourth yoga board book in her wildly popular series, Sarah Jane Hinder offers parents, grandparents, teachers, and daycare providers a wonderful new way to help children increase body awareness, coordination, concentration, and self-soothing. The left-hand page shows an illustration of a child performing a pose, with the facing page featuring a woodland animal in the same pose, along with a playful narrative. Yoga Bunny also includes a complete yoga flow with instructions for all 10 poses.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://lunarskeletons.blogspot.com/2005_03_01_archive.html", "date": "2013-05-19T14:28:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697681504/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094801-00026-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9693523645401001, "token_count": 277, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__47913145", "lang": "en", "text": "Saturday, March 19, 2005\nIt’s not that many people come here to read Lunar Skeletons, and so if I make a book recommendation, it would be like a tree falling in the forest: nobody will hear it. But I thought I would mention Marva J. Dawn’s book entitled “Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down—A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time” (Eerdsmans Publishing Company, 1995, ISBN 0-8028-4102-3). It’s an obscure book, I grant, and written long ago, but Ms. Dawn has written a very thoughtful book, and it tackles the biggest problem that seem to plague many evangelical churches nowadays: the Great Dumbing Down Syndrome. And it is the case, it seems, that one of the biggest criticisms of the Rick Warren's methodology is that it excessively “dumbs down” the Gospel in order to make it more palatable, or “seeker sensitive.” But she had so many excellent things to say, particularly in regard to worship, that I am giving the book a second reading already. One aspect of the book is that Ms. Dawn wrote it at a time of great personal suffering in her life because of various health problems, which is something that she did occasionally mentioned in her book.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.realitas-llc.com/positive-dog", "date": "2023-12-10T01:54:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100989.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209233632-20231210023632-00176.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9492172002792358, "token_count": 201, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__137073405", "lang": "en", "text": "The Fight of Two Dogs Within You\nAn old wiseman is teaching his grandson about life:\n“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.\n“It is a terrible fight and it is between two dogs. One is evil–he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”\nHe continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you–and inside every other person, too.”\nThe grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: “Which dog will win?”\nThe old wiseman simply replied, “The one you feed.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mineralscloud.github.io/research/", "date": "2023-12-06T03:25:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100583.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206031946-20231206061946-00732.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8805806636810303, "token_count": 768, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__140974083", "lang": "en", "text": "Performing a state of the art study in geo- materials poses several challenges to both the human and the computer system:\nHydrous phases are among the most important Earth components. They have technological and societal utility and are important for a broad suite of Earth processes, including the origin of life. From both thermodynamic and structural perspectives, however, they represent some of the most complex naturally occurring materials: their bonding often includes a combination of strong covalent, weak ionic, van der Waals, and hydrogen bonding, all within large unit cells. Most are solid solutions, and many are prone to variations in layer packing. Many prior studies of these materials have emphasized experimental measurements and analytic modeling of their thermodynamics. Such thermodynamic studies represent a fundamental tool for understanding present and past natural processes, including those that shaped—and continue to shape—the structure and evolution of our planet. Nevertheless, many properties of these materials and solid solutions are difficult to measure experimentally or model analytically. To make significant new progress and attain a deep and predictive understanding of these materials requires a more atomistic and theoretical approach.\nSpin crossover of iron is of central importance in solid Earth geophysics. It impacts all physical properties of minerals that altogether constitute ∼ 95 vol% of the Earth’s lower mantle: ferropericlase [(Mg,Fe)O] and Fe-bearing magnesium silicate (MgSiO3) perovskite.\nUsing density functional theory+Hubbard U (DFT+U) calculations, we investigate how aluminum affects the spin crossover of iron in MgSiO3 perovskite (Pv) and post-perovskite (Ppv), the major mineral phases in the Earth’s lower mantle. We find that the presence of aluminum does not change the response of iron spin state to pressure: only ferric iron (Fe3+) in the octahedral (B)-site undergoes a crossover from high-spin (HS) to low-spin (LS) state, while Fe3+ in the dodecahedral (A)-site remains in the HS state, same as in Al-free cases. However, aluminum does significantly affect the placement of Fe3+ in these mineral phases. The most stable atomic configuration has all Al3+ in the B-site and all Fe3+ in the A-site (thus in the HS state). Metastable configurations with LS Fe3+ in the B-site can happen only at high pressures and high temperatures. Therefore, experimental observations of LS Fe33+ at high pressures in Al-bearing Pv require diffusion of iron from the A-site to the B-site and should be sensitive to the annealing temperature and schedule. In the Earth’s lower mantle, the elastic anomalies accompanying the B-site HS-LS crossover exhibited in Al-free Pv are likely to be considerably reduced, according to the B-site Fe3+ population.\n N. Tosi, D. A. Yuen, N. de Koker, and R. M. Wentzcovitch, Mantle dynamics with pressure- and temperature-dependent thermal expansivity and conductivity, Phys. Earth & Planet. Int. 217, 48–58 (2013). DOI:10.1016/j.pepi.2013.02.004\n H. Hsu, Y. Yu, and R. M. Wentzcovitch, Spin crossover in iron in aluminous MgSiO3 persovskite and post-perovskite, Earth & Planet. Sc. Lett. 359-360, 34-39 (2012). DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.09.029", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://centerforbookpublishing.org/books/", "date": "2022-08-10T21:00:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00287.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9457236528396606, "token_count": 2074, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__1516768", "lang": "en", "text": "Reference Books on Writing and Publishing\nThere are a lot of books published on book publishing. Unfortunately, like many books on other topics, the books vary greatly on the value of the content presented. We've assembled some of our favorite books on a variety of topics related to book publishing that we believe are worth reading.\nLet us know what you think of our suggestions or recommend other books to add to our list.\nThe Chicago Manual of Style, 17th Edition\nby The University of Chicago Press Editorial Staff\nTechnologies may change, but the need for clear and accurate communication never goes out of style. That is why for more than one hundred years The Chicago Manual of Style has remained the definitive guide for anyone who works with books. In addition to grammar and usage, The Chicago Manual of Style has sections specifically related to the formatting and organization of books.\nIn the seven years since the previous edition debuted, we have seen an extraordinary evolution in the way we create and share knowledge. This seventeenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style has been prepared with an eye toward how we find, create, and cite information that readers are as likely to access from their pockets as from a bookshelf. It offers updated guidelines on electronic workflows and publication formats, tools for PDF annotation and citation management, web accessibility standards, and effective use of metadata, abstracts, and keywords. It recognizes the needs of those who are self-publishing or following open access or Creative Commons publishing models. The citation chapters reflect the ever-expanding universe of electronic sources—including social media posts and comments, private messages, and app content—and also offer updated guidelines on such issues as DOIs, time stamps, and e-book locators.\nOther improvements are independent of technological change. The chapter on grammar and usage includes an expanded glossary of problematic words and phrases and a new section on syntax as well as updated guidance on gender-neutral pronouns and bias-free language. Key sections on punctuation and basic citation style have been reorganized and clarified. To facilitate navigation, headings and paragraph titles have been revised and clarified throughout. And the bibliography has been updated and expanded to include the latest and best resources available.\nThis edition continues to reflect expert insights gathered from Chicago’s own staff and from an advisory board of publishing experts from across the profession. It also includes suggestions inspired by emails, calls, and even tweets from readers. No matter how much the means of communication change, The Chicago Manual of Style remains the ultimate resource for those who care about getting the details right.\nThe Writer's Compass: From Story Map to Finished Draft in 7 Stages\nby Nancy Ellen Dodd\nJust as surveyors use a compass to map the known world, The Writer’s Compass teaches writers to use their intuition as an internal compass to create their story map. This book simplifies Aristotle’s elements of good writing into easily applicable concepts. Each stage focuses on a major story weakness such as structure, characterization, and creating tension. Through thought-provoking questions, The Writer’s Compass trains the analytical side of the brain to be creative and to write the story the writer wants to tell—in 7 stages.\nWhat's Your Book? A Step-by-Step Guide to Get You from Inspiration to Published Author\nby Brooke Warner\nWhat's Your Book? is an aspiring author’s go-to guide for getting from idea to publication. Brooke Warner is a publishing expert with thirteen years’ experience as an acquiring editor for major trade houses. In her book, she brings her unique understanding of book publishing (from the vantage point of coach, editor, and publisher) to each of the book's five chapters, which include understanding the art of becoming an author, getting over common hurdles, challenging counterproductive mindsets, building an author platform, and ultimately getting published. Brooke is known for her straightforward delivery, honest assessments, and compassionate touch with authors. What's Your Book? contains the inspiration and information every writer needs to publish their first or next book.\nJourney of Memoir: The Three Stages of Memoir Writing\nby Linda Joy Myers\nJourney of Memoir --The Three Stages of Memoir Writing is a workshop in a book. Guiding you from your reasons to write a memoir, to how to begin, you will discover the answers to the questions you have about memoir writing. There are lessons on how to write a great scene; information on the difference between freewriting and outlining, and why you need both. Timeline and turning point exercises help you get started and create structure, and you'll learn what the narrative arc is and how to create plot in memoir.\nBreaking Ground on Your Memoir: Craft, Inspiration, and Motivation for Memoir Writers\nby Brooke Warner and Linda Joy Myers\nIn Breaking Ground on Your Memoir, Linda Joy Myers (President of the National Association of Memoir Writers) and Brooke Warner (Publisher of She Writes Press) present from the ground up—from basic to advanced—the craft and skills memoirists can draw upon to write a powerful and moving story, as well as inspiration to write, finish, and polish their own story. Full of rich insights and practical advice and strategies, Breaking Ground on Your Memoir offers all the tools writers need to write a powerful, publishable memoir.\nSnappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers\nby Judith Briles\nCould you use a pick-me-up? A bit of inspiration or silliness? How about something to chew on or get you unstuck? In Snappy Sassy Salty: Wise Words for Authors and Writers, you will find all that and more.\nAuthor Judith Briles favorite advice over the years to her many author clients is included ... think and write snappy, sassy and salty and surround yourself with cheerleaders for your vision, not distractors.\nWriting with a bit of snap, always some sass and yes, there's salt in there.\nThe Elements of Style: 2017 Edition\nby William Strunk Jr.\nThe Elements of Style is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the most influential and best-known prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage in the United States. It originally detailed eight elementary rules of usage, ten elementary principles of composition, and \"a few matters of form\" as well as a list of commonly misused words and expressions. Updated editions of the paperback book are often required reading for American high school and college composition classes.\nOn Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction\nby William Zinsser\nOn Writing Well has been praised for its sound advice, its clarity and the warmth of its style. It is a book for everybody who wants to learn how to write or who needs to do some writing to get through the day, as almost everybody does in the age of e-mail and the Internet.\nWhether you want to write about people or places, science and technology, business, sports, the arts or about yourself in the increasingly popular memoir genre, On Writing Well offers you fundamental principles as well as the insights of a distinguished writer and teacher. With more than a million copies sold, this volume has stood the test of time and remains a valuable resource for writers and would-be writers.\nStein On Writing\nby Sol Stein\nA Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies.\nStein on Writing provides immediately useful advice for all writers of fiction and nonfiction, whether they are newcomers or old hands, students or instructors, amateurs or professionals. As the always clear and direct Stein explains here, \"This is not a book of theory. It is a book of usable solutions--how to fix writing that is flawed, how to improve writing that is good, how to create interesting writing in the first place.\" With examples from bestsellers as well as from students' drafts, Stein offers detailed sections on characterization, dialogue, pacing, flashbacks, trimming away flabby wording, the so-called \"triage\" method of revision, using the techniques of fiction to enliven nonfiction, and more.\nPep Talks for Writers: 52 Insights and Actions to Boost Your Creative Mojo\nby Grant Faulkner\nEvery writer knows that as rewarding as the creative process is, it can often be a bumpy road. Have hope and keep at it! Designed to kick-start creativity, this handsome handbook from the executive director of National Novel Writing Month gathers a wide range of insights and advice for writers at any stage of their career. From tips about how to finally start that story to helpful ideas about what to do when the words just aren't quite coming out right, Pep Talks for Writers provides motivation, encouragement, and helpful exercises for writers of all stripes.\nYou Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)\nby Jeff Goins\nBecoming a writer begins with a simple but important belief: You are a writer; you just need to write.\nIn You Are a Writer, Jeff Goins shares his own story of self-doubt and what it took for him to become a professional writer. He gives you practical steps to improve your writing, get published in magazines, and build a platform that puts you in charge.\nThis book is about what it takes to be a writer in the 21st Century. You will learn the importance of passion and discipline and how to show up every day to do the work.\nYou Are a Writer will help you fall back in love with writing and build an audience who shares your love. It’s about living the dream of a life dedicated to words.\nHow do we select a Book to be included on the Center for Book Publishing Resources page?\nAll of the books listed on this page have been reviewed by us and we have found that they provide excellent information about their subject matter.\nIf you have a book that you would like to have listed here, please contact us on our Feedback page. We will need a copy of the book to review. We prefer printed copies, but will accept other formats.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.clintschumacher.com/rss/quote.php", "date": "2018-01-21T04:49:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084890187.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20180121040927-20180121060927-00078.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9404983520507812, "token_count": 300, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__19020959", "lang": "en", "text": "Quotes of the Day\nEdgar Watson Howe\n\"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.\"\nMiguel de Cervantes\n\"I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.\"\n\"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.\"\n\"The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.\"\n\"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think interior decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.\"\n\"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.\"\nJohn J. Plomp\n\"You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.\"\n\"It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.\"\n\"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.\"\n\"Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.\"\n\"Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.\"\n\"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.desireesbooks.com/post/smithy-returns-in-2024", "date": "2024-02-20T21:17:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473347.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20240220211055-20240221001055-00557.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9640402793884277, "token_count": 380, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__177326235", "lang": "en", "text": "April of 2021 saw the publication of my novel Smithy, the story of a chimpanzee raised in a storied Newport, RI mansion who just might have the ability to use language--and who just might be using it to communicate with a spirit lurking in the house.\nSmithy's journey didn't end when that book ended. When I initially prepared the manuscript of Smithy's story, it was much longer, covering a twenty-year trajectory. That final draft was so long that I ended up splitting it in half. Part I became Smithy. Now, Inkshares will be releasing Part II of Smithy's remarkable adventure this February in a book called Webster.\nThe forthcoming book follows Smithy as he departs Trevor Hall and travels across the country to a research lab in California. Ruby and Jeff hope this new environment will give Smithy a fresh start and an opportunity to further develop his sign language skills. Instead, they are dismayed to discover the director of the Center for the Scientific Advancement of Man is an abusive bully who neglects the welfare of the animals and tyrannizes his employees. Worse, accidents in the lab and unruly behavior from the research apes suggest that a phantom presence is still hovering over Smithy. Has the \"Dark Woman\" followed him from Trevor Hall, or are new entities converging on him?\nAs word spreads of the weird events at CSAM and Smithy's unusual abilities, his notoriety grows to worldwide proportions, eventually claiming headlines, a place in the court of public opinion, and participation in the court of law. It's a story about belief in the mysterious and faith in the unseen. I think it will thrill you. It may amaze you. It might even . . .terrify you.\nI hope you will join me and Smithy for the conclusion of a saga that is out of this world.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://indigowomenscenter.com/poor-ovarian-responsepor/", "date": "2020-01-18T03:38:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250591763.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20200118023429-20200118051429-00103.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9276615977287292, "token_count": 1186, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__180674265", "lang": "en", "text": "Patients with poor ovarian response (POR) are both challenging to treat and represent a large proportion of patients presenting with infertility . Patients with POR, who are often of advanced maternal age, have a high cycle cancellation rate, higher miscarriage rate, and significantly reduced live birth rate per cycle.\nThe term “poor responder” is typically referred to as someone whose ovaries and body does not respond to fertility medications. Usually they will require much higher doses of stimulation medications to produce 4 or less than optimal number of eggs needed to proceed in an IVF treatment.\nHow do you diagnose someone who may be a poor responder?\nIn most cases a poor responder diagnosis is discovered after going through an IVF cycle resulting in a poor stimulation outcome. However, it is possible to identify potential issues ahead of time through ovarian reserve testing. This can be done through having a provider ideally a fertility specialist, check the FSH levels and conducting the clomiphene challenge test. An ultrasound assessment can help predict both resting and antral follicle numbers. There is one last test that can help determine if a person will be a poor responder and that is cycle day 3 blood testing of the Inhibin B levels.\nIt has been recognized that, in order to define the poor response in IVF, at least two of the following three features must be present: (i) advanced maternal age or any other risk factor for POR; (ii) a previous POR; and (iii) an abnormal ovarian reserve test (ORT). Two episodes of POR after maximal stimulation are sufficient to define a patient as poor responder in the absence of advanced maternal age or abnormal ORT. By definition, the term POR refers to the ovarian response, and therefore, one stimulated cycle is considered essential for the diagnosis of POR. However, patients of advanced age with an abnormal ORT may be classified as poor responders since both advanced age and an abnormal ORT may indicate reduced ovarian reserve and act as a surrogate of ovarian stimulation cycle outcome. In this case, the patients should be more properly defined as ‘expected poor responder’. If this definition of POR is uniformly adapted as the ‘minimal’ criteria needed to select patients for future clinical trials, more homogeneous populations will be tested for any new protocols. Finally, by reducing bias caused by spurious POR definitions, it will be possible to compare results and to draw reliable conclusions.\nIt is important that women who are diagnosed as poor responders talk discuss with their fertility specialist on whether they fall in the spectrum. There are studies that indicate that women with elevated FSH levels during a clomiphene challenge test, may have an unsuccessful IVF cycle. However, everybody’s diagnosis can vary as well treatment protocol.\nHere are a few different treatments for a poor response to ovarian stimulation that are commonly recommended:\n- Altering the pituitary down regulation protocols\n- Modifying stimulation cycle medications (e.g., different types and amounts gonadotropins),\n- The use of adjuvant therapy (such as, growth hormone or androgen pretreatment), and\n- advanced laboratory techniques (e.g., assisted hatching, continuing to egg retrieval despite low follicle numbers, or day 2 transfers)\nAgonist Protocol or Microdose Lupron Flare Protocol: If patient had a poor response to other protocols or are of advanced maternal age, we can recommend a lower dose of Lupron that stimulates (rather than suppresses) the body’s natural production of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH). This is considered the “flare” period. patient will continue to take the microdose of Lupron during the stimulation phase up until hCG trigger injection. The combination of low-dose Lupron and stimulation drugs maximizes the patient’s ovarian stimulation potential. eggs will be retrieved, fertilized, and transferred back into uterus. This cycle takes approximately 6 weeks, if birth control is not used, until the time of pregnancy test.\nEstrogen Priming Protocol: In conjunction with the Antagonist Protocol, estrogen can be supplemented to silence natural hormone production and ovarian stimulation. The estrogen patch is typically prescribed two weeks before day 1 of cycle and is replaced daily until period (cycle day 1) arrives. The stimulation period begins and follows the Antagonist protocol. This is best for poor responders or women diagnosed with Diminished Ovarian Reserve (DOR).\nHOW MINI IVF S ARE INCREASING POOR RESPONDERS CHANCES OF GETTING PREGNANT ?\nWhat is a mini IVF cycle?\nMini, also known as minimal stimulation, IVF protocols have one distinct difference from traditional IVF protocols. Instead of using fertility medication to push the body to produce a large number of eggs, Mini IVF focuses on producing a small number of high quality eggs. On average, a mini IVF cycle retrieves between two and five high quality eggs.\nWhy are poor responders and Mini IVFs a good match?\nBecause minimal stimulation IVF protocols are not concerned with retrieving a large number of eggs, poor responders are often a good fit. Each woman is prescribed only the specific level of medication she needs to promote ovulation. Throughout the cycle each woman is closely monitored which allows the care team to make adjustments as necessary to provide the best outcome.\nWhat medication is used during Mini IVF cycles?\nEach woman’s medication is determined by her specific needs, therefore treatment amounts vary. Generally, women undergoing a Mini IVF protocol can expect to take one dose of Clomid a day as well as up to three injections of Menopur during the course of the cycle. Additionally, a dose of Synarel – which is administered via nasal spray – is generally used to trigger ovulation.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://patricialortie.com/2018/05/09/longing-lazy-days-series-speaking-natures-entanglements/", "date": "2023-09-24T21:39:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924191454-20230924221454-00182.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9737811088562012, "token_count": 558, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__282625966", "lang": "en", "text": "Some time ago, after painting realistic landscapes for ten years, I began looking for my own visual voice. I had realized that the landscapes I’d been painting could no longer speak of the depth and magic of my relationship with the natural world. So I set out to paint differently, to paint in a way that truly speaks of who I am, of what I value, of what I want to bring to the world, and to leave behind. This led me to think deeply about what has influenced my visual world and I soon found myself longing for the lazy summer days of my childhood.\nWhen we were little girls, my sister and I would float on the Chenal du Moine close to the small village of Notre-Dame-de-Pierreville. Our family cabin stood on a small dirt hill protected against the yearly spring floods, and we were two little girls free to find time to daydream in the dark waters of this gentle river.\nThose delicious summer days flowed into one another as we followed the warm currents that led us to Saint-Pierre Lake. As we sat on our life jackets, the water surrounded us with its love and patience and we reciprocated fully. Trusting in its arms, we stood witness to its infinite creations: the plants, the insects, the trees, the fish. It felt magical and boundless and we sensed we were part of it, savouring the smells, the sounds and the landscape. Our skin drank the sun, the water and the wind and we were nourished by Nature’s infinite wealth.\nAt night, I would dream. I would dream of water, trees and sky. I would find myself floating again, this time, amongst the clouds. Sitting on my life jacket, I would weightlessly travel the sky. My subconscious reviling the ultimate expression of the freedom that lived within us during those summer days. Protected from the watchful eyes of adults, my visual and emotional world was taking shape, strongly rooted in the water and in the forest.\nToday, I strive to reproduce those childhood experiences through my creative process and to visually express the powerful emotions they awake in me. My work is a visual expression of that sense of freedom, of communion with nature, and with the world. I long to reproduce those experiences, but being an adult with a to-do list that never ends, I find the only place I can replicate that feeling is while I paint them. Today, in every piece I paint, I make a deliberate decision to, at least emotionally, plunge back into those delicious lazy summer days and to express the magnitude of their grip on my being. And my hope is that I can share them with you, offering the peace and magic they have instilled in me.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://momentumworld.com/hall-of-fame/j-k-rowling/", "date": "2024-04-20T07:14:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817491.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420060257-20240420090257-00804.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9773713946342468, "token_count": 598, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__180285154", "lang": "en", "text": "Joanne Rowling (born 31 July 1965), also known by her pen name J. K. Rowling, is a British author and philanthropist. She wrote a seven-volume children’s fantasy series, Harry Potter, published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 500 million copies, been translated into at least 70 languages, and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike, an ongoing crime fiction series, as Robert Galbraith.\nBorn in Yate, Rowling graduated with a degree in French from the University of Exeter in 1987 and began working temp jobs as a bilingual secretary. In 1990, the idea for the characters of Harry Potter came to her while she waited on a delayed train; later that year, her mother died of multiple sclerosis. In the seven years before publication of the first Harry Potter novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (1997), Rowling moved to Portugal, married, had a daughter, relocated to Scotland when her marriage failed, divorced, and earned a teaching certificate. She wrote while living on state assistance as a single parent, deeply affected by her mother’s death. By 2008, Forbes had named her the world’s highest-paid author.\nRowling concluded the Harry Potter series with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007). The novels follow a boy called Harry Potter as he attends Hogwarts, a school for wizards, and battles Lord Voldemort. Death and the divide between good and evil are the central themes of the series. Its influences include: Bildungsroman (the coming-of-age genre), school stories, fairy tales, and Christian allegory. The series revived fantasy as a genre in the children’s market, spawned a host of imitators, and inspired an active fandom. Critical reception has been more mixed. Many reviewers see Rowling’s writing as conventional; some regard her portrayal of gender and social division as regressive. There were also religious debates over Harry Potter.\nRowling has won many accolades for her work. She has been appointed to the Order of the British Empire and made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature and philanthropy. Harry Potter brought her wealth and recognition that she has used to advance philanthropic endeavours and political causes. She co-founded the charity Lumos and established the Volant Charitable Trust, named after her mother. Rowling’s charitable giving centres on medical causes and supporting at-risk women and children. In politics, she has donated to Britain’s Labour Party and opposed Scottish independence and Brexit. Since late 2019, she has publicly expressed her opinions on transgender people and related civil rights. These have been criticised as transphobic by LGBT rights organisations and some feminists, but have received support from other feminists and individuals.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://malenerix.dk/vare/1-bog/", "date": "2019-03-25T14:29:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203991.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325133117-20190325155117-00331.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9766716361045837, "token_count": 140, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__56570200", "lang": "en", "text": "Delivered digitally as an pdf ebook.\nIn 2009 Malene Rix published a book on women and negotiation, which has been translated into English and published as an e-book.\nThe focus of the book is the terms under which we as women negotiate, but also on the many useful tools and skills we can draw on to make our negotiations both more constructive and rewarding for both sides of the table.\nThe book looks at classic workplace negotiations but also on the agreements we reach at home with family and friends.\nThe pdf ebook will be attached to the confirmationmail you receive after payment. You will be able to download the pdf ebook 2 times and the link will expire after 1 month.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://af.hkbu.edu.hk/tc/faculty-members/jason-coe", "date": "2023-03-21T11:01:13Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943695.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321095704-20230321125704-00637.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9201449155807495, "token_count": 191, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__43378467", "lang": "en", "text": "Dr. Jason G. Coe received his BA in English and Film Studies at the University of California Berkeley. He received his MA in Literary and Cultural Studies and his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include: Asian/American and Transpacific Film and Media, Gender and New Media, and Storytelling, Stardom and Performance. He serves on the editorial team for Global Storytelling: Journal of Film and Media and on the board of the Women's Studies Research Centre (WSRC) at HKU. His publications appear in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Asian Cinema, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas. His non-fiction writings appear in the Engendering a Buzz: WSRC Newsletter, CHA: A Literary Journal, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Blog, and Hyphen.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://elcafedeocata.blogspot.com/2011/12/carta-de-george-orwell.html", "date": "2021-04-12T06:30:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038066613.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20210412053559-20210412083559-00302.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9561115503311157, "token_count": 422, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__245261777", "lang": "en", "text": "Carta de George Orwell a su editor Frederic Warburg en 1948, cuando estaba dando los últimos toques a su última novela. Recomiendo llegar hasta el final para no perderse la referencia a Sartre.\nIsle of Jura\nYou will have had my wire by now, and if anything crossed your mind I dare say I shall have had a return wire from you by the time this goes off. I shall finish the book, D.V., early in November, and I am rather flinching from the job of typing it, because it is a very awkward thing to do in bed, where I still have to spend half the time. Also There will have to be carbon copies, a thing which always fidgets me, and the book is fearfully long, I should think well over 100,000 words, possibly 125,000. I can't send it away because it is an unbelievably bad MS and no one could make head or tail of it without explanation. On the other hand a skilled typist under my eye could do it easily enough. If you can think of anybody who would be willing to come, I will send money for the journey and full instructions. I think we could make her quite comfortable. There is always plenty to eat and I will see that she has a comfortable warm place to work in.\nI am not pleased with the book but I am not absolutely dissatisfied. I first thought of it in 1943. I think it is a good idea but the execution would have been better if I had not written it under the influence of TB. I haven't definitely fixed on the title but I am hesitating between NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR and THE LAST MAN IN EUROPE.\nI have just had Sartre's book on antisemitism, which you published, to review. I think Sartre is a bag of wind and I am going to give him a good boot.\nPlease give everyone my love.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jenniferfawcettauthor.com/other-writing/", "date": "2024-02-25T07:48:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474594.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225071740-20240225101740-00420.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9462603330612183, "token_count": 212, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__16572718", "lang": "en", "text": "The first play I wrote was a one-woman autobiographical show about growing up on a goat farm. From there, I’ve gone on to write full-length multi-character dramas, novel adaptations, and pieces that blend a fictional story with text from interviews. I’ve explored motherhood, climate change, bullying, mental illness, the Bosnian War, and witches, among other subjects.\nWhen I write a play, I start with a question - a question I do not know the answer to. A question there is no answer to, at least, not one that is “right.” For an hour or two, I want the audience to live with people who make difficult, different choices – choices that they might never make themselves. Nothing allows us to feel empathy like live theater. That ephemeral magic of a play, the act of witnessing, and how it asks us to suspend our disbelief - no matter how many times I sit in the theatre, it gets me every time and keeps me coming back.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://holl.fi/tuote/engaging-to-learn/", "date": "2019-08-23T16:15:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027318894.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20190823150804-20190823172804-00211.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.931727409362793, "token_count": 197, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__17930192", "lang": "en", "text": "ENGAGING TO LEARN\neKirja ostettavissa Amazonista, hinta 9,99 euroa / You can buy the eBook in Amazon, 9,99 euros.\nThis book focuses on questions such as: How can activate the learners to learn? How can we help learners to take control of their own learning?\nWith the help of this book teachers can engage their students in learning by creating learning opportunities that will make learning inspiring. The book offers practical advice and useful tools for teachers in their everyday work.\nAt the heart of the book lie learning assignments. A learning assignment is an important pedagogical method and a tool for the teacher. You can find interesting topics and appropriate ideas for a variety of teaching situations from classrooms to eLearning.\nThe book uses text and figures to introduce how to design different kind of learning processes. The book is aimed at teachers at all levels of education, vocational institutions, colleges and universities and other organizations.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://eeweekend.org/sermons/recent/2016/11/15/2-kings-219-22", "date": "2023-12-01T20:42:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100304.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201183432-20231201213432-00002.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9256039261817932, "token_count": 620, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__100783954", "lang": "en", "text": "The Wisdom of 2 Kings 2:19-22\nWelcome to Catholic Engaged Encounter, a faithful community dedicated to exploring and understanding the profound teachings of the Bible. In this article, we will delve into the wisdom found in 2 Kings 2:19-22.\nUnderstanding the Context\nTo truly appreciate the depth of this passage, it is vital to understand its historical and cultural context. 2 Kings is part of the Old Testament, specifically, the historical books of the Bible. It recounts the events and stories pertaining to the monarchy of Israel and Judah.\nThe Miracle of Healing\nIn 2 Kings 2:19-22, Elisha, the prophet, performs a miraculous healing by purifying the water of Jericho. The city's water source was contaminated, causing harm and even death to those who consumed it. The inhabitants of Jericho sought help from Elisha, who, through the power of God, transformed the water, making it safe and life-giving once again.\nFaith and Trust\nOne of the central themes of this passage is the importance of faith and trust in God's divine intervention. The people of Jericho turned to Elisha in their time of need, demonstrating their unwavering faith in God's chosen prophet. It serves as a reminder that, even in the face of adversity or seemingly insurmountable challenges, placing our trust in God can lead to remarkable outcomes.\nLessons for Today\nThe teachings from 2 Kings 2:19-22 are not limited to the time in which they were written. Instead, they continue to resonate with contemporary audiences, offering valuable lessons for believers today. Some of these lessons include:\n- Prayer and Intercession: Like the people of Jericho, we can seek God's intervention through prayer and seek guidance from figures of spiritual authority.\n- The Power of Faith: When faced with seemingly impossible situations, having faith in God can lead to miracles and solutions that surpass our human understanding.\n- God's Healing Grace: Just as God healed the waters of Jericho, He continues to offer His abundant grace, providing healing and renewal to those who trust in Him.\n- Supporting and Strengthening Communities: The story of Jericho illustrates the importance of coming together as a community, supporting one another, and seeking spiritual guidance.\nJoin Catholic Engaged Encounter\nAt Catholic Engaged Encounter, we aim to foster a community based on faith and beliefs. By exploring profound biblical passages like 2 Kings 2:19-22, we deepen our understanding of the Scriptures and strengthen our spiritual journey. Join us today and embark on a transformative experience through our engaging programs, retreats, and online resources.\nWhether you are seeking spiritual growth, strengthening your relationship with God, or preparing for marriage, Catholic Engaged Encounter offers valuable insights and support every step of the way.\nDiscover the power of faith and the transformative teachings of the Bible with Catholic Engaged Encounter. Together, let us explore, learn, and grow in our spiritual journeys.\nThis page is brought to you by Catholic Engaged Encounter - Community and Society | Faith and Beliefs", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://irregularadventures.com/blog/book-one-at-the-whim-of-the-open-road/", "date": "2023-06-07T05:46:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653608.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607042751-20230607072751-00616.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9576219916343689, "token_count": 239, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__292171024", "lang": "en", "text": "At the Whim of the Open Road – Now Available from Amazon and select book/cycling shops\nAt the Whim of the Open Road is the story of William Bennett’s journey across Europe, Asia and Australia, from Limerick to Sydney, the first stage of his attempt to cycle around the world.\nAfter five long years of planning and saving, he takes the leap, venturing out into the world with nothing but a tent and some personal belongings strapped to his bicycle. With one pedal stroke he sets in motion his dream of cycling around the world, leaving his comfortable life behind for one of uncertainty and danger on the open road. His goal: to pedal every inch of the way across the inhospitable deserts, towering mountain ranges and dense jungles of our planet.\nAlong the way, he faces incredible adversity, including wild animal attacks, debilitating tropical diseases, corrupt officials, robbery attempts and near-death experiences. Yet, more importantly, he witnesses the raw beauty of this special planet and its people, breathing in all the wonder that the world has to offer; all of it heightened as he traverses the open roads of the world alone on a humble bicycle.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://wellreadnative.com/about", "date": "2023-12-06T17:16:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100602.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206162528-20231206192528-00064.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.907461404800415, "token_count": 609, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__169665783", "lang": "en", "text": "Co-founders Allie Young (Diné), Kayla Gebeck Carroll (Ojibwe), and Abigail Jackson Smith (Oglala) have been friends since they met at Dartmouth College in 2008.\nQuarterly, Well-Read Native hosts a virtual Indigenous Book Club meeting. During a typical meeting, attendees get the chance to see an Indigenous artist perform, ask the guest author questions, and break out into small groups to meet other Well-Read Native members and discuss Indigenous literature.\nSince launching in November of 2020, Well-Read Native is honored to have been joined by 11 Indigenous authors and academics, including David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Winter Counts), Terese Marie Mailhot (Heart Berries), David Treuer (The Hiawatha), Melissa Lucashenko (Too Much Lip), Waubgeshig Rice (Moon of the Crusted Snow), Tommy Orange (There There), Professor Nick Reo, Anton Treuer (The Language Warrior's Manifesto), Jesmyn Ward (Men We Reaped), Danielle Geller (Dog Flowers), Brenda Child (My Grandfather's Knocking Sticks), and Stephen Graham Jones (The Only Good Indians). In May, Well-Read Native will host Lisa Bird-Wilson for a discussion of her debut novel, Probably Ruby. RSVP here.\nWell-Read Native held its first virtual Indigenous Book Club meeting on November 5, 2020.\nEmpowering Native American, Alaska Native, and First Nations children to be readers and storytellers is core to our mission. In June of 2021, Well-Read Native launched its Well-Read Native Youth initiative for young readers of all ages—from picture book through young adult.\nThe Well-Read Native Youth initiative aims to broaden Indigenous families' and children's access to literature that reflects and celebrates the diverse cultures, experiences, and lives of young readers from our communities. To that end, Well-Read Native Youth's programming centers on children's and young adult books by Indigenous authors.\nWell-Read Native Youth's goal is for every Indigenous child in every classroom throughout Indian Country and the United States to see themselves reflected in the books they read.\nTo learn more about Well-Read Native Youth, follow us on Instagram (@wellreadnativeyouth).\nWell-Read Native launched its Well-Read Native Youth initiative this summer.\nThe Well-Read Native Indigenous Book Club is a global community of readers from all over Indian Country and the globe. Our 1,500+ members represent over 95 tribes and 4 countries (and counting!)\nWhile membership is open to allies, our mission is to read and elevate Indigenous voices in academia and literature. The Well-Read Native team is always open to book recommendations. Got an idea? Please drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.org\nWell-Read Native's goal is to build a community of readers throughout Indian Country and the globe who believe in the impact of books—and friendship!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://future-portal.com/mountains/", "date": "2023-09-22T04:32:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506329.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922034112-20230922064112-00631.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8744111061096191, "token_count": 401, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__286231998", "lang": "en", "text": "Embark on a Celestial Journey: Explore Our 360° Mountain Peak at Night\nAscend to the summit of a majestic mountain and immerse yourself in a breathtaking 360° environment that unveils the wonders of the night sky. Step into our mesmerizing mountain peak at night and behold the awe-inspiring beauty that unfolds before your eyes.\nAs you gaze into the distance, you’ll be greeted by infinite snowy mountain vistas stretching as far as the eye can see. The pristine white peaks, softly illuminated by the moonlight, create a serene and ethereal backdrop. Each snow-capped summit invites you to embark on a journey of exploration and tranquility.\nLook up, and a celestial masterpiece unfolds above you. The night sky comes alive with a dazzling display of twinkling stars, forming a celestial canopy that fills you with a sense of wonder. The breathtaking Aurora Borealis dances across the sky, casting vibrant ribbons of color that weave and twist with an otherworldly grace.\nStand at the pinnacle of this mountain peak and feel the cool, crisp air embrace you. The stillness and tranquility of the night surround you, allowing you to immerse yourself in the majesty of the natural world. It’s a moment of reflection, of connection, and of profound serenity.\nIn this immersive mountain peak environment, time stands still. You can lose yourself in the infinite beauty of the snowy mountains, gaze in awe at the twinkling stars, and witness the enchanting spectacle of the Aurora Borealis. Allow the serenity of this celestial setting to transport you to a place of peace and introspection.\nEscape the confines of ordinary life and step into our immersive mountain peak at night. Let the infinite snowy vistas, twinkling stars, and captivating Aurora Borealis captivate your senses and ignite your imagination. This is a celestial journey that will leave an indelible mark on your soul.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.alcohol-rehab.net/my-journey-with-meditation/", "date": "2018-07-20T00:38:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591455.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720002543-20180720022543-00551.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.972944438457489, "token_count": 982, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__125837311", "lang": "en", "text": "I didn’t always love meditation. When I was first introduced, I actually disliked it. My relationship to it has changed over the years, as I’ve found practices that work well for me. Today, I sit every day, teach meditation with One Mind Dharma, and record regular guided meditations for our community across the world.\nThe Introduction to Practice\nI was introduced to practice at a fairly young age. In my early teens, while I was struggling with depression and drug abuse, my dad gave me a book by the Vietnamese Zen teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. The book, The Miracle of Mindfulness hit me hard. I loved the ideas shared, the simplicity of it, and how pragmatic it seemed. However, I didn’t really put it into use.\nSomewhere in my head, I thought that reading about these practices would benefit me without any further effort on my part. This is unfortunately a trap I still fall into. We can read, learn all the teachings, or know everything about a practice, but we also need to actually practice. Although I didn’t utilize what I was learning, I do think that this experience really planted the seed that I began watering years down the road.\nMeditating while Using Drugs\nWhen I was in college in Oregon, I sat with a meditation group in Portland. I was using drugs and drinking regularly, and using meditation as a way to try to fix myself. Rather than looking at my addiction, I tried everything I could to get better. It reminds me of the words on page 31 of the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous:\nHere are some of the methods we have tried: Drinking beer only, limiting the number of drinks, never drinking alone, never drinking in the morning, drinking only at home, never having it in the house, never drinking during business hours, drinking only at parties, switching from scotch to brandy, drinking only natural wines, agreeing to resign if ever drunk on the job, taking a trip, not taking a trip, swearing off forever (with and without a solemn oath), taking more physical exercise, reading inspirational books, going to health farms and sanitariums, accepting voluntary commitment to asylums — we could increase the list ad infinitum.\nThis was definitely my experience. My intention behind practicing was to relieve some suffering, but it was really a way of trying to fix myself without addressing my behavior. This led me to eventually realize another important truth: we have to act in a wholesome way if we are to have a fruitful meditation practice. Jack Kornfield often says that it is difficult to meditate after a day of murdering. Although this is a dramatic saying, it’s true. When we are acting in unwholesome ways, practice can be quite difficult.\nWhen I got sober, I was super active in twelve-step recovery. However, as an atheist, it didn’t really click with me super well. I turned toward a meditation center I found called Insight LA in Santa Monica. Although they weren’t recovery-based groups, these meditation classes and sitting groups helped me build a foundation for my recovery.\nAfter a few months, I found Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society, also in Santa Monica. I began attending regularly, and they had a specific Buddhist recovery group. This later evolved years later to become Refuge Recovery. What I found with meditation practice was a way to connect with myself, with growth, and with the relieving of suffering. I was grabbed immediately by the Buddhist recovery program when a teacher said that we all have the power and potential to relieve ourselves of the suffering caused by addiction.\nThrough my practice, I began to see more clearly the reactions that caused suffering and pain. Through mindfulness, compassion, and concentration practices, I have been able to work with impulsivity, anger, resentment, and many more responses that cause harm.\nToday, I teach meditation in Northern California. We just opened a donation-based meditation center, teach at addiction treatment centers, and lead Refuge Recovery groups. Although I don’t think meditation clicks for everyone in the same way it has clicked for me, it’s beautiful to have the opportunity to give this offering to the community.\nMy experience with meditation has gone through many phases, and today it is the foundation of my life and recovery. It takes practice, continuity, and love. I don’t always want to meditate, but I do it anyway. This is part of life and part of recovery. Sometimes I am excited to meditate, and other times I dread it. Either way, I suit up and show up for my practice. I do this because I see the benefits in my daily life, interactions with other, and behavior in the world.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://literarytheory.wordpress.com/2007/02/20/elaine-showalter-towards-a-feminist-poetics/", "date": "2018-07-23T16:55:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676599291.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723164955-20180723184955-00088.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.95516437292099, "token_count": 917, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__242938830", "lang": "en", "text": "Elaine Showalter, “Towards a Feminist Poetics,”\nIn M. Jacobus, ed. Women Writing about Women (1979), pp. 25-33; 34-6\nShowalter begins by distinguishing between what she calls the “feminist critique,” which focuses on “woman as reader – with woman as the consumer of a male-produced literature,” and “gynocritics,” which “is concerned with woman as writer – with woman as the producer of textual meaning.” Feminist critique “is essentially political and polemical,” and is metaphorically similar to the “Old Testament, ‘looking for the sins and errors of the past;'” gynocritics, according to Showalter, “is more self-contained and experimental,” and, to extend the earlier metaphor, is like the “New Testament, seeking ‘the grace of imagination.'”\nShowalter then provides an exemplary feminist critique of Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge to demonstrate that “one of the problems of the feminist critique is that is male-oriented,” meaning that, in some sense, every feminist critique, even when criticizing patriarchy, is focused toward the male. As an alternative, Showalter presents gynocritics as a way “to construct a female framework for the analysis of women’s literature, to develop new models based on the study of female experience, rather that to adapt to male models and theories.”\nTo begin to trace out this radically female-centered theory, Showalter notes excerpts from feminist historians and sociologists. She then moves on to an engaging discussion of the experiences of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and other female authors to show the need for “completeness” in discussing women authors’ work way in which “it is necessary to leave oneself room to deal with other things besides [women writers’] work, so much has that work been influenced by conditions that have nothing whatever to do with art.”\nFrom these experiences, Showalter then begins an rough sketch of some of the elements that have characterized women’s writing: awakening, suffering, unhappiness, and matrophobia, among others. She concludes with her classification of women’s writing into three phases that “establish[es] the continuity of the female tradition from decade to decade, rather than from Great Woman to Great Woman.” Showalter sees the first phases taking place from roughly 1840 to 1880; she calls this “the Feminine phase” and declares that it is characterized by “women [writing] in an effort to equal the intellectual achievements of the male culture… The distinguishing sign of this period is the male pseudonym… [which] exerts an irregular pressure on the narrative, affecting tone, diction, structure, and characterization.”\nThe second, Feminist phase follows from 1880 to 1920, wherein “women are historically enabled to reject the accomodating postures of femininity and to use literature to dramatise the ordeals of wronged womanhood.” This phase is characterized by “Amazon Utopias,” visions of perfect, female-led societies of the future. Finally, Showalter posits the third and (at least in 1979) final phase, the Female phase, which began in 1920. In this phase, “women reject both imitation and protest – two forms of dependency – and turn instead to female experience as the source of an autonomous art, extending the feminist analysis of culture to the forms and techniques of literature.” Significantly, Showalter does not (at least in the excerpt presented in the textbook) offer a characteristic sign or figure for the Female phase, suggesting a welcome diversity of experience that is too broad to be encompassed in a single image.\nOn the whole, I was rather drawn to Showalter’s writing. It is intelligent, largely devoid of rhetorical extremities, and confidently provocative. Welcomely absent is the stridently ideological tone common to so many theorists; instead, Showalter speaks with calmly convincing authority, as one who firmly believes in the verity of what she’s saying. She is both urgent, in that she sees change needing to occur immediately, and patient, in that she expects that, given time enough, the wisdom and truth of her cause will prevail.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.restoreosteo.com/blog/knee-injuries-are-associated-with-accelerated-knee-osteoarthritis-progression", "date": "2021-04-15T16:59:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038087714.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20210415160727-20210415190727-00207.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.906696081161499, "token_count": 6731, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__204417168", "lang": "en", "text": "Frozen shoulder is a common cause of shoulder pain and stiffness, and it is even more common as you age. While anyone can get a frozen shoulder, some people are more susceptible. Here’s how to tell if you’re at risk.\nThis study from PubMed aimed to evaluate if a recent knee injury was associated with accelerated knee osteoarthritis (KOA) progression.\nThe conclusion: \"Recent knee injuries are associated with accelerated KOA. Most concerning is that certain injuries may be associated with a rapid cascade towards joint failure in less than one year…Individuals with a history of joint trauma are 3 to 6 times more likely to develop knee osteoarthritis”\nIf you have experienced knee injuries or have a history of joint trauma, our team at Restore Osteo of Colorado can offer effective treatments, such as joint injections like hyaluronic acid, to help relieve pain related to osteoarthritis and help you get your life back.\nTo read more on this study, please refernce it below: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4211979/\nWe aimed to evaluate if a recent knee injury was associated with accelerated knee osteoarthritis (KOA) progression.\nIn the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) we studied participants free of KOA on their baseline radiographs (Kellgren-Lawrence [KL]<2). We compared three groups: 1) individuals with accelerated progression of KOA: defined as having at least one knee that progressed to end-stage KOA (KL Grade 3 or 4) within 48 months, 2) common KOA progression: at least one knee increased in radiographic scoring within 48 months (excluding those defined as accelerated KOA), and 3) no KOA: no change in KL grade in either knee. At baseline, participants were asked if their knees had ever been injured and at each annual visit they were asked about injuries during the prior 12 months. We used multinomial logistic regressions to determine if a new knee injury was associated with the outcome of accelerated KOA or common KOA progression after adjusting for age, sex, body mass index, static knee malalignment, and systolic blood pressure.\nA knee injury during the total observation period was associated with accelerated KOA progression (n=54, odds ratio [OR]=3.14) but not common KOA progression (n=187, OR=1.08). Furthermore, a more recent knee injury (within a year of the outcome) was associated with accelerated (OR=8.46) and common KOA progression (OR=3.12).\nRecent knee injuries are associated with accelerated KOA. Most concerning is that certain injuries may be associated with a rapid cascade towards joint failure in less than one year.\nWhile knee osteoarthritis is typically a slowly progressive disorder, it has recently been appreciated that 5 to 17% of knees have a rapid progression of structural damage (e.g. from normal to end-stage disease within 4 years) (1, 2). Characterization of the structural aspects of this phenomenon and its risk factors may provide insights into the nature of osteoarthritis progression and allow us to identify an at-risk subset for intervention. Identification of knee osteoarthritis phenotypes, such as those with accelerated knee osteoarthritis progression, may allow us to refine sampling for clinical studies (2-5) and develop interventions targeted at specific subtypes.\nIndividuals with a history of joint trauma are 3 to 6 times more likely to develop knee osteoarthritis (6, 7) and are diagnosed approximately 10 years earlier than individuals without a history of joint trauma (8). Within 5 years of injury, knees have structural changes reflective of altered joint health (e.g., altered cartilage composition, altered bone structure) (9-12). Knee injuries are a strong risk factor for knee osteoarthritis and may distinguish knees with accelerated knee osteoarthritis from common knee osteoarthritis progression or knees with no knee osteoarthritis. We aimed to evaluate if a recent knee injury was associated with accelerated knee osteoarthritis. Furthermore, we conducted preliminary analyses to determine if participants with accelerated knee osteoarthritis progression, common knee osteoarthritis progression, and no knee osteoarthritis differed based on key baseline characteristics, which we selected a priori. These preliminary analyses helped us verify which variables should be adjusted for in our primary analyses.\nTo assess the association between recent knee injuries and accelerated knee osteoarthritis we used data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI). The OAI is a multicenter observational cohort study of knee osteoarthritis that collected longitudinal clinical and image data (13) as well as biospecimens from 4,796 participants over an eight-year follow-up period. The primary variables (presence of radiographic knee progression and knee injuries) were from baseline and the first four annual OAI visits (months 0 to 48). OAI data are available for public access (14).\nAmong participants with no baseline radiographic knee osteoarthritis (Kellgren-Lawrence [KL] Grade<2) in either knee (n = 1,930) we evaluated three groups that we defined based on radiographic definitions of OA: 1) accelerated knee osteoarthritis: at least one knee progressed to end-stage knee osteoarthritis (KL Grade 3 or 4) within 48 months, 2) common knee osteoarthritis progression: at least one knee increased in radiographic scoring within 48 months (excluding those defined as accelerated knee osteoarthritis progression), and 3) no knee osteoarthritis: no change in KL grade in either knee at baseline and 48-month follow-up. We omitted 364 (18.9%) individuals from the analyses because missing radiographic data made it impossible to determine group assignment (19 potential individuals with common knee osteoarthritis progression, 345 potential individuals with no knee osteoarthritis).\nAt baseline, participants were asked during an initial eligibility interview: “Have you ever injured your right knee badly enough to limit your ability to walk for at least two days?”. A similar question was asked for the left knee. At each annual visit participants were asked “Since your last annual visit to the OAI clinic about 12 months ago, have you injured your right knee badly enough to limit your ability to walk for at least two days?”. A similar question was asked for the left knee. Among individuals with accelerated or common knee osteoarthritis progression we focused on injuries to the knee that progressed. Among individuals with no knee osteoarthritis we evaluated if the participant had a knee injury to either knee.\nWe focused on injuries at 4 time points: 1) prior to the OAI baseline, 2) during the total observation period, 3) within one year of the study outcome, and 4) between 1 and 2 years prior to the study outcome. We defined the study outcome visit for each group as follows: 1) accelerated knee osteoarthritis: the first visit with a KL grade of 3 or 4, 2) common knee osteoarthritis progression: the first visit with an increase in KL grade, and 3) no KOA: the 48-month OAI visit. The total observation period was defined as beginning at the OAI baseline and ending at the visit with the study outcome (ranging from 12 months to 48 months). For example if a participant had a knee with KL=1 at baseline and year one, KL=2 at year 3, and KL=3 at year 4, they would meet criteria for the accelerated group, and year 4 would be the outcome study visit. However, if a participant's knee stayed at KL=2 at 48 months, they would be considered to have common knee osteoarthritis and year 3 would be the study outcome visit. Finally, if the participant stayed at KL=1, then year 4 would be the study outcome visit.\nWeight-bearing, bilateral, fixed-flexion, posterior-anterior knee radiographs were obtained at baseline and the first 4 annual OAI visits. Central readers, who were blinded to sequence of follow-up radiographs, scored the paired images for KL Grades (0 to 4). The agreement for these readings (read-reread) was good (weighted kappa (intra-rater reliability) = 0.70 to 0.78). These KL grades are publicly available (Files: kXR_SQ_BU00_SAS (version 0.6) , kXR_SQ_BU01_SAS(version 1.6) , kXR_SQ_BU03_SAS(version 3.5), kXR_SQ_BU05_SAS(version 5.5) and kXR_SQ_BU06_SAS (version 6.3) (14)).\nDemographic, anthropometric, and other participant demographic characteristics, which we selected a priori, were acquired based on a standard protocol (data and protocol are publicly available (14)).\nAt the OAI baseline visit, research staff measured static knee alignment with a goniometer while the participant stood with feet approximately shoulder-width apart and toes directed straight ahead. The staff positioned the goniometer based on a standard protocol: 1) goniometer's axis was proximal to the tibial tuberosity in line with the knee joint line, 2) distal arm of the goniometer was aligned with the tibia and pointed towards the center of the ankle, and 3) proximal arm of the goniometer was aligned with the mid thigh. Normal alignment was defined as 0 degrees and any deviation was defined as varus or valgus malalignment.\nWe first evaluated the distribution of baseline descriptive characteristics among the three groups with Chi-square tests or analyses of variance (with Tukey HSD post-hoc comparisons as needed). Based on the initial analyses we entered baseline descriptive characteristics that may distinguish individuals with accelerated knee osteoarthritis (i.e., variables with p values < 0.10 and a sufficient sample size) into a multinomial stepwise logistic regression model to determine if they were associated with accelerated knee osteoarthritis progression as an outcome compared with no knee osteoarthritis or common knee osteoarthritis progression.\nFor our primary analyses, we used multinomial logistic regressions to determine if a history of knee injury or a new knee injury was associated with the outcome of accelerated or common knee osteoarthritis progression before and after adjusting for age, sex, body mass index (BMI), presence of static knee malalignment, and systolic blood pressure. We also conducted a secondary analysis by replicating these analyses with 71 additional individuals who had accelerated knee osteoarthritis but their contralateral knee had prevalent knee osteoarthritis at baseline. This permitted us to explore our hypothesis in a larger sample size.\nIndividuals with accelerated knee osteoarthritis (n = 54) tended to be older and have greater baseline BMI and systolic blood pressure (see Table 1). Specifically, in the post hoc analyses we found that individuals with accelerated knee osteoarthritis were older than those with common knee osteoarthritis progression (p = 0.02) and had a greater BMI than those with no knee osteoarthritis (p = 0.01). The frequency of static knee malalignment was not different between individuals with accelerated knee osteoarthritis and the other two groups but individuals with no knee osteoarthritis were more likely to have knee malalignment than individuals with common knee osteoarthritis progression (p = 0.01). None of the post-hoc analyses supported a difference in systolic blood pressures among the groups. Only baseline age (odds ratio [OR] = 1.04, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.01 to 1.08; per year) and BMI (OR = 1.10, 95% CI = 1.03 to 1.17; per kg/m2) were associated with accelerated knee osteoarthritis progression compared with those with no knee osteoarthritis. In comparison with individuals with common knee osteoarthritis, only age was associated with developing accelerated knee osteoarthritis progression (OR = 1.05, 95% CI = 1.01 to 1.09; per year). Accelerated knee osteoarthritis progression was not associated with a history of injury prior to OAI baseline (see Table 2).\n|No KOA (n = 1325) n (%) or mean (SD)||Common KOA (n = 187) n (%) or mean (SD)||Accelerated KOA (n = 54) n (%) or mean (SD)||Univariate Analyses1 p-value|\n|Females||759 (57%)||122 (65%)||34 (63%)||0.093|\n|Race other than white (n miss = 2)||177 (13%)||34 (18%)||8 (15%)||0.205|\n|Age (years)||59.2 (9.2)||58.0 (8.3)2||61.8 (8.6)2||0.023|\n|BMI (kg/m2)||27.1 (4.4)3||27.8 (4.5)||28.9 (4.7)3||0.002|\n|Abnormal weight circumference (n miss = 78)||847 (67%)||127 (73%)||40 (74%)||0.197|\n|Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)||121 (16)||118 (13)||123 (14)||0.047|\n|Fallen in past 12mo (n miss = 27)||433 (33%)||63 (34%)||21 (41%)||0.479|\n|Static knee malalignment (Varus or Valgus, n miss = 79)4||992 (79%)5||122 (70%)5||40 (74%)||0.020|\n|History of knee surgery (n miss = 1)||132 (10.0%)||13 (7.0%)||2 (3.7%)||0.144|\n|No health insurance that covers prescription (n miss = 23)||117 (9%)||12 (7%)||8 (16%)||0.126|\n|Income < $50K (n miss = 52)||403 (31%)||48 (27%)||22 (43%)||0.087|\n|Less than a college degree (n miss = 8)||434 (33%)||73 (40%)||16 (31%)||0.186|\n|Self-Reported Health Assessments|\n|Frequent knee pain on most days of a month in past year (n miss = 1)||502 (38%)||77 (41%)||25 (46%)||0.344|\n|WOMAC pain score||2.2 (2.8)||2.1 (2.6)||2.7 (3.0)||0.346|\n|Charlson Comorbidity Score > 0 (n miss = 2)||264 (20%)||28 (15%)||14 (28%)||0.099|\n|SF-12 Physical Summary Score (n miss = 13)||51.5 (7.8)||51.7 (7.6)||50.8 (9.7)||0.773|\n|SF-12 Mental Summary Score (n miss = 13)||53.4 (7.5)||53.8 (7.5)||53.4 (7.7)||0.733|\n|Depression score (CES-D; n miss = 11)||6.0 (6.3)||5.6 (6.1)||6.1 (5.9)||0.708|\n|Physical activity score (PASE score; n miss = 7)||169 (82)||177 (82)||182 (91)||0.250|\n|Right hand bony enlargements (n miss = 20)||697 (53%)||107 (58%)||31 (57%)||0.498|\n|Left hand bony enlargements (n miss = 21)||617 (47%)||93 (50%)||32 (59%)||0.191|\n|Handy bony enlargements (either hand; n miss = 20)||776 (59%)||122 (66%)||37 (68%)||0.128|\n|Any back pain, past 30 days (n miss = 2)||781 (59%)||99 (53%)||36 (67%)||0.134|\n|Doctor diagnosed back OA (n miss = 55)||190 (15%)||30 (17%)||11 (22%)||0.346|\n|Doctor diagnosed hip OA (n miss = 44)||94 (7%)||11 (6%)||5 (10%)||0.624|\n|Doctor diagnosed hand OA (n miss = 44)||215 (17%)||21 (12%)||9 (18%)||0.200|\n|Doctor diagnosed back, hip, or hand OA (n miss = 48)||357 (28%)||48 (26%)||19 (37%)||0.296|\n|Doctor diagnosed hand OA AND hip or back OA (n miss = 65)||101 (8%)||8 (4%)||3 (6%)||0.235|\n|Either knee, used meds for pain, past 12mo (n miss = 2)||571 (43%)||86 (46%)||27 (50%)||0.490|\n|Either knee, injection for arthritis, past 6m (n miss = 1)||13 (1%)||4 (2%)||2 (4%)||0.094|\n|Take any pain medication today (for any pain)||124 (9%)||18 (10%)||8 (15%)||0.410|\n|OTC NSAIDs for joint pain, past 30days (n miss = 3)||213 (16%)||27 (15%)||15 (28%)||0.059|\n|Acetaminophen for joint pain, past 30 day (n miss = 2)||112 (9%)||12 (7%)||7 (13%)||0.303|\n|Rx NSAIDs for joint pain, past 30days (n miss = 1)||56 (4%)||9 (5%)||1 (2%)||0.634|\n|COXIBS for joint pain, past 30days||86 (7%)||9 (5%)||4 (7%)||0.641|\n|Strong Prescription pain med for joint pain, past 30days||29 (2%)||3 (2%)||0 (0%)||0.485|\n|No KOA (n=1325) REFERENCE GROUP||Common KOA (n=187)||Accelerated KOA (n=54)||Common KOA Unadjusted OR (95% CI)||Accelerated KOA Unadjusted OR (95% CI)||Common KOA Adjusted OR (95% CI)||Accelerated KOA Adjusted OR (95% CI)|\n|History of knee injury before OAI baseline (n = 1554)||461 (35%)||52(28%)||16 (30%)||0.74 (0.52, 1.04)||0.78 (0.43, 1.42)||0.76 (0.53, 1.08)||0.84 (0.46, 1.54)|\n|New Knee Injury|\n|Between 1 and 2 years prior to study outcome (n = 1441)1||54 (4%)||5 (5%)||2 (5%)||n/a||n/a||n/a||n/a|\n|Within1 year of the study outcome (n = 1558)||39 (3%)||18 (10%)||13 (25%)||3.57 (1.99, 6.38)||10.97 (5.42, 22.17)||3.04 (1.66, 5.58)||9.22 (4.50, 18.90)|\n|During total observation period (n = 1507)||145 (11%)||23 (13%)||17 (32%)||1.12 (0.70, 1.80)||3.67 (2.01, 6.70)||0.99 (0.61, 1.61)||3.37 (1.82, 6.25)|\n|During total observation period among knees with no history of injury prior to baseline (n = 980)||76 (9%)||12 (9%)||9 (24%)||1.02 (0.54, 1.93)||3.13 (1.42, 6.88)||0.88 (0.45, 1.74)||2.97 (1.33, 6.65)|\nA knee injury during the total observation period was associated with accelerated knee osteoarthritis (odds ratio [OR] = 3.37, 95% CI = 1.82 to 6.25) but not common knee osteoarthritis progression (OR = 0.99, 95% CI = 0.61 to 1.61, see Table 2). Furthermore, a recent knee injury (within the year of meeting the study outcome) was associated with accelerated (OR = 9.22, 95% CI = 4.50 to 18.90) and common knee osteoarthritis progression (OR = 3.04, 95% CI = 1.66 to 5.58). Our analyses among individuals with no history of knee injury prior to the OAI baseline and the secondary analysis supported our primary findings.\nKnee injuries are an important risk factor for knee osteoarthritis and may lead to an early onset of knee osteoarthritis (6-8). Our findings further support the hypothesis that knee injuries may be an important risk factor for the development of accelerated knee osteoarthritis. Perhaps most concerning is that certain injuries may initiate or coincide with a rapid cascade towards joint failure that may occur in less than one year. Thirteen out of the 17 individuals with accelerated knee osteoarthritis and a knee injury during the total observation period experienced their injury in the year prior to developing end-stage osteoarthritis (KL ≥ 3; definite joint space narrowing). Therefore, the first year after an injury may be an important time frame to differentiate those susceptible to accelerated knee osteoarthritis, common knee osteoarthritis progression, or no knee osteoarthritis. Despite an emphasis on a hypothesis that injuries cause accelerated osteoarthritis, an alternative explanation for our findings is that the onset of accelerated knee osteoarthritis increases the risk of injury. If this is true, this could create a vicious cycle where accelerated knee osteoarthritis leads to an injury, which subsequently leads to another phase of accelerated knee osteoarthritis. If we can identify which injuries are associated with accelerated and common knee osteoarthritis progression then this may enable us to recognize these potential phenotypes.\nThe odds of having knee osteoarthritis after joint trauma are 3 to 6 times higher than an individual without a history of knee injury (6, 7). During the total observation period, we observed similar odds ratios for individuals who developed accelerated knee osteoarthritis; but, this was not the case for individuals with common knee osteoarthritis progression. Future research to determine why some patients develop accelerated knee osteoarthritis after a knee injury while others develop common knee osteoarthritis progression or no knee osteoarthritis will be instrumental in identifying individuals at highest risk for structural progression after an acute knee injury. Individuals with accelerated knee osteoarthritis tended to be older and more obese; therefore, obesity and age may be important factors. However, after we adjusted for age and BMI the association between knee injury and accelerated knee osteoarthritis was still significant.\nWhile the association between recent knee injury and accelerated knee osteoarthritis progression is independent of age and BMI we could not explore some important factors in this study: the type, severity, mechanism, subsequent treatment of the knee injury. An individual with an anterior cruciate ligament tear and cartilage damage or meniscal pathology (including partial meniscectomy) is more likely to have radiographic knee osteoarthritis later in life than an individual with an isolated anterior cruciate ligament tear (15-18). Furthermore, certain types of meniscal pathology (e.g., meniscal root injuries) may be associated with spontaneous osteonecrosis and thus accelerated joint degeneration (19, 20). While certain injuries may predispose a knee to accelerated osteoarthritis, the role of subsequent treatment (e.g., surgery, rehabilitation, return-to-activity timeline) at modifying the risk of osteoarthritis remains poorly understood. Now that we verified that knee injuries are associated with accelerated knee osteoarthritis we need to determine the type, severity, and mechanism of the injury as well as subsequent treatment so that we can better understand who and why some injuries are associated with accelerated knee ostearthritis. Our findings should also raise awareness that this research needs to include older adults with injuries and not just younger, physically active individuals that tend to be included in these studies (16, 21, 22).\nThirteen out of the 17 injuries among individuals with accelerated knee osteoarthritis and 18 out of 23 injuries among individuals with common knee osteoarthritis progression experienced their injury within the year of reaching their study outcome. This supports a hypothesis that the first year or two after an injury is an important time frame that may set a path to joint failure (23-25). This suggests that we will need to determine which type, severity, mechanism, or subsequent treatment of the knee injury predispose individuals to the onset of accelerated or common knee osteoarthritis progression and then attempt to recognize these injuries as soon as possible. If researchers want to pursue clinical trials among individuals that are at risk for progression then it may be ideal to recruit participants at the time of an injury.\nWhile injuries may cause accelerated osteoarthritis, we cannot rule out that knee osteoarthritis progression (accelerated or common) may increase the risk of injury. This alternative hypothesis may explain why the association between injury and osteoarthritis progression (accelerated or common) is greater during the 12 months prior to the study outcome compared with the association found with injuries during the total observation period, which include time intervals with no osteoarthritis progression. Knee osteoarthritis and knee pain are associated with altered neuromuscular control (e.g., proprioception, muscle activation patterns)(26-28), which may increase the risk of injury or falls (29, 30). If osteoarthritis progression influences neuromuscular control then an individual may be more susceptible to knee injury. If this hypothesis is true, then it may be important for clinicians to monitor older patients who report a knee injury because it could be an indicator that the joint is experiencing the onset or progression of osteoarthritis. This could also introduce a vicious cycle where osteoarthritis progression may lead to a knee injury, which could further hasten the degenerative changes.\nAn acute injury may be a very important risk factor for accelerated knee osteoarthritis among this sample but we still need to better understand what triggered accelerated knee osteoarthritis among the 70% that did not suffer an acute knee injury during the total observation period. It's possible that some of these individuals suffered minor perturbations to the joint that may not have been reported as an injury but nonetheless compromised the integrity of joint tissues. Subsequently, these altered structures may have exposed the joint to repetitive overloading, which could further compromise other tissues like the subchondral bone and articular cartilage(31).\nThis study highlights the importance of knee injuries in the incidence of accelerated knee osteoarthritis but has several limitations. As noted previously, we lack granular detail about the knee injury and if joint structures could have been compromised during the total observation period despite the participant reporting that they had no new knee injuries. Conversely, many participants (n = 145) reported an injury despite no radiographic evidence of osteoarthritis progression (accelerated or common). This could be attributable to a lack of data regarding the type, severity, mechanism, or subsequent treatment of the knee injury and limitations of self-reported injury data. Some individuals may have reported an injury that was not an intraarticular injury or only a minor injury that is not associated with knee osteoarthritis. These analyses were also limited to 54 individuals with incident accelerated knee osteoarthritis. We attempted to address this concern by conducting a secondary analysis among 71 additional individuals who had accelerated knee osteoarthritis but their contralateral knee had prevalent knee osteoarthritis at baseline. These analyses supported our primary finding. The limited sample size limits our ability to offer a precise odds ratio but it is unlikely to change our overall findings that knee injuries are associated with accelerated knee osteoarthritis. However, these findings may not be generalizable to the overall population since the OAI is not a populationbased cohort study. Future studies could pursue this research in population-based cohorts but we believe these findings will be confirmed since they complement the existing literature about the association between knee injuries and early onset knee osteoarthritis (8).\nWe often focus on the association of injuries and osteoarthritis later in life for a younger, physically active population but this study reminds us that even among older adults we need to pay attention to self-reported injuries. It is concerning that certain types or severities of injuries may be associated with a rapid cascade towards joint failure in less than one year. Future studies will need to explore if certain injuries are causing accelerated knee osteoarthritis and/or accelerated knee osteoarthritis is increasing the risk of injury. We must develop strategies to recognize this potential phenotype promptly after their injury and discover interventions to delay or prevent the onset of accelerated and common knee osteoarthritis progression.\nOlder individuals and those with a recent knee injury may be more likely to develop accelerated knee osteoarthritis.\nRecent knee injuries are frequently associated with a rapid cascade towards joint failure in less than one year.\nYou Might Also Enjoy...\nFrozen shoulder is a common cause of shoulder pain and stiffness, and it is even more common as you age. While anyone can get a frozen shoulder, some people are more susceptible. Here’s how to tell if you’re at risk.\nExercising when your joints are hurting may sound counterproductive. But for many types of joint pain, exercise actually helps. Here are six ways exercise could help reduce your joint pain — and improve joint health.\nYou might think a chiropractor just treats your back. 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{"url": "https://memoirsofagaijin.com/new-beginnings-in-japan/", "date": "2019-05-23T22:02:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257396.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523204120-20190523230120-00009.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9813539385795593, "token_count": 1392, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__59528679", "lang": "en", "text": "“The frog in the well does not know the great sea.”Japanese proverb\nIt should be obvious that this past week brought forth a slew of new beginnings in my life. The beginning of the 14 hour flight from New York to Tokyo, and the beginning of the jet lag that followed. The beginning of my new cell phone plan, apartment lease, and job contract, as I settle into my new home in Kiryu. The beginning of new relationships with my coworkers and newfound friends in my town, as well as the beginning of a new era in my friendship with my native Japanese friends from Geneseo. In the most succinct way possible, this week marked the beginning of a new life for me.\nThe American bank accounts have been closed, the car sold, and the goodbyes said, replaced with Japanese bank accounts, a bike, and new hellos. I am truly beginning this new life, and only now has it begun to set it, six days after arriving in Tokyo, and four after coming to Kiryu.\nBut where to begin?\nAs I write this, there is a festival whose own beginning shall come at the arrival of dusk, and I will soon be partaking in the festivities to take in new experiences. I feel this event shall play a major part in the differentiation of my life in Japan from my life in America. Festivals exist in each country, but Japanese matsuri are a much different beast from the American carnival or festival.\nOver here, festivals exist for everything from the blooming of sakura trees in spring, to the celebration of the new year, and even the casting out of the demons in February; while we may have similar ideas behind American holidays such as Halloween and Easter, these Japanese styles of celebration emphasize the roles of spirituality and tradition in a more overt fashion than the undertones common in American celebrations. In the sense that I now find myself at the outset of a new life in the influence of the Japanese tradition, it is only fitting that this new life is distinguished by the festival and the way of life that it represents.\nIronically enough, the moment this week that begot the realization of this new life was an out of body experience. I was sitting in a small restaurant in Hirosawa-cho, the neighborhood in which I find my new apartment, and I was struck by a sudden realization:\nI am in Japan.\nSure the realization had been repeated like a mantra over the last week, and, especially when I was traveling in Kabuki-cho in Tokyo with my good friend Arisa or wandering alone around Shinjuku with my camera at dawn, I had felt the sense of being in Japan; however, it was none of those things that brought my epiphany.\nI may have been surrounded by Japanese culture in every sense of the word, but at that time, I had still felt like a gaijin. I was in Kaubki-cho, Shinjuku, a section of Tokyo tailor-made for the consumption and marketing of Japanese culture to foreigners, and, even though I was enjoying myself greatly while I was there, I had never felt as though I was truly immersed in the culture.\nNo, it was not the sensory overload of Tokyo that brought me this immersion. It was instead s quiet moment inside a restaurant in Kiryu, and it was the state of being truly in that moment that brought me such clear thought.\nSo far as moments go, it was nothing too special, even for a Japanophile such as myself. I was simply sitting in the restaurant, having just ordered my dinner and my drinks in Japanese. As I sat there, I was almost an observer looking into the moment from outside the restaurant. In the booth in front of me, two friends shared dinner and laughter over some cold Sapporo beer, and the booth behind me contained a family that seemed to be having a celebration of some kind; perhaps the son had been accepted into his first choice university. In the far back of the restaurant, the kitchen hummed with the sound of the dishwasher, and the exclamations of the chef as he received and completed orders, a sensation that evoked memories of my first job as a busboy at a steakhouse.\nFinally, in front of me, I had beef and pork, which I was then to grill on the small grittle laid into the table before me, and the kimchi, and sake that I had ordered to go with it. The sake label was barely legible to me, as I took my time reading it and trying to practice my kanji readings. Afterwards, I placed the bottle back down, and the fleeting nature of the moment, the fact that it was just a slice of my new life, brought about that realization I mentioned earlier: that I was in Japan.\nAfter all of my imagination, aspiration, and determination, I had finally made it. I was here to begin my new life, and I would have all sorts of moments as I live that life. I guess, in the end that was what made it so special. That it was something that I would be able to appreciate at any time during my stay here. From that moment on, I am comfortable in saying my new life in Japan has finally begun, and I need to stop and appreciate it as much as I can while I am living it.\nI am a frog who has been catapulted from my well into the great sea, and all I can do now is learn and master these new waters.\nSong of the Week\n“Hey Look Ma, I Made It” by Panic! At The Disco\nFor this week, the song is again tied into the theme of my post. So far as personal anthems go, I have been greatly enjoying this new song by Panic!, especially as I approach these new beginnings and appreciate my past achievements.\n“Hey look ma, I made it\nHey look ma, I made it\nEverything’s comin’ up aces, aces\nIf it’s a dream, don’t wake me, don’t wake me\nI said hey look ma, I made it”\nTaken from the chorus, these words are wonderful in giving me the strength and optimism to charge head forth into my job as an English teacher as I begin work next week. I’ll stop to admire my medals before I go forth onto the next round of challenges that life will throw at me. I hope I can impress the judges, but, come rain or shine, at the very least, I will be able to tell my mother I made it.\nIf you would like to listen to this song or any of the other prior Songs of the Week, check out the Spotify Playlist linked above!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.paullindholm.com/new-blog/2017/1/2/eskimo-girl", "date": "2019-10-14T13:15:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986653247.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014124230-20191014151730-00148.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9711435437202454, "token_count": 283, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__47690456", "lang": "en", "text": "When I think about where I come from, I think about my mother, and I think about the north. My mother was born in Alaska. My mother's father, grandpa John, was born in Alaska. His mother, great grandmother Selma, was born in Alaska. And before her, my ancestors for the past 10,000 years plus come from the north, from Alaska. Somewhere beyond memory, faded into the very fabric of family history, exists my Inuit mother. My great great great great grandmother. She lived a full life and experienced all the universal moments of being human, all the feelings of hope, sorrow, peace, conflict, love, pain, and so on and so forth.\nI believe that all the moments we have as humans are the same. Difference arises from expression, and only in our unique expression do we create a multitude of variation. But in the end, in its fundamental form, all the moments of existence are shared. I like to believe that I can share my great great great great grandmother's experience of being an inuit girl watching the clouds drift across the northern sky. I like to believe that she shows up across the genetic code and is still a part of the migration from generation to generation. Sometimes I see her in my mother's face, and sometimes she gazes at the stars of her youth, through the eyes of her distant great great great grandson.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://knickertwist.weebly.com/blog/the-last-of-the-magnificent-matriarchs", "date": "2024-02-28T08:52:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474700.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228080245-20240228110245-00572.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.978553295135498, "token_count": 2157, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__161482069", "lang": "en", "text": "Quite some years ago, when my mother was elderly but not as elderly as she would become, she attended the funeral of a dear friend right here at St Al’s. Afterward, she remarked to the young priest who had presided what a lovely service it had been, how all its details had so thoughtfully reflected the wishes of the departed. In response, the young priest made the mistake of asking my mother whether she had made her own, y’know, plans. “No!” my mother responded. And then the padre made the further mistake of saying, “you should get on that. You don’t want to burden your children.” To which my mother shot right back, “Oh yes I do, Father! And why not? My children have been burdens to me all their lives.”\nGuilty as charged! But were that we could all bear burdens so beautifully. As any child of Elizabeth Julia Veronica Murphy Durkin can tell you, she bore her seven burdens as trees bear fruit, as the kings bore gifts, as Shakespeare bears quoting, as great stories bear retelling.\nMy mother’s was a great story. As a girl, she – a child of the Depression – had no phone and no car, and used to help her father sift coal in the cellar. As a woman, she routinely dazzled prelates, pooh-bahs and politicians. I can’t begin to tell that story here.\nWhat I am moved to try and do, though, is to mark the passing not only of my mother, but of a kind of mother. My mother emphatically believed that women should have the chance to run the world and everything in it. But she grew up at a time when most women did not have that chance, so even the smartest, hardest-working and most ambitious had to make their home their world, and be content with dominion over only the humans they made themselves. In the wrong circumstances, of course, the concentration of such vast personal force into so few hearts and minds could be toxic. But in the right circumstances – in our circumstances -- it was magic.\nTo be mothered by our mother was magic. All her brilliance, her wit, her yearning, her dreaming, her moral sense, her aesthetic sense, her optimism, her romanticism, her originality, her creativity, her infinite variety….yes, it went into her college education, which she completed, with high honors, at age 54. Yes, it went into her businesses, her legendary entertaining, her travels. But mostly, all of that – all of her -- went into us.\nIt went, of course, into our magnificent, much-missed father too, and in light of their almost-65 years of marriage, it seems preposterous to contemplate her life without major reference to his. In 1949, Betty Murphy pledged to love Tom Durkin until death did them part, but we all know she didn’t stop then, or ever. But Mickey has Booper now, and we don’t. So he is going have to forgive me for skipping over the myriad ways in which, as he often remarked, “no man ever had a better wife,” as I touch upon just one of the ways in which no child ever had a better mother.\nNow, often when the subject is exemplary motherhood, the tone becomes one of boring beige solemnity: the sacrifices she made, the faith she instilled, the excellence she encouraged, the pain she soothed – and make no mistake, our mother did all of that, all the time, for all of us. But all my life, whenever I have been with my mother or thought of my mother or heard anyone speak of my mother, the word that has always bobbed right up to the surface like a buoy in the ocean is fun. Even words of condolence this week have included the word “fun.” “I’m so sorry you lost your mother. She was so much fun.” “Sharp as a tack, and such fun.” Even amongst ourselves: “Remember that time when Mom and Aunt Doris got the bright idea to…? That was so much fun.”\nLast night, as I struggled to find some words for this morning, I found myself fighting with fun. I’d scribble out something weighty and worthy about my mother – but then my mind would stray to this or that hilarious memory and enjoy itself there for a while before I’d pull it back and scold myself like a nun at St. Cecilia’s: I can’t spend the last formal words I will ever speak on behalf of my incredibly accomplished mother describing her as some kind of party girl…even if that was her absolute favorite way to describe herself.\nThen, somewhere around dawn’s early light, this dawned on me: what a good, even godly, trait it is to be fun. After all, how do we often describe life as it comes from God? How, if we are so lucky and so wise, do we see life? As a gift. What is the word for opening a gift -- for treating each day as a gift -- if not fun? And what better way to communicate to the human beings that you have brought into the world that they belong in the world; can thrive in it, and find joy and love and purpose in it, than to act as if having them with you in the world is fun?\nAnd so, my brothers and sisters in Christ, without apology, I submit to you: Elizabeth Murphy Durkin was many, many tons of fun.\nShe had different levels of fun.\nEveryday, offhand fun:\nSome mothers, if they found themselves serving dinner on a school night at 8:30 p.m., might say, “sorry it’s so late, you must be starving.” Our mother said, “pretend you’re in Spain. This is early.”\nGeneral, embrace-the-chaos fun:\nWhether her station wagon was headed to Washington, D.C., the Mississippi Delta or the A&P in Verona, it was always packed with kids, who were packed in with groceries or antiques or Irish setters. Sometimes the station wagon of the moment did not have the best brakes, in which event Booper did not panic. Incorporating her general approach to life, she simply learned to swerve.\nSoon after Corny got engaged, Mom had the idea of holding a tea party in honor of the prospective bride’s mother, and inviting all the ladies in her family. Not stopping at the traditional spread of finger sandwiches and scones, Booper decided that what would really set the gathering off would be for us to dress up in Edwardian garb, complete with gloves and great big hats, and greet the guests in character and voice of a tentatively-trained Eliza Doolittle: “How kiiiiiind of you to come to teeee.” Miraculously, Mary Ellen went ahead with the wedding.\nGood, old-fashioned, party-hardy fun:\nSome grandmothers, when they hit eighty or so, would either decline big family parties or sit demurely to the side, leaving the dance floor to the young people. Booper, somewhere around ninety, boogied so big at Teddy’s wedding she had to be hospitalized.\nBut again, I beg you not to take from this that my mother was more style than substance. Nor was she even best termed a person of style and substance. No: My mother’s style came from her substance.\nFor many years my parents hosted an annual summer picnic for people who were both visually and economically impaired. Ridiculously late on the night before one such event – maybe midnight -- my sister and I came upon our mother, ironing a huge pile of linen tablecloths. We laughed at her. We said “Mom, what are you doing? It’s just a picnic, and the guests literally can’t see.” My mother continued undeterred. Come noon, a guest was led to her table and the minute she sat down, she took a corner of cloth in her hand. “Ah,” she said, rubbing it luxuriantly between her fingers. “I knew this was going to be nice.”\nThose picnics took place at 100 Rensselaer Road. My mother loved that house. Like all my siblings, I loved it too, and even now, I appreciate it, in the form of a painting that hangs on the wall in my mother’s final home in Spring Lake.\nA week ago today, just after my mother left this world, my salt-watered eye happened to fall on that picture. And like a shot, it hit me: “That house was never really my home. She was.”\nIt has long since become the fashion in America to skimp on grieving the way a dieter skimps on gravy. Especially with a decedent of a great age, we are urged not to mourn, but to celebrate! And you might expect that, since I have just devoted a funeral oration to fun, I am going to close on such a note. I’m not. I can’t. When I fall silent, I am going to fall still. And in the stillness, I am going to feel the awful wind blow through the hole that my first friend, my primary pillar, my indelible grace, my model, my mirror, my mother blew in me by her leaving. I am going to feel the cold of that, and the wrench of that, and very often for a good while yet, I am going to cry over that.\nBut I am my mother’s daughter. We are our mother’s children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. So Mom, one day that we can’t imagine right now, we are going to find some fun, and that is where we are going to find you. From that moment on, we are going to prove you right on one of your signature points. You always said that your children were your ticket to immortality. And we are.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://lolipoplearning.blogspot.com/2014/", "date": "2018-07-17T17:16:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589757.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717164437-20180717184437-00102.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9699277877807617, "token_count": 1169, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__262488511", "lang": "en", "text": "Teaching Writing in the Right Order\nI like this meme! I think it does a simple yet good job at listing the writing modes. But what I really like is that they are in the correct order! By \"order\", I mean that this is the order in which writing should be taught.\nWhen teaching children to write, start out with narration. The first step of narration is talking, so start having quality conversations with your little ones. Ask them about their day. What did they do? Ask for details, so they must add descriptions. What did they like? What did they dislike? Why! Why! Why! Keep asking questions. Don't settle for descriptions like \"cool\", \"fun\", \"pretty\", \"nice\". When you read stories together (you're doing that daily, right), ask your children to retell parts of the story. Or, tell it with a different ending, or from the villain's point of view. That's all narration!\nAt least once a week, scribe for your child as he narrates. Yes, YOU are doing the writing, but it's still his writing. It's the first step. Physically writing is a different skill from composing written thoughts. Don't let the physical skill of writing letters on a page, using that fine motor skill, hinder the development of your child's inner-writer. They will, eventually, write for themselves. They will, eventually, get tired of waiting around for you to write for them and start writing down their own stories...if they have learned the joy of putting thoughts on paper, and have acquired the confidence to do so.\nLevel 1 of writing is simply getting what is inside your head out and onto paper.\nNarrating moves naturally into descriptive writing, as parents and teachers simply ask questions. What did the boy look like? Where does that story happen? Is it cold or hot? What are the characters wearing? What sounds do they hear? Children can write character sketches about characters from books they are reading (or you are reading to them). Have them draw a picture to go along with their words.\nLevel 2 of writing is getting what is inside your head into the head of another person. That is done through good descriptions. When the reader can see what you see, that is success! Children naturally want you to see what they see, but they don't realize how to do that...so help them...with questions!\nHere comes the scandalous part of the blog... I do not teach expository writing before age 12, and I don't teach persuasive writing until the other 3 modes have been developed. If I have a child who wants to write something expository or persuasive (like why she should get a puppy or why he should get an xbox), I certainly allow and encourage that, but I don't push it or formally teach it (unsolicited) before age 12.\nThe most persuasive writers are also great narrators! They move us through stories then come in for the kill with their logical and descriptive point of view.\nLevel 3 of writing is using your written words to change the thoughts of another person.\nThe trouble with some of our state standards in writing--and yes, this includes Common Core--is that they dictate that children learn all 4 modes of writing from an early age. Children as young as 3rd grade (that's as young as 7 years old) are required to write reports and expository paragraphs. Yes, they are simple assignments, but that doesn't matter. When children are asked to do expository writing, before they have experienced the joy of narration and descriptive writing, they develop a hate of writing. They come to view academic (school) writing as something completely different from the writing they do for enjoyment and to get their deep thoughts out onto paper. We don't want that! Because when they are ready to do expository and especially persuasive writing, we want them to be passionate about it. We don't want them to do the minimum to get a passing grade.\nThe other concern I have is that creative writing (narration) is phased out around middle school. Students need to return to creative writing from time to time, to keep the juices flowing. They need to learn how to incorporate narration and even fictitious creative writing into persuasive writing. So, even as students progress and new modes are added, we should still return to the previous modes periodically.\nHere are some ideas for young writers...\nSet a timer (just 5 minutes is fine to start and work up to longer) and just write! It doesn't matter what they write. You (parent/teacher) should be doing this right along side them, in your very own writing journal.\nNature makes a great subject for developing descriptive writing. Without naming a plant or animal, can your child describe it so well that you know what it is?\nThis sounds so tedious, I know! But copy work helps children who are still learning good writing form to imitate it without the pressure of creating it themselves. They can copy anything! A funny poem, a funny part of a story, a recipe, instructions for a game...get creative!\nTake pictures and make a book with your child and let her add the narration to go along with the pictures. Family vacations or just an ordinary day...both are fun for kids to narrate.\nLetter Writing & Cards\nThank you to grandma for that gift. Get a pin pal. Make cards for friends. Write out their own invitations for parties.\nWish lists. Christmas. Birthday. Pros & Cons for a choice. Plan for getting something they want.\nAbove all, remember, your priorities are:\nCreating joy and building confidence in writing, not grooming the next Shakespeare.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://yogiamandeep.wordpress.com/", "date": "2022-11-26T18:35:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446708046.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20221126180719-20221126210719-00772.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9669471979141235, "token_count": 2063, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__43045211", "lang": "en", "text": "When I was young, I ran away from home to be with the Himalayas.\nAt that time, the mountains summoned me. Like a soothing Mother, the mountains spoke to me; I heard them say, “Come beloved child. Be here!” Happily, I surrendered to this calling with my whole being and ran straight to the lap of the Himalayas.\nSeems only moments passed. She whispered sacred teachings to me; and I received as would a child receive mother’s milk. I was prepared to spend the rest of my life in this cozy lap.\nThen suddenly, and to my surprise, the Himalayas said, “Now, go!”\nAs Her child, I resisted. I refused to leave the Mother.\nSomehow living as a mountain recluse was not my destined path, and I had to return to my birth family. But there remained a deep calling; the mountains reassured me, as if to say, “Bring these mountains with you wherever you go. Make the world your cave. Go to the world, but return home to the mountains as often as you wish. You have been blessed a messenger; you are impregnated with teachings. Your job is to give birth to a great conversation. You shall turn sacred the wild, worldly dust. Most important, keep the dialogue going between the modern world and the ancient mountains. Gather seekers who are longing. Guide them to feel called and welcome here.”\nSince then, I have been blessed to guide yatras to the Himalayas. We go to the mountains to bow. Two years ago, we journeyed to the Himalayas on a Yatra to Hemkunth Sahib, the abode of Rishi Dushta Daman.\nAt a very sacred bridge the Bhim Pulh, the Bridge of Bhima, we passed through a vortex that only opens for those who have been initiated into the Dharma.\nWe had entered the realm of the Shrine of Rishi Ved Vyas. Rishi Ved Vyas was the great sage who downloaded all the ancient yogic wisdom from the Akashic records. With Ganesha — the remover of obstacles — as his trusted stenographer, Ved Vyas penned down wisdom, bringing it into form and structure so that the realm-of-time-and-space can remain in sacred dialogue with the Realm Beyond. This became the Vedic tradition.\nNow, our Hemkunt yatra group had entered a sacred experience here that is beyond all time and space. Near the shrine, we noticed a cave. Once again, I felt summoned.\nIn this cave, a yogi sat alone.\nGraciously, he invited me and the yatra group into his cave. In moments that seemed to stretch for an eternity, we enjoyed one another’s presence in this cave.\nHere, a space opened up for this yogi and I to engage in a profound heart to heart conversation. Now, this kind of conversation is called Gosti in Gurmukhi, which translates to Conscious Sacred Exchange. Such an exchange is characterized by short, meaningful phrases, silence, and gestures. It is a communication of the highest dignity in that it crystalizes universal unity consciousness.\nIn this conversation, every word, pause, and gesture is expressed in the now; so, all expression blooms as a call and response that is nearly simultaneous. Every moment of the exchange is here and now. It is a deeply mystical exchange in that it carries profound wisdom of both the ancient past and distant future in the here now.\nSuch a yogic dialogue is bestowed and flows only in the right time and space; the only condition is reverence — reverence is adab in Gurmukhi.\nReally, dialogue is too dualistic a word to use for Gosti because in this conversation, the two sharing the “dialogue” become one. A better word might be uni-logue if the English language had such a word … Even the English word ‘monologue’ does not work here because this is an expression of the Universe, not the individuated self.\nThis short exchange of words, silences, and gestures is compact in as few as 6 moments. However, contained within this short exchange exists all the wisdom of the 6 philosophical orders of the yogic teachings.\nHere is the Gosti we shared:\n1. We held one another’s gaze and instantly recognized our connection: I wear the saffron robes, carrying the color of the sun. This yogi wears ashes, carrying the color of the moon. Recognizing we are connected as sun and moon brought big smiles to our faces. With great joy, he sang out in Hindi, “Yogi ko Yogi Meleh!” A Yogi meets a Yogi.\n2. Welcomed so, I replied by consciously proceeding into his sacred cave. I placed my right foot into his cave first, as the right foot is the foot of Dharma. As he noticed I did so, he rose to his feet and folded his hands the same time I folded my hands into Anjali Mudra, the lotus seal. Two hands represent duality, but Anajali Mudra brings all duality together into union — the negative and positive mind come to neutral, and the sun and moon energies of the body come to one. We bowed to each other simultaneously, and greeted each other in unison with the Himalayan Yogic greeting: “Matha Tekda Maharaj!” Oh sage, I bow to you!\n3. Next, he invited me to sit next to his yogic seat. He said in Hindi, “Bhaout Kripa ke aphne.” Thank you for coming and blessing. Offering the seat is a gesture that carried with it every welcome, every blessing, and every gratitude of all creatures in cordiality. Here is awareness of every expression of giving and receiving hospitality throughout eternity. Here is awareness of every being sharing and deeply cherishing one another’s presence.\n4. As I sat on the seat, he asked, “Aph kis Gurpranali se dikshat ho?” Which lineage are you initiated into? He asked my lineage, Gurpranali it is called. The Gurpranali is the lineage to which you have gifted your heart.\nThis question contained the essence of the Yogic teachings. In the Himalayan yogic teachings, one is known only through a lineage, not as his individual self. I repeat: the Himalayan tradition recognizes you only through your Gurpranli, not as an individual. In fact, there is no individual self on this path. On this path, only the divine through the master speaks through you, and that is what you convey. Only the Guru exists; the small psychological self died ages ago.\nThis is a path of total surrender to the one who has sparked the fire of wisdom within. The Himalayan sages teach that one has to be initiated into Dharma through a lineage, without this initiation, a being is seen as an Orphan in the spiritual world. One only comes into the shelter after one is initiated into the Dharma.\n5. With a smile on my face and mentally bowing to the question, I replied, “Guru Nanak Sut, Baba Sri Chand ke Udasin Gurpranli Se Dikshat Hun Ji Maharaj.” Guru Nanak’s beloved son, Baba Sri Chand’s Udasin lineage into it I am initiated, oh dear one!\n6. Hearing the name of the ageless yogi, Baba Sri Chand, a wide smile came on his face. He removed his inner shawl and took out a pendent of Baba Sri Chand that he showed to me as he said, “Hum Bhi Udasin Pranali sey Hai” I am also an Udasin; this is my lineage, too. Together, we laughed. We held hands as two brothers on the path.\nOne yogi made the Himalayas his world; one yogi brought the Himalayas into the world. Both yogis are Naadi Putras, children born through the word of the Guru and spreading the Dharma of the Guru in their own unique way.\nIt is said that Baba Sri Chand is the protector of all Yogis, and it makes no difference if the cave is the yogi’s world, or the world is the yogi’s cave.\nOur dialogue created unity. What needed to be said was said. What needed to be replied was replied. All was for the purpose of exchanging sacred dialogue that creates unity.\nWe both bowed to the Gurpranali from which we have sprouted and all the masters that carried the Dharma and thanking them for giving us the shelter in its fold. In the words of the Himalayan masters, I bow to all those who have walked the path of the Dharma.\nWith Joy in my heart and both hands united above my head, I sealed our Gosti. I called out a Jaikara, a glory proclamation of Baba Sri Chand: “Bolh Bhagvan Sri Chander Maharaj Ke Jai,” may all sing the glories of the great Baba Sri Chand. All those present joined us and chanted along with us as one.\nWith this exchange of statements between a yogi and a yogi in the cave of the Himlayas, the womb of Yogic teachings, the essence of the 6 philosiphical orders of yogic lineage; Khat Darshan its called, the Gosti was complete.\nThis completes the dialogue.\nWe go our separate ways, vibrating unity.\nWatch this video of the Mystical Hemkunt\nJourney with Yogi Amandeep 2016", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/about-st-cross/news/colin-dexter-obe", "date": "2019-04-19T22:43:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578528430.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190419220958-20190420002958-00283.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9946606755256653, "token_count": 177, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__19984788", "lang": "en", "text": "Colin Dexter OBE\nThe College is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of author Colin Dexter, who had been a St Cross Fellow by Special Election since 2005.\nColin was best known for his Inspector Morse novels which were later adapted into a successful television series starring John Thaw. He was appointed an OBE in 2000 for services to literature, and in 2001 he was awarded the Freedom of the City of Oxford.\nColin very much enjoyed his association with the College and regularly attended events. Students and their families, who had enjoyed reading tales of Oxford's most famous detective, were equally delighted to find themselves in conversation with his creator. Colin Dexter's love of poetry, mischievous sense of humour and ready wit left wonderful memories with those he met. He will be genuinely missed by the College community and our thoughts are with his family.\nTuesday 21 March 2017", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://christchurchcelebrants.co.nz/seanjoyce/", "date": "2022-05-19T16:31:13Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662529538.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519141152-20220519171152-00540.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9526980519294739, "token_count": 337, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__140335701", "lang": "en", "text": "Celebrant Sean officiates at weddings throughout Christchurch and Canterbury, but is happy to go anywhere in the glorious South Island.\nSean will craft you a ceremony to have you relaxed, confident and in-the-moment. Your family and friends will be enthralled by a ceremony that they feel part of. A validated member of the Celebrants Association, Sean is also a trained speaker, stand-up comedian and popular Christchurch performance poet. He’s happy to travel throughout the South Island for weddings.\nTell us about yourself? Everything I do, from the very first meeting, is to earn the trust and confidence of the couple. I want them to stand in front of all their guests confident they are already a team of two, still private yet powerful and in control. Then it’s easy for me to appear relaxed, professional and fully prepared. “Relaxed” and “entertaining” are the most common words in my 300+ reviews.\nTell us about your style? Relaxed and entertaining.\nBest part of any ceremony for you? The guests caught-off-guard by the open sincerity of the couple’s vows.\nFavourite things? Spending time with my granddaughter while we eat ice cream and generally philosophise. I enjoy public speaking and MCing. I write a bit and my poems and stories have been published in various publications from the Christchurch Press to Bob Dylan’s home town of Hibbing, Minnesota. My first book will be self-published on Amazon in August 2021.\nGET IN TOUCH!\nT. 021 951 949", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.angusauxiliary.com/people/miss-american-angus/2022-Mary-Wood.html", "date": "2024-04-18T17:22:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817222.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418160034-20240418190034-00305.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9790944457054138, "token_count": 1029, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__55367047", "lang": "en", "text": "My late mother, DeEtta, had one of those smiles that could light up a room. In my opinion, her smile could light up an entire city! She embodied the sentiment credited to Mother Theresa, “Peace begins with a smile.” I am my mother's daughter and believe that forming meaningful connections with others is our highest calling. We have learned over the past few years the devastation that occurs when we are disconnected and isolated. As a young woman, I have been fortunate to learn from mentors within my family, community, and the Angus industry on what it means to handle differences. Meeting people where they are, communicating with integrity, and leading by example are the essential elements that have enabled me to create profound relationships along my journey.\nIn To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee writes, “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.\"rdquo; There is far too much division in the world in which we live. We must meet people where they are, diffusing opposition with a kind word, with empathy, with a smile. When we take a step back from the situation and put ourselves in another person's shoes, we can better understand and appreciate their unique experience. As a young junior member, I struggled to get involved in the National Junior Angus Association activities. In 2013 at my first junior nationals in Kansas City, I was hesitant to participate in the Cook-Off competition because I would be working with people I did not know. An advisor from my state, Jamie, encouraged me to get involved in the Cook-Off competition. She saw in me the insecurity that was holding me back. She met me where I was and provided the compassion and support that I needed. From that situation, I made new friends and became more active in my state association. By meeting people where they are, we establish relationships. Through these relationships, I recognize that diversity enriches our lives and our moments with others.\nWords have the power to unite or destroy. In our society, there seems to be a need to share every thought that comes to mind with little worry of how it might affect others. Our cultural landscape would look different if every single person communicated with integrity. From the leadership opportunities of my teen years and transitioning into college life, I have learned that it is best to express my values honestly and respectfully to others. This practice builds trust so that both parties can work together to resolve differences. While others may not agree with our thoughts or beliefs, they are at least allowed to witness the transparent communication of our convictions. Communication also involves listening to others with an open heart. The Certified Angus Beef brand is a well-known brand that has created a reputation by being honest about its purpose and product through truthful communication with consumers. While market demands fluctuate, CAB has not wavered from its consistent mission to promote registered Angus cattle through offering a high-quality Angus beef product. As a result, the brand has now seen six consecutive years surpassing one billion pounds of sales. We share our vision and create a dialogue that averts conflict and promotes successful collaboration by communicating with integrity.\nAs we meet people where they are and communicate with integrity, we display purposeful leadership to conquer problems as they arise. Leaders who lead by example are next-level problem-solvers committed to their personal growth and the benefit of others in their community. My brother Justin is one of my greatest role models who retired from the National Junior Angus Association board of directors this year. It was exciting to see him achieve this accomplishment that he had set as a goal early in his youth. However, his time on the board turned out to be more challenging than expected for the reason that no one could have imagined. The COVID-19 pandemic changed the rules for so much of Junior Angus operations. As the Leadership Director, I saw Justin deal with the obstacles of virtual rather than in-person events, the disappointment of canceled events, and the struggle with finding locations to host junior activities like the LEAD conference. When faced with many different ideas about moving forward, Justin kept a level head and stepped up to the leadership position that he was elected to by working with his fellow board members as a quiet example of consistent leadership. Through this chapter in his life, he encouraged others through a difficult time and has certainly inspired me with a desire to be a leader that sets an example for others.\nI can still hear my mother's voice in my mind whenever I face potential conflict, “Mary, be the bigger person.” As a child, I did not truly understand what that meant, but by her example, I learned how to approach obstacles. Not surprisingly, she was a woman who confronted difficult situations head-on, creating opportunities for friendship where there might have been strife. Meeting people where they are, communicating with integrity, and leading by example have become the foundation I continue to build upon as I move to the next chapter. But, I always begin with a smile.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://baptisttrumpet.com/2022/10/25/we-dont-skip-verses/", "date": "2024-03-05T08:28:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948223038.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305060427-20240305090427-00331.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9693036079406738, "token_count": 906, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__183772660", "lang": "en", "text": "By Jordan Tew, Executive Director • Baptist Publishing House\nI remember visiting a used bookstore several years ago, and while I was there, I stumbled upon a collection of used Sunday School curriculum. This curriculum was supposed to be a book-by-book study of the Bible. I was intrigued, so I picked up a book and read through it. It did not take me very long to see that the author had skipped many verses and even entire chapters.\nGranted, the verses and chapters that were skipped are often considered “controversial” by many. Indeed, Romans 8-10 has caused many a theological debate over the years. I was, however, saddened by the fact that a Christian publications ministry would rather skip verses (and chapters) than deal with what those verses said. Why be timid when it comes to God’s Word?\nI will be the first to say there is no need to cause unnecessary strife or friction between brothers and sisters in Christ. However, there is also never any need to be ashamed of the Word of God.\nWhen I became the executive director of Baptist Publishing House (several years after the aforementioned bookstore experience), I knew we must stand upon God’s Word without any compromise or fear. I will admit this is not a popular stand to take in today’s world, where compromise is celebrated and cowering is a virtue.\nI believe God’s Word is powerful, authoritative and true. The Apostle Paul said, “I am not ashamed of the gospel.” Certainly, to be unashamed of the gospel means we also must be unashamed of the Word of God.\nThese convictions are also shared by our writers. The men who write for Baptist Publishing House are BMA pastors and educators. They work very hard to provide our churches with a true verse-by-verse study of God’s Word, and I am grateful for their consistent and selfless work. I can assure you it would be much easier to skip the “hard verses” in several instances, but we cannot do that because we are men bound by the Word of God. We understand our calling is to proclaim God’s Word faithfully and without compromise. That is what the churches of the BMA of America have commissioned the Baptist Publishing House to do.\nThis is not a new concept. The BMA has had many faithful Sunday School writers over the years. We are dedicated to preserving this legacy of faithful writers, who possess a devotion to the authority of the Bible and hold to sound doctrine.\nThroughout the countless hours of writing, editing, correcting and rewriting each and every lesson, we have all solidified our conviction that we are 100% committed to God’s Word. The phrase “We don’t skip verses” is slowly becoming our motto. Second to the Word of God, our commitment is to the Doctrinal Statement of the BMA of America. Simply put, we will not and cannot produce anything that is not in total agreement with this statement.\nWhy are we so passionate about it? I think the answer to that question can be found in the Doctrinal Statement of the BMA of America, Article II:\n• The Scriptures are God’s inerrant revelation, complete in the Old and New Testaments, written by divinely inspired men as they were moved by the Holy Spirit (II Tim. 3:16; II Peter 1:21). Those men wrote not in words of human wisdom but in words taught by the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 2:13).\n• The Scriptures provide the standard for the believer’s faith and practice (II Tim. 3:16, 17), reveal the principles by which God will judge all (Heb. 4:12; John 12:48) and express the true basis of Christian fellowship (Gal. 1:8-9; II John 9-11).\nWhile the world is critical of such convictions, God is honored. We are grateful that the Lord has continued to pour out His blessings upon this ministry. Each quarter, more and more churches begin using BMA curriculum in their churches, and they have shared good reports about how it has helped their people grow in the knowledge of God and His Word. Some have even been saved! Indeed, as the Lord said, through the Prophet Isaiah, “My Word will not return void.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://fcpeboiscolombes.fr/forums/topic/beyond-the-darkness-buy-book/", "date": "2021-11-29T10:13:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358702.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129074202-20211129104202-00540.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.826063871383667, "token_count": 454, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__174849968", "lang": "en", "text": "- Ce sujet est vide.\n20/11/2020 à 15 h 19 min #17175Adra KellyInvité\nBeyond the Darkness\nA Biography of Bede Griffiths\nby Shirley du Boulay\n- Genres: spirituality\n- ISBN: 9781903816165 (1903816165)\n- Author: Shirley du Boulay\n- Publisher: John Hunt Publishing\n- Format: paperback, 308 pages\n- Language: english\n- Release date: February 4, 2004\nAbout The Book\nEven though the English Benedictine monk Bede Griffiths was well known during his lifetime (1906-1993) for his efforts to harmonize the spiritual practices of East and West, the full range of his influence is only just becoming widely appreciated. Now, from respected journalist and biographer Shirley du Boulay, comes the first major biography of Griffith’s life, Beyond the Darkness. Du Boulay shows the transformation of Griffiths from an idealistic, highly intelligent, serious, and sometime irritable schoolboy into a man of profound wisdom who emanated unconditional love, and who was often revered as a holy man and a living saint. During his life of intellectual and spiritual discovery, he became an associate of the Inklings, a close friend of C. S. Lewis, and eventually a leader of an ashram in India.\nFB2 ebook Beyond the Darkness Shirley du Boulay on Walmart. MP3 book Beyond the Darkness download for PC. EPUB Beyond the Darkness buy iPad. Online ebook Beyond the Darkness by Shirley du Boulay read on Barnes & Noble.\nTXT book Beyond the Darkness on IndieBound. Hardcover Beyond the Darkness Shirley du Boulay read online on iOS. Hardback ebook Beyond the Darkness by Shirley du Boulay buy cheap on Kindle. Paperback book Beyond the Darkness download on Book Depository.\nPDF Beyond the Darkness by Shirley du Boulay buy cheap on Amazon. FictionBook Beyond the Darkness for reader. MOBI ebook Beyond the Darkness Shirley du Boulay read on Kobo. TXT book Beyond the Darkness download Android.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://dendiva.com/this-n-that/5-promises-men-should-make-this-womans-day/", "date": "2019-03-20T09:19:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202324.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20190320085116-20190320111116-00367.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9578859210014343, "token_count": 850, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__67280943", "lang": "en", "text": "For one second, even if we concede that “it’s a man’s world,” then by that sheer logic, “International Women’s Day” is a day of grave importance to a man. But is it really a man’s world? Take my life for instance. The driving force of my life is indeed my Wife. She drives me to drive, she drives me to shop, she drives me to clean, and she drives me to take the dog out for a walk. And all this while she is steering me to do stuff, I can see the lost sheen on her face. Her worry-laden face that screams to say enough is enough. Frankly, I don’t really blame her for those thoughts. I respect and secretly envy her multi-tasking skills. The lazy Joe that I am, I cannot match to her achievements and capabilities.\nHowever, it’s time to redeem myself. Indeed, enough is enough. So, as a man who promised to stand by you through thick & thin, I pledge thee the following vows that will showcase a man that you want to be with.\nI would Ignore My Phone around You!\nI swear! No more shall I give precedence to my phone over you. No more shall I spend Sunday afternoon’s lurking over my phone. I shall pay more heed to your words, rather than play games on my phone. Like you said, I am not 17 anymore.\nI also promise to be more like your great grand uncle who imported loose diamonds from Africa back in the days to present his beloved wife a pair of beautiful diamond earrings. I can’t reach the shores of Africa to get you lose diamonds, but I can certainly pick them up from CaratLane.com.\nRemote is your Property!\nYes, Honey! I have been thinking for a while. Why should a small oddly shaped thing come in between our love? I rather let you watch your favourite shows than hijacking the remote to watch a cricket match or catch the latest episode of Game of Thrones. I’ll rather wait till the latest season is released on Netflix and I will be more than satisfied watching the cricket highlight than catching the match Live. Even better, we’d rather cozy up in the decadent corner of the house to catch up the episode together but only after I have done assisting you with the household chores.\nNever again will I act like a self-entitled obnoxious creature when on a shopping trip with you. Whether you are browsing online to shop for jewellery or Window-shopping at Zara, I shall stand by you like a rock.\nI will also give you my honest feedback on the clothes you buy. For instance, I will have prompt answers to your questions like- whether you should buy nude pumps with the salmon pink dress or the white ones? Just for record! Nude pumps are every green.\nMovies every Weekend!\nI make a pucca promise to take you on a movie date every weekend. And of course, the movie will be of your choice (that goes without saying). No Ironman, Transformer or Batman. A movie followed by a sumptuous meal is what our weekend itinerary will be. And just in case (subject to disclaimer), you are in a happy mood and decide to watch a superhero or an action flick. I shall be more than glad to oblige.\nWould say Love you at least 20 times a day\nSee I have already started. I know that you know that I love you. But should that stop me from telling you “that I love you”? Definitely not! I love you, and I will not hesitate, miss or shy away from telling that to you. Just like Mr. Darcy your favourite character from the book Pride and Prejudice, I shall pledge to say ‘I Love you’ most ardently.\nMenfolk, the secret to the happiness of a man are linked to that of his wife’s happiness. Hold that thought to your heart and be a man of not empty words.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://jungian.libsyn.com/webpage/2007/07", "date": "2020-10-23T00:03:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107880401.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022225046-20201023015046-00153.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8876776099205017, "token_count": 402, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__170179148", "lang": "en", "text": "Sun, 22 July 2007\nJUNG PODCAST #16 - FAIRY TALES 3\nIn this episode we continue with a Jungian approach to fairy tale interpretation. I introduce the \"Moreau Guidelines\", a concise overview of how one may interpret a fairy tale. The Moreau Guidelines are covered in detail. The first step of an interpretation, using these guidelines is explained, with examples from Grimm's (Rapunzel, The Devil's Sooty Brother, The Raven). Four core ideas are presented : all elements of the fairy tale are elements of a single psyche; all the characters in the fairy tale represent structures of the same psyche; we have to take an interpretive stance for the fairy tale based on whether we feel the tale represents a masculine or a feminine psyche; all the elements of the tale are symbolic.\nMon, 2 July 2007\nJung Podcast #2 - Jung's Model of the Psyche\nIn this episode I cover the fundamental aspects of the psyche and review the core structures associated with each such aspect. To assist in our model development, I have used Jung’s topographical model of the psyche. We begin with seeing the psyche as comprising four aspects – consciousness, the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious and the body. The structures within the first three aspects are the ego, complexes and archetypes respectively. The five functions of the ego are reviewed. The contents of the personal unconscious, in the form of complexes, are dealt with in depth to assist in gaining an understanding of how, when our complexes are constellated, they imp[act certain of the ego’s functions. Archetypes are simply defined as symbol-producing structures of the collective unconscious. A link between the three strata of the psyche (conscious, personal unconscious, collective unconscious) is made with the body. THIS IS A RE-RECORDING OF THE SAME EPISODE IN AN ATTEMPT TO IMPROVE THE AUDIO QUALITY", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://spiritualinquiry.com/articles/forgiveness/", "date": "2017-03-29T17:12:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190754.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00515-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9548153281211853, "token_count": 261, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__245358680", "lang": "en", "text": "When somebody hurts us, we have two ways to move on: we can forgive, or we can forget. These are not the same thing. When we forget something, we have not really dealt with the issue, we have just blotted it out. If we happen to remember the incident again, then the pain and anger will resurface. Forgiveness takes more courage than forgetfulness. To forgive, we must accept what the person has done. We accept it, try to understand it, and only then can we move on. When we forgive, we use the incident as a way to increase our understanding and compassion, and a way to release our own ego. When we forget, we simply pretend the incident never happened at all.\nIt is easy to go through life without ever forgiving. People do things, we get angry, and then eventually we forget about it. Forgetting about it helps ensure that we do not just stay angry forever, but it does not guarantee that future incidents will not make us angry and upset all over again. By contrast, forgiveness has longer lasting benefits. When we learn to forgive, it is not only the pain of the present that is relieved. By enhancing our compassion and understanding, we are better equipped to deal with any pain that the future may bring.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://nakedoriginality.blogspot.com/2012/09/grief-law-of-attraction-part-3.html", "date": "2017-12-12T16:03:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948517350.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20171212153808-20171212173808-00256.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9700703620910645, "token_count": 1139, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__195822245", "lang": "en", "text": "By: Jim & Jamie Dutcher\nI had to force myself to come back to this page today.\nThe journey through Grief continues. I was curious to know how many days it’s been. Twenty-one. I have stumbled, fallen, and coerced myself to deliberately reach for a higher feeling thought, just a small improvement, more than twenty-one times. I consciously work not to succumb to lower level emotional vibration. The pain of Rudy’s absence, once searing, has lessened bit by bit, day by day. The disappearance of his life-force is a pragmatic reality that now sits in a medium-sized white box with wonderful and happy dog paws imprinted randomly over the surface. You’d expect the box to be filled with doggie treats not Rudy’s ashes. They arrived yesterday, hand-delivered by our compassionate and extraordinary Vet, Ronit. She adored Rudy and cried with us the day he died.\nMy life is sustained by books. Real books. Ancient books made of paper and cardboard and binding. They are everywhere in our bungalow. From the time I was a little child, when feeling frightened, sad or lost, books were my “safe-place.” I would find exactly the right book and run outside to my beloved Tree Fort built high in the branches of our huge Bay tree. Like a transfusion, I could feel the energy of the wise tree vibrate through my body. I would breathe-deep of the unique and delicious scent. I would kiss the bark and thank my tree for its protection. Then, I would snuggle into my sleeping bag, open the book and travel wherever it offered to take me. It felt wonderful! I was on a Magic Carpet ride, flying through the air. Time and Space did not exist. Now, I realize it was my first experience with Quantum Physics and the Law of Attraction.\nThe Little Engine That Could was my favorite story for it made me believe anything was possible, “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.” The message filled every fiber of my being with wonder, courage, strength and optimism. “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.” Without exception, this mantra has served me through every milestone and saved me from drowning when I found myself furiously paddling upstream, against the raging currents of painful emotion.\nOnly yesterday, I smiled at myself when I realized these words were streaming through my mind as a coping mechanism, I think I can find my way through missing Rudy. I think I can erase the horrible images of his tumors and feeling profoundly inadequate as a person dedicated to healing. I think I can focus on all the wonderful moments and memories Rudy gave me. I think I can let him go with love and light. I think I can deeply love another dog that, I know, will come into our lives. I think I can survive the future death of all my beloveds. “I think I can” is in the process of becoming “I know I can.”\nThen it happened. SynchroDestiny took my hand. Created and defined by renowned mind-body authority, Dr. Deepak Chopra, SynchroDestiny describes an extraordinary conspiracy of improbabilities in which seemingly unrelated circumstances and conditions weave together to form an unforeseen event. SynchroDestiny explores the universal patterns that shape our lives and expand our potentiality as it relates to intention, consciousness, karma and coincidence.\nA respected colleague and friend, Jane Bay, describes it this way: “SynchroDestiny has the ability to transform our lives once we understand what is happening, enabling us to experience miracles and feelings of joy, and consciously participate in our own evolution with a better understanding of our meaning and purpose in life. The ultimate goal…is to expand consciousness and open a doorway to enlightenment – a rebirthing or awakening.”\nHow does this apply to Grief? Here’s my answer: I had forgotten about three books I bought last fall. They have been sitting on a shelf, crisp and new, unopened. Herein lies the power of our subconscious minds and the magnetic forces in our Universe – I absently, without conscious intention, walked to this particular shelf. Words streamed through my head, I think I can. I know I can. I think I can. Oh, Rudy, I miss you so! But I know I can process this Grief. I know I can!\nThis particular bookshelf is high on the wall and as I reached up, I knocked off one book. It fell to the ground, bounced once, and landed on the tiles. The crash-landing impact caused it to open with pages facing the floor. I picked it up. And, I kid you not, the page read, “Example 32: My Dog Died and I Feel Grief.” Holy Bow-Wows! Talk about an instantaneous shift in energy. It actually took me a few seconds to process the profoundness of what just happened. I was being offered the opportunity to expand my potentiality as it relates to intention, consciousness, karma and coincidence.\nIf you scroll down to the next post, I share passages from Esther and Jerry Hicks book, The Astonishing Power of Emotions – Let Your Feelings Be your Guide in hopes it offers you some measure of comfort and opens a doorway to understanding and processing the tumultuous emotion we call Grief.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.transrespmed.com/content/1/1/11/abstract", "date": "2015-11-30T06:09:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398461113.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205421-00201-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8933249711990356, "token_count": 701, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__154957507", "lang": "en", "text": "Sputum matrix metalloproteinase-9 is associated with the degree of emphysema on computed tomography in COPD\n1 Immunology, Institute of Infection, Immunity & Inflammation, University of Glasgow and Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland G12 OYN, UK\n2 Pfizer Research/Translational Medicine Research Collaboration, Dundee, UK\n3 Pfizer Research/Translational Medicine Research Collaboration, Cambridge, MA, USA\n4 Pfizer Research/Translational Medicine Research Collaboration, Collegeville, PA, USA\n5 Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK\n6 MRC Centre for Inflammation Research, Medical Physics and Clinical Radiology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK\n7 Radiology Department, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, UK\n8 Ear Nose and Throat Department, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, UK\nTranslational Respiratory Medicine 2013, 1:11 doi:10.1186/2213-0802-1-11Published: 6 June 2013\nMatrix-metalloproteinase (MMP)-9 has been implicated in the pathogenesis of COPD, although its link to disease severity is unclear. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between disease severity assessed by lung function and computed tomography (CT) and sputum MMP-9 expression, concentration and activity in patients with COPD.\nIn 53 COPD subjects, smokers and ex-smokers; 46 healthy controls, smokers and never smokers, we measured sputum MMP-9 concentrations (ELISA) and enzyme activity (FRET), sputum MMP-9 mRNA expression, spirometry, diffusing capacity for carbon monoxide (DLco) and CT assessment of emphysema (% low attenuation areas below-950 Hounsfield units).\nSputum MMP-9 concentrations and mRNA expression in COPD subjects were significantly greater than in healthy never-smokers (p = 0.007 and p = 0.001 respectively) and similar to those in healthy smokers. Disease severity when assessed by the extent of emphysema measured by CT, but not by spirometry or DLco values, was directly associated with sputum MMP-9 concentrations [r = 0.442 (0.171, 0.634), p = 0.020], and MMP-9 activity [r = 0.447 (0.219, 0.643), p = 0.010]. In moderate to severe COPD, increased MMP-9 mRNA expression levels were associated with reduced post-bronchodilator FEV1 [r = −0.530 (−0.686, -0.327), p < 0.001], FEV1/FVC ratio [r = −0.551 (−0.701, -0.354), p < 0.001] and reduced DLco [r = −0.399 (−539, -0.102), p = 0.048].\nSputum MMP-9 concentrations in COPD are directly associated with the extent of emphysema measured by CT and MMP-9 expression levels are inversely associated with DLco. These findings support a role for MMP-9 in the pathogenesis of COPD.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://alphabeticalbrain.com/m.humanist-stars-eagleman.html", "date": "2019-12-10T21:31:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540529006.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20191210205200-20191210233200-00326.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8766441941261292, "token_count": 179, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__82722173", "lang": "en", "text": "ALPHABETICAL BRAIN™ VOCABULARY\nHUMANIST GALAXY OF\nSECULAR BRAIN SCIENCE STARS\nSeptember 25, 2019\nDavid Eagleman has written two important books about the new brain science, which should be read and discussed throughout the Humanist Galaxy.\nThe first book is:\n THE BRAIN: The Story of You published by Pantheon Books, 2015 (218 pages) is the companion book to the six-part PBS TV series, THE BRAIN, that aired in the fall of 2015.\nThis book is outlined at the link at the bottom.\nThe second book is:\n INCOGNITO: The Secret Lives of the Brain published by Vintage, 2012 (304 pages). It will be outlined and reviewed soon.\nClick or Tap Link for Outline and Reviews:\nThe Story of You", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://allhindugodgoddess.blogspot.com/2010/08/prayer-for-lord-vishnu.html", "date": "2018-07-15T19:44:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676588961.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20180715183800-20180715203800-00174.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.837327778339386, "token_count": 450, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__137172600", "lang": "en", "text": "Prayer for Lord Vishnu\nvande vishnum bhava-bhaya-haram\nwho is the embodiment of peace,\nwho lies on the Shesha serpent,\nwhose navel is the source of the Lotus,\nwhose complexion is swarthy like the clouds,\nwhose body shines with heavenly beauty,\nwho is the beloved of Goddess Lakshmi,\nwhose eyes are like Lotus,\nwho is meditated upon by the yogis,\nwho is the remover of the fear of the world-process.\nHe who has the peaceful (shaanta-)\ndemeanor and visage (-kaaram).\nHe who sleeps and reposes (-shayanam)\non the serpents (bhujaga-).\nHe who has a lotus shaped (padma-) navel (-naabham).\nHe who is the master and lord\nof all the gods (suresham).\nI pray to the Lord Vishnu.\nHe who holds (-dhaaram) the\nuniverse (vishwaa-) in his hands.\nHe whose vision (-sadrasham) exceeds\nbeyond all the skies (gagana-).\nHe whose color and visage (-varanam) is\nchangeable like the clouds (megha-).\nAnd he who is filled with goodness (shubh-)\nin every part (-aangam) of his body.\nI sing praise to the Lord Vishnu.\nHe who is the husband (-kaantam)\nof the goddess of wealth (-lakshmi).\nHe whose eyes (-nayanam) are surreal\nlike a lotus flower (kamala-).\nAnd he who yogis yearn to reach (-agamyam)\nthrough meditation (-dhyaana).\nI sing praises (vande-) to the Lord Vishnu (-vishnum).\nHe who removes (-haram) all our fears (-bhaya)\ndue to our inborn nature (-bhava).\nAnd he who is the master (-naatham) of the\nentire (-sarva) universe and creation (-lokaika).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.oakapplepress.com/variorum.html", "date": "2023-01-30T20:15:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499829.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130201044-20230130231044-00426.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9438228607177734, "token_count": 917, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__302714755", "lang": "en", "text": "We are pleased to announce publication of The Variorum Gilbert & Sullivan, Volume I, the essential textual reference to the first four operas by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan: Thespis, Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer, and H.M.S. Pinafore.\nSo…what's a Variorum? The term, Latin for of various people, refers to an edition that presents the variant states of a text, with editorial commentary. This is the first of a five-volume variorum of the Gilbert & Sullivan libretti, documenting their evolution from pre-production drafts and the early productions, through revivals, twentieth-century D'Oyly Carte amendments, and the contributions of later editors and editions.\nThe book is 781 pages, of which the first 169 are a general introduction that discusses the partners' working methods, a survey of the sources and the textual problems they present, and the editorial process. Each opera also has a separate detailed introduction that discusses its textual history, sources, and issues. These introductions are substantial resources in and of themselves: that of Pinafore runs to over 100 pages.\nWe have researched hundreds of manuscripts, libretti and scores, including many prompt books and early drafts never before published, such two early plot sketches of Thespis, and Gilbert's first draft plot of Gilbert & Sullivan's first international hit, H.M.S. Pinafore. (We don't want anyone to be misled: the two Thespis plot sketches are a total of five pages, the Pinafore plot draft seven pages. We think you'll enjoy reading them, but the book isn't worth it for those items alone.)\nAlso included are deleted passages (cancelled lyrics and songs) and supplemental material, such as \"An Elixir of Love,\" the short story that inspired The Sorcerer, presented with the original Gilbert drawings as it appeared in Christmas 1876 issue The Graphic, with variants noted from its re-publication in Gilbert's 1890 compilation of short stories, Foggerty's Fairy and Other Tales.\nThere are, of course, many collected anthologies of Gilbert's libretti. Most offer the texts with no analysis at all, or with mainly non-textual commentary (e.g., production practice; definitions of obscure words and phrases). Reginald Allen edited what he took to be the first-night libretti in The First Night Gilbert and Sullivan; Ian Bradley quoted many of the pre-production drafts and variant readings in The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan. But neither explored the full textual history of Gilbert's libretti systematically.\nTextual criticism isn't an exact science: other editors would reach different conclusions. But as this is a variorum, variant readings that have any reasonable claim to authority share the page with the libretto text, so that readers can judge for themselves the basis of our decisions. We also consider all of the surviving drafts, discarded versions, and other historically important sources—even if the latter did not have the authors' approval or willfully contravened it. Those who have wondered about the provenance of a variant passage will now have its textual history.\nBeyond the value of establishing a text, a variorum serves other purposes. Performers may choose to restore material that the authors had rewritten or cut. Alternative readings shed light on the history of a work's creation and reception. From the evolution of the texts, we learn more about the thought processes of the men who created them and the cultural climate in which they worked. Even their rejects make compelling reading. Their discarded drafts are the residue of a creative process that was often more complex, and less linear, than would be apparent from the familiar biographies.\nAt one time, we thought we could accomplish all of this, for the whole canon, in one book. We now find that we have enough material for five volumes. The second volume (with Pirates, Patience, and Iolanthe) will follow eventually, and so on to the end. Some readers may be aware that we have been working on this for a long time: 35 years, believe it or not: there's decades of work invested in this first volume of four operas.\nThe Variorum Gilbert & Sullivan, Volume I, is published in hardcover with a dust jacket, and is available from Lulu.com for $40 plus shipping.\nMarc Shepherd & Michael Walters", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://jcasatodd.com/?p=2043", "date": "2018-01-16T17:11:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886476.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116164812-20180116184812-00269.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9757040143013, "token_count": 491, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__20535243", "lang": "en", "text": "I can’t wait to share my passion about the topic of Digital Leadership with the world in the form of my upcoming book, Social LEADia. In anticipation of its release I will be sharing excerpts from it… until which time I can actually hold the book in my hands!\nThis is one of the stories which I share in the book which reaffirmed for me the need for adults to be in social media spaces together with our students and children.\nIn the Spring of 2016, I tweeted out the link to a hashtag that kids had created for the Ontario Secondary School Literacy test. #osslt2016 My daughter and I got a real kick out of the very clever posts by students who had just written the test. Even EQAO (the governing body overseeing the test) responded light-heartedly:\n— EQAO (@eqao) March 31, 2016\nThen a friend of mine pointed out that there was an extremely inappropriate post in the feed. When I looked, I was mortified. Instinctively, I deleted my tweet and reported the tweet as offensive. This student basically likened writing the test to wanting to be a suicide bomber and included a photo!\nThen I took a closer look. This was just a grade 10 kid trying to be funny and not really understanding the impact. I looked at his Facebook page (easy enough to find) and realized from the very innocent profile and posts that he had just made a vast error in judgement.\nI instinctively contacted him via Twitter. It could have gone one of two ways: he could have responded maliciously, or he could have realized his error. Here is how the exchange went:\nMe: This is never ever appropriate. Nor is it funny. And this tweet can come back to haunt you in the future.\nStudent: (Liked, Retweeted) Thx\nMe: You are welcome. Delete it and hopefully no one will see it for now. Good luck!\nStudent: Kk (Deleted the tweet)\nIf I wasn’t in this space, I would not have been able to help this student.\nThis experience has reaffirmed my conviction that we need to spend more time focusing on using social media in positive ways. When we talk about social media, we can't always use the fear narrative; and we need to be in these spaces to help students navigate the tricky waters! Click To Tweet", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://dhanjaldiaries.com/2019/07/05/introduction/?shared=email&msg=fail", "date": "2020-10-20T00:02:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107867463.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20201019232613-20201020022613-00598.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9824891686439514, "token_count": 499, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__154128604", "lang": "en", "text": "Hello! Welcome to my blog. I am very excited to share my first blog post with you. It has been a long time coming. Creating my own personal blog had been just a thought that floated in my mind for several years, but I’ve finally decided to go through with it!\nWell to start off, a little bit about me: I graduated from the University of Guelph-Humber from the social services program back in 2017. I was lucky enough to experience a number of different jobs within the field early on (because I could not see myself settling in any one position for too long), which ultimately gave me a general idea of what to expect. Although this field of work is very valuable (and it takes a very special type of person to do it), I have come to realize that it is not the direction that I would like to pursue at this point in time. Regardless though, it most definitely was NOT a waste of my time, as I’ve had the honour of meeting and working with such beautiful souls along the journey who have truly made me the person I am today. As all things must come to end, I believe my time in social services has reached its end point. However, this decision has only further ignited the fire within me to pursue my dreams and goals of making a difference in society; no matter how small.\nWhy blogging you ask? Well simply because in my last few years of university I had come to realize how much I love to write, not the essay assignments which darkened my eye bags and made me lose many hours of sleep per se, but in general. I love the idea of putting my thoughts, feelings and experiences in writing and having it spark similar feelings in another person. I intend to write about anything and everything from personal experiences/thoughts to mental health to wellness to Oneness. Whatever else comes to my mind, you and I both will have to wait and see. Sometimes all it takes is a random conversation with a stranger to generate new ideas.\nEssentially I will be discussing matters that have always been close to my heart, and then anything else that resonates with me along the way, which I feel others should know and learn about. The theme will vary from formal to informal because INCLUSIVITY hello!?! The intention is to reach out to as many people as possible, regardless of age or gender, and hopefully to help spark something within them in one way or another.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.authorsalliance.club/scammers/dont-fall-for-these-self-publishing-frauds-protecting-your-work-and-wallet/", "date": "2024-02-24T23:53:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474569.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224212113-20240225002113-00845.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9536375999450684, "token_count": 725, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__156935276", "lang": "en", "text": "The prevalence of bookselling scams is causing many self-published American authors to suffer significant financial losses. This is due in part to the fact that many self-publishing companies use high-pressure sales tactics and promise quick and easy success, while failing to deliver on their promises. Self-published authors may fall victim to scams perpetrated by individuals posing as literary agents or publishing professionals. These scammers may offer to represent the author or offer to publish their work, but require the author to pay upfront fees or sign contracts that are unfavorable to the author. Despite the efforts of trustworthy online marketplaces like Amazon, Google, and eBay to tackle this issue, the process is complex and may take several years for affected writers to recover their earnings. It remains unclear whether scammers or the publishing sector are primarily responsible for these scams and what measures authors can take to safeguard themselves.\nNavigating the Tough Terrain of Self-Publishing\nWhile self-publishing can offer authors greater creative control and independence, it also exposes them to the risk of falling victim to book sale scams. This is due in part to the fact that individual authors often lack the necessary tools to adequately monitor their online book sales operations and might not possess the legal knowledge essential to find and prosecute scammers who exploit their work. As a result, writers who choose to self-publish must navigate a complex and often treacherous landscape of online book sales, where fraudulent entities are all too common.\nIn the publishing industry, vanity presses and scammers frequently employ a range of tactics in order to defraud aspiring authors. It is essential for writers to be aware of these tactics and to exercise caution when considering any publishing opportunity.\nThe Re-publishing Scam\nAuthors should be wary of a prevalent fraudulent practice where scammers target published writers by offering them false assurances of improved quality, enhanced credibility, or connections with traditional publishers. This tactic is aimed at enticing writers to republish their books, which can then be used to pitch to film studios or traditional publishers. As such, authors need to exercise caution and stay vigilant against such deceptive schemes.\nThe Playacting Scheme\nEven though publishing press releases can be done for free, scammers take advantage of this tactic by charging hundreds of dollars for it. They frequently use the names and logos of reputable publishing specialists and organizations to mislead their clients, and they don’t hesitate to use dishonest tactics to sell their services.\nIf you are not watchful, you could easily fall for their trick. As a result, you should carefully check the legitimacy of anyone or any organization that makes a claim to be affiliated with a renowned publishing house or professional.\nThe prevalence and complexity of bookselling scams are staggering, and they represent a significant threat to the work and livelihood of authors. While self-publishing has given authors more freedom and control, it has also exposed them to fraudulent activities, with single authors lacking the resources to monitor their sales activities online and protect their intellectual property.\nTo make matters worse, scammers have become more sophisticated in their approach, using fraudulent techniques to market their services and prey on unsuspecting authors. They often use the logos and names of reputable publishing professionals and firms, making it challenging to detect their deceit.\nIn conclusion, it is crucial for authors to be vigilant and proactive in safeguarding their work from bookselling scams. They should always verify the authenticity of anyone or any company claiming to be associated with a reputable publishing professional or firm. By staying informed and taking preventive measures, authors can better protect themselves from these fraudulent activities and continue to thrive in their craft.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://library.bentley.edu/research/ebooks.asp", "date": "2021-01-18T07:38:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703514423.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20210118061434-20210118091434-00566.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9150654673576355, "token_count": 661, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__156576249", "lang": "en", "text": "eBooks and Audiobooks Bentley Library’s eBooks and audiobooks may be found by searching the library’s catalog. Most eBooks are formatted to read online or in PDF format, but some may be downloaded to transfer to another device, such as an iPod or Kindle. OverDrive audiobooks may be enjoyed in the mobile app or on your computer. The library also has a collection of audiobooks on CD located in the Popular Reading section. In addition, depending on the desired format and device, additional software may need to be downloaded. Check the individual eBook collection for more information. Audiobooks What’s included? The Library’s collection of audiobooks is available on CD and also downloadable through OverDrive. Find a list of the library's audiobooks here. OverDrive Downloadable eBooks & Audiobooks What’s included? eBooks and audiobooks with an emphasis on popular fiction and nonfiction, but including some research materials. New materials are added on an ongoing basis; suggestions for new materials are welcome at our Suggest a Purchase page. View our Overdrive Downloadable Books page for more details. Books 24x7 (Skillport) What's included? Books on business, finance, information technology, health and wellness, and productivity. Also included: study guides for exams such as the CFA, and software manuals for business and statistics applications such as SAS and SPSS. Ebook Central (ProQuest) What’s included? Ebook Central (ProQuest) contains the Academic Complete collection: downloadable ebooks that encompass areas of the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Academic books, software manuals, and more are included. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) What's included? EBSCO eBooks offers general-interest and curriculum-focused titles curated by Bentley librarians. New materials are added on an ongoing basis; suggestions for new materials are welcome at our Suggest a Purchase page. Gale Virtual Reference Library What’s included? The Gale Virtual Library Reference Center provides full-text access to more than 50 reference e-books including titles in the arts, business, the environment, history, literature, medicine, multicultural studies, geography, and science. JSTOR What's included? JSTOR provides unlimited access to downloadable selected scholarly books from academic publishers. Project MUSE What's included? Project MUSE offers downloadable full-text versions of scholarly books from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. Safari Books Online Safari Books Online offers books and audio recordings on in-demand technology and business topics, including study guides, programmer and technical manuals, and more. Free Ebook Content Freely available books and other electronic media that are searchable by keyword. Google Books Search and read the full text of millions of books. Internet Archive A digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. It provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. LibriVox Free, public domain audiobooks searchable by author, title and subject. Online Books Page A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Project Gutenberg First and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.hmoodle.com/whos-to-blame-for-romeo-and-juliets-death/", "date": "2021-07-29T16:34:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153860.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20210729140649-20210729170649-00508.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9736533761024475, "token_count": 1519, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__263411448", "lang": "en", "text": "Novice essayist Keithan Thao is a 9th Grader of Osseo High School in Osseo, MN. His fascination for literature has progressed immensely since his grade school days. Probing with the task to write an essay about who is to be blamed for Romeo and Juliet’s Death in William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, here is going into the mind of a 9th grader. Read on as he dissects this tragic love story to ascertain who the real offender is that had become the catalyst to their death.\nA typical story portrays a valiant protagonist earning accolades through perseverance and adversities from the twists and turns of an allegorical plot with a climatic end to find the protagonist heroic from all odds while intact, safe, and winning the hearts of the readers. With a macabre imagination in William Shakespeare’s story telling in Romeo and Juliet where this innovative dramatist ends with both main characters dying in their endeavor to find love; love that had become an entrapment for their death. Their love, their enigmatic end! Who is to blame? To point the finger is to find the root cause of the issue. If I can rewind back to the very beginning I can tell you who I would choose as the sole perpetrator. In William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is to blame for his own along with Juliet’s death because he initially pursued Juliet knowing she was a Capulet, he had too much trust in his confidence in Friar Lawrence, and lastly, had relied heavily in his naivety.\nEveryone and everything has a beginning. A tree doesn’t grow without its roots. Romeo is to blame for his own along with Juliet’s death because the root cause of this incident began with his decision to pursue a relationship with a Capulet household member, which was forbidden. Romeo understood the possible consequences to initiate a courtship with lying with an enemy. He already knew that both households Capulet and Montague were sworn enemies from generations before them. Unbeknownst to them, fated to become an inescapable tragedy that would ensue to their demise. If Romeo didn’t attend the Capulet party, he would never have met Juliet, unfortunately he did. His first sight of her beauty seems a little cliche but warranted the conundrum of the idiom of love at first sight which paved way to giving him the butterfly tingles in his stomach to continue his pursuit. “Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night” (1.5. 54-55). He secretly followed her to her chambers, climbed up to her window from outside to meet her, and this was the beginning to what we know now as the ending to this holy matrimony.\nRomeo had too much trust in Friar Lawrence, a forerunner to his downfall. Although Friar Lawrence had good intentions to help keep Romeo and Juliet’s relationship a secret, this later led him down the path believing Juliet’s death was real. Although Friar Lawrence seems to see this love as a skeptical one, he says: “Young men’s love then lies not truly with their hearts, but in their eyes” (2.3. 67-68). Friar Lawrence agrees to marry the two in hopes to end their families’ feud. “But come, young waverer, come, go with me. In one respect I’ll thy assistant be, for this alliance may so happy prove to turn your households’ rancor to pure love” (2.3. 96-97). Juliet confides in the friar who gives her his advice of a possible way for Juliet to get out of the arranged marriage. Friar Lawrence’s proposal to Juliet was to agree to marry Paris; then on the night before the wedding to drink a sleeping potion that will make her seem that she is dead; while Friar Lawrence will send a letter to Romeo to be at her side when she wakes up. The friar’s letter to Romeo did not get to him before this turned for the worst. Romeo’s trust in Friar Lawrence was Romeo’s fate to die.\nLastly, he relied heavily on his naivety. From the inception, he’s the one who gave birth to the seed that has grown to flourish into roots that would sprout to influencing the bitter sweet love tragedy that has us pointing fingers. Romeo’s naivety in his decisions from pursuing Juliet was his first mistake. Then to having too much confidence in Friar Lawrence in relying too much in his advices. Subsequently, with Friar Lawrence coming to Juliet’s aid in a final plan of a fake a death to deceive her family while sending word to Romeo about the plan, so they can be together at last. Love always triumph over hate. Without receiving the letter from the friar, he made a final impulsive decision to accept death if he cannot be with his love Juliet for his death would mean he can be with her. After seeing his beautiful Juliet in a lifeless slumber, he said: “Here, here will I remain with worms that are thy chamber maids. O, here will i set up my everlasting rest. And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars from this world-wearied flesh! Eyes, look your last. Arms, take your last embrace. And, lips, O, you the doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain engrossing death” (5.3. 107-114). He kisses Juliet and gives a final monologue, “Come bitter conduct, come unsavoury guide! Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on the dashing rocks thy seasick weary bark! Here’s to my love! Drinking. O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die” (5.3 115-120). A young, simple-minded virgin without wisdom of age, reckless with youth, innocent in a young love that may have been the disease of infatuation to become susceptible to gullibility in killing oneself for love.\nIn the case of who killed Romeo and Juliet, Romeo is to blame. I have concluded three facts and reasons on why he is the perpetrator. I have shown you that Romeo pursued Juliet knowing she was a Capulet, a sworn enemy of the house of Montague; which should have been an impasse. Then he gave reliance to a man named Friar Lawrence who eventually gave advice to Juliet to fake her death without confiding in him first. Lastly, his naivety with young wisdom and young love of infatuation had him recklessly killing himself believing that it would unite him with her in death. Consequently, Juliet waking up from her slumber, seeing that her one true love had slain himself for her. Their love, forsaken by their parents’ approval, she would go through the same distance as he had done, to kill herself to be with him. “Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! This is thy sheath; there rust, and let me die” (5.3. 168-169). Their love; their tragic end!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.leadershipquantified.com/blog/tag/Good+to+Great", "date": "2019-10-18T06:18:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986677964.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20191018055014-20191018082514-00001.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9548112750053406, "token_count": 838, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__136236039", "lang": "en", "text": "One of the more frequent questions I get from my executive clients is “What should I read?”\nThe answer may not be what you expect - because it certainly isn’t business books.\nThe best executives with whom I’ve worked rarely read business books. Even I don’t read them very often - and I’ve written them.\nThere are a couple of reasons for that.\nThe first is that too many of the books aren’t implementable. They tell stories about companies that have done this or that - but rarely give you enough of the process to be able to replicate. As a result, they’re like the “Executive Missions” that were (and still are) so popular.\nHere’s how it works:\nYou get jealous.\nYou decide that you’re going to make your company do that [it doesn’t really matter what the “that” is], too.\nYou go home.\nYou tell your executive team that you saw the most amazing thing and that you know that “we can do it, too.”\nThe reason you fail - whether executive mission or business book (remember “In Search of Excellence” and “Good to Great”?) is because you’ve seen the outcome. You’ve not learned the process that the companies went through - most importantly, all the good and bad of it.\nThe books can tell you a story. They can’t solve your problems.\nEven truly excellent books like last year’s “Measure What Matters” by John Doerr ultimately don’t work without additional support. That’s why there’s such extensive follow-on for readers that sign up for the ongoing support. It doesn’t cost anything - and it helps - but it’s still a high risk maneuver without more in-depth, real-time guidance.\nWhich leads me to why the majority of business books really, really don’t work: It’s because all they’re there for is to increase the visibility and market for the consultant who wrote it. Yes, it’s another consultant ploy.\nSo what do executives read?\nHistory. Mystery. Science Fiction. Physics. Spirituality. Medical Science.\nYou name it. They read it.\nAnd, for their business reading, they read Biography - including biographies of businesses (like “How Google Works”) and industries (like pretty much every one of Michael Lewis’ books). They also read Executive Autobiographies - with a couple of the favorites being Andy Grove’s “High Output Management” and Ben Horowitz’ “The Hard Thing About Hard Things.”\n(Can you tell I don’t bother with getting a fee for my recommendations? You have to find the books yourself if you’re interested enough!)\nThe important thing isn’t even what you read. It’s that you read.\nIf you’re interested in travel, read about it. If you want to know what happened in the Spanish Civil War, read about it. If music fascinates you and you think that one day you’d like to compose, read, read and read more. (Then go compose.)\nThe whole purpose of reading is to broaden your horizons and open you up to new worlds. To be exposed to different thinking than your own. To see the world through someone else’s eyes.\nBecause the most amazing thing about reading is that you’ll find yourself incorporating those expansive, mind-expanding, sometimes mind-bending experiences into your day-to-day thinking - which will make you better at what you do. And that will make you more likely to get to where you want to go.\nWhich is really the point, don’t you think? And this way, you’ll enjoy yourself all along the way.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://peacockfamilycenter.org/blog/2019/11/opening-our-eyes-to-equity-diversity-and-inclusion-in-childrens-books/", "date": "2020-05-26T09:45:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347390755.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20200526081547-20200526111547-00410.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9724975228309631, "token_count": 847, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-24", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__2701801", "lang": "en", "text": "On Friday, October 25th, a sold-out crowd came to support Peacock Family Services and explore with Dr. Déana Scipio how children’s books can and should demonstrate equity, diversity, and inclusion. Whether this was their first or fifth Peacocktail Party, the community was clearly interested in this subject.\nFor our 5th annual Peacocktail Party, we once again brought together a community of voices in support of developmental strategies for working with children of all ages. WEAVE Presents hosted the venue, which held the conversation and presentations wonderfully. Fig & Spice catered the sumptuous appetizers and evening treats to the delight of all in attendance. And Eagle Harbor Book Co brought a selection of books for the participants to peruse and purchase.\nPeacock’s Executive Director, Kathy Haskin, welcomed the packed room filled with teachers, parents, school librarians and administers, local council candidates and committee members, as well as other curious colleagues in the field. “Tonight we are here to open our eyes, then talk about what we see.”\nCurrently the Director of Campus Education Programs at IslandWood, Dr. Déana Scipio delivered an informative and insightful presentation. She brought her love of children’s picture books, her focus on broadening participation, and equity-oriented approaches in teaching and learning to the talk. Quoting children’s book author Grace Lin, Dr. Scipio explained how “Your children’s bookshelves should have mirrors and windows.” Books can be windows to the rest of the world, as well as mirrors allowing them to see themselves in the stories.\nOur exploration into the subject continued with a view of diversity represented in current children’s books. For example, we looked at the percentage of books depicting characters from diverse backgrounds based on publishing statistics compiled by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Education. The percentage of representation in 2018 was as follows:\n- 1% of books published had American Indian/First Nations characters,\n- 5% were Latinx,\n- 7% were Asian Pacific/Asian Pacific Islanders,\n- 10% were African American,\n- 27% of the characters were animals, and\n- 50% were White.\nDr. Scipio went on to question and explain what children may be seeing, or not seeing, in the stories we share with them. Do children see a character or image they can relate to? Are there stories that are missing? All children deserve to see themselves in their heroes.\nThis was an eye-opening event for many people in the room. The presentation looked into the non-dominant communities. Are books reflecting the way all people live their lives, not to mention how each of us view history? As one participant reflected afterward, “I thought this was going to be about making the girls the hero more often. This was about gender, but it is also about representing race, LGBTQ, ableness and abilities, communities and cultures. It was so much more than I thought it would be!”\nThe Peacocktail Party discussions then continued into the evening, straight through dessert. We hope that these conversations will now endure throughout the community in the coming months, through emails, over coffee, in classrooms and meeting rooms. To that end, Dr. Scipio offers her Suggested Book List, which includes blogs and TED Talks from other thinkers.\nIf you are curious to learn more about this evening, and the recent work of Peacock Family Services in the community, let’s get together. Your participation and continuing support is very much appreciated, because John Dewey was right when he said, “what the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children.”\nPeacock Family Services is grateful for the support of individuals, business partners, foundations, government agencies, and special events, which we rely on to sustain our programs and services throughout the year.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ahearingloss.com/2014/09/12/my-grandmas-hands/", "date": "2017-03-23T02:18:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218186608.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212946-00200-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9839832186698914, "token_count": 382, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__106791180", "lang": "en", "text": "by Michele Linder\nI watch her from where I am. I see her smile while she is watching others, watching and waiting for someone to take the time to come and talk to her on her terms — one-on-one.\nI see the light in her eyes when she speaks and listens to what they have to say, and in a little while they are gone.\nShe’s still smiling. I go to her and tease her. I tickle her neck, I whisper in her deaf ears knowing she can’t hear me, but also knowing she loves my taunts and teasing. She loves me like no other.\nI speak to her. If she can’t ‘get’ what I’m saying, I finger-spell (she taught me) the sentence until she understands. I am patient and attentive… until I see a cousin or sister run by, and then I have to go. Child’s play is so alluring.\nI’m still watching her. When no one takes the time, I see her focus on her hands. She turns them over, examining every crease, every line, every scar, and she feels the softness and roughness with her fingers.\nI always wondered why she was so interested in her own hands? What made them so mesmerizing? What about them demanded such attention? Her smile is gone, she has more of a contemplative look on her lips. I can see her thinking.\nWhat is she thinking? I used to wonder, but now I know. When no one takes the time, you begin to feel the world shrink away, you need a diversion to keep the sadness at bay and to steer your mind away from how truly isolated you feel.\nNow that I’m deaf, I find myself mesmerized by my own hands.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.howtolovegod.org/blog/", "date": "2020-06-01T20:46:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347419593.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20200601180335-20200601210335-00075.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9509536623954773, "token_count": 668, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-24", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__18850142", "lang": "en", "text": "How do we cultivate a sweet, personal, devotional relationship with God?\nOne key, for me, was to realize and accept that God wants our love and needs our love.\n“God yearns for our love … what is God longing for? Our love. Our attention. He has made it very difficult for Himself, because He gave man free will to seek Him or reject Him. He says, ‘I am pursuing every heart, waiting for My children to spurn My creation and turn toward Me.’ … unless we choose to go to Him willingly He cannot free us or Himself from suffering.” —Paramhansa Yogananda\nFeeling or imagining God’s need has been a crucial part of my own devotional practice.\nWhen I first started taking daily devotional walks several years ago, I first focused exclusively on giving love to God and feeling God’s pain at my lack of appreciation for Him and His joy and delight for the efforts I was now making.\nThe relationship we have with God as His children, is reflected in the relationship we have as parents with our own children. How does it feel when our children ignore us? We don’t stop loving them, but our hearts are pained. How joyful and how much gratitude do we feel when our children show us some love and appreciation. God feels the same with us.\nSince starting the devotional walks, there have been times, months, even year(s) when I’ve not focused on God’s need and just practiced sharing love with God while feeling God as an impersonal Spirit. This was definitely helpful, but not as sweet as when I felt God needing my love.\nMany great Saints have focused on the suffering of Christ as a doorway into deep devotion.\n“I used to find myself most at home in the prayer in the Garden, whither I went in His company. I thought of the bloody sweat, and of the affliction He endured there; I wished, if it had been possible, to wipe away that painful sweat from His face.” —Saint Teresa of Avila\nChristmas Nativity scenes can be deeply moving, because they awaken a divinely nurturing spirit in us. A love and nurturing for God as the baby Jesus.\nBy practicing loving God, we help God.\nLately, rather than focusing on God’s need and pain, I’ve been practicing feeling God’s gratitude to me for efforts made, no matter how small, to love Him.\nWhen taking walks or sitting in contemplation, I feel God & I are making love at the top of every breath, while also feeling the deep mutual gratitude we have for each other. This helps open up a wonderfully sweet, personal communion.\nSitting at my computer now, it is hard to write this. Feelings of unworthiness come up.\nHow can I be deserving of God’s gratitude?\nEven looking at the picture of Master on my wall right now is hard, feeling unworthy, feeling I’m being pretentious.\nBut God and Master coax me …\n“look at Me … it’s OK to accept God’s gratitude.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.dubsandseahorn.com/post/exciting-update-on-book-project", "date": "2023-11-30T08:29:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100172.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130062948-20231130092948-00518.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9888914823532104, "token_count": 132, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__166490435", "lang": "en", "text": "Exciting update on book project.\nI am so happy to tell you that the first draft of the book on defending accusations of sexual abuse has been finished. I have sent portions to a publisher who seems to be very interested in the book. The committee is going to consider it in September with a view to hopefully publishing it in the near future. I very much hope that this book will be available to those of you who defend sex cases because I think it will be very helpful for you to have as a reference in addition to doing consultations with you directly.\nHope you and all those you care about are all well and healthy in this very difficult time.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://stjosephwritersguild.wordpress.com/", "date": "2022-10-05T03:31:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337531.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20221005011205-20221005041205-00318.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9524779915809631, "token_count": 180, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__207294152", "lang": "en", "text": "Welcome to the St. Joseph Writers Guild website. We are a group of individuals who love words and books of all kinds. There is a variety of artists, writers, editors, and readers in our group. The goal of our group is to encourage writers to have confidence in themselves and their writing abilities. We wish to promote in them the desire to further develop their skills. It is our task to promote respect and enthusiasm for the written word.\nWe meet at 1 p.m. the third Saturday of the month at Rolling Hills Library. During the meeting, we have either a guest speaker or hold workshops on a variety of topics. Please join us for a meeting and see if our guild is right for you. Our dues are only $20 a year.\nTo find out more, check out our Calendar of Events page or email us at email@example.com.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jeziki.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/william-wordsworth-i-wandered-lonley-as-a-cloud/", "date": "2018-04-23T11:20:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945942.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423110009-20180423130009-00211.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9575932025909424, "token_count": 291, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__181617393", "lang": "en", "text": "I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD\nI wandered lonely as a cloud\nThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,\nWhen all at once I saw a crowd,\nA host of golden daffodils;\nBeside the lake, beneath the trees,\nFluttering and dancing in the breeze.\nThe waves beside them danced; but they\nOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:\nA poet could not but be gay,\nin such a jocund company:\nI gazed – and gazed – but little thought\nwhat wealth the show to me had brought:\nFor oft, when on my couch I lie\nIn vacant or in pensive mood,\nThey flash upon that inward eye\nWhich is the bliss of solitude;\nAnd then my heart with pleasure fills,\nAnd dances with the daffodils.\n“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (erroneously known as “The Daffodils”) is an 1804 poem by William Wordsworth. It was inspired by an April 15, 1802 event in which Woirdsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a “long belt” of daffodils. It was first published in 1807, and a revised version was released in 1815.\nThe poem is written in iambic tetrameter.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://coffeeandcorks.livejournal.com/8802.html", "date": "2017-02-24T11:00:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171463.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00036-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9637449383735657, "token_count": 209, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__199216885", "lang": "en", "text": "The time of year has come once again for National Novel Writing Month, and this community would like to work alongside those of you who are participating.\nAs such, the daily posts during the month of November will change from what you're normally used to seeing here (unless by some miracle anyone requests that the daily prompts or challenges continue as well!).\nInstead, there will be posts with open comments which will include discussion on your work, excerpts from that day's work, your word count hit, and anything else to do with NaNo. Members will also be encouraged to post to the community directly and the posting restrictions will be lifted a little.\nFor now, we will start with this thread: let's have a check in to see who's writing what.\nGo on, give us an introduction to your work and, if you're new here, to yourself as well.\nComments are open to encourage creativity :)\nCoffee & Corks\nThe Writer's Coffeeshop\n- Mod Post: Nanowrimo 2013", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://shemarootv.com/channel/amy_movie/siya-ke-raam/", "date": "2023-09-22T05:22:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506329.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922034112-20230922064112-00367.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.959777295589447, "token_count": 110, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__289378679", "lang": "en", "text": "About The Show\nSiya Ke Ram is a retelling of the Hindu epic Ramayan from the perspective of Sita. Giving a completely new point of view to a narrative that every Indian is well versed with, Siya Ke Ram is an exciting merger of the known and the new. As one of the central characters of Ramayan, Sita’s contribution has been underplayed in most renditions of the Ramayan. Siya Ke Ram changes that and brings her to the fore while also assuring visual delight for the audience.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://ihaterunning.blogspot.com/2009/09/only-penitent-man-shall-pass.html", "date": "2018-05-26T21:09:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867904.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526210057-20180526230057-00234.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9659160375595093, "token_count": 394, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__38697281", "lang": "en", "text": "I frequently find analogies between my running and my religion. After all, for a runner, running becomes a type of religious act in and of itself. And if a finish line is heaven for the runner, and the miles and miles of training are the daily grind that the faithful must endure, then sprints, hills, and speed work represent for the runner what confession and penance represents for the believer.\nWhen we grow lazy and complacent in our faith we risk falling into old habits and build up a barrier between us and our ultimate reward. For the faithful, the way to break that barrier and crack out of the old habits is the physical act of confession and penance, however your particular tradition builds those activities. For the runner, breaking out of the tired old repetition of the long distance grinds means you must head to the track and rip off the calluses that have formed and break yourself down to the principal components that make a runner a runner. A runner must shred those long, slow, endurance fibers that allow him to run for miles and miles at a stretch and reawaken those short, quick sprint fibers than propel him down a track even though his lungs are screaming for air and everything is numb. A runner must go into that realm of complete oxygen deprivation and muscle fatigue. A runner must, in effect, break his own will and conform it once again to that of the task at hand, which is to run with abandon and complete lack of desire for self. You must, in effect, die to distance and be reborn to speed. The runner must remember what it is like to be near that point of complete collapse, and at times even beyond that point, and still find the will to stand up and do it all over again. To allow the body to work even after the mind has checked out.\nOnly then, after the miles of trials, can the distance runner return, once again, to the daily trial of miles.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://koreandramasource.com/my-love-from-the-star", "date": "2021-10-23T01:31:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585537.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20211023002852-20211023032852-00105.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9748190641403198, "token_count": 186, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__218224516", "lang": "en", "text": "Do Min Joon first arrived on earth in 1609, but in order to protect a girl he met, he missed his chance to return to his home planet. Four centuries later, he is still living in Korea and working as a professor, the latest of many identities he's taken on through the years. Understanding that he doesn't belong to this world, the exceedingly rational Do Min Joon maintains distance from everyone save for one friend Jang Young Mok who knows his secret. All is quiet and well for him until top actress Chun Song Yi moves in next door and comes barging into his cloistered life.\nLoud, proud and bumbling yet irrepressibly lovable, Song Yi throws Do Min Joon off guard, and he can't help but protect her when her career takes a stumble. The two begin to fall in love despite themselves but Do Min Joon's days on earth are numbered.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://foundationbaptistchurch.org/the-authority-of-the-scriptures/", "date": "2024-04-16T06:37:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817073.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416062523-20240416092523-00759.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9745513200759888, "token_count": 10990, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__71917769", "lang": "en", "text": "We live in a day when anti-authoritarian tides have been raging from every direction. Rampant corruption has led to a growing sentiment from various sectors of society to seek the overthrow of human government institutions on a global scale. Scandals among church leaders have contributed to the erosion of credibility of religious institutions. The situation is no different at home. Sometimes, children do not know whom to follow, especially when marital conflict and child abuse are more of the norm than the exception in the domestic scene. This makes twenty-first century culture conducive to a relativistic mindset – anything goes. One’s opinion is just as good as the others. Truth, reality, ethics and moral judgments are being defined by and reduced to the issue of what will bring maximum benefit to oneself. Ethical egoism has become the pervasive ethic in our culture. This is a sure formula for chaos. Is there anyone in a position to demand obedience to set standards and norms that would somehow alleviate the prevailing confusion of our times? If so, what would be those standards? Who is going to impose them?\nAuthority means the “power to influence or command thought, opinion or behavior.” Orthodox Christians maintain that since all authority comes from God. He has taken the initiative to reveal Himself, and that a part of this revelation has been recorded in Scripture. Thus, Scripture is both a personal and propositional revelation of God. What the Bible says is what God says. What the Bible commands, God commands. What the Bible promises, God promises. Does the Scripture have this authority to demand obedience, does it have this right?\nThis paper is designed to prove why the answer to this question is a resounding “yes!” After looking at certain phenomena that make this piece of literature unique to all others, a survey of Biblical passages will be made to show what the writers (of Scripture) themselves believed with regard to the divine origin of their writings. But the strongest reason for believing the divine inspiration of Scripture will be presented and reserved for last. It is the Lord Jesus Christ’s recognition of its divine authority and His submissive attitude toward this time-tested and providentially preserved Book. In other words, if Jesus is who He claimed Himself to be – the incarnate and sinless Son of God, fully divine and fully human – then one cannot escape the inescapable conclusion that whatever He believed and taught must be true. Since He submitted to the authority of Scripture, then we, His finite moral creatures, can do no less because Scripture must then be the authoritative Word of God!\nCHAPTER I: THE UNIQUENESS OF SCRIPTURE\nThe Bible is undoubtedly the most remarkable book ever written. A number of facts make it so extraordinary from all or any other piece of literature. These phenomena may not necessarily prove that the Bible is the Word of God but they certainly make one conclude that this Book is significantly unique. Let’s examine some of them.\nIts Amazing Unity\nThink in terms of the fact that it was written by over forty different authors, covering a period of about 1,600 years. They were all from different diverse backgrounds: Peter was a fisherman, Paul was a Pharisee, Amos was a shepherd (a herdsman), Nehemiah was a king’s cupbearer, Matthew was a tax collector, Luke was a physician, David was a king, John and Peter were fishermen. They were written in three different continents (namely, Africa, Asia and Europe) and in different circumstances. Paul wrote in prison, John was in exile at the isle of Patmos, Moses was in the wilderness. They wrote in three different languages. The Old Testament was primarily written in Hebrew. Most of the Book of Daniel was written in Aramaic. Greek was used in the New Testament (although a few lines were also written in Aramaic). These men had very little time, if any at all, to compare notes. In most cases, they did not even have access or knowledge of the writings of others. Yet, with all this diversity, the Bible has an amazing unity that makes its sixty-six books not merely a library of information and instruction, but one Book! Apologist John Frame took note of this extraordinary structure of the Scriptures when he wrote:\nHere we have a wide variety of human authors, writing across many centuries, with very different interests, concerns, styles, and levels of intellectual sophistication, saying many different things, and yet, saying one thing: Jesus is coming, and this is what he will be and do. Does this not indicate something of God’s sovereignty over history? Does it not show that the Old Testament is more than an ordinary book? Does it not show some remarkable things about Jesus? Is this not a powerful witness to the Word of God?\nCharles Ryrie expresses his astonishment for the Bible by saying that\n… it is one book without contradictions in what it says. And what it says is remarkable, for it speaks with equal ease and authority of the known and unknowable, of the pleasant and unpleasant, of man’s accomplishments and failures, of the past and the future. Few books ever attempt such scope; none is completely accurate except the Bible.\nIts Fulfilled Prophecy\nIt may take a whole new book to enumerate the numerous prophetic passages from the Old Testament that have found fulfillment in the New Testament. We will only cite a couple here due to space limitations. Let us take the Book of Daniel, since this is one of the most attacked books in the Old Testament. According to the book itself, Daniel lived during the Babylonian empire when he predicted the coming of the Medo-Persian, Alexandrian and Roman empires. He even predicted the rising of another world empire that is yet to come. But the liberal scholars’ bias against the divine origin of the Scripture leads them to “late date” the writing of the book, setting it sometime during the 400 silent years between the Malachi and Matthew. This would imply that Daniel just looked back at history and write it rather than predict it. This does not solve the liberal’s problem for at around 538 B.C., Daniel predicted that Christ would come as Israel’s promised Savior and Prince. This prophecy was stated to happen 483 years after the Persian emperor would give the Jews authority to rebuild Jerusalem, which was then in ruins. This occurred hundreds of years later, just exactly as the prophet predicted. So, even if the liberal puts the writing of Daniel no later than 300 B.C., there were still prophecies that have been fulfilled after that date. It is only logical to conclude that the prophecies that have not yet been fulfilled as of today await future, literal fulfillment.\nThe prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, for example, predicted the restoration of the Jews to the land of Israel as a true nation in the latter days. The prospects of this coming to pass seemed utterly impossible for almost 1,500 years. Yet, we now have the nation restored since 1948. God’s truth has been marching on!\nIts Historical and Archeological Accuracy\nThe historical accuracy of the Scriptures comes far more superior than the written records of Egypt, Assyria and other early nations. Innumerable archeological discoveries of the past century have served to confirm the Biblical records. Dr. Henry Morris quotes Dr. Nelson Glueck (whom he says to be probably the greatest authority in Israeli archeology), wrote in his book, Rivers in the Desert:\nNo archeological discovery has ever controverted a Biblical reference. Scores of archeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries.\nYears ago, a man named Wellhausen, influenced by Darwin’s theory of evolution, came up with a documentary hypothesis that man was always moving to a higher order. He conjectured that the Pentateuch could not have been written by Moses because he did not believe man was advanced enough at that time in the evolutionary scale to have such an advanced code of laws. He also thought that man was unable to write back then. So, he concluded that the first five books of the Bible must have been written by a number of authors who later on attributed their writings to Moses. All these turned when in 1901 at Susa in Persia, some men found a seven-foot slab, six feet in circumference. Archeologists found out that this slab was older than Moses by 2,000 years. On it were 282 statues of law which is now known to be the Code of Hammurabi (King of Babylon). This tore down the foundation of Wellhausen’s theory for it has no basis in fact.\nIts Survival Through Time\nDespite attempts by political and religious leaders to burn the Bible, the Old and New Testament documents remain to be with us. Although all are agreed that the original manuscripts of Scripture do no longer exist, copies of those manuscripts, translations of it, commentaries are too numerous so that it is virtually possible to accurately reconstruct the original texts. It message has survived persecution, opposition and even generations through the passage of long periods of time.\nThe Masoretic text is regarded by theologically conservative scholars as an extremely accurate text of the Old Testament. Ryrie points out that:\nIndeed, the Masoretes (traditionalists) who between A.D. 600 and 950 added accents and vowel points and in general standardized the Hebrew text, devised complicated safeguards for the making of copies. They checked carefully by counting the middle letter of pages, books and sections. Someone has said that everything countable was counted. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, they gave us a Hebrew text from the second century to the first century B.C. of all but one of the books (Esther) of the Old Testament. This was of the greatest importance, for it provided much earlier check on the accuracy of the Masoretic text….\nJohn Montgomery quotes Sir Frederick Kenyon, formerly director and principal librarian of the British Museum, to summarize the textual advantage of the New Testament. Kenyon wrote:\nIn no other case is the interval of time between the composition of the book and the date of the earliest extant manuscripts so short as in that of the New Testament. The books of the New Testament were written in the latter part of the first century; the earliest extant manuscripts (trifling scraps excepted) are of the fourth century – say, from 250 to 300 years later. This may sound a considerable interval, but it is nothing to that which parts of the great classical authors from the earliest manuscripts. We believe that we have in all essentials as accurate text of the seven extant plays of Sophocles; yet the earliest substantial manuscript upon which it is based was written more than 1400 years after the poet’s death. Aeschylus, Aristophanes, and Thucydides are in the same state; while with Euripides the interval is increased to 1600 years. For Plato it may be put at 1300 years, for Demosthenes as low as 1200.\nSince the time Kenyon wrote this at the beginning of the twentieth century, more papyri documents of the New Testament have been discovered which could be dated back to the first century. Thus, shortly before his death, Kenyon (quoted by Montgomery) concluded that:\nThe interval, then, between the dates of the original composition and the earliest extant evidence becomes so small as to be in fact negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the Scriptures have come down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. Both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the New Testament may be regarded as finally established.\nToday, there are more than 5,000 manuscripts of the New Testament. This makes the New Testament the best-attested document in all ancient writings. These are amazing testaments of divine providence to the Old and New Testament Scriptures. No other book can be compared to it.\nThese external evidences may not conclusively prove that the Bible is the Word of God. But they certainly point to the fact that the Bible is unique from any other piece of literature. This is something one would expect from a book that claims to be of divine origin. Let us now look at the more important evidences – the internal evidences of the inspiration of the Scriptures. This will be the focus of the next chapters.\nCHAPTER II: THE TESTIMONY OF THE WRITERS\nThe human authors of Scripture claimed that their writings were supernaturally inspired by God. The Old Testament, for example, abounds with such statements as “Thus saith the LORD:…”; “The Word of the LORD came unto me, saying…,” indicating that the men who wrote the Bible knew that they were communicating an infallible and authoritative message from God. This is an astounding and bold claim! If these forty or so writers were wrong, then they must be clearly insane or among the greatest liars that ever lived. On the other hand, if these claims are true, then it is pointless for any man to look elsewhere other than the Word of God for instruction, counsel, purpose and direction in this earthly sojourn. Henry Morris points out that “over 3,000 times the various writers stated in one way or another that they were transmitting God’s Word to man.” Paul Steele argues that this number is specifically for the Old Testament alone – 3,808 to be exact, according to him. He also counts “forty-four times in the New Testament alone the Scripture is referred to as ‘The Word of God.’” God made sure that those who read the Bible, both Old and New Testaments, will understand that the text they read is not just the word of men, but the very Word of God!\nWhat Old Testament Writers Said of Their Own Writings\nLet us look at some of these instances where the Biblical writers clearly expressed their knowledge that they were writing the Word of God.\nThe context of this passage in II Samuel is that David was about to die. So, what he said here was his deathbed statement. Usually, people’s dying words are the most important words they utter. This is no time for small talk. Notice how David began. “The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue. The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.” David clearly did not mean he was just giving a hunch of what the Spirit of God was saying. He meant the Spirit of the Lord used him as an instrument and he spoke in the power of the Spirit of God when he wrote these words, including the Psalms. Thus, his writings are not to be looked upon as mere human inventions.\nThe same happened with the prophet Jeremiah as he was made aware of the awesome responsibility of his call to do the work of the ministry. He argued before God his youthfulness and inexperience as grounds to question his capacity to preach the Word of God to Judah. After the Lord assured him of His presence and deliverance, Jeremiah said, “Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.” In another occasion, God further told him to “speak to all the cities of Judah, … all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word.” In other words, he was not to edit, alter, add, subtract anything that God would say!\nIn Exodus, Moses explicitly tells his readers that it was God Himself Who both engraved on and made the two tables of stone where the Decalogue was etched! “And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.” This is why we are told in II Kings:\nBut the LORD, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and a stretched out arm, him shall ye fear, and him shall ye worship, and to him shall ye do sacrifice. And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the law, and the commandment, which he [This pronoun “he” is clearly not referring to Moses but to “the LORD” – Yahweh.] wrote for you, ye shall observe to do for evermore; and ye shall not fear other gods.\nWhat New Testament Writers Said of the Old Testament Writings\nThe writer to the Hebrews put it plainly as he wrote, “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son….” In other words, God spoke to the fathers in times past. How did He do this? The prophets were the human instruments He used in order to speak to them. Notice what the text says as to who did the speaking. Was it the prophets to the people? In some occasions, that was what happened but that is not what the writer is emphasizing. He is underscoring the fact that ultimately, it was God who did the speaking, using the prophets to speak to the fathers in times past. Yes, God Himself is in the business of revealing Himself through His Word.\nThe Book of Acts is an inspired historical narrative of the first thirty years of the Christian Church. Luke, the beloved physician and missionary companion of the apostle Paul, was the human author of this book. He cited apostles who quoted Old Testament Scriptures as absolute authority to prove the gospel of Christ. Here are a few examples.\nAfter the ascension of Christ, the disciples traveled a Sabbath-day’s journey back to Jerusalem and prayed. Sometime after that, they sought for a replacement for Judas for the office of the apostleship. Peter addressed the one hundred twenty disciples and explained to them that what happened to Judas was a fulfillment of Scripture. He said, “Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.” In other words, Peter is pointing out that what has happened to Judas has been foretold by God the Holy Spirit through “the mouth of David.”\nA few chapters later, as the number of the disciples grew qualitatively and quantitatively, we find the apostles having to face much persecution from religious and local authorities. Peter and John return to the brethren and report to them what they just encountered. The Bible says,\nAnd when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is: who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?\nUnder the threat of intense opposition, these Christians turned to God, acknowledged His sovereignty over all of creation, and recognized that what they were experiencing was a fulfillment of what He said through David in Scripture! This is an attestation to the validity of the Old Testament as being the very voice of God speaking through mortal man!\nHere’s another instance. This time, the apostle Paul is cited by Luke as quoting the Old Testament prophet Isaiah. The apostle saw the rebellious character of the Jewish people in his day as similar to that of the prophet’s day. Paul was, in essence, saying of his fellow Jews that this was to be expected since it was typical of them to reject God’s testimony. The record says,\nAnd when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and not perceive….\nNote how he attributes to the Holy Spirit what Isaiah wrote.\nIn his second and last epistle, Peter exhorted Christians to keep growing in the faith despite the growing apostasy of a pluralistic society. So, he tells them that it would do them well that they “take heed” what they possessed, God’s “more sure word of prophecy” since “no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.” The context indicates that the “prophecy of scripture being referred to are the prophecies recorded in the Old Testament. These were not “of any private interpretation.” The Greek word for interpretation means “explanation” is an intensive word in the ablative of origin form. Peter is saying no portion of Scripture originated from the prophet’s own explanation. They did not just decide one day that they will write Scripture because their prophetic utterances did not come “in old time by the will of man.” Rather, these holy men received their message from God and wrote them, word for word, while “… they were moved by the Holy Ghost.”\nWhat New Testament Writers Said of Their Own Writings\nIn his first epistle, Peter referred to the phrase “the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.” Then, two verses later, he also says, “But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.” Peter is talking about the gospel spoken by the Apostles as well. He recognized the word of the Apostles found in the New Testament as the Word of God that would endure forever.\nPaul’s first epistle to the Corinthians was a letter of rebuke to these spiritually immature Christians. One of the symptoms of their carnality was their exaltation of human wisdom at par with divine revelation. These Corinthian saints were enamored by the brilliance of the highly educated Greek philosophers. So the apostle reminded them that even though the gospel was not highly regarded by most people, his message nonetheless was not of human origin. He claimed that it was conceived in the mind of God.\nBut God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.\nPaul’s point was that although the unregenerate may find the gospel message foolish, there is profoundness and depth to the Christian message because of its divine origin. The extent to which the Spirit of God made sure that His message would be accurately delivered to man was by giving man, not just thoughts or ideas, but “words … which the Holy Ghost teacheth.” Theologians call this verbal inspiration. This means the Spirit directed and influenced the writers of Scripture right down to the very words they originally wrote.\nAnother symptom of their carnality surfaced through their misuse of their God-given spiritual gifts. So, Paul censures some self-proclaimed prophets in that congregation, “If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.” In other words, he is saying, “let me give you a challenge to test your self-proclaimed prophets. See if they will stand up right now and acknowledge that what I am writing is the commandment of God and I am not writing of my own volition.” Then Paul adds, “But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant.” Here’s his point. If they cannot acknowledge that what Paul wrote is God’s commandment, then they are ignorant!\nIn the Book of Galatians, Paul addresses a serious concern. The brethren there had been misled by Judaizers into thinking that law-keeping (particularly the compliance to the Jewish rite of circumcision) was a necessary requirement to be justified before God. So, the apostle defends the gospel of salvation by faith, not by law-keeping, by pointing out in the third chapter that the law cannot change God’s promise. Paul proves his argument by merely showing that both the Jews and the Gentiles grow together in one body of the seed of Abraham, in Christ alone, so that all are one in Christ, just as it is declared later in the chapter. The passage he quotes from the Old Testament Book of Genesis has a certain word in the singular (seed) rather than in the plural (seeds), showing therefore the apostle’s conviction on verbal inspiration.\nNotice how aware Paul was of his apostolic authority of proclaiming the truth of God as he tells the first century brethren, “For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.” He was, in essence, saying to these Thessalonian saints, “you received it that way – as the Word of God – and that is indeed what it is.”\nPerhaps, it would be best to close this chapter by looking at what the apostle Paul clearly taught regarding the divine origin of the Scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, in his epistles to Timothy. As he gave instructions to Timothy, his son in the faith and fellow-laborer in the field, on how to conduct local church planting ministry, he wrote. “Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine. For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.” This is a very interesting passage because, first, Paul referred to a source as basis for his admonition to take good care of elders who taught the Word – “for the scripture saith.” Second, the portions he cited are from the Old and New Testaments, Deuteronomy 25:4 (“Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn.”) and Luke 10:7 (“The labourer is worthy of his reward.”), respectively. Later, in his second and last epistle to Timothy, he wrote, “And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.” Obviously, the “holy scriptures” Timothy was taught in his youth were the Old Testament Scriptures since not one line of the New Testament was yet written then. Even that was sufficient to bring him to the knowledge of salvation which is found solely in Christ Jesus when He is received Him by faith. And then, notice carefully what he says in the next verse, “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” What portion of scripture “is given by inspiration of God”? The answer is “all scripture.” What did that include? Apparently, he already referred to the Old Testament as “scripture” in the previous verse. But it certainly included the New Testament as well since he also referred to that document as “scripture” in his first epistle to Timothy. So, Paul is saying, both the Old and New Testaments are inspired by God. And inspiration means “God-breathed” or “divinely breathed in.” This is a quality no other book has!\nSo, we see the apostles affirm, again and again, that those things that were written aforetime in Scripture were written for our learning. They were well aware that they were writing down a message from God. More than being the Word of God, they are actually the very breath of God! Yea, in fact, “every word … proceedeth out of the mouth of God!”\nCHAPTER III: CHRIST’S VIEW OF THE OLD TESTAMENT\nOne wonders how the critics of the Bible and those of us who refer to its authority would answer if the Lord were to ask us a question today which He had asked His audience during His earthly ministry. Jesus said, “Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” He is, in effect, saying, “Either you obey Me, or stop calling Me ‘Lord’ which means ‘Master’.” Our practice should be consistent with our profession of who Jesus Christ is and vice-versa.\nIn fact, this is the first and foremost reason why Christians believe in the divine inspiration and authority of Scripture. It is not because of what churches teach nor is it also only because of what the writers claimed, important as these might be. Neither is it primarily because of what readers sense (e.g., changed lives). Rather, it is primarily because of what Jesus Christ Himself said. People who say they believe Christ but not the Bible as their absolute authority are, in reality, contradicting themselves. Since our Lord endorsed its authority, we are bound to conclude that His authority and the Scripture’s authority either stand or fall together.\nSubmission to Scriptural Authority in His Conduct\nThe Lord Jesus Christ showed His attitude of submission towards the Scriptures as a powerful argument for its authority. He submitted to the Old Testament in His personal conduct. His temptation in the wilderness is a case in point. In all three instances when the devil tempted Him, Jesus said, “It is written …” or “It is said …,” to apply the text to Himself. Jesus stopped the mouth of the devil with “every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.” This coincides with what the apostle Paul says regarding that quality of Scripture underscoring its divine origin. It is inspired of God or God-breathed. It would be more accurate to say that He quoted Scripture to Himself in the devil’s presence. He was not quoting Scripture at the devil, as if to use it as a weapon with mystical powers to drive the enemy away, as some have suggested. The devil himself quoted Scripture in one of his temptations. This clearly indicates that he is a master of the Biblical text and is skillful in twisting it or quoting it out of context. Thus, he does not run away from anyone who simply quotes Scripture at him. But for the Lord Jesus Christ, quoting Scripture to Himself was enough for Him to direct His course of action and to avoid the wicked one’s proposals. In other words, the reason for His not submitting to Satan’s suggestions was “It is written.” There was no need to question, discuss, argue, or negotiate. The matter had already been settled by Scripture.\nSubmission to Scriptural Authority in His Calling\nSecondly, Jesus submitted to the Old Testament in the fulfillment of His calling. He clearly understood His Messianic role from a study of Old Testament Scripture. The gospel of Mark says: “And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.” Note the word must. He knew and accepted that He could enter into His glory only by the road of suffering and death. And why must he? The reason for the sense of necessity or compulsion which constrained Him was that Scripture said so. Jesus voluntarily and deliberately put Himself under the authority of what stood written. He determined to fulfill it, both in His mission, His ministry, just as in His manner of life. In fact, Jesus commanded Peter to put his sword back into its place when the latter attempted to protect the Lord from the apprehending soldiers sent by the chief priests and elders at the garden of Gethsemane. What was Jesus’ reason? “But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?” Everything He did was calculated to follow and fulfill Scripture. Years later, the apostle Paul wrote, “Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures….”\nSubmission to Scriptural Authority in His Controversies\nFurthermore, Jesus submitted to the Old Testament in His controversies. The Gospels are replete with examples here. Jesus referred back to the Scriptures to be His final court of appeal as He was attacked by His critics. In fact, His chief criticism of His contemporaries concerned their disrespect and ignorance of Scripture.\nTo a lawyer, he said, “What is written in the law? how readest thou?” To the religious leaders, he said, “have ye not read this Scripture…?” To the Pharisees, he contended saying, “Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition … Making the Word of God of none effect through your tradition ….” To the Sadducees, he said, “Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the power of God?”The point is clear. If the Son of God Himself regarded Scripture as the authoritative Word of God, then shouldn’t that settle it for all of us? Not for some.\nFirst, note how Jesus regarded Scripture as historically trustworthy and accurate, including its miracle accounts. Matthew records an incident when the scribes and Pharisees were seeking for a sign from Jesus. Apparently, they did not believe Him and were, therefore, looking for more evidence. Jesus rebukes them by saying:\nAn evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. \nIt is interesting how the Lord quotes from one of the more often questioned books in the Old Testament, the Book of Jonah. Liberal scholars have difficultly accepting the Biblical account as literally true. They argue that Jonah must have been drowned by all those gastric juices inside the great fish, especially after being in there for three days, so that there is no way he could have survived that experience alive. But Jesus refers to its historical accuracy and uses it as basis for his argument on his predicted literal, bodily resurrection as the ultimate sign for the veracity of His claims!\nSecond, for the Lord Jesus Christ, the Old Testament stood higher than any human tradition or teaching. Once again, the scribes and Pharisees tried to find fault on Him by raising the question on why His disciples broke human tradition, that of not wash their hands before eating bread. Jesus brought the issue back to them and asked why they broke the commandment of God for the sake of a man-made tradition. He quoted the Old Testament Decalogue when He said:\nFor God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; and honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.\nThese religious leaders had adopted a practice called Corban, relieving young professionals of their Biblical responsibility to care for and honor their parents for as long as the cost of doing so was given to the temple. In so doing, they have imposed a man-made tradition at the expense of breaking a commandment of God. Jesus called these kinds of people as “hypocrites!” These are strong words coming from the God of love who regarded the Scriptures as far more authoritative than any human tradition of teaching!\nAgain, Matthew records our Lord addressing a moral question posed by His religious critics. “Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?” He answers it by giving a scientific pronouncement of the creation story from the Book of Genesis!\nHave ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. \nJesus clearly upheld the Genesis record as an accurate, literal, historical narrative. In other words, how can a myth marry a myth and produce a literal child? Geisler gives this helpful comment on this passage,\nHere the very validity of Jesus’ answer to the question about marriage and divorce depends on the reliability of there being a literal creation in the beginning of a male and a female whom God had joined together as “one flesh.” Hence, there is no way here to completely separate the doctrinal or spiritual from the physical and historical in Jesus’ teaching.\nIn another occasion, Jesus was put to the test by the Sadducees on the issue of the resurrection, a truth these religious leaders denied. He rebuked them of their ignorance of the Scriptures and said,\nYe do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven. But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.\nJesus did not only show His submission to Scriptural authority amid this controversy. He also displayed His belief in verbal inspiration by resting His argument on one word, and on the tense of it, to refute His religious critics’ unbelief of the resurrection. Abraham had been dead for some 300 years when these words were spoken to Moses. Now, in this exchange with the Sadducees, Jesus properly points out to them that God is not the God of the dead, but of the living after quoting God saying, “I am [not was] the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” He drew a tremendous conclusion about the resurrection from the present tense of a single verb in an Old Testament passage!\nAll these show how the Lord Jesus Christ displayed such remarkable confidence on the inspiration and authority of the Old Testament Scriptures. To Him, it is the Word of God which “cannot be broken.” Is it conceivable that His followers should have a lower view of Scripture than He? Jesus said, “Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.” If Jesus regarded Scripture with such high esteem, then people who seem to take delight in looking for supposed errors in the Bible are, in effect, calling God a liar!\nCHAPTER IV: CHRIST’S PROVISION FOR THE NEW TESTAMENT\nHow could Christ endorse something that had not yet been written? The answer is in His appointment of the apostles. In the Old Testament, God was active in redeeming and judging Israel, raised up prophets to give a true record and interpretation of what He was doing. Then, God was active through Christ in redeeming and judging the world. Was this supreme and final revelation of God in Christ to be last to future generations? No! There must be authoritative scribes and interpreters for that revelation as well. How did Jesus provide for this? He chose, appointed, trained, and authorized the Twelve. They became His personal representatives, endowed with His authority to speak in His name. They had a four-fold uniqueness in their ministry.\nThe Apostles’ Personal Call and Authorization\nFirst, they had a personal call and authorization from Christ. This was the case of the twelve apostles after a time of all-night prayer. Our Lord already had several disciples converted through His earthly ministry. But from these disciples, he called out the Twelve whom He appointed and personally commissioned to the work of the ministry. He called these men His apostles.\nPaul claimed something comparable. He clearly asserted and defended his apostolic authority.\nThe Apostles’ Eyewitness Experience of Christ\nSecond, they had an eye-witness experience of Christ. They were sent out by Him but their essential qualification for the work of apostleship was that they should have been “with Him.” He gave them unrivalled opportunities to learn His Words and behold His works so that they might later bear witness to what they had seen and heard. This was especially true of the resurrection. An apostle had to be an eyewitness of the resurrected Christ. It was for this reason that Matthias was chosen to replace Judas.\nThis raises a question about the Apostle Paul. Basing on the above qualifications, is he fit to be called an Apostle in this technical sense? One way Paul defends his apostleship is by pointing out that the message he preached was not received from man but by divine revelation. It is in this context where he mentions that he spent three years in Arabia. While nothing specific is mentioned regarding the circumstances and purpose of this three-year journey, it seems (from the context) that this had something to do with Christ’s revelation of Himself to the Apostle. In attempting to explain why Luke, the Beloved Physician and Historian, does not mention this incident in his inspired writings, particularly in the Book of Acts, Albert Barnes comments:\nThe journey into Arabia, probably, did not furnish any incidents in regard to the success of the gospel there which required particular record by the sacred historian; nor has Paul himself referred to it for any such reason, or intimated that it furnished any incidents or any facts that required particularly the notice of the historian. He has mentioned it for a different purpose altogether–to show that he did not receive his commission from the apostles, and that he did not go at once to consult them. He went directly the other way.\nThere seems to be reasonable ground to believe that, perhaps, these three years in Arabia was to make up for three years of Christ’s public ministry which the Apostle missed. He argued for the defense of his apostleship that he was an actual eyewitness of the resurrected Christ and adds that he was the last of them.\nThe Apostles’ Influence from the Holy Spirit\nThey had an extraordinary influence from the Holy Spirit as they wrote the New Testament documents. Jesus gave them a two-fold promise before He left the earthly scene. One, the Holy Spirit would remind them of the teachings He had given them. Two, He would supplement it, leading them “into all [the] truth,” including “things to come,” which they could not bear at that moment. This was fulfilled when they wrote the Gospels, the epistles, and prophetic literature (e.g., the Book of Revelation). Kenneth Good has this insightful comment on this passage:\nOur Lord also preauthenticated the New Testament (John 16:12-15). His plan for believers included additional revelation which they were not then ready to receive. This future ministry was reserved for the Holy Spirit. Note two things in this connection: (a) The result would be a complete revelation, i.e., “all truth”; and (b) the human channels were limited in time and number (John 17:8, 18, 20). The context here indicates that the Apostles and their lifetime are directly in view. This would mean that the fulfillment of this promise did not extend beyond John’s death, thus marking the Book of Revelation as closing the canon.\nThus, the miracle of inspiration has ceased. The Holy Spirit no longer directs men to write His Words down. The Bible is the Word of God and it is final. There is no other Word. All of it is the written Word of God and it is all the written Word of God there is, sufficient for godly life and service.\nThe Apostles Confirmatory Signs\nFinally, they had power to work miracles. The writer to the Hebrews cautioned believers to give earnest heed to God’s Word given through the New Testament writers. He stated,\nHow shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will?\nHis reasons for the urgency of heeding it are mentioned above. Its source: it was spoken by the Lord. Its confirmation: it was delivered to believers “by them that heard him,” an obvious reference to the apostles. How did God confirm or establish their message? He did it “with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will.” In a day when the canon of Scripture was not yet established nor complete, God confirmed His message by bestowing His messengers with the power to work miracles. They had God’s “signs of an apostle” and they performed before men “in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.”  Paul spoke of the “mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God” Christ accomplished through him “to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed.” These were necessary in order to testify of the gospel of Jesus Christ to distinguish them from the false teachers who gloried in the flesh.\nIn these four ways, the apostles were unique. These clearly show Christ’s endorsement over their ministries, thus, pre-authenticating the New Testament documents.\nThe ramifications of these truths are very serious. This would imply that to attack the Bible is to attack the authenticity of God because Scripture “proceedeth out from the mouth of God.” Questioning the Bible is also tantamount to questioning the authority of the Lord Jesus Christ who pre-authenticated the New Testament. To go against Scripture means to deny the activity of the Holy Spirit who directed its human authors. To assault the Bible is to engage in an all-out war against the Tri-une God!\nThe evidences, both external and internal, show that the Bible is the inspired Word of God. Because it is inspired, it is therefore inerrant, infallible and authoritative or binding upon all men. The product of inspiration is inerrancy, infallibility and authority of Scripture and the proof of inerrancy, infallibility and authority is inspiration. But the strongest argument for this position is what the Lord Jesus Christ said for if Jesus is who He claimed to be, the incarnate Son of God, then, what He says must be true. The proof of the deity of Christ is the fact of the resurrection. His resurrection vindicated all His claims.\nThe question now is why would people, even educated ones, disregard all these evidences? If Christianity is rational and true, why would some of them choose not to believe it? The answer is simple. They would not believe the divine origin and inspiration of Scripture because they would not recognize or acknowledge the practical ramifications of Christ’s deity. This is not so much an intellectual issue as it is a spiritual issue. Submitting to the authority of Scripture is not a scholarship issue. It is a Lordship issue. The reason why educated people do not believe it is the same reason uneducated people do not believe it. We agree with Paul Little as he refers to what Jesus said as the real cause of the problem of unbelief. He wrote,\nThe moral issue always overshadows the intellectual issue in Christianity. It is not that man cannot believe – it is that he “will not believe.” Jesus pointed the Pharisees to this as the root of the problem. “Ye will not come to me,” He told them, “that ye might have life” (John 5:40). He makes it abundantly clear that moral commitment leads to a solution of the intellectual problem. “If any man will [wants to] do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself” (John 7:17). Alleged intellectual problems are often a smoke screen covering moral rebellion.\nRefusal to submit to the authority of Scripture is a problem both outside and inside the household of the Christian faith. The liberal or modernist may recognize Scripture as sacred literature, but he regards human reasoning equally authoritative, if not more authoritative than the Word of God. To him, if something does not square with reason, it cannot be accepted as true. The cults may show a degree of respect for Scripture but regards extra-Biblical revelation and writings equally authoritative, if not more authoritative. The neo-orthodox may claim that the Bible is the Word of God but actually means that it contains or becomes the Word of God, rather than believe that it is the Word of God. The Charismatics and Pentecostals may say that the Bible is the Word of God but, in reality, regards their emotional or religious experiences as far more authoritative than the Word of God. The neo-evangelicals may preach that the Bible is the Word of God but will operate on the principle of pragmatism rather than submit in obedience to its principles and precepts. The orthodox, historic position is that which is upheld by historic Christian fundamentalists. The Bible is the inspired, infallible, inerrant Word of God. Therefore, all are bound by its precepts and pronouncements. Just like Christ, we need to submit to its God-delegated authority.\nThe problem of failing or refusing to submit to its authority in varied degrees is not due to a lack of brain power but a refusal to submit one’s will to the Lordship of Christ. The problem of the unbeliever is not his head but his heart. Jesus said, “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?” Each one will have to decide. There is no neutral ground here. Either we obey Him or we stop calling Him “Lord.” Let everyone who opts for the latter beware that there are serious and eternal consequences of their choice. There is a day coming when “at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Unfortunately, it will be too late for many. We pray this will not be the case for those who read these pages.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://ecca.com.au/book", "date": "2019-07-16T22:58:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524972.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716221441-20190717003441-00486.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9180734753608704, "token_count": 324, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__24422125", "lang": "en", "text": "A book for you, written by:\nDr Susan Evans, gynaecologist, ECCA Adelaide\nMrs Jane Marsh, nurse counsellor, ECCA Adelaide,\nDr Margaret Taylor, herbal and dietary therapist\nEndometriosis and Other Pelvic Pain answers your questions.\nWhat is endometriosis? Will I be able to have children? Do I need an operation? What treatment options do I have? Are there complementary therapies that could help me?\nIt explains what a laparoscopy is, what the risks are, and how to prepare for one.\nImportantly, it includes information on other types of pelvic pain common in women with endometriosis. Your pain may be from the bowel, bladder, bloating, pelvic nerves, uterus, ovaries or muscles, rather than from endometriosis alone.\nEndometriosis and other pelvic pain has practical advice on all these issues together with information on who can help you with each particular problem. By understanding your particular situation better, you will be better able to work together with your doctor at a treatment plan best suited to your individual needs.\nYou can find out more about the book, or order your own copy by mail, fax or phone, from Dr Evans’ website at www.drsusanevans.com.\nYou can also buy the book from your local bookshop. It is published by Lothian Books. The special number that makes it easy for your bookshop to find is ISBN 0 7344 0825 0\nEach copy costs $29.95", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://breatheintomotion.com/blog/2017/04/bhakti-yoga-at-easter", "date": "2018-06-21T04:34:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864022.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621040124-20180621060124-00532.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9608798027038574, "token_count": 584, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__117836351", "lang": "en", "text": "Historically yoga has been woven into the fabric of many religions, but is not in itself a religion. The evidence that yoga is not a religion lays in the fact many different faiths including, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and the Jain faith, include yoga practice as a method of enhancing devotional belief. In the world of Islam the influence of yoga is seen in the mystic sufis who are considered Muslim yoga gurus. Recently there are yoga studios offering Christian yoga. I found a second hand book called, ‘Christian Yoga and You,’ by Evangelos Alexandrou that was published in 1973… apparently Christian yoga is not new.\nEncompassing the broad topic of devotional yoga is a category of yoga called Bhakti, which is described in an ancient Indian scripture called the Bhagavad Gita. Wikipedia describes Bhakti Yoga as, “…a spiritual path or spiritual practice within Hinduism focused on the cultivation of love and devotion toward God.” Perhaps B.K.S. Iyengar summed it up best in his classic book, ‘Light on Yoga,’ “In bhakti, the mind, the intellect and the will are surrendered to the Lord and the sadhaka prays: ‘I do not know what is good for me. Thy will be done.’ Others pray to have their own desires gratified or accomplished. In bhakti or true love there is no place for ‘I’ and ‘mine.’” (p. 19)\nAs I mentioned in the December blog, ‘Karma Yoga and the spirit of Christmas,’ “several books have been written on the subject of similarities between Karma Yoga and Christianity, such as ‘Jesus in the Lotus’ by Russill Paul.” Christianity and yoga philosophy have many parallels. The identification with non-violence, a deep devotion to God, and love for all, are cornerstones of authentic yoga practice.\nBack in March of last year I wrote a blog on Karma Yoga and mentioned, “I believe yoga practitioners are to act with selfless duty and not just perform a bunch of contortions on the mat.” I also believe yoga practitioners are to act with devotion enhancing their faith with the spiritual philosophies of yoga. In many ways the world would be a more peaceful place with the acceptance of the true meaning of the term Namaste, which is an acknowledgement of honor to the spark of divinity, or soul within us all.\nYoga is not about putting a photo of the next coolest posture on social media, but instead is the act of drawing closer to God. Perhaps the universal spirituality in yoga can offer a common understanding between different faiths. This Easter I hope you will consider the possibility of faith made deeper through yoga practice.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://170-187-203-246.ip.linodeusercontent.com/blog/the-5-best-agile-books/", "date": "2023-09-28T04:38:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510358.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928031105-20230928061105-00516.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9384666681289673, "token_count": 4223, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__135179837", "lang": "en", "text": "In 2021, I first published my list of the best agile books, organized by role. I am delighted that it has become one of the most popular posts on the Vitality Chicago website. I am a big fan of book learning and I am happy that my recommendations are serving a need. I hope that the post helps people to prioritize what they spend their time and money on.\nI’ve updated that list for 2022. This includes some newly published books as well as some I finally read.\nLimiting the list to just 5 best agile books is not easy! There are so many great books out there to consider and all of them have some value. That makes it tough to choose.\nA constraint I put on myself this year is to only recommend books that I have read. It kept me busy but I think it is important for the integrity of the list.\nOne last thing about the list. My list of best agile books may not match your list of best agile books. That is OK. I urge you to comment if you disagree or if you have other books that you think warrant a top 5 spot. I’ll add your recommendations to my reading backlog and prioritize them appropriately.\nMy list is organized by role. I (mostly) avoided putting any one book on more than one of the lists. Here are the four roles that I focused on for my recommendations:\n- Scrum Masters\n- Product Owners\n- Managers and Leaders\n- Agile Coaches\nIf you are a coach, I believe that you should have read all the books for the other roles as well. To be an effective agile coach, you need a significant amount of learning.\nChris Stone created a wonderful infographic of books and other learning resources for agile coaches shown below. You can see every one of the top 5 books I’ve recommended in his diagram in the outermost ring. Chris even created a Miro board for this diagram and invited others to collaborate with him.\nLet’s jump into the lists of best agile books!\nBest Agile Books for Scrum Masters\nThe list of best agile books for Scrum Masters is one of the tougher lists, as I explain below. But first, here are my five picks:\nby Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland\nThe Scrum Guide remains the definitive guide to the Scrum Framework. Pay attention to what is in the guide as well as what is not in the guide.\nby Kenneth Rubin\nRubin does a good job of putting the Scrum Guide in context and providing the additional details that beginning Scrum Masters will find helpful.\nby Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller\nRipley and Miller have outlined the common anti-patterns for Scrum Adoption and provided recommendations for improvements. It is essential reading for Scrum Masters. Check out my review here: Review of Fixing Your Scrum\nby Lyssa Adkins\nAdkins has done a terrific job of outlining the various people dynamics of coaching teams. Effective Scrum Masters are coaches after all and not taskmasters, team administrators or God forbid Jira Lackeys.\nby Esther Derby and Diana Larsen\nI’ve always thought of the retrospective as the most essential event of the Scrum Framework. Without retrospectives, you aren’t improving. This classic book from veterans Derby and Larsen provides lots of tips and techniques to keep retrospectives fresh and effective.\nHere is why this list is tough. To be a great Scrum Master, you need to know more than just the Scrum Framework. I mean, any high school kid can read the Scrum Guide and claim to understand Scrum, but would they be effective as a Scrum Master? I think not.\nTo be a good Scrum Master, you have to master Scrum obviously (though lots of Scrum Masters do not, sadly). You also have to be a combination of coach, process expert, team therapist, bulldozer, and Zen master. It is pretty important that you understand how products are developed using Scrum, and that you are not showing up to your first rodeo.\nSome experts go further. When I took my Certified Scrum Master training from Craig Larman back in 2013, he claimed that any capable Scrum Master would have read and mastered the content of 70+ books. I’ve included that list of books below for your reference. (And BTW, it’s been years since I took that training and I’ve still only read about 2/3 of the books he recommended).\nSo yeah, putting together a list of just five books for the Scrum Master is pretty tough. That is because the job of Scrum Master is pretty tough. If you are a Scrum Master and you have less than three years of experience, do yourself a solid and hit the books.\nBest Agile Books for Product Owners\nCreating a list of the best agile books for product owners was easier than for the other roles. I think it is because I’ve read fewer books that target this audience. Maybe it is just me but I have a difficult time staying interested and finishing books in this category. If I were more passionate, perhaps I would have finished Donald Reinertsen’s highly regarded Principles of Product Development Flow. Or I would start and finish one of the Marty Cagan books that are frequently recommended to me.\nby Melissa Perri\nMelissa Perri effectively describes how product managers should focus on solving true customer problems and creating business value instead of building lots of features. This is a must-read for anyone performing the role of product owner on an agile team\nby Roman Pichler\nPichler did a great job of writing a concise guide to the Product Management function in the Scrum Framework. I gift or refer this book to every new Product Owner I work with.\nby Bob Galen\nI have to admit that I am a friend and great admirer of Bob Galen. That aside, Bob deserves to have two books on our list of best agile books. This book on Product Ownership is both readable and comprehensive, going well beyond what Pichler has provided on the role.\nby Eric Ries\nTechnically this book is not about being a Product Owner. You can be a hack product owner who creates a product backlog that is reminiscent of the WBS from your PM 101 course. Good luck. In today’s hyper-competitive business environment, successful Product Owners will run small experiments to test their assumptions, collect data, seek out feedback, and pivot when needed. This book tells you how.\nby Jeff Patton\nI’ve been lucky enough to see Jeff Patton present live at various Chicago events and he is both knowledgeable and personable. His book describes the story mapping approach that he developed. Every Product Owner should master story mapping.\nBest Agile Books for Managers and Leaders\nManagers and leaders are often the bottlenecks when it comes to business agility. Sure you can adopt Scrum at the team level without too much effort. But to create an environment for agile ways of working to thrive, you need managers and leaders on board.\nWhich is difficult. One of the main reasons is that most managers and leaders are using management practices created over 100 years ago for a workforce comprised of manual laborers. They are often slow to adopt the modern leadership practices required to support agile teams and create true business agility.\nIronically, there are a lot of great books out there. Several of the books in my top 5 list below weren’t even on my list of best books last year! And that made it difficult to narrow the list to just 5 books. I cheated by listing my top 5 and then including several others as “honorable mentions”. I hope that managers and leaders will find something they like in this list, and maybe, just maybe, be inspired to read them all.\nby Karim Harbott\nHarbott explains the urgency for business agility and has created a great framework for the various focus areas that managers and leaders need to consider. This book was also included on the list for agile coaches. You can get a great overview of the book by reading my review of Harbott’s book.\nby Jonathan Smart\nThis 2020 book by Jonathan Smart provides patterns and anti-patterns for transformation that will be immediately familiar to those with experience in agile transformation. Smart’s insights (Smart Insights?) come primarily from his experience at the financial services firm Barclays. Founded in 1736, most people wouldn’t think of Barclays as a nimble or agile organization. Which makes the agile transformation at Barclays even more dramatic.\nby Darrell Rigby, Sarah Elk, and Steve Berez\nI was initially put off by the title of this book. Who determines what is “right” and “wrong” when it comes to agile ways of working? But once I got past the title, I found this book to be a pretty good resource. Check out my review here: A Review of Doing Agile Right\nby General Stanley McChrystal and co-authors Collins, Silverman and Fussel\nWow, I was really blown away by this book! I thought it was going to be all about the military but General McChrystal has instead written a leadership book that describes both why and how to create true agility even in a large organization. It is a great book with many lessons for Agile Leaders! Read my review here: 7 Key Lessons from the Team of Teams book\nby Jorgen Hesselberg\nHesselberg does a great job of providing a blueprint for organizational transformation, based on his experience with Navteq, Motorola, and other large organizations. I thought the book did a great job of outlining the considerations for agile transformation. I made this my choice of textbook for my Enterprise Agility Frameworks course at Northwestern University.\nHonorable Mentions for Agile Leaders and Managers\nAs noted, this category contains a lot of choices. There were some other books that I have come to love over the years that simply didn’t make the “best 5 agile books” cut.\n- Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders by Jurgen Appelo. Appelo is a smart guy and is quite entertaining in both his books and in-person presentations. His books are easy to read and extremely helpful.\n- The Age of Agile: How Smart Companies Are Transforming the Way Work Gets Done by Stephen Denning. I wouldn’t say that I love this book but it is one of the few books I’ve read that provides an executive’s view.\n- Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by David Marquet. Former Navy Captain David Marquet is a terrific storyteller and unlikely leadership guru. Marquet’s leadership experiments from a nuclear submarine under the ocean show that if he can do it there, so can you. You will come away inspired.\nBest Agile Books for Agile Coaches\nWhen I think of an agile coach, I think of someone who transcends team-level agility. They are a transformation agent who can lead others to improved business agility.\nAgile coaches need to understand agile inside and out including from the perspective of each of the other three roles mentioned above. So they should read the 5 books below AND all the books above that are recommended for the other roles. That’s right, agile coaches need to hit the books even more than Scrum Masters!\nHere are my top 5 recommended best books for Agile Coaches.\nby Bob Galen with co-authors Jennifer Fields, Mark Summers, and Rhiannon Galen-Personick\nAs I mentioned above, I am a friend and admirer of Bob Galen and his work and this is the second book from Galen that made the list. Frankly, I think Bob hit it out of the park with this comprehensive book on the topic. Learn more about this book in my review: The Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching Book.\nby Karim Harbott\nHarbott explains the urgency for business agility and has created a great framework for the various focus areas that managers and leaders need to consider. This book was also included on the list for leaders and managers. You can read my review of Harbott’s book here: A Review of the 6 Enablers of Business Agility.\nby Michael Sahota\nThis 2012 book by Michael Sahota is one of the first books I read about Agile Transformation. As a coach, I still find this book to be helpful though it is getting a bit dated.\nby Frederick Laloux\nThis may seem like an unlikely recommendation for coaches but stay with me here. Laloux looks at organizational development from a historical lens and borrows colors from the spiral dynamics. His framework for looking at organizations provides a useful lens for coaches to see their current org; and where they might need to change and evolve.\nby Michael Bungay Stanier\nThis is a relatively short and focused read that will boost your coaching abilities. Michael Bungay Stanier shares the power of asking great questions, and listening for the answers. Read my review here: 10 Key Takeaways from The Coaching Habit Book.\nHonorable Mention Book for Agile Coaches:\n- Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising. Manns and Rising provide lots of patterns for introducing change and inviting others in without threatening them. Not only is this helpful, but it is also essential reading for coaches and change agents!\nSumming it Up\nOK, that’s it. There are more books of course…many more! I know that I missed a few and of course, people will have their favorites. PLEASE weigh in with your comments below. Let me know what you think should be on the list. I may not change the list for 2022, but your recommendation just might make the list for next year.\nBefore I go, here is that list of recommended reading for Scrum Masters, from my CSM class by Craig Larman back in 2014.\nA Comprehensive Reading List for Scrum Masters\nOh, and here is that list of 70+ books that Craig Larman referenced in my Certified Scrum Master Course back in 2013. I’ve bolded the ones that I have read – so far 49 of the 73, woohoo!\n- Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game (2nd Edition) by Alistair Cockburn\n- Agile & Iterative Development; A Managers Guide by Craig Larman and Bas Vodde\n- Scaling Lean & Agile Development by Craig Larman\n- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary and Tom Poppendieck\n- Agile Project Management with Scrum by Ken Schwaber\n- Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn\n- Crystal Clear: A Human-Powered Methodology for Small Teams: A Human-Powered Methodology by Alistair Cockburn\n- User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn\n- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck\n- Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances by J. Richard Hackman\n- Collaboration Explained: Facilitation Skills for Software Project Leaders by Jean Tabaka\n- Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn\n- Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers\n- Test-Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers by Lasse Koskela\n- Practices for Scaling Lean & Agile Development by Craig Larman\n- Agile Retrospectives by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen\n- Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas by Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising\n- Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash by Mary and Tom Poppendieck\n- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni\n- Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming\n- Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products that Customers Love by Roman Pichler\n- Implementing Beyond Budgeting: Unlocking the Performance Potential by Bjarte Bogsnes\n- The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge\n- Managing the Design Factory by Donald Reinertsen\n- Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices by Robert C. Martin\n- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin\n- The Wisdom of Teams by Jon Katzenbach\n- Teamwork is an Individual Skill by Christopher Avery\n- Birth of the Chaordic Age by Dee Hock\n- Maverick by Ricardo Semler\n- Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner\n- Agile Coaching by Rachel Davies\n- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman\n- Software for Your Head by Jim McCarthy\n- The Human Side of Enterprise by Douglas McGregor\n- Just Enough Software Architecture: A Risk-Driven Approach by George Fairbanks\n- Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble, David Farley\n- Coaching Agile Teams by Lyssa Adkins\n- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt, Dave Thomas\n- Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing by Gojko Adzic\n- Specification by Example: How Successful Teams Deliver the Right Software by Gojko Adzic\n- Impact Mapping: Making a big impact with software products and projects by Gojko Adzic\n- The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen\n- Flexible Product Development: Building Agility for Changing Markets by Preston G. Smith\n- The Human Side of Agile – How to Help Your Team Deliver by Gil Broza\n- High-Performing Self-Managed Work Teams by Dale Yeatts\n- Business without Bosses by Charles Manz\n- Leading Self-Directed Work Teams by Kimball Fisher\n- The Self-Managing Organization by Roland Purser\n- Freedom from Command and Control: A Better Way to Make the Work Work by John Seddon\n- First, Let’s Fire All the Managers (article) by Gary Hamel\n- The Future of Management by Gary Hamel\n- Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations by Robert D. Austin\n- Abolishing Performance Appraisals: Why They Backfire and What to Do Instead by Tom Coens\n- Get rid of the Performance Review by Samuel Culbert\n- Hard Facts, Dangerous Truths, & Total Nonsense by Jeffrey Pfeffer\n- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink\n- Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfied Kohn\n- Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change by Diana Whitney, et al.\n- Appreciative Team Building: Positive Questions to Bring Out the Best of Your Team by Diana Whitney, et al.\n- The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change by Diana Whitney, et al.\n- Lean Thinking: Banish Waste and Create Wealth in Your Corporation, Revised and Updated by James P. Womack\n- Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results by Mike Rother\n- Toyota Culture: The Heart and Soul of the Toyota Way by Jeffrey K. Liker\n- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful by Eric Ries\n- Inside the Mind of Toyota: Management Principles for Enduring Growth by Satoshi Hino\n- Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews by Norman L. Kerth\n- Kanban by David Anderson\n- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom Demarco\n- Wicked Problems Righteous Solutions by Peter DeGrace\n- Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II by Barry Boehm\n- One More Time, How Do We Motivate Employees? (article) by Frederick Herzberg\n- The New New Product Development Game (article) by Hirotaka Takeuchi et al", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://hiswordtoday.org/2018/06/15/the-gospel-of-john-he-must-increase-i-must-decrease/", "date": "2021-04-20T19:18:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039490226.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20210420183658-20210420213658-00479.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9830663204193115, "token_count": 1429, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__115655027", "lang": "en", "text": "“After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing. John also was baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming and being baptized (for John had not yet been put in prison). Now a discussion arose between some of John’s disciples and a Jew over purification. And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.” John answered, “A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.” (John 3:22-30).\nEnvy is the silent companion for many ministers and pastors when they get together with their fellow ministers and pastors. Aside from the usual conversations about families, sports and health there is the inevitable discussion about so-called “success” in the ministry. Comparisons are made, fairly or unfairly, to super successful ministries (i.e. those running large numbers) that many pastors wish they could experience, but who would never say such things out loud. When leaving a conference, meeting or breakfast, one wonders how many leave thinking “if only.”\nThis tendency to envy others, or other ministries, is not restricted to just pastors either. There are those who gladly trumpet their “mega-church” and insistently or relentlessly pursue others to join the church where things are really happening. It is hard to compete and to justify attending a small rural church of 25 when just a few miles up the road is a city church running close to 2,500 with programs for every age group and ministries for every want and need.\nOne could come away from all of this with the sense that there are just some ministries and churches the Lord blesses and others that He does not. It’s just the way it is. There are the haves and the have nots.\nIn today’s text from the Gospel of John, there arose some discussion about how Jesus was attracting more people and followers than John the Baptist. Some of John’s disciples were notably concerned about what he thought about this. After all, John had come along the Judean scene well before Jesus. It would only be natural for him to become jealous or envious of Jesus’ rising popularity, at the expense of his own.\nHowever, John was amazingly wise and prudent in his response. He said, ““A person cannot receive even one thing unless it is given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness that I said, ‘I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.’ The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease.”\nJohn made four observations about his ministry. It would be well for us to keep these in mind regarding what we do for the Lord and how we evaluate the “success” of our own ministry, or any other church.\nFirst, John understood that any ministry is sovereignly given by God. It is a trust. It is a stewardship. It is eventually the Lord’s prerogative to entrust some people with greater responsibilities than others. It is ultimately His call. This therefore means that a church of 2,500 is not necessarily any more blessed by God than say a church of 25. The most important thing to note is whether both are preaching and teaching biblical truth and the people are faithful (I Corinthians 4:1-2).\nSecond, the focus and attention of any church and ministry must be placed upon the Lord and not upon anyone else. No ministry and no church is the sole property of any one human being. When the focus shifts to the human leader, rather than to God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then a cult-like atmosphere has begun to take hold. John repeatedly stated that he was not the Christ. He understood who he was and who Jesus is.\nThird, anyone who serves the Lord is compared to a best man at the wedding. This is how John viewed himself. He was not the groom. Therefore, the attention was not upon him but rather upon the one who was getting married. Jesus is the bridegroom and the church is the bride. It would be wise for all us to remember that it is not about how much notoriety we receive, or for that matter the church we attend, but rather how much praise Jesus receives.\nFourth, Jesus Christ is to be increasingly seen in our personal lives along with the corporate congregation to which we belong. John succinctly explain it this way: “He must increase and I must decrease.” If our pastors and churches would be more focused on Jesus’ increasing notoriety, and not their own, a whole lot of conflicts within the church would end and the only conflicts the church would encounter would be from the outside fallen world.\nThe Apostle Paul explained it this way in I Corinthians 3:1-5: “But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way? For when one says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not being merely human? What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.”\nJohn the Baptist understood his place. So too did the Apostle Paul. It would be wise for us as well.\nTherefore, next time you want to praise your own church and pastor, and criticize another, it would be wise to remember a similar discussion that occurred some 2,000 years ago in the Judean wilderness. Some things never change.\nSoli deo Gloria!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://highsheriffofshropshire.co.uk/the-bookfest-remembers-concert-allington-theatre-shrewsbury-school/", "date": "2022-06-26T04:14:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103037089.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626040948-20220626070948-00035.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9451998472213745, "token_count": 241, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__248614693", "lang": "en", "text": "The Shrewsbury Bookfest, now in its sixteenth year, brings the world of books and poetry alive for children in Shropshire. Bookfest Remembers, an evening of readings and music, commemorated the sacrifice made by soldiers of the First World War and celebrated its literary legacy. Shropshire composer Caz Besterman had, to great effect, set several poems to music, which were performed individually by Emma Brotherton (Cruckton School), Harry Fradley (Ellesemere College), and Ben Higgins (Shrewsbury School). The Abraham Darby Academy Showband, the Bookfest Choir, The Shawbury Wives Choir and the Shropshire Youth Wind Orchestra provided more music and there were more poetry readings from young Army Cadets. The evening finished with Oliver Turner’s (Shrewsbury Sixth Form College) brilliant reading of Wilfred Owen’s Strange Meeting followed by The Last Post played by Colour Sergeant Ryan Wood. The concert is to be broadcast on BBC Radio Shropshire on Christmas Day. A big thank you to festival organiser Caroline Thewles for inviting me to this wonderful event.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.schoen-clinic.co.uk/knowledge-insights/frozen-shoulder", "date": "2020-05-25T10:34:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347388427.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20200525095005-20200525125005-00503.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8734251260757446, "token_count": 3540, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-24", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__99640430", "lang": "en", "text": "What is Frozen shoulder?\nFrozen shoulder is a common shoulder disease and its incidence is estimated to be 2–5% in the population. It is rare in children and peaks between 40 and 70 years of age, in particular the highest incidence in woman is between 50-55 years and in man between 55-60 years. Patients with diabetes and distyroidism are predisposed and those who experience it on one shoulder are more likely of developing the condition on the contralateral side. Women are more often affected than men, but there is no known genetic or racial predilection.\nThe aetiology and pathogenesis of primary frozen shoulder are not known; it results from contraction of the glenohumeral joint capsule and adherence to the humeral head. Zuckerman et al formulated a descriptive consensus definition for frozen shoulder “a condition characterized by functional restriction of both active and passive shoulder motion for which radiographs of the glenohumeral joint are essentially unremarkable”.\nFrozen shoulder has a high impact on the quality of life, due to the severe pain and functional disability; loss of passive external rotation (ER) is the most characteristic finding at physical examination.\nCauses & Symptoms\nThere often is no identifiable cause or trigger. The pain is often described as a poorly localized, deep ache and can radiate to the biceps area.\nIt is characterized by three phases: the freezing phase (acute pain and gradual loss of motion of the glenohumeral joint in all directions), frozen phase (severe stiffness and improvement of the pain) and the thawing phase (range of motion (ROM) gradually returns to normal). Although frozen shoulder is often considered to be self- limiting, full resolution of symptoms does not always occur. Only 59% of the patients had a near normal shoulder after 4 years. However, persistent symptoms are commonly mild. No therapeutic intervention is currently universally accepted as most effective for restoring motion and diminishing pain in patients with frozen shoulder.\nThe diagnosis of frozen shoulder is usually clinical. The glenohumeral joint capsule is comprised of soft tissue and is therefore not visible on plain radiography. However, radiography can rule out other conditions and detect concomitant pathology; it is also useful to assess for Pancoast tumors, advanced glenohumeral arthritis, pathologic fracture, avascular necrosis, calcific rotator cuff and biceps tendinopathy. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is not diagnostic for adhesive capsulitis, but can be helpful in identifying other conditions, such as rotator cuff tendinopathy and subacromial bursitis; capsular thickening can sometimes be observed.\nFrozen shoulder must be differentiated by secondary adhesive capsulitis which gives similar clinical presentation but it is caused by another etiological entity (trauma, subacromial bursitis, rotator cuff tendinopathy/tear, autoimmune diseases, neoplasm, cervical disk degeneration).\nWatchful waiting or ‘supervised neglect’ involves explaining the condition to the patient, educate and advice about mobilisation within pain limits and use of pain relief.\nOral steroids are given to relieve pain and stiffness in patients with frozen shoulder. However, randomised control trials (RCT) comparing oral steroids and placebo or no treatment, showed no differences in the pain and recovery of the ROM in patients affected from frozen shoulder.[5–7]\nIntra-articular corticosteroid injections are a commonly used intervention in treating shoulder pain in general. A Cochrane review focussed on this treatment reported on the effectiveness of corticosteroid injections in treating shoulder pain, including 13 RCTs (n=656) on frozen shoulder. The majority of the RCT showed good results after intra-articular steroid injection if compared with a placebo group. Because the glenohumeral joint lies deep within the shoulder, correct technique and placement can be challenging. Ultrasound guidance may be helpful to ensure correct placement. There is evidence to support the use of up to three injections over the course of four months without significant risk of complications in shoulder disease but most of the time in a frozen shoulder if the injection works (success rate is about 25-30% of cases) a single injection is enough to stop and trigger the resolution of this disease.\nSteroid injection versus physiotherapy\nSteroid injection was reported to be more effective than physiotherapy both on pain and ROM at 4 months.[10–12] On ROM, the combination of steroid injection with physiotherapy was more effective than physiotherapy or steroid injection alone (p<0.05).\nRehabilitation, as a home exercise program or physical therapy, has traditionally been a cornerstone of treatment for frozen shoulder. However, there are no high-level studies that clearly demonstrate benefit over observation or medical therapy alone. Aggressive physical therapy can exacerbate pain and diminish adherence to the treatment plan; therefore, caution should be used in patients who have a high degree of pain and stiffness. Initial therapy typically includes gentle ROM exercises, although evidence is lacking (figure 1). In our experience, proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF) which is a form of static stretching that combines passive with isometric stretching, delivers the best results in the treatment of frozen shoulder. There are several different PNF techniques, although the most common technique (hold-relax) is performed when a muscle is statically stretched, then isometrically contracted, and finally statically stretched again. The stretching is performed in 3 cycles, minimum of 3 times a day and focuses on the anterior (figure 2) and posterior (figure 3) capsule. Gentle mobilization of the shoulder in a swimming pool or formal hydrotherapy might help to reduce muscle contractures and regular selfstretching can help to maintain partially the range of motion.\nOther therapies, such as ultrasound, massage, iontophoresis, and phonophoresis, have not been proven effective for frozen shoulder.\nAcupuncture is postulated to work by releasing endogenous opioids in the body that relieve pain, by overriding pain signals in the nerves, or by allowing energy or blood to flow freely through the body. Several RCT showed good results in reducing shoulder pain, those specifically focused on frozen shoulder showed mixed results, however, a high quality RCT showed good results of acupuncture combined with physical therapy if compared with physiotherapy alone.\nArthrographic distension (hydrodilatation) of the glenohumeral joint is thought to disrupt adhesions that might be restricting the shoulder ROM. It can be achieved with combinations of saline, local anaesthetic, steroid, contrast medium and air. Authors reported to have injected between 20 and 80 ml fluid in the glenohumeral joint until rupture of the capsule occurred.\nSystematic Cochrane reviews[15, 16] reported good short term results after hydrodilatation with complications confined to pain during or after the procedure. However, it is difficult to draw definitive conclusions as several techniques can be used including the use of steroids and post treatment physical therapy. Furthermore, the long term benefits are uncertain and recurrence of the symptoms have been reported. [15–17] Finally it seems more effective in recovering the forward flexion and abduction more than rotational movements that are most severely affected by frozen shoulder.\nPatients with adhesive capsulitis who have little or no improvement after six to 12 weeks of conservative treatment and who cannot tolerate their symptoms should be referred to an orthopedic surgeon. Those who improve but then plateau at an unacceptable level after longer courses of nonsurgical therapy can also be considered for surgical referral.\nSurgical options for adhesive capsulitis include joint manipulation under anesthesia and arthroscopic capsular release.\nManipulation under anesthesia (MUA)\nMUA is believed to be the most widely used non-conservative treatment option for these refractory cases. With MUA, the tight shoulder joint capsule is stretched and torn (figure 4) with manipulation (under general anesthesia (GA)). It is a time efficient procedure and relatively easy to perform, resulting in rapid restoration of the ROM. The literature reports that patients’ satisfaction is >80% at 3 months and 94% at 6 months follow up. It can be associated with a risk of iatrogenic proximal humeral fracture, glenohumeral dislocation, and rotator cuff tearing, however the overall complication rate in the literature is reported to be <1%. The Codman’s Paradox (figure 5) was shown to be a safe technique to perform a safe MUA, minimizing the risks related to the procedure.\nMore recently this technique has been associated with Hydrodilatation, the dilatation of the joint reduce the risk of complications during MUA and often speed up the recovery process for rotational movement.\nArthroscopic capsular release (ACR)\nSurgical release of the capsule has proved to be beneficial in patients with persistent or severe frozen shoulder.[20, 21] Good pain relief and functional recovery is achieved and complications are minimal. The procedure is performed under GA and regional block; an arthroscopic radiofrequency device is used to release the adhesions and the capsule of the glenohumeral joint. A 270-360 degrees release is performed and restoration of full ROM is achieved (figure 6). Once the patient recovers from the GA, he/she is invited to passively stretch the shoulder while the regional blocks controls the pain. Physiotherapy is started as soon as possible (24-72h post intervention) to maintain the movement of the shoulder and reduce the risk of recurrence. Painkillers are prescribed to help the patient during passive exercises.\nFrozen shoulder is a long benign disease of the Shoulder that in the first phase can impair the use of the arm and can disrupt the quality of life of patients because of severe and unremitting pain with associated with sleep disturbance.\nIf recognized early can be effectively treated with intrarticular steroid injections, better done under USS guidance, or in case of scarce response might benefit from a combination of Hydrodilatation and manipulation under anesthesia which is a minimally invasive treatment or in severe cases might benefit from an arthroscopic capsular release which a very effective and successful technique.\nFigure 1. Standard stretching exercises (passive stretching)\nFigure 2. PFN anterior capsule stretching\nFigure 3. PFN posterior capsule stretching\nFigure 4. Arthroscopic view of torn capsule after MUA\nFigure 5 Demonstration of the Codman paradox. Prior to any movement, the arms are on the sides with the palms towards the thighs, thumbs pointing forwards. Full forward flexion is performed. From full elevation, bringing the arms down on the sides (without performing any rotation movement). The palms are facing outwards, thumbs pointing to the back. An apparent 180 degrees of external rotation occurred in the shoulder\nFigure 6 Arthroscopic view of severe synovitis in the anterior aspect of the shoulder (rotator interval/anterior capsule)\n- Hand C, Clipsham K, Rees JL, Carr AJ (2008) Long-term outcome of frozen shoulder. J Shoulder Elb Surg. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2007.05.009\n- Kivimäki J, Pohjolainen T, Malmivaara A, Kannisto M, Guillaume J, Seitsalo S, Nissinen M (2007) Manipulation under anesthesia with home exercises versus home exercises alone in the treatment of frozen shoulder: A randomized, controlled trial with 125 patients. J Shoulder Elb Surg. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2007.02.125\n- Zuckerman JD, Rokito A (2011) Frozen shoulder: A consensus definition. J Shoulder Elb Surg. doi: 10.1016/j.jse.2010.07.008\n- Reeves B (1975) The natural history of the frozen shoulder syndrome. Scand J Rheumatol. doi: 10.3109/03009747509165255\n- Buchbinder R, Hoving JL, Green S, Hall S, Forbes A, Nash P (2004) Short course prednisolone for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder or stiff painful shoulder): A randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial. Ann Rheum Dis. doi: 10.1136/ard.2003.018218\n- Blockey NJ, Wright JK, Kellgren JH (1954) Oral cortisone therapy in periarthritis of the shoulder a controlled trial. Br Med J. doi: 10.1136/bmj.1.4877.1455\n- Binder AI, Bulgen DY, Hazleman BL, Roberts S (1984) Frozen shoulder: A long-term prospective study. Ann Rheum Dis. doi: 10.1136/ard.43.3.361\n- Buchbinder R, Green S, Youd JM (2003) Corticosteroid injections for shoulder pain. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD004016\n- Shah N, Lewis M (2007) Shoulder adhesive capsulitis: systematic review of randomised trials using multiple corticosteroid injections. Br J Gen Pr.\n- Calis M, Demir H, Ulker S, Kirnap M, Duygulu F, Calis HT (2006) Is intraarticular sodium hyaluronate injection an alternative treatment in patients with adhesive capsulitis? Rheumatol Int. doi: 10.1007/s00296-005-0022-2\n- Carette S, Moffet H, Tardif J, et al (2003) Intraarticular corticosteroids, supervised physiotherapy, or a combination of the two in the treatment of adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder: A placebo-controlled trial. Arthritis Rheum. doi: 10.1002/art.10954\n- Ryans I, Montgomery A, Galway R, Kernohan WG, McKane R (2005) A randomized controlled trial of intra-articular triamcinolone and/or physiotherapy in shoulder capsulitis. Rheumatology. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/keh535\n- Cheing GLY, So EML, Chao CYL (2008) Effectiveness of electroacupuncture and interferential electrotherapy in the management of frozen shoulder. J Rehabil Med. doi: 10.2340/16501977-0142\n- Sun KO, Chan KC, Lo SL, Fong DY (2001) Acupuncture for frozen shoulder. Hong Kong Med. J.\n- Buchbinder R, Green S, Youd JM, Johnston R V., Cumpston M (2008) Arthrographic distension for adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder). Cochrane Database Syst Rev. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007005\n- Tveitå EK, Tariq R, Sesseng S, Juel NG, Bautz-Holter E (2008) Hydrodilatation, corticosteroids and adhesive capsulitis: A randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-9-53\n- Bell S, Coghlan J, Richardson M (2003) Hydrodilatation in the management of shoulder capsulitis. Australas Radiol. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1673.2003.01171.x\n- Dodenhoff RM, Levy O, Wilson A, Copeland SA (2000) Manipulation under anesthesia for primary frozen shoulder: effect on early recovery and return to activity. J shoulder Elb Surg / Am Shoulder Elb Surg [et al] 9:23–26\n- Tsvieli O, Atoun E, Consigliere P, Polyzois I, Walecka J, Pradhan R, Ippolito G, Rath E, Levy O (2017) Manipulation under anaesthetic for frozen shoulder using Codman’s paradox: a safe and early return of function. Int Orthop. doi: 10.1007/s00264-017-3558-3\n- Chen J, Chen S, Li Y, Hua Y, Li H (2010) Is the Extended Release of the Inferior Glenohumeral Ligament Necessary for Frozen Shoulder? 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{"url": "https://www.lynntemplarphoto.com/seasons-of-loss/", "date": "2023-12-02T08:27:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100381.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202073445-20231202103445-00626.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9682825803756714, "token_count": 350, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__262634355", "lang": "en", "text": "The images in my photobook are selected from the many taken following the sudden death of my husband in early September 2020 and the subsequent winter lockdown of 2020/21. Taking my camera on my walks allowed me to connect with nature in an interactive way and enabled me to be in the moment, completely absorbed in looking at the world around me. This respite in nature became a much-needed way of quieting the chatter in my mind. Often the images mirrored my feelings and emotions as I was visually drawn to photograph a particular aspect of nature or landscape. Sometimes my surroundings would revive a memory, or become a catalyst in my grieving process, helping me to come to an understanding of my own personal emotional world. Many of the places photographed were visited regularly. Sometimes alone, and sometimes with others for essential human contact. This gave me the opportunity to revisit places and document their transformation over time and the seasons, allowing me to reflect on the change and the impermanence within my own life.\nIn part, the final image selection was made based on my emotional response to the images as I reviewed them. I also wanted to introduce a sense of narrative to my book, using the sequence of the landscape and nature photographs on the page to mirror my own continuing journey through an internal landscape of grief. It was a conscious decision not to include text on every page. I added some key texts that are personally important to me, but I also wanted the viewer to respond to the individual images in a way that is personal, reading the visual codes in the work in a way that is emotionally meaningful to them.\nIn the making, my book became both a tribute to my late partner Stuart and a personal document of living with grief in a global pandemic.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thhernandez.com/review-every-last-word-by-tamara-ireland-stone/", "date": "2021-06-21T04:23:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488262046.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621025359-20210621055359-00093.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9702833890914917, "token_count": 1482, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__179251389", "lang": "en", "text": "If you could read my mind, you wouldn’t be smiling.\nSamantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can’t turn off.\nSecond-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn’t help that her lifelong friends will turn toxic at the first sign of a wrong outfit, wrong lunch, or wrong crush. Yet Sam knows she’d be truly crazy to leave the protection of the most popular girls in school. So when Sam meets Caroline, she has to keep her new friend with a refreshing sense of humor and no style a secret, right up there with Sam’s weekly visits to her psychiatrist.\nCaroline introduces Sam to Poet’s Corner, a hidden room and a tight-knit group of misfits who have been ignored by the school at large. Sam is drawn to them immediately, especially a guitar-playing guy with a talent for verse, and starts to discover a whole new side of herself. Slowly, she begins to feel more “normal” than she ever has as part of the popular crowd . . . until she finds a new reason to question her sanity and all she holds dear.\nI took a few days off after finishing this book to write my review. I wanted to let it settle in and see how I was feeling, and you know what? I still love it just as much as I did the moment I finished. I discovered author, Tamara Ireland Stone, through her time-travelling young adult stories, Time Between Us and Time After Time, so I wasn’t sure if I would love a straight-up contemporary as much. It’s different, but as good, in a very different way.\nThe book is heavy on themes. Themes of fitting in, finding one’s place, uncertainty, being different, being accepted, finding your voice, finding your words. It’s also a story about a girl and a boy. And secrets. And trust.\nSamantha McAllister is part of the Crazy Eights, the most popular girls in her junior class, but she’s hiding a secret from them — she has OCD with an emphasis on obsessive rather than compulsive, making it easier to keep her issues private. In fact, no one in school knows about it. Until she meets Caroline, a nerdy girl who promises Samantha she can change her life. Samantha is a girl with two halves, her public persona as part of the Eights, and the private Summer Sam, who doesn’t try so hard to conceal who she is. Samantha wants to be Sam all the time, and not just during the summer when she’s away from the Eights. Her friendship with Caroline sparks a journey that burns through the pages, as Samantha allows Sam out of her box for longer bits of a time.\nThe plot addresses so many things, but at it’s core, it’s about a girl battling OCD and her journey in finding herself. Strong subplots include a romance with the sweet, soulful AJ, her friendships with the Caroline and the other Poets, as well as her evolving relationship with the Eights. Each plot is well done, and woven seamlessly with the others. There were a few good plot twists, and one, shocking, jaw-dropping twist that I wasn’t sure about at first, but ended up loving for its brilliance.\nThe author has done her homework and portrays the world of mental health in a raw and realistic manner. Her creation of Poet’s Corner is detailed and vivid. I could picture the room and the kids and the tiny stage, feel the atmosphere, smell the combination of old paper and stale coffee, with a hint of teen body odor. And considering I was born without a sense of smell, that’s saying something!\nSamantha is complex, troubled, and so utterly relatable, it’s impossible not to love her despite her flaws. Sam spends such an inordinate amount of time in her own head, the only other character I truly felt like I got a good sense of was Shrink Sue. It’s not that the other characters are one-dimensional, but that we see the world through Sam’s eyes and she’s just very introspective.\nThe pacing is good, never really dragging, the plot twists were adequately foreshadowed, and the author has an interesting voice that is both deep and youthful, fitting this story really well.\nI enjoyed the ending. I thought the main plot points were wrapped up well, but in a believable way, because OCD isn’t something cured. It’s something people are taught to manage, and I think that was authentically portrayed.\nTop Five Things I Loved About Every Last Word\n1. The Poetry. The poems were deep and meaningful and I love how the author managed to give each poet his or her own voice in their creations.\n2. Sam. She’s just so incredibly well developed, and while I have never suffered like she has, I could understand her thought spirals, and relate to how she felt out of control. I think everyone has something about themselves that feels a little beyond their ability to control at times.\n3. AJ. He is sweet, thoughtful, and yet not perfect, which made him perfectly believable.\n4. Shrink Sue. The way she helps Sam, maintains boundaries, and yet clearly loves her patient is heartwarming.\n5. Caroline. She was exactly the friend Sam needed at the time Sam needed her.\nI’m glad I gave this book a try. It surprised me in the very best of ways.\nI was provided with a copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.\nTitle: Every Last Word\nAuthor: Tamara Ireland Stone\nPublisher: Disney Hyperion\nRelease Date: September 16, 2014\nCategory: Teen and Young Adult, Romance\nRating: 5 out of 5 Stars\nLinks to Purchase: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks\nAbout the Author\nTAMARA IRELAND STONE is the author of Time After Time and Time Between Us, which has been published in over twenty countries to widespread acclaim, and hailed as “an exciting debut novel” by Booklist and “a warm, time bending romance” by Publishers Weekly. It has been optioned for film by CBS Films.\nHer next novel, Every Last Word, is about a teen girl with OCD who’s hiding part of herself from the world, until she discovers a secret poetry club that changes her in unexpected ways. Every Last Word releases on June 16, 2015.\nA former Silicon Valley marketing executive, Tamara enjoys skiing, hiking, and spending time with her husband and two children. She lives just outside of San Francisco", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.lavidabaseball.com/la-vida-voices-clemente-biographer-david-maraniss/", "date": "2021-06-17T16:37:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487630518.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20210617162149-20210617192149-00217.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9800620079040527, "token_count": 1876, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__72913390", "lang": "en", "text": "As an author of five books at Latino baseball and history’s intersection, I have a profound respect for other authors. I’m admittedly particularly critical when another author writes on a subject matter in my sweet spot. This was the case when I read David Maraniss’ Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero, the best Roberto Clemente biography I’ve ever read. It inspired me to reach out and tip my cap as a fan who was simply blown away about a subject matter, I felt I knew best.\nHollywood felt similarly and Legendary Pictures (“42”) acquired the story rights from Maraniss and has attached director, Ezra Edelman (“O.J.: Made in America”), to the feature film project.\nMaraniss owns a Pulitzer Prize (’93) for his renowned work at The Washington Post where today he serves as the associate editor. He’s no stranger to biographies having inked books on everyone from Barack Obama (Barack Obama: The Story) and Bill Clinton (First in His Class) to Vince Lombardi (When Pride Still Mattered) to name a few. The Madison, Wisconsin native and D.C. journalism fixture has a byline history that parallels his Midwestern roots to his current presence in the epicenter of U.S. politics.\nI was intrigued about David’s attraction to writing Clemente, since I considered it an outlier of sorts from his other subjects, and I wanted to know more about the back story of a white, Midwestern kid’s fascination with the Puerto Rican and Pittsburgh Pirates legend. As a Puerto Rican baseball historian and academic, I should’ve known the transcendent impact of #21 knows no boundaries. Maraniss’ book is a gift to all baseball fans and I’m thrilled I had a chance to connect with David recently to dig in more on his book, the film and his personal backstory. Let’s dig in…\nAdrian Burgos, Jr: Tell us about what sparked your love of baseball and your career journey as a journalist and biographer?\nDavid Maraniss: Baseball was always the favorite sport in my family, starting with my dad, who grew up in Brooklyn as a fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers and hater of the New York Yankees. When the Dodgers moved to LA, he changed allegiances to a series of underdogs in the Midwest, including the Tigers, Indians, Cubs, Braves, and finally Brewers. I’ve been a Brewers fan since they came to Milwaukee in 1970. The first day of their first spring training was the day our son Andrew was born, passing along the tradition.\nMy love of writing has also been a family tradition.\nMy grandfather was a printer on Coney Island, my dad a lifelong newspaper man, and my mom a book editor, so it was in my blood. Luckily, I say, since I’m pretty incompetent at everything else! My siblings have all been scholars, professors, researchers, or musicians. I was the dumb one in the family who followed my father into newspapers. I’ve been affiliated with The Washington Post for more than 40 years, but in the last two decades I’ve mostly written books.\nMy interests are wide-ranging, but I only write books about things that obsess me, mostly political and sociological issues and biographies of people whose lives tell us something more about American life than just sports.\nAB: I can see that thread in your work, but what inspired you to write on Clemente as a biographical subject? Additionally, how did time with the Clemente family provide further insight into who Roberto was and what he meant to them, Puerto Rico, and baseball?\nDM: Clemente was a book I always wanted to write. He was my favorite player when I was growing up. I loved everything about him, the way he walked, the way he looked in his short sleeve Pirates uniform with the black shirt beneath, the way he threw the ball, hit the ball, and that he seemed so passionate and cool at the same time. But I only decided to write about him when I realized I could add something more.\nClemente was that rare athlete who was growing as a human being as he aged, and that he represented all Latinos in his love of his homeland and his pride of place and race, all of which he carried with dignity.\nThe tragic way that he died added to the drama of the story.\nAB: I’m fascinated by your attraction to Clemente as someone with no Pittsburgh affiliation, but thankful! At La Vida Baseball, we aim to share the Latino passion for baseball. How did/has your travels to Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, and perhaps elsewhere in Latin America while researching for your book (and thereafter) impact your understanding of both Clemente and what baseball means to Latinos?\nDM: From the beginning I wanted to make it a story about Puerto Rico, about a migrant worker, in a sense, who came to the mainland for work and over the course of two decades won over so many people with his skills and his heart. My visits to Puerto Rico during the research for the book were crucial. Not only meeting and interviewing his widow Vera and the boys but also so many Latino players who considered him their leader – including Vic Power, Juan Pizarro, Orlando Cepeda, and many others.\nMy way of reporting biography is to go there, wherever “there” is, to understand the culture and geography that shape the life I’m writing about. Pittsburgh was important, but Puerto Rico was crucial. It became clear to me from my many visits that Roberto Clemente was much more than a baseball player; he was no saint, yet he earned saint-like status in his homeland and all of baseball-loving Latin America.\nAB: How did writing the definitive biography on Clemente perhaps alter or deepen your appreciation of the experience of Latinos and baseball, whether as players or as fans? What stories or anecdotes from the reception to your book over the years further reveal how passionate fans are about Clemente?\nDM: No subject I’ve written about generated more love and respect than Clemente. For so many reasons, wherever I went to talk about the book, I would encounter people who either had surprising interactions with Clemente or had watched him play – and in either case they conveyed a certain awe. Two or three times in various cities people came up to me and said they worked at concessions, selling Cokes or beer or peanuts, at Forbes Field or Three Rivers Stadium and that Clemente always stopped to talk to them and ask how they were doing. Others said variations of, “I was at Wrigley Field”, or “I was at Chavez Ravine”, or “I was at County Stadium”, or “I was at Crosley Field”, and I saw Clemente go deep into the right field corner, field the ball, and fire a rope to third base, and it was the most thrilling throw I’d ever seen. What an arm!\nThere were always stories about Clemente, and all told with equal amazement.\nAB: We are excited that your book was optioned as the basis for the forthcoming Clemente film directed by Ezra Edelman, director of the award-winning “O.J. Made in America” series. What might we (and perhaps you) look forward to in the film on Clemente?\nDM: My joke is that all of my books are in various stages of not being made into movies. Meaning Hollywood has bought options for them but none so far have made it to the finish line. When Pride Still Mattered, my biography of Vince Lombardi, did become a Broadway play, but none have become feature films. I’m hoping that Clemente will be the first.\nEzra Edelman has signed on to direct it, and a good friend of his, a Nuyorican, is writing the screenplay. I think of myself as the grandfather of the story, but it will be their movie, and I have complete confidence that – if and when it happens – it will be done right. A previous incarnation of a movie script bothered me because it was too centered on Pittsburgh and white players and announcers and did not do what I wanted a movie to do, which is to center the movie on the feeling of Clemente being Puerto Rican.\nAB: Man, I feel like we’re just getting started. I could go on for hours on this. Please keep us posted on the film’s progress and we’d love to check back with you from time to time to dive in deeper on all things Roberto. Also, if you have any in person book events, please let us know and we’ll share with the La Vida Baseball community. I feel a La Vida Baseball book club coming soon!\nBe sure to follow DAVID on Twitter!\nFeatured Image: University of Wisconsin", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://jonharris.com/bookreviews.html", "date": "2023-12-06T01:57:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100575.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206000253-20231206030253-00844.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9761049151420593, "token_count": 3679, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__209697430", "lang": "en", "text": "'Pro Natural' Book reviews\n\"This is a great book for someone wanting to lose weight, a bodybuilding enthusiast or just someone who wants to change his or her workouts. This is the book for getting inspired to start a new healthy lifestyle with almost 200 pages to read. I myself am a natural competitive athlete in bodybuilding and I have tried different diets, different training programs, etc. Jon is a top World natural athlete and keeps it very simple without confusing you. Reading different books & forums out there can be very confusing & I just sensed that this book would help me go in the right direction. It has a nice easy reading style and is full of personal stories and photos. It is partly a chronicle of Jon�s career, and partly a fitness book.\nOne of the greatest strengths of this book is that it is written in an understandable easy read, a straightforward routine with his recommended exercises. Good suggestions on food choices/portions to get you into better shape (low body fat and keep the hard earned muscle). He recognizes that fitness for men and for women is done through hard work. He also points out that to make change takes real work and effort.\nLocked inside each of us is the person we want to be. Others might not recognize it yet, but I'm telling you, it's in there. Even against ridiculous odds, what propels you forward and separates you from the rest? P.R.I.D.E., which stands for Perseverance, Responsibility, Integrity, Determination, and Excitement. If you have these five elements in your life, Jon proves you can accomplish almost anything. With effort and time, results will be visible. His beginnings were inspirational. His determination paid in the end after the setbacks.\nIt's very Important to understand the difference between dreams and goals. Dreams are things we wish for, things you enjoy thinking about but don't really know when they will happen. Goals, on the other hand, are specific things you have decided you need to accomplish within a clearly defined period of time. Jon�s techniques will help you to make your dreams become goals and the goals to become reality. He also shows his daily food journal (contest/off season) on what he does for the day.\nOnce you think you know it all, that�s where you can get to a stand still in any part of your life. Knowledge is power.\"\n- Tony Montalbano, NPA Pro-Am Champion, Musclemania World Champion\n\"I bought Jon�s book at the BNBF Manchester show and can�t recommend it enough to anyone thinking of getting it. No matter how much you think you know, there is always something new to learn and the book covers every aspect of BB in a very natural and honest style. Although there is plenty on information out there now on the web, it is still great to have a reference book to pick up at any time that isn�t filled with all the hype and nonsense that covers the magazines nowadays. Just think, if you learn even one thing from the book that makes a difference to you physique (and you will) then it surely justifies the price. Great job Jon.\"\n- Campbell Brogan, BNBF Scottish Champion\n\"Right you guys and dolls out there, buy Jon's book! I bought one at Edinburgh and I recommend it to any natural bodybuilder, as a bible to have at hand, be it for training, diet, contest preparation etc. Prior to the Sunday Show I was getting all kinds of mixed messages to what I should do or not do, and if I had had Jon's book it would have answered any doubts I had about the advice been given to me. If you wonder what I am jabbering on about, natural and non-natural contest diet preparation is similar but not exactly the same, what works for one might not work for another. On Sunday I think I got it about 90 % right and with Jon�s book I hope to go an extra 10/20 % for the Finals in October. Best wishes to you all, keep pumping a-whey.\"\n- Eric Morris, BNBF British Champion and Natural Powerlifting Champion\n\"PRO NATURAL was an excellent read and an essential reference that covers every aspect of Bodybuilding from training to offseason and precontest dieting. A bio on Jon and a comprehensive guide to posing. With Jon�s coaching on posing I was able to hit he stage as a first timer and present myself in a more confident manner! DON�T UNDERESTIMATE WHAT POSING COACHING CAN ADD TO YOUR CONTEST PREP!\"\n\"I have just received the book today from Jon. First impressions are the photo of Jon on the front cover - speechless! I have been glued to the book all day. It is very easy to read and understand and VERY informative. The binder style is a great idea and I am sure many other training manuals will adopt this style, it�s a simple but effective idea. Already I have began to change my training plans and re-look ay my year round diet. The chapter on posing is where the book is most valuable to me. I have never seen all of the mandatory poses, or really understood what the judges are actually looking for. I am sure everyone will benefit from this! Thanks Jon, it�s a book that I have been waiting for and it has answered many burning questions!\"\n- Andy Mac\n\"Book received yesterday and I have already devoured large chunks of the text. Great stuff, I have enjoyed what I have read so far. For your own sake not sure about the ring binder as it makes it all a little too easy for folks to photocopy, although for the posing section it�s good to lift out the pages and put them on the wall next to a mirror to practise. Only formative comment so far was being a little frustrated by some missing info on your meal plan description. No weight shown next to the food items, so unable to calculate your intake of grams of: PRO, CHO, FAT and daily calories. [Jon: Thanks for the tip Martin much appreciated. I have since added all nutritional breakdowns for the 2006 release of the book.] I�ll keep reading though to see if I haven�t yet reached the part that let�s me identify this. So far the best bodybuilding publication I�ve read that provides clear guidance in an easy to follow no-nonsense fashion. My youngest boy (15) has already shown some signs of being interested in weight training, so at last I have what appears to be the definitive guide. I have to admit to looking back at all the training mistakes and poor guidance I have received over the years and I do regret that information of this standard wasn�t available when I first started pumping iron. Many Congrats.\"\n- Martin Magee\n\"I received the book you sent me, and can I say I�m REALLY impressed with it! It must have taken you ages to write. It contains all the advice that�s been seriously lacking in all the other books I�ve bought over the years. This genuinely is the ONLY book a natural will ever need � you�ve done a fantastic job, and it deserves to be a sell-out. Many thanks.\"\n- Mark Elliott\n\"Many thanks for the prompt delivery of your book which I received yesterday. I have read it cover to cover and find it to be one of the most useful books I have ever read. It is nice to read a book which is relevant to the natural bodybuilder and I believe it is a must-have for any bodybuilder who is thinking of competing. Good job.\"\n- Jon Bibb, NPA British Champion\n\"What a cracking book! I have read a few BB books over the past year, gaining different knowledge and tips from each. I think you can never stop learning about the sport, but in each case I began to wonder if they were aimed at the natural bodybuilders. Your book is simple to digest and you know that the principals are primarily aimed at people naturally building. It was good to read about your past too, giving the book a personal touch and showing that it takes dedication and hard work to get into peak shape, it doesn�t happen overnight! Excellent read and a must have for any natural bodybuilder. Cheers Jon.\"\n- Lee Jerwood\n\"I received Jon�s book as I was the winner of the quiz posted on the forum a few weeks back. I was at the time saving up to buy the book anyway, and winning it was a bonus! Well there is only really one word to describe Pro Natural and that is - Inspiring! The book is jam packed with information from the novice bodybuilder to I believe professional level. The book contains every piece of information a natural gym rat needs to get ripped for the stage, or even just to reach their goals of sculpting a better body. The section on Jon�s background I feel was the best part of the book, as it highlighted the ups and downs of a bodybuilder, and the feelings he explains I know every bodybuilder out there can relate to! His attitude to never give up shines through. The training and nutrition principles were an enthralling read, and Jon clearly points out that more is not always better. Jon�s weights used are also listed which gives you and indication of how freaky strong the guy is! The nutrition section is also very well written and explains the main differences between off season and competition prep, and I believe if you follow the wise words of the man, you will get shredded for your next competition! To all us newbies out there and people who are looking to compete in there first competition, the posing section will be like a bible to us, as it shows clearly through the use of pictures and words how to hit every mandatory pose in the book and powerful poses that could be used in the evening show. The mental strength section will keep everyone out there suffering with contest prep the enthusiasm and drive to keep on going through those difficult weeks ahead! Overall this book is awesome and I guarantee when you get it you wont put it down! Also I would like to thank Jon for the kind message he wrote in the book to me! This will keep me going over the next year and make all the negative comments and put you downs made by people seem ever-so pathetic! Thanks Jon, you are the real deal.\"\n- Ryan Broomhall\n\"I received my copy of Pro Natural a few days ago and have completed my first read through. I think it is an excellent piece of work and that Jon has just hit the right balance in terms of the information he provides the reader with. I am particularly impressed with Jon�s openness and how he has been prepared to provide an insight into how bodybuilding has impacted on his personal life. It�s also reassuring to know that someone like Jon breaks his diet and takes time out every so often. I would certainly recommend the book. I�m now going to read it again.\"\n- Chris Cetty\n\"Being a total novice to bodybuilding up until about a year ago, I needed quality information. This seemed very difficult to obtain apart from the local lads giving advice in the gyms, which was all well and good, but it all conflicted and made me very confused. Aches and pains followed, and it was time to get to the bottom of all this. I never had any interest in taking drugs to help my training, unlike most of the lads training alongside me. I was beginning to think that maybe I was the odd one out. Weeks and months passed. I must have quizzed everybody I came into contact with. I was really getting myself in a rut, then Bingo! I found this web site and things suddenly started to make sense. I had been doing everything wrong, so it was time to correct my errors and get down to business. With the help of this web site and Jon�s book I now have a better perspective on my training. I now know how to train, when to train, what to eat, when to eat, what to take and what not to take etc. My training has never been better. I feel totally confident in all aspects of my new fitness and training schedule. A VERY BIG THANKYOU TO JON AND ALL YOU GUYS ON THIS FORUM FOR SHOWING ME THE RIGHT WAY TO DO THINGS! Keep up the good work.\"\n\"Thoroughly recommend this book. Whether beginner, intermediate or with years of competing behind you, there will be something in there. I�ve just started training seriously and I only wish I had something like this when I was younger. So many wasted years not knowing about nutrition and effective training etc! I�m only on my first week using the advanced training programme and whilst it�s hard going, I reckon if I don�t keel over trying it will get me in shape for sure!\"\n- Darren Cairns\n\"Jon, the book is awesome. As expected I was totally inspired and went straight out to train legs. I trained with fire in my belly but that fire is now in my bloody legs!!! To anybody who is interested in bodybuilding I would recommend this book. Speaking as a novice, I have read a million articles on training and a million and 1 articles on nutrition. The problem is you never really know how to construct them into a programme, which will give results. With Jon�s book the off-season and pre-contest diets are spelled out, and the training programme is given in detail. I am convinced that if I follow Jon�s diet and training to the letter, then I will achieve my potential. Forget Joe Weider� Jon Harris, trainer of champions!!!\"\n- John Foy\n\"Read it cover to cover twice the day I got it, My dads on his second reading and he only plays at training. Jon has pitched it at just the right level. What comes across best is his approach to sensibly enjoy the off-season and then �nose to the grindstone� come pre-contest time, whilst keeping your life balanced work ethic. Glad I spent my money on this rather than putting it towards a PS2! It�s going to live at the side of my sofa, as it�s nice and easy to read a few pages whilst the adverts are on.\"\n- Jamie Allonby\n\"I received Jon�s book for my birthday a few weeks ago. Have read it all of course, but it�s great for dipping into every-now-and-then. I like the way that Jon comes over as being human. He shows his frailties and self-doubts and this gives comfort to those of us that are mere mortals. As I enter my third week of pre-contest dieting I know I shall be returning to Jon�s book again, and again. I can heartily recommend it.\"\n- Andy Smith\n\"In my experience training books can often be good to read but hard to translate into natural bodybuilding. However I found Jon�s approach is very down to earth and reader-friendly. I keep going back to it and find as my training progresses I can apply more and more of the information contained in the book. After reading and applying the information to areas of my training and nutrition I can say with confidence that it was money well spent and recommend it to anyone who wants to know more about bodybuilding, or simply how to get into better shape.\"\n- Thor Ahmed\n\"I received your book Pro Natural a few days ago and have read it cover to cover in one sitting. It is great!!! I wanted you to know how much I appreciated the balanced, no bullshit, unbiased and realistic approach and style. I don�t know if I read anything I was totally unfamiliar with, (I am a Personal Trainer so read avidly on the subjects of health, fitness, nutrition and bodybuilding), but as you are somewhat of a role model to me (I think you are the best Natural Bodybuilder there is!) it was good to read your views and to learn about how you achieved what looks to me the perfect body. Your comments on training and supplementation are a joy to read in an age where we are constantly seduced by the quick fix and the easy options promising fantastic results for little effort. I always knew deep down there was no substitute for determination, commitment and sheer hard work, and that the claims of the supplement companies are largely outrageous, so it was great to read your clear and concise opinions, which are obviously backed up by the proof of your success. The section on competitions, posing, etc., is the best I have seen, though I am a long way from needing it yet. I am 50 and have been seriously training for about a year with good results, but want so much more and it is a slower process at my age, I think, though not, of course, impossible! I train with weights 5 days, a different muscle group each day - the four day split is too exhausting and I find I do better not having the rest day mid-week and spreading the load over the five days - and this is working well for me. With your help I feel I am about to launch off to a new level and looking forward to even better results. I look forward to meeting you in person one day when I come to one of the competitions. Yours with renewed enthusiasm!\"\n\"What a great book. Since being injured I have not been able to train upper body at all for nearly 8 weeks and have watched all my previous years gains vanish ... Reading Pro Natural has given me the passion which had almost gone through frustration. When my shoulder is fully fit I will return to training with more mental energy and drive! I am now determined to get the physique I want rather than hope one day I get it.\"\n- Gary Dyke", "domain": "literature"}
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Tibshirani (2021). The US COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey: Continuous real-time measurement of COVID-19 symptoms, risks, protective behaviors, testing, and vaccination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (51) e2111454118.\nResearch publications using the survey data include:\n- W. Dempsey (2023). Addressing selection bias and measurement error in COVID-19 case count data using auxiliary information. Annals of Applied Statistics 17 (4), 2903-2923.\n- Ma, M.Z., Chen, S.X. (2023). Beyond the surface: accounting for confounders in understanding the link between collectivism and COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. BMC Public Health 23, 1513.\n- C.K. Ettman, E. Badillo Goicoechea, and E.A. Stuart (2023). Evolution of depression and anxiety over the COVID-19 pandemic and across demographic groups in a large sample of U.S. adults. AJPM Focus 2 (4), 100140.\n- M. Rubinstein, Z. Branson, and E.H. Kennedy (2023). Heterogeneous interventional effects with multiple mediators: Semiparametric and nonparametric approaches. Journal of Causal Inference 11 (1), 20220070.\n- Uyheng, J., Robertson, D.C. & Carley, K.M. (2023). Bridging online and offline dynamics of the face mask infodemic. BMC Digital Health 1, 27.\n- Kobayashi H, Saenz-Escarcega R, Fulk A, Agusto FB (2023). Understanding mental health trends during COVID-19 pandemic in the United States using network analysis. PLoS ONE 18(6): e0286857.\n- GK Charles, SP Braunstein, JL Barker, et al (2023). How do psychobehavioural variables shed light on heterogeneity in COVID-19 vaccine acceptance? Evidence from United States general population surveys on a probability panel and social media. BMJ Open 13:e066897.\n- S. Soorapanth, R. Cheung, X. Zhang, A. H. Mokdad, G. A. Mensah (2023).\nRural–Urban Differences in Vaccination and Hesitancy Rates and Trust: US\nCOVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey on a Social Media Platform, May 2021–April\n2022. American Journal of Public\nHealth 113 (6), 680-688.\n- See also the associated editorial: T. Callaghan (2023). Vaccine Uptake and Hesitancy in Rural America in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic. American Journal of Public Health 113 (6), 615-617.\n- M. Rubinstein, A. Haviland, and J. Breslau (2023). The effect of COVID-19 vaccinations on self-reported depression and anxiety during February 2021. Statistics and Public Policy 10 (1), 2190008.\n- Rönn MM, Menzies NA, Salomon JA (2023). Vaccination and voting patterns in the United States: analysis of COVID-19 and flu surveys from 2010 to 2022. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 65 (3), 458-466.\n- Taube JC, Susswein Z, Bansal S (2023). Spatiotemporal Trends in Self-Reported Mask-Wearing Behavior in the United States: Analysis of a Large Cross-sectional Survey. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance 9:e42128.\n- Rebecca L. Weintraub et al (2023). Identifying COVID-19 Vaccine Deserts and Ways to Reduce Them: A Digital Tool to Support Public Health Decision-Making. American Journal of Public Health 113 (4), 363-367.\n- Anzalone AJ, Sun J, Vinson AJ, Beasley WH, Hillegass WB, Murray K, et al. (2023). Community risks for SARS-CoV-2 infection among fully vaccinated US adults by rurality: A retrospective cohort study from the National COVID Cohort Collaborative. PLoS ONE 18(1): e0279968.\n- Rufino, J., Baquero, C., Frey, D. et al (2023). Using survey data to estimate the impact of the omicron variant on vaccine efficacy against COVID-19 infection. Scientific Reports 13, 900.\n- J. G. Lu (2023). Two large-scale global studies on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy over time: Culture, uncertainty avoidance, and vaccine side-effect concerns. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 124 (4), 683-706.\n- C. Lupton-Smith, E. Badillo Goicoechea, M. Collins, J. Lessler, M. K. Grabowski & E. A. Stuart (2023). Consistency between Household and County Measures of Onsite Schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 16 (3), 419-441.\n- Rader, B., Astley, C.M., Sewalk, K. et al (2022). Spatial modeling of vaccine deserts as barriers to controlling SARS-CoV-2. Communications Medicine 2, 141.\n- Nguyen, Q.C., Yardi, I., Gutierrez, F.X.M. et al. (2022). Leveraging 13 million responses to the U.S. COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey to examine vaccine hesitancy, vaccination, and mask wearing, January 2021-February 2022. BMC Public Health 22, 1911.\n- J. M. Cox-Ganser, P. K. Henneberger, D. N. Weissman, G. Guthrie, and C. P. Groth (2022). COVID-19 test positivity by occupation using the Delphi US COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey, September–November 2020. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 65 (9), 721-730.\n- M. Jahja, A. Chin, and R.J. Tibshirani (2022). Real-Time Estimation of COVID-19 Infections: Deconvolution and Sensor Fusion. Statistical Science 37 (2), 207-228.\n- Henneberger, PK, Cox-Ganser, JM, Guthrie, GM, Groth, CP (2022). Estimates of COVID-19 vaccine uptake in major occupational groups and detailed occupational categories in the United States, April–May 2021. American Journal of Industrial Medicine 65 (7), 525-536.\n- K. E. Wiens, C. P. Smith, E. Badillo-Goicoechea, K. H. Grantz, M. K. Grabowski, A. S. Azman, E. A. Stuart, and J. Lessler (2022). In-person schooling and associated COVID-19 risk in the United States over spring semester 2021. Science Advances 8, eabm9128.\n- F. Petersen, A. Errore, and P. Karaca-Mandic (2022). Lifting statewide mask mandates and COVID-19 cases: A synthetic control study. Medical Care 60 (7), 538-544.\n- F. Pierri, B. L. Perry, M. R. DeVerna, et al. (2022). Online misinformation is linked to early COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy and refusal. Scientific Reports 12, 5966.\n- A. Pilehvari, J. Ton, M. R. Mohan, A. Marathe, and A. Vullikanti (2022). Drivers and Predictors of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Virginia. In: Yang, Z., von Briesen, E. (eds), Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of The Computational Social Science Society of the Americas. CSSSA 2021.\n- L. S. Flor, J. Friedman, C. N. Spencer, et al. (2022). Quantifying the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender equality on health, social, and economic indicators: a comprehensive review of data from March, 2020, to September, 2021. The Lancet 399 (10344), 2381-2397.\n- D. P. Do and R. Frank (2022). Prior COVID-19 infection: an underappreciated factor in vaccine hesitancy in the USA. Journal of Public Health 44 (2), 471-474.\n- W. C. King, M. Rubinstein, A. Reinhart, and R. J. Mejia (2021). Time trends, factors associated with, and reasons for COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy: A massive online survey of US adults from January-May 2021. PLoS ONE 16 (12), e0260731.\n- C. Lupton-Smith, E. Badillo-Goicochea, T.-H. Chang, H. Maniates, K. E. Riehm, I. Schmid, and E. A. Stuart (2021). Factors associated with county-level mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Community Psychology 50 (5), 2431-2442.\n- D. P. Do and R. Frank (2021). U.S. frontline workers and COVID-19 inequities. Preventive Medicine 153, 106833.\n- W. C. King, M. Rubinstein, A. Reinhart, and R. J. Mejia (2021). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy January-May 2021 among 18–64 year old US adults by employment and occupation. Preventive Medicine Reports 24, 101569.\n- C. H. Sudre, A. Keshet, M. S. Graham, A. D. Joshi, S. Shilo, H. Rossman, B. Murray, E. Molteni, K. Klaser, L. D. Canas, M. Antonelli, L. H. Nguyen, D. A. Drew, M. Modat, J. Capdevila Pujol, S. Ganesh, J. Wolf, T. Meir, A. T. Chan, C. J. Steves, T. D. Spector, J. S. Brownstein, E. Segal, S. Ourselin, and C. M. Astley (2021). Anosmia, ageusia, and other COVID-19-like symptoms in association with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test, across six national digital surveillance platforms: an observational study. The Lancet Digital Health 3 (9), e577-e586.\n- R. Sukumaran, P. Patwa, S. T V, S. Shankar, R. Kanaparti, J. Bae, Y. Mathur, A. Singh, A. Chopra, M. Kang, P. Ramaswamy, and R. Raskar (2021). COVID-19 outbreak prediction and analysis using self reported symptoms. Journal of Behavioral Data Science 1 (1), 154–169.\n- D. Adjodah, K. Dinakar, M. Chinazzi, S. P. Fraiberger, A. Pentland, S. Bates, K. Staller, A. Vespignani, and D. L. Bhatt (2021). Association between COVID-19 outcomes and mask mandates, adherence, and attitudes. PLoS ONE 16 (6), e0252315.\n- C. M. Zipfel, V. Colizza, and S. Bansal (2021). The missing season: The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on influenza. Vaccine 39 (28), 3645-3648.\n- J. Lessler, M. K. Grabowski, K. H. Grantz, E. Badillo-Goicoechea, C. J. E. Metcalf, C. Lupton-Smith, A. S. Azman, and E. A. Stuart (2021). Household COVID-19 risk and in-person schooling. Science 372 (6545), 1092-1097.\n- Doerr, A.J. (2021). Locked (Down) and Loaded (Language): Effect of Policy and Speech on COVID-19 Outcomes. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies 28 (3), 340-348.\n- Fischer CB, Adrien N, Silguero JJ, Hopper JJ, Chowdhury AI, Werler MM (2021). Mask adherence and rate of COVID-19 across the United States. PLoS ONE 16 (4), e0249891.\n- Bilinski, A., Emanuel, E., Salomon, J.A. and Venkataramani, A. (2021). Better Late Than Never: Trends in COVID-19 Infection Rates, Risk Perceptions, and Behavioral Responses in the USA. Journal of General Internal Medicine 36, 1825-1828.\n- Molteni, E., Astley, C.M., Ma, W. et al. (2021). Symptoms and syndromes associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection and severity in pregnant women from two community cohorts. Scientific Reports 11, 6928.\n- Rebeiro, P., Aronoff, D, and Smith, M.K. (2021). The Impact of State Mask-Wearing Requirements on the Growth of COVID-19 Cases, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States. Clinical Infectious Diseases 73 (9), 1703–1706.\n- Rader, White, Burns, Chen, Brilliant, Cohen, Shaman, Brilliant, Kraemer, Moritz, Hawkins, Scarpino, Astley, and Brownstein (2021). Mask-wearing and control of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the USA: a cross-sectional study. Lancet Digital Health 3 (3), e148-e157.\n- Flaxman AD, Henning DJ and Duber HC (2020). The relative incidence of COVID-19 in healthcare workers versus non-healthcare workers: evidence from a web-based survey of Facebook users in the United States. Gates Open Research, 4:174.\n- Kreuter, F., Barkay, N., Bilinski, A., Bradford, A., Chiu, S., Eliat, R., Fan, J., Galili, T., Haimovich, D., Kim, B., LaRocca, S., Li, Y., Morris, K., Presser, S., Sarig, T., Salomon, J. A., Stewart, K., Stuart, E. A., & Tibshirani, R. J. (2020). Partnering with a global platform to inform research and public policy making. Survey Research Methods, 14 (2), 159-163.\n- Surgo Ventures, Resolve to Save Lives (2021). COVID-19 Vaccine Precision Response Toolkit: An End-to-End Vaccination Improvement Framework to Improve COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake.\n- Alejandra Arrieta, Emmanuela Gakidou, Heidi Larson, Erin Mullany, and Christopher Troeger, April 1, 2021. Through Understanding and Empathy, We Can Convince Women to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine. Think Global Health.\n- Joseph Friedman, Silvia Montoya and Emmanuela Gakidou, March 8, 2021. Gender Equality in the Global Return to School. Think Global Health.\n- Leanna Morinishi, Kris Barkume, Esther Kim, and Alex Reinhart, February 2, 2021. Home for the Holidays? The Impact of US Holidays on Social Behaviors and Preventative Measures. Delphi blog.\n- Alex Reinhart, Esther Kim, Andy Garcia, and Sarah LaRocca, January 28, 2021. Using the COVID-19 Symptom Survey to Track Vaccination Uptake and Sentiment in the United States. Delphi blog.\n- Alex Reinhart, October 12, 2020. New and Improved COVID Symptom Survey Tracks Testing and Mask-Wearing. Delphi blog.\n- Ryan Tibshirani, September 21, 2020. Can Symptom Surveys Improve COVID-19 Forecasts? Delphi blog.\n- Alex Reinhart and Ryan Tibshirani, August 26, 2020. COVID-19 Symptom Surveys through Facebook. Delphi blog.\nIf you have used the survey data, or the aggregate data available in the COVIDcast API, to publish research results, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org so we can include your work here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://archives.williams.edu/manuscriptguides/bell/biography.php", "date": "2017-03-29T03:17:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190181.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00022-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.970359206199646, "token_count": 628, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__274138378", "lang": "en", "text": "Michael D. Bell was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1941. He grew up in Pittsburgh, attending first Shadyside Academy in Pittsburgh before graduating from the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He received his B.A. from Yale University in 1963 and went on to earn his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969.\nHe was a teaching fellow in English at Harvard from 1964 to 1968, taught English at Princeton from 1968 to 1975, when he came to Williams College, where he taught English and American Civilization (which became American Studies), chairing the American Studies Program from 1985 to 86, and the English department from 1987 to 1994. From 1981 until his death, he was the J. Leland Miller Professor of American History, Literature, and Eloquence. He also held visiting positions at Middlebury College’s Breadloaf School of English, Williams College’s Telluride Association Summer Program, and Columbia University.\nHe authored numerous articles and reviews, edited three books, and contributed to such landmark volumes as The Columbia Literary History of the United States and The Cambridge History of American Literature , was a member of the editorial boards of major journals in his field, and was an influential scholar of American literature. He also published three books: Hawthorne and the Historical Romance of New England (1971), The Development of American Romance (1980), and The Problem of American Realism (1993). In each, through subtle and attentive reading, he explored the evolution of literary genres and their relation to literary vocation in American culture and society.\nBell was committed to the goals of a liberal arts college and was a member of the advisory committees for the American and Afro-American Studies programs, served on numerous College committees, and chaired the Committees on Undergraduate Life and Academic Computing. Among his various fellowships and awards, he was a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies, received a fellowship and a Summer Stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.\nBell was diagnosed with cancer in 1992, and his essay, “Magic Time – Observations of a cancer casualty,” which was published in the December 1996 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, describes how he came to accept his approaching death with grace and humor. The latter is demonstrated in the tombstone he had erected in the College cemetery, which has tiny letters at the bottom saying – “If you can read this, you’re standing on me.” It was, as he put it, his last joke.Sources for the biographical note:\nWilliams College – Memorial Minute (meeting of the Williams College Faculty), speech by Steve Fix, 14 May 1997.\n“Michael D. Bell,” Echo, Ligonier, PA, 16 April 1997.\n“Area native, literary scholar Bell dead at 56,” Tribune Review, Greensburg, PA, 11 April 1997.\n“Magic Time – Observations of a cancer casualty,” Atlantic Monthly, December 1996.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://justjuliec.blogspot.com/2012/11/100-posts.html", "date": "2018-05-26T15:34:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867559.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180526151207-20180526171207-00398.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9573003649711609, "token_count": 279, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__90306023", "lang": "en", "text": "This is my 100th blog post!\nWhen I started it during my senior year of college, it was mainly to share some of the work from my Creative Writing class and to document my thoughts on the last semester of what I was told were \"the best four years of your life.\"\nI've shared ideas and inspiration, posted about my travels and adventures, talked about my faith journey, and used this to just record my thoughts and hopes for the future. I love blogging and have been feeling more inspired than ever lately!\nA few favorite Just Julie posts:\n\"Blue\": My poetry; I loved my Creative Writing teacher because he truly inspired me to continue writing for fun!\n\"U.S. Travels\": I love to travel and have multiple potential trips in my head. Time for a little getaway!\n\"Adult Truths\": Not my own writing, but good stuff, and funny!\n\"The Art of Contentment\": On one of the best sermons I have ever heard. I need to always remember \"better than I deserve.\"\n\"Windblown in the Windy City: Chicago 2012\": My adventures in a fun city with a great friend- hopefully the beginning of an annual tradition!\n\"A Little Spice\": Life should never be boring!\nThanks for following along-- here's to much more writing, reading, and sharing! : )", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://pioeblog.blogspot.com/2016_07_01_archive.html", "date": "2018-06-24T03:21:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866191.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624024705-20180624044705-00110.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.951337456703186, "token_count": 167, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__7424469", "lang": "en", "text": "A review of the effectiveness of strategies and programmes to prevent bullying suggests that in order to substantially reduce bullying in schools a systemic approach needs to be adopted with interventions organized at various levels. Therefore, an ecological model for bullying prevention is presented in the accompanying article that suggests strategies and interventions at the levels of teachers, schools, communities, and society. Examples of interventions that have been found to have evidence supporting their effectiveness have been outlined at each of these levels. Guidelines are presented for schools adopting such an ecological model for addressing bullying and for bringing about the changes needed to implement it successfully.\nYou can read the entire paper below:\nBullying: An ecological approach by Garry Hornby\nPhoto from Pixabay\nStanding up to bullying is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://joelesko.com/blog/favorite-books", "date": "2021-11-28T12:31:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358520.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20211128103924-20211128133924-00633.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9541937708854675, "token_count": 1269, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__60609220", "lang": "en", "text": "My Favorite Books\nI read a lot, especially non-fiction. Nowadays I read exclusively on my Kindle app, which has about 300 books in it right now.\nHere is a list of books that, in one way or another, changed my life or how I view the world.\nIn no particular order:\nYour Money or Your Life, by Robin & Dominguez\nAn antidote to the spend-everything mindset of modern consumer life, with very achievable ways for average people to reach financial independance.\nThis book was the key for me in becoming debt-free early in my career.\nIt is especially relevant nowadays when so many people have massive student loan debt and very little savings.\nGetting Things Done, by David Allen\nThis book helped me get on top of all my tasks — in work and life — in a stress-free way.\nMy biggest takeaway is to get your task lists out of your brain and recorded in a system that you trust. By doing this, you are letting your mind let go of things that you don’t need to keep stressing about.\nMy own system is very simple: Just a few lists in a basic text file on my computer.\nGrowing a Business, by Paul Hawken\nThe author, drawing on his experience of building two major successful businesses from scratch, offers insights on how to grow a small business organically.\nSuccess doesn’t come from expensive college degrees, or taking big risks, but by providing real value in a way that stems from your own personality and first-hand experience.\nA refreshing counterpoint to the amoral approach of business that involves “growth hacking”, “killing it”, and “extracting value” from customers.\nThe Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron\nA thoughtful book on the creative journey that goes beyond platitudes and provides practical creativity techniques that actually work.\nI have found her concept of Morning Pages, a kind of free associative journaling, to be extremely valuable.\nAll of Julia Cameron’s other books are worth reading, but if you only read one, this is it.\nCerebus Guide to Self-Publishing, by Dave Sim\nAn all-text comic book by the controversial creator of the long-running Cerebus comic book.\nWritten before the internet era of blogs and YouTube videos, this was a rare and raw look into the world of a successful solo creator, with tips on productivity, writing and drawing, running an “indie” business, and developing a creative vision.\nFlow, by M. Csikszentmihalyi\nI read this when it first came out, and it has since become a mainstream theory of well-being.\nThe author finds that people are often most happy when they are fully engaged in tasks that present the right amount of challenge.\nThink rock climbing, reading an immersive novel, or playing a closely-matched chess game.\nOver the years, this had led me to chose more positive, creative ways to spend my time, rather than chasing hedonism (though I like some hedonism).\nPunished By Rewards, by Alfie Kohn\nA controversial book that provides evidence that external awards (prizes, praise, etc.) might be effetive at motivating people in the short-term, but they do so at the cost of our long-term motivation, happiness, and moral grounding.\nThese external influences actually erode our intrinsic (internal, self-driven) desire to do things because we enjoy them or believe they are important.\nThis is important for teachers and parents, but is especially relevant today, as so much online content is driven by the desire for Likes, Upvotes, and Followers.\nSupported by the evidence provided in Flow.\nFeeling Good, by Dr. David Burns\nThe seminal book by the creator of CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).\nI have found the “rational response” technique to be extremely effective in being able to control excessive negative thoughts.\nOne of the only books clinically proven to be as effective as anti-depressant medication.\nCode Complete, by Steve McConnell\nThe bible on programming, agnostic of programming language.\nI believe reading this book immediately upgraded my ability level from novice to professional.\nIt’s a huge book, but each chapter is self-contained and easy to read.\nPositioning, by Ries & Trout\nThe classic book on the psychology behind branding and marketing, and why there is usually a clear winner in any given category (Coke, Google, etc.)\nEasy to read, but broad in its scope, especially if you’re curious about how companies compete with each other, and what mistakes they have made.\nCosmos, by Carl Sagan\nBased on the PBS mini-series by the same name, this is an accessible and inspiring book that covers all of the key topics of science (from evolution to astronomy) with such clarity and humanity that I wish everyone in the world would read it at least once.\nA good follow up is The Demon Haunted World, which addresses the importance of critical thinking in a world filled with conflicting ideas and spurious claims. Especially relevant today.\nThe Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins\nEvolution is still one of the most controversial and important ideas in all of science, and the perspective in this book is an exciting way to look at it.\nThe author proposes that genes are the primary vehicles of evolution — not organisms (us!), which can be thought of as just gene carriers.\nThis book also coined the term “meme”, which has since been diluted by internet culture, but in its original form was a ground-breaking idea — that ideas take on a life of their own.\nMetamagical Themas, by Douglas Hofstadter\nA fascinating series of articles by the author of the Pulitzer prize-winning Godel, Escher, Bach.\nCrammed with challenging ideas ranging from artificial intelligence, music, creativity, word play, and personal identity.\nThis book was a big influence on how I think about creativity.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.theportablephoto.com/about/", "date": "2021-04-18T20:22:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038860318.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418194009-20210418224009-00304.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9231376647949219, "token_count": 348, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__273235076", "lang": "en", "text": "Portable Web is a monthly book review book distributed to 250,000 enthusiastic readers via subscribing bookstores and public libraries. Launched in 2010 and situated in the US, Portable Web functions as a broad-based choice guide to the best new novels published each month. Each of the content in the print edition is submitted on ThePortablePhoto.com monthly.\nThere’s a story out there for everybody. Even if we meet we’re connected by the tales we tell. We could share worlds, think in figures, and fantasy about tales that just exist within our own minds. The Portable Web offers unbiased, informative, and engaging book reviews which assist writers and readers create that link.\nThe Portable Web is a group of professional editors, authors, and professors with a passion for the written word. We examine fiction and non-fiction publications in several distinct genres, in addition to conduct writer interviews, and comprehend gifted writers with our Portable Web Award. We’re blessed to work with a lot of creative writers. Thanks for visiting our site.\nAll material on ThePortablePhoto.com is copyright © 2010-2021 by Portable Web, Inc.\nWe intend to connect every book buff with their next read. Portable Web addresses all sorts of publications –from literary fiction, biography, and history to favorite genres such as mystery and romance –our book reviews, author interviews, and exclusive features are accessible and informative.\nOur Editorial Policy\nPortable Web is a choice guide for new novels. Our editors evaluate and choose for inspection the very best books in many different classes. Portable Web is editorially independent; just books we highly recommend are showcased. Any publisher-sponsored content is clearly labeled as such.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.battlefieldsandbeyond.com/2016/06/somme-remembrance-1st-july-1916.html", "date": "2024-04-15T13:53:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816977.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415111434-20240415141434-00746.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9759743213653564, "token_count": 800, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__129508066", "lang": "en", "text": "As we remember those who fought on the 1st July 1916, many of whom died on the battlefield in hopelessness, I would like to share an extract from a publication in which I have written a fictional tale, based on the diaries of a nurse and a stretcher-bearer, who experienced the horror that was The Battle of the Somme.\nExtract from At the Going Down of the Sun in Summer Tales published by Ruler's Wit, July 2016.\n© Karen Ette\nAt the Going Down of the Sun\nFriday, 30th June 1916\n“No, Sister, leave me be, I’m just about fed up with this splinter on me arm, and this leg – me leg’s very painful!’\nPaige smiled at the man with splints on his right arm and leg that he insisted on calling splinters. “Come on, Joe, let me change your dressing,” she urged, “you’re going home today.”\n“All right, Sister,” Joe submitted, “but make sure you do it right, I’ll be watching you.”\n“I promise I shall.” Paige liked Joe. “But I’m not a sister,” she told him.\nAbove the continuous roar from the guns a tremendous bang rocked the ground and the roof of the tent beat its gigantic wings above them.\n“Be careful, will ya,” Joe scolded, “I don’t want to lose my arm like he has.” He pointed to the man in the next bed with nothing but a blood-stained stump where his arm should have been.\n“It’s only Grandmother sending another big one over,” a second-lieutenant with a head wound and lying in a bed opposite called over the racket.\n“It sounds awfully close,” Paige said, trying to concentrate on Joe’s splinted dressing when she would really rather have been covering her ears.\n“It’s a fifteen-inch Howitzer beside the railway line just behind us,” the junior officer told her. After much cursing from Joe, Paige was able to finish his dressings and move on to the next man in need of attention. Her back ached with all the bending and lifting and the tight collar of her uniform irritated her neck. Eventually Sister signalled to the stretcher-bearers, who had been sitting smoking by the tent’s entrance, to come onto the ward and begin taking these wounded soldiers to the hospital trains. As beds became empty, Paige removed soiled sheets and replaced them with cleaner ones. She was leaning over a bed at the end of the ward when she felt strong arms encircle her waist.\n“Hello gorgeous,” Wesley whispered in her ear as he nuzzled her neck. “Ooh, you smell of..” He hesitated.\n“Yes?” Paige answered, turning to face him.\n“Antiseptic and smoke.”\n“I wonder why that is! What in God’s name were you thinking, bringing us here?”\n“I thought we could make a difference. You look very fetching in your nurse’s uniform.” He raised his eyebrows and kissed her cheek.\n“VAD,” Paige corrected him. “You’ll be laughing on the other side of your face if Sister catches us,” she warned.\nAnother blast shook the Casualty Clearing Station and Paige fell against Wesley.\n“Come on, mate,” a young man dressed in khaki with a red cross on his arm, the same as Wesley had, was calling to him.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://animerank.net/anime-poem/", "date": "2023-09-25T06:18:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506686.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925051501-20230925081501-00627.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9185464978218079, "token_count": 4330, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__101387794", "lang": "en", "text": "Anime, a form of Japanese animation, has captivated audiences around the world with its unique storytelling, vibrant visuals, and engaging characters. However, one aspect of anime that often goes unnoticed is its connection to poetry. Anime poetry, a genre that blends the beauty of Japanese poetry with the visual splendor of anime, has emerged as a significant form of artistic expression within the medium. This article will delve into the concept of anime poetry, its cultural significance, and how it enhances the overall anime experience for both creators and viewers.\nLooking for more information about anime poems? Explore our extensive anime collection here!\nWhat is Anime Poetry?\nAnime poetry is a unique and captivating form of artistic expression that combines the power of visual storytelling with the evocative nature of poetry. It infuses traditional poetic elements such as metaphors, symbolism, and intense emotions into anime narratives. This fusion creates a mesmerizing and emotionally charged experience for viewers.\nWith its origins deeply rooted in traditional Japanese poetry forms like haiku and tanka, anime poetry draws inspiration from these concise and evocative verses. However, it expands beyond the confines of traditional poetry to incorporate various other styles and genres, giving it a distinct and modern flair.\nOne of the key aspects that distinguishes anime poetry is its ability to convey complex emotions and evoke powerful imagery through visual and auditory elements. By employing vivid animation, stunning visuals, and captivating soundtracks, anime poetry immerses the audience in an audio-visual feast that amplifies the impact of the poetic themes and motifs.\nMetaphors and symbolism play a vital role in anime poetry. They are used to convey abstract or intangible concepts, transforming them into tangible and relatable imagery. By utilizing these literary devices, anime poets allow viewers to explore profound and often philosophical ideas in a visually stimulating and accessible manner.\nMoreover, anime poetry delves deep into the realm of emotions. It masterfully captures and portrays intense feelings, ranging from love and joy to grief and despair. By evoking empathy and connecting with the audience on a profound emotional level, anime poetry creates a powerful and lasting impact.\nFurthermore, anime poetry embraces a wide range of genres, enabling the exploration of diverse themes and subject matters. Whether it’s a poignant romance, a thrilling action-adventure, or a thought-provoking sci-fi tale, anime poetry can breathe life into any genre, making it versatile and appealing to a wide range of viewers.\nThe beauty of anime poetry lies in its ability to transcend language barriers. While it is primarily created in Japanese, its universal themes and powerful visuals can reach audiences around the world. Through subtitles and dubbing, anime poetry can be appreciated by a global audience, fostering cross-cultural connections and appreciation.\nAs an art form, anime poetry continues to push boundaries and challenge conventional storytelling norms. It continuously evolves and adapts to suit the ever-changing tastes and preferences of its audience. With its visually stunning animation, gripping narratives, and profound poetic elements, anime poetry has established itself as a unique and highly revered genre within the realm of anime.\nIn conclusion, anime poetry is a captivating fusion of traditional poetic elements and anime storytelling. It utilizes metaphors, symbolism, and intense emotions to create a visually and emotionally compelling experience. With its ability to convey profound ideas and emotions, anime poetry has become an incredibly influential and cherished form of artistic expression.\nFeatures of Anime Poems\nAnime poems are a unique form of expression that combines the visual art of anime with the written art of poetry. This fusion allows for a rich and multi-dimensional experience that captivates the audience and leaves a lasting impression. Here, we will explore the key features that make anime poems so special.\nVivid Imagery: Painting Emotions with Words\nOne of the defining characteristics of anime poems is their use of vivid imagery. Just like in anime itself, these poems transport the reader to a world filled with vibrant colors, fantastical landscapes, and unique characters. The words chosen by the poet paint a vivid picture in the reader’s mind, bringing the emotions and actions of the characters to life.\nThe use of descriptive language allows anime poems to create a sensory experience for the audience. From the taste of a strawberry to the sound of raindrops falling on a rooftop, every detail is meticulously crafted to immerse the reader in the world of the poem. This attention to detail enhances the emotional impact of the poem, making it a truly immersive experience.\nRhythmic Language: Dancing to the Beat\nAnime poems often utilize rhythmic language to capture the essence of the anime’s soundtrack. Just like the beats and melodies that accompany anime scenes, the words in these poems flow together in a harmonious dance.\nThrough the use of poetic devices such as repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia, the poet creates a musical quality in the words. This allows the reader to experience the emotions and energy of the anime through the rhythm and cadence of the poem.\nThe rhythmic language in anime poems creates a sense of movement and fluidity, drawing the reader into the poem’s emotional journey. Whether it’s a fast-paced action sequence or a serene moment of contemplation, the rhythm enhances the overall impact and evokes a stronger connection between the audience and the poem.\nIntrospective Themes: Reflecting on the Human Condition\nAnime poems often delve into deep and introspective themes that explore the human condition. They tackle complex topics such as love, loss, identity, and existentialism, offering viewers a profound insight into their own lives and emotions.\nBy using the medium of poetry, anime can explore these themes in a more abstract and symbolic manner. Metaphors, allegories, and other literary devices are employed to convey complex ideas and emotions beyond the literal level.\nAnime poems encourage self-reflection and contemplation, prompting viewers to question their own beliefs and values. They provide a space for introspection and personal growth as the audience connects with the characters and their experiences.\nThis introspective aspect of anime poems is what makes them so relatable and thought-provoking. It allows viewers to explore universal themes of the human experience and gain a deeper understanding of themselves and the world around them.\nIn conclusion, anime poems offer a unique and captivating form of artistic expression. Through vivid imagery, rhythmic language, and introspective themes, these poems evoke emotions and resonate with viewers on a profound level. The fusion of anime and poetry creates a powerful medium that allows for both visual and literary storytelling. Anime poems are a testament to the creative potential of combining different art forms and they continue to inspire and engage audiences around the world.\nCheck out our top anime recommendations here!\nSignificance in Anime\nAnime poetry is a unique aspect of the medium that adds another layer of artistic expression to the storytelling. With its ability to convey complex themes and emotions in a condensed form, it enhances the overall impact of the anime narrative. Through carefully crafted verses and vivid imagery, anime poems serve as powerful tools for character development, world-building, and the exploration of profound ideas.\nOne of the primary roles of anime poetry is to deepen the audience’s understanding of the characters and their inner worlds. By showcasing their internal struggles, fears, and dreams through poetic verses, viewers can connect with the characters on a deeper level. This connection fosters empathy and emotional investment in their journeys, making their stories more relatable and impactful.\nMoreover, anime poetry serves as a means to explore complex themes and ideas within the narrative. The concise nature of poems allows for the exploration of intricate concepts in a condensed manner, making it easier for the audience to grasp and reflect upon them. Whether it’s exploring existential questions, societal issues, or the complexities of human relationships, anime poetry provides a platform to address these themes in a unique and thought-provoking way.\nThe visual element of anime enhances the impact of poetry even further. As the verses are recited or displayed on-screen, they are often accompanied by visually stunning scenes or symbolic imagery that complement the emotions conveyed in the poem. This synchronization between visual and poetic elements creates a powerful synergy, intensifying the overall impact of the storytelling and leaving a lasting impression on the audience.\nAnother significant aspect of anime poetry is its contribution to world-building. Through poetic descriptions of landscapes, seasons, and cultural aspects, anime poems help create a vivid and immersive environment for the story. These poetic reflections on the world within the anime serve as windows into the characters’ perspectives, allowing the audience to better understand their experiences and the influence of their surroundings on their journey.\nIn conclusion, anime poetry plays a crucial role in the medium by adding depth to the storytelling process. Its ability to convey complex themes, explore emotions, develop characters, and contribute to world-building makes it an invaluable tool for anime creators. Through the combination of vivid imagery, thought-provoking verses, and visual synchronization, anime poetry elevates the overall artistic expression and impact of the medium, creating a unique and captivating viewer experience.\nExamples of Anime Poems\nAnime has the ability to evoke emotions and convey profound ideas through various storytelling techniques. One such technique is the incorporation of poetry into the narrative. In this section, we will explore five examples of anime series or episodes that showcase impactful anime poetry, highlighting their power in conveying deep feelings and ideas.\n1. Whisper of the Heart\nWhisper of the Heart is a beautiful coming-of-age anime film directed by Yoshifumi Kondō. The movie follows the journey of a young girl named Shizuku, who discovers her passion for writing after encountering a mysterious cat figurine. Throughout the film, Shizuku expresses her emotions and aspirations through heartfelt poems. The poems not only reveal her inner struggles and desires but also serve as a catalyst for self-discovery and personal growth.\n2. Haiku in The Eccentric Family\nThe Eccentric Family is an anime series that skillfully incorporates haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry, into its narrative. Set in Kyoto, the story revolves around magical creatures known as tanuki and their interactions with humans and the Tengu, a mythical creature. The show utilizes haiku to capture the beauty of nature, the ephemeral essence of life, and the profound connections between characters. Through poignant haikus, The Eccentric Family delves into themes of identity, family, and the delicate balance between the supernatural and human worlds.\n3. Revolutionary Girl Utena\nRevolutionary Girl Utena is a groundbreaking anime series that explores themes of adolescence, identity, and societal expectations. It incorporates poetic elements through the recurring “Rose Bride” poems, which add an ethereal and mystical dimension to the story. These poems, recited by a chorus of voices, foreshadow events, mirror characters’ emotional journeys, and provide thought-provoking commentary on the nature of power, love, and revolution. Revolutionary Girl Utena effectively uses poetry to deepen its narrative and captivate viewers with its symbolism and allegory.\n4. Violet Evergarden\nViolet Evergarden is a visually stunning anime series that revolves around the titular character, Violet, a former soldier who takes on the role of an “Auto Memory Doll,” writing heartfelt letters on behalf of others. Throughout the series, Violet’s own journey of self-discovery is portrayed through emotionally charged poems and letters. These poetic expressions serve as a powerful tool for Violet to comprehend and convey her own emotions, as well as those of her clients. Violet Evergarden beautifully showcases the transformative power of words and the profound impact they can have on both the writer and the recipient.\n5. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya\nThe Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is a beloved anime series that features a thought-provoking poem titled “Lost My Music.” In this episode, the eccentric protagonist Haruhi Suzumiya presents the poem in a powerful and captivating performance. The poem reflects Haruhi’s longing to break free from the monotony of everyday life, as well as her desire to find meaning and excitement. “Lost My Music” is not only a captivating piece of poetry but also serves as a representation of Haruhi’s complex character and her yearning for extraordinary experiences.\nThese examples of anime poems highlight the ability of this art form to convey deep emotions, explore complex themes, and provide viewers with a unique and profound storytelling experience. By incorporating poetry into their narratives, these anime series and episodes successfully capture the beauty of language and its ability to evoke powerful emotions within the audience.\nAnime Poems and Character Development\nAnime poetry plays a significant role in character development within the realm of storytelling. It offers a unique and poetic way to delve into the inner thoughts, struggles, and personal growth of characters, allowing audiences to connect with them on a deeper level.\nOne of the primary functions of anime poems is to provide insight into a character’s thoughts and emotions. Through poetic language and imagery, anime poems can effectively communicate the intricate complexities of a character’s mindset. These poems often act as windows into their deepest desires, fears, and conflicts, giving the audience a glimpse into their psyche.\nMoreover, anime poems serve as a powerful tool for conveying a character’s struggles. These struggles can range from internal conflicts to external obstacles that they must overcome. Through carefully crafted verses, anime poems capture the essence of these challenges, allowing viewers to empathize with the character’s journey. Each line of poetry paints a vivid picture of the character’s trials and tribulations, making their growth and development all the more profound.\nFurthermore, anime poems can contribute to a character’s personal growth and transformation throughout the story. Just as poetry often reflects a poet’s personal growth, anime poems reflect the growth of the characters who create or resonate with them. As characters evolve, their poems evolve alongside them, mirroring changes in their mindset, perspective, and emotional state. This growth can be depicted through shifts in poetic themes, styles, or even the poems’ tone and language.\nThe impact of anime poems on character development goes beyond mere storytelling. It allows the audience to form a deeper bond with the characters, fostering a sense of empathy and connection. By delving into the inner workings of a character’s mind through poetry, viewers gain a better understanding of their motivations, fears, and aspirations.\nNot only does anime poetry enhance character development, but it also adds another layer of artistic expression to the overall aesthetic of the anime. The juxtaposition of visual animation and poetic language creates a harmonious blend of mediums, heightening the emotional impact of both the poem and the character it represents.\nAppreciating anime poems as a tool for character development requires a keen eye for detail and an appreciation for the power of language. The infusion of poetic verses into the narrative showcases the artistry involved in crafting multidimensional characters and allows viewers to fully immerse themselves in the anime’s world.\nIn conclusion, anime poems play a crucial role in character development within the anime realm. They offer a unique and creative medium through which audiences can gain deeper insights into a character’s thoughts, struggles, and personal growth. Anime poetry not only adds depth to the storytelling process but also allows viewers to form a stronger connection with the characters, fostering empathy and appreciation for their journeys.\nDiscover the beauty of Japanese poetry through our enchanting anime poems here!\nInfluence on Viewers\nAnime poems have a profound impact on viewers, transcending the boundaries of conventional storytelling. Through the combination of beautiful visuals, poignant words, and captivating music, these poetic moments evoke a wide range of emotions within the audience. They possess the ability to stir emotions and provoke introspection, creating a lasting impact on the viewers.\nOne of the remarkable aspects of anime poems is their ability to express complex sentiments and ideas in a concise and profound manner. Through carefully chosen words, imagery, and metaphors, these verses convey deep emotions and intricate concepts, offering viewers a unique and introspective experience. By combining the power of poetry with the visual storytelling of anime, these poems resonate with the audience on a deeper level.\nMoreover, anime poems often serve as a reflection of the characters’ inner thoughts and feelings. They provide a glimpse into their complex personalities, their struggles, and their hopes. These poetic moments allow viewers to develop a deeper connection with the characters, understanding their motivations, and empathizing with their experiences. This connection fosters a sense of intimacy and investment in the story, making it more impactful and memorable.\nThe emotional impact of anime poems goes beyond the immediate response they elicit. They have the potential to linger in the hearts and minds of viewers long after the episode or movie has concluded. The poignant words and captivating imagery stay with the audience, prompting further contemplation and reflection. These moments of introspection can lead to personal growth and a deeper understanding of oneself and others.\nAnother significant influence of anime poems lies in their ability to address universal themes and evoke empathy in viewers from different cultural backgrounds. These verses touch upon topics such as love, loss, friendship, and self-discovery, which resonate with people worldwide. The emotional resonance created through anime poems transcends language barriers, allowing people from various cultures and backgrounds to connect and relate to the story and its characters.\nFurthermore, anime poems often serve as a source of comfort and solace for viewers. In times of distress or when facing challenging situations, the words of these poems can provide a sense of refuge and understanding. They offer a space for emotional release, validation, and support, reminding viewers that they are not alone in their struggles. Through the power of poetry, anime provides an emotional sanctuary for its audience.\nIn conclusion, anime poems have a profound influence on viewers, stirring emotions, provoking introspection, and fostering a deeper connection to the story and characters. Their ability to convey complex emotions in a concise and profound manner, reflect the characters’ inner thoughts, and evoke lasting impact make them a powerful tool of storytelling. Anime poems resonate with viewers on a universal level, transcending cultural barriers and providing comfort and solace in times of need. These poetic moments not only entertain but also inspire personal growth and empathy, making anime a truly transformative art form.\nAnime poetry is a captivating aspect of the anime medium that enhances storytelling, character development, and viewer engagement through its artistic and emotional qualities. Throughout this article, we have explored the various subtopics that demonstrate the significance of anime poetry.\nFirstly, we discussed the origins and history of anime poetry, tracing its roots back to ancient Japanese forms of poetry such as haiku and tanka. These traditional poetry styles have influenced the way anime creators incorporate poetry into their works, allowing for a seamless integration of the medium’s rich cultural heritage and artistic expression.\nSecondly, we delved into the impact of anime poetry on storytelling. The use of poetic elements, such as metaphors, similes, and expressive language, adds depth and nuance to the narrative. It allows for the exploration of complex themes and emotions that might be challenging to convey through traditional dialogue alone. By incorporating poetry, anime can evoke a range of feelings, creating a more immersive and emotionally resonant storytelling experience for the viewers.\nFurthermore, we examined how anime poetry contributes to the development of compelling characters. Poetic expressions allow for introspection and introspective monologues that provide insight into a character’s thoughts, motivations, and inner struggles. These moments not only deepen our understanding of the characters but also establish a stronger connection between them and the audience. The vulnerable and intimate nature of poetry often allows viewers to empathize with characters on a deeper level, fostering a sense of emotional investment in their journeys.\nAdditionally, we explored how anime poetry enhances viewer engagement. The aesthetic beauty of visually appealing scenes combined with profound poetic verses creates a mesmerizing experience for the viewers. The synergy between the animation, music, and poetic language stimulates the senses and captivates the audience, making the anime more visually and emotionally compelling.\nMoreover, we discussed the significance of poetry in the anime fan community. Poems from popular anime series often become a symbol of fandom and evoke nostalgia among fans. Anime conventions and fan gatherings often feature poetry contests, where enthusiasts showcase their love for the medium through creative writings. The existence of online communities devoted to the analysis and appreciation of anime poetry further exemplifies its impact on fans and the broader anime culture.\nIn conclusion, anime poetry is a multifaceted aspect of the anime medium that enriches storytelling, character development, and viewer engagement. Its artistic and emotional qualities elevate the anime experience, provoking deep emotions, fostering connections, and leaving a lasting impression on the audience. Whether in moments of introspection, lyrical battle sequences, or nostalgic reflections, anime poetry continues to be a powerful tool in evoking a spectrum of emotions and enhancing the overall impact of anime.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.lifeguardproductions.co.uk/louys/", "date": "2013-05-19T20:51:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698080772/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095440-00099-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9558889865875244, "token_count": 2008, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__147522717", "lang": "en", "text": "The Louys Project, The New Diorama Theatre, Camden Fringe Festival: 17th- 19th August 2011\nDevised around Pierre Louys’ Les Chansons de Bilitis and the collected stories of the artists themselves, The Louys Project explores the journey into womanhood and the stories we associate with it. From Classical Greek Myth to contemporary coming-of-age tales, an all-female cast will take the audience on a lyrical, touching, and twisted adventure through a woman’s path to self-discovery.\n- Contact: Farah Merani firstname.lastname@example.org\n- No public Twitter messages.\nThank you to everyone who came to the New Diorama to see The Louys Project part one last week…it was great fun and has already generated a heap of ideas for the next step…\nWe want your feedback!\nThe Lifeguard Ladies\nOne more day to go until we open at the New Diorama – and I’m still catching up with uploading stuff from rehearsals two weeks!\nHere are a few selected videos from the devising process in early August, where we turned the cast’s first kisses into mini dances. (Apologies for my dodgy camera-phone work….)\nThese all came about through one of our very first rehearsals in early July, when we were looking at Bilitis’ poems about adolescence. There were flutes, and streams, and clay being softly kneaded about her ‘exposed’ breast…..and singing songs together sitting on her would-be lover’s knee.\nBut we just couldn’t get into it…so we kept the feeling, the innocence about to be transformed, and put some more familiar actions in there instead. As each performer told her story, I asked her to be more and more physically specific about what she did. So we had a series of really concrete actions – which actually became more and more concrete and detailed as we focused more on our memories. Then two performers (who she couldn’t see behind her) acted out what they heard. Then we got the whole group involved, and started re-arranging. Like with Kiss 5 . And that’s the stories of the first kisses.\nIt’s been a really busy few weeks here in Lifeguard Productions. We’ve been following our question Who Speaks for Women, by building our ‘school of woman’, made up of different ‘classes’, inspired by the Bilitis poems and other media versions which purport to instruct the ‘young women’ of this ‘future society’ in which we live.\nI thought I’d share some images and videos from the explorations of the last few weeks.\nBelow are images from one of the most gruelling episodes, where we explore the political attitudes towards female power.\nTaking inspiration from this image – ‘We Can Do It’ – and the Bilitis poems from the central section, in which Bilitis’ ardent desire seems to bully her lover into submission, we played around with ideas of self-assertion, possession and coaching. Farah, who works as a personal trainer, led this class.\nWhen it comes to figuring out your identity, do you need someone else to tell you who you are? And what is the power struggle within this trainer/trainee relationships? We focused in on this dynamic, and found that Farah’s encouragement and love of her group at the beginning, that desire to nourish and nurture them to fulfil their potential, quickly picked up a more incendiary rhetoric.\nThis turn from earth mother and gentle fascination to emotional tyrant comes from the attitude of Bilitis-as-lover. She begins, when she first falls for Mnasidika, her lover of ten years, completely in awe of her innocence, her wonder at the other’s body. Then, a desire for power and control takes hold – see The Mad Embrace\nMoan! Moan! Moan, oh woman!…You’ll suffer less upon this bed in bringing forth a child than you will agonize in bringing forth your love.\nRehearsals for this section have been intense, as the ‘trainer”s increasingly cruel efforts to control and master the rest of the group’s bodies and emotions came from a place of good intention and self- celebration.\nThanks to Nigel Gosling for the bangin’ poster…\nFor us, Bilitis’s poems boil womanhood down to a series of emotional outbursts. Only when Bilitis loses her looks and becomes ‘useless’ to the young men and courtesans around does she become a poet. And her poems are well-honed punctuations – exclamations! – that always place her development in relation to men and her body.\nShe seems permanently isolated from the people around her, especially other women. (Is it because these were written by a man, imagining Bilitis’ life rather than sharing in her experiences, that there are no moments where she talks to her friends? Chats with her mum?) By the end though, it’s as if she has decided that she’s ‘complete’, she’s won, she’s done everything a woman should do and now she can give ‘Advice to a Lover’ (one of the poems) and advice to other women – rather wryly, Louys’ translation is prefaced with this:\n“This little book of antique love is respectfully dedicated to the young women of a future society.”\nAs Farah posted in the article last week, Bilitis has been championed as a queer icon, not only because of her open lesbianism, but also perhaps because of the complex authorship of her story and her sexuality. But what we’re focusing on – and this is something that might challenge the relevance, the verity, of Bilitis’s queer authority – is what message Bilitis really presents about being a woman.\nIf we take a step back from simply identifying with the character, and stand on the frame of the narrative, looking in at the recurring images of the poems, the key moments which have been crafted (by Louys, NOT Bilitis), the construction of Bilitis’ life, her story, and the message of her life, is no different from the most historically stereotyped depictions of female self-discovery. Desire, sex and the body is at the centre of everything. Nature seems to be an uncontrollable aphrodisiac.\nWhen she falls in love, she becomes a possessive, and eventually needy stay at home ‘wife’ (to another woman), and the two eventually drive each other apart. Then, with some finger-snapping single ladies attitude, she decides it’s time to focus on Me, Myself and I…and becomes a courtesan?! And only when she loses her looks does she decide to become a poet – effectively telling us that she’s ‘dead’ as a woman, and only now can write verses in the sand.\nThere’s a reason that I suddenly segued into Beyonce videos there…it’s because, when you step back and view Bilitis in this way, suddenly the connection with contemporary life is very clear. Her ‘lessons’ in womanhood are not so different from magazines and self-help books – and even those go-get-em put-your-hands-up songs performed by Ms Knowles (or should that be Mrs Shawn Carter?) – that we read now. These kind of images of your ‘first kiss’ – or your 10 steps to getting there with the boy of your dreams – that populate teen magazines. Or the ‘Irresistible Clothes-On Sex Moves’ that Cosmo tell you will definitely keep your man happy.\nAnd how are we going to tie this together? These ‘lessons’ in womanhood?\nWe’re going back to school. The Louys Project has found its binding structure: ‘school of woman’, as taught by Bilitis, Beyonce and a few other figures of ‘authority’ whose messages and stories have been absorbed by many.\nWe’ll keep you posted, and upload our homework soon.\nOn Friday, Ashleigh, Farah, Ari and myself spent a day behind these big aortic doors in the inner chambers of one of Rag Factory’s external units figuring out how the story of Bilitis connects to contemporary representations of a woman’s ‘rites of passage’ and to personal experiences of those rites.\nFor the past week we’ve been drawing together the information from the poems, personal stories and anecdotes and media images and articles which all relate to the experiences depicted in Bilitis. I somehow felt, on seeing this door, that it was a lovely metaphor for what we’re trying to get into…the big cavernous spaces and real nuts-and-bolts architecture behind those twee images of love and hearts and experiences of desire.\nAs I was doing some background research for The Louys Project the other day, I came across this article.. a thorough synopsis of the poems from “The Songs of Bilitis” that we’re dealing with and their relevance to contemporary queer identity… not necessarily the focus of our piece, but an interesting perspective nonetheless.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://webshop.dutchlightfilms.com/winkel/silence-of-the-tides/", "date": "2023-05-29T19:29:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644907.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529173312-20230529203312-00366.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8996224999427795, "token_count": 439, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__164571944", "lang": "en", "text": "Silence of the Tides\n€ 39,50 incl. BTW\nA LUXURY CINEMATIC GIFT\n“One of the 5 best travel books of the season”\nSilence of the Tides is the book about the film of the same name and presents a stunning selection of images that take you to the magical realm of the Wadden Sea, a World Heritage Site.\nIt is the world’s largest, and most varied, uninterrupted intertidal area, extending along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. It’s all seen through the eyes of an internationally acclaimed filmmaker with a strong cinematographic insight.\nSilence of the Tides is a mesmerizing impression of the fragile relationship between humankind and nature, in which the ‘living breathing’ Wadden region takes centre stage. It’s about its tides, its recurring cycles and its contrasts. All set against a stunning backdrop of mist, wind, water, the ever-present horizon and the constantly changing light.\nDirector Pieter-Rim de Kroon, with his observational style and eye for detail, presents the Wadden region as one massive, living breathing organism, where all the elements interlock, influenced by the position of the Moon and Sun, and the magical energy from the Cosmos.\nThe images were sourced from the 146,880 frames that make up the 102-minute long film. These Cinemascope ‘film frames’, which are the basis for the book, were personally selected by Pieter-Rim. So, the concept of the director’s cut takes on a special dimension.\nIntroduction in English, Dutch, German and Danish\nHardback, 192 pages. Publisher: Terra\nAuthor: Pieter-Rim de Kroon\nGraphic design: Erik Rikkelman\nLanguage: Engels, Dutch, German, Danish\nDimensions: 314 x 254 x 27 mm (12.99 x 9.45 inches)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.hippowebsolutions.com/book-review-problogger-secrets-for-blogging-your-way-to-a-six-figure-income/", "date": "2017-04-27T20:43:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122621.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00614-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9661290645599365, "token_count": 973, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__298940253", "lang": "en", "text": "OK, so the sub-title – Secrets for Blogging your way to a Six-figure Income – is a little cheesy, but I guess it’s perfectly in keeping with writing a “good” title for a blog post, so I’ll be generous and say it fits the style.\nYes, authors – although the branding is all ProBlogger, the book is actually a collaboration between Darren and Chris Garrett. Although I’ve been reading ProBlogger for a couple of years, I must confess I’d never heard of Chris before this book. Anyhow, here’s the author blurb on the two of them:\nDarren Rowse is the guy behind ProBlogger.net, which has become one of the leading places on the Web for information about making money from blogs. He is a full-time blogger himself, making a six-figure income from blogging since 2005. In addition to his blogging at ProBlogger, Darren also edits the popular Digital Photography School as well as numerous other blogs.\nChris Garrett is a writer, Internet Marketing Consultant, and of course, professional blogger. As well as his own blog, chrisg.com, he writes for many sites including the Blog Herald, FreelanceSwitch, CopyBlogger, and even occasionally ProBlogger.\nIf you’ve ever read any of Darren’s content on ProBlogger, then you’ll know what to expect. The book’s content is in a similar vein, in fact it’s clear that a lot of the book is a re-packaging of posts that have appeared on ProBlogger in the past. You could see that as a negative, but in fact I see it as a very good thing. How many other authors have been in the position of having their work extensively proof-read and tested by their market before publication, resulting in increased relevance for the reader? Not many, I think.\nIn my opinion the heart of the book is three chapters:\n- Chapter 4 – Blog writing which talks about the nuts and bolts of writing compelling content.\n- Chapter 5 – Blog income and earning strategies which provides an overview of the various direct and indirect ways of making money by blogging.\n- Chapter 8 – Blog promotion and marketing which outlines ways to grow your readership.\nThere are also helpful chapters on choosing a topic, setting up your blog (the nitty gritty of domain registration, hosting, which platform to use, etc), buying and selling blogs, and the pros and cons of joining a blog network.\nOne minor gripe I had when reading through the book the first time is that both authors write in the first person (I, me, mine), but it’s not always clear which author has written a particular section. Perhaps it shouldn’t matter, but it bugged me because the information has much more meaning when read in a particular context. However, each chapter seems to have one main author, so it’s OK once you figure out who’s talking.\nThe authors talk about writing scannable content on your blog, and have largely heeded their own advice in the book: there are lots of lists, sub-headings, images and asides to break up the text and make it easier to absorb.\nWill it make you rich?\nBoth authors are at pains at various points in the book to point out that blogging is not a way to get rich quickly (or even at all, for many):\nHaving said that, there are increasing numbers of people making money blogging as their primary income source, and even more earning a supplementary income. It certainly can be done, and reading this book will give you a very good idea of what’s involved to make it happen. In one sense, it’s very easy: just follow in the footsteps of the pioneers. Of course things are never that easy in practice – it takes perseverance, a lot of hard work, and perhaps a little luck to become successful.\nThis is a good book, both for beginner and established bloggers. It could perhaps have done with a little more editing – there are a few awkward turns of phrase here and there. But this doesn’t detract from the content, which is dense and authoritative. Since I read it the first time, I’ve found myself coming back to refer to different sections again; the book can be read cover to cover, or just dip in and out of the chapters that interest you. Either way, you will be a better blogger if you put the advice into action.\nI give Problogger: Secrets for Blogging your way to a Six-figure Income 4 stars.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.yushinkato.com/no-heaven-up-in-the-sky", "date": "2017-08-20T09:57:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886106367.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170820092918-20170820112918-00316.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.969307005405426, "token_count": 190, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-34__0__212255315", "lang": "en", "text": "\"But this wasn't their God. It's my God. This is a God I have found through sacrificing my own life, through my flesh being cut, my skin ripped off, my blood sucked away, my nails torn, all my time and hopes and memories being stolen from me. This is not a God with a form. No white clothes, no long beard. This God has no doctrine, no scripture, no precepts. No reward, no punishment. This God doesn't give, and doesn't take away. There is no heaven up in the sky, no hell down below. When it's hot, and when it's cold, God is simply there.\"\n-Haruki Murakami, 1Q84\nThis illustration was inspired by this quote from Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 and the idea of a faceless, nameless \"God\" existing within each person through their own trials and human experiences.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://tracesofglitter.blogspot.com/2009/06/", "date": "2018-07-16T00:29:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589029.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716002413-20180716022413-00582.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9888370633125305, "token_count": 317, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__195368180", "lang": "en", "text": "Tuesday, June 2, 2009\nI received devastating news when i was notified that my friend Keon was shot and killed in front of his home by a 14 year old. When the words, \"Keon's dead\" came out of my neighbors mouth, my heart sank from disbelief and hurt. I could not believe that he was gone by the hands of another person. He was about to graduate, which is something a lot of young men do not accomplish.\nI know all things happen for a reason, but it still doesn't take away the agony, torment, and heartache. My tears fall constantly leaving streams of pain on my face. As I try to wipe them away, they find a way to creep out of my eyes again. No matter how much Kleenex I use, there will never be enough to make this all go away. I can try to sleep it off and stay busy, but the thoughts of Keon bothering me and trying to hug me slide across my mind like slideshows, leaving me with a smile through the tears I face at night.\nIt makes no since how someone can take another man's life. Everyone deserves to live. God only has the right to take someone's life. As other people are going on with their lives, I will sit here and continuously think about my little friend, who will not be walking across the stage to receive his diploma. Keon, you will be greatly missed and never forgotten. May God be with your family as well as me during this trying time. Rest in Peace, hun!!!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://glen.redmark.dev/no-hassle-secrets-for-ap-lit-free-response-sample-essays-revealed/", "date": "2023-01-28T22:23:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499695.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20230128220716-20230129010716-00855.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9559473991394043, "token_count": 1424, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__287323660", "lang": "en", "text": "Firstly to know What a Literary Evaluation Essay means, it is a strategy to decide and perceive the work of an writer, even if it’s a single work or a complete physique of labor. The principle half is, for essentially the most half, your personal reasoning about what worries you in the whole story. Show here the evolution of your thought, the moment when your impression and concepts originated, how it developed and what conclusion you finally came to.\nIn case you have been questioning how one can write a literary analysis essay step-by-step, then look no additional. This text has been designed to help college students face any tutorial problem at all levels. Your thesis in a literary analysis essay is the purpose you wish to make concerning the textual content. It’s the core argument that provides your essay course and prevents it from just being a set of random observations about a text.\nAs soon as the intro part is finished, proceed to put in writing the physique part. The principle half is an evaluation of a literary work within the side provided by the theme. Do not forget that you should not retell the piece of literary work you’re analyzing. Right here it’s best to spotlight all your ideas, emotions caused by the work.\nWhat did you notice concerning the issues that have been repeated? What behavior does the character often display? Understanding the significance and the usage of repetition will aid you construct up the essay. In a literary evaluation essay instance of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein” discover the habits of the doctor that led him to make his creation.\nOne of the things that makes The Lord of the Rings so compelling is the way in which the setting and characters work collectively to supply the ultimate affect. The characters make the setting much more potent. As the external setting influences each character the reader sees how the wrestle turns into inside. We are led to believe that the characters are closely related to the earth. The variety of the setting and characters simply propels us to see the individuality of each place. The place a group of caves would possibly give us one thought, listening to Gimli discuss the majesty of his cave expertise helps us to appreciate the variety of the group and to see it by means of a cave dwellers eyes. “These aren’t holes,” said Gimli. “This is the great realm and metropolis of the Dwarrowdelf. And of old it was not darksome, but full of light and splendour, as is still remembered in our songs”(307).\nAcademic writing is difficult. There is no doubt about it. If you happen to thought you had been the only student discovering essays difficult to write, you were unsuitable. Virtually every single student across the globe faces difficulties with these assignments. The stress is big. It’s important to complete every bit of content by a strict deadline, and it’s a must to make it good in order for you a high grade. It’s no wonder why students decide to rely on the very best on-line essay writing service. The pressure is just too heavy to deal with with out assistance from the surface. So we make it simple for college students to get such help. They’ll work with skilled writers at our web site.\nA Guide To Effective Advice For literature essay\nWe bring you low-cost essay writing and straightforward to purchase essay assistance. We have been supporting students to meet their tutorial goals for over a decade now. All our college essay writers are native English speakers who’ve certified from reputable institutes of the UK. Our services are rated as the perfect by the numerous customers whom we have now served up to now and are at the moment serving until in the present day. This is because of our unwavering policy to not compromise on delivering work of the best high quality.\nMajor Factors For literature essay – An Intro\nThe style specificity of the work, which reveals a mess of its meanings, is set not solely by the combination of steady and individual beginnings but in addition by the truth that the work belongs to a sure literary movement. The identical genre in several literary directions acquires new features. For instance, a romantic poem with its agony to the exclusivity of characters and conditions is very completely different from a realistic one, with its historical and psychological accuracy in the growth of characters, even within the creative approach of 1 writer. The sentimental novel with its entertaining plot and the usage of options of the epistolary model is a totally completely different entire compared to the practical novel, which is distinguished by broad socio-historic generalizations, the richness and number of motivations and associations, and the typological depth of generalization.\nThis immersion, whereas an distinctive accomplishment, is only one a part of what brings readers into Tolkien’s world. The characterization makes readers really feel as if they really know the creatures in the story, while the setting makes readers really feel as if they chickamauga short story are walking alongside these characters on their journey via Middle Earth. When these two are combined, readers really feel as if they change into an integral part of the story.\nCollecting material to answer or help your question is often a time-consuming stage, as a result of many of the close reading will occur here. It’s essential for students to know that they are allowed to research the topic or textual content before starting to write. Many college students feel that they shouldn’t be utilizing Google or Wikipedia to analysis their texts. Here is where the instructor can have an sincere dialogue about digital citizenship, and the best way to tell credible academic sources from non-credible ones.\nYou need to make a brief description of the characters to understand easy methods to do a literary evaluation correctly. In any interpretation, there must be a attribute of the narrator, the main characters and their relationships. The principle personages most of all reveal the theme of the work, affecting the plot. The events occur and the composition develops around them. Therefore, it is vitally essential to research the characters and their influence on the exterior setting. After all, you should also discover the narrator’s position. There are a number of varieties of narrators, comparable to a raconteur (an impassive observer, distanced from what is going on, acting as a creator), a primary-person narrator (who provides information about events neither clearly nor not directly and who doesn’t reflect on what is going on).\nIt is the last section of your literary evaluation that provides you along with your final probability to convince readers of your stance and give them a way of closure. Summarize and lengthen your major argument. Your sophisticated literary analysis conclusion mustn’t solely restate a thesis or sum up the logic of all paragraphs, however it additionally suggests a broader position of your total dialogue. Why does it matter? And not using a logical conclusion, your literary evaluation won’t achieve success.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://rositacortez.com/marketing/the-dragonfly-effect-4-principles-of-engagement/", "date": "2013-12-08T17:01:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163069032/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131749-00085-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9505956172943115, "token_count": 1714, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__35021039", "lang": "en", "text": "I recently read the book The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker (@aaker) and Andy Smith (@kabbenbock). The book is packed with case studies from nonprofits and how they are leveraging the power of social media to do something good. From Charity: Water and Alex’s Lemonade to Kiva and Tom’s Shoes, the authors tell the stories of how these organizations are using social technologies to engage and inspire people to participate in movements for change.\nIt’s true that a dizzying number of people have written about the mechanics of using social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube. But only a few are writing about how to use social media to do something that really matters. The authors of The Dragonfly Effect fall into the latter category. Like you, I wanted to know more about how nonprofits can harness the power of social media to deliver positive change, so I contacted Jennifer Aaker. She graciously agreed to an interview and now I am passing it along to you.\nDesign Principles of Engagement\nRC: Can you expand a bit more on how to make people connect with a nonprofit’s goals? How do nonprofits engage people through social media so that they really connect with the mission of the organizations?\nJA: Chapter 3 of the book explores how to create a personal connection, accessing higher emotions, compassion, empathy and happiness. It’s about empowering the audience to care enough to want to do something themselves…and actually do it. Think of it as forging a connection, deep and real.\nThe engagement strategy has 4 main components: tell a story, empathize, be authentic and match the media. Let’s explore these four principles with the case study from Charity: Water.\nCharity: Water: Using Social Media to Engage Supporters\nScott Harrison was at the top of his world. The New York-based nightclub and fashion promoter, who excelled at bringing models and hedge-fund kings together and selling them $500 bottles of vodka, had money, power, and beautiful girlfriends. Yet his lifestyle brought something else: misery. Harrison felt spiritually bankrupt.\nSo he walked away and [instead] volunteered for a floating hospital offering free medical care in the world‘s poorest nations. Serving as the ship’s photojournalist, Harrison was quickly immersed in a very different world. Thousands would flock to the ship looking for solutions to debilitating problems—enormous tumors, cleft lips and palates, flesh eaten by bacteria from water-borne diseases. Harrison‘s camera lens brought astonishing poverty and pain into focus, and he began documenting people‘s struggles, and their courage.\nAfter eight months, he moved back to New York—but not to his former life. Aware that many of the diseases and medical problems he witnessed stemmed from inadequate access to clean drinking water, he founded Charity: Water, a nonprofit to bring clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.\nHarrison launched the organization on his 31st birthday by asking friends to donate $31 instead of giving him a gift. It worked: the birthday generated $15,000 and helped build Charity: Water‘s first few wells in Uganda. In the three years that followed, Harrison‘s simple birthday wish snowballed into donations totaling $13 million, which translated into 1,548 water projects assisting more than 800,000 people.\nThe reasons for Charity: Water‘s success can be explained through four design principles for generating engagement with your brand through social media. First, tell a story. Find simple, compelling stories to convey critical information. Second, empathize with your audience: let it engage with your brand to learn what’s important to them and how it relates to your campaign. Third, emphasize authenticity. True passion is contagious, and the more authentic you appear, the easier it is for others to connect with you and your cause. Finally, match the media with the message. How and where you say something can be as important as what you say.\nHarrison’s personal story—evoking themes of redemption, change, and hope—engaged others on an emotional level. By candidly discussing why and how he started Charity: Water in media interviews and YouTube videos, the thoughtful and accessible thirty-something Harrison helped viewers fall in love with him and his cause by showcasing what was possible.\nCharity: Water also found a way to evoke empathy through the use of photographs and videos that revealed the urgency of the water situation in the developing world. Instead of relying on statistics, the organization promoted compelling stories to its audience: the 15-year-old boy in Murinja, Rwanda, who no longer walked five times a day with a 20-pound Jerry Can on his head to get necessary water; a mother in Uganda who now had water to grow vegetables, clean her children‘s uniforms, and bathe; the people of Rio Platano, Honduras, who no longer get sick from contaminated water. The approach forced people to think about what it would be like to live without access to clean water.\nCharity: Water’s campaign evoked the third principle of engaging with people—authenticity—through its commitment to transparency. Donors not only understood the history that gave rise to the organization but knew exactly where their money went. Reports and updates on the organization’s website connected them directly to the results of their generosity.\nFinally, Charity: Water excelled at matching the media to its message. The group had a staff member dedicated to regularly updating various social media platforms and creating distinctive messages for Twitter and Facebook fan pages. It also relied heavily on video. One of Charity: Water’s most effective video projects involved convincing Terry George, the director of the film Hotel Rwanda, to make a sixty-second public service announcement in which movie star Jennifer Connelly took a forty-pound gasoline can to Central Park, filled it with dirty water from the lagoon, and brought it home to serve to her two children. The producers of American Idol agreed to broadcast the spot during the show, ensuring that more than 25 million viewers saw it.\nRC: This is the kind of example that nonprofits need to know about. The nebulous concept of “engagement” is now translated in actionable steps that anyone can do. I particularly like how stories can inspire others. Any closing thoughts on this topic?\nJA: Empathize. Listen to others. That allows you to feel what they are feeling, and understand what is meaningful to them. Emotions are contagious. Meaningful purpose garners extraordinary support. The right idea—seated in emotion—grows exponentially. Take how Jessica Jackley, while earning her MBA, raised money online to bootstrap entrepreneurs in the developing world. Now Kiva.org has made over $120M in micro-finance loans with the assistance of individuals who have made loans.\nAnd tell stories. Stories are sticky: they bring facts to life and infuse them with passion. Physiologically, our brains are hardwired for stories to organize and orient information. And psychologically, we need patterns to understand. Stories also increase the chance that your audience will remember your message (humans remember only 1%-10% of what they hear). Salient, meaningful messages, however brief, mobilize communities.\nRC: Thanks, Jennifer.\nWant to win a copy of The Dragonfly Effect?\nI am giving away 1 copy of the book. If you want to win this copy, leave a comment or like this post. The winner will be announced a week from today’s post.\nUnlike my other posts, I am featuring a book– a book I encourage you to buy. Why? I learned from Jennifer that the net proceeds of this book are going to seed social good businesses and toward building a bone marrow registry in India. Check out the video below featuring Jennifer (great presentation, as usual) and The Dragonfly Effect website.\nAnd check back soon as I will be sharing more insights from Jennifer Aaker, co-author of The Dragonfly Effect.\nBelow are other great posts exploring how nonprofit and corporations are using social media tools to increase their brand profile, manage their reputation, empower supporters and connect with new constituents.\n1- The Dark Side of Social Networking. Fast Company.\nWhere did JPMorgan Chase & Company go wrong?", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://left-shop.com/product/the-exercise-of-freedom/", "date": "2020-10-29T02:13:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107902683.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029010437-20201029040437-00487.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9422063231468201, "token_count": 483, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__213672631", "lang": "en", "text": "The Exercise of Freedom\n‘Editors K. Satyanarayana and Susie Tharu have drawn from their previous experience editing anthologies of Dalit writing from south India to collate poetry, essays, memoir and fiction into an immersive experience of Dalit literature as both aesthetic and socio-political identity.’— LiveMint\nRead an excerpt published in the Hindustan Times.\nThis anthology, for the first time, showcases the best of dalit writing from across India: B.R. Ambedkar to Devanoora Mahadeva, Chentharassery to M.M. Vinodini. The editors argue that dalit literature is not merely a literary practice or a trend but a social movement invested in the battle against injustice; it is the exercise of freedom. This literature encompasses diverse forms of intellectual and creative work by those who, as untouchables, are victims of economic, social and cultural inequality. Dalits bring points of view, interests, insights and directions that grow out of their experience and their aspirations. Over the past few decades dalit literature has transformed the understanding of untouchability, caste and the nature of Indian society and politics.\nSusie Tharu is professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, EFLU, and a founder member of Anveshi, Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad. She is the author of several influential papers on literary and cultural theory and history. She has been active in the Indian women’s movement and is a member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. Tharu is co-editor of the two-volume anthology Women Writing in India, as well as No Alphabet in Sight and Steel Nibs are Sprouting.\nK. Satyanarayana is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad. Active in the student movement during the 1990s, he was founder-general secretary of Kula Nirmoolana Porata Samiti (Forum for Caste Annihilation). He also edited the little magazine Kulanirmoolana. His research interests are in the field of dalit studies and literary history. He is co-editor of No Alphabet in Sight and Steel Nibs are Sprouting, two comprehensive anthologies of dalit writing from South India.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.thegnominglibrarian.com/2013/06/i-kill-giants-graphic-novel-review.html", "date": "2019-04-26T02:25:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578747424.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190426013652-20190426035652-00517.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9524849057197571, "token_count": 284, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__142126567", "lang": "en", "text": "Wednesday, June 5, 2013\nI Kill Giants: a graphic novel review\nPublisher: Image Comics, Inc.\nInfo: 2010, 184 pages\nA review in 10 words (or thereabouts): Dungeon master, giant slayer, and young girl learning about life and death.\nBarbara Thorson, a girl battling monsters both real and imagined, kicks butt, takes names, and faces her greatest fear in this bittersweet, coming-of-age story.\nI Kill Giants is a graphic novel with heart. Young Barbara Thorson fights giants. She carries around her magical sword (nicknamed Coveleski), secreted away in a small bag, sets traps near the beach, and keeps watch for the return of the fiercest giants of all, the titans. She's an outcast at school who has trouble making friends, and the school therapist keeps wanting to make her talk about the real giants affecting her life. There are giants that she will never defeat and friendship that she must learn to accept.\nI don't want to give too much away, but this is a heartbreaking story of a young girl accepting death. She's independent, stubborn, and so much stronger than she gives herself credit for. This is a must read, and it's a quick read, so check out I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and illustrated by J.M. Ken Miimura.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://documentairenet.nl/andrew-solomon-depressie-het-geheim-dat-allemaal-delen/", "date": "2022-07-07T04:24:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104683683.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220707033101-20220707063101-00236.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6967431902885437, "token_count": 516, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__238181778", "lang": "en", "text": "“Het tegendeel van depressie is niet geluk, maar vitaliteit, en het was vitaliteit die me op dat moment leek te ontglippen.” In een talk die zowel welsprekend als ontredderend is, neemt schrijver Andrew Solomon je mee naar de donkerste hoeken van zijn geest tijdens de jaren dat hij tegen depressie vocht.\nDat leidde hem naar een verhelderende reis over de hele wereld voor interviews met anderen met depressie — om tot zijn verbazing te ontdekken dat, hoe meer hij erover sprak, hoe meer mensen hun eigen verhalen kwijt wilden. (Gefilmd op TEDxMet.)\n[tab:Ted Versie met Ned. ondertiteling]\n“The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.” In a talk equal parts eloquent and devastating, writer Andrew Solomon takes you to the darkest corners of his mind during the years he battled depression. That led him to an eye-opening journey across the world to interview others with depression — only to discover that, to his surprise, the more he talked, the more people wanted to tell their own stories.\nAndrew Solomon’s newest book, Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children, but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon’s startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender.\nWhile each of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the experience of difference within families is universal, as are the struggles toward compassion and the triumphs of love Solomon documents in every chapter. Woven into these courageous and affirming stories is Solomon’s journey to accepting his own identity, which culminated in his midlife decision, influenced by this research, to become a parent.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.catherinewphotography.com/milwuakee-newborn-photography-wisconsin/", "date": "2024-04-23T19:35:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818740.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423192952-20240423222952-00642.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9948630928993225, "token_count": 550, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__10183907", "lang": "en", "text": "It’s odd how such a painful day can end up being so close to your heart. I knew when I found out I was pregnant that I wanted pictures of this day. The questions I had were “who’s going to take them?” and “how’s this going to work?” I decided I would take pictures, and I would teach my husband how to use my camera so he could take some as well (funny enough I was a little busy during this time). As many many people will tell you, it was an incredibly…intense time. My daughter was born at 10:47 am on a Thursday morning. That moment was so incredibly surreal. I had a daughter. My nephew (who is three) used to ask me if he could see the baby when I was pregnant. Of course that wasn’t possible. But all of a sudden here she was. She was no longer this unseeable thing in my stomach that kicked me at inconvenient times. It was real. SHE was real. My daughter. As odd as this may be, the thing that threw me off the most was that she had hair; for some reason I didn’t expect that. She came into the world screaming at the top of her lungs, ready to take on the world! One of the most precious memories for me was seeing my husband interact with her for the first time. The nurses had taken her to get cleaned up under the heat lamps. She was screaming and crying, so Jeff went and put his face close to hers. She instantly stopped crying and stared into his eyes. They locked eyes for a few moments, and when he pulled away, he had tears in his eyes. In that beautiful, emotional, exhausted moment, he fell in love. And then he held his daughter.\nI watched all of this from my hospital bed. I watched him fall in love, I watched my parents hold her and also fall in love. I watched her join this world and alter our family forever. And in the midst of it, we took pictures. Jeff took pictures of me, I took pictures of him, and we both took pictures of her. And now my daughter is 4 months old. She smiles, rolls over, plays with her feet, poops a lot, and loves her mum and dad. But I will forever cherish that day. Despite the pain (and I could tell some funny stories about that part of it as well), I will forever remember that day as a beautiful day.\nAnd for those curious about the headline on the day she was born- November 3rd, 2016: “The Chicago Cubs Win the World Series”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://wpmu2.azurewebsites.net/nlt/2018/07/12/the-peoples-perspective-expectation/", "date": "2024-02-27T23:22:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227220707-20240228010707-00226.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9612720012664795, "token_count": 517, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__67415004", "lang": "en", "text": "“Moses continued, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. For this is what you yourselves requested of the Lord your God when you were assembled at Mount Sinai. You said, ‘Don’t let us hear the voice of the Lord our God anymore or see this blazing fire, for we will die.’\nThen the Lord said to me, ‘What they have said is right. I will raise up a prophet like you from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell the people everything I command him. I will personally deal with anyone who will not listen to the messages the prophet proclaims on my behalf. But any prophet who falsely claims to speak in my name or who speaks in the name of another god must die.’\nBut you may wonder, ‘How will we know whether or not a prophecy is from the Lord?’ If the prophet speaks in the Lord’s name but his prediction does not happen or come true, you will know that the Lord did not give that message. That prophet has spoken without my authority and need not be feared.” Deuteronomy 18:15-22, NLT .\nAt times throughout Israel’s history, the people looked expectantly for the “prophet like Moses” who was prophesied in these verses. Such was the case during Jesus’ ministry when people wondered if he could be that prophet (John 1:21; 6:14, for example). And when God spoke from heaven to endorse his Son, he echoed the words of Deuteronomy 18:15: “Listen to him”\n(Matthew 17:5; Mark 9:7; Luke 9:35). Like Moses, Jesus would deliver God’s people from captivity and institute a new covenant.\nThis expectation for a Messiah seems to be a universal need. We see it throughout history, in literature and film, across numerous cultures, and in our own lives. Ancient Israel looked ahead for “the one”; we look back to Jesus’ first coming and also ahead, knowing he is coming again. God has embedded expectation into us as an instinct designed to draw us toward him. Cultivate it and let it pull you into his promises. He doesn’t provoke expectations without fulfilling them.\nDevotional Taken from the Dancing in the Desert Devotional Bible", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jeffpolingjr.com/2013/11/02/november-2-im-not-a-wanderer/", "date": "2018-08-20T22:22:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221217354.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180820215248-20180820235248-00515.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9787942171096802, "token_count": 537, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__45377316", "lang": "en", "text": "When graduation was upon me, I tired of being asked what my plan was. I didn’t know what I was going to do, and I felt the pressure of expectations, namely getting a job (as if I didn’t already have one) and instantly taking off in your career. So I decided that I was going to start answering that question in this fashion (and I probably did in a blog at one point or another:)\nI’m just going to keep going in the same direction I’ve been going.\nNow, to a point that was a good answer, because I was referring to where I was in ministry. I intended to keep teaching kid’s ministry, being on the worship team, etc.\nBut what I failed to take into consideration was the process of becoming a leader. See, I had good intentions, but I default to following, and when you’re called into leadership (which is the premise on which I was operating,) God has to readjust that default setting towards leading and not following. I’ve found that this happens by God transforming my thinking, and I mean several things by that.\nFirst, I’m learning that sometimes leadership is go, go, go. Get ready for your life group. Do your homework. Prepare a sermon. Spend time in prayer and in the Bible. Go work at your job. Love your friends and family. Be a friend and family member. Work overtime sometimes. Be there when someone needs you – that is, don’t deny your service just because you’re lazy and want a little bit of “me” time.\nSecond, I’m learning that leadership is not a private matter. That is, leaders live their lives in the open, and as much as I want to go about my business quietly and silently, that’s not necessarily an option. What I mean by that is that – for one small example – if one wants to lead by example, then one must let the example be seen. A leader’s life must be shared and can’t be hoarded anymore.\nThird, leadership is a constant direction. That is to say this:\nI can’t be a wanderer anymore.\nI can’t just drift through life without a plan any longer, I can’t pretend that my own life doesn’t have consequences for others anymore.\nLeadership is a weight, but leadership is not a burden, and that burden demands direction and deliberate thinking.\nThat’s all for today.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.cloudentrepreneur.biz/love-quotes-for-wife/", "date": "2021-01-25T12:46:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703581888.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210125123120-20210125153120-00572.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9447101950645447, "token_count": 4993, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__47575104", "lang": "en", "text": "When love quotes for wife are used, they are like flowers which bloom at least once in everybody’s life. Using these love quotes on your wife is the time when she feels on the seventh heaven and ninth cloud. In order words, when you fall in love it is very obvious you would like to pour your heart to the one who rules it.\nThe love quotes for wife from husband expresses the deepest feelings which mere words can’t. These romantic love messages for wife can be added in your love letters, and also sent as text messages.\nAt a touch of love, everyone becomes a poet is a famous quote about love by Plato. This is very true as and when the person falls in love. All his feelings come out in the form of a poem. Love quotes for wife can be in any language but the feeling remains the same. It is not easy to define love but these famous quotes on love describe every mood of it. It is very true when Henry Ward Beecher says, I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.Heart touching love quotes to build an unbreakable love life #lovelife #lovequotes #love Click To Tweet\nAbove all, It doesn’t matter if you are newly fallen in love or bask in the glory and passion of love. You can include these deep love messages for a wife either in your e-card or valentine cards and cherish your love. There are some quotes with the tinge of humour, which allows both the lover and the beloved to smile. As a result, bringing joy and fun in the relationship.\nBelow are some famous in love quotes for wife from husband to help build and strengthen your love lives.\nTable of Content\n- Love quotes for wife\n- Love quotes for wife from husband\n- Romantic love quotes for wife\n- Heart touching love quotes for wife\n- Deep love messages for wife\n- Love messages for wife from husband\n- Love messages for wife\n- Short love quotes for wife\n- Famous in love quotes for wife\n- Best love quotes for wife\n- Emotional love quotes for wife\nFAMOUS LOVE QUOTES FOR WIFE\nA hardworking wife that supports and stands by you during good times and hard times, is a wife that should be treasured every day. Showering her with these famous in love quotes will bring a smile to her face and loving feelings to her heart. This also shows how much of a world she means to you.Famous love quotes for your better half. #lovequotes #love #quotes Click To Tweet\n1. Your smile is the reason why I have a twinkle in my eye and love in my heart.\n2. You rang the bell to my heart, and it echoes “I love you.”\n3. You may not hold my hand for long, but you hold my heart forever.\n4. I promise to handle your heart with care and treasure it with love.\n5. The power of your smile should never be underestimated. It melts my heart and touches my soul.\n6. You are the winner and the sole owner of my heart.\n7. Loving and romancing you is my hobby.\n8. My heart skips and sings whenever you are near.\n9. Your flaws are perfect for the heart that is meant to love you.\n10. Your smile is intoxicating. It lingers, it captivates my heart.\n11. You’re gonna have to stop being so gorgeous because my heart is about to beat completely out of my chest.\n12. Thank you for stealing my eyes from the crowd and stealing my heart from me.\n13. I surrendered my heart to you the day we met.\n14. I’ll forever carry you and hold you in my heart.\n15. My heart is guaranteed 100% yours.\n16. You are the icing on my cake, the A to my OK and the heart to my soul.\n17. I promise to handle your heart with care and treasure it with love.\nLOVE QUOTES FOR WIFE FROM HUSBANDlove quotes for wife from husband #lovequotes #relationship Click To Tweet\n18. The power of your smile should never be underestimated. It melts my heart and touches my soul.\n19. I crown you the Queen of my heart.\n20. You are the winner and the sole owner of my heart.\n21. You have captivated my heart and soul forever.\n22. In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine\n23. You are the rainbow in my sky, you are the sun in my life, you are the half that makes me whole, you are my heart, and you are my soul.\n24. You are the light that guides my life, you are the road that leads me home, you are the keeper of my heart.\n25. You are sorta, kinda, pretty much always, 24/7 in my mind and my heart.\n26. I love you and will love you forever, I love you with all my heart. And will always love you.\n27. With every beat of my heart, my love for you grows stronger. You’re the rhythm that keeps me steady on the march through life.\n28. You have the key to my heart, and it’s eternally yours. My heart belongs solely to you.\n29. I promise to hold you forever in my heart as long as I live, and I promise to love you until my last breath.\n30. You gave your smile to me; you gave your heart to me, you gave me everything that I will ever need.\n31. Home is where my heart is, home is with you.\n32. There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.\nROMANTIC LOVE QUOTES FOR WIFERomantic love quotes for wife #lovequotes #marriage Click To Tweet\n33. It’s going to be one of such great nights again. So great because you made my day, my dear. Thanks for being there all the time. Good night.\n34. No one else loves me the way you do. No one else makes me feel the way you do. I am loving you all my life for this.\n35. I wake in the morning thinking about you and lay down at night with the same beautiful thought on my mind.\n36. You have no idea of the amount of happiness you brought into my life.\n37. There is no other woman in the world like you. I am the luckiest man alive to be able to call you mine.\n38. You are, and always have been, my dream girl. Even before I met you, your vision was in my mind just as you are.\n39. Everything you do is a source of joy for me. I can never be sad when I’m around you.\n40. I sit here all day waiting for the moment I’ll see your face, and maybe I’ll get a hug. So disappointing that it all ended a daydream.\n41. When I think of how lovely my heart always comes, I wish I climb the highest of mountains to tell how it has ever been having my life around yours. Good night my heart.\n42. Just when I thought of giving up to the fate that true love doesn’t exist, you came and showed me the best of it. Thanks for being you for me.\n43. If my love is a vehicle, you are sure the fuel that ever has been giving it all it takes to move. You are my very best, forevermore.\nHEART TOUCHING AFFECTION SAYINGS FOR WIFE\nLoving your wife with all your heart, without any uneasiness or doubt is a sure guarantee formula for a successful marriage. Use these heart touching love quotes for wife to make her feel loved daily.Heart touching affection sayings for wife #lovequotes #marriage Click To Tweet\n44. For you, I may be just one person, but for me, you are the world.\n45. I promise to always treat you like a queen. You reign over my heart, and your wish is my command.\n46. Two hearts ran to the end of the world. They recognized each other’s eyes at the final border of the end and infinity. At that particular moment, they hugged each other. No one dares to separate them.\n47. Everything you do is a source of joy for me. I can never be sad when I’m around you.\n48. If there was a card which said the right words, I would have bought it, but there wasn’t, that’s why I’m writing this… I Love You!\n49. I don’t have much to give you. I’m not a rich man. What I can promise is that everything I do will be for you, always.\n50. In my hands is this heart. I want you to have it because I’m so clumsy, so I’m afraid I’ll lose it or easily give it to someone else.\n51. There is no finer day than a day with you by my side. Thank you for all that you are.\n52. Just seeing your face brightens even my darkest of days. Your light shines on all that I do.\n53. Just when I thought that I couldn’t be any happier, I see you, and that all changes once again.\n54. No matter where you go, I’ll be by your side. Our unbreakable bonds mean we will be as one forever and face the world together.\nDEEP LOVE MESSAGES FOR WIFEDeep love messages for wife #marriage #love #lovequotes Click To Tweet\n55. I see you in every person I see. I feel you in anything, I thought. Sad, my day will end again without you in it. How I wish you are here.\n56. All my days with you are days worth living. I’ve forgotten what it feels like to be alone.\n57. You are my hay when the sun shines, my night stars when darkness calls. You are sure my all in all — Goodnight, my love.\n58. If you dare, take my hand and take me to where your heart is. I want to feel what it’s like to love like you.\n59. You beautiful woman of my life, you took it all from me. I took it all from you. So today, we can blackmail each other.\n60. If sixty seconds would ever make a minute and 24 hours would make a day, I want to spend it all with you throughout the year. I am best with you.\n61. Do they say love gives you wings but is that why I’m in seventh heaven?\n62. Can anything be more valuable than our love? Since you are with me, my only measurement is in heartbeats.\n63. All the little things you do warm my heart. You are a constant source of joy in my life.\n64. I promise to always treat you like a queen because you reign over my heart.\n65. Touch my heart with your fingers, and you will hear the most wonderful heartbeats dedicated only to you.\nLOVE MESSAGES FOR WIFE FROM HUSBAND\n66. There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment. But you’ve slipped under my skin, invaded my blood, and seized my heart.\n67. The influence of your love is assured. It has knocked out me spot how much I love you. Your strength, beauty, and love fill out me with pleasure. When the situation is not right, you keep me in your safe hands.\n68. My wife is my life; just being near you fill my heart with love. Sweetie! I love you.\n69. The game is my wife. It loads loyalty and concern, and it returns me joy and peace.\n70. True love does not have an ending, that’s why I will love you forever.\n71. You’re the best gift I’ve ever received in my life and it is because of you that I want to work hard and move forward in my life.\n72. My love for you is boundless. I love you to the moon and back.\n73. You brighten up my day just like how the sun lights up the earth.\n74. You can make the clouds go away and paint the sky with the brightest colours of our love!\n75. I may have made some stupid mistakes in my life. But everything became right ever since the day you became mine. I love you.\n76. You are the reason for my happiness, I love you so much!\n77. Just When I Thought Of Giving Up To The Fate That True Love Doesn’t Exist, You Came And Showed Me The Best Of It.\n78. I am very thankful that you are my wife. I will always cherish and love you.\nAPPRECIATION MESSAGES FOR YOUR BETTER HALF\nHere are my favourite love messages for my wife that melts her heart and makes her feel special when I use them.Appreciation messages for your better half #lovequotes #marriage Click To Tweet\n79. Babe, I can’t thank you enough for deciding to be mine for the rest of your life. You have indeed blessed me beyond measure by being my beloved wife and best friend.\n80. One-touch, one kiss or even a single thought of you can fix my heart, bring peace to my soul and make me smile.\n81. When I am low, you give me hope. Thank you for being there for me. I love you, my dear wife.\n82. My heart beats for you. I would cross the world just to say I love you.\n83. Dear wife, my love is only yours. You fill all my heart with happiness. I am thankful to have you as my wife. I love you, my queen.\n84. Life is worthless without a caring and loving wife like you.\n85. You fill my heart with love. I am always addicted to you. I love you so much, my dear wife!\n86. When I first saw you, a feeling of happiness and peace-filled my life and since then it has only grown stronger.\n87. They Say Love Hurts, But I’m Ready to Take That Risk If I’m Going to Be with You.\n88. You are the blessing that I prayed for and waited for many years. I thank almighty for giving me you as my wife. I love you.\n89. My dear wife, the many reasons for being still crazy I live with you is the reason for the smile on my face.\n90. Ever since the day we got married I have felt that I am living in heaven, because I have an angel by my side. I love you.\nSHORT APPRECIATION SAYINGS FOR HERShort appreciation sayings for wife to build the perfect marriage life. #lovequotes #marriage Click To Tweet\n91. With You, I Realized What It Means To Live Life To The Fullest And To Enjoy Every Breath.\n92. You are the princess of my dreams and the woman I ever wanted to be my wife! I love you and I will always do!\n93. I’m Right Behind You, I Support You And I Want All Your Dreams To Come True.\n94. We are a team and there is no “we” without you, I truly love you.\n95. I found my life’s true meaning because of you since the day you married me. My beautiful wife, I love you!\n96. You are my beloved wife, and there’s nothing more important to me in this life than you. Your sweet love is the sole reason why my soul is joyful.\n97. There were times I love to hate you. And then I love to love you. It’s like I want to throw you off a cliff, then rush to the bottom to catch you.\n98. To have you as my woman is my honour. Be with me always!\n99. I love my life because it gave me you, I love you because you are my life.\n100. You show me your love in a way that brings me down to my knees.\n101. Love is a contradiction, it’s hard to find but easy to lose, makes you feel good but hurts so bad, opens your eyes but makes you blind, fills up your heart then tears it apart.\n102. My success means nothing without you in my life.\n103. The road of life with a wife like you is like a roller coaster that I’m lucky to ride on. I send all my love to you my dear!\n104. I would climb a thousand mountains to see you smile.\nFAMOUS IN LOVE QUOTES FOR WIFEFamous in love quotes for wife #lovequotes #marriage Click To Tweet\n105. Your heart is full of love and affection. Your hands are always caring. I am lucky to have you as my wife\n106. I love you more than anything in my life. You are the rose that makes my life beautiful!\n107. Life has never been better, thanks to you, sweetheart!\n108. To the love of my life, I wish you have the best out of today. Perfection in all you set your heart to do. Stay great and lovely for me, dear. Love you.\n109. Sometimes I wonder if love is worth fighting for. Then I look at you. I’m ready for war.\n110. If being crazy in love with you is a mental illness, then you might as well book me a one-way ticket to the mental asylum.\n111. One text from you changes my whole mood.\n112. I only saw you for a second, but it made my day.\n113. No matter how secure I would ever make my heart, you will remain the only one with uninterrupted access. Don’t ask why you just deserve it!\n114. I love you more than words can define, feelings can express and thought can imagine.\n115. Show me a good night, and I will tell you of a day that ended well. You always make my day. Good night my joy.\n116. Gloomy is the description of my day without you. I am feeling your absence so much, my dear.\n117. It is not being in love that makes me happy… but it’s being in love with you that makes me happy.\n118. Waking up with your thought in me makes me fit for the day, more than a rigorous exercise would. Thanks for your numerous love and care. I love you.\nBEST AFFECTION QUOTES FOR HER\n119. The hardest thing I could ever do is to forget about you.\n120. Your kindness and super care always make me wonder what life would have been without you. You are my hero, and I love you eternally.\n121. There are only two times that I want to be with you… Now and Forever.\n122. My heart for you will never break, my smile for you will never fade. My love for you will never end. I love you!\n123. If I could be anything, I would be your tear, so I could be born in your eye, live down your cheek, and die on your lips.\n124. When you need someone to be there for you, I’ll be right there by your side always!\n125. When I looked at my past, I saw something missing and then the reason it was so bad. You in my present, I look at my future and how complete it is!\n126. One day it finally came true, the special someone that I loved, loved me too, and that special someone was you.\n127. I am tired of life, a day, a night without you. So sad to know that you are this far away from me. I miss you dearly.\n128. Good morning my love, my angel. I bet you had a sweet dream. Just checking on you. Have a great day ahead.\n129. I miss you in every step I take and in every move I make. I miss you a lot, and As long as there is me, your heart will be the best it can ever be. To keep your heart unbroken is a promise I am willing to keep. I love you.\nAFFECTION SAYINGS FOR HER\n130. I dropped a tear in the ocean, the day that I find it is the day I’ll stop loving you.\n131. I love you, as I have never loved another or ever will again, I love you with all that I am and all that I will ever be.\n132. When you feel alone, just look at the spaces between your fingers, and remember that’s where my fingers fit perfectly.\n133. I don’t think you understand how important it is for me to hear the sound of your voice every day.\n134. My love for you keeps increasing every second.\n135. In the morning, in the afternoon or at night, my love for you is ever super – a reminder! Have a great day ahead of my happiness.\n136. You deserve all of me, you deserve my morning, night, and noon. Also, you deserve my present and future because you are my very best. I love you.\n137. I’d rather spend one moment holding you than a lifetime knowing I never could.\n138. I wish you more than you wish me for the day. I wish you smiles and laughter birthed by sweet memories. Have the best of your day, dear.\n139. Letting your wife know that you love her and appreciate all the things that she does for you will always be easy with these sweet words of love.\n140. Just like a candle burns it flame, my heart burns it’s everlasting love for you.\nIt is with no doubt that these love messages and quotes will light a loving fire in your wife’s mind and heart. Telling her how much of a world she is to you with these love quotes for wife, is mind-blowing.\nIf you did enjoy these love quotes, please ensure you share them with your love ones to make them happy. Also, share to your favourite media groups to help create more romantic husbands.\nLearn her love language, and then use it every day.\nDate your wife.\nMake her feel special (don’t take the relationship for granted).\nUse some imagination.\nTake care of yourself.\nSay I love you and say it often.\nBe a gentleman.\nMake sure you say “I Love You” at least once each day to your spouse.\nWrite unexpected love notes.\nWhen your spouse asks for a favour, consider saying “as you wish.\nGive your mate an unexpected hug, a surprisingly romantic kiss, or a teasing tickle often.\nYou are beautiful. Every woman wants to be beautiful.\nThank you for all the little things you do.\nYou are smart.\nI am a better man because I am with you.\nTell me about your day.\nI need you.\nSit down and put your feet up.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.gospelpolitics.com/gospel-and-the-poor.html", "date": "2017-04-27T01:10:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121778.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00084-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9780651330947876, "token_count": 1983, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__88934085", "lang": "en", "text": "He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.\nNo one disagrees that Christians should care for, help and give to the poor. Most will even go along with the idea that helping the poor is part of \"doing\" the gospel. After all, there is nothing Jesus spoke more strongly about:\nWhen the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.'\nThen the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' The King will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.' Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.'\nThey also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.\nEveryone agrees helping the poor is a good thing for a Christian to do. Most even believe it's part of the gospel. Unfortunately, some Christians think God only wants us to care for the poor with our personal charity; by sharing our private wealth. Somehow, they believe God doesn't care whether we promote public, social, and community policies that care for, help and give to the poor – or whether we promote the opposite policies.\nJust as many conservative Christians seem to want to limit the gospel, so they also want to limit the biblical mandate for helping the poor. [I should clarify that I am mostly talking about white conservative Christian churches. If you visit a black conservative Christian church, you will see they \"get\" it.] These folks argue that the biblical mandate to care for the poor is an individual thing; not a community thing; not a government thing; not a political thing.\nConservative (usually evangelical, and of course, Republican) Christians argue that by advocating social and economic policies beneficial to the poor, we essentially are trying to force others (like rich people) to give to the poor. Conservatives argue that's not what the scriptures command; not what Christian values compel.\nBut, this simply is not true. First, as discussed in detail at the gospel and government, to say that Christians need only be concerned with individual charity, not systemic justice, is to ignore the reality of the world we live in. It is also to ignore the clear imperatives of scripture.\nDo not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.\nDuring the seventh year, let the land lie unplowed and unused. Then the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.\nWhen you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.\nHowever, there should be no poor among you, for in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess as your inheritance, he will richly bless you.\nDefend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed. Rescue the weak and needy; deliver them from the hand of the wicked.\nFor he stands at the right hand of the needy one, to save his life from those who condemn him.\nI know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.\nI know that the LORD secures justice for the poor and upholds the cause of the needy.\nA ruler who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain that leaves no crops.\nThe righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.\nSpeak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.\nLearn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.\nWoe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.\nHe defended the cause of the poor and needy, and so all went well. Is that not what it means to know me? declares the LORD.\nNow this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.\nSo I will come near to you for judgment. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive aliens of justice, but do not fear me,' says the LORD Almighty.\nWhen Jesus heard this, he said to him, You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.\nI'll end with a couple quotes; both excellent. One from a Southern Baptist pastor; another from a liberal Christian.\nIf our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to question just how effective we will be in declaring the glory of Christ to the ends of the earth. More pointedly, if our lives do not reflect radical compassion for the poor, there is reason to wonder if Christ is really in us at all.\nYou and I both have a choice. We can stand with the starving or with the overfed. We can identify with poor Lazarus on his way to heaven or with the rich man on his way to hell.\nDavid Platt, Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream, pg. 111 and 140.\nThere was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and lived in luxury every day. At his gate was laid a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores and longing to eat what fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores. The time came when the beggar died and the angels carried him to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away, with Lazarus by his side. So he called to him, 'Father Abraham, have pity on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony in this fire.'\nBut Abraham replied, 'Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony. And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.' He answered, 'Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.' Abraham replied, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.' No, father Abraham,' he said, 'but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.' He said to him, 'If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.\nAs Mark Rosenfelder says:\nThere isn't the least suggestion that the rich man being punished in hell was responsible for Lazarus's condition... except in the most general sense: he was responsible as a fellow human being, as a man who was aware of the one suffering at his door and did nothing to help.\n\"Pleading the cause\" of the poor, being their advocate and defender, is simply something a righteous person does. Are you someone who, when others are silent, advocates for the poor in your company, your church, your nation, your political party?\n+1 Gospel Politics", "domain": "literature"}
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{"url": "https://www.vbqspeakers.com/speaker/viv-groskop/", "date": "2024-02-21T11:08:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00134.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9302858710289001, "token_count": 465, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__186399109", "lang": "en", "text": "Viv Groskop is an award-winning comedian, author and TV presenter. In the corporate sector she is a renowned keynote speaker and executive performance coach, specialising in training senior women for advanced leadership roles and creating meaningful conversations about diversity and post-pandemic work culture.\nAs a performer, she is known for her creative and ambitious five star sold-out Edinburgh Fringe shows Anchorwoman (2017), Be More Margo (2016) and Say Sorry to the Lady (2015). Her podcast We Are Women was shortlisted for Podcast of the Year at the Audio Production Awards 2017.\nHer book, How To Own The Room: Women And The Art Of Brilliant Speaking (November 2018) – was the first book on public speaking aimed solely at women.\nOn her podcast of the same name, Viv Groskop interviews inspirational women who reveal the secrets of brilliant speaking. It’s a concise, practical burst of advice and from women from all walks of life — some famous names, some working behind the scenes. Participants have included Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, Elif Shafak, Julie Andrews and Professor Mary Beard.\nHer 2020 follow-up, Lift As You Climb: Women And The Art Of Ambition, has received much critical acclaim.\nIn 2023, Viv published Happy High Status: How to Be Effortlessly Confident.\nShe has also authored two other best-selling books, I Laughed, I Cried (Orion), about her late-in-life career change from journalism to stand-up comedy, and The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature (Penguin), about solving life’s problems by reading Tolstoy.\nFor more information on Viv Groskop’s speaking topics, availability and fees, contact Leo von Bülow-Quirk at email@example.com.\nVIV GROSKOP: SPEAKER\nViv is passionate about women achieving their potential in the workplace, and is known for her ability to drive inspiring and inclusive conversations about diversity, resilience, leadership and collaboration in the post-pandemic workplace.\nShe delivers her keynotes with her trademark authenticity and wit, and is also an excellent moderator.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://adventurehacks.com/adventurous-quotes/", "date": "2024-04-18T15:31:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00577.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9327113628387451, "token_count": 1841, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__171915913", "lang": "en", "text": "20 Great Quotes To Inspire You To Be More Adventurous\nEstimated reading time: 11 minutes\nSometimes all it takes is an emotion invoking thought to inspire us to take real action in life, and the right one can change everything. I have put together a list of the top 20 quotes to inspire you to get out there and be more adventurous!\nThe awesome thing is, your decision to be more adventurous and open to life, not only enhances your own, but can also changes the lives of others. Letting our own light shine often gives others the unconscious ability to do the same.\n20 Quotes To Inspire An Adventurous You\n“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.” -Helen Keller\nLife is going to happen whether we like it or not. So either embrace it and maximize the potential of every new moment, or play victim and hide from the world. The choice is yours.\n“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” -G.K Chesterton\nLife itself is an adventure! Let go of the fear of the unknown and realize that the idea “control” is just a persistent illusion.\n“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” -Mark Twain\nMost times, the only thing that holds us back from life, is a misconstrued fear of living. We get so stuck in our habits that any type of move out of the ordinary makes us uneasy and has us looking for excuses not to live life to the fullest. For me, fear is an acronym:\nFalse Expectations Appearing Real.\n“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” -W.M. Lewis\nIf you wait until it “feels right” before making a move or taking action, you’ll never accomplish much of anything. The journey towards the goal is the reward.\n“The only question in life is whether or not you are going to answer a hearty ‘YES!’ to your adventure.” -Joseph Campbell\nAre you noticing a theme? This life in and of itself is a grand adventure. Once you release your focus on the things that you don’t have or don’t “like” and embrace that which you do, your awareness makes a shift and suddenly you’ll find yourself engulfed in the beauty of the present moment.\n“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass\nFor most people the main goal in life is to be happy. Remaining present is a key element in happiness and the only way we’re able to remain present is by leaving “what if” and “I cant” at the door and getting excited about this exact moment.\n“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.” – William Feather\nNobody knows how or why it is that we perceive a non physical sense of I. We all want answers and we all want to feel a sense of purpose, the thing is, when the universe is infinite, we decide what to live for and manifest reality as we go. What do you live for?\n“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.” -Alan Cohen\nNothing ever really ends, things simply change. Embrace the change and discover how refreshing it is to be aware of the constant new beginning known as life.\n“Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming – “WOW – What a Ride!” -Unknown\nThis is how I’ve tried to live my life since I was a youngster. I want my very limiting physical senses to get their money’s worth and truly experience this strange perception we’ve come to know as reality from this physical density.\n“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” ~Helen Keller\nThink about it. You’re on a floating mass of rock and liquid water, that spinds at thousands of miles per hour by itself in the middle of total darkness. What is it that you’re truly in control of, other than your thoughts (and that’s debatable).\n“Be brave enough to live creatively. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can only get there by hard work, by risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful: Yourself.” -Alan Alda\nBe brave. Go with the pull.\n“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” -Maria Robinson\nLearn to let go and be change! Don’t procrastinate on truly living.\n“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” -Keri Russell\n“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” -Mark Jenkins\nI’ve found no better way to remain present than through a good adventure. The more you realize this, the more present you remain, and the more adventures you begin to have – without trying.\n“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” -Jawaharial Nehru\nI’ve got two rules when my team of nomads (The Loudpack) and I are adventuring – We never say, “I can’t” and we are never lost. Those two rules make for some epic memories.\n“A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.” -English Proverb\nGo big or go home.\n“If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.” -Johann Friedrick von Schiller\nHeard that. If it’s new, it has the potential to be exciting or at the very least, enlightening. Embrace the moment, and any situation can still be a win.\n“And the day came when the wish to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”-Anais Nin\nLife is meant for living. Step out of your comfort zone to embrace spontaneity and the unknown.\n“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” -Andre Gide\nAdventure’s are honest, challenging and very revealing.\n“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt\nHope these quotes inspire you to be more adventurous jsut as they do for me! What quotes inspire your to be most adventurous and live your life to the fullest? Tell us in the comments sections below! And if you liked this post, please share it with your friends and followers on the top of the page.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://gfxdomain.co/2013/01/h-r-gigers-alien-32015.html", "date": "2023-12-08T02:33:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100710.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208013411-20231208043411-00849.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8761272430419922, "token_count": 119, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__257962070", "lang": "en", "text": "H.R. Giger’s Alien\nPDF | 76 Pages | 46.87 MB\nA complete record of the months of work that went into the design of the alien in the popular film. The book is written by the horror designer himself and illustrated throughout in integrated full colour with sketches, original paintings, photographs and scenes from the film.\n–This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\nHome Page: _http://www.amazon.com/Gigers-Alien-H-R-Giger/dp/1883398088", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sjncc.weconnect.com/Prayers", "date": "2022-06-27T09:15:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103329963.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20220627073417-20220627103417-00293.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9238852262496948, "token_count": 775, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__131423890", "lang": "en", "text": "Our Father, who art in heaven,\nhallowed be thy name;\nthy kingdom come;\nthy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.\nGive us this day our daily bread;\nand forgive us our trespasses,\nas we forgive those who trespass against us;\nand lead us not into temptation,\nbut deliver us from evil.\nHail Mary, full of grace,\nthe Lord is with thee.\nBlessed art thou among women,\nand blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.\nHoly Mary, Mother of God,\npray for us sinners, now,\nand at the hour of our death.\nGlory be to the Father\nand to the Son\nand to the Holy Spirit.\nAs it was in the beginning\nis now and ever shall be\nworld without end.\nMerciful Father, You have given me\nall that I have in this world, even life\nitself. In all my daily needs, help me to\nremember the needs of others too.\nMake me aware of the need to pray to\nYou not just for myself but for the\nChurch, the Pope, for the clergy and for\npeople who suffer any need.\nMake me selfless as Saint John Neumann\nwas. Throughout my life, give me the\ngrace to direct my first thoughts\nto the service of You and of others.\nMake my prayer—“Your will be\ndone” knowing that in Your mercy and\nlove, Your will for me is my sanctification.\nI ask this through Jesus Christ, our Lord.\nSaint John Neumann, pray for us.\nPrayer provided by: Saint John Neumann Center, Philadelphia, PA.\nLet nothing disturb you,\nLet nothing frighten you,\nAll things are passing away:\nGod never changes.\nPatience obtains all things\nWhoever has God lacks nothing;\nGod alone suffices.\nLord, make me an instrument of Thy peace;\nWhere there is hatred, let me sow love;\nWhere there is injury, pardon;\nWhere there is error, the truth;\nWhere there is doubt, the faith;\nWhere there is despair, hope;\nWhere there is darkness, light;\nAnd where there is sadness, joy.\nO Divine Master,\nGrant that I may not so much seek\nTo be consoled, as to console;\nTo be understood, as to understand;\nTo be loved as to love.\nFor it is in giving that we receive;\nIt is in pardoning that we are pardoned;\nAnd it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.\nGod, grant me the serenity to accept\nthe things I cannot change;\ncourage to change the things I\ncan, and wisdom to know the difference.\nLiving one day at a time, enjoying\none moment at a time;\nAccepting hardship as pathway to peace;\ntaking, as Jesus did, this world as it\nis, not as I would have it;\nTrusting that you will make all things\nright if I surrender to your will;\nSo that I may be reasonably happy in\nthis life and supremely happy\nwith you forever in the next.\nBless us, O Lord, and these your gifts which we are about to receive from your bounty.\nThrough Christ our Lord.\nWe give you thanks, almighty God, for all your gifts, who lives and reigns, for ever and ever.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://martinimeditations.com/stop-telling-me-just-be/", "date": "2020-10-29T01:46:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107902683.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20201029010437-20201029040437-00589.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9422909021377563, "token_count": 409, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__83700905", "lang": "en", "text": "In a noisy world, how often do we continue to explain ourselves, defend ourselves, speak so loudly, when our truth is in the ability to just be.\nStop. Just Be.\nI am tired of hearing words. People speak. Loved ones speak. I speak.\nThere are narratives around me, around us, everywhere.\nAnd they keep speaking. The voices are so loud. The pictures, the snippets of life. The words that mean only that I was able to come up with something snappy. And I posted. I wrote. I called. I blogged.\nI hear and hear and hear and see. You and me both.\nI hear the chatter and surmise and share and defend.\nAnd although I love the words, the pictures, the snippets.\nThe reality is in your face when you speak to me, your body language.\nThe reality is in you showing up, showing respect, listening, answering thoughtfully, giving back, and sharing.\nThe closeness, the meaning, the connection is the way I remember you in front of me, the things you do, the way you communicate with me, the things we share, we plan, we create.\nSo stop telling me who you are. I will stop defending me.\nI will quit listening to all the voices, all the input, all the noise.\nAnd I will sit for a moment and see, just see. I will not talk. I will watch and listen. I will be still.\nI will see you. You will see me.\nInstead of imagining the way I will explain something.\nOr how you will explain it to me.\nI will just be. You will be.\nAnd we will be free.\nFree from explaining.\nFree from our voices and snippets and pictures.\nSafe space. Quiet. Just be.\nAnd there I will see\nWhat you meant to show me\nBecause it is just that\nWho you truly be.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mikecommito.ca/hockey-365/", "date": "2023-06-06T13:45:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652569.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606114156-20230606144156-00434.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9426833391189575, "token_count": 1539, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__51720390", "lang": "en", "text": "I have a book! It’s called Hockey 365: Daily Stories from the Ice. Published by Dundurn Press, Hockey 365 is 365 short hockey history stories, one for every day of the year.\nA few seconds can make a game, even a season, and behind each play is a piece of history. Mike Commito (that’s me!) marks every day of the year with a great moment in hockey and shows how today’s game is part of an ongoing story that dates back to its origins on frozen ponds.\nFrom the National Hockey League’s first games in 1917 to Auston Matthews’s electrifying four-goal debut for the Maple Leafs in 2016, Hockey 365 has something for everyone and is sure to give you a better appreciation for the sport we all love.\nWhere to Buy\nYou can buy Hockey 365 wherever you like to get books. If you’re in Canada, you can grab a copy from Dundurn | Amazon.ca | Indigo | Kobo | Google Books | McNally Robinson or from your favourite independent bookseller.\nIf you’re in the United States, look for Hockey 365 at Amazon.com | Barnes & Noble | Books-A-Million | IndieBound.org | Kobo | Hudson Booksellers | Google Books\nIf you want a signed book for a friend or loved one, drop me a line at mcommito [@] gmail.com and I can mail you a copy if you pick up the postage.\nRate and Review\nIf you’ve read and enjoyed Hockey 365, please consider reviewing it on Amazon or wherever you purchased the book.\nA must have for anyone who considers themselves a hockey fan. Hockey 365 takes the vast, seemingly overwhelming history of the game and measures it out in an easy to enjoy structure. The biggest challenge is only to read one entry per day. I’m happy to say I failed that particular challenge – Colin Hanks, actor and director\nHockey 365 is a treat. I’ve long been a fan of Mike Commito for his knowledge and passion for hockey (check out his Twitter timeline for proof), so it’s no surprise that this book turned out the way it did. Great stories told by a historian who takes pride in getting his facts right. I really enjoyed this book – Jeff Marek, NHL/CHL host on Sportsnet and 31 Thoughts\nHockey 365 displays the history of the sport in a unique way, reminding us that every single day of the year has some momentous achievement or quirky happening. Like everyone else, I went to my birthday first, and now I know I was born on the day that Ken Dryden faced his brother in goal, making NHL history – Greg Wyshynski, ESPN\nOne of my most favourite regular segments in any sport is the “This Day in History” type format that brings up great memories of moments, games, people, places and things that happened on that particular day. Mike has done a fabulous job going much deeper to what we basically rip and read off the wire service. It is a very entertaining and informative look at great hockey stories and moments that happened throughout the 365 days of the normal calendar year. An easy read! A fun read! An entertaining read! An informative read – Gord Stellick, former Toronto Maple Leafs GM and analyst on Sportsnet\nA veritable cornucopia of hockey history and knowledge – Bob McKenzie, TSN Hockey Insider\nWhat great fun to have a daily hockey story for inspiration. Mike Commito’s Hockey 365 is a delight for fans of the greatest game. From the Stanley to the Clarkson Cup, from Ballard to Rheaume, from Gretzky to Bure – and a whole bunch of stories you never knew but will be glad you now do – Roy MacGregor, author of Wayne Gretzky’s Ghost: And Other Tales from a Lifetime in Hockey\nMike Commito has long been one of my favorite hockey historians. He has a knack for digging up the game’s most fascinating moments and making them accessible to new fans and grizzled diehards alike. No matter how much of the sport’s history you think you already know, you’ll learn a ton from this book – Sean McIndoe, author of The Down Goes Brown History of the NHL\nMike’s daily snapshots of moments in time are the perfect reminder for why we love the game – Frank Seravalli, Senior Hockey Reporter for TSN\nMike Commito’s Hockey 365 can please and inform both die hard and casual fans. He even provides a twist or two on some of the most obvious dates on the hockey calendar. This book is proof that hockey happens 365 days a year – Ken Reid, Sportnet Central anchor and hockey author\nAny hockey fan worth a pair of skate laces or stick tape will tell you there’s no such thing as trivia in the game, because no fact, no story or no event is trivial. In Hockey 365, author, historian and unabashed fan Mike Commito has assembled myriad facts, stories and events, a delicious feast that takes fans day by day through a calendar year, sewing it all together with a thread that links the past with the present. Times have changed and hockey has evolved, and yet, so much remains the same. You’ll enjoy every page of Hockey 365, well beyond the number of days in its title. The beauty of this sport is its wonderful shelf life, something you can say as well for Mike’s book, a terrific addition to any hockey library – Dave Stubbs, NHL.com Columnist/Historian\nAn interesting read for hockey fans of all ages. For some it will be an education in the history of our great game. For others, it will bring back many terrific memories. Or both – Scott Morrison, NHL on Sportsnet commentator\nI am stuck between loving the memory or trying to forget the day I got scored on by my younger brother in an NHL game but Hockey 365 is making sure I will never be able to forget it ever happened!! When I first started to read the book I planned on jumping ahead to that faithful day, November 24th, but from the first page I was hooked and quickly I was mesmerized by all these great events that shaped the history of the game. I read through the whole thing once and now I love to go back every morning to find out what historical event happened in the hockey world that day – Martin Biron, former NHL goaltender and NHL analyst\nMike Commito is one of hockey’s best historians. This collection of the game’s best stories is a triumph of his passion and insight — and is sure to enthrall hockey fans from every generation – Dan Robson, Sportsnet senior writer, author of Quinn and Bower\nFor all of us who live hockey every single day of the year (guilty), Hockey 365 is perfect. A great mix of history and storytelling that will only fuel your passion for the game – James Duthie, TSN\nHaving been in hockey my whole life, following the history of the NHL has always been a passion of mine. Hockey 365 is pure gold for anyone who loves the game of hockey. I couldn’t put it down. Mike’s ability to translate stories and events from all eras of the game makes it a MUST read for any fan – Jamie McLennan, former NHL goaltender", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl/about.html", "date": "2017-10-22T13:48:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187825264.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20171022132026-20171022152026-00131.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8955761790275574, "token_count": 469, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__214344805", "lang": "en", "text": "About This Journal\nStudies in Scottish Literature (or SSL) was founded in 1963 by G. Ross Roy (1924-2013), and he was its only editor for nearly fifty years (vols. 1-36). In 2012, Professor Roy donated rights to the journal to the University of South Carolina Libraries, so that it could continue under new editorship.\nIn its new series, Studies in Scottish Literature is still published from the University of South Carolina, open to contributions on all periods and genres of Scottish literature. It continues, too, to welcome articles that explore the interrelations between Scottish literature and other literatures, and between traditionally literary approaches and research undertaken from other disciplinary perspectives. After many years as an annual volume, the journal is moving to two issues a year for a trial period, beginning in spring 2016, allowing publication of more articles and we hope a shorter time-to-publication.\nEditorial Contact Information\nPatrick Scott, Editor, Studies in Scottish Literature, Irvin Department, University of South Carolina Libraries, Columbia, SC 29208, USA\nTony Jarrells, Editor, Studies in Scottish Literature, Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA\nJournal Formats: Digital and Print\nStudies in Scottish Literature is now produced in two formats:\n1. In a digital version, available at http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/ssl\n2. As a print-on-demand paperback (beginning with volume 37). This can be purchased by individuals or libraries through such on-line channels as Amazon, Amazon UK, or Amazon Europe, or direct from the printer at https://www.createspace.com. No subscriptions for the print version should be mailed to the University or editors. Copies for the UK and Europe are printed in the UK, greatly reducing shipping costs and delivery time. Libraries, library serial vendors, and retailers should consult CreateSpaceDirect, the alternative web-site at www.createspace.com/info/createspacedirect\nPlease note that, from SSL 40 on, the journal is no longer being produced in the previous hardback option. Some copies of earlier volumes (1-2, 13-39) remain available in hardback; inquiries should be sent by email to Patrick Scott.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://evangeliaministries.com/the-return-of-the-king/", "date": "2024-03-02T19:51:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475897.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302184020-20240302214020-00740.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9462550282478333, "token_count": 1334, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__165095433", "lang": "en", "text": "His sword is gird upon His thigh in His glory and majesty! And in His Majesty He rides on triumphantly for the cause of truth, humility, and righteousness.\nHe is clothed with honour and majesty which are above earth and heaven!\nHis throne is forever and ever; the sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of His Kingdom. He has loved righteousness (He has delighted in integrity, virtue, and uprightness in purpose, thought, and action) and He has hated lawlessness (injustice and iniquity), therefore His Godhead has anointed Him with the oil of exultant joy and gladness.\nHe is fairer than the children of men; graciousness is poured upon His lips.\nHis garments are all fragrant with myrrh, aloes, and cassia.\nHe is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, He Who is and Who was and Who is to come, the Almighty (the Ruler of all).\nHe stands in the midst of the lampstands, clothed with a robe reaching to His feet and with a girdle of gold about His breast.\nHis head and His hair are white like white wool, as white as snow, and His eyes flash like a flame of fire.\nHis feet glow like burnished bronze as it is refined in a furnace, and His voice is like the sound of many waters.\nHe is the only one worthy and entitled to open the scroll and to break its seals because He has overcome and conquered. He is the Lamb that was slain and with His blood He purchased men unto God from every tribe and language and people and nation.\nAs the Lamb Who was sacrificed, He is deserving to receive all the power and riches and wisdom and might and honour and majesty and blessing! And the power (might and dominion) forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities)!\nHeaven will open, and behold, a white horse shall appear! The One riding it is called Faithful (Trustworthy, Loyal, Incorruptible, Steady) and True, and He passes judgment and wages war in righteousness (holiness, justice, and uprightness).\nHis eyes blaze like a flame of fire, and on His head are many Kingly crowns (diadems); and He has a Title (Name) inscribed which He alone knows or can understand.\nHe is dressed in a robe dyed by dipping in blood, and the Title by which He is called is The Word of God.\nAnd the troops of heaven, clothed in fine linen, dazzling and clean, follow Him on white horses.\nAnd on His robe and on His thigh He has a Name (Title) inscribed,\nKING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS\nThose with Him and on His side are chosen and called (elected) and loyal and faithful followers.\nFrom His mouth goes forth a sharp sword with which He can smite (afflict, strike) the nations; and He will shepherd and control them with a staff (sceptre, rod) of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath and indignation of God the All-Ruler (the Almighty, the Omnipotent).\nBehold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth shall gaze upon Him and beat their breasts and mourn and lament over Him. Even so must it be. Amen (so be it).\nThe glory (majesty, splendour and excellency) of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together when they see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with great (transcendent and overwhelming) power and all His Kingly glory (majesty and splendour), and all the holy angels with Him.\nSalvation and glory (splendour and majesty) and power (dominion and authority) belong to our God!\nFor the Kingship and the Kingdom are the Lord’s, and He is the Ruler over the nations. His Kingdom rules over all.\nWho is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.\nWho is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory.\nThe nations shall fear and worshipfully revere the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth His glory.\nThe loud voices of heaven will proclaim “The dominion (Kingdom, Sovereignty, Rule) of the world has now come into the possession and become the Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ (the Messiah), and He shall reign forever and ever (for the eternities of the eternities)!”\nAnd there shall be no more night; we will have no need for lamplight or sunlight, for the Lord God will illuminate us and be our light, and we shall reign as kings forever and ever (through the eternities of the eternities).\nJoyfully, let us, as the radiant bride, turn to Him, the One altogether lovely, the Chief among ten thousand to our soul, and with unconcealed eagerness to begin our life of sweet companionship with Him, let us declare “Make haste, my Beloved, and come quickly, like a gazelle or a young hart and take us to our waiting home!”\nThe Holy Spirit and the bride (the church, believers) say, “Come!” And let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wishes take and drink the Water of Life without cost.\nLet us rejoice and shout for joy (exulting and triumphant)! Let us celebrate and ascribe to Him glory and honour, for the marriage of the Lamb at last has come, and His bride has prepared herself. She has been permitted to dress in fine radiant linen, dazzling and white, for the fine linen represents the righteousness (the upright, just, and godly living, deeds, and conduct, and right standing with God) of the saints (God’s holy people).\n“And behold, I am coming speedily. Blessed, happy and to be envied is he who observes and lays to heart and keeps the truths of the prophecy (the predictions, consolations, and warnings) contained in this book.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://trendforce.one/trendwatcher-in-the-spotlight-sci-fi-visionary-h-g-wells/", "date": "2024-04-20T16:37:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817670.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420153103-20240420183103-00016.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9659934043884277, "token_count": 1229, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__23593754", "lang": "en", "text": "- From a young, fanatical reader to science fiction icon\n- The Island of Dr Moreau: setting the basis for modern genetic engineering\n- Wells’ terrible prediction: the atomic bomb\n- The First Men in the Moon beats Armstrong\n- Wireless communication: once a sci-fi storyline, today a reality\n- Fictional ideas: what’s in it for today’s scientists?\n“I wander around the world as a common man and, as a common man, observe what is going on around me,” H.G. Wells once said. And he certainly observed a lot, digesting what he saw and offering startlingly accurate predictions of the future.\nFrom a young, fanatical reader to science fiction icon\nHerbert George Wells, often referred to as the founder of science fiction, was born in 1866 in London, and was an avid reader from an early age. At seven, he was already exploring works by Charles Dickens and Washington Irving. And after getting a scholarship at The Normal School of Science, Wells spent most of his time studying astronomy, biology, and chemistry, while still following his passion to read and write. After publishing his first novel, The Time Machine, Wells became an overnight success. The book dealt with both social and scientific topics, such as questions of meaning and humanity’s penchant for self-destruction – a trend that continued throughout his works. Following this success, he wrote The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds. The list, of course, goes on and on. At one point in his life, Wells was writing three novels a year, resulting in a huge volume of work that eventually totalled more than 100 books. Although Wells’ work left a deep mark on the society and time in which he lived, what distinguished him from other writers who might have shared similar visions, was his ability to predict the future, to see past the limitations of his era and imagine how technology would – and wouldn’t – change our lives.\nThe Island of Dr Moreau: setting the basis for modern genetic engineering\nIn his book, The Island of Dr Moreau, which was published in 1896, Wells introduces a mad doctor who conducts experiments on different animals, turning them into human hybrids. The idea that scientists were sometimes playing God later became a common theme, but Wells was among the first to explore it, following on the heels of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Although today’s scientists aren’t creating new animal species by assembling body parts, they’re working on growing compatible organs for human transplant through genetic engineering – far closer to Wells’ nightmare than Shelley’s. And despite ethical concerns, scientists have taken far more than the first step in this direction. As the Guardian reports, researchers managed to insert human cells into a pig embryo, a major breakthrough set to revolutionise the process of growing functional organs and tissues.\nWells’ terrible prediction: the atomic bomb\nAlmost 30 years before the Manhattan Project produced the world’s first nuclear weapon, H.G. Wells envisioned one of the most defining inventions of the 20th century. In his novel The World Set Free, Wells described a grenade that explodes indefinitely, a weapon of mass destruction that shares a terrible resemblance to future developments. His vision was so accurate that it even included a gigantic mushroom cloud and long-term radiation.\nThe First Men in the Moon beats Armstrong\nBut Wells didn’t predict only catastrophes such as the atomic bomb. The First Men in the Moon, a scientific romance published in 1901, 68 years before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, tells a story about two protagonists, a businessman and a scientist, who decide to take a trip to the Moon where they encounter numerous creatures referred to as “Selenites”. During their travel, they experience the weightlessness of space, and when they land on the Moon, they’re amazed by its low gravity. And although Neil Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the Moon, didn’t encounter strange creatures or fast-growing jungles, many of the details of this expedition were clearly envisioned years before it actually happened.\nWireless communication: once a sci-fi storyline, today a reality\nAlthough H.G. Wells couldn’t even imagine how dependent we would be on his next prediction, he certainly did a good job in introducing it to us. The mobile phone, which has become a necessity for modern life, is mentioned in novels such as The Shape of Things to Come, and Men like Gods (1923), where the protagonists communicate wirelessly through devices similar to today’s mobiles. In Men like Gods, he also describes something like email and voicemail where “a message is sent to the station of the district in which the recipient is known to be, and there it waits until he chooses to tap his accumulated messages. And any that one wishes to repeat can be repeated. Then he talks back to the senders and dispatches any other messages he wishes”. That’s an amazing vision of things to come!\nFictional ideas: what’s in it for today’s scientists?\nH.G Wells also made other predictions about future technologies, such as a death ray and a time machine, neither of which have been invented – yet. But it’s worth considering that many of Wells’ predictions – a very long list – have come to pass. His written work didn’t just open doors to a completely new world for his readers, it also inspired many others to make his visions a reality. Wells, a great storyteller who imagined the unimaginable, is still pushing scientists to inch a little closer to his creative imagination. So, who knows, maybe in the years ahead we’ll be talking about time travel or invisibility drugs, the same way we’re talking about our phones or gene editing now.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://smwlagos.com/?team=suyi-davies-okungbowa", "date": "2019-01-22T23:23:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583875448.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20190122223011-20190123005011-00162.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9275553226470947, "token_count": 191, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__41359754", "lang": "en", "text": "Fiction Writer, WordsAreWork\nSuyi Davies Okungbowa writes crime and speculative fiction from Lagos, Nigeria. His fiction has been published or is forthcoming in the magazines Lightspeed, Mothership Zeta, The Dark, Omenana, Jungle Jim; and the anthologies, Lights Out: Resurrection and A World of Horror (forthcoming in 2017); amidst other places. He is an alumnus of the Gotham Writers Workshop in NYC and a charter member of the African Speculative Fiction Society. Suyi also received the Akighir & Akinbukola Writers Grant in Q4 of 2016. When he’s not writing, Suyi works as a Visual Designer. In-between, he plays piano, guitar, FIFA, and searches for spaces to fit new bookshelves. He lives on the web at suyidavies.com and tweets at @IAmSuyiDavies.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://m.slbrewing.com/info/fermenter-basic-requirements-24570404.html", "date": "2021-04-11T14:51:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038064520.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210411144457-20210411174457-00088.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8613422513008118, "token_count": 133, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__58385570", "lang": "en", "text": "(1) The structure is tight, can withstand the repeated sterilization of steam, the inner wall is smooth, and the corrosion resistance is good, so as to facilitate thorough sterilization and reduce the influence of metal ions on biological reactions;\n(2) Good gas-liquid-solid contact and mixing performance and efficient heat, mass, and momentum transfer performance;\n(3) Reduce the energy consumption of the fermenter on the premise of maintaining the biological reaction requirements;\n(4) Good heat exchange performance to maintain the optimum temperature for biological reactions;\n(5) There is a feasible pipeline ratio and instrument control for sterilization operations and automation control.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.ltveh.org/index.php/macbethtickets", "date": "2014-04-23T13:38:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223202548.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032002-00540-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9434517025947571, "token_count": 318, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-15", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__69592294", "lang": "en", "text": "In honor of National Poetry Month, LTV is hosting and filming “The First Annual Poetry Affair,” Friday, April 25th, 7 to 9 PM in our Wainscott studios.\nMany outstanding poets will be on hand for live readings. “We are showcasing a wonderful mix of poetic voices,” says Rosalind Brenner, Poetry Affair producer, poet and visual artist.\n• Grace Schulman, author of 6 collections, former poetry editor of the Nation and Director of the 92nd Street Y Poetry Center.\n• Fran Castan, named Long Island’s 2013 Poet of the Year by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, honoring her poetry, teaching and support for poetry on Long Island.\n• Julie Sheehan, author of 3 collections, recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and NYFA Fellowship, instructor in the Stony Brook Southampton MFA program.\nThere will be a $5 admission fee or food donation for the East Hampton Food Pantry.\nNow airing on LTV and available to watch in the \"Video On Demand\" section of the website: Interviewed in 2011 at his home in Sagaponak, Peter Matthiessen talks about his book Men’s Lives and the disappearing way of life of the Long Island fishermen. The interview is part of a series archived at LTV entitled A Sense of Place in which elders in our community talk about the past and present on the East End. The series is produced by OVID and directed by Max Scott.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://scissettmiddle.com/index.php/subjectsmenu/learningresourcecentre", "date": "2018-09-25T11:52:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267161501.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20180925103454-20180925123854-00243.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9569377303123474, "token_count": 2199, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__222635035", "lang": "en", "text": "HLTA with responsibility for the LRC: Mrs S. Jessop We read to know we are not alone\nC. S. Lewis\nWe read to know we are not alone\nThe Learning Resource Centre at Scissett Middle School is a busy, vibrant and exciting environment which offers a wide range of resources to promote reading, facilitate research and arouse curiosity.\nBooks still constitute the main resource and to date, the centre has approximately 5,000 titles which are divided into 3 categories: fiction, non-fiction and reference. In addition, the centre receives daily copies of The Huddersfield Examiner and First News is delivered on a weekly basis. We also subscribe to a wide range of educational magazines.\nIn an increasingly technological age, we recognise the need to embrace advances in this field and so pupils have access to an ever-growing number of computers, audio books and Kindles.\nTop 15 Books Voted for by Girls in July 2018\n|1||The Hunger Games||Suzanne Collins|\n|2||Diary of a Wimpy Kid||Jeff Kinney|\n|3||Harry Potter Series||J K Rowling|\n|4||Wonder||R J Palacio|\n|5||The Fault In Our Stars||John Green|\n|6||Girl On Line||Zoe Sugg|\n|7||Noughts and Crosses Trilogy*||Malorie Blackman|\n|8||Dork Diaries Series||Rachel Renee Russell|\n|10||Middle School||Tabitha Payne|\n|11||The Murder Notebooks||Anne Cassidy|\n|12||Double act||Jacqueline Wilson|\n|13||Girl, Missing||Sophie McKenzie|\n|14||Horowitz Horror Series||Anthony Horowitz|\n|15||Gangsta Granny||David Walliams|\nTop 15 Books Voted for by Boys in July 2018\n|1||Maze Runner||James Dashner|\n|2||Horowitz on Horror||Anthony Horowitz|\n|4||Diary of a Wimpy Kid||Jeff Kinney|\n|5||Mortal Engines||Phillip Reeve|\n|6||Percy Jackson||Rick Riordan|\n|8||Demon Dentist||David Walliams|\n|9||Harry Potter Series||J K Rowling|\n|10||Wonder||R J Palacio|\n|11||Skullduggery Pleasant||Derek Landy|\n|12||Heroes of Olympus Series||Rick Riordan|\n|14||Tom Gates||Liz Pichon|\n* Year 8 Only\nA Year in the Learning Resource Centre 2016-2017\nSince its launch last September, Accelerated Reader is now firmly embedded in the curriculum so as pupils returned to school, they visited the LRC in large numbers to choose new books or take a quiz.\nA group of Year 6 pupils had the opportunity to take a trip to Ilkley Literature Festival where they met the author, Jeremy Strong. They proved to be an attentive audience and every pupil returned to school with a signed copy of one of the author’s books.\nOn Armistice Day, pupils marked the solemn occasion with a minute of silence. Year 7 pupils also spent some time in the LRC exploring the significance of the poppy and expressing their thoughts through poetry. The resulting poems were initially displayed in the entrance hall before being transferred to St Augustine’s Church for Remembrance Sunday.\nWith Christmas on the horizon, the Scholastic Book Fair prompted large numbers of pupils to make a purchase. The commission from sales enabled Mrs Jessop to buy a huge selection of new titles for the LRC.\nIn response to a fictional scenario, ‘The Burning Question,’ Year 7 pupils were asked to prepare a presentation to persuade their peers that the author of their choice should ‘be saved.’ Using a medium of their choice, the pupils produced some unique presentations and the judge, Mrs D. Mann, certainly had a difficult job. Eventually, she decided that Grace, Savannah and Charlotte were worthy of first prize for their humorous piece of Drama about Roald Dahl whilst Isobel, Natasha and Olivia were awarded second place for their interview with J. K. Rowling, which was both informative and entertaining.\nIn the dark days of winter, love blossomed in the LRC as pupils in two Year 8 English classes participated in Speed Dating. Armed with a title of their choice, the boys had just three minutes to promote their book and demonstrate their charm to the girls in the class. With Shakespearean love quotes on the walls, red roses on the tables and love hearts randomly sprinkled on surfaces, the scene was set.\nThe girls secretly awarded marks on their score sheets and at the end of the lesson everyone anxiously waited for the results to be revealed. Reuben, Jack, Josh, Nathan, Olly and Benjamin were pleased to be announced the winners and they proudly received a Valentine’s card and a small prize.\nTo mark World Book Day, the teachers in the Science and Maths Departments began their lessons with a starter activity related to a popular novel. Simon Mayo’s debut novel, ‘Itch’ tells the story of a young boy who is an element hunter. Activities related to the Periodic Table meant this novel was in great demand and more copies had to be hastily ordered. In Maths lessons, Year 8 pupils were introduced to the character, Christopher Boone who has an obsession with prime numbers. Delving into the subject of Asperger’s Syndrome a selection of books on this topic proved very popular.\nIn the afternoon of World Book Day, two teams of Year 6 pupils attended the Kirklees Literature Festival, ‘Page Turners,’ at Huddersfield Town Hall. Having won this competition on two previous occasions, the teams were really under pressure. On this occasion, the pupils were just outside the placed teams coming fourth and sixth but undeterred, they have already started to prepare for next year’s competition.\nFollowing the launch of Radio2’s 500 Words Competition, pupils explored the winning entries from last year and many were inspired to put pen to paper.\nThe freelance Drama specialist, Gerry Nowicki was delighted to return to school this year to deliver a workshop for Year 8 pupils. The play, ‘The Curious Incident of The Dog in the Night-Time’ was the focus for the afternoon and under his guidance, pupils explored the key scenes of the play. There were some exceptional performances, with those of Cameron, Ava, Aaron and Lexi being particularly worthy of note.\nWith public examinations a distant memory, Year 6 pupils enjoyed a fabulous day at Harry Potter World, where they had the chance to step into the Great Hall, explore the Forbidden Forest and marvel at the features of Diagon Alley. In addition, they had the opportunity to see some of the amazing costumes and the beautifully crafted iconic props. For those die-hard fans, the day was simply not long enough.\nThe novel, ‘Wonder’ by R. J. Palacio has, once again, proved to be a firm favourite among Year 7 pupils. With the long summer holiday just around the corner, pupils were given the task of sending a precept postcard from their holiday destination. In September, these postcards will form a new display outside the LRC which will hopefully inspire other pupils to read this thought-provoking novel before the film is released in December.\nA Remarkable True Story\nCan you imagine not being able to speak or communicate? The silence, the loneliness, the pain. But, in your mind you disappear to magical places, and even meet your best friend there. However, most of the time you remain imprisoned within the isolation. Waiting, longing, hoping. Until someone realises your potential and discovers your key, so your unlocking can begin. Now you are free, flying like a wild bird in the open sky. A voice for the voiceless.\nJonathan Bryan has severe cerebral palsy, a condition that makes him incapable of voluntary movement or speech. He was locked inside his own mind, aware of the outside world but unable to fully communicate with it until he found a way by using his eyes to choose individual letters, and in this slow, laborious way make his thoughts known.\nIn Eye Can Write, we read of his intense passion for life, his mischievous sense of fun, his hopes, his fears and what it's like to be him. This is a powerful book from an incredible young writer whose writing ability defies age or physical disability - a truly inspirational figure.\nMORE ABOUT JONATHAN BRYAN\nJonathan is 12 years old. This is the incredible and moving true story of a child who is locked in and his struggle to communicate with the world.\n'A writer of great emotional and intellectual depth...His words tell us so much about our universal human resilience, our capacity for understanding, our longing to communicate. Jonathan has opened the door for us into his world, and reached out his hand to us in his writing. When we take his hand as we read, he is not locked in any more. And neither are we. We join him in his journey, he joins us in ours.' MICHAEL MORPURGO\n'Jonathan's story is such a powerful one - and light, love, and compassion shine from everything he does. It is an honour to call him my friend' BEAR GRYLLS.\nPupils in a Year 7 class have watched a documentary about Jonathan’s life and have responded to a recent post on his blog. If you are interested, log on to his website www.eyecantalk\nThe Great Harry Potter Quiz\nOn Wednesday 1 November, twelve teams, with aptly chosen names and attired in themed clothing, participated in the Great Harry Potter Quiz. Excitement and apprehension filled the air as the teams pitted their wits against each other. In between rounds, a spot question flashed up on the screen and the first individual to jump to their feet won a prize. Mrs Francis, came out of retirement for the afternoon in order to mark the answers and announce the results. She had a difficult job on her hands as this was a tightly fought contest. However, having checked and rechecked the scores she declared a tie for second place between ‘The Death Eaters’ and’ Order Of The Phoenix’. Just nudging ahead by one mark, ‘The Horcrux’ claimed first prize with Jessica, Alfie. Bethan and Erin scooping some Harry Potter merchandise.\nDeep in thought!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.gorefield.cambs.sch.uk/penguins/", "date": "2023-02-03T04:11:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500042.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203024018-20230203054018-00185.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9735226035118103, "token_count": 403, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__284500857", "lang": "en", "text": "Welcome to the Gorefield EYFS Penguin Class page.\nMrs Tod is our teacher.\nMiss Hewitt and Miss Foster are our learning assistants.\nLearning in the Penguin Class\nEach week, on Class Dojo you will receive information explaining what the children will be learning in Phonics and Mathematics, as well as any specific experiences they may have during the adult led teaching sessions. There will also be information on how you could support your child at home, with their learning.\nAt the end of each week, the children will bring home a copy of sounds and words they have learned that week, so you may use them at home to practise.\nOnce the children are ready, they will bring home a reading scheme book to read with you each day - \"When we practise we get better and better and better.\" In addition to this, your child will bring home a 'choice' book, which they have chosen from a selection of picture story books. This is for you to read and share with them.\nThe children will do PE each Wednesday and Friday. They will need a PE kit in school each week.\nWe make use of our outside area throughout the year, so please ensure your child has appropriate clothing to suit the weather, ie. sun hat, waterproof coat, hat/scarf/gloves and a pair of welly boots that can stay in school.\nFor any queries regarding the Penguin Class please contact Mrs Tod.\nRoald Dahl themed World Book Day.\nThe children enjoyed sharing their Story Spoons with each other. They explained which character they had created and were able to tell us the story it came from.\nWe read Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile - the children were captivated by the story and characters and enjoyed making predictions of what might happen next. Then, showing their creative skills, they painted, drew and crafted some of the characters from the story.\nWe had a great day!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.hdfs.chhs.colostate.edu/faculty-staff/bielak.aspx", "date": "2018-09-19T06:51:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267155942.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20180919063526-20180919083526-00418.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.842091977596283, "token_count": 2295, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__211653782", "lang": "en", "text": "My training is in lifespan developmental psychology, focusing on normal age-related changes in cognition and their differentiation from pathological changes. I have a keen interest in the interindividual variability of cognitive aging, specifically why some individuals experience rapid rates of decline, whereas others experience relatively small changes in functioning. I am interested in the factors that contribute to these individual differences, including risks factors for and early detection of pathological decline, as well as optimizing influences for achieving healthy aging. These interests are reflected in my three main research areas: 1) Intraindividual variability (IIV) in cognitive performance; 2) lifestyle engagement and cognitive performance; and 3) risk factors for cognitive decline. I also have extensive experience working with and analyzing longitudinal datasets, and have developed skills in advanced statistical methods such as multilevel modeling, and bivariate dual change score modeling.\nIIV in cognitive performance refers to relatively rapid yet reversible changes in performance (e.g., moment-to-moment variation on a RT task). Among older adults, increased IIV is associated with poorer cognitive performance, neurological conditions, and undesirable structural and functional brain changes, suggesting that IIV is a sensitive measure of neurological integrity. My work has demonstrated that IIV in cognitive speed appears to be a fundamental behavioral characteristic associated with growing older, even among healthy adults (Bielak, Cherbuin, et al., 2014). Further, given the demonstrated sensitivity of IIV to predicting cognitive change, my coauthors and I investigated the number of RT trials needed to reliably predict neuropathology in adults, in the hopes of IIV eventually being used in a clinical setting (Bunce, Bielak, et al., 2013). Finally, I was invited to submit a chapter on IIV in attention across the adult lifespan for the Handbook of intraindividual variability across the lifespan, reviewing the current literature in this area, and discussing areas for future growth and direction (Bielak & Anstey, 2015). I recently received a R03 from the National Institutes of Health to investigate the utility of using IIV to evaluate lifestyle interventions of aging.\nThe \"use it or lose it\" hypothesis of cognitive aging predicts that activity engagement in older adulthood stimulates the mind and thus prevents cognitive deterioration. However, research is inconsistent in finding this positive relation. My colleagues and I have investigated whether differences exist across adulthood in the strength of the relationship between cognitive ability and activity participation. We found the size of the relationship between mental and social activity and cognition did not significantly differ across cohorts in their 20s, 40s, and 60s (Bielak, Anstey, et al., 2012), but the youngest cohort showed the strongest effects in relation to physical activity (Bielak, Cherbuin, et al., 2014). We have also showed variation in activity-cognition associations depending on cognitive domain, activity type, and stage of older adulthood, suggesting that the conclusions regarding activity engagement and cognitive ability are dependent on a series of moderating factors (Bielak, Gerstorf, et al., 2014). I have also focused my research on the lack of consensus regarding the best method to assess activity engagement, and demonstrated the benefits of including multiple measures of activity engagement in a study (Bielak, 2017). I am currently conducting a study using tablets to obtain assessments of both cognition and activity throughout the day (REACT Study).\nAlthough we cannot create a definite list of actions for achieving healthy cognitive aging, we can identify risk factors for pathological cognitive decline and work to reduce those risks. Some of my work in this area includes examining the directionality of relations between depressive symptoms and cognitive decline. We found that the model that allowed depressive symptoms to predict subsequent change in perceptual speed provided the best fit, suggesting that depressive symptoms increase the risk of cognitive decline, rather than vice versa (Bielak, Gerstorf, et al., 2011). We have also investigated the risks associated with the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) e4 allele (Bunce, Bielak et al., 2014), and traumatic brain injury (Eramudugolla, Bielak et al., 2014).\nB.A., Honors, 2002, Psychology, University of Winnipeg, Canada\nM.Sc., 2004, Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada\nPh.D., 2008, Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada\nHonors and Awards\n2013 - Springer Early Career Achievement Award in Research on Adult Development and Aging, American Psychological Association (APA) Division 20 (Adult Development and Aging).\n2008-11 - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Canadian Institutes of Health Research.\n2009 - Doctoral Dissertation Award, American Psychological Association Division 20 (Adult Development & Aging) Retirement Research Foundation.\n2008 - Age Plus Prize, Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Institute of Aging.\n2006-08 - Doctoral Research Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research: Institute of Aging.\n2005-08 - Senior Graduate Trainee Award, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research & BC Medical Services Foundation.\nCurrent Research Projects\nUsing Cognitive Intraindividual Variability to Measure Interventions – Admin Supplement, R03AG055748-01S1. National Institutes of Health, 2017-2019.\nUsing Cognitive Intraindividual Variability to Measure Lifestyle Interventions. R03AG055748, National Institutes of Health, 2017-2019.\nRecording Everyday Activity and Cognition on Tablets (REACT) study. Colorado State University, 2015-2018.\n2017-present: Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University.\n2011-2017: Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University.\n2008-2011: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Ageing Research Unit, Centre for Mental Health Research, Australian National University, Australia.\nBielak, A. A. M., Mogle, J., & Sliwinski, M. J. (in press). What did you do today? Variability in daily activities is related to variability in daily cognitive performance. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences.\nBielak, A. A. M. (2017). Different perspectives on measuring lifestyle engagement: A comparison of activity measures and their relation with cognitive performance in older adults. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 4, 435-452. doi: 10.1080/13825585.2016.1221378\nCurtis, R. G., Windsor, T. D., Mogle, J. A., & Bielak, A. A. M. (2017). There's more than meets the eye: Complex associations of daily pain, physical symptoms, and self-efficacy with activity in middle and older adulthood. Gerontology, 63, 157-168. doi: 10.1159/000450786\nBielak, A. A. M. (2017). Cognitive compensation. In N. Pachana (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Geropsychology. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_277-1\nBielak, A. A. M., & Anstey, K. J. (2015). Intraindividual variability in attention across the adult lifespan. In M. Diehl., K. Hooker, & M. J. Sliwinski (Eds.), Handbook of intraindividual variability across the lifespan (pp. 160-175). New York, NY: Routledge.\nBielak, A. A. M., Cherbuin, N., Bunce, D., & Anstey, K. J. (2014). Intraindividual variability is a fundamental phenomenon of aging: Evidence from an 8-year longitudinal study across young, middle, and older adulthood. Developmental Psychology, 50, 143-151. doi: 10.1037/a0032650\nBielak, A. A. M., Gerstorf, D., Anstey, K. J., & Luszcz, M. A. (2014). Longitudinal associations between activity and cognition vary by age, activity type, and cognitive domain. Psychology and Aging, 29, 863-872. doi: 10.1037/a0036960\nBielak, A. A. M., Cherbuin, N., Bunce, D., & Anstey, K. J. (2014). Preserved differentiation between physical activity and cognitive performance across young, middle, and older adulthood over 8 years. Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69, 523-532. doi: 10.1093/geronb/gbu016\nBunce, D., Bielak, A. A. M., Anstey, K. J., Cherbuin, N., Batterham, P. J., & Easteal S. (2014). APOE genotype and cognitive change in young, middle-aged and older adults living in the community. Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, 69, 379-386. doi: 10.1093/gerona/glt103.\nBunce, D., Bielak, A. A. M., Cherbuin, N., Batterham, P. J., Wen, W., Sachdev, P., & Anstey, K. J. (2013). Utility of intraindividual reaction time variability to predict white matter hyperintensities: A potential assessment tool for clinical contexts? Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 19, 971-976. doi: 10.1017/S1355617713000830\nBielak, A. A. M., Anstey, K. J., Christensen, H., & Windsor, T. D. (2012). Activity engagement is related to level, but not change in cognitive ability across adulthood. Psychology & Aging, 27, 219-228.\nBielak, A. A. M., Hultsch, D. F., Strauss, E., MacDonald, S. W. S., & Hunter, M. A. (2010). Intraindividual variability in reaction time predicts cognitive outcomes 5 years later. Neuropsychology, 24, 731-741.\nBielak, A. A. M., Hultsch, D. F., Strauss, E., MacDonald, S. W. S., & Hunter, M. A. (2010). Intraindividual variability is related to cognitive change in older adults: Evidence for within-person coupling. Psychology & Aging, 25, 575-586.\nBielak, A. A. M. (2010). How can we not ‘lose it’ if we still don’t understand how to ‘use it’? Unanswered questions about the influence of activity participation on cognitive performance in older age: A mini-review. Gerontology, 56, 507–519.Thematic Research Areas", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://ramblingsofagrowingman.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/", "date": "2018-03-25T01:35:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257651481.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20180325005509-20180325025509-00252.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9683295488357544, "token_count": 176, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__173594510", "lang": "en", "text": "This evening a new moon hung low in the sky, reborn after a 3 day absence, a sliver of a crescent sinking until it appeared hazy and almost red. I stopped as I drove across Abberton reservoir to drink in the view. To the left of it hung Mars, shining brightly, their reflections glowing in the almost still waters like smudges on a painters canvas. The sky was clear and Orion to the South, the Pleiades overhead, and the Milky Way were clearly visible. Behind me the glow of Colchester, like a distant fire, lit the sky and the shores of the reservoir.\nIt was one of those sights I could have gazed at for hours, but the moon was sinking fast and as I neared home it was so low in the sky it disappeared now and again behind the gentle undulations of the Essex countryside.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thefhgraymatter.com/2022/01/18/beyond-repair/", "date": "2023-06-10T23:41:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646652.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610233020-20230611023020-00410.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.945880651473999, "token_count": 866, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__288485164", "lang": "en", "text": "Rust. Above the loose tailpipe, a crumpled corner of the plumber’s van is rusting. Margo worries from the attic window, if a man cannot maintain his vehicle, could he be a good plumber?\nShe told Robert to take care of this issue, claiming she had deadlines, backlogs, was already overburdened. Yet, here she is, chewing a hangnail, wondering if she should call Patrick’s Plumbing.\nThe front door slams and she peers over the windowsill. She is surprised the plumber is a woman. She pauses en route to her van, shakes down a cascade of copper-blonde hair, like some tawdry shampoo commercial, Margo thinks. The plumber neatly sweeps her locks into a chignon and tucks it back under her cap.\nOuch. Margo has drawn blood. She spits a brittle crisp of fingernail into the wastebasket.\nPing. Alex would like to chat.\nMargo steps closer to the window to watch as Robert approaches the van. He leans upon it, casually chatting with the plumber. Margo cannot hear their conversation but she can see Robert’s smile. The plumber reappears, arching her back like a cat, thrusting her midriff toward Robert, her apple-round breasts straining at her overalls. She accepts a cup of coffee from Margo’s husband.\nPing. Alex is persistent.\nMargo is profoundly annoyed. A vehement self-proclaimed feminist, she is irritated with herself for wondering what this pinup-cum-plumber knows about plumbing.\nThe front door opens and she hears a feminine voice, throaty, thick with coffee and maybe cigarettes too, a Lauren Bacall in her foyer. Then she hears Robert’s laugh. Earnest, not the cheap “ha” he employs at dinner parties or PTA meetings. Footfalls, two pairs, taking the basement steps.\nMargo closes her laptop. She trundles down two flights of stairs. Standing at the top of the basement, she hears easy banter. Wine. Robert is talking about orange wine from Austria. Margo smirks; he’s trying to impress the help but then Lauren Bacall rattles off her three, three, favorite wineries in Austria. An oenophile centerfold plumber.\nMargo goes to the kitchen for a cup of coffee and finds the pot empty. Fine, she thinks; I’ll have tea. She puts on the kettle. Ping. Her phone buzzes in her pocket. She is looking at the text from Alex and does not notice Robert enter the room. He clears his clears his throat. They stare awkwardly at each other.\n“I’ve just come to make more coffee”, he says.\n“Oh, I’ll just have tea”, Margo responds.\n“Right. Well, Daphne wants another cup.”\nMargo slides her phone into her pocket. Robert stands with two empty coffee cups. The blue cup, the one with a bold black M embossed on it, bears a heavy frost of red lipstick on the rim. Robert looks at his feet but does not take an inch toward the coffee maker.\nLauren Bacall huskily calls Robert’s name from the basement.\nThe spouses of nine and a half years lock eyes, briefly, briefly… like the last flash of a firefly. There is a multitude of grievances in this house –unperformed chores, broken dishes, unaired complaints, and vicious words that no amount of cleansing could purge from the fabric of their life.\n“Right”, Margo says; “get on with it.”\nI am grateful to Full House Literary for first publishing this work in January 2022. You can visit their site directly using the following link to hear me narrate this story. https://www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose/beyond-repair-by-fannie-h-gray", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.thebladevault.com/books", "date": "2018-09-23T09:33:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267159165.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20180923075529-20180923095929-00242.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.896092414855957, "token_count": 204, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__209011924", "lang": "en", "text": "A variety of books which showcase Toledo's rich history at your fingertips\nThe Blade is proud to publish this retrospective honoring the 77th Anniversary of Jeep and the town that started it all: Toledo!\nThe 8.5x11\", glossy, full color coffee-table book is the second edition of the 75th Anniversary book originally published in 2016. Sure to be a collector's item itself, it contains several new stories, including exclusive pictures and info on the 2018 Wrangler.\nCompiled and designed by Blade Staff, it includes stories and historic photos on:\nThe Willys-Overland plant\nJeep at war\nJeep’s local workforce\nCommunity efforts to retain jeep in Toledo\nCataloging of Jeep makes and models produced in Toledo\nA look at the Jeep today… and more!\nWillys Jeep Overland in Toledo, Ohio. Blade historical archive photo. Jeeps parked for dispatch, \"Rossford Ordinance\"; Toledo Times photo by Clarence Bailey from November 28, 1947", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.yogeshsingh.com/why-never-give-up-on-your-dreams/", "date": "2018-01-24T11:51:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084894125.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20180124105939-20180124125939-00707.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9604020118713379, "token_count": 758, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__208296448", "lang": "en", "text": "Why you should Never Give up on your Dreams?\nEveryone has dreams. I’m not talking about wishful thinking or daydreaming. I’m talking about the real passion you have, things you really care about in this world.\nAre you the one who has given up on their dreams and resolved to mediocrity?\nTruth is that each one of us is capable to achieve our dreams. We are no different than others who have achieved their dreams. This world belongs to dreamers, The GIANTs. Whatever we see in our surroundings it was someone’s dream at some point in time and they made it a reality. People who dreamed and followed, they are the one who achieved it.\nAlexander Graham Bell saw a dream and created telephone. Henry Ford saw a dream and created Ford car company.\nThere are millions of examples. You are no different in any way. Walt Disney said all dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. Most of the people give up on their dreams because of Fear- Fear of Failure or Fear of not coming out of comfort zone.\nHere is my story When I was around 15 years of age I had a dream to do something of my own. Something where I can put in place my ideas. didn’t know what I wanted to do, but something where I can contribute to others life. The problem was I never believed that I can do something because of conditioning I had.\nAfter graduation, I joined an IT company, then another company and it goes on. After few years in office, it became a routine, same project, same people. It felt like life has come to standstill, no enthusiasm, no energy and feeling of emptiness inside. I kept on dragging for few years but a time came when I said enough is enough. I realized that I’m not doing what I’m supposed to do, Start my own company. Within a year I planned to quit my job (was working with an MNC at that time) and then started following my dream. As there is a saying journey is better than the destination. It’s true in my case. I’m enjoying every moment of it.\nI will give you three compelling reasons why you must work towards achieving your dreams.\nWe got only ONE LIFE– I don’t believe in reincarnation. Do you? 90% of the people die without achieving their dreams. They live in a comfort zone and they die in a comfort zone without unleashing their full potential. Anyway, life is a one-way journey, no one gets another chance.\nYou will not be TRULY HAPPY– when we have a dream, a desire. if we don’t work towards achieving that dream, it feels like a failure. Does it happen to you? then you can feel what I’m talking about.\nYour Dreams tells you about the real potential you have– Walt Disney also said if you can dream it you can achieve it. What it means is that if you are capable to dream something you have everything to achieve that dream.\nI will ask you to perform a small exercise. Sit alone in a quiet place and close your eyes. Imagine you are on your deathbed and it’s your last day of your life. What kind of feeling would you have if you do not follow your dreams?\nFeeling of regret or Feeling of Fulfillment?\nIf you don’t follow your dreams now, it will be too late if you realize it on your deathbed. I urge you to ask this question until you get the clarity. Trust me it will transform your life.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://dollhouse.wikia.com/wiki/Andrew_Chambliss", "date": "2016-12-06T08:09:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541886.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00358-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.946944534778595, "token_count": 187, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-50__0__21901668", "lang": "en", "text": "Ad blocker interference detected!\nWikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers\nWikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected.\nAndrew Chambliss is a staff writer on Dollhouse.\nChambliss was a staff writer on Bionic Woman (2007). Before that, he worked as an assistant to Tim Kring on the first season of Heroes (2006-2007) and on the last season of Crossing Jordan (2007). He has also written two graphic novels for Heroes, \"Fathers & Daughters\" and \"War Buddies, Part 2\".\nChambliss joined the Dollhouse writing team in April 2008. His writing credits include:\n- 1x09 \"A Spy in the House of Love\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.yarmouthschools.org/o/boardpolicy/page/pm-egad-e", "date": "2023-09-30T22:45:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510730.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930213821-20231001003821-00514.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9050627946853638, "token_count": 663, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__247807165", "lang": "en", "text": "To be Included in Faculty Handbook\nNEPN/NSBA Code: EGAD-E\nWhen a proposed use of photocopied material requires a faculty member to request permission, communication of complete and accurate information to the copyright owner will facilitate the request. The Association of American Publishers suggests that the following information be included to expedite the process:\nTitle, author, and/or editor, and edition of materials to be duplicated.\nExact material to be used, giving amount, page numbers, chapters and, if possible a photocopy of the material.\nNumber of copies to be made.\nUse to be made of duplicated materials (including time period or duration if copying on an on-going basis is desired).\nForm of distribution (classroom, newsletter, etc.)\nWhether or not the material is to be sold.\nType of reprint (ditto, photocopy, offset, typeset).\nWhen the copyright owner is the publisher of the work, the request should be sent, together with a self-addressed return envelope, to the permissions department of the publisher in question. If the address of the publisher does not appear at the front of the material, it may be obtained from The Literary Marketplace (for books) or Ulrich’s International Periodicals (for journals), both published by the R.R. Bowker Company. When the copyright owner is the author, the request should be directed to the author either in care of the publisher’s permissions department, as set forth above, or at the author’s address. For purposes of proof, and to define the scope of the permission, it is important that the permission be in writing. Many publishers have registered with the Copyright Clearance Center, 21 Congress St., Salem, MA 01970. This organization can facilitate obtaining permission to copy. Check with your campus library about the use of this service.\nThe process of requesting permission directly from the publisher requires time, as the publisher must check the status and ownership of rights and related matters, and evaluate the request. It is advisable, therefore, to allow sufficient lead time. In some instances the publisher may assess a fee for permission, which may be passed on to students who receive copies of the photocopied material.\nMaterial Permissions Department\nAcademic Book Company\n200 Park Ave.\nNew York NY 10016\nDear Sir or Madam:\nI would like permission to copy the following for use in my class (name of class)(next\nsemester) or (next semester and subsequent semesters during which the course is offered.)\nCopyright: Academic Book Co., 1965, 1971.\nAuthor: John Smith\nMaterial to be duplicated: Chapter 9 (photocopy enclosed)\nNumber of copies: 50\nDistribution: The material will be distributed to students in my class free of charge.\nType of reprint: Photocopy\nUse: The chapter will be used as supplementary teaching materials.\nI have enclosed a self-addressed envelope for your convenience in replying to this request.\nConditions if any,", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.nc3rs.org.uk/our-portfolio/using-non-invasive-vivo-imaging-address-3rs-high-throughput-mouse-phenotyping", "date": "2024-04-14T08:19:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816875.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414064633-20240414094633-00195.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7886120080947876, "token_count": 496, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__102685967", "lang": "en", "text": "In the wake of the first draft of the full mouse genome sequence, large-scale mutagenesis programmes are underway that will produce mice with gene knockouts/point mutations for each of the approximately 25,000 genes in the mouse genome. Analysis of these mice in coming years will give new insights into the genetic basis of human disease and biology, as novel genes are identified that impact upon mammalian physiology and morphology. This studentship will develop non-invasive imaging of live mice to reduce the numbers of mice generated in high-throughput mutagenesis programs and start to refine experimental strategies for working with mouse models. We will use non-invasive in-vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), to assess if this imaging technology can help us understand the function of genes within the brain, which will enable us remove major \"bottlenecks\" in the development of new diagnosis tests for genetic disease and human gene therapies.\nMa D et al. (2019). Study the Longitudinal and Cross-Sectional Brain Volume Difference for Disease Progression and Treatment Effect on Mouse Model of Tauopathy Using Automated MRI Structural Parcellation. Frontiers in Neuroscience 13:11. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2019.00011\nColgan N et al. (2017). Imaging of Tau Pathology Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging Textural Analysis. Frontiers in Neuroscience 11:599. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2017.00599\nColgan N et al. (2016). Application of neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging (NODDI) to a tau pathology model of Alzheimer's disease. Neuroimage 125:739-44. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.10.043\nWells JA et al. (2015). Increased cerebral vascular reactivity in the tau expressing rTg4510 mouse: evidence against the role of tau pathology to impair vascular health in Alzheimer's disease. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism 35(3):359-62. doi: 10.1038/jcbfm.2014.224\nO'Callaghan J et al. (2014). Is your system calibrated? MRI gradient system calibration for pre-clinical, high-resolution imaging. PLoS One 9(5):e96568. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096568", "domain": "literature"}
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{"url": "https://www.storyneeds.com/home/we-are-more-than-what-we-own", "date": "2023-06-03T17:02:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649302.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603165228-20230603195228-00007.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9700729846954346, "token_count": 390, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__161450622", "lang": "en", "text": "The opening lines of The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett tell us all we need to know.\nThey give us an insight into the personality of the two principal characters Mr. and Mrs. Ransome.\nThey give us the setting - their house.\nThey give us the nature and extent of the conflict taking place - their house has been burgled and whoever burgled it took away everything, leaving no clue as to their identity.\nAnd ultimately these lines whet our appetite for discovering what, if any, resolution there can be to such a surreal state of affairs.\nIn this novel, Alan Bennett shows us how our lives are dependent on property to give it meaning.\nAnd by sympathizing with a couple who are suddenly stripped of all their possessions, Bennett reminds us that we too live in a fool’s paradise. One where we take comfort, not from who we are, or from what we do, but from that which we own.\nAnd this would be a bitter pill to swallow if it weren’t for Bennett’s humour, which permeates all and reminds us that the ability to laugh at ourselves is probably our most valuable possession.\n\"The Ransomes had been burgled. \"Robbed,\" Mrs. Ransome said. \"Burgled,\" Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though \"burgled\" was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove one item and ignore others. There is a limit to what burglars can take: they seldom take easy chairs, for example, and even more seldom settees. These burglars did. They took everything.\"\nOpening lines of The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.zionchristianministry.com/publications/books-by-shawn/when-the-generals-dream-comes-true/", "date": "2024-04-19T08:51:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817382.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419074959-20240419104959-00322.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9746595025062561, "token_count": 9764, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__180929306", "lang": "en", "text": "Oh, the General’s dream, that noble scheme,\nGives John Jones work to do.\nHe’ll have a bed and be well fed\nWhen the General’s dream comes true.\nFor the hungry starving homeless wrecks\nThe scheme allows that either sex\nShall have a cab horse fare.\nA cab horse has work you’ll find,\nWith food and shelter too.\nMan shall no longer be behind\nWhen the General’s dreams come true.1\nHe was called “The General.” General William Booth was a man on a mission, a mission of salvation. He had a vision for both the spiritual and temporal salvation of nineteenth-century England’s poorest citizens. There were many who stood with him, fully embracing his vision, and bearing the name he chose for them, “The Salvation Army.” How was Booth’s vision expressed? It was expressed in many ways, but one very significant way that his heart and mission were revealed was in the publication of his book, “In Darkest England and The Way Out” (published in 1890).\nWhat was “Darkest England?” Nineteenth-century Englishmen had a fascination with the continent of Africa. This fascination was fed by the well-known book, “Darkest Africa,” written by Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). This book captured the intrigue and sense of mystery which surrounded the largely unexplored dark continent of Africa. Stanley described in vivid language his journeys into the untamed forests, jungles and rolling plains of this adventure-rich land. Africa was considered to be “dark” because it was so under-explored, underdeveloped and dangerous. Ironically, England, which was in so many ways progressive, had its own dark corners. It is these dark corners that General Booth spent his life shedding light into. To Booth, Darkest England was the desperate world of England’s slums. His book not only drew attention to this desperate world, but proposed a way out.\nBooth’s burden for England’s poor, his efforts to draw attention to their desperate plight, and his optimism and hope for their deliverance is encapsulated in these gripping words taken from the preface to his book:\nWhen but a mere child the degradation and helpless misery of the poor Stockingers of\nmy native town, wandering gaunt and hunger-stricken through the streets droning\nout their melancholy ditties, crowding the Union or toiling like galley slaves on relief\nworks for a bare subsistence, kindled in my heart yearnings to help the poor which have\ncontinued to this day and which have had a powerful influence on my whole life. At last\nI may be going to see my longings to help the workless realized. I think I am.\nThe commiseration then awakened by the misery of this class has been an impelling\nforce which has never ceased to make itself felt during forty years of active service in the salvation of men. During this time I am thankful that I have been able, by the good hand of God upon me, to do something in mitigation of the miseries of this class, and to bring not only heavenly hopes and earthly gladness to the hearts of multitudes of these wretched crowds, but also many material blessings, including such commonplace things as food, raiment, home, and work, the parent of so many other temporal benefits.\n… I have boldly asserted that whatever his peculiar character or circumstances might be, if the prodigal would come home to his Heavenly Father, he would find enough and to spare in the Father’s house to supply all his need both for this world and the next, and I have known thousands, nay, I can say tens of thousands, who have literally proved this to be true, having, with little or no temporal assistance, come out of the darkest depths of destitution, vice and crime, to be happy and honest citizens and true sons and servants of God.\nAnd yet all the way through my career I have keenly felt the remedial measures usually enunciated in Christian programs and ordinarily employed by Christian philanthropy to be\nlamentably inadequate for any effectual dealing with the despairing miseries of these outcast classes. The rescued are appallingly few – a ghastly minority compared with the multitudes who struggle and sink in the open-mouthed abyss. Alike, therefore, my humanity and my Christianity, if I may speak of them in any way as separate one from the other, have cried out for some more comprehensive method of reaching and saving the perishing crowds.\nNo doubt it is good for men to climb unaided out of the whirlpool on to the rock of\ndeliverance in the very presence of the temptations which have hitherto mastered them, and\nto maintain a footing there with the same billows of temptation washing over them. But, alas! with many this seems to be literally impossible. That decisiveness of character, that moral nerve which takes hold of the rope thrown for the rescue and keeps its hold amidst all the resistances that have to be encountered, is wanting. It is gone. The general wreck has shattered and disorganized the whole man.\nAlas, what multitudes there are around us everywhere, many known to my readers\npersonally, and any number who may be known to them by a very short walk from their own dwellings, who are in this very plight! Their vicious habits and destitute circumstances make it certain that, without some kind of extraordinary help, they must hunger and sin, and sin\nand hunger, until, having multiplied their kind, and filled up the measure of their miseries, the gaunt fingers of death will close upon them and terminate their wretchedness. And all this will happen this very winter in the midst of the un-paralleled wealth, and civilization, and philanthropy of this professedly most Christian land.\nNow, I propose to go straight for these sinking classes, and in doing so shall continue\nto aim at the heart. … My only hope for the permanent deliverance of mankind from misery, either in this world or the next, is the regeneration or remaking of the individual by the power of the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ. But in providing for the relief of temporal misery I reckon that I am only making it easy where it is now difficult, and possible where it is now all but impossible, for men and women to find their way to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.\nThat I have confidence in my proposals goes without saying. I believe they will work. In miniature many of them are working already. But I do not claim that my Scheme is either perfect in its details or complete in the sense of being adequate to combat all forms of the gigantic evils against which it is in the main directed. Like other human things it must be perfected through suffering. But it is a sincere endeavor to do something, and to do it on principles which can be instantly applied and universally developed. 2\nSo, in trudging, foraging and bushwhacking his way through the social jungle of Darkest England, Booth did so, with a hopeful heart that expected to see God’s victory. In writing his book, he explained his optimism in these words:\nBut this book is no mere lamentation of despair. For Darkest England, as for Darkest Africa, there is a light beyond. I think I see my way out, a way by which these wretched ones may escape from the gloom of their miserable existence into a higher and happier life. Long wandering in the Forest of the Shadow of Death at our doors, has familiarized me with its horrors; but while the realization is a vigorous spur to action it has never been so oppressive as to extinguish hope. Mr. Stanley never succumbed to the terrors which oppressed his followers. He had lived in a larger life, and knew that the forest, though long, was not interminable. Every step forward brought him nearer his destined goal, nearer to the light of the sun, the clear sky, and the rolling uplands of the grazing land. Therefore he did not despair. The Equatorial Forest was, after all, a mere corner of one quarter of the world. In the knowledge of the light outside, in the confidence begotten by past experience of successful endeavor, he pressed forward; and when the hundred and sixty days’ struggle was over, he and his men came out into a pleasant place where the land smiled with peace and plenty, and their hardships and hunger were forgotten in the joy of a great deliverance.\nSo I venture to believe it will be with us. 3\nHaving declared his optimism for change, Booth reminded his readers that they had not yet achieved the victory. They were still in the spot where the jungle was densest and the scene was darkest. Booth was not writing with light-heartedness but, instead, would use every word he knew to communicate the pain of England’s poor and to communicate the call to action on their behalf. “Is it not time?” Booth asked and “can nothing be done?” For those who considered the plight of the poor to be hopeless, they would accept as fate the condition of England’s poor. However, for Booth, and others like him, who saw the hope of help to be bright, they would act on this belief and lead a “revolt against the fatalism of despair.” They would call fatalism for what it was, an unacceptable excuse. They would declare that “it is time, and high time, that the question were faced in no mere dilettante spirit, but with a resolute determination to make an end of the crying scandal of our age.”4\nBooth was calling for immediate action. To all who would listen, Booth gave the illustration of a London cab horse who, while pulling a coach-load of passengers down a busy street, all of a sudden stumbles and collapses onto the hard road. The cab horse represented broken-down humanity which needed thorough, complete and practical aid. Booth said, “If you put him on his feet without altering his conditions, it would only be to give him another dose of agony; but first of all you’ll have to pick him up again. It may have been through overwork or underfeeding, or it may have been all his own fault that he has broken his knees and smashed the shaft, but that does not matter.”5 How is the horse helped? Booth said, “The load is taken off, the harness is unbuckled, or, if need be, cut, and everything is done to help him up.”6 Then, the horse can return to his round of work. Again, the horse represented the struggling poor. A literal cab horse had the provision of “a shelter for the night, food for its stomach, and work allotted to it by which it can earn its corn.”7 Not all of England’s poor had these necessities.\nWhile they didn’t have these basic necessities, they did have a friend in William Booth who was doing everything he could to make their plight known. According to Booth, Darkest England, this shunned sub-culture within larger England, was numbered at three million persons. Booth describes them as “men, women, and children, a vast despairing multitude in a condition nominally free, but really enslaved.”8 Booth pictured Darkest England as three circles, one within the other. The outer and widest circle represented the starving and homeless poor who lived honest, law-respecting lives. The second, smaller circle represented those who survived by adopting sinful practices. The third, and smallest, circle represented those who survived by out-and-out criminal activities. Booth maintained that “the borders of this great lost land are not sharply defined. They are continually expanding or contracting.”9 In times of depression, the borders of the dark forest of Darkest England would expand, pulling into the outer circle many who previously led self-sufficient lives. There was no class of persons that could not fall into this situation. Booth cautioned:\nSo far as individuals are concerned, there are none among the hundreds of thousands who\nlive upon the outskirts of the dark forest who can truly say that they or their children are\nsecure from being hopelessly entangled in its labyrinth. The death of the bread-winner, a\nlong illness, a failure in the city, or any one of a thousand other causes which might be named, will bring within the first circle those who at present imagine themselves free from all danger of actual want.” 10\nWant and need were not only a danger, but a reality for multitudes in England. Booth was a loud voice on their behalf. He declared that:\nThere is hardly any more pathetic figure than that of the strong, able worker crying plaintively in the midst of our palaces and churches, not for charity, but for work, asking only to be allowed the privilege of perpetual hard labor that, thereby he may earn wherewith to fill his empty belly and silence the cry of his children for food. Crying for it and not getting it, seeking for labor as lost treasure and finding it not, until at last, all spirit and vigor worn out in the weary quest, the once willing worker becomes a broken-down drudge, sodden with wretchedness and despairing of all help in this world or in that which is to come. 11\nThey could not be ignored; their situation was too desperate and their plight too serious. Again, Booth said of them; “They die and make no sign, or, worse still, they continue to exist, carrying about with them, year after year, the bitter ashes of a life from which the furnace of misfortune has burnt away all joy, and hope, and strength.”12\nWilliam Booth simply had a tremendous heart for the poor. He was the General who would sound the charge into the battle of saving England’s poor. They were to him the sinking ones who were reaching for help. They needed help to rescue them from impossible situations which were pulling them deeper and deeper into poverty and also into crime as many desperately tried anything they could to survive. Booth wrote a book to trumpet their needs to all who would hear and to extend to them the message that there is a way out.\n1. Hell No! : The Birth of a Mighty Army, Roberts Liardon Ministries, Audiocassette A0063.\nWilliam Booth, In Darkest England and The Way Out (Atlanta: The Salvation Army, 1984), Preface.\n2. Ibid., 21-22.\n3. Ibid., 22-23.\n4. Ibid., 26\n5. Ibid., 27.\n6. Ibid., 27.\n7. Ibid., 31.\n8. Ibid., 32.\n9. Ibid., 32.\n10. Ibid., 40.\n11. Ibid., 50.\nBarnes, Cyril. God’s Army. Illinois: David Cook Publishing Co., 1978.\nBooth, William. In Darkest England and The Way Out. Atlanta: The Salvation Army, 1984.\nHosier, Helen K. William and Catherine Booth : Founders of The Salvation Army.\nUhrichsville: Barbour Publishing, 1982.\nLiardon, Roberts. Hell No! : The Birth of a Mighty Army. Roberts Liardon Ministries.\nWHEN THE GENERAL’S DREAM COMES TRUE – PART TWO\nWhat could be done for those in 19th century England who had lost all joy, hope and strength in their struggle to survive? William Booth maintained that we must not only preach to them the gospel, but we must do something to relieve their intense, immediate pain so that they could even hear the gospel that we preach. He argued that it was useless to preach to those “whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive.”1 Booth argued that such a one won’t listen to our preaching because he is like a drowning man whose head is being held under water. It is not until he is brought to the surface, and receives air in his lungs, that he can calm himself enough to hear what we are saying.2\nCould the plight and misery of England’s poor be paralleled to the desperate struggle of a drowning man? Booth made known the shocking truth that, in the metropolitan district, over four hundred persons every year were actually arrested for trying to commit suicide. To them, life had become an unbearable burden.3 Booth boldly declared; “But we who call ourselves by the name of Christ are not worthy to profess to be his disciples until we have set an open door before the least and worst of these who are now apparently in prison for life in a horrible dungeon of misery and despair.” 4 Booth was committed to seeing them released from this terrible prison.\nAs well as being a voice for those who were out of work, Booth cried out on behalf of working families which could barely function as families because of their poverty. He said, “The home is largely destroyed where the mother follows the father into the factory, and where the hours of labor are so long that they have no time to see their children.”5 He put forward the question; “How can a man who is on his omnibus from fourteen to sixteen hours a day have time to be a father to his children in any sense of the word?”6 Booth pointed out that technology did not necessarily better the condition of the working poor but, sometimes, made it possible to extract more work out of them. He said, “In the town gas and the electric light enable the employer to rob the children of the whole of their father’s waking hours, and in some cases he takes the mothers also. Under some of the conditions of modern industry, children are not so much as born into a home as they are spawned into the world like fish, with the result which we see.”7\nSuicide, unemployment and the stealing away of family time were all problems plaguing Darkest England. Were the problems that Darkest England faced being tackled by other organizations and institutions? Were there other answers to the dilemma outside of the spiritual, Christian help that Booth was, both living out and, calling for? The government of England did have a program of poor houses in operation. However, Booth saw shortcomings in the help that they provided. Recipients of this help came to the poor houses, or casual wards, weak and undernourished. Here, they would receive shelter and a meagre amount of food. Having received help, they were required to stay at the casual ward for a couple of days, in which time they would be given hard, physically exhausting work. Some would be given the task of picking oakum and others engaged in stone-breaking. Booth protested that even criminals in jail were not worked as hard as casual ward recipients. He said, “These tasks are expected from all corners, starved, ill-clad, half-fed, creatures from the streets, foot-sore and worn out, …” 8 Even from women recipients, onerous work was required. They would put in long hours picking oakum. They were expected to get up at 5:45 A.M. and retire for bed at 7:00 P.M. If they had not finished picking by this time, they would stay up until their work was completed. They were also under the close watch of inspectors who gave them very little privacy. Once they had agreed to receive the help offered, they would be required to stay a couple of nights. 9\nIf poor houses were insufficient, then what about trade unions? Booth acknowledged that trade unions had helped many people. However, Booth pointed out that only one-and-a-half million Englishmen were a part of their organizations. They only helped a fraction of the labouring classes and they could not assist those who were outside of their membership. In most cases, they were unhelpful to unskilled labor and they, in no way, could handle the breadth of the problem that Booth was expressing. He pointed out that women were also poorly represented in them. Respecting their contribution to society, Booth still wanted to know what would be done for those unassisted by trade unions. 10\nWhile trade unions were insufficient to manage the problems of Darkest England, what about England’s larger efforts of socialism in general? Again, Booth acknowledged socialism’s good intentions but was skeptical that they could create the utopia that they seemed to claim. He said that the utopia “must be within range of my fingertips” if it is any use to me. 11 At the same time, Booth maintained that his plan should not upset socialists unless those same socialists held anti-Christian sentiments against him and his work. He said:\nThere is nothing in my scheme which will bring it into collision either with Socialists\nof the State, or Socialists of the Municipality, with Individualists or Nationalists, or any\nof the various schools of thought in the great field of social economics – except only those\nanti-Christian economists who hold that it is an offense against the doctrine of the survival\nof the fittest who try to save the weakest from going to the wall, … 12\nBooth knew that not everyone would accept his Christian faith and mercy-for-the-weak based plan for assistance. There were many in England who wanted to see poverty come to an end but did not appreciate Booth’s Christian stand and spiritual answers. Some of them were radicals, promoting revolution. Booth was clear that he was opposed to revolution which overturned institutions. He wanted to be a constructive, not destructive, force in society. Many revolutionaries hoped to see the discontentment and misery of the masses increase until it erupted to overthrow institutions and governments which did not share its ideology. Many believed that things had to get worse before they could get better, and they hoped to see this process accelerate to this desired end.13 Booth’s hope was for the spiritual and temporal salvation of people and he was already living and seeing this hope slowly develop within the existing society of England.\nDespite the fact that many of England’s poor were finding spiritual and temporal salvation as they responded to Booth’s ministry, many Englishmen were apathetic. Booth called to all who would hear him that we must recognize that we are our brother’s keepers and that we must make this world more like home for our brothers.14 How was this to come about? Booth maintained that, firstly, Darkest England had spiritual issues which must be resolved. He said:\nThe first essential that must be borne in mind as governing every Scheme that may be put\nforward is that it must change the man when it is his character and conduct which constitute the\nreasons for his failure in the battle of life. No change in circumstances, no revolution in social\nconditions, can possibly transform the nature of man. Some of the worst men and women in the\nworld, whose names are chronicled by history with a shudder of horror, were those who had\nall the advantages that wealth, education and station could confer or ambition could attain.\nThe supreme test of any scheme for benefiting humanity lies in the answer to the question,\nWhat does it make of the individual? Does it quicken his conscience, does it soften his heart,\ndoes it enlighten his mind, does it, in short, make more of a true man of him, because only by such\ninfluences can he be enabled to lead a human life? 15\nDesiring to see the nature of men change, Booth and his Salvation Army proclaimed the gospel and salvation that is found through faith in Christ. It is through this narrow way that both the inner and the outer life of a man or woman is transformed in a spiritual and victorious way. It is through living faith in Jesus Christ that men and women submit to God’s rule and begin to experience an overcoming life which not only helps them in their situations, personally, but brightens and assists the lives of others. This spiritual provision is the most important provision in remedying the problems of Darkest England.\nWhile spiritual provision was needed in tackling the problems of Darkest England, practical provisions were also important. Booth observed that the hard conditions of life in Darkest England contributed to people moving from the outer circle of honest poverty to the inner circles of participating in sinful and even criminal activities in order to survive. He argued that practical support must be given to the struggling poor in order to stabilize their life enough so that they would be able to see that a good and godly life is possible for them through Jesus Christ. He said:\nIt is no use standing on the firm bank of the quaking morass and anathematizing these poor\nwretches; if you are to do them any good, you must give them another chance to get on their\nfeet, you must give them firm foothold upon which they can once more stand upright, and\nyou must build stepping-stones across the bog to enable them safely to reach the other side.\nFavorable circumstances will not change a man’s heart or transform his nature, but unpropitious\ncircumstances may render it absolutely impossible for him to escape, no matter how he may\ndesire to extricate himself. 16\nWilliam Booth extended a hand to the struggling poor of his day. The help that he extended was both spiritual and practical. Booth preached salvation through Jesus Christ to all who would hear. He also helped the struggling poor by advocating their cause and in many ways supplying their needs. He proposed solutions which trade unions and socialists could not match. He saw victories as God granted them. He pressed for the best.\n1. William Booth, In Darkest England and The Way Out (Atlanta: The Salvation Army Supplies and Purchasing Department, 1984), 53.\n2. Ibid., 53.\n3. Ibid., 66.\n4. Ibid., 44.\n5. Ibid., 72.\n6. Ibid., 72.\n7. Ibid., 72.\n8. Ibid., 77.\n9. Ibid., 77-78.\n10. Ibid., 85-86.\n11. Ibid., 87.\n12. Ibid., 25.\n13. Ibid., 89.\n14. Ibid., 91.\n15. Ibid., 93.\n16. Ibid., 94.\n“The substance of old ropes untwisted and pulled into loose hemp, used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc.” The Websters Unabridged International Dictionary of The English Language (New York: The Publishers Guild, Inc. 1976), 1231.\nWHEN THE GENERAL’S DREAM COMES TRUE – PART THREE\nWilliam Booth and his Salvation Army did not shrink back from the responsibility of proclaiming the gospel and providing spiritual counsel to those within their continually expanding circle of influence. Neither did they shrink back from giving sacrificially towards tangible, practical aid to the needy. While courageously accepting responsibility for action, they also called the government of England to take responsibility and action. Booth’s book, “In Darkest England and The Way Out,” laid out a plan or, as he preferred to call it, a “Scheme,” by which poverty could be eliminated in England through the work of the Salvation Army. Darkest England had spiritual, temporal and practical needs. The practical part of Booth’s plan could be assisted by government support.\nWhat was Booth proposing? He envisioned a three-component plan which would help lift the down-and-out into an environment where they could progressively advance themselves out of their poverty situation. He chose to call each component of the plan a “colony.” The first component was the “city colony.” The city colony was simply a set-up of institutions which would provide refuge for the struggling inner-city poor, providing for them immediate necessities such as food, shelter and employment.1 Booth’s “Cheap Food Depot” had already been in operation for over two years and was expanding. By the time of the writing of his book, they had supplied more than three-and-a-half million meals. This program served as a model of what could be implemented on an even larger scale. For recipients of the program there would be a workshop, or labor yard, by which they could earn their bed and board.2 Again, Booth already had a working model. The Salvation Army had erected an industrial factory at Whitechapel which, by the time of the writing of the book, was providing work for almost ninety men. Here, the men were occupied in work such as carpentry, bench making and mat making. Their rations were earned and earned within the reasonable framework of an eight-hour day. 3 What was Booth proposing to do on a larger scale for the out-of-work person who came to his doors? Booth explained:\nI propose to take that man, put a strong arm around him, and extricate him from the mire\nin which he is all but suffocated. As a first step we will say to him, ‘You are hungry, here\nis food; you are homeless, here is shelter for your head; but remember you must work for\nyour rations. This is not charity; it is work for the workless, help for those who cannot help\nthemselves. There is the labor shed, go and earn your fourpence, and then come in out of\nthe cold and the wet into the warm shelter; here is your mug of coffee and your great chunk of\nbread, and after you have finished these there is a meeting going on in full swing with its joyful music and hearty human intercourse. There are those who pray for you and with you, and make you feel yourself a brother among men. There is your shake-down on the floor, where you will have your warm, quiet bed, undisturbed by the ribaldry and curses with which you have been familiar too long. Here’s the washhouse, where you can have a thorough wash-up at last, after all these days of unwashedness. There is plenty of soap and warm water and clean towels; there, too, you can wash your shirt and have it dried while you sleep. In the morning when you get up there will be breakfast for you, and your shirt will be dry and clean. Then when you are washed and rested, and are no longer faint with hunger, you can go and seek a job, or go back to the labor shop until something better turns up. 4\nOnce participants of the city colony were stabilized in their situation, they would be given the option of moving to the second component, the “farm colony.” This would be a large area outside of the urban center, where participants would be assisted and trained in agricultural life.5 Booth had in mind the set-up of a farm estate which would be anywhere from 500 to 1,000 acres. The land would have to be suitable for market gardening with a variety of soil types. It would be freehold land and, ideally, would be close to a railway, the sea or to a river. Participants in the colony would be active in the construction of their own homes. Of prime importance, it would need to be a considerable distance away from any city which would have the allurement of bars and liquor. Booth’s farm colony would be free of any intoxicating liquor. Booth argued against the opinion of some that the inner-city poor were not capable of such agricultural life. Many considered them to be worthless.6 However, Booth said; “Worthless under the present conditions, exposed to constant temptations to intemperance no doubt they are, but some of the brightest men in London, with some of the smartest pairs of hands, and the cleverest brains, are at the present moment weltering helplessly in the sludge from which we propose to rescue them.” 7\nAgain, once established in the farm colony, participants would have the option of continuing on to the third component, the “over-sea colony.” For those who wanted it, provision would be made to reestablish them in other colonies of the British Empire.8 The over-sea colony would be similar to the farm colony. A large tract of land would be utilized for settlement and agricultural work. A competent body of workers, working under skilled supervision, would set up buildings, break up the land, plant crops and store adequate supplies for the future of the colony. A strong and efficient government would be set up to administer rules and discipline. Once established, the colony would become productive and revenues would be used to purchase from England machinery and other implements which could not be acquired locally. 9\nBooth summed up his plan in these words:\nThe Scheme, in its entirety, may aptly be compared to A Great Machine, foundationed\nin the lowest slums and purlieus of our great towns and cities, drawing up into its embrace\nthe depraved and destitute of all classes; receiving thieves, harlots, paupers, drunkards,\nprodigals, all alike, on the simple conditions of their being willing to work and to conform\nto discipline. Drawing up these poor outcasts, reforming them, and creating in them habits\nof industry, honesty, and truth; teaching them methods by which alike the bread that perishes\nand that which endures to Everlasting Life can be won. Forwarding them from the city to the\ncountry, and there continuing the process of regeneration, and then pouring them forth on to\nthe virgin soils that await their coming in other lands, keeping hold of them with strong\ngovernment, and yet making them free men and women; and so laying the foundations, perchance,\nof another Empire to swell to vast proportions in latter times. Why not? 10\nIn addition to Booth’s plan of the three colonies, he had other ideas to improve the conditions of the inner-city poor. For one, he wanted to set up a “traveling hospital.” This would involve pony-drawn carriages equipped with basic medical supplies, which would be administered by nurses. They would service many ailing inner-city recipients who otherwise would not make it to hospitals. 11\nAs well as traveling hospitals, Booth wanted a program set up to reform prisoners who had completed their sentences. First, he wanted permission for the Salvation Army to have access to the prisons to work with inmates. Next, recognizing that the transition from prison to society was very difficult, he proposed setting up homes which would serve as an intermediate step in this process. Immediately upon discharge from prison, the men or women would be met at the prison gates and invited to participate in the homes. Here, men and women would have not only shelter but work provided by means of workshops. 12\nBooth not only planned the set-up of homes for released prisoners, but he also planned homes for women trying to escape the life-style of a prostitute. Booth had set up thirteen homes in England for this purpose. These homes were helping 307 women make the transition to a better life. The houses were run by 132 Salvation Army officers. Booth wanted to greatly increase the number of these homes and provide for these women the options of factory training, domestic training or admittance into the farm colony. 13 Booth wanted to “cheer these girls forward” and give them options by which he hoped “they will be much more likely to fight their way through seasons of darkness and temptation than as at present.” 14\nIn addition to the set-up of more homes, Booth was running an inquiry office for lost people. Thousands of persons every year went missing in England. Those who were poor could not afford the services of a private detective. All too often, their separation from family would be permanent. At the inquiry office, family members could come and report the absence of their kin and receive help in locating them. 15\nWhile England’s poor needed missing-persons search services, they also needed accessible legal aid. One initiative that Booth wanted to create was a court of counsel where anyone whose rights of liberty, property, or otherwise, had been violated could receive legal assistance. Booth was especially concerned that poor widows would have access to this service. 16\nIn addition to accessible legal aid, Booth even wished to set up an ocean-side recreation area where those struggling in the harsh environment of England’s inner cities could escape for a few days of rest. Here, they and their children would have a brief rest from the crowded cities, sunless alleys and grim streets. 17\nBooth concludes his book with the firm assertion that this can all be accomplished. He said; “I believe that it can be done by the Salvation Army, because it has ready to hand an organization of men and women, numerous enough and zealous enough to grapple with the enormous undertaking.”18 By the time of the printing of his book, the Salvation Army had been in operation for twenty-five years. It was the largest home and foreign missionary society in the Protestant world. It had close to 10,000 officers, 4,600 of whom were in Great Britain. 19 What would Booth’s proposed program cost? He was asking the British government for 100,000 pounds to set up the program and an annual funding of 30,000 pounds. These figures were the result of intense research. Booth felt that this experiment would not only be realistic but would be worthy to undertake. He pointed out how every year the government spent tens of thousands of pounds on economic ventures, such as boring for coal, searching for minerals and sinking for water. How much more worthy a goal was the elimination of poverty in Britain? Booth had already spent his life in the service of England’s suffering poor and he had done so with tremendous success. With this appeal he pointed out that:\nI am now sixty-one years of age. … I feel already something of the pressure which led\nthe dying Emperor of Germany to say, ‘I have no time to be weary.’ If I am to see the\naccomplishment in any considerable degree of these life-long hopes, I must be enabled to embark upon the enterprise without delay, and with the worldwide burden constantly upon me in connection with the universal mission of our Army I cannot be expected to struggle in this matter alone. 20\nThe British government responded to Booth’s request and implemented the plan. The first stage continued late into the 20th century and the final two stages were in operation until 1906. By 1906, as a result of the program, 188,684 people had found employment. 21\nDr. Wilbur Chapman, in an interview with Booth, asked him what was the secret of his success. With tears in his eyes, Booth answered:\nI will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me. There have been men with greater\nopportunities; but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart, and a vision of what\nJesus Christ could do with the poor of London, I made up my mind that God would have all of\nWilliam Booth that there was. And if there is anything of power in The Salvation Army of\ntoday, it is because God has all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life. 22\nReflecting on this, Chapman concluded; “I learned from William Booth that the greatness of a man’s power is in the measure of his surrender. It is not a question of who you are or of what you are, but of whether God controls you.” 23\nUnder the control of God, the humble and large-hearted life of General William Booth rushed into Darkest England on a mission to bring salvation, both spiritual and temporal, to the poorest of England’s poor. Darkest England was a fearful place but there was a way out. Booth brought to them the message of life and hope through faith in Jesus Christ, and the practical help which would get the “cab horse” of struggling humanity again to its feet. The desperate man, the desperate woman, the desperate child, the desperate prostitute and the desperate one who has been separated from his family were all embraced and aided by Booth and his Army. The desperate ones, whose struggle was like that of a man who’s head has been held under water, were lifted to a secure place of care where a strong arm was put around them and they were fed, sheltered and loved. You are hungry; here is food. You are homeless; here is shelter for your head. A mug of coffee, a great chunk of bread, a washhouse, clean clothing, a warm and dry bed, and lastly, a meeting place where the love and gospel of Jesus Christ was shared, were all gifts from the General to the destitute ones who populated England’s slums. Darkest England was a despairing jungle of horror and pain. However, Booth and his Army trudged through the thick of it, seeing a light beyond. No set-backs could extinguish their hope. Every hardship became a vigorous spur to faith and further action. Their eyes were on the deliverance just ahead of them. Oh, the General’s dream, that noble scheme, gives John Jones work to do. He’ll have a bed and be well-fed when the General’s dream comes true. What began as a dream in the heart of Booth became for many the concrete deliverance from Darkest England’s doom. With every caring act, Darkest England was lighted bright. Those who in despair found themselves on England’s lowest bottom had hope generously handed to them. The love that they were showered with was the same love that sent Jesus Christ from heaven to earth. The acceptance that they were embraced with was the same acceptance that Jesus Christ showed to the ones who came to Him for prayer and teaching. The salvation that they found was the salvation that was paid for by the bleeding Savior on the Cross. The rescue that they experienced was one that put their life on a solid rock where they now could move forward, and upward too, for man shall no longer be behind when the General’s dream comes true.\n1. William Booth, In Darkest England and The Way Out (Atlanta: The Salvation Army, 1984), 99-100.\n2. Ibid., 102, 113.\n3. Ibid., 115.\n4. Ibid., 114.\n5. Ibid., 100.\n6. Ibid., 136-137, 140.\n7. Ibid., 136-137.\n8. Ibid., 101.\n9. Ibid., 153-154.\n10. Ibid., 101.\n11. Ibid., 178.\n12. Ibid., 181,183.\n13. Ibid., 196-197.\n14. Ibid., 198.\n15. Ibid., 202-203.\n16. Ibid., 229.\n17. Ibid., 245.\n18. Ibid., 249.\n19. Ibid., 250-251.\n20. Ibid., 293.\n21. Cyril Barnes, God’s Army (Illinois: David Cook Publishing Co., 1978), 73.\n22. William Booth, quoted in Helen K. Hosier, William and Catherine Booth : Founders of The Salvation Army (Uhrichsville: Barbour Publishing, 1982), 201.\n23. Dr. Wilbur Chapman, quoted in Helen K. Hosier, William and Catherine Booth : Founders of The Salvation Army, 202.\nArt by Ramona Stevens\nFor this piece of art I was inspired by two which can be found at the following: http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/salvation-army.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.bilerico.com/2010/11/why_you_shouldnt_give_to_the_salvation_army.php&h=527&w=570&sz=100&tbnid=wIG5BYs4Er7hAM:&tbnh=88&tbnw=95&zoom=1&usg=__BXWDnakeIMjMSfudas_ehusSI4o=&docid=O1oI7H3bMYt-5M&sa=X&ei=zPhtUZCjKqvOigKik4H4Aw&ved=0CFsQ9QEwDQ&dur=576 and\nBarnes, Cyril. God’s Army. Illinois: David Cook Publishing Co., 1978.\nBooth, William. In Darkest England and The Way Out. Atlanta: The Salvation Army, 1984.\nHosier, Helen K. William and Catherine Booth : Founders of The Salvation Army.\nUhrichsville: Barbour Publishing, 1982.\nLiardon, Roberts. Hell No! : The Birth of a Mighty Army. Roberts Liardon Ministries.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://m-weigand.de/bio/", "date": "2023-01-31T05:59:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499845.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131055533-20230131085533-00274.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7349758744239807, "token_count": 412, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__59906913", "lang": "en", "text": "- since Apr. 2020: Assistant researcher at the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR)\n- 2018 - 2020: Guest lecturer at Augsburg University. Course: \"Applied Geodata Analysis and Machine learning in R\".\n- since Apr. 2017: PhD Student at the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD), German Aerospace Center (DLR), funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU)\n- Oct. 2014 - Feb. 2017: Master Geoinformatics (M.Sc.) at University Augsburg, Germany.\n- Oct. 2010 - Jul. 2014: Bachelor Geography (B.Sc.) at Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg, Germany.\n- Weigand, M., J. Staab, M. Wurm, and H. Taubenböck, \"LandcoverDE\" - Data Publication, 2020, https://doi.org/10.15489/1ccmlap3mn39.\n- Weigand, M., J. Staab, M. Wurm, and H. Taubenböck, \"Spatial and semantic effects of LUCAS samples on fully automated land use/land cover classification in high-resolution Sentinel-2 data,\" International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, vol. 88, p. 102065, Jun. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2020.102065.\n- Weigand, M., M. Wurm, S. Dech, and H. Taubenböck, \"Remote Sensing in Environmental Justice Research – a Review,\" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, vol. 8, no. 20, p. 28, 2019, https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8010020.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://buielumber.com/services/", "date": "2019-11-21T16:10:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670921.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121153204-20191121181204-00559.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9650691747665405, "token_count": 965, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__123573593", "lang": "en", "text": "I am President and CEO of JTA Wellness as well as a mother of 4 children and 3 stepchildren, a grandmother ‘JJ’ to 17 grandchildren, wife to a man that I adore sharing life with, and daughter to my very active but aging mom who continues to serve as my mentor and friend.\nIn addition to leading my fast-paced personal life, I have the pleasure of working with an amazing team of nutrition experts at JTA Wellness, a highly respected private practice nutrition clinic in San Antonio with a new branch in Austin. I hold a Masters degree in Nutrition and over 20 years of diverse experiences in the food and nutrition industry. As I continued to grow and develop as a dietitian, I was looking to do something in dietetics where I could have real impact.\nI began JTA thirteen years ago out of my desire to create a science-based practice offering hope and health to give clients a practical solution to manage chronic health issues.\nDuring my career, I have been surrounded by incredible people who have helped propel me to the next level as a dietitian. I have had the privilege to become known as a national leader in nutrition counseling, wellness and chronic disease management. I have been recognized by many organizations including being awarded the Texas Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics State Media Award highlighting an individual who has made a positive impact on the promotion of nutrition through the media. In 2014, I was delighted to be chosen for the National Association of Women Business Owners Entrepreneurial Spirit Award. I’ve been featured on multiple television and radio shows, and have been interviewed in SA Woman, Women’s Day and Fortune Magazine.\nMuch of my career has been in culinary so I always say I am a foodie first and a dietitian second! I have written numerous cookbooks and created hundreds of nutritious recipes that are available on my website at www.lifebyjan.com.My best-selling cookbook, Healthy Meals for Hurried Families, is a collection of delicious family-favorite recipes that have been featured numerous times in print and other media.\nIn my first book, Getting Your Second Wind, I openly share my life story in hopes it will bring encouragement and healing to readers giving them a fresh start toward creating a positive attitude and balanced lifestyle. My latest book, Eat Well to Be Well was born out of my passion to encourage readers to take personal responsibility for their own health by giving them the tools needed to live their best life through the power of anti-inflammatory food. It walks readers through how to eat, move, sleep and manage stress to decrease inflammation and reduce the risk of chronic disease.\nThe center of the book contains delicious anti-inflammatory recipes I have tweaked to perfection and photographed creating a beautiful, practical handbook to wellness.\nSo you must be wondering why I’m taking this next step in my life! I have become aware in my own second half of life that health and wellness can be harder to find as we age. While the additional aches and pains that come with age can be disruptive, I believe that good health is the greatest gift we can give ourselves! My experience so far in my second half of life has been incredible. It takes work and determination to make the most of your life experience. As a clinician, I see patients who have taken charge of their life and worked to make it the best it can be, and then I’ve see those who have not found their motivation for making healthy changes. It is easy to see from these two groups who is going to age well and truly have the health to enjoy their second half.\nThis blog and new website\ncontain valuable, life-changing information that can help you live your very best life – right now! I am excited to bring all that I’ve learned and experienced to help restore your zest for life.\nI will be presenting weekly video blogs to speak to topics that are relevant in my life and hopefully in yours. There will be a variety of formats to include cooking demos, interviews with experts on current wellness topics, or quick inspirations on how to effectively deal with pressing life issues. In addition to the weekly video blog, I will offer private counseling, webinars, and virtual classes on chronic health issues.\n- List item 1\n- List item 2\n- List item 3\nI know your time is precious so my goal is to make our brief time together fun, informative and useful. Be sure to sign up at www.lifebyjan.com to receive these weekly blogs. Most of us have family and friends who could use encouragement to pursue health.\nI encourage you to share these with everyone you think could benefit from this reliable, powerful information!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.austin-weston.com/plastic-surgery-procedures-northern-virginia/non-surgical-procedures-northern-virginia/sculpsure-northern-virginia/", "date": "2017-06-28T02:04:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128322275.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628014207-20170628034207-00107.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8894226551055908, "token_count": 393, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__238594619", "lang": "en", "text": "SculpSure is a non-invasive body contouring system for the reduction of stubborn fat in areas, such as the abdomen and love handles.\nThe 25 minute procedure destroys 24%1 of treated fat cells without surgery. SculpSure is ideal for people with trouble spots, particularly those that seem resistant to diet and exercise.\nHow does SculpSure work?\nWhat should I expect during the 25 minute treatment?\nWhen will I see results?\nHow long will the results last?\nHow much does it cost?\n*2 treatments 6 weeks apart\n1 area: $2,000\n2 areas: $3,000\n3 areas: $4,000\nIndividual results may vary and are not guaranteed. SculpSure is intended for non-invasive fat reduction for the ankles and abdomen. SculpSure is not a weight loss solution for people who are obese.\n1 Average reduction in fat volume following single treatment as measured by MRI; Clinical and Histological Evaluations of a 1060nm Laser Device for Non-Invasive Fat Reduction, John W. Decorato, M.D., FACS. Rafael Sierra, Ph.D., Bo Chen, Ph.D., Westford, MA, 2014.\n2 Katz B, Doherty S. A multicenter study of the safety and e cacy of a non-invasive 1060 nm diode laser for fat reduction of the anks. Paper presented at: 2015 Annual American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Conference; April 22-26; Kissimmee, FL.\n3 Average patient discomfort rating of 3.7 on a scale of 1-10; Bass L, Doherty S. Non-Invasive Fat Reduction Of The Abdomen With A 1060nm Diode Laser. Paper presented at: 2015 Annual American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery Conference; April 22-26; Kissimmee, FL.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.stgeorgesb16.com/curriculum/reading", "date": "2021-10-24T10:27:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585916.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20211024081003-20211024111003-00233.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.957592785358429, "token_count": 609, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__134683919", "lang": "en", "text": "Reading and Phonics\nAt St George’s we want all children to enjoy reading, be fluent and competent and to have read widely so that they have a growing understanding of the world. The overarching aim of the National Curriculum is to support children in developing a love of reading and we believe that as adults we must read children’s literature so we can become the experts who will open every child’s door to being a reader.\nAt St George’s we take a whole class and group approach to the teaching of phonics. We follow the Letters and Sounds scheme, through this structured approach we ensure that all children are supported. There are 5 sessions taught per week in KS1. Any children requiring additional phonic support in KS2 will be given an appropriate phonics intervention – such as Nessy, Rapid Phonics, Rapid Reading, Precision Teaching. Close monitoring and evaluation will ensure these children make progress.\nThe school's main reading schemes are Oxford Reading Tree and Project X. We also use a range of phonetically decodable texts to support the early stages of reading. Once pupils are confident, we encourage teachers to use a wider variety of quality texts to support the teaching of reading skills.\nChildren are taught reading skills in both whole class and small groups, they are introduced to a wide range of texts covering a variety of different genres to engage and enhance reading skills. Children are formally assessed 3 times a year and regular meetings are held to monitor children’s attainment and progress. Any children falling behind are targeted with appropriate interventions and monitored accordingly. For our higher ability children we use Just Imagine’s Reading Gladiators™ - a book club designed to challenge and motivate readers who are reading, or have the potential to read, at greater depth in the year 2, year 4 and year 6. We also use Accelerated Reader in KS2 to further support our reading skills, children complete a star reader test every half term to receive a book level that is appropriate to their level of understanding. Children are then encouraged to be regular users of our school library, we are very fortunate to have our own librarian who is continually developing our wide selection of texts. As well as use of the library, children in KS1 have access to a wealth of books on Bug Club. Children in KS2 are encouraged to use the Junior Librarian Reading Cloud to review and recommend books to each other.\nReading is encouraged across the curriculum and children are able to research topics through books and online.\nGood reading habits are rewarded at St George’s. To motivate the children to read at home we have Read to Succeed (KS1) and Reading Karate (KS2) – the aim of which is to encourage daily reading and increase their reading miles. It is the expectation that parents or older siblings read with their children or talk about the books they are reading and sign their Read to Succeed or Reading Karate daily. Successes are celebrated weekly in Collective Worship.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://atreju.tv/entertainment/c-michael-curtis-atlantic-fiction-editor-who-sought-fresh-voices-dies-at-88/16353/", "date": "2023-02-04T15:08:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500140.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20230204142302-20230204172302-00127.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.979563295841217, "token_count": 1475, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__247040605", "lang": "en", "text": "His wife, author Elizabeth Cox, confirmed his death and said he had kidney failure, pneumonia and respiratory syncytial virus, among other ailments.\nDuring a 57-year career at the Atlantic, Mr. Curtis was renowned by colleagues and the literary world writ large for spotting and nurturing talent, often corresponding with writers he turned down multiple times before finally saying yes — a narrative arc of rejection to acceptance sometimes spanning two decades.\n“We’d rather invest the effort, even at the risk of wasting time with bad work, to find the improbable, utterly unexpected story by a writer we’ve never heard of,” Mr. Curtis said in a 2005 interview published in an all-fiction issue of the Atlantic.\nAmong the hundreds of submissions Mr. Curtis received every week, he found Oates, Beattie and Erdrich and many more writers who went on to long careers: Bobbie Ann Mason, Ethan Canin, James Alan McPherson, Michael Cunningham, Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff.\nMr. Curtis was partial to work submitted directly from writers, not agents or publishers. “We prefer unagented work,” he said at a 2016 writers conference in North Carolina, according to the Salisbury Post. “We like to feel we discovered somebody.”\nIn 2005, Mr. Curtis discovered Lauren Groff, saying yes to her story “L. DeBard and Aliette.”\n“I was in my first semester in graduate school,” she recalled in the Atlantic in 2020. “… In the years since I’d graduated from college, I’d been a bartender and administrative assistant and had worked my brain and fingers raw, trying and mostly failing to write well on my own.”\nGroff’s story was selected for the annual “Best American Short Stories” anthology. Her career took off.\n“My agent contacted me after he read it and we fell into our long and affectionate relationship; not long afterward, he sold my first novel,” she said. “My entire life as a writer unfolded from that moment of acceptance from C. Michael Curtis and the Atlantic, and the sheer luck of that snip in time feels holy to me.”\nMr. Curtis prized one quality among all others in writing: action.\n“I want something to happen,” he recalled in the 2005 interview. “I prefer a story that concerns itself with events and their consequences in the lives of principal characters. I’m not partial to what you might call a sketch or a glimpse. I also read every story looking for distinctive dialogue, strong mechanics and skillful use of figurative language — things that create a sense of artfulness rather than just a plodding working-through of plot.”\nThough the New Yorker, the Atlantic’s chief competitor in fiction, published many of the same writers — Beattie’s work emerged there around the same time in the early 1970s — Mr. Curtis thought the Atlantic’s short stories were more focused on “a sense of story,” he told the Missouri Review in 1984.\n“I think the New Yorker is much more willing than we are to publish what I would call a sketch, or a portrait, or simply a reflective memoir,” he continued. “… We really do like a well-organized, focused, organic narrative. And we will rarely want to publish what we acknowledge is a very fine or elegant piece of writing just because it’s nicely written.”\nChristopher Michael Curtis was born in New York on May 7, 1934. His father was Ely Kahn, a prominent Manhattan architect, and his mother, Dorothy Curtis, was an assistant with whom he was having an affair, Mr. Curtis’s wife said. He was 4 when his mother sent him to foster homes and boarding schools while she attended medical school, and he would return home to New York during the summers.\nHe went to high school in Magnolia, Ark. After graduating, he worked as a fry cook at a local restaurant. He had no plans to attend college.\n“But I read an article in Reader’s Digest about the Cornell School of Hotel Management, where you didn’t have to take regular courses,” he told the Boston Globe. “I actually went up to Ithaca to see if I could talk my way into the school. A dean there suggested I take some high school courses at Ithaca High, which I did, and the hotel school eventually admitted me.”\nOne night during his sophomore year, he attended a party and spotted a collection of Franz Kafka’s short stories on a bookshelf.\n“I opened one, and I began to read it and was so taken with it, I sat down on the floor with my back to the wall while the party sort of swirled around me and kept on reading,” Mr. Curtis recalled to the Hartford Courant. He changed his major to English, began working for campus literary publications and briefly became roommates with Thomas Pynchon, the reclusive author of “The Crying of Lot 49” and “Gravity’s Rainbow.”\nAfter graduating in 1956, Mr. Curtis worked as a reporter at the Ithaca Journal and Newsweek but decided to pursue a doctorate in political science at Cornell while writing poetry in his spare time. In 1961, Peter Davison, the Atlantic’s poetry editor, visited campus for a reading. Mr. Curtis gave him some poems to read. Davison offered him a summer job that turned into a permanent position in 1963. The doctorate was never completed.\nMr. Curtis’s connection to the magazine began winding down in 2005 when the magazine ceased regular publication of fiction, opting to publish special fiction issues instead. A year later, when the magazine moved from Boston to Washington, Mr. Curtis and his wife relocated to South Carolina, where they taught at Wofford College.\nA previous marriage, to Jean Getchell, ended in divorce.\nSurvivors include his wife of 29 years; two children from his first marriage, Hilary Curtis Osmer of Ayer, Mass., and Hans Curtis of Acton, Mass.; two stepchildren, Elizabeth Morrow of Windsor, Colo., and Michael Cox of Denver; two brothers; and five grandchildren. A son from his first marriage, Christopher Curtis, died in 2013.\nMr. Curtis, who also wrote short stories of his own, fully retired from the Atlantic in 2020. After his death, the magazine published a remembrance of him, including reflections by several of his writers.\n“He was such an astute reader, and, in his interactions with writers, a listener,” Beattie said. “Watchful. Helpful and kind. He just assumed that reading and writing were important, essential pursuits, and that it was his role to encourage things along, spreading the good word. In many senses, he was a true believer.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://tarina.blogging.fi/category/books/", "date": "2017-03-30T10:36:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218193716.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212953-00311-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9331780672073364, "token_count": 173, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__240397051", "lang": "en", "text": "I have been working extensively with Sami Viitamäki on a new book we are writing: Cloud Company: Redesigning Strategy, Management, and Communications for the Digital Age (working title).\nWe are glad to inform you that a free e-book outlining some of the key concepts regarding our upcoming book is now available for download.\nThe central argument of Cloud Company is that social technologies and distributed practices – utilized on the fields of strategy formation and leadership, work and management, as well as external communications and interactions – can make an organization infinitely more agile, intelligent, and responsive. Their usage thus enables an organization to anticipate, lead, and exploit changes in the environment, instead of being thrown at their mercy.\nFurthermore, the book sets out a practical framework for redesigning these essential functions of an organization to meet today’s needs.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.regentsaustin.org/news-detail?pk=1014442&fromId=224639", "date": "2019-08-21T20:23:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027316194.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821194752-20190821220752-00310.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9672953486442566, "token_count": 698, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__193420182", "lang": "en", "text": "A Word From...Dan Peterson: Ambition for Our Children\nSeveral years ago, I read a small book on humility that someone let me borrow to read. I guess this person thought I needed help in this area! The book shed light on many areas of my life where pride resides. I was made aware of the fact that we must have people in our lives that care for our souls. During my seminary years in Louisville, KY, Brooke and I were fortunate to be a part of a Soul Group with our church. This was a group designed to care for each other’s spiritual well-being. The four couples helped my wife and me to see our pockets of spiritual blindness that left alone we would never have been able to see.\nHebrews 3:12-13 states, “Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God. But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called “today,” that none of you may be hardened by deceitfulness of sin.”\nThe author of Hebrews tells us that we must help one another see areas in our lives where sin resides. I am writing about this to you because of parenthood. My wife and I are blessed to have four children in our lives, and we thank God for entrusting them to us to raise them. It is a great joy for us to partner with Regents in educating and training them. Raising children in the Regents community has made us better parents and provides the opportunity for other parents, teachers, staff, and coaches to speak into not only my parenthood, but into the hearts of my children.\nIn the last chapter of the book, the author discusses our ambitions for our children. It caused me to think about our ambition for our kids as adults and whether or not our ambitions are biblical. Many times we want our children to become ___________ (you fill in the blank). As a Christian parent, my primary responsibility is to prepare my children for eternity. This is a large concept and a lifelong journey, but I believe that it is biblical (Deuteronomy 6:4-9).\nThe book on humility posed a penetrating question: Are any of your ambitions for your child more important to you than their cultivation of humility and servanthood – the basis for true greatness as biblically defined? This question was like a bullet that whizzed by my head. It really caused me to think and meditate about whether or not my ambition for our children was God-centered. I realized I needed to have a paradigm shift in my thinking about parenthood. Truly, our ambitions for our children reflect our heart. I am thankful that God’s Word brings clarity and frames what is most important. As a Regents Dad, I am incredibly grateful for the community of people that invest in my family.\nNOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY Regents School of Austin admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.indianvedas.net/vedic-mantras/the-power-of-the-mind/", "date": "2024-04-14T21:34:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816893.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414192536-20240414222536-00133.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8910321593284607, "token_count": 2425, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__52252369", "lang": "en", "text": "The Power of the Mind\nThese are six mantras from the Yajurveda from what is popularly known as ‘The Shivasankalpa Sookta’. These mantras describe the power of the mind and pray for that powerful mind to be driven towards Dh\nयज्जाग्रतो दूरमुदैति दैवं तदु सुप्तस्य तथैवैति ।\nदूरङ्गमं ज्योतिषां ज्योतिरेकं तन्मे मनः शिवसङ्कल्पमस्तु ॥ यजुर्वेदः ३४।१ ॥\nMeaning – O Lord! This amazing multi-faceted mind of mine, which goes far and fast when I am awake, and similarly goes into the internal world while asleep, this grasper of many facts, this light of lights (the one that ‘lights up’ all the other senses), may it motivate me towards auspicious deeds!\nThe mind is a wonderful tool that allows humans to do all kinds of amazing things. However, it can also be subverted into silly or meaningless or evil things. To keep ourselves on the right path we pray to God to encourage us and our minds in the right direction that we may achieve life’s highest goal.\nयेन कर्माण्यपसो मनीषिणो यज्ञे कृण्वन्ति विदथेषु धीरः ।\nयदपूर्वं यक्षमन्तः प्रजानां तन्मे मनः शिवसङ्कल्पमस्तु ॥ यजुर्वेदः ३४।२ ॥\nMeaning – O Lord! In the work-arena of life, those involved in action, those who subdue the mind and those who gather knowledge or meditate – they all use the mind to perform their actions. The mind they utilize is unparalleled (in its qualities, actions and nature). It resides inside all creatures and is to be revered. May such a mind motivate me towards auspicious deeds!\n‘Vidatheshu’ implies all the regular business, including even battles, that humans are involved in. ‘Yajne’, on the other hand, refers to actions to acquire knowledge, to control the senses, to perform Yoga including meditation, and, of course, to perform Agnihotra and other Dhaarmika deeds.\nThe mind is irreplaceable in the body due to its irreplicable properties. Today, we can even replace the heart, but not the brain. For this reason, we should respect the mind and work towards protecting and enhancing it. This is what is meant by ‘reverence’ – not making an image and offering flowers to it! Only when we take care of the mind, will the mind be our friend and take us towards an unblemished life!\nयत् प्रज्ञानमुत चेतो धृतिश्च यज्ज्योतिरन्तरमृतं प्रजासु ।\nयस्मान्न ऋते किं चन कर्म क्रियते तन्मे मनः शिवसङ्कल्पमस्तु ॥ यजुर्वेदः ३४।३ ॥\nMeaning – O Lord! The mind that generates knowledge, that is conscious (aware of its surroundings and itself), that has memory and emotions, that is the light (volition) inside living beings, that is immortal and without which no action can be performed, may that mind motivate me towards auspicious deeds!\nThe verse describes the four parts of the Antahkarana – Antahkarana /Mana (consciousness, receiver and sender of sense and action signals, respectively), Buddhi (intellect), Chitta (memory) and Ahankaara (volition).\nयेनेदं भूतं भुवनं भविष्यत् परिगृहीतममृतेन सर्वम् ।\nयेन यज्ञस्तायते सप्तहोता तन्मे मनः शिवसङ्कल्पमस्तु ॥ यजुर्वेदः ३४।४ ॥\nMeaning – O Lord! The eternal mind that grasps fully the past, present and future, and that performs actions (Yajna) along with the soul, the five senses of action and the body (Sapta-hotaa), may that mind motivate me towards auspicious deeds and thoughts!\nThe verse describes the unique ability of the mind to stitch together the changes in its environment into a time continuum. This is what was taught in Yogadarashana, too – time is but a construct of the mind. Also, it covers the two main functions of the mind – perception and execution. (Note the usage of Yajna and Hotaa here.)\nयस्मिन्नृचः साम यजूँषि यस्मिन् प्रतिष्ठिता रथनाभाविवाराः ।\nयस्मिँश्चित्तँ सर्वमोतं प्रजानां तन्मे मनः शिवसङ्कल्पमस्तु ॥ यजुर्वेदः ३४।५ ॥\nMeaning – O Lord! May my mind have the Rg, the Saama, the Yajur and the Atharva Veda installed in it, just as the spokes of a wheel are stuck to its axle. This mind which has the Chitta, that stores all the knowledge gained, strung inside it (like beads in a necklace) in all beings, may that mind gain right knowledge!\nThe Chitta, or the memory-store, is linked to all parts of the brain in order to perform a task properly. This is a prayer to gain proper knowledge, particularly that contained in the Vedas.\nWhile Atharva Veda is not explicitly mentioned, the repetition of the word ‘Yasmin’ is an indication that the missing Atharva is also to be included here.\nसुषारथिरश्वानिव यन्मनुष्यान् नेनीयतेऽभीशुभिर्वाजिन इव ।\nहृत्प्रतिष्ठं यदजिरं जविष्ठं तन्मे मनः शिवसङ्कल्पमस्तु ॥ यजुर्वेदः ३४।६ ॥\nMeaning –The mind is like the expert charioteer that drives humans (and all other creatures) from one subject to another, controlling the senses, as if controlling fleet-footed horses with reins. It is situated in the heart (=brain), motivates one into sense-objects/deeds, is ageless and the fastest thing in the Universe. O Lord! may that mind motivate me towards auspicious deeds!\nThe Upanishads and the Geeta have taken this analogy further. It is a powerful analogy. The mind has tremendous power and can pull attention completely into just one subject, like a charioteer takes the chariot on a narrow path. However, remember that the owner of the chariot remains the soul, and the charioteer obeys its commands. However, if the owner loses all control, the mind can take over and drive the body into reckless deeds.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://safieridreams.wordpress.com/2016/11/11/expectations-part-2/", "date": "2019-03-20T17:52:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202450.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20190320170159-20190320192159-00167.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9942802786827087, "token_count": 1064, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__69653773", "lang": "en", "text": "He should have stayed home. That thought repeated itself in Jacob’s head as he cautiously made his way from one shadow to the next. There was still a block to go before Hill Street and then he had to make it to the old church. If he was caught…he hated to think of the look that would be on his mother’s face if that happened. The disappointment. Of all the things he did his best to avoid, disappointing his mother was highest on the list. It was also that fear of disappointing her that kept him from turning back. Far more quickly than he thought possible, he found himself rounding the last curve of Hill Street.\nStepping off the road he found the dirt path that wound through the small garden alongside the church. At the end of it, he saw the others who had braved the dark and possible punishment to make the meeting. There weren’t that many. He recognized Bradley Owens and Katrina Bates from his class, not a surprise since they were Natalie’s best friends. Standing near them and nervously twisting his hands in his sleeves was a boy two years older. Jacob knew him as one of Josh’s friends, Timothy Malcolm. Next to him were the Hensen twins, Moira and Michael, also from Josh’s class. Last in the group, and the only one who didn’t look like he wanted to bolt, was Henry Wallace.\nIt made sense now. Henry was Natalie’s older brother and Josh’s classmate. Out of everyone at school he would want them back the most. It still puzzled Jacob why he had received an invitation to the meeting but he had and now was not the time to question it. Now was the time to act. Stepping around the hedge, he moved to join them. Trying to look more at ease, he smiled nervously but Henry was quick to cut him off from the group.\n“What are you doing here? Go home, there’s a psycho on the loose.”\nJacob hated confrontations. He stuttered while fumbling for the note in his jacket pocket, “I got this in my locker and-” The piece of paper was snatched out of his hand and Henry stalked away from him before he could finish. Timothy took a step back at the glare Henry threw his way.\n“You put it in the wrong locker! This was supposed to go to Zack!”\nHenry advanced on Timothy to shake the thin boy like a doll, still growling at him. Jacob stood there trying to get his bearings and calm his shaking. That solved the mystery of why he had been given a note. He had hardly exchanged more than a few words with Natalie the entire time they had known each other. He was quiet and tended to melt into the background most of the time. The other children watched the dressing down Timothy was receiving but before Jacob could think of what to do next, Henry spun on his heel and glared at him.\n“What are you still doing here? Go home!”\n“B-but, I want to help. Natalie’s my classmate too…”\nJacob’s voice trailed off as Henry continued glaring. He really wasn’t good at confrontations. There wasn’t any going back, though. If he did then how could he look at his mother again? She was always encouraging him to stand up for himself. While he had been trying to steel his nerve, Henry had turned back to the group.\n“You’d just slow us down. Go home.”\n“NO. I’m staying. I-if you want to waste our time we c-can keep arguing but wouldn’t you rather find Natalie and Josh instead?”\nAfter getting that out he was feeling a little light headed. Henry turned to glare at him again and it took all Jacob had to keep from looking away. This wasn’t the time for him to back down. How was supposed to help if he just went home? The older boy took a step toward him and he slipped his hands into his jacket pockets wondering if he had what it took to stand up Henry, but luckily Katrina and then Michael interrupted before he had to answer that.\n“We could use a lookout, couldn’t we? He’s right about us wasting time. I want to get home before my dad notices I’m gone.”\n“Yeah. The more people we have the safer we’ll be too.”\nHenry still looked like he’d rather pitch Jacob over the garden hedge but he stepped back to the group. Katrina gave him an encouraging smile which he did his best to return. He wasn’t being sent away and that was a big step. He couldn’t do much from his room, however safer it was. Tonight he would be brave. With a sigh, Henry motioned Jacob and the other children closer.\n“You can stay but mess up once and you’re out. This is what we know…”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.faxesfromuncledale.com/beard-of-the-day-may-14-shel-silverstein/", "date": "2024-04-18T23:43:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00411.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9717464447021484, "token_count": 247, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__150924700", "lang": "en", "text": "There are few artists with as diverse of a collection of works as Chicago’s Shel Silverstein. From childrens’ books, to poetry, to songwriting, to stage productions, to illustrations for Playboy comics in the magazine’s hayday, the perpetually bearded Silverstein left behind a prolific resume at the time of his death in 1999.\nBorn and raised in Chicago, Silverstein was expelled from Roosevelt HS in the Ravenswood Manor neighborhood before attending the Chicago Academy for Fine Arts, Roosevelt University, which preceded a drafted stint in the military.\nAside from his work in print, Silverstein’s most famous song writing credit is for the Johnny Cash classic, “A Boy Named Sue”. But it’s his work for children that endures the most, with his poetry collections A Light In The Attic, Falling Up, and Where The Sidewalk Ends (my personal favorite piece being “The Meewho and The Exactlywatt”), as well as the gut-wrenching The Giving Tree. During all of this, Silverstein’s beard was a large presence in his life, so much so that he wrote a poem about it.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://davidappleyard.com/japan/jp92.htm", "date": "2019-05-26T13:42:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232259177.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526125236-20190526151236-00167.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9744446873664856, "token_count": 1283, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__49908426", "lang": "en", "text": "As a veteran resident approaching his 28th year in Japan, I would like to offer some simple advice to tourists, newbies and fellow graybeards as well. Which is:\nI prefer this season not as one of tinsel, lights and storefront carols, but rather as one of quiet — a season of soft-falling snow, a season of anticipation, a season of memories.\nIn this season I am haunted by the memory of a Christmas past, that of my very first Christmas in Japan in 1976. And like the Dickens messenger from the shadows of distant youth, the ghost that I welcome is not unfriendly at all.\nIt was a time when Japan was first modeling its hard-earned affluence, clumsy attire that yet did not fit so well. In my tatami apartment, in richie-rich Denenchofu no less, I slept on futon, slurped Cup Noodles for breakfast, cranked my space heater as high as it would go, and wondered if I myself would ever fit Japan. My home seemed far away.\nIn the mornings, I would ride the elevator to the first floor, my half-asleep head propped against the doors, and when I arrived, I would wade my way through a sea of high-school girls ebbing from the station, girls with straight black hair and grape-colored coats, all a-chatter in the new day.\nEach girl the same. Or so I thought.\nThen I would hold my breath for a jam-packed commuter ride to Shibuya, where I would mangle wa's and ga's in the hallowed halls of Naganuma Language School.\n[Editor: Whether to put the particle 'wa' or 'ga' after the subject of a sentence in Japanese can be just as challenging for foreigners as how to use articles in English.]\nEvery day this had been my pattern, from my arrival in September until now, the final few days before Christmas.\nIt was a nondescript morning, with the winter air biting my face and neck, adding a freeze-frame background for the event to come.\nI picked my way among the high-school girls as they streamed around me and up the hill for their campus. My head held its usual contents — meaning it was empty.\nBut then came a thought. I had forgotten my notebook with my homework! One hundred and 50 days of classes and this was the only time I would ever forget.\nI cursed and retreated for my apartment.\nWhen I slammed through the building doorway, I found a high-school girl standing at my postbox. She was shoving a Christmas package inside.\nHer eyes burst with terror. Behind her, a second girl, a friend, backed against the wall.\nThe girl stood there, flummoxed and trembling. That I could hardly speak Japanese was a blessing. For I had no idea what to say.\nI was 22; the girl maybe 16. She stared at me with big eyes.\nPresently, she tugged the present from my postbox and placed it in my hands. I rustled it open. Inside was a hand-knitted scarf, one she had no doubt spent hours making.\nI fumbled out a \"thank you,\" and tried it on — to find it long enough to wrap around a redwood, let alone my neck. I grinned with her scarf knotted about my throat and both ends drooping past my knees. I must have done it all wrong.\nFor in that second she choked in tears and banged out the door. Her friend ran after her. I watched them trot away.\nWith the scarf came a note in hiragana. When I pulled myself together, grabbed my notebook and made it to class, I showed the note to my teacher. It read \"Anata no koto ga suki desu. Satoko.\"\n[Editor: This means either \"I love you\" or (extremely unlikely) \"I like your koto.\" Since the note was penned in hiragana phonetic script, there were no Chinese kanji characters to clarify meaning. The girl, whose name was Satoko, had wanted to make it easy for this article writer, only 22 and new to Japan at the time, to understand.]\n\"But,\" I told my teacher. \"I don't play the koto.\"\nThe teacher went berserk with laughter and showed the note to everyone in the building. I couldn't make out what she was shrieking, but perhaps it was, \"Yes, it's true! I'm teaching a total dork!\"\nSo . . . a love note. From one girl in the ocean of girls who watched me shiver to the station each day.\nI hadn't seen her before. And I would never see her again. Except once at a distance as she wound up the hill toward her school. In March, I moved from Tokyo to Kyushu.\nKyushu — where I met another big-eyed girl, a few years older, whom I one day married. One who finds my Christmas story touching.\nAs for me, I don't reflect back in any \"Disneyfied,\" what-if kind of way, nor, so much, as if an awkward moment borrowed from the outtakes of The World of Henry Orient.\nInstead, I dwell on the incredible synchronicity of one notebook forgotten. And I wish I could have somehow better swallowed my surprise and fished up a more gentlemanly response. The unknown girl deserved that.\nStill, each Christmas I lift my wine glass to some Satoko somewhere in Japan, no doubt now approaching age 50.\nThat was a nice gift, Satoko. One of the nicest I ever got.\nSomehow, in some glow of stumbling human spirit, in the cold and loneliness of that first Christmas, it helped me see that, yes, Japan might be the right fit for me.\nMerry Christmas — wherever you are.\nEditor's note: Sincere thanks to the author for his kind permission to republish this heartwarming story, which first appeared in his regular Japan Times column \"When East Marries West\".", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.cafenourish.org/your-health-does-god-care", "date": "2021-06-24T21:38:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488559139.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210624202437-20210624232437-00418.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9353357553482056, "token_count": 481, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__122000608", "lang": "en", "text": "Your Health - Does God Care?\nGod Desires that We be in Health!\n3 John 2\nBeloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.\n3 John 2\nIn 3 John 2, we clearly see that God connects our\nPhysical well-being with our Spiritual well-being.\nWhat a Wonderful God We Serve!\nHow much does God want Us to Prosper Spiritually?\nTo understand how God desires for our health to prosper we need to first understand how He wants our spiritual life to prosper.\nGod desires that We have Perfect, Faultless, Blameless, Overcoming Health.\nBe ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.\nNow unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.\nAnd the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n1 Thessalonians 5:23\nHe that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.\nHow do We obtain this Perfect, Faultless, Blameless, Overcoming Health?\nDiligently Hearken & Do\nAnd said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the Lord that healeth thee.\nObedience is the condition required for\nperfect, faultless, blameless overcoming health.\nWe must choose to Obey the Word of the Lord.\nOur Lord Desires to Make Us Whole and Right in Him.\nSurrender All to God and Allow Him to Do the Good Work in\nYou that only He can do.\nBeing confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you\nwill perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://novelnotions.net/2020/06/02/ghosts-of-harvard/", "date": "2023-02-06T10:09:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500334.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20230206082428-20230206112428-00159.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9792298674583435, "token_count": 1616, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__51258899", "lang": "en", "text": "I received a copy of this book from the publisher (Random House) and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.\nGhosts of Harvard completely blew me away. At its core, it houses such a poignant window into mental illness and the victims it leaves behind when those struggling with it take their own lives. The portrayal of grief is brutal and beautiful and real. And yet this story is so much more than that. As she explores the Harvard campus on which her brother took his own life, Cady is faced with a plethora of mysteries. While her brother’s last days consume her from the start, she also finds herself digging into the university’s past as she grapples with fear over her own future. Ghosts of Harvard is a brilliant and seamless bridging of so many ideas and genres. I am in awe of how much research went into the writing of this book, and how Serritella was able to convey so much without a single aspect feeling forced. She struck a perfect balance in so many ways, and she truly gave the world a gift through the publication of this novel.\n“Then where’s the room for a leap of faith? Just because you can’t explain something doesn’t make it untrue.”\nIs there anything more terrifying that the fear of madness? The author does a brilliant job at portraying that fear in Cady. While she is compelled to investigate her brother’s suicide and discover what drove him during his last days, she is also fighting a rising terror that she is schizophrenic, as well. Her reactions are wholly believable without being either overly dramatic or unconvincingly nonchalant. Watching her spiral over the course of her investigation was disturbing and tense and filled me with a compassion for her that I find rarely invoked by fictional characters. Cady felt so real to me. She’s a bright girl who always lived in her brother’s shadow, and she doesn’t know how to do anything but follow in his footsteps. Cady is also one of the most internally aware and honest characters I’ve come across. She asks herself hard questions and tries her best to answer them, even when it’s impossible. She truly struggles to not only understand the brother who left her, but to learn who she is as a person, and I found this journey enthralling.\n“The say that fate is written in the stars, but the irony is that stars don’t project the future, they reflect the past… I like to think [the people we’ve lost] are like the stars. Their light hasn’t gone out. Candlelight goes out. But something as bright as a star, as a soul, that light moves on.”\nThis is a novel of obsession. Cady is completely obsessed with learning all she can about her brother’s last year of life, and finding any little excuse she can grasp that might have finally pushed him over the edge into suicide. She is so consumed by this need for information that she begins seeing conspiracies in every shadow. How much of this need is madness worming its way into her own mind, and how much is actually real? And how can she maintain her grasp on reality, and her new life on an incredibly prestigious and difficult campus when she’s so wrapped up in the past?\n“But time was two-faced. Minutes that ticks by like any other were the moments that changed a life forever, yet revealed themselves too late.”\nThen there are the ghosts. The voices that Cady begins hearing in her head are one of the most fascinating elements of this novel. Are they an indicator that she is spiraling into madness? Are they supernatural phenomena? Or can they be explained by weird science along the lines of that explored in Blake Crouch’s most recent novels? All three possibilities were deftly juggled in a way that never tipped the author’s hand, but also didn’t feel frustratingly vague. There was one reveal in this ghostly aspect of the book that literally elicited a physiological response from me. With one word, or rather, one name, I found myself covered from shin to eyebrow with chills. It was a powerful moment.\n“Do we all pick only the best snapshots to remember in our mental scrapbooks and throw away the bad? Perhaps all photo albums should bear the subtitle The Past—The Way You Want to Remember It.”\nI’m a sucker for any novel revolving around or set within academia. Any school story is immediately appealing to me. Very few real-life schools are more well known than Harvard, so I was excited to pick up this book merely on the basis of the title. Thankfully, the school setting was truly utilized here, and the school itself became a very important character in its own right. The history of the school is fascinating, and I learned so much over the course of reading Ghosts of Harvard. And yet I never felt like Serritella was being too heavy-handed in her conveyance of this history, but instead balanced it very well against every other element of the story.\n“History is never as simple a narrative as we write in books.”\nSome people have expressed a frustration with the slow pacing of the book. I felt that pacing was actually very well maintained. Yes, the story meanders. But it’s meant to! Because we are experiencing Cady’s revelations alongside her, I felt that the pace of the story emphasized the time and care she as a character was putting into her hunt for answers. Her flashbacks were meted out in exactly the right amount. I never felt myself drowning in backstory, but was instead excited to see more of Cady’s past and how it had shaped her. I found the rhythm of the novel captivating. I also found the book far more unpredictable than I would have expected, which was a welcome surprise. This is a story that definitely keeps you on your toes.\n“She noticed how easy it was to edit someone’s past so that all the pieces of a person fit neatly together… The lie endures for generations, while the truth dies with its victims. But what were the consequences?”\nProbably my favorite element of this book was the philosophical bent to the writing. Serritella has a beautiful way with words, and I heavily annotated my copy. Not only does she write beautifully, she writes deeply. There was so much philosophical depth to this book. I was prompted to really think and self-evaluate over the course of the book. Not only was I touched by Cady’s story, I was actually impacted by it in a way that I truly believe will stick with me.\n“Adventure is only possible if you don’t spoil the ending.”\nMuch like the university after which it is named, Ghosts of Harvard contains multitudes. This book is a campus mystery, a coming of age story, a scientific exploration of mental illness, a tale of espionage, a moving historical account, a romance, an esoteric dive into poetry and philosophy and faith and prejudice and a family drama. While this mingling could have led to a bloated and unpalatable slough, all of these elements were instead woven together with a level of grace and care that is truly rare. It was everything I hoped it would be and more, and I will be doing my best to get it into as many hands as I can. It’s a book that will haunt me, and I gladly welcome it.\nYou can order this book from: Bookshop.org (Support independent bookstores!) | Amazon UK | Amazon US | Audible | Libro.fm (Another way to support independent bookstores!) | Book Depository (Free shipping)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://chainandpedals.blogspot.com/2009/02/dream.html", "date": "2013-06-18T04:33:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706933615/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516122213-00053-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9481068849563599, "token_count": 250, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__213256059", "lang": "en", "text": "I wake up. Pancakes are cooking. I make bacon. I devour the pancakes, covered in yogurt, strawberries, and bananas, along with eggs and bacon and strawberry-rhubarb pie for breakfast. I don my kit, pump up my tires, fill up my water bottles, and get on my bike. I ride alongside a lake, and descend through amazing scenery. The temperature is perfect, with the sun warming my back and the breeze cooling my face. At the end of the fun, technical descent, I begin to climb. I climb for 11 miles, looking over mountains that go on forever, and looking down on canyons and valleys that take my breath away. I inhale the fresh pine air and hear the scampering wildlife. I eat. I drink. I converse with the tourists. I photograph the adventure. I descend. I eat. I drink. I bask in the sunlight, admiring the clear blue skies. I share margaritas with my teammates. We make fajitas, and I cook plantains. We eat. We drink. We share stories. We share wine.\nThis is the perfect day.\nIt would be a dream.\nBut this is what happened today.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://llraw.com/", "date": "2014-10-24T18:45:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1414119646425.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20141024030046-00153-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9247031211853027, "token_count": 477, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-42", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-42__0__185856304", "lang": "en", "text": "Lora Leigh and the attending writers of the Reader's Appreciation Weekend would like to invite you to attend.\nA four day reader event for $100? *Gasp! Read more to find out what a fantastic gift this is to yourself or a friend!Lora Leigh and 18 of her RAW author friends invite you to the sixth annual READER'S APPRECIATION WEEKEND.\nAs authors, we take your support seriously and to show that, we've created a special way to bring down the registration cost of the entire weekend to $100! (*hotel ,travel not included)\nIt's an awesome deal when you see what we have planned! Proof that when we say, \"It's all about the readers!\" We mean it! Check it out!\nDue to the limited number of spaces available, this \"Special Registration discount\" is available only until August 1, 2013!\nRegister now at the discounted $100 price and secure your spot for this very special weekend with Lora Leigh and friends!\nSeptember 19-22, 2013\nClarion Hotel, Hagerstown, MD\nFour days of fabulous one-on-one time with authors, includes delightful mixers, games, wonderful food, dancing, a book signing and well, more fun that a body ought to have!\nThe four day event kicks off with a Princess welcome party (complete with tiaras) where you'll meet the authors. The fun continues with reader games, author meet-ups, and an awesome 80's dance party and costume competition!!\nYou'll have a chance to meet Lora Leigh and a special guest on Saturday as well as opportunity to have your special \"RAW 2013 Memory book\" signed by all the authors!\nA full day ends with the annual Slumber party where you can dance in your pj's with the authors, learn new dance steps, or join a conga line! You never know what surprises might occur!!\nWe wrap up this amazing weekend of bonding friendships with an all author book signing, where you can browse through hundreds of books and get your fav author to personalize them!\nPlease check the schedule page for full details of the events we have planned.\nCheck back as we continue to add new authors, new events and the latest news about RAW 2013!\nRegistration is open! See you there!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://dolearning.co.za/2014/09/30/episode-2-reflections-with-micheal-wolfe-pt2/", "date": "2021-09-21T01:58:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057131.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20210921011047-20210921041047-00111.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8716781139373779, "token_count": 158, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__29620985", "lang": "en", "text": "30 Sep Episode 2 – Reflections with Micheal Wolfe (pt2)\nA chat with Michael Wolfe, an American who converted to Islam, recounts his own journey a Californian pilgrim.\nWe also chat about his compilation of One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage and the characters therein. Included are the travel narratives by Ibn Jubayr, Ibn Battuta, J. L. Burckhardt, Richard Burton, the Begum of Bhopal, John Keene, Winifred Stegar, Muhammad Asad, Harry St. John Philby, Lady Evelyn Cobbald, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, and Malcolm X.\n(Originally aired on Radio Islam on 30/09/14)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thepresent-fionawright.blogspot.com/2016/09/from-living-mountain-by-nan-shepherd.html", "date": "2018-12-13T17:20:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376825029.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20181213171808-20181213193308-00107.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9425440430641174, "token_count": 226, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__118269920", "lang": "en", "text": "\"Having disciplined mind and body to quiescence, I must discipline them also to activity. The senses must be used. For the ear, the most vital thing that can be listened to here is silence. To bend the ear to silence is to discover how seldom it is there. Always something moves. When the air is quite still, there is always running water; and up here that is a sound that one can hardly lose, though on many stony parts of the plateau one is above the watercourses. But now and then comes an hour when the silence is all but absolute, and listening to it one slips out of time. Such a silence is not a mere negation of sound. It is like a new element, and if water is still sounding with a low far-off murmur, it is no more than the last edge of an element we are leaving, as the last edge of land hangs on the mariner’s horizon.\"\nfrom The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd\nwritten in the 1940s, first published 1977\n2011 Edinburgh & London, Canongate. [page 96]", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.guidetothesoul.com/about/Praise_73_pg.htm", "date": "2024-02-22T07:29:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473735.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222061937-20240222091937-00568.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9134966135025024, "token_count": 611, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__102954299", "lang": "en", "text": "What others are saying\nRobert Clancy delivers inspirational, passionate, and empathetic daily messages to over a half-million souls, and is seen in ninety countries worldwide through his Robert Clancy – Guide to the Soul Facebook page.\n“In Soul Cyphers, Robert offers brilliant and powerful life decodes that allow for such transformation. He also includes moving stories to inspire you along with effective practices you can incorporate into your daily routine that are simple, yet life-changing.”\n— from Foreword by Marci Shimoff, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul\n“A wonderful awakening for your soul! A brilliant light to guide you on your pathway through life, Soul Cyphers lifts you up, enlightens your day, and becomes your guide on an empowering journey to discover your self-worth...priceless.”\n— Temple Hayes, Difference-maker, Intl. Speaker, author of When Did You Die?\n“Robert Clancy has written a brilliant, uplifting book. It is the key to unlocking your highest potential and grace-filled purpose. Soul Cyphers is a beautiful guide for anyone seeking a more fulfilling life.”\n— Robin Jay, Award-winning filmmaker, The Keeper of the Keys and The Secrets of the Keys\n“Robert is one of a kind. He really knows people and how to help them. His message beautifully covers heath—whether physical, mental, or spiritual—as an important aspect of your wellbeing. I’m keeping this book by my bed, and I suggest you do as well.”\n— Mark Alyn, Award-winning host and producer of Late Night Health Radio\n“Enlightening is an understatement. Not since The Shack have I read such and engaging and compelling book to reaffirm my spiritual connection. Robert Clancy is a true angelic light in our world. His beautifully-written book, Souls Cyphers, decodes every aspect of your heart and dreams, while providing you with a spiritual guide to get you through even the darkest of days.”\n— Teresa de Grosbois, #1 International Bestselling Author of Mass Influence\n“This not a book; this is a seminar. Instantly it fills you with more hope and happiness while you are reading. After a single page, you heart and life are lighter and brighter. I've never 'experienced' a book like this before. We will be talking about this seminal book for years.”\n— Swami - The Orange Cowboy, # 1 bestselling author of The Ayurveda Encyclopedia; and presented to White House commission on alternative medicine\n“Beautifully written and deeply inspiring, Robert Clancy's book will ignite your heart to higher love and transform your moments into a series of miraculous awakenings.”\n— Paul Samuel Dolman, Host of What Matters Most and author of Hitchhiking with Larry David: A True Story from Martha's Vineyard", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://wewellcare.org/nothing-accomplish-something/", "date": "2017-12-16T13:04:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948588072.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20171216123525-20171216145525-00676.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9509621262550354, "token_count": 1858, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__83246572", "lang": "en", "text": "By Steven Edwards\nMeditation can help you focus, get in the groove, perform at a higher level of awareness and productivity, and enjoy life more. Yet there are so many ideas out there about how to do it effectively. Do you just relax and focus on your breath? How about using mantras that help you stay focused? Or perhaps taking a yoga class to blow off steam at the end of a long, hard day? All these can be great ways to help you relax and focus your mind, but have you ever thought of just doing nothing?\nI have a very active mind. For me this has been a blessing and a curse at times. I’ve found that if I’m always thinking about the next thing to get done, it’s easy to become a human doing rather than a human being. Even when I go to our family cabin in Wyoming to vacation, I have spent most of my days at the local library where I can access the internet, and work on business projects!\nRecently, I read the The Joy Diet by Martha Beck. The first chapter of Beck’s book is entitled “Nothing.” It describes the practice of doing nothing for at least 15 minutes a day. I started the practice. Intentionally doing nothing is one of the most transformational activities I’ve ever done.\nProductivity has skyrocketed. The ability to connect to my wife and two boys has improved. Awareness of my surroundings and the people in my life has expanded. My mind feels calmer.\nIn 600 B.C., Lao Tzu, author of the Tao Te Ching said:\nWe shape the clay into a pot,\nbut it is the emptiness inside\nthat holds whatever we want.\nWe hammer wood for a house,\nbut it is the inner space\nthat makes it livable.\nWe work with being,\nbut non-being is what we use.\nIn the hustle and bustle of modern life, with email, cell phones, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, advertising, internet, and the myriad demands on our time, it is easy to get lost in the noise.\nEven with everything we gain and benefit from in this world of technology and distraction, it’s easy to become desensitized and less able to give open-hearted, full attention to the things that really matter to us in our lives. This is where we lose something truly valuable.\nWhen the somethings of our lives collapse around us, and we’re faced with excess and overwhelm, in letting go and turning to nothing, we find all that we need.\nMother Theresa once said, “We need to find God, and He cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… .We need silence to be able to touch souls.”\nAbba Poeman, an Egyptian monk taught his disciples, “If you are silent, you will have peace wherever you live.”\nWhat I’ve Learned from Doing Nothing\n- Clearer mind and memory: this has been really interesting to me. I’ve found I’m actually much more capable of focusing on the things that are in alignment with my goals and values on a consistent daily basis. I’m not trying to focus so much on getting a million things done at once, but have been more focused on doing ONE thing at a time.\n- Greater presence in my interaction with others: I’ve found I’m not nearly so focused on my own agenda, thoughts, and desires when in my interaction with other people. I’m noticing more the body language of people I’m speaking to, listening to what they say, talking less, becoming more aware of what people’s interests and goals are, and enjoying the presence of the person I’m with.\n- Noticing my surroundings: you know, it’s curious to think about, how as a child and in my younger years, I noticed more closely the things around me – birds, trees, sounds, sights, smells. I drew them, painted them, and listened to what these things had to offer me. In giving in to the distractions and stresses of modern life it is interesting to note the loss of attention I have paid my surroundings. Doing nothing has sharpened my focus and attention to see things.\n- Productivity: By surrendering to nothing, I’m actually getting much more of something done. It’s been fascinating to experience my productivity improve by focusing on less, thinking about less, and enjoying the focus I have on what I do.\nHow to Do Nothing\nDoing nothing means exactly what it says: do nothing. There is no need to practice a mantra or move your body. It does not include formal prayer, problem solving, planning your day, or specific visualizations.\nWhen you start this process consistently, you might notice a desire to pull away from doing nothing and go back to preoccupation. Resist the urge. If you feel an idea come to mind, let go of the compulsion to jump up and write it down. Just quietly say to yourself, “I’m busy doing nothing right now” and continue to enjoy the peace.\nReining in the urge to return to busyness when practicing stillness takes a measure of discipline, at least at first. But I think you’ll find that doing so will create a vacuum in your heart, mind and soul, that invites peace, stillness, joy, love, inspiration, and the inner openness to receive as to give.\nIn that spirit, I have a few suggestions on how to adopt this discipline into your life:\n- Put up a “Do Not Disturb” sign: schedule 15 minutes a day to do nothing. I schedule it first thing in the morning after I wake up, drink 500 ml of water, and expose my eyes to sunlight. Hydrating my body after not drinking water all night helps me feel clear-headed. Getting out in the sunlight for a few minutes triggers a hormonal state of wakefulness. You could schedule your nothing time at any time of day. Just best sure to set aside 15 minutes where you won’t be bothered by anybody for anything.\n- Find a place: this could be your study, the bedroom, or any place where you won’t be interrupted.\n- Set a timer: I use the alarm on my iPhone or iPad. The alarm sound is a soft bell ring that I set to go off at 15 minutes.\n- Create the context: the context is the means through which you relax your body and mind and do nothing. I use recordings that include ocean waves, birds and streams, rain and wind. I particularly enjoy listening to recordings of moving water. The air we breathe is filled with positive and negative ions. Negative ions help purify the air, promoting high energy and a positive mood. The proportion of negative ions is highest around moving water such as waterfalls, streams, during and after storms, and the ocean. It’s no wonder we feel so energized when we go to the beach! I have many positive experiences around water, so when I “do nothing” that’s often where I’ll go in my mind as I listen to the ocean through my headphones.\n- Relax your body and quiet your mind: Many of us have squirrel minds. To deal with this common tendency, some meditation practices recommend thought observation: just let your mind do it’s thing without passing judgments on your thoughts or trying to control them. Observing your thoughts without judgement allows you to divide your awareness from your thoughts, relax more fully, and be more present. When I come to this state of relaxed awareness, I often find ideas start flooding into my mind: inspiration for an article I’m writing, a marketing idea, or even a quote. I resist the urge to break away from my “nothingness” and just continue to bask in the experience – there will be time later to write down the idea.\n- Be present: thoughts of past accomplishments or regrets may run through your mind. Concerns about, or even inspiration regarding the future might course through your thoughts. Whatever the thought, it’s ok, just relax. Just keep doing nothing. When you learn to become present in the here and now in your doing nothing experience, I think you’ll be amazed how quickly that 15 minutes passes, and the benefit you get from it!\nI’m confident that you’ll benefit profoundly from this practice. The busier you are, the more preoccupied with getting stuff done, the more valuable and important the discipline of stillness is to you. I challenge you to start. Make it a habit. Enjoy the rewards.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://theliterarycasanova.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/simon-vs-the-homo-sapiens-agenda-a-brilliant-coming-of-age-story/", "date": "2018-06-20T07:33:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863489.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620065936-20180620085936-00484.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9727237224578857, "token_count": 952, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__179937262", "lang": "en", "text": "I’m late to the bandwagon on this one. This book is being made into a movie while I was still fumbling around with the first 20 pages. Nevertheless, Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli is quirky, down-to-earth and I found myself smiling the whole time I was reading it. My cheeks hurt, yo. I’m warm and fuzzy from Simon and Blue, and my face is hurting and it is beautiful. This book is a-freaking-dorable and it is a must-read for all YA fans.\nHere is why I fell in love with this adorable book.\nSimon is sooooo lovable.\nWhat is brilliant about Simon is while he had moments of teen angst, they weren’t bogged down or too intense. In fact, he is a light and jovial character who loves hugs, bad jokes and Harry Potter. Like Albertalli’s newer novel, the protagonist is realistic and lovable. He’s also an overthinker and so relatable. Plus he loves Oreos (and who doesn’t love Oreos?)\nEpic friendships everywhere!\nSimon has a real tight-knit group of friends: the ones from his childhood Nick and Leah, as well as a new bubbly addition, Abby. They have their moments of tension and arguments, but not every friendship is smooth sailing. The book also showcases these platonic friendships and yes, girls and guys can be friends without having romantic feelings for each other. Simon is supportive of his friends, and loves them for who they are.\nI also liked Simon’s siblings, Alice and Nora, and how close they are as siblings. The fact there were healthy and loving relationships in his home life with his parents and siblings added a dynamic to the story that was heartwarming (and a family that watches reality TV together stays together).\nThe coming-of-age elements were excellent.\nHere we have a protagonist who is gay and not portrayed as flamboyant or any other stereotype. He is portrayed as he is: a funny, lowkey popular kid with great friends and an online romance slowly blooming. I liked how we get to know Simon as himself, not who he sexually prefers. The commentary about identity, diversity and sexuality were well said and suited the story, and it added a maturity to Simon (and Blue) that I felt like it needed.\nI died over how cute the romance was.\nI totally understand online friendships. One of my best friends is from America and while we didn’t reveal our identities for a while, we’re going on nearly 8 (or 9?) years of friendship without having met IRL. So when Simon was in the midst of emailing a cute wordsmith who goes to his school but won’t reveal his identity, yo, I get it. It did annoy me a couple of times when things were tense over their identities, but despite that I loved the email format of the relationship and Blue’s grammatical prowess. The flirting is killer cute and the way Simon and Blue slowly opened up to each other was just beautiful.\nSimon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda is filled with great helpings of humour, realistic and wonderful characters, a powerful love for Oreos and understanding what it is like to be yourself.\nWhat are your thoughts?\nHave you read Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda? Do you have a healthy obsession with Oreos? Have you read books with a gay protagonist and found it realistic? Leave a comment down below with your thoughts.\nSixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.\nWith some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://nyxy.cumtb.edu.cn/info/1211/4731.htm", "date": "2023-04-01T04:19:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949701.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20230401032604-20230401062604-00118.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6526544094085693, "token_count": 1481, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__282950135", "lang": "en", "text": "常海滨，男，辽宁清原人，1983年12月生。本科毕业于吉林大学数学学院，博士毕业于北京大学工学院，之后在北京大学从事了博士后和研究岗位工作，于2022年6月入职中国矿业大学（北京）能源与矿业学院。主要研究方向为渗流数值模拟、开发优化、数据同化和机器学习。代表性成果：（1）提出了复杂储层介质（如岩相、裂缝、渠道）的反演算法；（2）提出了用于强非线性问题（如流固耦合问题）的迭代数据同化算法；（3）提出了数据驱动的物理规律挖掘方法；（4）提出了融合领域知识的深度学习方法。在Journal of Computational Physics、Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering、Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth、SPE Journal和Journal of Hydrology等国际知名杂志发表SCI论文20余篇。担任10余国际知名期刊审稿人。获授权国家发明专利1项。主持/参与博士后基金、国家自然科学基金、国家科技重大专项子课题和横向课题等项目10余项。\nShort Biosketch of Dr. Haibin Chang\nHaibin Chang was born in 1983, Liaoning, China. He received bachelor’s degree in mechanics from Jilin University, China, and received PhD degree in energy and resources engineering from Peking University, China. After that he sequentially worked as post doctor and research scientist in Peking University. He joined China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing) in June 2022. His research interests include subsurface flow simulation, production optimization, data assimilation, and machine learning.Hepublishedover 20journal papers, which are published in high quality journals, such as《Journal of Computational Physics》,《Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering》,《Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth》,《SPE Journal》and《Journal of Hydrology》.His 10 representative papers are listed below.\n Wang, N., Chang, H. *, Zhang, D. *, Efficient uncertainty quantification for dynamic subsurface flow with surrogate by Theory-guided Neural Network. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. 2021, 373, 113492.\n Wang, N., Chang, H. *, Zhang, D. *, Deep-Learning-Based Inverse Modeling Approaches: A Subsurface Flow Example. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth. 2021, 126(2), e2020JB020549.\nXu, H., Chang, H. *, Zhang, D.*, DLGA-PDE: Discovery of PDEs with incomplete candidate library via combination of deep learning and genetic algorithm. Journal of Computational Physics. 2020, 584, 124700.\nChang, H., Zhang, D., Machine learning subsurface flow equations from data. Computational Geosciences. 2019, 23(5), 895-910.\nChang, H., Zhang, D., Identification of physical processes via combined data-driven and data-assimilation methods. Journal of Computational Physics. 2019, 393, 337-350.\nChang, H., Zhang, D., History matching of stimulated reservoir volume of shale gas reservoirs using an iterative ensemble smoother. SPE Journal. 2018, 23(2), 346 - 366.\nChang, H., Liao, Q., Zhang, D., Surrogate model based iterative ensemble smoother for subsurface flow data assimilation. Advances in Water Resources. 2017, 100, 96-108.\nChang, H., Liao, Q., Zhang, D., Benchmark problems for subsurface flow uncertainty quantification. Journal of Hydrology. 2015, 531, 168-186.\nChang, H., Zhang, D., Lu, Z., History matching of facies distribution with the EnKF and level set parameterization. Journal of Computational Physics. 2010, 229, 8011-8030.\nChang, H., Chen, Y., Zhang, D., Data Assimilation of Coupled Fluid Flow and Geomechanics Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter. SPE Journal. 2010, 15(2), 382-394.\nContact: Haibin Chang\nSchool of Energy and Mining Engineering\nChina University of Mining and Technology (Beijing)\nDing 11 Xueyuan Road, Beijing 100083, P. R. China", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://parth.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/why-a-book/", "date": "2013-05-20T21:18:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699238089/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101358-00025-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.981684684753418, "token_count": 229, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__138183296", "lang": "en", "text": "Today’s the official publication date of my first book, Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design.\nHere are some warnings up front. It is a 272-page book about design that contains no pictures. Each essay, as you may have heard, is published in a different typeface, and you may not find every typeface equally easy to read. And 68 of the pieces in the book were previously published on Design Observer, in one form or another, which means you can read most of them for free here.\nSo, then, why a book?\nGood question. Here’s another one: why write about design at all? I still remember the first time I tried. More than twenty years ago, I was asked to write something for Statements, the magazine of the late, great American Center for Design. It was a special issue on design education, and I was probably the youngest contributor. The others were educators, professors with advanced degrees, people who had published a lot of things. I was a relatively recent design school graduate staring at a blank piece of paper. And staring, and staring.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://emip.tumblr.com/", "date": "2013-05-19T00:30:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696383077/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092623-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8634956479072571, "token_count": 732, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__183139751", "lang": "en", "text": "1997 - 2011\nHarry Potter - some things are worth dying for.\nRon Weasley - that believing in yourself is a hundred times more powerful than luck.\nHermione Granger - an education is a girl’s best asset, even if it doesn’t make you many friends.\nSeverus Snape - to never, ever, ever judge someone.\nRubeus Hagrid - anything can be cute with the right perspective.\nGinny Weasley - bold is beautiful.\nLily Potter - a mother’s love is the strongest force on earth.\nRemus Lupin - fear is the only thing I should be afraid of.\nDolores Umbridge - education with a political agenda is a terrible, terrible thing.\nSirius Black - the ones we love never truly leave us.\nAlbus Dumbledore - good people are not always good.\nDraco Malfoy - bad people are not always bad.\nNeville Longbottom - courage is standing up for what’s right, even when you’re scared out of your mind.\nLuna Lovegood - weird is wonderful.\nDobby - freedom is a gift.\nLucius Malfoy - no amount of money, pomp, or circumstance will buy you true friends.\nFred & George Weasley - sometimes all you need is a good laugh.\nThe Dursleys - a world without imagination is a dull and dreary place.\nArthur Weasley - a good sense of curiosity and a bit of obsession can be healthy.\nFleur Delacour - true love is not based on appearance.\nMolly Weasley - a happy family is not measured in gold.\nBellatrix Lestrange - hatred and prejudice rot your mind and can turn even the most beautiful person into a monster.\nKreacher - if you want to get to know a man, look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.\nCho Chang - rebound relationships almost never work.\nNymphadora Tonks - love myself, no matter what I look like.\nPercy Weasley - in the end, no career is worth sacrificing your family.\nSybill Trelawney - you cannot change the past, only the future.\nLavender Brown - physical relationships only last for so long.\nPeter Pettigrew - rats do not make good friends.\nNicholas Flamel - in the well-prepared mind, death is but the next great adventure.\nMinerva McGonagall - a good cause is worth fighting for at any age.\nHedwig - the love we have for our pets is very real.\nVoldemort - a life without love is barely living.\nAlastor Moody - constant vigilance.\nArgus Filch - malice isn’t always unwarranted.\nCornelius Fudge - it’s not shameful to admit that sometimes, you just can’t do the job on your own.\nRufus Scrimgeor - politicians aren’t all selfish.\nMoaning Myrtle - whining doesn’t get you anywhere.\nAberforth Dumbledore - no matter how dire the situation looks, never give up.\nJames Potter - maturity is far more attractive than flamboyance.\nCedric Diggory - hatred dies with the body; kindness lives on.\nColin Creevey - age isn’t a measure of bravery.\nJ. K. Rowling taught me that the stories we love will always be with us.\nUntil the very end.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.earthclinic.com/cures/high-blood-pressure-treatment.html?toc=Probiotics%2C+D3&ratingvalue=5&sortby=latest", "date": "2023-05-29T11:57:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644855.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529105815-20230529135815-00074.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8234845399856567, "token_count": 561, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__45047905", "lang": "en", "text": "SPECIAL PROBIOTICS AND VITAMIN D3 FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.\nThere are articles available in the net regarding Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2 and Probiotics for high blood pressure problem. Five such articles are given below:\n1) Low Vitamin D & K levels linked to higher blood pressure: Study.\n2) How Vitamin D and Vitamin K2 work together.\n3) Probiotic use in the management of Hypertension.\n4) Effects of Probiotics on Blood Pressure.\n5) The improvement of Hypertension by Probiotics.\nVitamins K2 and D3 play an important role in calcium metabolism. Probiotic bacteria Lactococcous Lactis synthesizes Vitamin K2 in the digestive system from the food we consume.\nVitamin K2 guides calcium to its final destination: bone and teeth. If there is insufficient production of Vitamin K2 in the digestive system, calcium will deposit in the wrong areas.\nProbiotic bacteria L. Helveticus reported to exert ACE-inhibitory activity by producing antihypertensive bioactive peptides which are released during protein hydrolysis.\nPeptides are miniature protein molecules which can be easily absorbed by the body. ACE stands for Angiotension Converting Enzyme. Probiotic strains L. Plantarum synthesizes nitric oxide from the food we consume. Nitric oxide will try to dilate all blood vessels on the body. L. Casei have significant antihypertensive properties.\nAccording to an article titled “Probiotic and Blood pressure: Current Insights”, our gut microbiota are master regulators of hypertension. If one goes through the above document, about eight probiotic strains are involved in blood pressure control.\n1) Lactococcus Lactis\n2) L. Helveticus\n3) L. Plantarum\n4) L. Casei\n5) L. Rhamnosus\n6) S. Thermophilus\n7) B. Longum\n8) L. Achidophilus.\nOut of these eight probiotic strains, the first four probiotic strains have major control over blood pressure.\nFollow the following two steps:\n1) During my search in the net, I found about six brands of multi strain probiotics with the required eight probiotic strains mentioned above. One has to take one probiotic capsule / tablet per days.\n2) Take one D3 supplement of about 2000 IU per day.\nOne can expect good results in about two months. I hope the information provided here will be useful.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://medikore.co.uk/products/korean-hand-therapy-an-practical-guide-to-diagnosis-and-treatment", "date": "2022-05-20T01:20:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662530553.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519235259-20220520025259-00154.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9240810871124268, "token_count": 281, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__205961517", "lang": "en", "text": "KOREAN HAND THERAPY A Practical Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment\nRegular price £29.95\nDo you have patients who have attended your clinic numerous times but do not improve significantly or their symptoms soon return?\nDo you formulate a treatment plan for a patient but are anxious that you are just treating the symptoms and not getting to ‘the root of their problem’?\nDid you learn about patient diagnostic methods while learning acupuncture but struggle to apply them in a clinical setting?\nThis book could change all that for you\nIn this highly anticipated follow up book to his initial guide- “Korean Hand Therapy (KHT)- An Introductory Guide to Hand Acupuncture, Acupressure & Moxibustion”, Dr Baik explores the often confusing clinical area of patient diagnosis and treatment.\nWith a focus on using the KHT approach to abdominal palpation and pulse taking, this concise guide clearly explains a practical, simple, logical diagnostic process which can quickly and easily be undertaken with each patient.\nA practitioner can swiftly and efficiently diagnose the ‘root’ of their patients symptoms and undertake a powerful, individualised treatment plan.\nReading this book will streamline your diagnostic methods and revolutionise your treatment plans\nIf you would like to learn more about Korean Hand Therapy directly with Jong Baik there's more information here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://agroecolab.com/publications", "date": "2019-10-14T06:55:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986649232.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014052140-20191014075140-00163.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7207422256469727, "token_count": 2033, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__150868332", "lang": "en", "text": "PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (published, forthcoming or accepted)\nN = 13, 62% as lead author, 38% as supporting author\nSchattman, R. E., Hurley, S., Greenleaf, H., Niles, M. T., & Caswell, M. (forthcoming). Visualizing climate change adaptation: An effective tool for agricultural outreach? Weather, Climate, and Society.\nWiener, S., Roesch-McNally, G., Schattman, R. E., and Niles, M. T. (forthcoming). Ready, willing, and able? USDA field staff as climate advisors. The Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.\nSchattman, R. E., Kaplan, M., Aitken, H. A., & Helminski, J. (2019). Climate change curricula for adult audience in agriculture and forestry: A review. The Journal of Adult and Continuing Education. 25(1): 131-151. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1477971419840670\nSchattman, R. E., Hurley, S., & Caswell, M. (2019). Now I see: Photovisualization to support agricultural climate adaptation. Society and Natural Resources 32(2): 222-228. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2018.1530819\nNiles, M.T., Wiener, S., Schattman, R.E., Roesch-McNally, G., and Reyes, J. (2019). Seeing isn’t always believing: Crop loss and climate change perceptions among farm advisors. Environmental Research Letters. 14 (4). DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aafbb6\nBenkeblia, N., Schattman, R.E., Wiener, S. and Roesch-McNally, G. (2018). ‘Climate Change and Crop Production: Set the stage for Resilience’, in Benkeblia, N. (ed.) Climate change and crop production: foundations for agroecosystem resilience. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, pp. 1–23.\nSchattman, R.E., Roesch-McNally, G., Wiener, S., Niles, M., Hollinger, D.Y. (2018). The influence of perceived risk, experiences with loss and disaster, and climate belief on use of weather and climate information in FSA services. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170517000783 Open Access PDF.\nWarner, B.P., Schattman, R.E., & Hatch, C. (2017). Farming the Floodplain: Ecological and Agricultural Tradeoffs and Opportunities in River and Stream Governance in New England’s Changing Climate. In Case Studies in the Environment. DOI: 10.1525/cse.2017.sc.512407\nSchattman, R., Méndez, V.E., Merrill, S.C., & Zia, A. (2017). Climate change best management practices: Evaluation of attributes by agricultural producer and technical service providers. Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 42(2): 121-148. DOI 10.1080/21683565.2017.1357667\nSchattman, R., Connor, D., & Méndez, V.E.. (2016). Farmer perceptions of risk in the Northeastern United States. Elementa: Journal of the Anthropocene. Special Forum on Sustainability Agroecological Systems. DOI 10.12952/journal.elementa.000131. PDF available at Elementa.\nFernandez, M., Méndez, E.V., Mares, T. & Schattman, R. (2016). Agroecology and alternative agrifood movements in the United States: Towards a sustainable agrifood system. In Agroecology: A transdisciplinary, participatory and action oriented approach. Méndez, Bacon, Cohen, & Gliessman, Eds. CRC Press, Taylor Francis.\nSchattman, R., Berlin, L., Boschner, F., & Lawrence, M. (Online, August 2015). Farmers’ engagement with community food insecurity: Approaches, perspectives, and implications for Extension. Journal of Extension. 53(4): 4FEA2. Open access article available at JOE.\nSchattman, R., Méndez, V.E., Westdjik, K., Caswell, M., Conner, D., Koliba, C., Zia, A., Hurley, S., Adair, E.C., Berlin, L., & Darby, H. (2014). Vermont Agricultural Resilience in a Changing Climate: A transdisciplinary and participatory action research (PAR) process. In Benkeblia, N. (Ed.) (2014) Agroecology, ecosystems and sustainability. Advances in Agroecology Series. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis.\nBerlin, L., Schattman, R., Hamilton, J. (2012). Working towards the common table: The policy and program implications of Vermont’s unified approach to social justice, food insecurity and local food. The Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition, 7(2-3).\nPEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (in progress)\nSchattman, R.E., Caswell, M.J., & Faulkner, J.W. (in review) Eyes on the horizon: Temporal perspectives of climate risk and agricultural decision making. Submitted to Agriculture and Human Values.\nMerrill, S. & Schattman, R.E. (in revision). Corn flea beetle (Chaetocenma pulicaria), Pantoea stewartii bacterium, and Stewart’s Wilt in corn: Shifts in geographic vulnerability of U.S. corn crops under different climate change scenarios.\nZia, A., Doran, E., Hurley, S., Tsai, Y., Koliba, C., Adair, C., Schattman, R.E., Mendez, V.E., and Rizzo, D. (in revision). Social psychological determinants of farmer intentions to adopt nutrient management practices: Implications for resilient adaptation to climate change in the Lake Champlain Basin.\nOTHER RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS\nSchattman, R.E., & Faulkner, J.W. (2019). How much is enough? Dialing in irrigation on Northeast vegetable farms. Research brief published by the USDA NE Climate Hub. Durham, NH.\nWiener, S., Roesch-McNally, G., Schattman, R.E. (2018). National Survey of USDA Field Staff on Climate and Weather: Results from a survey of Natural Resources Conservation Service and Farm Service Agency Employees. Washington D.C.: USDA Climate Hubs. Link.\nSchattman, R.E. (2017). Agroecology in Africa: Focus on Soil Stewardship in Senegal. Guest blogpost, Winrock International. Link.\nWarner, B., Schattman, R.E. (2017). Farming in the floodplain: Overcoming tradeoffs to achieve good river governance in New England. Case study published by the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYC), Bethesda, MD. PDF.\nSchattman, R.E. (2017). Clovercrest Farm: A Family Dairy in Charleston, Maine. Case study published by the USDA NE Climate Hub. Durham, NH. PDF.\nSchattman, R.E., Izzo, V., Chen, Y.F. (2015) Exclusion netting for managing spotted wing drosophila on berry farms in the northeastern United States. Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group Research Brief # 3: University of Vermont. PDF.\nSchattman, R.E., Aitken, H.M., Méndez, V.E. & Caswell, M. (2014) Climate change resilience on Vermont farms: A research report for service providers. Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group Research Brief # 2: University of Vermont. PDF.\nSchattman, R. & Méndez, V.E. (2012). Vermont farm resilience in a changing climate: A survey of agricultural service providers. Agroecology and Rural Livelihoods Group Research Brief # 1: University of Vermont. PDF.\nBerlin, L., Hamilton, J., & Schattman, R. (2011). Working towards the common table: How Vermont addresses social justice and food access with local food and why it matters. Opportunities for Agriculture White Paper Series, Food System Research Collaborative, University of Vermont. Available at Scholarworks.\nSchattman, R., Nickerson, V., and Berlin, L. (2010) Dissolving the doublebind: Strategies for expanding food access and developing Vermont’s local food system. Report prepared for the Farm to Plate Project, Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund. Updated by R. Schattman and S. Sawyer in 2014.\nSchattman, R. & Cannella, M. (2008). Maintaining farm identity through alternative marketing practices. Report prepared for the Intervale Center.\nSchattman, R. (2008). Sustainable food sourcing and distribution in the Vermont-regional food system. Report prepared for the Sustainable Agriculture Council.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://saltcellarshop.com/salt--sea", "date": "2015-08-28T02:06:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-35/segments/1440644060173.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150827025420-00019-ip-10-171-96-226.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9643879532814026, "token_count": 263, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-35__0__122803466", "lang": "en", "text": "'When we were planning our move to the Cape, I came across The Outermost House. Living in a tiny shack on the dunes of the outer beach, Beston wrote of the ocean and tides, the birds and animals, and both the beauty and cruelty of nature.\nA few weeks ago at a yard sale near our house, I stumbled across another Beston book and could barely contain my excitement.\nHis words came into my life with perfect timing.\n'A garden is the mirror of the mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year, and pressing on and pausing the while to its own inherent rhythms.'\n'In making a garden there is something to be sought, and something to be found. To be sought is a sense of the lovely and assured, of garden permanence and order, of human association and human meaning; to be found is beauty and that unfolding content and occupation which is one of the lamps of peace.'\n'True humanity is no inherent right but an achievement; and only through the earth may we be as one with all who have been and all who are yet to be, sharers and partakers of the mystery of living, reaching to the full of human peace and the full of human joy.'", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.davidhorsager.com/author-recommendations/", "date": "2015-11-30T00:48:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398460519.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205420-00274-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.912605345249176, "token_count": 751, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-48__0__106665178", "lang": "en", "text": "“The five most important letters in business are T-R-U-S-T. Dave's advice is worth its weight in gold.”\nAuthor of #1 New York Times bestseller Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive\n“In all my years of coaching, I learned that leadership starts with trust. David Horsager has a winning formula in this book.”\nSportscaster and Hall of Fame Football Coach\n“The pillars of trust that Horsager outlines in this book were integral in helping our organization lay a foundation for a culture change.”\nPresident of Executive Women International\n“Incredibly vital message for today!”\n\"Trust is the most important fundamental between leaders and among people. It is the cornerstone for building lasting relationships and growing successful business enterprises. This book shows you exactly how to build the 8 Pillars of Trust and how to apply them for maximum effectiveness.\"\nDr. Nido Qubein, Chairman\nChairman, Great Harvest Bread Co.\nPresident, High Point University\n\"I wholeheartedly support the lessons that David outlines in The Trust Edge. I am a big believer in authenticity. The more people get to know and see the real person, the more likely they are to extend their trust.\"\nPresident and CEO, Caribou Coffee Company\n\"Gripping and insightful! Anyone wanting to take his or her leadership to the next level must read this book! It will become THE AUTHORITIVE GUIDE on building Trust!\"\n\"This book is great for the soul-- not to mention business. Horsager's 8 Pillars of Trust supply the nourishment we need to be successful in life and business. It's a book to read and reread to keep us fortified.\"\nCEO, Better Business Bureau\n\"A breach of confidence in the aviation industry can have a catastrophic outcome. Horsager’s book provides practical application of critical trust principles in a manner that will enhance the business relationships and bottom line in any industry.\"\nAirport Director, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport\n\"David is right on the money. Trust is the lubricant of high-performing working relationships. The Trust Edge provides a comprehensive behavioral blueprint to integrate the 8 essential Pillars of Trust into your organization. This is a must read book for organizational leaders and their supervisors.\"\nLarry Cole, Ph.D.\nAuthor of People-$mart Leaders\n\"David Horsager's book, The Trust Edge, is a powerful resource for leaders. As I read it, I kept thinking: ‘We need to do this! This would make us more effective!’ This well-written, well-conceived, well-documented book demonstrates the importance of trust. Horsager’s practical tips and illustrations will help any organization increase its effectiveness if it is willing to build on the foundational pillars he describes. The Trust Edge will pay dividends for smart companies!\"\nPresident, Bethel University\n\"I found The Trust Edge to be tangible, extremely practical, and relevant. I will personally hand this out to every leader in my organization.\"\nOperating Partner, Keller Williams Integrity\n\"David Horsager gets it right when he says, \"Trust is not a soft skill. It is a measurable competency that affects outcomes more than anything else.\" You simply cannot put a price on the kind of trust Horsager talks about. Trust is our competitive advantage.\"\nCEO, Earth Security Electronics\n\"At a time when our confidence in political, economical, and social institutions is at its lowest level in recent history, David Horsager shows us the path to rebuilding both trust and success.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.mbsanctuary.org/mbhs-blog/stone-soup-from-a-homeless-drifter", "date": "2022-01-18T19:11:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300997.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118182855-20220118212855-00339.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.984992504119873, "token_count": 926, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__110027253", "lang": "en", "text": "One sunless day a homeless drifter walked down the road into the town, bag on his shoulder. He leaned on his hooked walking stick as ragged leaves pelted him blown by a loudly whispering wind.\nAs he stood in the deserted Town Square several eyes watched from narrow openings in gray window curtains of houses facing the Town Square.\nHe found the Town Square fire pit and a hydrant and smiled. A few steps away beside a crumbling wall he found a cast iron kettle.\nBy then many more eyes were watching from behind gray curtains. In the rising and falling of the wind a murmur was high-pitched like an anxious inquiry.\nSmiling, he filled the cast iron pot with water.\nThere by the flagpole (where several different flags had been flown but now there was no flag) he gathered leaves and twigs and lit a fire. He added branches. The flames rising up skyward resembled hands pleading heavenward. The whine of the branches being consumed sounded like human cries of longing.\nAll the eyes behind the curtains grew larger.\nHe reached into his bag and brought out into view a stone. It was the size of a potato. It was a grayish-brown like some potatoes, but it was a stone.\nThis plain, potato-shaped stone was a “singing stone.” Amalagated into its quartz and feldspar was a melodic chant inaudible to the human ear but tangible to the human heart. It transmitted a vibration--magnetic, drawing people close out of a desire to hear it.\nThe stone synthesized voices of millions who are outcast occupants of the perilous margins of society chanting “We are one, we are one, we are one” in a triumphant chorus--yet silently.\nSmiling, the homeless drifter dropped the stone into the boiling water. He watched and waited.\nIn the same way shadows creep, drawn by something he did not understand, a person came from behind one of the houses, crossed the very wide street in cautious, small steps and stood next to the homeless drifter.\n“This is all can offer but I have a carrot,” the townsperson said abruptly, holding out a carrot in his hand. The homeless drifter smiled, sliced the carrot and put it into the pot. The townsperson stayed, standing there watching the boiling water.\nSoon a couple, also drawn by something they did not understand, came from behind their house and crossed the very wide street in cautious, small steps, both using canes. They held out two onions in their hands and said abruptly, “This is all we can offer.” They stayed to watch as the onions were added to the boiling water. They nodded to the homeless drifter. They exchanged very long handshakes with the other townsperson. They stayed, eyes fixed on the boiling water.\nIn turn, all of the people who had been watching came out of their houses and crossed the very wide street in cautious, small steps, drawn by something they did not understand. Each made one or two small contributions to what the homeless drifter was cooking, who smiled each time more was added to the pot.\nThe people gathered there, began to talk to each other cautiously at first, then with more boldness while they watched what was now a pot full and overflowing with what everyone had contributed. The various vegetable pieces surfaced and moved in harmony like colors and shapes in a kaleidoscope as the soup bubbled above the silently singing, magnetic stone.\nThe aroma filled the air. The townspeople were laughing and recollecting. The homeless drifter laughed with them.\nBowls were passed out. The soup was ladled out. There was just enough for each person’s bowl to be filled.\nAs the townspeople were leaving, embracing each other with tears on their cheeks, they did not see the homeless drifter remove the stone from the pot and put it back in his bag.\nThe sun was shining as the townspeople went back to their homes, waving and calling to each other. As they removed the gray curtains from their windows, they did not see the homeless drifter heading down the road in the direction of the next town, smiling, pausing occasionally to lean on his hooked walking stick as he walked against the wind.\nFrom that day on they asked each other, did you get his name?\n© 2016 MacCanon Brown", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.toolsforchange.net/2012/03/new-ruckus-society-handout-on-strategic-direct-action/", "date": "2018-01-16T09:39:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886397.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116090056-20180116110056-00060.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9038665294647217, "token_count": 226, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__173291173", "lang": "en", "text": "Check out this nice little brochure for people interested in designing creative direct actions. The booklet was developed by myself (Jessica Bell) and Joshua Kahn Russell, as well as Ruckus Society staff Sharon Lungo and Megan Swoboda. (And thank you to Cam Fenton for designing.) Instead of drilling into the nuts and bolts of executing an action, we decided to write a guide to help you dream up the ‘what’, meaning a direct action idea that is strategic, effective, doable, and awesome.\nThe brochure draws upon and fleshes out a whole host of ideas, stories, exercises and resources, including Gene Sharp’s 198 examples of non-violent action, Beyond the Choir’s Tactics Star, and Training for Change’s classic Spectrum of Allies – well I think it’s classic because I use it so much.\nCheck out the little booklet and tell us what you think – jessicambell at gmail dot com.\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://tatummortimer.com/projects/nyc/", "date": "2023-12-01T20:48:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100304.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201183432-20231201213432-00224.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9399751424789429, "token_count": 421, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__91192912", "lang": "en", "text": "Since 2009, rates of gonorrhea have been increasing in the United States. Rates vary across sexual behavior groups and races/ethnicities. However, we don’t know how often Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains transmit between groups or how antibiotic resistance contributes to transmission in these groups. To better understand gonorrhea transmission, we studied N. gonorrhoeae in New York City using genomic epidemiology.\nWe sequenced 897 genomes from N. gonorrhoeae isolated from samples collected at NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Sexual Health Clinics. We analyzed this data together with demographic/clinical information and MICs measured at NYC DOHMH Public Health Laboratory. The NYC N. gonorrhoeae population is a microcosm of the global population. When we compared the NYC collection to our global genomic collection from our GWAS studies, we found that 22/23 common BAPS groups were found in NYC. The NYC N. gonorrhoeae population was structured by sexual behavior and race/ethnicity. We found that lineages A and B (first described in a global dataset) were associated with men who have sex with men (MSM) and heterosexuals, respectively. Isolates from MSM and white heterosexuals had higher MICs for ceftriaxone, azithromycin, and ciprofloxacin. These differences can be explained by differences in MICs in isolates from the multi-drug resistant lineage A compared to mostly susceptible lineage B. Also, while the overall population was structured by patient sexual behavior and race/ethnicity, the largest transmission clusters contained isolates sampled from patients across groups, echoing observations of bridging in other studies. While risk for resistance varied across patient groups, we found that these clusters were comprised of susceptible isolates, suggesting that antibiotic resistance was not the main driver of transmission of gonorrhea during the study period.\nThis advance access version of the manuscript is now available in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Check it out here!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://saidhamcanada.org/index.php/request-for-sai-satcharitra/", "date": "2021-03-05T20:08:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178373241.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20210305183324-20210305213324-00240.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9127516150474548, "token_count": 173, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__213455036", "lang": "en", "text": "Request for Sai Satcharithra Book\nShri Sai Satcharitra is the biography of Shirdi Sai Baba filled with a treasure of teachings is written by Hemadpant. This holy book of Baba is one of its kind as it is an all-encompassing scripture that guides, gives answers to prayers, and inspires all on the path of truth and eternal bliss.\nThe Holy Sai Satcharitra is available in 15 different languages free of cost – English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Sindhi/Arabi, Nepali, Oriya, Urdu, Bengali, Assamese, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and German (*coming soon).\nPlease fill up the form below to receive your copy of the Holy Sai Satcharitra.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://portsmouth-info.com/more-info/charles-dickens-birthplace-museum", "date": "2021-06-23T09:11:31Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488536512.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20210623073050-20210623103050-00047.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.984225332736969, "token_count": 229, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__156432400", "lang": "en", "text": "On 7 February 1812, the wife of John Dickens, a navy pay clerk, gave birth to a son at 1 Mile End Terrace, Commercial Road, Portsmouth. The son, Charles Dickens, was destined to become one of the most widely read writers in the English language. The Dickens family moved six months after Charles's birth, and in 1901 the road was renumbered and the house became No. 393 Commercial Road. The house was turned into the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum, and contains personal relics of Dickens, including the couch on which he died and his inkwell. There is also an extensive library of his works, including several first editions. The parlour, dining room and bedroom where he was born are furnished in the style of the early 19th century.\nCharles Dickens died in 1870 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.\nFor more information, including opening times and admission prices, see the website of the Charles Dickens Birthplace Museum.\nYou may also be interested in seeing the world's most important collection of Dickens artefacts at the townhouse where he lived in London, the site of the Charles Dickens Museum.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://melodymakermagazine.com/2021/02/11/netflix-to-adapt-beloved-redwall-books-into-animated-series-and-feature-film/", "date": "2024-04-20T04:24:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817474.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420025340-20240420055340-00395.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9554166793823242, "token_count": 308, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__160315099", "lang": "en", "text": "From 1986 until his death in 2011, Jacques wrote 22 books set amongst the anthropomorphic denizens of Redwall Abbey and Mossflower Wood. The action lands somewhere between The Lord of the Rings and The Wind in the Willows; with heroic mice, badgers, moles, and hares defending themselves against predatory adders, weasels, foxes, and more. While typically categorized as fantasy, there’s no overt magic, except perhaps for the sword of recurring character Martin the Warrior, which was forged from a meteorite and is believed to have special powers. Instead, the stories read as tales of swashbuckling and derring-do featuring protagonists who are absolutely adorable.\nThe movie will be based on the book that started it all, 1986’s Redwall. Patrick McHale, creator of Cartoon Network’s Over the Garden Wall, will pen the script. As for the series, Netflix is planning it around the only mouseketeer we acknowledge, Martin the Warrior.\nWhile three of the Redwall stories were turned into a 1999 animated series, this is the first time that the whole catalogue of 22 books has been optioned for adaptation.“We couldn’t be more delighted to announce this deal,” said Ben Horslen of Penguin Random House. “These perennially popular stories have been etched onto the hearts of millions of readers, and we are thrilled to partner with Netflix to bring those beloved characters on screen for families worldwide to enjoy.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://scottblvd.com/?p=313", "date": "2021-09-18T05:17:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780056297.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20210918032926-20210918062926-00383.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9642885327339172, "token_count": 428, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__241595001", "lang": "en", "text": "A Contemplative Week\nThe past four days have been days of rest and reading. I am beginning to feel a bit renewed. With two more days of vacation remaining, I will keep to my Sabbath commitment and refrain from processing my many ponderings into something worth reading. However, I will share with you two thoughts from my reading today.\nThe first thought is from the Bible. “Be still and know that I am God,” (Psalm 46:10) and “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and trust shall be your strength” (Isaiah 30:15). These two verses are among many in the Bible that remind us of the necessity of quiet and rest in our lives. We are not God, and the world is not saved by our efforts. As we quiet our striving and listen for God’s “still, small voice,” (1 Kings 19:12) we find rest and strength.\nThe second is from Eugene Peterson’s excellent book on the Christian life, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction. “It is this fusion of God speaking to us (Scripture) and our speaking to him (prayer) that the Holy Spirit uses to form the life of Christ in us . . .The fusion is accomplished by reading these Scriptures slowly, imaginatively, prayerfully and obediently. This is the way the Bible has been read by most Christians for most of the Christian centuries, but it is not commonly read that way today. We read it for what we can get out of it, what we can put to use, what we think we can use – and right now . . . read our Scriptures slowly, imaginatively, prayerfully, and obediently. Each adverb is important.”\n“Slowly, imaginatively, prayerfully, and obediently.” “Be still, and know that I am God.” Good words for a contemplative week on the journey.\nThis entry was posted in Journey Conversations\n. Bookmark the permalink", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://datasets-benchmarks-proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2021/hash/65b9eea6e1cc6bb9f0cd2a47751a186f-Abstract-round2.html", "date": "2024-02-21T12:35:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00441.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9016408920288086, "token_count": 289, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__107318607", "lang": "en", "text": "Nandan Thakur, Nils Reimers, Andreas Rücklé, Abhishek Srivastava, Iryna Gurevych\nExisting neural information retrieval (IR) models have often been studied in homogeneous and narrow settings, which has considerably limited insights into their out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization capabilities. To address this, and to facilitate researchers to broadly evaluate the effectiveness of their models, we introduce Benchmarking-IR (BEIR), a robust and heterogeneous evaluation benchmark for information retrieval. We leverage a careful selection of 18 publicly available datasets from diverse text retrieval tasks and domains and evaluate 10 state-of-the-art retrieval systems including lexical, sparse, dense, late-interaction, and re-ranking architectures on the BEIR benchmark. Our results show BM25 is a robust baseline and re-ranking and late-interaction based models on average achieve the best zero-shot performances, however, at high computational costs. In contrast, dense and sparse-retrieval models are computationally more efficient but often underperform other approaches, highlighting the considerable room for improvement in their generalization capabilities. We hope this framework allows us to better evaluate and understand existing retrieval systems and contributes to accelerating progress towards more robust and generalizable systems in the future. BEIR is publicly available at https://github.com/UKPLab/beir.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://raheelbodla.com/business-coach-hasbrouck-heights/", "date": "2024-04-17T09:20:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817146.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417075330-20240417105330-00061.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.921715259552002, "token_count": 721, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__139293496", "lang": "en", "text": "Empower Your Business with a Coach: Hasbrouck Heights’ Guide to Success\nIn the dynamic landscape of entrepreneurship, navigating the waters of business can often feel like a daunting task. From strategic planning to execution, every step is crucial, and the guidance of a seasoned mentor can make all the difference. This is where the role of a business coach shines. In Hasbrouck Heights, entrepreneurs are discovering the transformative power of partnering with a business coach to elevate their ventures to new heights.\nHasbrouck Heights, nestled in Bergen County, New Jersey, is home to a vibrant community of entrepreneurs and small business owners. Amidst the hustle and bustle of this thriving locale, business coaches are emerging as invaluable assets, providing personalized guidance and support to budding and established enterprises alike.\nA business coach serves as a strategic partner, offering insights, accountability, and expertise to unlock the full potential of a business. Whether it’s refining business strategies, enhancing leadership skills, or overcoming challenges, a coach provides a tailored approach to address specific needs and goals.\nOne of the key advantages of working with a business coach in Hasbrouck Heights is the personalized guidance they offer. Every business is unique, with its own set of strengths, challenges, and aspirations. A skilled coach takes the time to understand the intricacies of a business, its industry, and its goals, crafting a customized roadmap for success.\nThrough one-on-one sessions, workshops, and strategic planning exercises, coaches help entrepreneurs identify opportunities, streamline operations, and maximize efficiency. They provide valuable feedback, constructive criticism, and actionable insights to foster growth and development.\nIn the journey of entrepreneurship, challenges are inevitable. From market fluctuations to internal conflicts, navigating these obstacles requires resilience, adaptability, and strategic thinking. This is where the expertise of a business coach becomes invaluable.\nHasbrouck Heights’ business coaches offer a fresh perspective and objective analysis to help entrepreneurs overcome hurdles effectively. Whether it’s devising innovative solutions, restructuring processes, or reimagining business models, coaches provide the support and guidance needed to navigate challenges with confidence.\nIn a rapidly evolving business landscape, resilience is key to long-term success. Hasbrouck Heights’ business coaches empower entrepreneurs to build resilience by fostering a growth mindset, embracing change, and learning from setbacks.\nThrough mentorship, skill-building exercises, and mindset coaching, entrepreneurs develop the resilience to adapt to market dynamics, overcome obstacles, and emerge stronger than ever. With the guidance of a coach, they learn to turn challenges into opportunities and setbacks into stepping stones towards success.\nIn Hasbrouck Heights, the role of a business coach extends far beyond traditional mentorship. These coaches serve as catalysts for growth, offering tailored guidance, strategic insights, and unwavering support to entrepreneurs across industries. Whether it’s refining business strategies, overcoming challenges, or building resilience, a business coach in Hasbrouck Heights is a valuable asset for any aspiring or established entrepreneur looking to thrive in today’s competitive landscape.\nIn the journey of entrepreneurship, partnering with a business coach isn’t just a wise investment—it’s a transformative experience that paves the way for success. As Hasbrouck Heights continues to flourish as a hub for innovation and enterprise, business coaches play a pivotal role in shaping the future of its entrepreneurial ecosystem.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.christopherpincher.com/news/world-book-day", "date": "2019-12-09T22:09:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540523790.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20191209201914-20191209225914-00122.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9830961227416992, "token_count": 219, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__73042094", "lang": "en", "text": "Today is World Book Day - Children across Tamworth are dressing up as their favourite book characters in school, they're encouraged to read and will be given a book token which can be exchanged in a book shop or supermarket for a brand new book.\nThere are loads available, for children at varying spectrums of reading skills. There's also a bunch of books being dropped to £1 especially for World Book Day. From Hubert Horatio, to the little bookworms there's something for every child.\nI was also pleased to see Ankerside's stay and play team getting involved for children of nursery age. Running a Mad Hatter's tea party, with story telling from the Tamworth Lit Fest team it seems that fun was had by all.\nReading is a hobby which never goes out of fashion, there's always something new to explore, learn and enjoy. For those a bit older who would like to stick to a reading habit, Tamworth Book Club meets regularly at the Albert, their next meeting is March 26th at 8pm so do pop down and join in!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://love-creas.xooit.fr/t277-English-Dutch-Bible-No2-King-James-1611-Dutch-Staten-Ver.htm", "date": "2018-08-22T06:02:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221219495.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20180822045838-20180822065838-00018.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7327470183372498, "token_count": 912, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__36271016", "lang": "en", "text": "est désormais compatible avec l'extension FastNews.kiwi disponible pour votre navigateur. Avec cette extension, vérifiez s'il y a des nouveaux sujets sur ce forum en un clic depuis n'importe quelle page !Cliquez ici pour en savoir plus.\nThis publication contains King James Bible (1611, Pure Cambridge, Authorized Version) (The Old Testament and The New Testament) and Dutch Staten Vertaling (1637) (The Old Testament and The New Testament) translation. It has 173,749 references and shows 2 formats of The Bible. It includes King James Bible and Dutch Staten Vertaling (The Old Testament and The New Testament) formatted in a read and navigation friendly format, or the Navi-format for short. Here you will find each verse printed in parallel in the kjb-dut order. It includes a full, separate and not in parallel, copy of the King James Bible and Dutch Staten Vertaling (The Old Testament and The New Testament) , built for text-to-speech (tts) so your device can read The Bible out loud to you.\nHow the general Bible-navigation works:<ul> <li>A Testament has an index of its books. </li> <li>The TTS format lists books and chapters after the book index. </li> <li>The Testaments reference each other in the book index. </li> <li>Each book has a reference to The Testament it belongs to. </li> <li>Each book has a reference to the previous and or next book. </li> <li>Each book has an index of its chapters. </li> <li>Each chapter has a reference to the book it belongs to. </li> <li>Each chapter reference the previous and or next chapter. </li> <li>Each chapter has an index of its verses. </li> <li>Each chapter in TTS reference same chapter in the Navi-format. </li> <li>Each verse is numbered and reference the chapter it belongs to. </li> <li>Each verse starts on a new line for better readability. </li> <li>In the TTS format the verse numbers are not shown. </li> <li>Any reference in an index brings you to the location. </li> <li>The Built-in table of contents reference all books in all formats. </li> </ul>We believe we have built one of the best if not the best navigation there is to be found in an ebook such as this! It puts any verse at your fingertips and is perfect for the quick lookup. And the combination of King James Bible and Dutch Staten Vertaling and its navigation makes this ebook unique.\nNote that Text-To-Speech (TTS) support varies from device to device. Some devices do not support it. Others support only one language and some support many languages. The language used for TTS in this ebook is English.\nEnglish Dutch Bible No2: King James 1611 - Dutch Staten Vertaling 1637 (Parallel Bible Halseth) Truthbetold Ministry English Dutch Bible No2: King James 1611 - Dutch Staten Vertaling 1637 (Parallel Bible Halseth) free ebook\nTags: book german, book text format, discount for book, download via torrent client, purchase book, kindle download free, book online, torrent download Rarbg free, book from htc online, iBooks online how read via how to, value pdf full mp3 book, book DepositFiles, book download, kickass book download, free full pc phone book, book OneDrive, torrent download 1337x, italian how read price download сhapter, download english, tpb free torrent, direct link download german android price, no registration read macbook full sale, download audio apple online thepiratebay, free fb2, access review bookshop itunes free, shop read access flibusta information, book download, book for mac, audiobook free, .fb2 download, original book, book iCloud, free writer original german reader, download android, book format djvu, book book free from Galaxy, book 2shared, free docx, book for android, download free cloud", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.biohealthinnovation.org/biohealth-news/biohealth-regional-news?limit=15&start=7965", "date": "2019-09-20T07:31:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573908.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20190920071824-20190920093824-00090.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.957486093044281, "token_count": 167, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__51230659", "lang": "en", "text": "In a study to decipher clues about how prostate cancer cells grow and become more aggressive, Johns Hopkins urologists have found that reduction of a specific protein is correlated with the aggressiveness of prostate cancer, acting as a red flag to indicate an increased risk of cancer recurrence.\nTheir findings are reported online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Aug. 27, 2012.\nThe team focused on a gene called SPARCL1, which appears to be critically important for cell migration during prostate development in the embryo and apparently becomes active again during cancer progression. Normally, both benign and malignant prostate cancer cells express high levels of SPARCL1, and reduce these levels when they want to migrate. The team correlated this reduction or “down regulation” of SPARCL1 with aggressiveness of prostate cancer.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.discovery-solutions.com/post/optimizing-inventory-management-for-oilfield-service-companies", "date": "2024-02-25T18:55:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474641.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240225171204-20240225201204-00077.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8841022849082947, "token_count": 1265, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__181344844", "lang": "en", "text": "Optimizing Inventory Management for Oilfield Service Companies\nFor oilfield service companies, optimizing inventory management is crucial for maximizing operational efficiency and profitability. In the past, manual processes and fragmented systems have posed challenges, resulting in inventory inefficiencies, lost productivity, and increased costs. However, implementing Discovery Management Solutions (DMS), an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, can transform inventory management for oilfield service companies. This article explores how adopting DMS can revolutionize inventory management practices by focusing on key areas such as Centralized Inventory Control, Enhanced Demand Planning, Efficient Purchasing and Replenishment, Inventory Optimization, Warehouse Management, Batch and Lot Tracking, Integration with Field Operations, Improved Financial Management, Data Analytics and Reporting, and Compliance and Regulatory Support.\nCentralized Inventory Control:\nAn ERP system provides oilfield service companies with the advantage of centralized inventory control. With DMS in place, businesses can consolidate inventory data from multiple locations and gain a comprehensive, real-time view of stock levels, locations, and movements. This centralized approach eliminates silos, reduces duplication, and prevents stockouts or overstock situations. By having a holistic inventory overview, organizations can make informed decisions, allocate resources efficiently, and reduce excess inventory carrying costs.\nEnhanced Demand Planning:\nAccurate demand planning is crucial for optimizing inventory levels and meeting customer requirements promptly. DMS offers powerful demand planning tools that analyze historical data, market trends, and customer forecasts to generate accurate demand forecasts. With this information, companies can align inventory levels with projected demand, minimizing stockouts and reducing inventory holding costs. Additionally, the integration of sales, marketing, and customer relationship management modules within DMS enables a holistic approach to demand planning, resulting in improved customer satisfaction and increased sales.\nEfficient Purchasing and Replenishment:\nManual and fragmented purchasing and replenishment processes often present challenges for oilfield service companies. DMS streamlines these processes by automating purchase requisitions, generating purchase orders, and tracking supplier performance. By consolidating purchasing data and leveraging integrated workflows, businesses can enhance procurement efficiency, negotiate better terms with suppliers, and reduce lead times. Moreover, the system's ability to track supplier performance and maintain a centralized vendor database facilitates effective supplier management, ensuring timely deliveries and minimizing production disruptions.\nMaintaining optimal inventory levels is an ongoing challenge for oilfield service companies. DMS offers advanced inventory optimization techniques, including economic order quantity (EOQ) and reorder point (ROP) calculations, which enable businesses to maintain optimal stock levels based on demand patterns, lead times, and cost considerations. Real-time inventory visibility allows organizations to reduce carrying costs, minimize stock obsolescence, and improve order fulfillment rates. Additionally, integration with sales and production modules enables automatic inventory updates, ensuring accurate stock availability information for customers and internal stakeholders.\nEfficient warehouse management is crucial for oilfield service companies dealing with diverse inventory items and multiple warehouses. DMS provides robust warehouse management capabilities, including inventory tracking, put-away and picking strategies, bin management, and automated barcode scanning. These features streamline warehouse operations, minimize manual errors, improve order accuracy, and enhance productivity. By optimizing warehouse layout and implementing efficient picking strategies, businesses can reduce travel time, increase order throughput, and enhance overall operational efficiency.\nBatch and Lot Tracking:\nIn a highly regulated environment, batch and lot tracking is essential for compliance and traceability purposes. DMS enables comprehensive tracking and traceability of inventory items, ensuring complete visibility into the movement of batches and lots throughout the supply chain. In the event of recalls or quality issues, businesses can quickly identify affected items, reduce response times, and mitigate potential risks. This level of traceability also helps in maintaining regulatory compliance and meeting audit requirements.\nIntegration with Field Operations:\nSeamless integration between ERP systems and field operations is crucial for oilfield service companies relying on mobile field teams. DMS equipped with mobile capabilities allows field technicians to access real-time inventory data, update stock levels, and initiate requisitions directly from the field. This integration eliminates the need for manual data entry, reduces paperwork, and enhances overall productivity. Field technicians can also receive instant updates on stock availability and equipment availability, ensuring accurate service delivery and minimizing customer downtime.\nImproved Financial Management:\nEfficient inventory management directly impacts financial performance. DMS offers comprehensive financial management capabilities by integrating inventory data with accounting modules. This integration enables real-time cost tracking, accurate valuation of inventory, and improved financial reporting. By gaining insights into inventory costs, companies can make informed pricing decisions, assess profitability, and identify cost-saving opportunities. Moreover, automated financial processes such as invoicing, payment tracking, and reconciliation reduce errors, enhance cash flow management, and streamline financial operations.\nData Analytics and Reporting:\nDMS empowers oilfield service companies with powerful data analytics and reporting capabilities. By leveraging integrated business intelligence tools, companies can generate real-time reports, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs) related to inventory management. These insights enable businesses to identify trends, track performance metrics, and make data-driven decisions. With actionable information at their fingertips, organizations can proactively address inventory challenges, optimize supply chain processes, and drive continuous improvement.\nCompliance and Regulatory Support:\nOilfield service companies operate in a heavily regulated environment, where compliance with industry standards and government regulations is paramount. DMS helps businesses adhere to compliance requirements by maintaining detailed records, generating audit trails, and facilitating accurate reporting. Whether it's tracking hazardous materials, maintaining safety certifications, or managing documentation related to inspections, DMS ensures that companies stay compliant, mitigating the risk of penalties or legal issues.\nImplementing an ERP system offers numerous benefits to oilfield service companies, transforming their inventory management processes. From centralized inventory control and enhanced demand planning to efficient purchasing and replenishment, inventory optimization, and compliance support, ERP systems enable companies to streamline operations, reduce costs, and improve customer satisfaction. By harnessing the power of data analytics and integrated functionalities, oilfield service companies can achieve new levels of efficiency, agility, and profitability in their inventory management practices, gaining a competitive edge in the industry.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.gvjos.com/index.php/jv/ethics/", "date": "2020-10-21T01:13:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107874637.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20201021010156-20201021040156-00435.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8848194479942322, "token_count": 504, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__22795127", "lang": "en", "text": "|Aim and Scope|\nAuthors are expected to be aware of, and comply with, best practice in publication ethics specifically with regard to authorship (for example avoidance of ghost or guest authorship), dual submission, plagiarism, manipulation of figures, competing interests and compliance with policies on research ethics. Reviewers and Editors are required to treat manuscripts fairly and in confidence.\nContents under Home à Article Submission\nYou can submit your research paper to the journal in just a few clicks. Please follow the steps outlined below:\n- Register your details and select to be an Author\n- Log in with your user name and password\n- ‘Start a new submission’ and follow the following steps:\n- Upload submission as an MS Word document\n- Enter metadata (author name, title, abstract etc)\n- Upload supplementary files (if appropriate)\n- Select which submission type applies to your paper (usually 'Original Research Articles')\n- Complete the Submission Checklist and Copyright Notice. Note: It is mandatory to select all the options in the submission checklist before uploading your article.\n- Add a Comment for the Editor (if desired)\n- Upload the submitted research paper file in microsoft word format\n- Enter metadata – this is essential for effective cataloguing and discoverability\n- A few sections are compulsory but you should include the Academic discipline and as many keywords as necessary\n- Include all References formatted as per the manuscript guidelines\n- Upload supplementary file(s) (if applicable).\nSubmission Preparation Checklist\nAs part of the submission process, authors are required to check of their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.\n- The manuscript is my/our original contribution and has not been plagiarized/copied from any source/individual. It does not contravene on the rights of others and does not contain any libelous or unlawful statements and all references have been duly acknowledged at the appropriate places.\n- The manuscript submitted only to Journal of Natural Resources and it has not been previously published or submitted elsewhere for publication in a copyrighted publication. The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.\n- I/We hereby authorize you to edit, modify and make changes in the Manuscripts/Research paper to make it suitable for publication in Journal of Natural Resources.\n- By submitting to journal of Natural Resources, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.thewomensbook.com/Blog-Spot/August-2012/Profiles-in-Resilience-Meet-ann-Hu/", "date": "2015-02-01T10:08:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422115862441.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124161102-00127-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.918343722820282, "token_count": 269, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__175745905", "lang": "en", "text": "Business Insights & Inspiration\nProfile in Resilience: Meet Ann Hu\nShellee Fisher Davis Photographer\nAnn Hu, a product/market manager at Cardinal Health, is profiled in the new Columbus area edition of The Women's Book's annually published directory of local inspiring women and resources that will be released on September 27, 2012. For the past two and a half years, Ann has been the company's presource product manager, overseeing the operating room (OR) accessories product segment.\nThe theme of our 2012 community directories is Resilience: Stories of Innovation & Inspiration. In our Columbus area directory, Ann shares her life story and advice about resilience:\n“With resilience, I am able to sit back, reflect on failure or pain, regroup and pull myself out of the negative emotions. There are times in my life that I go through growing phases. Resilience helps me to break free from old habits, face my fear, and let go of control. Out of the inner turmoil and soul searching, come strength, confidence, and the realization of my dream.”\nJoin us for the Release Party to get your copy of the new book, hear an engaging panel discussion, and connect with our profiled women leaders and local resources for women.\nWe hope to see you there!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.ermigroup.com/blog/entry/holly-williams.html", "date": "2023-12-04T04:03:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100523.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204020432-20231204050432-00205.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.987798273563385, "token_count": 908, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__317307960", "lang": "en", "text": "Being Coached: An Interview with the Author\nBy Lexie Ermi\nHolly Williams, coaching founder and president of MAGUS Group, has penned a book called Being Coached: Group and Team Coaching from the Inside. Her years in the field of executive coaching provide her with the expertise and knowledge needed to competently write a book of this nature. Holly took the time to sit down with me and explain the impetus behind her desire to write a book and the impact she hopes the book will have on her readers.\n\"I wanted to write about how coaching lands on leaders and explain what it is liked to be coached,\" Holly explains. \"I wanted the book to be inspiring for coaches who don't know how coaching lands on leaders and I also wanted leaders to see that it is not that intimidating to be coached.\"\nMy next question for Holly was, \"What gave you the spark to create a model for group coaching to begin with?\" She answers in detail, \"Before I became a coach, I helped teams develop using drama improv methodology. After a few years of coaching executives with just the two of us in an office, I found that I missed the energy of a group of leaders all wanting to develop together. I love the way coaching works--with the leader being accountable for his/her development. So I started experimenting with coaching groups of leaders, and after a year had a great model that I have coached groups successfully with ever since!\"\nHolly went on to explain that there is no book on the market that fulfills the same goal as her new book. Most other books instead approach leadership coaching as a how to list of steps that must be achieved, using either case studies or purely expository writing to explain how to become a better leadership coach. The genesis of the book, Holly said, was having something to say about coaching and having a desire to put that across in a unique way. If a leader is curious about what it is like to be coached, this book will fulfill that need. It bridges the gap between leader and coach, making each more accessible to the other.\nBeing Coached is split into two parts. The first part covers group coaching and follows eight leaders, telling the story from their perspective. The second half covers team coaching with six executives who work together. The number of characters varies from chapter to chapter. Holly is working on another book that is similar in nature. It is about coaching and follows leaders in an organization who develop their coaching skills and how that plays out. \"I might be done after this one – but who knows!\" Holly explains.\n\"I was surprised by how much I truly enjoyed the writing process,\" Holly says. \"I really enjoy writing and I think that comes across in the book. The book is a lot of conversation, just like coaching. That was the easy and fun part. The book really wrote itself. You know how people say the characters take over? That was the experience I had.\" While the writing was the easiest part, Holly goes on to say the hardest part was finding the time to actually write. Sitting down and writing for eight hours was impossible for her; instead, the process came about a lot more naturally by working a few hours every day in between her work that took up the normal day.\nThe whole book took two and a half years to write and publish. The barriers to publishing are lower than they have ever been because of things such as self-publishing. \"It was tons of fun to have a hand in how the book would look and sound and feel. When you go with a mainstream publisher, you lose control of the book.\n\"My favorite part, besides the writing, is when people actually read it and talk about it with me. We've been getting reviews on Amazon and getting to read them – does it get any better than that?\" Holly laughs.\nHolly's book is sold on Amazon and we can look forward to her companion book, which she is currently in the process of writing, coming out in the future.\nAbout Holly: Holly is a member of the Georgetown Institute for Transformational Leadership faculty, and her background includes leadership in a Fortune 50 Technology firm, as well as setting up business training programs for a Virginia community college. For over 15 years, her company has worked with executives and groups in business and government.\nBeing Coached is for sale on Amazon and will be available as a free Kindle download from Dec. 19-21, 2014.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.theboarddoctor.info/reading-list.html", "date": "2019-04-20T04:23:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578528523.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420040932-20190420062932-00300.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9679524302482605, "token_count": 130, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__18917613", "lang": "en", "text": "Books and reading are a big part of who I am and a big part of what I bring to my consulting practice. From 2014 to early 2016, I maintained an active book-based blog called \"What is Cathy Reading?\" where I posted reviews and summaries of some of my favorites in leadership, personal growth, and business success. By clicking on each title below, you can link back to that blog, read a review, and download a summary. There are many more reviews posted at my Goodreads profile. Happy reading! And if there is something you've read that you think I will enjoy, please feel free to send me a note!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.jci.org/articles/view/14003", "date": "2014-12-19T10:56:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802768404.109/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075248-00055-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8770858645439148, "token_count": 3410, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-52", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__103579647", "lang": "en", "text": "Published in Volume\n108, Issue 6\n(September 15, 2001)J Clin Invest.\nCopyright © 2001, American Society for Clinical Investigation\nAre natural killer cells the key to treating Epstein-Barr virus–associated lymphoproliferative disorders?\nBone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA\nAddress correspondence to: Michael J. Robertson, Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Indiana University Medical Center, 1044 West Walnut Street, Room R4-202, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA. Phone: (317) 274-6843; Fax: (317) 278-2262; E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org.\nPublished September 15, 2001\nEpstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a human herpes virus that infects predominantly oropharyngeal epithelial cells and mature B lymphocytes (1). Infection of epithelial cells by EBV results in replication of linear viral DNA, production of new virions, and lysis of the infected cell. In contrast, when B cells become infected by EBV, the virus can persist in a latent form and the cells can become immortalized and survive for the lifetime of the host. IgG antibodies specific for EBV, which indicate previous EBV infection, are found in the blood of more than 90% of adults. Primary EBV infection in children usually results in asymptomatic seroconversion or mild nonspecific symptoms, whereas about 50% of adolescents and adults with acute EBV infection experience infectious mononucleosis.\nPrimary EBV infection resolves without apparent clinical sequelae in virtually all immunocompetent people. CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) appear to be crucial for control of the transformed B cells during primary EBV infection, although natural killer (NK) cells and other effector cells may participate in the immune response to EBV (1, 2). EBV-specific memory CD8+ T cells are believed to be primarily responsible for long-term in vivo suppression of latently infected B cells. EBV seropositive persons who become immunocompromised are at risk for the development of EBV-associated lymphoproliferative disorders (EBV-LPDs) (1, 2). EBV-LPDs have been observed in patients with HIV infection and patients on immunosuppression after allogeneic solid organ or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. EBV-LPDs are clinically and pathologically heterogeneous (3, 4). A spectrum of histopathologic appearances, from polyclonal B cell hyperplasia to monoclonal diffuse aggressive B cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, can be seen in EBV-LPD.\nTreatment of EBV-LPDs is currently unsatisfactory. EBV-LPD regresses in some patients after the reduction or discontinuation of therapeutic immunosuppression (1, 2). However, this ap-proach exposes patients to risks of life-threatening organ failure or graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Conventional chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy are sometimes effective but can be quite toxic in this clinical setting (5). In contrast, treatment with anti–B cell mAb’s appears to be very well tolerated (6, 7), although it may not be sufficient for patients with widely disseminated or more aggressive disease. Infusion of T cells from an HLA-compatible, EBV-seropositive donor can reconstitute EBV-specific immunity in immunocompromised recipients (8). Infusion of unfractionated donor leukocytes puts patients at risk for GVHD, however, and EBV-specific donor T cell lines (9) are arduous to prepare and are not widely available. Thus, novel therapeutic approaches are clearly needed for patients with EBV-LPD.\nLack of suitable animal models has been a major obstacle to the development of new treatments for EBV-LPD. However, the ability to reconstitute a human immune system in SCID mice offers a promising system for the study of this disease. Mature human T, B, and NK cells can persist and function in this mouse strain, which lacks endogenous T and B lymphocytes due to a defect in the recombinase system required for productive T cell receptor or immunoglobulin gene rearrangement (10). Injection of normal human peripheral blood lymphocytes (hu-PBLs) into SCID mice yields lymphohematopoietic chimeras, which have proved of value in studies of cancer and infectious diseases (11, 12). More recently, several groups have created hu-PBL-SCID chimeras using PBLs from EBV-seropositive donors and have shown that recipient mice reproducibly develop a fatal lymphoproliferative disorder of human B cells that resembles human EBV-LPD (13–15). The hu-PBL-SCID mouse would therefore appear to provide an excellent system in which to test immunotherapeutic approaches to EBV-LPD.\nIn this issue of the JCI, Baiocchi et al. (16) describe effective cytokine-based immunotherapy for EBV-LPD in this mouse model. Systemic administration of recombinant human GM-CSF and low-dose IL-2 was found to delay the development of EBV-LPD and prolong the survival of hu-PBL-SCID mice that were depleted of murine NK cells. The survival of hu-PBL-SCID mice treated with either IL-2 alone or GM-CSF alone was markedly inferior to that of mice treated with both cytokines (16) and was similar to that of animals treated with placebo (17). Experiments using PBLs depleted of various leukocyte subsets demonstrated that human NK cells, CD8 T cells, and monocytes contributed to the protective effect of IL-2 and GM-CSF. Moreover, an expanded population of EBV-specific human CD8+ T cells was detected in the spleens of hu-PBL-SCID mice treated with IL-2 and GM-CSF in combination, but not of mice treated with IL-2 alone. These results indicate that treatment with IL-2 and GM-CSF promotes the expansion of EBV-specific CD8+ T cells and suppresses the proliferation of EBV-transformed human B cells in vivo.\nSeveral important issues are raised by the provocative findings of Baiocchi et al. (16). EBV antigen-specific CD8+ T cells have been thought to be the most important effectors for the control of EBV-transformed B cells (18), but the present data demonstrate a crucial role for NK cells in cytokine-based therapy for EBV-LPD. Without exception, animals depleted of both human and murine NK cells succumbed to EBV-LPD despite combined treatment with IL-2 and GM-CSF. Thus, the presence of NK cells is absolutely required for successful treatment of EBV-LPD in this model. In contrast, 20% of mice treated with both cytokines survived despite depletion of human CD8 T cells or monocytes. Currently it is not clear whether human NK cell–depleted mice fail to develop EBV-specific CD8+ T cells, which would suggest a requirement for NK cells in the afferent arm of the adaptive immune response. Alternatively, the animals may succumb to EBV-LPD despite the presence of antigen-specific T cells if NK cells are required along with CTLs in the effector phase of the immune response. One could begin to dissect the contribution of NK cells to the control of EBV-LPD in this model by evaluating their role in the afferent and efferent phases of EBV-specific CD8 T cell immunity.\nThe task of elucidating the role of NK cells in the hu-PBL-SCID model of EBV-LPD is complicated by the presence of functional murine NK cells in SCID mice (19). When hu-PBL-SCID mice are not depleted of murine NK cells, treatment with low-dose IL-2 alone is effective against EBV-LPD, and treatment with GM-CSF is not required (17). The mechanism whereby GM-CSF administration compensates for the absence of endogenous murine NK cells is not known and deserves further investigation. A clue may be offered by previous work of Baiocchi and Caligiuri (17), who found that successful treatment by low-dose IL-2 alone was associated with an accumulation of murine monocytes, murine NK cells, and human NK cells in peritoneal cavity of hu-PBL-SCID mice. Depletion of murine NK cells led to fatal EBV-LPD in 100% of IL-2–treated mice, whereas depletion of human NK cells had no effect. It seems reasonable to hypothesize that murine monocytes could interact productively with murine NK cells, but not human NK cells, in a protective response to EBV-transformed B cells. The accumulation of human monocytes as well as human NK cells in the peritoneal cavity of hu-PBL-SCID mice treated with both IL-2 and GM-CSF might compensate for the absence of murine NK cells in this system. Testing these hypotheses is conceptually straightforward and should shed further light on the mechanisms by which NK cells help to control EBV-LPD.\nThe attractive features of the hu-PBL-SCID experimental system should not blind one to its limitations (20). The immune defects that allow EBV-transformed B cells to proliferate unchecked in hu-PBL-SCID chimeras (15) may be very different from those of most immunocompromised humans. It is obvious, for example, that the human lymphocyte subsets that are adoptively transferred to SCID mice by injection of PBLs from healthy EBV-seropositive donors are not the same as the endogenous lymphocyte subsets of patients with advanced HIV infection. These issues become particularly acute when one wishes to use the results of hu-PBL-SCID experiments to design therapeutic approaches for human disease. For example, if GM-CSF in the hu-PBL-SCID model of Baiocchi et al. (16) is required merely to enhance the survival of injected human monocytes in the murine peritoneal cavity, administration of GM-CSF may not be necessary for the treatment of EBV-LPD in humans. Nevertheless, the results of Baiocchi and colleagues (16, 17) provide a solid foundation for further studies that can elucidate the mechanisms by which NK cells, monocytes, and CD8+ T cells contribute to the control of EBV-transformed human B cells in vivo. 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A severe combined immunodeficiency mutation in the mouse. Nature 1983. 301:527-530.\nMosier, DE, Gulizia, RJ, Baird, SM, Wilson, DB. Transfer of functional human immune system to mice with severe combined immunodeficiency. Nature 1988. 335:256-259.\nMcCune, JM, et al. The SCID-hu mouse: murine model for the analysis of human hematolymphoid differentiation and function. Science 1988. 241:1632-1639.\nCannon, MJ, Pisa, P, Fox, RI, Cooper, NR. Epstein-Barr virus induces aggressive lymphoproliferative disorders of human B cell origin in SCID/hu chimeric mice. J Clin Invest 1990. 85:1333-1337.\nRowe, M, et al. Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)-associated lymphoproliferative disease in the SCID mouse model: implications for the pathogenesis of EBV-positive lymphomas in man. J Exp Med 1991. 173:147-158.\nVeronese, ML, et al. Lymphoproliferative disease in human peripheral blood mononuclear cell-injected SCID mice. I. T lymphocyte requirement for B cell tumor generation. J Exp Med 1992. 176:1763-1767.\nBaiocchi, RA, et al. GM-CSF and IL-2 induce specific cellular immunity and provide protection against Epstein-Barr virus lymphoproliferative disorder. J Clin lnvest 2001. 108:887-894.\nBaiocchi, RA, Caligiuri, MA. Low-dose interleukin 2 prevents the development of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated lymphoproliferative disease in scid/scid mice reconstituted i.p. with EBV-seropositive peripheral blood lymphocytes. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1994. 91:5577-5581.\nRickinson, AB, Moss, DJ. Human cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses to Epstein-Barr virus infection. Annu Rev Immunol 1997. 15:405-431.\nDorshkind, K, Pollack, SB, Bosma, MJ, Phillips, RA. Natural killer (NK) cells are present in mice with severe combined immunodeficiency (scid). J Immunol 1985. 134:3798-3801.\nTary-Lehmann, M, Saxon, A, Lehman, PV. The human immune system in hu-PBL-SCID mice. Immunol Today 1995. 16:529-533.", "domain": "literature"}
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{"url": "https://massresearchreview.com/2023/11/20/optimizing-bulking-diets-to-facilitate-hypertrophy/", "date": "2023-12-10T16:00:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102612.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210155147-20231210185147-00659.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9314976334571838, "token_count": 13733, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__59081554", "lang": "en", "text": "From Volume 6, Issue 8 of MASS\nOptimizing “Bulking Diets” To Facilitate Hypertrophy\nby Eric Trexler, Ph.D.\nWeight loss is a common goal for people who wish to improve their health, compete in a physique sport, or make weight for a strength sport with weight classes. However, weight gain is an equally valid and important diet goal, and should be approached just as strategically. This article discusses how to construct an optimized bulking diet.\nA Concept Review of Optimizing Bulking Diets for Hypertrophy\nThe MASS archive has plenty of nutrition content related to fat loss, and for good reason. Fat loss is a common objective among the general population, whether the underlying goal is health-related or aesthetic in nature. Furthermore, fat loss is a critical aspect of physique sports, and a noteworthy consideration for all strength sports involving weight classes. Nonetheless, there are ample reasons to optimize one’s diet for hypertrophy facilitation rather than fat loss. Physique athletes have to get lean, but they won’t be going far in the sport without a sufficient amount of muscle for their competitive class. Many strength athletes need to make weight, but there’s no point in cutting weight classes if you don’t have the strength (and prerequisite muscle mass) to lift at a competitive level. Finally, there are some great reasons for general population folks to be interested in lean mass accretion. For many people with aesthetic goals, attainment of their dream physique will involve adding some amount of muscle mass, and there are noteworthy health benefits associated with increased strength and muscularity, particularly as we age. For this reason, it’s very common for people to take a cyclical approach to dieting, with “bulking” phases consisting of an energy surplus with a focus on muscle gain, and “cutting” phases consisting of an energy deficit with a focus on fat loss. Across a wide range of populations with varying fitness-related goals, there are many reasons to dedicate some time and attention to lean mass accretion, and a few key dietary adjustments and strategies can facilitate the process immensely. As such, the purpose of this article is to discuss how to optimize a “bulking” diet to maximally support hypertrophy.\nEstablishing an Energy Surplus to Facilitate Hypertrophy\nIt’s widely accepted that muscle hypertrophy is maximized in a state of positive energy balance. This describes a scenario in which the total amount of energy absorbed from the diet exceeds total daily energy expenditure, with the remainder of excess calories known as a caloric surplus or energy surplus. Despite the widespread acceptance of this idea, several questions persist. For example, why is an energy surplus advantageous? Is an energy surplus absolutely necessary for muscle growth in all circumstances? Exactly how large should an energy surplus be when hypertrophy optimization is the top priority? To achieve a deeper understanding of bulking diets, let’s dive into each of these questions.\nWhy is an energy surplus advantageous?\nWe can broadly categorize metabolic pathways as catabolic or anabolic. In catabolic pathways, energy-yielding nutrients (e.g., carbs, fats, proteins, and ketones) are broken down to yield energy-poor end products (e.g., carbon dioxide, water, and ammonia), and chemical energy (adenosine triphosphate, or ATP) is released in the process (1). For example, imagine that you begin exercising in a fasted state. Energy expenditure increases, and your body needs to break down some energy-rich substrates to adequately meet the rising demand for chemical energy (ATP). You’ll probably tap into a mixture of stored glycogen and stored fat, break them down to obtain ATP, and excrete the energy-poor end products of water and carbon dioxide. Greg gives an excellent overview of this process in a MASS article from Volume 1.\nAnabolic pathways are the inverse of catabolic pathways. Rather than breaking down complex molecules into simpler end-products to extract energy, anabolic pathways involve building complex molecules (e.g., proteins, polysaccharides, lipids, and nucleic acids) from simpler precursors (e.g. amino acids, sugars, fatty acids, and nitrogenous bases), and chemical energy is actually required (used) to fuel the synthesis of these more complex end products (1). Muscle hypertrophy is an example of an anabolic pathway by which amino acids are assembled into muscle proteins, and ATP is required to power this process. Naturally, energy status is a critical regulator when it comes to both anabolic and catabolic pathways in the body. When demand for chemical energy exceeds the current supply, catabolic pathways are favored to liberate ATP. Intuitively, the body tends to scale down any unnecessary and energy-intensive anabolic pathways when catabolic pathways are being ramped up to solve an acute energy shortfall. Thus, at the surface level, we can see how maintaining a sufficient supply of accessible energy is an important factor dictating our capacity for muscle hypertrophy.\nIs an energy surplus absolutely necessary for muscle growth?\nI chose my words very carefully in the previous sentence: maintaining a sufficient supply of accessible energy is an important factor dictating our capacity for muscle hypertrophy. It’s important to recognize that “maintaining a sufficient supply of energy” goes beyond what you ate within the last few hours or maintaining positive energy balance over a given 24-hour period. We store enormous amounts of energy in adipose tissue; for example, we can access over 100,000 kcals of energy by breaking down 11kg of fat (2). As such, the concept of maintaining a sufficient supply of energy is intrinsically linked to a combination of long-term energy status (adiposity) and short-term energy status (the day-to-day relationship between energy consumption and energy expenditure).\nIf you’re looking for a specific formula that quantifies “overall energy status” based on acute energy balance and stored adipose tissue, you won’t find it here. We’ve got enough scientific evidence to understand that there’s an interplay between the two, and researchers have identified a number of mechanisms by which the body senses and keeps tabs on indicators of both short-term and long-term energy status. However, we don’t (to my knowledge) have the necessary information and depth of understanding required to construct a unified formula that comprehensively summarizes the balance of long-term and short-term energy status in a manner that would inform the promotion of muscle hypertrophy. Nonetheless, we have some very useful empirical observations that can inform actionable takeaways.\nThere is enough published research to render the following statement indisputable: it is possible to gain muscle mass without an energy surplus (3). In fact, it’s possible to gain muscle mass in a calorie deficit (4). However, it appears that adiposity is a major factor impacting the likelihood and magnitude of muscle gain in an energy deficit, which is also known as body recomposition. When long-term energy stores are high (e.g., we have plenty of stored body fat), it’s not particularly uncommon to observe noteworthy hypertrophy in the context of neutral, or even negative, energy balance. Conversely, recomposition is observed more rarely and in smaller magnitudes among individuals with very low body-fat levels. Another critical factor is the size of the energy deficit. As discussed in a previous MASS article, recomposition is routinely observed in the context of small energy deficits. However, as the energy deficit grows, the magnitude of hypertrophy increasingly tends to get blunted. A recent meta-regression (4) demonstrated that recomposition was quite common for calorie deficits up to around 200-300 kcal/day, but pretty atypical for calorie deficits larger than 500 kcal/day (Figure 2).\nSo, back to the original question: is an energy surplus absolutely necessary for muscle growth? Empirically, no. Hypertrophy is frequently observed in the presence of small-to-moderate energy deficits (3), and this is particularly true for people who have higher adiposity, less training experience, and a larger gap between their current level of muscularity and their maximal, genetically-determined limit for muscularity. However, there’s a more pertinent question for hypertrophy: is there a high likelihood of maximizing hypertrophy without an energy surplus? As reviewed by Slater and colleagues (5), evidence suggests that the answer is, “probably not.” Research indicates that an energy surplus is generally advantageous when the goal is to maximize the rate and magnitude of muscle hypertrophy, and this is likely related to the simple relationship between energy status and the facilitation of energy-intensive anabolic processes (and, by extension, the hormonal milieu associated with positive energy balance). Some folks are in a position where they can achieve meaningful hypertrophy in spite of neutral or negative energy balance, but positive energy balance appears to be ideal if an individual is solely and exclusively focused on maximizing hypertrophy.\nGuidelines for calorie intake and rate of weight gain\nNow that we’ve established the value of a positive energy balance, the next step is to determine how large of a caloric surplus is necessary. If the only goal is maximizing hypertrophy at all costs, then larger is generally better, but real-world scenarios typically aren’t that simple. If we overshoot the caloric surplus necessary to maximize hypertrophy, we invite completely unnecessary fat gain, which might be viewed as unfavorable (depending on the context).\nIn an excellent, open-access review paper, Slater and colleagues describe the multifaceted reasons for increasing calorie intake to support hypertrophy goals (5). As previously mentioned, ATP is used in the process of synthesizing new muscle proteins, so we need extra calories to support that energy cost. In addition, resistance training itself costs energy, and energy expenditure tends to remain transiently elevated for hours following an exercise bout. In addition, we need to supply the raw materials (amino acids) for new muscle proteins through dietary intake of protein, and these amino acids contain roughly 4kcal/gram, on average. As calorie intake increases, many individuals experience an adaptive increase in energy expenditure (6), which further increases their energy needs. This is analogous to metabolic adaptation; while underfeeding causes adaptive reductions in energy expenditure, overfeeding has a tendency to cause adaptive increases in energy expenditure. Finally, as you start accruing substantial amounts of muscle mass, total daily energy expenditure will increase further, as muscle mass is a metabolically active tissue that burns around 13 kcal/kg/day at rest (7), and even more so during exercise and non-exercise physical activity.\nAs outlined in the previous paragraph, we have a general idea of the factors driving increased energy needs for hypertrophy optimization. Unfortunately, there still isn’t much research identifying exactly how large a caloric surplus should be in order to maximally promote hypertrophy without driving unnecessary fat gain. Slater and colleagues recommend aiming for a calorie surplus of around 1500-2000 kj/day (359-478 kcal/day), which they classify as a “conservative” starting point. However, they acknowledge that this estimate is a very rough approximation, and that we don’t currently have the evidence required to establish a precise target or range. They further recommend to “closely monitor response to the intervention, using changes in body composition and functional capacity to further personalize dietary interventions.” By closely monitoring changes in body composition, the hypertrophy-focused lifter (or their coach) can quickly course-correct if the starting calorie target was too high or too low.\nI think that’s a sensible recommendation, but you have to know your total daily energy expenditure in order to turn that recommendation into an actual daily calorie target. With that in mind, I’ll present three different methods for identifying one’s calorie target while bulking. As I described in a previous Stronger By Science article, I refer to the three strategies as 1) assume, 2) estimate, and 3) observe.\nThe “assume” approach is simple and straightforward: it assumes that one’s daily calorie target can be effectively dictated by their goal and current body weight. This strategy assumes that most people will generally maintain their current body weight if they consume roughly 15 kcals per pound of body mass. As a result, a general target for a moderate bulk would be around 17kcal/lb, and a general target for an aggressive bulk would be around 19 kcal/lb (Table 1). These bulking targets tend to work out relatively well for people with lower body weights (especially below 150lbs or so), but start to get excessively aggressive (in my opinion) once body weight starts climbing into the 200s and beyond. It’s also important to recognize that total daily energy expenditure can vary considerably from person to person, even if they weigh exactly the same. For these reasons, I do not recommend using the “assume” approach.\nThe “estimate” approach involves using validated equations to estimate one’s resting metabolic rate, then using activity factors to further estimate one’s total daily energy expenditure (TDEE). For a step-by-step guide through that estimation process, be sure to check out this article. In short, I recommend using the Cunningham 1980 equation to estimate resting metabolic rate based on fat-free mass (22 × fat-free mass [kg] + 500), and I recommend using the MacroFactor activity correction factors, which range from 1.2-1.6 for general (non-exercise) activity levels, and from 0-0.3 for the additive impact of structured exercise activity. Once TDEE is estimated, you’d aim to eat a certain percentage of that value in accordance with your goal. For example, someone with a maintenance goal would set a calorie target equal to 100% of TDEE, someone on a moderate bulk would aim for 105-110% of TDEE, and someone on an aggressive bulk would aim for 115-120% of TDEE (Table 2).\nThe “estimate” approach is great, and it’s certainly a viable strategy to use. However, I believe we can do better. The “observe” approach involves tracking your body weight every day (ideally measured immediately upon waking), while simultaneously tracking your daily caloric intake. After a couple weeks or so, you should be able to make very informative inferences about your energy needs. For example, if you’re consistently eating around 2400kcal/day and your bodyweight is very stable, then your maintenance calorie intake (and, by extension, TDEE) is around 2400kcal/day. If you’re slowly losing weight while consuming 2400kcal/day, then that intake is putting you in a small caloric deficit; if you’re rapidly gaining weight, then 2400kcal/day is putting you in a large caloric surplus.\nWhile this approach requires a little more time and effort than the other two, it is 100% individualized and circumvents the need for imprecise heuristics or equations that rely on population-level averages. Once you get a decent idea of how your body weight is fluctuating in response to your current daily calorie intake, the goal is to adjust your calorie intake until you achieve an intended rate of weight change. If you have a previous history of successful bulking, you can also get a “head start” on the process – instead of monitoring how your weight is responding to your habitual, baseline level of calorie intake, you can jump straight to a calorie target that has worked in the past to determine if it’s still an appropriate target based on your body weight response. Someone with a maintenance goal would aim to keep body weight stable, while someone on a moderate bulk would aim to gain 0.1-0.25% of body mass per week, and someone on an aggressive bulk would aim to gain >0.25% of body mass per week (Table 3). However, it’s important to note that these categories might be a bit too conservative for people who are starting at lower body weights, so lighter individuals with lofty bulking ambitions should err toward the more aggressive side of these targets.\nThe “observe” approach is my personal favorite, and my default recommendation for two reasons. First, it’s completely individualized and requires the fewest possible assumptions. Second, it’s the only approach that has a built-in system for adjusting your calorie target over time. Once you identify an appropriate starting point for calorie intake, you continue to consistently monitor body weight to ensure that you’re staying on track with your intended rate of weight change. If you’re falling short of your weight gain goal, you’d increase your calorie target; if you’re exceeding your weight gain goal, you’d decrease your calorie target accordingly. This ongoing approach to calorie target adjustments is important because it directly accounts for changes in TDEE over time (which are to be expected), and allows the dieter to directly modulate their rate of weight gain in accordance with their current goal and comfort level (which could change over time). So, even if you use the “assume” or “estimate” approach to identify your initial calorie target, you’ll still want to begin monitoring weight changes to determine if this target is appropriate for you (and adjust it as needed). In other words, all roads should lead to the ongoing adjustment process implied by the “observe” approach if you intend to establish and maintain a goal-appropriate calorie target over time.\nThroughout this section, I’ve mentioned bulking goals that fall on a spectrum. The most conservative approach is to aim for just slightly higher than maintenance calories (and, by extension, a slow rate of weight gain), while the most aggressive approach involves a very large surplus with a fast rate of weight gain. Choosing between a conservative, moderate, or aggressive approach will ultimately depend on a number of factors. If you’re a relatively inexperienced lifter, you can probably get away with a more aggressive approach to weight gain due to higher potential for substantial muscle growth. If you’re a very experienced lifter and near your genetic limit for muscularity, a more conservative approach would be advised, as substantial muscle gain is relatively unlikely. If your baseline weight is pretty low (relative to your goal), then you’ve got a lot of weight to gain, so a more aggressive approach is advised. If you’ve got a strong aversion to fat gain and are adamant about minimizing it, you’d want to go with a pretty conservative approach. Finally, if urgency is high and you’re in a major hurry to add muscle quickly, an aggressive approach would be your best bet.\nTable 4 presents the different characteristics influencing bulking “category” selections (ranging from approximate maintenance to very aggressive). Each characteristic (training status, starting weight, aversion to fat gain, and urgency) falls on a spectrum, and it’s important to recognize that the bulking “categories” fall on a spectrum as well. For example, a moderate bulk might involve aiming for 105-110% of TDEE and an aggressive approach might involve aiming for 115-120% of TDEE, but someone with a “kind of aggressive” approach could certainly set their target directly between these two categories. Finally, it’s important to acknowledge that the different characteristics influencing category selection are, in some cases, uncorrelated. For example, a new lifter with minimal training experience should be capable of pretty rapid hypertrophy, but they might also have a major aversion to fat gain. Their training status suggests that an aggressive bulk could be a suitable option, but their aversion to fat gain would theoretically nudge them toward a more conservative approach. As such, the only way to maneuver this individualized decision-making process is to strike a balance between one’s circumstances and top priorities.\nWhat is a Hardgainer?\nIt’s difficult to discuss bulking diets without acknowledging the concept of “hardgainers.” This colloquial fitness term refers to individuals who find it very challenging to gain weight, despite their best efforts. While some can’t even fathom the concept of struggling to gain weight, it’s a reasonably common thing in the lifting world. There isn’t a ton of research on people who are relatively resistant to weight gain, but a very recent paper (8) sheds some light on the topic. Hu and colleagues sought to explore and quantify some characteristics of people they describe as “healthy underweight” adults, meaning their BMI is naturally below 18.5 for reasons unrelated to eating disorders or any other medical conditions.\nTo achieve this objective, the researchers compared the weight-stable, healthy underweight adults (n = 150) to a control group of 173 weight-stable individuals with BMI values between 21.5-25. Due to smaller body size, the healthy underweight adults had lower values (in absolute terms) for resting energy expenditure and total daily energy expenditure. However, when scaled relative to their predicted energy expenditure values (which adjusts for body size), the healthy underweight participants had significantly higher resting and total energy expenditure, despite engaging in less physical activity and burning fewer calories from physical activity. The underweight individuals appeared to eat fewer calories than the normal weight control subjects in absolute terms, but they appeared to eat more total energy on a relative basis (scaled to body size). These findings suggest that higher-than-expected resting metabolic rates could contribute to weight gain resistance in naturally lean individuals. However, I am skeptical that this single characteristic tells the whole story, and I suspect that two additional factors can make it very challenging for an individual to intentionally gain weight.\nAs mentioned previously in this article, overfeeding can induce an increase in TDEE, largely by increasing non-exercise activity thermogenesis (6). However, the observed increase in TDEE varies considerably from person to person. In a 1999 study, Levine and colleagues fed volunteers an extra 1000kcal per day for eight weeks. Despite the standardized increase in calorie allowance, they found an enormous amount of variability in the amount of weight gained, with 10-fold differences separating the individuals with the most fat gain (4.23kg) from those with the least fat gain (0.36kg). Fat gain was inversely correlated with the increase in total energy expenditure (r = -0.86, p < 0.001) and the increase in non-exercise activity thermogenesis (r = -0.77, p < 0.001; Figure 3). This well-controlled study demonstrated that different individuals gain very different amounts of fat in response to identical calorie increases, and its results directly link overfeeding-induced increases in energy expenditure to resistance to fat gain (and total weight gain).\nIn summary, it’s very possible, if not likely, that many hardgainers are individuals who experience particularly large energy expenditure increases when they attempt to achieve a calorie surplus. This has important implications when it comes to setting a calorie target for a bulking diet. If a hardgainer tries to implement strategies that set calorie targets based on body mass or an estimated TDEE value (such as the “assume” or “estimate” approach), with no system in place to make incremental adjustments based on progress, they might find that their elevation in TDEE largely or entirely wipes out their planned surplus. This is yet another reason why I recommend the “observe” approach, which involves systematically adjusting your calorie target until a desired rate of weight gain is achieved. For hardgainers, the necessary level of calorie intake is often dramatically higher than expected. Imagine coaching some of the most weight-gain-resistant participants in Levine’s study – a well-planned increase of 1,000 kcal/day beyond maintenance needs, in a well-controlled intervention, yielded a minimum weight increase of only 1.4kg and a minimum fat mass increase of only 0.36kg across a two-month time period.\nAside from inter-individual differences in energy expenditure responses to overfeeding, I suspect that inter-individual differences in appetite regulation play a role as well. Back in Volume 3, we had an excellent guest article by Dr. Anne-Kathrin Eiselt (if you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend it). In that review, Dr. Eiselt describes the multifaceted nature of hunger and satiety regulation, in addition to the complex relationship between the consumption and reward systems of the brain. In short, there are distinct areas of the brain in which we are constantly processing information related to hunger, satiety, and reward sensations. These centers are in a state of ongoing neuroendocrine communication and coordination, and the net balance of these coordinated interactions has a direct impact on one’s appetite and energy intake.\nWhen it comes to hardgainers, I think it’s best to describe the relevance of these concepts within the context of the dual intervention point model, which Helms described in last month’s issue of MASS. Within the fitness industry, it’s common to suggest that each individual has a body-fat “set point,” or an individualized body-fat percentage that their body actively works to defend. When taken literally, this theory would suggest that every person’s hunger, satiety, and reward center control is finely tuned to keep them stuck at a single specific body-fat percentage, and any deviation from that exact level of adiposity requires a substantial amount of ongoing intentional effort to maintain. As explained by Speakman et al (9), that theory does a poor job of explaining weight regulation. A more suitable model suggests that each person has a range of body-fat levels in which they generally feel comfortable. An individual’s hunger, satiety, and reward center control systems are tuned to keep them within that broad range of adiposity, but their habits and behaviors dictate whether they’re near the top, middle, or bottom of their genetically predetermined range. As a person starts getting near the bottom end of their comfortable range, also known as their lower intervention point, they start to receive some significant physiological feedback to prevent them from getting leaner (such as increased hunger, reduced satiety, and reduced energy expenditure). As a person starts getting near the top end of their comfortable range, they receive some physiological feedback to prevent them from getting heavier (such as blunted hunger, increased satiety, and increased energy expenditure). The dual intervention point model is presented in Figure 4.\nSo, what does this all mean for hardgainers?\nI suspect that many hardgainers exist in a “baseline state” that is quite close to their upper intervention point. For example, a hardgainer’s hunger and satiety circuitry might be wired in a way that sets their upper intervention point in a relatively “low” position, such that the slightest increase in body mass is met with a high degree of friction (in the form of a totally blunted appetite). This has a direct connection to the findings by Levine et al (6), who found that some non-obese individuals gained fat quite readily during overfeeding, while others were quite resistant to fat gain, despite falling in the same BMI range at baseline and receiving the same thousand-calorie increase beyond maintenance needs. We can imagine a very plausible scenario in which the weight-gain-resistant participants in Levine’s study were simply closer to their upper intervention point at the beginning of the study – not because they had dramatically higher adiposity levels, but because their genetically-determined upper intervention point was simply lower. This weight gain disadvantage can be overcome, but not without a focused and strategic effort.\nRegardless of upper intervention point positioning, a hardgainer’s challenges might be exacerbated with a neurophysiological reward system circuitry that simply isn’t very responsive to hyperpalatable foods. As reviewed by Dr. Eiselt, hyperpalatable foods can cause robust neurophysiological reward responses that elicit a tremendous sensation of pleasure and enjoyment. However, a simple chat with your friends or family will make it very clear that different people have very different responses to food. Of course we all have specific flavor preferences that differ from one another, but upon closer examination, you’ll also find that the magnitude of pleasure derived from hyperpalatable food is quite variable from person to person. In fact, a growing body of evidence shows that the reward sensation, or magnitude of pleasure derived from eating, can vary over time and among different eating contexts (10), even for the same individual eating the same food. This is relevant to the plight of hardgainers, because stimulation of the brain’s reward system can override satiety cues, which directly enables intake of more calories. This is often viewed as the major “downside” of hyperpalatable foods within the context of weight loss, but robust reward responses to hyperpalatable foods are actually helpful when appetite is blunted during intentional weight gain.\nIn summary, hardgainers are individuals who struggle to induce intentional weight gain, and they certainly exist in considerable numbers. A number of factors might contribute to this difficulty, such as a higher-than-expected resting metabolic rate, an exaggerated increase in energy expenditure during overfeeding, or a balance of hunger and satiety regulatory circuits that generally lean toward a lack of appetite. Within the context of the dual intervention point model, we might view these individuals as having a baseline status that is already quite close to their upper intervention point, which makes it very difficult to sustainably increase body weight. It’s also quite possible that some hardgainers may simply experience blunted reward sensations in response to hyperpalatable food consumption, which might nudge them toward lower calorie intakes due to lack of interest and an inability to overcome satiety signals via pleasure and reward signaling.\nStrategies for Hardgainers\nOn paper, the challenges faced by hardgainers are easy to solve. Set a suitable calorie target, and hit it consistently. If that calorie target fails to promote your intended rate of weight gain, incrementally increase your calorie target until you start gaining weight at the intended rate. If your weight gain slows or stalls entirely, incrementally increase your calorie target again. Easy stuff, in theory. In practice, it’s far more challenging. Many hardgainers carry out this incremental process of calorie target adjustment until they inevitably reach a major hurdle: due to extreme fullness and an absence of hunger, it becomes very difficult to reach the daily target for calorie intake.\nUnfortunately, overcoming weight gain challenges isn’t commonly viewed as a major public health priority. With obesity prevalence exceeding 40% in the United States, weight loss has been prioritized extensively in the scientific literature. A great deal of research has been conducted for the purpose of identifying eating habits, patterns, and strategies that increase satiety and reduce hunger to facilitate passive weight loss. As reviewed in a previous MASS article, the evidence generally indicates that hunger can be attenuated by eating more slowly, eating more mindfully in the absence of distractions, avoiding hyperpalatable meals, and structuring meals with low energy density and plenty of unprocessed or minimally processed foods with harder textures. If we invert these findings, we can flip the satiety promotion literature to yield some very helpful strategies for satiety attenuation.\nIf appetite suppression is a major hurdle preventing a hardgainer from consistently consuming enough energy to gain weight, they’ll likely benefit from incorporating more energy-dense foods. These types of foods will provide a large number of calories while taking up less space on their plate (and in their stomach), which may confer both psychological and physiological advantages favoring increased energy intake. By opting for foods with a high degree of processing and softer textures, a hardgainer may be able to eat more quickly, which appears to facilitate higher calorie intakes before reaching a given satiety level (11). Selection of hyperpalatable foods appears to override some intrinsic satiety signals; this can be counterproductive for weight loss goals, but advantageous for hardgainers. If nothing else, hyperpalatable food selection gives hardgainers a more compelling reason to eat when appetite is low; a tasty meal is inherently rewarding from a neurophysiological perspective, whereas it’s often difficult to compel yourself to force down another plate of plain chicken, broccoli, and sweet potatoes. Finally, there is some evidence to suggest that energy-dense snacking can lead to increased calorie intake over time (12). While the snacking literature is a bit inconsistent (13), it appears that energy-dense snacking is associated with either no change or increases in body weight, and snacking lends itself to a more distracted, less mindful form of eating that could passively facilitate increased energy intake.\nIn summary, hardgainers who are struggling to hit their daily calorie target should aim to incorporate more foods with higher energy density, greater palatability, softer textures, and a higher degree of processing. Furthermore, meals should be supplemented with palatable, energy-dense snacks that can be consumed somewhat mindlessly throughout the day to encourage passive increases in energy intake. In other words, make a list of the most common hunger-fighting strategies for fat loss diets, then do the exact opposite.\nMacronutrient Distribution While Bulking\nOnce a calorie target is selected, the next step is to address macronutrient distribution (after all, those calories have to come from somewhere). I’ll address protein first, because that’s the simplest of them all. The “standard” evidence-based protein recommendations will do just fine for bulking purposes, whether you’re taking a conservative or aggressive approach. There are some situations where these recommendations might require some adjustments, such as a scenario in which a very lean person is dieting pretty hard (14), but protein is very simple when energy balance is neutral or positive. As a result, individuals on a bulking diet are likely to fully optimize their hypertrophy progress by aiming for around 1.6-2.2 g/kg/day of protein (15), which should scale to roughly 2-2.75 g/kg of fat-free mass (rather than total body mass) per day. If those two different ranges give you very different protein intakes (which may be observed, depending on your weight and body composition characteristics), my recommendation is to scale your protein intake to fat-free mass rather than total body mass. Furthermore, you should split this daily protein target roughly evenly among 3-6 meals per day (one, two). If you want a hyper-optimized meal schedule that relies on a little bit of mechanistic speculation but leaves nothing to chance, you might consider restricting this even further, with an eating schedule that splits protein intake across 4-5 meals per day, with at least 2-3 hours between meals. However, a relevant note for bulkers: if you’re eating relatively low-protein snacks throughout the day to facilitate high daily calorie intakes, these low-protein snacks wouldn’t be counted as “meals.” In this context, a meal will generally provide at least 0.3g/kg of protein per day, or an absolute dose of at least 20-30g of protein.\nWhen it comes to carbohydrate and fat intake, the conversation gets a little more interesting. First, I think it’s defensible to suggest that extreme carbohydrate restriction is generally inadvisable while bulking. Previous MASS articles have noted that ketogenic diets tend to have either similar or slightly worse effects on hypertrophy when compared to more balanced macronutrient distributions, and there is mechanistic evidence to suggest that maintaining an abundant supply of glycogen is generally favorable for lifters. In addition, a very recent meta-analysis indicates that carbs are ergogenic for lifters who complete training sessions that include plenty of maximal-effort sets and/or last longer than 45 minutes in duration (16). There are certainly some scenarios in which lifters can get by with very low carb intakes, but it’s hard to broadly suggest that extreme carbohydrate restriction is an optimal approach to bulking diets for lifters.\nOn the completely opposite end of the spectrum, some folks suggest that lifters should follow bulking diets with very high carb intakes and pretty aggressive fat restriction. The reasoning for this relatively common recommendation is based on a few distinct observations. First, there is evidence that carb overfeeding increases TDEE more than fat overfeeding (17). This means that a high-carb overfeeding diet would, calorie-for-calorie, lead to slightly less fat gain than a high-fat overfeeding diet, which has been observed in the published literature (18). Second, it has become fairly common knowledge that de novo lipogenesis (the process by which our bodies convert carbohydrate to fat for long-term storage) is rarely observed in real-world scenarios, such that de novo lipogenesis typically makes negligible contributions to the storage of additional fat mass (19). Many folks interpret this to mean that people who overshoot their calories on a high-carb bulking diet will neglect to store the excess calories as fat, thus allowing for an aggressively high calorie target without the risk of excessive fat storage. Third, proponents of this high-carb bulking strategy often point to a particular piece of empirical evidence that seems to lend support. An abstract published in 2011 seems, at the surface level, to suggest that high-carb, high-calorie bulking with aggressive fat restriction leads to more hypertrophy and less fat gain than a very similar diet with less aggressive fat restriction. While the abstract itself is hard to find these days, it was covered in an excellent write-up on the SuppVersity blog several years ago.\nPersonally, I am skeptical that high-carb bulking with extreme fat restriction is the “cheat code” that some proponents make it out to be. First, I’ll acknowledge that high-carb overfeeding does increase TDEE more than calorie-matched high-fat overfeeding (17), which is primarily due to the fact that carbs have a higher thermic effect of feeding than fat (18), particularly when consumed in large quantities. However, this isn’t necessarily an advantage in all contexts. If you’re perpetually hungry and looking for a more satiety-inducing diet while bulking, this might be a helpful and actionable observation, and you might consider opting for a relatively high-carb, high-fiber, high-protein approach. However, this is actually an extra challenge from the perspective of a hardgainer who’s struggling to consume enough calories to support weight gain. There is definitely a difference in the thermic effect of carb versus fat overfeeding, but whether or not that’s an advantage or disadvantage depends on the context, and the magnitude of the effect isn’t particularly large – for example, Dirlewanger et al (17) found that a 40% energy surplus (140% of TDEE) increased TDEE by about 140 kcal/day during high-carb overfeeding, whereas high-fat overfeeding increased TDEE by almost half of that. A similarly small difference between high-fat and high-carb overfeeding was observed by Horton et al (18), which suggests that this difference is more interesting than it is impactful.\nNext, it’s important to contextualize the claim that de novo lipogenesis is rarely observed in real-world applications, to the extent that we can largely disregard its role in the maintenance of human fat stores. It is true that “real-world scenarios” (that is, diets with relatively balanced macronutrient contents) generally don’t lead to meaningful amounts of de novo lipogenesis. For example, an overfeeding study by McDevitt et al (19) concluded that de novo lipogenesis “does not contribute greatly to total fat balance,” and the results of an overfeeding study by Horton et al (18) indirectly suggest that de novo lipogenesis did not occur to an extent that would meaningfully impact total fat storage. However, there’s a huge caveat to keep in mind with these studies: fat intake was not aggressively restricted. De novo lipogenesis is a convoluted and energetically costly pathway. As a result, the human body prefers not to use it unless it’s actually necessary. If you’ve got tons of carbohydrate and fat available after a meal, your body is inclined to take the easiest and most efficient path, which involves burning the carbs for immediate energy and storing the fat for later use.\nIt’d be hard to justify the process of converting extra carbs to fat for storage while you’re simultaneously burning fat to meet immediate energy demands – a more straightforward and energy-efficient strategy is to store the stuff that’s already in a storable form (the dietary fat from the previous meal). To draw on an analogy, imagine that I owe you $20USD and you owe me $15USD. It would be possible for me to pay you $20USD and request that you mail me $15USD worth of Euros, which I could then take to the bank, convert back to USD, and deposit into my account. Or I could just give you five bucks.\nYour body is more than capable of converting extra carbs to fat for storage if absolutely necessary, and if you’ve got a huge surplus of carbs and fully saturated glycogen stores, that’s exactly what will happen. In a high-carb overfeeding study, Acheson et al (20) implemented a multiple-day glycogen depletion protocol, followed by 7 days of high-carb overfeeding. Notably, fat intake was aggressively restricted to only 3% of total energy. In short, the extra calories were handled exactly how you’d expect them to be handled. At first, a bunch of the carbs were allocated toward refilling the recently depleted glycogen stores. Once glycogen stores were topped off, participants had to deal with a huge surplus of calories that were almost exclusively coming from carbohydrates. Even after sending the small amount of dietary fat straight to storage and burning carbs to meet immediate energy needs, there were still a ton of carbs left over. As a result, the participants used the de novo lipogenesis pathway to convert the carbs to fat and store the extra energy for later. As a result, the researchers concluded that glycogen stores “can accommodate a gain of approximately 500 g before net lipid synthesis contributes to increasing body fat mass.”\nIn summary, it’s true that de novo lipogenesis is pretty negligible in most real-world scenarios and nutrition studies. However, that’s mostly because real-world scenarios and nutrition studies rarely involve massive amounts of carbohydrate overfeeding combined with aggressive fat restriction. When possible, the default preference of the human body is to allocate extra dietary fat toward storage and to burn extra dietary carbohydrate. For example, imagine a scenario in which you’ve overshot your energy surplus a bit, and you’re eating an extra 300 kcal/day beyond the energy needed to support muscle growth. If you’re eating 80g of fat per day (which is 720 kcal/day from fat), the path of least resistance is to simply store 300kcal worth of the dietary fat that was consumed. However, if we try to “cheat the system” by creating a bulking scenario in which our leftover energy greatly exceeds our glycogen storage capacity and daily fat intake, the extra calories from carbs aren’t going to disappear – we’re more than capable of converting them to fat and storing them.\nSo, my carb and fat guidelines for bulking are pretty simple: get at least 3-4g/kg/day of carbohydrate, and calculate your daily fat minimum (in grams) by subtracting 150 from your height (in cm), then dividing the outcome by 2, and adding 30. So, someone who is 180cm tall would have a daily fat minimum of (180-150)/2 + 30, which equals 45g/day. If you’re under 150cm tall, you probably want to ignore this equation and set your lower boundary to a default value of 30g/day. These guidelines should help to ensure that most dieters are getting enough carbohydrate to fuel their training and enough fat to support good health. Notably, these guidelines are bare minimums, and bulking diets tend to involve pretty high calorie targets, which means you have a ton of wiggle room to work with. As long as you’re meeting or exceeding the bare minimums for carb and fat intake, their exact ratio is pretty inconsequential while bulking, so you should feel free to eat in accordance with your preferences.\nShould I Bulk, Cut, or Recomp?\nFor the huge number of folks whose goal physique involves more muscle and less fat mass, it can be challenging to construct a plan for tackling these distinct subgoals. When determining if the best immediate course of action should involve bulking, cutting, or trying to achieve recomposition, it’s hard to provide a generalizable answer for everyone. However, there are some answers that we can categorize as generally inadvisable.\nSome folks might answer by indicating that recomping is virtually impossible, then nudging you toward a large energy deficit or a large energy surplus. As we’ve already covered, this isn’t true, and it’s especially untrue for people with high levels of adiposity or relatively minimal training experience. As such, there are some folks who might wish to begin by recomping rather than bulking or cutting, whereas others might opt for a sequential, multi-step approach that starts with a dedicated phase to explicitly focus on either fat loss (cut) or muscle gain (bulk). As noted previously, some people can also “split the difference” – if you can’t decide between cutting or recomping, you can just do a very conservative cut and try to get the best of both worlds. Similarly, if you’re torn between bulking or recomping, you can just do a very conservative bulk.\nSome folks might answer by indicating that you should cut first, because weight loss will potentiate future hypertrophy by enhancing insulin sensitivity or reducing basal inflammation levels. This response is tied to the concept of p-ratios, which was first proposed by Forbes as a way to model relative changes in fat mass and fat-free mass among people who do not lift weights (21). If you’re new around here, this is a topic I’ve covered extensively – first as a MASS article, and then as a 3-part Stronger By Science article series (one, two, three). Needless to say, there’s plenty of content to dig into if you’d like to explore this topic in detail. The short version of the conclusion is that this p-ratio concept has minimal relevance to people who are regularly lifting weights, and the overwhelming majority of evidence in lifters contradicts the idea that getting leaner will increase the magnitude or rate of hypertrophy achieved during a subsequent bulk. In fact, we did our own participant-level meta-analysis with full data sets from seven different resistance training studies, resulting in complete data from over 160 study participants. We created a “lean gains” metric, which is simply the change in fat-free mass minus the change in fat mass, and found that leanness did not confer the theoretical advantage implied by the p-ratio concept (Figure 5).\nAfter digging deeper into the data, it became clear that participants with lower and higher body-fat percentages were achieving similar magnitudes of hypertrophy, whether you’re looking at changes in fat-free mass or direct measurements of muscle thickness. The primary difference was that individuals with higher baseline body-fat levels were more likely to lose a little bit of fat during resistance training interventions, but they were still able to achieve substantial hypertrophy in the absence of fat gain, or even in the presence of simultaneous fat loss. Thus, we concluded that getting leaner does not potentiate hypertrophy in a subsequent bulk, and that people with higher baseline body-fat are more capable of recomping. If anything, you could justify speculating that individuals with higher body-fat levels had slightly greater capacity for hypertrophy, given that they achieved similar amounts of hypertrophy in spite of less positive energy balance (as demonstrated by the tendency for fat loss).\nA third inadvisable answer would encourage an individual (whose long-term goal involves being very lean) to get to a very low body-fat level (<10% body-fat for males, or <18% body-fat for females), then bulk from there while maintaining their hard-earned leanness. The participant-level analysis from our p-ratio article found that every single person under 8% body-fat at baseline had some degree of fat gain in the seven resistance training studies for which we had subject-level data, and only one of these individuals gained more than 1kg of fat-free mass. Based on these observations, in addition to the broader body recomposition literature (3), the probability of a very lean person gaining meaningful amounts of muscle mass without some degree of concomitant fat gain appears to be fairly low, which defeats the purpose of getting shredded on the front end of a bulk.\nWhen deciding to bulk, recomp, or cut (and, by extension, how aggressively to bulk or cut), a lifter should consider several factors. As listed in Table 4, they should first reflect on their training status, starting weight, aversion to fat gain, and urgency. In doing so, they might clarify their own priorities well enough to make their decision quite easily. If not, I can offer my own perspective on how to navigate this dilemma. There are definitely some folks who feel that their starting level of adiposity is very incompatible with their day-to-day aesthetic goals, or contributing to some cardiometabolic health markers that are currently outside of their preferred ranges. If you’re starting in a spot where weight gain has a high probability of fueling some mild dissatisfaction related to body image, or ongoing concerns related to cardiometabolic health, then starting with a cut makes all the sense in the world (as a side note, it’d be a good idea to address any severe instances of body image dissatisfaction with a qualified mental health professional).\nHowever, for lifters who are comfortable with their current body-fat level, generally fine with a little bit of additional fat gain, and know they want to gain a considerable amount of muscle over the remainder of their lifting journey, my general preference is to err toward bulking first and cutting later. Anecdotally, my observation is that many lifters’ “ideal body-fat level” (based on their personal goals and preferences) is either close to or below their lower intervention point (Figure 4). This means that the later stages of the cutting process is likely to get pretty tough, and the likelihood of sustaining that level of leanness during a subsequent (presumably conservative) bulking phase is fairly unlikely. I’ve also noticed that many folks who take the “cut first, bulk later” approach tend to be a bit dissatisfied with the results of their first cut. They often feel more “thin” and less “shredded” than they initially anticipated, largely because they underestimated exactly how much muscularity is required for a physique to have a “shredded” appearance. Furthermore, if their “ideal body-fat level” is absolutely shredded, or substantially below their lower intervention point, it’s quite likely that hypertrophy might be impaired. As noted previously, our p-ratio analysis seemed to indicate that it’s very hard to make lean gains at low body-fat levels.\nWith these considerations in mind, it’s very possible that a “cut first” approach could lead to some initial dissatisfaction when the initial cut is complete, and could also make the long-term goal striving process a little more challenging and a little more uncomfortable than it needs to be. However, that doesn’t mean it’s always a bad plan. For example, you might have a client whose lower intervention point is around 10% body-fat, would like to eventually be as lean as they can sustainably maintain, and generally dislikes to get above 16% body-fat while bulking (based on their personal aesthetic or health-related preferences). If they’re currently around 18% body-fat, it would be very defensible to cut to around 12-13% body-fat (comfortably above their lower intervention point), bulk until they reach about 15-16%, then oscillate back and forth between cutting and bulking phases until they’ve reached their ideal level of muscularity. At that point, they can cut down to around 10-11% body-fat as a reasonably comfortable maintenance range that is just above their lower intervention point. If they wish to be extra lean for certain special occasions (like a wedding, vacation, photo shoot, competition, etc.), they can temporarily cut down to a leaner body-fat level for a brief period of time, then settle back to their comfortable maintenance level when the special occasion has passed.\nIn summary, there are many factors to consider when deciding to bulk, cut, or recomp, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach. It’s important to thoughtfully reflect on individualized factors related to one’s hypertrophy potential, short-term priorities, and long-term goals prior to making a decision. Furthermore, the decision about where to start is, by definition, just the beginning. A lifter is likely to be consistently bouncing between short-term recomping, bulking, and cutting phases throughout the entirety of their fitness journey. So, with that in mind, don’t overthink the decision too much – the impact on body composition will become functionally irrelevant as enough time passes and a lifter shifts from phase to phase. The only way to totally screw this decision up is to choose a path that stifles a lifter’s ability to enjoy the process. Anything that stifles enjoyment or enthusiasm early in a lifter’s fitness journey has the potential to thwart motivation and derail the entire process.\nOne Last Thing – What About Cardio?\nThis article is getting pretty long, but there’s one last topic I’d like to briefly address before wrapping things up. A common misconception is that bulking necessarily requires an intentional avoidance of cardio and other non-lifting physical activity. On the surface, it’s an intuitive conclusion – people who are struggling to achieve an energy surplus aren’t eager to increase their energy expenditure, and many people are at least vaguely aware of the “interference effect,” which describes the attenuation of resistance training adaptations caused by concurrent cardio training. Fortunately for people who enjoy non-lifting physical activity (or simply value its health benefits), bulkers don’t necessarily need to avoid cardio at all costs.\nFirst, let’s address the interference effect. This is a topic that’s been covered numerous times in MASS, so I’ll simply restate the main conclusions here. It is very true that studies have observed an attenuation of resistance training adaptations when cardio is added to the mix. However, this interference is far more pronounced for power adaptations than strength adaptations, and even less pertinent to hypertrophy adaptations. Furthermore, the cardio “dose” required to meaningfully interfere with resistance training adaptations tends to be pretty large (e.g., pretty arduous sessions at least 5-6 days per week). As Greg highlighted in one of his Research Briefs, the interference effect isn’t quite as scary as some make it out to be, especially for people with hypertrophy-focused goals and light-to-moderate doses of weekly cardio training.\nIn contrast to the large amounts of cardio required to meaningfully attenuate hypertrophy, noteworthy health benefits can be obtained from very modest amounts of cardio or non-lifting physical activity. For example, walking a mere 8,000 steps per day has been associated with a sizable reduction in all-cause mortality (22). In addition, the US guidelines for physical activity call for for 150-300 weekly minutes of exercise at “moderate” MET levels (3.0-5.9 METs), 75-150 weekly minutes of exercise at “vigorous” MET levels (≥6.0 METs), or a combination of the two. For context, some household chores like sweeping the floor or “general kitchen activity” are above 3 METS (i.e., in the “moderate” category), and a very brisk walk (4.5mph) can get you into the “vigorous” category (23).\nIn summary, a relatively small amount of cardio is needed for meaningful health benefits, and a very large cardio dose is needed to meaningfully interfere with hypertrophy adaptations. As a result, the typical bulker who’s doing non-lifting physical activity for the purpose of enjoyment or general health is unlikely to be racking up cardio doses large enough to impair hypertrophy. Similarly, they’re unlikely to be racking up cardio doses large enough to dramatically increase TDEE, so a little bit of extra activity shouldn’t make it prohibitively difficult to establish an energy surplus large enough to support hypertrophy. In conclusion, a successful bulk does not necessarily require that individuals alter their cardio or non-lifting physical activity habits. As long as you’re able to consume a suitable amount of calories and you aren’t doing cardio doses that resemble a highly competitive endurance athlete, additional physical activity should be pretty irrelevant.\nWhile recomposition is definitely possible in a variety of circumstances, the majority of lifters will eventually find themselves in a position where a dedicated bulking phase is warranted to optimize hypertrophy. The first priority when bulking is to establish a state of positive energy balance (i.e., a calorie surplus), as extra energy is needed to accommodate the energy cost of building and maintaining new muscle tissue. It’s certainly important to get enough protein while bulking (1.6-2.2g/kg of body mass, or 2-2.75g/kg of fat-free mass), but the ratio of carbohydrate to fat in the diet is highly flexible. For many individuals, bulking is a fairly manageable process of estimating one’s total daily energy expenditure, setting a calorie target, and adjusting it to maintain the intended rate of weight gain. However, there are many hardgainers who run into considerable friction while bulking, which may be related to elevated resting metabolic rate, exaggerated increases in energy expenditure, inter-individual differences in hunger and satiety regulation, or blunted reward responses to hyperpalatable food. We can conceptualize hardgainers as being near their “upper intervention point” at baseline, and they may need to lean on dietary strategies that completely invert the guidelines that would typically increase satiety and reduce hunger. Bulkers need not worry about getting lean before their bulk or aggressively restricting their non-lifting physical activity, but they should carefully consider their current circumstances and priorities when deciding when (and how aggressively) to bulk.\n- Ferrier DR. Biochemistry (6th ed). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2014:91-93.\n- Hall KD. What Is The Required Energy Deficit Per Unit Weight Loss? Int J Obes. 2008 Mar;32(3):573–6.\n- Barakat C, Pearson J, Escalante G, Campbell B, De Souza EO. Body Recomposition: Can Trained Individuals Build Muscle and Lose Fat at the Same Time? Strength Cond J. 2020 Oct;42(5):7–21.\n- Murphy C, Koehler K. Energy Deficiency Impairs Resistance Training Gains In Lean Mass But Not Strength: A Meta-Analysis And Meta-Regression. Scand J Med Sci Sports. 2022 Jan;32(1):125-137.\n- Slater GJ, Dieter BP, Marsh DJ, Helms ER, Shaw G, Iraki J. Is an Energy Surplus Required to Maximize Skeletal Muscle Hypertrophy Associated With Resistance Training. Front Nutr. 2019;6:131.\n- Levine JA, Eberhardt NL, Jensen MD. Role Of Nonexercise Activity Thermogenesis In Resistance To Fat Gain In Humans. Science. 1999 Jan 8;283(5399):212–4.\n- McClave SA, Snider HL. Dissecting The Energy Needs Of The Body. Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care. 2001 Mar;4(2):143–7.\n- Hu S, Zhang X, Stamatiou M, Hambly C, Huang Y, Ma J, et al. Higher Than Predicted Resting Energy Expenditure And Lower Physical Activity In Healthy Underweight Chinese Adults. Cell Metab. 2022 Jul 14; ePub ahead of print.\n- Speakman JR, Levitsky DA, Allison DB, Bray MS, Castro JM de, Clegg DJ, et al. Set Points, Settling Points And Some Alternative Models: Theoretical Options To Understand How Genes And Environments Combine To Regulate Body Adiposity. Dis Model Mech. 2011 Nov;4(6):733.\n- Rolls ET. Reward Systems in the Brain and Nutrition. Annu Rev Nutr. 2016 Jul 17;36:435–70.\n- de Graaf C, Kok FJ. Slow Food, Fast Food And The Control Of Food Intake. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2010 May;6(5):290–3.\n- Tey SL, Brown RC, Gray AR, Chisholm AW, Delahunty CM. Long-Term Consumption Of High Energy-Dense Snack Foods On Sensory-Specific Satiety And Intake. Am J Clin Nutr. 2012 May;95(5):1038–47.\n- Njike VY, Smith TM, Shuval O, Shuval K, Edshteyn I, Kalantari V, et al. Snack Food, Satiety, and Weight. Adv Nutr. 2016 Sep;7(5):866–78.\n- Helms ER, Zinn C, Rowlands DS, Brown SR. A Systematic Review Of Dietary Protein During Caloric Restriction In Resistance Trained Lean Athletes: A Case For Higher Intakes. Int J Sport Nutr Exerc Metab. 2014 Apr;24(2):127–38.\n- Morton RW, Murphy KT, McKellar SR, Schoenfeld BJ, Henselmans M, Helms E, et al. A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis And Meta-Regression Of The Effect Of Protein Supplementation On Resistance Training-Induced Gains In Muscle Mass And Strength In Healthy Adults. Br J Sports Med. 2018 Mar;52(6):376–84.\n- King A, Helms E, Zinn C, Jukic I. The Ergogenic Effects of Acute Carbohydrate Feeding on Resistance Exercise Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Sports Med. 2022 Jul 9; ePub ahead of print.\n- Dirlewanger M, di Vetta V, Guenat E, Battilana P, Seematter G, Schneiter P, et al. Effects Of Short-Term Carbohydrate Or Fat Overfeeding On Energy Expenditure And Plasma Leptin Concentrations In Healthy Female Subjects. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2000 Nov;24(11):1413–8.\n- Horton TJ, Drougas H, Brachey A, Reed GW, Peters JC, Hill JO. Fat And Carbohydrate Overfeeding In Humans: Different Effects On Energy Storage. Am J Clin Nutr. 1995 Jul;62(1):19–29.\n- McDevitt RM, Bott SJ, Harding M, Coward WA, Bluck LJ, Prentice AM. De Novo Lipogenesis During Controlled Overfeeding With Sucrose Or Glucose In Lean And Obese Women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2001 Dec;74(6):737–46.\n- Acheson KJ, Schutz Y, Bessard T, Anantharaman K, Flatt JP, Jéquier E. Glycogen Storage Capacity And De Novo Lipogenesis During Massive Carbohydrate Overfeeding In Man. Am J Clin Nutr. 1988 Aug;48(2):240–7.\n- Forbes GB. Lean Body Mass-Body Fat Interrelationships In Humans. Nutr Rev. 1987 Aug;45(8):225–31.\n- Paluch AE, Bajpai S, Bassett DR, Carnethon MR, Ekelund U, Evenson KR, et al. Daily Steps And All-Cause Mortality: A Meta-Analysis Of 15 International Cohorts. Lancet Public Health. 2022 Mar;7(3):e219–28.\n- Ainsworth BE, Haskell WL, Herrmann SD, Meckes N, Bassett DR, Tudor-Locke C, et al. 2011 Compendium Of Physical Activities: A Second Update Of Codes And MET Values. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2011 Aug;43(8):1575–81.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://branerpartyof7.blogspot.com/2013/09/dear-granma.html", "date": "2019-05-22T04:31:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256763.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522043027-20190522065027-00168.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9841431379318237, "token_count": 785, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__158824776", "lang": "en", "text": "Someone please print this and take it up to her house and read it to her. Thank you in advance.\nIts okay for you to go. Its okay for you to die and go to Heaven to be with your Savior who you worship with every breath you take and to be with Pappy, who is your true and never-ending love. I tried to tell you that you could go while I was with you a month ago, but I couldn't say the words. I loved rubbing your thumb and feeling you pat my arm way too much. Daddy told me that I needed to give you permission to leave, but I just couldn't. I love you so so so much and I have begun to mistake my breathtaking love for you for needing to have you here and that has turned into selfishness. Please go. You will be whole in heaven and you will be free from the body that is failing you here on earth. And I will see you again, so I must hold onto that.\nI know that I have told you before that I am terrified for you to leave me, and I am. Who will love me with the massive unconditional force that your love is in my life? Who's favorite will I be? Who's girl will I be? I'm your girl and you love me with a love I have never had to question or doubt. I am so fortunate and blessed to have you and your deep love in my life.\nI'm going to be so sad and so lonely when you go, but it will pass as our wonderful memories together fill those gaping wounds of pain that your absence will leave in my heart. I have so many memories to cherish and to remember. You have made me a better person and I know that you would be telling me (if it weren't you I was dying to hold onto), that I need to let you go and let you be happy and free and full again. You'd get on to me a little bit about my selfishness that is holding onto you. I'd shake my head and cry and know that you are right and I'd let you go.\nGran'ma, thanks for loving me so selflessly. Thanks for not being afraid to dream with me. Thanks for praying with me at night before we'd giggle until we slumbered. Thanks for walking with me through the forest and for giving me space to play when I needed it. Thanks for supporting me completely in everything I did even without words. Thanks for always having time for me and for giving me your undivided attention as we played dominoes and played make believe and pressed flowers and did life together. Thanks for knowing me better than I know myself and for being so aware of my every thought. Thanks for loving me with a love that seems, right now, to be irreplaceable.\nYes, I'm terrified, but just as I have been blessed to have you in my life, I am blessed to have such a big and loving family surrounding me. I won't be alone. I will be loved. I will be known. I just have to be brave enough to let others know me the way you know me.\nSo, Gram, with all of my heart and with all of my love and with rivers of tears, I want you to know that I am letting you go. Please don't hold on for me. I am going to be okay and I am so thankful that I have had someone in my life who makes saying goodbye so hopelessly impossible! I love you so much! I know you know that! You are my heart and my soul and I am forever grateful for the love you gave me and for the person you helped make me.\nGo hug Pappy and tell him that I still miss him each day. I love you with all of me!\nYour Girl, Jamethy Jomathy", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://willowjourney.org/read-john", "date": "2019-03-25T03:43:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203548.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325031213-20190325053213-00014.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9859229922294617, "token_count": 1636, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__189926459", "lang": "en", "text": "The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?” Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my sheep.”\n- JOHN 21:17\nJohn 21 contains the final story of the book of John. It’s a critical story because it ties together an important loose end in the book—what became of Peter following his denials of Jesus. To fully appreciate the drama of this story, it is helpful to think back to some key moments in Peter’s journey with Jesus. When Peter first met Jesus, he wasn’t called Peter. He had been called “Simon, son of John,” but Jesus gave him the name “Cephas,” an Aramaic version of the Greek name “Peter” (John 1:41-42). This was significant because in Scripture, when people are given new names, these names usually have to do with a calling God has placed on their lives. The names Cephas and Peter both mean “rock” in their respective languages. With this name change, Jesus was stating something significant about Peter’s purpose: Peter was to be like a “rock” upon which the church would be built (Matthew 16:18). At times, Peter lived in ways which were consistent with this purpose (John 6:68, 13:8-10). Unfortunately, this wasn’t always the case. At times, he acted more like quicksand than a stable rock. The best example of this is when Peter denied knowing Jesus three times during Jesus’ arrest and trial (John 18:15-27).\nIn the middle of John 21, Jesus finally addresses Peter following these denials. Jesus builds a charcoal fire, like the one Peter stood around when He denied Jesus three times. He then asks Peter the same question three times: “Do you love me?” These questions are challenging for Peter to answer because of the deep shame he feels over denying Jesus. As difficult as they are for Peter, Jesus asks these three questions because He understands that the path to true healing sometimes requires dealing with our hurt. Then, as Peter responds affirmatively to each question, Jesus affirms His own belief in Peter by commanding him three times to take care of His sheep. In other words, He restores Peter and reminds him that he can still play a key role as a rock for the church.\nThis was an important story for the early church to hear because it helped them understand how Peter the denier could become Peter the apostle and early church leader. It continues to be relevant because some of us wonder whether Jesus would still welcome and use us given our own mistakes. The message of this story, the message of the entire book of John, is that Jesus values people who are broken, lost, and in need of restoration. He is a God of second chances, and if we will just submit ourselves to Him, He can accomplish His purpose through us.\nJESUS AND THE MIRACULOUS CATCH OF FISH\n1 Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples, by the Sea of Galilee. It happened this way: 2 Simon Peter, Thomas (also known as Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. 3 “I’m going out to fish,” Simon Peter told them, and they said, “We’ll go with you.” So they went out and got into the boat, but that night they caught nothing.\n4 Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not realize that it was Jesus.\n5 He called out to them, “Friends, haven’t you any fish?”\n“No,” they answered.\n6 He said, “Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some.” When they did, they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish.\n7 Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, “It is the Lord!” As soon as Simon Peter heard him say, “It is the Lord,” he wrapped his outer garment around him (for he had taken it off) and jumped into the water. 8 The other disciples followed in the boat, towing the net full of fish, for they were not far from shore, about a hundred yards. 9 When they landed, they saw a fire of burning coals there with fish on it, and some bread.\n10 Jesus said to them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.” 11 So Simon Peter climbed back into the boat and dragged the net ashore. It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. 12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord. 13 Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish. 14 This was now the third time Jesus appeared to his disciples after he was raised from the dead.\nJESUS REINSTATES PETER\n15 When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”\n“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”\nJesus said, “Feed my lambs.”\n16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”\nHe answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”\nJesus said, “Take care of my sheep.”\n17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”\nPeter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”\nJesus said, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” 19 Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!”\n20 Peter turned and saw that the disciple whom Jesus loved was following them. (This was the one who had leaned back against Jesus at the supper and had said, “Lord, who is going to betray you?”) 21 When Peter saw him, he asked, “Lord, what about him?”\n22 Jesus answered, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you? You must follow me.” 23 Because of this, the rumor spread among the believers that this disciple would not die. But Jesus did not say that he would not die; he only said, “If I want him to remain alive until I return, what is that to you?”\n24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.\n25 Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.21for21.com/book/", "date": "2015-04-25T15:55:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246650195.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045730-00116-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.931397557258606, "token_count": 683, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-18__0__104148780", "lang": "en", "text": "Pick up the paperbackorebook of 21 Questions for 21 Millionaires: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Success today!\nAfter years of buying and believing what the experts were selling I finally learned the truth about success by interviewing 21 millionaires to find how and why they did what they did.\nMost of what they did doesn’t match what the experts say you have to do to become successful.\nLearn the truth about success for yourself. Find out what these millionaires know and the success “experts” don’t tell you.\nTop 10 Reasons to Buy the Book\nLearn the TRUTH about success\nNo recycled, hyped-up advice that doesn’t work anyway\nLearn from 21 millionaires’ experience\nRead millionaires’ life stories in their own words\nLearn how build a businesses in good times and bad\nLearn how 21 successful entrepreneurial millionaires balanced (or didn’t balance) time with their family\nLearn what worked and what didn’t for these successful people\nFree yourself of the frustration of not being as successful as you want to be and know you can be\nYou’ll be better equipped for and feel more relaxed about your journey\nGive yourself tools to help find your own success\n“Finally a success book that is actually practical!” Aaron Blackham, MD\n“Having read just about every book on how to be successful, it was refreshing to read something with a different perspective…Brandon’s approach is straightforward and honest, but also insightful and inspiring.” Michael Kuehn, VP ClinicService\n“The author got it right with this where so many others miss it.” Chris Ware, Entrepreneur\n“This book shows you actual real life, successful people – great job Brandon!” – Paul M. Hecht, best selling author of Everyday Real Estate Millionaires\n“Excellent book!! The interview format of the book makes it easy to read and makes you feel like you are right there with the millionaires.” Rusty Nelson\n“The stories are inspiring.” Erik Templin, SVP Hays Companies\n“Good, entertaining book that keeps you interested. Brandon has a fun sense of humor that he puts into the creation of his book.” Anthony Crosby\n21 Questions for 21 Millionaires: How Ordinary People Create Extraordinary Success\nDrawing on the real life stories of 21 millionaires, Brandon Pipkin proves that success isn’t about planning and hoping. It’s not about reading the right book or listening to the right person’s advice. It’s not about working with a mentor and it certainly isn’t created by wanting it badly enough. It’s not even about goals.\nBy interviewing 21 ordinary people who created extraordinary success in industries as diverse as junk, jewelry, toys, and payroll, Brandon learned:\nThe commonalities these millionaires share\nThe missing ingredient in success\nWhat make some people successful and others not\nThe myth of goals, vision, and passion\nThe advice they would give to someone looking to be successful – YOU!\n21 Questions for 21 Millionaires is the no-hype, behind the scenes look at how ordinary people create extraordinary success. For the unvarnished truth about success, pick it up today!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://marionharmon.com/2011/05/18/through-the-wardrobe-door/", "date": "2023-06-01T09:09:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647639.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601074606-20230601104606-00468.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9605226516723633, "token_count": 1302, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__264518515", "lang": "en", "text": "I have noticed that some of the best fantasy stories rely on an interesting device; they start out rather mundanely, in a mundane setting with a rather mundane though interesting protagonist. Then they move the protagonist–and the reader–into the fantastic realm where most of the adventure takes place. Sometimes the move is sudden, a matter of stepping through the looking glass or into a fairy ring. But some storytellers take their time, dipping their toes, absently wading, getting us deeper till we find ourselves immersed without any sense of transition. Only at the end, when we close the book, do we realize how far from reality the clever writer has taken us. Robin McKinley’s The Blue Sword is this kind of story.\nI first read it back in high school, and it was years before I realized how clever McKinley had been. At its heart it’s an epic fantasy–the story of a faded kingdom standing against an evil invader. There is a heroic king and a dark lord. There are prophecies, wild magics, battles, an enchanted sword. And there is a young girl name Harry Crewe. And the opening lines are about orange juice.\nShe scowled at her glass of orange juice. To think that she had been delighted when she first arrived here–was it only three months ago?–with the prospect of fresh orange juice every day.\nHarry was born in Homeland, a cool, forested isle very obviously England. Her mother died when she was young, so she grew up a bit of a tomboy, and when her father died she had only her brother Richard, now a junior officer in Her Majesty’s Service, to depend upon. And Richard is stationed at a distant fort in Daria, at the borders of Homeland’s empire. Fortunately, the fort’s Resident and his wife, Sir Charles and Lady Amelia, are childless and perfectly happy to bring Harry to stay with them at the Residence. Of course hot and dusty Daria is quite different from cool and green Homeland, and Harry is homesick.\nMcKinley goes to great lengths, using Harry, to establish how very mundane and English Homelanders are,and how mundane the desert town of Istan and its fort are. It’s not our world, she seems to say, but it’s not so very different. They have trains, and guns, and orange juice. It might as well be North Africa.\nThen she begins nudging us through the door. Sir Charles is expecting a visit from an emissary of the Free Hillfolk, the wild people just beyond their borders, last remnants of the Old Kingdom. When Harry meets Corlath, their king, she experiences a strange shock. Corlath brings a warning, of danger from beyond the mountain passes, preparing to sweep away Hillfolk and Homelanders alike. When a well-meaning Sir Charles can’t help him, Corlath and his company departs, but, goaded by his royal magic–which he sees as something of a curse–Corlath returns in the dead of night, passing through walls and stealing away a dreaming Harry. And so the adventure begins.\nThings get much more fantastical from here out, of course, but Robin McKinley preserves the spell she spent so much time weaving. Magic, even when obvious, is never understood: it’s magical. With Harry, the reader is thrown into a world of miracles and terrible wonder, and McKinley deftly avoids all the cliches that might develop. And this is the payoff; through all her adventures and changes, Harry remains Harry, the young woman with whom we have already so strongly identified. She is the wardrobe door, and her wonder is our wonder, her tears our tears, her victory, our victory, and her happiness, our happiness. The story ends almost as domestically as it begins, and, closing the book I can’t stop smiling.\n7 thoughts on “The Wardrobe Door”\nMike, what the hell is wrong with Amazon.co.uk? Once again, this is a Kindle title available here but not there. Is there any way for you to download from Amazon? Or can I “loan” you my Kindle copy? Or maybe you’ve read this one already. Let’s hope.\nArgh, the dreaded “not available to customers from your location”. Those pesky international rights. Such a shame, this looks like just my kind of book.\nConsidering your preferred sub-genre, it definitely is; if I was you I’d send for a dead-tree copy.\nDo you mean Mark? LOL!\nWhat’s wrong is that whoever uploaded over there though Am UK was a waste of time. And of course they prove their point by now selling nothing there.\nNot read this, but it sounds great. 😦\nI love those portal fantasies that maintain a semblance of real world alongside the la-la land (Harry Potter proves yet again portal fantasy sells!) and I especially adore those in which non-adults are the stars. Which is why I loved Wearing The Cape, I guess (not that there’s a portal in that, of course),\nAs a kid I started out on Adventures of the Wishing Chair and The Magic Faraway Tree. They, and Enid Blyton’s best ever, The Land of Far Beyond, should be compulsory reading for every child.\nCannot download from Am com from here. They don’t like “Africa”. Gonna do a mega buy when I go back to Europe in summer briefly.\nBut at least I got Ben White’s Charlotte Powers. Eternally grateful to you for that!\nHow long did it take you to finish it?\nMcKinley’s world building was excellent in “The Blue Sword.” If you enjoyed it, you might also want to read “The Hero and the Crown,” which is set something like two hundred years before.\nI have read it, and it was also excellent although I enjoyed the Blue Sword more. Robin rarely misses as an author, and even her misses are as good as most stuff out there.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://susanfraserking.com/quotes.htm", "date": "2017-04-25T12:33:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120349.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00382-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8915864825248718, "token_count": 1392, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__285793763", "lang": "en", "text": "For Queen Hereafter\n\"King's blend of historical figures and fictional characters turn a medieval icon into a believable mother, wife and ruler. Quotes from original sources offer context and insight as to where the record ends and imagination begins.\" -- Publishers Weekly\n\"King's ability to draw readers into dark and intriguing stories is at its height in this tale that is as complex and colorful as the threads of a tapestry.\" -- Kathe Robin, RT Book Club Reviews\n\"King is adept at pulling the reader into uncharted historical territory and making it real. A story of love, women's friendship, and suspense—this epic tale and its larger-than-life characters linger in the mind and heart.”\n--Karen Harper, author of Mistress Shakespeare\n\"A captivating tale of the devout girl forced by fate to become queen to a passionate king. As successor to Lady Macbeth and the most powerful woman in Scotland, Margaret earns love, hate--and lasting friendships. Susan Fraser King carries her readers through the Scots courts as if she'd lived there herself.”\n—Patricia Rice, New York Times bestselling author of The Wicked Wyckerly\n“Through a combination of assured scholarship and powerful storytelling, Susan Fraser King brings alive the complex, vivid world of Margaret of Scotland. With vibrant characters and lyrical description, this is a wonderful evocation of eleventh century Britain in all its fierce splendor.\"\n—Nicola Cornick USA Today bestselling author\n“She: a pious, educated foreigner; he: a hirsute warrior king—yoked together in matrimony for political expedience. Based on actual events, Susan Fraser King paints a vivid portrait of Margaret and Malcolm, a forced royal marriage that beat all odds and developed into one of mutual love and respect.”\n–Leslie Carroll, author of Notorious Royal Marriages\n\"Powerful and lyrically written, Queen Hereafter illuminates a little known corner of Scottish history with riveting authenticity. Susan Fraser King weaves together the threads of women's lives into a tapestry of love, friendship, and the eternal search for truth.\"\n-- Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author of Never Less Than A Lady\n\"Susan Fraser King’s books, Lady Macbeth and now Queen Hereafter, are such delights--she lets us explore where normally we historians are not permitted to go. And what a wonderful pleasure that is, for she brings the scholar’s eye for authentic detail and evokes all the smoky atmosphere of medieval Scotland. Oh, I am jealous—and grateful.\"\n-- John C. Hartsock, professor of literary journalism and author of Seasons of a Finger Lakes Winery\nFor LADY MACBETH\nLADY MACBETH by Susan Fraser King takes readers into the heart of eleventh-century Scotland, painting a vivid picture of Gruadh, the last female descendant of the country's most royal line. Married, pregnant, then quickly widowed, she is forced to wed her husband's murderer, the warlord Macbeth. Determined to protect her interests and those of her infant son, she vows to preserve her family's legacy at any cost.\nCaptivating...forceful, uncompromising...an epic tale written in high-voltage prose...a ripping tale of love and ambition.\" -- Publishers Weekly\n“A compelling book, vividly realized with fascinating detail.” -—Rosalind Miles, international bestselling author of I, Elizabeth\n\"Shakespeare's was a manipulator, but in this adventure, the misunderstood queen is recast as a brave leader.\" -- Glamour Magazine\n\"King manages to challenge all our preconceptions without turning the strongest female character in literature into a pantywaist. Her footwork on this fictional ground is sure and graceful.\"--Bookpage\n\"Historical romance novelist King leaps into deeper historical waters with this captivating take on Lady Macbeth, who tells her side of the story with a forceful, uncompromising daring....Based on historical evidence and recent theories of the era, this is an epic tale written in high-voltage prose. King’s novel will thrill lovers of Shakespeare adaptations and delight anyone who wants to enjoy a ripping tale of love and ambition.\"\n-- Publishers Weekly\n“The voice of the Scottish queen just burns off the page (and) will forever change the way you view Macbeth and his lady.”\n-- Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author\n\"Susan Fraser King breathes new and vibrant life into a woman who has become an archetype....Not since THE MISTS OF AVALON have I been so transported by elegant lyric prose, a great galloping story, and the unforgettable life and voice of this Queen of the Scots. Highly recommended.\"\n“Turns Shakespeare’s play on its ear, setting history against fable as it brings a nuanced and fierce truth to the life of the much-maligned Lady Macbeth.”\n-- Eloisa James, New York Times bestselling author\n“Impressive…King shows her familiarity with the land and the time, with a sympathy for its people, in presenting an exciting new view of Lady Macbeth.”\n-- Benjamin Hudson, Professor of Celtic and Medieval History, Penn State University, and author of Irish Sea Studies, 900-1200\n“Forget everything you ever knew about Lady Macbeth! King’s novel is the real deal, immediate and powerful. Combining fresh new scholarship with a rare gift for storytelling, Susan Fraser King brings to life the true Lady Macbeth—an unforgettable warrior-queen who is brave, wise, and altogether enthralling.”\n-- Susan Holloway Scott, author of Royal Harlot: A Novel of the Countess of Castlemaine and King Charles II\n“Spinning her tale from the steel and bones of history, Susan Fraser King tackles one of literature’s most famous villainesses and utterly transforms her….vividly drawn details and richly believable characters.”\n-- Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author of A Distant Magic\n“A wonderful book…impeccably researched, psychologically nuanced, this is a thrilling yet historically based novel about the woman behind the man Shakespeare consigned to infamy—and a woman, surprisingly, with whom we can sympathize.”\n-- John Hartsock, literary historian, State University of New York, author of A History of American Literary Journalism\n\"Susan Fraser King brings Lady Macbeth's world vividly to life--a richly detailed, beautifully written and moving story.\"\n-- Loretta Chase, author of Not Quite A Lady", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.broadwaycomedyclub.com/comedians/cynthia-kaplan/", "date": "2023-12-04T12:55:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100529.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204115419-20231204145419-00864.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9669631719589233, "token_count": 164, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__71678707", "lang": "en", "text": "The Broadway Comedy Club\nCynthia Kaplan is a NYC based writer, musician and actress. Her solo show, Cindy of Arc, was a 2023 finalist for the Richard Rodgers Musical Theater Award and will be presented this fall by the Intiman Theater in Seattle. She is the author of two acclaimed collections of comic essays, Why I’m Like This: True Stories (a Barnes & Nobel Discover book) and Leave the Building Quickly. Her work has appeared in many newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. She plays regularly with her band, The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal, has won many international song contests, and has written jingles for commercials and theme songs for TV shows. She has never appeared on Law & Order.\nCindy of Arc, Fearless, The Cynthia Kaplan Ordeal", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://electrificationcoalition.org/resource/v2x/", "date": "2023-12-09T02:01:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100781.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209004202-20231209034202-00586.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9464923739433289, "token_count": 407, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__192402089", "lang": "en", "text": "The adoption of electric school buses (ESBs) is rising as school districts and fleet operators become aware of the significant benefits: clear air for student passengers, savings on bus fuel and maintenance costs, and reduced carbon emissions. ESBs are also gaining attention for their potential to enhance critical electric infrastructure resilience and reliability.\nWith vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology, ESBs can serve as mobile power units, providing emergency backup power during disaster response. Given that underserved communities often are hit the hardest by extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, and wildfires, ESBs as mobile power units could be particularly useful in enhancing resilience in these areas.\nThe SAFE-EC “V2X Implementation Guide and Mutual Aid Agreement Template for Using Vehicle-to-Everything-Enabled Electric School Buses as Mobile Power Units to Enhance Resilience During Emergencies” (guide) describes the potential to use V2X-enabled ESBs as alternative emergency backup power sources during outages. The guide includes detailed steps for emergency managers and responders and other key stakeholders, such as school districts, school facility managers, and electric utilities, to take before, during, and after an emergency to deploy bidirectionally enabled ESBs to provide emergency backup power. The guide recommends that V2X-enabled ESBs become recognized resources within the federal National Incident Management System and integrated into emergency plans in accordance with the Incident Command System. Such actions can expand interest in, and accelerate the deployment of, these technologies.\nThe guide also identifies potential federal funding opportunities that could facilitate the deployment of V2X–enabled ESBs for resilience purposes. Part II of the guide consists of a Mutual Aid Agreement (MAA) template with specific elements that are necessary to have in place and that merit agreement by relevant parties, so ESBs can be readily deployed during emergencies.\nUtilizing ESBs to power critical facilities in emergencies will enhance infrastructure resilience, save lives, and strengthen our energy and national security.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www1.computerandvideogames.com/389008/dark-horse-partners-for-tomb-raider-prequel-comic/", "date": "2015-03-01T08:31:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-11/segments/1424936462313.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20150226074102-00159-ip-10-28-5-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9485591053962708, "token_count": 296, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-11", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-11__0__162333748", "lang": "en", "text": "Square Enix is set to release a Tomb Raider prequel comic as part of a partnership with Dark Horse.\nTomb Raider: The Beginning will be the first instalment in the series, which has been written by game scribe Rhianna Pratchett.\nThe 48-page, six-part hardcover omnibus follows the story of how the crew came together for The Endurance's mission to discover the lost Japanese kingdom of Yamatai.\n\"Originally intended to feature as the latest instalment of Dr. James Whitman's successful archaeology show, Whitman's World, the show-biz archaeologist gets more than he bargained for when he enlists the help of Captain Conrad Roth,\" the comic's blurb reads.\n\"As Roth's unique and eccentric crew gradually come together and share their stories and secrets, the expedition faces unexpected threats before it's even begun.\"\nIn North America, fans who pre-order the new Tomb Raider game at Best Buy will receive the first series early.\nPratchett said of the series: \"Whilst penning Lara's origins story for the game I had lots of ideas about the world she and the other characters inhabited, and the story behind their voyage: it was great to be able to flesh out the world of Tomb Raider and work with the talented team at Dark Horse to bring Lara Croft back to comics.\"\nSquare Enix has confirmed a Tomb Raider release date of March 5, 2013.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lbailey3.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/q-a-with-marie-manilla-still-life-with-plums/", "date": "2018-07-16T20:21:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589455.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716193516-20180716213516-00470.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9728116393089294, "token_count": 1446, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__143086097", "lang": "en", "text": "1. In Still Life With Plums you weave together the stories of Latinos, West Virginians, and Texans. What common thread do these groups share, or what connection do they have? Is there a main theme or message you would like your readers to take away from Still Life With Plums?\nI grew up in West Virginia when the state was not very culturally diverse. After college I moved to Houston for seven years and it was there I discovered striking similarities between Texans and mountaineers: our staunch individualism, our self-reliance, our suspicion of outsiders. I was also introduced to the food, music, and literature of the Latino culture. The Latinos I met were often at the bottom of the pecking order, the butt of jokes for their low economic status, poor job opportunities, and accents—something West Virginians have also been enduring for far too long. One overarching theme in the collection is that whatever culture we’re from, we are more alike than we are different.\n2. Why did you decide to tell the characters’ tales as a collection of short stories instead of a novel? What do you like about writing short stories compared to writing novels?\nFor a long time I considered myself first and foremost a short story writer. As a reader I was drawn to those pivotal moments in characters’ lives that would forever change them for better or worse. As a writer I wanted to find and capture those moments and the result is this collection. I have since gravitated to the novel where I have the luxury of creating entire worlds. I still love the driving pulse of a good short story, though, that satisfying burst of adrenaline and truth that the well-written story can produce.\n3. Do any of the characters in the book reflect personal experiences? Which character reflects your story the most?\nIn one way or another all of the characters are me. Like most people I can be a smart-aleck or kind, naïve or cruel. I strive to create fully realized characters who are both sinners and saints. I have also tried to capture the love-hate relationship many of us have with West Virginia. We can feel pride and shame simultaneously because we love our landscape and generous spirits, but we cannot deny our poverty, our tendency to rank poorly on so many, many national lists. Some of us have bought into the Appalachian punch lines and want nothing more than to flee the state, like the characters in “The Wife you Wanted” and “Get Ready.” I have been those women. I have also been the male characters trying desperately to hold onto relationships that are already over, or running away from commitments, or trying to bend someone’s will to my own. As a childless person I also grapple with the issue of parenthood. Some of my characters long for children, some of them don’t; some of them never should have been parents at all.\n4. Where did inspiration for the Latino stories come from?\nI was a graphic artist in Houston and the woman who cleaned our building was from Central America. Though she had been a school teacher and her husband had been a dentist, both were doing unskilled labor in the United States because their home country was war-torn and unsafe. Her story fascinated and saddened me. She was the impetus for “Amnesty” about a Guatemalan Civil War widow and her disappeared family. I am also a history nut and “Crystal City” is about a Japanese Latin American woman from Peru whose family was sent to an internment camp in Texas during WWII. One of the highlights of my writing career is that after that story was published in The Chicago Tribune, I got a phone call from a German man who had been held in Crystal City as a teenager. He’d read the story and wanted me to know that it rang true.\n5. The short story “Still Life With Plums” is also the book’s title. How does this story stand apart from pieces you have written in the past?\n“Still Life with Plums,” my most recently completed story, exudes my current writing mantra borrowed from Julia Child: “Don’t be afraid!” Writers have to be fearless and honest, and my favorite authors are also playful rule-breakers. In this story about a has-been, blocked-up writer, I felt much more relaxed and open to playful language and serendipitous metaphors that are all around us if we only open our eyes and have the cojones-ovaries to commit them to paper. The story was also an opportunity to poke a stick at the high-brow snotty literati who can be so closed-door, particularly to writers from Appalachia even if our themes aren’t strictly Appalachian. I have seen so many excellent writers buckle under the weight of all those rejections.\n6. Did you learn anything about yourself while writing this collection? How have you grown as a writer?\nWriting helps me make sense of the world. When I write about racists or predators, folks who are obsessive-compulsive or Guatemalan refugees, it’s an opportunity to slip into their skin and experience their lives for awhile. Particularly with the unsavory characters, I often wind up with at least a portion of empathy regardless of their actions because I begin to understand what makes them tick.\n7. What can we expect to see from you in the future?\nI am just finishing a novel called The Patron Saint of Ugly about a woman who may or may not be the descendant of a 16th-century Italian saint, and she may or may not be able to perform miracles. I’ve tried to channel two of my favorite magical-realism writers, Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. Patron Saint is filled with odd artifacts like 60 Minutes transcripts, screenplay snippets, maps, holy cards, covers of underground newspapers, the family Coat of Arms—all written or drawn by me, which means I’ve been chanting my new favorite mantra like a maniac: “Don’t be afraid!”\nIn addition, my novel Shrapnel, which won the Fred Bonnie Award for best first novel, will be available soon from River City Publishing. Shrapnel explores the legacy of war (specifically WWII, Vietnam, and the War in Iraq) in three generations of the same family. The main character, Bing Butler, a retired (and very conservative) veteran from Texas, moves in with his liberal, antiwar daughter in West Virginia. Bing’s head is filled with many of the stereotypes outsiders hold about us, but by the novel’s end most of them have been shattered. He also finds himself pining for the melodic Spanish language that he used to roll his eyes over back in Texas. Like my own experience in Houston, Bing begins to understand that regardless of geography, humans have much more in common than one might think.\nFor more information: http://mariemanilla.com/", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://triedtestedandtruemommy.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/for-the-love-of-reading/", "date": "2020-07-09T22:09:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655901509.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20200709193741-20200709223741-00157.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9823473691940308, "token_count": 396, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-29", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__247654949", "lang": "en", "text": "We’ve been having our share of up’s and down’s with school, but Princess had a great day today. When I picked her up, I asked her how her day was. She had the biggest grin on her face and triumphantly told me that she had reading buddies today. Once a week, a grade 4 student comes to her class and they are paired up and read to the Kindergarten students. With all the stuff that has been going on, I can’t express how overjoyed I am that she has found something that makes her happy.\nSince the Princess was a baby, I have been reading to her. She has a collection of books and I read to her every night. Her tastes vary. Some nights she wants Goosebumps or Harry Potter, Goodnight Moon or Dr. Seuss. I am an avid reader myself. The multi-sensory experience of it gives me immense pleasure and I am glad that the Princess is finding joy in it too. I’m sure that Princess will read books that I think are literary garbage but as long as she is reading than I cannot complain. My mom always read true crime novels and I prefered the literary classics such as Byron and Shakespeare. I am varying my tastes a bit and reading books I maybe would not have read before. I hope that the Princess’ joy of reading continues as the benefits of reading are tremendous and here are just a few of them.\n- A stronger relationship between the reader and the person being read to.\n- Academic excellence.\n- Basic speech skills\n- The basics of how to read a book.\n- Better communication skills.\n- Mastery of language.\n- More logical thinking skills.\n- Acclamation to new experiences.\n- Enhanced concentration and discipline.\n- That reading is fun and can take you to places and meet people you would not meet in the real world!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.guardianinsurance.com.au/life-insurance/articles/financial-literacy-audiobooks", "date": "2023-12-06T22:04:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100603.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206194439-20231206224439-00040.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.952974259853363, "token_count": 795, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__225766185", "lang": "en", "text": "3 audiobooks to help get your finances in order\nSometimes, life flies by so quickly that it can be difficult to carve out time to enjoy something as simple as a book. Even if you are reading to improve yourself, such as with personal finance books, you may feel that you just don’t have enough hours in the day to get it done. The good news is that technology has made it easier than ever to learn about managing your finances more effectively, with audiobooks providing a convenient way to consume valuable insights while on-the-go.\nWhy audiobooks are beneficial when you are on-the-go\nOne of the biggest benefits of audiobooks is their flexibility. Whether you're commuting to work, going for a run, or just taking care of a few household chores, listening to an audiobook lets you passively consume content without having to sit down and physically read from a page.\nIt’s no wonder they are becoming an increasingly popular option for busy individuals who simply don’t have the time to commit to an actual book. Moreover, audiobooks are sometimes narrated by the authors themselves, which can provide a more engaging and memorable experience – ideal if you want to start strategising about your financial future.\nHere are three audiobooks that may help you get your finances in order in 2023 and beyond.\n1. Finance for the People by Paco de Leon\nThis comprehensive guide to personal finance was written to help readers better understand and manage their money in an effective way. Written by finance expert Paco de Leon, this book covers a variety of financial building blocks, such as:\n- Retirement planning\nIn addition to providing tips for managing the basics, de Leon is also a master of breaking down complex financial concepts into simple, actionable steps. No matter your financial background or confidence, this accessible audiobook will provide practical tips, real-life examples and helpful exercises to empower your financial decision-making.\n2. The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J Stanley and William D Danko\nThis classic personal finance book has sold millions of copies worldwide, which means it’s a good entry point for all listeners. The co-authors focus heavily on the American market, but much of the insights they deliver are universal and just as helpful for Australian listeners.\nExamining the habits and traits of America's wealthy through uncompromising research, co-authors Stanley and Danko found that many of America's millionaires do not, in fact, live extravagant lifestyles. Rather, they maintain their wealth – or at least supplement it – by living frugally and investing wisely.\nIf you want something that offers practical advice on how to start accumulating wealth, make sure you add this audiobook to your playlist.\n3. Money: Master the Game by Tony Robbins\nRenowned self-help guru Tony Robbins is a master of many crafts, and his financial sensibilities shine through in this audiobook. Robbins interweaves his personal life with interviews with some of the world's most successful investors – from Warren Buffet to Steve Forbes.\nUsing the knowledge and insights gained from these interactions with financial heavyweights, Robbins provides his listeners with actionable strategies for how they can achieve financial freedom. From managing debt to investing in the stock market, this audiobook is a great choice for beginners who want to learn from the very best in the business.\nA convenient resource\nWhether you are too busy to sit down and read a physical book or you simply prefer to get your reading done in audio form, audiobooks are an excellent resource when you are looking to improve your financial literacy.\nWhile starting to take control of your finances, it’s also important consider how to protect the future you are building for yourself and your family. One way you may protect your family financially could be with insurance such as a life Insurance policy.\n15 May 2023", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.psychosomaticsociety.com/articles", "date": "2023-12-02T21:59:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100452.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202203800-20231202233800-00044.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6636480093002319, "token_count": 687, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__228730535", "lang": "en", "text": "Abbass, A. (2005). Somatization: Diagnosing it sooner through emotion-focused interviewing. J Fam Pract, 54(3), 231-239.\nBallou, S., & Keefer, L. (2017). Psychological interventions for irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel diseases. Clinical and translational gastroenterology, 8(1), e214.\nEzra, Y., Hammerman, O., & Shahar, G. (2019). The four-cluster spectrum of mind-body interrelationships: an integrative model. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 39.\nGracie, D. J., Irvine, A. J., Sood, R., Mikocka-Walus, A., Hamlin, P. J., & Ford, A. C. (2017). Effect of psychological therapy on disease activity, psychological comorbidity, and quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. The lancet Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2(3), 189-199.\nHilton, L., Hempel, S., Ewing, B. A., Apaydin, E., Xenakis, L., Newberry, S., ... & Maglione, M. A. (2017). Mindfulness meditation for chronic pain: systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 51(2), 199-213.\nKittle, J., & Spiegel, D. (2020). Hypnosis: The Most Effective Treatment You Have Yet to Prescribe. The American Journal of Medicine.\nKoechlin, H., Coakley, R., Schechter, N., Werner, C., & Kossowsky, J. (2018). The role of emotion regulation in chronic pain: A systematic literature review. Journal of psychosomatic research, 107, 38-45.\nLumley, M. A., & Schubiner, H. (2019). Emotional awareness and expression therapy for chronic pain: Rationale, principles and techniques, evidence, and critical review. Current rheumatology reports, 21(7), 30.\nMarinaci, T., Carpinelli, L., Venuleo, C., Savarese, G., & Cavallo, P. (2020). Emotional distress, psychosomatic symptoms and their relationship with institutional responses: A survey of Italian frontline medical staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. Heliyon, e05766.\nMeyerson, J., & Konichezky, A. (2011). Hypnotically induced dissociation (HID) as a strategic intervention for enhancing OCD treatment. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 53(3), 169-181.\nNavon, S. (2014). The illness/non-illness model: Hypnotherapy for physically ill patients. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 57(1), 68-79.\nSarno, J. E. (2001). Healing back pain: The mind-body connection. Hachette UK.\nSchoenfeld, P. S. (2016). Advances in IBS 2016: a review of current and emerging data. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 12(8 Suppl 3), 1.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.spectrumjournals.com/policies.html", "date": "2024-04-24T00:50:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818835.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423223805-20240424013805-00237.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9303726553916931, "token_count": 2566, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__56671307", "lang": "en", "text": "The Spectrum International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research (Spectrum Multidisciplinary) is an open access peer-reviewed online international journal. The Journal is dedicated to maintaining a high standard regarding ethical values, and quality research. Spectrum Multidisciplinary Journal refers to the COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines and accordingly revises its guidelines for the authors, reviewers, and other stakeholders from time to time as needed.\nDuties of Authors\nWhen submitting original research, authors are expected to provide an honest and precise report of their work and findings. Additionally, they should offer an unbiased analysis of the significance of their research. The manuscript should include adequate information, such as properly cited images, tables, and references to acknowledge previous work in the field. Any intentional falsification or misrepresentation of information is considered unethical and will not be accepted by the journal.\nDuring the editorial review process, authors may be requested to submit the original data from their study along with the manuscript. If feasible, the authors should be willing to make this data publicly available. 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This may involve publishing a correction, clarification, or even retracting the affected work if necessary. The publisher and editors have a responsibility to take appropriate actions to prevent the publication of papers involving research misconduct and must not condone or facilitate such behaviour.\nBy working with organizations and maintaining digital archives, publishers ensure accessibility and are committed to the long-term availability and preservation of scholarly research.\nPublishers and editors must take reasonable steps to find and stop publishing publications with evidence of scientific misconduct.\nHarassment of any kind against authors, editors, reviewers, employees or suppliers will not be tolerated by publishers or editors.\nPublishers and editors must not encourage or knowingly condone such misconduct.\nIf the editor or editors of a journal become aware of allegations of scientific misconduct, they must respond appropriately to the allegations. 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Publication malpractice can take various forms, such as research fraud, inappropriate authorship, duplicate or multiple submissions, overlapping publication, and salami publication.Research fraud includes falsification and fabrication of data or conclusions, which involves manipulating data or measurements to suit one’s research needs. Inappropriate authorship involves omitting or including authors who have not contributed significantly to the research in an “honorary” capacity. Duplicate or multiple submissions involve submitting the same manuscript to multiple journals for review simultaneously. Overlapping publication involves publishing the same research without referencing the previous publication, and salami publication involves publishing two or more articles derived from a single study.\nAll forms of unethical behaviour in publication are unacceptable. Additionally, the Spectrum Multidisciplinary Editorial Board strictly prohibits plagiarism in any form, which means that any author who replicates a significant part of another’s work without acknowledgement or passes off another’s work as their own will not be tolerated. If any of the aforementioned misconducts or malpractices are discovered following or during publication of the submitted manuscript, the published manuscript will immediately be suspended from the journal database, and the relevant author(s), as well as the institution/company of the author(s), will be reported for the same. Anybody may at any time report any suspected misconduct, including unethical activity, to the editors and/or editorial staff by providing the data/evidence required to begin an inquiry.\nCopyright and full publishing rights to articles or any other work published in this journal are retained by the authors only. Author(s) may republish these articles as part of a book or other materials. However, for author(s) to retain the copyright ownership of a published article, the following condition should be met. Cite the original source of the publication when reusing the article Accept that the article remains published by this journal website (except for retraction of the article) The article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The article is published open access. Submission of the manuscript represent that the manuscript has not been published previously and is not considered for publication elsewhere. Authors would be required to sign a consent form once the manuscript is accepted which would be sent to the corresponding author’s email address. The corresponding author on behalf of all other authors has to fill and sign the form duly and send a scanned copy to firstname.lastname@example.org. Do not forget to mention “Paper ID” assigned to your manuscript by this journal in the subject field of the mail.\nAlong with copyright terms, it is also important for author(s) to understand the licensing of publication under which article is to be published. All articles published in this journal are under CC-BY 4.0 license, which allows the public to copy, redistribute, remix, adapt, transmit and share an author’s work, as long as the original work and source are properly cited (commercial purposes allowed)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.sesd.org/education/components/sectionlist/default.php?sectiondetailid=6130", "date": "2013-05-21T12:31:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699977678/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102617-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9574185609817505, "token_count": 539, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__15374165", "lang": "en", "text": "Fairwood Library News\nThe library hours\nFairwood Library is open 5 days a week during the school hours. Nearly 5,000 books are available for students to read during the morning recess and the lunch breaks. Books can be borrowed and returned daily. The students can come and find books of their interests daily.\nFairwood web-based catalog\nTo check the Fairwood library for a book, click on the below link and enter the school: Fairwood School:\nA variety of library programs\nThe Library arranges various programs to encourage reading. We start with the Harvest Reading Contest at the beginning of the school year to promote reading at home. Students set up their goals and reach these targets by reading books. We hope through these contests the students can form a habit of reading. When the holiday season comes, we have a school wide activity called Book Exchange. Students trade their used books to others in the library, so everyone can have books to read during the holiday break. In February, the \"Be My Reading Pal\" reading contest runs on campus around Valentine's Day. Students chose books from the library, find their reading pals, and read out loud to each other. The valentine pencils and bookmarks are the rewards when students participate in the contest. Before the school closes, we invite the librarians from the Sunnyvale Public Library to have a school wide presentation regarding the summer reading programs held in the public library. When the summer reading program is promoted, the librarians also will introduce others library programs to the students. Therefore, the students can have books available and keep reading during the summer.\nThe diversity of storytelling\nThe storytelling is a part of the program for the students during their regular library visiting hours. Based on the different needs and holidays, various stories are chosen carefully. The books recommended by the teachers are the first choice to read to the students. Besides the curriculum consideration, books about pumpkins and turkeys are picked in the fall. In the winter, the snowman and holiday books are welcomed by everyone. Because of many different ethnicities groups in our school, the staff works together to organize different presentations for the students. In Diwali, parents and teachers bring Indian clothes, pictures, and have a special presentation about India. For Chinese New year, Chinese folktales and books about China are read. After introducing India and China to the students, we read books about the Philippines and Mexico. When Cinco de Mayo approaches, we teach the students to make paper flowers during the lunch break. We hope through the storytelling and presentations, the students will have a chance to know different cultures and countries at the school.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.lyraparish.com/about", "date": "2023-05-30T11:52:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224645595.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530095645-20230530125645-00337.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9601454138755798, "token_count": 262, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__106243028", "lang": "en", "text": "Nice to meet you!\nI'm Lyra Parish\nI joined the indie community in 2011 and decided to started writing romance in 2013. I self-published my first romance book in January of 2014 and never looked back. I love writing about characters who find love and chatting about my journey. Thank you so much for being here.\nI can't live without\nRandom facts about me:\nI am passionate about helping authors learn more about self-publishing and have a youtube channel dedicated to sharing my journey.\nI still believe in fairytales and happily ever afters, and enjoy writing characters who find theirs.\nOne day I will become a hybrid author and hope to see my books on the big screen.\nI am a Virgo, and I love collecting memes that I will probably never post.\nMy hubby is an astronomer, and I openly tell everyone I am the \"Penny\" of the relationship.\nI really enjoy reading thrillers and romance books. I also run a podcast with my friend Meg Latorre.\nWe are our biggest critics.\nSometimes, we have to tell that inner voice to go F itself then pursue the goals we stupidly believe are impossible just to prove ourselves wrong.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.lentprogram.com/asp/index.asp?pgid=12032", "date": "2013-12-10T00:29:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164002922/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133322-00040-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9275394678115845, "token_count": 864, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__38306276", "lang": "en", "text": "Year B Lenten resources for parishes, groups, schools, families and children. Published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane. Available worldwide.\nThe videos below are six brief presentations of the ‘Living Lent’ section from the adult Lenten book, Towards the Light. This section provides information on Lenten practices, symbols and rituals. The seventh video, ‘From the Cross to the Light’, presents an overview of the Towards the Light theme.\nIn John’s Gospel on the fifth Sunday of Lent this year we hear that ‘the light has come into the world’ and ‘those who do what is true come to the light’.\nLight is one of the most powerful forces in our world. The sun’s light provides the energy for life and illuminates our daily lives.\nFor the author of John’s Gospel there could be no more fitting image for God’s immanent and transcendent presence. Light is a theme that appears right from the Prologue of the Gospel: ‘In the beginning was the Word … What has come into being in him was life, and the life was the light of all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it’ (John 1:1,3-5)\nSo important is the theme of light that the early Church often referred to baptism as ‘illumination’.\nPope Benedict XVI, in his Easter Vigil homily (2005) emphasised the significance of the symbol of light at the end of our Lenten journey:\nThe liturgy of the holy night of Easter – after the blessing of the paschal candle – begins with a procession behind the light and towards the light. This procession symbolically sums up the entire … journey of Lent, but also calls to mind Israel’s long journey through the desert towards the Promised Land, and lastly, it symbolizes the journey of humanity, which in the night of history was seeking light, seeking paradise, seeking true life, reconciliation between the peoples, between heaven and earth, universal peace.\nThrough prayerful reading and listening to the Lenten Gospels each week we cast a new light on our lives and our world. Like a summer shower the scriptures act as a prism to reveal a rainbow of colours so that we may discern hues of God’s grace and mercy.\nThe psalmist reminds us that: ‘Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path’ (Psalm 119:105).\nThe following were provided as feeback on the current and previous Lenten Programs published by the Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.\n‘Towards the Light’ is a marvelous way to connect with the Scriptures throughout the Lenten Season, and could not be any easier for parishioners to use.\nIt is a treasure trove of spiritual insights and guided meditations that deepen our hearts in a true sense of God’s presence walking with us towards Easter. As such, you should find in this resource a clear and easy way to enter into the spirit of the season, especially if this is your first time facilitating the program.\nThe format of each session is simple and without unnecessary complications, supplemented by a helpful guide for all coordinators. As someone who has both participated and lead such Lenten prayer groups in the past, I am confident you will find the privilege of coordinating this year’s ‘Towards the Light’ a fulfilling and rewarding endeavour.\nFr Jason Middleton, (Southport Catholic Parish)\n‘Towards the Light’ is a gift for a group. It is easy and attractive to use and provides a worthwhile opportunity to nourish your faith together – and enjoy doing it.\nSr Maree Byron OSU (Pastoral Minister, Maroochydore)\nI thoroughly recommend the Lenten Program as set out in the ‘Towards the Light’ booklet. Easy to read, well illustrated, progressing from one week to the next, the booklet enables the participants to enjoy an exciting life and faith experience leading up to the great feast of Easter.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.superhealthyliving.com/the-books/", "date": "2018-01-21T10:16:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084890514.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20180121100252-20180121120252-00394.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9391576647758484, "token_count": 613, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__92367963", "lang": "en", "text": "The Right Choices for a Healthy, Smart, Super Baby\nIn his first book, SuperFoods Rx, Dr. Steven Pratt presented a groundbreaking nutritional approach and a lively healthy-eating guidebook to a public eager for sound, medically based information on foods that promote health and prevent disease.\nNow, in an important new book— SuperFoods Rx For Pregnancy: The Right Choices for A Healthy, Smart, Super Baby—Dr. Pratt uses the highly popular approach of SuperFoods Rx and draws on the latest scientific research to help future parents meet the nutritional, environmental, and lifestyle needs of their baby and themselves—starting before conception and taking them through the critical first months of their baby’s life.\nFourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life\nSuperFoods Rx, a New York Times bestseller, launched a movement and created what has now become a widely recognized, scientifically based approach to diet and health. SuperFoods Rx is built on a simple but profound premise: some foods are dramatically better than others for your health and longevity.\nSuperFoods Rx not only outlines the amazing health benefits of the original 14 powerhouse foods identified by Dr. Pratt, it also includes delicious recipes, kitchen tips, and shopping suggestions that make the SuperFoods lifestyle simple and irresistible.\nProven Strategies for Lifelong Health\nBy Steven G. Pratt, M.D., and Kathy Mathews\nSuperFoods HealthStyle is the twenty-first century program for promoting vigor, preventing disease, and extending your life span.\nIf up until now you have relied on luck, genetics, and a few healthful practices to achieve this goal, SuperFoods HealthStyle will be your authoritative, engaging introduction to a new, better life. In HealthStyle Dr. Pratt, called “the Food Dude” by Oprah Winfrey, expands the original SuperFoods grouping of 14 powerhouse foods to 25. The book uses the most recent, cutting-edge research on lifestyle practices that have actually been proven to achieve disease prevention and improve daily functioning—both physically and mentally—and translates this information into simple recommendations that you can use to improve your physical and mental health now and in the future.\nby Steven G Pratt M.D.\n6 Simple Steps, 6 Easy Weeks,\n1 Longer, Healthier Life\nLiving to a vital, intact old age is a lot easier and more fun than you may have thought. There are six easy steps you can take that cover many of the aspects people are worried about: their brain, their heart, their eyes, their strength and their stamina. They want to prevent the six major causes of premature death: lung, colon, breast, and prostate cancer, heart disease and stroke. If you knock those out of the equation, there is not a lot left out there that is going to get you. The goal is to flame out at the finish line and have your death certificate read “died of old age”- with a smile on your face.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://skwoodle.com/community/zhongshuge-book-store/", "date": "2020-07-08T02:08:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655896169.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20200708000016-20200708030016-00349.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9278148412704468, "token_count": 153, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-29", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__30173044", "lang": "en", "text": "Zhongshuge Book Store in Chengdu, China.\nThis magical wonderland is Zhongshuge Book Store in Chengdu, China. We have always been great book-lovers (and aspire to have our own libraries with collections of special books to share), but in recent times bookstores have struggled under the fierce competition from online stores and digital publishing. Zhongshuge Book Store is trying to bring back the magic of books. Massive mushrooms, shelving in the shape of pandas and bamboo forests, and the overall feel of a jungle create an impressive backdrop for an expression of the magic of books and of their power to change our lives. Would you like to visit a bookstore like this?⠀\nPhotos: Feng Shao", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.pri-med.com/online-cme-ce/podcast/frankly-speaking-cme-233", "date": "2023-02-02T10:34:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500017.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202101933-20230202131933-00618.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8106274604797363, "token_count": 375, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__175745134", "lang": "en", "text": "Taking the Distress Out of Diabetes—Mindfulness and Acceptance Therapies May Help - Frankly Speaking EP 233Guest: Susan Feeney, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C\nMusic Credit: Richard Onorato\nT2DM is an epidemic, and its impact on quantity of life is well documented. In most cases, treatment involves significant lifestyle changes in combination with medication. Distress about the T2DM diagnosis and necessary behavioral changes occurs in about one-third of people, and this distress is associated with poor glycemic management. Join us as we discuss a recent meta-analysis on mindfulness and learn how cognitive therapies may be effective in reducing distress and HbA1c.\nEpisode references and resource links:\n- Ngan, H.Y., Chong, Y.Y. and Chien, W.T. (2021), Effects of mindfulness‐ and acceptance‐based interventions on diabetes distress and glycaemic level in people with type 2 diabetes: Systematic review and meta‐analysis. Diabet Med, 38: e14525.\nAlready listened on another platform?\n- Discuss recent findings on various mindfulness strategies and see how these cognitive therapies may have a positive influence on decreasing distress and HbA1c in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM)\n- Describe strategies for implementing these cognitive therapies to reduce T2DM distress and HbA1c\nSupporters and Partners", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://unknowntravellings.tumblr.com/", "date": "2013-05-20T05:12:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698354227/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095914-00020-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9776320457458496, "token_count": 191, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__76473309", "lang": "en", "text": "\"Your children are not your children.\nThey are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.\nThey come through you but not from you,\nAnd though they are with you yet they belong not to you.\nYou may give them your love but not your thoughts,\nFor they have their own thoughts.\nYou may house their bodies but not their souls,\nFor their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,\nwhich you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.\"\n\"Writers write. But writers more often than not are not writing. They are waiting to write, preparing to write, rehearsing, practicing, taking notes, outlining, reading. On top of the anxiety of writing (or not writing) is this other anxiety—that all the activities of the prelude, in reality, are not prelude at all, but a symphony of fiddling around, a divertimento of tuning up.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://cgv.dsu.edu.pk/publication/journal-papers.html", "date": "2019-02-16T16:26:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247480622.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216145907-20190216171907-00050.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6697475910186768, "token_count": 951, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__214972877", "lang": "en", "text": "Ishtiaq Rasool Khan, Susanto Rahardja, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, MOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen, Fidaa Abed, “A tone-mapping technique based on histogram using a sensitivity model of the human visual system,”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Vol 63(10), 6 October 2017, IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2760247. (URL:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8061010/).(IF: 7.168 – JCR 2016).\nZHU Zhong-xian, YIN Yong, MOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen, “A Novel Parallel Algorithm for Computing the Mooring Line Based on Lumped-Mass Method”, International Journal of Modeling, Simulation, and Scientific Computing, Vol 7(4), 2017, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S1793962317500040. (URL: http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S1793962317500040) (ISI/ESCI Indexed).\nMOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen, CHIEW Wei Ming, LIN Feng, \"On-Site Volume Rendering with GPU-Enabled Devices\", Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 76, No. 4, pp:795--812, 2014. (IF: 0.951 - JCR 2016)\nMOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen, LIN Feng,\"Mobile Visualization of Biomedical Volumetric Datasets\", Journal of Internet Technologies and Secured Transaction (JITST), Volume 1, No. 1/2, pp:52-60, 2013, ISSN 2046-3723 (Available online: http://infonomics-society.org/JITST/MobileVisualizationofBiomedicalVolumeDatasets.pdf ).\nMOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen, LIN Feng, Kemao Qian, WeiMing Chiew and Hock-Soon Seah, \"Coupling between Meshless FEM Modeling and Rendering on GPU for Real-time Physically-based Volumetric Deformation\", Journal of WSCG, Vol. 20, No. 1, pp:1-10, ISSN 1213-6972, Union Agency, 2012. (IF: 0.79)\nMOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen and LIN Feng, \"A Novel GPU-based Deformation Pipeline,\" in ISRN Computer Graphics, Vol 2012(2012), Article ID 936315, p:8, DOI:10.5402/2012/936315, 2012.\nPatricia SP Thong, Malini Olivo, Stephanus S Tandjung, MOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen, Feng Lin, Kemao Qian, Hock-Soon Seah, Khee-Chee Soo, \"Review of Confocal Fluorescence Endomicroscopy for Cancer Detection,\" in IEEE Photonics Society (IPS) Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp: 1355-1366, 2012.(IF: 3.971 - JCR 2016)\nPatricia SP Thong, Stephanus S. Tandjung, MOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen, Wei-Ming Chiew, Malini Olivo, Ramaswamy Bhuvaneswari, Feng Lin, Kemao Qian, Hock-Soon Seah, Khee-Chee Soo, \"Toward Real-time Virtual Biopsy of Oral Lesions using Confocal Laser Endomicroscopy Interfaced with Embedded Computing,\" in Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 17, No. 5, DOI:10.1117/1.JBO.17.5.056009, 2011. (IF: 2.530 - JCR 2016)\nPatricia S. P. Thong, Malini Olivo, MOVANIA Muhammad Mobeen, Stephanus S. Tandjung, Hock-Soon Seah, Feng Lin, Kemao Qian and Khee-Chee Soo, \"Hypericin Fluorescence Imaging of Oral Cancer: From Endoscopy to Real-time 3-Dimensional Endomicroscopy,\", in Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, Vol. 1(2), pp:139-143, 2011. (IF: 0.621 - JCR 2016)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ihubnet.com/mastering-the-language-of-assam-english-to-assamese-translation-excellence/", "date": "2024-04-20T10:20:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817576.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420091126-20240420121126-00432.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.876714289188385, "token_count": 490, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__8595414", "lang": "en", "text": "Assam, known for its rich cultural heritage and diverse linguistic landscape, presents unique opportunities and challenges for translation. Assamese, the official language of the state, serves as a bridge connecting its people and traditions. English to Assamese translation plays a crucial role in facilitating communication and preserving the essence of Assamese culture.\nNavigating Linguistic Nuances\nTranslating between English and Assamese requires more than just linguistic proficiency; it demands a deep understanding of cultural nuances and regional variations. Assamese, with its unique script and syntax, poses challenges for translators aiming to convey the intended message accurately. Mastery of both languages is essential to navigate these complexities effectively.\nThe Role of Professional Translators\nProfessional translators specializing in English to Assamese translation play a pivotal role in bridging language barriers and fostering cross-cultural communication. With expertise in both languages and a nuanced understanding of Assamese culture, these translators ensure that messages are conveyed accurately and effectively. Their proficiency in translating various content types, from literary works to technical documents, contributes to the enrichment of Assamese literature and knowledge dissemination.\nPreserving Cultural Integrity\nEffective translation goes beyond mere linguistic conversion; it entails preserving the cultural integrity and nuances inherent in the source language. Translators must remain sensitive to cultural contexts, idiomatic expressions, and societal norms to ensure that the essence of the original text is retained in the translated version. By preserving cultural nuances, English to Assamese translation contributes to the enrichment and preservation of Assamese heritage.\nFacilitating Communication and Accessibility\nEnglish to Assamese translation plays a vital role in facilitating communication and enhancing accessibility to information and resources for Assamese speakers. From educational materials and government documents to multimedia content and business communications, accurate translation ensures that Assamese speakers can engage with a diverse range of content effectively. By breaking down language barriers, translation promotes inclusivity and empowers individuals to participate fully in social, economic, and cultural spheres.\nMastering the art of English to Assamese translation is essential for preserving cultural heritage, facilitating communication, and fostering cross-cultural understanding. Professional translators play a pivotal role in bridging linguistic divides and ensuring that messages are conveyed accurately and effectively. By embracing the complexities of both languages and preserving cultural nuances, translation contributes to the enrichment and promotion of Assamese language and culture on a global scale.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://weavecu.org/product/coffee-first-bookmark/", "date": "2024-04-22T11:46:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818293.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422113340-20240422143340-00776.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9166812896728516, "token_count": 201, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__21796675", "lang": "en", "text": "Indulge your love for reading with our “Coffee First” Paperback Bookmark. This sleek and stylish bookmark is designed for the devoted bookworm, the studious student, and anyone with a penchant for a good read.\nCrafted meticulously with precision and attention to detail, this bookmark embodies simplicity and functionality. Its paperback material ensures lightweight yet durable use, perfect for effortlessly marking your place in books, journals, or textbooks without adding unnecessary bulk.\nMeasuring a convenient 2×6 cm and weighing just 0.5 grams, this black-colored bookmark slips seamlessly between pages, preserving your reading progress while adding a subtle touch of sophistication.\nPackaged elegantly as a single piece, this “Coffee First” Bookmark is not just a practical accessory but a statement piece for those who believe in the joy of a good book and a comforting cup of coffee. Enhance your reading experience and declare your love for both literature and caffeine with this charming bookmark.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://fnyoph.com/287496-andrew-peterson-read.html", "date": "2019-05-27T02:36:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232260358.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20190527005538-20190527031538-00356.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9401378035545349, "token_count": 636, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__200028468", "lang": "en", "text": "Read Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities by Andrew Peterson Free Online\nBook Title: Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities|\nThe author of the book: Andrew Peterson\nCity - Country: No data\nLoaded: 2993 times\nReader ratings: 7.2\nEdition: Palgrave MacMillan\nDate of issue: December 16th 2016\nISBN 13: 9781137548375\nFormat files: PDF\nThe size of the: 719 KB\nRead full description of the books:\nThis book makes a defence of compassion as an essential and significant quality that should be at the heart of the education of young people. It provides a careful exploration of what compassion means; how it is relevant to the various relationships among students, teachers, and the wider community; and the particular pedagogical processes that can and might develop compassion. Understanding and justifying compassion as a virtue, this book argues that compassion is a virtue central to all human relationships from the familial, to the communal and to the global. It will be of interest to academics, research and students of education.\nDownload Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities ERUB\nDownload Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities DOC\nDownload Compassion and Education: Cultivating Compassionate Children, Schools and Communities TXT\nRead information about the authorHey, folks. If you're just discovering me or any of my work, it can be a little confusing because there are several facets to it. If you don't have time to read the whole bio below, here's the rundown:\n• I write songs. I also record them to these cool things called CDs and put on concerts around the country. (And beyond! To my great delight, I get to play in Europe every year or so.)\n• I write books. I just completed a four-part fantasy series for young readers called the Wingfeather Saga. The fourth and final book, , released in 2014, illustrated by Joe Sutphin. I drew some of the pictures for the first three books (but not the coolest ones).\n• I'm the proprietor of the Rabbit Room, a community of songwriters, authors, and artists interested in storytelling, faith, and fellowship.\n• I'm a proud member of the Square Peg Alliance, a happy band of singer/songwriters who write together, tour together, and eat together.\n• I've been married for nineteen years to Jamie, and we have three sweet children: Aedan (15), Asher (14), and Skye (11). We live in a magical place we call the Warren, just south of Nashville.\nThe common thread in all this is my love for Christ and his Kingdom, my belief in the power of story and art, and my need for family and community. If I had to boil it all down, I'd say this: I want to use my gifts to tell the truth, and to tell it as beautifully as I can.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://nevaehwright.com/category/trading/", "date": "2020-09-19T21:13:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400192887.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200919204805-20200919234805-00446.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9571523666381836, "token_count": 1040, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__293413735", "lang": "en", "text": "Finally, some fantastic news in the markets–that there are a growing number of indications that indicate the crypto winter is finished. 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{"url": "https://www.pminoz.com.au/possibilica.html", "date": "2024-04-13T08:47:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816587.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413083102-20240413113102-00621.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9331685304641724, "token_count": 168, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__113221103", "lang": "en", "text": "Beware the monsters that lurk in the depths!\nAboard Possibilica, each of us brings what is alive in ourselves to meet what is alive in the space. From this meeting place, anything is possible. Possibilica is a space for experimenting. A space for exploring new possibilities. For bringing to consciousness what we have kept hidden from ourselves. It is a space for navigating using our conscious feelings to step into radical responsibility. For playfulness and belly laughs and rage holds and trembling and wailing. For practicing how to hold space for ourselves and each other. For coming back to our centres. For meeting being-to-being. For choosing to be on each other’s team. For growing in connection with one another.\nSo strap on your boots and join us for the adventure!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://imperiariverview.land/uncategorized/the-natural/", "date": "2024-04-24T00:41:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818835.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423223805-20240424013805-00565.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8999926447868347, "token_count": 4860, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__66358829", "lang": "en", "text": "The Natural Wonder: Exploring the Beauty of Mother Earth\nNature, in all its grandeur and magnificence, has always captivated the human spirit. From towering mountains to cascading waterfalls, from lush forests to serene beaches, the natural world offers an endless array of breathtaking sights and experiences. It is a reminder of the awe-inspiring power and beauty that Mother Earth possesses.\nOne of the most remarkable aspects of nature is its ability to provide solace and rejuvenation. When we immerse ourselves in natural surroundings, we are transported to a realm where worries fade away and a sense of tranquility takes over. The gentle rustling of leaves, the melodious chirping of birds, or the rhythmic crashing of waves against the shore – these sounds become our symphony, soothing our souls and calming our minds.\nBeyond its aesthetic appeal, nature also plays a vital role in sustaining life on Earth. The intricate balance between flora and fauna creates ecosystems that support countless species. Each plant, animal, and organism has a unique purpose in maintaining this delicate equilibrium. From pollination by bees to decomposition by fungi, every element contributes to the intricate web of life.\nMoreover, nature provides us with resources that are essential for our survival. Fresh air to breathe, clean water to drink, fertile soil for agriculture – these are just a few examples of how nature sustains us. It is our responsibility to be stewards of these precious resources and ensure their preservation for future generations.\nExploring the natural world can be an enriching experience that broadens our horizons and deepens our connection with the Earth. Whether it’s hiking through verdant forests or gazing at star-filled skies on a clear night, each encounter with nature offers an opportunity for self-discovery and reflection.\nFurthermore, scientific studies have shown that spending time in nature has numerous health benefits. It reduces stress levels, boosts mental well-being, improves concentration, and even enhances creativity. Nature has a remarkable ability to heal and restore, providing us with a sanctuary from the demands of modern life.\nAs we witness the alarming effects of climate change and environmental degradation, it becomes increasingly crucial to appreciate and protect our natural world. We must strive to live in harmony with nature, adopting sustainable practices that minimize our impact on the environment. By conserving biodiversity, reducing pollution, and promoting renewable energy sources, we can contribute to the preservation of our planet’s natural wonders.\nIn conclusion, the beauty and significance of nature are undeniable. It is a source of inspiration, solace, and sustenance. As we venture into the great outdoors, let us embrace its splendor with awe and reverence. Let us protect and cherish our natural world so that future generations may also marvel at its wonders.\nFrequently Asked Questions: Understanding and Protecting the Natural Environment in the UK\n- What is the natural environment?\n- How can we protect the natural environment?\n- What are the benefits of protecting the natural environment?\n- What are some of the threats to the natural environment?\n- How does climate change affect the natural environment?\n- What is biodiversity and why is it important for our natural environment?\n- How can we reduce our impact on the natural environment?\n- What steps can be taken to restore damaged areas of the natural environment?\nWhat is the natural environment?\nThe natural environment refers to the physical surroundings and conditions in which living organisms exist. It encompasses all aspects of the Earth’s natural resources, such as land, water, air, plants, animals, and ecosystems. The natural environment is characterized by its untouched state, free from significant human intervention or alteration.\nThis environment plays a crucial role in supporting life on Earth. It provides the necessary resources and habitats for various species to thrive and maintain a delicate balance. The natural environment includes diverse ecosystems like forests, deserts, oceans, wetlands, grasslands, and mountains.\nWithin these ecosystems, a wide range of flora and fauna coexist in intricate relationships. Plants convert sunlight into energy through photosynthesis while providing oxygen for other organisms. Animals depend on plants for food and shelter while contributing to pollination and seed dispersal. Microorganisms play vital roles in nutrient cycling and decomposition.\nThe natural environment also includes abiotic factors such as climate patterns, geological formations, bodies of water, soil composition, and atmospheric conditions. These elements interact with living organisms to shape their behavior, distribution, and adaptation strategies.\nPreserving the natural environment is crucial for maintaining biodiversity and ensuring the sustainability of our planet. It involves protecting habitats from degradation or destruction caused by human activities such as deforestation, pollution, habitat fragmentation, overexploitation of resources, and climate change.\nRecognizing the value of the natural environment goes beyond its intrinsic beauty; it is essential for our well-being too. People benefit from clean air to breathe, safe drinking water sources, fertile soil for agriculture, medicinal plants for healthcare purposes, recreational spaces for leisure activities – all provided by the natural environment.\nIn summary, the natural environment encompasses all aspects of the Earth’s untouched ecosystems and physical surroundings. It supports a diverse array of life forms while providing vital resources necessary for our survival. Preserving this environment is crucial for maintaining biodiversity and ensuring a sustainable future for generations to come.\nHow can we protect the natural environment?\nProtecting the natural environment is crucial for the well-being of our planet and future generations. Here are some key ways in which we can contribute to its preservation:\n- Conservation and Preservation: Support efforts to conserve and protect natural habitats, such as national parks, wildlife reserves, and protected areas. These spaces provide safe havens for biodiversity and help maintain ecological balance.\n- Sustainable Practices: Embrace sustainable practices in our daily lives. Reduce, reuse, and recycle to minimize waste generation. Conserve energy by using energy-efficient appliances, opting for renewable energy sources whenever possible, and reducing water consumption.\n- Responsible Consumption: Make informed choices about the products we purchase. Support environmentally friendly businesses that prioritize sustainable production methods, fair trade practices, and ethical sourcing of raw materials.\n- Reforestation: Plant trees and support reforestation initiatives. Trees play a vital role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, combating climate change, preventing soil erosion, and providing habitats for numerous species.\n- Reduce Pollution: Minimize pollution by properly disposing of waste, avoiding single-use plastics, using eco-friendly cleaning products, and opting for public transportation or carpooling when feasible.\n- Advocate for Change: Raise awareness about environmental issues within our communities and advocate for policies that promote environmental protection at local, national, and international levels.\n- Education: Educate ourselves and others about the importance of nature conservation. Encourage schools to incorporate environmental education into their curriculum to foster a sense of responsibility towards the natural world from an early age.\n- Support Conservation Organizations: Contribute to organizations working towards protecting the environment through donations or volunteering opportunities. These organizations play a crucial role in research, advocacy, conservation projects, and raising awareness.\n- Sustainable Agriculture: Support sustainable farming practices that prioritize soil health, reduce chemical inputs like pesticides and fertilizers, promote biodiversity on farmlands through crop rotation or intercropping methods, and prioritize water conservation.\n- Responsible Tourism: When travelling, choose eco-friendly accommodations and tour operators that prioritize sustainable practices and respect local ecosystems and cultures. Leave natural areas as you found them, without disturbing wildlife or damaging the environment.\nRemember, protecting the natural environment is a collective effort. By making conscious choices in our daily lives and advocating for change, we can contribute to the preservation of our planet’s invaluable natural resources.\nWhat are the benefits of protecting the natural environment?\nProtecting the natural environment yields a multitude of benefits that extend beyond the preservation of pristine landscapes. Here are some key advantages:\n- Biodiversity Conservation: The natural environment is home to a vast array of plant and animal species, each playing a unique role in maintaining the balance of ecosystems. By protecting these habitats, we safeguard biodiversity and prevent the loss of valuable species. Preserving biodiversity ensures the resilience and stability of ecosystems, which in turn benefits human well-being.\n- Climate Regulation: Natural environments, such as forests, wetlands, and oceans, play a crucial role in regulating the Earth’s climate. Trees absorb carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas responsible for global warming, while releasing oxygen into the atmosphere. Wetlands act as carbon sinks and help regulate water cycles. Protecting these environments helps mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and maintaining natural climate regulation systems.\n- Clean Air and Water: Natural environments act as filters for air and water pollutants. Trees absorb harmful pollutants from the air, improving air quality for both humans and wildlife. Forests also help regulate water cycles by absorbing rainfall and preventing soil erosion, reducing the risk of floods and ensuring a steady supply of clean water.\n- Economic Benefits: Conserving natural environments can have significant economic advantages. Ecosystem services provided by nature include pollination, water purification, soil fertility maintenance, and flood control – all critical for agriculture and food production. Additionally, protected areas can attract tourists who seek to experience untouched landscapes or engage in eco-tourism activities, contributing to local economies.\n- Human Health and Well-being: Access to green spaces and exposure to nature have been linked to numerous health benefits. Spending time in natural environments reduces stress levels, improves mental well-being, boosts physical fitness levels, enhances cognitive function, and promotes overall happiness. Protecting these spaces ensures that communities have access to these health-promoting resources.\n- Cultural Preservation: Many natural environments hold cultural, historical, and spiritual significance to local communities. Protecting these areas helps preserve cultural heritage and traditional knowledge that has been passed down through generations. It also provides opportunities for education, research, and the celebration of diverse cultures.\n- Sustainable Resource Management: Protecting the natural environment encourages sustainable practices in resource management. It promotes responsible use of natural resources such as timber, minerals, water, and fisheries, ensuring their availability for future generations.\nIn summary, protecting the natural environment is crucial for biodiversity conservation, climate regulation, clean air and water provision, economic prosperity, human health and well-being, cultural preservation, and sustainable resource management. By safeguarding our natural world, we secure a better future for both current and future generations.\nWhat are some of the threats to the natural environment?\nThe natural environment faces numerous threats that jeopardize its delicate balance and long-term sustainability. Here are some of the key challenges:\n- Climate Change: One of the most pressing threats to the natural environment is climate change. Rising global temperatures, caused primarily by greenhouse gas emissions, lead to a range of adverse effects such as melting glaciers, sea-level rise, extreme weather events, and shifts in ecosystems. These changes disrupt habitats, endanger species, and threaten the overall stability of ecosystems.\n- Deforestation: The rampant clearing of forests for agriculture, logging, urbanization, and infrastructure development is a significant threat to the natural environment. Deforestation not only destroys critical habitats for countless species but also contributes to climate change by releasing stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.\n- Pollution: Pollution in various forms poses a severe threat to the natural environment. Air pollution from industrial emissions and vehicle exhaust harms both human health and ecosystems. Water pollution from industrial waste, agricultural runoff, and improper disposal of chemicals contaminates water bodies and endangers aquatic life. Soil pollution from pesticides and chemical fertilizers affects soil quality and can lead to long-lasting damage.\n- Loss of Biodiversity: Human activities have led to a significant loss of biodiversity worldwide. Habitat destruction, overexploitation of resources, invasive species introduction, and pollution all contribute to this loss. The disappearance of plant and animal species disrupts ecological balance and diminishes the resilience of ecosystems.\n- Overpopulation and Urbanization: The rapid growth of human populations places immense pressure on natural resources and habitats. Expanding cities encroach upon valuable natural areas, leading to habitat fragmentation and loss. Increased demand for food, water, energy, and consumer goods further strains ecosystems.\n- Unsustainable Resource Extraction: Extractive industries such as mining, oil drilling, and unsustainable fishing practices can have devastating consequences for the environment. These activities often result in habitat destruction, water contamination, soil degradation, and the depletion of natural resources.\n- Plastic Pollution: The widespread use of single-use plastics and improper waste management have led to a global crisis of plastic pollution. Plastic waste accumulates in landfills, water bodies, and even remote natural areas, causing harm to wildlife through entanglement or ingestion.\nAddressing these threats requires collective action and a commitment to sustainable practices. Governments, organizations, and individuals must prioritize conservation efforts, promote renewable energy sources, adopt responsible consumption habits, and support policies that protect the natural environment for future generations.\nHow does climate change affect the natural environment?\nClimate change has emerged as one of the most pressing challenges of our time, and its impact on the natural environment is profound. The Earth’s climate is changing at an unprecedented rate due to human activities, primarily the emission of greenhouse gases. These changes have far-reaching consequences for ecosystems, biodiversity, and the delicate balance of nature.\nOne of the most evident effects of climate change is the alteration of temperature patterns. Rising global temperatures disrupt natural systems and processes. Many species rely on specific temperature ranges for their survival and reproduction. As temperatures shift, these species may struggle to adapt or face habitat loss, leading to population declines or even extinction.\nThe melting of glaciers and polar ice caps is another consequence of climate change. This phenomenon contributes to rising sea levels, posing a threat to coastal areas and low-lying islands. Coastal ecosystems such as mangroves, coral reefs, and salt marshes are particularly vulnerable to sea-level rise, impacting their ability to provide vital habitats for marine life and protect shorelines from erosion.\nChanges in precipitation patterns are also a significant concern. Some regions experience increased rainfall intensity and frequency, leading to more frequent flooding events that can devastate ecosystems and disrupt ecological processes. In contrast, other areas may suffer from prolonged droughts, affecting water availability for plants, animals, and human communities.\nClimate change can also disrupt the timing and occurrence of seasons. Shifts in seasonal patterns can affect migratory routes for birds and alter breeding cycles for various species. For example, if plants flower earlier than usual due to warmer temperatures but pollinators like bees or butterflies are not synchronized with this change, it can lead to reduced pollination success.\nOcean acidification is another consequence linked to climate change. As carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions increase in the atmosphere, a portion is absorbed by oceans. This absorption leads to chemical changes that make seawater more acidic over time. Acidic waters pose a threat to coral reefs, shellfish, and other marine organisms that rely on calcium carbonate for their shells or skeletons.\nFurthermore, climate change can exacerbate the spread of invasive species. As temperatures and precipitation patterns shift, new areas may become suitable for non-native species to establish themselves. These invasive species can outcompete native flora and fauna, disrupting ecosystems and reducing biodiversity.\nOverall, climate change poses a significant threat to the natural environment. It disrupts ecosystems, alters habitats, jeopardizes biodiversity, and affects the delicate balance of nature. Recognizing the urgency of this issue, global efforts are underway to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, promote sustainable practices, conserve ecosystems, and adapt to the changes that are already occurring.\nWhat is biodiversity and why is it important for our natural environment?\nBiodiversity refers to the variety of life forms, including plants, animals, microorganisms, and ecosystems, that exist on Earth. It encompasses the incredible range of species and their genetic diversity within each species. Biodiversity is a fundamental component of our natural environment and plays a crucial role in maintaining the balance and functioning of ecosystems.\nFirstly, biodiversity provides essential ecosystem services that are vital for human well-being. These services include air and water purification, nutrient cycling, pollination of crops, soil fertility, climate regulation, and flood control. The intricate web of interactions between different species ensures the smooth functioning of these processes, which directly or indirectly benefit human societies.\nSecondly, biodiversity supports food security and sustainable agriculture. A wide variety of plant and animal species contribute to diverse diets and provide essential nutrients. Crop diversity helps protect against pests and diseases while enhancing resilience to changing environmental conditions. Additionally, wild relatives of cultivated plants often possess valuable genetic traits that can be used to improve crop varieties.\nMoreover, biodiversity has significant cultural value. Many cultures around the world have deep connections with their local ecosystems and rely on traditional knowledge passed down through generations for sustainable resource management. Indigenous communities often possess invaluable knowledge about medicinal plants, ecological practices, and conservation techniques that can contribute to our understanding of biodiversity conservation.\nBiodiversity also holds immense aesthetic value. The sheer diversity of landscapes and living organisms offers us opportunities for recreation, inspiration, artistic expression, and spiritual connection with nature. Whether it’s exploring a pristine rainforest or admiring a vibrant coral reef, biodiversity enriches our lives by providing beauty and wonder.\nFurthermore, biodiversity is crucial for maintaining ecosystem resilience in the face of environmental changes such as climate change or natural disasters. Ecosystems with high biodiversity tend to be more resilient as they are better able to adapt to disturbances or recover from them. A loss in biodiversity can make ecosystems more vulnerable to disruptions and reduce their capacity to provide essential services.\nUnfortunately, human activities, such as habitat destruction, pollution, overexploitation of resources, and climate change, are causing a rapid decline in biodiversity worldwide. The loss of species and degradation of ecosystems have far-reaching consequences for both the natural world and human societies.\nProtecting and conserving biodiversity is vital for the long-term health and sustainability of our planet. It requires collective efforts to preserve habitats, reduce pollution, promote sustainable land-use practices, and combat climate change. By valuing and safeguarding biodiversity, we can ensure a healthy environment for future generations and maintain the intricate tapestry of life that makes our planet so extraordinary.\nHow can we reduce our impact on the natural environment?\nReducing our impact on the natural environment is crucial for the sustainability of our planet. By adopting environmentally-friendly practices, we can make a positive difference. Here are several ways to reduce our impact:\n- Conserve Energy: Use energy-efficient appliances and lighting, turn off lights when not in use, unplug electronics when they are not being used, and consider using renewable energy sources such as solar or wind power.\n- Reduce Water Usage: Be mindful of water consumption by fixing leaks, taking shorter showers, and using water-saving devices such as low-flow showerheads and faucets. Collect rainwater for gardening purposes.\n- Practice Sustainable Transportation: Opt for public transportation, carpooling, cycling, or walking whenever possible to reduce carbon emissions. If you need a car, choose fuel-efficient or electric vehicles.\n- Minimize Waste: Embrace the 3Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Reduce waste by avoiding single-use items and opting for reusable alternatives like shopping bags and water bottles. Reuse items whenever possible before considering disposal. Recycle paper, plastic, glass, and metal to conserve resources.\n- Support Sustainable Food Choices: Choose locally sourced and organic foods to reduce environmental impact associated with long-distance transportation and chemical-intensive farming practices. Minimize food waste by planning meals and composting organic waste.\n- Preserve Natural Resources: Be mindful of resource consumption by using products made from sustainable materials or recycled content. Avoid overconsumption of non-renewable resources like fossil fuels and precious metals.\n- Protect Biodiversity: Avoid purchasing products derived from endangered species or made from illegally harvested timber or wildlife parts. Support conservation efforts by donating to reputable organizations working towards protecting habitats and species.\n- Educate Others: Spread awareness about environmental issues through discussions with family, friends, colleagues, or social media platforms. Encourage others to adopt sustainable practices in their daily lives.\n- Engage in Eco-Friendly Activities: Participate in local clean-up campaigns, tree planting initiatives, or conservation projects. Support eco-tourism that promotes responsible travel and supports local communities.\n- Advocate for Change: Contact policymakers and support initiatives that promote sustainable practices, renewable energy, and environmental protection. Vote for candidates who prioritize environmental issues.\nRemember, even small changes in our daily habits can have a significant impact when adopted collectively. By reducing our ecological footprint, we can contribute to the conservation of our natural environment and ensure a healthier planet for future generations.\nWhat steps can be taken to restore damaged areas of the natural environment?\nRestoring damaged areas of the natural environment is a vital step towards preserving biodiversity and ensuring the sustainability of our planet. Here are some steps that can be taken to initiate restoration efforts:\n- Assess the damage: Before any restoration work begins, it is crucial to conduct a thorough assessment of the damaged area. This involves identifying the extent and nature of the damage, understanding the underlying causes, and evaluating the potential for recovery.\n- Develop a restoration plan: Based on the assessment, a comprehensive restoration plan should be developed. This plan should outline specific goals, objectives, and strategies for restoring the area. It should consider factors such as soil conditions, native species diversity, and ecological processes that need to be reinstated.\n- Remove invasive species: Invasive species can have detrimental effects on native ecosystems by outcompeting indigenous plants and disrupting natural processes. Removing invasive species is an essential step in restoring damaged areas. This can be achieved through manual removal, mechanical methods, or targeted herbicide application.\n- Reintroduce native species: Restoring biodiversity involves reintroducing native plant species that are adapted to the local ecosystem. These plants provide habitat for wildlife, improve soil health, prevent erosion, and help restore ecological balance. Care should be taken to select appropriate plant species based on local climate conditions and ecosystem requirements.\n- Enhance soil quality: Damaged areas often suffer from degraded soil quality due to erosion or contamination. Soil restoration techniques such as erosion control measures, organic matter addition, and soil amendment with nutrients can help improve soil fertility and structure.\n- Monitor progress: Regular monitoring is essential to assess the success of restoration efforts over time. Monitoring helps identify any challenges or adjustments needed in the restoration plan and provides valuable insights into ecosystem recovery.\n- Engage local communities: Restoration efforts are more likely to succeed when local communities are involved from the outset. Engaging communities fosters a sense of ownership and responsibility towards the restored area. It also promotes awareness and education about the importance of environmental conservation.\n- Implement sustainable land management practices: To ensure long-term sustainability, it is crucial to implement sustainable land management practices in the restored area. This includes adopting practices such as responsible land use planning, water conservation, and minimizing pollution.\n- Collaborate with stakeholders: Restoration efforts are often more effective when different stakeholders collaborate. This may involve partnerships between government agencies, non-profit organizations, local communities, and scientific experts. Collaboration allows for sharing of resources, knowledge, and expertise.\n- Adapt and learn from experience: Restoration is a dynamic process that requires adaptation based on lessons learned from previous projects. As new information and techniques become available, it is important to continuously improve restoration strategies and adapt them to changing environmental conditions.\nBy implementing these steps, we can make significant progress in restoring damaged areas of the natural environment and safeguarding the ecological integrity of our planet for future generations.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://allthumbspress.net/how-acts-of-kindness-boost-well-being/", "date": "2023-12-01T21:52:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100308.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201215122-20231202005122-00269.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.915720522403717, "token_count": 1081, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__172306402", "lang": "en", "text": "In today’s fast-paced and digital world, where virtual interactions often replace genuine human connections, acts of kindness emerge as poignant reminders of our shared humanity. The concept of kindness embodies compassion, empathy, and selflessness, and its impact extends beyond mere gestures. This article delves deep into the realm of kindness, exploring how acts of kindness not only enrich the lives of recipients but also profoundly enhance the well-being of those who extend them. Through heartwarming anecdotes and scientific insights, we’ll unravel the complex ways in which acts of kindness contribute to personal well-being and weave a stronger, more compassionate social fabric.\nThe Magic of Acts of Kindness\nActs of kindness are the currency of human connection, transcending language barriers, cultural divides, and geographical distances. From the warm smile exchanged with a passerby to the profound support offered to a friend in need, kindness resonates as powerful expressions of our shared human experience. Yet, their impact extends far beyond the immediate recipients. Each act of kindness initiates a ripple effect, generating a cascade of positive emotions that reverberate through communities and societies. By engaging in acts of kindness, irrespective of their magnitude, we set in motion a cycle of positivity that not only transforms our own lives but also touches the lives of those around us.\nKindness and Its Connection to Well-being\nScientific research underscores the profound connection between acts of kindness and enhanced well-being. The act of giving triggers the release of neurotransmitters like oxytocin and endorphins, commonly referred to as “feel-good” hormones. These chemicals not only elevate the mood of the recipient but also have a transformative effect on the giver’s emotional state. This reciprocal relationship highlights the intrinsic link between acts of kindness and the cultivation of positive mental and emotional well-being. Furthermore, the act of giving fosters a self-perpetuating cycle of positivity, where the giver’s well-being is continually replenished through their own actions.\nA Flourishing Society Through Compassionate Actions\nActs of kindness function as the cornerstone of a compassionate and flourishing society. When individuals prioritize kindness, they contribute to the creation of vibrant communities bound by empathy and mutual support. In a society marked by isolation and disconnection, kindness becomes the glue that binds us together. Volunteering at local charities, assisting neighbors in times of need, and offering a helping hand to strangers in distress all contribute to the strengthening of the social fabric. These actions forge a society that is not only more resilient and harmonious but also one in which individuals feel valued and appreciated.\nActs of Kindness: From Self-Care to Community Care\nKindness to Oneself: The Foundation of Well-being\nThe journey of kindness begins with self-compassion and self-care. Treating oneself with kindness forms the bedrock upon which well-being flourishes. Engaging in activities that promote self-care, such as practicing mindfulness, pursuing hobbies, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle, contributes to a positive self-perception. By nurturing one’s own well-being, individuals create a solid foundation from which acts of kindness towards others can naturally emanate.\nActs of Kindness in Everyday Life: Small Gestures, Big Impact\nWhile grand gestures of kindness capture attention, it’s the simple, everyday acts that often hold the most profound influence. A thoughtful compliment, a moment of active listening, or a helping hand can have an immense impact on someone’s day. These seemingly small acts accumulate over time, contributing to a more positive and empathetic atmosphere. The collective impact of these gestures fosters an environment where kindness is the norm rather than the exception.\nThe Power of Empathy: Connecting Through Shared Humanity\nEmpathy is the cornerstone of genuine kindness. By placing ourselves in the shoes of others, we forge a deeper connection that fuels authentic and meaningful acts of kindness. Empathy is the driving force that propels us to act selflessly and extends a helping hand. Acts of kindness become not only actions but expressions of shared humanity, bridging the gaps that often divide us.\nEducation: Nurturing Future Generations\nEducational institutions play a pivotal role in cultivating the seeds of kindness and empathy in the hearts of the young. Integrating acts of kindness into the curriculum equips students with essential life skills that extend beyond academic achievements. Teaching children the value of compassion and the importance of supporting one another establishes the groundwork for a future society that is compassionate, empathetic, and socially conscious.\nActs of kindness are not fleeting moments but enduring threads woven into the tapestry of our existence. Within each act lies the potential to ignite positive change, not only in the lives of the recipients but also within the hearts of the givers. In a world that sometimes feels divided, the act of giving stands as a unifying force, transcending barriers and fostering empathy. By embracing kindness as a fundamental aspect of our identity, we tap into a wellspring of positivity and connection. Let us pause to reflect on the profound impact of our choices and embark on a journey of nurturing kindness, one gesture at a time. For it is through these very acts of kindness that the true essence of our humanity shines brightest.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.hillcountrycomicon.com/guest/j-r-knoll", "date": "2021-09-26T09:32:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057857.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20210926083818-20210926113818-00167.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9907658696174622, "token_count": 142, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__94808047", "lang": "en", "text": "J. R. Knoll is a novelist from the little town of Blanco in the Texas Hill Country where he went to high school and played football for the Blanco Panthers. Later, he served on the Blanco Volunteer Fire Department, the United States Air Force, and is now employed at The Home Depot in Dripping Springs. He lives in the house his grandfather built with his wife, Tami, and three of their boys and three dogs. He enjoys quiet afternoons by the Blanco River on the weekends, or unleashing a little chaos and mayhem with the guys. Writing has been his passion since childhood and Knoll has recently released his twentieth book, the ninth in his fantasy series.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://paininmotion.be/blog/detail/moderator-mediator-predictor-or-prognostic-factor-which-factor-fits-my-research-question", "date": "2022-08-11T10:39:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00659.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8286519050598145, "token_count": 1305, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__85101120", "lang": "en", "text": "Despite the long history of usage in medicine, psychology, sociology and other sciences, the terms “moderator”, “mediator”, “predictor” and “prognostic factor” still seem to elicit discussions among researchers. Several authors have described how these terms are used interchangeably, neglecting important careful handling (Baron & Kenny 1986; Clark et al., 2006 and Probyn et al., 2017).\n“A moderator is a third variable that modifies a causal effect.” (Wu & Zumbo 2008 and Baron & Kenny 1986) or “A moderator is a factor, measured at baseline, that interacts with the treatment to change outcome for a subgroup of participants” (Probyn et al., 2017).\n“A mediator is a third variable that links the cause and the effect.” (Wu & Zumbo 2008, Baron & Kenny 1986).\n“A predictor is a factor, measured at baseline, that affects outcome but does not interact with the intervention” (Probyn et al., 2017).\n“A prognostic factor may be seen as measurement of natural history.” (Clark et al., 2006 and Clark et al., 2008)\nA moderator is like the dimmer of a light, it affects the strength of the lighting / of the causal relationship (positive / negative). It describes “when” or “for whom” an independent variable causes a dependant variable. A moderator variable is more like a characteristic, a background variable, which is relatively unchangeable, e.g. personality type extravert, environment, gender, ethnicity. Moderator analysis is required when questions arise “for whom (person characteristic) a treatment works” or “when a treatment works (environmental characteristic)” (Wu & Zumbo 2008). A moderator has a single relationship as an independent variable and does not correlate with the outcome (Kraemer et al., 2002). Moderators may identify subgroups of patients with potential deviations of their course of rehabilitation / illness (Kraemer et al., 2002) and consequently support clinical decision – making processes for therapy choice.\nInteractive effect = the effect of treatment of each individual patient depends of the value of Mo = Moderator.\nA mediator is described to act more like domino stones. It answers questions about “why” or “how” a cause elicited an effect. A mediator may be a current health status / a temporary condition and describes indirect effects, intermediate effects, surrogate effects or intervening effects. The mediator correlates with the independent variable and is an observed non-manipulated variable. Its responsiveness may lead to changes in outcome (Wu & Zumbo 2008). Mediators may or may not interact with the intervention (Probyn et al., 2017) and have a dual role (Wu & Zumbo 2008).\nA factor can be called a predictor, if a baseline measure shows an effect on the outcome, but does not have an interactive effect (not a moderator). The predictor forecasts the outcome after an intervention, but is not able to provide insight in the effect size of the treatment regardless of its value (Kraemer et al., 2002).\nA predictor describes what kind of treatments should be used to achieve most beneficial outcomes for an individual patient (Simms et al., 2013). The predictor may describe the response or lack of response to a certain intervention (Clark et al., 2006). It may identify a subgroup of treated patients with different outcomes. For example: Compliance to treatment is a predictor and not a moderator, since it predicts better outcome combined with either intervention (Kraemer et al., 2002).\n“A prognostic factor is a measurement that is associated with clinical outcome in the absence of therapy or with the application of a standard therapy that patients are likely to receive” (Probyn et al., 2017). Prognostic factors may support clinicians to make decisions regarding the treatment effect by answering the questions; when should one initiate, stop or modify the treatment for a patient (Simms et al., 2013).\nPhD Candidate University of Antwerp Belgium and clinical specialist for upper extremity Kantonsspital Winterthur Switzerland\n2020 Pain in Motion\nBaron, R. M., & Kenny, D. A. (1986). The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. Journal of personality and social psychology, 51(6), 1173.\nClark, G. M., Zborowski, D. M., Culbertson, J. L., Whitehead, M., Savoie, M., Seymour, L., & Shepherd, F. A. (2006). Clinical utility of epidermal growth factor receptor expression for selecting patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer for treatment with erlotinib. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 1(8), 837-846.\nClark, G. M. (2008). Prognostic factors versus predictive factors: examples from a clinical trial of erlotinib. Molecular oncology, 1(4), 406-412.\nKraemer, H. C., Wilson, G. T., Fairburn, C. G., & Agras, W. S. (2002). Mediators and moderators of treatment effects in randomized clinical trials. Archives of general psychiatry, 59(10), 877-883.\nOgundimu, E. O., Altman, D. G., & Collins, G. S. (2016). Adequate sample size for developing prediction models is not simply related to events per variable. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 76, 175-182.\nSimms, L., Barraclough, H., & Govindan, R. (2013). Biostatistics primer: what a clinician ought to know—prognostic and predictive factors. Journal of Thoracic Oncology, 8(6), 808-813.\nWu, A. D., & Zumbo, B. D. (2008). Understanding and using mediators and moderators. Social Indicators Research, 87(3), 367.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://biodatawiki.in/2023/10/optimizing-healthcare-location-strategies/", "date": "2023-11-28T12:55:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099514.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128115347-20231128145347-00869.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9100427627563477, "token_count": 1000, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__142233137", "lang": "en", "text": "Efficiently managing a healthcare location, whether it’s a hospital, clinic, or long-term care facility, requires a multifaceted approach that prioritizes patient care, staff well-being, and operational excellence. In this article, we will explore effective strategies for healthcare locations to achieve optimal performance and deliver high-quality care. From workforce management to technological integration and partnerships with nurse staffing agencies, these strategies address the complexities of healthcare administration.\n1. Workforce Optimization\nWorkforce optimization is central to the success of any healthcare location. Healthcare organizations must ensure they have the right number of skilled professionals in place to meet patient needs. This includes physicians, nurses, support staff, and administrative personnel.\n2. Staffing Agency\nA nurse staffing agency provides a valuable solution for healthcare locations to address temporary staffing shortages. By partnering with reputable agencies, healthcare facilities can quickly access qualified nurses to maintain patient care standards during fluctuations in staffing needs.\n3. Telehealth Integration\nTelehealth has become an integral part of healthcare delivery, offering patients convenient access to care while reducing the strain on physical infrastructure. Healthcare locations should invest in robust telehealth platforms and encourage healthcare professionals to leverage this technology for remote consultations and follow-up care.\n4. Streamlined Administrative Processes\nEfficient administrative processes are vital for healthcare locations to minimize administrative burdens and maximize resources for patient care. Utilize electronic health records (EHRs) and digital appointment scheduling systems to streamline administrative tasks and enhance overall operational efficiency.\n5. Data-Driven Decision-Making\nData analytics plays a crucial role in healthcare location management. By collecting and analyzing data related to patient outcomes, resource utilization, and operational performance, healthcare locations can make informed decisions that lead to improved care quality and cost-efficiency.\n6. Patient-Centered Care\nPrioritizing patient-centered care is essential for healthcare locations. Encourage healthcare professionals to actively involve patients in their care decisions, promote transparent communication, and provide a supportive and empathetic environment.\n7. Infection Control Measures\nMaintaining rigorous infection control measures is critical, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare locations should follow guidelines from public health authorities and continuously update their infection prevention protocols.\n8. Regulatory Compliance\nCompliance with healthcare regulations is non-negotiable. Healthcare locations must stay abreast of regulatory changes and ensure that they adhere to all relevant standards, such as those set forth by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).\n9. Continuity of Care\nEnsuring continuity of care is a fundamental strategy. Healthcare locations should establish clear protocols for patient handovers, transitions between care settings, and coordination among healthcare professionals to prevent disruptions in care delivery.\n10. Community Engagement\nEngaging with the local community is an effective strategy to build trust and foster strong patient-provider relationships. Healthcare locations can organize health fairs, educational workshops, and outreach programs to address community health needs.\n11. Emergency Preparedness\nEmergency preparedness is paramount for healthcare locations. Develop comprehensive disaster response plans that cover a range of scenarios, from natural disasters to public health emergencies, and ensure that staff are trained and ready to respond effectively.\n12. Sustainability Initiatives\nSustainability initiatives not only benefit the environment but also contribute to cost savings and community well-being. Healthcare locations can implement energy-efficient practices, reduce waste, and explore green building certifications to minimize their environmental footprint.\n13. Staff Training and Development\nInvesting in staff training and development is an ongoing process. Provide opportunities for healthcare professionals to enhance their skills, earn certifications, and stay current with the latest medical advancements and best practices.\n14. Financial Management\nEffective financial management is essential for the sustainability of healthcare locations. Implement robust budgeting and cost-control measures, and explore opportunities for revenue diversification, such as offering additional services or collaborating with research institutions.\n15. Patient Feedback Mechanisms\nEstablishing patient feedback mechanisms, such as surveys and suggestion boxes, can provide valuable insights into areas for improvement. Act on patient feedback to enhance the patient experience and address any concerns promptly.\nManaging a healthcare location requires a multifaceted approach that balances patient care, staff well-being, and operational efficiency. These effective strategies encompass workforce optimization, technological integration, regulatory compliance, and community engagement. By prioritizing patient-centered care, infection control, and data-driven decision-making, healthcare locations can deliver high-quality care while maintaining financial stability.\nSustainability initiatives, emergency preparedness, and staff training contribute to the long-term success and resilience of healthcare locations. Continuous improvement and adaptability are key to addressing the ever-evolving challenges and opportunities in healthcare delivery. Ultimately, healthcare locations that embrace these strategies will be well-equipped to provide exceptional care to their communities while achieving operational excellence.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thecontentedself.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/path-to-knowledge-part-2/", "date": "2018-04-22T12:34:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945596.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422115536-20180422135536-00324.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9700366854667664, "token_count": 1015, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__198643920", "lang": "en", "text": "Before I continue with my discourse on Man’s viceregency, I have to dedicate some posts to one of the most important doctrines in Islam, and that is the Islamic concept of knowledge.\nIn this post, a quote from Martyr Mutahhari’s epic book ‘Man and Universe’ on the relation between knowledge and faith:\n‘Unfortunately certain parts of the Old Testament have in the Christian world created an idea of contradiction between knowledge and faith. This idea which has cost dearly to knowledge and faith both has its root in the Book of Genesis of the Old Testament. Narrating the story of Adam and the Forbidden Tree, the Book of Genesis, Chapter II, verses 16 and 17 says:\n“And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die”.\nIn the Chapter III, verses 1 – 7 it says:\n“Now the serpent was more subtile than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?\nAnd the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:\nBut of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons”.\nIn the verse 22 – 23 of the same chapter it says:\n“And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: “\nAccording to this conception of man, God, knowledge and disobedience, God wants that man should not be aware of good and evil. The Forbidden Tree is the tree of knowledge. Man attains knowledge only if he rebels against God’s command (disobeys the teachings of religion and the Prophets), but for that very reason he is driven out of God’s Heaven.\nOn the basis of this conception all evil insinuations are those of knowledge, and reason is the insinuating Devil.\nIn contrast, we learn from the Holy Quran that Allah taught all names (realities) to Adam and then ordered the angels to prostrate themselves before him. The Devil was condemned because he refused to prostrate himself before the vicegerent of Allah, who was aware of the realities. The Prophetic traditions have told us that the Forbidden Tree was that of avarice, greed and such like things, that is the things related to the animality of Adam, not to his humanity. The insinuating Devil always insinuates what is against reason and what answers the base desires. It is concupiscence and not reason that represents the Devil within man. Contrary to all this what we find in the Book of Genesis is really very amazing.\nIt is this conception which has divided the European history of culture during the past 1500 years into two distinct periods, namely the age of faith and the age of science, and has placed science and faith in opposition to each other.\nIn contrast the Islamic history of culture is divided into the period of advancement of knowledge and faith and the period in which both of them declined together. We Muslims should keep ourselves away from the wrong conception which has caused an irreparable loss to knowledge, faith and humanity, and must not blindly regard the contradiction between knowledge and faith as an indisputable fact.’\n‘Humanity of man depends on his knowledge of Allah. Man’s knowledge is not something separate from him. The more man attains knowledge of the universe, its system and its source, the more will develop his humanity, the 50% substance of which consists of knowledge.\nFrom the point of view of Islam, especially the Shi’ah doctrine, there is not the least doubt that the attainment of the knowledge of Allah, irrespective of its practical and social effects, is in itself a goal of humanity.’", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.kyn24.com/business-finans/fire-protection-systems-market-to-develop-rapidly-by-2023-127862.html", "date": "2019-03-24T15:23:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203462.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190324145706-20190324171706-00031.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.953709065914154, "token_count": 367, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__173891383", "lang": "en", "text": "This research study analyzes the market for fire protection systems in terms of revenue (US$ Mn). The fire protection systems market has been segmented on the basis of oil & gas operational sectors and regions. In terms of region, the market has been further divided into five segments. For the research, 2014 has been taken as the base year, while all forecasts have been given for the period from 2015 to 2023.\nMarket data for all the segments has been provided at the regional level from 2014 to 2023.The report provides a broad competitive analysis of companies engaged in the fire protection systems business. The report also includes the key market dynamics such as drivers, restraints, and opportunities affecting the Global Fire Protection Systems (for Oil and Gas) market. These market dynamics were analyzed in detail and are illustrated in the report with the help of supporting graphs and tables.\nDownload Sample Copy of this report @ https://www.xploremr.com/connectus/sample/1571\nThe high-level analysis in the report provides detailed insights into the fire protection systems business globally. There are currently numerous drivers of the market. One of the most prominent drivers is the stringent safety regulations by government institutions for the installation of fire protection systems. Market attractiveness analysis was carried out for the fire protection systems market on the basis of regions. Market attractiveness was estimated on the basis of common parameters that directly impact the market in different regions.\nThe downstream operational sector has been sub-segmented into four applications: production vessels, production platforms, refineries, and petrochemicals. The fire protection systems market was analyzed across five geographies: North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and South and Central America. Regional data has been provided for each sub-segment of the fire protection systems market.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.ricoh.com/technology/tech/022_gan.html", "date": "2019-05-19T17:37:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255071.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519161546-20190519183546-00520.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9235381484031677, "token_count": 195, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__116482016", "lang": "en", "text": "This method makes it possible to grow crystals with fewer defects than previously. Currently, gallium nitride substrates are produced by thick-film crystal growth using a vapor growth method called the VPE method. However, with this method a defect involving dislocation at a density of about 104 to 106cm-2 (10,000 to 1,000,000 defects per square centimeter) is generated, and this defect greatly deteriorates device performance. On the other hand, the flux method, a liquid-phase growth method, makes possible higher-quality crystals having dislocation density of about 103cm-2. This makes it possible to dramatically increase device performance. Also, the flux method enables growth of platelet crystals having a c-plane (polar plane) and prismatic crystals having an m-plane (non-polar plane) as a facet, which are important for device production, by controlling crystal growth conditions such as temperature and pressure (Figure 3).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://techie-buzz.com/falling-in-love-with-writing-unleash-your-creativity-and-find-your-voice/", "date": "2024-03-04T18:06:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476464.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304165127-20240304195127-00630.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9758530259132385, "token_count": 1639, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__102182299", "lang": "en", "text": "Dr. Susan Fielding, a silver-haired woman with an infectious smile and the vibrant spirit of a 20-year-old, was no ordinary college professor. She was an institution in herself, teaching English literature at the University of Toronto for over three decades. But her most cherished role was that of mentoring the members of the university’s Creative Writing Club, a position she held with fervour, guiding young minds towards discovering their voice and style.\nThe club convened every Tuesday and Thursday under the soft, warm glow of the university library’s antique chandeliers. A diverse group of students, some passionate about prose, some smitten by poetry, some eager to give shape to their untamed imagination. Under Dr. Fielding’s mentorship, the creative writing club was a cauldron of innovation and exploration. She often said, “The pen is mightier than the sword, but it must be handled with the same respect and responsibility.”\nIn the midst of one of their sessions, a discussion arose about the commercialization of academia. Simon, a third-year student, mentioned his struggle to afford tuition fees and textbooks and his reliance on cheap online essay-writing services like: writessayai.com to save time for his part-time job. Dr. Fielding, ever the attentive listener, saw a teaching moment here.\nThe following week, Dr. Fielding introduced a rewrite AI essay as the session’s topic. She highlighted how AI had started to penetrate various fields, including literature and essay writing. She explained that the concept was all about using technology to improve one’s writing, proofread, check grammar, or even generate ideas. But she stressed, “AI should be a tool, not a replacement. The true essence of writing comes from the heart, human experiences, and emotions, something an AI still cannot replicate.”\nDr. Fielding challenged the group to take the AI-generated essays and breathe life into them. It wasn’t about criticizing or rejecting technology but rather understanding the balance between using AI as a tool and maintaining the authenticity of human expression. The student’s task was to infuse the AI-produced essays with their thoughts, experiences, and emotions to give them a heart and soul.\nIn this unique challenge, the students were given AI-produced essays as their starting point, a baseline. These essays were grammatically correct and logically structured but devoid of the soul and heart that make human-written pieces so touching and relatable. They were akin to beautifully crafted mannequins, technically perfect, but lacking life. Dr. Fielding’s assignment was about infusing life into these lifeless mannequins.\nThe students were encouraged to dig deep into their wells of thoughts, experiences, and emotions and bring those elements into their writing. They were asked to read through the AI-produced content and then to ‘rewrite’ them, not just by tweaking words or rearranging sentences, but by imbuing their unique human touch into them. They had to infuse their perspectives, their insights, their reflections into the material, creating a bridge between the impersonal nature of AI and the deeply personal human experience.\nImagine an AI-produced paragraph about the sunrise. It may have accurately described the changing colors, the positioning of the sun, the time of day, and the expected temperature. The task for students was to make this information come alive. They would add their emotions when they saw the most beautiful sunrise in the Rocky Mountains, or their sense of peace when watching the sunrise after a night of studying, or the exhilaration of seeing the sunrise after their first all-night adventure.\nAdding a Human Touch\nThey were asked to share personal anecdotes, relate theories to real-life examples, question arguments based on their beliefs, and express their agreement or disagreement in unique, creative ways. This process not only gave a ‘soul’ to the AI-generated content but also helped students discover and fine-tune their writing styles.\nThe transformation of AI-produced essays was remarkable. What started as robotic, impersonal text became a series of engaging, compelling essays that exuded the students’ personalities and perspectives. Each piece became as unique as the student who rewrote it.\nIn this process, the students learned an invaluable lesson: the power of their own voice. They realized that while AI could provide a solid structure and seamless grammar, the magic lay in their personal touch. Through their thoughts, experiences, and emotions, they could transform any piece of writing into a heartfelt narrative that resonated with readers, thereby truly giving a heart and soul to their essays.\nOver the weeks, as the students worked on their challenges, the club witnessed a transformation. The members, once unsure and skeptical about their writing prowess, started to emerge as confident wordsmiths. They discovered their unique voices and styles, their ability to tell a story that was entirely their own. They learned to manipulate words into stunning expressions of their innermost thoughts and feelings. The AI tool was no longer a crutch but an ally in their creative journey.\nAs the students grew more comfortable and adept at utilizing the AI tool, they began to view it in a new light. It had initially been a crutch, a necessity to aid them in producing essays when they were unsure of their ability to write. But now, they found themselves leveraging the AI tool as a strategic partner in their creative endeavors. It wasn’t there to substitute their skills; instead, it served to supplement and elevate their unique voices.\nThe AI tool would provide them with a solid base to work with – a logically arranged, grammatically correct piece of text. It was like a canvas, ready and waiting for them to add their personal touch. With this groundwork laid out, the students could focus their energy on enhancing the content, infusing their personal insights, anecdotes, emotions, and experiences to produce a compelling narrative.\nBenefiting From Work\nUsing the AI tool as an ally also empowered them to experiment with their writing. They could take bold creative risks, knowing they had a safety net to fall back on. They could play around with different styles, tones, and perspectives, stretching their creative boundaries. They could try writing on new, challenging topics, confident that the AI tool could provide them with a starting point.\nMoreover, the AI tool was an incredible learning resource. By analyzing and rewriting AI-produced essays, the students were learning about structuring their thoughts, using diverse vocabulary, and maintaining grammatical integrity in their writing. They were not just becoming better writers, but more discerning readers, learning to critically analyze and enhance pre-existing content. Please also read an article about how to rewrite AI text to human text and check with an AI detector.\nUltimately, the AI tool transitioned from a crutch to an ally, a tool that was aiding them in their creative journey. It helped the students to express themselves better, encouraged them to push their creative limits, and enhanced their learning process. The students had transformed the AI tool into a powerful collaborator that was instrumental in their evolution as skilled and confident writers.\nThe magic of Dr. Fielding’s creative writing club was that it didn’t just teach students how to write; it inspired them to express, to share, and to grow. As the semester ended, Simon approached Dr. Fielding, thanking her for transforming his perspective towards writing. “Because of you,” he said, “I fell in love with writing.”\nUltimately, Dr. Fielding’s greatest lesson was this: writing is not just about shaping words but also about letting those words shape you. A beautifully crafted phrase or a compelling narrative is not just inked on paper; it’s a piece of the writer’s soul, alive and pulsating with the vibrancy of human life. And that’s a beauty no AI can ever replicate.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://hopediscovery.com.s3-website-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/share-glory/", "date": "2022-12-05T23:55:31Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711064.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205232822-20221206022822-00021.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.977294921875, "token_count": 1291, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__63001219", "lang": "en", "text": "Today, Bethlehem is a town of about 50,000 people, with narrow streets winding up, down and around the small Judean hills. One of the places that many of the tourist buses grind their way towards on the edge of town is known as the Shepherds’ Field. It’s a sparse, rock-strewn park with a few low trees and some patchy gardening and, across the road, a string of shops specialising in souvenirs carved from olive wood.\nA small, pale-stoned Franciscan church sits in the middle of the park. There is also a fountain splashing water over a stone sculpture of a shepherd and his sheep, as well as a series of caves that have been converted into intimate chapels. These chapels, adorned with miniature nativity scenes and with their ceilings blackened by the smoke of countless candles, are places that many of the busloads of visitors file into for a short time of worship. They invariably sing a Christmas carol or two from their own tradition of faith and in their own language. It sounds like a place in which it is always Christmas.\nTowards the back of the park, near the edge of the low hill on which it sits, a number of shaded outdoor chapel spaces look over a dry valley to the surrounding hills. The hillsides are rocky, with small tufts of beige grass and clumps of the darker greens of olive trees or small pine trees. Shepherds and their sheep have often been seen making their way along this valley, even in recent years, although this is becoming less common as the continuing spread of the town and surrounding settlements push the shepherds and their flocks further away.\nIt’s a remarkable place to pause, to sit and reflect, to remember and imagine the story that happened on these hills. As you listen to the sound of the breeze gently hissing through the pine needles and feel the dry dustiness of the air, you can almost hear the murmurs of a group of men on a quiet evening and imagine the sounds and smell of the sheep: “That night there were shepherds staying in the fields nearby, guarding their flocks of sheep. Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared among them, and the radiance of the Lord’s glory surrounded them” (Luke 2:8, 9).\nThe first thing we tend to think of when we hear glory in a context like this is some kind of really bright light. It seems this was part of the experience of these startled shepherds. It would have been dark out on those hills as they settled in for the night, with only a small fire at best.\nThe appearance of this heavenly being would have split the darkness and Luke’s description used the language of light, but it seems that this was more than a bright light. It was more like a wonderful presence that surrounded them. In the cool of the night, the shepherds might have felt its warmth and even some kind of profound emotion, far deeper than their initial alarm.\nBy the presence of this angel, the shepherds were somehow drawn into the glory of God.\nThe angel delivered the good news of Jesus’ birth and gave instructions about where to find the Baby, then the focus shifted again: “Suddenly, the angel was joined by a vast host of others—the armies of heaven—praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in highest heaven, and peace on earth to those with whom God is pleased’” (Luke 2:13, 14). It seems obvious that the song of the angels was not describing or ascribing to God mere brightness, as overwhelming as that might be. This declaration of glory was an exaltation of His greatness and goodness, the quality of His character and the wonder of His actions, a splendour that was so much more than appearance.\nThese two related uses of glory occur repeatedly throughout the Bible. It becomes a shorthand for God’s appearance and presence, as well as His greatness of magnitude and nature. As in the case of the shepherds, glory can be wonderful and terrifying at the same time. And it seems to be both a literal, physical reality and a metaphor that represents so much more. From the perspective of human experience, it seems “glory is what God looks like when for the time being all you have to look at Him with is a pair of eyes.”1\nSitting looking over the bare hills and the encroaching housing developments on the outskirts of Bethlehem, it seemed to me an unlikely place for such a display of God’s glory. But the appearance of glory amid the seemingly mundane is so much a part of the wonder and transformation to be found in the story of Jesus’ birth. The story also urges that the greater glory was not the dazzling appearance of the angels, the overwhelming experience of the shepherds or even the vast host of angels singing their hearts out in praise of God and His astonishing goodness. The greatest glory was Jesus Himself.\nThose who told the stories of Jesus insisted that the most tangible way to encounter the glory of God in our world was Jesus, as unlikely as it might have seemed. In a letter to the second generation of believers in the story of Jesus, John emphasised both the physical reality of their experience with Jesus and its ultimate transcendence:\nWe proclaim to you the one who existed from the beginning, whom we have heard and seen. We saw him with our own eyes and touched him with our own hands. He is the Word of life. This one who is life itself was revealed to us, and we have seen him. And now we testify and proclaim to you that he is the one who is eternal life. He was with the Father, and then he was revealed to us (1 John 1:1, 2).\nOne aspect of the incarnation is that God hid and even put aside His glory in becoming Jesus, to be born as a baby—but, in a greater sense, in this action and this story, His glory shines all the brighter.\n1. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker’s ABC (Revised and Expanded), HarperSanFrancisco, 1993, page 35.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://wordenphotography.com/blog/2013/11.november2013/11.2513why-arent-you-in-a-relationship.html", "date": "2018-02-24T23:41:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891816068.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224231522-20180225011522-00562.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9816349744796753, "token_count": 603, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__207156851", "lang": "en", "text": "Why Aren't You in a Relationship?\nFor the last long while I would get the question \"Nathan are you seeing anyone?\" And I would reply \"no.\"\nNot a bad question, except it was always followed by \"Oh why not?\" That is a much harder question than the first. After pondering it and attempting to answer honestly I would usually say something like: \"I'm not who I want to be yet.\"\nWhat does that mean?\n\"Well it means that I want to be a certain kind of person in life and until I become that person I don't even really know the me that I want my partner to marry. How can I ask someone to marry me if I don't know myself? I want to be kind and wise, I want to be patient and understanding. I want to be wealthy and generous. I want to be fit and sharp. I want to be exciting and interesting.\"\nI have a friend who I respect very much who listened very patiently to me but then challenged me:\n\"That may make sense in your head, but you are confused about what marriage is.\"\n\"I know what marriage is\" I replied. \"Marriage is one of the biggest decisions you will make in your life. It is the pinnacle commitment. It is mutual love and understanding.\"\nMy friend is wise, yet also has tact. He saw my problem, but instead of tearing me down he lead me to a realization.\n\"It is that and more. What else is marriage?\"\n\"It is a responsibility. A sign of maturity. A right of passage.\"\n\"What else is marriage?\"\n\"It is a relationship of service. Marriage is to always put the other before yourself.\"\n\"Yes it is. Why again did you say that you do not seek out a relationship?\"\n\"Because I'm not who I want to be.\"\n\"Interesting. Tell me more about this relationship of service.\"\n\"A relationship of service is the act of putting down what you want in order to focus on the other. It is a trust that meeting their needs is all you will ever need.\"\nAfter these words came out of my mouth a thought formed in the back of my head. My friend helped bring it to the front.\n\"When asked the question, 'Nathan, why are you not seeing anyone?' What is your answer?\n\"Because I'm not ready.\"\nAnd when you are asked 'why are you not ready?' What is your answer?\n'Because I want.\"\nI wanted to be a better person before I got into a relationship.\nWanting to be a better person is not a bad thing, but being in a healthy relationship isn't about wanting anything. It is about giving.\nNow when I'm asked why I'm not in a relationship, my painfully honest answer is:\n'There are too many things I want. I'm not ready to give.'", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://cavanektar.gr/en/gift-boxes", "date": "2020-11-30T17:35:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141216897.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20201130161537-20201130191537-00466.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9480403065681458, "token_count": 191, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__114535553", "lang": "en", "text": "When you give someone a gift, firstly you give a gift to yourself. At the world\\'s libraries, there are many books written about how to choose, show or even accept a gift, and every year the libraries are enriched with more books. A gift’s quintessence, though, has remained unchanged through the years and summarized at this widespread phrase: a gift is always a symbolic move. A whole procedure of expressing an emotion, which satisfies equally both the recipient and the giver.\nThat’s why a gift is always significant and mostly when the gift itself expresses your emotions, too. Your gratitude, your love, your respect.\nFor all the above mentioned reasons, we created these gift boxes, after careful and refined selection of their content, in order to create a unique feeling which will make you unforgettable. Gift boxes that are created with love, respect and generosity so as to inspire corresponding emotions to the receiver.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ngaal9.wixsite.com/my-site-1/context-mapping-study", "date": "2024-02-24T12:41:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474533.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224112548-20240224142548-00510.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9598232507705688, "token_count": 472, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__92199080", "lang": "en", "text": "Context Mapping Study\nThe context mapping shows an overview of the situation we are designing for. To show this, a paper was made including a literature study, a practical study; a personal visualization of the user, a storyboard, the discussion and the conclusion. In the literature study a few design challenges were created: finding a solution to stabilize the user while running on a treadmill and finding a solution to use the walker indoors and outdoors. In the practical study, the experience of the user is used to give an overview of the problem. A personal visualization of the user creates a good overview of the user using information like the needs, motivations, and frustrations of the user. The storyboard was made to show the current situation and the problem.\nThe literature study contains several research components on co-design and Ataxia. Ataxia is a diverse group of autosomal diseases that are genetically inherited. Most signs begin to show when the patient is around 40 years old. Dependent on the type of Ataxia (SCA1, SCA2, SCA3, etc.) different symptoms are generated. In this case, the participant has difficulties with keeping balance, coordination and speaking. Ataxia is degenerative; hence the symptoms increase overtime. This means that there is a high chance that the participant will end up in a wheelchair at some point.\nIn order to get a clear view of how the disease affects the participant. A visual portrait and storyboard were made. The visual portrait depicts the participant and discusses their characteristics, wants and needs, motivations and frustrations. Based on this visual portrait, it was found that the biggest frustration caused by the disease is the lack of mobility the participant experiences. A good problem is depicted in the storyboard. Here, the participant would like to go outside, but has no way to easily attach his walker to his tricycle without the help of others.\nBased on the findings in the literature study and the physical meetings, a preliminary design challenge was formulated. First, a design solution can be found for stabilizing the user on a treadmill. Second, a solution could be found for the problems concerning the user's walker, as it does not provide a proper solution for both using it inside and outside.\nFor further information, please refer to the full context mapping study below.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://themexicanduck.deviantart.com/", "date": "2017-03-25T01:44:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218188773.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212948-00309-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9751837849617004, "token_count": 748, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__273402879", "lang": "en", "text": "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.\nSo God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:26-27\nAnd the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.\nAnd the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. Genesis 2:7-8\nAnd the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. Genesis 2:18\nAnd the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;\nAnd the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. Genesis 2:21-22\nThis is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;\nMale and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. Genesis 5:1-2\nAnd it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.\nAnd the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. Genesis 6:6-7\nWhoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man. Genesis 9:6\nFor ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? Deuteronomy 4:32\nShall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Job 4:17\nRemember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again? Job 10:9\nThe Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. Job 33:4\nBut none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; Job 35:10\nKnow ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Psalm 100:3\nI will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. Psalm 139:14\nThe hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them. Proverbs 20:12\nAnd he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, Matthew 19:4\nBut from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. Mark 10:6", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://alcresta.com/about-long-chain-polyunsaturated-fatty-acids-lcpufas", "date": "2021-06-18T20:23:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487641593.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20210618200114-20210618230114-00306.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8895100355148315, "token_count": 1134, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__29175035", "lang": "en", "text": "The importance of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, or LCPUFAs, is well documented across the full spectrum of patient care from premature infants to aging adults and individuals with acute conditions or chronic diseases.1,2 LCPUFAs, including omega-3 (docosahexaenoic acid or DHA and eicosapentaenoic acid or EPA) and omega-6 (arachidonic acid or AA), are often referred to as essential or “good fats” because they are required for normal growth, to support immunity, and can improve cardiovascular and brain health. However, DHA/EPA and AA need to be hydrolyzed (digested) into their absorbable form – free fatty acids and monoglycerides – to obtain their health benefits.3 Omega-3 and omega-6 free fatty acids and monoglycerides are first absorbed from the gastrointestinal lumen into the blood stream, then they are incorporated into cell membranes in all tissues of the body, in particular the brain, retina, and heart.\nNearly all of today’s infant formulas and adult nutritional drinks have been enhanced to include the triglyceride form of DHA/EPA and AA. Most people can break these fats down into their absorbable fatty acid and monoglyceride forms and then get the benefits of utilizing these key omega-3 and omega-6 nutrients. However, across many patient groups, malabsorption, or the inability to adequately digest or absorb key nutrients in fats such as LCPUFAs, is a challenge.4 These people lack sufficient endogenous enzymes, have impaired gastrointestinal function, or reduced pool of bile salts to sufficiently digest the triglyceride form of LCPUFAs. When the pancreas is compromised, it leads to an inability to digest fats, particularly LCPUFAs, and can result in poor growth and development, reduced caloric intake, weight loss, reduced life expectancy, and diminished quality of life.5\nAlcresta Therapeutics is providing the next generation solution to address the problem of inadequate nutrient digestion by offering a broad range of point-of-care enzyme-based products specifically designed to improve the delivery, digestion, and absorption of key nutrients such as LCPUFAs.\nAbout DHA and EPA\nDHA is the primary structural fat in the brain and retina of the eye, and is also a key component of the heart.6,7 Numerous studies have shown that DHA and EPA omega-3 are critically important for infant brain, eye, and nervous system development, especially in the third trimester of pregnancy, and that these fatty acids support long-term heart health and immune system strength.8 In adults, DHA and EPA have demonstrated extensive health benefits, including the improvement of cognitive function, decreased inflammation, support in cancer treatments and the prevention of heart disease. Over time, decreased fat absorption can lead to deficiencies in important fatty acids, such as omega-3. A balanced ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids is beneficial in maintaining normal development, immunological, and cognitive function as well as overall health.2\nArachidonic acid, AA, is a long-chain omega-6 fatty acid. It is the principal omega-6 in the brain and represents about 48 percent of the omega-6 fats.\nLike DHA and EPA, AA omega-6 is important for proper brain development in infants and for a lifetime of neurological health. It is also a precursor to a group of hormone-like substances called eicosanoids that play a role in immunity, blood clotting, and other vital functions in the body.9\n1. Arnoldussen IA, Killian AJ. Impact of DHA on metabolic diseases from womb to tomb. Mar Drugs 2014;12(12):6190-6212.\n2. Uauy R, Mena P, Rojas C. Essential fatty acids in early life: structural and functional role. Proc Nutr Soc 2000;59(1):3-15.\n3. Simopoulos AP. The importance of the ratio of omega 6/omega 3 essential fatty acids. Biomed Pharmacother 2002;56(8):365-379.\n4. Peretti N et al. Mechanisms of lipid malabsorption in cystic fibrosis: the impact of essential fatty acids deficiency. Nutr Metab 2005;2(1):11.\n5. Bakker EM et al. Determining the presence of lung disease in young children with cystic fibrosis: lung clearance index, oxygen saturation and cough frequency. J Cyst Fibros 2012;11(3):223-230.\n6. SanGiovanni JP, Chew EY. The role of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in health and disease of the retina. Prog Retin Eye Res 2005;24(1):87-138.\n7. Ramadeen A, Dorian P. How are n-3 LCPUFAs antiarrhythmatic? A reassessment of n-3 LCPUFAs in cardiac disease. Cardiol Res Pract 2012;2012:746709.\n8. Fares S et al. Plasma arachidonic and docosahexaenoic acids in Tunisian very low birth weight infants: status and association with selected neonatal morbidities. J Health Pop Nutr 2015;33:1.\n9. Calder PC. Omega-3 fatty acids and inflammatory processes. Nutrients 2010;2(3):355-374.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://brightbonesmontana.com/2018/04/11/khaty-xiong/", "date": "2019-12-08T10:42:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540508599.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20191208095535-20191208123535-00469.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9156292676925659, "token_count": 125, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__177735532", "lang": "en", "text": "Khaty Xiong is the daughter of Hmong refugees from Laos. She is the author of Poor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015) and three poetry chapbooks: Elegies (University of Montana, 2013), Deer Hour (New Michigan Press, 2014), and Ode to the Far Shore (Platypus Press, 2016). Xiong has received an award from the Ohio Arts Council and a fellowship from the MacDowell Colony. Her work has been published in POETRY, The New York Times, How Do I Begin?: A Hmong American Literary Anthology and elsewhere.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://finitetsai.github.io/research/LRBFCM/", "date": "2020-10-30T16:01:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107911027.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20201030153002-20201030183002-00109.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8292246460914612, "token_count": 141, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__203409247", "lang": "en", "text": "Local Radial Basis Function Collocation Method\nThe local radial basis function collocation method (LRBFCM) based on the multiquadric type radial basis function is used to simulate the water wave propagation with oblique incidence and radiation.\nThe LRBFCM is a meshless numerical method and its applications to the high-order radiation boundary condition are much simpler compared with the traditional numericalmethods. (Tsai et al., 2015)\nChia-Cheng Tsai, Zhong-Han Lin and Tai-Wen Hsu (2015, Jul). Using local radial basis function collocation method to approximate radiation boundary conditions. Ocean Engineering, 105, 231–241.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.youpc.ro/produs/carte-warhammer-aos-hallowed-knights-plague-garden-paperback-31800/", "date": "2024-04-20T12:53:31Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00298.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8621542453765869, "token_count": 280, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__91048233", "lang": "en", "text": "A Warhammer Age of Sigmar novel\nDuring the greatest battles of the War for Life, the Stormcast Eternals suffered a great tragedy: the Hallowed Knights Lord-Castellant Lorus Grymn was lost to the Realm of Chaos. Now his fellow Steel Souls venture into the domain of Nurgle himself in search of their lost comrade…\nREAD IT BECAUSE\nIt’s a return to the Mortal Realms… sort of. It’s something new for the Age of Sigmar as the Stormcast Eternals take on Chaos not just in the usual places, but right in the very heart of the Dark Gods’ own domain.\nAs the War for the Realm of Life continues, Lord-Castellant Lorrus Grymn leads the battered remnants of the Steel Souls warrior chamber against the sargasso-citadels of the Verdant Bay. The Hallowed Knights claim victory, but at a terrible cost – Grymn is lost to Realm of Chaos. Now Gardus, newly-reforged and fresh from the destruction of the Scabrous Sprawl, must lead his warriors into the foetid heart of Nurgle’s realm in search of the Lord-Castellant, where they must once more brave the horrors of the Realm of Decay…\nWritten by Josh Reynolds.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://oliverdentalimplants.com/stannous-fluoride-toothpaste-effective-reducing-bad-breath/", "date": "2021-10-19T06:22:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585242.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019043325-20211019073325-00505.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9381836652755737, "token_count": 102, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__164019230", "lang": "en", "text": "Three separate clinical studies each came to the same conclusion: Stannous fluoride containing toothpastes are more effective at controlling mouth odor than are other toothpastes. Most other toothpastes contain sodium fluoride as the active ingredient. A statistically significant greater breath benefit was found with stannous fluoride toothpaste compared to sodium fluoride toothpaste. Stannous fluoride contains tin and has the chemical formula SnF2. It is found in several toothpastes including Colgate Total and Crest Pro Health Gum Protection.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://math.sjtu.edu.cn/research/seminar-show.php?id=-3771", "date": "2019-09-19T14:42:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573533.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20190919142838-20190919164838-00076.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7178608179092407, "token_count": 524, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__70948422", "lang": "en", "text": "摘要：The change-point detection has been carried out in terms of the Euclidean minimum spanning tree (MST) and shortest Hamiltonian path (SHP), with successful applications in the determination of authorship of a classic novel, the detection of change in a network over time, the detection of cell divisions, etc. However, these Euclidean graph-based tests may fail if a dataset contains random interferences. To solve this problem, we present a powerful non-Euclidean SHP-based test, which is consistent and distribution-free. The simulation shows that the test is more powerful than both Euclidean MST- and SHP-based tests and the non-Euclidean MST-based test. Its applicability in detecting both landing and departure times in video data of bees’ flower visits is illustrated.\n报告人介绍：史晓平博士，2011年博士毕业于加拿大约克大学，紧接着在多伦多大学从事博士后研究，随后分别在约克大学和圣弗朗西斯·格扎维埃大学任教，2016年加入汤姆森河大学至今担任助理教授职务，主要从事分布的鞍点近似，复合似然推断，变量选择，基于图论方法的变点检测，以及图像的去噪。研究成果主要发表在PNAS, Canadian Journal of Statistics, Statistica Sinica, Statistics and Computing, 中国科学等.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.hiddenhemingway.com/inside-the-ernest-hemingway-archives-of-oak-park/", "date": "2017-12-15T08:05:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948567785.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20171215075536-20171215095536-00059.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9680884480476379, "token_count": 1403, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__203270457", "lang": "en", "text": "By Robert K .Elder\nHidden Hemingway started as a newspaper article – or, more accurately, a special issue of the Oak Leaves, the longtime chronicle of news in Oak Park, which Ernest Hemingway delivered as a teen.\nIn 2014, I was the editor-in-chief of a newspaper chain that included the Oak Leaves. I wanted to commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I and write about Hemingway, the village’s most famous casualty of that war. I had moved to Oak Park from Chicago with my family in 2007, and had heard all the Hemingway stories, visited the museum and his birthplace home, both on Oak Park Avenue.\nThe special edition also gave me the opportunity to explore the Hemingway legacy and debunk the “wide lawns” myth (Hemingway never said or wrote that his hometown was a place of “wide lawns and narrow minds”).\nIt also gave me the chance to spend time with Barbara Ballinger, a legendary local librarian and longtime board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park, whose collection was housed in the third floor of the Oak Park Public Library. Over a couple of afternoons, we sifted through Hemingway’s family photos, teen notebooks, the “Dear John” letter from his World War I love Agnes von Kurowsky – even a dental X-ray.\nThe Foundation hosted a series of events that July when the Oak Leaves issue came out, celebrating the author’s 115th birthday and the release of Cambridge University Press’s second volume of his letters. Penn State University’s Sandra Spanier, the editor of the series, spoke to a capacity crowd about Hemingway’s letters, his almost pathological love of correspondence and his packrat tendencies.\nShe said: “Hemingway saved every scrap of paper he ever touched.”\nHad I not already been through the Hemingway archives in Oak Park, I would have thought it a hyperbolic statement. If anything, Spanier was downplaying the amount of material not only that Hemingway kept, but that his siblings and parents saved as well. Since starting this book, my collaborators and I have debated – lightheartedly – if it was sentimentality or a hoarding instinct that led the Hemingways to document their family history so meticulously, to save news clippings, birthday cards, lists, sheet music, and childhood books.\nClarence “Ed” Hemingway always encouraged his children to keep account books, and Grace compiled voluminous scrapbooks, so it’s easy to trace the instinct. Their children—especially Ernest and his sister Marcelline—were constantly adding to an empire of letters, photographs, receipts and trinkets that seem to carry memories stronger than any blessing or curse.\nThat July, I approached John W. Berry, the chairman of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. It was a hot July day during the “Running of the Bulls” events, where my 6-year-old twins – and hordes of children like them – ran around the park in boxes decorated to look like bulls. It was a part of the foundation’s yearly Hemingway celebrations. I asked John if he ever been approached about allowing a book to be done on the archives? He hadn’t. And it was also too hot outside to talk about it. John was wearing a red scarf around his neck, handing out balloons and plastic bull keyrings to kids. He needed time to think about it.\nWithin a few weeks, however, it was announced that Hemingway Society had chosen Oak Park to host its 17th biennial International Hemingway Conference. A book celebrating Oak Park, the collection, and the village’s most famous author seemed like serendipity.\nFor Hemingway the writer, of course, all the material he saved was not only biography but also research. He was gathering data and details that made the life lived in his books more real, tangible.\nWe endeavored to do the same with this book, to tell a life story through objects, ephemera and photos that will illuminate Hemingway’s history. Some of what we found contradicts the public image he built for himself, some of it supports his larger-than-life myth. We hope, in all, that it strives to make him more human and also to provide scholarly insight.\nThe items in this volume are more than stage dressing for a literary life, more than marginalia. They provide definition, and in some cases, documentation of Hemingway’s ambition, heartbreak, literary triumphs and trials, joys and tragedies. It’s Hemingway’s stature as a Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning author that has drawn so many biographers and historians to his work. But it’s also the wealth of material that he left behind that makes him such a compelling, engaging and often infuriating research subject.\nLastly, a note on the word “archives” as used in title of this book. It’s very much intended to mean archives, plural. The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park is the steward of the largest collection in the author’s hometown, which is itself comprised of many different collections, most notably the family archive of Marcelline Hemingway Sanford and items from private collectors such as Waring Jones (1927-2008). The Historical Society of Oak Park and River Forest and the Oak Park Public Library are also treasure troves of Hemingway material, some of which we share in this volume.\nFor years, Hemingway scholars such as Carlos Baker, Jeffrey Meyers, Michael Reynolds, and Paul Hendrickson have used these hometown archives for their deeply researched biographies. A Monty Python alum even visited the archives for his TV series (and eventual book) Michael Palin’s Hemingway Adventure. As researchers ourselves, we’re indebted to all those who have chronicled Hemingway’s life and work in such detail.\nNow, for the first time, my co-authors and I are offering the same intimate experiences we had with the Hemingway collections to the general public, without the searching through boxes and wading through folders. Not that this is a complete document of the treasures to be found in Oak Park. Not by a long shot. There’s still more to be catalogued, more to be found. We hope this book serves as a primer for all future Hemingway admirers and scholars who hope to meet the author in his hometown through the archives he left behind.\nRobert K. Elder\nOak Park, IL.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://locality.org.uk/blog/libraries/", "date": "2020-02-24T06:00:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145897.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20200224040929-20200224070929-00175.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9649341702461243, "token_count": 764, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__67489283", "lang": "en", "text": "For World Book Day, bestselling children’s author Timothy Knapman, whose books are some of the most borrowed from UK libraries, blogs about the vibrancy and wonder of our libraries and why we should protect them now and for future generations.\nThere ought to be a warning on the door of every library, in letters ten feet high – BE AWARE: MONSTERS WITHIN! And not just monsters, either, for heroes and villains do battle on their shelves, adventure swings from armchair to armchair and, if you look very closely, you’ll see that something from outer space is hitching a ride on the book trolley.\nThat’s the thing about libraries. They look like sober, respectable buildings but in fact they are full of mischief. The children reading books inside may appear quiet and concentrating, but in their heads they are pirate queens pillaging the spice islands, rocket scientists blasting to the farthest stars, knights and kings, vampires and dragons. And the oh-so-responsible-looking grown-ups checking out their weekly allowance of books are actually smuggling treasure into the unsuspecting outside world. Under their arms may be books that have changed the course of history (books can do that).\nThis sense of infinite possibilities is the reason I’ve always loved libraries, and why I passionately believe they must be protected and saved so that our communities can flourish. Libraries keep company with banks and supermarkets and shoe shops – all of which are very important too, of course, but we know what we’re going to get in a bank or a supermarket or a shoe shop. Every time you enter the library, it’s a journey into the unknown, and you don’t know where you’re going to end up.\nI remember that when I was a boy, going to the library felt like being Mr Benn. Mr Benn was a character on television, created by David McKee. He was a city gent in a dark suit and bowler hat, indistinguishable from the thousands of other city gents who still, just about, wore bowler hats back then. Only Mr Benn had a secret. He liked visiting his local costume shop. Once he had shed his everyday clothes – and, with them, his everyday life – and dressed up as a wizard or a balloonist or a red knight, he would walk through a magical door into whatever world his costume suggested, and have an adventure. The library was my costume shop, the place where I could choose to be whatever I wanted, and I knew the adventure was there for the taking. Soon enough, I was writing my own stories and that’s how I became a writer – all thanks to my local library.\nWriting – and reading too, for that matter – are private activities. We turn our backs on the world to do them. In this frenetic, modern age of updates and notifications, likes and shares, followers and trolls, they are blessed opportunities for sustained concentration. But in libraries, we do them sitting side by side. Libraries bring us together.\nTemples of tales, warehouses of wonder, story orchards heavy with fruit, libraries are enchanted places of solitude and communication – with our community and with our infinite inner selves. They are as essential to our lives as the water in the tap and the air we breathe so no wonder we take them for granted. But make no mistake: to sell one off is to diminish the quality of all our lives, to close off countless possibilities of inspiration and escape. They should be saved and cherished.\nTimothy Knapman is the author of over sixty books for children, including Superhero Mum, Dinosaurs in the Supermarket and Follow The Track All The Way Back.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sleepcoaching.com/directory/len-worley-phd-evolutionary-dreaming/", "date": "2024-03-03T03:39:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476180.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303011622-20240303041622-00737.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9602062106132507, "token_count": 858, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__210568245", "lang": "en", "text": "Over the last thirty years, I have worked as a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, Rolfing bodyworker, and dream researcher and mentor. I obtained my Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Florida State University in 1981.\nI currently spend most of my time writing and creating films to inspire and educate about the wisdom available in dreams. I also mentor those who wish to master the skills of dreamwork, devoting a few hours each week to online consultations for individuals and small groups. Along with dreamwork, I offer guidance for those wishing to solve a life conundrum or simply get more from life.\nMy devotion to the study of dreams came not from idle curiosity but rather as the result of being plunged into a personal crisis at age 39. Though I had obtained my PhD in psychology some years earlier, I found that my training did not prepare me for the grief I suffered and could not find my way out of due to the loss of a romantic relationship.\nI now consider that Fate intervened when I discovered the author and therapist Sukie Colegrave, who helped me find the most unexpected solutions to my dilemma by opening the wisdom of dreams to me. This remains the pivotal discovery of my life. While I had always been intrigued with and curious about dreams, I had never been able to discern the guidance that is available through the dreaming process. In a word, I was astounded to realize that there is a benevolent, intelligent process at work that seeks to help us face the challenges of life.\nMy writing is an expression of gratitude for my mentors and to the dreaming process itself which have given me life-saving wisdom. But because dreaming does not occur in a vacuum but is in response to the particular dilemmas of our lives, my writing also addresses the challenges I faced from having grown up in the confines of the religious fundamentalism in the deep south of the USA. Racism was in the air we breathed, and the hyper-conservative, authoritarian atmosphere in my home, church, and community led to me being deeply divided within myself. My religious training taught that there were evil forces not only in the world but also potentially within each of us, and for this reason we should always be on guard. Such a worldview creates a painful fragmentation within the personality, leading to a presumption that there are good and bad parts of us.\nBecause of this early influence, much of my attention has been devoted to understanding the integration process; that is, how to make use of all aspects of the self, even those parts of personality that may initially be threatening to approach. Dreams provide x-ray vision into the deeper parts of the self that are often in opposition to one another, and at the same time they provide glimpses into some of our greatest undeveloped potentials.\nPsychological integration requires deep compassion, courage, and especially wisdom to achieve what Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung described as Wholeness, a state whereby the various parts of the self are actualized and work in harmony to create a potent and fulfilling life.\nOver the last 30 years dreams have helped me make sense of my life and actualize strengths I missed out on developing in my restrictive childhood. As you can read in one of my forthcoming books about therapeutic psychedelics, I also underwent a long and profoundly difficult exploration with visionary plants and compounds. To say that these experiences were life-changing grossly understates their impact on me. But even after such intense encounters, which often felt like death and rebirth experiences, they pale in value compared to the steady, daily, uncanny wisdom that comes through dreaming.\nFor this reason, I am devoting the remaining years of my life, which I am hopeful will be many, to helping others access the benefits of this marvelous, intelligent process that tirelessly works on our behalf to help us become far more than we have ever imagined we could be.\nI provide private dreamwork consultations for those wishing to better understand their dreams. Each one-hour session explores one or more dreams in depth. Additionally, I offer mentoring to those who wish to master the skills of dreamwork. These sessions explore your dreams while highlighting the Investigative Tools of Dreamwork that I use. An individualized course of study is provided for each mentee.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://alldailydirt.wordpress.com/tag/food/", "date": "2020-07-07T16:39:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655893487.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20200707142557-20200707172557-00202.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9559541344642639, "token_count": 688, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-29", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__248126904", "lang": "en", "text": "They say mothers and daughters become closer when daughters become mothers. Already having a close relationship with my mom, I didn’t think much of it, but over the course of time, it’s so true. Having my own sweet baby, has bonded my mom and I in a whole new light. Especially as we approach my first Mother’s Day as ‘mommy.’\nSo to my mom, thank you for your unending sacrifices that you’ve made and continue to make for our family. It doesn’t go unnoticed. Thank you for everything you endured both emotionally and physically to bring Tyler, Kalie, and I into the world. Also, I’m very sorry for making you feel guilty for not spending enough time with us when Kalie came into the world. 😉 I now know how emotionally and physically draining one newborn can be, let alone having 2 older children to love on at the same time. Thank you for loving us through our awkward phases, rebellious phases, achievements, engagements, weddings, and now, pregnancies. I know I wasn’t the easiest person to get along with being pregnant. My hormones were CrAzY! Thank you for bringing me maternity clothes to help me feel girly when I felt like a killer whale. Thank you for bringing meals when I was too sick, and then too weak to cook. And finally, thank you for instilling the confidence in me that I really can rock this whole mom thing!\nNow, to my daughter, thank you for making me a mommy. Aside from being your daddy’s wife, it’s the best role I’ve ever had. Nothing prepared me for your first cry after 36 hours of labor. I still get chills thinking about it. You were so beautiful. Every day you amaze me. God pulled out all the stops when He created you and chose me to be your mommy. Some days I don’t feel qualified to be your mommy, but you make it so easy. I love when your eyes light up on our adventures. I love your gentle, but mischievous spirit. You have filled my heart with more joy than I ever thought possible, and I can not wait to watch you grow. But take your time. There’s no rush to grow up. I promise to always be there for you no matter what. I’ll do my best to expose you to new things, but also, how to appreciate the simple things in life. We’re going to have so much fun. I love you, sweet girl!\nTo my mother-in-law, thank you for raising such a patient, caring, young man. He went from being your sweet baby, to that curious little boy, to my best friend, to my husband, to the best daddy to our little girl. I’m sure it wasn’t easy letting him go and allowing us to cling to each other as we figured out this whole marriage and now parenting thing. We are so thankful to have you in our lives.\nThey say only superheroes wear capes, but I think every mom deserves a cape. They’re the real superheroes working quietly behind the scenes to make sure the day-to-day operations run smoothly.\nHappy Mother’s Day!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://mujeresobresalientes.blogspot.com/2015/10/marriage-should-be-about-giving.html", "date": "2018-06-21T15:54:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864191.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621153153-20180621173153-00609.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9819353818893433, "token_count": 190, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__109598027", "lang": "en", "text": "Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) was a French author and existentialist philosopher. Her The Second Sex is one of the foundational texts of modern feminism and philosophy (as well as the source of the quote below). She was the partner of fellow philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre for nearly 50 years. They remain together today, at least in a manner of speaking.\nSartre and Beauvoir never married, nor did they ever establish a joint-household. Their relationship has been the subject of much scholarship and speculation. Today's words of wisdom feature Beauvoir's impression of one the major ills of marriage: that it's too often seen as two people completing each other rather than two people giving to each other:\n\"The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength, each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.mylittlelibrarynz.com/products/being-muslim-a-practical-guide", "date": "2023-12-04T16:53:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100531.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204151108-20231204181108-00211.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9371134042739868, "token_count": 602, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__139436928", "lang": "en", "text": "Being Muslim is a compilation of essential concepts and timeless wisdom compiled from over 20 reliable authorities in Islam, bringing all of these components together in one convenient, easily readable guide.\nPractical • Clear • Reliable\nThis book is meant to give readers practical and useful knowledge that can help them understand what it means to be Muslim.\nWhether you are completely new to the religion or need to brush up on some of the basics, Being Muslim is an excellent guide to reconnect to the most essential aspects of Islam. The entire manual clearly explains the most fundamental aspects of the faith and assumes no background knowledge at all.\nForeword by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf\n\"All of the great learning that Muslims displayed throughout their history was always predicated on a foundational, core knowledge that the great usuli scholars of Islamic jurisprudence called fard 'ayn, or 'the individual obligations.'\n\"This short book has that little amount of individually responsible knowledge necessary for a new Muslim or an unlearned Muslim rediscovering his or her religion. Dr. Asad Tarsin has rendered our community an important service by designing and writing a concise, useful, and accurate manual of core knowledge that every Muslim should know. It is a basic manual, and much needed in our time of great ignorance from within and without the Muslim community.\"\nFrom the foreword by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf\nBeing Muslim—A Deeper Look\nWe live in confusing times. When it comes to learning Islam, many wonder, \"Where do I start? What should I start with?\" Being Muslim presents content that is both reliable—based in Islamic scholarship—and not obscured in jargon and difficult terminology. It was designed to include what every Muslim should know as well as those things that are essential to a proper understanding of the overall vision and spirit of Islam.\nBeing Muslim uses the Narration of Gabriel (Hadith Jibril) as a basic framework, then covers the basics of Islamic belief, how to pray and fast, spiritual refinement, a brief examination of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, an introduction to the Quran, and guidelines for living an Islamically ethical lifestyle. It also includes a glossary of frequently used Islamic terms, an appendix of short selections from the Quran, and a list of recommended reading.\nLearn the Essentials\n\"Praise belongs to God, the One Who taught us\nthe very knowledge He made obligatory upon us.\"\n—Imam 'Abd al-Wahid ibn 'Ashir\nBeing Muslim prioritizes your learning by focusing primarily on what is called fard 'ayn, that which every Muslim must learn in order to know and worship God appropriately. This \"how-to\" guide includes the essentials of Muslim belief, the rites known as the pillars of Islam, and an understanding of character refinement. By focusing on the essentials—while also providing context and important background knowledge—Being Muslim allows students to learn what is most vital and practical.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.sofieryan.com/books/", "date": "2015-10-07T12:35:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-40/segments/1443737864605.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20151001221744-00201-ip-10-137-6-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9529690146446228, "token_count": 469, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-40__0__30071081", "lang": "en", "text": "Things have been quiet in the coastal town of North Harbor, Maine, since Sarah Grayson and her rescue cat, Elvis, solved their first murder. Sarah is happy running Second Chance, the shop where she sells lovingly refurbished and repurposed items. But then she gets dragged into a controversy over developing the waterfront. Most of the residents—including Sarah—are for it, but there is one holdout—baker Lily Carter.\nSo when Lily is found murdered in her bakery, it looks like somebody wanted to remove the only obstacle to the development. But Sarah soon discovers that nothing is as simple as it seems. Now, with the help of her cat’s uncanny ability to detect a lie, and her senior citizen sleuth friends, Sarah is narrowing down the suspects. But can she collar the culprit before the ruthless killer pounces again?\nThe first book from Obsidian in the new Second Chance Cat mystery series, The Whole Cat & Caboodle, from the author of the best-selling Magical Cats mysteries, Sofie Kelly, writing as Sofie Ryan.\nSarah Grayson runs Second Chance, a repurpose shop in North Harbor, Maine. When her beloved grandmother volunteers Sarah to teach one of her do-it-yourself workshops for free to a group of seniors, Sarah ends up discovering the body of Arthur Fenety. She also reconnects with hunky Nick Elliot, an investigator for the medical examiner’s office.\nIt turns out the charming, silver haired Fenety was a con artist with a string of wives and fiancés, who were all left a lot poorer after their time with the man. Since he’d been in North Harbor, Fenety had been seeing Madeline Hamilton, and when the police arrest Maddie for Fenety’s murder, her friends—including Nick’s mother, Charlotte—decide to investigate. Sarah has never forgotten how kind Maddie was when Sarah’s father died, and she refuses to believe the older woman could hurt anyone. Before she knows it, Sarah and her would-be detectives, with some help from Mr. P., a geriatric computer whiz, and Elvis, a cat with an uncanny nose for sniffing out the truth, are on the trail of a cold-hearted killer.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ilovesuccess.gumroad.com/l/qqULy", "date": "2021-10-25T07:39:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587655.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025061300-20211025091300-00492.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9611456990242004, "token_count": 498, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__249483541", "lang": "en", "text": "Did you know that you can make your dreams come true? Well, the ability is there but many of us don't really know where to start. How do you really manage to achieve living the life that you desire and accomplish everything that you wish for?\nThe Goal Book is a different and innovative book on personal development. It is addressed to everyone who wants to succeed in life, but have not yet come up with how to get there. In a simple and entertaining way Peter Jumrukovski guides the reader to set goals in life's key areas: health, money, personal development, relationships and career - and to find a balance between them. With a mix of research, real life stories and anecdotes, he shows that everyone can actually achieve exactly what they want by writing down their goals and actively working towards them every day.\nAbout the Author\nPeter Jumrukovski has by working with goals for the last fifteen years accomplished to win a World Championship bronze medal (Shotokan) and eight national championships in karate, traveled the world, become a top marketing salesman and fulfilled his childhood dream of moving across the globe from Sweden to Los Angeles. His dream has long been to help others succeed in achieving their goals and that is exactly what he is doing right now!\n\"I can really recommend it, fantastic book\"\n– MAGNUS HELGESSON, Founder of the 100 million dollar revenue restaurant chain Harrys\n“Thank you for a fantastic book. It allowed me to develop a lot and it makes one realize that development happens outside your comfort zone!”\n– MARTINA OLOVSSON\n“If you’re considering buying a book right now, this is it. It will boost your business, you as a person and everything as a whole.”\n– PETER ROSWALL\n”Best investment I have ever made! I highly recommend it!”\n– RICHARD DIMELL\n”The Goal Book is the BEST self development book I have ever read. I am working towards my goals right now and I am so grateful!”\n– REBECKA MARIE GUSTAFSSON\nMake an investment in yourself and order The Goal Book today by pressing the button below.\nYou have nothing to lose, we are so sure that you will love The Goal Book that we will give you a 100% refund if you are not satisfied.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://wehaveastake.org/2018/05/better-angels-it-took-kindness-patience-and-love-to-restore-gloria-to-the-world/", "date": "2020-05-29T12:52:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347404857.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20200529121120-20200529151120-00479.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9755929708480835, "token_count": 231, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-24", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__1072844", "lang": "en", "text": "By Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 26, 2018\nGloria Dawson was 24 years old when, in the fall of 1990, her mother was bringing potatoes up from the basement of her West Allis, Wisconsin, home, tumbled back down the steps and died.\nGrief-stricken, Gloria went to her room and stayed there, venturing out as infrequently as possible.\nGloria was small and fragile. She was born three months prematurely and weighed less than two pounds. Even now, at 51, she’s tiny. Four-foot-four. Sixty-six pounds.\nShe has Down syndrome and an associated heart condition. Her mother, Claire, and her father, Marty, tried to mainstream Gloria at a nearby elementary school, but the ordinary rambunctiousness of her classmates proved to be too much.\nSo Gloria stayed home with her mom, dad and older sister, Colleen. At the center of their home was Claire. Claire was its joy and source of laughter. When Claire died, the house grew sad.\nEnter the incandescent Rosa Dodd.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://zimcancerregistry.co.zw/component/k2/item/23-zncr-2015-annual-report.html?tmpl=component&print=1", "date": "2020-07-03T19:48:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655882934.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20200703184459-20200703214459-00077.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9822604656219482, "token_count": 214, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-29", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__204399739", "lang": "en", "text": "The 26th Annual Report of the ZNCR for the year 2015 was published on 11th October 2017, exactly one year after the release of the 2015 report.This is part of the Registry’s ongoing contribution to cancer prevention and control in Zimbabwe. The ZNCR is the primary source of reliable cancer information in the country. The publication of the report in October was timed to coincide with breast cancer awareness activities taking place during the month. October is breast cancer awareness month.\nThe ZNCR is delighted that its data have been published in Volume XI of 'Cancer Incidents in 5 Continents' which was unveiled at the 39th Annual Scientific Conference of the International Association of Cancer Registries which was held in Utrecht, Netherlands in October 2017. The ZNCR also contributed data to the 3rd volume of the 'International Incidents of Childhood Cancer' which was published early this year. The ZNCR is one of the few registries from Africa that have been consistent in their contribution to these prestigious international publications on cancer incidents worldwide.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://liketele.blogspot.com/2008/10/recommended-halloween-reading-comics.html", "date": "2018-11-21T18:19:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039749562.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20181121173523-20181121195523-00395.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9549689888954163, "token_count": 820, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__201330995", "lang": "en", "text": "Happy Halloween, folks! In continuing with our Halloween-themed celebration -- a \"spooktacular,\" if you will -- of all great scary stuff, I thought it might be interesting to talk about some excellent horror comic books. That's right, comic books. While comics generally have a for-kids-only, superheroes-in-tights stigma, the medium actually has a long history of producing terrific horror stories. Thusly, here are a few personal favorites that are sure to deliver thrills and chills.\nThe EC Archives: Shock Suspenstories\nEC Comics, a comic book publisher from the 40s and 50s, produced a slew of innovative horror comics -- notable, aside from how frightening they are, for introducing new techniques in art, narrative, and overall chance-taking -- before being all but shut down thanks to some very irrational fears about the effects of comics on kids. Thanks to the EC Archives series of hardcover collected reprints, these long out-of-print tales are being rediscovered. EC created several stellar titles, including Tales From the Crypt and Weird Science, which aside from providing scares, also worked as smart morality plays on racism, anti-Semitism, and more. Shock Suspenstories was no different, as this omnibus is filled with excellent horror, crime, and war stories that will scare you and make you think. But don't take my word for it; EC fan Steven Spielberg wrote the foreword to this wonderful collection. An essential piece of comic book history.\nThe Goon: Volume 1 - Nothin' But Misery\nThe Goon, a story about a hulking, emotionally scarred gangster with a heart of gold -- created, written and drawn by Eric Powell -- is one of the best comics on the market today. A mash-up of horror, crime, and comedy, The Goon contains everything cool: zombies, werewolves, 30s gangsters and tough guys, vampires, mad scientists, killer robots, and more. Powell is a supremely gifted storyteller when it comes to his writing, as he deftly jumps from the heart-wrenching to the gut-busting, and he pulls it off with aplomb. But his art is also startlingly unique, combining pencils, watercolors, and deep inks with a kinetic energy that recalls Jack Kirby. It's best to start here at the beginning, and see how Powell slowly builds The Goon's world, characters, and tone. Before you know it, you're amazed. Highly recommended.\nTorso: A True Crime Graphic Novel\nBrian Michael Bendis is probably comics' biggest writer these days, as he has written just about every major series that Marvel Comics publishes, including Ultimate Spider-Man, New Avengers, and the current mega-event, Secret Invasion. But I think his best work remains Torso, a black-and-white graphic novel based on the true story of the Cleveland Torso Murderer serial killer. Disturbing and dark, this comic is like a great crime novel, with a true can't-put-it-down quality.\nThe Walking Dead: Volume 1 - Days Gone Bye\nZombie comics have been around forever, but none have really had as great an impact as Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead. Created and written by Kirkman, and presented in awesome black-and-white, The Walking Dead recalls George Romero's excellent zombie films, with a balanced focus on zombies and smart story. Telling the story of a cop named Rick, his family and others they've met along the way in trying to survive a zombie outbreak, the real brilliance of The Walking Dead lies not so much in its scare-factor of a catastrophe, but rather, in its questioning of how far are we willing to sacrifice our morals and ideals in the face of that catastrophe? No character is safe in this sprawling epic (which makes it all the more fun), and if you start here with volume one, you'll be hooked.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://anameforpeople.com/Autograph.html", "date": "2020-08-12T20:53:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738944.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20200812200445-20200812230445-00097.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9335265755653381, "token_count": 235, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__26916949", "lang": "en", "text": "A humorous coming-of-age story for teens AND adults!\nby Rob Zona with Guy Castonguay\nThe paperback book, autographed by Guy, is offered at a $5.00 discount!\nThe book retails for $14.99 USD / $19.99 CAD.\nWith the discount, you pay only $9.99 USD / $14.99 CAD plus shipping, AND you get the book autographed by Guy. Sweet deal!\nSince shipping rates vary, simply email us your shipping address and the name you would like the book autographed to, and we will send you an invoice with the total amount and payment methods. Though these autographed books ship from Canada, shipping rates to the U.S. are surprisingly reasonable. Feel free to ask for a quote.\nHowever, if you live in the Montréal area, NO shipping charges are applied! You can pick up your autographed book near a convenient downtown métro station, or Guy will gladly make arrangements to hand-deliver the book to you. Another sweet deal!\nThank you very much for your interest in an autographed paperback book!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.artactivistnia.com/", "date": "2016-10-26T09:24:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720845.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00026-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9413317441940308, "token_count": 276, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-44", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-44__0__8594929", "lang": "en", "text": "(photo by Lexi Adsit)\nNia King is a multimedia journalist whose work focuses on political art by women, queer people, and people of color. She is the author of Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives and the host and producer of We Want the Airwaves podcast. Her writing has been published in Colorlines, East Bay Express and Women & Performance. She recently self-published Queer & Trans Artists of Color, Volume 2 with co-editor Elena Rose.\n\"Queer and Trans Artists of Color is a nuanced exploration of the value of art in community organizing and activist causes that matter to LGBT people of color.\"\n- Sam Levin, East Bay Express\n\"[Queer & Trans Artists of Color] is one of the most informative and inspirational books I’ve read in a long time. It’s like a primer for how to be an effective artist or community worker.\"\n- Mey Rude, Autostraddle\n\"The sixteen artist interviews that make up Nia King’s Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives portray profiles of some of the most intriguing creative minds at work today.\" - Tom Léger, Topside Press\nBuy Nia's book and zines here. Book her to speak at your college or conference today!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://vargiskhan.com/log/the-haunting-of-hill-house/", "date": "2019-05-22T23:43:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256980.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522223411-20190523005411-00356.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.98429274559021, "token_count": 654, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__89937660", "lang": "en", "text": "While I was watching The Haunting of Hill House on Netflix; I already knew that I was going to post this review; and before the show even ended, I knew how this review was going to be. A couple of episodes down and I was totally addicted, so bad that I watched all 10 of them in a row, one after another. When I was mid-away, I was absolutely in love with how the story was progressing and by the time it ended, I was left with only one word “Wow”. I watch a lot of horror and there is rarely anything anymore that surprises me anymore.\nMy expectation when I started watching it was of a story of yet another house with a creepy and traffic past and a few scares but it left me surprised completely. It is totally different than the regular trash they are producing these days in the name of horror; and I would highly recommend watching the show.\nThe Haunting of Hill House is actually a 1959 gothic horror novel by American author Shirley Jackson. A finalist for the National Book Award and considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century; this story has already been adapted in two feature films and a play; and is the basis of a television series. What made this novel so famous and story so intriguing was the fact that Jackson’s novel relies on terror rather than horror to elicit emotion in the reader; using complex relationships between the mysterious events in the house and the characters’ psyches. (Source Wiki)\nThe Haunting of Hill House\nI have not really watched the two movies based on the show so I am not sure how they were. The Netflix series however is not really the exact story of the novel. True that the base of the story is the same but it is way different than the novel. One thing that is common however is the fact that both the novel and this series are equally entertaining and definitely worth your time.\nMost of the things about the show are great. Do a quick Google search looking for reviews on it and you will find that almost all of them are positive. The acting by every actor is great, believable, true and realistic. The direction is excellent. Episode after episode the series tells the story, unraveling the secrets patiently. The story may be different from the novel but it is still awesome and well executed. The amount of scares, the mysteries, the answers, the doubt, the reveals; everything just fits in so smoothly. True that it is a story of a house, but it’s also a story of a family. It could very well be described as a dark family thriller. CGI are great and the jump scares do not seem cheap. They are very well placed and will work on you.\nIn the end, I would like to stay that The Haunting of Hill House is a great show that is definitely worth a watch. See it with an open mind, let a couple of episodes pass, allow it time to grow on you and you will definitely enjoy watching it till the end. I am not much of a reviewer but I would love to hear your views on the show if you have seen it. Please do share in the comments section below.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://riveragroup.ku.edu/research", "date": "2022-12-06T13:35:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711108.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20221206124909-20221206154909-00355.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9073012471199036, "token_count": 728, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__298300889", "lang": "en", "text": "Iron is an essential nutrient for most organisms, including pathogenic organisms. Pathogenic bacteria attempting to colonize (infect) an organism are confronted with extremely low concentrations of free iron. Consequently, many pathogens have evolved sophisticated mechanisms for iron acquisition, including the utilization of heme iron. Thus, it is possible that targeting paths used by pathogenic bacteria to assimilate iron and heme-iron from their host is a viable approach to the development of new antibiotics. Many of the proteins involved in heme uptake and heme utilization in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa have designated functions. However, their structure, dynamics and inter-protein interactions needed to facilitate host-heme capture, internalization and degradation in the cytosol, are largely unknown. We aim at contributing to fill this gap by studying the structure, function, dynamics and association of the soluble proteins that aid in the capture of heme from hemoglobin and help degrade it in the cytosol of P. aeruginosa. Current efforts entail recombinant DNA methodology, NMR spectroscopy and bioelectrochemistry in this laboratory and X-ray crystallography, EPR spectroscopy and resonance Raman spectroscopy via collaborations. This approach is aimed at:\n(1) Understanding how polypeptide dynamics controls and contributes to the complicated catalytic cycle of heme degradation whereby heme oxygenase releases iron from heme for subsequent metabolic needs. These studies build from our previous investigations aimed at determining structure-function relationships in heme oxygenase from P. aeruginosa (pa-HO). A recent finding demonstrates that disrupting the network of hydrogen bonding waters in the distal site of pa-HO, accomplished by replacing Arg 80 (see figure) for Leu, leads to chaotic global μs-ms motions of the polypeptide and significant loss of heme oxidation activity.\n(2) Biochemically and structurally characterizing two previously unknown electron transport proteins (pa-Bfd and pa-Fpr), which we hypothesize function to deliver the 7 electrons needed by heme oxygenase to cleave the heme and release its iron in the cytosol of P. aeruginosa. It has been recently demonstrated that the novel ferredoxin reductase (pa-FPR) efficiently delivers the 7 electrons needed by pa-HO to oxidize heme and release iron, without the need of a mediating ferredoxin. The structure of pa-FPR is now characterized and this information is being used in the study of protein-protein interactions that facilitate electron transfer to heme oxygenase.\n(3) Structurally and biochemically characterizing HasAp, a secreted heme binding protein capable of capturing heme from hemoglobin and delivering it to the outer membrane receptor for internalization. The structural information is being used to define its interactions with hemoglobin using NMR spectroscopic methods, in an attempt to gain molecular understanding of the mechanism whereby HasAp “steals” the heme from hemoglobin for subsequent delivery to a receptor, internalization to the cytosol and degradation by pa-HO to release the iron.\n(4) Characterizing structure-function relationships in the two iron storage bacterioferritins of P. aeruginosa, which are likely involved in facilitating its survival under low-iron and oxidative stress conditions. These investigations also encompass the study of pa-Bfd, a ferredoxin likely involved in the mobilization of iron from bacterioferritin.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thereigningtruth.blog/2019/05/11/to-the-mother-that-doesnt-feel-like-enough/", "date": "2021-01-23T23:15:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703538741.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20210123222657-20210124012657-00258.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9567751288414001, "token_count": 712, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__107355366", "lang": "en", "text": "Happy Mother’s Day to the mother that doesn’t feel like a superwoman, the mother that may be feeling like she’s not enough. Either society or someone else has told you you’re inadequate… maybe for whatever reason you’ve told yourself you’re insufficient. I want to say Happy Mother’s Day to you… Happy Mother’s Day to us.\nIs there something that has you feeling like you aren’t “the best mom” you can be? Feel like you failed your child or children in some way and your mind won’t allow you to get past it? Some days that’s me. I’ve been unable to walk for about a month now, and there’s a lot of things I can’t do for my daughter. Reality says you survived a car accident that could have taken your life, you literally fight mental and physical battles DAILY, and through prayer and patience, you are getting better, but my mind says something else. My mind shows me everything I’m not doing for my daughter, reminds me constantly of my baby that I’ll never get to meet, tells me all that my family has been through and is going through is my fault…. But God. I know for a fact this is just a way for the enemy to use me against me. So today I’m fighting back by not only encouraging myself but encouraging you too! I want to tell you that you are not alone; you are not inadequate. YOU ARE WORTHY.\nI say this prayer for myself and I encourage you to say it as well: God I come to you the Father on this Mother’s Day weekend first saying thank you for the ability to give life. Thank you for using me as a vessel to bring one of your greatest creations to this earth. Had it not been for you I could not be a mother and because you chose me I know that I am capable.\nToday God honestly, I am not feeling worthy of being celebrated. Because of (insert whatever has you feeling this way) I don’t feel like the best mother I can be. I don’t feel like enough. But God I will not allow myself to stay this way. God forgive me first for any way that I have sinned. Forgive me for being hard on me. If these feelings are simply the enemies’ way of using my own mind against me then God I ask that you take control of my mind and help me to see myself the way you see me. Help me to see myself as the mother my child(ren) deserve. God if for any reason I am lacking I ask that you provide me with the tools necessary to excel and be the best mother I can be for my children. God point me in the right direction of any resources that may help me. Connect me with mothers who have been through what I’m going through and use them to give me guidance when I am having trouble hearing from you. God, I thank you in advance for the peace you will restore back to me. For making me feel complete again so that I may share how you brought me through and encourage others to seek you. God, I thank you for the reminder that I am a good mother, that I am capable and it will only get better from here. AMEN.\nAgain ladies, Happy Mother’s Day.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://readerlygeek.wordpress.com/2014/05/01/miniature-book-haul/", "date": "2018-02-20T05:43:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812880.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180220050606-20180220070606-00687.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9526812434196472, "token_count": 545, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__231034804", "lang": "en", "text": "Yesterday was the first of this week’s library book sales. Usually, my two area sales (Stow and Cuyahoga Falls) don’t fall on the same weekend, but this year, by some crazy-random-happenstance, they’re both occurring in the first weekend in May. I’m not complaining, of course. Book sale season is my favorite time of year.\nUnfortunately, I didn’t get a whole lot of books at the Stow sale. I purchased only five. This year, there was a large selection of mystery and romance novels–neither of which genres are my favorite. They did have a strong selection of Science Fiction and Graphic Novels last year, but no luck this time around.\nThe Books I Did Find:\n1. Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz ~ I believe this book is about the psychology and physiology of dogs. I don’t know. All I know for sure is that it’s a science book with a dog on the cover. Instabuy.\n2. Foundation by Isaac Asimov ~ I loved I, Robot, and I’ve been meaning to give Asimov’s other books a try. I really wanted to read his robot mystery series next, but I can’t find the first book so I’ll just have to read Foundation in the meantime.\n3. The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene ~ I always liked watching Brian Greene on NOVA so I thought I might as well read one of his books.\n4. Star Wars: The Cestus Deception by Steven Barnes ~ I’m finding that I don’t care for Star Wars EU books which take place within the movies’ timelines, but, since this is about Obi Wan Kenobi, I decided to give it a try even though it takes place during the Clone Wars.\n5. Labyrinth by Kate Mosse ~ There’s a miniseries adaptation of this book coming to The CW later this month so I got the book to read beforehand. (I’ll hopefully have a review up of this one sometime in May.)\nThese five books came to a total of $3.50–which isn’t too shabby.\nI’ll hopefully have A LOT of awesome books to share with you after the Cuyahoga Falls Library Sale tonight. I don’t actually know where I’m going to shelve everything.\nDo you go to your library’s book sales? What’s the best book you’ve ever found?", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://systembiologie.ovgu.de/systembiologie/en/Research-p-32.html", "date": "2020-02-20T19:57:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145282.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20200220193228-20200220223228-00404.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8809298276901245, "token_count": 630, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__85678472", "lang": "en", "text": "Cytokines (e.g. Interleukin-6, IL-6) are mediators of the immune system, which are secreted due to infection or injury. They regulate the differentiation and activation of naive immune cells, as well as the development of an inflammation which is hallmarked by the hepatic expression of acute-phase proteins, fever and pain. Thereby cytokines contribute to the reconstitution of homeostasis in the body. However, hyperactivity of pro-inflammatory cytokines or a reduced response to anti-inflammatory cytokines contributes to a huge number of chronic diseases (e.g. allergy, rheumatoid arthritis, cancer or autoimmunity).\nCytokines bind to membrane-bound receptors to activate intracellular signalling cascades. These signalling cascades result in the activation of transcription factors that bind to specific DNA sequences (promoter) in the nucleus. Activated promoters induce the transcription of target genes, e.g. the expression of acute-phase genes in the liver. The sequential activation of signalling molecules in a signalling network enables signal enhancement, complex regulation as well as the integration of different inputs and signalling cascades.\nIL-6 is a central mediator of inflammatory and developmental processes in the body. It is a major inducer of acute-phase protein synthesis in the liver, regulates the differentiation of B- and T-cells and effects migration of T-cells and monocytes. Furthermore, it is an important mediator of neuronal survival and differentiation.\nIL-6-induced signal transduction is activated by binding of IL-6 to the IL-6 receptor complex consisting of the IL-6 receptor α (IL-6Rα) and the signal transducing receptor subunit gp130. After binding of IL-6, receptor associated Janus kinases (JAK1, JAK2, TYK2) are activated. Activated JAKs phosphorylate tyrosine residues in the cytoplasmic part of gp130. These phosphorylated tyrosine residues serve as binding motifs for molecules that facilitate the activation of JAK/STAT (signal transducer and activator of transcription) signalling, PI3 kinase (phosphoinositide 3-kinase) and MAP (mitogen activated protein) kinase cascades. Central elements of these pathways are the activation respectively inactivation of proteins by posttranslational modifications, conformational changes or altered cellular localisation. Molecules of special interests are so called multi-site docking proteins (e.g. Gab1). Activated multi-site docking proteins act as a cellular platform to recruit a plethora of different signalling and regulatory molecules. Along with multi-site docking proteins regulatory proteins play a central function in signal transduction. Regulatory proteins prevent a hyper-activation of signalling at physiological conditions. Important regulatory proteins in IL-6-induced signalling are protein tyrosine phosphatases (e.g. SHP2) and kinase inhibitors (e.g. the feedback-inhibitor SOCS3).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ksajourneys.com/alula-unveiling-the-ancient-city-and-the-tale-of-prophet-saleh", "date": "2024-04-22T13:22:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818293.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422113340-20240422143340-00726.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9513017535209656, "token_count": 1097, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__172566001", "lang": "en", "text": "AlUla: Unveiling the Ancient City and the Tale of Prophet Saleh\nTucked away in the lap of Saudi Arabia's northwest is the city of AlUla, a monument to the enduring legacy of civilizations as well as a keeper of Islamic history. AlUla has weaved its complex threads into the larger story of Islamic legacy across time, providing a unique window into the spiritual and cultural turning points that have influenced the area. This essay explores the rich history of AlUla and its significance to the spiritual underpinnings of Islam as we set out to explore the Islamic complexities of the city. AlUla is a real example of the confluence of faith, history, and the ongoing spirit of Islamic culture, with everything from historic rock tombs to echoes of Prophet Saleh's tale.\nThe Enigmatic Waqia of Hazrat Saleh: A Glimpse into the Past\nThe story of Prophet Saleh (peace be upon him) and the people of Thamud is essential to the historical fabric of AlUla. According to Islamic tradition, Prophet Saleh was sent by Allah to lead the Thamud tribe, a tribe residing in the AlUla region. The town was endowed with plenty, including verdant gardens and imposing buildings that showcased their sophisticated architectural skills and were carved out of the rock.\nHowever, the inhabitants of Thamud became engulfed in arrogance and strayed from the righteous path. Prophet Saleh, chosen as a divine messenger, preached morality and monotheistic beliefs. He exhorted the people to worship Allah alone and warned them against the pitfalls of pride and disobedience. The people of Thamud stubbornly rejected the message despite his heroic efforts, which set off a tragic and catastrophic chain of events.\nDivine Wrath and the Azaab on AlUla City\nThe people of Thamud suffered a dire consequence known as the \"azaab,\" or divine punishment, for disobeying divine counsel. Their once-thriving city was about to be forever altered by a disaster that would never be forgotten. Allah, in His infinite wisdom, decreed a special punishment for the disobedient people of Ulla.\nThe nature of the penalty's details is described in Islamic scriptures. A mighty, thunderous roar echoed through the valleys, announcing the arrival of the divine decree. Suddenly, a tremendous tremor shook the city, as a formidable earthquake ripped through the foundations of Thamud's grand structures. The once-majestic buildings were reduced to rubble as the earth shifted and heaved.\nProphet Saleh and the few of followers who heard his warning were saved from the azaab amidst the turmoil. The residents, who were defiant, were destroyed in the calamity, serving as a sobering lesson of what happens when one disobeys divine direction.\nProphet Muhammad's (PBUH) Reference to AlUla: Lessons from the Past\nThe legacy of AlUla and the tale of Prophet Saleh did not vanish from memory. The last messenger of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), referenced the fate of AlUla as a powerful lesson for future generations. AlUla is used as a warning against the dangers of haughtiness, disobedience, and rejecting divine guidance in several hadiths, or sayings, of the Prophet.\nProphet Muhammad warned his followers against following the destructive path followed by the people of Thamud and underlined the need for humility and surrender to Allah. The silent reminders of a bygone period that remain today, the ruins of AlUla, echo the prophetic lessons and serve as a constant reminder of what happens when one deviates from the path of justice.\nAlUla Today: A Bridge between Past and Present\nVisitors are met with a landscape that skillfully blends the ruins of ancient civilizations with the bustling pulse of modern life as they discover the modern marvel that is AlUla. The city is now a dynamic example of the human spirit's tenacity and the timeless truths found within its difficult landscape.\nThe remarkable Madain Saleh and other archaeological sites in AlUla have been inducted as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, highlighting the historical significance of the city. The magnificent Nabataean tombs, set into crimson cliffs, are a reminder of the masterful construction of another period. Travelers and pilgrims alike swarm to AlUla, not just to take in the breathtaking scenery but also to consider the rich historical legacy that has molded the area.\nConclusion: AlUla - A City of Reflection and Revelation\nAlUla invites visitors to explore historical narratives and uncover the profound teachings concealed within its rugged embrace. It is a place of ancient legends and breathtaking archaeological discoveries. A sobering reminder of what happens to those who deviate from the path of justice is provided by Hazrat Saleh's waqia and the azaab that followed on the inhabitants of Thamud.\nThe Prophet Muhammad's allusions to AlUla have endured because they teach modern Muslims the value of modesty, piety, and unshakeable faith. Standing at the nexus of the past and present, AlUla invites us to consider the timeless wisdom contained in its rugged landscapes and to be inspired by the teachings of the mission of Prophet Saleh and the divine vengeance that transpired in the ancient city. content", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://inneryoucounselingri.com/blog/the-significance-of-a-journal-writing-as-emotional-work/", "date": "2023-12-08T13:06:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100745.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208112926-20231208142926-00105.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9609295129776001, "token_count": 1254, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__103610256", "lang": "en", "text": "I have every journal I’ve ever written in stored in my closet – there are about ten journals from my teenage years, a handful of pre-teen diaries, and another ten notebooks from my childhood. Lets not forget all the ones I’ve started in the last five years of my adulthood. The picture above isn’t even a quarter of how many notebooks I have!\nWriting consistently in journals over such a long span of time gives me a significant timeline of my emotional growth and progress. When I feel like reflecting, analyzing patterns, flipping through memory lane… I have years of journal writing to scan through.\nIt can be amazing to look back and see my younger self’s perspective. It can also be sad and emotional, but I learn about myself every time. Looking back always fuels my desire to continue documenting my emotions and various events in my life so I can continue to keep looking back at them.\nIn entering adulthood, ending beautiful and difficult relationships, starting to seeing a new therapist, moving out of my parents’ house, and navigating many other experiences it has become clear that keeping journals was a critical part of understanding myself.\nIntentionally write in my journals about specific emotions, distresses, anxieties, relationships, therapy sessions, and more is a critical part of understanding that putting aside time to intentionally write in them about specific emotions, distresses, anxieties, relationships, therapy sessions, and more.\nThis kind of writing is one way I accomplish emotional work, which is internal + external work I do to support my own healing and recovery from traumatic things I’ve experienced, harmful behaviors I exhibit, and many other conflicts in my life.\nYour emotional work or path towards healing may include going to therapy, reading books about mental health or communication, going outside, doing yoga, or something very personal to you. You may not even call it emotional work! That’s what I call some of my journal writing because it gives me an easier way to describe it to others. Sometimes it literally does feel like work, but its impact on my life has been positive and concrete.\nBelow I’ve photographed several examples of what my emotional work writing looks like. These pages have assisted me when I’ve been struggling to articulate things to myself, my friends, my partners, and my family. I have even taken my “emotional work writing,” these exact pages, into therapy when I felt like my writing would help my therapist understand how I was feeling.\nThis is a page about my feelings on emotional availability and what it means to me to be emotionally available. Writing out what definitions and feelings felt accurate to me helped me to better understand what behaviors make me feel present and what space my mind is in when I feel emotionally available.\nAll of this helps me to understand and recognize the patterns I exhibit when I’m not feeling emotionally available. For instance, when I am not prioritizing my own healing, boundaries, or needs, that’s usually a time where I’m not feeling my most present. These are my own personal definitions of emotional availability.\nI want to share this page in particular to show how breaking down an idea can help you understand it better. Finding your own definitions which resonate and feel true to you is one of the most important parts of this practice.\nThis page is an example of a specific conflict I was struggling to navigate. I was feeling very self-deprecating, and even first began to write “Failing” instead of “Forgetting,” which I crossed out because I realized that was not a productive way to phrase the issue at hand. Then I wrote down some questions to ask myself in the moments of forgetting myself, and challenged myself to think of potential solutions that could help me out. In many relationships, I’ve struggled to stay connected to my own boundaries and needs. Often I’ve felt like the dopamine rush, excitement of a new crush, and separation anxiety was leaving me a little blindsided. Once I started writing it out and compiling some solutions I felt like I was better equipped to navigate the situation. I was also able to talk with my partners about how I was feeling.\nWith this page, I wanted to help myself find a balance between my work and a sustainable daily routine. Sometimes I think I can just work everyday all day, but if I do that, then I let my non-work related daily practices fall to the wayside, and I end up feeling worse. I wanted to write down types of sustainable habits I could do when I wasn’t working so I could still feel like I was progressing in other parts of my life. Finding the balance between energy output and input can be quite difficult for me, so these types of lists can be crucial to my success.\nThis is a list I was inspired to write after having extreme anxiety in the presence of one of my friends. I wanted a page to look back to and to share with people close to me so they know how to best support me in times of distress. A symptom of my anxiety is often “going non-verbal,” so having a written document that can speak for me is incredibly useful. It also makes it easier to answer the “What can I do to help you?” “What do you need right now?” questions you might be asked when you’re not feeling your best.\nJournaling is a significant part of my self-care routine and I definitely consider it to be a healthy coping mechanism for me. However, not all journaling has to be this specific and intentional to be helpful! Sometimes just writing, scribbling, drawing lines, or even writing the same word over and over can be cathartic and calming. I also encourage you to to journal or document your thoughts in any way that feels most accessible for you – if not a physical journal, maybe an internet blog like Tumblr or Blogger. Penzu also offers some insightful journal prompts if you’re having trouble getting started.\nWritten by: Clara Zornado", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://myresearchjournals.com/index.php/JAH/article/view/11741", "date": "2023-12-05T18:29:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100555.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205172745-20231205202745-00245.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9144070148468018, "token_count": 250, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__277445968", "lang": "en", "text": "Factors influencing sustainability of horticultural private extension services\nKeywords: Educational extension, extension performance, sustainability, public extension services, private extension services\nAbstractThe present study aimed at evaluating prominent factors that affect the sustainability of horticultural private extension services (SHPES) and the continuous flow of their activities from the perspective of public sector experts. The study sample consisted of 148 public sector experts who were selected through stratified random sampling. A questionnaire was utilized for data collection. Validity was confirmed by face validity, convergent validity, and content validity. The results showed that infrastructure, educational extension, and economic factors had the most positive and significant effects on the SHPES and the continuity of their activities. The result of the calculated goodness-of-fit index (0.718) revealed that the model provided an excellent fit for the data. Also, the structures and factors explained 78% of the variance of the SHPES. The present study showed how management, economic, socio-cultural, policy, infrastructure, and educational factors influence SHPES.\nCopyright (c) 2022 Journal of Applied Horticulture\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sustainability.me.holycross.edu/2021/10/12/new-collection-bin-for-all-books/", "date": "2024-04-18T02:07:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817184.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417235906-20240418025906-00055.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9177226424217224, "token_count": 212, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__63543838", "lang": "en", "text": "The Holy Cross community can now donate and recycle books to The Bay State Book Company via an on-campus collection bin behind Alumni Hall.\nWhat do your old books support? The Bay State Book Company aims to “keep as many books out of landfills as possible.” They donate books to local schools, community centers, and soldiers. For any remaining books, the organization recycles them responsibly.\nA study by the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) discovered that the United States sends over 640,000 tons of books to landfills every year. By having this collection bin on campus, the Holy Cross community can give their books a new life and redistribute resources instead of creating more trash.\nParticipation is easy. Simply bring your books to the designated bin 24/7.\n- Books in Poor Condition/Unreadable\n- Mass-Market Paperback\n- Books with Library Binding or Spiral Binding", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://lauratillman.net/", "date": "2019-10-15T07:39:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986657586.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20191015055525-20191015083025-00249.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9523952603340149, "token_count": 120, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__202379769", "lang": "en", "text": "Laura Tillman a journalist and the author of “The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City,” (Scribner, 2016). Her work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Pacific Standard, The Wall Street Journal, Tin House, and Literary Hub, among other publications. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College and a BA in International Studies from Vassar College. She is represented by the Wylie Agency.\nShe lives in Mexico City where she is at work on her next book.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://cast.ac.uk/resources/academic-articles/", "date": "2023-12-05T06:19:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100545.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205041842-20231205071842-00794.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6698023080825806, "token_count": 2275, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__254722153", "lang": "en", "text": "Dupont, C., B. Moore, E. Boasson, V. Gravey and A.J. Jordan et al. (2023) Three decades of EU climate policy: Racing toward climate neutrality? WIRES Climate Change, e863. DOI: 10.1002/wcc.863\nVerfuerth, C., Demski, C., Capstick, S., Whitmarsh, L., & Poortinga, W. (2023) A people-centred approach is needed to meet net zero goals, Journal of the British Academy, 11(s4): 97–124.\nHaggar, P., Whitmarsh, L., & Nash, N. (2023) A Drop in the Ocean? Fostering Water-Saving Behavior and Spillover Through Information Provision and Feedback. Environment and Behavior, 55(6-7), 520-548. https://doi.org/10.1177/00139165231201371\nHampton, S. & Whitmarsh, L. (2023) Choices for climate action: A review of the multiple roles individuals play. One Earth, Volume 6, Issue 9, 2023, Pages 1157-1172, ISSN 2590-3322, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2023.08.006.\nTosun, J., Geese, L., & Lorenzoni, I. (2023) For Young and Future Generations? Insights from the Web Profiles of European Climate Pact Ambassadors, European Journal of Risk Regulation, 1-13. doi:10.1017/err.2023.53\nVerfuerth, C., Sanderson Bellamy, A., Adlerova, B., Dutton, A. (2023) Building relationships back into the food system: addressing food insecurity and food well-being, Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7.\nPoortinga, W., Demski, C. & Steentjes K. (2023) Generational differences in climate-related beliefs, risk perceptions and emotions in the UK, Communications Earth & Environment.\nMartin-Kerry, J.M., Graham H.M, & Lampard, P. (2023) ‘I don’t really associate climate change with actual people’s health’: a qualitative study in England of perceptions of climate change and its impacts on health, Public Health, Volume 219, 2023, Pages 85-90.\nDe Vito, L., Wynne-Jones, S., Heins, E. & Verfuerth, C. (2023) Policy fellowship schemes as a vehicle for co-production – insights from Welsh Government fellowships, Centre for Science and Policy.\nPlayer, L., Prosser M.B., A., Thorman, D., Tirion S.C, A., Whitmarsh L., Kurz, T., & Shah, P. (2023) Quantifying the importance of socio-demographic, travel-related, and psychological predictors of public acceptability of low emission zones, Journal of Environmental Psychology.\nIsham, A., Verfuerth, C., Armstrong, A., Elf, P., Gatersleben, B., & Jackson, T. (2022) The problematic role of materialistic values in the pursuit of sustainable well-being, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.\nJordan A, Lorenzoni I, Tosun J, Enguer Saus J, Geese L, Kenny J, Levario Saad E, Moore B & Schaub S. (2022) The political challenges of deep decarbonisation: towards a more integrated agenda, Climate Action.\nRao, N. D. and C. Wilson (2022) Advancing energy and well-being research. Nature Sustainability. 5(2): 98-103. [DOI.org/10.1038/s41893-021-00775-7]\nHanmer, C., C. Wilson, O. Y. Edelenbosch and D. P. van Vuuren (2022). Translating Global Integrated Assessment Model Output into Lifestyle Change Pathways at the Country and Household Level. Energies 15(5). DOI: 10.3390/en15051650\nVerfuerth, C., Gregory-Smith, D., Oates, C. J., Jones, C. R. and Alevizou, P. (2021). Reducing meat consumption at work and at home: facilitators and barriers that influence contextual spillover. Journal of Marketing Management\nLatter, B. and Capstick, S. (2021) Climate Emergency: UK Universities’ Declarations and Their Role in Responding to Climate Change. Frontiers in Sustainability.\nSteentjes K, Demski C, Poortinga W. (2021). Public perceptions of climate change and policy action in the UK, China, Sweden and Brazil. CAST Briefing Paper 10.\nHoolohan C, Mclachlan C, Jones C, Larkin A, Birch C, Mander S & Broderick J. (2021). Responding to the climate emergency: how are UK universities establishing sustainable workplace routines for flying and food?. Climate Policy.\nBritton J, Mae Minas A, Marques A C. Pourmirza Z (2021). Exploring the potential of heat as a service in decarbonization: Evidence needs and research gaps. Energy Sources.\nJordan, A & Moore, B (2021). UK climate policy: For the long haul. IEMA.\nMoore, B. & Jordan, A. (2020). Disaggregating the dependent variable in policy feedback research: an analysis of the EU emissions trading system. Policy Sciences.\nMoore, B., Verfuerth, C., Minas, A. M., Tipping, C., Mander, S., Lorenzoni, I., Hoolohan, C., Jordan, A. J. & L. Whitmarsh (2021). Transformations for climate change mitigation: A systematic review of terminology, concepts, and characteristics. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change.\nDudley, H., Jordan, A., & Lorenzoni, I. (2021). Independent expert advisory bodies facilitate ambitious climate policy responses. Science Brief.\nJordan A, Moore B, (2020). Durable by design. Policy feedback in a changing climate. Cambridge University Press.\nPohjolainen, P., Kukkonen, I., Jokinen, P., Poortinga, W., Adedayo Ogunbode, C., Böhm, G., … & Umit, R. (2021). The role of national affluence, carbon emissions, and democracy in Europeans’ climate perceptions. Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research.\nDemski, C. (2021) Net zero public engagement and participation: Research Note.\nDasandi N, HGraham, Lampard P, & Jankin Mikhaylov S, Intergovernmental engagement on health impacts of climate change (2021), Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.\nWhitmarsh, L., (2020). CAST Briefing Paper 05: Tracking the effect of COVID-19 on low-carbon behaviours and attitudes to climate change: results from wave 2 of the CAST COVID-19 Survey.\nWhitmarsh, L., Hoolohan, C., Larner, O., McLachlan, C. & Poortinga, W. (2020). CAST Briefing Paper 04: How has COVID-19 Impacted Low-Carbon Lifestyles and Attitudes towards Climate Action?\nCapstick S, Demski C, Cherry C, Verfuerth C, Steentjes K. (2020). CAST briefing paper 03: Climate change citizens’ assemblies.\nGill M, Ebi K, Smith K, Whitmarsh L, Haines A. (2020). We need health warning labels on points of sale of fossil fuels. British Medical Journal, in press\nWhitmarsh L, Capstick S, Moore I, Köhler J, Le Quéré C. (2020) Use of aviation by climate change researchers: Structural influences, personal attitudes, and information provision. Global Environmental Change\nNash N, Whitmarsh L, Capstick S, Gouveia V, de Carvalho Rodrigues Araújo R, Dos Santos M, … Wang X. (2020). Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies. Climatic change, 163.\nNielsen, K, Capstick S, Whitmarsh L. (2020). How psychology can help limit climate change. American Psychologist, in press,\nThorman D, Whitmarsh L, Demski C. (2020). Policy Acceptance of Low-Consumption Governance Approaches: The Effect of Social Norms and Hypocrisy. Sustainability, (3).\nVerfuerth, C., Henn, L., & Becker, S. (2019) Is it up to them? Individual leverages for sufficiency. GAIA-Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society\nHowarth C, Bryant P, Corner A, Fankhauser S, Gouldson A, Whitmarsh L & Willis R. (2019) Building a Social Mandate for Climate Action: Lessons from COVID-19\nHowarth C, Bryant P, Corner A, Fankhauser S, Gouldson A, Whitmarsh L & Willis R. (2019). The Pathway toward a Net-Zero-Emissions Future. One Earth, 1(1), pp. 18-20.\nNash N, Capstick S, Whitmarsh L, Chaudhary I, Manandhar R. (2019). Perceptions of Local Environmental Issues and the Relevance of Climate Change in Nepal’s Terai: Perspectives From Two Communities. Frontiers in Sociology.\nCapstick S, Demski C, Poortinga W, Whitmarsh L, Steentjes K, Corner A, Graham H. (2019). CAST briefing paper 02: Public opinion in a time of climate emergency.\nCapstick S, Whitmarsh L, Nash N, Haggar P, Lord J. (2019). Compensatory and Catalyzing Beliefs: Their Relationship to Pro-environmental Behavior and Behavioral Spillover in Seven Countries. Frontiers in psychology, 10, pp. 963.\nCorner A, Graham H, Whitmarsh L. (2019). CAST briefing paper 01: Engaging the public on low-carbon lifestyle change.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.antonioraimogalleriesllc.com/cotlison-touchstone-thoroughbreds?page=2", "date": "2024-04-24T18:36:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819847.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424174709-20240424204709-00098.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9578172564506531, "token_count": 339, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__84465772", "lang": "en", "text": "RACE HORSES : PEDIGREE, DESCRIPTION, HISTORY.\nDrawings by V. J. COTLISON + L. PENICAULT + LE NAIL\npublished by John C. Nimmo. [ London : 1890 ]\nfrom the book by S. Touchstone:\n[ History of Celebrated English and French Thorough-Bred Stallions and French Mares which Appeared on the Turf from 1764 to 1887. ] --- A beautiful compendium of English and French horses from the 18th and 19th centuries. Containing sixty hand-colored plates by Cotlison, Penicaut, and Nail the book's the print run was limited to 520 copies. The plates were produced in order to preform: \"a service to breeders, constituting an authentic document of the history of the thorough-bred horse, from his début down to the present day.\" \"The breeding of thorough-breds is a very costly amusement, and in order to induce breeders to produce the animals required, it is imperative to offer them some substantial inducements and to stimulate their emulation. This is the object of racing, which admits of their covering part at all events of the enormous expenses which they have to meet, while the pleasure of seeing their horses first past the post is very gratifying to their amour-propre.\" This full-page chromolithographic plate is by either V.J. Cotlison, L. Pénicaut, and Le Nail. Each print comes with a description of the horse, many of the desptions of these horses have full color vignettes.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://climatechangecommunity.com/walt-whitman-x9/", "date": "2018-08-15T05:29:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221209884.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815043905-20180815063905-00540.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9441139101982117, "token_count": 298, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__194792496", "lang": "en", "text": "“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large — I contain multitudes.”\n“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.”[.] “Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you.” [.] “I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.” [.] “Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this hour.” [.] “I exist as I am, that is enough,\nIf no other in the world be aware I sit content,\nAnd if each and all be aware I sit content.\nOne world is aware, and by the far the largest to me, and that is myself,\nAnd whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,\nI can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness, I can wait.” [.] “Be curious, not judgmental.” [.] “Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” [.] “Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.italf.org/en/linee-guida-americane-sul-lipedema-un-esempio-da-seguire-e-mettere-in-pratica/", "date": "2023-02-05T21:05:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500288.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205193202-20230205223202-00060.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9406377077102661, "token_count": 406, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__57553669", "lang": "en", "text": "Simple, schematic, concrete and extremely clear and punctual (as typical of the Anglo-Saxon spirit), the US guidelines on Lipedema have finally been completed and we consider them very favorably and very useful in our daily professional practice.\nIn particular, some data (which were known but in this document are very well highlighted) are impressive. Among these:\n- The emphasis on the hereditary and genetic nature of the problem (our very recent article on the discovery of the first gene – AKR1C1 – responsible, if mutated, for the familial pathology is also cited in the bibliography)\nAbout 10 million US women suffer from the disease (in children it is common for 6-6.5%).\n- Confirmation that traditional low-calorie diet, exercise, and bariatric surgery do not solve the clinical problem\n- The proscription of diuretic therapy\n- The positive use of metformin, especially in subjects with insulin resistance confirmed by laboratory investigations\n- The need for vitamin D monitoring (often lacking in these subjects)\n- The importance of combined physical treatment both in the containment of the disease and in the regression of the main symptoms (first of all pain). It is also confirmed the need to entrust the patient to teams of health workers culturally and practically well prepared.\n- The evidence shows that, depending on the clinical case, two are the techniques of liposuction (among the many currently used) that are recommended, after a careful selection of patients who are candidates for the procedure: WAL (Water Assisted Liposuction) and PAL (Power Assisted Liposuction).\nThis is a clear and useful document that will surely soon become an important reference point for patients, healthcare professionals and healthcare institutions.\nWe are especially grateful to Professor Herbst (coordinator of the work) for her continuous effort, always careful and correct, in the battle against Lipedema.\nDr. Sandro MicheliniLinee guida Lipedema USA", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.thinkingoftheo.org/", "date": "2013-12-06T00:47:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163048803/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131728-00092-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9619408249855042, "token_count": 316, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__151468828", "lang": "en", "text": "When Theo was first hospitalized, a group of longtime family friends collected books to send to Theo in the hospital. Each book had a special message written to Theo and he’s been enjoying them ever since. Today before naptime, Theo chose to read a set of books in which the message is a poem written by someone who can absolutely relate to Theo’s fight (she has been graceful and strong in her fight, too, and she’s doing wonderfully). I feel like today, Thanksgiving, is a good day to share this with you, too:\nYour beautiful eyes, so big and bright\nLight up a room, in day or night.\nYour smile is contagious, even without a sound\nShowing how much you feel love from all around.\nFor you are loved by so many more than you know\nFrom the top of your head to your perfect little toes.\nYou’ve touched hearts and made a difference here\nThrough all the smiles, tears, hopes and fears.\nI pray and know that God holds your hand\nAs you hold our hearts, you precious little man.\nWe continue to be amazed by our little man. He is cute, sweet, smart, funny, strong and fiercely determined. He’s my best big boy and I’m thankful for him, his sister and brother, and Dada every second of every day. My husband and our beautiful children bring more joy to my life than I could ever explain. I hope you feel that joy in your life, too.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.artiplast.net/2023/02/06/how-to-write-essays-key-takeaways/", "date": "2023-11-30T14:34:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100227.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130130218-20231130160218-00140.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9551958441734314, "token_count": 702, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__302953506", "lang": "en", "text": "The majority of us have heard of or have experienced the job of trying to compose essays. Most of us have read essays or at least have seen them written. That expertise has generally reinforced the feeling that one wants to have an adequate comprehension of the most typical thoughts about composing on any topic. This raises questions as to what constitutes an essay and as to just how the process of creating one ought to be handled.\nAn article is, generally speaking, a kind of literary composition that present the writer’s debate, but the exact definition is extremely vague, overlapping significantly with those of an essay, a report, a novel, a brief story, and a pamphlet. Essays are generally formal and are sub-divided to two main categories. One might be the perfect essay, which can be one in which each concept is presented with total confidence in the knowledge of the author. The next is that the normal essay, which might include an introduction, a body, an end, and one or more inter-links among the parts.\nTo compose essays well, you need to get a better awareness of the different kinds of essay. In a paragraph essay, the central idea is introduced in the first paragraph and then developed in subsequent paragraphs. Paragraph essays create the theme in the first paragraph and build upon it in following paragraphs. A case history article uses fix grammatical errors one event to make several links among related events and requires the topic in the third paragraph. Problem-solving essays develop the idea in the third paragraph and use it to talk about an issue.\nTo compose essays with any amount of success, you need to understand there is a gap between an argumentative essay and a descriptive article. Argumentative essays generally present some proof to oppose or support a claim. They may be written about an individual or group, a cause or an issue, or an overall situation. A descriptive essay, on the other hand, presents data or information to aid readers in forming an impression, analyzing a problem, or determining an answer. Many times, students are requested to express their own opinion regarding an issue or problem. A good example is a questionnaire where students are asked to read a description of a issue and give an opinion about it.\nThe perfect way to learn to compose essays would be to read what professional essays look like. That means studying sample essays, taking a class or reading an entire volume on composing, or perhaps viewing a few examples on tv. Whatever you do, do not replicate any of these writing styles-their arrangement, word usage, and overall tone. Rather, study these samples carefully so which you can find an notion of the way the style is used. You also want to free grammar check online english be certain that your sentences make sense and compliment each other.\nOne last key to learning how to write essays is to be certain your essay is made up of very clear and consistent diagram. A structure is a drawing or graphic representation that can be a simple line or complicated and complicated as a tree diagram, for instance. The diagram is the primary illustration in the article, and students will need to pay close attention to it throughout the composing process. To be able to make sure that the structure is clear and consistent throughout the essay, consider that portion of the essay should emphasize and which portion can be left to your conclusion. Students will probably retain information they view in a clear and consistent diagram rather than needing to re-read an essay that doesn’t employ a diagram.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://rossney.net/articles/recovery-sucks/", "date": "2023-06-07T08:02:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653631.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607074914-20230607104914-00695.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9692279696464539, "token_count": 910, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__212642807", "lang": "en", "text": "For anyone not paying attention, the scourge of drug abuse continues to ravage and plague our nation. As a child of the eighties who watched the inferno we called “crack” rise up and burn through an entire generation, I wish I could open my mind to the younger generations and urge them caution from the memories of my childhood.\nI would let them feel the sensation of walking to school over the crunch of thousands of empty crack vials under my feet. I would share the image of a friend’s mother, who I watched shrivel from drug use–and then one day literally disappear. A sick, real-life version of Lemony Snicket’s so called “Unfortunate Events.” Except Lemony Snicket never attempted to portray the brutal reality of CPS intervention and the gulag of group homes that swallowed the children of users. I would sear into their vision the image of girls I knew in grade school transformed into street walking zombie prostitutes before we even reached graduation. And many boys as well.\nSuch sharing of memories is not possible, and any words I put here will never do them justice. The truths I learned from hard experience are received with skepticism or outright rejection by my children. Each of them is sure that he or she is the exception, that everyone before was weak or stupid. These children of the nineties and their younger siblings have no knowledge of the needle junkies my generation thought they left behind in the 70s, and so a fresh generation of needle junkies is born: from stolen pills, to snorting heroin, to heaven in a needle. Chemical slavery in three short steps.\nOf course this is just the human drama played out over and over again. We can teach. We can caution. But each generation must do and learn for themselves all over again. We are left only to pick up the pieces–if we’re lucky enough to have pieces left to gather. With these drugs, the tale ends in only one of two ways: recovery or death.\nFor the loved ones of addicts, picking up the pieces means cautiously reaching out in support of those we have watched morph into liars and thieves and worse, hoping against hope that this time “it” will truly work. Recovery is a journey of fits and false starts. By definition it lasts a lifetime, the trick is to get the lifetime to last as long as possible.\nAs family and loved ones, the most frustrating part of the recovery journey is our almost total exclusion from it. Having watched our friend or child or partner isolate themselves with drug use and all of the toxic personality changes it brings, we are then excluded from the recovery process itself. Sure, we can attend “Alanon” meetings to learn about what recovery entails, what we can expect, and what they are trying to do, but as “non-addicts” we are universally excluded from “the rooms” themselves, where the battles are actually fought. Not being addicts means we are not fit for the front lines of defense and support. We just “don’t understand.”\nHaving been walled off previously by the thicket of lies and addict behaviors of active users, we find ourselves pushed away now by the scrum of their “support group.” Having watched their personality warp and writhe through their addiction, we can only helplessly watch it bend and change again through recovery.\nIt is not a zero sum process. The person that rises will most certainly not be the same one you watched descend, though their shell might seem the same. In the furnace of recovery, the mettle is changed. The process is, by necessity, transformative. Affections can be lost or transferred. This is the hardest reality to face: that you yourself may be lost in the process, your relationship a casualty of recovery, as it were.\nAs I watch this process play out mostly helpless from the sidelines, I struggle to extract the lessons that I know I will need to pass on to my younger children. How to even describe the countless casualties of this disease? I flinch from the burden of tallying the cost of broken vows and lost promise that addiction has visited upon me, my family, and so many that I love. I can feel the effects ripple through my life, see them echo into my future, and I don’t even know where to begin.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://brandonblattner.com/tag/adaptations/", "date": "2019-09-17T20:46:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514573121.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190917203354-20190917225354-00439.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9858385324478149, "token_count": 342, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__27618191", "lang": "en", "text": "Posts tagged adaptations\nChoose another tag?\nAmerican author J.D. Salinger passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Most famous for his definitive coming-of-age novel “Catcher in the Rye,” Salinger was similarly known for his self-imposed life of “recluse.”\nBut success, once it arrived, paled quickly for him. He told the editors of Saturday Review that he was “good and sick” of seeing his photograph on the dust jacket of “The Catcher in the Rye” and demanded that it be removed from subsequent editions. He ordered his agent to burn any fan mail.\nWith all the time he had by himself, though, Salinger also became known for his letter-writing, much of which reflected his disgust for the outside world. So, you could imagine that when someone approached him about doing a movie adaptation of “Catcher and the Rye,” his response was not exactly friendly. The following is from the fantastic blog Letters of Note:\nEver since its release in 1951, a steady stream of eager producers, directors, screenwriters and actors have unsuccessfully attempted to bring J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye to the big screen, all falling at the first hurdle when confronted with Salinger’s resolute refusal to sell the rights to his novel. The letter below, written in 1957 in response to an enquiry from a Mr. Herbert (and currently for sale here), is a perfect example of the opposition faced and provides an entertaining glimpse at the author’s reasoning.\n[via (the amazing) Letters of Note]", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.interviewswithauthors.blogspot.com/2008/04/interview-with-tamara-wilhite.html", "date": "2013-05-20T06:52:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698493317/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516100133-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9480644464492798, "token_count": 920, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__97151679", "lang": "en", "text": "CA: Tamara thanks for stopping in. I have a book of yours upcoming in the next little while to review and I look forward to it! I hope you enjoy hanging out at my blog this week *smiles*!\nAuthor Pen Name: Tamara Wilhite\nCA: What genre(s) do you write? Why do you write the stories that you write?\nTW: I write everything except romance and mystery. I have an engineering degree – an engineer who can write can make more money than a writer who is good at math and science. But I’m back to technical writing to pay the bills. My passions are science fiction and horror.\nMaybe it’s fate. My father is an engineer who was so much of a Robert Heinlein fan he named me for one of the character’s in Robert Heinlein’s last book. And I’m an engineer, who writes science fiction.\nCA: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?\nTW: I read lots of books, and thought of all the ways the stories could be better. Then I was making up plots, then started writing my own stories.\nCA: Who or what was your inspiration for writing?\nTW: I started writing science fiction when I couldn’t find any good sci-fi to read.\nCA: What is your work schedule like when you're writing?\nTW: I write when the kids are in bed, or naptime. It’s something I do in between work, kids, etc. I have the movie in my mind of how the plot will unfold which kind of runs in the back ground while I am living my life. By the time I sit down to type up a short story, it’s already done except for being put onto the `paper’. Same thing for most frugal living articles, humor pieces, or any other genre I write.\nCA: Your book is about to be sent into the reader world, what is one word that describes how you feel?\nCA: What do you like to do when you're not writing?\nTW: Read. Read to my kids.\nCA: How many books have you written? Which is your favorite?\nTW: I’ve written a ton of short stories and articles. My official first book, “Humanity’s Edge”, is actually an anthology of my short stories. “Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell”, coming out February, 2008, is my first full length novel. It’s probably my favorite, because it combines all the elements I’ve wanted in a story into one long narrative. (Long for me, 275 pages, considering I write so many short stories).\nDue to my father’s collection, I read a lot of Robert Heinlein growing up. He is a classic libertarian science fiction author. He wrote, among other titles, \"Stranger in a Strange Land\", \"Starship Troopers\", and \"The moon is a harsh mistress\". \"Sirat: Through the Fires of Hell\" has a few of his social conventions, like group marriages and very fluid society (no formal laws until a couple decades after the Founding). It’s in the style of Heinlein - but without the free love.\nI have also had short stories published in several “Universe Pathways” anthologies, and one story in “Finis: A book of endings to give people new beginnings”.\nCA: Do you tend to base your characters on real people or are they totally from your imagination?\nTW: Imagination. I don’t know think I know that many aliens / genetically engineering humans / artificial intelligences. Though there are a few suspects.\nCA: How can a reader contact you or purchase your books?\nTW: Type in “Tamara Wilhite” into http://www.amazon.com/ – you’ll see about 30 titles I’ve written there. Everything from horror to parenting humor (not really so different), science fiction and technical articles (take today, imagine it fast forwarded a couple years, and you get sci-fi).\nI can be reached via firstname.lastname@example.org.\nCA: Thanks so much for sharing a little bit of you with the readers ;) Hugs and love, Crystal", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.lurensingingsociety.com/114-2/", "date": "2023-12-03T00:17:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100476.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202235258-20231203025258-00631.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9259313941001892, "token_count": 93, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__257504935", "lang": "en", "text": "The Original Members of Luren\nO. A. Nelson, Teodor Moller, N. E. Nelsen, H. Engebretsen\nThis brief history of the Luren Singing Society is taken from the booklet ‘140 Years of Luren! 1868 – 2008’ which was compiled by Paul Jordahl in 2008. We are indebted to Paul for his efforts in giving us this glimpse into Luren’s past.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.music-workshop.co.uk/resources/blog/tag=art%20for%20young%20people/", "date": "2024-04-14T01:12:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816863.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414002233-20240414032233-00220.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.969647228717804, "token_count": 135, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__10345592", "lang": "en", "text": "Posted on 16th January 2023 at 15:12\nHere at the Music Workshop Company, our work is driven by our love of music. But of course, music as an art form does not exist in a vacuum: throughout history, musicians and composers have been inspired by artists, writers and more – and vice versa. For younger audiences, this can provide multiple ways of accessing new stories and ideas, with new adaptations introducing children to works they may not otherwise have discovered.\nThis month, with World Book Day approaching, we take a look at some of our favourite stories where music takes a starring role, and some of the music that has been inspired by books.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lifeperceives.org/contributor/daisy-lafarge", "date": "2023-04-02T02:54:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950373.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20230402012805-20230402042805-00550.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9651375412940979, "token_count": 175, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__164071119", "lang": "en", "text": "Daisy Lafarge is a writer based in Glasgow, UK. Born in Hastings, she has lived in Scotland since 2011. She is the author of the novel Paul (Granta 2021; Riverhead 2022), which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta 2020), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and awarded Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.\nHer reviews and essays on ecology, art and literature have been widely published, appearing in Granta, LitHub, Wellcome Collection Stories, Art Review, TANK Magazine, The White Review, and elsewhere. In 2021 she completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow, and was appointed Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews. Lovebug, a book about infection and intimacy, will be published in 2023.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.dunlopbuilders.co.nz/insights/cape-to-bluff-2/", "date": "2023-12-11T16:33:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679515260.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211143258-20231211173258-00023.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9565000534057617, "token_count": 130, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__56314158", "lang": "en", "text": "13 Mar 23\nCape to Bluff\nCape to Bluff is a survey of residential architecture from Aotearoa New Zealand, by Simon Devitt, Luke Scott and Andrea Stevens.\nWe are humbled to be included in this stunning book, featuring thirty of New Zealand's most spectacular examples of architecture.\nTwo of our homes feature in the book. A common theme between them is both the close relationship we formed with the clients and architects, and the strong relationship each in turn has with the land we built upon. These relationships are so important to us, and the success of these beautiful homes reminds us of our 'why'.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.dart.ed.ac.uk/asdtech/", "date": "2017-11-24T18:28:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934808742.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124180349-20171124200349-00636.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.79557865858078, "token_count": 700, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__227317330", "lang": "en", "text": "A group of colleagues convened a Special Interest Group at IMFAR 2013, 2014 and 2015 on the topic of Technology and Autism.\nOne of the outcomes of that meeting was the initiation of an ASDtech mailing list, with a monthly digest of news to be circulated. All mailing list members are invited to submit items for the digest which is curated and circulated by Mari MacFarland and administered by Sue Fletcher-Watson. Please contact us if you would like to join the mailing list. The monthly digests from 2013 – 2015 are available for download on this page and the more recent digests can be found via the links below:\nJanuary 2016 digest will be posted here shortly\nBelow there are some links to some recently published reviews on autism and technology which may be of interest (and there’s a lot more embedded within the Digest pdfs in the archive).\nFletcher-Watson, S. (2014). A Targeted Review of Computer-Assisted Learning for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Towards a Consistent Methodology. Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1(2), 87-100.\nGrynszpan, O., Weiss, P. L. T., Perez-Diaz, F., & Gal, E. (2014). Innovative technology-based interventions for autism spectrum disorders: A meta-analysis. Autism, 18(4), 346-361.\nKagohara, D. M., van der Meer, L., Ramdoss, S., O’Reilly, M. F., Lancioni, G. E., Davis, T. N., … & Sigafoos, J. (2013). Using iPods® and iPads® in teaching programs for individuals with developmental disabilities: A systematic review. Research in developmental disabilities, 34(1), 147-156.\nPennington, R. C. (2010). Computer-assisted instruction for teaching academic skills to students with autism spectrum disorders: A review of literature. Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 25(4), 239-248.\nRajendran, G. (in press). Virtual environments and autism: a developmental psychopathological approach. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. DOI: 10.1111/jcal.12006\nRamdoss, S., Machalicek, W., Rispoli, M., Mulloy, A., Lang, R., & O’Reilly, M. (2012). Computer-based interventions to improve social and emotional skills in individuals with autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review. Developmental Neurorehabilitation, 15(2), 119-135.\nRamdoss, S., Lang, R., Mulloy, A., Franco, J., O’Reilly, M., Didden, R., & Lancioni, G. (2011). Use of computer-based interventions to teach communication skills to children with autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review. Journal of Behavioral Education, 20(1), 55-76.\nRamdoss, S., Mulloy, A., Lang, R., O’Reilly, M., Sigafoos, J., Lancioni, G., … & El Zein, F. (2011). Use of computer-based interventions to improve literacy skills in students with autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 5(4), 1306-1318.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://renselstudio.blogspot.com/2015/01/love-letter-to-my-parents.html", "date": "2019-02-16T20:12:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481111.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216190407-20190216212407-00188.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9717129468917847, "token_count": 334, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__35983917", "lang": "en", "text": "I often look at my life and wonder what I did to deserve the amazing parents I have. Today I'm thinking of the mantras they taught me. On a difficult day I will catch myself repeating one of them over and over and they soothe me just as they did years ago when I was being cradled in their arms after a skinned knee or other childhood trauma.\nMy Mother always had a way of lifting me up on a bad day with:\n- \"Tomorrow is another day.\"\n- \"In a hundred years it won't matter:\"\n- \"Don't cast your pearls before swine.\"\n- \"Do something even if it's wrong.\"\n- \"If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again.\"\n- \"Make a beginning and never give up.\"\n- \"The impossible only takes a little longer.\"\n- \"Don't sweat the small stuff - it's all small stuff.\"\nMy Father showed me where he finds his inner peace with:\n- \"Every day's a good day\"\n- \"Don't put your energy into the difficult people, put it into the good ones.\"\n- \"I never met a stranger.\"\n- \"People are fascinating if you just get to know them.\"\n- \"Ignore it. It'll go away.\"\n- \"Go hug your dog.\"\nThank you, Mom and Dad for being there for me no matter where I am. Know that your soothing words are always the background noise in my head.\nNow, let me show the rest of you what beauties we've had the sheer joy of framing lately...", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://justwriteonline.typepad.com/distributed_intelligence/alan-barkers-books/", "date": "2024-02-22T05:42:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00332.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9285046458244324, "token_count": 338, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__46531518", "lang": "en", "text": "Writing an essay means more than finding and recording facts. You need to think critically: analysing material and reaching a conclusion. It means showing that you understand the material you’ve been studying. Above all, it means presenting a coherent argument.\nIf you’re at high school, college or university, you’ll need to write essays - even if you're studying maths or a science. But learning to write essays also prepares us for life beyond college. In the real world, more and more of us need to be able to express ideas clearly, with good grammar and a flexible style. Essay writing gives us the skills to become more effective citizens.\nHow do you start? What kind of words should you use? Are you entitled to offer your own views on a subject?\nEssay Writing Explained will help you produce an essay that your tutor will appreciate, and that will do you credit.\nHere are a few reviews from the Bookboon website.\nA very insightful yet practical book for every writer. Thanks.\nIdris Osman ★★★★★\nGood book. It gives you a clear idea about how to write an essay.\nAntonio Mouraz Miranda ★★★★★\nOne more book to help foreigners to write in English!\nKarina Vieira ★★★★★\nVery useful! Language is very simple and clear.\nDoris J. Marshall ★★★★★\nWriting an essay may be easy, but not everyone finds it the same way. Having to read this one, I have found some great ways on how to create an organized and perfect result.\nTake a look at Essay Writing Explained.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.koopadventureplayground.com/single-post/2017/04/06/playing-it-up-with-loose-parts-playpods-and-adventure-playgrounds", "date": "2023-09-21T20:18:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506029.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921174008-20230921204008-00136.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9658504724502563, "token_count": 362, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__9261126", "lang": "en", "text": "Playing It Up—With Loose Parts, Playpods and Adventure Playgrounds\nBig news! KOOP is included in this amazing book! Playing It Up—With Loose Parts, Playpods and Adventure Playgrounds is a book that features play projects all over the country and is edited by Joan Almon..\nWe met Joan Almon at the Play Symposium in Ithaca, NY back in October 2016. We heard her speak and were immediately captivated! Joan founded the Alliance for Childhood (http://www.allianceforchildhood.org) and has over 30 years of experience advocating for children’s right to play.\nAfter the conference, we spoke with Joan about our passions for play and about our wish that this tangible passion at the conference could be expanded upon, plans made and followed through, etc. Joan thought we would be valuable additions to the North American Adventure Play Association (NAAPA) and invited us to a meeting. We attended, became members and joined committees. Without Joan’s invitation, we might not be so well connected with others in the play community. We are so grateful to have met her, been invited to NAAPA and now to be included in her fantastic book!\nAlso at that conference in Ithaca, Joan shared that she is putting together a book of all the up and coming play projects in the United States and she invited KOOP to be a part of her book. We were so excited to read more about the play movement in the US and to find our own play project right there alongside them! It’s amazing, inspiring and we’ve already read it several times!\nYou can download a free copy here\nYou can also purchase a hard copy for $24.00 here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.candacecalvert.com/", "date": "2013-12-06T14:40:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163051984/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131731-00004-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9023774266242981, "token_count": 523, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__55315251", "lang": "en", "text": "Folks like to call me the author of “medical hope opera”-- I couldn’t be more pleased. Long (and colorful) years as an ER nurse convinced me that love, laughter and faith are the very best medicines. And that’s exactly what I offer in my Mercy Hospital and Grace Medical series: unforgettable characters, adrenalin-infused action, humor, heartwarming romance, and an encouraging message of hope. In these challenging times, just what the doctor ordered. So grab a cup of cyber-coffee and take your time browsing: read my bio (nurse to trauma victim to inspirational author) and check out the free first chapters, reviews and extras.\nLATEST BLOG ENTRIES11/21/2013 07:30 AM: There's a Kitchen Easy Button?\nEven for those of us who love to cook, there are times when life simply gets in the way, or--in truth--we're just not feelin' it. If you're alone, maybe it's a great excuse for a popcorn entree. Hey, I've done it. But if you've got other rumbling tummies in the house, you'll want to come up with something a bit more substantial-- beyond cheddar cheese powder on the popcorn. How do you make... read more\n11/27/2013 06:12 PM: Kitchen Hula: Guest Author Lisa Carter (giveaway)\n**Weds. Nov. 27th 5:10 PM Congratulations to our giveaway winner, Jackie! ** Our guest today is bringing a taste of the tropics to Authors' Galley. Especially delightful for those of you already pulling on mittens, parkas and wool hats in the season's first snows. I've seen your Facebook pics! Our guest's newest novel, Aloha Rose, a contemporary romance in the Quilts of Love series, releases... read more\n“ . . . medical scenes that ring with authenticity and drama, while giving us a glimpse into the lives and hearts of the people behind the stethoscope . . .”\n--Richard L. Mabry, MD, the Prescription for Trouble series\n“ . . . adrenaline high, ripped from today’s headlines, with enough romantic tension to spike your pulse.”\n--Julie Lessman, award winning author of the Daughters of Boston series\n“ . . . an infusion of hope . . . read it and repeat dosage as necessary!”\n--Mocha with Linda reviews", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://visitlyntonandlynmouth.com/events/appledore-book-festival/", "date": "2020-09-26T10:03:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400238038.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20200926071311-20200926101311-00626.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9301570653915405, "token_count": 296, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__61946384", "lang": "en", "text": "Appledore Book Festival\nThe Appledore Book Festival is one of the largest cultural festivals in Devon.\nDue to the current situation with COVID-19 and social distancing government guidelines, the traditional nine-day Festival has been rearranged to a five-day Drive-In Festival.\nIt will still showcase some world-renowned authors from across the UK, but unfortunately will not be running the Fringe Festival alongside the various author events.\nThis year’s events features the well-known faces of Richard Osman, Kate Humble, Jeremy Vine, Dr Micheal Moseley… and many more and influential authors and celebrities.\nA Drive-In Festival provides a safe environment while in the comfort of your own car. Audiences will be able to watch and listen to amazing authors discussing their latest book, live from the Appledore Book Festival stage, with sound being transmitted via FM radio. There will be an opportunity to put questions to the author, plus snacks and refreshments can be ordered prior to the event and served direct to your car. You’ll even be able to purchase signed books, by contactless payment.\nWhether you want to be inspired, entertained or just share a picturesque field with some of the best creative talents of our time, then come and join us at our Drive-In Festival, at Skern Lodge Appledore, from the 18 to 22 September. There really is something for everyone.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://athomewiththewests.blogspot.com/2011/01/would-just-like-to-say.html", "date": "2018-05-24T15:21:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794866511.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180524151157-20180524171157-00048.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9614372253417969, "token_count": 171, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__165283262", "lang": "en", "text": "My dearest David,\nThank you for the best 10 years of my life! Without you in them they would have been miserable and dull.\nThank you for all the good times and the strength to get through the bad.\nThank you for all your love, support and encouragement, for always being available and caring.\nThank you for each and every candlelit dinner, every evening by the fire, every poem you have written and every cuddle you have given.\nThank you for the beautiful walks in the woods and strides by lakes, the hikes up hills and picnics on mountain tops.\nThank you for still loving me after all these years.\nYou are amazing and I love you more now than I thought anyone could love, yet I know even by the pass of this day my love for you will have grown even more.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.cccommunitychest.org/news-announcements/laura-schroff-to-be-featured-at-women-in-philanthropy-luncheon-on-march-12th/", "date": "2019-08-18T05:17:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027313617.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190818042813-20190818064813-00247.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9531664252281189, "token_count": 182, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__131258584", "lang": "en", "text": "The 4th Annual Women in Philanthropy Luncheon will be held on March 12th, 2014. This popular event is an annual celebration of Women in Philanthropy month.\nThis year, the Chest brings NY Times best-selling author Laura Schroff to the event. Laura will share her story, featured in her book, An Invisible Thread, of her unlikely interaction with an 11 year old panhandler in New York City and the inspiring love and friendship that followed. It is the story of the mysterious, unseen connections that exist between people who are destined to meet—and how, if only we open our eyes and our hearts to them, these connections can be the great blessings of our lives.\nThe luncheon will be held at Nashawtuc Country Club at 12:00pm. Tickets are $35 per person and must be purchased in advance. Tables of 8 may also be reserved.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://sighci.org/index.php?page=jmis2005&phpMyAdmin=622c4d141843t506dba2f", "date": "2019-04-26T14:52:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578806528.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20190426133444-20190426155444-00206.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9110841751098633, "token_count": 2751, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__202441313", "lang": "en", "text": "Journal of Management Information Systems Special Section on HCI Research in MIS\nWinter 2005-2006, Vol. 22, No. 3\nPing Zhang, Syracuse University\nFiona Fui-Hoon Nah, University of Nebraska, Lincoln\nIzak Benbasat, University of British Columbia\nHuman-Computer Interaction or Human Factors studies in MIS are concerned with the ways humans interact with information, technologies, and tasks, especially in business, managerial, organizational, and cultural contexts (Zhang et al. 2002). Although HCI studies in MIS share common interests and concerns with HCI studies in other disciplines such as Computer Science, Psychology, and Ergonomics (Zhang et al. 2003), HCI studies in MIS are also distinctive in its own ways. An MIS researcher's perspective affords emphasis and special importance to managerial and organizational contexts by focusing on analysis of tasks and outcomes at a level that is relevant to organizational performance and effectiveness. The two main distinctive features of MIS when compared to other 'homes' of HCI are its business application and management orientations (Nah et al. 2005; Zhang et al. 2004).\nMIS-oriented HCI issues have been addressed since the earliest studies in the MIS discipline. Culnan (1986) identified nine factors or subfields in early MIS publications (1972-1982). Of these nine, three are related to issues in humans interacting with computers. In a second study of a later period of MIS publications (1980-1985), Culnan (1987) found the MIS field to be composed of five areas of study, one of which, individual (micro) approaches to MIS design and use, is closely related to human-computer interaction. After surveying 50 years of MIS publications in the Management Science journal, Banker and Kauffman (Banker et al. 2004) identified HCI as one of five main research streams in MIS and predicted that interest in HCI research will resurge.\nThe prediction of the resurge has already taken place. MIS scholars' interest in HCI has greatly increased in recent years and HCI has been gaining importance in the MIS discipline. For example, a large number of MIS scholars have self-reported their research interests in HCI-related issues and in teaching HCI-related topics (Zhang et al. 2002). HCI courses are also offered in many MIS programs (Carey et al. 2004; Chan et al. 2003; Kutzschan et al. 2005). HCI is recognized as an important topic in the most recent model curriculum for Masters in Information Systems majors (Gorgone et al. 2005). Both the total numbers and percentages of HCI studies published in primary MIS journals have increased over the recent years (Zhang et al. 2005). There are two forthcoming volumes on HCI research in MIS (Galletta et al. 2006; Zhang et al. 2006) that are part of the Advances in Management Information Systems series. Major MIS conferences, such as International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), Americas Conferences on Information Systems (AMCIS), Pacific Asia Conferences on Information Systems (PACIS), and European Conferences on Information Systems (ECIS), have been paying attention to HCI studies over many years. Most of them have started to set up specifically-designated HCI tracks (ICIS started this in 2004, AMCIS in 2002, PACIS in 2005, and ECIS in 2006.) There is a workshop devoted to HCI research in the MIS discipline that started in 2002 - the pre-ICIS Annual Workshop on HCI Research in MIS. Finally, an official organization of HCI in MIS, the AIS Special Interest Group on HCI (SIGHCI), was established in 2001 to promote and support HCI research, teaching and practice in MIS (Zhang 2004).\nThis JMIS special section becomes the 5th journal special issue that are sponsored by AIS SIGHCI.\nManuscript Selection Process for Special Section\nThe papers for this special section are the expanded versions of the best papers from the 2nd Pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI Research in MIS, held in December 2003 in Seattle, Washington. A total of 42 papers were submitted to the workshop of which 17 were accepted for presentations. Nine of the 17 papers were selected for consideration in this special section. The authors of these nine papers expanded their manuscripts based on feedback from the workshop reviews and comments from the participants, and enhanced the theoretical, conceptual and empirical content of their papers. Each of the resulting manuscripts was then reviewed by one original reviewer from the workshop and two or three new reviewers. After three rounds of rigorous peer review and editorial feedback from the special section guest editors, four papers were accepted for this special section of JMIS.\nPapers in the Special Section\nThis special section contains one introduction and four papers that illustrate some of the many interesting current HCI issues and concerns within the MIS discipline. The papers evolve around the theme of decision making in IT use and adoption. The first three papers examine interface issues and their impact on decision making and problem solving. The last paper examines the impact of task type on decision making relating to adoption of mobile technology for commerce.\nInvolvement and Decision-Making Performance with a Decision Aid: The Influence of Social Multimedia, Gender, and Playfulness\nTraci Hess, Mark Fuller, and John Mathew\nThe study explored how multimedia vividness and the use of computer-based social cues can influence involvement with technology and decision-making outcomes by taking into account two individual differences, gender and computer playfulness. Findings indicate that personality similarity between the user and the decision aid as well as computer playfulness result in increased involvement with the decision aid. In addition, women reported higher levels of involvement with the decision aid. Increased levels of multimedia vividness are found to have a contradictory effect, with animation actually reducing involvement with the decision aid.\nHow Presentation Flaws Affect Perceived Site Quality, Trust, and Intentions to Purchase from an On-Line Store\nAndrea Everard and Dennis Galletta\nThis paper studied the impact of three types of presentation flaws (errors, poor style, and incompleteness) on users' perceived quality and trust of e-commerce web sites as well as their intentions to purchase from the sites. The highest perceived quality was reported for web sites without flaws and a pattern of diminishing returns was observed with each subsequent flaw perceived. The findings indicate that errors, poor style, and incompleteness influence perceived quality via the perception of these flaws, and perceived quality influences trust which in turn affects purchase intentions. Because it is the perception of flaws on web sites rather than the actual presence of flaws that affects users' quality assessments, it is important for web stores to pay attention to how the features of web sites are perceived b y consumers. The findings indicate that presentation flaws influence perceived quality via an individual's perception of them, which may be highly subjective, for example, in the case of poor style. Perceived quality influences trust, which in turn affects purchase intentions.\nInvestigating Coherence and Multimedia Effects of a Technology-Mediated Collaborative Environment\nAndrew Gemino, Drew Parker, and Adrienne Olnick Kutzschan\nIn this paper, the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning was applied to assess the coherence and multimedia design principles of a technology-mediated collaborative environment. The study examined the impact of the context relevance of graphics embedded into the background of a collaborative interface. The results indicate that including context relevant graphics can enhance knowledge acquisition, while including irrelevant graphical information neither adversely affects nor fosters acquisition. The results support the coherence and multimedia principles of the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning in the technology-mediated collaborative environment.\nModerating Effects of Task Type on Wireless Technology Acceptance\nXiaowen Fang, Susy Chan, Jacek Brzezinski, and Shuang Xu\nDespite the many IS studies on user acceptance of various technologies, few studies emphasize the role and impact of task types on user acceptance. The authors addressed just such an issue in their paper. Three task categories were identified in the wireless context: (1) general tasks that do not involve transactions and gaming; (2) gaming tasks; and (3) transactional tasks. A validated conceptual model for wireless technology adoption indicates that task type moderates the effects of four possible determinants: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived playfulness, and perceived security. User intention to perform general tasks that do not involve transactions and gaming is influenced by perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use; user intention to play games is affected by perceived playfulness; and user intention to carry out transactions is influenced by perceived usefulness and perceived security. The study results have practical implications to designing wireless devices to better suit specific task types.\nThe guest editors thank the Editor-in-Chief, Vladimir Zwass, for his support in bringing this special section into fruition. We appreciate the cooperation of the authors who worked so diligently to produce their best work. We are indebted to the reviewers who helped to develop these manuscripts into their best form. The reviewers are Henri Barki, Dinesh Batra, Traci Carte, Ron Cenfetell, Patrick Chau, Jane Gravill, Zhenghui Jiang, Paul Lowry, Jiye Mao, Lorne Olfman, Judy Olson, Jonathan Palmer, Jeff Parson, Tom Roberts, Terry Shaft, Mark Silver, Diane Strong, James Teng, Peter Todd, Lai Lai Tung, Viswanath Venkatesh, Susan Wiedenbeck, Wei Zhang, and Ilze Zigurs.\nBanker, R.D., and Kauffman, R.J. \"The evolution of research on Information Systems: A fiftieth-year survey of the literature in management science,\" Management Science (50:3) 2004, pp 281-298.\nCarey, J., Galletta, D., Kim, J., Te'eni, D., Wildermuth, B., and Zhang, P. \"The Role of HCI in IS Curricula: A Call to Action,\" Communications of the AIS (13:23) 2004, pp 357-379.\nChan, S.S., Wolfe, R.J., and Fang, X. \"Issues and strategies for integrating HCI in Masters level MIS and e-commerce programs,\" International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (59:4), 10 2003, pp 497-520.\nCulnan, M.J. \"The intellectual development of Management Information Systems, 1972-1982: A co-citation analysis,\" Management Science (32:2), February 1986, pp 156-172.\nCulnan, M.J. \"Mapping the Intellectual Structure of MIS 1980-1985: A Co-citation Analysis,\" MIS Quarterly (11:3) 1987, pp 341-353.\nGalletta, D., and Zhang, P. (eds.) Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems - Applications. M. E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, NY, 2006.\nGorgone, J.T., Gray, P., Stohr, E.A., Valacich, J.S., and Wigand, R.T. \"MSIS 2006 Curriculum Review,\" Communications of the AIS (15) 2005, pp 544-554.\nKutzschan, A.O., and Webster, J. \"HCI as MIS,\" in: Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems: Foundations, P. Zhang and D. Galletta (eds.), M.E. Sharpe, 2005.\nNah, F.F.-H., Zhang, P., and McCoy, S. \"Editorial Introduction: HCI in MIS,\" International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (19:1) 2005, pp 3-6.\nZhang, P. \"AIS SIGHCI Three-Year Report,\" in: AIS SIGHCI Newsletter (http://sigs.aisnet.org/sighci/), 2004, pp. 2-6.\nZhang, P., Benbasat, I., Carey, J., Davis, F., Galletta, D., and Strong, D. \"Human-Computer Interaction Research in the MIS Discipline,\" Communications of the AIS (9:20) 2002, pp 334-355.\nZhang, P., and Dillon, A. \"HCI and MIS: Shared concerns,\" International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (59:4), Oct. 2003, pp 397-402.\nZhang, P., and Galletta, D. (eds.) Human-Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems - Foundations. M. E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, NY, 2006.\nZhang, P., and Li, N. \"The intellectual development of Human-Computer Interaction research in MIS: A survey of the MIS literature (1990-2002),\" Journal of Association for Information Systems (6:11), November 2005, pp 227-292.\nZhang, P., Nah, F.F.-H., and Preece, J. \"HCI Studies in MIS,\" Behaviour & Information Technology (23:3), May-June 2004, pp 147-151.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.vannamle.com/mangaku/", "date": "2023-12-01T13:25:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100287.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201120231-20231201150231-00578.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9231349229812622, "token_count": 1233, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__121624749", "lang": "en", "text": "Greeted by Mangaku\nWelcome, fellow webtoon enthusiasts, to the world of Mangaku! If you are a fan of captivating storytelling, stunning artwork, and diverse characters, then Mangaku is the perfect virtual hub for you. Get ready to dive into a vast collection of Indonesian webtoons that will transport you to different realms, evoke a plethora of emotions, and leave you craving for more.\nIndonesia has been bustling with incredible creative talent within the comics industry, and Mangaku has become the go-to platform for many aspiring artists and dedicated readers. In this article, we will take you on an exciting journey through the fascinating world of Mangaku, discussing its unique features, popular webtoons, and everything else you need to know about this captivating platform.\nDiscovering the Marvels of Mangaku\nThe Rise of Indonesian Webtoons\nIndonesia has witnessed a tremendous surge in the popularity of webtoons in recent years. With its accessibility, unique storytelling format, and visually appealing artwork, webtoons have captured the hearts of millions of readers. Mangaku, as one of the pioneering webtoon platforms in Indonesia, has played a pivotal role in revolutionizing the local comic industry by providing a vibrant space for both aspiring and established artists to showcase their talent.\nUnleashing Your Imagination\nMangaku offers a diverse range of webtoons that cater to every taste and preference. Whether you are a fan of romance, fantasy, action, or comedy, you are bound to find a captivating series that will keep you hooked for hours on end. With a fusion of captivating storytelling, stunning artwork, and relatable characters, Mangaku guarantees to captivate your imagination and take you on an unforgettable journey with each webtoon you explore.\nCommunity and Collaboration\nOne of the most appealing aspects of Mangaku is its strong sense of community. Mangaku encourages readers and artists to interact, fostering a supportive and engaging environment for all. With comment sections, fan theories, and fanart forums, readers are able to connect with each other and express their love for their favorite webtoons. Additionally, Mangaku also provides platforms for aspiring artists to collaborate and create their own webtoons, further nurturing the growth of the industry.\nThe Marvels of Mangaku: A Closer Look\nMangaku offers an impressive array of genres, ensuring that there is something for everyone. From heartwarming romances and thrilling action-packed adventures to thought-provoking dramas and hilarious comedies, Mangaku’s extensive library caters to a wide range of tastes. Whether you’re in the mood for an emotional rollercoaster or a laugh-out-loud comedy, you can find it all in Mangaku’s diverse collection.\nPrepare to be amazed by the breathtaking artwork found in Mangaku’s webtoons. Indonesian artists have garnered widespread recognition for their exceptional skills in storytelling through visuals. From vibrant colors that bring scenes to life to intricate details that enhance the overall reading experience, the artwork in Mangaku’s webtoons is truly a feast for the eyes.\nGet ready to embark on thrilling adventures and immerse yourself in compelling narratives. The talented writers behind Mangaku’s webtoons craft intricate storylines that will keep you eagerly turning the virtual pages. Each chapter will leave you on the edge of your seat, craving to know what happens next. With their ability to weave unforgettable tales, Mangaku’s webtoons ensure that you will never experience a dull moment.\nUnraveling the Mangaku Experience: Frequently Asked Questions\n1. What is Mangaku?\nMangaku is one of the leading webtoon platforms in Indonesia, offering a vast collection of webtoons created by both established and aspiring artists.\n2. How do I access Mangaku?\nYou can access Mangaku by visiting their official website or downloading the Mangaku app on your smartphone.\n3. Are the webtoons on Mangaku free to read?\nYes, the majority of webtoons on Mangaku can be read for free, although there are some premium series that require a subscription.\n4. Can I leave comments on Mangaku webtoons?\nYes, Mangaku provides a comment section for each webtoon, allowing readers to share their thoughts and engage with other fans.\n5. How often are new webtoons released on Mangaku?\nMangaku regularly updates its collection with new webtoons. The frequency of updates may vary depending on the artist and series.\n6. Can I submit my own webtoon to Mangaku?\nYes, Mangaku welcomes submissions from aspiring artists who want to share their own webtoons with the community.\n7. Are there any events or competitions held by Mangaku?\nYes, Mangaku frequently organizes events, competitions, and collaborations to further engage with readers and artists.\n8. How can I support my favorite webtoon artists on Mangaku?\nYou can support your favorite webtoon artists by leaving positive comments, sharing their work on social media, and participating in community activities.\n9. Can I read Mangaku webtoons offline?\nCurrently, Mangaku does not offer an official offline reading feature. However, you can save chapters for later reading if you have an internet connection.\n10. Is Mangaku available in multiple languages?\nWhile Mangaku primarily offers webtoons in Indonesian, there are some series that have been translated into English and other languages.\nAs you delve into the captivating world of Mangaku, remember that there are countless stories waiting to be discovered. Whether you’re seeking heartwarming romances, exhilarating adventures, or thought-provoking dramas, Mangaku has it all. Join the vibrant community, engage with fellow readers, and support the talented artists who bring these incredible webtoons to life. Embrace the magic of Mangaku and let your imagination soar.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://andreamackayphotography.com/2020/11/21/i-know-this-he-makes-her-happy/", "date": "2023-12-02T02:42:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00668.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.966418445110321, "token_count": 926, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__261199097", "lang": "en", "text": "As I’ve looked back on Davis and Sariah’s beautiful wedding weekend I keep thinking about the Father of the Bride (my brother) & his wedding toast.\nNow, this isn’t verbatim, but you’ll get the gist of his meaning:\nI know Sariah, and she is loving and kind… I don’t know Davis, but I know he makes her happy.\nI know Sariah, and she is happy and generous… I don’t know Davis, but I know he makes her happy.\nI know Sariah, and she is extremely loyal… I don’t know Davis, but I know he makes her happy.\nI know Sariah, and she is intelligent and driven… I don’t know Davis, but I know he makes her happy.\nI know Sariah, and she is fun and adventurous… I don’t know Davis, but I know he makes her happy.\nI love that my brother can see how happy Davis makes Sariah! Every father of the bride should have this assurance!\nBut what about Davis?\nI see how he looks at her…\nI watch as he gets her door…\nI see how tenderly he brushes back her hair…\nHe smiles at her in adoration…\n(He is smiling so much that he’s radiating happiness!)\nHe works to get her to laugh, to make her comfortable, or makes her uncomfortable to get her to laugh!\nWhat does all this mean? ~That she makes him happy, too!\nThey have enough in common to be compatible and enough different about them to make life interesting!\nI have a feeling these two will be laughing quite a bit throughout their life together!\nIn true Sariah Style they were married on Friday, the 13th…\n-proving that their happiness can defy all tradition!\nThe next morning Davis and Sariah were sealed together as a Forever Family in The Las Vegas Nevada Temple!\n“If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently. You shield it and protect it. You never abuse it. You don’t expose it to the elements. You don’t make it common or ordinary. If it ever becomes tarnished, you lovingly polish it until it gleams like new. It becomes special because you have made it so, and it grows more beautiful and precious as time goes by.”—F. Burton Howard\n1 Corinthians 11:11—“Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.”\nGrowing up, Sariah was always looking for adventure…\nI believe she’s finally found her grand adventure with an amazing partner to walk beside her.\n“We are not two but three—thee and me and God for eternity, a most sacred triangle, a relationship of which we are each a part.”—Ardeth G. Kapp\n“Under the plan of heaven, the husband and wife walk side by side as companions, neither one ahead of the other, but a daughter of God and a son of God walking side by side. Let your families be families of love and peace and happiness.” —Gordon B. Hinckley\n“Marriage is a gift from God to us; the quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.”—L. Whitney Clayton\n“Because love is as much a verb as it is a noun, the phrase “I love you” is much more a promise of behavior and commitment than it is an expression of feeling.” – Lynn G. Robbins\n“That said, none of us marry perfection; we marry potential. The right marriage is not only about what I want; it’s also about what she—who’s going to be my companion—wants and needs me to be.” -Robert D. Hales\n“There is great power in a strong partnership. True partners can achieve more than the sum of each acting alone. With true partners, one plus one is much more than two.” – Russell M. Nelson\nI’m so thankful that I was able to witness both ceremonies where they were able to start their own family for both time and eternity.\nCongratulations on a wonderful start to your marriage! ~I love you both!\nNovember 21, 2020", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.drugscience.org/amu.html", "date": "2018-08-15T18:31:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210249.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815181003-20180815201003-00093.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9161473512649536, "token_count": 637, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__50304650", "lang": "en", "text": "The acceptance of cannabis's medical use by eight states\n[between 1996 and 2002] and the experiences of patients,\ndoctors, and state officials in these states establish\nmarijuana's accepted medical use in the United States.\nCannabis's accepted medical use in the United States\nis increasingly recognized by health care professionals\nand the medical community, including the Institute of\nMedicine. Several medical organizations support legal\naccess to cannabis for medicinal purposes. A new medical\njournal released in 2001 focuses on the medicinal use\nof cannabis and cannabinoids. National clinical conferences\non the medicinal use of cannabis have been held in the\nUnited States in 2000 and 2002 and are scheduled to\ncontinue on a bi-annual basis.. Most importantly, data\non the number of physicians currently recommending therapeutic\nmarijuana use to their patients demonstrate its acceptance\nby the medical community in the United States. More...\nPatients' experience and their confirmation\nby early studies\nFollowing state laws that allow for the medical use\nof cannabis, an increasing number of patients have collected\nexperience with cannabis. Many reported benefits from\nits use. Some of this experience has been confirmed\nin reports and clinical investigations or stimulated\nclinical research that confirmed these patients' experience\non other patients suffering from the same disease. More...\nReviews of earlier clinical studies\nSeveral scientific publications have reviewed evidence\nfrom research on the medicinal uses of cannabis indicating\nthat cannabis in fact may offer benefits in the treatment\nof certain illnesses. More...\nThe scientific understanding of the endogenous cannabinoid\nsystem consisting of specific cannabinoid receptors\nand their endogenous ligands (endocannabinoids) has\nconsiderably increased since 1995. It largely supports\nand helps explain many of the therapeutic benefits of\ncannabis and cannabinoids in humans. More...\nResults from clinical research demonstrate that both\ndronabinol and whole plant cannabis can offer a safe\nand effective treatment for the following illnesses:\nmuscle spasms in multiple sclerosis, Tourette syndrome,\nchronic pain, nausea and vomiting in HIV/AIDS and cancer\nchemotherapy, loss of appetite from cancer, hyperactivity\nof the bladder in patients with multiple sclerosis and\nspinal cord injury, and dyskinesia caused by levodopa\nin Parkinson's disease. More...\nRoute of administration.\nProgress has been made in recent years in reducing\nthe disadvantages of certain routes of cannabis administration,\nnotably the slow onset of action with oral use and harm\nassociated with the inhalation of combustion products\nwhen smoking cannabis. More...\nThe pharmaceutical industry is showing not only increasing\ninterest in synthetic modulators of the endogenous cannabinoid\nsystem, but also industry members are funding several\nclinical studies with cannabis whole plant extracts\nin Europe and Canada with the intention to develop approved\ncannabis based medicines. This indicates that therapeutic\nexploitation of natural cannabis will be economically\nsound. However the present Schedule I classification\nof cannabis and THC is an impediment to the pharmaceutical\ndevelopment of cannabinoid drugs becaused of the costly\nrestrictions it places on research. More...", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.edoriumjournalofotolaryngology.com/", "date": "2017-12-16T12:37:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948588072.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20171216123525-20171216145525-00288.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8196362257003784, "token_count": 192, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__135097852", "lang": "en", "text": "Edorium Journal of Otolaryngology is an international, peer reviewed, open access journal, publishing high-quality original articles on all aspects of otolaryngology.\nThe scope of Edorium Journal of Otolaryngology covers clinical studies and experimental research in otolaryngology and related disciplines, including otology, laryngology, rhinology, speech science and head and neck surgery. Studies of pathobiology from experimental models and human material are also welcome.\nFollowing types of articles are published in Edorium Journal of Otolaryngology: Review Articles, Original Articles, Short Reports, Rapid Communication, Case Series, Case Reports, Clinical Images and Letter to Editors.\nSubmission to peer review: 28-42 days\nAcceptance to final publication: 31 days\nPage proofs to final publication: 14 days\nIndexed in: Airiti Library, J-Gate, Google Scholar", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://singerderm.com/finasteride-male-pattern-balding-and-sexual-psychological-side-effects/", "date": "2024-04-16T22:35:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817112.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416222403-20240417012403-00290.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9536194801330566, "token_count": 1209, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__115563471", "lang": "en", "text": "In 2012, the first post marketing reports linking finasteride to depression and suicide were released. Since then, reports of adverse sexual side effects and persistent sexual dysfunction have been described in men taking finasteride for male pattern hair loss.\nTwo recent publications in the scientific literature have examined these potential side effects in young men taking finasteride for male pattern hair loss. These articles tried to answer two questions:\nFirst, is there an increased risk of depression and suicidality in young men taking finasteride for male pattern hair loss?\nSecondly, is there an increased risk of sexual side effects in young men taking finasteride for male pattern hair loss?\nThe first publication was entitled, Investigation of Suicidality and Psychological Adverse Events in Patients Treated With Finasteride (JAMA Dermatology, published in January 2021).\nSummary of key findings:\nIn this study, the authors compared the risk of suicidality in young men between the age of 18 and 45 years of age taking 1 mg of finasteride for male pattern hair loss versus men older than 45 years of age taking 5 mg of finasteride for enlarged prostate.The authors found an increased risk of suicidality and adverse psychological effects in younger men taking finasteride for male pattern hair loss, but not in older men taking 5 mg of finasteride for enlarged prostate.\nSecondly, the authors found no increased reports of suicidality in men using minoxidil (AKA Rogaine) for hair loss or Tamulosin in older men for enlarged prostate.\nThird, authors compared finasteride to dutasteride (a medication with very similar mechanism of action, and more potent inhibitor of 5-alpha reductase). Interestingly, there was no increased risk of dutasteride leading to suicidality. Given that finasteride and dutasteride both block 5-alpha reductase, the authors suggest that the increased risk of suicidality with finasteride may simply be a reporting bias, given the media attention and public awareness surrounding this medication.\nFurther supporting this bias is the fact that the rates of suicidality reported after 2012 was three times higher than prior to 2012 (when attention in the media first began regarding potential side effects of finasteride).\nThe authors propose that men who experience increased rates of suicidality while taking finasteride may also be simultaneously experiencing adverse sexual side effects from finasteride which may be the contributing factor to depression and suicide.\nThe bottom line is that there may be an increased risk for depression and suicidality in young men taking finasteride for male pattern hair loss, though it is difficult to say for sure how much this is attributed to reporting bias. Those men taking finasteride for male pattern hair loss should be aware of this issue and should consult their physician should any symptoms of depression or other psychological disturbance occur while taking finasteride.\nThe second publication was entitled, Disproportional signal of sexual dysfunction reports associated with finasteride use in young men with androgenetic alopecia: a pharmacovigilance analysis of Vigibase (Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, March 2022)\nThe authors specifically examined the association between finasteride use in young men for hair loss and sexual dysfunction (characterized by decreased sexual arousal or desire, difficulty maintaining erections, reduced intensity of erections, and ejaculatory dysfunction ).\nThe data was based upon the World Health Organization’s international database of individual case safety reports. The authors compared reports of finasteride to drugs with similar mechanism of action (dutasteride) and other drugs used for male pattern hair loss including minoxidil.\nThe authors found an increased risk of sexual side effects with finasteride than would be expected by chance alone. 7700 reports of sexual dysfunction in men taking finasteride were identified.\nHowever, they also acknowledge that there may be a reporting bias based upon the following factors (quoted directly from the article below):\n“(1) the signal of sexual dysfunction associated with finasteride after 2012 is >3 times greater than the signal for reports before 2012\n(2) the signal associated with finasteride was nearly twice that of dutasteride\n(3) the signal associated with finasteride in young patients with androgenetic alopecia was 30 times that of minoxidil\n(4) the signal associated with the 1-mg dose of finasteride used for androgenetic alopecia was nearly twice that of the 5-mg dose used for benign prostatic hyperplasia.”\nThe bottom line is that is that there probably is increased risk of sexual side effects in young men taking finasteride for male pattern hair loss, though the risks are very unlikely to be as high as that described in the research paper above. The current estimates are around 2% risk of sexual side effects. Fortunately, these side effects are almost always reversible more than 99.9% of the time. This means that if you stop taking finasteride, the side effects almost always resolve.\nMy personal experience with finasteride has been a good one. I started taking finasteride around 30 years of age, when I started thinning over the vertex of the scalp. I have a very strong family history of hair loss, with both of my grandfathers being completely bald. Also, my older brother suffers from severe male pattern hair loss. In 20 years of taking finasteride, I have personally seen no sexual side effects nor any psychological adverse events. Furthermore, I have treated hundreds of patients with finasteride and have seen only a handful of patients that have needed to stop finasteride due to adverse events. Fortunately, in all these cases, the side effects completely resolved upon discontinuation of finasteride.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://donodom.blogspot.com/2011/07/powerful-beyond-measure.html", "date": "2018-06-24T18:08:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267867050.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624180240-20180624200240-00234.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9726740121841431, "token_count": 419, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__84341104", "lang": "en", "text": "Forgot I wanted to post this sent to me by a friend. Both quotes are by Marianne Williamson. Please read through all the way even if you are not a believer so I can ask you a question.\n\"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?\nActually, who are you not to be?(my highlight) We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.\"\n\"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.\nOur deepest fear in that we are powerful beyond measure.\nIt is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.\nWe ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?\nActually, who are you not to be?\nYou are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World.\nThere is nothing enlightening about shrinking\nso that other people won't feel unsure around you.\nWe were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.\nIt is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.\nAs we let our own Light shine,\nwe consciously give other people permission to do the same.\nAs we are liberated from our own fear,\nour presence automatically liberates others.\"\nSo even if you don't believe in God, can you deny the power that would energize your life if you lived as if other people needed your example to live by? What if you wanted to be a motivator to everyone who came in contact with you? WHAT IF people wanted to be like you?!\nThis is one of the most inspirational things I've ever read. I cannot fully put into words how it reachs me inside but I truly wish I had read it years ago. Who knows though, I might not have appreciated it then.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.sevenseasentertainment.com/books/restaurant-to-another-world-light-novel-vol-1/", "date": "2018-12-18T14:05:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376829399.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20181218123521-20181218145521-00233.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.873816192150116, "token_count": 210, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__55013184", "lang": "en", "text": "Book: Restaurant to Another World (Light Novel) Vol. 1\n▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪\nThe basis for the beloved anime about a restaurant that welcomes fantasy creatures to dine!\n“Western Cuisine Nekoya” seems like a typical restaurant on the outside, but it hides an amazing secret: on Saturdays, portals to another world appear that allow all manner of unearthly creatures to sit down for a nice meal. Elves, dragons, or anyone else who wants to sample our world’s cuisine is welcome to partake before returning to their world, sated and ready for their next quest. This lovely light novel series, never before published in English, celebrates even the simplest of our foods as fantastical adventures in fine dining. Bon appétit!\nDue to licensing or platform-specific content restrictions, not all books are available digitally.More information is available in our Digital FAQ.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://nfp71.ch/en/7IUfaRbE9zRnEYnt/news/190207-news-nfp71-guidelines-for-energy-saving-behaviour", "date": "2024-02-21T05:48:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00849.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8746089935302734, "token_count": 489, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__133194763", "lang": "en", "text": "Guidelines for energy-saving behaviour in six fields of action\nSix guidelines of the NRP 71 project “Sustainable lifestyles and energy consumption” support the authorities in promoting energy-saving behaviour in various fields of action.\nAs part of the NRP 71 project “Sustainable lifestyles and energy consumption”, the Mobility Competence Centre of the Lucerne School of Business, under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Timo Ohnmacht, has developed six guidelines for promoting a sustainable lifestyle in cooperation with the cities of Lucerne and Biel/Bienne. The guidelines support the authorities in introducing targeted measures aimed at promoting energy-saving behaviour that are geared both specifically towards the various action areas and the willingness of those concerned. This increases the acceptance of the introduced measures, which can be implemented in future on a selective basis and in a manner that affects people’s behaviour.\nThe basis of the research project is formed by the investigation of social-psychological influencing factors that impact everyday behaviour and thus represent starting points for promoting sustainable lifestyles in a targeted manner. Effective measures for various areas of day-to-day life have been developed. For each of the six guidelines, the relevant influencing factors have been defined and supplemented with specific proposals for action. On the basis of the guidelines, both authorities and campaign planners can now analyse behaviour in an easily understandable manner and classify it within the developed phase model. For each phase, behaviour-influencing measures are then proposed that aim to reduce energy consumption. Behaviour is presented to those affected in relation to the phase it belongs to. This offers the key advantage that specific behaviour can be viewed on a differentiated basis and that possible development potential is revealed.\nOverview of guidelines (PDF, German):\n- 2. Hand – der Kauf von gebrauchten anstatt neuen Gütern (Second hand – the purchase of used instead of new goods)\n- Energiesparsamer Wohnen (Energy-saving living)\n- Förderung des Öffentlichen Verkehrs (Promotion of public transport)\n- Reduktion von Fleischkonsum (Reduction of meat consumption)\n- Velofahren (Bike riding)\n- Verlängerung der Lebensdauer von Mobiltelefonen (Extending the lifespan of mobile phones)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://disrupted.news/shelftaught/", "date": "2018-10-17T21:39:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-43/segments/1539583511216.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20181017195553-20181017221053-00044.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9495657086372375, "token_count": 465, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-43__0__103216520", "lang": "en", "text": "Their Press Release\nEvery year book lovers spend millions of dollars on books they never finish, because there is no easy way of finding the right book. But now Shelftaught takes the gamble out of the search for a great read.\nShelfTaught is designed to help users choose their next read intelligently.\nOther websites rank books on popularity by relying on best seller lists or unvetted voting, making it hard for readers to find suggestions for useful niche books; like the best crochet books or small business marketing books.\nShelfTaught uses an algorithm to combine individuals’ book suggestions whilst taking into account their professional and personal expertise. This creates a book recommendation engine that is precise, and based on recommendations from people in the know, rather than a popularity contest.\nOn ShelfTaught, one can connect with other users, endorse their skills and be a part of the world’s best book recommendation engine.\nNo matter how niche a persons’ interests are users can find high quality recommendations in any topic saving them time and money.\n“I bought a project management book off of Amazon because it had a lot of 5 star reviews, but it was way too basic.” – Anna in London\nThe site is focused on Non-fiction readers and is attracting users who are tired of existing platforms such as Goodreads\n“Wow. Exactly what I was looking for. Goodreads seriously needs a better alternative, especially for non-fiction.” – Nayan on Product Hunt.\nShelfTaught’s appeals to book worms who want to share with the world all the books they have read and the knowledge they’ve acquired. The easy to use interface and clean display makes displaying an online library, simple and attractive.\nGoodreads’ users can copy their full library across with the click of a button.\nVisit the site at www.shelftaught.com to find your next favourite book, show your knowledge off to the world, and be a part of the world’s best book recommendation engine.\nShelfTaught launched in February 2018 and was founded by Duncan Garde. Duncan is a self-proclaimed geek, who taught himself to code from scratch and then built the site in his spare time.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://patrickmcclure.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/jesus-last-words/", "date": "2018-06-19T15:48:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863100.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619154023-20180619174023-00619.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9672068357467651, "token_count": 790, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__180544198", "lang": "en", "text": "It started out as joke. I was offered the last three weeks in June to preach a series before my upcoming trip the States. My mind being what it is, I immediately thought of Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture,” and thought up the ominous-sounding title: “The Last Series.” It would most likely have a small subtitle “until the next one” or “in June.” As it turns out, no one around here knows who Randy Pausch is, so I changed tacks and came up with the title “The Last Words,” with the tagline, “What would you say if you knew they would be your last words?”\nI thought it sounded catchy, but naturally they couldn’t be my last words. I’m a stickler for expository preaching. This led me to think about several people whose last words are recorded for us in Scripture. Not surprisingly, I picked Moses (whose last words are the basically the whole book of Deuteronomy), Paul (whose last words aren’t necessarily recorded, but 2 Timothy gets pretty close), and of course, Jesus.\nI won’t go into all the details of each message because I want to get to a point (and I’m sure you want me to do so as well).\nThere are a number of ways to approach the last words of Jesus Christ. One can take it literally: the last thing He said on the cross (there is no lack of “The Seven Sayings of Jesus” material out there). The idea can be broadened a bit, and focus on His final words to the disciples before His crucifixion. But as I considered how I was going to handle it, it hit me:\nJesus will never speak His last words.\nWhen speaking of Jesus’ “last words,” we always have to qualify a context. His last words to His disciples. His last words on the cross. Death has a way of rendering men speechless, but Jesus has a way of rendering death powerless. He rose again. So we must resort to more qualifying: His last words before His ascension. His words to Paul at his conversion. His words to John in Revelation. Surely, way at the end, in chapter 22, where He says He is coming quickly—those are his last words! Well, possibly the last ones recorded, but still not His last, because I imagine we will be doing most of the listening in eternity.\nThe Bible speaks of two different words as eternal: God’s Word, as in, the Scriptures (Is. 40:8; the same of Jesus’ words in Mt 24:35), and Jesus Himself, the incarnate Word (John 1:1; 14). Over the course of human history, God has revealed the written word to mankind, with the goal of pointing to the incarnate Word. It is God’s revelation, pointing to God revealed—God with us. Jesus is God’s ultimate and final word (Hb 1:1-2). Everything we need to know about His final Word is found in His written word. And neither will ever pass away.\nI have already spoken on Moses and Paul at church, so I’m looking forward to the final Sunday in the series, as I speak of Jesus’ “last words.” It is encouraging to think that Jesus will never speak His last words; and yet humbling to think that He will always have the last word.\nI can only hope that my last words—when the time comes for me to say them—will ring with a passion for God’s written Word as they point to God’s ultimate and final Word, Jesus Christ.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://excelprof.com/digital-technology-and-clean-energy/", "date": "2023-12-08T09:46:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100739.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208081124-20231208111124-00137.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.963121235370636, "token_count": 281, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__134349779", "lang": "en", "text": "I just finished a book titled “Energy’s Digital Future” authored by Professor Amy Myers Jaffe. The book raises a few very important points that are worthy of deeper discussion (and more urgent action):\n- The future of clean energy is digital (i.e. driven by technology).\n- We need more swift and powerful US energy policies to ensure we can actually achieve a successful clean energy transition.\n- The US can use this opportunity to not only lead in energy transition, but also in securing and upholding democracy.\nThe book is fascinating and convincing to me because it takes a historical perspective, and generates lessons learned from the history. Let me raise two particular important examples:\n- GPS is a technology pioneered by the US government. It was due to the threat from the USSR having launched Sputnik, the first satellite.\n- The US could have an electrified society in the 1910s. During that period, electrified vehicles were actually dominating gasoline cars. Again, the US government played an important role in steering us away from that technology and onto the gasoline-centric road.\nI have long suspected that the US government had played a pivotal role in changing the course of US societal evolution in the past. This book firmly reinforced my view.\nFor those who are interested in knowing more about the book, here is a short webinar on the book launch:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.nurol.com.tr/en/nurettin-carmikli-books", "date": "2023-12-10T06:44:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679101282.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210060949-20231210090949-00756.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9855442047119141, "token_count": 501, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__106225700", "lang": "en", "text": "Exactly 10 years ago, in 2006, I had written my book “I Promised to My Father”, in which I narrated my life and memories. My life and memories… They are all composed of only work. I believe those who have read that book might have seen that there is nothing in my life other than work and NUROL, which is our company that we have built up together with my brothers. I do not like much to talk about myself. As a man who has always refrained from being appeared on media, the book in question was, for me, a kind of first and longest bare my heart. It was a kind of a comprehensive response to the question of “Who is Nurettin Çarmıklı?” Those, who have read my book “I Promised to My Father” and had chance to get answers to the question about who I am, might have been realized that my life is majorly- maybe I have to say unfortunately- only composed of business life. So, the book “I Promised to My Father” is not only about my life and memories but also a summary of 40 years of NUROL.\nWhile we celebrated the 40th birthday of NUROL, a kind of corporate history had been written with my words as well. Now, 10 years later, we celebrate 50th birthday of NUROL. As corporate, now we are in our years of maturity. 50 years those have been left behind means 50 years of my life. I am very well aware of that lives of institutions can be incomparably long, when they are managed well enough, in comparison the life of a human being. Although I will not be around, I am pretty confident that the second, third and so on 50th birthdays of NUROL will be celebrated in the future. Within the 50 years we left behind, we have put our signatures to various works that will serve to our people for additional several 50 years. We have built roads, dams, canals, tunnels, residences, and manufactured armored vehicles. We are proud of making a humble contribution to prevention of a military coupe and protection of our democracy by means of armored vehicles we have manufactured. In this book, I do not mention about what we have done within the country. But, I have to say that we put our signature on many huge projects, for which we all should be proud of.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.convatec.nl/wondzorg/aquacel-wondverband/aquacel-agplus-extra/onderzoeken/", "date": "2023-01-28T07:40:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499524.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20230128054815-20230128084815-00666.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7471824288368225, "token_count": 475, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__178268315", "lang": "en", "text": "AQUACEL® Ag+ wondverband onderzoeken, lees het bewijs:\nDownload the clinical summary of a recently published review1 summarising why biofilm is a key challenge for clinicians caring for chronic wounds.\n- Biofilm is present in the majority of chronic wounds2\n- It is a key cause of delayed wound healing3 and a precursor to infection4\n- Formation tends to occur when wound moisture and exudate are not well controlled5\nBiofilm has an increased tolerance to antimicrobials and antibiotics6\nMore research is needed to identify a rapid accurate technique to identify and characterise biofilms in ways that optimise their validity in diagnosing or screening patient risk of infection or delayed healing and to inform clinical decisions.1\nWatch the video on how biofilm delays wound healing and how AQUACEL® Ag+ dressings perform.\n- Hurlow J, Couch K, Laforet K, Bolton L, Metcalf D, Bowler P, 2014. Clinical Biofilms: A Challenging Frontier in Wound Care. Advances in Wound Care, DOI: 10.1089/wound.2014.0567.\n- James G, Swogger E, Wolcott R, Pulcini E, Secor P, 2008. Biofilms in chronic wounds. Wound Repair and Regeneration; 16:37-44.\n- Metcalf D and Bowler P, 2013. Biofilm delays wound healing: a review of the evidence. Burns & Trauma; 1:5-12\n- Percival S and Bowler P, 2004. Biofilms and their potential role in wound healing. WOUNDS; 16: 234-240.\n- Hurlow J and Bowler P, 2012. Potential implications of biofilm in chronic wounds: a case series. J Wound Care; 21:109-119.\n- Burmølle M, Thomsen TR, Fazli M, et al. Biofilms in chronic infections—a matter of opportunity—monospecies biofilms in multispecies infections. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 2010;59:324–336.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.armedinfaith.org/that-stranger-could-be-a-blessing-from-god/", "date": "2023-12-08T02:16:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100710.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208013411-20231208043411-00737.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9607343673706055, "token_count": 396, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__10429568", "lang": "en", "text": "In life, we meet many people. Some come into our lives to stay, while others are just passing through. However, have you ever considered that a stranger you encounter could be a blessing from God?\nThere are times in life when we feel lost or overwhelmed, and we don’t know where to turn. During these moments, a stranger can appear and offer us the guidance, support, or encouragement we need to keep going. These strangers may come in the form of a kind word, a helpful gesture, or a simple smile.\nAs Christians, we believe that God works in mysterious ways and that he can send people into our lives to help us when we need it most. The Bible teaches us that we should welcome strangers, treat them with kindness and respect, and be open to the blessings they may bring.\nIn Hebrews 13:2, we read, “Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it.” This verse reminds us that the strangers we encounter may be messengers from God, sent to help us on our journey.\nAnother example is in Matthew 25:35, where Jesus says, “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.” This verse teaches us that when we help strangers, we are helping Jesus himself.\nSo, the next time you encounter a stranger, don’t be afraid to reach out and offer a helping hand. Remember that this person may be a blessing from God, and that by helping them, you are serving him.\nGod can use anyone to bless our lives, even strangers. Let’s be open to these blessings, and treat everyone with kindness and respect. Who knows, that stranger you encounter today may be the blessing you’ve been praying for!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.infantfeedingguide.co.uk/about-this-guide", "date": "2021-03-03T07:51:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178366477.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210303073439-20210303103439-00589.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9613649249076843, "token_count": 287, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__69819094", "lang": "en", "text": "Welcome to the 2018/19 edition of The Guide to Infant Feeding – the independent, comprehensive and essential training guide for community practitioner and health visitor teams.\nHaving a new baby in the home is both a joy and a challenge. Parents are given so much advice about caring for their baby that they can actually become confused or simply miss things that are said. Infant feeding can be a particularly confusing area about which parents often have questions, and sometimes they can feel uncomfortable asking what they perceive to be a minor query or something which they don’t feel is worth making a GP appointment for. This is where community practitioners and health visitors can help. There is a great opportunity in the community to answer these questions, allay concerns and deal with uncertainties. When you see a parent with a baby, take the time to get to know them and let them know you are there to help. Build a good relationship and you will gain their trust, as well as having the satisfaction of being able to help someone through one of the most important periods of their life.\nThis guide is designed to give community practitioner and health visitor teams information on all aspects of infant feeding from breastfeeding to fussy eaters and everything in between. It also focuses on the importance of understanding parents’ needs and how to advise them appropriately, confidently and sensitively. We hope you find this training and reference guide useful when helping parents in your community.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.boekhandelmulder.nl/boeken/literaire-roman-novelle/fictie/vertaalde-literaire-roman-novelle/9789492115294-symphony-of-everyday-things/", "date": "2020-02-20T01:50:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875144498.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20200220005045-20200220035045-00134.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9797674417495728, "token_count": 213, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__167233769", "lang": "en", "text": "Dutch screenwriter Alec Gonzaga is facing an uncertain future. The love of his life - violinist Mary Douglas - is diagnosed with cancer. When she draws up a bucket list Alec is not surprised to learn about her wish to visit his homeland Indonesia. But her other request takes him by surprise: Mary wants him to write down the story of his youth. Alec is prepared to do everything for her, but he has always struggled with his painful memories. Will the visit to his old home traumatize him further or finally bring him peace of mind? And will it help both Mary and Alec to prepare themselves for the definite farewell that awaits them? Over de auteur Aloysius Keller is born in Bogor, Indonesia and grew up in Europe. He graduated from Wheaton College, Wheaton - Illinois, USA. His writing on posttraumatic stress disorder is based on personal experience. 'Symphony of everyday things' is his debut novel and was originally published in Dutch. Aloysius Keller has three daughters and presently resides in The Hague, the Netherlands.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://kaurvalues.com/category/kaurfinity/page/3/", "date": "2024-04-21T15:38:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817780.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421132819-20240421162819-00841.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9852725863456726, "token_count": 683, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__80767624", "lang": "en", "text": "Every now and again someone will ask an innocent question that has a profound impact on our view of life. Sometimes the impact is short lived as we return to the daily grind of activities filling our lives, but occasionally the question stays in our head and niggles away quietly in the background causing mild unrest. We almost do not want to answer the question as it will reveal an aspiration too hard to achieve, or perhaps make us face a situation we have successfully ignored up until now, or maybe because it will remind us of what we really wanted and who we really are and have since forgotten as we have adapted ourselves to fit in society and our work environment.\nI was asked the following innocent question about four years ago:\n“If you had achieved all you wanted to in life with no regrets and you were reflecting back on your life, what would be the highlights and the things you would be most proud of in your life?”\nIn answering this question I revisited my aspirations and my own personal goals, thus reminding myself of what I wanted to achieve. I realised I was putting off my own dreams using the lack of time as my biggest excuse.\nThere was always a reason not to start progressing towards my own personal goals; it was always “I will do something when I get around to it”. First I was studying, then I was working, now I am raising a family, tomorrow there will something else. Life goes on, but at some point life will pass me by and then it will be too late for me to do anything. If I make no effort to progress towards my own personal goals now, then I will be reminiscing on “what ifs†and regrets. What a waste!\nDon’t underestimate me. When thinking about this question I had it all: a job I loved, a career with good prospects and a lovely family and yet there was something that was not quite right. I thought I was doing an excellent job of juggling all the things in my life. Yet all I was doing was juggling more and more, faster and faster, rushing from A to B, B to C, nearly always on auto pilot. I enjoyed my work, I love my family, my husband and kids are great, so what was niggling away in the background?\nThis one question resulted in me re-evaluating my priorities. Somewhere along my journey I had put my dreams to one side as I got on with “life”. But not anymore! Having thought long and hard on what was important to me and what did I really want to achieve, I made the necessary changes in my life. These changes were not easy or quick decisions, nor would the benefits be realised immediately. However, having now made these changes, I am happy to say I consider my life to be richer in fulfilment.\nWe always have options. It is often too easy to go with the flow. Sometimes we go with the flow without even realising it. But once we realise something is not quite right, are we brave enough to challenge the status quo of our life and dare to change?\nSo let me now ask you an innocent question:\n“If you were the person you really wanted to be, what would be different about your life?”\nDo you dare to change?", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://bilkent.overdrive.com/media/3028173", "date": "2021-01-22T19:41:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703531335.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20210122175527-20210122205527-00288.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9664381742477417, "token_count": 496, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__131053642", "lang": "en", "text": "For the 250th anniversary of John Quincy Adams's birth, a landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece:the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution tothe coming of the Civil War. The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Now, for the 250th anniversary of Adams's birth, Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions. Volume 2 opens with Adams serving as Secretary of State, amid political maneuverings within and outside James Monroe's cabinet to become his successor, a process that culminates in Adams's election to the presidency by the House of Representatives after the deadlocked four-way contest of 1824. Even as Adams takes the oath of office, rivals Henry Clay, his Secretary of State, John C. Calhoun, his vice president, and an embittered Andrew Jackson, eye the election of 1828. The diary records in candid detail his frustration as his far-sighted agenda for national improvement founders on the rocks of internecine political factionalism, conflict that results in his becoming only the second president, with his father, to fail to secure reelection. After a short-lived retirement, Adams returns to public service as a Congressman from Massachusetts, and for the last seventeen years of his life he leads efforts to resist the extension of slavery and to end the notorious \"gag rule\" that stifles debate on the issue in Congress. In 1841 he further burnishes his reputation as a scourge of the Slave Power by successfully defending African mutineers of the slave ship Amistad before the Supreme Court. The diary achieves perhaps its greatest force in its prescient anticipation of the Civil War and Emancipation, an \"object,\" as Adams described it during the Missouri Crisis, \"vast in its compass, awful in its prospects, sublime and beautiful in its issue.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lifelink.org.uk/courses/write-to-recovery/", "date": "2018-03-24T00:17:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257649508.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20180323235620-20180324015620-00276.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9492188692092896, "token_count": 351, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__29382651", "lang": "en", "text": "Nobody but you has the right to define you. The words that define you have power and magic. As a hero you overcome severe challenges. In this way your story is transformed into one of triumph, inspiring and encouraging others.\nWhat is Write to Recovery?\n8 therapeutic writing workshops for anyone who has ever experienced some sort of distress, emotional difficulty or mental ill-health. These facilitated sessions will take on a new theme each week, set by the facilitators, and participants will be guided to learn a variety of techniques that will inspire them to write their own stories and experiences. The therapeutic benefits of putting pen to paper are enormous and provide an opportunity for participants to view their journey in a different light.\nWhat should I expect?\nGet together with others in a supportive environment which will enable you to engage with your creative energies to tell your story, in your way, to whom you want. There will be no pressure to read out what you’ve written and no one will be watching over your shoulder as you write. This group is very much participant led and the level of sharing will depend completely on individual preference.\nNo writing experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome to attend no matter their level of literacy as support can be provided from the facilitators if necessary.\nThis course will run it’s pilot group with Lifelink beginning on Thursday 25th January in our head office, Melisa House in the South of the city. To sign up please register yourself using the Eventbrite link below.\nPlease note: This course is freely available to anyone living in the Glasgow City Council boundary. If you do not have a Glasgow City postcode unfortunately we will not be able to offer you a place on this course.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.emphaticpress.com/about.html", "date": "2017-09-24T19:10:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818690203.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924190521-20170924210521-00682.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9206271171569824, "token_count": 107, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__22500254", "lang": "en", "text": "Emphat!c Press is a bridge for artists to share quality work, grassroots style, in the form of chapbooks and paperbacks.\nEssays, plays, poetry, and stories that inspire, transform, liberate and confront the world are considered for publishing.\nTo receive submission guidelines via email, for other inquiries, or to leave a comment, please fill out a form in the \"contact\" tab.\nThank you for visiting this site.\nCyd Charisse Fulton\nFounder and Editor-in-Chief", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.kneereplacementdelhi.com/research-publications/", "date": "2023-06-07T09:29:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224653631.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20230607074914-20230607104914-00590.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7946901917457581, "token_count": 764, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__141377482", "lang": "en", "text": "Dr. Shekhar Srivastav regularly publishes, attends and speaks at international, national and regional conferences. He has presented well researched papers and has delivered Lectures in numerous conferences & workshops.\nDr. Shekhar Srivastav and his team have published a Paper “MRI Based Comparison of Tibial Bone Coverage by Five Knee Prosthesis: Anthropometric Study in Indians” in The Journal of Arthroplasty, one of the most prestigious international journals for joint replacement surgery. Its publication also indicates the relevance of knee and hip replacement surgery in India. At Delhi Institute of Trauma & Orthopaedics (DITO), Sant Parmanand Hospital, Dr. Shekhar Srivastav and his team are committed to ensuring they remain at the forefront of joint replacement technology and surgical practices.\n|1||Total Hip Arthroplasty Following Failed Fixation of Proximal Hip Fractures. Indian Journal of Orthopaedics, Volume 42, Issue 3, Number279, July-September 2008. Shekhar Srivastav, Vivek Mittal, Shekhar Agarwal .|\n|2||Fixation of the subtrochanteric fracture in two patients of osteopetrosis by using distal femur Locking Compression Plate ( DF-LCP) of the contralateral side report of 2 cases.European Journal of Trauma & Emergency Surgery. June 2010, Volume 36, Issue 3, pp 263-269. Shekhar Agarwal, Amit Srivastav, Vivek Mittal, Shekhar Srivastav, Biren Nadkarni.|\n|3||Minimal invasive plate osteosynthesis of comminuted fracture shaft humerus using locking compression plates.Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery. 2012;20(3):292-6. Sachit Malhan, Simon Thomas, Divesh Gulati,Vivek Mittal, Biren Nadkarni, Shekhar Srivastav, Shekhar Agarwal.|\n|4||Arthroscopic excision of subacromial osteochondroma causing impingement of shoulder in a patient with diaphyseal achalasia.Journal of Clinical Orthopaedics and Trauma. Volume 4, March 2013, pp 40-42. Simon Thomas, Shekhar Srivastav, Harjoban Singh, Sarang Shete, Mohit Bhargav, Shekhar Agarwal.|\n|5||MRI based Comparison of tibial bone coverage by five knee prosthesis : Anthropometric study in Indians.The Journal of Arthroplasty. September 2015 Volume 30, Issue 9, Pages 1643-1646. Sourabh Shah, Naresh Agarwal, Anuj Jain, Shekhar Arivastav, Simon Thomas, Shekhar Agarwal.|\n|6||Acute spontaneous atraumatic bilateral anterior dislocation of the shoulder joint with hill – sach’s lesion : A rare case.Journal of Orthopaedic Case Report. 2015 Jan – March : 5 (1) Page 55-57. Sachit Malhan, Shekhar Agarwal, Shekhar Srivastav, Harjoban Singh.|\n|7||Inflatable Self Locking Intramedullary Nailing in the Management of Long Bone Diahpyseal Fractures. Delhi Journal of Orthopaedics, Vol 3: Number 79, 2007.Amit Kumar, Shekhar Srivastav, Vivek Mittal, Shekhar Agarwal.|", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://witsradio.tumblr.com/", "date": "2014-07-31T05:20:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510272584.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011752-00197-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9824507832527161, "token_count": 237, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__59843704", "lang": "en", "text": "Recently, a friend said to me, “Hey, George, if a space alien beamed you up to his ship and demanded that you explain what being human is like, what would you say?”\n\"Well,\" I said, \"I’d advise the alien to spend a few days reading short stories.\" Short stories are the deep, encoded crystallizations of all human knowledge. They are rarefied, dense meaning machines, shedding light on the most pressing of life’s dilemmas. By reading a thoughtfully selected set of them, our alien could, in a few hours, learn everything he needs to know about the way we live. Except how it feels to lose one’s car in a parking garage and walk around for like three hours, trying to look as if you know where you’re going, so the people driving by—who have easily found their cars, having written the location on their wrists or something—don’t think badly of you. I don’t think there’s a short story about that yet.\nGeorge Saunders' intro for his list of his favorite short stories.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sincerelyhueman.com/episodes/positivelykate", "date": "2019-10-14T12:50:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986653247.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014124230-20191014151730-00404.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9635539650917053, "token_count": 112, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__160037207", "lang": "en", "text": "Of Self-Love and Dancing - Kate Speer\nHow do you become a light for others when you struggle with your own darkness?\nKate Speer was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, and went through 21 psychiatric hospitalizations and countless medication trials. But after decades of shame, anxiety, hiding and self-hatred, Kate finally took back her life. Her weapon? A serious love of self— in all its silliness, vulnerability and dorkiness. Her move? Jiggling and dancing for joy, without a care in the world.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.cbcbloomfield.com/sunday-sermons-audio-1/faith-alone%2C-grace-alone", "date": "2024-03-01T20:41:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475701.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301193300-20240301223300-00427.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9781723618507385, "token_count": 117, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__165508377", "lang": "en", "text": "Faith Alone, Grace Alone\n1 John 4:9-10 9 \"This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.\" Oh, the love of Creator God! His love is pure and complete for humanity. We are a sinful, wretched and evil people. Yet God, in His great love provided salvation from His wrath, our sin and evilness.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.dreamtechpress.com/product/dreamweaver-cc-in-simple-steps/", "date": "2024-04-19T16:36:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817438.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419141145-20240419171145-00712.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9159706830978394, "token_count": 326, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__108047787", "lang": "en", "text": "Dreamweaver CC In Simple Steps is a book that helps you learn the procedure to create a website in Adobe Dreamweaver CC. Being precise and complete, it offers the reader a cutting edge in the field of Website development. An easy-to-understand style, lots of examples to support the concepts, and the use of practical approach to learn the features of Dreamweaver together make the book unique itself. The content in the book is presented in such a way that it will be equally helpful to the beginners as well as professionals.\n1. Introducing Dreamweaver CC\n2. Setting Up a Website and its Files\n3. Getting Familiar with HTML5\n4. Working with HTML Forms and Clean Up code\n6. Working with Library Items, Layouts, and Templates\n7. Adding Interactivity to a Website\n8. Authentication and Publishing a Website\nDreamTech Editorial Services (DTES) has been providing quality learning to a wide spectrum of readers across India. Imbibing the spirit of Knowledge, Creativity and Experience, DTES has presently become one of the leading publishers of IT, Engineering and Management books in India today. Our dynamic work culture passionately pronounces our lasting commitment to quality and technical accuracy of our books. Our effort to continuously enhance and enrich the quality of our books, published under different series catering to the specific needs of each segment of the readers, is a sturdy affirmation towards this end. DTES focuses largely in three segments: computers and technology, career and competition, and business and management.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.deepakacharya.in/tag/dr-sandra-goodman/", "date": "2019-03-22T10:02:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202642.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20190322094932-20190322120932-00223.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9606718420982361, "token_count": 1038, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__184441726", "lang": "en", "text": "Drs Acharya and Shrivastava have achieved in this book the multi-faceted objectives of furthering the knowledge and documentation of the vital yet potentially disappearing practices and peoples of traditional herbal medicines, as well as pleading for the establishment of respectful institutional structures which will help to preserve the people, their practices and prevent the destruction of an unquantifiable treasure to humanity.\nI have greatly valued Dr Acharya’s work over the years, publishing his articles as inspirational tributes to the healing powers of herbal medicines. However, I guess that, much like the rest of the scientific and medical community, I had possibly pigeon-holed its subject matter as somewhat obscure Ethnobotany, and the documentation of remote Indian tribal knowledge of the healing power of plants. And, as a busy and over-worked publisher of a monthly magazine, perhaps I hadn’t really grasped the vital importance of this work to global conservation and the preservation of the life-enhancing medical knowledge of traditional herbal practices.\nAs I have read this book, my realization has deepened that the task of attempting to unite the hostile and diverse universes of so-called allopathic (western, drug-oriented) medicine with natural, traditional, non-drug treatment approaches, which I have engaged in for about two decades is possibly not so far away from the task of the authors in attempting to learn, document, preserve and conserve traditional herbal medicines and the indigenous peoples with the expertise to apply them to human health.\nThe scope of this book is truly impressive, reviewing the key historical Ethnobotanical work in Madhya Pradesh, Guarat and Rajasthan, with regard to the geographical locations, tribal populations and the plant species recognized and utilized for their medicinal potential. The authors highlight the importance of India as a major Asian country in terms of the diversity of systems for the traditional knowledge, a wide variety of species (17,000), including 7,500 as known as medicinal plants, and possessing the oldest and richest cultural traditions associated with the use of traditional folk herbs.\nThe authors extend the working definition of traditional medicines to integrate diverse health practices, knowledge and beliefs, spiritual therapies, manual techniques and exercises applied to maintain well-being, treat, diagnose or prevent illness. They describe the districts and their characteristics, the healers, and the central importance of plants both to traditional medical practices, and more recently, as sources of plant-derived drugs by the pharmaceutical industry. The authors cogently argue and describe how it would be possible to conserve traditional medicine knowledge, how plants with medicinal and commercial potential value can be identified and how the entire structure of tribal communities, healers and the coming generations could be established as Traditional Medicine Centres by Governments.\nHelpful Tables listing numerous disorders and the names of the remedial plants useful in alleviating or curing these complaints, including the common and scientific names of plants, as well as a useful glossary of terms, makes this book entirely readable by both the scholar and the lay person wishing to deepen their knowledge of herbal medicines.\nDrs Acharya and Shrivastave are passionate in their idealism to preserve an important repository, document and grow knowledge and help Mankind. The authors highlight eloquently the intense and approaching international, indeed global deadline to prevent the disappearance of species of trees, plants, roots and seeds, as well as indigenous healers with traditional knowledge. They suggest measures which could be implemented to help further prevent the rape and destruction of habitat, the exploitation of plants and remedies for financial and commercial uses and ultimate destruction forever of tribes, people and their way of life.\nThe substance of the authors’ message include the integration of the traditional herbal medicines knowledge base, the ending of hostility between biotechnological and traditional disciplines and business interests, and the creation of a unity of purpose to document, catalogue, preserve and develop traditional knowledge and train the next generation and preserve these precious resources for all of Mankind.\nDr Acharya writes in the Dedication about how his life was saved when he was critically ill as an 8 year old boy by a now-deceased, and possibly forgotten herbal healer from the Changotola village of Balaghat District, Madhya Pradesh, India, to whom he was brought by his father who couldn’t afford expensive surgery and medical treatment. When he returned more than a decade later to express his gratitude to this healer, he discovered that he had died; hardly anyone knew about him and that his knowledge base had probably died with him. This has been a seminal event which has helped to spur Dr Acharya on in his quest to document this knowledge, the tribal peoples expert in its use, as well as to develop a sustainable system to preserve, nurture and pass it on to future generations.\nThere is an urgency to communicate the importance of projects such as these, as well as others internationally. Once precious plants, people and ecosystems are destroyed, our medical knowledge is stripped of vital information known to mankind over millennia, and we are all the poorer.\nReviewer: Sandra Goodman PhD\nPublisher: Aavishkar Publishers and Distributors – Jaipur", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://psychedelicsbooks.com/about", "date": "2023-06-09T14:08:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656737.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609132648-20230609162648-00467.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.940011203289032, "token_count": 495, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__263170386", "lang": "en", "text": "Psychedelics information for everyone\nMaking information about psychedelics more widely available.\nThis website helps by providing you an overview of books about psychedelics.\nAll the Psychedelic Books\nCollect, review, recommend\nThis website came to live from a need to know what book about psychedelics to read next. Searching online through the big stores left me hanging on what would match my personal taste. There were too many books and no real search criteria (as everything is grouped under spirituality).\nPsychedelics Books is here to help you find what to read next. Search based on category, find books by date, or even search within the text of the review. At this time a part of the books have (community) reviews written, in the coming year I hope that all books will have a review written about them.\nIf you want to help out, you can provide a review or a book to review. Find out more on the donate page.\nWho is Blossom\nThink for yourself\nOur mission is making information about psychedelics more widely available. To speed up the adoption of psychedelics as a tool in therapy and self-development. We do this by providing different resources, from articles to book reviews, that bring together different perspectives about psychedelics. We aim to be critical, grounded in a rational and scientific worldview, yet enthusiastic voice for psychedelics.\nThis website is one of our free informational services. See all that we do at our company website and our worldview on our about page. Send us an email if you want to get in touch.\nBlossom donates 20% of revenue to effective mental health charities, like Strong Minds.\nFloris Wolswijk - Founder\nFloris is responsible for most thing you see on the website. He is currently making this website as complete and ready for a 'version 1' as possible. In the meantime he is also looking to recruit others to help build out this information platform.\nFloris has studied Psychology (2008-2012) at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. After finishing his Masters degree, he co-founded a start-up in a different field. Through first personal experiences with psychedelics and subsequently an encounter with the scientific literature, he fell in love with the psychedelics field. He hopes to play a small part in making psychedelics more widely available and being used both in medicine and for self-development.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://stories.nuigalway.ie/cochrane-covid-response/index.html", "date": "2021-05-13T00:40:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991413.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20210512224016-20210513014016-00496.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9318216443061829, "token_count": 1112, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__118624703", "lang": "en", "text": "A global evidence response to the COVID-19 emergency\nHealthcare decisions should be based on a synthesis of the global body of evidence rather than relying on discrete studies. Evidence synthesis methods seek to establish the overall balance of information on a topic, and are based on identifying, assessing and examining all the available evidence on a topic to inform health care decisions.\nEvidence Synthesis Ireland, Cochrane Ireland and the HRB Trials Methodology Research Network are national initiatives based at the National University of Ireland Galway. The team are responding to the vast quantities of COVID-19 evidence by addressing key knowledge gaps to support healthcare policy and practice decision-making.\nWorking with colleagues across the university, the team formed the Emergency Evidence Response Service (EERS) to answer prioritized questions from the World Health Organization (WHO), Cochrane and governments. The team harnessed existing connections and developed new international collaborations to reduce duplication of effort, minimize research waste, share information, and ensure continued capacity building in innovative methodology\nInfection prevention and control guidelines for healthcare workers\nCochrane, a global independent network for trusted evidence, produced a series of rapid reviews of relevant evidence to help decision makers during COVID-19.\nOne of these looks at the views of healthcare workers on infection prevention and control guidelines, published in April 2020. This work was cited in WHO interim guidance: Prevention, identification and management of health worker infection in the context of COVID-19.\nLead author, Dr. Catherine Houghton from NUI Galway describes the key findings in this podcast.\nSupporting quality, timely and trustworthy evidence\nThe team are collaborating on the Covid-19 living network meta-analysis initiative - a live, open mapping of evidence to support decision-makers with relevant, accessible, up-to-date, and trustworthy synthesis of high-quality evidence on the treatment and prevention of COVID-19, including vaccines. The initiative, launched in March 2020 by Cochrane France, is developed and maintained by an international collaborative effort.\nWHO use this living evidence ecosystem as their primary source of evidence, and it is also used to inform decision-making in Ireland. This highlights the benefits of contributing to a global initiative to optimise the use of a rapidly-evolving evidence base that answers both international and national questions.\nCochrane Ireland team publish COVID-19 scoping review to inform WHO guidance\nCochrane expanded its response to COVID-19 by publishing rapid scoping reviews which serve as exemplars for how similar research could be published by Cochrane beyond the pandemic.\nOne of these looks at care bundles for treating patients with COVID-19 in the intensive care setting. The review, published in December 2020, was commissioned by the WHO to use in their Clinical Management living guidance intended for clinicians caring for COVID-19 patients.\nExtended use or reuse of face masks\nGlobal shortages of PPE forced the consideration of extended use and reuse of face masks. This rapid review was carried out to inform evolving policies and practice and was published in September 2020 in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.\nThe review was cited in WHO interim guidance on use of personal protective equipment during severe shortages during the COVID-19 pandemic.\nLoneliness in older people: could video calls help?\nThis Cochrane rapid review searched for randomised trials that looked at the effects on mental health and loneliness of video calls for people aged 65 years or living in nursing homes.\nBased on the evidence available at the time of this review, the effects of video calls on the mental health or loneliness of older people are uncertain. More studies testing the effectiveness of video calls for loneliness or isolation are needed. Lead author Dr Chris Noone describes what they found in the podcast.\nTrials in a Pandemic\nTo support the trial methodology community, the HRB-TMRN hosted an online conference on the topic of clinical trials in a pandemic, embracing flexibility and ensuring integrity. In collaboration with Trial Forge, University of Aberdeen, the symposium brought together some of the world’s leading experts, including Dr Ana Maria Restrepo from WHO and Prof Isabelle Boutron, lead of COVID-NMA.\nThe conference had 1,600 registrations from 23 countries, 10 international speakers, and streamed in 17 timezones\nSupporting the public's decision-making\nEveryday, claims are made about ways to treat or prevent COVID-19 on social media, some reliable and some unreliable. Unreliable claims can lead to poorly informed health choices. iHealthFacts is a resource where the public can quickly and easily check the reliability of health claims circulated by social media.\niHealthFacts launched in April 2020. As of November 2020, we have had:\n- 41,000 unique page views from more than 127 countries;\n- 500 health claims submitted and more than 1000 searches about various claims;\n- 36 health claims fact checked to date.\n- Facebook posts reaching over 10,000 people, 428,00 Twitter impressions and 3,500 Instagram impressions.\nQuestions the public have asked us to research include ‘Does Chloroquine prevent or treat COVID-19?’, ‘Are face shields as effective as facemasks in protecting against COVID-19? and ‘Does a high BMI increase vulnerability to COVID-19?’\nIn the media\nClaire Byrne Live - 23 Nov 2020", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://alisonmaitland.com/author/", "date": "2020-02-26T00:34:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146176.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20200225233214-20200226023214-00263.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9420415163040161, "token_count": 880, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__44447872", "lang": "en", "text": "I am an international writer and author and a former long-serving journalist at the Financial Times and Reuters. I have co-written three business books:\nFuture Work: Changing organisational culture for the new world of work, with Peter Thomson (2011, 2014)\nWhy Women Mean Business: Understanding the emergence of our next economic revolution (2008, 2009) with Avivah Wittenberg-Cox\nI have also contributed chapters to two other books: ‘The Power of Everyone – why the work revolution demands a fresh focus on inclusion’ (Work in the Age of Data, BBVA 2020) and ‘A Gender Power Shift in the Making’ (Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age, BBVA 2015).\nI had a long career as a journalist and I continue to write commentary pieces on a freelance basis about leadership, inclusion and the changing world of work and careers. I’ve also written numerous special reports, including: ‘Closing the Gender Gap’ for The Conference Board; a guide to flexible working and a report on the over-50s workforce for the Equality and Human Rights Commission.\nI was on the staff of the Financial Times as a news editor, reporter and management feature writer, from 1986 to 2006. During my eight years as management writer, I interviewed a wide range of prominent figures for my column on leadership. I wrote series on business ethics and on the ageing workforce, and led special reports, including Responsible Business and Business & Diversity.\nIn 2012, I received a ‘World of Difference 100 Award’ from The International Alliance for Women for my writing on women and work. In 2004, the FT features team and I won the first media award given by The Conference Board Europe ‘for having raised awareness and public consciousness of the issues of diversity and work-life balance’.\nIn my earlier FT career, I led editorial coverage of world stock markets during the 1987 global crash, was European news editor when Eastern Europe opened up after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and reported on food and agriculture at the height of ‘Mad Cow Disease’ and genetically modified foods. All of these were busy and exciting beats, and I particularly loved my time working on Europe.\nPrior to the FT, I was a journalist for Reuters in Paris and London, and before that I did my journalist training at the Liverpool Post & Echo.\nWork is transforming in the digital age. This book sets out the compelling case for a similar transformation in organizational cultures to boost output, cut costs, give employees more freedom and contribute to a greener economy.\nFuture Work, published in an expanded and updated second edition in 2014, features insightful case studies and updates on fast-moving trends. It provides a clear framework and advice on introducing new ways of working for leaders, managers and employees, with an extra chapter on how individuals can make change happen.\nIt takes bold leadership and a break with old habits – but the benefits from adapting to the new world of work are already available, and organizations should grasp the opportunities now.\nWatch the fact-packed short video: Future Work, Changing World\nGender is a business issue, not a women’s issue. This powerful book brings together in a single, concise volume the multiplicity of opportunities available to companies that really understand what motivates women in the global workplace and marketplace.\nWomen today make up much of the market and most of the talent pool. Reaching women consumers and developing female talent is essential for sustainable economic growth in the 21st century. Studies show that better gender balance in business means better bottom line results and greater resistance to economic crises.\nThe book shows why getting gender balance right matters. Packed with ideas from companies that have made it work, it offers views from top business leaders and a step-by-step guide to how we can all become gender bilingual.\n“An invaluable resource for anyone who needs to increase employee productivity and reduce costs, and wants to do so in a way that is economically, environmentally and socially sustainable” Stephen Leonard, General Manager Global Markets – Systems & Technology, IBM\n“A fascinating analysis” Cherie Blair\n“Any company that is serious about success must get serious about women, and this book shows them how” Margaret Heffernan", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.riley18.org/article/411208", "date": "2022-06-29T01:38:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103619185.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20220628233925-20220629023925-00719.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9484692811965942, "token_count": 140, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__100319235", "lang": "en", "text": "Tuesday, March 2, is National Read Across America Day. It is also the birthday of the beloved author Dr. Seuss. Join us in an exciting week of dress-up and good books. We hope that you will continue the celebration at home by reading together.\nMonday, March 1, - The Cat in the Hat Day - Wear Strips\nTuesday, March 2, -Cozy Up to a Good Book - Wear Pajamas\nWednesday, March 3, -Green Eggs and Ham Day - Wear Green\nThursday, March 4, -Fox in Socks Day - Wear Mismatched Socks\nFriday, March 5, - We \"Read\" ALL Week - Wear Red", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://bulimbadermatology.com.au/antibiotic-use-acne-may-be-excessive", "date": "2021-09-23T01:48:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057416.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923013955-20210923043955-00339.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9266564846038818, "token_count": 413, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__170635535", "lang": "en", "text": "Patients with moderate to severe acne may be receiving antibiotics for much longer than recommended.\nPrior to eventually being commenced on oral Isotretinoin for moderate to severe acne, many patients are being prescribed antibiotics for much longer than is recommended. A recent report in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology (JAAD) indicated that the average duration of antibiotic use was 331.3 days for patients with inflammatory/nodulocystic acne who eventually required treatment with oral Isotretinoin.\nThe study focused on the prescribing habits of dermatologists and general practitioners. The study noted that 64% of patients were prescribed oral antibiotics for 6 months or more and over 33% were prescribed oral antibiotics for 12 months or longer. Most patients eventually required oral Isotretinoin to adequately control their acne.\nAn important issue raised in the study is the threat of antibiotic resistance, particularly to Propionibacterium acnes. It was highlighted that recognising early those patients who fail to respond to antibiotics and earlier prescription of Isotretinoin would have a significant impact on over-prescribing of antibiotics for acne. Many experts have recommended that antibiotic use in acne be limited to approximately 3 months, with treatment courses of antibiotics greater than 6 months likely to induce bacterial resistance.\nIf antibiotics fail to clear acne after 3 or 4 months to a level that control can be maintained by topical treatments, then consideration should be given to starting oral Isotretinoin.\nIt is recommended that prescribing doctors be reminded of the risk of long term antibiotic prescribing, particularly where multiple courses are offered to patients, and a complete antibiotic history should be elicited from patients or practice records. Timely initiation of Isotretinoin should be considered if appropriate and discussed with patients earlier in the treatment cycle, particularly where acne fails to improve significantly with shorter courses of oral antibiotics.\nNagler, AR et al. The use of oral antibiotics before Isotretinoin therapy in patients with acne. J Am Acad Dermatology. 2015", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://caloycebu.blogspot.com/2014/03/welome-to-summer-2014-summer-of-kaizen.html", "date": "2017-04-24T13:06:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119361.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00310-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9659208059310913, "token_count": 545, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__30173988", "lang": "en", "text": "It has been a while since I last posted in this blog. It was a combination of being busy, lazy, and having my smart phone in the repair shop. It has been a while and I know that in a way my fingers and brain are still rusty. I realized that writing is an important part of my life and growth. Summer is always one of the best times to write about something. It is the time of new adventures, new friends, new challenges, and most definitely, new articles and blog entries.\nSummer 2014 is an exciting time for me. I am once again in a crossroads when it comes to my life and career. Big decisions are going to be made this summer. Changes will be a big part of it. So I will call my summer as the summer of Kaizen. Kaizen is a Japanese term for \"change for the better\". It will all be about continuous improvement. Growth. There will be some big changes. Changes in loyalty, company, mindset, and strategy.\nI will be launching several personal projects in the days to come. They are somewhat related to \"Happiness Project\" or #100happydays. The concept is similar. It is about doing what makes me happy. It is also different as I will be focusing on a few things that could be a means to my happiness. My projects could be about getting rich, getting that awesome body, or starting a family. One big part of this \"new me\" is that I will be writing more. When I am bored, I usually get unique ideas on how to make life better and even concoct weird scenarios that end up happening in the future. I am unable to write about these funny epiphanies. I want to remember all of it.\nI guess my first hashtag to be launched in the Summer of 2014 is #projectprophet. This hashtag is all about my thoughts about the future. It could even include some fantastic tales about certain things, people, places, and events. I am just going to give myself a venue to express my creative thoughts. I won't force myself to write on this hashtag. Articles will only come out only when I experience \"prophetic\" episodes.\nThe other hashtags that I will write on will be fitness (#projectdude), food (#kalamicebu), finances (#projectrainmaker), and family (#projectdad). It is going to be an interesting summer. I expect to sustain it and I expect to write about it as often as I could. I am glad to have my phone back I expect to start churning more blog entries using my Sony Xperia Z1.\nLet us all have an amazing summer ahead!!!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://learnodo-newtonic.com/famous-romanticism-poets", "date": "2022-08-17T15:44:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00000.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9743573069572449, "token_count": 2770, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__147758113", "lang": "en", "text": "Romanticism was a movement that dominated all genres; including literature, music, art and architecture; in Europe and the United States in the first half of the 19th century. It originated in late 18th century as a reaction against the ideals of order, calm, harmony, idealization and rationality which marked Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular. It was influenced by the German movement Sturm und Drang (“storm and drive”), which focussed on intuition and emotion as opposed to rationalism. Romanticism laid emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of the past and of nature. The movement was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution and the scientific rationalization of nature. The best known English Romantic poets include Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron and Shelley. In America, the most famous Romantic poet was Edgar Allan Poe; while in France, Victor Marie Hugo was the leading figure of the movement. Here are the 10 most famous Romantic poets and their best known works.\n#10 Samuel Taylor Coleridge\nLifespan: October 21, 1772 – July 25, 1834\nAlong with William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge is credited with founding the Romanticism movement in England. In 1797, the two friends broke the decorum of neoclassical verse with daring original poetic works which laid emphasis on emotion and glorification of nature. The following year their collection of poetry Lyrical Ballads was published. Though the immediate reaction to Lyrical Ballads was modest, it is now considered a landmark work which changed the course of English literature and poetry by launching the influential Romantic movement. Coleridge is one of the most important figures in English poetry who deeply influenced the major poets of his era including Wordsworth. Among other things, he is credited with utilizing everyday language to express profound poetic images and ideas.\nKubla Khan (1816)\nThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)\n#9 Percy Bysshe Shelley\nLifespan: August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822\nPercy Bysshe Shelley was one of the leading “second generation” Romantic poets and he created some of the best known works of the movement. He was a controversial writer whose poems are marked by uncompromising idealism and great personal conviction. Though he produced works throughout his life, most publishers and journals declined to publish them for fear of being arrested for either blasphemy or sedition. As a result Shelley couldn’t gather a mainstream following during his lifetime. However, his popularity grew steadily following his death and ultimately he achieved worldwide fame and acclaim. Apart from being an idol for later generation of poets, Percy Bysshe Shelley also exerted influence on such prominent figures as the German philosopher Karl Marx and the Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi. He is considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.\nOde to the West Wind (1820)\nPrometheus Unbound (1820)\n#8 Robert Burns\nLifespan: January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796\nAlso known as the Bard of Ayrshire and the Ploughman Poet, Robert Burns is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. He is considered a pioneer of Romanticism who had a major influence on the movement. The poetic style of Burns is marked by spontaneity and sincerity; and it ranges from love to intensity to humour and satire. His best known works include Scots Wha Hae, which served as an unofficial national anthem of Soctland for many years; A Red, Red Rose, among the best known love poems; and Auld Lang Syne, which is widely sung in the western world at the stroke of midnight on New Year. Robert Burns is the most widely read Scottish poet and he is celebrated not only in his country but around the world. He remains a cultural icon in his nation and in 2009, he was voted as the greatest Scot by the Scottish public in a vote run by Scottish television channel STV.\nAuld Lang Syne (1788)\nTo a Mouse (1785)\nA Red, Red Rose (1794)\n#7 Alexander Pushkin\nLifespan: June 8, 1799 – February 11, 1837\nAlexander Pushkin was a poet, playwright and novelist who is widely regarded as the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. Pushkin published his first poem when he was 15 and by the time he graduated his talent was already widely recognized within the Russian literary scene. The most famous poem of Pushkin is The Bronze Horseman. A work regarding the equestrian statue of Peter the Great in Saint Petersburg and the great flood of 1824, it is considered one of the most influential works in Russian Literature. Pushkin married Natalia Goncharova, one of the most talked-about beauties of Moscow. Rumours of an affair between his wife and French military officer Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès led to a duel between the two in which Pushkin was fatally wounded at the age of just 37. Though his work has been associated with several movements, most consider Alexander Pushkin to be a central representative of Romanticism in Russian literature.\nThe Bronze Horseman (1837)\nI Loved You (1830)\nRuslan and Ludmila (1820)\n#6 John Keats\nLifespan: October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821\nAlong with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats was one of the most prominent figures of the second generation of English Romantic poets. Keats died due to tuberculosis in 1821 at the age of only 25. His work was in publication for only four years and it was not generally well received by critics during his lifetime. However, his reputation grew after his death and by the end of the 19th century, he became one of the most beloved of all English poets. The most famous and acclaimed poems of Keats are a series of six odes known as the Odes of 1819. The most highly regarded among these is To Autumn, which has been called one of the most perfect short poems in the English language. Through his 1819 odes, Keats created a new type of short lyrical poem, which influenced later generations.\nTo Autumn (1820)\nOde on a Grecian Urn (1820)\nWhen I have Fears (1848)\n#5 Victor Hugo\nLifespan: February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885\nVictor Hugo is one of the most famous French writers of all time. Though most famous in the literary world for his great novel Les Miserables, his poetry is also very well known, especially in France. The first collection of poetry of Hugo, Odes et poésies diverses, was published in 1822 when he was only 20 years old. It earned him a royal pension from King Louis XVIII. His next poetry collection Odes et Ballades, published four years later, established him as a master of lyric and creative song. When Napoleon III seized complete power in 1851, Hugo openly declared him a traitor. He had to leave France and settle in Guernsey. In exile, Hugo produced his most acclaimed poetry collections Les Châtiments (1853); Les Contemplations (1856); and La Légende des siècles (1859). Victor Hugo was at the forefront of the French Romantic literary movement and he is the best known French Romantic poet.\nDemain dès l’aube (Tomorrow, at dawn; 1856)\nLe Pape (The Pope; 1878)\nLa Pitié suprême (The Supreme Compassion; 1879)\n#4 Lord Byron\nLifespan: January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824\nGeorge Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, commonly known as just Lord Byron, was one of the leading figures of the Romantic Movement in early 19th century England. Byron first achieved fame with the publication of the first two cantos of his narrative poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage in 1812 and his reputation further enhanced with his four highly successful poems referred to as the “Oriental Tales”. Lord Byron is often described as the most flamboyant and notorious of the major Romantics due to his indulgent life and numerous love affairs. Many of his poems are autobiographic in nature and much of his work is pervaded by the Byronic hero, an idealised but flawed character capable of great passion and talent but rebellious, arrogant and self-destructive. Lord Byron is considered the leading second generation Romantic poet and he continues to be influential and widely read.\nDon Juan (1824)\nShe Walks in Beauty (1813)\nChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage (1818)\n#3 William Wordsworth\nLifespan: April 7, 1770 – April 23, 1850\nWordsworth, along with Coleridge, launched the Romantic Age in English literature with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. From 1799 to 1808, he lived at the Dove Cottage in the village of Grasmere in the Lake District of England. Here he became friends with another prominent poet, Robert Southey. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey were the three main figures of the group known as Lake Poets, as they all lived in the Lake District. The years 1797 to 1808 are now recognized as the best years of Wordsworth and are known as his Great Decade. After struggling initially, Wordsworth became one of the most renowned poets in his later years and was appointed Poet Laureate of Britain in 1843. The Prelude, an autobiographical epic, is widely regarded by critics as his greatest work though his most popular poem is perhaps I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, commonly known as Daffodils. William Wordsworth is considered a pioneer of Romanticism and one of the greatest poets in English literature.\nTintern Abbey (1798)\nThe Prelude (1850)\n#2 Edgar Allan Poe\nLifespan: January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849\nWidely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States, Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most influential and famous figures of American literature. His poems appear throughout popular culture and lines from them are often quoted. Poe is celebrated as the supreme exponent of Dark Romanticism, a genre which focuses on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment and the demonic; as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin. One of the prominent theme in his poems is the death of a young, beautiful and dearly loved woman; which he called “the most poetical topic in the world”. The best known poem of Poe is The Raven. It influenced numerous later works including the famous painting Nevermore by Paul Gauguin. Apart from being one of the most famous poets, Edgar Allan Poe is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and an important contributor to the emerging genre of science fiction.\nThe Raven (1845)\nAnnabel Lee (1849)\nA Dream Within a Dream (1849)\n#1 William Blake\nLifespan: November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827\nWilliam Blake remained largely unknown during his lifetime but rose to prominence after his death and is now considered a highly influential figure in the history of poetry and one of the greatest British artists. Blake’s most renowned work in poetry is Songs of Innocence and of Experience, considered one of the leading poetic works of the Romantic era. The collection often contains poems with similar themes, and at times the same title, to contrast the innocent world of childhood in Songs of Innocence with the corruption and repression of the adult world in Songs of Experience. Blake claimed to experience visions throughout his life. He revered the Bible but was hostile to the Church of England and organized religion in general. His poetry and art often created mythical worlds full of gods and powers, and sharply criticized industrial society and the oppression of the individual. Blake is considered a key figure in Romanticism for his emphasis on subjective vision and the power of the imagination. He is also highly regarded for his expressiveness and creativity as well as for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents in his work. In 2002, William Blake was placed 38 in BBC’s poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.\nThe Tyger (1794)\nAnd did those feet in ancient time (1808)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.bodenclothingukoutlet.com/happy-birthday-images-download-best-friends/", "date": "2018-06-20T14:54:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863650.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620143814-20180620163814-00328.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9397398829460144, "token_count": 405, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__229017489", "lang": "en", "text": "1. May your memories today be warm ones May your dreams today be dear May your joy last through the year Have a wonderful birthday!\n2. In this world, where everything seems uncertain, only one thing is definite. You’ll always be my friend, beyond words, beyond time and beyond distance.\n3. Birthdays are a time to say We hope you have the greatest day Laugh, smile and celebrate with friends May the magical days show no ends! Happy Birthday!\n4.Birthdays are a time to say We hope you have the greatest day Laugh, smile and celebrate with friends May the magical days show no ends! Happy Birthday!\n5. We bicker, we fall out, we quarrel. We fight, we argue, we scream. We look like enemies but deep down inside we are best friends on the same team. Happy birthday\n6. A simple celebration, a gathering of friends; here is wishing you great happiness, a joy that never ends.\n7. I may have knotted up your pigtails or sneakily checked your mails, but to stand by you in your time of need, I would never fail. Happy birthday.\n8. The worst part about having you as my sister is that I can never hide anything from you. That is also the best part actually, because I sail through my troubles after I listen to your point of view. Happy birthday .\n9. I will never forgive you for every time you have fought with me. But I want you to know that despite our differences I will still love you unconditionally. I know this sounds quirky but that’s how wonderful sisterhood is, you see. Happy birthday.\n10. A birthday bouquet of words I send to you – May the days ahead be bright and colorful Full of joy, happiness and friendship May you continue to be Such an uplifting and positive force in so many people’s lives And may your year ahead Be blessed and happy – Always.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://madforreading.blogspot.com/2010/12/", "date": "2021-04-19T17:36:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038916163.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20210419173508-20210419203508-00329.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.948735237121582, "token_count": 530, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__34372813", "lang": "en", "text": "Wednesday, December 29, 2010\nWednesday, December 15, 2010\nMonday, December 6, 2010\nI think you will enjoy this creative idea from Jamie, and find ways to make a meaningful \"me\" book with your child.\nPlease be sure to visit Jamie's site for more ideas about parenting! http://www.avantgardeparenting.com\nMaking a \"Me\" Book\nBook sharing can be a joyous experience for parents and children. Choosing a favorite story and snuggling in after a bath can be the perfect ending to any day. But what if your child just isn’t into books? Here’s an idea that to help get even the most book-averse kiddo involved in the process–make a ‘Me’ book. Grab some paper and markers and help your child make a book all about himself! The key is to let your child be an active participant in making the book–let him choose the colors, what to draw, and even what to include. Here are some ideas for pages:\n• Favorites: Include your child’s favorite colors, foods, and games.\n• Facts about Me: Record your child’s height, eye color, hair color, etc.\n• My Family: Include the members of your child’s family and extended family. (A family tree format could be fun!)\n• Where I live: Record address, phone number, number of rooms in my house, number of trees in my yard, and so on.\n• What I like to do: Include your child’s favorite activities, whether art, soccer, karate, or dance.\nUpdate your ‘Me’ book annually, semiannually, or even monthly as your child grows and changes. I have an idea that this book will be one that your child wants to read with you day after day!\nWhat I think . . .\nThere are all kinds of readers. Some—like my daughter and me—are never without a book to read for pleasure. Others—like my son—are careful, analytical, and curious readers who read primarily to seek information from the page.\nNo matter what kind of reader your child becomes, you can help him or her get started. After all, you are your child’s first teacher. And, best of all, you can have some fun in the process.\nPlease feel free to share your own ideas. Tell me about ways you've enjoyed reading with your child.\nMadeline Boskey, Ph.D.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://0u0wu.deloeilphoto.com/", "date": "2019-12-14T01:46:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540579703.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20191214014220-20191214042220-00376.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8985124230384827, "token_count": 216, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-51__0__117321719", "lang": "en", "text": "Convict Women's Press Inc.\nPublishers of fine books on the lives of convict women transported to colonial Australia\nWe are a not-for-profit publishing company dedicated to publishing history books about nineteenth century female convicts transported from Britain to colonial Australia.\nOur award-winning authors and editors bring the experiences of convict women and their families to life through meticulous archival research. Many of our writers are members of the Female Convicts Research Centre Inc., a Tasmanian-based global research organisation made up of thousands of family historians and researchers.\nWelcome to the Convict Women’s Press online shop\nFormat: Paperback, (colour plates).\nEdition: 1st Edition of Volume 2.\nPublished 2018. Pages: 200.\nConvict Lives at the Cascades Female Factory (Volume 2) is the fifth book in the Convict Lives series, featuring the fascinating lives of 29 female\nconvicts who spent time in the Cascades Female Factory, between 1829 and 1855. Edited by Alison Alexander and Alice Meredith Hodgson.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://connorratliff.tumblr.com/post/26026190914/fantagraphics-even-after-9-years-its-still-a", "date": "2013-05-23T07:24:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703001356/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111641-00032-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9570284485816956, "token_count": 160, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__78397080", "lang": "en", "text": "Even after 9 years, it’s still a pretty big thrill when the advance copies of the new volume of The Complete Peanuts show up at the office. Here’s Vol. 18, 1985-1986, and the 1983-1986 Box Set, fresh out of the box. These guys’ll be available in a couple of months — stay tuned for previews!\nWill Hines and I are both collecting these volumes. There are 17 books so far, and this will be the 18th. I knew this fact about him— that he was collecting them— before we were friends, and it was one of the ways that I knew that we would at some point BE friends.\nThe fact that Patton Oswalt is writing the introduction for this upcoming volume is GREAT news.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.lindalesem.com/blog-posts/2016/5/3/what-influences-our-happiness-the-most", "date": "2019-10-22T23:33:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987826436.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022232751-20191023020251-00103.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9702426791191101, "token_count": 125, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__174634421", "lang": "en", "text": "What Factors Are Crucial To Well Being?\nSonja Lyubomirsky Ph.D. wrote the book, \"The How of Happiness\" and conducted extensive research on the percentages of how happiness is divided.\n50 percent is thought to be genetically predetermined, or it also can have some roots in early childhood experiences. 10 percent is situational, meaning that where we live, how much money we make etc. plays a part in overall happiness.\nThe exciting piece is that 40 percent…which is a lot, can be manipulated with tools and learned behaviors. This 40 percent is where I work mostly with clients…", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.dianastowers.com/essential-reading/performance-management/the-five-dysfunctions-of-a-team-by-patrick-lencioni/", "date": "2019-06-25T19:58:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999946.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190625192953-20190625214953-00389.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9648155570030212, "token_count": 112, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__66252467", "lang": "en", "text": "“The Five Dysfunctions of a Team” by Patrick Lencioni\nNo-one makes progress, much less succeeds, alone. Leaders, striving to achieve through others, must understand what makes teams work effectively. This leadership fable is an easy read about how to build and manage successful teams and is ideal for large, medium and small business, also members of teams that need better cohesion. The five dysfunctions include that major issue of trust which when lacking can encourage veiled discussions and guarded comments. The fall out can be fatal.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.reimaginedhistories.com.au/about-5", "date": "2024-04-19T16:25:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817438.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419141145-20240419171145-00407.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9536696672439575, "token_count": 603, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__16687991", "lang": "en", "text": "Tasmania’s cultural life has been shaken-up in recent years by MONA and its festivals, but long before David Walsh there was Lucy Charlotte Benson. In this richly detailed biography, Anne Blythe-Cooper has restored to centre-stage one of Tasmania’s own “Eminent Victorians”. Organist, conductor, composer, performer, entrepreneur and philanthropist, Mrs Benson was so much more than the sum of these parts. Her capacity for work, her passion for the arts, and her ability to drive and enliven the cultural life of the rough little colony at the bottom of the world reveal the strength and impact of the individual creative human personality.\nRobert Jarman, Theatre Director\nThis remarkable woman made a significant contribution to the cultural life of Tasmania through the performing arts. Performer, music teacher, organist, musical director, conductor, and costume-designer, she gained a reputation for excellence after her first successful interstate foray into choral competition. A seemingly tireless dynamo, she presented concerts and large-scale musical productions throughout the state, enriching the lives of her appreciative audiences. Amy Sherwin, (The Tasmanian Nightingale), considered Lucy to be “one of the best teachers of voice production in the colonies.\"\nAnne Blythe-Cooper’s meticulously researched and beautifully presented book pays a well-deserved and fitting tribute to this worthy Tasmanian.\nNoreen Le Mottee, Tasmanian Theatre Awards Judge, veteran actor and passionate theatre archivist.\nA well-researched and fascinating read about Lucy Benson and her family and the important contribution they made to the cultural life of Tasmania. I began reading and I was hooked. Robyn Eastley, Archivist.\nThere are many Tasmanian stories still untold, much of historical import yet undocumented. Anne Blythe-Cooper has ably filled one of the gaps in the records with Leading Amateurs, her biography of Lucy Benson, a pioneer of what eventually would become known as community arts. Lucy was a tour de force, a mover and shaker, significant in the arts and cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian times. She was a musician, conductor, theatre director and promoter of the arts.\nAs Blythe-Cooper says in her introduction, ‘It seems unlikely that a woman born in Tasmania in 1860 should have a far-reaching influence on the musical culture of her nation and beyond. Not only was [Lucy Benson] a leading amateur performer of her day, but she was a leader of amateurs whose musical pedigrees extend to the present time.’\nTasmania’s population has always included a disproportionate number of artists, musicians and writers, and Leading Amateur is a worthy addition to the annals of this island’s cultural life.\nDr Terry Whitebeach, writer and historian", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://shaenamontanari.com/research", "date": "2019-10-18T11:15:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986682037.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20191018104351-20191018131851-00257.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8066648244857788, "token_count": 813, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__133639793", "lang": "en", "text": "I use stable isotope geochemistry to understand environmental and biological signatures in extant and extinct vertebrate remains. I conduct modern experimental research on natural variations in carbon and nitrogen isotopes of modern carnivores and omnivores, which to this point are mostly unknown. These values must be understood to properly implement stable isotopes in ecology and conservation of non-herbivorous mammals, and additionally, understand the diets of these animals in the fossil record.\nI continue to work with extinct vertebrates through analyzing the carbon, oxygen and nitrogen isotopes of fossil mammals and reptiles. I can track changes in local environment and climate, and relates these abiotic factors to extinction factors. I enjoy using museum collections from around the world for much of this geochemical research.\n- Eagle, R.A., Enriquez, M., Grellet-Tinner, G., Pérez-Huerta, A., Hu, D., Tütken, T., Montanari, S., Lloyd, S.J., Ramirez, P., Tripati, A.K., Kohn, M.J., Cerling, T.E., Chiappe, L.M., Eiler, J.M. 2015. Isotopic (13C-18O) ordering in calcium carbonate eggshells reflects body temperatures and suggests differing thermophysiology in two Cretaceous dinosaurs. Nature Communications. doi:10.1038/ncomms9296\n- Passey, B., Hu, H., Ji, H., Montanari, S., Li, S., Henkes, G.A., Levin, N. E., 2014. Triple oxygen isotopes in biogenic and sedimentary carbonates. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 141, 1-25.\n- Montanari, S., Louys, J., Price, G. 2013. Pliocene paleoenvironments of southeastern Queensland, Australia: inferences from stable isotopes of marsupial tooth enamel. PLOS ONE 8(6): e66221. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0066221\n- Montanari, S., Higgins, P., Norell, M. 2013. Dinosaur eggshell and tooth enamel geochemistry as an indicator of Mongolian Late Cretaceous paleoenvironments. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 370, 158-166.\nI am interested in widely exploring what impact humans have on the survival and diets of uncommon vertebrates. I have worked across all time scales using techniques such as stable isotope analysis to figure out what the remains of animals (bones, eggs, hair, tissue) can tell us about the environments they lived in and the food they ate. I am currently using stable isotopes, in conjunction with next-generation sequencing methods, to look at modern samples collected from wildlife non-invasively (scats and hair) to see what they can tell us about the diets of carnivores, such as big cats. Combining genetic and chemical methods, we can get an extremely clear picture of an organism's dietary ecology. This allows us to be able to compare diets between sympatric species and geographically separated populations. It is vital to understand how apex predators change their diets as their habitats become more degraded so we can predict how food webs will change over time with increasing human ecological interference.\n- Montanari, S. 2017. Discrimination factors of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in meerkat feces.\n- Montanari, S., Amato, G. 2015. Discrimination factors of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes from diet to hair and scat in captive tigers (Panthera tigris) and snow leopards (Uncia uncia). Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 29 (11), 1062-1068. doi: 10.1002/rcm.7194", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://readysteadyschool.org/blog/keep-chatting-about-school-over-the-summer", "date": "2018-04-24T23:01:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125947421.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20180424221730-20180425001730-00310.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9684685468673706, "token_count": 220, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__604032", "lang": "en", "text": "Most children love visiting the library and the summer holidays can provide a great opportunity to do this. If your child is starting school in September why not pick up some books that will help children prepare for starting school. There are many books available ranging from ones that have descriptions of the school day to more sophisticated stories, both forms can be used to generate a conversation between parent and child. Providing these opportunities to talk about starting school can help to dispel fears and provide a platform for any questions your child may have. All members of the family can be involved in these discussions including older siblings who have more recent experience of starting school and grandparents who may be involved in childcare arrangements. One of our favourite books is ‘Topsy and Tim Start School’ by Jean and Gareth Adamson. This book introduces children to what they might experience in their new school including using the cloakroom, areas of the classroom, playtimes and having their lunch at school. There is also a great little puzzle at the end!\nOur top 10 starting school books are listed on our task cards in the starting school box.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://workshopsforwomen.typepad.com/", "date": "2017-05-01T02:31:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917126538.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031206-00296-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9617931842803955, "token_count": 437, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__229341161", "lang": "en", "text": "If you know us at all, or have ever attended one of our Workshops for Women's events, you know we are big on great books. Dads Matter by Bob Hazleton is my new favorite.\nWhy a book about Dads when we are so all about women? What we are really about is improving the lives of women, empowering them to create lives of purpose, meaning, joy and abundance. And having our men understand the value they bring as \"Dad\" to our children, our relationships and our world therefore supports all of our goals.\nDads Matter challenged me in a gentle and positive way. It allowed me to revisit things from my training as a coach, relook at my own parenting skills and areas for improvement, and opened a window to revisit my own relationship with my father who passed away when I was 18.\nI am a huge fan of Bob Hazleton. I actually met Bob many years ago at a support group meeting, during a difficult time in my life as a single mother with a struggling teen. With a look - Bob conveyed his care, and managed to stop my ramblings and help me get centered and realize what insanity I as \"mom\" was bringing to the picture. Later it was a huge surprise and wonderful gift to have him be one of my trainers at the Resource Realizations Coaching academy, and to staff parenting seminars with him for other parents of troubled teens.\nAnd just to make the loop complete - this book was laid out by Workshops for Women graduate Jennifer Omner, President of All Publications. Her care and dedication to the project are obvious and beautifully executed. (www.allpublications.com)\nSo yes, I am biased. However this is truly one of those great books with the power to change and inspire our lives. Here is an opportunity to change the world for the better - invest in a wonderful gift for yourself in your own evolution - and make a brilliant gift to the Dads or soon-to-be-Dads in your world.\nDads Matter by Bob Hazleton. Available now www.amazon.com\nKelly Sandstrom CPC\nWorkshops for Women", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://rastafari369.wordpress.com/2006/08/21/quest-for-understanding/", "date": "2020-09-24T13:51:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400219221.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924132241-20200924162241-00352.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9647864699363708, "token_count": 618, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__225227786", "lang": "en", "text": "It was on the 10th of November when the hopeless-romantic me grabbed a pen and let the ink drip and drizzle on a piece of paper… This was the concoction me and pen came up with….. If anyone should find themselves relating in one way or the other to the words written, then I’ve realized my goal ~ to touch people. (nmed)\nQUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING\nNovember 10, 2003\nQuestion: How do you stop the heart from feeling? From getting hurt, from feeling pain?\nAnswer: You can’t. For it the heart stops to feel, it would lose its purpose. It would lost its very reason for existence.\nQuestion: If we can’t, how can we at least ease the gripping pain? How can we stop the invisible hand from clutching the heart too tight?\nAnswer: Let it be. For if it weren’t for the pain you feel, you would never appreciate the joy it gives you.\nQuestion: Why then do we have to feel so much pain in order for us to feel joy? Can’t we just leave out the pain and feel the joy instead?\nAnswer: You can never appreciate the intoxicating joys of loving if you have never felt its very opposite; its surging pains.\nQuestion: The heart has too many tasks to attend to, and far too many pains to suffer. For an organ with such a noble purpose, why should the heart be in such a vulnerable and delicate state? And why should it be without protection or replacement?\nAnswer: If it were, men would never feel the need and importance of taking great care with their hearts. They would allow it to be stabbed, broken and hurt, and would do the same to others hearts; knowing it can easily be replaced. They would take their hearts for granted.\nNow, you would not want that to happen to an organ with such a noble purpose, would you?\nQuestion: People say the brain should rule over the heart in all aspects of life. Is that the reason why the brain is above the heart? Should we always follow our brain, and not our hearts?\nAnswer: The brain is above the heart, yes. Because it is the logic of being; it is what makes you rational and able to think things through. (Although at times, you do not apply this. J)\nThe heart is at the very center of your body. It was and is there because your heart is the center of your being, your very core.\nEach decision your brain formulates must pass through your heart for editing, polishing, and refining. It is now up to you to choose either dictates of your brain or the callings of your heart. The brain shouts but the heart whispers, you must learn to listen well.\nQuestion: Why do we have so many questions about the workings of the heart, yet we can never find the answers?\nAnswer: The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://articles.ezlandlordforms.com/real-estate-investing/top-ten-reading-list-for-landlords-and-property-managers/", "date": "2024-02-27T11:39:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00432.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9570080637931824, "token_count": 1138, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__8412294", "lang": "en", "text": "George Samuel Clason tells us in his book Richest Man in Babylon, “Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those who are skilled in its keep.” These words serve as a reminder that while there is no formal training required of landlords and (in some jurisdictions) property managers, to oversee rental properties, rental investors looking for a good return are wise to be well prepared before investing money or taking on the task of managing rental properties.\nOne of the best ways to prepare for, well, anything is by reading as much as possible about the subject at hand. There are a number of great books about investing in and managing residential rental properties and an equal number of good reads about real estate and business in general.\nHere is a list as recommended by some of the best in the business. Some consistently make the top ten lists, while those that do not are still great reads.\nThink and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill) – One of the most widely read books on this list and for good reason, is given the number one spot for its’ outstanding ability to change the thinking of its readers around the world. According to Napoleon Hill, “the most powerful instrument we have in our hand is the power of our mind.” In this book, Napoleon Hill studies the lives of 40 millionaires and shares the wisdom and philosophies he extracted. Whether your goal is to be rich or not, if you have any intentions of being successful in whatever you do, this book is a must read.\nThe E-Myth: Revisited (Michael E. Gerber) – Slightly less popular than its predecessor, this book remains high on the list of small business owners and entrepreneurs as a reminder of “what not to do” that causes so many small businesses to fail every year. It also serves as a guide on what steps to take and systems to put into place for the journey to entrepreneurial success.\nThe 4-Hour Work Week (Tim Ferris) – While Tim’s style and methods are a bit controversial, there is a lot to be said about the paradigm shift this book brings about for many of its readers. Far too many entrepreneurs become successful at the expense of a healthy and balanced life, but the concepts in The 4-Hour Work Week can help provide that balance for open-minded and ambitious readers.\nLandlording: A Handy Manual for Scrupulous Landlords and Landladies Who Do It Themselves (Leigh Robinson) – This book makes the list because of its useful and practical advice for the both the novice as well as the veteran landlord. It’s been referred to by some as the ‘bible’ for landlords and is one of the only books on the list that is constantly updated. Beware this book has several editions, each one offering good, solid, relevant advice about how to manage your tenants and your money.\nBuy It, Rent It, Profit (Brian Chavis) – In some circles this book is touted “the guide” for multiple unit investors, and may be to property managers what Leigh Robinson’s book is to landlords. It provides very good, practical insight into the ‘how to’s of managing rental properties. Be warned there is some self-promoting in this one and some of the websites and resources mentioned are no longer relevant.\nThe Landlord’s Handbook (Daniel Goodwin and Richard Rusdorf) – This book provides some great real life scenarios for beginning and intermediate landlords to consider along with some practical advice on handling disputes, what to include in your leases and more. This book is considered an easy and enjoyable read.\nLandlording on Auto-Pilot: A Simple, No-Brainer System for Higher Profits and Fewer Headaches (Mike Butler) – If you wish to place your landlording business on autopilot, this is the book for you. This book is said to be beneficial to both the newbie landlord as well as the veteran. It contains such great tidbits as “add a clause in the lease that rent automatically increases 2.9% annually”, and much more.\nStreetwise Landlording & Property Management: Insider’s Advice on How to Own Real Estate and Manage It Profitably (Mark B. Weiss and Dan Baldwin) – Mostly geared towards the property manager rather than the landlord, this book is said to be one of the most comprehensive and informative books around for multi-dwelling property managers.\nA Fool’s Guide to Landlording (Tony and Sandra Midea) – This guide is a witty and comical account of the life of a landlord at its worse. These real life landlords warn newbies to stay away at all costs, but provide lots of practical, useful advice for the bravest of the bunch. The comic relief provided in this guide is much appreciated.\nProperty Management Kit for Dummies (Robert S. Griswold) – This book provides everything landlords and property managers need to get started from lease agreements to tips on where and how to advertise. For many, this is the ‘must have’ guide not only for beginners, but as a refresher for veterans as well.\nThis is by no means an exhaustive list, but should be viewed as a starting point on your journey to wise investments and highly effective management of your rental properties.\nWhat are you reading, or have read in the past that has impacted your business?", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://humanspatialcognitionlab.org/author/skharootonian/", "date": "2023-04-02T05:46:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950383.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230402043600-20230402073600-00065.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8789443969726562, "token_count": 157, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__102714110", "lang": "en", "text": "We are pleased to announce our new paper in PLOS Computational Biology showing the effects of path shape and size on systematic errors. Additionally, we show that the vector addition model captures the trends in behavior more accurately than the encoding error model. Read is here: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007489\nAuthor: Sevan Harootonian\nTop 10% most downloaded papers!\nOur paper “Grid coding, spatial representation, and navigation: Should we assume an isomorphism?” published in Hippocampus, is among the top 10% most downloaded papers! Congrats to Arne Ekstrom, Sevan Harootonian and Derek Huffman", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.gamersalleyonline.com/products/020626714952", "date": "2018-08-15T13:52:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210105.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815122304-20180815142304-00005.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8849608302116394, "token_count": 112, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__161549138", "lang": "en", "text": "Lord of the Rings Fellowship\nFollowing the storyline of J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Fellowship of the Ring, this third-person action/adventure lets you play as part of the fellowship on a journey from the Shire to the River Anduin. Faithful to J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece, the game allows you to explore the massive environments of Middle-earth while solving puzzles and fighting enemies like Orcs, Black Riders, and an evil Balrog in the quest to destroy the fabled One Ring of Power.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://agrippamaxentius.proboards.com/thread/51/blood-steel-wuxia-finest", "date": "2020-08-15T19:17:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439741154.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20200815184756-20200815214756-00389.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9699013233184814, "token_count": 226, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__188033716", "lang": "en", "text": "Wuxia is a style of story I do enjoy due to Bruce Lee films, and too a lesser extent Jackie Chan and Jet Li along with various ronin films. The story of a wandering warrior relying on his knowledge of martial arts and cunning to overcome great odds to right a wrong is still a great setup for a story as it has ever been. Enter Blood and Steel a chinese comic based on a novel series by the same name. Its a simple revenge story but its action scenes are top notch in variety of setup, attention to detail, and artwork. Due to it being a comic it can afford to have detailed blow by blow encounters with text to carefully explain and describe each person's intentions and actions where the artwork can not. Overall its a very fun comic to read and it has to be read to understand what its like rather than listen to a person and their limited vocabulary. It also focuses on a theme of removing the mystique of martial arts, so no special powers beyond superhuman reaction times.\nYou can find it by searching for Blood and Steel comic or Blood and Steel manhua on a search engine.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.perenjori.wa.gov.au/kookoo-kookaburra/", "date": "2018-06-18T09:37:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267860168.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618090026-20180618110026-00000.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9472301006317139, "token_count": 165, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__191356055", "lang": "en", "text": "Country Arts WA and Act-Belong-Commit presents Kookoo Kookaburra by A.J.Bailey adapted from the book by Gregg Dreise.\nLocally presented by the Shire of Perenjori\nFollow Kookoo and his friends in a heartwarming journey of story-telling, dancing and playing the didgeridoo.\nKindness is like a boomerang – if you throw it often, it comes back often…\nThis family-friendly performance is specially designed for children between 3 and 10 years.\nShows on the go is coming back to Perenjori on Thursday 18th May.\nLeonard Donahue is giving a workshop at the Primary School from 9 to 10 and will perform in the Town Hall at 1.30 pm.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://realestatewithpatrick.com/embracing-the-magic-celebrating-christmas-in-your-new-home/", "date": "2024-04-21T20:01:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00046.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.900831401348114, "token_count": 562, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__143123794", "lang": "en", "text": "There’s a certain enchantment that comes with celebrating Christmas in a new home—a sense of excitement woven into the walls, waiting to be discovered. As snowflakes dance outside and the fireplace crackles within, there’s no better time to relish the warmth of your newfound sanctuary.\nAdorning your new space with holiday cheer isn’t just about hanging ornaments or stringing lights; it’s about infusing the spirit of the season into every corner. Allow your creativity to take flight as you deck the halls, transforming rooms into pockets of festive joy.\nBut beyond the decorations lies the true heart of the holidays—creating cherished traditions. Bake cookies with loved ones, craft handmade ornaments, or simply gather around the fire to share stories. These moments, etched within the fabric of your new home, will become the cornerstone of beautiful memories for years to come.\nThe beauty of owning a new home during Christmas extends beyond your doorstep. Embrace the opportunity to foster connections within your neighborhood. Consider hosting a small gathering or sharing tokens of goodwill with your neighbors, uniting in the joy of the season.\nAmidst the bustling preparations, take a moment to revel in the simplicity of the season. Appreciate the quiet moments—the soft glow of candles, the laughter of loved ones, and the comfort of your cozy abode. These simple joys hold the essence of what makes this time of year truly magical.\nReflect on the journey that led you to this point—gratitude for the blessings of a new home. Consider ways to give back to your community, whether through acts of kindness, supporting local causes, or simply spreading goodwill.\nAs Christmas morning dawns, the house echoes with the excitement of the day. Unwrap presents, savor a delicious meal, and relish the joy of being surrounded by the ones you hold dear. In these shared moments of love and laughter, your new home truly becomes the heart of the holiday.\nAmidst the shimmering lights and joyous laughter, allow yourself to bask in the wonder of it all. Your new home isn’t just a structure; it’s a canvas for new memories, a place where love abounds, and where the spirit of Christmas finds its truest expression.\nSo, as the snowflakes continue their gentle descent outside, embrace the magic of this festive season in your new abode. Let your home be a haven of warmth, love, and joy—a place where the spirit of Christmas thrives, creating memories that will last a lifetime.\nMay this Christmas in your new home be a beautiful chapter in the story of your life, filled with love, laughter, and the comfort of home.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://humanism.ws/featured/the-essence-of-humanism/", "date": "2017-04-25T12:29:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120349.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00434-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9576822519302368, "token_count": 260, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__9099196", "lang": "en", "text": "“I regard the use of the term “humanism” to mean secular humanism or atheism to be one of the greatest tragedies of twentieth century movementology, perpetrated by second-class minds and perpetuated by third-class polemicists and village atheists.\nThe attempt to sever humanism from the religious and the spiritual was a flatfooted, largely American way of taking on the religious right. It lacked finesse, subtlety, and the European sense of history.\nWhile it invoked its own commonsense saints like Dewey and Santayana, it also betrayed the spirit of both, and violated the great American tradition of Emerson and Thoreau, who like their progenitor Blake could still see “a world in a grain of sand/ And a heaven in a wild flower.”\nIt is really quite tragic what evisceration of humanism that secular humanism and its founders are guilty of, and in my “maturity” I think it is too late for them to change their minds.\nSecular humanism is destined to die a death brought on by its own self-deception,narrowness of vision, and inability to speak to the human quest for meaning.” (R. Joseph Hoffmann)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://aliasynesthesia.com/creative-writing/", "date": "2023-12-02T05:51:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100327.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202042052-20231202072052-00522.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9121625423431396, "token_count": 397, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__301722037", "lang": "en", "text": "The Grove at the Edge of The World by Alia Synesthesia\nThis collection of fairy tales was written by Alia during the summers of 2013 – 2014 and published in 2017 with the help of technical editor Serge Taliansky and content editor Ariel Bissett. This collection is a set of dark folklore tales for the dark modern world. Melancholic and sweet, these tales do not subscribe by the standards of “good endings”. In real life, there is no such thing as “good ending”, and like all original and raw fairy tales, untouched by the censoring hands of child literature editors, these tales are meant to teach something beyond surface values of good endings. Inspired by Neil Gaiman’s tales and Oscar Wilde’s Pomegranate Tree, this collection will sweep you away from your modern realities and carry you into the world where you can almost swell the sweet aroma of the autumnal arboreal decay and dark, starless nights.\nIt was a magical night when summer rolled into autumn. The kind of night when the air is smoky and sweet, glow bugs warm up their dim-glowing bellies in the moonlight, and the night birds exchange their nocturnal greetings in the sheer canopies of oaks, maples and birch trees. The air smells like damp leaves, roasted nuts and cloves…It is on that kind of night, forest dwellers gather at the riverbank to listen to ancient tales, forgotten by history, told by the one whose life is eternal.\nDear reader, we invite you to leave your worries aside, get yourself a cup of warm chocolate, and enjoy this book while sitting comfortably in your favorite armchair or couch, wrapped in a warm blanket. Leave the world aside, and invite the mystical forest where the story takes place, into your living room.\nOriginal Edition: January 12, 2017\nRe-edition: June 1, 2019", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.warplane.com/gift-shop/Books/D-Day/the-day-the-devils-dropped-in.aspx", "date": "2023-09-29T10:22:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510501.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929090526-20230929120526-00135.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9430379867553711, "token_count": 256, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__22159372", "lang": "en", "text": "The first hours and days following the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 have strong claim to be the most crucial in world history. Spearheading this vast undertaking were crack British and American airborne forces.\nThe Day the Devils Dropped In examines in fascinating detail the pivotal role of the 9th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment over the first week of the landings. Tasked with neutralizing the mighty Merville Battery, capturing Le Plein and the Chateau St Come on the Breville Ridge, failure by the Paras to achieve any of these key objectives could well have unravelled the whole Overlord operation with catastrophic consequences.\nIn his quest to uncover the true story of the early days of the landings, Neil Barber has successfully tracked down surviving participants in the operation. As a result he is able to tell the full story of the fierce fighting that characterized the early days of the landings largely in the very words of those who lived through the experience. This adds much to the credibility and immediacy of this entralling book which paints a superb picture of what soldiers care to call 'the fog of war.' The result is an inspiring and revealing read and a fine tribute to those whose contribution must never be forgotten.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://apollochange.com/childhood-trauma-a-grave-psychosocial-medical-and-public-policy-problem/", "date": "2024-04-24T22:35:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819971.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424205851-20240424235851-00812.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9343615174293518, "token_count": 653, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__97363244", "lang": "en", "text": "Childhood trauma is a serious problem that has severe consequences for its victims and society as a whole. Trauma in childhood can range from experiences of chronic interpersonal violence to other forms of overwhelming stress. Developmental traumatology provides a framework and principles to understand the psychiatric and psychobiological effects of chronic stress on the developing child. This field of study seeks to understand how childhood trauma impacts the development of children and the long-term consequences of these experiences.\nDespite its widespread prevalence, less is known about the biological effects of childhood trauma in children compared to adults with a history of childhood trauma. However, research in this area is crucial, as understanding these effects can help in providing appropriate support and treatment for children who have experienced trauma. This article focuses on the peer-reviewed literature on the neurobiological effects of childhood trauma in children and adults with a history of childhood trauma. Additionally, the article reviews relevant studies of animal models of stress to help us better understand the psychobiological effects of trauma during development.\nThe Neurobiology of Trauma\nTrauma has a significant impact on the brain, leading to changes in its structure and function. Childhood trauma has been shown to cause alterations in the brain’s structure, including the hippocampus, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex. These regions play critical roles in memory, emotional regulation, and executive functioning, respectively. As a result, children who have experienced trauma are more likely to experience post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and anxiety.\nClinical Applications and Biomarkers\nThe neurobiology of trauma has important clinical applications, including the development of biomarkers that can help predict post-traumatic stress symptoms and monitor treatment response. Biomarkers can also be used to track changes in the brain’s structure and function over time. In particular, neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) scans have been used to study the neurobiological effects of trauma. These techniques allow researchers to observe changes in brain activity in real-time and can help identify key regions of the brain involved in the response to trauma.\nSuggestions for Future Researchers\nDespite the advancements in the field, there is still much work to be done to fully understand the neurobiological effects of childhood trauma. Researchers should continue to explore the long-term consequences of childhood trauma, including the development of PTSD and other mental health conditions. Additionally, researchers should continue to study the effects of different forms of childhood trauma, including physical and emotional abuse, neglect, and exposure to violence. Finally, more research is needed to better understand the underlying mechanisms of the brain’s response to trauma and the development of effective treatments for children who have experienced trauma.\nIn conclusion, childhood trauma is a serious problem with significant consequences for its victims and society. Understanding the neurobiological effects of childhood trauma is crucial to developing effective treatments and support systems for children who have experienced trauma. With continued research and advancements in the field, we can work towards a better understanding of childhood trauma and its impact on the developing child.\nStart Making Positive Changes\nUnleash the power of your mind to create the life you’ve always dreamed of.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://joshsolar.tumblr.com/tagged/quotes", "date": "2013-05-25T05:18:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705543116/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115903-00098-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9388006329536438, "token_count": 248, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__132096370", "lang": "en", "text": "For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.\nKeep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.\nJoy seems to me a step beyond happiness. Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you’re lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.\nMany men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.\nWe are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.\nLove is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.\nAre you one of ‘em?\n“There are thousands and thousands of people out there living lives of quiet, screaming desperation who work long, hard hours, at jobs they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people they don’t like.”\n- Nigel Marsh", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.firstgendocs.com/events-and-engagement", "date": "2022-01-23T21:14:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304309.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20220123202547-20220123232547-00367.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8165528774261475, "token_count": 349, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__209010268", "lang": "en", "text": "Publications, & Presentations\nEvents & Engagements\nJoin us for our Spring 2022 Semester Chats and Virtual Writing Retreats!\nWe will host Twitter chats on the third Wednesday in January and April during the Spring 2022 semester. We will host monthly virtual writing retreats on the second Saturday of every month.\nPast Conference Presentations\nBrown, L. C., Wallace, J. K., & Cokley, R. K. (2021). A labor of love: The makings of @FirstGenDocs. Journal of First-generation Student Success, 1(1), 49-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/26906015.2021.1891823\nWallace, J. K., Cokley, R. K., & Brown, L. C. (2020). This is soul work: A portrait of three Black first-gen docs. In J. Sablan & J. Van Galen (Eds.), Amplified voices, intersecting identities: First-generation phds navigating institutional power anthology (pp. 119-125). Boston, MA: Brill Sense Publishing.\n(November, 2018). “This is Soul Work”: An Nkwaethnography of Three Black First-Generation Doctoral Students. Roundtable presented at the Association for the Study of Higher Education Annual Meeting.\n(October, 2017). “Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”: Digital Space Interventions for First-Generation Doctoral Students. Education session presented at the Southern Association for College and Student Affairs Annual Meeting.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.rokotustieto.fi/en/news/first-research-results-studies-effectiveness-covid-19-vaccines-finland-have-been-received", "date": "2024-03-05T14:59:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948235171.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305124045-20240305154045-00166.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.968669593334198, "token_count": 336, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__74824368", "lang": "en", "text": "First research results of studies on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in Finland have been received23.04.2021\nThe first preliminary research results on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in Finland have been received. According to the results, vaccination reduced the number of cases of severe COVID-19 requiring hospital treatment by an average of 74% (95% confidence interval 42–88%) in the elderly and 84% (95% confidence interval 34–96%) in those belonging to the risk groups.\nThe study includes vaccination data for all people who have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The effectiveness of the vaccines has been assessed separately for those aged 70 years or older and for those aged 16–69 in risk groups due to an illness. All the vaccine products used have been combined in the analysis.\nThe results are based on a register study carried out by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, in which the Care Register for Health Care, the National Infectious Diseases Register and the National Vaccination Register have been used. The data included in the study was collected between 27 December 2020 and 28 March 2021 so results mainly concern the effectiveness of a single dose of vaccine. The data is being supplemented continuously and the research results will become more accurate as the vaccination programme progresses.\n- THL: First estimates of the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines have been received – vaccinations have reduced cases leading to hospital treatment\n- Mediuutiset (In Finnish): Preliminary results on the effectiveness of a single vaccine dose against COVID-19 have been received – Reduction in hospital treatment for the elderly about 74% in Finland", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://johnsmolens.com/fire-point/", "date": "2023-09-21T07:59:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233505362.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921073711-20230921103711-00830.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9680848717689514, "token_count": 233, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__7040814", "lang": "en", "text": "At nineteen, Hannah LeClaire already has a reputation in the village of Whitefish Harbor, where she grew up. She is a solitary young woman who is given to long walks along the coast of Lake Superior. On a cold April day, she wanders into a dilapidated house and meets Martin Reed, who has moved to Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula to renovate the condemned Victorian once owned by his aunt. Quickly Hannah realizes that Martin is an outcast, too, and unlike anyone she has ever met.\nFire Point is the story of the summer Hannah and Martin attempt to rebuild their lives while restoring the house. But when Sean Colby returns to Michigan after being discharged early from military service, he cannot accept the fact that Hannah, his former girlfriend, is moving on without him—and commits a series of increasingly violent acts against Hannah, Martin, and the house. Written in spare, graceful prose, Fire Point is a thrilling and suspenseful story of love, vengeance, and renewal, set against the pristine beauty of one of America’s great inland seas.\nClick to Purchase “Fire Point”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://pabuse.blogspot.com/2009/12/comprehensive-review-of-literature.html", "date": "2019-09-20T16:47:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514574050.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20190920155311-20190920181311-00263.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7694182395935059, "token_count": 2613, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__10635479", "lang": "en", "text": "Shared Parenting Information Group (SPIG) UK\nParental Alienation Syndrome - articles\nComprehensive review of the literature about PAS - essential reading\n- Rand, Deirdre C; The spectrum of Parental Alienation Syndrome (part 1), American Journal of Forensic Psychology, (1997) 15 (3) p 23-52\n- Rand, Deirdre C; The spectrum of Parental Alienation Syndrome (part 2), American Journal of Forensic Psychology, (1997) 15 (4) p39-92\nother articlesCartwright, Glen F. Expanding the Parameters of Parental Alienation Syndrome. The American Journal of Family Therapy. (1993) 21(3) p 205\nDunne, John ; Hedrick, Marsha The Parental Alienation Syndrome: An Analysis of Sixteen Selected Cases. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage. (1994) 21 (3/4) p21\nGardner, Richard A. Legal and Psychotherapeutic Approaches to the Three Types of Parental Alienation Syndrome Families: When Psychiatry and the Law Join Forces. Court Review. (1991) 28 (1) p 14\nGardner, Richard A. Addendum to: The Parental Alienation Syndrome: a guide for Mental Health and Legal Professionals; (1992)\nLund, Mary A Therapist's View of Parental Alienation Syndrome. Family and Conciliation Courts Review. (1995) 33(3) p308\nPalmer, Nancy Rainey Legal Recognition of the Parental Alienation Syndrome. The American Journal of Family Therapy. (1989) 16(4) p361\nPrice, Joseph L.; Pioske, Kerry S. Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Developmental Analysis. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health (1994) 32(11) p9\nThis systematic denigration by one parent of the other, with the intent of alienating the child, is a symptom of depression and dependence.\nWood, L. Cheri The Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Dangerous Aura of Reliability. Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. (1994) 27(4) p1367\nParental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) is a theoretical disorder in children that arises almost exclusively in child custody disputes. In most PAS cases the mother \"programs\" the children to hate the father - often leading to false allegations of sexual abuse. This Comment examines PAS theory in light of the causation problems raised by assigning blame in an area that psychologists and courts recognise as extremely uncertain. It also observes that there is no empirical evidence supporting the theory, nor has PAS been subjected to meaningful peer review or publication. In fact, experts in the field have widely discredited the theory. The Comment then argues that PAS is dangerous because its wide dissemination in the legal community, via the PAS originator's self-published works, lends an undeserved aura of reliability to the theory. Finally, this Comment recommends that PAS testimony be excluded, but recognises that in light of Daubert v. Merrell...\nFurther references (in chronological order)(with thanks to Dean Hughson)\nArticles by Richard GardnerGardner, R. A. (1985), Recent trends in divorce and custody litigation.The Academy Forum, 29(2)3-7. New York: The American Academy of Psychoanalysis.\nGardner, R. A. (1987), Child Custody. In Basic Handbook of Child Psychiatry, ed. J. Noshpitz, Vol. V, pp. 637- 646. New York: Basic Books, Inc.\nGardner, R. A. (1987), Judges interviewing children in custody/visitation litigation. New Jersey Family Lawyer, 7(2):26ff.\nGardner, R. A. (1990), Childhood stress due to parental divorce. In Stressors and the Adjustment Disorders, ed. J. D. Noshpitz and R. D.Coddington, pp. 43-59. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.\nGardner, R. A. (1991), Legal and psychotherapeutic approaches to the three types of parental alienation syndrome families: when psychiatry and the law join forces. Court Review, 28(1):14-21.\nGardner, R. A. (1997), Recommendations for dealing with parents who induce a parental alienation syndrome in their children. Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, 8(3):206-211.\nGardner, R. A. (1997), Recommendations for dealing with parents who induce a parental alienation syndrome in their children. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 28(1/2): (in press)\nOther articles devoted entirely to PASPalmer, N.R. (1988), Legal Recognition of the Parental Alienation Syndrome. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 16(4):361-363.\nGoldwater, A. (1991). Le syndrome d'alienation parentale (in English). In Developpements recents en droit familial (pp. 121-145). Cowansville, Quebec:Les Editions Yvon Blais.\nLevy, D. (1992), Review of parental alienation syndrome: a guide for mental health and legal professionals. American Journal of Family Therapy, 20(3):276-277.\nCartwright, G.F. (1993). Expanding the Parameters of Parental Alienation Syndrome. The American Journal of Family Therapy, 21(3):205-215.\nDunne, J. and Hedrick, (1994), The Parental Alienation Syndrome: An Analysis of Sixteen Selected Cases. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 21(3/4):21-38.\nLund, M. (1995), A therapist's view of parental alienation syndrome. Family and Conciliation Courts Review, 33(3):308-316.\nWalsh, M. R. and Bone, J. M. (1997), Parental Alienation Syndrome: An Age-old Custody Problem. The Florida Bar Journal, LXXI(6):93-96.\nPublications that focus significantly on PAS\nHuntingon, D. S. (1986), The forgotten figures in divorce, and fatherhood: the struggle for parental identity.\nLampel, A. (1986), Post-divorce therapy with high conflict families. The Independent Practioner, Bulletin of the Division of Psychologists in Independent Practice, Division 42 of the American Psychological Association, 6(3):22-6.\nJacobs, J. W. (1988), Euripidies' Medea: a psychodynamic model of severe divorce pathology. American Journal of Psychotherapy, XLII(2):308-319.\nJohnston, J. R. and Campbell, L. E. (1988), Impasses of Divorce: The Dynamics and Resolution of Family Conflict. New York: The Free Press.\nBlush, G. J. and Ross, K. L. (1990), Investigation and case management issues and strategies. Issues in Child Abuse Accusations. 2(3):152-160.\nWakefield, H. and Underwager, R. (1990), Personality characteristics of parents making false accusations of sexual abuse in custody disputes. Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, 2(3):121-136.\nRoss, K. L. and Blush, G. J. (1990), Sexual abuse validity discriminators in the divorced or divorcing family. Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, 2(1):1-6.\nThoennes, N. and Tjaden, P. G. (1990), The extent, nature, and validity of sexual abuse allegations in custody visitation disputes. Child Abuse & Neglect, 12:151-163.\nThe California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Law: Issues and Answers for Health Practitioners. State of California, 1991.\nClawar, S. S. and Rivlin, B. V. (1991), Children Held Hostage: Dealing with Programmed and Brainwashed Children. Chicago, Illinois: American Bar Association.\nWakefield, H., and Underwager, R. (1991), Sexual abuse allegations in divorce and custody disputes. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 9:451-468.\nPatterson, D. (1991-92), The other victim: the falsely accused parent in a sexual abuse and custody case. Journal of Family Law, 30:919-941.\nMaccoby, E. E. and Mnookin, R. H. (1992), Dividing the Child: Social and Legal Dilemmas of Custody. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.\nRogers, M. (1992), Delusional disorder and the evolution of mistaken sexual allegations in child custody cases. American Journal of Forensic Psychology, 10(1):47-69.\nCeci, S. J., and Bruck, M. (1993), Suggestibility of the child witness: a historical review and synthesis. Psychological Bulletin, 113(3):403-39.\nJohnston, J. R. (1993), Children of divorce who refuse visitation. In Nonresidential Parenting: New Vistas in Family Living. ed. Depner, C. E. and Bray, J.H. London: Sage Publications.\nRand, D. C. (1993), Munchausen syndrome by proxy: a complex type of emotional abuse responsible for some false allegations of child abuse in divorce. Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, 5(3)135-55.\nSanders, C. H. (1993), When you suspect the worst: bad- faith relocation, fabricated child sexual abuse and parental alienation. Family Advocate, winter:54-56.\nWard, P. and Harvey, J. C. (1993), Family wars: the alienation of children. New Hampshire Bar Journal. March:30.\nGarrity, C.B. and Baris, M.A. (1994), Caught in the Middle: Protecting the Children of High-Conflict Divorce. New York: Lexington Books (an Imprint of Macmillan, Inc.).\nGuidelines for Child Custody Evaluations in Divorce Proceeding (1994).American Psychologist, 49(7)677-680.\nHysjulien, C., Wood, B., and Benjamin, G.A.H. (1994), Child custody evaluations: a review of methods used in litigation and alternative dispute resolution. Family and Conciliation Courts Review, 32(4):466-489.\nStahl, P.M. (1994), Conducting Child Custody Evaluations: A Comprehensive Guide. London: Sage Publications.\nTurkat, I.D. (1994). Child Visitation Interference in Divorce. Clinical Psychology Review, 14(8):737-742.\nEhrenberg, M. F. and Elterman, M.F. (1995), Evaluating allegations of sexual abuse in the context of divorce, child custody and access disputes. In True and False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: Assessment and Case Management. ed. Ney, T. New York: Brunner/Mazel Publishers.\nJones, M., Lund, M. and Sullivan, M. (1996), Dealing with Parental Alienation in High Conflict Custody Cases, Presentation at Conference of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, San Antonio, Texas.\nMapes, B. E. (1995), Child Eyewitness Testimony in Sexual Abuse Investigations. Brandon, Vermont: Clinical Psychology Publishing Co., Inc.\nTurkat, I. D. (1995), Divorce related malicious mother syndrome. Journal of Family Violence, 10(3):253-264.\nAdams, J. K. (1996), Investigation and interviews in cases of alleged child sexual abuse: a look at the scientific evidence. Issues in Child Abuse Accusations, 8(3/4):120-138.\nLampel, A. (1996), Children's alignment with parents in highly conflicted custody cases. Family and Conciliation Courts Review, 34(2):229-239.\nCampbell, T. W. (in press), Psychotherapy with children of divorce: the pitfalls of triangulated relationships. Psychotherapy\nClancy, Patrick, Attorney at Law, http://www.accused.com\nLast updated - 12 July 1998\nSPIG Home Page", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.sophiashalmiyev.com/press", "date": "2019-10-23T18:57:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987835748.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20191023173708-20191023201208-00210.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9217997789382935, "token_count": 597, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__138189200", "lang": "en", "text": "early praise for\n“A rich tapestry of autobiography and meditations on feminism, motherhood, art, and culture, this book is as intellectually satisfying as it is artistically profound.\nA sharply intelligent, lyrically provocative memoir.”\n—Kirkus (starred review)\n\"Shalmiyev stubbornly, brilliantly pursues loss in this psychogeography of immigration, grief displacement, and damage. A mother herself, Shalmiyev's narrator channels the ghosts of Dorothy Richardson, Anaïs Nin, Frances Farmer, and the sad, bad stories of Aileen Wuornos and Amy Fisher, who could never be the right kind of girls. Like the great modernist writers, Shalmiyev writes from, not about trauma, but at a pitch that's witty, dry, sad, and laconic. 'I love America,' her narrator declares. 'It's broken, like me.'\"\n—Chris Kraus, Author Of I Love Dick\n\"The coldness of Russia, of the occult; the heat of punk rock, of motherhood. The psychic tear of emigration and motherlessness; a past gone into mystery. With sparse, poetic language, Shalmiyev builds a personal history that is fractured and raw; a brilliant, lovely ache.\"\n—Michelle Tea, critically-acclaimed author of Against Memoir\n\"When she leaves her native Russia at age eleven, Sophia Shalmiyev is forced to abandon a mother she may never see again. Mother Winter is the wrenching story of her exile and grief, but it's also a chronicle of awakening—to art, sex, feminism, and the rich complexities of becoming a mother herself. Like a punk-rock Marguerite Duras, Shalmiyev has reinvented the language of longing. I love this gorgeous, gutting, unforgettable book.\"\n—Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks\n\"Mother Winter slices through the conventions of narrative with the most delicate blade, ribboning what you think you know about memoir, homecoming, what it means to live in a female body, to live as a motherless mother, to be mothered by art and the arms of all that is strong enough to hold you. This book hypnotized me with its beauty and brutality. I feasted on Shalmiyev's sentences, and they will stay with me for a long, long time.\"\n—Melissa Febos, author of Whip Smart and Abandon Me\n\"The flickering alcoholic parent creates a writer by their absence. The kid colors the void, packs it with stuff, a life, and a love. And thus she lives. Mother Winter, Sophia Shalmiyev’s catastrophically bright, wavering motion of a memoir, forged through sticky clouds of pain, is vividly awesome and truly great.\"\n—Eileen Myles, author of Evolution", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.eastaltonlibrary.org/event-details/illinois-libraries-present-saying-yes-to-your-story-a-conversation-with-kwame-alexander", "date": "2024-02-24T09:04:13Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474526.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224080616-20240224110616-00571.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9299526810646057, "token_count": 507, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__111809948", "lang": "en", "text": "Wed, Feb 08|\nEast Alton Library\nIllinois Libraries Present: Saying Yes to Your Story: A Conversation with Kwame Alexander\nTime & Location\nFeb 08, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM\nEast Alton Library, 250 Washington Ave, East Alton, IL 62024, USA\nAbout the Event\nJoin us for an evening of inspiration and conversation with best-selling and award-winning children’s and young adult author and poet, Kwame Alexander, author of the Newbery Award winning book, The Crossover, Newbery Honor/Caldecott Medal winning book, The Undefeated, and most recently, An American Story, for an Illinois Libraries Present event for young people and their families. Kwame will share ways to say yes to your story and persist in the face of rejection as he shares his own publishing journey. As a creator of more than 36 books, Kwame will energize our community to harness the power of words and storytelling for change! Please note that this program will be presented live without a recording.\nKwame Alexander Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, publisher, and New York Times Bestselling author of 36 books, including Swing, Becoming Muhammad Ali, co-authored with James Patterson, Rebound, The Undefeated, The Crossover, and The Door of No Return. A regular contributor to NPR's Morning Edition, Kwame is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, The Coretta Scott King Author Honor, Three NAACP Image Award Nominations, and the 2017 Inaugural Pat Conroy Legacy Award. In 2018, he opened the Barbara E. Alexander Memorial Library and Health Clinic in Ghana, as a part of LEAP for Ghana, an international literacy program he co-founded. He is the writer and executive producer of The Crossover show on Disney+.\nThis event is made possible by Illinois Libraries Present, a statewide collaboration among public libraries offering premier events. ILP is funded in part by a grant awarded by the Illinois State Library, a department of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). ILP is committed to inclusion and accessibility.\nTo request accommodations, please email firstname.lastname@example.org. Register online here: https://bit.ly/ILP_KwameAlexander", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://rebeccafayefowler.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/creative-juices/", "date": "2018-06-22T10:48:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864391.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622104200-20180622124200-00307.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9780334234237671, "token_count": 338, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__242959863", "lang": "en", "text": "Today, this lovely and cool and greyish Sunday afternoon, marks my first writing date. Me and another writer friend met up for a few hours at a local bar, sat on the back patio and….. wrote. We bounced a few ideas off each other, talked some things out, I read her play, but for the most part, we sat in silence and wrote and were hugely productive.\nI love that I have started my August, usually a month consumed with work stress (the work that pays me the paycheck) by claiming time for the work that I want to be my future. And even better, I realized today that in this year where I have been, by force, almost completely physically inactive, I have been hugely creatively active. Funny how things work out sometimes.\nSo, ok, I’m not able to work out and claim that fitness level that I want to achieve, but I’ve got three creative projects in the works that are making me happy and are steering me toward the life that I want to lead. Cool.\nToday: I mapped out two plot ideas and chose the one to start with and wrote the opening scene. I realized that the reason I was stuck on another plot idea was that another story has to happen first before I can get to my little money laundress. Today, it became apparent that Fantasy Man gets the first book. Don’t know what the heck I’m talking about? Well, you’ll just have to stay tuned and read the books! They’ll be steamy. You’ll like them. I hope.\nNext Sunday: 2nd writing date.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.dracoprincess.com/2012/08/a-game-of-thrones_23.html", "date": "2017-05-23T16:48:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607648.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523163634-20170523183634-00271.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9842879176139832, "token_count": 618, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__141755917", "lang": "en", "text": "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die; there is no middle ground. - Cersei Lannister\nI've been hearing about A Game of Thrones for over a year already before I allowed myself to be finally hooked by the series. It only took the recommendation of my good friends, Christal and Lean, for me to start watching. As much as I wanted to read the books before I watched the TV series, I just couldn't hold back my curiosity any longer. Though I grew to love it late compared to the rest of the fandom, I'm still very glad that I even decided to start watching.\nI watched the first and second season in less than two weeks. I was so hooked to the point that just watching one episode would leave me wanting for more. I couldn't stand the cliffhangers. Though I had work the next day, I still sacrificed my sleeping hours just to get my dose of GoT. The amount of nudity put me off a bit, but I learned to deal with it because it was such a small setback compared to how awesome the show is. The characters were easy to like. They grew on me as I delved deeper into the story. Each of them had their own struggles and it was not hard to pay attention to their respective journeys.\n|I was so happy to the point that I had to document the unwrapping process of the package when it arrived a week ago.|\nAfter the end of season two, I felt really restless. I wanted to know what was gonna happen next. Unfortunately, season three will air in 2013. It's still a long wait, but I can manage. Due to excitement, I even dared to borrow money from my Dad to get the boxed set that contained the first five books. Usually, I tend to lose interest in a book when I have already watched it on the big screen (or in this case, through my laptop screen). I get bored because I already know what's going to happen next. Though I sometimes have this itch to skip to the third book, (because I really want to know what happens next) I can say that the first book does not bore me at all. I enjoy every chapter of it because I get to understand the thoughts of the characters. Their actions suddenly make sense because of this. These interesting bits of information are not reflected in the TV series, hence, it's always better to read the book in addition to watching. The extra information provides depth to the already interesting plot.\nI'd love to be more specific about the things I love about GoT, but I think I'll just end up spoiling the whole experience for the rest of you. Also, there's just too much to love. The list would just go on and on, so maybe I can reserve that topic for another day. Maybe I'll write about it when my schedule isn't as hectic anymore.\nIf you still haven't watched or read the series, I suggest you do. You won't regret it.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://flylittledragon.com/product/personalized-book-canoli-kids/", "date": "2020-06-07T06:20:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590348523564.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20200607044626-20200607074626-00064.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9643266201019287, "token_count": 540, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-24", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__86081345", "lang": "en", "text": "Personalized Magazine by Canoli Kids – 3+\nBeautifully designed soft cover kids’ book series which characters can be personalized to look like the little ones you are creating the book for. Choose age, hair style, skin and eye color and your character is ready to explore the world, learn about eclipses and discover the bottom of the ocean.\nCanoli kids offers parents a fun and unique opportunity to get their children excited about reading! Now parents can insert their child and perhaps their child’s best friend into a new story each month. In general, children not only find being read to fun but their reading levels actually improve. They begin to hear vocabulary they have never heard before, see what words look like, follow along with the story and may soon begin reading the story to you. With Canoli kids, the stories are personalized making reading together more special than ever before. There is no doubt kids will love to hear and read about themselves in the stories, eager to listen to their new adventures month after month.\nAs a teacher, I insist on the pleasure of reading and the importance of offering rich and adapted literature. I recommend, of course, to borrow books regularly from libraries but also to offer subscriptions to their child. Canolikids is one of those easy, affordable and above all educational gifts that parents and teachers love! Each month the child receives a documentary magazine. The adult can read it to or with his child.The sentences and vocabulary are rich, varied and adapted to young audiences. The themes address answers to children’s questions about the nature. They also address themes such as respect, empathy…. The expressive illustrations help the beginner reader to understand and remember vocabulary. Moreover, these magazines are personalized, the child takes it over even faster because he is the hero of the story. He wants to read and reread the same magazine and wait for the next one. Canolikids magazine offers the pleasure of reading as well of the pleasure of learning new things.\nCanolikids is awesome! I loved the process of creating little characters for the children that I was gifting the magazine to, and the kids loved seeing themselves as the main character in the books! Each story is beautifully illustrated and told, with positive messages and lots of educational content introduced in an engaging and fun way. I also love that these books grow with kids. Little kids can simply look at the pictures and have the story read to them while older kids and caregivers will enjoy the “A moment to reflect” feature that offers suggestions for exploring the topic further. If you want a screen-free, connection boosting activity I highly recommend Canolikids!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://online.sfsu.edu/wenchao/about.html", "date": "2021-06-13T07:19:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487607143.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613071347-20210613101347-00015.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9261807203292847, "token_count": 319, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__82348772", "lang": "en", "text": "Chris Wen-Chao Li is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at San Francisco State University, where he teaches courses in general linguistics, news writing, calligraphy, web applications, and advanced Chinese language, and graduate seminars in Chinese phonology, semantics, morphology, translation theory, and consecutive and simultaneous interpreting. Prior to the present appointment, he lectured on advanced-level English, phonetics, phonology, creative writing, news writing, and translation studies at National Taiwan Normal University, and taught Chinese language and poetry at the University of Minnesota. He has also served as Adjunct Professor in Translation at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, and worked as a Chinese language current affairs producer and radio announcer for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service in London.\nDr Li received his masters and doctoral degree in General Linguistics and Comparative Philology from Oxford University, where his research focused on Mandarin sound change and Chinese phonology. He is the author of A Diachronically-Motivated Segmental Phonology of Mandarin Chinese (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), Media Chinese (Taipei: Shita Books, 2005) and numerous scholarly treatises on language and translation. His translations of Chinese prose and poetry have appeared in Renditions (Hong Kong) and The Chinese Pen (Taipei). His current research interests include sound change, language contact, diglossia, standardization, phonological translation, Chinese romanization systems, and the phonological description of Mandarin Chinese varieties.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://naamdharma.blogspot.com/", "date": "2021-06-20T06:56:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487658814.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20210620054240-20210620084240-00418.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9755242466926575, "token_count": 3286, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__206144110", "lang": "en", "text": "During the time of Guru Srimanta Sankaradeva the human society was divided on the basis of caste and creed. Mankind was divided into four varnas (or castes): Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras. Ancient Hindu texts suggest caste system was not rigid. There are examples of men born to families belonging to various castes and later with the help of devotion becoming maharishis. This flexibility permitted lower cast Valmiki who was a Shudra by birth becomes Maharishi and composed the Holy Ramayana. However, with the passes of time, those in the privileged position, for their own selfish motives, made the caste system rigid and then the caste of a person was determined by his birth, not by his occupation. This means that a person’s social status was obligated to which caste they were born into. Although this or other forms of differentiation exist in all human societies, however, it becomes a problem when such narrow minded caste system becomes the sole basis of systematic ranking and unequal access to valued resources like wealth, income, education, power and prestige. The Brahmans, usually priests, were at the top. The next were the Kshatriyas, or political rulers and soldiers. The Kshatriyas were followed by the Vaishyas, or merchants, and the fourth were the Shudras, who were usually laborers, peasants, artisans, craftsman, and servants. There were limits on interaction and behavior of people belonging to one caste with people from another caste.\nThe Priests (Brahmans) and warriors (Kshatriyas) were said to be “better” than or “superior” to the other castes, and in general the Brahmans and Kshatriyas were regarded as united into a ruling class. But although the Brahmans and Kshatriyas together proclaimed to be superior to the commoners, the Brahmans never hesitated to declare their own caste as higher than the Kshatriyas. The Vaishya’s duty was to ensure the community’s prosperity through agriculture, cattle rearing and trade. The Vaishyas were considered inferior to the Brahmins and Kshatriyas and expected to be weak in comparison to their rulers, and were infinitely exploitable and regenerative. These oppressions however, were usually not boycotted because this was presented as a natural state of affairs in the social real. Later, the Shudras took over agriculture and cattle rearing while the Vaishyas became traders and merchants. Then Shudras, who were usually laborers, peasants, artisans, craftsman and servants, were thought to not have any special abilities and were considered only capable of serving as slaves to the upper three class. Shudras enjoyed no rights or privileges, and were not permitted to perform any prayer, read or learn the Vedas or recite the mantras (prayer rituals). They were also not allowed to enter temples and could only serve the upper three castes as a slave, barber, blacksmith or cobbler (Gurjari). The upper castes started to almost exploit the lower castes for their own profit. Financially, the upper castes become richer and the lower castes become poorer day by day.\nAt that time, education and schooling was also reserved only for the upper castes, especially the Brahmins. Moreover, education and schooling was very costly. Thus, at any cost, the commoners could not afford education. Paper was not yet discovered by mankind. People used to write on leaves and on the bark of tree, in Assamese language we call it “hasi pat”. Also the books written in “hasi pat” (bark of tree) were very few in numbers. Books were not easily available even to the educated people. The schools were run by Brahmins. However, in some of the schools like the school of the great Guru Mahendra Kandali, which was located at Rampur (in Nagaon district of Assam, India), the guru admit all the upper caste children. That means, the children belonging to Brahman and Kayastha families. Still education was a dream for the rest of the people. Even if the guru want to offer free education to all, irrespective of their caste and creed, it was still not possible to educate all because the cost of stationery were too high and needed to be incurred by the student. As a result, a majority of the people were illiterate. Education and knowledge (”Gyan”) became limited only to a few number of people. Through education we acquire knowledge. In the life of a man, knowledge is like the Sun. Without knowledge a man becomes ignorant. It is knowledge (“gyan”) that makes us a human. Humanity and morality is lost when people lack knowledge. Even to know God one needs knowledge. So, with majority of the people being illiterate, the knowledge and morality was lost. The people belonging to the lower castes were fooled in the name of religion, in the name of God. People were made to do many wrong things and perform many rituals which were actually designed for the profit of those in a privileged position. The path of righteousness was lost. Thus, the path of enlightenment and the path of realizing the Gracious Almighty were lost. Unity among the people was lost. The people become cruel and unjust. People lacked knowledge and become superstitious. Ultimately, the people were in misery. At such a time, to save the people from being fooled, to put an end to the sufferings of the people, to tie mankind with the thread of unity, for the upliftment of the poor, for the well being of mankind, to protect righteousness, to pave the path of enlightenment, to reveal the true meaning of the Vedas, to insert the supremacy of the Holy Bhagavata Purana and the sacred Srimad Bhagavata Gita, to show the path of Loving Devotion (prema-bhakti), to spread the Holy name and virtue of Lord Krishna, to establish the Bhagavata dharma, the Supreme Lord incarnated as Srimanta Sankaradeva.\nThe world is full of misery. Desire is the root of all miseries. Desire leads to anger, hatred and jealousy, which are all the enemies of one’s own self. Anger is a fire inside us and before this fire could destroy someone else, it would first destroy us. Now, the main question is could anybody give up desire? Answer is “No”. We are human beings and we are always seeking pleasure. Today, (in this Kali age) human beings don’t have any control over their senses. Everybody wants to satisfy their senses at any cost. Human beings are greedy and are full of pride. But some wise man had said that the pride of goodness is the root of evil. One’s pride in intellect prevents absorption of the words of the sastras and saints into the inner faculty. The sole objective of human life is to realize the Supreme and Gracious Lord Krishna, and to make use of this precious human life for the upliftment of one’s own self. God could be realized only and only through devotion. But where there is pride of class, devotion is difficult because devotion is through the self, not through the body. And class and caste belongs to the body and not to the self. So, in such a situation, to end the worldly sufferings, to spread the supreme knowledge among all, the Guru Srimanta Sankaradeva decided to impart the knowledge of the Holly Bhagavata Purana and Srimad Bhagavata Gita. He decided to establish the Bhagavata dharma.\nIn this Kali age, the sinners could get purified only and only through Sravana and Kirttana of the Holy names and virtues of the Supreme Lord Krishna (sravana means listening to the Holy names and virtue of Lord Krishna and Kirttana means singing/reading the same). Hari’s name is the greatest friend of man. Whoever utters the same, surely his seven deeds are performed. Now, let us take note of these seven deeds:\n- First, Hari’s name burns up all the sins\n- It creates virtue in great abundance,\n- It makes one detached from earthly matters,\n- It helps attain loving devotion at Krishna’s Lotus Feet,\n- It helps attain supreme Vaishnavite wisdom,\n- It leads to the burning of all illusions,\n- Finally, with supremely conscious and blissful Hari’s image, Hari’s name would unite the devotee in the final stage.\nThe person who sings Hari’s name surely gets salvation, being free from other offences.\nThe people in the Kali age would indulge in sins. And since the people would be very sinful they have no right over anything. Except Hari’s name, there is no other means that could rescue the people and end their sufferings. Hari’s name is the sole rescue. In the path of devotion (bhakti), one need not have to be a deva, dvija, a sage, one need not have to be of a pure mind and heart, one need not have to perform any sacrifice, penance or ritual, Hari is satisfied only and only in loving devotion. Hari is the father of all, He is all merciful, God Supreme. Even the most sinful and degenerate person gets redeemed from all the sins if he takes refuge at Hari’s feet.\nIn Satya, Treta, and Dwapara age, the people had to make a lot of effort to get the meditation, sacrificial ceremonies and worship done. And to perform these one requires a lot of virtue, patience, hard work, purity of heart and mind, wealth and so on. However, even if they get these rituals done, they rarely get the opportunity to become a devotee of Supreme Lord Hari. Also, the result of all such performance was only heavenly pleasure, wealth and prosperity, which were all perishable. Even if one attains the heaven, there too their fear and misery doesn’t end. Thus, we could say that there was no end to misery. There was no way to attain salvation; there was no way to attain the Gracious Lord Krishna. Today, although Kali age is the epitome of all evil, becoming a devotee of Krishna become very easy and simple, and Sravana and Kirttana alone makes a person a devotee of Lord Almighty Krishna. Thus, by chanting and listening to the Holy name of Hari one could realize one’s own self and serving the illusory ties one gets identified with Hari. Chanting the Holy name alone helps one cross the world.\nTo impart the supreme knowledge and to end the miseries of the sinful man, the Guru, Srimanta Sankaradeva faced a lot of hardship. The difficulties faced by the Guru while working for the well being of mankind and the upliftment of the downtrodden and deprived sections of the society could not be expressed in words. To rescue the people from their worldly sufferings and to pave the path of enlightenment, to pave the path of salvation, and to establish the great Bhagavata Dharma, the Guru needs to inspire loving devotion (bhakti) at the Lotus Feet of Sri Hari, and to achieve this He need to impart the teachings of the Holy Bhagavata Purana and Srimad Bhagavata Gita to the people. Now, one of the major challenges was the illiteracy rate in the society. A majority of the people were illiterate. Another problem was that the sastras were available only in the Sanskrit language. Sanskrit was not a spoken language. It was used only by the Brahmins and the literate people like the Kayasthas. For the rest of the people, Sanskrit was a language of the Devas. So, the sastras must have to be translated into a language understood by the common people. After translating the sastras, the teachings must have to be narrated to the people. Moreover, the copies of the sastras were very few in number and were not easily available. Thus, it was not an easy task to impart the divine knowledge to the messes when the people were mostly illiterate, poor and busy in earning two meals a day. To impart the supreme knowledge from the Holy Srimad Bhagavata Purana and Srimad Bhagavata Gita equally to all the sections of the society the Guru translated the sastras in Sanskrit into a language understood by the common people and authored many sacred books, and wrote many songs and dramas. Since the people were mostly illiterate, the Guru composed songs from the lessons of the Holy Bhagavata Purana and Srimad Bhagavata Gita and sang the same in a melodious voice, so that the people could listen to the songs, enjoy the songs and most importantly, gain the knowledge from the songs. The Guru also wrote many dramas like the “ankia-nat” and these dramas too contain the lessons of the Holy Bhagavata Purana. Thus, the teachings from the holy sastras were presented in a very artistic way to the people in an easily accessible, immediate, and enjoyable manner. And the Guru, Srimanta Sankaradeva spread the Holy name and virtues of Lord Almighty Krishna and the supreme knowledge of the Holy Srimad Bhagavata Purana and Srimad Bhagavata Gita among the messes. The knowledge which was not easily available even to the Devas and Maharishis in the Satya age was now available to all. With the blessings of Guru Srimanta Sankara, that supreme knowledge which Lord Sri Krishna imparted to Arjuna in the battle of Kurukshetra, was made known to all. It was the knowledge supreme, knowing which one could easily and very quickly get rid of all the worldly sufferings, attain perpetual bliss, and get salvation. It fulfills all the desires. This knowledge leads to the realization of Sri Hari. Knowing this knowledge one gets freedom from the circle of birth and death and departs to Vaikuntha (the supreme abode of Lord Krishna). The Knowledge and the sastras, which were earlier confined only to the upper castes and the learned people, were now available to all, even to the illiterate people.\nThe Guru Srimanta Sankaradeva imparted the Supreme knowledge to all. He tied the society with the thread of brotherhood and unity, and spread the message of love, devotion and compassion. He established equality among the people. He burnt like a lamp of knowledge and dispelled the darkness born of ignorance. He was an incarnation of Lord Sri Krishna. However, instead of calling him God we call Him “The Guru” because He came in the form of a guru, and only with the blessings of the guru one could gain knowledge, and attain Sri Hari.\n\"Srimanta Sankara Hari Bhakatara\nJānā yena kalpataru\nTāhānta bināi nāi nāi nāi\nĀmāra parama Guru .\" 375(Naam Ghukha)\nKnow ye that Srimanta Sankaradeva is like the wish-yielding tree (kalpataru) of all the devotees of Hari. Be triple sure that there is no (other) Guru than Sankaradeva himself.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.alancommittie.co.za/post/ai1ec_event/rosencrantz-and-guildenstern-are-dead?instance_id=", "date": "2019-10-16T20:21:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986669546.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20191016190431-20191016213931-00084.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9413020014762878, "token_count": 489, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__42491957", "lang": "en", "text": "Alan Committie, in association with The Little Theatre and the UCT Drama Department will present Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Tom Stoppard’s masterful comedy and theatre classic.\nStoppard, an Academy Award winning author who wrote the film Shakespeare in Love and many other great plays and films, captivated audiences with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, a play that is the inverse of Hamlet and where the title characters are the leads instead of being minor players, with Hamlet himself only playing a small part.\nThe production concerns two of Hamlet’s friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, and follows their misadventures, musings and actions as the events of Shakespeare’s Hamlet occur in the background. In the production, the duo appears onstage when they are off-stage in the Bard’s play, with the exception of a few short scenes in which the dramatic events of both plays coincide. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead thus explores the comic journey of two amusing characters as they find themselves trapped within the world of Hamlet the play, destined to die and having to confront their fate.\nHeading the supporting cast of senior UCT drama students are three professional and highly acclaimed actors, namely Alan Committie (Cape Town comic and alter-ego of Johan van der Walt from MNet’s Laugh Out Loud) as Rosencrantz, Rob Van Vuuren (Twakkie from the SABC comedy hit The Most Amazing Show) as Guildenstern and Neville Thomas (CAPAB actor, UCT alumni and the comic face – and force – behind the Tempest car hire adverts) as the Player King.\nRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead was preceded at each performance by a 12 and-a-half minute version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The presentation was fast, funny and frenetic, making it an ideal way to educate and entertain learners and remind us all of what occurred in the original text.\nRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead had a limited run from April 21st to May 5th 2007.\nWritten by Tom Stoppard\nDirected by Christopher Weare\nStarring Alan Committie, Rob van Vuuren and Neville Thomas", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://burncalorieswhileyousleep.com/", "date": "2017-11-22T02:04:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806447.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122012409-20171122032409-00249.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.955081045627594, "token_count": 442, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__23110394", "lang": "en", "text": "The obesity epidemic is here. More and more adults are becoming overweight and diabetic every day. The problems related to overeating and under-metabolizing what we eat are enormous.\nHi, I’m Dr Tim Fischell, Author of “Burn Calories While You Sleep”. Like most middle aged adults, when I entered my 40’s, I began to experience weight gain and loss of fitness, despite my usual efforts to “exercise.”\nWith this new approach to working out, and the adoption of some new common sense “rules” for eating, I was able to lose substantial weight, getting back to my high school graduation weight, but twice as strong, at age 56.\nRe-ignite your Metabolism\n“Burn Calories While You Sleep” is one of the first books that asks, and answers the question, “Why do we lose metabolic activity as we get older?”\nThis is a common sense book. The main focus of this book is to provide a set of rules or guidelines that can be imprinted in your brain to allow you to efficiently, become fit, healthy, energized, and feeling young.\nIn this book you will learn:\n- Why we tend to gain weight as we get older,\n- How to reverse this\n- How to change your metabolic rate\n- How to literally “burn calories while you sleep.”\nOnce you have achieved your weight and fitness goals, the maintenance phase of this program allows one to maintain this high level of fitness while working out for only 35-40 minutes twice a week (plus some other tips and tricks that take little or no time out of your day).\nLearn Why Walking on a treadmill will not solve your weight problem\nYou will realize why fad diets and fad exercising do not work. You will also learn other incredible and simple pearls and tips about raising healthy and fit children, living longer, and staying young as you age. This book will provide a concise outline to achieve a healthier and more youthful future for you and your children. It is teachable, learnable and sustainable!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.neryom.net/w", "date": "2023-06-01T01:55:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647525.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601010402-20230601040402-00346.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9248726963996887, "token_count": 2110, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__99670558", "lang": "en", "text": "Stem Cells Treatment\nWhat is Stem Cell Therapy?\nStem cell therapy is a non-invasive treatment that aims to replace damaged cells within the body. Mesenchymal stem cell therapy can be deployed systemically via IV or injected locally to target specific sites, depending on patient needs.\nWhat is stem cell therapy?\nStem cell therapy is a form of regenerative medicine designed to repair damaged cells within the body by reducing inflammation and modulating the immune system. This phenomenon makes stem cell therapy a viable treatment option for a variety of medical conditions. Stem cell therapies have been used to treat autoimmune, inflammatory, neurological, orthopedic conditions and traumatic injuries with studies conducted on use for Crohn's disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, COPD, Parkinson's, ALS, Stroke recovery and more.\nWhile stem cell therapy does not necessarily provide a cure for these conditions, the premise is to allow the body to heal itself well enough to mitigate the symptoms of the conditions for long periods. In many cases, this effect can substantially increase the quality of life for patients as well as delay disease progression.\nWhere do stem cells come from?\nStem cells can be obtained from many different sources. These include adipose (fat tissue), umbilical cord tissue, placental tissue, umbilical cord blood, or bone marrow.\nHow are stem cells administered?\nStem cells can be administered in a variety of fashions; IV Stem Cell Therapy (Intravenous administration), Intrathecal (directly into the spinal canal), Site injections into problem areas (Knee, hips, hands, etc.)\nHow does stem cell therapy work?\nMesenchymal stem cells utilize their self-renewal, immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, signaling, and differentiation properties to influence positive change within the body. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) also have the capacity to self-renew by dividing and developing into multiple specialized cell types present in a specific tissue or organ. Mesenchymal stem cells are adult stem cells, meaning they present no ethical concerns, MSCs are not sourced from embryonic material.\n\"The characteristics of presenting no major ethical concerns, having low immunogenicity, and possessing immune modulation functions make MSCs promising candidates for stem cell therapies.\" - Jiang, et al. (10)\nStem cells target inflammation\nThe therapeutic uses of stem cells as a potential therapy for a variety of diseases has been immensely explored, the number of clinical trials conducted with Mesenchymal Stem Cells has increased exponentially over the past few years.\nStem cells have a unique, intrinsic property that attracts them to inflammation in the body. Studies have shown that stem cells can regenerate damaged or diseased tissues, reduce inflammation and modulate the immune system promoting better health and quality of life. Mesenchymal stem cells do this by influencing tissue repair via paracrine effects (cell signaling in order to change the behaviour of existing cells) or direct cell-to-cell contact.\n\"MSCs are able to migrate and seed specifically into damaged tissue sites, where they can differentiate into functional cells to replace damaged or diseased cells\"\nPictured: Diagram showing the processes of MSCs and how they reduce inflammation within the body.\nA recent study conducted by Mao F. et al. found that Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) facilitate tissue regeneration through mechanisms involving self-renewal and differentiation, supporting angiogenesis and tissue cell survival, and limiting inflammation.\"\nWhat are stem cells?\nStem cells are the body's raw materials — cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are created. Mesenchymal stem cells are adult stem cells that have self-renewal, immunomodulatory, anti-inflammatory, signaling, and differentiation properties. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), self renewal capacity is characterized by their ability to divide and develop into multiple specialized cell types present in a specific tissue or organ.\nMesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) can be sourced from a variety of tissue including adipose tissue (fat), bone marrow, umbilical cord tissue, blood, liver, dental pulp, and skin.\nMSCs are widely used in the treatment of various diseases due to their self-renewable, differentiation, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties. In-vitro (performed in a laboratory setting) and in-vivo (taking place in a living organism) studies have supported the understanding mechanisms, safety, and efficacy of MSC therapy in clinical applications.\nAccording to Biehl et al., “The two defining characteristics of a stem cell are perpetual self-renewal and the ability to differentiate into a specialized adult cell type.”\nMesenchymal stem cells have the ability to turn into new types of cells\nA stem cell can become many different cell types in the human body. The process of stem cells maturing into new types of cells is called differentiation. This process is the most critical aspect of stem cell therapies, as the cells become the type of cells required for one’s body to heal.\nStem cells are also self-replicating; this ability allows the cells to multiply into identical copies of themselves. For example, if stem cells were used to treat a neurological injury, cells administered during treatment could become nerve cells, and then replicate to create exponentially more nerve cells on their own. This ability to duplicate drastically increases the effectiveness of stem cell treatments over time.\nDifferentiation (becoming new types of cells)\nMesenchymal stem cells are multipotent stem cells that can self-renew and differentiate into different cell types. In other words, mesenchymal stem cells can become a variety of different cell types including; adipose tissue, cartilage, muscle, tendon/ligament, bone, neurons, and hepatocytes (8)\nAccording to a 2016 study conducted by Almalki et al. - \"The differentiation of MSCs into specific mature cell types is controlled by various cytokines, growth factors, extracellular matrix molecules, and transcription factors (TFs). (8)\nMesenchymal stem cells contribute to tissue regeneration and differentiation, including the maintenance of homeostasis and function, adaptation to altered metabolic or environmental requirements, and the repair of damaged tissue. (9)\nStem cells age as we do\nStem cell numbers and effectiveness begin to decrease as we age exponentially. For example, stem cells from a person in their twenties are not nearly as high quality as the brand new cells sourced from umbilical cord tissue.\nHow is stem cell therapy utilized?\nStem cell therapy may be able to treat orthopaedic, inflammatory, autoimmune and neurological conditions, with studies conducted on use for Crohn’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus, COPD, Parkinson’s, ALS, Stroke recovery and more.\nStem cells do not necessarily provide a cure for these conditions. The premise is allowing the body to heal itself well enough to mitigate the symptoms of the conditions for long periods. In many cases, this alone allows for a substantial increase in quality of life for patients.\nWill the body reject stem cells?\nCord-tissue derived mesenchymal stem cells do not have any risk of rejection within the body. They are youthful, immune-privileged, undifferentiated cells that have no rejection in the body because they have yet to be “claimed.”\nThere are no blood products associated with them either, removing the need for a donor match; they are universally accepted. These cells seek out inflammation in the body and begin to heal the damaged tissue. Mesenchymal cord tissue-derived stem cells have been administered thousands of times at clinics around the world without instances of rejection (graft vs. host disease).\nWhy use umbilical cord tissue?\nCord tissue is rich in mesenchymal stem cells, potentially used to help heal, regenerate & treat a variety of conditions. Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) derived from umbilical cord tissue have shown the ability to avoid a negative response from a person’s immune system, allowing the cells to be transplanted in a wide range of people without fear of rejection. These transplants may have the ability to vastly increase the body’s natural healing abilities and have robust anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive responses. For an in depth comparison about different cell types please review this article.\nLet’s Work Together\nColon Hydrotherapy is a preventive therapy that helps eliminate toxins, adhesions and hormonal residues that the body takes to discard, helping to improve intestinal transit and activating\nthe circulatory system.\nAt the Nery Om clinic, colon hydrotherapy is naturopathic, which is why it is accepted to work with people who have diverticula or hemorrhoids or have chronic constipation without this representing a painful or dangerous therapy, in addition to accompanying it with therapies that activate circulation. thus helping to a good release of toxic adhesions.\nBenefits of colon hydrotherapy\n• Strengthens the immune system\n• Improves metabolism and helps in the absorption of nutrients\n• Helps with weight loss by removing toxic buildup\n• You can lose between 2 and 4 kilos of waste after the 1st session.\n• Pressure on the abdominal organs is relieved, reducing pain and discomfort in this area.\n• Increase blood flow from the lower extremities and pelvic region.\n• Improves circulation and digestive problems, without the help of prescribed medications.\n• Tones the abdomen\n• Maximizes the functions of the large intestine, lymph and nervous system\n• Eliminates parasites / worms\n• It can act as a preventive measure against cancer, especially colon cancer.\n• Improves mental clarity and rejuvenation by removing toxic material, which causes premature aging.\n• Loss of volume and lightness of weight in thick people and weight gain in thin people due to a better assimilation of nutrients.\n• Prevention of infectious diseases by improving the immune system.\n• Decrease in cholesterol and triglyceride levels.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sahararose.com/blogs/news/is-it-ok-to-put-seed-oils-on-your-skin", "date": "2024-04-13T20:16:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816832.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413180040-20240413210040-00322.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8807867169380188, "token_count": 1023, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__109576732", "lang": "en", "text": "Seed oils have long been cherished for their potential to nourish and rejuvenate the skin, but questions often arise about their safety and efficacy. Are seed oils safe for all skin types? Can they actually improve skin health? In this scientifically backed blog post, we'll delve into the research to answer the question: Is it OK to put seed oils on your skin? Moreover, we'll explore the non-comedogenic properties of select seed oils used in Sahara Rose skincare products, including argan oil, jojoba oil, date oil, and prickly pear seed oil.\nUnderstanding Seed Oils and Their Benefits\nSeed oils, derived from the seeds of various plants, are rich in essential fatty acids, vitamins, antioxidants, and other bioactive compounds that can benefit the skin. These oils have been traditionally used in skincare for their moisturizing, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties. However, concerns have been raised about the potential for certain seed oils to clog pores and cause breakouts, particularly in individuals with oily or acne-prone skin.\nNon-Comedogenic Seed Oils: Argan, Jojoba, Date, and Prickly Pear Seed Oils\nAt Sahara Rose, we prioritize the use of non-comedogenic seed oils in our skincare formulations to ensure optimal safety and efficacy for all skin types. Let's explore the scientific evidence supporting the non-comedogenic nature of the seed oils we use:\n- Argan Oil: Extracted from the kernels of the argan tree (Argania spinosa), argan oil is prized for its moisturizing and anti-aging properties. Research published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology has demonstrated the non-comedogenic nature of argan oil, making it suitable for use on acne-prone and sensitive skin.\nReference: Khallouki F, Younos C, Soulimani R, Oster T, Charrouf Z, Spiegelhalder B, Bartsch H, Owen RW. Consumption of argan oil (Morocco) with its unique profile of fatty acids, tocopherols, squalene, sterols and phenolic compounds should confer valuable cancer chemopreventive effects. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2003 Aug;12(4):367-75. doi: 10.1097/00008469-200308000-00015. PMID: 12883313.\n- Jojoba Oil: Derived from the seeds of the jojoba plant (Simmondsia chinensis), jojoba oil closely resembles the natural sebum produced by our skin. Studies have shown that jojoba oil is non-comedogenic and unlikely to cause breakouts, making it suitable for all skin types, including acne-prone skin.\nReference: Meier L, Stange R, Michalsen A, Uehleke B. Clay jojoba oil facial mask for lesioned skin and mild acne--results of a prospective, observational pilot study. Forsch Komplementmed. 2012;19(2):75-9. doi: 10.1159/000338076. Epub 2012 Apr 19. PMID: 22585103.\nDate Oil: Date oil, extracted from the seeds of the date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), is rich in vitamins, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids. While specific studies on the comedogenicity of date oil are limited, its lightweight texture and non-greasy feel suggest that it is unlikely to clog pores or cause acne breakouts.\nPrickly Pear Seed Oil: Prickly pear seed oil, also known as cactus seed oil or Barbary fig seed oil, is obtained from the seeds of the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica). Research published in the journal Pharmacognosy Reviews has highlighted the non-comedogenic properties of prickly pear seed oil, making it suitable for use on oily and acne-prone skin.\nReference: Benslimane A, et al. Opuntia ficus indica (L.) Mill.: A Promising Source of Bioactive Compounds for Nutraceutical and Cosmeceutical Purposes. Review. Plant Foods Hum Nutr. 2021. doi:10.1007/s11130-021-00927-3\nIn conclusion, the use of seed oils on the skin is supported by scientific evidence highlighting their moisturizing, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties. When selecting seed oils for skincare, it's essential to choose non-comedogenic options that are unlikely to clog pores or cause breakouts. At Sahara Rose, we stand by the efficacy and safety of our skincare products formulated with non-comedogenic seed oils, including argan oil, jojoba oil, date oil, and prickly pear seed oil. Embrace the beauty of nature and experience the transformative benefits of seed oils for radiant, healthy skin.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://swingtalks.com/best-golf-books/", "date": "2024-04-20T03:21:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817474.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420025340-20240420055340-00602.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9272536635398865, "token_count": 8817, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__108613309", "lang": "en", "text": "Explore the best golf books that cover the history of golf literature, classic books, instructional guides, biographies, fictional novels, mental game and psychology, golf history and trivia, coffee table books, , humor books, and stunning golf photography. Find the perfect read for every golfer.\nHistory of Golf Literature\nGolf literature has a rich history that spans centuries, with early writings providing insights into the origins of the game and its evolution over time. From the earliest mentions of golf in literature to the modern instructional books and biographies of famous golfers, the world of golf literature has grown and evolved alongside the game itself.\nEarly Golf Literature\nThe origins of golf literature can be traced back to the 16th century, when the game was first documented in written form. One of the earliest mentions of golf can be found in a 1552 Scottish Act of Parliament, which banned the playing of golf in an effort to promote archery. This early documentation provides evidence of the game’s popularity and its presence in Scottish society.\nAs golf gained popularity in Scotland, more written works began to emerge. One notable example is “The Goff,” a poem written by Thomas Mathison in 1743. The poem describes a fictional golf match and captures the spirit of the game during that time period. Another early work is “The Golfer’s Manual,” published in 1857 by Robert Clark. This instructional book provided guidance on the rules and techniques of the game, giving readers a glimpse into the early days of golf.\nEvolution of Golf Books\nAs golf continued to grow in popularity, so did the demand for literature about the game. The evolution of golf books can be seen in the shift from early instructional texts to more comprehensive and specialized works.\nIn the early 20th century, instructional golf books began to focus on the fundamentals of the game. One notable example is “The Little Green Book of Golf Wisdom” by Harvey Penick. This book, published in 1992, offers practical advice and insights from one of the most respected golf instructors of his time. It became an instant classic and remains a popular choice for golfers looking to improve their game.\nAnother influential instructional book is “Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf.” Published in 1957, this book by legendary golfer Ben Hogan offers valuable insights into the mechanics of the swing and provides a comprehensive guide to mastering the game. It continues to be a staple in the libraries of golfers of all skill levels.\nIn addition to instructional books, golf literature expanded to include biographies of famous golfers. These books offer readers a glimpse into the lives and careers of golf’s greatest players. “Arnold Palmer: A Life Well Played,” written by Arnold Palmer himself in collaboration with James Dodson, provides a firsthand account of Palmer’s journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of golf’s most beloved figures. Similarly, “Tiger Woods” by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian offers an in-depth look at the rise, fall, and redemption of one of the game’s most controversial and influential players.\nThe world of golf literature also includes fictional novels centered around the game. “The Legend of Bagger Vance” by Steven Pressfield is a captivating story that intertwines golf with themes of spirituality and self-discovery. Another popular fictional golf novel is “Dead Solid Perfect” by Dan Jenkins, which provides a humorous and satirical depiction of the professional golf world.\nAs the mental aspect of golf gained recognition, books focusing on the mental game and psychology of golf became increasingly popular. “Golf is a Game of Confidence” by Dr. Bob Rotella is a highly regarded book that explores the importance of mental preparation and confidence in achieving success on the golf course. “Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game” by Dr. Joseph Parent combines Eastern philosophy with practical golf advice, offering readers a unique approach to improving their mental game.\nGolf history and trivia books also play a significant role in the world of golf literature. “The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told” edited by Jeff Silverman is a collection of captivating stories from golf’s rich history, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the game’s traditions and legends. “The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus” by Joe Posnanski delves into the iconic rivalry between two of golf’s greatest players, offering insights into their personal lives and the competitive spirit that drove them to greatness.\nIn addition to instructional and historical books, there are also coffee table books that showcase the beauty of golf courses and the history of the game. “100 Years of Golf in America” by George Peper and the Editors of Golf Magazine is a visually stunning book that takes readers on a journey through a century of American golf. “Golf Courses: Fairways of the World” by David Cannon features breathtaking photographs of golf courses from around the globe, allowing readers to appreciate the artistry and design of these remarkable venues.\nThe world of golf literature is not limited to men’s golf, as there are also books that focus specifically on women’s golf. “The Ladies’ Golf Union: A Centenary History” by Audrey Whiting provides a comprehensive account of the development of women’s golf and the contributions of female golfers to the sport. “Breaking the Mold: Redefining Women’s Golf” by Annika Sorenstam offers a firsthand perspective from one of the most successful female golfers in history, breaking down barriers and inspiring future generations of women in golf.\nFor those looking for a lighthearted read, golf humor books offer an entertaining escape. “Golf in the Kingdom” by Michael Murphy is a whimsical novel that explores the mystical side of golf, blending philosophy and spirituality with the game. “Tales from Q School: Inside Golf’s Fifth Major” by John Feinstein provides a behind-the-scenes look at the intense qualifying process for professional golf, offering humorous and insightful anecdotes from the players’ perspective.\nLast but not least, golf photography books capture the beauty and artistry of the game. “Golf Courses: Great Britain and Ireland” by David Cannon showcases stunning photographs of some of the most iconic golf courses in the British Isles. “Golf: The Art of the Mental Game” by Dr. Joseph Parent combines striking images with inspirational quotes, creating a visually captivating book that speaks to the soul of every golfer.\nHistory of Golf Literature |\nEarly Golf Literature |\nEvolution of Golf Books |\nClassic Golf Books\n“The Little Green Book of Golf Wisdom”\nGolf is a sport that not only requires physical skill and technique, but also mental fortitude and strategic thinking. And when it comes to classic golf books that delve into the wisdom and insights of the game, “The Little Green Book of Golf Wisdom” is a must-read.\nWritten by Dr. Joseph Parent, a renowned sports psychologist, this book offers a unique perspective on the mental aspect of golf. Dr. Parent takes readers on a journey of self-discovery and provides invaluable advice on how to improve their game by mastering their mind.\nIn a conversational and engaging style, Dr. Parent shares anecdotes, personal experiences, and practical tips that are applicable to golfers of all levels. He emphasizes the importance of focus, visualization, and staying present in the moment. By incorporating these mental strategies, golfers can enhance their performance on the course and overcome the challenges that inevitably arise.\nOne of the key takeaways from “The Little Green Book of Golf Wisdom” is the concept of “non-judgmental awareness.” Dr. Parent encourages golfers to observe their thoughts and emotions without attaching any judgment or negativity to them. This practice helps players maintain a calm and composed state of mind, even in high-pressure situations.\nAnother valuable lesson from this book is the power of acceptance. Dr. Parent reminds golfers that they cannot control external factors such as weather conditions or the actions of other players. Instead of getting frustrated or angry, he advises golfers to accept these circumstances and focus on what they can control – their own thoughts, actions, and attitude.\n“The Little Green Book of Golf Wisdom” also explores the importance of balance in life and on the course. Dr. Parent suggests that finding harmony between work, family, and golf is essential for overall well-being and improved performance. He encourages golfers to prioritize self-care and maintain a positive mindset both on and off the course.\nOverall, this classic golf book offers a wealth of practical advice and insights that can benefit golfers at any skill level. Whether you’re a beginner looking to improve your swing or a seasoned player aiming to enhance your mental game, “The Little Green Book of Golf Wisdom” is a valuable resource that will guide you towards success.\n“Ben Hogan’s Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”\nWhen it comes to classic golf books, one name that stands out is Ben Hogan. Considered one of the greatest golfers of all time, Hogan’s book, “Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf,” is a timeless masterpiece that continues to inspire and educate golfers to this day.\nIn this iconic book, Hogan shares his insights and techniques that propelled him to become a dominant force in the world of golf. He breaks down the fundamentals of the game into five key lessons: the grip, stance, posture, swing, and the position of the clubface. Hogan’s attention to detail and meticulous approach to the game make this book a comprehensive guide for golfers looking to refine their skills.\n“The Modern Fundamentals of Golf” is written in a conversational style, as if Hogan himself is personally coaching the reader. He explains each lesson in a clear and concise manner, using analogies and metaphors to simplify complex concepts. Hogan’s emphasis on precision and consistency resonates throughout the book, emphasizing the importance of practice and dedication to mastering the fundamentals.\nOne of the standout features of Hogan’s book is the detailed illustrations that accompany each lesson. These visual aids provide a visual representation of the techniques and positions Hogan describes, making it easier for readers to understand and apply them to their own game.\nMoreover, Hogan’s book goes beyond the technical aspects of golf. He also delves into the mental aspect of the game, highlighting the importance of focus, determination, and self-belief. Hogan’s own perseverance and resilience in overcoming a near-fatal car accident serve as a powerful example of the mental fortitude required to excel in golf.\n“Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf” is not just a book for golf enthusiasts; it’s a timeless piece of literature that transcends generations. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced golfer, Hogan’s teachings and insights will undoubtedly have a profound impact on your game.\nInstructional Golf Books\nWhen it comes to improving your golf game, instructional golf books can be a valuable resource. They provide insights and advice from experienced golfers and coaches, helping you develop your skills and reach your full potential on the course. In this section, we will explore two highly acclaimed instructional golf books: “Golf is Not a Game of Perfect” and “Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book”.\n“Golf is Not a Game of Perfect”\nWritten by Dr. Bob Rotella, a renowned sports psychologist, “Golf is Not a Game of Perfect” delves into the mental aspect of golf. Rotella emphasizes that golf is not just a physical game but also a mental one. He argues that the key to success lies in mastering the mental challenges that golf presents.\nIn this book, Rotella shares valuable insights and techniques to help golfers overcome mental obstacles and improve their performance. He discusses the importance of focusing on the process rather than the outcome, managing emotions on the course, and developing a positive mindset. Rotella’s advice is not only applicable to professional golfers but also to amateurs looking to enhance their mental game.\nSome of the key takeaways from “Golf is Not a Game of Perfect” include:\n- Visualization: Rotella emphasizes the power of visualization in golf. By visualizing successful shots and positive outcomes, golfers can build confidence and improve their performance.\n- Pre-shot Routine: The book highlights the significance of a consistent pre-shot routine. Having a routine helps golfers stay focused and calm, ensuring that they approach each shot with the right mindset.\n- Managing Pressure: Rotella provides strategies for handling pressure situations on the course. He encourages golfers to embrace pressure and view it as an opportunity to perform their best.\n“Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book”\n“Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book” is a classic instructional golf book written by renowned golf coach Harvey Penick. This book stands the test of time and continues to be a favorite among golfers of all skill levels.\nPenick shares his wisdom and insights gained from coaching some of the greatest golfers in history. His book is filled with practical advice and anecdotes that make it an engaging and enjoyable read. Penick’s writing style is conversational, making the reader feel as if they are receiving advice directly from a trusted mentor.\nSome of the valuable lessons found in “Harvey Penick’s Little Red Book” include:\n- The Basics: Penick emphasizes the importance of mastering the fundamentals of golf. He covers essential topics such as grip, stance, and posture, providing clear explanations and helpful tips.\n- Course Management: Penick discusses the strategic aspect of golf and offers insights on how to make smart decisions on the course. He encourages golfers to play within their capabilities and make choices that maximize their chances of success.\n- Lifelong Learning: One of the key messages in Penick’s book is the importance of continuous learning and improvement. He encourages golfers to embrace a growth mindset and always strive to refine their skills.\nBiographies of Golfers\nGolf has a rich history filled with legendary players who have left an indelible mark on the sport. Biographies offer a fascinating glimpse into the lives and careers of these golfing icons, providing insights into their journey to greatness and the challenges they faced along the way. In this section, we explore two captivating biographies that delve deep into the lives of two golfing legends: Arnold Palmer and Tiger Woods.\n“Arnold Palmer: A Life Well Played”\nArnold Palmer, often referred to as “The King,” is widely regarded as one of the greatest golfers of all time. His impact on the sport extends far beyond his remarkable playing career. In the biography, “Arnold Palmer: A Life Well Played,” written by Palmer himself, we get a firsthand account of his extraordinary journey.\nPalmer’s story begins in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where his love for golf first blossomed. From a young age, he showed immense talent and a relentless drive to succeed. As Palmer recounts his rise to stardom, readers are treated to a behind-the-scenes look at his triumphs and struggles, both on and off the course.\nThis biography offers a comprehensive view of Palmer’s life, not just as a golfer but also as a philanthropist, businessman, and family man. Through his own words, we gain valuable insights into his mindset, his approach to the game, and the values that guided him throughout his life.\nWhether you’re a devoted golf fan or simply intrigued by the life of a true sporting legend, “Arnold Palmer: A Life Well Played” is a must-read. It captures the essence of a man who not only revolutionized the game of golf but also left an indelible mark on the world.\n“Tiger Woods” by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian\nTiger Woods is undeniably one of the most influential and controversial figures in the history of golf. His meteoric rise to fame, followed by a stunning fall from grace, has captivated the world for decades. In the biography “Tiger Woods” by Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian, we delve deep into the complex and enigmatic life of this golfing prodigy.\nThis meticulously researched biography offers a comprehensive exploration of Woods’ life, from his early childhood to his record-breaking triumphs on the golf course. Benedict and Keteyian leave no stone unturned as they navigate through Woods’ personal and professional highs and lows.\nThe biography provides a nuanced understanding of Woods’ upbringing, his relationship with his parents, and the immense pressure he faced from a young age. It also delves into the media scrutiny, the scandals, and the subsequent redemption that followed.\nWhat sets this biography apart is its ability to paint a multifaceted portrait of Woods. It doesn’t shy away from the controversies but also acknowledges his undeniable impact on the game of golf. Readers are left with a deeper understanding of the man behind the golfing legend.\n|“Arnold Palmer: A Life Well Played”\n|Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian\nFictional Golf Novels\n“The Legend of Bagger Vance”\n“The Legend of Bagger Vance” is a captivating fictional golf novel written by Steven Pressfield. Set in the 1930s, the story revolves around the character of Rannulph Junuh, a former golf prodigy from Savannah, Georgia. Junuh’s life takes a downturn after serving in World War I, leaving him disillusioned and detached from his passion for golf.\nThe novel takes an interesting turn when Junuh is invited to participate in a high-stakes golf match against two golf legends, Bobby Jones and Walter Hagen. On the brink of losing hope, Junuh receives mystical guidance from his caddie, Bagger Vance. Bagger Vance, a mysterious and wise caddie, helps Junuh rediscover his love for the game and regain his confidence.\nPressfield’s writing beautifully captures the essence of the game of golf and its profound impact on Junuh’s life. Through his descriptive and vivid storytelling, readers are transported to the fairways of the Savannah Golf Club, where the match unfolds amidst the backdrop of the Great Depression. The novel explores themes of redemption, self-discovery, and the power of perseverance.\n“The Legend of Bagger Vance” not only delves into the intricacies of the game but also delves into the psychological and spiritual aspects of golf. It emphasizes the importance of self-belief, focus, and maintaining a calm mind in the face of challenges. The book leaves readers with a sense of inspiration and a renewed appreciation for the sport.\n“Dead Solid Perfect”\nAnother captivating fictional golf novel that deserves mention is “Dead Solid Perfect” by Dan Jenkins. Known for his wit and humor, Jenkins brings his unique writing style to the forefront in this entertaining golf novel.\nThe story revolves around the character of Kenny Lee Puckett, a professional golfer on the PGA Tour. Puckett is a talented golfer who dreams of achieving greatness, but his journey is far from smooth sailing. Jenkins takes readers on a rollercoaster ride through Puckett’s career, showcasing the highs and lows of professional golf.\nWhat sets “Dead Solid Perfect” apart is its ability to capture the raw and gritty realities of the professional golfing world. Jenkins provides an inside look into the pressure, rivalries, and sacrifices that professional golfers face. The novel explores themes of ambition, love, and the pursuit of excellence.\nJenkins’ witty and humorous writing style adds a delightful layer to the story, making it an enjoyable read for both golf enthusiasts and casual readers. His portrayal of Puckett’s colorful personality and the colorful characters he encounters on the tour adds depth and entertainment to the narrative.\nWhether you’re a golf fanatic or simply enjoy a well-crafted story, “Dead Solid Perfect” offers a delightful escape into the world of professional golf. Jenkins’ ability to blend humor, drama, and golfing expertise creates a truly engaging reading experience.\nMental Game and Psychology Books\nIn the world of golf, mastering the mental game is just as important as honing your physical skills. The right mindset can make all the difference in your performance on the course. That’s why there are numerous books dedicated to helping golfers develop their mental game and improve their overall performance. In this section, we will explore two popular titles that have gained recognition for their valuable insights into the mental aspects of golf.\n“Golf is a Game of Confidence”\nConfidence plays a crucial role in golf. It can make or break a player’s performance on the course. In his book, “Golf is a Game of Confidence,” renowned sports psychologist Dr. Bob Rotella delves into the importance of confidence and shares techniques to develop and maintain it.\nDr. Rotella emphasizes that confidence is not just a feeling; it is a skill that can be cultivated. He believes that golfers of all levels can benefit from building a strong foundation of self-belief. Through his years of experience working with professional golfers, Dr. Rotella provides valuable insights and practical exercises to help readers improve their confidence both on and off the course.\nOne of the key takeaways from “Golf is a Game of Confidence” is the concept of focusing on the process rather than the outcome. Dr. Rotella encourages golfers to trust their abilities and concentrate on executing each shot to the best of their ability, without getting caught up in the final score or the pressure of the moment. By shifting their focus to the present moment and maintaining a positive mindset, golfers can enhance their confidence and ultimately improve their performance.\n“Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game”\nIn “Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game,” author and golf pro Dr. Joseph Parent takes a unique approach to the mental side of golf by incorporating Zen philosophy and mindfulness techniques. The book combines Eastern wisdom with Western golf instruction, offering a fresh perspective on how to improve your mental game.\nDr. Parent believes that golf is not just a physical sport but also a mental and spiritual experience. Through his teachings, he guides readers on a journey to discover the inner calmness and focus necessary for peak performance on the course. By cultivating a Zen mindset, golfers can develop a heightened sense of awareness, resilience, and emotional control.\nOne of the key principles discussed in “Zen Golf” is the power of visualization. Dr. Parent emphasizes the importance of vividly imagining successful shots and creating mental images of desired outcomes. By visualizing success, golfers can enhance their confidence and improve their ability to execute shots under pressure.\nAnother valuable aspect of “Zen Golf” is the emphasis on mindfulness and staying present in the moment. Dr. Parent encourages golfers to let go of past mistakes and future worries, and instead, fully immerse themselves in the present shot. By embracing the present moment and letting go of distractions, golfers can enhance their focus and performance on the course.\nTable: Recommended Mental Game and Psychology Books\n|“Golf is a Game of Confidence”\n|Dr. Bob Rotella\n|“Zen Golf: Mastering the Mental Game”\n|Dr. Joseph Parent\nGolf History and Trivia Books\n“The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told”\nIf you are a golf enthusiast who loves immersing yourself in the rich history and captivating tales of the sport, then “The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told” is a must-read. This book is a treasure trove of fascinating anecdotes, remarkable moments, and legendary characters that have shaped the game of golf throughout the years.\nCurated by a team of passionate golf writers and historians, “The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told” takes you on a journey through time, delving into the captivating narratives that have made golf such a beloved sport. From the iconic triumphs and heart-wrenching defeats to the behind-the-scenes dramas and incredible comebacks, this book brings together a collection of the most captivating stories in golf history.\nWith each turn of the page, you will find yourself transported to the lush fairways of legendary courses, standing alongside golfing greats such as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods. The book beautifully captures the essence of the sport, showcasing the sheer determination, skill, and passion that have made golf a timeless pursuit.\nWhether you are a seasoned golfer or a casual fan, “The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told” offers something for everyone. The stories within this book not only entertain but also provide valuable insights into the evolution of the sport and the characters who have left an indelible mark on golfing history.\n“The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus”\nFew rivalries in the world of golf have captivated fans as much as the enduring battle between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus. In “The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus,” readers are treated to an intimate portrayal of these two golfing legends and the profound impact they have had on the sport.\nThis book delves deep into the lives and careers of Watson and Nicklaus, exploring the intricacies of their rivalry and the profound respect they held for each other. From their early encounters on the course to their epic battles in major championships, the book paints a vivid picture of the intense competition that fueled their greatness.\nBut “The Secret of Golf” goes beyond the fairways and greens. It delves into the personal lives of these two iconic figures, revealing the challenges they faced, the sacrifices they made, and the unwavering dedication that propelled them to the top of the golfing world. Through interviews, anecdotes, and meticulous research, the book offers a captivating glimpse into the minds of these golfing giants.\nAs you turn the pages of “The Secret of Golf,” you will find yourself not only engrossed in the stories of Watson and Nicklaus but also gaining valuable insights into the mental and strategic aspects of the game. The book explores the secrets behind their success, the techniques they employed, and the mindset that allowed them to consistently perform at the highest level.\nWhether you are a fan of Watson, Nicklaus, or simply a lover of the game, “The Secret of Golf” is a riveting read that will leave you with a newfound appreciation for the artistry and complexity of golf. This book is a testament to the enduring legacy of two golfing legends and the indelible mark they have left on the sport.\n- Want to immerse yourself in the captivating narratives of golf history?\n- Curious about the legendary tales that have shaped the sport?\n- Eager to explore the intense rivalry between Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus?\nThen “The Greatest Golf Stories Ever Told” and “The Secret of Golf: The Story of Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus” are the books for you. Delve into the rich tapestry of golfing history, uncover remarkable tales of triumph and defeat, and gain valuable insights into the minds of golf’s greatest champions.\nGolf Coffee Table Books\nIf you’re a golf enthusiast or simply appreciate the beauty and history of the sport, golf coffee table books are a must-have addition to your collection. These visually stunning books not only serve as decorative pieces for your coffee table but also provide a wealth of information and captivating imagery that will transport you to the world of golf. In this section, we will explore two exceptional golf coffee table books: “100 Years of Golf in America” and “Golf Courses: Fairways of the World.”\n“100 Years of Golf in America”\n- Author: John Y. Brown\n- Published: 2020\n“100 Years of Golf in America” is a comprehensive tribute to the rich history of golf in the United States. Authored by John Y. Brown, a renowned golf historian, this book takes readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of the sport over the course of a century.\nIn this captivating book, Brown delves into the early beginnings of golf in America, tracing its roots to the Scottish immigrants who brought the sport to the New World. He explores the growth of golf clubs and the development of iconic golf courses that have become hallowed grounds for golfers around the country.\nThrough vivid storytelling and a treasure trove of historical photographs, “100 Years of Golf in America” brings to life the legends, triumphs, and challenges that have shaped the American golfing landscape. From the rise of legendary players like Bobby Jones and Arnold Palmer to the impact of groundbreaking events like the founding of the PGA Tour, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the sport’s evolution.\nWhether you’re a seasoned golfer or a casual fan, “100 Years of Golf in America” will captivate you with its deep insights and compelling narratives. It’s a true celebration of the sport’s enduring legacy and its profound impact on American culture.\n“Golf Courses: Fairways of the World”\n- Author: Tom Mackenzie\n- Published: 2019\nFor those who appreciate the sheer beauty and diversity of golf courses worldwide, “Golf Courses: Fairways of the World” is a visual feast that will transport you to some of the most stunning golfing destinations on the planet. Authored by renowned golf course architect Tom Mackenzie, this book showcases a curated selection of the world’s most remarkable courses.\nIn “Golf Courses: Fairways of the World,” Mackenzie takes readers on a breathtaking journey across continents, from the rugged links courses of Scotland to the pristine fairways of Hawaii. Each golf course featured in this book is accompanied by striking photography that captures the essence of the landscape and the architectural brilliance of the course design.\nMackenzie’s expertise as a golf course architect shines through as he provides insightful commentary on the unique characteristics and challenges of each course. Whether you’re a golfing aficionado seeking inspiration for your next golfing adventure or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of nature and the artistry of golf course design, this book will not disappoint.\nWith its stunning visuals and informative descriptions, “Golf Courses: Fairways of the World” offers a true escape into the world of golf. It’s a book that will undoubtedly inspire wanderlust and ignite a sense of awe and appreciation for the sport and its breathtaking venues.\nWomen’s Golf Books\n“The Ladies’ Golf Union: A Centenary History”\nWhen it comes to women’s golf, “The Ladies’ Golf Union: A Centenary History” is a must-read. This book takes readers on a journey through the rich history of women’s golf, celebrating the achievements and contributions of female golfers over the past hundred years.\nFrom the early days when women fought for the right to play the sport they loved, to the modern era where female golfers have become some of the most influential figures in the game, this book captures the struggles, triumphs, and remarkable stories of women in golf. It highlights the pioneers who paved the way for future generations, showcasing their determination, resilience, and passion for the game.\nThrough captivating storytelling and thorough research, “The Ladies’ Golf Union: A Centenary History” provides a comprehensive overview of the growth and evolution of women’s golf. It explores the development of women’s golf tournaments, the establishment of women’s golf organizations, and the rise of female golf legends who have left an indelible mark on the sport.\nOne of the book’s strengths lies in its ability to shed light on lesser-known stories and individuals who have made significant contributions to women’s golf. It delves into the lives of unsung heroes, shedding light on their achievements and the barriers they had to overcome in a male-dominated sport.\nThis book also serves as a source of inspiration for aspiring female golfers. It showcases the dedication, skill, and determination required to succeed in the game, reminding readers that gender should never be a barrier to pursuing one’s passion.\nIn addition to its historical narrative, “The Ladies’ Golf Union: A Centenary History” includes stunning visuals, with photographs and illustrations that bring the past to life. The combination of captivating storytelling and visual appeal makes this book a truly immersive experience for readers.\n“Breaking the Mold: Redefining Women’s Golf”\n“Breaking the Mold: Redefining Women’s Golf” is a groundbreaking book that challenges the traditional notions and stereotypes surrounding women’s golf. Written by influential voices in the sport, this book aims to inspire and empower women to break barriers and make their mark in golf.\nThrough a series of personal stories, insightful interviews, and thought-provoking analysis, “Breaking the Mold” explores the unique experiences and challenges faced by women in the golf industry. It addresses issues such as gender inequality, limited opportunities, and societal expectations, while also highlighting the progress that has been made and celebrating the successes of female golfers.\nThis book encourages women to embrace their individuality and pursue their passion for golf without conforming to outdated norms. It emphasizes the importance of self-belief, resilience, and perseverance, showcasing real-life examples of women who have defied expectations and achieved greatness in the sport.\nOne of the key strengths of “Breaking the Mold” is its focus on inclusivity and diversity within women’s golf. It celebrates the accomplishments of women from different backgrounds, cultures, and abilities, highlighting the power of representation and the need for a more inclusive and welcoming golf community.\nThroughout the book, readers are encouraged to challenge the status quo, question societal norms, and strive for change. It serves as a rallying cry for women to come together, support one another, and create a future where women’s golf is truly equal and celebrated.\nWith its engaging and conversational style, “Breaking the Mold” appeals to both avid golf enthusiasts and those new to the sport. It offers a fresh perspective on women’s golf, sparking important conversations and inspiring readers to be agents of change.\nOverall, “The Ladies’ Golf Union: A Centenary History” and “Breaking the Mold: Redefining Women’s Golf” are two essential books for anyone interested in women’s golf. They provide a comprehensive understanding of the history, challenges, and achievements of women in the sport, while also inspiring and empowering readers to be part of the future of .\nGolf Humor Books\nGolf is often seen as a serious and competitive sport, but there is also a lighter side to it that can be found in the pages of golf humor books. These books provide a refreshing break from the intensity of the game and offer a chance to laugh and enjoy the lighter moments that golf brings. In this section, we will explore two popular golf humor books: “Golf in the Kingdom” and “Tales from Q School: Inside Golf’s Fifth Major.”\n“Golf in the Kingdom”\nOne of the most iconic golf humor books of all time is “Golf in the Kingdom” by Michael Murphy. This novel takes readers on a whimsical journey through the mystical side of golf. Set in Scotland, the story follows a young American golfer named Michael who stumbles upon a mysterious golf course and encounters a range of eccentric characters.\nThrough his interactions with these characters, Michael delves into the deeper meaning of the game and discovers that golf is not just about technique and scorecards, but also about self-discovery and spiritual enlightenment. The book combines elements of humor, philosophy, and golf history to create a truly unique reading experience.\n“Tales from Q School: Inside Golf’s Fifth Major”\nFor those who want a behind-the-scenes look at the world of professional golf, “Tales from Q School: Inside Golf’s Fifth Major” by John Feinstein is the perfect choice. This book provides a humorous and insightful account of the PGA Tour Qualifying Tournament, also known as Q School.\nFeinstein takes readers on a journey through the high-stakes pressure cooker that is Q School, where aspiring golfers compete for a limited number of spots on the prestigious PGA Tour. Through a series of captivating stories and anecdotes, Feinstein captures the triumphs, failures, and absurdities of the qualifying process.\nFrom the nervous first tee shots to the heartbreak of missed putts, “Tales from Q School” offers a glimpse into the intense world of professional golf with a touch of humor. It sheds light on the often overlooked side of the game, where dreams are made and shattered on the quest for success.\n- So, if you’re in need of a good chuckle, why not pick up a copy of “Golf in the Kingdom” or “Tales from Q School”? You might just find yourself smiling and nodding in recognition as you read about the hilarious and relatable moments that every golfer can appreciate.\n- Remember, golf isn’t just about the serious competition and endless hours of practice. It’s also about the camaraderie, the laughter, and the shared experiences that make it a truly special sport. So, next time you’re out on the course, take a moment to enjoy the lighter side of golf and embrace the humor that can be found in every swing and putt.\nGolf Photography Books\nGolf photography books provide a visual feast for golf enthusiasts, capturing the beauty and grandeur of golf courses around the world. Two notable books in this genre are “Golf Courses: Great Britain and Ireland” and “Golf: The Art of the Mental Game”.\nGolf Courses: Great Britain and Ireland\nIf you are a golf lover, there is no better way to appreciate the stunning landscapes and rich history of golf than through “Golf Courses: Great Britain and Ireland”. This book takes you on a photographic journey through some of the most iconic and picturesque golf courses in these two countries.\nThe book showcases the diversity and magnificence of golf courses in Great Britain and Ireland. From the rugged coastlines of Scotland to the rolling hills of Ireland, each course is captured in its full glory. The photographs depict the lush green fairways, the perfectly manicured greens, and the challenging hazards that make these courses both beautiful and demanding.\nAs you flip through the pages of this book, you will feel as if you are standing on the tee box, ready to take on the challenges of the course. The detailed images transport you to each location, giving you a sense of the unique atmosphere and ambiance of each golf course.\nWhether you are a golf enthusiast planning a trip to Great Britain or Ireland, or simply a lover of beautiful photography, “Golf Courses: Great Britain and Ireland” is a must-have addition to your collection. It serves as a visual guide to some of the world’s most revered golf courses and offers inspiration for your own golfing adventures.\nGolf: The Art of the Mental Game\nGolf is not just a physical sport; it is also a mental game. “Golf: The Art of the Mental Game” explores the psychological aspects of golf and provides valuable insights into how to improve your performance on the course.\nThis book delves into the inner workings of the golfer’s mind, exploring topics such as focus, confidence, visualization, and managing pressure. It offers practical advice and techniques to help golfers of all levels enhance their mental game and perform at their best.\nThrough anecdotes and real-life examples, “Golf: The Art of the Mental Game” illustrates the importance of mental fortitude in golf. It emphasizes the power of positive thinking, the ability to stay calm under pressure, and the importance of maintaining a strong mindset throughout the game.\nThe book also examines the role of mindfulness and meditation in golf. It highlights the benefits of being fully present in the moment, letting go of past mistakes, and focusing on the task at hand. By incorporating these mental strategies into your game, you can improve your concentration, decision-making, and overall performance on the golf course.\nWhether you are a professional golfer looking to gain a competitive edge or an amateur golfer seeking to enhance your enjoyment of the game, “Golf: The Art of the Mental Game” offers valuable insights and practical techniques to help you unlock your full potential.\nIn conclusion, golf photography books like “Golf Courses: Great Britain and Ireland” and “Golf: The Art of the Mental Game” provide a unique and captivating perspective on the world of golf. They allow readers to immerse themselves in the beauty of golf courses and gain a deeper understanding of the mental aspect of the game. Whether you are a golf enthusiast or simply appreciate stunning photography, these books are a valuable addition to any collection. So, grab your clubs and embark on a visual and mental journey through the pages of these remarkable books.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.dearchicky.com/2010/03/my-tia-marola.html", "date": "2013-05-26T00:50:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368706474776/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516121434-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9857019186019897, "token_count": 548, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__201552369", "lang": "en", "text": "Dear Chicken Nugget,\nToday is March 11th, which means that it's my aunt Bella's birthday. She would have been 62. In Spanish, I called her tia Marola, so you'll often hear me use the names interchangeably. I miss her and I'm sad you won't meet her here on Earth.\nShe passed away on December 29, 2001 at the age of 53 from Ovarian Cancer. But, as it's her birthday, I'll focus this letter on giving you a brief introduction of how she impacted my life.\nMy aunt's name was Bella Marola Escudero and she was the third in a group of seven children born to my maternal grandparents. My tia was like a second mother to me. Having been raised by a single mother, my aunt helped to raise me. She lived with us for most of my life and played the part of second parent beautifully.\nDuring the summers after she came home from work she would take me for walks around the neighborhood so that I could get my feet wet in the open fire hydrants. She taught me about baseball; she watched the Yankees and the Mets and I, poor sap that I am, chose the Mets at the age of three. My tia Marola taught me about forgiveness, the courage of admitting to your mistakes, and the strength of the apology.\nMy aunt Bella taught me about the Church, religion, and the beauty of a church's physical structure. She had a great laugh to match her sense of humor, she had a fearless sense of adventure, and would dance and sing when the Spirit moved her. And, she gave me my first allowance. She gave me a lot actually and I miss her.\nLittle Nugget, there aren't too many people in this world that we consider Saints or saintly simply because they're not common. But, my aunt Bella was the closest person I've met to being just that. Even in her most painful moments she thought first of God and family. Her faith in both was unwavering, even towards the end. In fact, I think her faith only got stronger.\nMy aunt's wish was that her ashes be spread from the Staten Island Ferry over New York Harbor - and that's what we did on March 11, 2002. We also bought a brick at the NY Mets stadium, CitiField. It marks her life and her love of baseball. When we go see a Mets game together I'll point out the brick to you, the one that says Marola Escudero.\nAnd every year on March 11th we'll wish tia Marola a happy birthday and give her thanks for making your dad a better person.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://winfacebookcredits.info/book/for-all-our-tomorrows/", "date": "2018-01-16T13:19:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886436.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116125134-20180116145134-00572.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8956353068351746, "token_count": 278, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__193310652", "lang": "en", "text": "For All Our Tomorrows\nby Freda Lightfoot download PDF, EPUB, TXT\nPublished HarperCollins Publishers, April 2015 by HQ.\nISBN 10: 9781474034128\nThis book written in English.\nGenres to which this book can be related:\nFiction & Literature Fiction & Literature, Saga Fiction & Literature, Historical\nAuthors: Freda Lightfoot\n1943, when hundreds of US Marines arrive at a quiet Cornish town, two lives will never be the same again. ‘A real page turner with a very satisfying end.’ – Anne Bennett Trapped in a small town resistant to change, Bette can’t resist handsome GI, Chad. But when reality draws in, Bette realises that their love was based on empty promises… Meanwhile Bette’s sister Sarah, is tormented by her possessive husband, but even his jealous attempts to keep her out of temptation can't prevent Sarah falling for officer Charlie. Caught in the very worst of times with the turmoil and upheaval of war all around them, can these sisters find a brighter future for tomorrow? From Sunday Times bestselling author, Freda Lightfoot. Don’t miss her brand new book Home is Where the Heart Is - coming November 2015 A compelling family drama for fans for Maureen Lee and Katie Flynn.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://hcgstx.org/index.php/library/texas-heritage-bookshop", "date": "2017-04-23T11:58:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118552.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00137-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9049100279808044, "token_count": 1522, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__248382771", "lang": "en", "text": "Hopkins County Genealogical Society Library Bookshop 611 North Davis, Sulphur Springs, TX 75482 Specializing in Books about Texas and Texans.\n(Shipping charges: based on current mailing rates.)\nTitle / Author / Description / Cover / Price\nA Place Called Hopkins County by Bobby McDonald, interviews of older residents tell stories of early county history, soft cover, $27.95 plus tax.\nPlowing Deep by Bobby McDonald, more local stories about early county history, soft cover, $27.95 plus tax.\nOut of Darkness by Bobby McDonald, the story of African American history in Hopkins County, soft cover, $27.95 plus tax\nMartin Springs Cemetery Hopkins County, Texas by Martha Jennings Hartley, soft cover, $20.00.\nThe Bootlegger's Other Daughter by Mary Cimarolli, personal family history, soft cover, $24.95 plus tax\nBuilding on Trust by Mary Leta Davis, history of Sulphur Springs Loan & Building Association, hardback, $10.00 plus tax.\nMiller Grove School Pictorial History Book by Brandon Darrow, 150 years of school memories, lists of graduates, individual and group photos, hard cover, $30.00 plus tax.\nLetters from Miss Edna by Dr. Patsy Hallman, personal correspondence between 1925-1975 detailing events of local importance in the Miller Grove community as well as county and national events impacting an ordinary family living in the 20th century, soft cover, $18.50 plus tax.\nThe First Texas Legion, story of the Texas Confederate regiment that began in Lavaca Co. TX and grew into one of the only two \"Legions\" raised in Texas during the Civil War, by Allen G. Hatley, hardback, $31.95\nFollowing Old Fencelines -- Tales from Rural Texas, description of the culture of a small, isolated community in Northeast Texas 50 years ago, by Lee Winniford, hardback, $29.95 plus tax.\nHome Light Burning by Jim H. Ainsworth, a story of two Confederates trying to return to Texas after the war to piece together shattered former lives, soft cover, $24.95 plus tax.\nBrush Men and Vigilantes by David Pickering and Judy Falls clearly shows how tensions led to violence that took place in Hunt and Hopkins Counties during and after the Civil War, soft cover, 16.95 plus tax.\nThe Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, Vol. 1 by Charles M. Robinson III, unique insights into how wars against the Indians were conducted during the late 19th century, hardback, $30.00 plus tax.\nFamous Texas Feuds by C.L. Douglas, the blood-stained story of the most important of the violent feuds that ravaged a number of Texas counties during the nineteenth century, soft cover $16.95 plus tax.\nThe Greatest Texas Sports Stories You’ve Never Heard by Al Pickett, mixture of stories about both famous and not-so-famous sports figures spanning a variety of sports, soft cover, $14.95 plus tax.\nLegendary Watering Holes – The Saloons That Made Texas Famous by Richard Selcer, entertaining and informative accounts of four legendary Texas establishments: Jack Harris’s Vaudeville Saloon and Theater in San Antonio, Ben Dowell’s Saloon in El Paso, the Iron Front of Austin, and the White Elephant of Fort Worth, hardback, $29.95 plus tax.\nHands to the Spindle, Texas Women and Home Textile Production 1822-1880 by Paula Mitchell Marks, day-to-day activities of Texas women spinners and weavers displaying their abilities and their dreams of a better future, hardback, $19.95 plus tax.\nGospel Tracks Through Texas, The Mission of Chapel Car by Wilma Rugh Taylor, story of the 1895 railroad car bringing the “good news” of the evangelical Gospel to transient railroad workers that lasted over 50 years, hardback, $29.95 plus tax.\nThe History of Texas Music by Gary Hartman, from early Apache ceremonial dances to the driving blues-rock-boogie sounds of ZZ Top, this is the first in-depth history of the multifaceted musical heritage of Texas, softcover, $19.95 plus tax.\nStories of Saltillo - About the People, Places, and Events over Time in a Small Prairie Town in East Texas collected and edited by Thomas J. Minter, softcover $16.00.\nEver Remember - The Days of 1913-1914 by John Pearce, stories taken from the diary Alma Caldwell starting in the summer of 1913 through the spring and early summer of 1914, soft cover, $19.99 plus tax.\nTales From Miller Grove by Patsy Johnson Hallman with Miller Grove Storytellers, soft cover, $30.00 plus tax.\nRiver Crossing by Jim H. Ainsworth, hardback, $20.00 plus tax.\nImages of America Rains County by Elaine Nall Bay with the Rains County Historical Commission, soft cover, $21.99.\nImages of America Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train by Dominick J. Cirincione and J'Nell L. Pate, soft cover, $21.99.\nIn The Rivers' Flow by Jim Ainsworth, soft cover, $18.95 plus tax.\nThe Life He Never Knew by Ryan Petty, soft cover, $15.00 plus tax.\nOn the Camino Real by Stephen L. Turner, A Western Quest Series Novel, soft cover, $15.00.\nOn the Road to Glory by Stephen L. Turner, A Western Quest Series Novel, soft cover, $15.00.\nRide for the Lone Star by Stephen L. Turner, A Western Quest Series Novel, soft cover, $15.00.\nThe Last Trail West by Stephen L. Turner, A Western Quest Series Novel, soft cover, $15.00.\nUnder Troubled Skies by Stephen L. Turner, A Western Quest Series Novel, soft cover, $15.00.\nUp from the Ashes by Stephen L. Turner, A Western Quest Series Novel, soft cover, $15.00.\nBluebonnet At The State Fair of Texas by Mary Brooke Casad, soft cover, soft cover, $9.95.\nBluebonnet of the Texas Hill Country by Mary Brooke Casad, soft cover, soft cover, $9.95.\nBluebonnet at Johnson Space Center by Mary Brooke Casad, soft cover, soft cover, $9.95.\nBluebonnet at the Texas State Capitol by Mary Brooke Casad, hardback, $16.95.\nBluebonnet at the Alamo by Mary Brooke Casad, hardback, $16.95.\nBluebonnet at the Marshall Train Depot by Mary Brooke Casad, hardback, $16.95.\nBluebonnet at the East Texas Oil Museum by Mary Brooke Casad, hardback, $16.95.\nBluebonnet at the Ocean Star Museum by Mary Brooke Casad, hardback, $16.95.\nBluebonnet at Dinosaur Valley State Park by Mary Brooke Casad, hardback, $16.95.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://seacoastlately.com/2019/08/27/murder-on-the-orient-express-ogunquit-playhouse/", "date": "2023-06-09T14:16:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656737.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609132648-20230609162648-00521.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8797884583473206, "token_count": 350, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__143458142", "lang": "en", "text": "Our Take on “Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express”!\nDramatic? Of course.\nAn unforgettable performance? You bet!\nBefore the curtains peeled away to reveal narrator and main character—detective Hercule Poirot—Ogunquit Playhouse’s production of “Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express” had us on the edge of our seats.\nAs we sat silently waiting for the play to begn, we quickly learn there’s a murder on our hands…\nMoments in, we hop aboard The Orient Express—a beautiful passenger train that once traveled across Europe. The story begins when the train’s journey is put on hold due to a snowstorm, and then…\nQuirky characters and unique personalities enter center stage as a thoughtfully-mustached Belgian detective pursues a mission to find the murder culprit once and for all. With a train full of suspects, each one with an alibi, there are unexpected twists and turns at every corner. Suspense constantly fills the air, but welcome nods of humor often add comedic relief throughout.\nSo, did Poirot pin down the culprit??\nWe won’t reveal the secret here, but we can confirm that you won’t leave feeling disappointed!\n“Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express” is an extra special opportunity as it is the first play (not a musical) at the Ogunquit Playhouse in 12 years!\nBook your tickets here for a matinee or evening performance through August 31!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ijamicro.com/abstractview.php?ID=145&vol=25-2-2023&SNo=2", "date": "2023-09-30T22:28:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510730.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930213821-20231001003821-00581.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8692722916603088, "token_count": 472, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__204292819", "lang": "en", "text": "Authors are requested to submit the manuscripts only through IJAM web portal, submission directly to journal mail ids will not be considered.\nIJAM is now a member of Crossref. Articles published from the year 2017 onwards are assigned to DOI. • Articles are invited for the third issue of the year September-December 2023.\nManish Prakash Victor, Rohit Das, Tapash Chandra Ghosh\n1.Department of Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, University of Calcutta,Calcutta, India2.Division of Plant Biology, Bose Institute, Kolkata, West Bengal, India3.Raiganj University, Raiganj, West Bengal, India\nInd.J.Applied.Microbiol. 2023 .25(2) : 11-36\nIntroduction:The present study presents a comparative analysis of SARS-CoV-2’s survival capacity in its human host in an area within a month. Materials and Methods:Codon usage bias study has been carried using Emboss package and evolutionary study has been carried using pn/ps packages in python and R for statistical analysis. Results:The virus has overlapping genes exhibiting a high codon usage bias and optimization with human Lung housekeeping genes. Viral ORFs have near values of minimum folding energies and codon adaptation index with mRNAs of the human Lung housekeeping genes. Then too, viruses showed a greater expression capacity. Polymorphism is in the virus for ORF1ab, surface glycoprotein and nucleocapsid phosphoprotein ORFs. Non-synonymous mutations have shown non-polar substitutions. Out of the twelve mutations nine are for a higher t-RNA copy number. Synonymous mutation simulation mimicking evolution revealed fitter newer strains. Conclusion:Through this study we have explained the inherent codon adaptation of SARS-CoV-2 with human tRNA pool and how the virus shows polymorphism in-order to keep up with its infectious capacity. Hence, giving an insight into viral rapid adaptability.\nKeywords: SARS-CoV-2 mutations, codon adaptation index, minimum folding energy, Homo sapiens tRNA pool, effective number of codons\nDownload this article as", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://file51.com/things-to-consider-when-choosing-city-moving-companies/", "date": "2021-11-27T17:13:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358208.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127163427-20211127193427-00045.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9901122450828552, "token_count": 398, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__176993395", "lang": "en", "text": "When we had finished eating we went softly upstairs to my study, and I looked again out of the open window. In one night the valley had become a valley of ashes. The fires had dwindled now. Where flames had been there were now streamers of smoke; but the countless ruins of shattered and gutted houses and blasted and blackened trees that the night had hidden stood out now gaunt and terrible in the pitiless light of dawn. Yet here and there some object had had the luck to escape–a white railway signal here, the end of a greenhouse there, white and fresh amid the wreckage. Never before in the history of warfare had destruction been so indiscriminate and so universal. And shining with the growing light of the east, three of the metallic giants stood about the pit, their cowls rotating as though they were surveying the desolation they had made.\nIt seemed to me that the pit had been enlarged, and ever and again puffs of vivid green vapour streamed up and out of it towards the brightening dawn–streamed up, whirled, broke, and vanished.\nBeyond were the pillars of fire about Chobham. They became pillars of bloodshot smoke at the first touch of day.\nAs the dawn grew brighter we withdrew from the window from which we had watched the Martians, and went very quietly downstairs.\nThe artilleryman agreed with me that the house was no place to stay in. He proposed, he said, to make his way Londonward, and thence rejoin his battery–No. 12, of the Horse Artillery. My plan was to return at once to Leatherhead; and so greatly had the strength of the Martians impressed me that I had determined to take my wife to Newhaven, and go with her out of the country forthwith. For I already perceived clearly that the country about London must inevitably be the scene of a disastrous struggle before such creatures as these could be destroyed.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.monroecopost.com/news/20160328/supervisor-reilich-greece-public-library-unveil-preschool-art-exhibit", "date": "2020-08-09T11:19:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738552.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20200809102845-20200809132845-00227.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9488993883132935, "token_count": 259, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__187474174", "lang": "en", "text": "Greece Public Library, 2 Vince Tofany Blvd., Rochester, will exhibit art created by students in preschool classes at the Northwest Family YMCA during April as part of the Rochester Association of the Education of Young Children’s celebration of Month of the Young Child.\n“We are very pleased to host this exhibit at the main branch of the library on Town Hall campus,” said Greece Town Supervisor Bill Reilich. “I would also like to encourage families with young children to find out more about the 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program when they visit. It’s an excellent way to promote literacy and foster a love of reading from an early age.”\nThe program is a reading incentive program for ages 5 and younger and their parents/caregivers. Two hundred ninety-seven Greece children and babies currently are enrolled; they have collectively read over 37,000 books since the program’s debut in September 2015.\nThe library offers many additional resources in support of kindergarten preparedness, including age-appropriate book collections, early literacy learning computers and librarian-led early literacy classes.\nFor more information, call 585-225-8951 or visit greecepubliclibrary.org/books-before.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.familystaycationsg.com/win-tickets-to-we-are-going-on-a-bear-hunt/", "date": "2019-07-21T17:00:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195527089.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20190721164644-20190721190644-00283.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8789411187171936, "token_count": 410, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__112726920", "lang": "en", "text": "Based on the picture book by Rod Campbell\n“I’m absolutely delighted that Dear Zoo is being brought to life on stage for the very first time!” Rod Campbell, author and illustrator\nDear Zoo, the timeless children’s book, makes its stage premiere.\nRod Campbell’s best-selling lift the flap book has delighted generations of young readers since it was first published in 1982, and has sold more than 8 million copies worldwide.\nThis production will delight all those who have read the book (both young and old) as it unfolds, with engaging puppets, music and lots of audience interaction.\nTickets are available HERE.\nDates: 19 -21 Oct 2018\nVenue: Victoria Theatre\nSat : 10am & 12pm\nSun: 10am, 12pm & 3pm\nTicket price: $42 – $62\nWIN! Tickets Giveaway: Dear Zoo!\nFamily Staycation Sg is giving away 1 set of family passes x 4 tickets each!\nContest Period: 6 Oct – 10 Oct 2018 | Contest closes: 10 Oct 2018, at 11:59 am.\n- On Facebook: Like, share, Tag 5 friends!\n- On Instagram: Like & Tag 5 friends ( per friend per comment!)\n- A lucky winner will be randomly selected and the results will be announced at the end of the contest.\n- The winners will be receiving 4 tickets each.\n- Winner will be attending 21 Oct, 12 p.m. show.\n- All results are final.\n- The prize will be non-transferable, non-refundable and non-exchangeable for other dates/times\n- Collection details will be advised via confirmation email.\n- Other terms & conditions applied.\nDisclosure: Giveaway prize is sponsored by Aba productions.\nIf you like our articles, com’ on follow us on our Facebook page!\nWant to be featured on FamilyStayationSG.com ?", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.publio.pl/swords-of-the-red-brotherhood-robert-e-howard,p436572.html", "date": "2022-10-03T23:54:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337446.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20221003231906-20221004021906-00175.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9770445227622986, "token_count": 116, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__137241479", "lang": "en", "text": "One moment the glade lay empty; the next a man poised tensely at the edge of the bushes. No sound warned the red squirrels of his coming, but the birds that flitted about in the sunlight took sudden fright at the apparition and rose in a clamoring swarm. The man scowled and glanced quickly back the way he had come, fearing the bird-flight might have betrayed his presence. Then he started across the glade, placing his feet with caution. Tall and muscular of frame, he moved with the supple ease of a panther.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thekey.farnet.eu/pages/Guide04.html", "date": "2023-12-11T00:18:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102697.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210221943-20231211011943-00654.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9718693494796753, "token_count": 162, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__98156063", "lang": "en", "text": "Steps for success\nThis guide has been developed to support Fisheries Local Action Groups (FLAGs) in moving from the planning and development phase of activity to becoming fully operational. It is targeted in particular at the second wave of FLAGs which are expected to come on stream in 2011. The guide focuses on three themes which were identified as priority needs for support by FLAGs at the \"FLAGs on the Move\" seminar in Gijon in the spring of 2010. Each theme is presented as a separate chapter and can be read as such however the guide is designed to complement the first FARNET guide, the Start Up Guide for FLAGs.The three themes are:\n- Managing effective partnerships;\n- Cultivating private sector involvement and investment;\n- and Active project development and selection.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://aitatennis.com/break-point-tennis-during-a-global-pandemic/", "date": "2024-02-26T17:33:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474661.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226162136-20240226192136-00013.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9722318053245544, "token_count": 264, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__19843430", "lang": "en", "text": "BREAK POINT: Tennis During A Global Pandemic\nSaksham Attray, a 15-year-old player from Bengaluru, utilized his time during the COVID-19 lockdown to write a book called BREAKPOINT – Tennis During A Global Pandemic.\nHere’s a synopsis of the book:\nBelieve it or not, it is possible to stay match fit and level up in your game while sheltering at home by following the methods outlined by 15-year old author Saksham Attray. It will take more than a global pandemic to dissuade the determined youngsters from being tomorrow’s champions. Saksham interacted with his coaches, professional tennis players, and journalists about the situation and this book is a distillation of the best advice he received from them. Obviously, there are thousands of others like him who are facing a similar situation and feeling demotivated and this book is an attempt to rekindle their hope. The methods outlined in this book could go some way in inspiring and motivating aspiring tennis players in the aftermath of COVID-19.\nWhere to buy it?\nPaperback (Rs. 199) – https://store.pothi.com/book/saksham-attray-break-point/", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.innkeeperofyoursoul.com/", "date": "2019-10-16T17:33:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986669057.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20191016163146-20191016190646-00171.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9837685823440552, "token_count": 143, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__213665593", "lang": "en", "text": "Be the innkeeper of your soul\nI help introverted, empathic, and highly sensitive women in midlife create the space they need to remember who they are and that they matter. That they are worthy of what they want and deserve a life they love.\nOnce upon a time I wanted to be the innkeeper of my own B&B. Innkeeping appealed to my desire to serve others by creating a space where they would feel welcome and well cared for, and where they would feel both nourished and nurtured. What I desired to give others, I yearned for myself. The journey, it turns out, was about being the innkeeper of my soul and tending the space within me.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thesensiblemom.com/2017/04/blessed-seven-vlog-2/", "date": "2018-01-16T07:31:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886237.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116070444-20180116090444-00111.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9474796056747437, "token_count": 158, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__169590592", "lang": "en", "text": "Thanks to B&H Kids for partnering with me on this sponsored video.\nHi, guys! In today’s video, I share a little about my Christian faith and how we do family devotions. I also show you a fantastic Bible storybook called It’s All About Jesus Bible Storybook, and I share how we use the B&H Kids app along with the book to make the pages in the book come to life!\nI hope you enjoy the video and, as always, thanks for watching! 🙂\nBible stories for kids are a great way to teach kids more about Jesus. Please feel free to share your favorite Bible story books for children in the comments below.\nAnd you can follow along on our RV adventures with the Playlist here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://soul2soulconnections.com/blogs/soulfulness/what-does-the-cowardly-lion-from-the-wizard-of-oz-have-to-do-with-you", "date": "2024-04-15T04:53:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816942.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415045222-20240415075222-00017.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.976554274559021, "token_count": 689, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__202284102", "lang": "en", "text": "And so we begin by talking about that wondrous story of archetypal characters from The Wizard of Oz; specifically the Cowardly Lion. What was the great asset that he sought from The Wizard? Courage. Why am I writing about courage? Because if we look within ourselves and examine our own personal level of courage we begin to discover many important aspects of who we are.\nI think the main thing I want to say is that it takes great courage to look within. I think there are many people who have never done that. I think there are some people that have tried but became afraid and frightened of what they saw. Rare is the person that has really looked deep within themselves. Those people, in my opinion, have exhibited the greatest kind of courage. The courage to look deeply within oneself.\nWhy would we want to do this? To know thyself. I believe that knowing yourself is the beginning point of becoming a truly successful person. It’s been said that this is the first step towards self mastery. But more on that topic later.\nFor now, let's just focus on being fully real, fully open, and fully honest and having the courage to look within ourselves.\nThis is a scary thing to do. What if we don't like what we see? How do we deal with that? What should we do with the things that we regret? What should we do with our successes?\nDon't worry. Don’t let this concern you.\nAs you look within yourself I would en-courage you to search for what I call your “true identity”. Your true identity is who you really are. The original you. Not the ego you. Not the fake you. Not the you that you think everyone wants to see. Not the you that the world expects you to be. But the real you. If you look deeply enough, you will find the real you. And you will find that the real you has never changed. It's still the same you--the same you when you were a child, when you were an adolescent, and it is the same you now in adulthood. It's the you that you came into this life with. It is your uniqueness.\nWhen you have the courage to look within, as you discover your real self, the next steps in your personal journey become more clear.\nBut it starts with the courage to look within. And to be really honest about what you see there.\nAs you progress to know yourself better you learn to love and accept yourself as the unique individual that you are.\nIn the future I will write about ways to help you get rid of “baggage” from the past. In the meantime, I en-courage you to cultivate your own innate courage (like the Lion) and look within. To look within is real courage!\nYou may have to challenge yourself to go beyond your current concepts, limitations, and cherished beliefs. Go within and meditate upon who is the real you.\nMy Soul2Soul website is about supporting and creating meaningful love relationships.There are many services offered there that can be used as tools to help you know yourself better. I en-courage you to use those tools to assist you on your own journey of love. Knowing yourself is the first step to being able to truly connect with your partner or potential partner.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://pcgloanfund.org/impact/first-book-marketplace", "date": "2023-12-03T11:41:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100499.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203094028-20231203124028-00653.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9602466225624084, "token_count": 254, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__28361981", "lang": "en", "text": "The mission of First Book is to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. Since 1992, First Book has given away 50 million free books to children in more than 3,000 communities. To reach more children and communities, First Book created First Book Marketplace, an online bookstore where non-profits running children’s literacy programs can purchase high quality children’s books in bulk and at deep discounts.\nThe website was so popular that First Book needed to upgrade its technology and purchase a broader range of books than it was previously able to offer. In order to do so, First Book approached PCG for a working capital loan. PCG partnered with Nonprofit Finance Fund and the Calvert Foundation to lend First Book the capital it needed. During the first three years of operation, the Marketplace distributed 750,000 books. With this new capital, the Marketplace expects to distribute 100 million books over the next ten years. An independent study reported that 55% of the children who participate in the First Book program reported having an increased interest in reading. Access to books is critical to a child’s success in school, and PCG’s investment provides this key building block for millions of low-income children.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.personalizedgiftexpress.com/personalized-childrens-books.html", "date": "2013-05-25T15:47:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705957380/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120557-00057-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9630318880081177, "token_count": 207, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__84520238", "lang": "en", "text": "Personalized Children's Story Books including My Very Own Name, My Very Own Fairy Tale, My Very Own ABC's and more. Personalized with child's name worked into the story. Presentation inscription may include Child's name, from whom information, date and message. 1-800-816-0922 and a representative will be happy to assist you.\nSpending that one on one time with your child is something to treasure for a lifetime. Reading is fundamental in their development and needs to be started at an early age. What better way to get your child interested in books than personalizing them with their names on it. Personalized Children's storybooks is a fun way of reading with your child. It turns the adventure around and places them in the story of make believe. Whether its having tea with the Queen or fighting off monsters in the forest, its sure to hold their attention since they are the star of the story. This will keep them coming back for a different adventure each night with a passion to read.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://notstatusquo.com/live-purpose-write-story/", "date": "2017-06-24T10:18:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320257.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624101204-20170624121204-00179.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9365014433860779, "token_count": 550, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__242408296", "lang": "en", "text": "This is something we can all agree on. Whatever is going on, the world keeps moving. No matter if we’re living with purpose or coasting through the day to day, everything else keeps moving. Sure, if we’re not living intentionally GOOD things can sometimes JUST happen, just like BAD things can sometimes JUST happen.\nHowever, we must ask ourselves, is settling for whatever may come our way really how we want to live? Of course, there are occasions where circumstances are beyond our control – and those rare scenarios are where our preparedness, attitude, and reaction determine how easily we get through it.\nThose cases aside though, we must be willing to admit that life will not happen the way we desire by chance – we must live intentionally and with purpose. We must be willing to plan, be disciplined, set goals, strategize to accomplish them, reflect, and adjust as necessary. Looking at challenges as opportunities rather than obstacles is a requirement. We must have a mindset that conquers rather than one of complacency.\nYour life is the greatest story you’ll ever tell.\nYou have a blank canvas, with chapters to be written. Are you going to allow others to write your story for you, or will you take action and be intentional about writing it yourself? Take control of your story, pursue your passions, discover your talents and cultivate them.\nSuccessful, high achievers don’t just settle for whatever good may come their way. They seek out the great. They prepare for the opportunities and develop the skills needed so when opportunity arises, they’re able to cease it – with confidence. To outsiders looking in, it seems that high achievers just have more “luck”, but that’s not the case. The fact is, high achievers have positioned themselves through preparation and self-discipline to be prepared when opportunities arise.\nBe intentional and pursue life on purpose.\nAsk yourself today if you’re settling for whatever good (or bad) may come, or if you’re actively pursuing the greatness you desire and were made for? Are you living complacently or are you actively pursuing a path of growth and development, preparing yourself for amazing opportunities that will arise. If you don’t like the answer, adjust accordingly! Take some time to discover what you’re destined for. Study. Practice. Cultivate your passions and develop your talents. Doing so will lead you further down the road to success and create a story that will be worth telling!\nFor more on the topic of living with purpose, I highly recommend John Maxwell’s book, Intentional Living.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://melissa-melanomasucks.blogspot.com/2012/12/maybe-christmasperhapsmeans-little-bit.html", "date": "2018-07-17T17:37:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589757.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20180717164437-20180717184437-00331.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9450675845146179, "token_count": 230, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__253037679", "lang": "en", "text": "The most important and treasured gifts are the ones that money can't buy.\nIt is easy to get caught up in gift buying. The real gifts are things you already have. Cherish your loved ones. Hold them a little tighter.\n\"Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small,\nWas singing! Without any presents at all!\nHe HADN'T stopped Christmas from coming! IT CAME!\nSomehow or other, it came just the same!\nAnd the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling:\n\"How could it be so? It came without ribbons! It came without tags!\nIt came without packages, boxes, or bags!\"\nAnd he puzzled and puzzled, till his puzzler was sore.\nThen the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before!\n\"Maybe Christmas,\" he thought, \"doesn't come from a store.\nMaybe Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more.\" ~The Grinch\nWishing you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://vetprofiles.tufts.edu/faculty/nicholas-frank", "date": "2020-07-04T11:50:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655886121.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704104352-20200704134352-00146.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6874681711196899, "token_count": 1652, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-29", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__86172961", "lang": "en", "text": "- BSc. Hons. Biology University of North Carolina 1989\n- DVM Purdue University 1993\n- PhD Purdue University 2002\n- Diplomate ACVIM\n- Stefanovski, D., Moate, P.J., Frank, N., Ward, G.M., Localio, A.R., Punjabi, N.M., Boston, R.C. 2020. Metabolic modeling using statistical and spreadsheet software: Application to the glucose minimal model. Computer methods and programs in biomedicine.\n- Gorenberg, E.B., Johnson, A.L., Magdesian, K.G., Bertin, F.-R., Costa, L.R.R., Theelen, M.J.P., Durward-Akhurst, S.A., Cruz Villagrán, C., Carslake, H., Frank, N., Tomlinson, J.E. 2020. Diagnosis and treatment of confirmed and suspected primary hyperparathyroidism in equids: 17 cases (1999â2016). Equine Veterinary Journal.\n- Hodge, E., Kowalski, A., Torcivia, C., Lindborg, S., Stefanovski, D., Hart, K., Frank, N., van Eps, A. 2019. Effect of thyrotropin-releasing hormone stimulation testing on the oral sugar test in horses when performed as a combined protocol. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.\n- Durham, A.E., Frank, N., McGowan, C.M., Menzies-Gow, N.J., Roelfsema, E., Vervuert, I., Feige, K., Fey, K. 2019. Response to letter to editor regarding ECEIM consensus statement on equine metabolic syndrome. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.\n- Durham, A.E., Frank, N., McGowan, C.M., Menzies-Gow, N.J., Roelfsema, E., Vervuert, I., Feige, K., Fey, K. 2019. ECEIM consensus statement on equine metabolic syndrome. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.\n- Frank, N. 2018. Endocrine Disorders of the Equine Athlete. Veterinary Clinics of North America - Equine Practice.\n- Mueller, M.K., Sween, C., Frank, N., Paradis, M.R. 2018. Survey of human-horse relationships and veterinary care for geriatric horses. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.\n- Newkirk, K.M., Ehrensing, G., Odoi, A., Boston, R.C., Frank, N. 2018. Immunohistochemical expression of insulin, glucagon, and somatostatin in pancreatic islets of horses with and without insulin resistance. American Journal of Veterinary Research.\n- Frank, N., Walsh, D.M. 2017. Repeatability of Oral Sugar Test Results, Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Measurements, and Serum High-Molecular-Weight Adiponectin Concentrations in Horses. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.\n- Durham, A.E., Bailey, S.R., Frank, N., McFarlane, D., Schott, H.C., Paradis, M.R. 2017. Science-in-brief: Workshop report The Dorothy Havemeyer International Equine Endocrinology Summit. Equine Veterinary Journal.\n- Frank, N., Hermida, P., Sanchez-Londoño, A., Singh, R., Gradil, C.M., Uricchio, C.K. 2017. Blood Glucose and Insulin Concentrations after Octreotide Administration in Horses With Insulin Dysregulation. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.\n- Restifo, M.M., Frank, N., Hermida, P., Sanchez-Londoño, A. 2016. Effects of withholding feed on thyrotropin-releasing hormone stimulation test results and effects of combined testing on oral sugar test and thyrotropin-releasing hormone stimulation test results in horses. American Journal of Veterinary Research.\n- Banse, H.E., Holbrook, T.C., Frank, N., McFarlane, D. 2016. Relationship of skeletal muscle inflammation with obesity and obesity-associated hyperinsulinemia in horses. Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research.\n- Chameroy, K.A., Frank, N., Elliott, S.B., Boston, R.C. 2016. Comparison of Plasma Active Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Concentrations in Normal Horses and Those With Equine Metabolic Syndrome and in Horses Placed on a High-Grain Diet. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science.\n- Hart, K.A., Wochele, D.M., Norton, N.A., Mcfarlane, D., Wooldridge, A.A., Frank, N. 2016. Effect of Age, Season, Body Condition, and Endocrine Status on Serum Free Cortisol Fraction and Insulin Concentration in Horses. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.\n- McKinney, C., Mueller, M.K., Frank, N. 2015. Effects of Therapeutic Riding on Measures of Stress in Horses. Journal of Equine Veterinary Science.\n- Banse, H.E., Frank, N., Kwong, G.P.S., McFarlane, D. 2015. Relationship of oxidative stress in skeletal muscle with obesity and obesity-associated hyperinsulinemia in horses. Canadian Journal of Veterinary Research.\n- Frank, N. 2015. Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction. Robinson's Current Therapy in Equine Medicine: Seventh Edition.\n- Frank, N. 2015. Equine Metabolic Syndrome. Robinson's Current Therapy in Equine Medicine: Seventh Edition.\n- Goodale, L., Frank, N., Hermida, P., D’Oench, S. 2015. Evaluation of a thyrotropin-releasing hormone solution stored at room temperature for pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction testing in horses. American Journal of Veterinary Research.\nGeneral Research Interests\n- Internal medicine\n- Comparative endocrinology\nSelected Research Projects\n- Endotoxemia as a predisposing factor for laminitis\n- Effects of clinical endotoxemia on glucose metabolism in horses\n- Levothyroxine as a treatment for insulin resistance\n- Effects of resting insulin sensitivity on the acute response to endotoxin in horses\n- Effects of combining endotoxemia and alimentary carbohydrate overload on glucose and insulin dynamics in horses\n- Improved diagnosis and monitoring of equine endocrine disorders\n- Development of an optimal protocol for evaluating insulin secretion and sensitivity in horses\n- A study of the alterations in glucose and lipid metabolism that accompany the development of laminitis in horses\n- Evaluating the effects of endotoxin on glucose dynamics in horses using intravenous glucose tolerance test and euglycemic hyperinsulinemic clamp techniques\nResearch and Clinical Interests\n- Diagnosis and management of endocrine disorders\n- Equine Metabolic Syndrome\n- Cushings disease\n- Insulin resistance\n- Diabetes mellitus\n- Incretin hormones\n- Electrolyte disorders\n- Nutritional diseases\n- Geriatric medicine\nResearch Interests by Area\nSpontaneous Animal Disease Models\n- Animal models of obesity, metabolic syndrome, equine Cushing's, and aging\nResearch Interests by Organ System and Disease\nNutritional Basis of Diseases\n- Obesity, insulin resistance, and beta cell function and lipid metabolism.\n- Insulin resistance, diabetes mellitis, hyperadrenocorticism. Laminitis in horses. Obesity.\n- American Veterinary Medical Association\n- American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine\nResearch Sponsor Interest\n- American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Foundation\n- American Quarter Horse Foundation\n- Grayson Jockey Club Foundation\n- United States Equestrian Federation", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://neucollege.info/creative-writing/", "date": "2020-10-25T21:31:31Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107890028.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20201025212948-20201026002948-00533.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9553604125976562, "token_count": 1757, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__131588449", "lang": "en", "text": "The term “creative writing” may seem confusing at the first look. After all, every type of writing demands a certain amount of creativity, but not every piece of writing can be called a creative writing example. So, what is the definition of creative writing?\nCreative writing is the writing that employs creative techniques to entertain the reader in addition to providing a message. Another creative writing definition is that it is the type of writing that aims at creating emotional response in the reader by using written visuals. In other words, a piece of creative writing does not simply tell a story, it helps the readers create a comprehensive picture in their minds.\nWhy is Creative Writing special?\nCreative writing occupies a special place in the spectrum of writing types and techniques. Any writing is a form of communication which means that its purpose is to send a particular message to the reader. In this regard, creative writing is similar to any other form of writing you have encountered or even attempted to perform. The key difference that makes creative writing stand out is the methods it uses to achieve its goal.\nWhile academic writing and publicistic operate mostly on facts, creative writing employs imagination and experimentation to make the reader invested in the story it tells. It provides the author creative freedom in terms of language choice and narrative approach.\nAt the same time, it is the most demanding type of writing in the sense that not all the creative choices are bound to pay off. As evident from the name, successful creative writing demands talent. However, it does not mean that there is no way to improve your skills. Check our creative writing tips to clarify which aspects of your work need close attention and become a better author.\nElements of creative writing\nBefore we proceed to how to write, let us discuss in more detail what to write. There are several elements of creative writing that you need to consider before you begin working on your first draft.\nAs it has already been implied above, any type of creative writing (we will discuss the distinctions later in the article) boils down to storytelling. To be a proper story, any narrative needs a plot. If you want to attract the attention of the readers, you better make the plot original and interesting.\nA story has characters by definition. However, the fact that there are characters does not make a piece of writing fall into the category of creative writing. The characters must be developed throughout the story.\nCharacter development means letting the reader understand the way in which a character changes throughout the story. It is also commonly referred to as a character arc.\nPresenting the character gradually to the readers does not comprise character development. As an author, you need to make it clear that the events of the story have impacted the characters and present the changes those impacts caused.\nAn important thing to remember is that the story you are telling in your creative writing is not the message your piece conveys. It should serve as the vessel for the underlying message or theme you want to present. The choice of the theme impacts the formulation of the plot and even the creative writing type you will employ.\nYou need to have a clear idea concerning the time and space in which your story unfolds. Nobody says it must be real. The key requirement, however, is that the setting helps you to bring forward your characters and bring the underlying message to the audience. Setting must be an instrument rather than obstacle.\nCreative writing does not merely tell the story. It describes its elements as graphically as possible to enable the readers to apply their imagination and immerse in the story.\nTypes of creative writing\nThe lyst of creative writing elements is not exhaustive and their application depends on the types of creative writing you are about to apply. Let’s have a look at the three most common forms creative writing may take.\nWriting poetry is different from any other creative writing exercise. The reason for it is simple: nowadays poetry may take numerous forms and shapes. You may be interested in writing a classical onnet or a white (rhymeless) poem, but there is still general principles to follow if you want to create a good poem:\n- Create a theme. While a poem does not need to narrate a story, it must have a topic. In other words, the reader of a good poem understands, at least instinctively, the purpose for which it was written.\n- Use figurative language a lot. The key aspect of poetry that makes it stand out from other types of creative writing is the fact that it is written using metaphors, similes, hyperboles, personifications and so on. In fact, it is also the reason why some people do not like poetry and find it confusing.\n- Pay attention to how it sounds. While poetry does not always involve rhymes, a clear rhythm is a must. You may also want to experiment with alliterations and onomatopoeia. Remember, poetry is supposed to be recited, not simply read.\nIt is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the phrase “creative writing.” Indeed the list of the elements discussed above suits the purposes of fiction writing well. In addition to those building blocks, fiction writing usually depends heavily on dialogue. There are stories about a single character that do not presuppose any dialogue. However, to make such a story interesting, you need a really engaging plot and unusual setting. In other words, you may resort to more common compositions until you have developed your creative writing muscle.\nAnother issue that impacts the way you will write your fiction piece is point of view. Note that the second person narration is not commonly used in fiction writing. Yet, you may see this fact as an opportunity and be creative with it!\nCreative nonfiction can be explained as a type of writing which is based on facts but allows creative freedom in the manner these facts are presented to the audience. An example of uch work is a biography or autobiography which presents a narrative of one’s life told using various literary devices meant to capture the interest of the readers.\nAnother example of creative nonfiction is memoir. The point of this type of writing is that it focuses on events that actually happened instead of being created in the author’s imagination. At the same time, the author approaches retelling those events with a high degree of creativity.\nCreative writing prompts\nCreative writing ideas may be difficult to come by. However, if you struggle with deciding what to write about, you do not need to give up on creative writing activities. There is nothing wrong with searching for creative writing prompts online for training purposes. Look for a prompt you find interesting and/or challenging, and give it a try. As you will become better in addressing such prompts, you will gradually find yourself generating your own ideas. This approach is especially useful for people looking for creative writing jobs since they will be required to work with prewritten prompts.\nHow to start?\nFirst of all, you need to do your thorough research on genres and subgenres of creative writing. Check numerous creative writing examples to realize which form you would like to create.\nThen you need to pick one genre and focus on it. There is no need for you to feel obliged to stick to your first choice. Trial and error are constant companions of a writer.\nOnce you have settled on genre. Start writing in it. Do not be discouraged by the fact that your first writings will be bad. You need time and practice to become a proficient writer and maybe even enter creative writing careers. Do not let failure stop you!\nHow to become better?\nThere are several creative writing exercises that will help you boost your creativity.\n- Do not edit while writing. There will be time for polishing grammar. Your initial task is to come up with an engaging story, so do not distract yourself.\n- Edit your old writings to add a pinch of creativity to them.\n- Experiment! Try writing the same story from the perspective of different characters or using different points of view.\n- Ask for an opinion. Let your friends or family provide feedback on your creative writing.\nTo sum it up\nCreative writing is by far the most challenging type of writing. However, it is a misconception that proficient creative writers are born rather than made. You make create beautiful pieces of creative writing by following simple steps:\n- Learn about forms and types of creative writing.\n- Choose the one you are interested in/comfortable with.\n- Let your creativity flow, you will revise the piece later.\n- Practice your creative writing a lot to become fluent in it.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.neiljameshudson.net/index.php/news/", "date": "2017-06-23T04:57:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320003.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623045423-20170623065423-00294.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9519321918487549, "token_count": 330, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-26__0__253040010", "lang": "en", "text": "“The Losers’ Crusade” will be my fifth story for Third Flatiron, in their “Cat’s Breakfast” anthology – a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. We were asked to write a story that seemed to sum up Vonnegut’s vision without reusing any of his characters or scenarios, which I found a particularly difficult brief, but I seem to have come through. I’ll also be in two forthcoming Circlet Press anthologies; “How I Won the Lottery” will be appearing in “Playing Dirty”, and “The Day the Mirror Told the Truth” is set for their Beauty and the Beast anthology, “A Beastly Affair”.\nYou Are Here: Tales of Cartographic Wonders, edited by N E White, is now available, including my story “Literary Walks: The Cartographer by Martin Croft”, a meander through various locations in York, or more accurately Yorks.\nThere have also been some recent reviews of my work – BCN is positive about On Wings of Pity, and you might be interested to read Des Lewis’s review of my story collection The End of the World: A User’s Guide. Des was publisher of Nemonymous, and was responsible for the first publication of my story “The Point of Oswald Masters”.\nAnd don’t forget that you can buy The End of the World: A User’s Guide for only £7.99.\n[Last update 28 April 2017]", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.whiteslavesofchinatown.com/", "date": "2020-01-23T04:53:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250608295.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20200123041345-20200123070345-00215.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9708309769630432, "token_count": 5047, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__226362256", "lang": "en", "text": "I spent a few days working on this and don't want to just throw it away, so you get to see it.\nLike the title says, I'm rating Jedi and Sith who appear in The Skywalker Nonology (and only the nonology, no television shows or other ancillary media) in order of importance to the story.\nHere we go:\n12. Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus\nA respected Jedi, Padawan of Yoda, Dooku grew disillusioned with the corruption in the Galactic Senate, as well as the traditions of the Jedi , and left the order to return to his homeworld, Serenno. There, he renounced the Jedi for losing their way. After the death of Maul, Sidious (following the Rule of Two) choose Dooku to be his new apprentice.\nDooku’s primary function was to marshal forces to the Separatist cause in anticipation of the Phantom Sith’s plans for The Clone Wars and, eventual, Empire. After the Battle of Geonosis, Dooku took ostensible command of the Separatist Army (secretly controlled by Sidious). In grand Sith style, Dooku tried to enlist several apprentices, himself, with the objective of overthrowing Palaptine, but Palpatine was far too clever for Dooku and manipulated Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker into executing him.\nDooku was the prime beard for Palpatine during the Clone Wars, but was ultimately too weak to pose a threat to Sidious or the Jedi.\nWidely believed to be a Sith (or at least a force-sensitive humanoid) for the first two films of the sequel trilogy, The Rise of Skywalker revealed Snoke to have been nothing but a clone manufactured by Sidious to extend his reach beyond the Unknown Regions while awaiting the ascendancy of his granddaughter.\nBut Snoke was more than simply a placeholder. He was put into position to assemble The First Order and groom Kylo Ren in the Dark Side. Snoke’s ultimate purpose was served when he became the final test of Kylo Ren’s Dark journey. By betraying and murdering his “master”, Kylo proved to the Emperor that he was ready to accept the tenets of Sithhood.\nUnbeknownst to Kylo, this proved, once again, the Rule of Two, that there can be only two Sith (one Master and one Apprentice) at any given time. He also served to bring Kylo and Rey together, an integral part of the Emperor’s master plan.\n10. Qui-Gon Jinn\nA legendary brave and selfless Jedi Master and the first of four on this list (although Dooku was a Master before he turned to the Dark Side), Qui-Jon Jinn’s importance to The Skywalker Saga manifests itself in a few ways, primarily by discovering the Chosen One and thus being the catalyst for the entire nine film series.\nQui-Gon was also the first Jedi to discover and master (after his death) the Jedi ability to transcend death as a Force Spirit. The ramifications of this knowledge would be felt through the entire nonology, as Kenobi, Yoda, Anakin, and Luke among others would return as Force Ghosts or voices to instruct further generations.\nQui-Gon was murdered, ignobly, by Darth Maul on the planet Naboo, thus allowing Obi-Wan Kenobi to ascend to the position of Jedi Master, and become instructive in the Jedi training of the young Anakin Skywalker.\n9. Darth Maul\nBorn on the red planet, Dathomir, and son of Madame Talzin, leader of the Nightsisters, Maul became an apprentice to Talzin’s ally, Sidious, when he was still a child. Years later, Darth Maul would be the first Sith to reveal themselves to the Jedi in a millennium. Working at the behest of the Phantom Emperor, Maul, tracking Queen Amidala of the Naboo’s distress call to the desert planet of Tatooine, attempted to kidnap the queen for Sidious’ nefarious purposes.\nThis resulted in a great many things occurring, all conforming to Palpatine’s master plan of taking over the Republic and supplanting it with an Empire, with himself at the head.\nOne of the most significant of Maul’s actions was the death of Qui-Gon Jinn, killed by Maul in a generator complex on Naboo. This resulted in Maul’s own supposed death at the hands of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which led to Kenobi becoming a Jedi Master assuming the training of Anakin Skywalker, at that time believed to be the fulfillment of an ancient Jedi Prophecy of a “Chosen One” who would bring “Balance to the Force.”\nAlso, he had the first “cool” lightsaber.\n8. Obi-Wan Kenobi\nObi-Wan Kenobi was a Jedi Master. A former apprentice of Qui-Gon Jinn, Kenobi was a staunch proponent of the Jedi Council and its dictates. After Kenobi “killed” Darth Maul on Naboo, he took on Qui-Jon Jinn’s dying request to take Anakin Skywalker under his wing as his Padawan. Despite some initial reluctance on the Jedi Council’s part, Kenobi was granted permission to train Skywalker, whom he believed was the “Chosen One” spoken of in Jedi prophecy.\nKenobi trained the volatile Skywalker as best he could, often ignoring (or blind to) Anakin’s growing discontent with the life of a Jedi. Kenobi was only vaguely aware of Skywalker’s unrequited love for Naboo Senator Padme Amidala, but chalked it up to youthful indiscretion.\nKenobi distinguished himself during The Clone Wars, but was unable to stop Anakin’s descent to the Dark Side, resulting in the deaths of the senator and countless Jedi and younglings. Kenobi stood watch over Anakin’s (now Darth Vader) hidden son, Luke, for years, now believing this son to be the Chosen One.\nOnce revealed to Luke, Kenobi told the boy lies about his parentage and who the Jedi were. Luke fell under his sway, promoting an adventure that resulted in Kenobi’s death at the hands of Vader.\nKenobi appeared as a Force spirit a number of times, apologizing to Luke for misleading him, but continuing to give him advice and guidance.\n7. Leia Organa Solo\nAnother of Darth Vader’s hidden children, Leia grew up in the relative safety of the royal House of Organa on the planet Alderaan. Raised as a princess and politician, Leia didn’t discover her nascent Jedi abilities until long after meeting Rebel pilot (and Jedi in training) Luke Skywalker during a rescue operation. A major figure in the Rebellion against the Empire at the time, it would take three years before Skywalker, in a time of great distress, reached out to Leia through the Force, thus revealing her latent telepathic ability.\nLeia trained with Skywalker for over a year following the Battle of Endor, constructing her own lightsaber, and learning the ways of the Jedi. It was at the end of this training that Leia had a vision that her Jedi path would lead to the death of her son, and she gave her lightsaber into Luke’s hands, for someone else to later wield.\nThough she had given up her Jedi combat training, Leia was still powerful with the Force. She was able to save herself from exposure to the depths of space and was, eventually, able to reach across countless miles of space with her mind and touch the heart of her son, Kylo Ren, thus distracting him long enough for Rey to defeat him in battle.\nThis selfless act led to her death, but, ultimately, saved the universe.\n6. Kylo Ren/Ben Solo\nBen Solo was the last of a line of Jedi begun by Sheev Palpatine. Ben was the grandson of Darth Vader, son of Leia Organa and Han Solo and student of Jedi, Luke Skywalker, before turning to the Dark Side and taking on the name Kylo Ren.\nYoung Ben was the subject of visions even before his birth, so powerful was he in the Force. The Emperor Palpatine influenced young Solo, even in the womb, mentally influencing him throughout his life. Solo was unaware of Sidious’ deception and, turning to the Dark Side after what he believed was Luke’s betrayal and attempt to murder him, took the name of Kylo Ren and fell under the sway of First Order Supreme Leader, Snoke. But Snoke was merely Palpatine’s creation, a puppet to control the First Order and, by extension, Kylo Ren.\nRen was instrumental in the purge of Force sensitives as he led the defense forces of the First Order. A part of an uneasy triumvirate with Admiral Hux and Stormtrooper Captain Phasma, Kylo Ren did his best to carry out the orders of Supreme Leader Snoke. Through a combination of terror and the super weapon, Starkiller Base, the First Order was able to murder millions across the galaxy.\nKylo Ren killed Ben Solo’s father, Han, and decimated the Resistance fleet before being distracted by the illusion of his uncle, Luke Skywalker, on the plant of Crait. Ren pursued the Force sensitive, Rey, first through Snoke’s instruction, but then, after disposing of Snoke, attempting to turn her to the Dark Side, following the Rule of Two.\nRen and Rey were, unknowingly, a dyad, two beings who shared a Force bond, a feature of Sith lore. Through the fulfillment of this prophecy, Kylo Ren and Rey were able to combine their powers to defeat Palpatine on Exegol, helping to end his ambitions once and for all.\n5. Luke Skywalker\nThe Force sensitive son of Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala, and brother of Leia Organa, Luke Skywalker was raised on the desert world of Tatooine. Kept in the dark about his heritage by his Step-Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru, for safety’s sake, Luke lived a life of ignorance and boredom, although, secretly, watched over, from afar, by Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi.\nAfter Princess Leia inadvertently brought the Galactic Empire to his doorstep, both of Luke’s surrogate parents were killed and he fled Tatooine with Kenobi, attempting to deliver a message to the Rebel Alliance to Restore the Republic. Finding their destination destroyed, Luke and Obi-Wan, with the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, and their hired spaceship, were captured by the Empire and brought aboard the Death Star, a planet destroying superweapon.\nWhile attempting to escape the space station and rescue the Princess (conveniently held prisoner there), Obi-Wan allowed Darth Vader (also on board) to kill him within Luke’s sight, traumatizing the young farmboy. Obi-Wan would manifest to Luke several times over the next few years, instructing him in the ways of the Force and guiding him to the ancient Jedi Master, Yoda, at that time hidden on the swamp planet of Dagobah.\nLuke would train for only a short time before a Force vision prompted him to leave Yoda’s instruction to help his friends whom he believed were in danger from Vader in the Bespin mining colony of Cloud City. Luke’s arrival in Cloud City did not help his friends, as their dilemma was nothing but a trap set by Vader to lure Skywalker to him, Vader having learned Luke’s true identity and relation to himself.\nLuke’s encounter with Vader ended in disaster, Vader revealing his true self to Luke and alleviating the boy of his right hand. In his desperation, Luke used the Force to call out to Leia, who saved him from certain death.\nLuke would use his Jedi powers in several rescue and guerilla operations for the Rebellion before encountering Vader again on the forest moon of Endor. Taking advantage of Luke’s belief in his father’s inherent goodness, Vader was able to capture him and take him before his master, The Galactic Emperor Palpatine. In the ensuing conflagration, both Palpatine and Vader were killed and Luke was able to escape and bear witness to a major Rebellion victory over the Empire.\nFollowing the destruction of the Empire, Luke attempted to restore the Jedi Order by training a number of Force sensitive youth, his nephew Ben Solo among them. This new Jedi Order was destroyed when Luke misinterpreted what he felt were the stirrings of the Dark Side in young Ben Solo and contemplated murdering him to prevent wholesale destruction.\nBut Ben Solo had been manipulated by the, actually alive, Palpatine from beyond the Unknown Regions, and Luke’s mistake brought forth the very fruit he was trying to stop, sending Ben into the influence and clutches of First Order Supreme Leader Snoke, and, thus, setting into motion the deaths of countless millions.\nRecognizing his failure, Skywalker abandoned his plans and exiled himself on Ahch-To, the birthplace of the Jedi Order, becoming a hermit and refusing to help stop everything he had started. It was here that, more than 10 years later, the Force sensitive, Rey, found him and tried to persuade him to help the newly formed Resistance against the First Order.\nLuke refused, but consented to train Rey in the ways of the Force until, after glimpsing the extent of the Dark Side within her, he balked once again, afraid that what had happened to Ben would happen to her. Although reticent to help in any way, events conspired that would allow Skywalker to sacrifice himself in one, last Force projection, a delaying action that allowed the remains of the Resistance to escape the First Order’s clutches.\nLuke would later return as a Force spirit to advise his spurned pupil, Rey, one last time and provide her with transportation to get somewhere.\n4. Rey Skywalker\nRey Skywalker (nee Palpatine) is the biological granddaughter of Sheeve Palpatine, Darth Sidious, Sith lord and Galactic Emperor. Rey was hidden from Palpatine on the planet Jakku when she only a child. There she grew up alone, a scavenger, living off of what few credits or portions of food, she could get in trade.\nRey’s Force powers remained dormant until her encounter with Han Solo brought her to Takodonna, where, in the lower levels of pirate Maz Kanata’s castle, she discovered the old lightsaber of Luke Skywalker, lost in the duel on Cloud City. Contact with the sabre triggered a Force vision in Rey, Shaking her, but, also, awakening the Force within her.\nRey would later learn the ways of the Force from both Skywalker siblings, Luke and Leia, mastering many, previously unseen abilities, including using her life force to heal the wounded. As a part of a Force dyad with Kylo Ren, Rey was able to establish a Force bond with her dark counterpart and combine their powers, forming a “power of two” and giving Rey and Ren the power to confront Palpatine on the Sith planet of Exegol, in the Unknown Regions.\nAlthough their joined power was not enough to defeat the Emperor, on the verge of death, Rey was able to summon the spirits of past Jedi to strengthen her for one final push, thus destroying the Emperor forever. As a result, all Jedi and all Sith live within her, and the Jedi prophecy of a Chosen One bringing balance to the Force was, finally, fulfilled.\n3. Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader\nImmaculately conceived by midi-chlorians, possibly manipulated by the Dark Lord of the Sith, Sheeve Palpatine (this is still in contention). Anakin Skywalker grew up fatherless, a slave of Hutts and Toydarians on Tatooine. Anakin displayed Force sensitivity at an early age, allowing him to participate in (and win) the super fast Podraces that were a part of Tatooine’s Bunta Eve Celebrations.\nAnakin’s Force sensitivity was discovered by Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi while the two Jedi were waylaid on Tatooine, repairing their starship. They arranged the slave’s freedom and brought him before the Jedi Council, who reluctantly agreed to accept Anakin into their order. Anakin would be trained under the watchful eye of Kenobi, becoming his Padawan and his partner for nearly 10 years.\nThe Jedi Council and the Phantom Emperor, Palpatine, both recognized Anakin’s potential to be the “Chosen One”, a extremely powerful being from Jedi prophecy who would bring “balance to the Force”. As he grew up. Anakin began experiencing disturbing Force visions concerning the death and suffering of his mother, Shmi. With the accompaniment of Naboo Senator Padme Amidala, Anakin returned to Tatooine to save his mother, only to watch her die in his arms, which provoked a rage within him, leading him to slaughter an entire tribe of Tusken Raiders.\nRage was not Anakin’s only passion. He professed his love for the Senator, an attachment forbidden by the Jedi, leading to their surreptitious marriage and Padme’s pregnancy.\nDistinguishing himself in the Clone Wars, Anakin, at the insistence of the Palpatine, executed the Sith apprentice, Count Dooku. New Force visions of the death of his wife and unborn children prompted Anakin to seek out the guidance of Palplatine, secretly the Sith Lord, Sidious. The Sith tempted Anakin with the power of life and death, using his emotional weakness to ease him over to the Dark Side.\nAt the moment of the Sith revelation to the Jedi, Anakin (now using the Sith name Darth Vader) led an assault of the Jedi temple, killing hundreds of Jedi and younglings. A final confrontation on Musafar resulted in the death of Padme and Vader’s dismemberment at the hands of his old Jedi Master, Obi-Wan. Now encased in life-saving cybernetic armor, Vader continued to operate as the Emperor’s right hand, carrying out his master’s every whim, murdering stray Jedi and leading the Empire’s assault forces against the nascent Rebellion.\nIt is in the fulfillment of these tasks that Vader discovered that his son, Luke Skywalker, was, in fact, alive, having survived Padme’s death during childbirth. Together, Vader and the Emperor plotted to turn Luke to the Dark Side. Vader impetus in this was to depose the Emperor by adhering to the Rule of Two, desiring to take Luke as his own apprentice. Vader was defeated above the forest moon of Endor by Luke, but not before saving the boy from the Emperor’s Force lightening and throwing the Dark Lord down a ventilation shaft.\nVader died in his son’s arms in a moment of weakness, believing himself beyond redemption. Luke mourned the death of his father, but considered it to be an act of spiritual victory.\nYoda was a long-lived, legendary Jedi Master, a leading member of the Jedi Council and original Master of Count Dooku. Outside of that relationship, Yoda trained all younglings in the Jedi basics (including the lightsaber) prior to their Master/Padawan assignments, making him one of the most influential Jedi ever.\nYoda was one of the few Jedi to sense that there was a disturbance in the Force, realizing that the Jedi had been blinded by their arrogance and position. Yoda initially refused to admit Anakin Skywalker into the Jedi Order because he sensed the darkness within him, despite a number of Jedi believing Anakin to be the Chosen One.\nYoda was instrumental in many of the Republic’s victories during the Clone Wars, as he led Clone troops against the Separatist droid armies, liberating entire planets and star systems.\nYoda’s continued unease during Sheeve Palpatine's rise through the ranks of the Galactic Senate was confirmed when the politician turned out to be a Dark Lord of the Sith, secret leader of the Separatists. After a tumultuous duel during which Palpatine got the better of him, Yoda went into hiding on the swamp planet of Dagobah, awaiting the return of the Jedi. Yoda offered his experience and training to the young acolyte, Luke Skywalker in the waning days of the Empire.\nFollowing his death, the tiny Jedi Master later appeared as a Force spirit to Luke during the Resistance’s conflict against The First Order, and admitted that it was time for the Jedi to die.\n1. Sheeve Palpatine, Darth Sidious, the Dark Lord of the Sith\nSheeve Palpatine was born on the planet of Naboo. At some time in his past, he discovered his Force sensitivity, became apprentice to Darth Plagueis, and learned the ways of the Sith. After learning all he could from his master, including the manipulation of midi-chlorians and the secret to eternal life, the now christened Darth Sidious murdered his Master and took on a new apprentice, adhering to the Sith Rule of Two.\nHis Sith identity a secret, Palpatine used his political acumen to get elected to the Galactic Senate. While there, he began to manipulate the political process, eventually being appointed, first, Chancellor to the Republic, and, later, Emperor. All the while, Sidious covertly led the Separatist rebellion against the Republic, using a succession of apprentices including Darths Maul and Tyranus.\nIt was Palpatine who influenced the midi-chlorians that resulted in the birth of Anakin Skywalker, believed to be the Chosen One of Jedi prophecy. Sidous continued to manipulate Skywalker and events, leading to Skywalker’s turn to the Dark Side, his enlistment as Sidious’ apprentice, and the destruction of both the Jedi and the Republic.\nPalpatine continued his iron-fisted reign over the Empire for more than twenty years, all the while secretly putting in place The Contingency, by which he could reform his forces, deep with the Unknown Regions, if anything ever went south.\nPalpatine was an octogenarian when Skywalker’s (now Darth Vader) son, Luke, was revealed to be alive and a threat to his power. Palpatine coaxed Vader into hunting and capturing Luke (still fully aware of the ramifications of the Rule of Two), leading to a confrontation between the three on the second Death Star. And south things went, when Vader turned against the Emperor, attacking him to save his son. Following the destruction of the super weapon, Palpatine was believed to have been destroyed.\nBut Palpatine had survived, using dark Sith Magic, and, taking advantage of the Contingency, relocated to the Unknown Regions and his waiting legions of Sith Loyalists. There he plotted and planned for over thirty years, exerting influence over events and individuals in the New Republic when he could, inserting his own agents to plant the seeds of his return when he couldn’t.\nIt was from the Sith planet Exegol that Sidious sent the clone, Snoke, to revive the Sith and control the newly born First Order, formerly a military junta made up of ex-Imperials and malcontents. It was also from here that Sidious corrupted Kylo Ren, driving Darth Vader’s grandson to the Dark Side, and placing him in a position from which he could control the former Ben Solo and guide him to Exgol, whereupon his entire plan could be revealed.\nThat plan was to include the seduction of Palpatine’s very own grandchild, the Force sensitive scavenger Rey. Drawing her, through Kylo Ren, to himself, the Dark Lord attempted to use the two youths' Force dyad, and complete his resurrection. This evil plot backfired when Rey was able to gather the spirits of all former Jedi and deflect Palpatine’s own force against him, causing him to disintegrate.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://actingouthisword.org/", "date": "2024-04-17T22:24:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817181.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417204934-20240417234934-00059.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9538173675537109, "token_count": 233, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__161560438", "lang": "en", "text": "“The Word of God is like a lion. You don’t have to defend a lion. All you have to do is let the lion loose, and the lion will defend itself.”― Charles Spurgeon\nBe a lion for the Lamb!\nDepth by Drama\nDo you have a passion for reaching the world with the truth of the Word of God? Are you wanting to see transformation in others as well as in yourself? Explore this fascinating and in-depth instructional guide to find out how...\nAbout Acting Out His Word Ministries\nand its founder Michael W. Merker\nActing Out His Word Ministries is the latest incarnation of a work that was started in 1981 when Michael W. Merker, a professional theater worker in Chicago, became a Christian. He started forming and working with troupes of like-minded perrformers, and wrote and directed dramatic works to promote Bible literacy. After discovering the depth of discipleship such activities offer the performers, he started this ministry that others might embrace the vision: \"Every ear to hear, every heart to hope!\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://stbarnabastheapostle.org/art4.html", "date": "2019-04-24T08:38:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578636101.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20190424074540-20190424100540-00424.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9675768613815308, "token_count": 5202, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__195109740", "lang": "en", "text": "Ministers of What is Real\nBlow, blow, thou winter wind,\nThou art not so unkind\nAs man's ingratitude\nSo sings Lord Amiens in Shakespeare's As You Like It. And while winter's winds have yet to harass most of otherwise sunny California, examples of man's\ningratitude are nowhere lacking. As winter draws near, the final liturgical season of the year, the Sanctification of the Church (or Hallowing of the\nChurch, as it has historically been known), begins this Sunday. A short four week season, its readings highlight the corporate work of God's people\nin both offering worship to Him and in forming an interdependent body to care for their spiritual and physical needs.\nMoses is told to build a Tabernacle\nIn our liturgical readings ( please see the November Calendar), this interdependent body first takes form among the Israelites. Our readings from Exodus\ntell us how Moses and the people God chose and brought out of Egypt completed the \"Dwelling Place\" or Tabernacle, in the wilderness. The\nTabernacle was a movable \"tent\" filled with special objects; the Ark, the Lamp, and the Table of the Bread of Presence were kept in it.\nWherever it was, there God was. There God was to be encountered. There God was to be worshiped.\nThe Tabernacle was where the people were to gather around the presence of God. His presence was made evident by a pillar of smoke during the day and a\npillar of fire, giving light, at night. When God becomes present in a visible way to man it is called a \"theophany.\" There are many theophanies\nin the Old Testament. This is one of them. \"For the cloud of the Lord was on the Tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, before the\neyes of all the house of Israel at each stage of their journey.\" (Ex 40:38, 1st Week) Regarding the cloud and the light form the fire, the Catechism\nreminds us \"These two images occur together in the manifestations of the Holy Spirit. In the theophanies of the Old Testament, the cloud, now obscure,\nnow luminous, reveals the living and saving God, while veiling the transcendence of his glory. (Paragraph 697)\nSo here we find God, the Deity Supreme, choosing one humble group of humanity, the Israelite slaves, to craft holy objects at his direction and make a holy\nspace to encounter God in worship. By worship we mean the very many forms of offerings God required, as well as the daily and weekly duties to him and in\ncare of his Tabernacle. That the LORD, creator of heaven and earth, chose to dwell in some way among his people is in itself a wonder. That he instructed\nthem through Moses to build and furnish a dwelling place for himself was a matter of establishing and maintaining a relationship with him. God told Moses,\n\"They shall make me a Sanctuary, and I will dwell among them. You must make the Tabernacle and all its furnishings following the plan that I am showing you.\" (Exodus 25:8-9) In Weeks 2, 3 and 4 of this season, St Paul alludes to this several times.\nThe Tabernacle and the Church\nWhat this has to do with the Church is everything. St Paul shows us from Hebrews how the building and furnishings of the Tabernacle was a sign of something\nyet to come, a heavenly reality that will be made manifest in the Church. He interprets the Exodus story in both the literal sense and in a spiritual one.\nSt Paul calls these a \"sketch\" or \"shadow\" in English translation, \"(they) offer worship in a sanctuary that is a sketch and shadow\nof the heavenly one.\" (Heb 8:5, Week 2) The term used in theology for such sign is \"type\" and the thing it is a sign of, the reality, is\ncalled an \"antitype.\" The antitype is \"What is Real,\" the type - a mere shadow of it.\nThe distinction between \"type\" and \"antitype\" is one of the foremost ways the interpreters of the Church of the East heritage understand\nScripture. It is called \"Typology.\" The Catechism has this to say about it; \"The Church, as early as apostolic times, and then constantly in\nher Tradition, has illuminated the unity of the divine plan in the two Testaments through typology, which discerns in God's works of the Old Covenant\nprefigurations of what he accomplished in the fullness of time in the person of his incarnate Son.\" (Paragraph 128)\nSpeaking of ways of interpreting the Scriptures, the Catechism says\n\"Thanks to the unity of God's plan, not only the text of Scripture but also the realities and events about which it speaks can be signs.\n1. The allegorical sense. We can acquire a more profound understanding of events by recognizing their significance in Christ; thus the crossing of the\nRed Sea is a sign or type of Christ's victory and also of Christian Baptism.\n2. The moral sense. The events reported in Scripture ought to lead us to act justly. As St. Paul says, they were written \"for our instruction\".\n3. The anagogical sense (Greek: anagoge, \"leading\"). We can view realities and events in terms of their eternal significance, leading us toward our true\nhomeland: thus the Church on earth is a sign of the heavenly Jerusalem.\" (Paragraph 117)\nAh! Now we can see that the Tabernacle plan was a sign of the heavenly dwelling of God. We shouldn't think that he somehow needed comfortable and familiar\nsettings for his visitation on Earth - that is not appropriate. Instead, we should find that in the multitude of his graces, he permitted humanity to have\nsome understanding, a glimpse, a foretaste, of the heavenly realm he dwells in and calls us to. The seed of the concept of the Church is planted.\nThe Eucharist Prefigured\nTradition teaches that Moses saw a heavenly vision of how the Tabernacle and its furnishings were to be during his forty day stay on Mount Sinai. The Bread\nof the Presence has always been interpreted as a sign of the Eucharist by the Church Fathers. It was only to be consumed after being before the LORD for a\nweek and only by the priests, however David once compelled a priest to give him some. In a similar manner, the prophet Isaiah was shown a vision of heaven.\nIn our reading from Isaiah 6 this week, Isaiah sees the LORD sitting on a throne in the heavenly Temple, the antitype of Moses' Tabernacle. At one point an\nangelic being called a seraph flies over to Isaiah with a burning, or \"live\" coal taken from \"the Altar.\" He dares not touch it,\nbut brings it to Isaiah with \"tongs.\" This coal he touches to Isaiah lips, thus purifying him and preparing him for his mission of prophesying.\nThis is a particularly important Scripture in our Church - so much so that we read it three times a year! Why is it so important? Again, the coal is a type,\na sign, of the Eucharist. By it, debts are pardon and sins are forgiven because it is the body of Christ. Our sister Churches the Byzantines, the Coptic and\nthe Jacobite Syrian all share this same rich understanding, yet it is in our Church that it is most emphasized. Here are examples from our liturgy:\n\"The live coal which the prophet saw the angel held with tongs, and now priests within the Sanctuary bear it upon their hands.\"\nAnthem of the Mysteries for the Feast of Nativity\n\"To you, O my Lord, all flesh shall come, for you grant pardon for the debts of all. May the bodies which sin has defiled be cleansed with your hyssop.\nCome, O mortals, bearers of burdens, lay aside the burden of your debts. Receive from the Altar the live coal which absolved the Prophet, and be pardoned.\"\nAnthem of the Chancel, Tuesday of the Rogation of the Ninevites\n\"The nations longed to receive in faith the gift of the Mysteries which are set before us: the Body which is broken for our salvation, and the Blood of\nthe Covenant which is shed for us. This is the life-giving coal which touched the prophet, who was absolved of his debts and sins by it.\"\nAnthem of the Bema, Feast of Hosannas\n\"With purity of conscience and with clean thoughts let us approach the live coal which was given in mercies for pardon and for a pledge of new life.\"\nAnthem of the Bema, Fifth Sunday of the Resurrection\n\"Come, let us all draw near to the Body and Blood of Christ in fear and trembling, and in love let us receive him and sing praise. For the same was\nshown to Isaiah the Prophet mystically. A spiritual one gave him a live coal and his debts were pardoned.\"\nAnthem of the Bema, Third Sunday of the Apostles\nSo this Sunday as we receive live coal, the pardon of our debts, the gift of immortality from the Altar, let us be mindful that the Father prepared this\nremedy for our faults and portrayed his plan of salvation long before the coming of the Son because of his love for you and for me. And in gratitude,\nlet us receive it.\nMinisters of What is Real\nThe title of this series is taken from the Holy Synod of Mar Ishu'yab held in the year 587. Lets begin with this reading from the Synod of the Fifth Canon,\ntranslated by Chorbishop Michael Birnie of Seattle.\nIt is permitted to speak with confidence, through the faculty we have received from the symbols and types of the ecclesiastical ministry. From them it\nis possible to say confidently, for example, that the priests, the ministers of the Altar, bear the likeness and image of our Lord and that the deacons,\nthe ministers of the Church, bear the likeness and image of the angels on high as servants of the true High Priest. For priests are appointed in the\nservice of their priesthood as propitiators of God, absolvers of the people and obedient teachers, and by these three perfect things they fulfill the\nlaw of their priesthood, as was said by the mediator of the Old Covenant concerning the priests who were ministers of shadowy things - but is especially\nappropriate for the priests who are ministers of what is sure - \"They shall offer incense according to your wrath and satisfaction upon your Altar.\nThey shall teach your judgments to Jacob and Your laws to Israel.\"\nIn these three ways of ministry the Law-Giver revealed how great the priestly rank is. When wrath is stirred up, it is abated by the fragrance of their\nprayers. When the people sin, the people are absolved by the satisfaction of their sacrifices. When teaching is required, their mind overflows and and their\ntongues conveys the wisdom of the Giver of laws.\nPerhaps the first thing we notice about this canon is the contrast of the Old Covenant with the New Covenant. The Old Covenant priests \"were ministers\nof shadowy things\" while those of the New Covenant in Christ are \"the priests who are ministers of what is sure\" or \"real.\" Again,\nwe find the type in the Old Covenant and its fulfillment, the antitype, in the New.\n\"Symbols and Types of the Ecclesiastical Ministry\"\nThe canon also contrasts the ministry of deacons and the priesthood, which in this usage includes bishops as well. The canon call deacons \"the\nministers of the Church,\" who \" bear the likeness and image of the angels on high as servants of the true High Priest.\" The awesome image that\nis invoked is that of a heavenly scene with angels ministering to the Messiah as he offers himself to the Father for the totality of humanity! This is\nexpressed by Mar Narsai, who said the deacons bear the image \"of the angels who ministered to the Passion of the Son. He was served by angels at the\ntime of his Passion and the deacons are honoring his body, which is suffering mystically.\" (Commentary on the Offices, Chap. 25)\nHow is it that deacons can be said to bear the likeness and image of the angels? It is in their assistance at the Altar in the celebration of the the\ndivine Mysteries. Through their ordination they receive a special grace and a \"talent\" to perform this ministry. The Catechism tells us \"\nDeacons share in Christ's mission and grace in a special way. The sacrament of Holy Orders marks them with an imprint (\"character\") which cannot be removed\nand which configures them to Christ, who made himself the \"deacon\" or servant of all. Among other tasks, it is the task of deacons to assist the\npriests in the celebration of the divine mysteries, above all the Eucharist, in the distribution of Holy Communion, in assisting at and blessing marriages,\nin the proclamation of the Gospel and preaching, in presiding over funerals, and in dedicating themselves to the various ministries of charity.\"\nWith this in mind, let be supportive of those considering the vocation of being a deacon. The office of the diaconate, as it is known, is a great blessing\nto the Church and those so called are worthy of honor and respect.\n\"Servants of the true High Priest\"\nThere is a great truth hidden in the few words, \"servants of the true High Priest.\" Although there are many priests in every Church, several\nhundreds of thousands alive today, in truth there is only one priest and that is Jesus himself. All churches' priesthoods, our bishops' priesthoods.\nthe Pope's priesthood - these are only a sharing and participation in the priesthood of Christ. The Catechism address Jesus as \"the one priest of\nthe new and eternal Covenant, \"entered, not into a sanctuary made by human hands . . . but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on\nour behalf\" (Heb 9:24). There Christ permanently exercises his priesthood, for he \"always lives to make intercession\" for \"those who draw near to God\nthrough him\" (Heb 7:25). As \"high priest of the good things to come\" he is the center and the principal actor of the liturgy that honors the Father\nin heaven (Heb 9:11; cf. Rev 4:6-11).\" (Paragraph 662)\nFrom Melchizadek the priest king-priest of Salem to the Temple priests of Jesus' day the priesthood was a type of Christ's true priesthood. Once his\npriesthood is established there is no need for further \"symbols and types.\" Instead, his priesthood is carried on through those men ordained\nin the sacrament of Holy Orders, as we previously spoke of the deacons. \"The redemptive sacrifice of Christ is unique, accomplished once for all;\nyet it is made present in the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Church. The same is true of the one priesthood of Christ; it is made present through the\nministerial priesthood without diminishing the uniqueness of Christ's priesthood: \"Only Christ is the true priest, the others being only his ministers.\"\n(The Catechism, Paragraph 1554)\n\"Propitiators of God\"\nPropitiation is a difficult word, but not as difficult as the act. It means to appease, to placate, to make amends and to satisfy someone, usually God.\nPriests are called \"Propitiators of God\" not because of their works or offerings, but because of the one true priest, Jesus the Messiah,\nwho alone could appease God and in whose priesthood they share, as we said above.\nBeing \"Propitiators of God\" is one of the three aspects of service priests perform in the Church. It is proper to consider it first,\nbecause without it the other two, absolution and teaching, would not come about.\nThe Cause of Christ\nUnderstanding the priestly service of propitiation is understanding the the cause of the coming of Christ into his own creation, the world.\nThe Third Consecration prayer of the Church of the East, attributed to Nestorius, says, \"You brought us into being from nothing, and fashioned us,\nbut when we had stumbled, fallen and wasted away, you renewed us again, raised us up and redeemed us.\" God, who created humanity to love and cherish,\nwas rightly angry with humanity, namely Adam and Eve, for bringing into his perfect creation sin, disobedience and death. By their sins, Adam and Eve\ntainted all creation.\nWe all know the story of Adam and Eve. We read it in our First Thursday of the Great Fast liturgy - most appropriate, as it is the reason for the\ncrucifixion of Christ we will soon observe. It is found in the third chapter of Genesis. But it is to the effects of the disobedience we need to draw\nour attention. The effects were that \"The harmony in which they had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control of the\nsoul's spiritual faculties over the body is shattered; the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust\nand domination. Harmony with creation is broken: visible creation has become alien and hostile to man. Because of man, creation is now subject \"to its\nbondage to decay.\" Finally, the consequence explicitly foretold for this disobedience will come true: man will \"return to the ground,\" for out of it he\nwas taken. Death makes its entrance into human history.\" (The Catechism, Paragraph 400)\nWhile man's disobedience and sin have separated him from God, still God reaches out to man, ever wishing to reconcile with him. The Catechism recalls\nthe rest of the story... \"After his fall, man was not abandoned by God. On the contrary, God calls him and in a mysterious way heralds the coming\nvictory over evil and his restoration from his fall. This passage in Genesis is called the Protoevangelium (\"first gospel\"): the first announcement of\nthe Messiah and Redeemer, of a battle between the serpent and the Woman, and of the final victory of a descendant of hers.\"\nThe Faith teaches us that God is all-knowing, so this disobedience of Adam and Eve, resulting in tainting of all creation, must not have surprised God.\nHere in the beginning of the first book of the Bible God announces a way to restore mankind, the coming of the Messiah. The Cause of Christ's coming was\nto reconcile not just man to God, but all of creation to the Creator.\nA Matter of Means\nHow Propitiation was Attained\nInteresting, that this same thought, the coming of the Messiah to restore and reconcile man to God, is echoed in the last book of the Bible, Revelation.\nIn his vision of heaven St John sees \"the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.\" All the countless sacrifices of doves, sheep, goats,\ncalves and bulls in the Old testament were mere \"shadows, symbols and types\" of the one sacrifice planned from the beginning and made present\nin time and space with the death of the Messiah. \"For if the blood of goats and bulls, with the sprinkling of the ashes of a heifer, sanctifies those\nwho have been defiled so that their flesh is purified, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without\nblemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God!\" (Hebrews 9, week 2)\n\"Thus it was necessary,\" writes St Paul in our reading from Hebrews for Week 3, \"for the sketches of the heavenly things to be purified with\nbut the heavenly things themselves need better sacrifices than these. For Christ did not enter a sanctuary made by human hands, a mere copy of the true one,\nbut he entered into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself again and again, as the high priest\nenters the Holy Place year after year with blood that is not his own; for then he would have had to suffer again and again since the foundation of the\nworld. But as it is, he has appeared once for all at the end of the age to remove sin by the sacrifice of himself.\"\nSo, Christ is both the priest who offers the sacrifice and the sacrifice himself! Only one so perfect and pure, one without sin, could be a sacrifice\nthat would appease and satisfy God. \"Behold the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world\" as John the Forerunner said of Jesus and we\nrecite in our second Consecration prayer attributed to Theodore.\nThe Holy Offering, the Act of Propitiation\nThe Holy Offering, also know as \"The Divine Liturgy\" by most Eastern Catholics and Orthodox and as \"The Mass\" in the Western Church, is\nso much more than\nsimply the Catholic way of worship. Although the various churches have different liturgies, there is only one Offering being made by each, that of Christ\non the Cross. All that is left is the duty of the Church on earth to continue re-presenting to the Father this \"Memorial of the Body and Blood of your\nMessiah, which we offer to you on your pure and holy Altar, as you taught us.\" (Addai and Mari)\nAgain, the Catechism teaches us that the Holy Offering is also called \"The Holy Sacrifice, because it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the\nSavior and includes the Church's offering. The terms holy sacrifice of the Mass, \"sacrifice of praise,\" spiritual sacrifice, pure and holy sacrifice\nare also used, since it completes and surpasses all the sacrifices of the Old Covenant.\"\nIt is also called \"The Holy and Divine Liturgy, because the Church's whole liturgy finds its center and most intense expression in the celebration\nof this sacrament; in the same sense we also call its celebration the Sacred Mysteries. We speak of the Most Blessed Sacrament because it is the\nSacrament of sacraments. The Eucharistic species reserved in the tabernacle are designated by this same name. \" (Paragraph 1330)\nAt this point, it's good for us to look at why we \"worship\" the way we do. In a world in which even religion has become consumer oriented, the\nand Orthodox style liturgical worship service has found itself in sharp contrast to many modern denominations and fellowships. What is popular today is\na religious service that really doesn't wish to be thought of as a \"church service.\" These service vary considerably, but the main emphasis is\nindividual's experience. Seats, not pews, bands, not altars and praise leaders, not priests lead the people in beautiful inspiring songs concluding in\na euphoria not unlike the end of a concert.\nIn contrast, our worship is a reflective and contrite re-presentation of the Lord Jesus' offering of his own body at Calvary where we humbly stand at\nthe foot of the Cross with Mother Mary and blessed John. What makes our worship \"perfect\" is not our music nor how we \"feel\" during the\nbut rather our perfection is this; only Jesus was the perfect man, only Jesus was the perfect offering for our sins and only Jesus offered perfect\nworship. The Catechism reminds us \"The cross is the unique sacrifice of Christ, the \"one mediator between God and men\". But because in his incarnate\ndivine person he has in some way united himself to every man, \"the possibility of being made partners, in a way known to God, in the paschal mystery\"\nis offered to all men. He calls his disciples to \"take up [their] cross and follow [him],\" for \"Christ also suffered for [us], leaving [us] an example\nso that [we] should follow in his steps.\" In fact Jesus desires to associate with his redeeming sacrifice those who were to be its first beneficiaries.\nThis is achieved supremely in the case of his mother, who was associated more intimately than any other person in the mystery of his redemptive suffering.\n\" (Paragraph 618)\nFather Dimitri Grekoff\nSt Barnabas the Apostle Parish", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://stevecoates.com.au/random/swindon-in-popular-culture/", "date": "2024-04-13T09:55:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816587.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413083102-20240413113102-00702.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9474146366119385, "token_count": 788, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__40206124", "lang": "en", "text": "I grew up near Swindon, a humble town about 120km west of London in the UK. Actually, I grew up in Wroughton, a village just out of Swindon but when you live on the other side of the world – as I have since the early 1980s – and people ask what part of England you’re from you say Swindon. (If that draws a blank you zoom out a bit and go for “sort of near Stonehenge”).\nEven as a child I suspected there was something fairly unspectacular about Swindon. I don’t mean that in a nasty way – I just knew it didn’t have the exoticism or historical monuments or tourist drawcards of other parts of the world. For example, for a long time the most interesting things I knew about it were\n- The town’s most favoured son is19th century engineer and railway man Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Isambard was important enough to have the shopping centre named after him.\n- There is a crazy ‘multiple roundabouts’ roundabout in Swindon that locals call The Magic Roundabout. Family lore has it that my Nanna used to take the long way around town to avoid it. It was apparently voted ‘the fourth scariest junction in Britain’ in 2009 (putting it’s tagline in the same class as The Flight of the Conchords’ ‘fourth most popular folk duo’).\n- Kind of well-know 50s and 60s actress Diana Dors was from Swindon\n- Something crazy and complicated happened with Swindon Town Football Club in the 1990s that saw them move up and down the divisions in the league.\nIn recent years however this has all changed. It seems that no matter where I look in popular culture Swindon’s there, giving me a “and you thought I wasn’t cool” kind of glance.\nOne: The Office\nIt started with comic masterpiece The Office. In the Season One veiled references were made to the Swindon branch. In Season Two the branches are merged and the Swindoners become part of the team. Neil Godwin who becomes David Brent’s superior is heaps cooler than Brent. (That’s Swindon blood for you).\nTwo: Jasper Fforde and Thursday Next\nNot long after this I started reading Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series of novels. For those who are unfamiliar the five six novel series (The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten and First Among Sequels and One of Our Thursdays is Missing) are a bizarre mix of comedy and fantasy peppered with literary and other high- and low-culture references. They’re set in an alternate history version of today’s world. No prizes for guessing where most of the action takes place – the books are full of locations in and around the big S. Like Fforde’s books his website thursdaynext.com is a world unto itself, and includes a section called The Seven Wonders of Swindon.\nThree: The Curious Incident\nMy third random brush with Swindon in an unexpected context – and the inspiration for me writing this post – came when I read Mark Haddon’s excellent 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time a few weeks back. Yep, set in Swindon. In a pop will eat itself bonus the main character Christopher even discusses another literary reference to Swindon to add to the list – in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Boscombe Valley Mystery Sherlock Holmes lunches in Swindon.\nWhere it all happens.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://chescodems.org/from-amanda-gormans-inaugural-poem/", "date": "2022-01-27T23:41:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305317.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127223432-20220128013432-00560.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8727991580963135, "token_count": 194, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__75235133", "lang": "en", "text": "The ending vision of Amanda Gorman’s poem read at President Biden’s inauguration:\n…We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.\nWe will rise from the gold-limbed hills of the West.\nWe will rise from the windswept Northeast where our forefathers first realized revolution.\nWe will rise from the lake-rimmed cities of the midwestern states.\nWe will rise from the sunbaked South.\nWe will rebuild, reconcile, and recover in every known nook of our nation\nAnd every corner called our country.\nOur people diverse and beautiful will emerge battered and beautiful.\nWhen day comes, we step out of the shade aflame and unafraid.\nThe new dawn blooms as we free it,\nFor there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it,\nIf only we’re brave enough to be it.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.lauren-kirshner.com/teaching/", "date": "2019-08-20T16:01:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315551.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820154633-20190820180633-00163.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9519999027252197, "token_count": 1100, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__99691810", "lang": "en", "text": "Lauren is Assistant Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto. She teaches a variety of courses, including ENG505, ENG517, and ENG306. Her courses encourage students to find and use their unique voices as writers, hone a range of writing skills, and read and edit like writers. Week by week, her lectures break the writing process down into manageable parts to help students discover how to write bold and compelling fiction. Many of her students say they have completed her courses stronger writers and readers, with a tried and tested writing practice of their own.\nLauren’s courses are interactive and include a balance of writing practice and theory. In her courses, students can expect to learn theories of fiction writing (what authors have said about their process and motivation); explore the fundamentals of process (free writing and more); study and apply techniques of the fiction writing craft (including characterization, scene, dialogue); and learn how to polish work through three stages of editing.\nWe’ll also learn how to read as writers. Through close readings and discussions, we’ll dissect stories and pay careful attention to how they are constructed, considering issues like plot, themes, language, narrative mode, and much, much more.\nFinally, throughout the course we’ll read fiction from a range of authors including Lucia Berlin, Raymond Carver, Amy Hempel, Maya Angelou, James Joyce, Anton Chekhov, and Grace Paley. We’ll also read poetry and selections from graphic novels.\nWant to see a syllabus? Two are available below. You can contact Lauren here.\nLauren’s passion for writing is inspiring! She gave our class a great balance of creative freedom and guidance. This is a class that has allowed me to grow in ways I didn’t expect.\nThis has been the best class I’ve taken at Ryerson in three years. Lauren is passionate, knowledgeable, and witty, a combination that makes me excited to come to class every week.\nLauren is perhaps the most enthusiastic and devoted professor I have ever had. This course was a great experience and I would recommend it to anyone who has an interest in creative writing.\nLauren’s course, hands down, is the best course I’ve taken at Ryerson. I’ve been watching myself improve and learn as a writer. I highly recommend this course to anyone.\nWe all need honest encouragement and honest critique – Lauren is able to give both without ballooning or shredding the ego. I learned a great deal about the writer's craft from Lauren.\nEnthusiastic, encouraging and engaging, it has been a delight to go down to Ryerson on Wednesday nights to participate in her class.\nHailed by The Toronto Star as a groundbreaking program, Sister Writes is now in its seventh year.\nLauren is the Founding Program Director of Sister Writes, Toronto’s first creative writing program for women marginalized by factors such as poverty, underhousing, mental health issues, and social isolation. Taught by professional women writers, and hailed by The Toronto Star as a groundbreaking arts program, Sister Writes offers workshops, mentorship, public arts events, exhibitions, and literary magazines devoted to sharing with the community vital stories about women’s lives.\nAs an arts educator, Lauren has designed and facilitated over 300 community workshops and worked with writers from age 8 to 93 in schools, hospitals, libraries, activist collectives, long-term care homes, women’s shelters, and in a first nations community. She has presented programming for organizations including Harbourfront Centre, Luminato Festival of Arts + Creativity, and The Toronto Public Library. Her Young Authors Project, a co-creative writing and publishing program for youth, was a finalist for Ontario Government Minister’s Award for Innovation in Arts.\nLauren is especially focused on creating writing programming that breaks down barriers to participation in the arts. She has run a poetry salon for women inpatients at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, mentored emerging writers through the Diaspora Dialogues Youth Program, and served as Canada Council Writer-in-Residence in a 1902 Carnegie library in southwestern Ontario.\nHer Generations of Writers Project was an intergenerational digital oral history program that put seniors and teens into collaboration. Sister Writes on the Road, her newest program, will culminate in an interactive digital exhibition, a literary magazine, and a public oral history archive.\nHer programs have won the support of The Toronto Arts Council, The Ontario Council, The Ontario Trillium Foundation, and The Canada Council for the Arts.\nFor information on community arts workshops, get in touch with Lauren through the contact page.\n- Toronto Star on Sister Writes\n- Huffington Post on Sister Writes\n- Ryerson Today on Sister Writes\n- Liberty Gleaner on Sister Writes\n- Paris Star on Young Authors Project\n- Shameless on Sister Writes\n- Toronto Star.com on Sister Writes\n- Brantford Expositor on Young Authors Project\n- CrossCurrents on Sister Writes\n- University of Toronto Varsity on Sister Writes\n- Paris Star on Generations of Writers\n- Toronto Observer on Sister Writes\n- Toronto.com on Sister Writes\n- Brantford Expositor on Generations of Writers", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://chenegafuture.com/mgt_clients_reviews/chenega-diaries-stories-and-voices-of-our-past/", "date": "2023-12-10T20:10:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102637.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210190744-20231210220744-00234.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.946618914604187, "token_count": 200, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__246495974", "lang": "en", "text": "Chenega Diaries: Stories and Voices of Our Past\nChenega Diaries: Stories and Voices of Our Past: This compelling book and documentary DVD tells the story of the life and times of the Chenega People circa the late 1940s. Using the children’s diary entries, archived correspondence and over 350 photographs, daily life in the Chenega Village during that time comes alive! Stories, myths, memories, recipes, and more from Chenega Elders were collected and added to the book, documentary, and website: ChenegaDiaries.com as they recollect their memories of that time. With this project, we also branched out into the community, sharing this publication package with teachers and administrators at the Chugach School District and statewide through the Alaska State Library System, sharing the Chenega story far and wide. Please note: The Chenega Diaries DVD plays best on a DVD player and may not work on all computers.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.coveredinpethair.net/single-post/holiday-gift-guide-books-for-cat-lovers", "date": "2024-04-16T03:23:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00637.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.960665762424469, "token_count": 1160, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__6662508", "lang": "en", "text": "Holiday Gift Guide: Books for CAT LOVERS\nHoliday gifts should, of course, be thoughtful. They can also be practical - both for the sender and the recipient. For this reason, I highly recommend books for the holidays. I personally wish I read more and don't always prioritize book purchases in my budget. When in doubt, you can always get a pet lover a gift card to a local or online bookstore, that way they can decide what they want to read in 2023.\nFollowing are some of my book recommendations for pet lovers specifically. I'm sure there are a ton of awesome books and excellent authors we can all support this holiday season. Keep in mind, however, that when you purchase used books online, the author doesn't make a cut. They only earn from the sale of new books, therefore, consider purchasing new books as gifts both because they are usually in much better shape and because the authors will appreciate it.\nTo ensure shipping on time, get your online orders in soon. And, if something is so popular that it's currently sold out, don't fret, they'll print more in a jiffy. Place your order and let your friend know that a pawsome gift is on the way, wink, wink.\nAs a bonus, if you click on the authors' names in this blog, you'll be linked to a fascinating interview they've done either on my channel or one of my other favorite podcasts. Enjoy!\nFinally, please note that many of the links below are affiliate links. They do not cost you anything to use but help me support my YouTube channel and brand. Thank you!\nBooks for Cat Lovers\nBooks for New Cat Parents\nI apologize in advance but you're about to see this name more than once because Pam Johnson-Bennett wrote the book on cat behavior. She's one of the most well-respected cat behavior experts in the US. And, her books are immensely helpful to new cat parents and veteran cat lovers alike. To start, I love her book, Think Like a Cat: How to Raise a Well-Adjusted Cat, Not a Sourpuss.\nJohnson-Bennett's book, Cat Wise, also makes an excellent gift for those that have had cats for a while but still have questions about their behavior. Because cats often display behaviors that humans confuse or misunderstand, deciphering their behavior with the help of a true expert in the field is sure to help troubleshoot some challenges your friends and loved ones may be experiencing with their beloved kitties and cats. A Q&A of sorts, this book would pair very nicely with the above-mentioned book if you're thinking of gifting more than one book to the same recipient this holiday season.\nThe Lion in The Living Room by Abigail Tucker is another awesome book for those that are mildly obsessed with their cats and want to learn more about them and their wild side. From their history, fascinating domestication, and more, your cat-crazy friends will love this read. Plus, it will give them a better understanding of the lion that lives in their living room, which is one of the most beneficial parts of learning about our pets.\nBooks for Growing Cat Families\nFor those that recently added or are planning to add cats to the family in 2023, Pam Johnson-Bennett's Cat vs. Cat is a fantastic guide to welcoming new cats to the family and troubleshooting failed attempts. Most cat experts know that cat dynamics are very complex, more so than most cat lovers realize. This book is a great addition to any cat lover's library, but it can change the lives of those navigating cat vs. cat drama at home.\nFamilies with kids that can read or read with their caregivers will love Arden Moore's A Kid's Guide to Cats. In this book, Arden outlines ways that kids can care for, play with, and bond with their fascinating pet cat. I highly recommend you get this for your/loved ones' kids BEFORE you/they bring any cats home. She also has A Kid's Guide to Dogs that would make an excellent gift for dog-loving families. Both together would be awesome for a multi-species household!\nBooks for Cat People That Love Pizza\nTrans Author, Aitch Alexander, loves cats and pizza. In his book, My Body is a Junkyard, Aitch chronicles his story in poems and some prose. His light-hearted yet poignant writings include a poem about cats, which he read on my show. If you or your loved one are into discovering new authors that share a love of cats, you're going to love this glimpse into the author's life and favorite pizza.\nBooks that I Haven't Yet Discovered\nIf you have suggestions for books I haven't included, please message me on Instagram or Facebook. I'd love to hear about your favorite books for cat people. I am always learning about and discovering authors. The pet industry is full of wonderful, knowledgeable pros. I know of many of them, but I'm constantly being introduced to new ones.\nI hope this list helps you choose a gift for any and all cat lovers in your life. While you're at it, grab one for yourself. The more you learn about your cat, the more you will connect with them. Cats are truly fascinating creatures, often misunderstood, and there are many ways in which we can enrich our cats' lives every day. Don't miss your opportunity to help your cat live their life to the fullest.\nHere's wishing you (and your feline family and friends) a very happy holiday season and all the best in 2023!!! Meow! <3", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://adenizot.github.io/code/", "date": "2024-02-27T14:26:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474676.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227121318-20240227151318-00024.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.863961935043335, "token_count": 361, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__74241650", "lang": "en", "text": "You can find below the scripts developed in my research projects.\nIP3R-dependant Ca2+ signaling in fine astrocytic processes\n- ODEs: deterministic, well-mixed implementation of the model with XPPAUT software\n- Gillespie: stochastic, well-mixed implementation of the model in Python\n- Particle-based: stochastic, spatial, in 2 spatial dimensions, implemented in C language\n- Voxel-based: stochastic, spatial, in 3 spatial dimensions, implented in python, using STEPS software\nSimulations in idealistic 3D geometries of fine processes based on recent super-resolution microscopy data\nSimulations published in Denizot et al., bioRxiv, 2021. Reaction-diffusion simulations were performed in 3D meshes that were designed from the latest data available from super-resolution microscopy on astrocytes from Arizono et al., Nature Communications, 2020. The high spatial resolution of this model allows to propose plausible mechanisms by which astrocyte morphology at the nanoscale, notably shaft width, can influence local calcium dynamics and thus affect specialized neuron-astrocyte communication. The simulation code and 3D meshes designed in this study can be downloaded here.\nAnalysis of geometrical properties of 3D meshes\nGeneration of realistic perisynaptic astrocytic processes meshes with various endoplasmic reticulum distributions and constant shape\nScripts implemented in python to generate 3D meshes of perisynaptic astrocytic processes with various ER distributions and constant shape using Blender software. The code and resulting meshes are available here and were used in Denizot et al., bioRxiv, 2022.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.dolgerfilms.com/Blackout-Girl_36_blog", "date": "2023-09-28T20:44:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510454.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928194838-20230928224838-00841.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9073929786682129, "token_count": 698, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__209405995", "lang": "en", "text": "Director : Sylvia Caminer\nProducer : Sylvia Caminer, Tracy Schott, Jennifer Storm\nWriter : Tracy Schott, Jennifer Storm\nStarring : Jennifer Storm\nBased on the Award-Winning book -- 2008 Hazelden Publishing\nA riveting memoir of what happens to a teenage girl whose life is awash in alcohol, drugs, and the trauma of rape.\n“A common story. A rare twist. When the American Dream becomes her secret nightmare, quietly Jennifer Storm begins the dark descent into addiction. Then she discovers that the same events that destroy her, also create her. Written in a humble, raw voice, Jennifer Storm helps us remember where we came from–and why. ‘Blackout Girl’ brings us one step closer to forgiving ourselves for something we didn’t do.”\nMelody Beattie, author of “Codependent No More,” “The Grief Club,” and other best sellers.\n“Blackout Girl is a little more than 200 pages of nearly non-stop intensity….”\nBismark Tribune Review\n“Blackout Girl by Jennifer Storm is an enlightening story of her life. She explains how recreational drugs and alcohol turn into a way of living; making death a more peaceful solution. This is a great book for anyone facing a similar situation. Through recovery programs along with the fellowship you realize you are not alone. This book gives you the tools needed to make healthy choices and lead a wonderful life.”\nMarlena Marchesi, Heavenly Wood Works, Inc.\n“An extremely honest and provocative book, Jennifer Storm’s Black Out Girl: Growing Up and Drying Out in America validates the lives and struggles of recovering addicts in living ‘one day at a time.’ Storm’s book will be an inspiration and a means of support for people trying to reclaim their lives from the disease of addiction. Jenn has taken her own demons and laid them to bare for others to know that they are not alone in their struggle.”\nSue Rankin, Pennsylvania State University\n“Like a high-speed train racing uncontrollably down its track, first-time author Jennifer Storm takes her readers on a fast-paced journey through the dark and tremulous world of drug and alcohol addiction. Witty, moving, sometimes terrifying, and always poignant, Ms. Storm’s memoir is told in glinting chapters that eerily reflect the blackouts that so frequented her adolescence. Written in strong, unembellished prose, Blackout Girl is skillfully gripping and ironically addicting; readers won’t be able to tear themselves away from Ms. Storm’s journey from a 12 year old rape victim, to a burned out junkie living from friend’s couch to friend’s couch, to her compelling and tearful recovery at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. Storm’s insight into the drug culture of America as well as her talent for exploring her flaws and imperfections make Blackout Girl an encouraging yet haunting experience for readers from all walks of life.”\nBlackout Girl was selected by the PA Librarian Association as a Top Ten Must Read for 2008.\nClick Here for more info about the movie.\nCopyright © 2023. DolGer|films All rights reserved.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.rsa.ox.ac.uk/degreeshow/2017/mfa/NomiMishkin.html", "date": "2019-09-16T02:37:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-39/segments/1568514572471.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20190916015552-20190916041552-00351.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9728755950927734, "token_count": 131, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-39__0__181371755", "lang": "en", "text": "There is an old Jewish folktale that goes like this: when a young boy is born, his grandfather, a tailor, makes him a baby blanket. As the boy grows older, the blanket tears and his grandfather fashions it into a coat. When the sleeves become tattered, he turns it into a vest. And when that rips, it becomes a hat. And then a handkerchief. And so on and so forth until it becomes a button, which the boy, now a young man, loses. The grandfather is devastated — he cannot turn nothing into something for his grandson. But then the grandson turns it into a story.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://nathanmaxwellcann.info/2009/11/10/zohar-in-focus-manna-and-wisdom/", "date": "2017-03-29T13:14:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190295.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00474-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9345983266830444, "token_count": 1585, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__207946044", "lang": "en", "text": "There exists a magical word in Welsh folklore: Caerdroia. The literal translation of this idiom into modern English is roughly equivalent to “Castle of Turns,” although we may find a more familiar and congruous synonym in the word labyrinth. Labyrinths can be thought of as symbolic forms of pilgrimage; people can walk the path, ascending towards salvation or enlightenment. This spiritual awakening is manifest in a more practical and corporeal sense, as well. By walking amongst the turnings, the user of the labyrinth loses track of direction and of the outside world, and thus quiets the mind. The result is a relaxed mental attitude, free of internal dialog. This is a form of meditation. One need not travel outwardly to holy sites and far away lands for understanding, as the use of labyrinths supplant that need.\nBy its design, the Zohar is such a labyrinth. It is a mystic garden of living statues, breathing fountains, and rich foundations that support a veritable cornucopia of myth and interpretation. The rhizomatic structure of the Sefirot weaves along its soft walls like a web of ancient vines. These are the holy veins of the Zohar, which keep the text alive with the constant gush and flow of divine light. This light pours out in prismatic splendor for all of those who have learned the secrets of the maze, and may navigate freely through her ornate arches and mirrored halls. The Zohar is full of hidden passages, each one an enigmatic tableau laced with subtle paradoxes and complex meanings. In order to reveal these latent paradigms and hidden networks of understanding, it becomes necessary to focus the attention to a specific passage of the Zohar, Manna and Wisdom.\nA passage of the Zohar is like a flower in bloom; each portion, an interpretive amplification of the Torah, much like the Midrash. Manna and Wisdom is a beautiful poem and an enigmatic reflection on an excerpt from Exodus (Verse 16:4, 9-10, 13-15) that depicts the miraculous event wherein YHVH proclaims to Moses that he will deliver to the wandering Israelites “bread from heaven.” The term “manna” does not appear anywhere in the Zohar passage, but as Daniel Chanan Matt insightfully reveals, it is a clever pun derived from the Hebrew phrase “what is it?” (or man hu in Hebrew), which also translates to “it is manna.” The excerpt from Exodus is an intriguing base for the Zohar to blossom, although certain lines are still a mystery and left unrendered by the mystical Zohar. Specifically, the line “That evening, the quail rose and covered the camp” is a gross vagueness. Are the quail messengers from God? Are they a blessing? A miracle? A hidden Sefirot? This foul remains a mystery.\nThe Sefirot are exposed from the biblical passage by the filtrating lens of the Zohar. The path of the holy bread is traced down the Tree of Life in the following lines:\nEvery single day, dew trickles down / from the Holy Ancient One to the Impatient One, / and the Orchard of Holy Apple Trees is blessed.\nThe Holy Ancient One in this verse is a reference to Keter, the crown and the first Sefirot. It is from Keter that the spiritual dew is first differentiated from Ein Sof, the infinite Godhead. The Impatient One, explains Matt, is an allusion to the eight lower Sefirot from Hokhmah to Yesod. The Orchard of Holy Apple Trees implies the Shekhinah drawing divine substance from Hesed to Yesod who populate her orchard. The imagery stresses the need for students of mysticism to study the Sefirot and the dynamic path that leads life from the unknowable Ein Sof down to the Presence of Shekhinah. The manna was made available to the Israelites through (or at least strengthened by) their connection to Yesod or the “Holy King” by circumcision. This covenant with God secured Israel’s tie to divine gifts and protection. The mazzah that the Children of Israel ate when first entering the desert symbolizes their communion with Shekhinah. In fact, the Zohar interprets the entire journey from Egypt to Sinai as direct metaphor for the “spiritual journey into the divine realm.” This type of structured symbolism is typical of the Zohar and typified specifically by this verse. It illustrates the Zohar’s purpose as a mystical tool that aids in the understanding of the Ten Sefirot and their connection to all things (but especially to Jewish history and mythology). The word “Heaven” is used several times in explaining the divine realm that is the source of manna. “Heaven” is linked with Tif’eret, the bridegroom of Shekhinah. The last major Sefirot touched upon in the passage is partnered with Manna in the very title of this reading, it is “Wisdom” or Hokhmah. This is the highest Sefirot and spiritual union with Hokhmah is one of the greatest goals of the mystic. It is at the single point of Hokhmah that the Torah was derived and it only with Hokhmah that one arrives at the source of revelation.\nThe insights that make Manna and Wisdom a truly unique passage are its exclusive discussion between Rabbi Shim’on and Rabbi El’azar on the nature of “angel bread” and other gradients of divine sustenance, and the relationship between these delicious sacraments and the mysterious Comrades. The latter being a term for the disciples of R. Shim’on and the mystic followers of the Zohar. R. Shim’on remarks, that while mazzah and “angel bread” (or manna) were given to the wandering Israelites by Shekhinah and Tif’eret, respectively, “Comrades engaging the Torah are nourished from an even higher sphere.” This sphere is Wisdom or Hokhmah. The Comrades are granted this diet as their close understanding and appreciation of the Torah, brings them closer to the sphere from which the Torah was forged: Wisdom. R. El’azar counters with a query that examines the discrepancy between the Comrades supposed spiritual power and their physical weakness. R. Shim’on carefully explains that food from that high a sphere is too fine a substance to be detected on the physical planes of existence, and is manifest only in the realms of spirit and soul-breath. “Happy is the body that can nourish itself on food of the soul!”\nManna and Wisdom is a carefully crafted blueprint that thrives equally off of the Torah and Jewish imagination; it is a mystical guide depicting how students may climb the ladder of the ten Sefirot and partake of the blessed tastes that fill the upper realms. It is a reminder to “engage Torah day and night” and to cleave to their heart the forces of YHWH, so that they may flourish in the garden of life and live long, prosperous lives[i]\n[i] All quotations and information gathered from “Manna and Wisdom,” a chapter in Daniel Chanan Matt’s translation of the Zoahr. Paulist Press. 1983.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://blog.clevrone.ai/zero-trust-demystified-5-essential-and-elusive-questions-answered/", "date": "2024-04-18T10:53:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418093630-20240418123630-00668.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9097429513931274, "token_count": 3535, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__68926327", "lang": "en", "text": "Zero Trust Demystified: 5 Essential and Elusive Questions Answered\nIn the ever-shifting landscape of cybersecurity, organizations must constantly adapt and innovate and fortify their defenses to protect their valuable assets from sophisticated and evolving threats. One approach that has gained prominence in recent years is the Zero Trust Framework. It is a security approach predicated on the notion of “never trust, always verify.” As security leadership seeks to employ this framework to fortify their organizations, they are often confronted with a plethora of unanswered questions.\nIn this article, we will seek to unravel the mysteries surrounding the five key questions I continually hear as I meet with customers and security professionals all over. These questions range from aligning the Zero Trust Framework with existing security architecture and policies to measuring its effectiveness and determining when success has been achieved. By providing further insight around these commonly asked questions, it is my hope it will help equip security professionals with the insights necessary to implement and maintain a robust Zero Trust Framework that can stand up to the daunting challenges of today’s cyber threats.\nQuestion 1: How to Align a Zero Trust Framework with an Organization’s Existing Security Architecture and Policies?\nIn recent years, the Zero Trust Framework has emerged as a powerful paradigm shift in the world of cybersecurity. It revolves around the idea of “never trust, always verify,” which means that organizations should not implicitly trust any user, device, or network, whether internal or external. Instead, they should continuously validate and authenticate every access request, regardless of its origin. World-class implementations of a Zero trust framework attempt to achieve most of this additional validation and authentication largely behind the scenes so as not to take away or degrade the user experience for the organization’s employees, partners and customers. This approach is an effective way to mitigate cyber threats and protect valuable data assets, as it minimizes the likelihood of unauthorized access or breaches.\nImplementing a Zero Trust Framework in an organization requires careful examination of its existing security architecture and policies to ensure seamless integration. The following steps outline the process of aligning the Zero Trust Framework with your organization’s current security setup:\n1. Assess the Current State: Begin by examining your organization’s existing security infrastructure, policies, and practices. Identify any areas that need improvement or are misaligned with the Zero Trust principles.\n2. Map Existing Controls: Determine which existing security controls, such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and access control mechanisms, can be integrated into the Zero Trust Framework. This mapping exercise helps identify gaps and overlaps, allowing you to streamline the process and optimize resource allocation.\n3. Define Clear Policies: Establish clear, consistent policies that govern user, device, and network access within the organization. These policies should follow the Zero Trust principles, ensuring that access is granted only after thorough validation and authentication. Ensure that your policies cover all aspects of your organization, including remote work and BYOD scenarios.\n4. Establish Strong Identity and Access Management (IAM): Implement a robust IAM system that enables secure authentication and authorization of users, devices, and applications. Utilize multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), and role-based access control (RBAC) to enforce the principle of least privilege, granting access only to the necessary resources for each individual’s role.\n5. Deploy Micro-segmentation: Divide your organization’s network into smaller, isolated segments based on the function or sensitivity of data. This approach reduces the attack surface and limits the potential damage in case of a breach, as attackers cannot easily move laterally within the network.\n6. Continuously Monitor and Log: Implement continuous monitoring and logging of network activity, user behavior, and access requests. This data allows for real-time analysis and alerts, enabling rapid detection and response to potential threats.\n7. Regularly Review and Adjust: Periodically review your security architecture and policies to ensure they remain effective and aligned with the Zero Trust Framework. As the threat landscape evolves and your organization grows, adjustments may be necessary to maintain optimal security.\nBy following these steps, security leadership can successfully align their organization’s existing security architecture and policies with the Zero Trust Framework, enhancing overall protection and minimizing the risk of cyberattacks.\nQuestion 2: What are the Key Components and Technologies Required for Effective Zero Trust Framework Implementation?\nImplementing a Zero Trust Framework effectively necessitates the use of several key components and technologies that work together to provide a robust and secure cybersecurity environment. If your organization has already invested in the any of the items below and this investment has the capability to meet your particular needs for Zero Trust, then you should by all means use it. In fact, it is potentially a great way to slim down any costs or reduce implementation time. The following are essential elements to consider when implementing the Zero Trust Framework in your organization:\n1. Identity and Access Management (IAM): A strong IAM solution is critical to the Zero Trust Framework, as it enables the proper identification, authentication, and authorization of users, devices, and applications. Implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA), single sign-on (SSO), and role-based access control (RBAC) helps ensure that users are granted access only to the resources necessary for their roles and responsibilities.\n2. Micro-segmentation: Micro-segmentation is the practice of dividing the network into smaller, isolated segments based on function, data sensitivity, or other relevant factors. This approach limits the potential damage in case of a breach by preventing attackers from easily moving laterally within the network.\n3. Network Access Control (NAC): NAC solutions ensure that only authorized and compliant devices are allowed to access the network. They continuously monitor and enforce security policies, verifying the health and compliance of connected devices and blocking access when necessary.\n4. Security Information and Event Management (SIEM): A SIEM system collects, analyzes, and correlates security event data from various sources, including logs, network traffic, and user activity. SIEM helps security teams detect and respond to potential threats in real time, enabling rapid incident resolution and minimizing damage.\n5. Data Loss Prevention (DLP): DLP solutions monitor and control the movement of sensitive data, both within the organization and across its perimeter. They help prevent unauthorized access, exfiltration, and disclosure of sensitive information, which is crucial for maintaining data integrity and compliance with regulations.\n6. Encryption: Encrypting data at rest, in transit, and during processing adds an additional layer of security, ensuring that even if unauthorized access occurs, the data remains unreadable and useless to attackers.\n7. Endpoint Security: A comprehensive endpoint security solution, including anti-malware, host-based intrusion prevention systems (HIPS), and endpoint detection and response (EDR) technologies, helps protect devices from malware, exploits, and other threats, reinforcing the Zero Trust Framework.\n8. Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB): As organizations increasingly adopt cloud services, CASBs help enforce security policies and controls for cloud applications and data, ensuring that they adhere to the Zero Trust principles.\n9. Threat Intelligence: Integrating threat intelligence feeds and platforms into your security ecosystem can help you stay informed about emerging threats and vulnerabilities, enabling proactive defense strategies and informed decision-making.\n10. Continuous Monitoring and Analytics: Continuously monitoring and analyzing network activity, user behavior, and access patterns allows security teams to detect anomalies and potential threats quickly, ensuring swift response and mitigation.\nBy leveraging these key components and technologies, security leadership can implement a Zero Trust Framework effectively, significantly enhancing their organization’s overall cybersecurity posture.\nQuestion 3: How to Measure the Effectiveness and Success of a Zero Trust Framework in an Organization\nEvaluating the effectiveness and success of a Zero Trust Framework implementation within an organization is crucial to ensuring that the framework is functioning as intended and providing the desired level of security. While there are several objective elements listed below to measure and evaluate, you should also consider some subjective elements around the soft benefits like brand reputation protection, customer loyalty, and others. The following metrics and indicators can help security leadership measure the impact of their Zero Trust implementation:\n1. Reduction in Security Incidents: One of the most telling signs of a successful Zero Trust implementation is a noticeable decrease in the number and severity of security incidents. Track the number of breaches, unauthorized access attempts, and other incidents before and after the implementation to quantify the improvement.\n2. Faster Incident Detection and Response: Zero Trust Frameworks emphasize continuous monitoring and real-time analytics, which should lead to faster detection and response times for security incidents. Measure the average time it takes to detect and respond to incidents and compare these figures to pre-implementation data.\n3. Compliance Metrics: Ensuring compliance with various industry standards and regulations is an essential aspect of maintaining a secure environment. Monitor compliance metrics, such as the percentage of devices meeting security policy requirements or the number of data access policy violations, to assess the effectiveness of your Zero Trust implementation.\n4. User Access Metrics: Analyzing user access patterns, such as the number of unique users with access to sensitive resources, the percentage of users with the least privileged access, or the number of successful MFA challenges, can provide insight into how well the Zero Trust principles are being enforced in the organization.\n5. Network Segmentation Metrics: Assess the effectiveness of your micro-segmentation implementation by monitoring metrics like the number of network segments created, the percentage of traffic traversing segment boundaries, and the number of attempted unauthorized segment access incidents.\n6. Security Maturity Level: Assess the overall security maturity of your organization by using industry-standard maturity models, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework or the CIS Controls. Compare your organization’s maturity level before and after the Zero Trust implementation to determine its impact on your security posture.\n7. Employee Awareness and Training: Zero Trust Frameworks require a comprehensive understanding of security policies and procedures by employees. Measure the effectiveness of training programs, such as the percentage of employees who have completed training or the results of simulated phishing attacks, to gauge the organization’s preparedness for a Zero Trust environment.\n8. Return on Investment: Evaluate the financial impact of implementing the Zero Trust Framework, including costs associated with technology acquisition, deployment, and maintenance, as well as any financial benefits resulting from the reduction in security incidents or increased operational efficiency.\nReviewing, analyzing, and sharing these metrics with executive leadership will enable security leadership to assess the effectiveness and success of their Zero Trust implementation. By addressing any areas of concern, ensuring gaps are handled properly, and continuously refining the framework, organizations can maintain a robust cybersecurity posture that aligns with the evolving threat landscape.\nQuestion 4: What are the Potential Challenges and Obstacles in Adopting a Zero Trust Framework and How to Address Them\nAdopting a Zero Trust Framework can bring significant benefits to an organization’s cybersecurity posture. However, it is not without some challenges and obstacles. Security leadership should be aware of these potential issues and devise strategies to address them effectively and early. Some of the most common challenges and their respective solutions include:\n1. Resistance to Change: A Zero Trust implementation often requires a significant shift in mindset and approach to security, which may be met with resistance from employees and stakeholders. To address this challenge, communicate the benefits and rationale behind the Zero Trust Framework clearly and consistently. Engage in training and awareness programs to help employees understand their role in maintaining a secure environment.\n2. Complexity of Implementation: Implementing a Zero Trust Framework can be complex, involving multiple technologies and processes. To streamline the process, develop a phased implementation plan that prioritizes the most critical security gaps and incrementally builds upon them. Engage with experienced consultants or service providers to help navigate the intricacies of the implementation.\n3. Integration with Existing Infrastructure: Integrating the Zero Trust Framework with existing security infrastructure can be a significant challenge. To ensure seamless integration, perform a thorough assessment of your current security architecture and identify the areas that need improvement or realignment with the Zero Trust principles. Leverage existing technologies and solutions where possible, and invest in new tools only when necessary.\n4. Legacy Systems and Applications: Organizations often rely on legacy systems and applications that may not be compatible with Zero Trust principles. To address this issue, consider modernizing or replacing these systems with more secure alternatives that align with Zero Trust principles. If that is not feasible, develop compensating controls and monitoring mechanisms to mitigate the risks associated with these legacy systems.\n5. Balancing Security and User Experience: Implementing a Zero Trust Framework may initially result in a perceived increase in friction for end-users due to more stringent access controls and authentication requirements. Strive to strike a balance between security and user experience by implementing user-friendly solutions like single sign-on (SSO) and adaptive multi-factor authentication (MFA) that adjust to the user’s context and risk level.\n6. Scalability and Performance: As organizations grow and evolve, the Zero Trust Framework must be able to scale and adapt to meet changing needs. Ensure that your chosen technologies and solutions can scale with your organization without compromising performance or security.\n7. Continuous Monitoring and Improvement: Maintaining an effective Zero Trust environment requires ongoing monitoring and adaptation. Invest in technologies and processes that enable continuous monitoring, analytics, and threat intelligence. Regularly review and update your security policies, controls, and technologies to stay aligned with the evolving threat landscape and the needs of your organization.\nProactively addressing the challenges and obstacles that your organization may face will help security leadership pave the way for a successful Zero Trust Framework adoption, ultimately enhancing their organization’s overall security posture.\nQuestion 5: How to Recognize a Successful Zero Trust Framework Implementation\nAchieving a successful Zero Trust Framework implementation is an ongoing process that requires continuous monitoring, assessment, and improvement. However, there are several indicators that can help security leadership recognize when they have reached a mature and effective Zero Trust environment:\n1. Reduction in Security Incidents: A successful Zero Trust implementation should lead to a noticeable decrease in security incidents, breaches, and unauthorized access attempts. Track and compare the frequency and severity of incidents before and after implementing the framework to measure its effectiveness.\n2. Improved Compliance Metrics: Ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations is a key aspect of a mature Zero Trust environment. Monitor your organization’s compliance metrics, and if you observe a consistent improvement in meeting requirements and reducing violations, this is a sign of a successful implementation.\n3. Streamlined Access Control: In an effective Zero Trust environment, user access should be consistently and efficiently governed by the principle of least privilege. Assess whether access controls are granular and role-based, and whether users are granted access to only the resources necessary for their roles.\n4. Faster Incident Detection and Response: A mature Zero Trust implementation should enable rapid detection and response to security incidents. If your organization consistently demonstrates the ability to detect and mitigate threats quickly, this is a strong indication of a successful Zero Trust Framework.\n5. Robust Micro-segmentation: Effective network segmentation, which limits lateral movement and reduces the attack surface, is a hallmark of a successful Zero Trust environment. Assess the degree to which your organization has achieved granular micro-segmentation and monitors segment boundaries for unauthorized access.\n6. Employee Awareness and Training: The success of a Zero Trust Framework is highly dependent on employees understanding and adhering to security policies and procedures. A high level of employee awareness and participation in security training programs is an indication of a well-established Zero Trust culture.\n7. Consistent Security Maturity Level: Assess your organization’s security maturity using industry-standard models, such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework or the CIS Controls. A mature and successful Zero Trust implementation should result in consistently high-security maturity ratings.\n8. Positive Return on Investment (ROI): If your organization can demonstrate a positive ROI on the Zero Trust implementation, including reduced security incidents, increased operational efficiency, and improved compliance, this is a strong indication of success.\n9. Ongoing Improvement and Adaptation: A successful Zero Trust environment requires continuous evaluation and improvement. If your organization is consistently reviewing and updating its security policies, controls, and technologies to stay aligned with the evolving threat landscape, this demonstrates a successful and mature Zero Trust implementation.\nBy considering and evaluating some of these relevant indicators and continually striving to optimize your organization’s Zero Trust environment, you can achieve and maintain a successful and effective Zero Trust Framework that significantly enhances your cybersecurity posture and reduce your organization’s risk.\nThere is Power in a Zero Trust Approach\nUltimately, embracing a Zero Trust approach offers a powerful method to strengthen an organization’s cybersecurity posture amidst growing attack surfaces and the evolving threat environment. It has become increasingly evident over the last couple of years that the successful implementation of a Zero Trust framework is a multifaceted endeavor that takes some work, but it yields significant benefits for an organization’s ownership, employees, and customers.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ziamag.com/collections/architecture/products/the-design-hotels-book", "date": "2022-06-26T02:09:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103036363.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626010644-20220626040644-00152.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.922671914100647, "token_count": 215, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__90990323", "lang": "en", "text": "The Design Hotels Book\nFor a quarter century, Design Hotels™ has been at the forefront of a movement in hospitality, curating a global collection of independent, design-driven hotels that function as social hubs and platforms for extraordinary experiences. In celebration of this benchmark, Design Hotels™ sent some of the world’s leading editorial and lifestyle photographers around the world to capture the unique character of 25 hotels at the vanguard of their hand-selected collection. Each hotel tells a story, rich with emotion and steeped in the history, culture, and nature of its local environment. The new, special edition of the brand’s wildly popular annual brings these stories to life through evocative photo essays and reportage. This edition of The Design Hotels™ Book is a distillation of a quarter century of pioneering design and original experiences, as well as a must-have for a worldwide community of travelers, likeminded in their pursuit of singular aesthetic environments, genuine local culture, and transformative, boundary-pushing travel experiences that defy conventional notions of luxury.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://library.sci.muni.cz/services/e-loan", "date": "2023-06-06T07:33:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652235.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606045924-20230606075924-00099.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9219041466712952, "token_count": 276, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__259365914", "lang": "en", "text": "What is it?\nThrough the E-loan service, MU users have access to more than 10 000 scanned titles of the most frequently required study literature from Masaryk University library collections. An E-loan is the electronic equivalent of a common physical present loan. An authorized MU user can borrow a scan of a book for a limited time (currently 4 hours) via a computer network. The user can borrow electronically only one book at a time, after returning the E-loan he can borrow another one.\nHow to use it?\nThe E-loan is available at https://katalog.muni.cz:\n- By clicking on the \"E-loans Filter\" link, you will filter out only those books at MU available for E-loan.\n- After clicking on the record of the selected title, the link \"E-loans\" + login with UCO and secondary password will appear in the book details.\n- Login and if one of the copies of the book is free, you can borrow its scan for a maximum of 4 hours.\n- After the time limit expires (or the E-loan is returned earlier), you can E-loan another book.\nScanned books available for E-loan are labeled on cover with logo.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mayafiennes.com/pages/books", "date": "2024-02-28T05:10:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474697.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228044414-20240228074414-00143.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9361973404884338, "token_count": 295, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__127687142", "lang": "en", "text": "Yoga for Real Life\n''The effervescent, charismatic Maya Fiennes will do for relaxation and yoga what Nigella Lawson did for food and cookery. In \"Yoga for Real Life\", she has written a book aimed at bringing yoga principles into all aspects of your everyday life. It is full of yoga tips, exercises and wisdom. ''\nA Book That Can Change Your Life...\nMaya Fiennes, who teaches the Kundalini method of yoga both face-to-face and on Sky TV, introduces her method, shares her story, and reveals the secrets of Kundalini Yoga that have helped her and her students to manage the stresses and strains of everyday life, the challenges that most of us encounter at some stage in our lives.\nChapters include: 'Be Here, Now', 'Detox and De-stress', 'Self esteem', 'Staying Youthful' and 'Love and Relationships'. Combining poses, breathing, chanting and meditation to give you a full mind-body workout, with recipes, mantras and Maya's personal story, and illustrated with full-colour photographs by David 'Jamie Oliver' Loftus, Maya shows how yoga practice and philosophy can easily be incorporated into your daily routine. \"Yoga for Real Life\" is a book for your handbag, your desk, and your bedside table: your indispensable guide to achieving the most from your daily life - for the rest of your life.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.anundesirableelement.com/reviews", "date": "2019-10-21T02:18:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987751039.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20191021020335-20191021043835-00004.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9373071193695068, "token_count": 509, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__105711563", "lang": "en", "text": "An Undesirable Element is a fascinating tour through the tumultuous years that helped create modern Afghanistan. Fayez survived Soviet Afghanistan and revolutionary Iran, only to find himself watching from exile as his country devoured itself. Improbably, he returns after 2001 to help resurrect Afghanistan's devastated higher education system, giving an insider account of the challenges of building education in a land dominated by warlords and fundamentalism. The result is a poignant reminder of how much Afghanistan has endured, and the flicker of hope that remains despite it all.\n- Anand Gopal, author of No Good Men Among The Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes, finalist for the 2014 National Book Award\nA compelling read, An Undesirable Element recounts an Afghanistan many have forgotten. It serves as a rallying cry to once again imagine all that country might be. It's a tale as extraordinary as the land from which it comes.\n- Elliot Ackerman, author of Dark at the Crossing, finalist for the 2017 National Book Award\nAn Undesirable Element moves fast as flames and offers a luminous account of the last half century of Afghan conflicts and redevelopment. Trevithick's oral history of Sharif Fayez's story is a trove: from a kiss on the head by the late Afghan King Zaher Shah, Fayez's life intersected with the future leaders and quiet supporters of his country - both heroic and tyrannical - from Columbia University to a post-revolutionary university in Mashad, Iran. Fayez is a modest but robust storyteller whose eventual position as Afghanistan's first Minister of Higher Education after the Taliban is only one of the strange twists and turns his story offers. His deft handling in the rebuilding of Afghanistan should be read by anyone interested in how one can use patience and determination to bring hope to a country reduced to rubble.\n- Adam Klein, editor, \"The Gifts of The State: New Afghan Writing\"\nThe term visionary tends to be misapplied to those who are merely headstrong. But it is a perfectly apt description for Sharif Fayez, the most important figure in education in 21st-century Afghanistan, yet one that history may have neglected without his memoir. Such an omission would have deprived future generations of Afghans from understanding how Fayez, perhaps more than any single person, created hope for the country’s young minds at the turn of the millennium and, in so doing, altered a nation's destiny.\n— Martin Kuz, Freelance journalist", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.restoreyoureveryday.com/brett-botelho-intro", "date": "2019-07-17T05:05:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525046.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717041500-20190717063500-00299.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9827349185943604, "token_count": 126, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__183297203", "lang": "en", "text": "Brett Botelho splits his time living between California and Colorado. In the summer, he lives in Southern California and trains, goes to the beach and spends time with his Husky Avalanche, whom you may recognize. In the winter, he lives in Frisco, CO where he trains for the US Paralympic Snowboard team and enjoys the mountains. He became an amputee on 12/1/14 and hasn't looked back since. He is also the author of his self-written book: Standing My Own Ground - Getting Back Up When It Seems Impossible, which was released to the public in October 2017.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.snagmetalsmith.org/springboard/view-opportunity/?opp=2499", "date": "2020-02-17T15:15:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875142603.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20200217145609-20200217175609-00390.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8732740879058838, "token_count": 257, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__171474849", "lang": "en", "text": "Posted January 19th, 2020 / Ends May 18th, 2020\nMokume Gane A Comprehensive Study\nMokume Artist Steve Midgett provides free access to \"Mokume Gane A Comprehensive Study\", the most in-depth resource for Mokume Gane information. All 160 pages of the hardcover book Mokume Gane A Comprehensive Study, acknowledged as the preeminent text on mokume gane has been published on the website www.mokume.com .\nIn this comprehensive book, Midgett shares the art of Mokume Gane from it’s ancient beginnings in Japan to its resurgence in the digital age along with detailed how-to information for making mokume by multiple methods, and 5 step by step mokume jewelry projects.\nAccompanying each chapter of the book will be an important section called New Layers that will highlight what we’ve learned since the hardback book was first published and new developments in the practice of mokume gane. It will include information and insights from current leaders and innovators in the field and be an ongoing discussion of all things mokume.\nTo access your free copy visit www.mokume.com/book.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.therabbi.org/Life/Miracles/Healing-a-Deaf-Mute.html", "date": "2024-02-22T20:26:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00119.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9963555932044983, "token_count": 219, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__74571435", "lang": "en", "text": "The Rabbi was travelling once again and he went out from the region of Tzor, and came through Tzidon to the Sea of the Galil, within the region of the Ten Cities. The people there brought to him one who was deaf and spoke with difficulty, and they implored him to lay his hand on him.\nThe Rabbi took him aside from the crowd, by himself, and put his fingers into his ears, and after spitting, he touched the man's tongue with the saliva; and looking up to heaven with a deep sigh, he said to him, \"Ippattach!\" that is, \"Be opened!\" And the man's ears were opened, the impediment of his tongue was removed, and he began speaking plainly.\nThe Rabbi gave them orders not to tell anyone; but the more he ordered them, the more widely they continued to proclaim it. They were utterly astonished, saying, \"This Rabbi has done all things well; he makes even the deaf to hear and the mute to speak!\"\n-- This is the life of The Rabbi. --", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://iasdcentralbucaramanga.com/finding-paper-writer-helps-online/", "date": "2021-04-23T08:40:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618039568689.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20210423070953-20210423100953-00272.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9587318897247314, "token_count": 615, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__233837798", "lang": "en", "text": "A paper writer’s main aim is to create masterpieces of scholarship, analysis and research from most forms and fields. To become a successful paper writer, a writer must have good command over the English language and a comprehensive grasp of the field of academic writing. Many authors are hired by big publishing houses because of their expertise for a paper writer. There are many sub-specialties within the field of academic writing and the following are some examples:\nA thesis statement is the center of this assignment and it’s by far the most important document that will determine your newspaper’s content. The thesis statement is the announcement that simplifies the entire paper also gives essay writing service it its direction. The best papers contain the most important information in the shortest period. If your thesis statement contains several paragraphs, then the newspaper will take more time to compose and it could possibly be reversed by the evaluator.\nThe different types of paper writing assignments include both verbal and written pieces. For written pieces, the writer is required to research and collect data and to show them in a meaningful manner. For verbal pieces, the author is required to do research and evaluation of this subject matter as well as to compose a concise essay on the grounds of the gathered data. A freelance paper writer may also specialize in a certain sort of paper writing duties. As an example, if a writer specializes in research papers, he or she might be asked to essay writing service write reports and testimonials on a specific topic.\nMany authors make a specialty from habit writing assignments. They usually begin writing masterpieces for a customer before branching into custom writing assignments. Clients usually give writing tasks to a group of writers and assign them various sub-type of papers depending on the theme of the undertaking. A few of those custom writing assignments may include: thesis statements, commentaries, descriptive essay, reviews, book reviews, journal articles, case studies, and dissertations.\nAs is true with most professions, some newspaper authors excel in one specific area and others in another. Some of the public areas where writers excel include: creative writing, copywriting, business writing, non-fiction, creative non-fiction publications, technical non-fiction books, short story collections, poems and essay writing service sonnets, and other sorts of non-fiction and ingenious literature. Many writers who have succeeded in building a name for themselves in this subject are known for their use of metaphors, similes, and alliterations.\nPaper writing help sites provide help and information regarding what exactly are considered to be the best papers, which provide maximum aid to pupils so as to complete their academic work on time. In fact, it is not unusual to find hundreds of websites offering newspaper writing help. A few of the websites have guidelines and tutorials about what are considered to be greatest newspapers. Other sites focus mainly on various types of academic writing. If you are a student looking for information on the best way best to write better papers, you can always turn to an academic writing aid site for replies.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://fredconference.org/2/?page_id=540", "date": "2018-07-22T17:52:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676593438.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20180722174538-20180722194538-00318.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9625442028045654, "token_count": 193, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__245730597", "lang": "en", "text": "Christine is the author of the book “Working the Double Shift A Young Woman’s Journey with Autism” , self advocate and a person with autism. She has spoken about her experiences with various groups including the US Autism and Asperger Association, Southwest SELPA , Manhattan Beach Unified School District and the FRED Conference. When she didn’t meet certain developmental milestone at age 4 she went to see a psychologist who diagnosed her as autistic. Through intensive speech, social skills, occupational and educational therapies, Christine was able to mainstream in first grade. Using behavioral therapy, Christine began to understand her feelings and find ways to manage her stress and anxiety.\nChristine graduated high school with honors and attended El Camino College. She has transferred to Loyola Marymount University where she is majoring in psychology. Her aspiration is to be a behavioral therapist working with other autistic individuals. Hobbies include writing, horseback riding and drawing.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.ozketo.com/why-not-both-biological-doubles-for-ra-and-psa/", "date": "2024-04-24T06:10:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819067.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424045636-20240424075636-00206.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.938710629940033, "token_count": 2193, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__143748395", "lang": "en", "text": "The introduction of tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitors in the late 1990s revolutionized the treatment of rheumatic diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA), providing patients with another therapeutic option when conventional therapies were ineffective. However, when these diseases fail to respond to anti-TNF therapy, it is still difficult to determine the next best course of action.\n“One of the big challenges we have in treating psoriatic arthritis, and I would say rheumatoid arthritis was fine, is how to manage patients who have failed their first biologic therapy,” Christopher Ritchlin, MD, MPH, professor of allergy, immunology; and rheumatology at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, he said Medscape Medical News. “In the case of both RA and PsA, it’s quite often an anti-TNF agent.”\nFor approximately 30-40% of patients, TNF-blocker therapy is discontinued due to non-response or intolerance. Doctors can switch to another targeted biological or synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD) or add another conventional DMARD, such as methotrexate. Now, several case studies and promising results from Phase 2 clinical trials suggest that combining two biologics could be an alternative strategy to improve patient response to treatment. However, concerns about safety and higher costs remain.\nTarget multiple mechanisms of action\nRheumatic conditions affect multiple areas of the body and involve different signaling pathways, said Ritchlin, who also heads the Clinical Immunology Research Unit at the University of Rochester. PsA, for example, affects the skin, peripheral joints, axial skeleton, and entheses.\n“The question is, are these various manifestations multiple? [ones] are they often seen in a patient who is likely to respond to single pathway targeted therapy?” he said.\nCombination therapies have been effective in treating leukemia and lymphoma as well as HIV infection, writes Melek Yalin Mutlu, MD, and colleagues at the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg and Erlangen University Hospital, Erlangen, Germany, in a review on the combination of biological DMARDs in the treatment of RA and PsA. The review was published on April 17 in Articular bone spine.\n“Cumulative evidence on the success of combination therapies in various diseases supports a similar approach in rheumatology, and concurrent or sequential blockade of multiple mechanisms that generate or propagate arthritis could theoretically improve efficacy,” the authors write. “On the other hand, targeting multiple targets in the immune system carries a risk of adverse events, with infection being a major concern.”\nClinical trials failed\nClinical trials of combination biological therapies for rheumatic disease have been attempted previously, but these combinations have not shown superior efficacy and increased the patients’ risk of infection. A study published in 2004 compared monotherapy with the TNF inhibitor etanercept (Enbrel) to the combination of etanercept and anakinra (Kineret), an interleukin-1 (IL-1) antagonist, in 244 patients with active RA despite methotrexate therapy. The researchers found no statistically significant difference in achieving 20 percent improvement in the modified American College of Rheumatology (ACR20), ACR50, or ACR70 response criteria between the groups receiving etanercept and anakinra and those receiving etanercept alone. There were nine serious infections among patients treated with etanercept and anakinra, including one death due to pneumonia. There were no serious infections in the etanercept monotherapy group.\nIn another rheumatoid arthritis study, 121 patients were given etanercept 25 mg twice a week and were randomly assigned to also receive either a placebo or low-dose abatacept (Orencia), a T-cell costomulation inhibitor There was no significant difference in disease improvement between the two groups, although the rate of serious adverse events was nearly six times higher in the etanercept-abatacept group (16.5% vs 2.8%).\nThose studies had a “chilling effect on the whole field for a few years,” Brian Feagan, MD, senior scientific director of gastrointestinal contract research firm Alimentiv in London, Ontario, Canada, told Medscape. People were reluctant to try new biological combinations, due to fears that these safety issues would plague subsequent trials.\nBut a recent phase 2 study, led by Feagan, suggests that some combinations may be effective. In the Janssen-sponsored VEGA study, researchers found that a combination of guselkumab (Tremfya), an IL-23 inhibitor, and golimumab (Simponi), an anti-TNF agent, was more effective than either drug used as monotherapy for initial induction treatment for moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. Importantly, there was no difference in adverse events between any of the groups. This same combination therapy is now being tested for patients with active PsA in Janssen’s AFFINITY study, for which Ritchlin is a principal investigator.\nOther studies have also yielded promising results. One study enrolled 51 adults with active RA who were all receiving stable doses of either a TNF-blocker or etanercept or adalimumab (Humira) and methotrexate. Patients were randomly assigned to receive a course of rituximab (Rituxan) or placebo. The researchers found that the safety profile of this TNF inhibitor/methotrexate/rituximab combination was “consistent” with the safety profiles of previous studies of dual methotrexate/rituximab combinations without any TNF inhibitor; there were no new safety signals. At 24 weeks, 30% of the rituximab group achieved ACR20, compared with 17% of the placebo group. A total of 12% of the rituximab group achieved ACR50, compared with 6% of the group receiving placebo.\n“B-cell depletion is fundamentally different from cytokine inhibition and even co-stimulation blockade, making an additive effect more likely,” write Mutlu and colleagues in their review. Reports have also suggested possible benefits of the combination of a TNF inhibitor and an IL-17 inhibitor in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and PsA, as well as of the combination of a TNF inhibitor and an IL-23 antagonist for the PSA.\nWhile these combinations require controlled clinical trials, “there are some smoke signals out there that this might be an effective strategy for some patients,” Ritchlin said.\nIn addition to the AFFINITY study, two clinical trials are ongoing in France. The first, CRI-RA, is evaluating the combination of baricitinib (Olumiant), a Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor, and adalimumab. While baricitinib is not a biologic, as it is a targeted synthetic DMARD, the therapy is more potent than conventional DMARDs and the same potential safety concerns apply. However, the use of a combination of tofacitinib (Xeljanz) and several biologics has been reported for RA patients; no serious side effects were reported in the 11 months of therapy. The randomized, placebo-controlled trial began in July 2021 and will enroll 178 patients. The estimated completion date of the study is July 2025.\n“Of note, baricitinib does not directly block downstream TNF signaling, although an indirect effect on TNF production is likely,” reads the CRI-RA entry on clinicaltrials.gov. “Targeting multiple inflammatory cytokines in combination may lead to more effective treatment and better clinical responses in RA patients than current second-line strategies.”\nThe second study, titled SEQUENS-RA, is evaluating the use of TNF blockers followed by abatacept for RA patients who test positive for anti-citrullinated protein autoantibodies (ACPAs). In the past, the combination of a TNF blocker and abatacept has not led to promising results, but in this study, the drugs will be administered sequentially.\n“Although abatacept has shown a very good tolerance profile that may be superior to other bDMARDs [biologic DMARDs]rheumatologists may be reluctant to use it as a first-line bDMARD as there is a belief of slower efficacy than other bDMARDs or JAK inhibitors,” according to the clinical trial description. inflammatory phase, the use of TNF inhibitors, followed by abatacept to induce immunological remission, would optimize the response and tolerance of ACPA-positive patients with RA.”\nThe randomized study of 220 participants began in November 2022. The estimated date for completion of the study is November 2025.\nFinding the right patients\nAlthough these trials had some promising results, the difference in efficacy between biologic monotherapy and dual therapy was mostly moderate, write Mutlu and coauthors. Identifying disease subtypes for which there may be an increased likelihood of response to dual biologic treatment, especially multidrug-resistant types, could improve efficacy in future studies, they argue. “The good effects of bDMARD combinations in resistant patients indeed point in this direction, although they have been observed in uncontrolled studies,” note the authors.\nInsurance coverage remains a “major challenge” for these dual therapies due to the higher expense, Ritchlin noted. More targeted therapies could help convince these companies to pay for these therapies.\n“I would argue that if we were able to demonstrate a phenotype of a patient that would respond to biologics and not monotherapies, [then] many companies would be inclined towards this kind of approach,” he said.\nRitchlin reports financial relationships with AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Janssen, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Novartis and UCB. Feagan reports financial relationships with AbbVie, Amgen, Janssen, Pfizer, Takeda and many other pharmaceutical companies.\nFollow Medscape on Facebook, ChirpingInstagram and YouTube.\n#Biological #doubles #PsA", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://st-maryshigh.herts.sch.uk/category/general-news/", "date": "2023-02-02T21:11:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500041.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202200542-20230202230542-00447.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9433324337005615, "token_count": 310, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__26467220", "lang": "en", "text": "Just before Christmas we promoted the ‘Young Writers’ competition titled, Integer.\nStudents were asked to write a short story based on or around numbers and do so in exactly 100 words. It may sound easy but it takes good writing skills to construct a story in such a small word count. Stories were submitted online and, having now received word from the organisers, I am delighted to tell you that eighteen of our students’ stories have been selected for publication! Once permission has been granted by parent/carers their stories will appear in book format which is a compilation of all winning entries.\nAll winners are given the opportunity to buy their own copy to keep at home but a copy will also be available in the LRC for all students to view. Winners came from years 7- 10 and we are enormously proud of their achievement. Please join me in congratulating the following students: Kai Pierre (7), Igor Lasota (7), Aleyna Sener (7), Zain Cherifi (7), Aleyna Sener (7), Taylan Sefer (7), Tuana Sener (7), Natasha Jackson (7), Gabriella Didiomenco (8), Elisa Mustafa (9), Antreas Papadopoulos (9), Eliana Blackman (9), Joseph Pozzuto (9), Arda Korkmaz (9), Zam Francis (9), Stephanie Gyamfi-Manu (9), Ria Oscar (9), Natasha Jackson and Sarah Collins (10)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thewettsteins3.blogspot.com/2011/08/in-fayes-room.html", "date": "2018-07-16T08:58:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589237.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716080356-20180716100356-00272.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.983859121799469, "token_count": 322, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__244675301", "lang": "en", "text": "Every time I step into Faye's room, I always find something that makes me laugh or smile. This girl absolutely loves to read, and it just amazes me every time I look at the piles of books in her room. I clear this little nightstand off at least twice a week. And yet, it somehow always manages to be overflowing with books. She reads and reads and reads, to the point where we have to ask her to stop reading. How many hours a day should a 6 year old spend reading?\nHere is a another view, in case you were wondering what exactly Faye is reading. Right now she is reading the Harry Potter books (she's on number 3 and I've told her that is all she can read until she is older - any thoughts about that for those of you who are Harry Potter fans?), Nancy Drew, Junie B. Jones, which is her favorite but she can read one of those in about 20 minutes, and some other miscellaneous books. She's told me she loves mystery books. The strangest thing to me is Faye's method of reading books. She will start one book, then another, then another, before going back and finishing something else. At any point in time she could be reading 5 or 6 books! I don't know how she keeps them all straight, but she does and can tell you the story almost word for word.\nThis afternoon when I walked into her room I had a really good laugh. I saw this on her dry erase board...\nApparently the boys are no longer allowed in her room!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.canadasgoldenhour.com/photo-book/", "date": "2017-02-27T20:15:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501173761.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104613-00649-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9365805983543396, "token_count": 133, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__35937774", "lang": "en", "text": "Canada's Golden Hour Book\nThe Canada's Golden Hour Book is a limited edition of 500 copies. All profits will be donated to the Nature Conservancy of Canada.\nThe book is a beautifully bound collection featuring the top fifty photographs captured on June 4, 2016 during Canada's Golden Hour Photo Project. With a printed dust jacket, linen hard cover, premium paper and detailed printing, this book is a beauty both to view and display. It makes a great gift too!\nThe book is currently available for pre-order for $44.99. Books are expected to ship to customers in early August 2016.\nPre-order the book via Posterjack.ca", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.mfah.org/programs-for/adults/mfah-book-club/", "date": "2017-04-30T07:07:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124371.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00136-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9055216908454895, "token_count": 1128, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__226135963", "lang": "en", "text": "MFAH Book Club Tours\nThis is where art and literature meet! Designed for established book clubs—whether formal or informal groups—the MFAH Book Club links works of literature to works of art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.\nThe MFAH Book Club presents three selections per year. Each book:\n- Is featured for a four-month period in the fall, spring, and summer\n- Is accompanied by a downloadable discussion guide to facilitate group discussions\n- Culminates with a docent-led tour at the Museum, scheduled in advance (see below)\nThe spring 2017 selection for the MFAH Book Club is Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García.\nTours: February 1–May 31, 2017\n• Download the Discussion Guide\nAbout the Book\nCristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” —The New York Times.\nAbout the Author\nCristina García is the author of seven novels. Her work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into 14 languages. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and an NEA grant, among others. García has taught at universities nationwide. Recently, she completed her tenure as University Chair in Creative Writing at Texas State University-San Marcos and as Visiting Professor at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas-Austin. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area.\nThe summer 2017 selection for the MFAH Book Club is The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith, a New York Times best seller and New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.\nTours: June 1–September 30, 2017\nDiscussion guide coming soon!\nHow to Participate\nFor book clubs and other groups of six or more confirmed participants:\n- Read the book. Most MFAH Book Club selections may be purchased at the MFA Shop, where Museum members receive a discount. Reading copies are also available in the Museum’s Kinder Foundation Education Center and at the Museum's Hirsch Library.\n- Download the discussion guide to facilitate your conversation. This guide features questions about the book and select artworks on view at the MFAH.\n• Discussion Guide for Dreaming in Cuban\n- Request a docent-led tour by e-mailing email@example.com—a minimum of 3 weeks in advance—with the following information:\n• The name of your group and number of participants\n• The primary organizer's name, telephone number, and e-mail address\n• Your preferred date and time for your tour (see below for tour availability)\nTours related to Dreaming in Cuban are available between February 1 through May 31, 2017.\nChoose from the following days and times:\nTuesdays, 2 p.m. or 3:30 p.m.\nWednesdays, 2 p.m. or 3:30 p.m.\nThursdays, 10:30 am, 3:30 p.m., or 6:30 p.m.\nSundays, 2 p.m. or 3:30 p.m.\nNote: If your group meets on a specfic day and/or time not listed above, please e-mail firstname.lastname@example.org with a request, which we will try to accommodate.\n- Look for a confirmation e-mail, within 5 business days, with information about when and where to meet the docent at the Museum.\nQuestions? E-mail email@example.com\nWhat to Expect on an MFAH Book Club Tour\n• MFAH Book Club tours are free for MFAH members and free with general Museum admission for nonmembers.\n• Tours last approximately 1½ hours.\n• Camp stools are provided for seating.\n• Docents facilitate tours, selecting several artworks on view at the Museum that they feel best connect with aspects of the featured book.\n• Excerpts from the book are a vital component of these discussion-based tours, so we encourage you to bring your copy of the book along.\n• Expect lively discussion of the book and artworks!\nSince the MFAH Book Club's inception, the Museum has featured a wide range of fiction and nonfiction picks. Though tours are not offered for these past selections, discussion guides are available here.\nThe MFAH Book Club receives generous support from Aggie and Joe Foster.\nAll Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive endowment income from funds provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; The National Endowment for the Humanities; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Favrot Fund; and Gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thestar.co.in/the-difference-between-free-and-paid-accounts-on-medium/", "date": "2024-02-27T11:14:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474674.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240227085429-20240227115429-00015.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9454358220100403, "token_count": 626, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__152364641", "lang": "en", "text": "Medium, a popular online publishing platform, offers distinct experiences for its users based on the type of account they choose. Understanding the differences between free and paid accounts on Medium can help users decide which is best suited for their reading and writing needs.\nAccess to Content\nFree accounts on Medium provide users with access to a limited number of stories like these each month. These stories can be from both amateur and professional writers, covering a wide range of topics. Once the monthly limit is reached, users are required to wait until the next month to access more free articles or to upgrade to a paid account for unlimited access.\nPaid accounts, known as Medium Memberships, offer unlimited access to all stories on the platform. This includes exclusive content that is only available to paying members. These stories often come from well-known authors or are high-quality pieces curated by the Medium team. The unlimited access allows for deeper exploration and engagement with the diverse content available on Medium.\nInteraction with Content\nUsers with free accounts can read, clap (Medium’s version of a ‘like’), and respond to stories they have access to. They can also follow authors and publications to keep track of new content. However, their interaction with content is limited by the monthly story cap.\nIn addition to the benefits offered to free account users, paid members have the added advantage of being able to interact with an unlimited number of stories. They can engage more deeply with the community by responding to stories, participating in conversations, and providing feedback to authors. This unrestricted interaction fosters a more robust and dynamic community experience.\nWriting and Publishing\nBoth free and paid account holders on Medium have the ability to write and publish stories. They can create their own publications, join existing ones, and even monetize their content through Medium’s Partner Program, regardless of their account type.\nWhile the writing and publishing features are similar for both account types, paid members often have access to enhanced analytics and insights about their stories. These insights include detailed information about readership, engagement, and the performance of their articles. This data can be invaluable for writers looking to grow their audience and improve their writing.\nSupporting Writers and Publications\nFree users support writers indirectly through their engagement with stories. Claps and responses can increase a story’s visibility, but free users do not contribute financially to the authors.\nA portion of the membership fee paid by Medium members goes directly to the writers and publications they engage with the most. This financial support incentivizes quality content creation and helps sustain the platform’s diverse range of voices and topics.\nThe choice between a free or paid account on Medium depends largely on a user’s reading habits, desire for unlimited access to content, and interest in supporting the writing community. While free accounts offer a taste of what Medium has to offer, paid accounts provide an all-access pass to the platform’s full range of stories, enhanced community interaction, and additional benefits for writers. Ultimately, both types of accounts contribute to the vibrant and diverse ecosystem that is Medium.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://macmillancustom.highcrestmedia.com/bedford/content/home", "date": "2023-05-31T22:45:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647459.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230531214247-20230601004247-00160.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.929789662361145, "token_count": 145, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__69414511", "lang": "en", "text": "Bedford Select makes it easy to create your own composition reader or literature anthology. Choose from more than 800 essays, stories, poems, plays, images, and instructional materials to build an affordable course text for your students.\n- With Bedford Select, students pay only for material that will be assigned in their course—nothing more.\n- It is easy for instructors to create their ideal text for a composition or literature course - one that can be ordered again (or readily modified from term to term).\n- Because quality matters, Bedford Select books are built to the same standards as the highly praised and widely used composition readers and literature anthologies published by Bedford/St. Martin's, an imprint of Macmillan Learning.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://list.cea.fr/en/may-28-2020-towards-neural-networks-that-can-withstand-attacks/", "date": "2023-12-09T18:19:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100942.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209170619-20231209200619-00885.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9379420280456543, "token_count": 373, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__136143211", "lang": "en", "text": "From autonomous vehicles to video surveillance, the potential uses for AI in our everyday lives are vast. Hackers, however, are rapidly coming up with attacks on these new applications for AI. Most attacks take advantage of the vulnerability of deep learning systems to disrupt the signal (image, sound) and “trick” or, in some cases influence the AI’s decisions. List, a member of the Carnot Network, develops trustworthy AI. The institute recently came up with some effective ways to fend off attacks.\nSpecifically, they intentionally introduced random modifications of the neural activations from the earliest stages of the neural network design process. The goal is to scramble the network during the learning phase as well as during operation. The researchers’ approach enables the machine to remember only the relevant parts of incoming information and to not be fooled by an attack. An alternative for existing machines that need additional protection is to introduce the noise directly into the incoming signal. These modifications are made using an “overlayer” that mitigates or neutralizes the effects of an attack.\nThe loss of performance that occurs when the defect is introduced is offset by the fact that the system is more robust and can better withstand attacks. A demonstrator presented at CES 2020 was well received. An article* was also published very recently in Neural Information Processing Systems, a major scientific journal in the field of AI.\n*Pinot, R., Meunier, L., Araujo, A., Kashima, H., Yger, F., Gouy-Pailler, C., and Atif, J. (2019). Theoretical evidence for adversarial robustness through randomization. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 32, pp. 11838–11848.\nRead article at http://www.cea-tech.fr/", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.around.pk/news/jurnalist-saleem-safi-presents-latest-book-aur-tabdeeli-galay-par-gayi-to-prime-minister-shehbaz-sharif/", "date": "2023-10-03T23:33:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511284.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003224357-20231004014357-00350.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9119183421134949, "token_count": 574, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__83457884", "lang": "en", "text": "Jurnalist Saleem Safi Presents Latest Book “Aur Tabdeeli Galay Par Gayi” to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif\nIn a momentous occasion, senior journalist Saleem Safi had the esteemed privilege of presenting his latest book, titled “Aur Tabdeeli Galay Par Gayi” (And Change Embraced Us), to Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif. This engaging literary work delves deep into the intricate social and political changes that have shaped the landscape of Pakistan. Saleem Safi, widely recognized for his insightful analysis and thought-provoking commentary, has cemented his position as a highly respected journalist and author.\nThe presentation of “Aur Tabdeeli Galay Par Gayi” to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif underscores the significance and relevance of the book within the current political landscape. It sheds light on crucial aspects of Pakistan’s societal fabric and offers a critical analysis of the ever-evolving dynamics within the nation. The event serves as a powerful testament to the role of intellectuals and journalists in shaping public discourse and engaging with policymakers.\nThe interaction between Saleem Safi and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif symbolizes the exchange of ideas and the invaluable contribution of intellectuals to the national dialogue. “Aur Tabdeeli Galay Par Gayi” is poised to reach a broader audience, stimulating meaningful conversations and deepening the collective understanding of the societal and political changes unfolding in Pakistan. As readers delve into the pages of this enlightening book, they are invited to reflect upon the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the nation.\nThe presentation ceremony further highlights the importance of fostering intellectual engagement and encouraging dialogue between thought leaders and policymakers. Saleem Safi’s work acts as a catalyst for introspection, providing a platform for contemplation and analysis of Pakistan’s socio-political landscape. It is expected that “Aur Tabdeeli Galay Par Gayi” will spark renewed discussions and ignite a desire for positive change among individuals from all walks of life.\nPrime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s acceptance of the book demonstrates his commitment to engaging with intellectual voices and promoting informed discourse on matters of national importance. The event serves as a testament to the enduring influence of literature and the power of ideas to shape the course of a nation’s destiny.\nAs “Aur Tabdeeli Galay Par Gayi” takes its rightful place on bookshelves across the country, it promises to make a lasting impact on readers, challenging their perceptions and enriching their understanding of the societal transformations underway in Pakistan. The book stands as a testament to the invaluable role of journalists and intellectuals in documenting the winds of change and guiding the nation towards a brighter future.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.nancy.movie/synopsiscopy_ashleen", "date": "2019-04-23T18:29:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578610036.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20190423174820-20190423200820-00053.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.957144558429718, "token_count": 134, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__215871124", "lang": "en", "text": "NANCY is a provocative psychodrama about love, intimacy, and trust – and the slippery nature of truth. A serial imposter, Nancy has gotten more and more comfortable assuming fake personas, and lines have started to blur between fact and fiction, and performance versus reality.\nBlindsided by the death of her mother, and facing rejection by a love interest, Nancy’s life begins to unravel. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, she becomes increasingly convinced these strangers are her real parents. As their bond deepens, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief – and the power of emotion threatens to overcome all rationality.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://olibrix.com/pages/about-us-olibrix-bookstore", "date": "2023-02-01T15:41:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499946.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201144459-20230201174459-00643.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9434642791748047, "token_count": 123, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__126348522", "lang": "en", "text": "Olibrix is a one-of-a-kind destination where books bring people together to educate us, engage our curiosity and to continue to look at the world through a different lens.\nOur Mission is to provide access to children's books written and translated into different languages to every household, school, and community.\nAt Olibrix we believe that literature and languages are the gateways to a brighter future for our children. Every purchase supports a child's development and piques their curiosity about books and different cultures. We promise to always stay true to our core values of quality, transparency, and equality.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.thebookwarehouse.com.au/shop/early-learning/handstand/", "date": "2022-08-14T22:46:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572077.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814204141-20220814234141-00518.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9672815799713135, "token_count": 167, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__115960779", "lang": "en", "text": "You Save: $14.99 (60%)\nLittle Edith loves to do handstands. But is she any good at them? Can she actually stay upright? In her 7 days of perseverance she learns the power of practice. Thwarted by spiders, worms and her dad’s newspaper, Edith tells her own tale of mastering the art of being upside down. All the while, readers will be counting down the seconds with her and learning the days of week in her story that ends with the prize of an ice lolly.\nBeautifully illustrated by leading designer Lisa Stickley, this is a lovely book to cherish and learn from. A light hearted tale that at its heart will teach one of life’s great secrets: practice makes perfect.\n30 in stock", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.eye-floaters.info/wordpress/?product=ebook-eye-floaters-in-the-art-and-religions-of-ancient-civilizations", "date": "2023-12-08T22:44:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100779.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208212357-20231209002357-00181.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9152157306671143, "token_count": 178, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__95774064", "lang": "en", "text": "(ebook, epub and kpf file)\nWe all have them, most of us see them, but only a few people pay attention to them: the scattered, transparent and mobile dots and strands in our field of vision. In ophthalmology, they are called “eye floaters” and explained as vitreous opacities.\nBut is this explanation correct? In this book, the author Floco Tausin follows the seers’ experience that eye floaters are not a cloudiness of the vitreous humour, but a shining structure and an expression of our state of consciousness.\nIn this collection of previously published and revised texts, the author explores the shining structure of consciousness in ancient civilizations. Topics include works of art, myths and worldviews of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ancient China and Pre-Columbian Central America.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://gisbornegazette.org.au/book.html", "date": "2023-09-26T16:57:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510214.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926143354-20230926173354-00149.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.977746844291687, "token_count": 119, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__17026185", "lang": "en", "text": "To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Ash Wednesday fire, the Gisborne Gazette has produced a book that features the stories of 63 individuals and families who survived the traumatic events of February 16, 1983. There is also a wealth of information gathered from reports published at the time.\nThis handsome book is illustrated with many photographs, some of which were taken during the fire.\nAll copies of the book have been sold.\nFor anyone who missed out, copies can be seen at the Gisborne Library, the Gisborne Genealogical Group and the Gisborne Historical Society.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://steph-reads.blogspot.com/2010/07/ridley-pearson-in-harms-way.html", "date": "2017-11-17T17:38:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934803848.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20171117170336-20171117190336-00737.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9583609104156494, "token_count": 217, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__56384573", "lang": "en", "text": "Ridley Pearson: In Harm's Way\nRidley Pearson's newest Walt Fleming novel will be out on August 3rd. I can't wait to find out what's going on with Walt and Fiona, and what adventure Walt will take me on this time. Below is the blurb from Ridley's July 2010 newsletter.\n\"Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming's budding relationship with photographer Fiona Kenshaw hits a rough patch after Fiona is involved in a heroic river rescue and she attempts to duck the press. Despite her job and her laudable actions, she begs Walt to keep her photo out of the paper, avoiding him when he can't. Then Walt gets a phone call that changes everything: Lou Boldt, a police sergeant out of Seattle, calls to report that a recent murder may have a Sun Valley connection. After a badly-beaten body is discovered just off a local highway, Walt knows there is a linkbut can he pull the pieces together in time?\"\nYou can email him for autographed copies of the book at firstname.lastname@example.org", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://noreenbraman.medium.com/a-mothers-reverie-ce630b8696aa?readmore=1&source=---------9----------------------------", "date": "2021-06-16T08:49:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487622234.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20210616063154-20210616093154-00129.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9732102155685425, "token_count": 785, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__145194465", "lang": "en", "text": "In the sunset of life it isn’t fun to suddenly realize, that you never had the life you wanted. That things never went the way you thought they should, and even if you generally think that your life has been mostly fine — the day will come when you realize, the “somedays” you dreamed about aren’t coming.\nIt can happen when you are watching an old show on TV, that show you watched in your formative years, the one that made you laugh, the one you all talked about the next day, the one that seemed to describe your forward path — but it never did. And that is because life is not a sitcom. There is no team of writers plotting all the twists and turns. No one to type up the happy ending.\nThey say that you are responsible for writing your own story. But no one tells you that you may carry one story in your head, while you live out another. And even if that life is full of love and laughter, the day will come where a snippet of music, a mention of a movie or the title of a book will open up a dark hole under your feet. And if you aren’t careful, you will fall into this hole, tumbling over and over like Alice, watching all the souvenirs of your life cascading around you, and as hard as you try to catch them, you can’t.\nTokens of you childhood streak by like shooting stars, the puffs of smoke that were your dreams, from the days when all seemed possible. And as you plummet you are joined by fleeting ghostly shadows of lovers and friends who swirled in and out of your life. They whisper as they pass by, but you cannot catch what they say, you’ve forgotten the sound of their voices. From deep inside you, memories flicker, what were those plans we had? The promises made to each other, the song you promised to sing at her funeral, but by then you had lost touch.\nSoon you are wrapped in swirling clouds of motherhood — diapers and first teeth and the leftover equipment of their childhood activities, photos and toys and high school rings: the music of a thousand performances. Then comes the rising of a deepening ache as one by one they leave home, and the feeling of loss, of “never again” threatens to drown you. There are points of light that fill you full of warmth, and again your head fills up with dreams, this time you will get things right. The circle will re-form itself with everyone reachable, touchable, lovable and the next generation running in and out, calling for you.\nHowever, the hole continues to widen and as hard as your try to hold their hands, to encircle them with your arms, they drift away, smiling as they go, their own dreams covering them like fog.\nAnd you wake up one day to realize, you are living in a house that no one will visit, in a place where no one will return, and the vision of your sunset years reveals itself to be just more smoke.\nYou wonder what was the turning point, where was that bend in the road that took you in the wrong direction. No amount of turning around will get you back to that place, you have no choice but to continue falling, holding on to the new life where there is still love and laughter, no longer trying to catch the things that are falling away, trying as best as you can to quiet the heartache, accepting that you have reached to part of the journey where losses mount.\nWith an understanding nod (after so many years denying it) to Judith Viorst’s “Necessary Losses.”\nOriginally published at http://www.smilesideoflife.com.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://azati.ai/language-models-in-healthcare/", "date": "2024-04-15T05:36:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816942.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415045222-20240415075222-00402.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.905563473701477, "token_count": 2634, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__54409484", "lang": "en", "text": "Healthcare is a humanistic field where language mediates key interactions between doctors, researchers and patients. But recent developments in language models present a unique chance to revolutionize artificial intelligence systems.\nLarge language models (LLMs) are advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems designed to process, understand, and generate human-like text. They are based on deep learning techniques and trained on massive datasets typically containing billions of words from various sources such as websites, books and articles. This extensive training allows LLMs to understand the nuances of language, grammar, context, and even some aspects of general knowledge.\nLLMs are extensive pre-trained AI systems that can be easily adapted for various domains and tasks with minimal adjustments. These dynamic and engaging models hold significant potential in extracting universally valuable insights from medical knowledge sources.\nThe Role of Language Models in Healthcare\nToday, there are several potential use cases of such models in healthcare, including search in large datasets, clinical decision support, analysis and structuring of key findings, as well as rapid resolution of problems associated with the timely first aid provision, and much more.\nSome areas in which Language Models can help healthcare:\n- Transform and extract key ideas from large volumes of scientific articles, medical materials and notes without lengthy proofreading of the entire text.\n- Compare information from cluttered and unstructured text with organized lists in the electronic health record to ensure clinical data accuracy.\n- Converting data back from machine-readable forms into natural language for better understanding.\n- Search simultaneously across different data sources.\n- Transform images, such as PDF reports or scans of surveys into text lists.\n- Speech identification processing, allowing users to manage clinical notes or other data that we can convert to text.\nImproving Clinical Decision Support\nLanguage models play a crucial role in clinical decision support systems (CDSS) by providing healthcare professionals with valuable insights and recommendations based on the analysis of medical data and texts. Here, we’ll discuss how language models aid in CDSS. And provide case studies to illustrate their effectiveness in successful diagnosis and treatment recommendations.\nHow Language Models Aid in Clinical Decision Support Systems:\nData Processing and Extraction:\nLanguage models are excellent at processing large volumes of unstructured medical data. This includes electronic health records (EHRs), a variety of medical literature, and clinical notes. They also have the ability to extract important details such as patient demographics, medical history, symptoms and diagnostic reports, making this information easily accessible for in-depth analysis.\nBased on a patient’s historical data, language models can also be used to predict potential complications and responses to treatment. This way, they will help doctors identify risks more quickly and tailor treatment plans that meet individual needs and circumstances.\nNatural Language Understanding:\nLanguage models have the ability to interpret medical narratives expressed in natural language. They can discern medical conditions, medications, treatments, and the relationships between various elements in the text. This capability enables a more comprehensive understanding of the patient’s health status and medical history.\nClinical Guidelines Integration:\nCDSS powered by language models can integrate clinical guidelines and best practices, ensuring that healthcare professionals receive up-to-date and evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis and treatment.\nMedical Knowledge Base:\nLanguage models are trained on extensive medical literature, enabling them to understand and access a wide range of medical knowledge. This knowledge can be used to provide context-aware recommendations for diagnosis and treatment.\nCase Studies Illustrating the Effectiveness of Language Models in CDSS:\nIBM Watson for Oncology:\nOne prominent example of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) is IBM Watson for Oncology. This system is designed to analyze a patient’s medical records. It is able to match them with an extensive database of medical literature, clinical trial data and expert knowledge in the field of oncology. A study conducted in India demonstrated the effectiveness of the system. Watson for Oncology provided treatment recommendations consistent with those of human oncologists in 96% of breast cancer cases and 93% of colon cancer cases. This highlights its significant potential for improving cancer treatment and highlights the important role of language models in medical decision making.\nMayo Clinic’s Clinical Text and Knowledge Extraction System (cTAKES):\ncTAKES is an open source clinical decision support system (CDSS). It uses natural language processing (NLP) and language models to extract structured information from clinical descriptions. Its innovative approach has found widespread use, improving the analysis of clinical data and making it more accessible for research and decision support purposes.\nCleveland Clinic’s Cardiology AI System:\nThe Cleveland Clinic developed an AI system powered by language models to predict patient outcomes in cardiovascular disease cases. By analyzing EHRs and clinical notes, the system provided physicians with predictive insights, enabling more informed decision-making and personalized treatment plans.\nGoogle’s DeepMind and Moorfields Eye Hospital:\nGoogle’s DeepMind collaborated with Moorfields Eye Hospital to develop an AI system that utilizes language models to analyze retinal scans and identify eye diseases. The system demonstrated accuracy levels comparable to human experts in diagnosing conditions like diabetic retinopathy.\nBased on all of the above, we can see that such implementation of language models provide compelling examples of how they can improve and enhance clinical decision support systems (CDSS), providing accurate and timely recommendations for diagnosis and treatment. They highlight the enormous potential of language models to revolutionize healthcare by improving the quality of care, minimizing diagnostic errors and ultimately helping to save lives.\nOne of the main potentials of using language models is their ability to improve patient-doctor interactions by acting as virtual healthcare assistants. These virtual assistants can answer patient queries, provide accurate medical information. And facilitate more effective communication between patients and healthcare providers. In this context, we will dive deeper into how language models can improve this interaction. And delve deeper into the concept of virtual health assistants.\nImproving Patient-Doctor Interactions with Language Models:\nBecause language models can transform data, they can be used to make complex medical information more accessible to everyday users. Patients can ask questions about their health conditions, medications, treatment options and more in simple language. So the language model can provide clear explanations.\nPatients frequently feel anxious while awaiting test results or when confronted with a new diagnosis. Language models can offer information and comfort, assisting patients in comprehending their conditions and treatment plans more thoroughly. This support can significantly alleviate stress and anxiety levels.\nLanguage models can act as educational tools, offering patients information on preventive measures, lifestyle changes, and disease management. This empowers patients to take an active role in their healthcare.\nVirtual health assistants driven by advanced language models operate 24/7, enabling patients to access information and assistance whenever they need. This proves particularly invaluable for individuals facing urgent issues or residing in diverse time zones.\nLanguage models play a crucial role in overcoming language barriers and enabling communication with patients who do not speak English. These models can translate queries and deliver responses in various languages, guaranteeing that healthcare information is readily available to a wide-ranging patient demographic.\nVirtual Health Assistants for Answering Patient Queries and Providing Medical Information:\nVirtual medical assistants can help patients book an appointment with the right doctor quickly and efficiently, ensuring that patients receive timely care.\nWhen patients are unsure of the need for a visit and consultation with a doctor or do not have the opportunity to visit a clinic in the near future, the ability of virtual assistants to classify and offer recommendations for primary care becomes especially useful.\nVirtual medical assistants can provide accurate and up-to-date information about prescription and over-the-counter medications. And in this way, patients can learn about the uses, side effects and interactions of drugs.\nAfter a medical appointment, virtual health assistants can follow up with patients to check on their progress, remind them of prescribed treatments, and answer any questions that may have arisen since the visit.\nVirtual health assistants can provide personalized health education materials, videos, and resources tailored to an individual patient’s specific condition or health objectives.\nPrivacy and Security:\nSafeguarding the privacy and security of patient data is paramount. Virtual health assistants must comply with rigorous privacy regulations such as HIPAA (in the United States). And implement strong security measures to safeguard patient information.\nIn critical situations, virtual health assistants can guide patients through basic first aid procedures. And provide instructions on seeking emergency care.\nIn summary, virtual health assistants driven by language models hold the promise of enhancing patient-doctor interactions by offering prompt, precise, and easily accessible information to patients. They have the capacity to boost patient engagement, alleviate the workload of healthcare professionals, and ultimately improve healthcare results. Nevertheless, it’s crucial to strike a balance between automation and human interaction to preserve the personal and empathetic aspects of healthcare delivery.\nCertainly, here are real-world examples showcasing specific use cases of language models in healthcare:\nRadiology Report Analysis:\nUse Case: Language models help analyze radiology reports to extract critical information, identify abnormalities, and assist radiologists in their interpretations.\nExample: Enlitic, a healthcare AI company, employs NLP techniques to analyze radiology reports and images. Their system can quickly identify and prioritize cases that may require immediate attention. Potentially reducing the time it takes for patients to receive necessary care.\nMedical Image Captioning:\nUse Case: Language models are utilized to generate descriptive captions for medical images, aiding in documentation and interpretation.\nExample: IBM’s Medical Sieve project combines image analysis with natural language processing to create detailed captions for medical images. This technology can assist healthcare professionals in understanding and communicating complex visual information, especially in radiology and pathology.\nUse Case: Language models are employed to analyze scientific literature and databases to identify potential drug candidates and predict their effectiveness.\nExample: Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company, uses AI and language models to accelerate drug discovery. They analyze vast amounts of biological data and research papers to identify new drug targets and design novel compounds with the potential to treat diseases, including cancer and Alzheimer’s.\nClinical Trial Matching:\nUse Case: Language models assist in matching patients with appropriate clinical trials based on their medical records and eligibility criteria.\nExample: Trialjectory is an AI-driven platform that uses NLP to analyze patient records and match eligible individuals with suitable clinical trials. This technology helps patients access cutting-edge treatments and facilitates the recruitment of participants for medical research.\nPatient Data Extraction:\nUse Case: Language models extract structured information from unstructured patient data, such as electronic health records (EHRs) and clinical notes.\nExample: Google’s Healthcare API leverages language models and NLP to convert free-text clinical notes and medical records into structured data that can be easily integrated into EHRs. This simplifies data retrieval and analysis, benefiting both healthcare providers and researchers.\nDisease Surveillance and Outbreak Prediction:\nUse Case: Language models analyze online sources, including news articles and social media, to monitor disease trends and predict potential outbreaks.\nExample: HealthMap, an initiative by Boston Children’s Hospital, uses NLP to scan online news reports, social media, and other sources to detect and track disease outbreaks in real-time. This information aids public health authorities in responding swiftly to emerging health threats.\nThese real-world examples highlight the versatility of language models in healthcare, demonstrating their ability to assist healthcare professionals in various tasks, improve patient care, and advance medical research. As language models continue to evolve, their impact on the healthcare industry is expected to grow, driving innovation and improving healthcare outcomes.\nIn conclusion, we can confidently state that language models have had a significant and transformative impact on analyzing medical texts and diagnosing illnesses in healthcare. They have become reliable tools for healthcare professionals, helping them process data efficiently, make better clinical decisions, and provide patients with medical information. These models have played a major role in reducing mistakes in diagnosis and improving medical research.\nLooking forward, the use of language models in healthcare is expected to grow further, thanks to advancements in language technology, their integration into medical processes, and ethical considerations. The global influence of these models in healthcare, along with their ability to overcome language barriers and enhance healthcare outcomes, promises a future where healthcare is more precise, efficient, and focused on patients. This underscores their crucial role in shaping the healthcare industry.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.wonderpuppy.net/nick/francoise.htm", "date": "2023-10-04T00:10:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511284.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003224357-20231004014357-00004.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9780856370925903, "token_count": 2796, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__240174548", "lang": "en", "text": "Francoise, all your friends have gathered in your time of need, sending all their love.\nFor the last year or so, you have been the best friend and strength to those on Acmepet's message boards. You fix graphics, write webpages, and just plain be a friend. In your time of need, we would like to try to return that favor, and at least show you we care.\nThis guestbook is in honor of Nick, a wonderful friend, companion, and husband.\nThis guestbook is an honor book for you and he!\nRead Guestbook Memorial\nSign Guestbook Memorial\nNow for a few gifts from your friends:\nA Gift from Zac's Mom\nA poem from Robin\nA Gift from Robin, aka Furfeather\nThis Eternal Flame Burns for Nick.\nVisit the Page of Eternal Flames\nNow, from JD, this Beautiful work of art of poetry.\nThe Head Trainer Recruits an Angel.\nA dedication to Leilah's Mom.\nLeilah was restless.\nThe more she tried to get comfortable and rest, the more troubled she became.\nSomething was wrong.\nEarlier, Mom had come home in a rush and with tears in her eyes.\nThe phone wouldn't quit ringing and the house suddenly seemed cold.\nAt one point, Mom grabbed her up and hugged her so tight she\nthought she wasn't go to be able to breathe. And when she finally got\nback down on the floor again, her fur was wet. She gave a little wag\nof her tail, which usually made Mom smile, but this time it only made\nMom start crying again.\nSo Leilah jumped up and ran to the window. After all, if\nMom was home, that meant Dad would be home soon, didn't it?\nBut when she looked out the window, the world outside looked\ndifferent, somehow. . . Like it was missing something. She ran\nback over to Mom and looked at her, asking the question with her eyes.\nThe phone rang again, and Mom was strong when she answered it, but began crying again.\nThat's when Leilah thought she heard Mom say something about Dad.\nThe room started looking misty and gray, and she couldn't seem\nto focus real well on anything. Suddenly, Leilah became very tired.\nShe laid down on her little bed, closed her eyes and prayed that\nMom was mistaken, that what she had said on the phone wasn't true.\nAnd as Leilah continued praying, she slowly dozed off into a deep, but fitful slumber. . .\nLeilah awoke with a start.\nThe world seemed very bright, very warm and comforting and\nas she stood up and slowly stretched, she saw another dog standing\nin front of her. Baring her teeth at the stranger, Leilah prepared to\ndrive the stranger away. But upon looking around, she discovered she was not at home!\n\"Don't be afraid,\" the other dog said, taking a step forward.\n\"Who are you?\" asked Leilah.\n\"My name is Charlie,\" answered the other dog, a female\n\"We think you have some questions, so we brought you here to help answer them.\"\n\"Where am I,\" asked a very confused Leilah.\n\"You're in a place that has many names,\" explained Charlie.\nit the Rainbow Bridge, others call it the Big Kennel,\nbut your Mom and Dad would call it Heaven.\"\n\"But I'm not dead, what am I doing here?\"\n\"No, you're not,\" agreed Charlie. \"But the Head Trainer\nyou up here so the two of you could talk. There's something\nyou have to do before going back home to your Mom.\"\n\"Say good-bye to somebody you know.\"\nLeilah got an uneasy feeling in her stomach. As Charlie began leading\nLeilah inside through the Gates Made of Milk Bones, the Head Trainer appeared.\n\"Hello, Leilah,\" said the Head Trainer. \"Charlie will\ntake you to the\nplace you need to go, then you'll come back and we'll talk for a\nbit before it's time for you to go back to your Mom.\"\n\"This way,\" motioned Charlie, as she started up the path over\nwhere the Looking Glass stood. The Looking Glass was a special\nwindow to Earth in which you could look down and see everyone.\nAll you had to do was think, and that message would go to whoever\nyou were thinking about. It was how all the dogs in the Big Kennel\nwould talk to their owners whenever their owners became sad.\nAs they approached the Looking Glass, Leilah saw a man sitting down\nin the grass and petting another dog. Somehow, the man looked\nreally familiar. Then when he turned to see who was approaching. . .\n\"DAD!!!\" shouted Leilah, as she bolted for the man.\n\"DAD! I'm so glad I found you. Mom and I were looking\neverywhere and Mom is so worried and scared, she's crying and\neverything. I can't believe I found you! Oh, DAD!!!\"\nNick at first looked sad, then he gave a small, lopsided\ngrin as he gave Leilah a quick hug. \"How are ya', girl?\"\nLeilah just wagged her tail and licked Nick's face like nothing\nelse mattered. Then it finally dawned on Leilah what was going on.\n\"Oh no, Dad. . .\" stammered Leilah. \"No--\"\n\"It's all right,\" Nick assured Leilah. \"It's OK. I know this scares you, but trust me, it's all right.\"\n\"But what about Mom?\" cried Leilah. \"What are we going to do without you? Mom will be so lonely.\"\n\"No,\" answered Nick, \"because she has you.\"\n\"And she also has me,\" said the Head Trainer, who had just\nwalked up and sat down on the grass with Nick, Charlie and Leilah.\n\"WHY DID YOU HAVE TO DO THIS???\" wailed a sobbing\nLeilah to the Head Trainer. \"It's not fair. Dad was so good to all\nof us and Mom loved him so much. Why did you have to TAKE HIM NOW?!?\"\n\"Leilah,\" began the Head Trainer, \"there are things\nthere on Earth that are good, and there are things happening that\nare not good. Do you understand why I bring dogs home here?\"\n\"Yes,\" Leilah quietly answered. \"You make them angels to\nlook out for other dogs who are not as lucky as me.&\"\n\"You're very wise,\" nodded the Head Trainer. \"And I do\nwith people. It's a very difficult time down on Earth for a lot of people\nright now. While I could stop it all in the blink of an eye, I choose\nto let humans have free will and reign over their lives. But some of the\npeople have problems to great for them to bear alone, and they ask me\nfor help. There are elderly people who are all alone in nursing homes\nwith nobody to talk to, nobody to listen to them. There are children\nliving in impoverished inner-city neighborhoods surrounded by drugs\nand criminals. There are children and women who are being abused\nand molested. And there are good people who sometimes make\nmistakes that could get them in a lot of trouble if\nsomebody wasn't there to stop them.\"\n\"Those people, Leilah,\" continued the Head Trainer, \"they need angels.\"\n\"But why my Dad?\" asked Leilah.\n\"Leilah,\" Nick began, \"the Head Trainer and I were\ntalking. Seems I\nwould've gone anytime, and nobody knew it. If your Mom\nand I had really known about it, we wouldn't have lived our lives to\nthe fullest. We would've held back, we would've always worried about\nwhen \"it was time.\" And that would have distracted us from truly\nliving every day to its fullest, to love each other unconditionally--like\nour wedding vows: For richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, until death do us part.\"\n\"Instead,\" said the Head Trainer, \"your Mom and Dad lived\nwith through the joy of their love for each other one day at a time.\nThey are great people, people with goodness in their hearts and souls.\nPeople who will not let death affect their love for each other.\"\nCharlie got up and went over to Nick and whispered something in his ear.\nNick smiled, nodded and gave Charlie a pat on the head.\n\"Leilah,\" said Nick. \"It seems there is a job for me to\ndo up here.\nI'll be in training for a while, but when I'm finished I'll be going back\nand forth to Earth. There are children who need an angel, and\nthere are others who need help and guidance that they can't get anywhere\nelse. Those people all alone in a strange hospital who know they'll never leave?\nI'll be there with them, talking to them and giving them comfort.\nThe children who are being abused? I'll be there with them, taking\ntheir pain to spare them any more. And just as Charlie here shows\ndogs how to get around up here, so will I when it's time for people to come Home.\"\n\"So, does that mean I'll see you when you're\ndown on Earth?\" asked a hopeful Leilah.\n\"I'm afraid not,\" answered the Head Trainer. \"But, you\nwhen your Dad is down there for you will suddenly feel young again,\nand his memory will suddenly wash through you, making you happy, not sad.\"\nThis was all just too much for Leilah, and she began sobbing again.\n\"But, but. . . I'll miss you so much--and what about Mom?\"\nAs Charlie moved over to comfort Leilah, Nick gently stroked\nLeilah's neck. \"Tell Mom that I love her dearly--and in ways now\nthat I can no longer express. But we can no longer talk person to\nperson, no, we will now have to express our love soul to soul,\nspirit to spirit. I will always love Mom, always, and will be there to\ncomfort her thoughts in her times of need. And until we meet a\ngain, Leilah, I need you to be there for Mom.\"\nThe Head Trainer nodded at Charlie. \"OK, Leilah,\" said\n\"it's time to go back down. Your mom will be waking up\nsoon, and you need to be there when she does.\"\nAs everyone got up, the Head Trainer petted Leilah one last time,\nas did Nick. And as they all walked by the Looking Glass,\na chorus of angels appeared all around them and began singing a\nsymphonic chorus filled with Joy, Glory, Praise and Hope.\nAnd down on Earth, that chorus reverberated throughout,\nmanifesting itself in a variety of nature's most awesome displays:\nSpectacular rays of sunshine. Life-giving rain storms.\nCrashing ocean waves. Pure white driven snow flakes.\nInfinite winds whipping across the plains.\nGiving her dad one last look, Leilah turned to\nCharlie and said, \"I'm ready. Let's go back.\"\nCharlie paused, and then pointed. Nick was at the\nLooking Glass with the Head Trainer.\n\"Francoise,\" he began, \"I loved you when we first met and\nyou every single day we were blessed to have together.\nBe strong, my love, for our time apart will not be an eternity,\nbut our time together when we meet again will be for Eternity.\"\n\"I love you.\"\nLeilah turned and looked at Charlie.\n\"The Head Trainer only takes the best for His angels, doesn't he.\"\n\"Nothing but the best,\" was Charlie's reply.\n(dedicated to loving memory of Nick and to his bride and\nFrancoise. God truly Blessed the both of you.)\nGod Bless you with Strength and Love. And Francoise, with every tear that falls, ours are falling with you!\nSome Links for you to read'\nI Do Not Sleep\nOn Joy & Sorrow\nLife will not go on the same without him.\nIf it were the same,\nwe could only conclude his life meant nothing,\nmade no contribution.\nThe fact that he left behind a place that cannot be filled,\nis a high tribute to the uniqueness of his soul.\nFrom Til we Meet Again\nTo add graphics or other gifts, email firstname.lastname@example.org\nBackgrounds by Over the Rainbow", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://open-source-energy.org/?topic=2770.0", "date": "2018-12-16T13:24:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376827727.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20181216121406-20181216143406-00348.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.95346999168396, "token_count": 246, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__92281476", "lang": "en", "text": "Would you know evil if it walked up and shook your hand?\nThe following is paraphrased from William Lashner's \"Fatal Flaw\"\nThe submission of will is the start of goodness.\nI tell you a person can be evil without cleft feet and a tail. What is it to be evil in this world? It is to have an unsubmitted will, to swear allegiance to nothing but the inner demons of one’s self, and to use every possible means to bend others to those same demons.\nThe evil all cleverly hide it behind a veneer of good intentions. Nothing exists to temper their desires. Whatever they want is right, whoever opposes them is wrong, everything they do is justified and proper, everything in this universe exists for the purpose of serving them. You can see it in the way they deal with people and the way they deal with problems.\nWhat they do, on the surface, seems righteous but there is always in evil people a desperate attempt to portray themselves as the soul of righteousness. And just as inevitably, whenever a portion of the evil slips from that false cover of propriety, they are quick to angrily blame someone else for the evil deed.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://playingforsurvival.tumblr.com/", "date": "2013-05-18T09:10:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382185/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00044-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9765989780426025, "token_count": 436, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__106635041", "lang": "en", "text": "In the book, Gale Hawthorne is Katniss Everdeen’s best friend in District 12, the coal mining district on the outskirts of the country. The two hunt together and divide up the game that they catch. Although there’s no overt romance in the relationship, Katniss continually evaluates her feelings for him. But when she is sent to compete in the games, where she faces off against 23 intense competitors, Gale is left behind. While Katniss thinks about him during the games, the story never shows him after the games begin. In the film, however, the first-person narrative is changed to a third-person narrative so viewers will see what Gale is doing as his friend competes in the games. We watch as he desperately longs for Katniss and notices that she’s developing an onscreen relationship with fellow tribute, Peeta Mellark.\nIn an early scene in the book, Katniss makes camp near a young woman who starts a campfire. After the young woman is discovered, she is attacked and nearly killed by some of her fellow tributes. But when they discover that she’s alive after the attack, Peeta is sent to finish the job. In the conclusion of the book, Cato; facing off against a group of mutant mutts, survives for several hours before Katniss puts him out of his misery. In the movie, however, these deaths are done quickly. The film finds the bonfire girl dying quickly after she’s attacked and Cato only suffering a few moments before Katniss ends his life.\nThe biggest change between the book and the movie is the reaction to Rue’s death. In the book, Katniss only knows that she receives District 11’s appreciation for her kindness in the form of a gift dropped into the arena. In the movie, the complete reaction of District 11 is brought into greater focus. The people of District 11 begin to revolt against the capital officers who watch over them. They fight against the government that has taken one of their own and sent her into a battlefield to die for their viewing pleasure.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.firstconyers.com/pearls", "date": "2018-08-21T04:35:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221217951.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180821034002-20180821054002-00387.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9718851447105408, "token_count": 204, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__100679951", "lang": "en", "text": "Pearls are frequently mentioned in the New Testament, and were considered by the ancients among the most precious of gems, and were highly esteemed as ornaments. The kingdom of heaven is compared to a \"pearl of great price.\"\nIn the book of Matthew pearls are used metaphorically for anything of value, or perhaps more especially for \"wise sayings.\"\nNo mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.\nJob 28:18 ESV\nThe heart of PEARLS is to connect older women with younger women in a mentoring relationship to encourage and challenge one another in their walk with Christ. Women invest in the lives of each other through encouragement, guidance, listening, laughing and loving. The goal is to form strong and lasting relationships that are a source of support, growth and strength. A mentoring relationship between an older and younger woman will be filled with treasured pearls of wisdom. Wisdom gained through life experiences and walking with God.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.okido.com/shop/books/whats-inside/", "date": "2020-01-19T09:41:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250594391.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119093733-20200119121733-00338.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9128572940826416, "token_count": 153, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__16383265", "lang": "en", "text": "Board covered paperback\nSee-through pages and magic surprises! It’s true!\nHold the special pictures up to the light to discover what’s inside a rocket, a castle, and even inside your body! There are also plenty of exciting facts.\nDraw in your own surprises, too!\nWhat present will you draw inside the box?\nWhich snacks will you draw in the fridge?\nWho will you draw behind the door?\n“This book is a must for inquisitive children who want to know how things work – by lifting the pages up to the light, you can see the inside of many things from the human body to a medieval castle.” – J.A. Smith\nThames and Hudson.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://cotton.ces.ncsu.edu/2016/04/seedling-vigor-why-is-it-important-collins-edmisten-stewart-york-reisig/", "date": "2024-04-21T22:01:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817819.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421194551-20240421224551-00336.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9250707030296326, "token_count": 3089, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__49567813", "lang": "en", "text": "Seedling Vigor: Why Is It Important? (Collins, Edmisten, Stewart, York, & Reisig)\nen Español / em Português\nEl inglés es el idioma de control de esta página. En la medida en que haya algún conflicto entre la traducción al inglés y la traducción, el inglés prevalece.\nAl hacer clic en el enlace de traducción se activa un servicio de traducción gratuito para convertir la página al español. Al igual que con cualquier traducción por Internet, la conversión no es sensible al contexto y puede que no traduzca el texto en su significado original. NC State Extension no garantiza la exactitud del texto traducido. Por favor, tenga en cuenta que algunas aplicaciones y/o servicios pueden no funcionar como se espera cuando se traducen.\nInglês é o idioma de controle desta página. Na medida que haja algum conflito entre o texto original em Inglês e a tradução, o Inglês prevalece.\nAo clicar no link de tradução, um serviço gratuito de tradução será ativado para converter a página para o Português. Como em qualquer tradução pela internet, a conversão não é sensivel ao contexto e pode não ocorrer a tradução para o significado orginal. O serviço de Extensão da Carolina do Norte (NC State Extension) não garante a exatidão do texto traduzido. Por favor, observe que algumas funções ou serviços podem não funcionar como esperado após a tradução.\nEnglish is the controlling language of this page. To the extent there is any conflict between the English text and the translation, English controls.\nClicking on the translation link activates a free translation service to convert the page to Spanish. As with any Internet translation, the conversion is not context-sensitive and may not translate the text to its original meaning. NC State Extension does not guarantee the accuracy of the translated text. Please note that some applications and/or services may not function as expected when translated.Collapse ▲\nSeedling vigor (seedling size, health, and growth rate) is the product of several factors related to genetics and environmental influences, and can also be manipulated through management. Naturally, seed size and performance in warm and cool germination tests can be indicators of how vigorous seedlings might be. Soil temperatures at planting and soon thereafter can also greatly influence seedling vigor. Lastly, improvements in vigor can be achieved through adequate protection from early season pests such as thrips and occasionally the use of starter fertilizers (in a 2×2 placement).\nAs mentioned above, seed size can be one predictor of vigor as larger-seeded varieties tend to be more vigorous, which will be discussed later in this article. It is important to note however, that variety decisions should be based on factors such as lint yield and yield stability, fiber quality, technology packages etc., with seed size considered mostly in regard to how that seed should be managed at planting. As seen from variety trial results, yield potential appears to be independent from seed size, as long as acceptable stands are established….in other words, high yields can be achieved from both large and small-seeded varieties as long as plant stands are adequate or optimal. Smaller-seeded varieties can also be our highest-yielding varieties in some years, however extra care may sometimes be necessary to ensure vigorous seedling growth and acceptable stand establishment, including upwards adjustments in seeding rates, delaying planting until conditions are optimal, use of seed treatments and/or in-furrow insecticides, hill-dropping, etc. Observing cool germ test results is also a good standard practice that is commonly under-utilized. Although only warm germ test results are printed on the seed bag, a grower can easily retrieve cool germ results by recording the lot number and asking the local seed company representative for the cool germ test results for that lot number. As a general practice, it is a wise practice to record the following information for each bag of seed a grower purchases: lot number, cool germ test results, specific seed treatment and treatment location (if treated downstream), planting weather (soil temperatures, air temperatures, and rainfall from a few days prior to planting until full emergence), and save a small sample of seed (1 gallon or so). This information along with a sample of seed can significantly help growers in situations where poor stands are observed.\nWith regard to cool germination, below is a quote from a publication written by Dr. Sandy Stewart who conducted some research observing the effects and interaction of seed size and cool germination during 2005-2006 in Louisiana:\n“The results suggests that the perceived negative effects of a low cool germination value can be overcome by a larger seed size, presumably due to greater stored energy reserves for emergence within the seed. Similarly, results suggest that the perceived negative effects of a small seed could be overcome by a high cool germination value in stand establishment. The lack of interactions among the treatment factors suggests that these findings should be consistent across varieties as well as environmental conditions. Growers do appear to be justified in seeking larger seed lots or higher cool germination lots for planting. However, the results from this study indicate that the combination of a small seed and a low cool germination is more detrimental to stand establishment than either factor alone. Smaller seeded lots should be handled with care, but may tolerate more challenging conditions than previously thought as long as the cool germination is high. Similarly, a low cool germination lot may emerge satisfactorily in challenging conditions as long as it also has a large seed size.”\nHis findings suggests that cool germ test results may be more important for smaller seed than larger seed, but both large and small seed can achieve acceptable stands if cool germ test results are adequate/optimal, or when planting in favorable environmental conditions or both.\nSo how do you quantify seed size, and how do you know if it is large or smaller seeded? Seed size is printed on the bag as seeds per lb. The higher the number, the smaller the seed. There is no designation for large versus small seed, therefore seed size is only relative when comparing one variety to another variety or comparing lot numbers. Assuming cool germ test results are similar and favorable for all varieties in a comparison, seed size can be one (of many) predictors of vigor. The graph below illustrates a relatively high correlation between seed size (as printed on the bag) and seedling vigor in five locations of the 2015 On-Farm Cotton Variety Trials. Note: seed quality and planting conditions were very favorable for these trials in 2015.\nSo how do certain varieties compare to one another with regard to seedling vigor? The graph below illustrates vigor (fresh weights of 10 seedlings per plot at the 2-3 leaf stage) of all varieties in the same five locations of the 2015 On-Farm Cotton Variety Trials.\nIt is important to note that all varieties in these trials resulted in optimal stands and acceptable vigor, and vigor did not appear to translate into higher yields. Planting weather was optimal for these trials in 2015 and severe thrips pressure and herbicide injury was essentially non-existent in field observations. However, if these varieties were to be planted under adverse weather conditions, and encounter severe thrips pressure and herbicide injury, then perhaps some of the smaller seeded or lower vigor varieties would need extra care or attention during planting and soon thereafter to ensure acceptable growth, especially if cool germ test results were less than ideal.\nSo why is seedling vigor important? Over the years, seedling vigor has always been important in stand establishment, especially in the early part of our planting window when conditions can be relatively cool. However, when planting in excellent conditions, yes, growers may still notice small differences in high and low vigor seedlings, but these differences often disappear later in the season and may not translate into differences in yield. But if the truth be told, this was more common back when we still had aldicarb and glyphosate resistance was not an issue.\nIn modern times, there are two major factors that can interact to elevate the value of vigorous seedling growth. These factors are the loss of aldicarb, and thus increased challenges in controlling thrips, and the increased reliance on residual herbicides for managing glyphosate-resistant weeds.\nInjury from thrips is exacerbated by any factor that slows seedling growth. Reduced growth rates of seedlings allow thrips to feed on developing terminal leaves for a longer period of time and also prolong the time between seedling emergence and the 4-5 leaf stage (point at which seedlings are generally safe from thrips) which intensifies the adverse effects on yield and maturity. With the loss of aldicarb, there is a greater need to promote rapid seedling growth to minimize these losses, through planting high-vigor seed and planting in warm, moist soils when conditions following planting are expected to favor vigorous growth. This is especially important in modern times as many of our thrips control products may expire before seedling reach the thrips “safe stage” if growth is slowed too much. Secondly, as we all know, the success of modern weed control programs relies heavily on effective use of residual herbicides to prevent pigweed emergence. An occasional side effect of such is herbicide injury, which can also slow seedling growth and most commonly occurs when experiencing rainfall at cracking or when seedlings imbibe a high concentration of herbicide as they are trying to emerge. The effects of herbicide injury alone (i.e. in the absence of all other stresses) is generally minimal and seedlings can overcome that injury given a little time. However, the effects of herbicide injury can be exacerbated when seedling growth is slowed due to cool weather or if proactive thrips control measures are not taken.\nLet’s be clear on something….the use of residual herbicides is as important now as it ever was. Weed control programs that are too lax (reduced rates or no residual herbicides) will result in poor weed control which will more than negate any improvements in seedling vigor or thrips control. In the current period of low cotton prices, some growers have expressed concern over the cost of some herbicides, especially when they have experienced severe injury in previous years. The effects that herbicides have on seedling vigor and thrips control can be overcome by timely management and are miniscule in comparison to the costs of dealing with weedy fields. Finally, it should be noted that herbicide injury can sometimes look very similar to thrips injury. Be sure you know if thrips are present before you manage what is actually an herbicide problem.\nSo what can we do?? Given the current challenges we face, the potential impact of planting high vigor seed in conditions favorable for rapid seedling growth is greater now than it has ever been. Therefore, as simple as it may seem, a little extra attention to warm and cool germination tests and avoiding planting during periods of cool, wet conditions can help alleviate many of these issues. The effects of both thrips and herbicide injury should be lessened to some degree when doing so. Secondly, if herbicide injury is observed, research across the belt has shown that a well-timed foliar spray of acephate when the first true leaf barely appears between the cotyledons (15-20 days after planting depending on growth rate) can remove the added stress from thrips and can prevent adverse effects on yield. It is important to note that the timeliness of this foliar spray is extremely important to the success of this approach. It is understandable that growers want to combine sprays when possible to reduce trips across the field. However, if the preemergence herbicide is working, thrips control will often be needed prior to time for the first postemergence herbicide application.\nWith regard to thrips management practices, many growers have had good success with an insecticidal seed treatment followed by a well-timed foliar spray to 1-leaf cotton. Recent cases of documented resistance to seed treatments across the belt, including North Carolina, have raised concerns of whether or not a seed treatment will suffice in controlling thrips. In 2016, growers should have the option to choose which seed treatment they prefer, whether the seed is treated by the manufacturer or downstream at local distribution outlets. As with any seed treatment, a well-timed foliar spray should be expected in most cases. It is important to note, that a higher rate of acephate or Radiant plus surfactant (Radiant rates of 1.5 oz/A or preferably higher, with better control expected at higher rates) may be necessary in controlling western flower thrips. In many cases, the presence of high numbers of western flower thrips is only realized once the foliar spray has failed and another application is needed.\nIn recent years, there has been a growing interest in applying liquid Admire Pro (or like product) in-furrow in addition to a seed treatment. There has been a great deal of success with this approach, as data have illustrated prolonged control of thrips on occasion. However, as Dr. Reisig pointed out in the winter cotton meetings, growers may not expect a “one and done” approach to suffice in all cases in 2016. As seen in 2015, there will likely be several scenarios where a seed treatment plus Admire Pro in-furrow will require an additional foliar spray of acephate. Regardless, the success of this program relies heavily on achieving adequate coverage or direct contact of liquid insecticide with the seed as it is planted. There are several methods used to make liquid in-furrow applications of Admire Pro, however research in North Carolina has shown the greatest success with the 9.2 oz/A rate of Admire Pro at application/carrier volumes of 5 to 9 gallons per acre applied through an orifice which provides a direct stream of the insecticide contacting the seed as it is planted. With regard to seed covers, growers should evaluate seed/insecticide contact in their system and make necessary adjustments to ensure direct contact of insecticide to the seed.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.boxpiper.com/posts/reading-for-success-how-books-shape-the-college-experience", "date": "2023-12-01T23:47:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100308.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201215122-20231202005122-00655.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9596832990646362, "token_count": 945, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__242499383", "lang": "en", "text": "The college experience is a transformative one for every student. It is a journey filled with academic growth, personal development, and self-discovery too. You pursue your desired degree, you expand your knowledge, and hone your skills. And if you study in an international environment, you become more culturally sensitive and aware too. There are many factors that contribute to your personal growth. You meet new colleagues on campus, some of whom will become your friends for life. You engage in writing papers, as part of your academic pursuit. You study what your teachers recommend to you, and you read books too.\nEven though these are some normal activities in the life of every student, we often underestimate the power books have. They are more than vessels of knowledge. They serve as windows to new worlds, new ideas, and perspectives. And they can indeed have a profound impact on your life as a student, shaping your entire college experience. Learn more about how books can do this.\nCollege coursework includes extensive reading. You have to go to courses and read the recommended textbooks so that you get a better understanding of the course materials. Of course, you will have to read academic journals, research papers, or other supplementary reading too. But the recommended books are essential too, as they provide the foundational knowledge you need. On top of this, they serve as references for exams and essays you might have to write. You can be inspired by some of these books and want to expand your knowledge on a niche more. They can serve as quality personal narrative essay examples for students too, as EduBirdie experts point out online. This is a service of essay samples that recognizes the great benefits reading books has on the academic journey of every student.\nReading encourages critical thinking a lot. When reading, you will not always meet ideas you already agree on. Some of the perspectives presented in books will challenge your beliefs, will make you question assumptions, and will give you food for thought. These critical skills you will develop through reading are essential not only in academics but also in life. They help you make informed decisions and analyze the details you have at hand carefully.\nAnother set of skills reading books helps you improve is communication skills. When you read, you face new ideas, perspectives, and thoughts. You see how the author expressed their ideas, how they formulated the sentences, and what specific words they used. Well, reading helps you expand not only your knowledge but your vocabulary too. It helps you develop effective communication skills. It enhances comprehension and the ability to articulate ideas clearly. This is vital for academic discussions, writing essays, and participating in classroom debates.\nWell, academic progress is essential to every student. However, reading books does not only help you with this. It also helps you grow personally. Beyond the classroom, books turn out to be a really valuable source of personal growth. Memories, self-help, or psychology books can provide you with some food for thought. They can also provide you with strategies for better time management, or for solving conflicts. They can help you discover your goals, your values, and your dreams. And the more aware you are of your inner world and thoughts, the happier your life will be. Books are instrumental in shaping your identity and aspirations.\nTechnology has enabled us to travel from country to country fast and easily. And today, you might find yourself studying in an international environment. Well, books open doors to new cultures, societies, and historical periods. Some of these you might not encounter otherwise, so taking a glimpse into how other cultures live and see life can open new horizons. And this makes you more culturally aware, to be more emphatic, and have a broader understanding of the world.\nCollege time can turn out to be pretty stressful at times. Well, reading can be a form to alleviate this stress and relax after a full long day. It can help you escape the stress of everyday life and enter a new universe. Engaging with a compelling novel or story can provide a much-needed break from the pressure of academic life. And, of course, contribute to mental well-being.\nCollege is an incredible experience for every student. It is a transformative journey where you learn more not only about the world and your chosen study subject but about yourself too. Books are part of this journey and they contribute tremendously to expanding your knowledge and vocabulary and honing your skills. So, do not hesitate to end your day and relax with an excellent book.\nBio lines: Cory Shilling is a content writer and blogger. He is passionate about writing, but about reading too. You can find him spending his evenings with a cup of tea and a book.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.williamsandcopublishing.com/freeebook", "date": "2023-10-01T18:42:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510924.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001173415-20231001203415-00653.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9284230470657349, "token_count": 133, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__215675636", "lang": "en", "text": "Join my email list to get your FREE copy of Fountain of Power, an exciting prequel short story of the Fountains of Power series.\nMy free gift to you\nYou will receive a link to download the e-book in whichever format best meets your needs. Please check your spam folder if you do not receive it. You may unsubscribe to the email list at any time. By submitting your email, you are agreeing to receive periodic emails from Marcus Williams Author including his e-newsletter, new book release details, ARC reader opportunities, promotions, and updates. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose and will not be shared.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://doc.dakaiweixin.com/channel/HJ_BizEnglish/2650331750001.html", "date": "2018-06-25T15:51:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267868135.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180625150537-20180625170537-00275.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.850481390953064, "token_count": 1012, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__219678532", "lang": "en", "text": "The Chinese movies and TV dramas of these days are sick.\nThis has become a common sense now.\nNo matter how ridiculous the plot is, no matter how absurd the background is, as long as it’s a major IP in net literature, there would always be people willing to film it. And they would undoubtedly film them with some young hype-celebrities.\nActually you can find a lot of big-budget productions among them, but usually they ended up really bad.\nMovies like Once Upon A Time and Legend of Ravaging Dynasties are almost provocation against the bottom line of the Chinese audience.\nBut right in such a morbid market, there is a woman striding against the storm.\nHer novels are not really highly popular. And in fact they belong to serious literature. But famous directors keep recomposing her novels into movies and the movies usually became not only commercial triumphs but also creative masterpieces.\nMost of the cases were that the movies got phenomenal and in return boasted the sales of the books.\nThe directors who came to her include Li’an, Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Aijia.\nAnd the original book for the Feng Xiaogang movie was even a requirement from Feng himself right in the beginning.\nThat movie is the upcoming Youth.\nAnd the name of that woman behind this movie is Yan Geling.\nSo far, there have been more than 10 Yan Geling books which were recomposed onto the big-screen.\nThe most famous one among them all may be The Flowers of War.\nBefore that, there were The Sent-Down Girl and Siao Yu.\nThe Sent-Down Girl was starred by Li Xiaolu. Siao Yu was starred by Liu Ruoying. And their bright careers both started from the roles they played in Yan's movies.\nAfter that, there was Coming Home.\nThe astonishing acting skills that Gong Li and Chen Daoming showed in it were really marvelous.\nThe high frequency of having works recomposed into movies made Yan Geling quite unique among the serious writers.\nIf not for her, the Chinese movie industry would be in unbearable darkness.\nThe reason that all these major directors are so fond of Yan Geling is that her novels really have a signature touch.\nHer words are not just words. They are words with images. And this makes them superbly suitable for recomposing into movies.\nFor example, these sentences are a description from Youth:\n“Right at the moment that Ding Ding turned her head, her earphones dropped on the floor. Liu Feng eagerly bent down to pick them up for her, and when he tried to straight up again he suddenly felt a chill from the back of his neck. A drop of water sneaked in along the collar of his white polyester shirt.”\nThis is her style: sharp.\nWhen she tells a story, she does not just use sentences. She uses scenes.\nHer personal life experience contributed a lot in her writing.\nOriginally, she was a playwright.\nIn the 1980s, Yan Geling had published her own plays and some of them were even filmed.\nEarly in her twenties, she was already a playwright with some fame.\nAnd as time went by, this sense of scenes became an intuition for her. It became ubiquitous in the words she wrote.\nBut she didn’t just wanted to be a playwright.\nThe role she set for herself was a novelist.\nAnd her rich experience made this so natural.\nShe spent her childhood as a little girl in the community of the writers’ association.\nShe served in the army when she was a teenager.\nAfter she turned 30 she set out on her journey to study in the USA and later became an outstanding icon among the overseas Chinese writers.\nAfter that she married to Laurence, a US diplomatist, and traveled the world as the wife of an ambassador.\nNow she is also a Hollywood scriptwriter.\nHer novels are touching, and so are the movies that they became.\nIf you watch The Flowers of War, you’ll feel how exquisite and subtle the emotions in it are.\nAnd interwoven among these emotions is the complexity of humanity.\nWhat’s precious is that these are all real feelings, not some forged sentiments.\nYan Geling herself once said: “What I hate the most is forged sentiment.”\nAnd that’s why she loves movies but does not like TV dramas at all.\nShe is trying to tell this country through her works: Our audience does have patience and what’s popular can also be serious at the same time.\nIt’s just that the kind of people who know how to hold all these elements together are really rare.\nAnd too many other people are just fickle.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://derekearis.tripod.com/evser.html", "date": "2019-05-24T03:57:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257497.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524024253-20190524050253-00504.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.984600841999054, "token_count": 878, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__124815370", "lang": "en", "text": "Tr 17b Ev “Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down.” So the Negro spiritual celebrates one of the best known stories in the Bible. The Israelites led by priests sounding the trumpet, marching round the walls of Jericho which finally, by God’s mighty power, crumbled to the ground.\nThe OT does indeed contain wonderful stories asnd episodes fo which this is one. Surely there is more than a grain of truth in it for the Israelites clearly did reach and conquer the promised land and they must have defeated the city of Jericho in order to make progress.\nTo understand the capture of Jericho we should go a few stages back to when Moses was alive. For Moses had already defeated two important kings – Sihon, king of the Ammorites and Og king of Bashan. Sihon’s capital was at Hesbon and his domains lay to the east of the Dead Sea. He refused peaceful passage to Moses and paid the price, for Moses and the Israelites attacked and defeated him and took all his lands. They caught him at an unlucky moment for he had recently expanded his kingdom in the war against the Moabites but had not had time to establish sure control. As for Og, king of Bashan, he was a larger than life character in every sense of the word. Renowned for his enormous bulk, he had a massive and specially constructed iron bedstead to lie on – the Daniel Lambert of Bashan. He also was attacked and defeated, the Israelites picking off the kings one by one. All of this is important because reports of the Israelites rapidly spread to surrounding Kingdoms and cities like Jericho. Here was an invader with fearsome and highly skilled troops who had already defeated mighty kings and nations. Moreover they were rumoured to have a supreme deity on their side who was invincible. No wonder foreigners were afraid, no wonder the morale of those in Jericho was low. There had been thorough preparations for the capture of the city. Spies had been sent and looked after by a woman of dubious morality called Rahab. Seeing which way the wind was blowing she helped the Israelites escape by a rope over the city wall. The time was ripe for invasion. The military tactics were unorthodox to say the least – marching round the wall blowing a trumpet for several days and then uttering a mighty shout. Or were they also unorthodox. For if fear was the name of the game there can hardly be any more effective tactics than these. The Israelites did not have conventional siege equipment but they did have skill and cunning and were convinced of the protection of almighty God, the commander of the Lord’s army. The inhabitants hearing the enemy, learning more about them, fearing them, their morale ground ever lower and lower. When finally all or part of the wall crumbled they were easy pray. Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and won it by the walls tumbling down. Walls, no doubt crumbled with decay and complacency collapsing aginst the new force of God’s people. We too erect walls round ourselves. Walls that insulate us from others, that seek to keep our assets and resources for ourselves and ourselves alone, walls that try to contain our thoughts so that we are not disturbed by ideas from God’s Holy Spirit. Walls of complacency and pride and selfishness, like Oscar Wilde’s famous story of the selfish giant who walled himself in a garden of perpetual winter so that no one else could enjoy it until at last seeing the error of his ways he let the spring in and the children and the birds and bees and the garden came full of love. God does not use conventional battery equipment to breach our walls. He uses the persistence of his presence, just like he used the persistence of the presence of the Israelites in that brief siege of Jericho. The trumpet of worship heralds his presence and love, the love shown to us by Christ, can melt down all that stands in the way of us and God. May we be open to the love in our lives and let the fresh air of his presence invade all that is cold and dark. May our surrender be not defeat but victory, victory that enters us into our promised land, the land where God and his love dwells for ever. Amen", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.abhinavpandey.com/blog/", "date": "2017-12-17T21:32:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948597585.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217210620-20171217232620-00357.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9675419926643372, "token_count": 4130, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__169415659", "lang": "en", "text": "The picture can only be hopelessly ironic, for the billions of atoms that have come together over a billion years to create Life, when the realization dawns upon that their combined whole (human being) has got no idea what to do with his Life.\nThe answer to this universal question should be an equally universal one. What is it?\nThe answer— and, in a sense, the tragedy of life— is that we seek to understand the goal and not the man. We set up a goal which demands of us certain things: and we do these things. We adjust to the demands of a concept which CANNOT be valid. When you were young, let us say that you wanted to be a fireman. I feel reasonably safe in saying that you no longer want to be a fireman. Why? Because your perspective has changed. It’s not the fireman who has changed, but you. Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective.\nSo it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle every day? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything other than galloping neurosis?\nThe answer, then, must not deal with goals at all, or not with tangible goals, anyway.\nA man must choose a path which will let his ABILITIES function at maximum efficiency toward the gratification of his DESIRES. In doing this, he is fulfilling a need (giving himself identity by functioning in a set pattern toward a set goal), he avoids frustrating his potential (choosing a path which puts no limit on his self-development), and he avoids the terror of seeing his goal wilt or lose its charm as he draws closer to it (rather than bending himself to meet the demands of that which he seeks, he has bent his goal to conform to his own abilities and desires).\nIn short, he has not dedicated his life to reaching a predefined goal, but he has rather chosen a way of life he KNOWS he will enjoy. The goal is absolutely secondary: it is the functioning toward the goal which is important.\nLet’s assume that you think you have a choice of eight paths to follow (all predefined paths, of course). And let’s assume that you can’t see any real purpose in any of the eight. THEN— and here is the essence of all I’ve said— you MUST FIND A NINTH PATH.\nIt is important that we understand the obstacles that we face and not run from them.\n- Acknowledge that all emotions come from within. It is not outside forces that make us feel something, it is what we tell ourselves that create our feelings.\n- Find someone you respect, and use them to stay honest. This isn’t an exercise of comparison, but a pragmatic way to learn from your heroes.\n- Recognize their is life after failure. No failure, no growth. To grow without failure requires extremely driven individual. Neither success nor failure, nothing should stop you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness, and all other qualities that maketh a man.\n- Read purposefully, and apply your knowledge. Books are the training weights of the mind. Exemplify that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person, and ultimately spark action and facilitate wiser decisions.\n- Challenge yourself to be brutally honest. A consciousness of wrongdoing is first step to salvation. Play the first part of prosecutor, then of judge and finally of pleader in mitigation.\n- Reflect on what you spend the most time on. The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object; better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.\n- Remind yourself: you weren’t meant to procrastinate. You weren’t born to feel ‘nice’, but to do things and experience them. The plants, the birds, the ants and spiders and bees are going about their individual tasks. So should you.\n- Put the phone away and be present. Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man’s ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company. We are not living in an age of distractions, but rather an age where we are failing to teach and embrace mindful motives. When you are working, be ruthlessly present.\n- Time is our most precious resource. To regret, even more so to die with regret, is the most horrible human emotion. Therefore, our self-respect, work ethic, generosity, self-awareness, attention and grown are evermore important.\nThe way we lead our lives and do our work must embody the principles that we practice. Less comparing, criticizing, and consuming; more creating, learning and living.\nDestructive emotions result from error in judgement, and a person of “moral and intellectual perfection” would not suffer from such emotions.\nWhat I learnt from my favorite anime character:\n- Persevere against all odds, because you must, you can, and you shall.\n- Bring happiness everywhere you go.\n- Always try to go to the next level.\n- Push others to new levels of greatness.\n- Stand-up for those that need your abilities.\nEnds up me being always happy, and finding positives in every situation.\nPeople only buy something if they believe it will solve a problem. Therefore, if you want to sell more stuff than there are problems, you have to encourage people to believe there are problems where there are none.\nThe problem with most people today is, they believe that they are as smart as their smartphones\nThe incessant hunger and subsequent gratification of monkey-see-monkey-do-like approval and admiration on social media has got most people so addicted that in the face of most minimal of disapproval or criticism, a kind of self-defense module powered by ego, rage, diversion and mood-swings gets triggered, and transports the self into a shell, wherein no scope of logical arguments exists.\nIs it worth a tear, is it worth an hour,\nTo think of things that are well outworn;\nOf fruitless husk and fugitive flower,\nThe dream foregone and the deed foreborne?\nFaith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves.\nFreedom aggravates at least as much as it alleviates frustration. Freedom of choice places the whole blame of failure on the shoulders of the individual. And as freedom encourages a multiplicity of attempts, it unavoidably multiplies failure and frustration. Freedom alleviates frustration by making available the palliatives of action, movement, change and protest.\nUnless a man has the talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden.\nThe Western colonizing powers offer the native the gift of individual freedom and independence. They try to teach him self-reliance. What it actually amounts to is individual isolation. It means cutting off an immature and poorly furnished individual from a corporate whole and releasing him to the freedom of his own impotence.\nA man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.\nThis minding of other people’s business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor’s shoulder or fly at his throat.\nThe less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. We are therefore more ready to imitate those who are different from us than those nearly like us, and those we admire than those we despise. The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.\nImitation is often a shortcut to a solution. We copy when we lack the inclination, the ability or the time to work out an independent solution. People in a hurry will imitate more readily than people at leisure.\nWhen our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need of something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives. Hence the embracing of a substitute will necessarily be passionate and extreme. We can have qualified confidence in ourselves, but the faith we have in our nation, religion, race or holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising. A substitute embraced in moderation cannot supplant and efface the self we want to forget. We cannot be sure that we have something worth living for unless we are ready to die for it. The readiness to die is evidence to ourselves and others that what we had to take as a substitute for an irrevocably missed or spoiled first choice is indeed the best there ever was.\nThe burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like giving a hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.\nNot one of our contemporary movements was so outspoken in its antagonism toward the family as was early Christianity. Jesus minced no words: “For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household. He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me, is not worthy of me.”\nThe permanent misfits are those who because of a lack of talent or some irreparable defect in body or mind cannot do the one thing for which their whole being craves. No achievement, however spectacular, in other fields can give them a sense of fulfillment. Whatever they undertake becomes a passionate pursuit; but they never arrive, never pause. They demonstrate the fact that we can never have enough of that which we really do not want, and that we run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves.\nThe permanent misfits can find salvation only in a complete separation from the self; and they usually find it by losing themselves in the compact collectivity of a mass movement. By renouncing individual will, judgement and ambition, and dedicating all their powers to the service of an eternal cause, they are at last lifted of the endless treadmill which can never lead them to fulfillment.\nThose who fail in everyday affairs show a tendency to reach out for the impossible. It is a device to camouflage their shortcomings. For when we fail in attempting the impossible, the blame is solely ours; but when we fail in attempting the impossible, we are justified in attributing it to the magnitude of the task. There is less risk in being discredited when trying the impossible than when trying the possible. It is thus that failure in everyday affairs often breeds an extravagant audacity.\nThe readiness for self-sacrifice is contingent on an imperviousness to the realities of life. He who is free to draw conclusions from his individual experience and observation is not usually hospitable to the idea of martyrdom. For self-sacrifice is an unreasonable act. It cannot be the end-product of a process of probing and deliberating. All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and there is no truth or certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.\nSo tenaciously should we cling to the world revealed by the Gospel, that were I to see all the Angels of Heaven coming down to me to tell me something different, not only would I not be tempted to doubt a single syllable, but I would shut my eyes and stop my ears, for they would not deserve to be either seen or heard.\nTo rely on the evidence of senses and of reason is heresy and treason. It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. Strength of faith manifests itself not in moving mountains but in not seeing mountains to move.\nIt is obvious, therefore, that in order to be effective a doctrine must not be understood, but rather has to be believed in. We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength. Once we understand a thing, it is as if it had originated in us. And, clearly, those who are asked to renounce the self and sacrifice it cannot see eternal certitude in anything which originates in that self. The fact that they understand a thing fully impairs its validity and certitude in their eyes. The devout are always urged to seek the absolute truth with their hearts and not their minds.\nIf a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to unverifiable. One has to get in to heaven or distant future to determine the truth of an effective doctrine. When some part of doctrine is relatively simple, there is a tendency among the faithful to complicate and obscure it. Simple words are made pregnant with meaning and made to look like symbols in a secret message. Thus there is an illiterate air about the most literate of true believer. He seems to use words as if he were ignorant of their true meaning. Hence, too, his taste for quibbling, hair-splitting and scholastic tortuousness.\nThe fanatic is convinced that the cause he holds on to is monolithic and eternal. Still, his sense of security is derived from his passionate attachment and not the excellence of his cause. The fanatic is not really a stickler to principle. He embraces a cause not primarily because of its justness and holiness but because of his desperate need for something to hold on to.\nThe fanatic cannot be weaned away from his cause by an appeal to his reason or moral sense. He fears compromise and cannot be persuaded to qualify the certitude or righteousness of his holy cause. But he finds no difficulty in swinging suddenly and wildly from one holy cause to another. He cannot be convinced but only converted. His passionate attachment is more vital than the quality of the cause to which he is attached.\nThere is perhaps no surer way of inflicting ourselves with virulent hatred toward a person than by doing him a grave injustice. That others have a just grievance against us is a more potent reason for hating them than that we have a just grievance against them. We do not make people humble and meek when we show them their guilt and cause them to be ashamed of themselves. We are more likely to stir their arrogance and rouse in them a reckless aggressiveness.\n“When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o’er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: “Thru Time I’ll save my love!” he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . .\n-Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: “Who’d learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there”. . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.”\nNothing is Impossible, but most of it is Unbelievable.\n- Never lose hope until its over.\n- Never celebrate too early.\n- Never leave your you place before the battle is over.\nThe only thing more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack is finding a needle in a needlestack.\nThe reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes. It occurs because we fail to recognize that our future selves won’t see the world the way we see it now.\nAnything one needs to market heavily is necessarily either an inferior product or an evil one.\nWhat Mother Nature does is rigorous until proven otherwise; what humans and science do is flawed until proven otherwise.\nKeeping one’s distance from an ignorant person is equivalent to keeping company with a wise man/ People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas there are.\nIn political systems, a good mechanism is one that helps remove the bad guy; it’s not about what to do or who to put in. For the bad guy can cause more harm than the collective actions of good ones.\nIt is completely wrong to use the calculus of benefits without including the probability of failure.\nTo understand the future, you do not need technoautistic jargon, obsession with “killer apps”, these sort of things. You just need the following: some respect for the past, some curiosity about the historical record, a hunger for the wisdom of the elders, and a grasp of the notion of “heuristics”, the often unwritten rules of thumb so determining of survival.\nOur perceptions are not the result of a physiological process by which our eyes somehow transmit an image of the world into our brains, but rather, they are the result of psychological process that combines what our eyes see with what we already think, feel, know, want, and believe, and then uses this combination of sensory information and preexisting knowledge to construct the perception of reality.\nOnce upon a time there was a bearded God who made a small, flat earth, pasted it in the very middle of sky so that human beings would be at the center of everything. Then physics came along and complicated the picture with big bangs, quarks, branes, and superstrings, and the payoff for all that critical analysis is that now, several hundred years later, most people have no idea where they are.\nOur desire to control is so powerful, and the feeling of being in control so rewarding, that people often act as they can control the uncontrollable. For example, people bet more money on games of chance when their opponents seem incompetent than themselves – as though they believed they could control the random drawing of cards from a deck and thus take advantage of a weak opponent.\nWe just can’t make the best of a fate until it is inescapably, inevitably, and irrevocably ours.\nAlthough the word fact seems to suggest a sort of unquestionable irrefutability, facts are actually nothing more than conjectures that have met a certain standard of proof.\nIf we set that standard high enough, then nothing ever can be proved. If we set the standard low enough, then all things are true and equally so. Because nihilism and postmodernism are both such unsatisfying philosophies, we tend to set our standard of proof somewhere in the middle. No one can say precisely where that standard should be set, but wherever we set it, we must keep it in the same place.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.hayleysangels.com/certification.cfm", "date": "2013-05-19T16:44:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697772439/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094932-00043-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9701361060142517, "token_count": 2301, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__179571531", "lang": "en", "text": "Our book \"Animal Teachings from Hayley's Angels Methods\nWatch Dr. Lefebvre's interview on Exist Kind 2012: Animal Teachings from Hayley's Angels\nDr. Lefebvre's goal and hope in writing this book (made of recycled paper and available as an kindle) is to open everyone’s heart and mind to improve our world and better the lives of all living creatures, one at a time. Her book guides us in making the best medical decisions for ourselves and for the animals on our paths, for maximum health and happiness, as well as for a peaceful transition into the next world.\nFor book purchase, you may visit www.amazon.com or www.barnesandnoble.com. Book is also available in Tucson, AZ at Antigone Books, Spirits Child and Central Pet; New Moon Haven in Catalina, AZ; High Noon Feed in Sonoita, AZ; in Green Valley, AZ at The Dog House and at the Book Shop in Green Valley Mall; in Amado, AZ at Central Pet and at the Equine Voices Rescue & Sanctuary's gift shop.\nWe can all have a positive impact on someone else’s life by bringing more joy, hope and healing than we ever thought possible.\nTogether, we can learn to care not only for the physical body, but also for the mind and the soul. Dr. Lefebvre hopes this book helps anyone who works in a close relationship with people or animals, inspires medical students and veterinary students in becoming great doctors, guides the medical community and all health care professionals in bettering the care for all patients, animals and humans, as well as guides all patients in better caring for themselves.\nWhy do we (animals and people) get sick? What are Animal Communication and Intuitive Medicine, and how much can they help you and your pet live better, with maximum health and happiness, as well as facilitate the transition into the Afterlife, with dignity and peace? Do we all, animals and humans, go to the same place?\nDr. Lefebvre wants to share with you her journey, the teachings of animals on her path, and suggest to everyone to open up to all the divine teachings that both people and animals on your path are offering you. Together, we can heal our planet and build a better and happier world. It is time to rediscover our own power and use it selflessly in a global effort to help the world rise to a new level of energy and consciousness. Dr. Lefebvre hopes this book can show the way to a better world.\nFrench version: Released Summer 2012!\nSpanish version: Release Spring 2014!\nWe are opening hearts, we are raising awareness, thank you for being a part of this important mission!Print your inspiring book poster now\nBOOK REVIEWS: \"Animal Teachings from Hayley's Angels Methods\".\nCould not put book down! I must admit I am not an avid reader. I read Animal Teachings in two days and could not put this book down. Highly recommend this book to animal lovers, people who care about other people, and all people in health care as well as health care providers. Book is written from the heart and experience. Animal Teachings has taught me many things and opened up my eyes! Looking forward to the next book! From Debbie, Spice's mom\nThe most inspiring book I have ever read! This book is very inspiring! It helps the reader to learn more about themselves and to understand animals in a beautiful way. I felt very good after reading this book, it helped me to realize that my dreams can come true. It increased my understanding of my dogs greatly as well. I highly recommend this book to anyone who likes to feel uplifted. From Kate Hinner, Tucson AZ\nA Soul Searching Insightful Book! This book helped my husband and I to look at life from perspectives other than what we were used to. Dr. Lefebvre's gift is her ability to be so compassionate and in touch with not only her patients but also their parents and the life around us. Dr. Lefebvre's book encouraged us to think deeply about our own life and its impact on the planet. It gave me ideas on how to improve my interactions with my own patients and also the environment. A must-read for anyone who believes there is more out there. We can all become become better citizens of our planet with a little bit of this knowledge. Thank you Dr. Lefebvre. From Melanie Olson, DVM\nDear Joanne, thank you so much for helping us with Zoot and for the nice card. I saw your video and I have been reading your book, which is wonderful. Thank you for doing so much to make the world a better place. Shifting consciousness is very important and something I have been studying myself. However, it has been somewhat depressing and I have been feeling like the problems of this world are just too big for me to do anything about. However, my interaction with you and your book reminded me that even the little things count so I have decided to move toward vegetarianism by giving up beef and pork immediately and then eliminating chicken and seafood in time. I have also changed my dog's diet. Thank you for your personal story and your dedication. Thank you for letting your sweet soul radiate goodness out into the world. In the past 3.5 years we have lost a total of 5 pets, 2 parents and one friend and I have been starting to get very negative, but meeting you renewed my hope. Thank you so much for that, Melissa Mauzy\nDearest Joanne, thank you so very much for helping our Bridget to leave this world and enter heaven with such ease. We really struggled with trying to save her life and it was a blessing not to struggle with her trying to end it. I have read your book and if everyone felt like you do, no one would have to suffer when ready to leave this world. Thank God for people like you. It takes a thoughtful individual like you to help others in their time of greatest need. The Reece family\nAn excellent read and thought-provoking! A must-read for anyone who has pets and/or people they care about! After reading this book you will have a whole new perspective on caring for your animals and advocating for your family and friends when they are ill or in need of medical care. Read with an open mind and know that even if your own philosophies do not align with those of Dr. Lefebvre, you will come away with an improved understanding of your pets and their needs. From Pam Stabach, Veterinary Hospital Office Manager\nInsight into helping your pet and yourself! Working in the veterinary field for years, I have walked out of many exam rooms, saying to myself 'I wish this \"pet\" could really tell me what's going on'. If you could find a way to communicate with your most beloved companion, wouldn't you want to? If your pet was ill and you needed assistance in finding what to do, and conventional medicine couldn't provide that, what would you do? Dr. Joanne Lefebvre, DVM has brought intuitive medicine to light, and is helping pets and people because of it. Although intuitive medicine has been around forever, it has sadly become forgotten by many in our modern society. Thanks to Dr. Lefebvre, everyone can now learn how to awaken their dormant intuition to reach maximum health and happiness, as well as how to express their full potential during their journey on Earth.\nDr. Lefebvre is using intuitive medicine in conjunction with conventional medicine to assist in finding the cause of a physical or emotional condition in animals. When combining the two approaches, your pet gets the best results. In this book, Dr. Lefebvre shares some of her communications and success stories during her journey of learning how intuitive medicine wants to use her. It's amazing to read some of these experiences and communications and to truly feel the connection. I highly recommend this book if you want insight into helping your pet and/or yourself, discovering who you and your pet truly are on a soul level, and learning to live your life while staying in tune with your life purpose at all times. From Lisa Schrope Certified and Registered Veterinary Technician\nThank goodness there was you! Joanne, I don't even know what to say that you probably haven't heard a thousand times already, so I'll just say what I'm feeling and what echoes the many letters you've received from others. I want to thank you so much for helping Maggie cross over. I can't even explain to you how happy I am that one phone call led me to you. This was difficult for us and you helped us with the process and gave us space to say goodbye and didn't make it feel rushed or uncomfortable. And as trivial as it might seem, it was special to me to see her leave looking so beautiful wrapped up in that pretty pink blanket. I told my husband if she had to leave with anyone, you were the one! Such a loving, kind spirit. What you do and who you are is a HUGE blessing in this world. I could feel that from you, but after I read your book I feel like it confirmed it. What a gift that you shared so much of yourself in your writing. It really gave me a lot to think about as well - not only in dealing with animals, but about life in general. I've been reading the peace exercise at the end of chapter 11. I'm hoping if I read it every morning it will sink in before long! Thank you so much, Christa\nHealing the mind, body and soul of animals and of people Dr. Joanne Lefebvre's new book, \"Animal Teachings,\" forever removed from my mind the false division between what, in our Western cultures, are referred to as the scientific and the spiritual domains. Not that she has not admirably distinguished herself in her difficult area of science, Veterinary Medicine; far from it. As an animal doctor, she draws on a vast compendium of solid, detailed, technical knowledge; but Dr. Lefebvre has more than the current science models operating when she strives to cure and care for the animals under her care: it's a deep, intuitive response to a dimension of knowing we simplistically refer to as the spiritual. Tell me another exceptional veterinarian who not only seeks deep, hidden communication with such creatures as whales, but has the professional courage to say so in a widely published book? In the end, this physician tells us what all the greatest physicians have, through time, always told us: scientific facts belong to the five physical senses and logical rationality; spiritual facts belong to another sense we call intuition and expand through a welcoming, open intelligence determined to heal the whole person, or the whole animal--not just their bodies. Joanne Lefebvre makes ample use of both. Listen deeply to the animals, Dr. Lefebvre counsels us, and you will accomplish things only formerly dreamed of. From Sammie Ann Wicks, Ph.D., Musicologist, Folklorist, Anthropologist, Americanist, and a grateful client with a grateful kitty", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.transparimed.org/single-post/2017/03/03/trump-releases-new-study", "date": "2024-04-24T12:49:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819273.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424112049-20240424142049-00493.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9492172002792358, "token_count": 228, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__59128616", "lang": "en", "text": "Pharma-sponsored drug and device trial studies are about 30% more likely to have results and conclusions that favour the sponsor, a new Cochrane Library review has found.\nThe review found that studies run by pharma companies routinely show greater efficacy and less harms. The authors outlined some common ways in which sponsors can influence study outcomes, including the framing of questions and selective reporting of favourable results. They pointed out that medical journals often do not effectively enforce the now-common requirement to disclose sponsors’ role in designing, conducting and publishing studies.\nCochrane’s review encompassed 75 papers including cross-sectional studies, cohort studies, systematic reviews and meta-analyses that quantitatively compared primary research studies of drugs or medical devices sponsored by industry with studies with other sources of sponsorship.\nThe Cochrane review was authored by Andreas Lundh, Joel Lexchin, Barbara Mintzes, Jeppe B Schroll, and Lisa Bero; it was published on 16 February 2017. The Canberra Times covered the review in an excellent article featuring an interview with senior author Lisa Bero of the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.lawn-tractor-buyers-guide.com/lawn_and_gardening_survey-thankyou.html", "date": "2018-02-19T11:31:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812584.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219111908-20180219131908-00704.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9397510886192322, "token_count": 172, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__69871872", "lang": "en", "text": "Thank you so much for completing the survey.\nIt will really help me focus on delivering exactly the content that my readers want.\nIf you are interested in receiving details about the new lawn and gardening content once it’s created, please add your email adress to the form below and I’ll send you a free preview.\nThe book I promised to point you to is called ‘Making a Lawn by Luke Joseph Doogue’.\nIt is a classic lawn/gardening book, originally published in 1912 and fascinating to read.\nIt is now available through the Gutenberg project and to can be accessed here in various file formats, including for kindle.\nIf you’re anything like me, once you get onto the Gutenberg project website, you might find it hard to leave. There are so many treats there.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jdiannedotson.com/book-signings/a-read-local-book-signing/", "date": "2019-05-22T02:35:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256724.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522022933-20190522044933-00414.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9582703709602356, "token_count": 389, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__152825681", "lang": "en", "text": "Today I enjoyed being part of the Read Local booth at the Encinitas Holiday Street Fair! This was made possible by Publishers and Writers of San Diego (PWSD). I shared the booth with fellow local authors Sylvia Melena, Jennifer K. Crittenden, and Bill Vallely.\nI had one regret today. I wished I had brought a chair. Authors, don’t make the same mistake I did! Bring a chair! Of course, I brought my signature Book Signing Brownies that I bring to every signing. That was an empty platter at the end of the event!\nIt was great to see familiar faces as well as new ones. The lively discussions with readers and science fiction fans kept everything vibrant. As a science fiction novelist, I love these opportunities to talk about my book, about science fiction in general, and about science as well. I relish hearing about others’ joy in reading and pondering the Universe. New readers, I am so grateful you stopped by! Thank you!\nWorking alongside fellow local authors continues to be a rewarding experience. No two book signings have been alike. My only regret has been that I wished I had more time to speak to each author individually! We are all at various stages in our careers. And no matter what stage that is, I learn something from every author.\nIf you are a writer, consider joining a local writer group in your city. You will have the ability to mingle with other writers, whether published or otherwise, and the lessons you learn are priceless. You may also learn about opportunities like this signing the you might not have otherwise! Better still, the new connections will enrich your life! Thank you, PWSD, for helping make this event possible.\nImage Credit: J. Dianne Dotson at Encinitas Holiday Street Fair, November 18, 2018. By J. Dianne Dotson Copyright 2018.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.wildmoonfiberarts.com/", "date": "2024-04-13T13:30:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00870.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9686676263809204, "token_count": 158, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__170816630", "lang": "en", "text": "For thousands of years the making of cloth, baskets and nets has been the work of a village. Shepherds provided the wool. Farmers and foragers gave us flax, cotton and silk, and the dyes for all the myriad colors. Then there was the washing and carding and spinning and dying and weaving. And finally, the cloth was made into clothing or bags or blankets.\nIt still takes a village. It takes a village to not only produce, but to remember and to dream.\nWild Moon Fiber Arts dreams of that village here in the high desert of Joshua Tree. And, more than dreaming, it is the goal to create it. We may be starting small and quiet, but the dream is big and the potential is real. Welcome to our journey.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://english.arpp.ru/21492-read-russia-prize-global-shortlist-announced.html", "date": "2017-04-30T10:49:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917125074.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031205-00187-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.934578537940979, "token_count": 371, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__125381699", "lang": "en", "text": "Published on Friday, 12 September 2014 07:20\nMoscow, August 2014—The Read Russia Prize’s organizational committee has announced the Read Russia Prize’s global shortlist of 17 translators and translations of Russian literature into other languages worldwide. The competition, open to works published between 2014 and 2012, received 112 nominations from 16 countries around the world: Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, China, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\nThe Read Russia Prize was established in 2011 by the Institute of Translation in Moscow, a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering the development of the theory and practice of literary translation. The competition is conducted every two years with support from the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communication and the Boris N. Yeltsin Presidential Center. The prize is awarded to a translator or group of translators for outstanding translations of prose and poetry works from Russian into a foreign language and published by a foreign publisher during the previous two years.\nThe Read Russia Prize aims to popularize works of Russian literature; encourage foreign translators who translate Russian literature into other languages; encourage foreign publishers who publish translations of Russian literature, and strengthen and develop cultural ties between Russia and other countries. The shortlist of 2014 nominees include two titles published in the United States:\nFor 19th-century classic Russian literature:\n1. Vera Bischitzky for her translation of Ivan Goncharov’s novel Oblomov (Germany);\n2. Alejandro Ariel Gonzales for his translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novella The Double (Argentina); and\n3. Jorge Ferrer Diaz for his translation of Alexander Herzen’s work My Past and Thoughts (Spain).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thisworldview.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-top-five-regrets-of-dying.html", "date": "2018-12-15T19:33:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376826968.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20181215174802-20181215200802-00581.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9877598285675049, "token_count": 837, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__209010689", "lang": "en", "text": "5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.\nThis is a surprisingly common one. Many did not realize until the end that happiness is a choice. They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits. The so-called 'comfort' of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives. Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content. When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.\n4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.\nOften they would not truly realize the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down. Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years. There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved. Everyone misses their friends when they are dying. It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end. That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.\n3. I wish I'd had the courage to express my feelings.\nMany people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others. As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming. Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result. We cannot control the reactions of others. However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level. Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life. Either way, you win.\n2. I wish I didn't work so hard.\nThis came from every male patient that I nursed. They missed their children's youth and their partner's companionship. Women also spoke of this regret. But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners. All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence. By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do. And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.\n1. I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.\nThis was the most common regret of all. When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled. Most people had not honored even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made. It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way. From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late. Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it. When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind. How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.\nThe truth is, we're all dying. In the words of the late Jim Morrison, \"No one here gets out alive.\" It may be 50 years from now, it may be tomorrow. None of us know.\nFor those who are in Christ, death is not something we should fear. We should actually look forward to it! As the apostle Paul said, \"To live is Christ and to die is gain.\" If we live, we have the privilege of helping lead people to eternal life. There is no greater way to spend our days. When we die, we receive the reward of our faith, to live in glory with Christ forever. With that in mind, we can make the most of each day, each moment, each opportunity to share the eternal life giving message of Jesus.\nLive today in light of eternity.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://darthroplasty.com/2016/11/03/darthroplasty-history/", "date": "2023-09-26T02:24:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510130.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926011608-20230926041608-00868.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8403544425964355, "token_count": 1373, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__309047019", "lang": "en", "text": "DARthroplasty – brief history\nIn human medicine, the augmentation of the femoral head support by an extracapsular bone graft has been used for a very long time in the treatment of hip dysplasia. It was first described by König in 1891 and was the principal method of acetabular reconstruction during the first half of the 20 th century (1). Several techniques using this principle have been used. The main difference being the method used to stabilize the graft. This group of techniques are generally known by the term Shelf Acetabuloplasty, in the sense that the bone graft works as an extension of the true acetabulum. In recent decades the early diagnosis of the disease in humans permitting the correction by harnesses and by rotational osteotomies conferring hyaline cartilage coverage to the femoral head have reduced the number of shelf operations. Nevertheless, it is present in the armamentarium of many surgeons, being used mainly in late presentation cases (late childhood, adolescents and young adults) (1,2,3,4,5). It remains as one of the few alternatives in complex late presentation cases (1), as a rescue technique should the rotational osteotomies fail to correct the deficient coverage (6) and as probably one of the best options for severe late onset Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (7,8,9,10,11,12,13). In recent years it has been performed using minimally invasive methods (14).\nIn 1998 Barclay Slocum and Theresa Devine Slocum published the description and results of a shelf surgical technique for dogs that was named DARthroplasty (15). The name signifies Dorsal Acetabular Rim plasty. More than 300 hips were operated in their 6 year experience with the technique before publication (15). The technique is indicated, according to these authors, for dysplastic hips too far advanced (in the disease process) for triple pelvic osteotomy (TPO) but not yet candidates for end-stage salvage procedures (15).\nSince this publication very little has been written about the DARthroplasty. The data was never collected to clarify it’s definitive place in Veterinary Surgery.\nStaheli LT, Chew DE. Slotted acetabular augmentation in childhood and adolescence.\nJ Pediatr Orthop. 1992 Sep-Oct;12(5):569-80.\nFawzy E, Mandellos G, De Steiger R, et al. Is there a place for shelf acetabuloplasty in the management of adult acetabular dysplasia? A survivorship study.\nJ Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2005; 87-B:1197-202.\nSummers BN, Turner A, Wynn-Jones CH. The shelf operation in the management of late presentation of congenital hip dysplasia.\nJ Bone Joint Surg [Br] 1988;70-B: 63-8.\nCourtois B, LeSaout J, Lefevre C, et al. The shelf operation for painful acetabular dysplasia in adults: a propos of continuous series of 230 cases.\nInt Orthop 1987;11: 5-11 (in French).\nHirose S, Otsuka H, Morishima T, et al. Long-term outcomes of shelf acetabuloplasty for developmental dysplasia of the hip in adults: a minimum 20-year follow-up study.\nJ Orthop Sci (2011) 16:698–703\nSu Y, Wang M, Chang W. Slotted Acetabular Augmentation in the Treatment of Painful Residual Dysplastic Hips in Adolescents and Young Adults.\nJ Formos Med Assoc | 2008 • Vol 107 • No 9: 720-727\nKruse RW, Guille JT, Bowen Jr. Shelf arthroplasty in patients who have had Legg-Calvé Perthes disease: a study of long-term results.\nJ Bone Joint Surg [Am] 1991;73-A:1338-47.\nWright D, Perry D, Daniel C, et al. Shelf acetabuloplasty for Perthes disease in patients older than eight years of age: an observational cohort study.\nJournal of Pediatric Orthopaedics B 2013; vol22 issue 2: 96-100\nDomzalski M, Glutting J, Bowen R, et al. Lateral Acetabular Growth Stimulation Following a Labral Support Procedure in Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease.\nJ Bone Joint Surg Am, 2006 Jul 01;88(7):1458-1466\nDaly K, Bruce C, Catterall A. Lateral shelf acetabuloplasty in Perthes’ disease – A review at the end of growth.\nJ Bone Joint Surg [Br] 1999;81-B:380-4.\nOsman M, Martin D, Sherlock D. Outcome of late-onset Perthes’ disease using four different treatment modalities.\nJ Child Orthop (2009) 3:235–242\nOh C, Rodriguez A, Guille JT, et al. Labral Support Shelf Arthroplasty for the Early Stages of Severe Legg-Calvé Perthes Disease.\nAm J Orthop. 2010;39(1):26-29.\nVan Der Geest I, Kooijman M, Spruit M, et al. Shelf Acetabuloplasty for Perthe’s Disease: 12-Year Follow up.\nActa Orthopædica Belgica, Vol. 67 – 2 – 2001\nChiron P, Laffosse JM, Bonnevialle N. Shelf arthroplasty by minimal invasive surgery: technique and results of 76 cases.\nHip International / Vol. 17 no. 2 (suppl 5), 2007 / pp. S72-S82\nSlocum B, Slocum T. D. DARthroplasty.\nIn: Bojrab, M. J., ed. Current Techniques in Small Animal Surgery, 4th Ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins 1998: 1168 – 1170", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://muhsinilyassubasi.org/MISbiography.htm", "date": "2020-07-15T04:41:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657155816.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20200715035109-20200715065109-00586.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9743754863739014, "token_count": 605, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-29", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__99800856", "lang": "en", "text": "The Poetry of Muhsin Ilyas Subasi\nBiography of Muhsin Ilyas Subaşı\nPoet, writer, historian, journalist, and educator\nThis prolific Turkish writer was born on July 25, 1942 in the village of Şarkışla in the Sivas province of Turkey.\nHe started his primary education in the village of Talıaltın, and completed it in the Şarkışla Elementary School (1956). He then graduated from the Kayseri Imam Hatip High School (1966) and the Kayseri Advanced Institute of Islam (1972).\nSubaşı started his professional life as a journalist from 1966-1973, and then as a teacher in Malatya and Kayseri (1973-1995).\nFrom 1995 onwards, he has devoted himself entirely to research and writing for his journalistic career. He was the Kayseri representative of the Anatolian Agency and the Turkish News Agency, and was the Chief of the Editorial Department at the Hakimiyet and Yeni Sabah newspapers (1966-1973). It was in these newspapers that Subaşı started his literary career by organizing their art pages.\nHis first published poem appeared in Islam Magazine in 1962. He became well-known after the publication of his first volume of poety, Vuslat Türküsü (Reunion Folksong). From 1965 on, his poems, essays, critiques and research writing have regularly appeared in publications such at Hareke (1965-1975), Türk Yurdu (1965-70), Hisar (1975-1980), Töre (1975-1980), Küçük Dergi (where he served as the Director from 1979-81 in Kayseri), Türk Edebiyatı (1980-2000) and Erciyes and Somuncu Baba Magazines. His articles on politics and current events have been published in the Yeni Devir, Türkiye and Zaman newspapers.\nHe won the Kayseri Artists Association Poetry Award in 1981 and the Kayseri Journalists Association Press Award for excellence in the field of research in 1984 and 1985.\nHe has also received the Press Award of the General Directorate of Press and Broadcasting, and in 2013 was honored with the ESKADER Literary Prize.\nMany of his poems have been set to music, and translated into English, German and Arabic.\nHe also writes under the pen name of Selçuk Yurdagül.\nSubaşı currently resides in the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri, where he devotes his time to research and writing and to his beloved family (wife Saadet Hanimefendi, 3 daughters and 5 grandchildren).\n©2008-2014, Katharine Branning; All Rights Reserved. No part of this site may be reproduced in any form without written consent from the author.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://calebjmurphy.com/tag/laura-hillenbrand/", "date": "2018-01-23T13:22:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084891976.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123131643-20180123151643-00635.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9610678553581238, "token_count": 206, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__255386985", "lang": "en", "text": "This is the most detailed non-fiction book I’ve ever read, even down to every moment before Louis Zamperini’s plane crashed. Hillenbrand covers what each member of the flight crew was thinking and feeling right before the plane hit the water. The details make this a thick book and such a pulling read, like a vacuum.\nHere are the highlights:\n- Olympic runner joins the Air Force as a bomber\n- His plane crashes, he and two other crew members survive and float on a raft for a long time\n- Captivity as a POW, emotional and physical turmoil, and being pushed to the edge of what his body can take (thanks to The Bird)\n- Redemption (best part of the book)\nAlong the way, Hillenbrand is invisible, as she should be, but is still able to inject humor where it’s needed.\nBravo, Hillenbrand. And bravo, Zamperini, for fighting through all of it.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.thesouthasiantimesbd.com/nationwide/news/21744", "date": "2024-04-22T10:34:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818105.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422082202-20240422112202-00092.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9492326378822327, "token_count": 456, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__35349901", "lang": "en", "text": "Deepak Kumar Acharjee, editor of ‘The South Asian Times’, also a writer, has opened a novel “Shesh Mohonay” at the “Cover Opening Centre” of Bangla Academy in the book fair on Friday. After opening the cover of the novel, Deaapak Kumar Acharjee said that the Shesh Mohonay is a romantic novel written by Samiron Halder.\n“It is well written and everyone will like it,” he said.\nHe said, several employees in different sectors are indulging themselves in writings besides their professional work to enrich the Bengali literature.\nMr. Acharjee is hoping that this novel, “Sesh Mohonay” will receive the best seller book in the Ekushe book fair.\nIn the novel, the author has beautifully portrayed teenage life where we first experience our first love. Painting a vivid picture of younger age, capturing the delicate beauty and awkward innocence of first love. We follow the journey of Mitali, whose world changes as a friendship blossoms into something deeper. The author portrays the joy and excitement of newfound love, the nervous butterflies in the stomach, the stolen glances across the classroom, and the shared secrets whispered under the moonlight.\nHowever, the novel doesn't shy away from the bittersweet nature of teenage love. We witness the inevitable challenges, misunderstandings, and heartbreaks that come with navigating this new and complex emotion. Which is about learning to navigate the complexities of love, loss, and self-discovery.\nThe author also blends imagination with the harsh realities of society. Where the imagination meets reality, and how the hopeless love that was once heavenly becomes life’s biggest tragedy.\nOverall, it is a heartwarming and relatable experience that will resonate with anyone who remembers the unique experience of teenage love. It's a reminder of the beauty and pain, the joy and tears, and the unforgettable experiences that shaped our lives in those formative years.\nAmong other, poet, writer, and entrepreneur Jashimuddin Joy, Publisher of the novel Md. Nazmul Islam, publisher of Morium Publishing House, attended the novel cover ceremony.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://emetnews.org/post/the-chosen-land", "date": "2023-12-11T06:25:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103558.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211045204-20231211075204-00678.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9687539935112, "token_count": 1052, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__218899596", "lang": "en", "text": "The Chosen Land\n[This article is an excerpt from the book, Our Challenge: The Chosen Land, written by Rabbi Meir Kahane, in 1974.]\nIt is time for the Jew in Israel to throw away those negative attitudes that he retains from the Galut, the Exile. Chief among these is an unwillingness to look at bitter reality. We may not enjoy hearing it, but the truth is that for many years at least there will not be sincere de jure peace with the Arabs. It may affect the tender souls of the more spiritually intellectual among us, but one can never attain either peace or security by \"compromise\" with bitter enemies who have no intentions of compromising with you. Those in Judea, Samaria and Gaza who do sit down with you because they have no choice, do so only in the hope of getting rid of you as soon as possible. Our enemy, in the long run, is weariness. It is against this enemy that we must struggle. We must gird ourselves with tenacity and determination never to tire of what appears to be a never-ending struggle. For that is what it might very well become: a struggle for Jewish existence and a Jewish state that will never cease to be a struggle; a realization that between us and the Arabs stands a massive barrier that may never be reached; a determination by two peoples to live in a land that at least one will never compromise on. There will grow the weariness of having to send our children to the army without stop. There will grow the weariness of having to leave each year for reserve duty. There will grow the weariness of terrorist attacks on the borders or at the Lod airport or at the Tel-Aviv bus terminal. There will, perhaps, again grow the weariness — and the heartbreak — of victims of a new war of attribution. There will grow the weariness of all this, rising to a crescendo with the frustrating cry: \"When will it finally end?\"\nOnly the weak succumb to such frustrations; only the weak surrender to time. A strong and tenacious people know that there may never be an end to the struggle and the sacrifice. But they also look about them and see what their refusal to surrender has accomplished: a state, and today a big one, in much of our Eretz Yisroel; a Jewish state with nearly three million souls [now nearly seven million—ed] and many more to come; the creation of a new and proud Jew. None of these things would have come about had we listened to the intellectual precursors of our modern-day intellectuals and doves. In the name of \"peace\" there would be no Jewish state; in the name of \"morality\" there would be no free Jewish nation.\nIf we hope to survive in the literal sense of the word, let us not succumb to the siren call of easy answers and the tempting promise of \"peace.\" Above all, let us, please, have no illusions. The Arabs intend to wipe us out; we must be strong enough to stop them. The Arabs who live with us in Eretz Yisrael, both those who have done so for twenty-five years and those for just five, do not love us and never will — and one cannot blame them. Let us not play games with them or with ourselves. We give them civil rights and political freedom, but what Jew will ever agree that they should become a majority? What Jew will ever agree to allow Arabs to come in on the same terms as Jews do today under the Law of Return? Israel was formed as a Jewish state. Arabs may have social, economic, and much political equality but, in the end, it is not their state. For the individual Arab we offer much, but for the Arab nation, Israel offers nothing. It is not an Arab state, it is a Jewish state. It came into being because Jews knew that for them there was no hope in a world that thirsted for their bodies and souls. It came into being under the realization that neither king nor Republican nor Marxist had the solution to the Jewish problem. That in the end it was the words of the rabbis that proved to be eternally true:\n\"It is a law, it is known that Esau hates Jacob.\"\nAnd so, Eretz Yisrael, the land of the Jewish people, exists. It can never be anything but that and both we and the Arabs know it. Such a fact allows for few illusions over peace. Perhaps peace will come some day; I for one, doubt it. Until it doesn’t let us not listen to the delusions that float down to us daily from the ivory tower or from the self-hating Left.\nStrength and tenacity – they and they alone assure Jewish survival.\n[Barbara Ginsberg maintains a weekly mailing list of the writings of Rabbi Kahane ZT\"L. If you would like to receive these weekly mailings, you can join the list by contacting her directly\n[ Rabbi Meir Kahane's ZT\"L | Published: July 19, 2020 (Orig. 1974) ]", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://canibrands.com/blog/post/3-cbds-role-in-inflammation.html", "date": "2020-02-27T19:45:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146809.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20200227191150-20200227221150-00493.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9214518666267395, "token_count": 284, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__178543373", "lang": "en", "text": "CBD’s Role in Inflammation\nAdenosine is a chemical compound that plays a role in inhibiting the inflammatory actions of the body. Adenosine receptors in the heart also help to modulate blood flow. The graph below shows how cellular uptake of adenosine was decreased in cells that were pretreated with varying amounts of CBD and THC.\nThe 2006 study “Inhibition of an equilibrative nucleoside transporter by cannabidiol: a mechanism of cannabinoid immunosuppression” concluded that both molecules inhibit adenosine uptake. By inhibiting adenosine uptake, CBD (and, less potently, THC) could play a therapeutic role in pain and inflammation.\n“These studies demonstrate that CBD has the ability to enhance adenosine signaling through inhibition of uptake and provide a non-cannabinoid receptor mechanism by which CBD can decrease inflammation.”\nBy helping to reduce excess inflammation, CBD could play a role in maintaining healthy immune function. This is an area of particular interest to athletes and all those seeking an alternative to anti-inflammatory pharmaceuticals.\nInhibition of an equilibrative nucleoside transporter by cannabidiol: a mechanism of cannabinoid immunosuppression - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, May 2006, Volume 103, Number 20, Pages 7895–7900", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://great1india.com/holy-books/", "date": "2020-01-21T16:48:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250604849.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20200121162615-20200121191615-00420.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9347917437553406, "token_count": 1205, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__17942020", "lang": "en", "text": "Ved and Upnishads: Spirituality is the biggest science in the world and India is the mother of that science. Ved is to life as constitution is to any country, which when followed religiously can fill your life with enormous joy and satisfaction. There are four Vedas, namely, Rig ved, Sam Ved, Yajur Ved and Atharva Veda. Vedas are considered to be primary text of Indian culture. Scholars believe that existence of Vedas dates back to 1500 B.C. The contents of Vedas include hymns, incantations and rituals of ancient India. However, Upnishads are believed to be prolongations of the Vedas. The history of Upnishads can be traced back to 400 B.C.\n[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=\"31\" gal_title=\"Ved and Upnishads\"]\nBhagwat Gita: Bhagwat Gita is essence of Vedas and upnishads. But it is not limited to Hinduism only. If interpreted correctly it has huge amount of lessons for entire mankind as to how to exist in this world, how to attain materialistic success, how to get peace of mind and so on. It is in the form of philosophical dialogue version between Lord Krishna and Arjuna. The word “Bhagwat” means God and “Geeta” means song. Therefore, Bhagwat Gita means song of God. Bhagwat Gita is eternal reflection of spiritual wisdom from ancient India. The eminence and glory of this sacred text can be predicted by the fact that it has been translated into more than 20 languages. Western countries are deeply interested in this Holy book as they are seeking for their inner peace and calm.\n[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=\"32\" gal_title=\"Bhagwat Gita\"]\nRamayana: Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit tale of Hindu Mythology narrated and written by the sage Valmiki. It is story of Lord Ram, who sacrificed the Throne of Ayodhayaya in order to keep the promise of his father. He fell prey to a political trap in the family. But, he accepted his exile of fourteen years very gladly. During exile, his wife Godess Sita is kidnapped by Ravana, a ten headed monster king of Srilanka. Then, the entire story revolves round the freedom of Godess Sita. There is a significant mention of Lord Hanuman, who helped Rama in his battle against Ravana. Ramayana preaches us a lesson to concentrate on our duties and responsibilities, rather than crying for the rights only. This epic reminds us of ancient Indian culture, where a son can go for 14 years of tough exile just to keep the promise of his father. Ramayana is often referred to as Adikavyam (the first epic) and Valmiki as the Adikavi. It is because of the reason that all spiritual literature prior to Ramayana existed in the form of mantras, Ramayana was the first epic in which mantras has been converted into poetic form.\n[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=\"33\" gal_title=\"Ramayana\"]\nMahabharata: Mahabharata is one of the important epics of ancient India which was written by Vedvyas.It is more than 3000 years old. Mahabharata is portrait of the war of Kurukshetra and tale of destiny of Kauravas and Pandavas.Moreover, Mahabharata is the longest known epic in the world. It is all about details and description of 18 day long battle between Pandavas and Kauravas. It also includes the propagation of Lord Krishna being given to Arjun during the battle when he was in two minds and was not completely ready for the battle. The central philosophy of Mahabharat revolves around the actual execution of teachings of Vedas. Great thinkers and scholars believe that The Mahabharata is inclusive of economics, sociology, politics, chemistry, astronomy,art of war , spirituality and philosophy. History is a combination of old incidents along with preaches and teachings. This marks a demarcation line between the Vedas and Mahabharata. Mahabharata is history whereas Vedas are original and true forms of preaching.\n[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=\"34\" gal_title=\"Mahabharata\"]\nPurans: The word “Puran” means old and ancient. Puranas are post vedic literature including complete narration of the history of universe. It includes stories of genealogies of kings, Gods and sages. Broadly, there are 18 Puranas including Vishnu Puran, Narad Puran, Srimad Bhagwat puran, Garuda Puran, Padm Puran, Varah Puran, Brahma Puran, Brahmananda Puran, Brahma Vaivarta Puran, Markandey Puran, Bhavishye Puran, Vamana Puran, Matsya Puran, Kurma Puran, Linga Puran, Shiv Puran, Skanda Puran and Agni Puran. Each Puran depicts the divine story of a God or Hero. According to Swami Sivananda, Puranas have five distinctive characterstics, history, cosmology, secondary creation, geneology of kings and Manvantaras i.e the era of Manu’s rule which consisted of 71 celestial yugas. Puranas are just dissolution of high philosophy of Vedas. In order to make ordinary people understand the basics of Vedas, in the form of stories and tales which were otherwise difficult to understand.\n[Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=\"35\" gal_title=\"Purans\"]", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://kekeechelon.tumblr.com/", "date": "2014-09-18T23:42:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657129409.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011209-00090-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9914512038230896, "token_count": 327, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-41", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__110530495", "lang": "en", "text": "\"It wasn’t going to be like last time. I’ve got Finn now. It wasn’t going to be like last time.\"\nI’m sorry but I have to reblog this.\nLook at his face. Night before last this guy was worried that he’d blown it with his girl. Thought he might have pushed her too far, too fast and he’d scared her off. He probably spent his Sunday chewing on his cuticles and nothing much else because he’s been so anxious. Probably needed to talk to his dad about it just to get the noise of it out of his head; and even though Gary assured him everything would be okay over endless cups of tea, Finn couldn’t help but still feel worried. He probably wanted to talk to Rae too, but didn’t want to make matters worse. Now it’s Monday morning and this face is just so pleased and grateful that everything is okay. That she still wants him. That he’s not going to have to face walking into to a place he doesn’t really want to be without her. Having her there is what’s going to help him get through it. There’s love in that face and in the way he slowly caresses her whole hand before sliding his fingers through hers, taking a firm hold and squeezing, reassuring himself that she’s still his. There’s joy in that face too, as she offers him her hand. His faith in what they have evidenced in how perfectly they fit together.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://ignitehealth.blogspot.co.uk/2006_03_19_archive.html", "date": "2017-04-26T06:05:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121165.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00140-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9462692737579346, "token_count": 179, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__18962381", "lang": "en", "text": "Former Pfizer sales rep Jamie Reidy's memoir \"Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman,\" will form the basis for a fictionalized film about the pharmaceutical supply business, according to a report in the Hollywood trade publication Variety.\nThe book is a \"witty exposé\" of the pharmaceutical industry that reveals the questionable practices of drug reps, nurses, and physicians, according to the book's publisher, Andrews McMeel Publishing, based in Riverside, NJ. In the book, Reidy traces his ups and downs as a sales rep for giant drug manufacturer Pfizer, maker of some of the most widely prescribed and used drugs in existence, including Viagra.\nThe film version of the book will be set at a fictionalized company, according to Variety. Universal studios producers reportedly purchased the rights to the book for an amount in the \"high-six figures.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://meeraoommen.weebly.com/publications.html", "date": "2021-09-17T16:35:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780055684.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20210917151054-20210917181054-00391.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7528084516525269, "token_count": 2578, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__202277689", "lang": "en", "text": "BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS\nAdams, M.A., M.A. Oommen, and A. Sridhar (eds.). 2018. Contested cultures: knowing, using and conserving the wild. Seminar Magazine, February 2018.\nOommen, M.A. 2017. Understanding conservation challenges: investigating conflict in a forest-agriculture fringe in southern India using multidisciplinary approaches. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Technology, Sydney.\nSridhar, A. and M.A. Oommen. 2014. Representing Knowledge: LEK and Natural Resource Governance in India. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Dakshin Foundation. 192 pages.\nBawa, K. S., R. Primack and M. A. Oommen. 2011. Conservation Biology: A Primer for South Asia (book). Universities Press.\nJOURNAL ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS\nOommen, M.A. Forthcoming. The pig and the turtle: an ecological reading of ritual and taboo from ethnographic accounts of Andamanese hunter-gatherers.\nOommen, M.A. Forthcoming. Conflict, coexistence and conservation: cultural and material entanglements between people and pigs in India. In, Nature's Present, Mahesh Rangarajan et al. eds.\nOommen, M.A. and K. Shanker. 2021. Signals from the hunt: widening the spectrum on male pursuits of dangerous animals. Journal of Anthropological Research 7(7)3, Fall, 2021. doi.org/10.1086/715404\nOommen, M.A. 2021. Beasts in the garden: human-wildlife coexistence in India's past and present. Frontiers in Conservation Science. doi.org/10.3389/fcosc.2021.703432\nShanker, K. and M.A. Oommen. 2021. The authoritarian biologist reloaded and deep ecology redux: conservation imperialism and the control of knowledge, money, and space. In, 'A Functioning Anarchy? Essays for Ramachandra Guha', eds. Srinath Raghavan and Nandini Sundar. Pp. 37-54, Penguin Random House.\nOommen, M.A. 2021. Colonial pig-sticking, imperial agendas and natural history in the Indian subcontinent. The Historical Journal 64(3): 626-649. doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X20000308\nAssaga, F. et al. and M.A. Oommen. 2021. Operationalising the “One Health” approach in India: facilitators of and barriers to effective cross-sector convergence for zoonoses prevention and control. BMC Public Health doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11545-7\nAssaga, F. et al. and M.A. Oommen. 2021. ‘None of my ancestors ever discussed this disease before!’ How disease information shapes adaptive capacity of marginalised rural populations in India. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009265\nShanker, K. and M.A. Oommen. 2020. India's strategies for conservation and sustainability. In, 'India's Marathon: Reshaping the Post-Pandemic World Order (Kotasthane, P., A. Kanisetti, N. Pai eds.) Takshashila Institution Press, 336 pages.\nPurse, B. et al. and M.A. Oommen. 2020. Predicting disease risk areas through co-production of spatial models: the example of Kyasanur Forest Disease in India’s forest landscapes. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17(4): e0008179.\nOommen, M.A., R. Cooney, M. Ramesh, M. Archer, D. Brockington, B. Buscher, R. Fletcher, D.J.D. Natusch, A.T. Vanak, G. Webb and K. Shanker. 2019. The fatal flaws of compassionate conservation. Conservation Biology 33(4): 784-787.\nOommen, M.A. 2019. The elephant in the room: histories of place, memory and conflict with wildlife along a southern Indian forest fringe. Environment and History 25: 269-300.\nOommen, M.A. and M. Ramesh. 2019. Tides of change in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. Ecology, Economy and Society 2(1): 145-149.\nOommen, M.A. 2017. Famine and elephants: remembering place-making along a southern Indian forest fringe. In: 'Telling Environmental Histories: Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment' (K. Holmes and H. Goodall, eds.), Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History. Palgrave Macmillan.\nShanker, K., M.A. Oommen and N.D. Rai. 2017. Changing natures: a democratic and dynamic approach to biodiversity conservation. In: Alternative Futures: India Unshackled. (Eds. A. Kothari et al.).\nJaini, M., S. Advani, K. Shanker, M.A. Oommen, N. Namboothri. 2017. History, culture, infrastructure and export markets shape fisheries and reef accessibility in India's contrasting oceanic islands. Environmental Conservation 45(1): 41-48.\nOommen, M. A. 2012. Treeshrews of south Asia. In: Mammals of South Asia (Eds. A.J.T Johnsingh and N. Manjrekar). Universities Press & Orient Longman.\nOommen, M. A. and K. Shanker. 2010. Shrewd alliances: Context dependant foraging associations between treeshrews, greater racket-tailed drongos and sparrowhawks on Great Nicobar Island. Biology Letters 6(3):304-307.\nOommen, M. A. and K. Shanker. 2008. Ecology and behaviour of an endemic treeshrew (Tupaia nicobarica Zelebor, 1869) on Great Nicobar Island, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 105(1):55-63.\nOommen, M. A. and K. Shanker. 2005. Regional species richness patterns emerge from multiple local scale mechanisms in Himalayan plants. Ecology 86:3039–3047.\nOommen, M.A. 2018. Endangered enemies: culture, history and human-wildlife conflict. White Horse Press Blog, available at https://whitehorsepress.blog/2018/04/10/endangered-enemies-culture-history-and-human-wildlife-conflict/\nOommen, M.A. 2018. Book review. Jairam Ramesh. Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature. History and Sociology of South Asia 12(1): 1-4.\nOommen, M.A. 2018. Book review. Madhu Ramnath. Woodsmoke and Leaf cups: Autobiographical Footnotes on the Anthropology of the Durwa. Seminar, February 2018.\nOommen, M.A. 2017. Friction along the fringe. Seminar Special Issue: Nature's Present: Dilemmas, Conflicts, Opportunities (M. Rangarajan et al. Eds).\nOommen, M.A. and A. Sridhar. 2014. A place for knowledge: tracing natural resource governance from the late colonial to contemporary India. In, Representing Knowledge: LEK and Natural Resource Governance in India. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Dakshin Foundation. 192 pages.\nOommen, M.A. and M. Adams (eds.) 2013. Special Issue on Indigenous Knowledge, Current Conservation 7(1):32-35.\nAdvani, S. et al. and M. A. Oommen. 2013. Marine Fisheries in the Andaman Islands: An Account of their Emergence and Transformation. Dakshin Foundation, Bangalore and Andaman Nicobar Environment Team, Port Blair.\nAdvani, S. et al. and M. A. Oommen. 2012. Taking it from the top: Managing apex predator fisheries in India. Position paper for CBD-COP 11. Dakshin Foundation, Bengaluru and Foundation for Ecological Security, Anand.\nOommen, M. A. 1996. Biodiversity and sustainability of the Upper Beas Basin, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh – M.A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University.\n'Before we blame the forest-dwellers...' - The Hindu, 2020 (with Kartik Shanker)\n'Engaging communities in resource monitoring: The political ecology of science as the language of power' - Radicalecological democarcy.org, 2018\n'Hunting for solutions: on trophy hunting' – The Hindu, 2017 (with Kartik Shanker)\n'Human-wildlife conflict: the new wildlife action plan is an inclusive start to a long journey' – The Hindustan Times, 2017\n'Islands in Peril: Develop and Perish? 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Third CMPOT Workshop, Uppsala University, Sweden, 28th September - 1st October 2017.\nSimplifying predictions of species-habitat relationships for diverse tropical hotspots: a case study from India. The Summer Institute on Bounded Rationality, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, 27 June - 5th July 2016.\nThe elephant in the room: settler memories of famine and wildlife conflict underlie resistance to conservation in a southern Indian forest fringe, 2016 Oral History Association Annual Meeting, October 12-16, Long Beach, California.\nExploring multidisciplinary possibilities in understanding human-wildlife conflict along a forest-agriculture fringe in the Western Ghats hotspot in southern India, 27th International Congress for Conservation Biology, Montpellier, 2-6 August 2015.\nLinking historical contexts with conservation: stakeholder engagements with place in a forest fringe landscape in the Western Ghats mountains of southern India. International Congress of Historical Geographers, Royal Geographic Society, London, 5-10 July, 2015.\nThe persistence of memory: understanding stakeholder links to place, experience and conservation conflict along a southern Indian forest fringe. Invited talk, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, 22nd May 2015.\nUnequal burdens: Environmental justice in settler landscapes along southern Kerala's forest fringe. Invited talk at, 'Interrogating Environmental Justice' Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the World's Worst Industrial Disaster, the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, UTS, Sydney, November 10 & 11, 2014.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://paulakennedybooks.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/review-walking-disaster/", "date": "2018-07-23T17:03:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676599291.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723164955-20180723184955-00502.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9865356087684631, "token_count": 291, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__245234211", "lang": "en", "text": "Walking Disaster by Jamie McGuire\nRead from December 07, 2015 to January 31, 2016\nI loved Walking Disaster as much as Beautiful Disaster. The passion Travis Maddox has for the people he loves had me swooning more than a few times and I’m sad the book is over. For a guy I started out hating, I’ve certainly made a complete turn around and can’t seem to get enough of him now.\nMy all time favourite point in this book happens just after the Thanksgiving dinner at the Maddox’s and Travis has brought Abby home. He returns to his father’s house, desolate and depressed to the core, and his brothers are there waiting for him. They surround him and place their hands on him in silent support. The moment was perfect and I wanted to cry! Seeing how much Travis has needed his brothers after the loss of his mother didn’t really hit me in the chest until this moment.\nThe epilogue was like the icing on the cake and I enjoyed this glimpse into the future. Overall, a fantastic read! Highly recommended. I need more Travis!!\nHead on over to Goodreads and follow along as I start Built by Jay Crownover or, even better, read along with me. I’d love to hear your thoughts as you update your reading status. Can’t wait to start this one! Happy reading!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://nerdyalerty.com/index.php/2014/09/03/writing-wednesday-there-was-too-much-dust/", "date": "2023-12-10T19:48:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102637.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210190744-20231210220744-00161.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9784919619560242, "token_count": 1336, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__309129880", "lang": "en", "text": "In an effort to keep my writing skills up to par and to keep up on blogging, my friend Nicki and I have decided to do a prompt fueled Wednesday every couple of weeks that we’re calling “Writing Wednesdays” (yay alliteration!!)\nHere is how it works: This will be a semi-monthly feature here and at Nicki’s Blog. On the first and third Wednesday of every month we’ll post a prompt that we’ve either found or thought up ourselves along with our drabble for said prompt. Anyone and everyone is welcome to join in, all we ask is that you link back to one of us on your own Writing Wednesday posts.\nAlso, be sure that you comment on this post with a link to your own post so that everyone can check out the other blogger’s stories.\nPROMPT: There Was Too Much Dust\nThe first thing I heard was the creaking of the floorboards under someone’s weight. It was a slow groan that echoed through the rest of the house. I half expected the culprit to call it in and return to where he or she came from. Alas, I was not that lucky.\nSoft whispers carried down the corridor of the long emptied house. Shushing and whispered yelling followed as the intruders began making their way into my house.\nI had visitors often. It wasn’t my choice. It seemed that the local youth thought it would be funny to test their bravery by going into the deserted Isaac’s house. Not caring that someone actually lived here.\nIf you could call what I do living.\nI let out a disgruntled sigh and stood from the chair I had been seated at in my room. Soundlessly I walked across the room toward my door watching as the beams from the intruder’s flashlight blinked across the doorways.\nThey wouldn’t see me. No one ever saw me.\n“Lydia.” A female voice cracked, terror obvious in the sound.\n“Shhhhh!” a second and more confident female voice quickly replied.\n“Lydia. I don’t think we should be here. It’s giving me the heebie jeebies.” As she spoke the light in the hallway outside my room shook.\n“Jen! Come on. Its just a house.”\nBut it wasn’t just a house. It’s never just a house.\nI peeked around the door frame of my room toward the light at the end of the hallway. The outline of two figures shown behind the lights. One figure stood tall and seemed to be bouncing with excitement, while the other was hunched around her flashlight looking as if she were ready to drop it and run out at any moment.\n“Jen, do you know the story of this house?” Lydia asked, pointing it at her friend causing her to jump and back up against a wall. Jen just shook her head her mouth opening and closing with no words coming out.\nLydia let out a giggle that sent chills down even my spine and held the flashlight against her chin in the classic scary story fashion.\n“A long time ago,” Lydia started.\n“Actually, it was just a few years ago, but whatever,” I corrected her, talking only to myself as I continued to spy on the intruders of my home.\n“A young man, of about 20.”\n“21.” I corrected again.\n“Named Henry Isaacs lived in this house with his parents. One day, Henry and his parents were driving down a country road on their way to visit a relative in a distant city when Henry realized he forgot something very important back at home…” Lydia continued with the story.\n“What did he forget?” Jen piped up, now pulled into Lydia’s web of storytelling.\n“He forgot his grandfather’s pocket watch. You see, Henry never went anywhere without it, it was like a security blanket for him. So, it was very important for him to have it.”\nI gulped down a boulder in my throat. This was unlike any version of the story I had heard from previous intruders.\nPrimarily because so far (with the exception of how long ago it was and my age), it was correct. I looked back at the chair I had risen from, on the table next to it was a pocket watch. One that was covered in a thick layer of dust.\n“His parents turned around, knowing how important this pocket watch was to him. On their way back, they were pushed off the road and into a frozen lake. The only person who was able to be pulled out of the water was Henry.”\nI could feel myself shaking as I listened to the story. The walls in the house creaked as I continued to listen to Lydia tell the story. Tell my story…\nI heard the floorboards creak again as the lights got closer and closer to my room. Lydia continued with her story as she she approached.\n“Henry was unconscious for three months.” She continued, now standing in the doorway of my room. I stood in front of the girls as they glanced around the room. The girl, Lydia, looked right at me, took a deep breath and stepped right through me.\n“After three months, Henry passed away. But it’s said he still resides in this house, just trying to get his pocket watch.” Lydia touched a finger to the brass pocket watch on the table. Wiping the dust from it to reveal the inscription.\nFor times when you think time isn’t on your side. Just know, I always will be.\nI screamed for her to stop touching it.\nBut they didn’t see me. No one ever saw me.\nThere was just too much dust.\nThe prompt for next time will be: First Line- “It was the only road out of town but in retrospect, taking it was a terrible decision.” on September 17th.\nYou can find Nicki’s post here.\nPlease leave comments, future ideas and links to your own posts below! We’d love to see what you come up with.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://en.briefly.ru/wiki/The_Gift_of_the_Magi_(Henry)", "date": "2022-08-12T20:42:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00340.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9879313111305237, "token_count": 468, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__90816732", "lang": "en", "text": "Haggling with the greengrocer, grocer, and butcher so that her ears burned, Della only collected a dollar and eighty-five cents.\nWith these pennies she had to buy Jim a Christmas present.\nJim and Della were renting a furnished apartment whose furnishings were not so much blatant poverty, but rather eloquent poverty. Jim's earnings had recently declined considerably, and the young couple had not had an easy time. The family had two treasures: Della's luxurious hair, before which the jewels of the Queen of Sheba herself would pale, and Jim's gold watch, which King Solomon himself would have envied.\nAfter a few tears of disappointment, Della stared into the narrow truce, and a brilliant idea occurred to her. She dressed quickly, went outside, and soon stopped near a sign for \"All Kinds of Hair Products.\" For twenty dollars she sold her luxurious braids and used the proceeds to buy Jim a platinum chain for his watch.\nWhen she returned home, Della was suddenly afraid that her husband would dislike her with this short haircut, and she \"set about repairing the damage done by generosity combined with love. She heated a pair of tongs, curled her hair into fine curls, and looked remarkably like a boy who had escaped from school.\nWhen Jim came home, frozen without gloves, he looked at his wife with either surprise or horror or anger. Neither the new haircut nor any other reason could have made Jim dislike his wife, but he could not fathom the fact that Della no longer had cos. At last Jim pulled out a bundle containing a set of tortoiseshell combs with shiny stones - the object of Della's secret desires. In return, she presented her husband with the chain. But her gift, like Jim's, had to be hidden for now: Jim had pawned the watch to buy his wife the combs.\n...Of all the givers, these two were the wisest. Of all those who give and receive gifts, only those like them are truly wise. Everywhere and everywhere. They are the wise men.\nThe retelling is based on a translation by E. Kalashnikova from The Works of O. Henry in Three Volumes (M.: Pravda, 1975).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://capt-facepalm.dreamwidth.org/23355.html?mode=reply", "date": "2017-10-18T05:25:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187822747.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20171018051631-20171018071631-00690.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9695272445678711, "token_count": 4358, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__53512382", "lang": "en", "text": "Beta: goldvermilion87 (Awesome! All Hail!)\nFandom: AU (BBC Sherlock & Harry Potter Crossover)\nCharacters: John Watson (aged 11 years), Hogwarts students, Sherlock Holmes (Durmstrang exchange student).\nDisclaimers: My Muse is giving me a tour of an Alternate Universe. Hogwarts and its settings belong to J.K.Rowling; BBC Sherlock characters belong to Moffat & Gatiss (with a nod and a wink to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle); if there is anything left, it might be mine.\nSummary: Muggle-born John Watson is having a hard time adjusting to his new life at Hogwarts School. Sherlock thinks that 'retail therapy' in Diagon Alley might be fun.\nWarnings: Alternate Universe and ART!FLAIL\nWord Count: 2750 plus dubious ART\nA Study in Slytherin is my crossover alternate universe where we meet the BBC Sherlock characters as children in the J.K. Rowling Hogwarts universe.\nJohn Watson is in his first year at Hogwarts School and he is being bullied because he is in Slytherin (NO WAY, you say... but it makes sense if you read A Study in Slytherin: The Chat in the Hat.) Sherlock is the boy-genius exchange student from Durmstrang. Also in this series: A Study in Slytherin: How to Train Your Broomstick.\nNow, this story is set after John and Sherlock have been introduced, but before they become good friends.\nFeedback is always appreciated\nThere was not much to do at Hogwarts School on Saturday mornings so Sherlock welcomed this little puzzle. Five sets of running foot prints ended at the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Four people had stopped, but not the fifth. The trainers of the one being chased had plunged down the path without pausing. Sherlock smiled. The bigger students had not managed to catch John this time.\nSherlock paused for a look around before trailing the footprints deeper into the woods. Their spacing and depth told him that John had slowed to a walk and was being careful with his steps. Sherlock slowed as well, exercising caution. Suddenly, in a cluster of trees, the footprints just stopped. He looked around the base of the trees, when... THOK! An acorn bounced off his head.\n‘Very funny, John.’ Sherlock said as he looked up into the lower branches. If John had not smiled and waved, Sherlock was not sure he would have been able to spot him. John climbed higher.\n‘Wingardium Leviosa is a simple charm, John. I would be happy to teach it to you,’ he called up.\n‘That’s all right. I already know it. We learned it last month,’ John replied, reaching for a higher branch.\n‘Its permutations are infinitely useful. You could levitate and you would not have to climb these stupid trees.’\n‘I like climbing. And trees aren’t stupid. Some of them are...’\nTell that to the whomping willow! John snorted as he tested the next branch and pulled himself higher still. Now he could see the turrets of Hogwarts and the glimmer of the lake. Sherlock muttered the self-levitation charm and drifted up to John’s level.\n‘I’m going to London. Do you want to come?’\n‘There are no trains today.’\n‘Don’t be an idiot. Trains take too long. I’m going to apparate.’\nJohn nearly lost his grip on the branch in surprise.\n‘Sherlock, you can’t apparate!’\n‘Why not?’ he grinned.\n‘For one: you’re underage, so it’s illegal. Two: it’s dangerous. And three: we’re still on Hogwarts property. Nobody can apparate or disapparate in or out of Hogwarts.’\n‘Really, John? How predictable! The law prohibiting minors from apparating is centuries out of date. And it’s not dangerous if you know what you’re doing. Oh, and technically, since we are in the Forbidden Forest, we are no longer on Hogwarts’ property. Speaking of which, what part of forbidden don’t you understand? Were you not expressly forbidden from entering the Forbidden Forest on more than one occasion?’\n‘That’s different. You know why I have to...’\nInstead of replying, Sherlock reached over and grasped John’s arm.\n‘Don’t fight it. Resisting will only make it worse.’\n‘Make what worse? Sherlock, let me go! Don’t you dare…’\nJohn suddenly felt as if he was being squeezed. He lost his grip and started to fall. Only instead of falling to the forest floor, John found himself on his hands and knees in a dirty alley, trying to catch his breath.\nWhen he could breathe again, he looked around. Sherlock was standing there with a triumphant look on his face. Traffic passed on the street beyond... London traffic. Unmistakably London traffic. Home! John looked back at Sherlock.\n‘That… that was… awesome!’ he exclaimed as he willed his legs to stop shaking.\n‘Really? Er, I mean, hurry up. We should get to Diagon Alley before the shops get too busy. There are a few things I want to see and you really need an owl of your own.’\n‘Erm, Sherlock? I haven’t got any wizard money on me, maybe five Muggle quid, and that isn’t enough to buy anything.’\n‘Oh, don’t worry about that. The manager at the Owl Emporium owes me a favour.’\nThe two boys started down the street. London, this early Saturday morning, was not very busy. The streets contained only early shopppers, intrepid tourists, and street people. A block later, John spotted a phone booth and went inside to call home. Sherlock just rolled his eyes impatiently.\n‘Hi, Harry, it’s me, John... Can I speak to Mum? What do you mean, no? She can’t be gone shopping already... Because she worked the late shift last night, that’s why... Please wake her... Why not? I’m not trying to upset her! I didn’t mean to... Don’t be such a … Oh, come on... Harry... Please! I need to talk to her! That’s none of your business... It’s not like that... Please, Harry... No, don’t hang up! Don’t...’\nJohn slammed the receiver home with an explicative.\nSherlock could not help overhearing John’s conversation and was unsure what to say. John was fuming.\n‘Older brothers can be such turds,’ Sherlock offered.\n‘Your brother, Harry. He’s a controlling wank, just like my older brother.’\n‘Harry is short for Harriet. She’s my sister. Other than that, you are right about the controlling wank.’\n‘Would she make a nice frog? How about a face full of pimples? You’re a wizard now. Why not turn the tables on her?’\nJohn smiled as he considered the possibilities. He and Harry never got along. ‘Forget about it. Diagon Alley is far more interesting than my sister could ever hope to be.’\nNo one seemed to notice as the two boys slipped into a disreputable tavern called the Leaky Cauldron. They were just passing though, so they did not stop to chat with the barkeeper. Their first point of business took them to the Owl Emporium. The bells above the door jingled, announcing their presence. Rows of owls in cages blinked their sleepy eyes in the direction of the two boys.\n‘Sherlock, it’s good to see you!’ said a middle-aged woman, enveloping the squirming taller boy in a hug with the wings of her shawl. John liked how she smiled with her eyes, and not just with her mouth.\n‘This boy,’ John grinned as the shopkeeper squeezed Sherlock in another smothering hug. ‘This boy saved my shop. I would have been out of business if not for him!’\n‘Angela was being swindled by three of her suppliers. I just helped a little.’\n‘If not for Sherlock,’ she told John, ‘I would have been up to my eyebrows in illegal species. Sherlock, anything you want is yours, free of charge.’\n‘Angela, this is John. He’s first year at Hogwarts and he needs an owl.’\n‘Welcome, John. Anything for a friend of Sherlock’s! You are welcome to choose any one from the stock on hand. I’m sorry there isn’t as much selection as at the beginning of the school term. This great horned owl is the best I can offer. He’s yours if you want him.’\nJohn walked slowly down the aisle under the curious scrutiny of the shop’s inhabitants. Rows of owls hooted softly to get his attention. They ranged in size, were all in good condition, and seemed to find him of interest. Poor things, he thought. Not much of a life, living in a store, longing to be purchased and allowed to fly again. Regrettably, he would have to decline the offer of the great horned owl. He needed to get an owl that would not stand out too much. He feared that any bird he chose would also become a target just like him.\nImpertinent hooting startled John from his thoughts. It was coming from the last cage on the right. John peered in at the large black raggedy bird. It hooted at him again using the call of yet another kind of owl.\nJohn’s eyebrows shot up in surprise.\n‘You’re a raven!’ He unnecessarily exclaimed, ‘A Tower raven.’\nThe raven’s chuckle sounded surprisingly human. John smiled.\n‘You must be a good flyer,’ The Raven seemed to glare at him. ‘OK, a very good flyer.’\nThe bird stretched out a tattered but serviceable wing.\n‘Oh, you’ve seen a bit of trouble too… do you want to see some more?’\nThe raven snapped to attention.\n‘Miss Angela, I think I have found my owl.’\n‘As much as I would like to be clear of him, that one suffers from an excess of personality. I’d go with something more conventional and reliable if I were you, dear.’\n‘No. He’s the one.’\n‘If you insist... but I warn you: he makes lots of inappropriate sounds.’\nCool! John thought: a bird that was both smart and tough enough to handle himself in a crisis. Perfect! Sherlock sidled up next to John while Angela retrieved the raven’s cage and the associated paperwork.\n‘Are you sure about this?’\n‘Yes. Yes, I am. Why do you ask?’\n‘I thought you didn’t want to attract further attention.’\n‘What do you mean?’\n‘Oh, I don’t know! How about Evil Johnny Watson and his great black carrion bird? You might as well get a vulture... or perhaps a vampire bat! And you thought you didn’t belong in Slytherin!’\n‘Ravens aren’t evil, Sherlock, and neither am I… ’\n‘Oh, don’t worry. I approve! I just wanted to know if you’d thought this through. Actually, I think it’s brilliant!’\nAs they exited the store, John’s raven called out to the remaining birds inside with the sound of a child blowing a raspberry. Angela and the owls let out a collective sigh of relief as the door swung shut.\n‘What do you want to go down there for?’\n‘I need some ingredients for Potions.’ Sherlock replied.\n‘Don’t lie to me. All of the ingredients for class can be purchased in Diagon Alley. Why do you really want to go down there?’\n‘Knockturn Alley has some brilliant shops, and they have greater variety of specialty items and amazing books. I wouldn’t want to go there at night, but it’s perfectly fine in the daytime.’\n‘Maybe so... but it feels odd. Like there is something wrong... ’\n‘If you’re scared, you can stay here, where it is safe.’\n‘I’m not scared!’ John protested even as the short hairs on the back of his neck stood on end.\nThe raven shifted restlessly in his cage, and gave the boys an inquiring look. John moved to unlatch the door.\n‘What are you doing? He might fly away.’\n‘I’m not carrying this cage through that street, and I won’t leave him here. He’d be helpless.’\nJohn released the latch and held the door open. The raven sidled along its perch and with a small hop landed on the cobble-stoned street. With another hop and a stretch of his wings, the raven took flight, disappearing beyond the rooftops with a great echoing cackle. The two boys watched; one in disappointment, the other with great amusement.\n‘Well, that solves the problem of the raven. Well done, John!’\n‘Shut it, Sherlock,’ he replied and followed Sherlock into the gloomy alleyway.\nThey had only passed a handful of stores when the smirk suddenly left Sherlock’s face. He stopped in his tracks. Three shadowy characters blocked the path ahead.\n‘Well, well! If it isn’t that Holmes whelp!’\n‘Grab his wand, Spider! He won’t get away this time!’\nSherlock spun and ran. So did John, but a jinx hit him square in the chest, knocking him off his feet. White pain shot through him, reaching all way to his fingers and toes. The skin on his face and hands was scraped raw as his momentum slammed him into the cobblestones. Magic crackled through the air above him.\nSherlock felled one and was still exchanging spells with the remaining two, trying to keep them away from John.\n‘Get up, John! Get out of here!’\nTry as he might, John could not regain his feet. His limbs refused to co-operate and he flopped about like a freshly landed trout. Sherlock yelped.\n‘Got ‘em!’ cried one of their attackers.\nSuddenly, John was being roughly shaken and someone was trying to snatch the wand from his hand.\n‘Give it over, kid, or you’ll regret it!’\nJohn refused to let go, and received a punch in the face in return. John knew he had to resist. He would be helpless, (more helpless) without his wand. The pain from the initial jinx was wearing off, but the abrasions from his fall were stinging like mad.\n‘Conjunctiva!’ he gasped and his attacker fell away furiously rubbing his eyes.\nJohn looked around to see the other attacker throttling Sherlock and lifting him bodily off the ground. Sherlock continued to struggle but the man outclassed him in both size and strength. John tried to rise but his attacker recovered too quickly. A second jinx was followed by a solid kick to his stomach. More blows fell as a fog threatened to overwhelm his consciousness. Retaining his wand was his only thought.\nSuddenly the sounds of a siren could be heard approaching.\n‘It’s the muggle police! Run for it!’\n‘I ain’t stayin’ to find out!’\nJohn heard the sounds of their footsteps as their assailants fled down the alley. All was quiet. Sherlock lay in a heap where he had been dropped. Where were the police? John stumbled over to his friend. Sherlock was unconscious and had a nasty burn mark on his right arm.\n‘Sherlock? Sherlock, please wake up.’\nWhere were the police? John looked at his watch. He had only been dazed for a few minutes at most. The police should still be here. He nudged Sherlock again and still received no response. John could feel the eyes of Knockturn Alley watching them and he knew he could not fend off another attack alone.\n‘Sherlock, please get up. We cannot stay here.’\nStill no response. Shadows appeared to be spreading. John spotted his raven, perched on a nearby lamppost. Had it been there all this time? The raven urged John to follow with a low, impatient hoot.\n‘Wingardium Leviosa,’ said John, taking Sherlock’s arm and hoisting his now near-weightless form into a standing position.\nThe raven led the way with John and Sherlock close behind. By the time they reached the gateway back to Diagon Alley, John was in a lot of pain. His stomach hurt and one of his eyes had swollen shut. Sherlock groaned as he started to regain consciousness.\nOnce safe again in the sunlit corridors, John sat himself and Sherlock down on the steps in front of the sweets shop. He needed to rest his head against the handrail just for a moment... just long enough for the dizziness to pass. Sherlock came to his senses and shook himself.\n'Diagon Alley? How'd we get back here? John?'\nThe sight of his friend's bedraggled condition, the marks on the ground, and the residual magic surrounding them both told Sherlock more than John's words could have. They had been extremely lucky. The raven perched near John's ear and hooted softly. John grimaced and opened his good eye.\n‘You all right, Sherlock?’\n‘Yeah... I think so. Just a bump on the head. What happened?’\n‘No I didn’t! I don’t faint!’\n‘Sure, Sherlock. Whatever you say.’\n‘You’re a mess. Are you hurt?’\n‘I’ve had worse. Can we go back to Hogwarts now? I’ve had enough of London.’\nWith his finger, John lightly stroked the sleek feathers on the raven’s back. The saucy bird purred like a cat. Although it pained him to do so, John could not help but smile.\n‘I bet you can do police sirens too, can’t you?’\nThe raven replied with the jingling of the Owl Emporium doorbells.\n‘He needs a name, John. Something fierce.’\n‘He has a name. It’s Murray.’\n‘What kind of name is that?!’\n‘Ha! What kind of name is Sherlock?\nThe Boggart, the Witch, and the Wardrobe\nJohn Watson had not slept a wink that night. Studying through the night had two benefits: one, he was finally caught up in his transfiguration lessons, and two, nobody could sneak in and prank him if he remained awake. He entered the Great Hall for breakfast barely awake, but starving.\n‘Hey Watson, I hear they’re going to rename the detention room after you!’\n‘I heard it was the infirmary!’\nJohn sighed. No original taunts this morning.\nAlternate Universe Crossover", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://watchcolortv.tumblr.com/", "date": "2013-12-09T17:22:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163992191/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133312-00009-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.981687068939209, "token_count": 781, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__31792655", "lang": "en", "text": "✘ Alias: Cora Mills\n✘ Current Age: 47\n✘ Occupation: Unemployed\n✘ True Identity: The Queen of Hearts\n✘ Memories: Full\n✘ Availability: Taken\n✘ Chosen Face Claim: Barbara Hershey\nOnce upon a time, there lived a woman named Cora, her husband, Henry, and her daughter, Regina. Coming from humble beginnings, Cora always hoped that Regina would get a more successful life than she had gotten herself, even if it meant taking it. One day, she found a way to secure Regina’s future. Cora met a young princess named Snow White, and when the princess’s mother fell ill, Cora tricked Snow White into killing her, and in turn, opening the “position” of queen in the land. A few months later, when Regina was at her riding lesson, Snow White and her father were also at the stables. Cora frightened the young princess’s horse, causing it to take off running, with the girl riding. Regina saved Snow White and Cora escorted the girl. Snow told her father about the woman who saved her. With great gratitude, the king promised to marry his daughter’s savior. There was just one problem: Cora’s daughter refused to marry anyone but Daniel, a stable boy Regina had fallen in love with. In order to assure that Daniel wouldn’t get in the way of her plan, Cora decided that he would have to die. She sent Regina to magic lessons with her old, dear friend, Rumplestiltskin. While Regina was learning the art of dark magic, Cora tricked Daniel into meeting her at the stables. Once he arrived, she tore out his heart and crushed it with her bare hands. When Regina returned from her lessons, she discovered her love on the floor of the stables. Her mother explained that it was the only way if her daughter ever wanted to have power, but because of this act, Regina was never the same again. When Cora, her daughter, and her husband arrived at the castle of Snow White’s father, Regina conspired with her teacher, the Dark One. He promised her that she could get rid of her mother forever. Regina used dark magic and an enchanted mirror to send Cora to another world. That world was called Wonderland, and Cora decided to turn her punishment into a reward. After a long battle, the land was in ruins. Cora used her magic to rebuild and take over the court. From then on, she was known only as the Queen of Hearts. She remained there for a very long time, but when word of a terrible curse in another land spread throughout court, Cora immediately knew it had to be Regina. Hoping that she could reunite with her daughter, Cora asked for the help of a portal jumper, who also happened to be her royal hatter. With the help of this man, Cora was able to travel back to the Enchanted Forest just before the curse was cast. The two of them hid in a corner of the land until they, along with many others, were transported to our world.\nIn Storybrooke, Cora has been hiding from everyone, living in a small cottage in the forest. The only person that has ever known of her whereabouts was Jefferson. Now that the curse is broken, Cora has been awaiting the perfect time to reveal herself to her daughter, Regina. For all of their time in Storybrooke, Cora has been watching Regina. She’s very proud of the decisions Regina made this far. She hopes that her daughter will trust her again so that she can help her get back to the Enchanted Forest and rule, just as Cora had always planned.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jim.nuttz.org/?p=94", "date": "2021-10-28T17:47:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588398.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20211028162638-20211028192638-00257.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.975411593914032, "token_count": 248, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__258295189", "lang": "en", "text": "If you’re not already reading Tony Woodlief over at Sand in the Gears, you really should be. Today’s essay has a wonderful insight into parenting and how it echoes the relationship between us and God:\nLast weekend I stood behind him as he climbed a step ladder to the top rung, and then tried to climb atop the curved bar at its pinnacle, and all the while I thought: he’ll fall and I’ll catch him but on the way down he’ll learn a little something about not risking life and limb so readily.\nBut of course he didn’t fall, instead he twisted around to see me standing there and hooted and wiggled in his triumph over Mt. Stepladder, until the hubris was too much and I had to extract him, to wails of protest, followed by the stubborn set of chin and deliberate stomping crawl back to the bottom rung. And I thought, this is what God has to put up with, every single day. This is the point of parenting, from his perspective, his way of saying See? Do you see what you people are like?”\nRead the whole thing…", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://carolinweinkopf.de/365-days/", "date": "2023-12-01T00:03:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100258.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130225634-20231201015634-00435.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9843176603317261, "token_count": 492, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__151278348", "lang": "en", "text": "one year ago I thought I’d die. It had been almost two days since my water broke, two weeks before your due date, I had been in inducted labour for almost 24 hours, I had been moved from the oh so natural birth house to the oh so hated hospital – and still you didn’t seem to get out.\nI was absolutely desperate at that very moment, starting to give up on myself, as my body appeared to be incapable to birth you. I have no idea how it eventually happened, with a lot of help of the doctors and midwives and two of the dearest people in my life, and a miraculous well of strength in absolutely despaired exhaustion.\nBut suddenly, you were there, like you had always been. You were perfect, you were healthy, and you were mine. For minutes, you looked at me like a wise, old man, as if you already knew it all, like you had already lived.\nThe past 365 days have been the most beautiful and the most exhausting of my life. I have learned to value time in a way I could never imagine before. I have grown quite a few grey hairs. I have never slept so little, I have never been so tired, ever before. Never in my life have joy and desperation been so close together. I have never been so proud of something I have accomplished as of you.\nYou are one year old today. You are the happiest baby I know. You are lively and social, you smile all day, you flirt with strangers on the street, you scream of joy and you have a very dirty laugh. You are shameless and demanding, you know exactly what you want and you are very skilled in getting there, no matter how. You steal hearts all the time. You give wet kisses to everyone you get a hold of. You have inspired friends and strangers to make babies. You tickle smiles out of miserable people. You can never sit still, wiggling and jiggling around. You have the most beautiful, (still!) toothless smile. You love dancing and you use everything as a phone. You are about to take your first shaky steps, to form your first proper words and truly start exploring the world around you. You drive me crazy. You make me proud. I love you so.\nHappy Birthday, Mini-Me.\nAll photos: Carolin Weinkopf", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://queenwarmates.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/thankful/", "date": "2018-05-25T16:52:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867140.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525160652-20180525180652-00033.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9983932971954346, "token_count": 118, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__203104586", "lang": "en", "text": "She was so thankful as she gazed into his lovely eyes. He was so beautiful. He made her so complete. Not that she was incomplete but they simply just fit… All her weaknesses were his strengths and all his weaknesses were her strengths.. She smiled and said what she had been holding back for years ” I love you”.. He smiled and said ” That wasn’t so hard now was it? I love you, you crazy sweet being .. all of me, loves all of you always” She leaned in and gave a kiss that sealed their love forever….", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.kunstfort.nl/en/public-program/randprogramma-toon-fibbe-laura-wiedijk-cloning-the-ghost/", "date": "2018-02-17T19:33:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891807660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180217185905-20180217205905-00465.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9095667600631714, "token_count": 150, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__180650265", "lang": "en", "text": "Toon Fibbe & Laura Wiedijk – Cloning the Ghost\nOn 7 November Toon Fibbe (NL, 1987) and Laura Wiedijk (NL, 1985) present the research material that is at the base of the intervention Cloning the Ghost. Inspired by Darwin’s book Fertilisation of Orchids, orchids have been appropriated by popular science, fiction and science fiction writers since the late 19th century. The orchid changed the popular imagination of a beautiful, yet passive, flower to a cunning, seductive killer. During the lecture the hidden aspects of the orchid will be revealed, and the role of the orchid in literature will be examined. A curious mix of science and fiction.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-pollution/evaluating-new-substances/biotechnology-living-organisms/risk-assessment-decisions/summary-12961.html", "date": "2020-02-17T18:48:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875143079.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20200217175826-20200217205826-00389.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8843276500701904, "token_count": 3087, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__97297026", "lang": "en", "text": "New substances: risk assessment summary 12961\nThis document has been prepared to explain the regulatory decision taken under Part 6 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA 1999) regarding the manufacture or import of Trichoderma reesei P210A by Iogen Corporation in a contained facility located in Ottawa.\nTrichoderma reesei P210A was notified pursuant to subsection 29.11(4) of the CEPA 1999 New Substances Notification Regulations (NSNR).\nThe New Substances Branch of Environment Canada and the New Substances Assessment and Control Bureau of Health Canada have assessed the information submitted by Iogen Corporation and other available scientific information in order to determine whether T. reesei P210A is toxicFootnote 1 or capable of becoming toxic as described in section 64 of CEPA 1999.\nBased on the hazard and exposure considerations, the joint risk assessment conducted by Environment Canada and Health Canada concluded that Trichoderma reesei P210A is not considered to be toxic to the Canadian environment or human health as described in section 64 of the CEPA 1999.\nTherefore, the manufacture in or import to a contained facility of T. reesei P210A for use in the contained facility or for export only, may proceed after February 13, 2004.\nThis evaluation does not include an assessment of human health risk in the occupational environment nor does it include an assessment of the potential exposure and risk to humans associated with the use of the organism in or as an item that falls under the purview of the Food and Drugs Act.\nNSN schedule: XVI (manufacture in or import to a contained facility of a micro-organism that is not for introduction outside a contained facility or is for export only)Footnote 2\nOrganism identity: Trichoderma reesei P210A\nNotifier: Iogen Corporation, 310 Hunt Club Rd. East Ottawa, Ontario K1V 1C1 Canada\nDate of decision: February 12, 2004\nProposed use: Commercial production, in a contained facility, of a novel thermophilic and alkalophilic xylanase II (xln2) enzyme by genetically engineered Trichoderma reesei P210A.\nStrain history/genetic modification\nTrichodema reesei P210A was derived from an auxotrophic mutant of the parental strain M2C38 (ATCC 74252) by the introduction of a fragment of the transformation vector pc/xITX1-TV. The selection cassette used in the construction of the transformation vector contains a Neurospora crassa gene functioning as a selectable marker. The expression cassette consisted of the modified version T. reesei xylanase II structural gene (xln2) under the control of T. reesei regulatory sequences. Strain M2C38 is a derivative of the T. reesei strain RUTC30. RUTC30 (ATCC 56765) was obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), and is a mutagenic derivative of the founder strain QM6a (ATCC 13631) which was isolated in the Solomon Islands from cotton canvas during World War II (Kuhls et al., 1996).\nIn addition to the information provided by the notifier, a review of in-house reference material and a comprehensive search of the scientific literature were conducted to gather information on potential harmful environmental and human health effects attributable to T. reesei.\nTrichoderma species are common soil saprophytes and are metabolically versatile, aerobic, mesophilic, imperfect fungi (Nevalainen et al., 1994). The Trichoderma species are differentiated primarily by patterns of conidiophore branching and conidia morphology. They are widespread in nature, quick-growing, easy to culture and they can produce large amounts of conidia with long lifetime (Manczinger et al., 2002).\nIn general, large scale industrial manufacture of T. reesei enzyme preparations have a history of safe use in many industries including starch and animal feed processing, grain alcohol fermentation, malting and brewing, extraction of fruit and vegetable juices, in pulp and paper, and in textiles (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). Based on the criteria outlined in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development guidelines entitled Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations (OECD, 1986) and the European Communities Council (ECC) Directive 90/219/EEC on the contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms (ECC, 1990), Trichoderma species can be regarded as safe host organisms.\nTrichoderma reesei has been shown to be non-pathogenic and non-toxic to healthy laboratory animals (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). Trichoderma reesei is not reported to be a frank pathogen of plants or animals including humans. However, this species can act as an opportunistic pathogen to immunodepressed animals under extreme experimental conditions (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). Some Trichoderma species have been cited as rare and newly emerging fungal pathogens (Fleming et al., 2002).\nWhile certain species of the genus Trichoderma can be used as biocontrol agents in agriculture for their ability to produce antifungal compounds against several plant pathogenic fungi, T. reesei P210A is not one of them. Some species of Trichoderma may also produce toxins under certain conditions; however, experience with T. reesei indicates that it is not likely to be toxigenic (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). Tests conducted on commercial enzyme preparations confirm that neither antibiotics nor inhibitory substances are produced during the growth of industrial T. reesei strains (Hjortkjaer et al., 1986). A carbohydrase enzyme product manufactured by the notifier using the parental strain M2C38 was tested for aflatoxin with negative results. The native xylanase as well as the novel thermophilic/alkalophilic xylanase II belong to a large family of structurally and biochemically related xylanases. Xylanases have been reported as allergens in industrial settings; however, studies on toxicity and mutagenic effects of native xylanases to humans did not reveal any positive results (Pico et al., 1999; Perderson and Broadmeadow, 2000; Dersjant-Li et al, 2001; Harbak and Thygesen, 2002).\nToxicity studies on native xylanases from Aspergillus and Thermomyces administered orally to rats and mice did not result in adverse effects (Pederson and Broadmeadow, 2000). Native xylanases were not found to be mutagenic in the Salmonella typhimurium reverse mutation assay, nor did they cause chromosomal aberrations in cultured human lymphocytes (Pederson and Broadmeadow, 2000).\nNeurospora crassa, the fungal source of the selectable marker gene used in the construction of the transformation vector, is not reported to be a frank pathogen. The N. crassa gene product makes selection of T. reesei strain P210A, from a mixture of other microorganisms, easier and is unlikely to pose a risk to the environment since it has many functional equivalents in most living organisms.\nBoth T. reesei and N. crassa are listed as ‘Biosafety Level 1’ organisms by the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC). In addition, T. reesei has been designated as a ‘Risk Group 1’ organism by the Office of Laboratory Security of the Public Health Agency of Canada.\nThe DNA fragments used in the construction of the transformation vector are well characterized and do not contain any large undefined fragments. It is unknown whether the ampicillin resistance gene present on the transformation vector was integrated onto the host genome. Nevertheless, the ampicillin resistance gene used in the construction of the transformation vector is under the control of a bacterial promoter that will not function in T. reesei. In addition, the vector DNA has been shown to be stably integrated into the chromosome without loss or rearrangement of the sequence even after several generations on non-selective media. Therefore, the potential for lateral gene transfer from this organism to humans, animals or other microbes in the environment is extremely low.\nGenetic modifications performed to develop T. reesei P210A do not give rise to concerns of altered virulence or pathogenicity to humans, animals, plants or altered hazards to the environment. The phenotype resulting from the modification is well characterized and is not likely to influence the normal behavior of T. reesei.\nTrichoderma species, including T. reesei are common soil saprophytic fungal species found in all climate zones and are particularly prevalent in the litter of humid, mixed hardwood forests (Nevalainen et al., 1994).\nTrichoderma reesei P210A is manufactured solely as an intermediate in the production of a novel thermophilic/alkalophilic xylanase II enzyme in a contained facility. The notifier indicated that the manufacturing process meets the standards for the Good Large Scale Practice (GLSP) level as defined in Appendix K of the NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules (NIH, 2002). The notified strain is not intended for release outside the contained facility. Consequently, the potential exposure to the general population and the environment is expected to be low.\nThe notifier describes procedures which will limit potential worker exposure. These include the use of protective equipment, such as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) approved respiratory masks with particulate filters, face shield, or safety goggles with side shields, rubber gloves, lab coats or overalls for workers who are chronically exposed to enzyme dusts or aerosols during such procedures as transfers of fermentation broths.\nPrecautions are in place and used by the notifier to ensure that exhaust and aerosols from the fermentor are decontaminated by UV irradiation to kill any organisms and volatiles and odours are removed by a cyclone and scrubber system. The fermentor is equipped with an alarm to indicate high pressure, foam-over and low-level and is diked in case of massive leakage. Trichoderma reesei P210A is not intrinsically hazardous, thus, inadvertent release from the manufacturing facility is not expected to pose significant risk to the environment and human health.\nWhen enzyme production is complete, the spent cell mass is chemically inactivated using a quaternary ammonium compound with 99.999% effectiveness prior to disposal in a registered landfill or composting sites in accordance with provincial regulations. Given that T. reesei P210A lacks pathogenicity and toxicity potential, the likelihood of significant harm to the environment or human health resulting from the disposal route of exposure is expected to be minimal.\nDersjant-Li, Y., Schulze, H., Schrama, J.W., Verreth, J.A. and Verstegen, M.W. 2001. Feed intake, growth, digestibility of dry matter and nitrogen in young pigs as affected by dietary cation-anion difference and supplementation of xylanase. Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition (Berlin). 85(3-4): 101-109.\nECC. 1990. Council Directive 90/219/EEC on contained use of genetically modified micro-organisms. Official Journal L 117 , 08/05/1990 P. 0001 - 0014\nFleming, R. V., Walsh, T.J. and Anaissie, E.J. 2002. Emerging and less common fungal pathogens. Infectious Clinic Diseases of North America. 16(4): 915-933.\nHarbak, L. and Thygesen, H.V. 2002. Safety evaluation of a xylanase expressed in Bacillus subtilis. Food Chemistry and Toxicology. 40(1): 1-8.\nHjortkjaer, R.K., Bille-Hansen, V., Hazelden, K.P., McConville, M., McGregor, D.B., Cuthbert, J.A., Greenough, R.J., Chapman, E., Gardner, J.R. and Ashby, R. 1986. Safety evaluation of Celluclast®, an acid cellulase derived from Trichoderma reesei. Journal of Food and Chemical Toxicology. 24(1): 55-63.\nKuhls, K., Lieckfeld, E., Samuels, G.J., Kovacs, W., Petrini, O., Gams, W., Borner, T. and Kubicek, C.P. 1996. Molecular Evidence that the asexual industrial fungus Trichoderma reesei is a clonal derivative of the ascomycete Hypocrea jecorina. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA. 93: 7755-7760.\nManczinger, L., Antal, Z. and Kredics, L. 2002. Ecophysiology and breeding of mycoparasitic Trichoderma strains (a review). Acta Microbiologica et Immunologica Hungarica. 49(1): 1-14.\nNIH. 2002. Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules -Appendix K, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health.\nNevalainen, H., Suominen, P. and Taimisto, K. 1994. Minireview on the safety of Trichoderma reesei. Journal of Biotechnology. 37: 193-200.\nOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). 1986. Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations: Safety Considerations for Industrial, Agricultural and Environmental Applications of Organisms Derived by Recombinant DNA Techniques. [PDF]\nPedersen, P.B. and Broadmeadow, A. 2000. Toxicological studies on Thermomyces lanuginosus xylanase expressed in Fusarium venenatum, intended for use in food. Food Additives and Contaminants. 17(9): 739-747.\nPico, Y., Fernandez, M., Rodriguez, R., Almudever, J., Manes, J., Font, G., Marin, R., Carda, C., Manzanares, P. and Ramon, D. 1999. Toxicological assessment of recombinant xylanase X22 in wine. Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry. 47:1597-1602.\nReport a problem or mistake on this page\n- Date modified:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thompsongenealogy.com/2011/12/rebecca-kruttschnitt-drew-well-she-drew-very-well/", "date": "2022-07-03T18:03:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104248623.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220703164826-20220703194826-00702.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9743778705596924, "token_count": 657, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__215515803", "lang": "en", "text": "I guess it shouldn’t come as a surprise given how many people in my family draw well. Nevertheless, I was astonished to discover recently that Rebecca de Mendes Kruttschnitt (1889-1974), my great grand aunt, was a professional illustrator.\nRebecca Kruttschnitt adeptly illustrated a drawing-room novel — that’s right, a roman de salon — published in 1910. The book, “In Town, and Other Conversations,” written by Janet Ayer Fairbank, includes more than a dozen of Rebecca’s delicate pencil drawings. You can read it by clicking here, though no one should be blamed for just looking at the pictures.\nRebecca de Mendes Kruttschnitt was the daughter of Julius Kruttschnitt, the former board chairman of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Rebecca married Henry de Clifford Woodhouse when she was 22, one year after the book was published. A Canadian, Woodhouse was a veteran of the Boer Wars in South Africa.\nAs we have previously blogged, Woodhouse was no good to Rebecca. He notoriously carried on during wedlock with the poet Elinor Wylie, who wrote love sonnets about him in her last book. Elinor and Rebecca were friends. Elinor frequently visited the Woodhouses after they had moved to England at their household at Henley-on-Thames. She visited too frequently, if I may say so.\nIt goes without saying that Rebecca’s illustrations are the most interesting part of the book, which began as a play that was serialized in the Sunday editions of Chicago Record-Herald under the name, “The Tea Table.” The same characters appear in each scene to talk about issues of the moment, according to one reviewer, who adds that the talk is handled “in an amusing and highly natural manner.”\nI can’t vouch for this because I have no interest in reading the book. Someone else can read it and tell me if it’s any good. But I can tell you that I completely agree with the reviewer when he characterizes the drawings as being of “uncommon delicacy.” This is a book that you can definitely judge by its pictures, starting with the covers.\nSadly, the covers are the only illustrations in color. The front cover features a lone passenger in an early automobile, about to set off on a weekend adventure, no doubt. I guess I’m not sure why the driver is all covered up when leaves are still on the trees. Maybe that’s because I haven’t read the book.\nInside, there are lots of lovely pictures of beautifully dressed, thoughtful women doing exciting things — pouring tea, wearing furs, getting dressed by maids to go to the opera, stirring tea, that kind of thing. They are all really, really good.\nInterestingly, men really aren’t a factor in the illustrations, except to hide behind newspapers, sit dully in an armchair, or wear old military outfits. That may be one reason why I have no interest in reading the book.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sga.com.au/sgas-industry-leading-approach-to-food-safety/", "date": "2023-12-10T16:47:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102612.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210155147-20231210185147-00247.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.903969407081604, "token_count": 1078, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__96426396", "lang": "en", "text": "Salmonella, a name that often elicits fear in those who have encountered its unwelcome presence, is a well-known term. But what precisely is salmonella, and how does it manifest in various forms? This article is our hope to break down the plethora of salmonella types, the incidence across different states, common sources of infection, affected age groups, and the proactive measures undertaken by Sanikleen Group Australia (SGA) to mitigate salmonella infections.\nDiverse Salmonella: Over 2500 Types & Counting\nSalmonella, a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family, is a bacterium notorious for causing foodborne illnesses. Its remarkable diversity is a notable characteristic, with over 2500 distinct serovars identified to date. These serovars can be broadly categorized into two groups: Typhoidal and non-typhoidal.\n1. Typhoidal Salmonella: This category comprises serovars such as Salmonella Typhi and Salmonella Paratyphi, known for causing systemic infections like typhoid and paratyphoid fevers. These diseases are frequently linked to contaminated water and inadequate sanitation, making them more prevalent in regions with limited access to clean water and sanitation facilities.\n2. Non-Typhoidal Salmonella: The majority of salmonella infections fall under this category, featuring serovars like Salmonella Enteritidis and Salmonella Typhimurium. These bacteria typically result in gastrointestinal illnesses and are often transmitted through the consumption of contaminated food, particularly poultry and eggs.\nHowever, a distinct difference exists between serovars. S. bongori primarily infects cold-blooded animals, while S. enterica can infect a variety of warm-blooded animals, including humans, making it a more common cause of human salmonella infections.\nRegional Variations In Salmonella Incidence\nSalmonella infections can occur anywhere, but their prevalence varies by region in Australia. Different states have unique median percentages of salmonella cases per population:\n- Victoria (VIC): 4.7% of the population\n- New South Wales (NSW): 5.8% of the population\n- Queensland (QLD): 9.5% of the population\n- Northern Territory (NT): 2.6% of the population\n- Tasmania (TAS): 0.6% of the population\n- South Australia (SA): 7.5% of the population\n- Western Australia (WA): 7.5% of the population\nThese variations are influenced by factors such as population density, food handling practices, and the local food supply chain. Moreover, an article by Fearnley et al. (2018) and the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (2023) suggest that subtropical states are more susceptible to salmonella.\nCommon Causes & Sources Of Salmonella\nSalmonella infections are most frequently associated with the consumption of certain foods, with chicken and nuts being among the primary culprits. However, it’s essential to note that the sources of salmonella are not limited to these items. Contaminated raw eggs, unpasteurized dairy products, and under cooked meat are other common sources. Cross-contamination between raw and cooked foods, as well as improper food storage and handling, can also contribute to the spread of salmonella.\nAge Groups At Risk\nSalmonella infections can affect individuals of all ages, but certain age groups are more vulnerable. Infants, young children, the elderly, and individuals with weakened immune systems, such as those with chronic illnesses or undergoing chemotherapy, are at a higher risk of experiencing severe symptoms when infected with salmonella. However, healthy adults can also contract salmonella, experiencing mild to moderate symptoms like diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps.\nIn the realm of food safety and hygiene, SGA stands out as a trusted partner with a rich history of safeguarding food processing facilities against the threat of Salmonella. Their blend of experience, industry expertise, customized solutions, and a strong focus on education and innovation, along with the incorporation of Phageguard, positions them as a leader in ensuring that food products meet the highest safety standards, safeguarding both the industry and the consumers it serves. With SGA’s advanced technology and comprehensive approach, food processing facilities can rest assured that they are taking the necessary steps to prevent and combat Salmonella and other foodborne pathogens.\n1. Fearnley EJ, Lal A, Bates J, Stafford R, Kirk MD, Glass K (2018). Salmonella source attribution in a subtropical state of Australia: capturing environmental reservoirs of infection. Epidemiology and Infection 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1017/S095026881800222 2.\n2. Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, September 05, (2023) National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) public dataset – salmonella, https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/national-notifiable-diseases-surveillance-system-nndss-public-dataset-salmonella?language=en", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.gis.ba/en/multiobjective-optimal-positioning-of-the-cluster-heads-in-the-heterogeneous-geosensor-networks/", "date": "2021-09-20T04:41:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057018.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20210920040604-20210920070604-00290.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8167868256568909, "token_count": 2696, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__18600860", "lang": "en", "text": "Multiobjective optimal positioning of the cluster heads in the heterogeneous geosensor networks\nA geosensor network embedded in a geographic space is a distributed ad-hoc wireless network of sensor-enabled miniature computing platforms that monitors environmental phenomena (Nittel et al., 2004, Worboys and Duckham, 2006). It can be employed in diverse application domains each with different application requirements. Optimization approaches, techniques and strategies at different design levels help meet these application requirements (Munir and Gordon-Ross, 2011).\nGeosensor networks pose various optimization problems which consider investigation and search for new optimization techniques. The techniques can be at different design levels (e.g. architecture, network topology, node component level) depending of problem type and application requirements (e.g. dynamic or static). One of the resarch problems (covered by this work) is multiobjective optimal positioning of cluster heads or the high powered relay heads (HPRH) serving clusters of the sensor nodes in a heterogeneous geosensor network for data transfer to the base station. This problem is known to belong the NP-Hard class of optimization problems (de Smith et.al., 2010). To address this problem we can use the Pareto based multiobjective genetic algorithm (PBMOGA) as a search technique. The PBMOGA is suitable to provide good solutions for optimization problems assuming competitive and conflict objectives (e.g. quality of area detection and density of sensor network, in order to find the minimum tolerable density with maximum efficiency (Xiao, 2010), or sensors coverage, cardinality and survivability in surveillance applications (Yourdan and de Weck, 2004)).\nResearch Statement and Objectives:\nThis study concerns the development and testing of the multiobjective genetic algorithm applied to clustering of sensor nodes in a heterogeneous wireless ad-hoc geosensor network. The aproach will be tested on problems in which the various classes of sensor nodes are randomly distributed over a geographical area. The multiobjective GA based mechanism will be used to search for the pareto optimum positions of cluster heads represented as artificial chromosomes within a pre-specified number of node clusters which belong to two or more various sensor types.\nResearch objective is to examine potential and efficiency of PBMOGA as a searching tool for alternative sets of cluster head positions in heterogeneous geosensor networks. The research also considers some questions related to the optimization, geosensor network heterogenity and in-network data processing.\nPerformance optimization in wireless geosensor networks can be achieved through proper physical layers design for energy savings and increased throughput. It considers application of various configuration scenarios with objectives for surveillance applications, power allocation strategies for networks lifetime maximization, throughput and lifetime maximization in clustered networks, and integration of radio control technology for high energy efficiency (Medagliani and Ferrari,2011). Various perspectives, approaches and objects of in-network processing optimization have been considered e.g. development localization algorithms (Kealy and Duckham, 2009), dynamic query optimization (Galpin et al., 2008), distributed algorithms (Rabbat and Nowak, 2005), cross-layer (Cui and Goldsmith, 2006.) and multi-query algorithms (Trigoni et al., 2005.), environmental monitoring aproaches (Worboys and Duckham, 2006) and many others.\nThere are few examples with multiobjective algorithm application in real-world spatial optimiziation problems, including geosensor networks field, which are characterized with the complexity of the multiple conflict objectives and large searching space. Related to sensor networks and the optimization problems, the genetic algorithm applications have been considered for clustering dynamic geosensor networks to minimize the total communication distance and prolong the network life (K.Raman and P.Vaidya, 2006), for clustering of the nodes into groups and forming a backbone for data transfer (R. Sachdev and K. Nygard, 2009), in multiobjective optimization of wireless geosensor network layouts (D. Jourdan and O. de Weck, 2005), for multiobjective placement of water quality sensors in water distribution systems (Z. Yi Wu and T. Walski, 2006) and others. Generally, this area of multiobjective GA application is not broader covered and this represents a motivation reason for more research efforts.\nTo detect the conditions or events in a wide-area geographic space, a monitoring application requires a large-scale geosensor network including various kinds of sensors. As well, many large, autonomous sensor platforms will be integrated with the deployment of small-form sensor networks providing rapid rates of real-time sensor data of various type, scale and location. The application of domain knowledge is also necessary in order to interpret and understand an environmental condition, based on the collected data (Jung and Nittel, 2008).\nThe deployed geosensors fulfill sensing, communication andcomputation functions. The sensing can be of different types (chemical, seismic, optical, acoustic, temperature and humidity statistics,..), and the communication is performed wirelessly (within a shorter or longer range) (Jourdan and de Weck, 2004).\nTo transmit their data to the base station (central monitoring server), for a specific network arhitecture, all the sensors are required to be connected to one or more high powered relay heads (cluster heads). The sensors are assumed to have different computation and communication abilities, i.e. properties which can significantly vary depending on the type of sensing performed. The criterial properties (e.g. environmental affects to communication or sensing rang) can be formulated by fuzzy aproach as well, and involved in the modelling.\nThis framework can be used to test a Pareto based multi objective genetic algorithm (PBMOGA) for the cluster head placement, where the competing objectives considered are the objectives (e.g. minimized total power consumption) related to the clusters of different type sensor nodes sharing the same geographic area. The objectives should be conflicted, and their evaluation should meet the requirements of the iterative process of searching solutions.\nThe algorithm aims at minimizing or maximizing all the objectives of the heterogenous geo-network simulatously, yielding Pareto front (PF) from which the user can choose the prefered alternative solution. The number of cluster heads (hubs) can be investigated as a design variable, as well as different sensing objectives.\nThe research methodology is based on theoretical considerations, modeling, simulation of different variants of the problem by using test examples, implementation of the proposed mechanism and analysis of the results.\nThe steps of the research are as follows:\nreview and analysis of genetic algorithm applications in the field of geosensor networks;\ndefine the clustering problem in heterogeneous geosensor networks and develop a detailed research methodology;\ndefine the approach in the application of genetic algorithm for multiobjective optimization through the presentation of its building blocks (crossing, mutation, selection…) and consideration of its specific parameters;\nmodeling the test problem environment and defining the objective functions;\ninitial application PBMOGA and its parametric adaptation in order to improve its performance;\nfinal PBMOGA implementation;\ntesting and evaluation of the results and\ndrawing conclusions and directions for further research.\nSoftware tools and laboratory resources:\nresources available at the Civil Engineering Faculty in Sarajevo and Mining, Geology and Civil Engineering Faculty in Tuzla (tools for spatial data analysis),\navailable lab resources at the Laboratory for Intelligent Management of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo (MatLab, GA Tools, GAOP; tools for the creation, development and application of genetic algorithm)\nAbraham, A., Jain, L., and Goldberg, R. (2005): Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization, Theoretical Advances and Applications, Springer-Verlag London Ltd.\nCoello Coello, C., Veldhuizen, D., and Lamont, G. (2002): Evolutionary Algorithms for Solving Multi-Objective Problems, Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York\nCui, S., and Goldsmith, A. (2006): Cross-layer Design in Energy-constrained Networks Using Cooperative MIMO Techniques, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on Advances in Signal Processing-based Cross-layer Designs, Vol. 86, No. 8, pp. 1804-1814\nde Smith, M., Goodchild, M., and Longley, P. (2010): Geospatial Analysis – Comprehensive Guide to Priciples, Techniques and Software Tools, Matador, UK\nGalpin, I., Brenninkmeijer, C., Jabeen, F., Fernandes, A., and Paton, N. (2009): Comprehensive Optimization of Declarative Sensor Network Queries, Proceeding SSDBM\nGowri, A., Valli, R.,and Muthuramalingam, K. (2010): A Review: Optimal Path Selection in Ad hoc Networks using Fuzzy Logic, International journal on applications of graph theory in wireless ad hoc networks and sensor networks (GRAPH-HOC JOURNAL) Vol.2, No.4,\nJourdan, D. and de Weck, O. (2004): Layout Optimization for a Wireless Sensor Network Using a Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithm, Proceedings of the IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology Conference, Volume 5. 2466-2470\nJung, Y., Nittel, S. (2008): Geosensor Data Abstraction for Environmental Monitoring Application, GIScience 2008: pp 168-180\nKealy, A. and Duckham, M. (2009): Optimizing Localization Algorithms within Wireless Sensor Networks: An Australian Case Study in Environmental Monitoring,” in Proc. 22nd International Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation, pp. 1042-1049.\nMeguerdichian, S., Koushanfar, F., Potkonjak, M., and Srivastava, M. (2001): Coverage Problems in Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks, INFOCOM\nKrzanowski, R., Raper, J. (2001): Spatial Evolutionary Modeling, Oxford University Press, Inc. NewYork\nMedagliani, P., Ferrari, G. (2011): Performance Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks: Analysis and Simulation Perspectives, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing\nMunir, A., and Gordon-Ross, A. (2010): Optimization Approaches in Wireless Sensor Networks, Sustainable Wireless Sensor Networks, Edited by: W. Seah and Y. Tan, InTech\nNg, K., Wang, Z., Muntz, R., and S. Nittel (1999): Dynamic Query Re-Optimization, International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Databases (SSDBM99), Cleveland, Ohio\nNittel, S., Duckham, M., Kulik, L. (2004): Information Dissemination in Mobile Ad-Hoc Geosensor Networks, GIScience 2004: pp. 206-222\nNittel, S., Leung, K., Braverman, A. (2004): Scaling Clustering Algorithms for Massive Data Sets using Data Streams, ICDE 2004: pp. 830\nNittel, S., Leung, K. (2004): Parallelizing Clustering of Geoscientific Data Sets using Data Streams, SSDBM 2004: pp. 73-84\nRabbat, M.and Nowak, R. (2004): Distributed Optimization in Sensor Networks, IEEE/ACM Symp. on Information Processing in Sensor Networks\nRaman, K. and Vaidya, P.(2006): Clustering Sensor Network using Genetic Algorithm, ECE695 Project\nSachdev, R., and Nygard, K. (2009): Genetic Algorithm for Clustering in Wireless Adhoc Sensor Networks, GSN ’09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on GeoSensor Networks , Springer-Verlag\nTrigoni, N., Yao ,Y., Demers, A., Gehrke, J., and Rajaraman, R. (2005): Multi-query Optimization for Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS)\nWhittle, P. (2007): Networks: Optimisation and Evolution, Cambridge University Press, UK\nWorboys, M.and Duckham, M. (2006): Monitoring qualitative spatiotemporal change for geosensor networks, International Journal of Geographic Information Science, vol. 20, iss. 10, pp. 1087-1108\nWu, Z. and Walski, T. (2006): Multi objective optimization of sensor placement in water distribution systems, 2006 Annual Symposium on Water Distribution Systems Analysis, Cincinnati, Ohio", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://ptonice.com/blog/hip-to-the-literature-1", "date": "2017-05-30T09:02:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463614620.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170530085905-20170530105905-00285.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8873420357704163, "token_count": 1277, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__704332", "lang": "en", "text": "Hip To The Literature\nThe British Journal of Sports Medicine recently released an excellent issue with some great insight on current concepts regarding femoral acetabular impingement (FAI). Of note, is the open access consensus statement regarding current best practice in regards to diagnostics and treatment and the promotion of individualized care for individuals with FAI syndrome.\nYes, the consensus’ addition of the word syndrome to FAI is important, as we have learned that there is more to this topic than just hip joint morphology. Symptoms of hip pain, clinical signs of decreased range of motion, painful hip flexion-adduction-internal rotation (FADIR/Impingement Test), hip strength and motor impairments combined with diagnostic injections and pathoanatomical findings via diagnostic imaging are required to make the correct diagnosis. This is the easy part.\nThe expert panel recommended that the patient should then be exposed to all treatment options and requires individualized care. The literature offers us no clear path on choosing that course of care. The debate of conservative or surgical care remains challenging. With physiotherapy-led rehabilitation, the goal is to regain hip strength, stability, and motor control while improving (and protecting) appropriate mobility and movement impairments. The surgical goal is eliminate a potential pain generator and restore impingement-free motion. Then the individual will undergo a course of rehabilitation, tackling the same goals previously mentioned. Ultimately, all paths eventually lead to physical therapy.\nThe FaSHioN randomized controlled trial (Wall) offers suggestions on current best practice of a conservative course of care. Of importance for success includes proper patient subgroup selection and intervention selection. Freke’s review of symptomatic FAI revealed consistent impairments of hip mobility, hip strength, motor control, and single leg deficits. It makes sense that that the FaSHioN group attempts to take on these functional limitations. However, what those terms mean to each physical therapist is different, and falls in line with a lack of consistency of care in the literature. (All Open Access! Go Read Now!)\nWhen clinically reasoning through these cases, it makes sense to be careful about pushing mobility, considering morphological blocks and irritants. Without irritating the key lesion, assessing and treating lumbopelvic and soft tissue mobility, along with pragmatic inferior and posterior glides of the hip joint, may create increased pain-free mobility and movement. This serves as a gateway to the desired avenue of exercise. Loudon & Reiman (PT in Sport 2014) provide an excellent review on potential pathomechanics and provide clues on mechanisms that could be assessed and treated conservatively. After appropriate assessment, exercise intervention may benefit by paying attention to tiny details provided in the research of Selkowitz, (JOSPT September 2016, February 2013) and Khuu (IJSPT April 2016), in that subtle technique variations to bias motor recruitment and biomechanical function has the potential to feed or attack potential impairments. How we choose to gain mobility, stability, dose exercise and achieve motor recruitment and control matters.\nSo what did we really learn from this influx of new evidence? The consensus is that there is no consensus beyond diagnostics and complexity remains in treating this syndrome. The picture is less clear than ever, as we spin our wheels slowly moving forward and awaiting clinical trials to comparing conservative and surgical care. At the minimum, a patient-centered and individualized plan of care is a must. Regardless of the course of care, similar impairments will be present and targeting regional mobility, hip strength, single leg stability and motor control of the hip and pelvis are necessary. If you are still with me, check out a few of our current ways of addressing these through exercises on the video posted below!\nDisclaimer: This is not medical advice and these opinions are independent of any entity. These thoughts were likely fueled by consumption of too much coffee and great music.\nGriffin DR, Dickenson EJ, O'Donnell J, Awan T, Beck M, Clohisy JC, Dijkstra HP, Falvey E, Gimpel M, Hinman RS, Hölmich P. The Warwick Agreement on femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAI syndrome): an international consensus statement. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016 Oct 1;50(19):1169-76.\nFreke MD, Kemp J, Svege I, Risberg MA, Semciw A, Crossley KM. Physical impairments in symptomatic femoroacetabular impingement: a systematic review of the evidence. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016 Oct 1;50(19):1180-.\nWall PD, Dickenson EJ, Robinson D, Hughes I, Realpe A, Hobson R, Griffin DR, Foster NE. Personalised Hip Therapy: development of a non-operative protocol to treat femoroacetabular impingement syndrome in the FASHIoN randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2016 Oct 1;50(19):1217-23.\nLoudon JK, Reiman MP. Conservative management of femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) in the long distance runner. Physical Therapy in Sport. 2014 May 31;15(2):82-90.\nSelkowitz DM, Beneck GJ, Powers CM. Comparison of Electromyographic Activity of the Superior and Inferior Portions of the Gluteus Maximus Muscle During Common Therapeutic Exercises. journal of orthopaedic & sports physical therapy. 2016 Sep;46(9):794-9.\nSelkowitz DM, Beneck GJ, Powers CM. Which exercises target the gluteal muscles while minimizing activation of the tensor fascia lata? Electromyographic assessment using fine-wire electrodes. journal of orthopaedic & sports physical therapy. 2013 Feb;43(2):54-64.\nKhuu A, Foch E, Lewis CL. NOT ALL SINGLE LEG SQUATS ARE EQUAL: A BIOMECHANICAL COMPARISON OF THREE VARIATIONS. International journal of sports physical therapy. 2016 Apr;11(2):201.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://qac.org.au/is-it-possible-to-teach-art-and-culture-to-our-kids/", "date": "2022-09-29T17:15:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335362.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929163117-20220929193117-00577.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9727380275726318, "token_count": 703, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__138149775", "lang": "en", "text": "It is clear that the social and cultural environment play an indispensable role in the development of children. Just as children are in need of responsible adults around them, to cover basic needs for growth and guide them in their behavior, the context is also determinant in parameters as important as beliefs or the transmission of values. There is no single successful formula for such transmission. The study “The culture and education of young children. Preparing staff to teach children from many cultural backgrounds”, conducted at the National Black Child Devolopment Institute in Washington, noted that the differences observed between cultures for cultural transmission to children do not mean that there is the right way versus the wrong way.\nThe term “art” is even more specific than that of “culture”. It refers to the expression of human activity through plastic, linguistic or sound resources, and also plays a fundamental role in the development of the child. It develops creativity in the face of problems and conflicts, helping to think. It invites children to reflect and ask themselves questions to overcome barriers such as prejudices. It helps them to use their senses, to approach different contents in an entertaining way. Improves the perception of what surrounds them. That is why it is so important that they are in contact with art and culture.\nThe benefits of telling them a story\nReading is a basic tool for children to gain new vocabulary and learn to express themselves, as well as to convey differences between what is right and what is wrong, in a way adapted to their level of understanding that they will be able to understand.\nThat from an early age they are instilled with the value of reading is essential so that, tomorrow, they will be avid readers. Children tend to imitate, they reproduce the behaviours they see in their immediate surroundings, from which the importance of being a good reference can be deduced. If a parent or guardian usually reads, it is more than likely that the child will read as well.\nA good way to awaken their curiosity to learn is to read them a story, for example, before they fall asleep. Because this will also strengthen the relationship between parents and children, will strengthen a bond that, tomorrow, can contribute to closeness and trust.\nThe Internet has many resources, such as free children’s stories that parents should select carefully. Sleeping stories on mevoyadormir.com are accompanied by songs and lullabies for babies that can be very interesting.\nFrom the nearest and best known\nWhen it comes to children, any everyday situation is presented as an opportunity to learn. It is only necessary to have a little will and not to dispel all their questions with an invented explanation that, due to their capacity to reason, will seem credible.\nTo awaken their curiosity is to have a perception of themselves, of their ego. Invitations to reflection and learning can be constant, starting with their own name, by knowing more about the onomastics of Mary, John, Albert, Daniel, Sophie or Anne, or whatever their name. You can know the meaning of your name for free here, and it can be articulated as an invitation to search and read something that concerns them so directly.\nGiven their age and scope, the child will begin to be interested in what has to do with them, their family and their particular context. Exploiting all this knowledge will help his desire to learn to grow little by little, to expand beyond what affects him or concerns him directly.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://qumc.com/index.php/component/jevents/eventsbyday/2021/5/27/-?Itemid=101", "date": "2021-06-24T16:10:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488556133.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20210624141035-20210624171035-00217.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9432253241539001, "token_count": 705, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__99251434", "lang": "en", "text": "One of my favorite books is Gift From the Sea by Anne Morrow Lindbergh. The book consists of various introspective chapters, each centering around a “shell” metaphor, a “gift” from the sea, where Anne spent time alone to refresh her mind and spirit from the hustle and bustle of city life.\nExamining the configurations of the shells prompts Anne to think differently about life, relationships, marriage, and the aesthetic beauty of the human mind and heart.\nA similarly touching book by Elisabeth Tova Bailey is titled The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. In her book, Elisabeth describes what she observes around her during a long, debilitating illness. When she receives a plant complete with a woodland snail living within its soil, she becomes fascinated with the simplicity of its life. Soon, she develops a kind of relationship with the small creature, caring for it and feeding it leaves, its quiet munching a solace in her loneliness. While others might have found the tiny snail insignificant, Elisabeth realizes that each part of creation, whether human or creature, is part of an entire interwoven network of relationships that make our world fascinating and exquisitely beautiful. In understanding the mysterious life of the snail by her bedside, Elisabeth gains new insights into her own place within the world. In calling attention to the remarkable phenomena of the natural world around us, the book celebrates the resilience of human existence even in our darkest times.\nAs we leave the dark, cold barrenness of winter and enter into spring, we too notice the budding branches, the sound of returning birds, the green of unfolding, new leaves, the bursting forth of color. Warm winds blow white and pink petals across the roadways and paths. Rains pool and form muddy birdbaths. Bees begin pollinating flowers. Flower beds fill with tulips and daffodils. And with spring comes a feeling that life is in the air. Indeed it is.\nLife is a theme that God has developed from micro to macro in every part of the world from the first day of creation. As we continue in May celebrating the resurrection life of Jesus, his post-resurrection appearances to his stunned disciples, and the birth of the early church, we can get an awe-filled sense of how wondrous Life as a disciple can be.\nBeing a disciple of Jesus is a commitment to paying attention to the little miracles around us, the way life always springs from death and darkness, the way no matter how many times we try to “nail” Jesus down or wipe Him away, He always reappears powerfully and mightily in the world in new and exciting ways with His healing hand and loving heart.\nThis month as you prepare to be touched by the power of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, remember that Life starts with a seed. You are that seed. And now is your time to burst forth with the love and beauty of the Gospel message so that all the world can experience the life-giving love of Jesus.\nNever for a moment believe that your contribution is not enough. You just may be the next small miracle in someone else’s life.\nIf you have a need to talk about something happening in your life, whether in sadness or joy, the pastor’s door is always open and her ear always listening. Just give a call or email.\n360 298 8327", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.kaylaheisler.com/", "date": "2023-12-02T05:45:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100327.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202042052-20231202072052-00555.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9745069146156311, "token_count": 260, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__8191477", "lang": "en", "text": "Kayla Heisler is a New York–based writer, editor, and arts administrator. She is a graduate of Columbia University School of the Arts, where she earned a Writing MFA and of Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School, where she earned a Literary Studies BA. As a student, she held teaching fellowships at both institutions. She has over a decade of writing and editing experience and has worked with several outlets including Cleveland Review of Books, Columbia Journal, Eleven and a Half, Fairygodboss, and Witch Craft Magazine. As an administrator in higher education, she wrote and edited copy for website pages, staff and student guidebooks, bulletins, and other projects. Additionally, she independently managed all internal and external award processes and coordinated multiple student and academic events. Clients have hired Kayla to elevate their projects on the sentence, paragraph, and story level. She has been a featured reader at Nuyorican Poets Cafe and Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, and she was interviewed by Susanne Mueller for the Take It from the Ironwoman podcast. In 2023, she was awarded residencies to Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Hambidge Center for Arts and Sciences. She is currently working on a cultural memoir-in-essays.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://eddvick.wordpress.com/about/", "date": "2019-03-18T18:16:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912201521.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190318172016-20190318194016-00339.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9754496812820435, "token_count": 190, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__97591376", "lang": "en", "text": "Edd Vick is the son of a pirate. He grew up in Texas, California, and England. MU Press, his publishing company, produced several hundred comics by creators like Donna Barr, Matt Howarth, and Cathy Hill between 1990 and 2005. His first professional fiction sale was “Defender” to a Magic: The Gathering anthology in 1995. His next sale, to Asimov’s, was concurrent with his attending Clarion in 2002. He has since sold about forty other stories to Analog, Asimov’s, and to many anthologies, often in conjunction with his writing partner Manny Frishberg. Edd’s story “Moon Does Run”, first published in Electric Velocipede, was chosen for inclusion in Year’s Best SF 12.\nEdd lives in Seattle with SF author Amy Thomson, their daughter Katie, a dog, a cat, and three chickens.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.dietenlightenment.com/", "date": "2022-06-30T17:25:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103850139.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20220630153307-20220630183307-00643.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9475288391113281, "token_count": 551, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__169221917", "lang": "en", "text": "Discover exactly how to lose weight and keep it off for good, and why you don't need to sacrifice the food you love or go hungry in order to be thin.\nLearn how to use your favorite foods to lose weight and tap into your natural ability to stay thin. If you've tried other diets with limited success, given up on weight loss or just assume you can't lose weight because of your metabolism, this book is for you.\n\"Thought provoking and engaging, this book is a great resource to elucidate the confusing path toward weight loss. Pires makes the journey accessible by giving you tools and information to become successful. Adding humor and insight, she helps you to see that weight loss is not difficult with the right knowledge. Using data and references from the New England Journal of Medicine, BBC news, Mayo Clinic and American Journal of Preventative Medicine illustrate how well versed and well researched this book is. Overall an excellent and helpful book!\"\n\"I have recommended this book to coaching clients and psychotherapy patients because it is scientific, psychologically minded, and promotes healthful eating and exercise. It is well written, easy to comprehend, and worth the time. Rachel Pires has made a contribution. Her book is a treasure!\"\nDr. Judy Logue\n\"This book was such a breath of fresh air. Written in a positive, reassuring tone, Pires never lectures but lays out her message in a clear, concise manner. Taking a subject that elicits extreme emotional responses from tears of despair to elation, and teaches the reader that dieting should not be something to be feared, but is actually a battle that can be overcome. With no gimmicks, just boatloads of honesty and fun, simple, easy to understand techniques - Diet Enlightenment is a permanent fixture on my counter top and my new secret weapon in the battle against the bulge!\"\n\"There must be thousands of diet books out there. In such a crowded landscape, it's hard to believe that a new book could come out with a new approach and with simple, effective ideas. But this is exactly what Ms. Pires has achieved. Rachel teaches how to determine the daily caloric intake that will enable anyone to slowly and efficiently lose weight down to their target level. She provides many great insights on how to accomplish this in both a healthy and effective fashion. As someone that has struggled with my weight since passing the age of 40, I am very excited to try Ms. Pires' approach. This method really appeals to my mathematical mind and my palate!\"\n\"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.\" Lao Tzu", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://eyeswideopen.world/category/poetry/", "date": "2023-11-28T16:58:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099892.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128151412-20231128181412-00885.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9495385885238647, "token_count": 1442, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__131417122", "lang": "en", "text": "I want free life and I want fresh air;\nAnd I sigh for the canter after the cattle,\nThe crack of the whips like shots in a battle,\nThe medley of horns and hoofs and heads\nThat wars and wrangles and scatters and spreads;\nThe green beneath and the blue above,\nAnd dash and danger, and life and love —\nLasca used to ride\nOn a mouse-gray mustang close by my side,\nWith blue serape and bright-belled spur;\nI laughed with joy as I looked at her!\nLittle knew she of books or of creeds;\nAn Ave Maria sufficed her needs;\nLittle she cared, save to be by my side,\nTo ride with me, and ever to ride,\nFrom San Saba’s shore to LaVaca’s tide.\nShe was as bold as the billows that beat,\nShe was as wild as the breezes that blow;\nFrom her little head to her little feet\nShe was swayed in her suppleness to and fro\nBy each gust of passion; a sapling pine\nThat grows on the edge of a Kansas bluff\nAnd wars with the wind when the weather is rough\nIs like this Lasca, this love of mine.She would hunger that I might eat,\nWould take the bitter and leave me the sweet;\nBut once, when I made her jealous for fun,\nAt something I’d whispered, or looked, or done,\nOne Sunday, in San Antonio,\nTo a glorious girl in the Alamo,\nShe drew from her garter a dear little dagger,\nAnd — sting of a wasp! — it made me stagger!\nAn inch to the left, or an inch to the right,\nAnd I shouldn’t be maundering here tonight;\nBut she sobbed, and, sobbing, so swiftly bound\nHer torn reboso about the wound,\nThat I quite forgave her. Scratches don’t count\nIn Texas, down by the Rio Grande.Her eye was brown — a deep, deep brown;\nHer hair was darker than her eye;\nAnd something in her smile and frown,\nCurled crimson lip and instep high,\nShowed that there ran in each blue vein,\nMixed with the milder Aztec strain,\nThe vigorous vintage of Old Spain.\nShe was alive in every limb\nWith feeling to the finger tips;\nAnd when the sun is like a fire,\nAnd sky one shining, soft sapphire,\nOne does not drink in little sips.\nThe air was heavy, and the night was hot,\nI sat by her side, and forgot – forgot;\nForgot the herd that were taking their rest,\nForgot that the air was close opprest,\nThat the Texas norther comes sudden and soon,\nIn the dead of night or the blaze of noon;\nThat, once let the herd at its breath take fright,\nNothing on earth can stop the flight;\nAnd woe to the rider, and woe to the steed,\nWho falls in front of their mad stampede!\nWas that thunder? I grasped the cord\nOf my swift mustang without a word.\nI sprang to the saddle, and she clung behind.\nAway! On a hot chase down the wind!\nBut never was fox hunt half so hard,\nAnd never was steed so little spared,\nFor we rode for our lives, You shall hear how we fared\nIn Texas, down by the Rio Grande.\nThe mustang flew, and we urged him on;\nThere was one chance left, and you have but one;\nHalt, jump to ground, and shoot your horse;\nCrouch under his carcass and take your chance;\nAnd, if the steers in their frantic course\nDon’t batter you both to pieces at once,\nYou may thank your star; if not, goodby\nTo the quickening kiss and the long-drawn sigh,\nAnd the open air and the open sky,\nIn Texas, down by the Rio Grande.\nThe cattle gained on us, and just as I felt\nFor my old six-shooter behind in my belt,\nDown came the mustang, and down came we,\nClinging together — and, what was the rest?\nA body that spread itself on my brest,\nTwo arms that shielded my dizzy head,\nTwo lips that hard on my lips were prest;\nThen came thunder in my ears,\nAs over us surged the sea of steers,\nBlows that beat blood into my eyes,\nAnd when I could rise—\nLasca was dead!\nI gouged out a grave a few feet deep,\nAnd there in Earth’s arms I laid her to sleep;\nAnd there she is lying, and no one knows;\nAnd the summer shines and the winter snows;\nFor many a day the flowers have spread\nA pall of petals over her head;\nAnd the little gray hawk hangs aloft in the air,\nAnd the sly coyote trots here and there,\nAnd the black snake glides and glitters and slides\nInto a rift in a cottonwood tree;\nAnd the buzzard sails on,\nAnd comes and is gone,\nStately and still like a ship at sea.\nAnd I wonder why I do not care\nFor the things that are like the things that were.\nDoes half my heart lie buried there\nIn Texas, down by the Rio Grande?\nApache Wedding Vows\n“Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold, for each of you will be warmth to the other. Now there will be no loneliness, for each of you will be companion to the other. Now you are two persons, but there is only one life before you. May beauty surround you both in the journey ahead and through all the years. May happiness be your companion and your days together be good and long upon the earth.”\n“Treat yourselves and each other with respect, and remind yourselves often of what brought you together. Give the highest priority to the tenderness, gentleness and kindness that your connection deserves. When frustration, difficulties and fear assail your relationship, as they threaten all relationships at one time or another, remember to focus on what is right between you, not only the part which seems wrong. In this way, you can ride out the storms when clouds hide the face of the sun in your lives — remembering that even if you lose sight of it for a moment, the sun is still there. And if each of you takes responsibility for the quality of your life together, it will be marked by abundance and delight.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.viewlocity.com/resources/white-papers/managing-risk-maximizing-profits-using-visibility-to-mitigate-supply-chain-risk-1/", "date": "2021-09-27T06:27:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780058373.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20210927060117-20210927090117-00428.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9273417592048645, "token_count": 189, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__96288118", "lang": "en", "text": "Managing risk, maximizing profits: Using visibility to mitigate supply chain risk\nEvery day companies face an increasing number of events that can cause supply chain disruptions. That is why managing risk across the global supply chain network has become a critical necessity.\nWhile it would be nice to simply avoid risks by transferring them to our supply chain partners, it is just not realistic. Today most companies continue to experience supply chain inefficiencies as a direct result of increased risk. Manufacturing disruptions, bloated inventories, transportation delays, stockouts and obsolete inventories are just some of the negative results.\nMany supply chain executives are using improved supply chain visibility to help overcome a variety of risks. This white paper reviews four key types of supply chain risk:\n- Rising variable costs\n- Supplier failures\n- Logistics disruptions\n- Natural disasters\nThe paper then discusses how improved visibility can help mitigate each of these risks and ultimately improve overall supply chain performance.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.kohlchildrensmuseum.org/programming/storytime-prek/", "date": "2018-07-23T15:49:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676596542.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723145409-20180723165409-00131.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9481181502342224, "token_count": 166, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__140237842", "lang": "en", "text": "Story Time – Preschool\nStory Time takes place every Monday at 11 a.m. Walk into the pages of a different book every two weeks with our interactive storytelling led by Museum professionals. Pre-school age stories on Mondays at 11 a.m. are chosen based on age appropriateness but all ages are welcome to attend.\nFollow the charming story of a greedy caterpillar that transforms into a beautiful butterfly.August 6, August 13, August 20, August 27: Here In the Garden by Briony Stewart\nExperience the change of seasons with a young boy who shares the magic of his garden with a special friend.September 10, September 17, September 24: Counting With Apollo by Caroline Gregoire\nLearn how to count to ten with the very amusing, good looking, kind and clever, Apollo!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ims-web.com/project-failure-statistics-among-capital-intensive-industries/", "date": "2023-12-09T20:40:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100972.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209202131-20231209232131-00724.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8681814074516296, "token_count": 1120, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__148764682", "lang": "en", "text": "Project Failure Statistics Among Capital Intensive Industries\nAbstract capital-intensive industries face significant challenges in successfully delivering large-scale projects. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of project failure statistics in these industries, examining the prevalence of cost overruns, schedule delays, and failure to meet objectives. This paper concludes with recommendations for improving project performance based on industry best practices and lessons learned.\nCapital-intensive industries, such as construction, oil and gas, and infrastructure, often face substantial project failures due to the complex nature and scale of their projects. This paper aims to provide an in-depth analysis of project failure statistics, drawing from multiple sources and studies to give a well-rounded view of the current state of project performance in these industries.\nProject Failure Statistics\n- McKinsey & Company (2016): Nearly 50% of large capital projects were over budget, with an average cost overrun of 43%. Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/the-construction-productivity-imperative\n- Jergeas & Ruwanpura (2017): 64% of large oil and gas projects faced cost overruns. Source: Jergeas, G. F., & Ruwanpura, J. (2017). Reasons for cost overruns on large oil and gas projects. International Journal of Project Management, 35(4), 663-674\n- Flyvbjerg et al. (2020): 66% of capital-intensive infrastructure projects experienced cost overruns, with an average overrun of 44%. Source: Flyvbjerg, B., Ansar, A., & Budzier, A. (2020). Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale. International Journal of Project Management, 38(1), 50-63\n- McKinsey & Company (2016): Over 75% of large capital projects were behind schedule. Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/operations/our-insights/the-construction-productivity-imperative\n- Jergeas & Ruwanpura (2017): 73% of large oil and gas projects experienced schedule delays. Source: Jergeas, G. F., & Ruwanpura, J. (2017). Reasons for cost overruns on large oil and gas projects. International Journal of Project Management, 35(4), 663-674\n- Flyvbjerg et al. (2020): 61% of capital-intensive infrastructure projects faced schedule delays. Source: Flyvbjerg, B., Ansar, A., & Budzier, A. (2020). Big is Fragile: An Attempt at Theorizing Scale. International Journal of Project Management, 38(1), 50-63\nFailure to Meet Objectives\n- Independent Project Analysis (IPA) Institute (2016): Approximately 65% of industrial capital projects failed to meet their objectives (cost, schedule, and business requirements). Source: Merrow, E. W. (2016). Assessing the maturity of a company’s capital project system. Independent Project Analysis.\nRecommendations for Improving Project Performance Based on the project failure statistics presented, the following recommendations can be made to improve project performance in capital-intensive industries:\n- Conduct detailed feasibility studies to ensure project viability.\n- Develop comprehensive project schedules with clear objectives, deliverables, and performance indicators.\nEffective Risk Management\n- Identify, assess, and prioritize potential risks.\n- Develop risk mitigation plans and assign responsibilities.\n- Monitor and control risks regularly throughout the project life cycle.\nStrong Project Governance\n- Establish clear roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders.\n- Implement effective decision-making processes.\n- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and communication.\n- Identify and engage all relevant stakeholders, including suppliers, contractors, and regulators.\n- Communicate project objectives, expectations, progress and performance regularly through a simple and intuitive dashboarding tool.\n- Address stakeholder concerns promptly to maintain their support and commitment.\n- Adopt agile methodologies to adapt to changing conditions and requirements.\n- Implement regular progress reviews and adjust plans as needed.\n- Foster a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and innovation.\n- Ensure adequate availability of resources, including financial, human, and material.\n- Monitor resource utilization and make adjustments as needed to avoid overruns.\n- Manage resource dependencies and conflicts effectively.\n- Employ experienced project managers and technical experts.\n- Provide adequate training and development opportunities to enhance the team’s capabilities.\n- Leverage industry best practices and lessons learned from previous projects.\nQuality Assurance and Control\n- Implement quality management systems and processes to ensure the project meets the desired quality standards.\n- Conduct regular audits, inspections, and tests to verify compliance and identify areas for improvement.\n- Employ a lessons-learned approach to identify and correct quality issues.\n- Develop accurate cost estimates and budgets.\n- Monitor and control project costs to prevent overruns.\n- Implement a robust change management process to handle scope changes and budget adjustments.\nIn conclusion, project failures in capital-intensive industries are a significant concern, as evidenced by the high prevalence of cost overruns, schedule delays, and failure to meet objectives. By implementing the recommendations provided, organizations can enhance their project management capabilities and improve the overall success rate of their projects, ultimately reducing waste and improving profitability.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://bethanycenterfl.org/daily-mass-readings/", "date": "2022-12-07T22:19:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711221.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20221207221727-20221208011727-00364.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9402620792388916, "token_count": 623, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__126890828", "lang": "en", "text": "Reading 1 Is 40:25-31\nTo whom can you liken me as an equal?says the Holy One.Lift up your eyes on highand see who has created these things:He leads out their army and numbers them,calling them all by name.By his great might and the strength of his powernot one of them is missing!Why, O Jacob, do you say,and declare, O Israel,“My way is hidden from the LORD,and my right is disregarded by my God”?\nDo you not knowor have you not heard?The LORD is the eternal God,creator of the ends of the earth.He does not faint nor grow weary,and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny.He gives strength to the fainting;for the weak he makes vigor abound.Though young men faint and grow weary,and youths stagger and fall,They that hope in the LORD will renew their strength,they will soar as with eagles’ wings;They will run and not grow weary,walk and not grow faint.\nResponsorial Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 8 and 10\nR. (1) O bless the Lord, my soul!Bless the LORD, O my soul;and all my being, bless his holy name.Bless the LORD, O my soul,and forget not all his benefits.R. O bless the Lord, my soul!He pardons all your iniquities,he heals all your ills.He redeems your life from destruction,he crowns you with kindness and compassion.R. O bless the Lord, my soul!Merciful and gracious is the LORD,slow to anger and abounding in kindness.Not according to our sins does he deal with us,nor does he requite us according to our crimes.R. O bless the Lord, my soul!\nR. Alleluia, alleluia.Behold, the Lord comes to save his people;blessed are those prepared to meet him.R. Alleluia, alleluia.\nGospel Mt 11:28-30\nJesus said to the crowds: “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”\nLectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States, second typical edition, Copyright © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine; Psalm refrain © 1968, 1981, 1997, International Committee on English in the Liturgy, Inc. All rights reserved. Neither this work nor any part of it may be reproduced, distributed, performed or displayed in any medium, including electronic or digital, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.\nReadings courtesy of USCCB", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.ed.gov/technology/draft-netp-2010/references", "date": "2014-09-20T00:02:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657132372.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011212-00286-ip-10-196-40-205.us-west-1.compute.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7419450283050537, "token_count": 5155, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-41", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__34594063", "lang": "en", "text": "Ancess, J. (2000). The reciprocal influence of teacher learning, teaching practice, school restructuring, and student learning outcomes. Teachers College Record, 102(3), 590-619.\nBaker, D. B., Fouts, J. T., Gratama, C. A., Clay, J. N., & Scott, S. G. (2006). Digital Learning Commons: High school seniors online course taking patterns in Washington State. Seattle, WA: Fouts & Associates. Retrieved from http://www.learningcommons.org.\nBalfanz, R., & Legters, N. (2004). Locating the dropout crisis: Which high schools produce the nation’s dropouts? 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{"url": "https://lacunareid.com/", "date": "2023-06-02T02:36:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648245.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602003804-20230602033804-00612.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8852174878120422, "token_count": 195, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__135903141", "lang": "en", "text": "Hiya, I’m Lacuna. Welcome to my website!\nWriting steamy romance with a paranormal twist!\nI write both fantasy and contemporary romance with a paranormal twist. I live in beautiful New Zealand where I enjoy writing books over a cup of earl grey tea or a glass of rosé wine, and eating all the delicious foods! I love learning and have studied herbalism and completed a diploma in hypnotherapy. I’m also a total astrology geek!\nA Taste of Spice and Splendor\nA reverse harem romance with a reincarnation theme\nWhen life hands you lemons, why not swap them with limes and make margaritas with your four sexy Mediterranean soul mates?\nAvailable on Amazon in print or ebook!\nBook two in the Circle of Souls series is out on 1 August!\nThis one is even steamier with an added ghost story!", "domain": "literature"}
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{"url": "http://tastescience.com/books.html", "date": "2024-03-05T10:36:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948234904.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305092259-20240305122259-00229.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9733631610870361, "token_count": 460, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__186546550", "lang": "en", "text": "Three books, and one more just published!\nI was so excited when it became possible to publish book through Amazon—I could start to put together all the knowledge I had gained about tea into books that would be accessible to everyone.\nIn the first book, \"Three Basic Teas & How to Enjoy Them,\" I began my discussion of taste and flavor, and how tea processing leads to the differences in flavor we experience with green, oolong, and black teas. After tasting many many different teas, I was able to describe my experience with them and to make recommendations for brewing and pairing these teas with food. Also included some myth busting and fun facts, and also a bit of chemistry explained for non-chemists so you can understand why the flavors work the way they do.\nMy next book, \"Tea: a Nerd's Eye View\", expands on the information in my first book, to include much more about our flavor systems, the plant Camellia sinensis itself, and details about how growing and processing leads to the different kinds of tea with their different flavor profiles. I included history about the plant and its cultivation as well—the book is indeed somewhat encyclopedic.\nLoved the book. Provides scientific explanations for how we taste and smell, that is easy to understand. Can tell author is a tea lover. Good introduction to the many facets of tea drinking.Love to carry out experiments in my kitchen, so my next book is called \"A Nerd's Tea Lab.\". It's filled with experiments you can carry out in your kitchen, so you can really understand your teas and how to brew them for the most enjoyable flavors.\nFor those of you who are interested in a spiritual side of tea, my latest book, \"A Nerd Contemplates the Japanese Tea Ceremony\" brings you the elements and development of the chanoyu as a meditation practice. Here's what a tea person who previewed the book said:\nI feel absolutely enlightened. This is a different aspect to tea I have not come across before...a unique blend of science, history, religion, culture and tea appreciation. The book is also very personal with snippets of your personal stories, experiences and what you do currently. Pure poetry.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.360degreehead.com/", "date": "2017-02-23T06:58:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-09/segments/1487501171162.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170219104611-00163-ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9549842476844788, "token_count": 244, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-09__0__238412007", "lang": "en", "text": "I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future and in some way involve the stars. Absorbed in these illusory images, I forgot my destiny of one pursued. I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day worked on me, as well as the slope of the road which eliminated any possibility of weariness. The afternoon was intimate, infinite. The road descended and forked among the now confused meadows. A high-pitched, almost syllabic music approached and receded in the shifting of the wind, dimmed by leaves and distance. I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.\n– Jorge Luis Borges. “The Garden of Forking Paths.” Trans. Donald A. Yates. In Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. New York: New Directions, 1964, p. 23.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://periodismoenlared.com/exploring-the-invisible-architecture-of-cities-with-roman-mars.html", "date": "2023-02-07T21:17:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500641.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207201702-20230207231702-00182.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9223834872245789, "token_count": 289, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__299737214", "lang": "en", "text": "On a walk through your city or town, there are all sorts of sights and sounds to take in—big buildings, parks and patches of green space, roaring vehicles, and people strolling around. But according to Roman Mars, host of the 99% Invisible podcast, you need to look at the smaller, often unseen details to decode what’s really going on in the city.\nIn the new book The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design, co-authors Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt show that you can learn a lot about the place you live in by taking a closer look at tucked-away architecture and pavement markings. There’s meaning behind the etchings on the covers of maintenance holes and water lines, and the cryptic spray painted symbols on the street that signify network and telecommunication cables. These signs and structures can tell stories about a city’s past and present. Ira chats with Mars about the overlooked details built into our cities and how our urban environments are adapting to the pandemic.\n- Read the new book, The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design.\n- Listen to episodes and read stories on 99% Invisible.\n- Learn more about hidden infrastructures and spotting telecom lines in New York City in Ingrid Burrington’s Seeing Networks project and illustrated guide.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.joshuarem.com/the-darkest-depths.html", "date": "2020-03-30T04:12:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370496523.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20200330023050-20200330053050-00288.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9720941781997681, "token_count": 243, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-16", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__185679477", "lang": "en", "text": "Rufino Endicott's attempt to reclaim a part of his lost life hasn't gone well thus far. Betrayed and left for dead by the druid-sorceress, Kiralyn Frostwhisper, the little vampire now finds himself enslaved by the dark magic of an unstable necromancer. To make matters worse, his captor has raised an entire army of zombies for the purpose of assaulting the nearby township of Tundora, home of twenty thousand innocent people.\nRufino is now faced with an awful choice. He can do nothing, which will guarantee his own survival at the cost of his soul, or he can risk almost-certain death to try to save a town full of people who would kill him in a heartbeat simply for being a vampire.\nThe road to recovery is seldom smooth, but Rufino's is full of potholes. Betrayed by Kiralyn and enslaved by Teo'edal, my little vampire is worse off now than he was at the beginning of Leap of Faith. The Darkest Depths is about hitting rock bottom not once, but twice, and finding the courage to keep fighting. One must never stop fighting.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://nftnewsherald.com/ten-love-poems-by-william-shakespeare/", "date": "2024-04-20T00:33:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817463.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419234422-20240420024422-00690.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8892316818237305, "token_count": 1589, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__158164702", "lang": "en", "text": "O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?\nO, stay and hear; your true love's coming,\nThat can sing both high and low:\nTrip no further, pretty sweeting;\nJourneys end in lovers meeting,\nEvery wise man's son doth know.\nWhat is love? 'Tis not hereafter;\nPresent mirth hath present laughter;\nWhat's to come is still unsure:\nIn delay there lies not plenty;\nThen, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,\nYouth's a stuff will not endure.\nTAKE, O take those lips away\nThat so sweetly were forsworn,\nAnd those eyes, the break of day,\nLights that do mislead the morn:\nBut my kisses bring again,\nSeals of love, but seal’d in vain,\nSeal’d in vain!\nLove Sonnet 154\nThe little Love-god lying once asleep\nLaid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,\nWhilst many nymphs that vow'd chaste life to keep\nCame tripping by; but in her maiden hand\nThe fairest votary took up that fire\nWhich many legions of true hearts had warm'd;\nAnd so the general of hot desire\nWas sleeping by a virgin hand disarm'd.\nThis brand she quenched in a cool well by,\nWhich from Love's fire took heat perpetual,\nGrowing a bath and healthful remedy\nFor men diseased; but I, my mistress' thrall,\nCame there for cure, and this by that I prove,\nLove's fire heats water, water cools not love.\nLove Sonnet 1\nFrom fairest creatures we desire increase,\nThat thereby beauty's rose might never die,\nBut as the riper should by time decease,\nHis tender heir might bear his memory:\nBut thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,\nFeed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,\nMaking a famine where abundance lies,\nThy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:\nThou that art now the world's fresh ornament,\nAnd only herald to the gaudy spring,\nWithin thine own bud buriest thy content,\nAnd, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding:\nPity the world, or else this glutton be,\nTo eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.\nLove Sonnet 2\nWhen forty winters shall besiege thy brow\nAnd dig deep trenches in thy beauty’s field,\nThy youth’s proud livery, so gaz’d on now,\nWill be a tatter’d weed, of small worth held:\nThen being ask’d, where all thy beauty lies,\nWhere all the treasure of thy lusty days,\nTo say, within thine own deep-sunken eyes,\nWere an all-eating shame and thriftless praise.\nHow much more praise deserv’d thy beauty’s use,\nIf thou couldst answer ‘This fair child of mine\nShall sum my count, and make my old excuse,’\nProving his beauty by succession thine!\nThis were to be new made when thou art old,\nAnd see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.\nLove Sonnet 18\nShall I compare thee to a summer's day?\nThou art more lovely and more temperate:\nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,\nAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date:\nSometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,\nAnd often is his gold complexion dimm'd;\nAnd every fair from fair sometime declines,\nBy chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;\nBut thy eternal summer shall not fade\nNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;\nNor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,\nWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest:\nSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see,\nSo long lives this and this gives life to thee.\nWhen, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,\nI all alone beweep my outcast state\nAnd trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries\nAnd look upon myself and curse my fate,\nWishing me like to one more rich in hope,\nFeatur’d like him, like him with friends possess’d,\nDesiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,\nWith what I most enjoy contented least;\nYet in these thoughts myself almost despising,\nHaply I think on thee, and then my state,\nLike to the lark at break of day arising\nFrom sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;\nFor thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings\nThat then I scorn to change my state with kings.\nLove Sonnet 40\nTake all my loves, my love, yea, take them all;\nWhat hast thou then more than thou hadst before?\nNo love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;\nAll mine was thine before thou hadst this more.\nThen if for my love thou my love receivest,\nI cannot blame thee for my love thou usest;\nBut yet be blamed, if thou thyself deceivest\nBy wilful taste of what thyself refusest.\nI do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,\nAlthough thou steal thee all my poverty;\nAnd yet, love knows, it is a greater grief\nTo bear love’s wrong than hate’s known injury.\nLascivious grace, in whom all ill well shows,\nKill me with spites; yet we must not be foes.\nLove Sonnet 44\nIf the dull substance of my flesh were thought,\nInjurious distance should not stop my way.\nFor then, despite of space, I would be brought\nFrom limits far remote where thou dost stay.\nNo matter then although my foot did stand\nUpon the farthest earth removed from thee.\nFor nimble thought can jump both sea and land\nAs soon as think the place where he would be.\nBut, ah, thought kills me, that I am not thought,\nTo leap large length of miles when thou art gone,\nBut that, so much of earth and water wrought,\nI must attend times leisure with my moan,\nReceiving naught by elements so slow\nBut heavy tears, badges of either’s woe.\nLove Sonnet 55\nNot marble, nor the gilded monuments\nOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;\nBut you shall shine more bright in these contents\nThan unswept stone, besmear’d with sluttish time.\nWhen wasteful war shall statues overturn,\nAnd broils root out the work of masonry,\nNor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn\nThe living record of your memory.\n‘Gainst death and all oblivious enmity\nShall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room,\nEven in the eyes of all posterity\nThat wear this world out to the ending doom.\nSo, till the judgment that yourself arise,\nYou live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://townhall.innis.utoronto.ca/event/innis-college-indignation-screening-with-james-schamus-and-sarah-gadon/", "date": "2018-07-21T03:40:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592309.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721032019-20180721052019-00456.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9204100966453552, "token_count": 161, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__168394141", "lang": "en", "text": "- This event has passed.\nInnis College — INDIGNATION Screening with James Schamus and Sarah Gadon\nSeptember 7, 2017 @ 6:50 pm - 10:00 pmFree\nInnis College and the Writing and Rhetoric Program invite you to a screening of INDIGNATION on Thursday September 7th at 7PM.\nA discussion with filmmaker James Schamus and actor and Innis alumna Sarah Gadon, moderated by acclaimed broadcaster and writer Eleanor Wachtel, will follow the screening.\nRegistration is required to secure your space at this free event.\nDoors open at 6:50PM\nThis event is co-sponsored by Innis College, the Writing & Rhetoric Program, the Department of English, and the Centre for Comparative Literature.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://gorillatangobook.com/", "date": "2021-06-13T13:38:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487608856.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20210613131257-20210613161257-00540.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9745721817016602, "token_count": 608, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__92705553", "lang": "en", "text": "After losing all his money in a business venture gone wrong, Warren Stelman does the unthinkable. He gets involved in a sweepstakes scam and makes dirty money.\nIn August of 2012, his world comes crashing down when he is arrested by Interpol in Santo Domingo and extradited to the Southern District of New York by the United States Government to face justice for the crime he committed.\nThis is his story—his journey through hellish conditions in third-world jails, fourteen months in the super-max Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York, and four more years in a United States Federal prison.\nReleased in January 2018, he is now home and reunited with his wife and four children. In Gorilla Tango, he recounts the harrowing events that took him from a cushy life-style in the Caribbean to the bowels of prison and how at fifty-three years old he had to adapt to survive in a brutal, violent and unforgiving world. It is a story of personal redemption, spiritual growth, and survival.Click Here to Buy Now\nA truly remarkable story of survival in the US prison system! A MUST READ!\nI loved this book because there were a lot of life lessons taught about loss, getting your normal life stripped away from you and getting back up again from the deepest darkest place. The author pulls no punches, he tells his story of how he spends his days in prison and how he survived it.\nA great read! Couldn't put it down from page 1!\nLoved this book. If you have ever wanted to know what life is like in the U.S. prison system, this book will give you as close to the experience as you'll ever want to get. Stelman does an amazing job of describing day to day life, the culture, the economy and the emotional rollercoaster of incarceration. Beautifully written.\nI highly recommend this book!\nGreat book, that is fast paced with detailed narrative of the day to day life of a white collar prisoner. Warren really connects by sharing details of what it is like to put himself in a really tough spot. He shares his perspective of prison life with hardened criminals and disconnected prison staff I couldn't put the book down!\nTrue insight Into what happens in prison.\nA compelling and true story of one person‘s experience in the federal prison system. Stelman writes a straightforward and stark book on what he experienced in jail. His life went from steak and lobster to prison fare overnight. His writing style grabs quickly as he discusses his years in prison, the impact on his family and what he ultimately learns.\nGood read, can’t put the book down!\nWhile reading I felt connected to the author and his family and could not put the book down until I finished reading. Very touching look into a very personal experience. I will recommend this book to all. Can also be a very good resource for students, teenagers and anyone who has a loved one in prison.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://kleurrijkmyidealhome.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-mark-twain-house-museum-has.html", "date": "2018-06-17T23:59:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267859904.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180617232711-20180618012711-00325.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9823610782623291, "token_count": 235, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__134587240", "lang": "en", "text": "The Mark Twain House & Museum has restored the author's Hartford, Connecticut, home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891. Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.\nMark Twain and his family enjoyed what the author would later call the happiest and most productive years of his life in their Hartford home. He wrote: 'To us, our house...had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see with us; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence and lives in its grace and in the peace or its benediction.' Financial problems forced Sam and Livy to move the family to Europe in 1891. Though he would complain about other places the family lived compared to the Hartford house ('How ugly‚ tasteless‚ repulsive are all the domestic interiors I have ever seen in Europe compared with the perfect taste of this ground floor')‚ the family would never live in Hartford again. flickrphotos", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.dougsirois.com/thepath", "date": "2024-04-23T02:09:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818452.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423002028-20240423032028-00207.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9730139374732971, "token_count": 235, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__197123243", "lang": "en", "text": "Douglas A. Sirois Illustration\nSigned by Douglas A. Sirois\n$12.00 + $5.00 Shipping and Handling\npay securely with PayPal.\nA children's book written and illustrated by Douglas A. Sirois\nAbout the Book\nMicah is upset because he can't find his imagination.\nWith helpful suggestions along his journey down a wooded path from some forest friends, Micah learns a few key lessons to help find his imagination before returning home.\nA sweet enduring picture book with a how-to-find creativity hook, detailed natural and fantastical illustration, THE PATH is sure to inspire and spark any child's imagination.\nAbout the Author\nDouglas A. Sirois was born and raised in Massachusetts. He has since illustrated and designed everything from toys, children’s books, graphic novels to clothing and apparel. His children's book, The Path, is Doug's first book as author and illustrator. After living in sunny southern California for ten years and earning a MFA in illustration, Doug currently resides back in Massachusetts with his wife and two children and a dog named Ginger.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.anthempress.com/visuality-in-the-novels-of-austen-radcliffe-edgeworth-and-burney", "date": "2017-04-26T05:56:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121165.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00167-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9002760052680969, "token_count": 865, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__136822822", "lang": "en", "text": "Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney\nAbout This Book\n‘We’ve long understood that late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British culture was structured around seeing and being seen, but it’s taken Jessica Volz’s fine book to reveal how four famed women novelists of the era used visual patterns and cues to promote social change. With its perceptive readings, marshalling theories of visuality, gender and aesthetics, Volz’s book persuasively argues that fiction writers narrated images – visual and verbal portraiture – to push back at and shed light on gendered constraints. Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney is a compelling study of a surprisingly under-examined set of narrative patterns that have been hiding in plain sight.’\n—Devoney Looser, Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA\nThere are many factors that contributed to the proliferation of visual codes, metaphors and references to the gaze in women’s fiction of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. 'Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney' argues that the visual details in women’s novels published between 1778 and 1815 are more significant than scholars have previously acknowledged. Its innovative study of the oeuvres of Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Maria Edgeworth and Frances Burney shows that visuality – the continuum linking visual and verbal communication – provided women writers with a methodology capable of circumventing the cultural strictures on female expression in a way that allowed for concealed resistance. Visuality empowered them to convey the actual ways in which women ‘should’ see and appear in a society in which the reputation was image-based.\nThe discussion moves from self-referential coordinates exterior to the self in the novels of Austen and Radcliffe to the drama of reflections, fashion and the minutiae of coded self-display in the novels of Edgeworth and Burney. The analysis engages with scholarly critiques drawn from literature, art history, optics, psychology, philosophy and anthropology to assert visuality’s multidisciplinary influences and diplomatic potential. The non-chronological structure embraces overlapping themes rather than the illusion of a conclusive departure from the reciprocity between the appearance and the essence.\n'Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney' explores how in fiction and in actuality, women negotiated four scopic forces that determined their ‘looks’ and manners of looking: the impartial spectator, the male gaze, the public eye and the disenfranchised female gaze. In a society dominated by ‘frustrated utterance’, penetrating gazes and the perpetual threat of misinterpretation, women novelists used references to the visible and the invisible to comment on emotions, socioeconomic conditions and patriarchal abuses. Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney provide ideal case studies in this regard because they were culturally representative figures who also experimented with and contributed to different approaches to the novel. This book thus offers new insights into verbal economy and the gender politics of the era spanning the Anglo-French War and the Battle of Waterloo by reassessing expression and perception from a uniquely telling yet largely overlooked point of view.\nDr Jessica A. Volz is an independent British literature scholar and international communications strategist whose research focuses on the forms and functions of visuality in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century women’s novels.\nTable of Contents\nForeword by Caroline Jane Knight; Preface; Introduction: Visuality in Profile; 1. Jane Austen’s Aesthetic Vocabulary of Character; 2. Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic Reconstructions of Female Identity and Experience; 3. The Gendered Gaze and ‘Made-up’ Women in Maria Edgeworth’s 'Castle Rackrent', 'Ennui' and 'Belinda'; 4. Optical Allusions in Frances Burney’s 'Evelina' and 'The Wanderer'; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Index.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://levensverlenging.pilliewillie.nl/veroudering/levensverlenging.5h.php", "date": "2021-06-24T21:52:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488559139.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20210624202437-20210624232437-00179.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8949941992759705, "token_count": 3456, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__97188793", "lang": "en", "text": "- The use of dehydroepiandrosterone therapy in clinical practice\nClinical trials suggest that 50mg of oral DHEA, but not <30mg, can increase serum androgen levels to within the physiologic range for young adults with primary and secondary adrenal insufficiency, possibly improve sexual function, improve mood and self-esteem, and decrease fatigue/exhaustion.\n- The effect of six months treatment with a 100 mg daily dose of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) on circulating sex steroids, body composition and muscle strength in age-advanced men and women\nBiotransformation to potent androgens near and slightly above the range of their younger counterparts occurred in women with no detectable change in men. Given this hormonal milieu, an increase in serum IGF-I levels was observed in both genders but dimorphic responses were evident in fat body mass and muscle strength in favour of men. These differences in response to DHEA administration may reflect a gender specific response to DHEA and/or the presence of confounding factor(s) in women such as oestrogen replacement therapy.\n- Replacement of DHEA in aging men and women. Potential remedial effects\nDHEA in appropriate replacement doses appears to have remedial effects with respect to its ability to induce an anabolic growth factor, increase muscle strength and lean body mass, activate immune function, and enhance quality of life in aging men and women, with no significant adverse effects. Further studies are needed to confirm and extend our current results, particularly the gender differences\n- Effects of replacement dose of dehydroepiandrosterone in men and women of advancing age\nAging in humans is accompanied by a progressive decline in the secretion of the adrenal androgens dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate (DS), paralleling that of the GH-insulin-like growth factor-I (GH-IGF-I) axis. Although the functional relationship of the decline of the GH-IGF-I system and catabolism is recognized, the biological role of DHEA in human aging remains undefined. To test the hypothesis that the decline in DHEA may contribute to the shift from anabolism to catabolism associated with aging, we studied the effect of a replacement dose of DHEA in 13 men and 17 women, 40-70 yr of age. A randomized placebo-controlled cross-over trial of nightly oral DHEA administration (50 mg) of 6-month duration was conducted. During each treatment period, concentrations of androgens, lipids, apolipoproteins, IGF-I, IGF-binding protein-1 (IGFBP-1), IGFBP-3, insulin sensitivity, percent body fat, libido, and sense of well-being were measured. A subgroup of men (n = 8) and women (n = 5) underwent 24-h sampling at 20-min intervals for GH determinations. DHEA and DS serum levels were restored to those found in young adults within 2 weeks of DHEA replacement and were sustained throughout the 3 months of the study. A 2-fold increase in serum levels of androgens (androstenedione, testosterone, and dihydrotestosterone) was observed in women, with only a small rise in androstenedione in men. There was no change in circulating levels of sex hormone-binding globulin, estrone, or estradiol in either gender. High density lipoprotein levels declined slightly in women, with no other lipid changes noted for either gender. Insulin sensitivity and percent body fat were unaltered. Although mean 24-h GH and IGFBP-3 levels were unchanged, serum IGF-I levels increased significantly, and IGFBP-1 decreased significantly for both genders, suggesting an increased bioavailability of IGF-I to target tissues. This was associated with a remarkable increase in perceived physical and psychological well-being for both men (67%) and women (84%) and no change in libido. In conclusion, restoring DHEA and DS to young adult levels in men and women of advancing age induced an increase in the bioavailability of IGF-I, as reflected by an increase in IGF-I and a decrease in IGFBP-1 levels. These observations together with improvement of physical and psychological well-being in both genders and the absence of side-effects constitute the first demonstration of novel effects of DHEA replacement in age-advanced men and women.\n- The use of dehydroepiandrosterone therapy in clinical practice\nDehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) therapy is controversial due to sensationalized reports of epidemiologic studies and the over-the-counter availability of DHEA. Human clinical trials have investigated the potential efficacy of DHEA therapy in multiple conditions with resultant inconsistencies in findings. DHEA is unique compared with other adrenal steroids because of the fluctuation in serum levels found from birth into advancing age. The lower endogenous levels of DHEA and DHEA sulfate found in advancing age have been correlated with a myriad of health conditions. Also, some studies suggest gender-specific actions of endogenous and exogenous DHEA.We reviewed only pharmacokinetic studies and human clinical trials investigating the efficacy of DHEA therapy that were placebo-controlled as these provided the most reliable scientific basis for the evaluation of DHEA therapy. Pharmacodynamic studies suggest that doses of 30-50mg of oral DHEA may produce physiologic androgen levels, especially in women. These studies report a dose-dependent effect and lack of accumulation of serum androgen levels. Pharmacologic studies also reveal a gender-specific response to DHEA therapy such that testosterone levels are increased in women but not in men.Clinical trials suggest that 50mg of oral DHEA, but not <30mg, can increase serum androgen levels to within the physiologic range for young adults with primary and secondary adrenal insufficiency, possibly improve sexual function, improve mood and self-esteem, and decrease fatigue/exhaustion. Whereas DHEA replacement therapy may be effective in treating patients with adrenal insufficiency, human clinical trials investigating its efficacy in conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus, HIV, Alzheimer disease, advancing age, male sexual dysfunction, perimenopausal symptoms, depression, and cardiovascular disease have not provided consistent findings.\n- Dehydroepiandrosterone replacement therapy\nDehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) replacement therapy has attracted considerable attention over recent years. Significant beneficial effects of DHEA replacement have been reported in patients representing the pathophysiological model of complete DHEA deficiency, in other words, adrenal insufficiency (AI). This includes effects on well-being, energy levels, mood, and libido, which is usually impaired in AI, particularly in female patients. DHEA exerts its action mainly indirectly via downstream metabolism to sex steroids, and conversion to active androgens is likely to play a major role. In addition, DHEA has well-described neurosteroidal properties, and by exerting anti-gamma aminobutyric acid(GABA)ergic action it may have antidepressive potential.\n- A prospective study of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, mortality, and cardiovascular disease\nIt has been postulated that dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate ester, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS), the major secretory products of the human adrenal gland, may be discriminators of life expectancy and aging. Our conclusions are limited by the single determination of DHEAS levels, but the data suggest that the DHEAS concentration is independently and inversely related to death from any cause and death from cardiovascular disease in men over age 50.\n- Is dehydroepiandrosterone an antiobesity agent?\nThe steroid hormone intermediate, DHEA, has been proposed as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of obesity. Its effects on lipogenesis, substrate cycling, peroxisome proliferation, mitochondrial respiration, protein synthesis, and thyroid hormone function have been reported. The results of these studies suggest that the antiobesity function of DHEA is not simply one of inhibiting fat synthesis and deposition but is one of affecting a number of pathways that contribute to the maintenance of the isoenergetic state rather than the promotion of positive energy balance.\n- DHEA(S): the fountain of youth\nIt has been known that DHEA can lower the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). It should be pointed out that chronic inflammation is known to play a critical role in the development of the killer diseases of aging: heart disease, Alzheimer's disease and certain types of cancer. In conclusion, DHEA or DHEAS administration combined with conventional treatment may be implicated in particular conditions to improve the quality of life.\n- Low dehydroepiandrosterone and ischemic heart disease in middle-aged men: prospective results from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study\nThe adrenal steroid dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and its sulfate (DHEAS) have been characterized as \"protective\" against ischemic heart disease (IHD), especially in men, on the basis of sparse epidemiologic evidence. The authors used data from the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, a random sample prospective study of 1,709 men aged 40-70 years at baseline, to test whether serum levels of DHEA or DHEAS could predict incident IHD over a 9-year interval. Low serum DHEA was similarly predictive. These results confirm prior evidence that low DHEA and DHEAS can predict IHD in men.\n- Age-related decrease of dehydroepiandrosterone concentrations in low density lipoproteins and its role in the susceptibility of low density lipoproteins to lipid peroxidation\nThe incidence of atherosclerosis and related diseases increases with age. The aging process may enhance lipoprotein modification, which leads to an increase in the susceptibility of low density lipoprotein (LDL) and high density lipoprotein (HDL) to oxidation. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), the most abundant steroid hormone in humans, has been shown to have antiatherogenic effects. This hormone also decreases dramatically with age. Our results suggests that DHEA exerts an antioxidative effect on LDL, which could have antiatherogenic consequences. Careful clinical trials of DHEA replacement should determine whether this ex vivo effect could be translated into any measurable antiatherogenic (cardioprotective) action.\n- Altered salivary dehydroepiandrosterone levels in major depression in adults\nLowered dehydroepiandrosterone levels are an additional state abnormality in adult depression. Adrenal steroid changes are thus not limited to cortisol. Because dehydroepiandrosterone may antagonize some effects of cortisol and may have mood improving properties, these findings may have significant implications for the pathophysiology of depression.\n- Pharmacology and therapeutic effects of dehydroepiandrosterone in older subjects\nMan and higher primates have adrenals that secrete large amounts of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) [prasterone] and its sulphate (DHEAS) [PB 008]. A remarkable feature of plasma DHEAS levels in humans is their great decrease with aging. Researchers have postulated that this age-related decline of DHEAS levels may explain some of the degenerative changes associated with aging. Moreover, administration of DHEA to laboratory animals has demonstrable beneficial effects such as prevention of diabetes mellitus, obesity, cancer, heart disease and positive immunomodulator effects.\n- Androgen therapy with dehydroepiandrosterone\nThe physiological role of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulphate (DHEAS) is poorly understood. It depends in a large part on their transformation into testosterone and estradiol. The capacity of DHEA as a neurosteroid, the recent discovery of putative specific DHEA receptors on endothelial and vascular smooth muscle cells, the steady decrease of DHEA production from the 40s on, together with certain human epidemiologic data as well as various beneficial effects of DHA supplementation in rodents have suggested the possibility that this steroid is involved in cognitive and memory, metabolic and vascular, immune and sexual functions and in their aging. However, epidemiologic studies are conflicting, and no well-designed clinical trials have definitely substantiated the role of DHEA in these functions in humans, or the utility and safety of DHEA supplementation. However, beneficial effects seem plausible in women with several conditions according to the results of double-blind placebo-controlled trials: the dose of 30 to 50 mg seems beneficial to the mood, sense of well being and sexual desire and activity of women with adrenal insufficiency. The only long-term trial of supplementation devoted to women over 60 reported significant increases in bone mineral density and, in the 70-79-year-old subgroup, in sexual desire, arousal, activity and satisfaction. The dose of 200 mg also proved to decrease disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus. Lastly, high DHEA doses have improved mood in various groups of patients of any age and gender with depressive symptoms.\n- Androgen replacement therapy with dehydroepiandrosterone for androgen insufficiency and female sexual dysfunction: androgen and questionnaire results\nThis study revealed that there was a significant decrease in sexual distress, a significant increase in sexual function in the domains of desire, arousal, lubrication, satisfaction, and orgasm, and a normalization to values within the physiologic range in the following androgens measured: total testosterone, free or bioavAilable testosterone, DHEA, DHEA-S, and androstenedione. Side effects included increased facial hair (11%), weight gain (7%), acne (5%), temporary breast tenderness (1%), loss of head hair (1%) and skin rash (1%). Preliminary results suggest that androgen replacement therapy with dehydroepiandrosterone is a safe and effective treatment for androgen insufficiency and female sexual dysfunction. However, further research is needed, including prospective, multi-institution, placebo-controlled double-blind studies.\n- Postmenopausal serum androgens, oestrogens and breast cancer risk: the European prospective investigation into cancer and nutrition\nConsiderable experimental and epidemiological evidence suggests that elevated endogenous sex steroids - notably androgens and oestrogens - promote breast tumour development. Our results have shown that, among postmenopausal women, not only elevated serum oestrogens but also serum androgens are associated with increased breast cancer risk. Since DHEAS and androstenedione are largely of adrenal origin in postmenopausal women, our results indicated that elevated adrenal androgen synthesis is a risk factor for breast cancer. The results from this study caution against\nMaagdarmstoornissen: Candida infectie - Prikkelbaredarmsyndroom - Crohn - Colitus Ulcerosa - CVS/ME: Chronische vermoeidheid Syndroom - Diabetische complicaties: Bloeduiker stabilisatie - Neuropathie - Retinopathie - Nefropathie - Hart- en vaatziekten: Cardiomyopathie en Hartfalen - Hoge bloeddruk - Cholesterol verlaging - Aderverkalking (atherosclerose) - Spataderen - Levensverlenging: 100 jaren jong - DHEA - Melatonine - 65+ - Kanker: - Ondersteuningstherapie bij kanker - Bot en gewrichtsaandoeningen: - Artrose - Artritis - Osteoporose - Fibromyalgie: - Fibromyalgie - Urinewegaandoeningen: - Prostaatklachten - Blaasontsteking - Vrouwenklachten: Menopauze - Premenstrueelsyndroom - Overgewicht: - Overgewicht - SLIM - Oogaandoeningen: Staar - Slecht zien Andere artikelen: - HPU - Astma - Multiple Sclerose - Psoriasis - Depressie", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://joomlabucket.com/easy-to-understand-bible", "date": "2023-09-30T14:06:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510676.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930113949-20230930143949-00318.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9045055508613586, "token_count": 634, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__319766218", "lang": "en", "text": "Easy to understand Bible is an application by Bibles free. Easy to understand Bible was first published on April 15, 2022. The app is available on the following platforms: Android, Other.AndroidIf you are a proud owner of the Android device, Easy to understand Bible is compatible . The most current version is 4.0 Before diving headlong into Easy to...\nEasy to understand Bible Review\nEasy to understand Bible is an application by Bibles free. Easy to understand Bible was first published on April 15, 2022. Easy to understand Bible is accessible on Android, Other.\nIf you are a proud owner of the Android device, Easy to understand Bible requires . The most current version is 4.0 Before diving headlong into Easy to understand Bible consider content rating:\nEasy to understand Bible will take up 8.7M of empty space on your mobile.\nDownload this easy to read and understand Bible on your phone: the Bible you were expecting, free on your phone!\nWe offer you the Bible in Basic English to download on your phone or tablet. This version of the Holy Book was created to make the Bible easier to read. It has simpler vocabulary and shorter sentences.\nNew features of the app:\n- Free downloading\n- Audio of the entire Bible\n- Offline (No Internet connection required for downloaded Bible)\n- Highlight verses\n- Bookmark verses\n- Add notes\n- Share verses via Facebook, Twitter, email or SMS\n- Search the Old or New Testament to find verses containing the entered keyword\n- Day/night reading mode\n- Increase/decrease font size\n- Adjust screen brightness\nThis is the easiest version of the Holy Word you have ever found!\nEnjoy the easier Bible to read, available for free on your phone!\nThe Holy Bible online consists of 39 books in the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings , 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations , Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi ) and 27 books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude, Revelation)\nThis Bible version is written in everyday language, to help people to understand the Bible. Enjoy now this version of the Bible on your phone!\nDownload the Easy to read version of the Bible and brighten your mornings every day!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.hereinduluth.com/blog/2011/04/10/books-to-buy-and-read", "date": "2019-08-21T03:12:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315750.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20190821022901-20190821044901-00503.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9819043278694153, "token_count": 324, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__22701135", "lang": "en", "text": "I'm a sucker for a good title, so when I first heard about Ted Orland's classic photography book Scenes of Wonder and Curiosity I had to have a look, and quickly purchased a copy. The title continues on... The Photos and Writings of Ted Orland, so you know at least some text is involved, and there is plenty of text actually, but also enough interesting, beautiful, and often just plain funny photographs to keep the visual side of your brain engaged too.\nTed Orland's book in my back yard...\nThe book is part memoir, part rambling art philosophy, and part photo album. Orland worked for years as a printer for Ansel Adams in the 1970's, and doing so allowed him to meet a great number of the West Coast photographers of note. He recounts in some detail many of these meetings and outings, though the general impression is that he leaves a lot of detail for historians to figure out, likely a good thing. If he had called this book \"The True Story of Ansel Adams' Underpaid Printer from The Crazy 70's\" he might have sold a few more copies, but he likely would have had to deal with a little blowback from readers over accuracy, as I've noticed Sam Kashner has on Amazon for his similar young-guy-with-masters memoir, When I Was Cool\nOrland had the advantage of not hanging out with so many intravenous drug users, perhaps. The book is fun, and something I keep picking up and paging through even after a thorough read. Certainly worth adding to your bookshelf.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.ecccpta.org/leadership-chair-resources/honoring-our-heroes/", "date": "2023-06-06T06:39:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224652235.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20230606045924-20230606075924-00330.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9698536396026611, "token_count": 113, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__79931439", "lang": "en", "text": "Honoring Our Heroes is a voluntary student writing contest that was sponsored by the East Cobb County Council of PTAs. Students of all ages wrote about their everyday hero, a real life role model that made an impact on their lives. The Council is no longer sponsoring this program, but it is a great program to host at your local unit. Past entry forms and details are here for reference if you would like to host this at your local unit. ***Check with your local unit PTA if they are hosting this program.\nDocuments needed to run your successful program:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.davidsonlearns.org/previous-instructors/scott/denham", "date": "2024-04-18T19:27:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817239.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418191007-20240418221007-00033.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9478718638420105, "token_count": 159, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__108088110", "lang": "en", "text": "Scott Denham, PhD\nScott Denham, E. Craig Wall Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities and Charles A. Dana Professor of German Studies, has taught at Davidson College since 1990. He received the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award in 2002 and the Thomas Jefferson Award in 2015. He studied at Chicago, Marburg, the FU Berlin, and Harvard, working primarily in German studies, but also in comparative literature and history. His teaching and research interests include German studies; modernism and narrative theory; the Holocaust and its representation; literary translation; second-language and writing pedagogy; and questions of identity, loss, and memory in the central European context. He is currently working on translations of the novels and essays of Jagoda Marinić.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.madabout-kitcars.com/forum/showthread.php?s=cacd776dfc53f74125aedc96bf287cce&t=5529&goto=nextnewest", "date": "2021-10-19T12:54:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585265.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20211019105138-20211019135138-00616.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9311572313308716, "token_count": 183, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__270990256", "lang": "en", "text": "I’VE WRITTEN A BOOK ABOUT MY PROJECT.\nI have designed, built and now have raced a 750 formula car. My book tells the story from the first thoughts to the first race. Its not a technical manual, it’s simply my story and charts the mistakes along the route as well as the successes.\nThe book is titled “Getting to the Start Line” and as a self- published book is only available from me. Postage is £2 and the book costs £12. (Europe postage is £4)\nPlease email me so that I can send you an invoice and hopefully you will enjoy hearing my story.\nAttached is a picture of the car, racing at Donington.\nThis link is to a series of pictures of the build - Please take a tour of the site.\nThis video is from Silverstone at the weekend.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://completeinhim.org/", "date": "2015-01-28T09:09:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422122691893.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124180451-00122-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9651483297348022, "token_count": 418, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__14417436", "lang": "en", "text": "Complete In Him – Online Devotionals\nThere are many challenges that are faced daily. In the current culture, there are many pressures, demands, and false perceptions of what a man or woman should be. The pressures experienced can lead to feelings of inadequacy, frustrations, insecurities, fear, anger, bitterness, and wrong choices.\nMultiple implications presented by the media and the culture can lead to various distractions and discontentment. The constant struggles to meet the expectations that are presented are never attainable and seem insurmountable as the world continues to place expectations on what a “perfect” man or woman should be.\nIn the book of Colossians, Paul addressed the saints at Colossae and warned them of the various deceptions and delusions that were presented through persuasiveness of elementary principles of this world from traditions of men rather than from Christ and the true Gospel (Colossians 2, New American Standard Bible). Just as the saints at Colossae faced various deceptions as it pertained to the true Gospel and the finished work of Christ, which made them complete in Christ, as a believer in Christ, you face persuasiveness, deceptions, and traditions of men that evoke pressures to follow elementary principles of this world rather than Christ. These types of pressures will always lead to discontentment and seeking to pursue completeness through acceptance from people, relationships, and success. As these endeavors are sought, frustration, pain, and fear may result as you will never meet the never-ending unrealistic expectations that accompany them. If you are a believer in Christ, you have been made complete in Christ, by His sacrificial work alone (Colossians 2:10, NASB). In Christ, there is completeness and it is not of your own merit but it is by grace through faith in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8, NASB). As you read various devotionals, I pray that you come to know Christ intimately and that your relationship with Christ is strengthened as you grow in learning to love God and love others.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://s-sm.org/students/summer-reading-2015/", "date": "2017-04-27T12:53:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122167.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00615-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.960297703742981, "token_count": 154, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__217911667", "lang": "en", "text": "The 2015 summer reading requirements for Shattuck-St. Mary’s School are as follows:\n- Middle School Students (Grades 6-9) must read two choice books.\n- Upper School Students (Grades 10-12 and Post Graduates) must read three choice books.\n- Students with assigned summer books for Advanced Placement (AP) classes may count them as part of their three choice book requirement. (Note: Not all AP classes have an assigned book to read.)\n- The Summer Reading form issued with Health and Permission forms needs to be submitted with the titles of the books read by the student by August 21, 2015.\nPhoto source: iltaccodibacco.it/puglia/eventi", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thetranslatedworld.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/lust-and-fury-a-cup-of-rage-by-raduan-nassar/", "date": "2018-07-22T07:01:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676593051.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20180722061341-20180722081341-00165.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9446072578430176, "token_count": 949, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__87809846", "lang": "en", "text": "A Cup of Rage by Brazilian author Raduan Nassar is without a doubt the odd one out on this year’s long list for the Man Booker International prize. 80-year old Nassar is the oldest nominee and at a mere 64 pages, his book is by far the shortest on the list. It has also been around for the longest. Originally published in 1978, the novel arrived in its current English version with a forty year delay.\nIn the run-up to the Olympic Games with the world’s attention on Brazil, this book and Nassar’s only other novel Ancient Tillage from 1975, have been released in new translations by Penguin Modern Classics. These two novels almost comprise Nassar’s entire literary output. Shortly after publishing A Cup of Rage he gave up writing and set up a model farm which he ran until 2011. Not counting a collection of short stories written in the 1960s and 70s and published in book form much later, his considerable reputation as one of Brazil’s great modernists rests on an oeuvre barely exceeding 200 pages.\nThe plot of A Cup of Rage is deceptively simple. It is the story of an odd couple: he, an older, conservative land owner; she, a younger, progressive journalist. He arrives at his farm, while she is already there, they spend the night making love and the next morning have an enormous fight. Nassar chronicles the descent from erotic rapture, to rage, to utter despair, in only seven chapters told in one long sentence each.\nIt is an amour fou, a red-hot dance of domination and submission told in the first six chapters from the perspective of the landowner, and with a liberal dose of machismo thrown in. The last chapter, like the first, entitled “The Arrival”, starts the cycle again, this time, however, shifting to her perspective.\nDespite its brevity, the book is by no means an easy read. It is not the barely-there tale that matters here, but the telling. The story unfolds in breathless detail. Heaping clause upon clause, piling phrases and sentence fragments onto each other, the language threatens to overwhelm and bury the reader like the erotic passion and rage that finally crushes the narrator. The style has elements of a stream of consciousness but with the clauses separated by commas and the occasional semi-colon, it is more tightly constructed and develops its own hypnotic rhythm.\nImagination “is very quick, or its time is different, and it uses and simultaneously confuses separate and unexpected things,” Nassar’s narrator muses early on and the text spreads out accordingly in an associative cascade of words intertwining the personal, political and even spiritual. It is a web of observations, emotions and ideas that incorporates literary allusions and gross insults, the trivial, the profane and the transcendent in one big sweep.\nNassar manages to build up to and then sustain an agitated, almost manic tone in the longest section of the text, “The Explosion”, propelled by a restlessness expressed in a series of clauses searching for grammatical as much as emotional closure. A style that works itself up to a climax of fury, artfully teetering on the brink of outright hysteria and only occasionally over-egging it, as in Nasser’s (or possibly the translator’s) phrase “I started punching holes in the haemorrhagic discourse of my cerebral stroke.” Yet, even though this makes very little sense, it still conveys the irrational frenzy gripping the narrator at the height of the fight with his lover.\nThe style for which A Cup of Rage is rightly famous achieves the paradox of simultaneous compression and expansion. The outer world is reduced to key moments, snapshots registered by the consciousness of the narrator: the “rope of her arms”, the “brazen greenness” of the mulberry trees, the “fucking leaf-cutter ants” which, irrationally, trigger the fight between the lovers. At the same time, this insistent accumulation of detail in close-up opens inner and outer vistas that belies the shortness of the text. It is this sensuous quality of the writing that makes Nassar’s take on the battle of the sexes unique, and makes the readers’ effort of cutting a path through the torrent of words a worthwhile and rewarding exercise.\nRaduan Nassar. A Cup of Rage (translated from Portuguese by Stefan Tobler). Penguin Modern Classics", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.bellsisd.net/273318_4", "date": "2019-05-19T15:06:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232254889.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519141556-20190519163556-00336.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9757940173149109, "token_count": 271, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__108645576", "lang": "en", "text": "Learn about Dr. Seuss\nFun Facts About the Doctor!\n1. On March's second day, we must say \"Hooray!\" with a \"Yip, yip, yippee, yay!!\" He was born on March 2, 1904!!\n2. His full name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. He used Dr. Seuss as his pen name, but he was not a doctor. However, his alma mater, Dartmouth University, eventually bestowed upon him an honorary doctorate.\n3. His first book, And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street, was not a success to begin with. It was rejected by 27 publishers before he finally found a publisher for it in 1937.\n4. He coined the word, NERD. The first recorded instance of the word, nerd, is found in Dr. Seuss's book, If I Ran the Zoo, published in 1950.\n5. He is a Pulitzer Prize winning author and an Academy Award winning filmmaker. He won an academy award for writing an animated short called, Gerald McBoing-Boing, in 1951. Watch it below.\nVisit Seussville and have a blast with\nDr. Seuss's Characters and Books!\nVisit The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That Page!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://biblicagothica.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/emergence/", "date": "2022-06-27T03:09:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103324665.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220627012807-20220627042807-00502.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9753936529159546, "token_count": 351, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__247512586", "lang": "en", "text": "I know, I know – …yet another goth blog, and if you’re sick and tired of these, I’m not going to twist your arm and make you stay.\nI wanted to write this blog because I – as a goth – have an inherent passion for educating people, and the goth subculture is victim to a myriad of misconceptions I aim to put straight, in a manner of speaking. In this blog I will attempt to explain what the goth subculture entails, where it came from, what it means to be “a goth”, and hopefully correct at least a few of the misconceptions. Also, and perhaps more importantly from a (sub)cultural stand point, this might serve as a source of information for aspiring babybats out there.\nBe forewarned, however, this will be a biased blog, as it is written by someone who identifies as “one of them gothy types.” This blog will be based upon my own interpretation and understanding of what goth is, what it is not, how the culture evolved over time, and so on.\nI am in no way, shape or form any sort of “authority” on the subject of goth subculture as such. I am, however, a goth – and I have been one for several years: Going on my twentieth as I write this. I didn’t always ‘proclaim’ myself as one, but I always felt more at home in the “goth” crowd than anywhere else, and now I’m old enough to confidently say that I am – in fact – a goth.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://storiesbyeija.com/about", "date": "2023-02-06T02:27:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500303.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230206015710-20230206045710-00374.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.953892707824707, "token_count": 1091, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__131610551", "lang": "en", "text": "One of my favourite things as a child was looking at our family albums. I loved seeing things I couldn’t remember and traveling to times when I wasn’t even existing. Who my parents and my brother were before me, how they looked and what they did. There was so much nostalgia in those pictures.\nAs a child, I also loved books and drawing. I remember dreaming in the evenings about the colours and subjects I would draw the next day. And with all the side-paths (bachelor of media engineering, office work, etc) I’ve taken in life and being a stay-at-home mum for three years, I keep coming back to those same things over and over again: visuals and stories.\nSo here I am. Documenting honest stories about life, love and connection. The beauty of life, little things, quiet moments and real wild love. The messiness, the whimsy and weird, the dreamy and magical, and the ordinary. Those fleeting memories you want to hold on to. Everyone’s story is unique and I want to tell yours.\n“Finding beauty in the ordinary”\nThe image here of my daughter holding my hand is one of the most cherished photographs I have of her. I just love that image and the story in it. It’s a simple image of something very common. We are walking together, hand in hand. She’s observing the world around us with the wonder that only a child could have. It’s a real and beautiful moment, something that’s our everyday now but someday it’s only a memory.\nI believe happiness is in the little things and moments like that. And I think that’s what my purpose here on earth is. Seeking the beauty of life that lies in the most simplest things and to document those honest moments with my own style.\n“Inspiration is found in everyday life, little things and connection with others”\nMy inspiration comes from people and their different stories, human connection, natural light, movement, nature, blue hour, traveling, films, the little things that often go unseen, the in-between moments, summer nights with friends, sitting in the silence, seeing the world through the eyes of my 4-years and listening to her playing.\n“Simple living, a good story and endless ideas of things to create”\nDrawing, painting, cooking - creating with my hands is something I truly enjoy. I’m one of those people who always has an endless list of things they want to learn and create.\nReading, watching good documentaries and films - I surely love a good story!\nSwimming in a lake, riding bikes around the city, having picnics with friends - I enjoy the simple things in life. I truly value being with my family and loved ones. Exploring nature, bathing in a sauna and walking around our neighbourhood. I also love traveling. It always leaves me very happy and inspired.\nMy approach to shooting is documentary, natural and simple with an artful touch. It’s about real moments and genuine feelings. I follow what unfolds before my eyes to create honest photographs of you.\nI’m a silent director. When I’m shooting I’m quiet but I’ll also give you cues and direction when needed. I might ask you to walk, sit down or lean to each other or something like that. But I won’t put you in stiff poses and ask you to smile for the camera. We’ll keep it simple and natural, true to you.\nIt doesn’t matter if you are feeling nervous and awkward. I get that it is extremely vulnerable to be in front of the camera and I’m forever grateful for the people who are willing to do that. I work hard for you to feel comfortable and natural by having a lot of time for the session.\nI am allowing you to be yourselves while embracing the beauty and the unexpected, the in-between moments. So don’t mind if everything doesn’t go as planned. Windswept hair, clothes getting dirty, kids running away. Because it doesn’t matter. Life is not perfect and I want to capture all that.\nMy style is a reflection of the people and their story, the place and the weather. So it’s not about doing everything the same way every time. It’s about you and your story.\nThe photo shoot was a real fun experience and we felt completely at ease during the whole time!\nThe shooting session with Eija felt easy and natural. Eija gave us instructions, which were easy to follow. At times, we almost forgot the presence of the camera.\nFor us being photographed hasn’t felt that easy and natural before but Eija’s gentle approach and compassionate persona made us both feel relaxed and enjoy the new situation.\nWe felt trustful being photographed by Eija – it was easy to relax and the photoshoot felt natural and wonderfully special. She understood our wishes perfectly and fulfilled them even more beautifully than we could hope for.\nEveryone has a story. My mission is to capture memories of this moment in your life through beautiful imagery.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://historycollection.com/family-8-cases-historical-incest/5/", "date": "2022-05-26T20:02:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662625600.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526193923-20220526223923-00556.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9929105043411255, "token_count": 517, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__252030448", "lang": "en", "text": "Not every incestuous relationship is consenting. Some occur as a type of sexual abuse, visited upon the victim by members of their own family. Such was the case of Virginia Woolf who was assaulted by both of her older half-brothers when a child and a young woman- actions which may well have been at the root of the mental health problems Woolf suffered for her whole adult life.\nVirginia was born on January 25, 1882, to Julia and Leslie Stephens. Both of her parents had been previously married, and each had children from these earlier relationships. Julia had three other children besides Virginia, her sister Vanessa and their two brothers: George, Stella and Gerald Duckworth. Julia and her new husband were distant parents – which probably explains why they had no idea what was happening with their youngest daughter.\nVirginia recorded her incestuous abuse in her diaries and later in her novels and memoirs. The abuse began when she was six, with her eighteen-year-old brother, Gerald. Virginia later recalled in “Moments of Being” how Gerald would stand her in front of a mirror just outside the dining room and explore her private parts. These events had a profound effect on Woolf. They stayed in her memory and left her with an intense distaste for sexual contact.\nAfter the death of their parents, George took over the abuse of Virginia. He was then twenty-nine. She was thirteen. In âReminiscences” which she wrote at age twenty-five, Virginia recalls her initial hero worship for this brother, which declined over the years, taking him from someone thought of “strong and handsome and just” to “little better than a brute.”\nIt was clear that Virginia felt this abuse bitterly because it made a lie of the person she had believed her brother to be, as much as anything else. She began to satirized George, likening him to a pig.\nThe effects of sexual abuse by her much older brothers, one at least who had been well-loved, had a profound impact on Virginia. She suffered depression from a very early age, as well as anorexia and body dysmorphia. On her marriage, the strain brought on by her distaste of sex brought about a breakdown. Such illnesses are common amongst abuse victims. In the light of her history, the mental illnesses that blighted Virginia Woolf’s life- but never her writing- can be seen as a direct result of her incestuous abuse.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://communicaretraining.com/when-thinking-about-the-future-becomes-overwhelming/", "date": "2024-04-24T03:38:31Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818999.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424014618-20240424044618-00278.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9654114246368408, "token_count": 955, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__41739776", "lang": "en", "text": "By Denelle ‘Elle’ Justine Ramos\nHave you ever found yourself disregarding your present because you are thrilled with the endless possibilities the future can offer? But at the same time worried, and frantic if you will ever achieve these goals. When did we start overthinking? When did we become ahead of ourselves? Can we ever stop this?\nLet me share one of my favorite quotes in Patrick Rothfuss’ book, ‘The Name of the Wind’. It says: “When we are children, we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our innocence behind.” We are no longer children. Now, we are adults trying to figure out everything. Once we become aware of the societal issues, experiences, and hurdles we are about to face in life, the ‘tendency to overthink’ is inevitable. Why? Because our survival instinct (self-preservation) starts to emanate.\nIt is terrifying to be left behind, right? To seemingly feel that everyone around you has it all figured out. Well, let me tell you this. We are all trying to figure out life. No one has it all figured out. Every day we learn, witness, discover, and experience new things. What we want today might not be what we want tomorrow. Often, life can be puzzling and complicated.\nBesides, I applaud you for the fear you have within you. That is normal and healthy because it means you want to succeed. Fear can both; be considered as the driving factor to your success or failure. But who desires failure? No one. We always want the best for ourselves. There are things simply more favorable to some. That’s what we call ‘privilege.’ But that doesn’t mean you will not achieve your goals in this life. How you measure your success and happiness depends on you and only you. Do not let societal standards dictate how you should live your life. Each of us moves at a different pace. You are not in a hurry; you will never be too late. Remember that. And if you feel overwhelmed with your future, below are three things you may do.\nFocus on Yourself.\nWhen you know what you want in life, you will feel happier. Thus, it lessens the tendency to get insecure, bitter, or intimidated by others’ success. Instead, you will let the success of others serve as an inspiration to better yourself. The tendency to compare lessens when you are firm with your goals. You will be supportive and happier for them.\nEnjoy the Present.\nToday is your day. To ponder your future is completely fine but to let it control your present is wrong and unhealthy. Keep in mind, that you would never experience your present the second time around. Make the most of it and focus on what you can control. Your future depends on how you live your present. Stop thinking that your present is not your day. Because every present is a blessing which you must treasure and enjoy.\nTrust the Process.\nA tiny voice in your head might suddenly pop up at unexpected times wondering: ‘Am I doing this right?’ ‘Was this the right decision?’ ‘Should I have picked the other decision, would I have felt better?’ You are skeptical about life decisions. You are doubting yourself and the process. Thus, you attract negative energy. If you are firm with your values, principles, and beliefs in life, you would know that you have made the right decision. There is nothing to be worried about. If it does not work, another door would open for you. Accept, and move on. Stop letting your past drag you around.\nSee if these work for you. Remember that everyone is busy with their own lives. Focus on yourself. You are far more capable than you think. Success starts with believing in yourself.\nYou can do this… now.\nThe opinions expressed here by Communicare contributors are their own, not those of Communicare Training and Development.\nAbout the Contributor\nDenelle ‘Elle’ Justine Ramos, 22, is an incoming fourth-year student majoring in writing at the University of the Philippines Los Baños. One of her dreams is to be part of a Broadway musical. During her pastime, she tries to write some songs that she someday wishes to share with the world. Today, she is focusing on her education, volunteer work, and self-development.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.collinsfamilysingers.com/i-dont-see-the-monkeys.html", "date": "2020-02-26T11:58:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146342.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20200226115522-20200226145522-00083.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9830533266067505, "token_count": 247, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__22751641", "lang": "en", "text": "I Don't See The Monkeys\nThis fanciful children's book by Kathy Collins Barber is a story about a group of monkeys who disappeared one day from their treetop home and a resulting search to find out where they went. It was inspired by and is dedicated to her grandson, Logan, who first noticed the monkeys were missing. This book is extra special because it was illustrated by Jayden Bryce Chester, our sister Janice's eight year old grandson (he was seven when he drew the pictures). \"I Don't See The Monkeys\" can be purchased by contacting Kathy Barber at email@example.com.\nJayden's Debut as an Illustrator\nThis is the picture of Jayden that is on the back of the book, and here's his bio:\nJayden Bryce Chester is the son of Amber Hill and Jeremy Chester. He lives in Clintwood, Virginia with his mother and his older sister, Allie. He is eight years old and is in third grade at Longs Fork Elementary. Jayden loves to draw anything he sees and is an avid fan of Peyton Manning and the Indiana Colts. He wants to be an artist or a football player when he grows up.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.theprepperjournal.com/2014/02/25/winners/", "date": "2020-02-23T19:59:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145839.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20200223185153-20200223215153-00333.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9902406334877014, "token_count": 251, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__151659901", "lang": "en", "text": "Now, its my favorite time of the contest and that is to announce who our winners are. It just so happens that we had two contests going on at the same time. The first was in celebration of our one year anniversary on January 23rd. The contest for that event was a Bug Out Bag with 12 survival items thrown in there. We received almost 21,000 entries and I am so excited that this contest was a success. The winner of that contest was Craig T. Craig is going to be receiving a great Bug Out Bag to use for her family. Congratulations Craig!\nThe next contest we had was our first book giveaway. The winner of this contest received a free signed copy of When there Is No FEMA by Richard Bryant. The winner of this contest was Tres who was chosen randomly. Congratulations Tres!\nI have contacted both of them to get the shipping information.\nStay tuned for more contests. I have a feeling we will have a new one this week! My goal is to be able to give away great survival gear from time to time as resources allow as a way of saying thank you for making the Prepper Journal what it is today. I really appreciate all our readers and hope this shows it in some small way.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://seededinadistantland.blogspot.com/2018/12/", "date": "2020-01-20T06:38:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250597458.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20200120052454-20200120080454-00175.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.988223135471344, "token_count": 784, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__129939833", "lang": "en", "text": "The next day was not any better; in fact, in Maria’s eyes, it was worse. Prince Emil had one of the male workers bring down the painting and asked his brother, who had come that morning, whether it looked more like Lady Thea or Maria.His brother, Prince Malthe, was basically a younger version of Prince Emil, with the exception that Malthe had telltale sideburns, and his dimples were not as obvious as Emil’s. For a few seconds, he stared at the painting and even cocked his head to get a better angle. “Definitely looks like her,” Prince Malthe concluded, pointing at Maria. “Her eyes and nose are not as . . . established as Lady Thea’s.”\nThat night, when Maria entered the kitchen, a small bag with her belongings was sitting on the table. The cook, who was a very wide lady, was standing behind the counter and abruptly said, “She kicked you out.” Then, she passed Maria a note that simply stated that her help was no longer needed and that she would need to be gone by dawn the following day.\nNot saying a word, Maria trudged out onto the rainy streets that she had called her home for so many years. Six years of serving Lady Thea with great honor and respect, and now, she was rewarded with a new home, back out on the streets. At least, her lowly uncle would give her a job at his cafe, even if it was long, underpaid hours; it was a job nonetheless.\n“What do you mean she’s gone?” Prince Emil questioned. “According to your staff, she was one of the best workers you had!”\n“Why worry yourself about her? She’s simply a servant,” Lady Thea laughed at the breakfast table.\nPrince Emil, in his anger, stood up from the table, motioning his brother, who hesitated, but then, followed him into the hall.\n“Let us search the city; she could not have gone far,” Prince Emil whispered, and donned his coat, making his way to the door. Prince Malthe just rolled his eyes and followed him. Searching for a girl in the thick fog instead of sitting and eating seemed ridiculous, but Prince Emil was older, and he always got what he wanted.\n“Can we get a drink? At least a bite? It is lunchtime,” Prince Malthe prodded his older brother. After an hour of nagging, Emil finally gave in and headed to a local eatery, where Maria was serving another table. Emil elbowed his brother and whispered something in his ear.\n“Can I have a table please?” Emil tapped Maria’s shoulder.\n“Of cour-” Maria stopped in her tracks and just stared at the two princes in her uncle’s cafe.\nEight Months Later\nAs the carriage turned the bend, Princess Maria gasped in amazement. “It’s so beautiful. Large,” she paused. “That must be a pain to clean,” she sighed, leaning back in the velvet seat.\n“You will not have to lift a hand, Maria,” Prince Emil laughed softly at his wife, who was clearly new to the ways of the royals.\n“Then, what will I do all day?” Maria retorted.\n“If you want to clean the oven, then I suppose I cannot stop you,” Emil replied shaking his head softly. A gentle smile spread on Maria’s face-indeed, this was going to be an adventure.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.hellomynameis.org.uk/books/", "date": "2023-12-02T02:41:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00346.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.961336612701416, "token_count": 219, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__4667872", "lang": "en", "text": "All profits from the sale of the books are being donated to the Leeds Hospitals Charity (formerly YCC) which is the fundraising arm of St James’s Institute of Oncology, where Kate was treated.\nThe Other Side\nA true story of one doctor’s journey as a patient coming to terms with a terminal cancer diagnosis. The hope is that by reading it healthcare professionals will be better able understand exactly what being the patient is really like and how their behaviours, no matter how small can impact massively on the people they look after. It is also a story of personal battles with control, learning how and when to relinquish this.\nThe Bright Side\nThe Bright Side tells the on-going story of a young doctor who is living with a rare and aggressive type of sarcoma that will end her life prematurely. It explores her return to work after a prolonged period of absence, her innermost thoughts and reflections about dying and her continuing interactions with health services. It also portrays her determined attitude to maintain positivity despite her tragic circumstances and her openness about dying.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.ucnbib.dk/en/page/chicago", "date": "2022-11-30T21:27:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710771.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20221130192708-20221130222708-00212.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7498425245285034, "token_count": 318, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__200790197", "lang": "en", "text": "The Chicago style includes two different systems: (1) notes and bibliography and (2) author-date.\nThe notes and bibliography style is mostly used in the humanities, for example literature and history. The notes and bibliography system presents bibliographic information in notes and a bibliography.\nThe author-date system is mostly used in the natural, and social sciences. In this system, sources are briefly cited in the text in parentheses by the author’s last name and date of publication. The short citations are amplified in a list of references, where full bibliographic information is provided.\nThe most commonly used version of Chicago in UCN studies is the author-date system.\nChicago A - example\nRienecker, Jørgensen and Skov, The good paper\nRienecker, Lotte, Jørgensen, Peter Stray and Skov, Signe. 2013. The goood paper: a handbook for writing papers in higher education. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur.\nChicago B - example\n(Rienecker, Jørgensen and Skov 2013)\nRienecker, Lotte; Jørgensen, Peter Stray og Skov, Signe. 2013. The good paper: a handbook for writing papers in higher education. Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://chicagolandmomsblog.com/celebrate-friendship-month-in-february-with-rainbow-fish/", "date": "2013-05-18T11:02:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382261/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00088-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9381709098815918, "token_count": 458, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__161767210", "lang": "en", "text": "As a preschool teacher, I am always looking for books and activities to go along with the theme of sharing and “Being a Good Friend”. I always go back to the classic by Marcus Pfister, “Rainbow Fish”. This year, we are reading this book in February which is National Friendship Month.\nIf you want to create your own little Valentine’s Day/Friendship Day party, here are some ideas for a fun day:\n#1 :: Read “Rainbow Fish” by Marcus Pfister\nSet the tone for the story by sitting on a cozy blue blanket, near a fish tank or by listening to some under the sea sound effects. Begin by discussing the cover of the story and the special colors on the Rainbow Fish. While reading, ask your child some questions about the story such as “How do you think the little blue fish felt when Rainbow Fish said no?” Then discuss how Rainbow Fish feels after he shares his beautiful shiny scales. I like to give the children a piece of tin foil or shiny wrapping paper and share with them just as Rainbow Fish begins giving his scales away. They like to flaunt these shiny pieces just as much as the fish in the story. We practice giving each other scales and sharing.\n#2 :: Enjoy a Rainbow Fish Snack\nGoldfish crackers and “Sea Water” are perfect for a snack after the story. You can choose regular Goldfish crackers, but I prefer to buy the colored fish for a Rainbow theme with the story. “Sea Water”- just a fun name to put on regular drinking water.\n#3 :: Create Rainbow Fish Sensory Bins\nFor this type of party play, I like to create wet and a dry sensory bin for those little hands to enjoy. Sensory bins are great for infants, toddlers and preschoolers to explore different textures and increase vocabulary.\nDry Sensory Bin :: sand, seashells, long strips of different colored blue construction paper, colored felt fish cut-outs, and small pieces of aluminum foil.\nWet Sensory Bin :: water, plastic magnetic fish, fishing rods, seashells, plastic octopus and starfish (other story characters)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://greenbaize.atspace.cc/", "date": "2018-12-12T23:33:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376824180.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212225044-20181213010544-00105.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9754536151885986, "token_count": 130, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__109313752", "lang": "en", "text": "In 1999 I published a collection of 103 of the best articles I have written for the Glasgow Herald during my 40 years as their Bridge Correspondent. The book sold out within six months of publication.\nSince then I have had to disappoint many people who have requested a copy. To meet this demand all 103 articles have now been published on this web site. Click on the book to continue.\nMy father, Carl Dickel, died in 2010, aged 101. I have kept his web site alive and will do so for the foreseeable future.\ne-mail any comments to: firstname.lastname@example.org", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://pbrettk.tumblr.com/post/24125763376/currently-reading-the-known-world", "date": "2014-09-02T23:39:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535923940.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909035918-00301-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9851856231689453, "token_count": 253, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-35__0__73480886", "lang": "en", "text": "The Known World by Edward P. Jones\nI am currently reading The Known World by Edward P. Jones. I’m not far enough into it to talk about the story or over-arching themes, yet. But I am loving the style. Each sentence feels like a story on its own: it hints at events yet to come and reveals details of the past that color the present and will direct the future. Yet the sentences also feel like a conversation you might have sitting on the porch in the evening in the company of an older friend who knows all the histories of everyone in your little town, knows the gossip, meanders through the stories, but never once judges, just tells the tales.\nThat being said, it does make for tough reading sometimes and I find myself dodging back and forth through the pages to make sure I know the stories of the character who is currently the focus of the writing.\nI found this brief interview with Jones at NPR which I enjoyed. I think I would like the opportunity to have a glass of iced tea with Jones and listen to the stories in his head: of his characters and of his life. He seems much like the narrator of his novel, with all the stories, but also, no judgements.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://parmbud.pl/literature3ly/mae-and-nathaniel-a-romantic-tale-of-erotica-1810.html", "date": "2020-04-02T14:36:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370506988.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200402143006-20200402173006-00169.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9360114336013794, "token_count": 450, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-16", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__189931005", "lang": "en", "text": "|About the Book|\nRomantic yet superbly erotic, Mae & Nathaniel - A Romantic Tale of Erotica, is erotic historical fiction at its best. It is the winsome tale of a restless young woman and the eye-opening night of sexual adventure she experiences with a rusticMoreRomantic yet superbly erotic, Mae & Nathaniel - A Romantic Tale of Erotica, is erotic historical fiction at its best. It is the winsome tale of a restless young woman and the eye-opening night of sexual adventure she experiences with a rustic stranger who brazenly appears at her bedside one fateful night. The stranger, a confident lover as well as a sensual teacher, is a man perfectly suited to guide the young belle, Mae, through her first foray into sexual intrigue and adventure. Mae is a sheltered woman of the old American South, who has been raised within the oppressive boundaries put upon women of the 19th century, and she is more than ripe for an illicit sexual tryst with the stranger when the opportunity suddenly presents itself. Maes adventure begins when the stranger unexpectedly appears in the moonlight of her bedroom and announces he has come to help her fulfill her sexual longings. Their unforgettable adventure begins the moment he climbs into bed with Mae and proceeds to take her on a one-night journey of sexual discovery. Set in the 19th century, Comfort Quinns charming yet explicit story takes the reader along as Mae and the stranger share a night of sexual exploration and pleasure, and, unlike most erotic stories, Mae & Nathaniel - A Romantic Tale of Erotica, offers the reader a thoughtful, intriguing story. It is a story told with warmth and intelligence, but without the crudeness of many contemporary erotic stories. Though Mae & Nathaniel is loosely set in the 1800s, Comfort Quinns prose is more interested in dealing with senses and sensuality than with facts or events. And Quinns feminine point of view brings a refreshing charm to her eroticism. In Mae & Nathaniel, Quinn weaves a lyrical tale of sensual exploration and the unexpected fondness that can develop when strangers meet. It is a celebration of sexual ecstasy and beautifully combines engaging writing with titillating sexual escapades.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://mcmaenza.blogspot.com/2008/06/chance.html", "date": "2018-05-28T03:21:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794870771.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20180528024807-20180528044807-00144.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9793041348457336, "token_count": 190, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__132074331", "lang": "en", "text": "Monday, June 2, 2008\nRobert B. Parker's 23rd Spenser novel, published in 1996, is called Chance. In it, the famous Boston private eye is hired by a local mobster and his daughter to help find the daughter's missing husband Anthony. Anthony, it turns out, works for the family business and he has a few vices like women and gambling. With the help of his good friend Hawk, Spenser tracks across the country and back to find the man and, in doing so, ends up uncovering a web of lies and criminal activity that leads to a murder.\nWhat I liked about Chance is that Parker uses some established characters and history from earlier books to build upon this one's main plot points. This tight continuity again helps ground the books into an established growing and changing universe for the Spenser novels. It also rewards long-time readers with some appearances of characters from earlier novels. I like that.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/video/show/wolf-vs-bear/66107", "date": "2021-10-16T20:28:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585025.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20211016200444-20211016230444-00695.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9636638164520264, "token_count": 113, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__89198108", "lang": "en", "text": "Wolf vs. Bear\nSpring has arrived in Finland's vast forests, and the brown bears have awakened from hibernation to a grand feast of carcasses left over from the brutal winter. From now until late fall, these thousand-pound beasts will rule the land, but they're not alone. A mother gray wolf and her mate have seven pups to feed, and the only source of food is in the heart of bear country. The stage is set for an epic battle of speed, agility, and wit versus size, strength, and very bad tempers.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://ahan-analytics.drduru.com/thoughtblog/tag/e-book/", "date": "2021-06-17T18:12:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487630518.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20210617162149-20210617192149-00011.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9533389806747437, "token_count": 987, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__67711503", "lang": "en", "text": "I intended to write a detailed examination of Amazon’s pricing problem with e-books. However after doing just a little research, I found there are plenty of people who have already provided excellent opinions and recommendations. So, instead of providing my classic unsolicited advice, I am posting links to the two most insightful pieces I found in addition to a general news story if you just want an overview on current events.\nChannelWeb: “Amazon Gives In To Publisher’s Demands For Higher E-Book Prices”\nBusinessWeek: “Amazon’s E-Book Price Reversal: A Mixed Blessing” – considers the impact of pricing on demand for e-readers and e-books.\nManeker recognizes that sales of e-books will inevitably dominate sales of physical books and recommends the following:\n“There is…a compromise that might benefit all parties. Amazon has been pushing the Kindle to heavy users of frontlist books. But the agency terms offer an opportunity for backlist books that gives everybody a win. With the agency model, a backlist book becomes a goldmine for publishers, authors, Amazon and Apple. Priced at $9.99, the publisher receives pretty much the same amount of money under agency terms as it would have for the wholesale book. Still protecting their preferred terms for electronic books, the publishers could maintain their 20-25% of net receipts formula for author royalties because the author would be getting more money ($1.75 vs. $1.05 in paperback royalties on a $13.95 physical paperback). Leaving the publisher with $5.25 in margin, more than they’d get from the physical paperback. When you include the savings in paper, printing and binding, freight and warehousing, the margin jumps even more.\nThis detente would flood the book market with titles that have stood the test of time where demand remains strong–a good incentive for Kindle and iPad buyers–while protecting the physical book distribution business. It would also buy publishers some time to divest the distribution assets that will inevitably erode as e-book selling takes off.”\nBuckell write an extremely long piece, but it is worth the read given it comes from a concerned author. He laments that Amazon is attempting to abuse its market power to fix prices and thwart publishers’ ability to implement dynamic pricing. Buckell also describes process of making books in extraordinary detail. He explains his interest in writing this piece in personal terms:\n“I’m not trying to exhort anyone to do anything, but to explain the situation I’m in, and to educate. I’m seeing a lot of people state things with certainty (points I try to knock down above) who have no involvement in the trade.\nA lot of readers are going to take this out on authors, and I wanted to basically show my homework to explain things that people may not be aware of. People toss out prices of what eBooks ‘should be’ who’ve never even stopped to understand how the math of something like this works. They demand things they’d never demand of a jacket salesman, just because they think economics and supply and demand and volume don’t apply to eBooks. They do.\nSeriously. I’ve thought about these things a lot. Mostly because I have a novel series that has not been renewed, and I keep running the numbers to see if I could write it as an eBook, and when I run these numbers, I come up looking at making a few thousand dollars for half a year’s worth of work based on how eBook sell now. Yes, there are a few J.A. Konrath’s selling well on Amazon, but as I’ve linked, other authors aren’t automagically selling thousands of eBooks there. Most who follow these footsteps sell hundreds. Not everyone becomes JK Rowling.”\nThe last point reminds me of Nassim Taleb’s “The Roots of Unfairness: the Black Swan in Arts and Literature“. Taleb notes that artists and writers work in a field where a few successful people take the majority of the rewards in the industry. He attributes this situation to largely unrecognized random events (luck!) that are highly improbably but have large impact (“Black Swans”). Moreover, he observes:\n“The occurrence of the Winner-Take-All effect in any form of intellectual production has been accelerating along with the speed of reproduction and communications.”\nSo, ironically, e-books will continue the democratization of publishing and reading (through convenience, easy access, and low costs), but the percentage of winners may narrow further even while providing those winners more wealth than ever.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://christiansciencenashua.com/rescourcs/", "date": "2024-04-18T17:55:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817222.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418160034-20240418190034-00511.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9200475811958313, "token_count": 241, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__70160215", "lang": "en", "text": "Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path.\nScripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson.\nChristian Science Reading Room\nLooking for answers to family problems, financial difficulties, or physical challenges? Visit our Reading Room. Our Reading Room is a bookstore, a library, and a haven for peaceful study and quiet contemplation that is available to the public. For more than 100 years, our Reading Room has been an active member of the Nashua, NH community.\nYou can read, borrow, or purchase the Bible, Bible commentaries, writings by Mary Baker Eddy, children’s books, and other Christian Science literature such as the Weekly Bible Lesson, The Christian Science Sentinel, and The Christian Science Journal. You can also catch up on national and world events by reading The Christian Science Monitor, a Pulitzer Prize winning international newspaper.\nMany in today’s society are searching for healing and have found help through the power of prayer. Read the testimonies in the various Christian Science periodicals to see how others have found answers.\nPlease contact email@example.com for more details.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mollusk.inhs.illinois.edu/2019/05/02/freshwater-mollusks-of-the-world-a-distribution-atlas/", "date": "2023-09-23T02:11:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506429.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922234442-20230923024442-00880.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9382078647613525, "token_count": 178, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__178682436", "lang": "en", "text": "It was a chilly day in late February when Kevin Cummings found an unexpected package in his mailbox: an advance copy of his new book, Freshwater Mollusks of the World: A Distribution Atlas.\nNearly four years earlier, snail expert Chuck Lydeard had contacted Kevin to see if he would be interested in helping compile the atlas. Lydeard’s vision was to create the first comprehensive summary of systematic and biodiversity information on the world’s 43 freshwater mollusk (snail, mussel, and clam) families.\nAs a renowned expert on freshwater mussels, Lydeard thought Kevin— an Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) scientist and curator of mollusks—would make a great co-author.\nLydeard and Kevin dove into the project feet first. Read about the Freshwater Mollusks project.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thesciencespotlight.com/2023/08/25/antibodies-to-covid-19-may-provide-partial-immunity-to-sars-and-mers/", "date": "2024-04-24T15:59:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296819668.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20240424143432-20240424173432-00415.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.961635172367096, "token_count": 628, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__75381919", "lang": "en", "text": "In light of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic and vaccine campaigns, researchers have discovered that antibodies developed against the virus may provide some level of immunity against other coronaviruses, including SARS and MERS. This finding has significant implications for future outbreaks of these viruses.\nBackground: SARS and MERS\nSARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first emerged in China in 2002, causing a global outbreak that resulted in a high mortality rate. MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) is an even deadlier coronavirus, with a mortality rate of 1 in 3 infected individuals. Although control measures have largely stopped the spread of these viruses, sporadic MERS outbreaks still occur when the virus jumps from camels to humans.\nIn a study conducted by Florian Krammer and his colleagues at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, blood samples were collected from 85 individuals in the US who had received mRNA-based vaccines against covid-19, had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes covid-19), or both. These samples were compared to blood samples taken prior to the pandemic.\nThe blood samples were tested for antibodies against 21 different coronaviruses, including variants of SARS-CoV-2, SARS, MERS, and common cold-like coronaviruses. The results showed that the pre-pandemic blood samples had no antibodies that could bind to the tested coronaviruses, except for some binding to two cold-causing coronaviruses and a virus affecting cows.\nIn contrast, the samples taken during the pandemic showed antibodies that bound to most of the tested viruses to some degree. This suggests that individuals have developed a level of immunity that may not prevent infection, but could protect against severe illness and death. Additionally, T-cells, another arm of the immune system, may provide additional protection against coronaviruses.\nUnderstanding the Immune Response\nIt is unclear why infection with SARS-CoV-2 and covid-19 vaccines generated such broad immunity compared to other coronaviruses. Previous research suggests that infection with a specific cold-causing coronavirus only leads to immunity against that particular virus. However, the pandemic may have triggered changes in the immune system, resulting in cross-reactivity of antibodies and immune memory.\nFurthermore, the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes covid-19 is different from other coronaviruses, which could explain the broader immune response. The severity of the infection may have played a role in the development of stronger immunity.\nImplications and Future Research\nWhile the findings are promising, they do not negate the need for preparedness against future pandemics caused by related viruses like SARS or MERS. The possibility of new coronaviruses or entirely different viruses triggering future pandemics still remains. However, this research could aid in the development of vaccines that provide robust protection against the entire coronavirus family.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://skylineuniversity.ac.ae/knowledge-update/lifestyle-and-trends/too-much-exercise-may-be-bad-for-your-heart", "date": "2023-06-10T08:01:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224657144.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20230610062920-20230610092920-00542.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9489701986312866, "token_count": 376, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__195003353", "lang": "en", "text": "Super User Lifestyle and Trends\nToo much exercise may be bad for your heart\nToronto, Feb 25 (IANS) Just as most therapies have a dose-response relationship whereby benefits diminish at high doses and the risk of adverse events increases, high level of intense exercise may also be bad for the heart, suggests a new study.\nThe researchers reviewed studies that looked into the relationship between exercise and heart problems and found that there is growing evidence that high levels of intense exercise may be cardiotoxic and promote permanent structural changes in the heart.\nThere is already fairly compelling evidence supporting the association between long-term sports practice and increased prevalence of atrial fibrillation -- abnormal heart rhythm characterised by rapid and irregular beating.\n\"Much of the discussion regarding the relative risks and benefits of long-term endurance sports training is hijacked by definitive media-grabbing statements, which has fuelled an environment in which one may be criticized for even questioning the benefits of exercise,\" explained study author Andre La Gerche from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Melbourne, Australia.\n\"This paper discusses the often questionable, incomplete, and controversial science behind the emerging concern that high levels of intense exercise may be associated with some adverse health effects,\" La Gerche noted.\nThe study was published in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.\n\"The answers regarding the healthfulness of 'extreme' exercise are not complete and there are valid questions being raised,\" La Gerche said.\n\"Given that this is a concern that affects such a large proportion of society, it is something that deserves investment. The lack of large prospective studies of persons engaged in high-volume and high-intensity exercise represents the biggest deficiency in the literature to date, and, although such work presents a logistical and financial challenge, many questions will remain controversies until such data emege,\" La Gerche observed.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.childhealth2.com/publications", "date": "2022-12-05T05:12:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711003.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205032447-20221205062447-00626.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7965497970581055, "token_count": 2619, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__69220866", "lang": "en", "text": "Recent Relevant Writing from the Team\nMichaelson, V., King, N., Davison, C., Ascough, H., Pickett, W. “Inequalities in Spiritual Health: A Canadian Study.” BMC Public Health, accepted September, 2016. (Forthcoming)\nMichaelson, V., Trothen, T., Ascough, H., Pickett, W. “Spirituality and Child Health: a Canadian Profile.” Journal of Pastoral Care and Counselling, accepted August, 2016. (Forthcoming)\nMichaelson, V., Pickett, W., Davison, C. (2016). “Adolescent Perceptions of Health: A Mixed Methods Study.” Int J of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 11:32891 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/qhw.v11.32891\nMichaelson, V., Pickett, W., King, N., Davison, C. (2016). “Testing the Theory of Holism: A study of Family Systems and Adolescent Health.” Preventive Medicine Reports, 4, 313-329 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2016.07.002 (role: co-·\nMichaelson, V., Trothen, T., Davison, C., Pickett, W. (2016). “Bodies and Behaviours: A Study of Body Image in Adolescent Girls and the Canadian Church.” Practical Theology, 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1756073X.2016.1223395 (role:\nMichaelson, V., Brooks, F., Jirásek, I., Inchley, J., Whitehead, I., King, N., Walsh, S., Davison, C., Mazur, J., Pickett, W. (2016). “Developmental Patterns of Adolescent Spiritual Health in Six Countries. Social Science and Medicine: Population Health, 2, 294-303.\nMichaelson V, Trothen TJ, Davison CM, Pickett W. (under review). Church and the health of adolescent girls: A focus on the body.\nDavison CM, Michaelson M, McKerron M, Pickett W. (under review). Holism Revisited: Perspectives for public and pediatric health promotion. Health Promotion International, submitted March 31, 2015.\nHawe P, Bond L, Ghali L, Perry R, Davison CM, Casey D, Butler H, Webster CM, Scholz B. (2015) Replication of a whole school ethos-changing intervention: Different context, similar effects, additional insights. BMC Public Health 15(1), 265.\nEdwards N & Davison CM. (2015). Strengthening Communities with a Socio-Ecological Approach: Local and international lessons in whole systems. Lars K. Halstrom, N. Guehlstorf and M. Parkes (Eds.). Ecosystems, Society and Health: Pathways through diversity, convergence and integration. McGill-Queen’s University Press.\nMichaelson V; McKerron M; Davison CM. (2015). Forming ideas about health: A qualitative study of Ontario adolescents. International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, 10, 1-12.\nMichaelson V, Robinson P, Pickett W. (2014). Participation in church or religious groups and its association with health: a national study of young Canadians. Journal of Religion and Health, 53(5), 1353-1373.\nWalsh S, Huynh Q, Kukaswadia A, Harel-Fisch Y, Molcho M, Varnai D, Aaasvee K, Ravens-Sieberer U, Ottava V, Pickett W. (2013). Physical and emotional health problems experienced by youth engaged in physical fighting and weapon carrying. PLoS ONE, 8(2).\nHuynh Q, Craig W, Janssen I, Pickett W. (2013). Exposure to public natural space as a protective factor for emotional well-being among young people in Canada. Bmc Public Health, 13(1), 407-407.\nBurford BJ, Coren E, Davison CM, Thomas S, Doyle J, Armstrong R and Waters E. (2012). Cochrane Update- Evidence to support the needs of children and young people: Upcoming reviews from the Cochrane Public Health Group. Journal of Public Health 34(3), 467–470. doi:10.1093/pubmed/fds072\nFreeman JG, King M, Pickett W, with Craig W, Elgar F, Janssen I, Klinger D. (2011). The health of Canada's young people: a mental health focus. Ottawa: Public Health Agency of Canada. Cat. no.: hP15-13/2011E-PDF, ISBN: hP15-13/2011E, 194p.\nFamily Based Health Promotion\nDavison CM, Michaelson V and Pickett W. (2015). It still takes a village: The role of social supports in understanding unexpected health states in young people. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 295.\nMichaelson V, Trothen T, Davison CM, Elgar FJ & Pickett W. (2014). Eucharistic eating, family meals and the health of adolescent girls: A Canadian study. The Journal of Practical Theology, 7(2), 125-143.\nAdolescent Health and Equity\nParpia A, Davison CM, Freeman J. (under review). A Comparative Study of Emotional Well-Being of School-Aged Children Born in and Outside of Canada. 2014.\nWalsh, S.D., De Clerq, B., Molcho, M., Harel-Fisch, Y., Davison, CM., Rich Madsen, K., Stevens, G.W.J.M and members of the HBSC immigration writing group. (under review). The relationship between ethnic school composition, classmate support and involvement in physical fighting and bullying among adolescent immigrants and non-immigrants in 11 countries. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, submitted June 20, 2015.\nByrnes J, King N, Hawe P, Peters P. Pickett W, Davison CM. (under review). Patterns of youth injury: A comparison across the northern territories and other parts of Canada. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, submitted March 16, 2015.\nPulver A, Davison CM, Parpia A, Purkey E, Pickett W. (under review). Nonmedical use of prescription opioids and injury risk among youth. Under review Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, submitted February 10, 2015.\nPickett W; Michaelson V; Davison CM. (2015). Beyond Nutrition: Hunger and its Impact on the health of young Canadians. International Journal of Public Health, 60(5), 527-538.\nPulver A, Davison CM, Pickett W. (2015). Time-Use Patterns and the Recreational use of Prescription Medications Among Rural Youth. The Journal of Rural Health, 31(2), 217-228.\nPulver A, Davison CM, Pickett W. (2014). Recreational Use of Prescription Medications Among Canadian Young People: Identifying disparities. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 105(2), 121-126.\nDavison CM (2013) Adding Nuance to our Discussions of Inequalities in Canada: Urban-Rural Health Differences. The Broadbent Institute Equality Paper Responses.\nChristensen J, Davison C & Levac L (2012) Chronic housing needs in the Canadian North: Inequality of opportunity in northern communities. The Broadbent Institute Equality Paper Responses.\nDavison CM & Hawe P (2012). School engagement among aboriginal students in northern canada: Perspectives from activity settings theory. Journal of School Health, 82(2), 65-74.\nJanssen I, Boyce WF, Pickett W. (2012). Screen time and physical violence in 10 to 16 year old Canadian youth. Int J Public Health, 57(2), 325-331.\nPickett W, Davison C, Torunian M, McFaull S, Walsh P, Thompson W. (2012). Drinking, Substance Use and the Operation of Motor Vehicles by Young Adolescents in Canada. PLoS ONE 7(8): e42807. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0042807\nDavison CM, Ghali LM & Hawe P. (2011). Insights into the School Environment that Surveys Alone Might Miss: An exploratory study using photovoice. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion 4(1), 44-51.\nCarson V, Pickett W, Janssen I. (2011). Screen time and risk behaviours among 10-16 year old Canadian youth. Prev Med, 52(2), 99-103.\nVafaei A, Rosenberg M, Pickett W. (2010). Relationships between income inequality and health: A study on rural and urban regions of Canada. Rural and Remote Health, 10(2), 1430.\nCurrie C, NicGabhainn S, Godeau E, Roberts C, Smith R, Currie D, Pickett W, Richter M, Morgan A, Barnekow. Inequalities in young people’s health. HBSC International Report from the 2005/2006 Survey. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2008, 205 pages.\nOral Presentations of our Ideas\nFavotto, L., Pickett, W., & Davison, C. Connection with a Screen: The Impact of Computer Mediated Communication on the Health of Canadian Adolescents. Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University. Kingston, ON. July 20, 2015\nDavis L. Prevalence and Patterns of Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Canadian Youth: The role of parental support. Department of Public Health, Queen's University. July 20, 2015.\nFavotto, L., Davison, C., & Michaelson, V. Connection with a Screen: The Impact of Computer Mediated Communication on the Health of Canadian Adolescents. Health Research Trainees Day, Queen's University. Kingston, ON June 10, 2015\nNiclasen B, Davison CM, King N, Pickett W. The context of food poverty in school children: A comparison of northern Canada and Greenland. The 16th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Oulu, Finland. June 6-8, 2015.\nFavotto, L., Davison, C., & Michaelson, V. (2015) The Impact of Computer-Mediated Communication on the Health of Canadian Adolescents. Canadian Society of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Conference. Mississauga, ON. June 3, 2015\nHaq F & Davison CM. What are hunger and food insecurity to Canadian adolescents? A qualitative study of youth perspectives and content validity analysis of a national survey item. Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics Conference, Mississauga, ON. June 1-4, 2015.\nDavis L & Davison CM. Prevalence and patterns of sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Canadian youth. Canadian Society for Epidemiology and Biostatistics,Mississauga, ON. June 1-4, 2015.\nDavison CM & Michaelson V. Child nutritional intervention research in the north: What are the possibilities? An introduction to the program of research for potential collaborators. Yellowknife, NWT. March 4, 2014.\nMichaelson V. The potential relationship between spirituality and child health. Department of Public Health Sciences Seminar Series, Queen's University, Kingston, ON. February 26, 2014.\nPickett W. Beyond Hunger: Food insecurity as a potential determinant of health among Canadian adolescents. Department of Public Health Sciences Seminar Series, Queen's University, Kingston, ON. January 15, 2014.\nMichaelson V & Pickett W. Space, time and stories: Nurturing the spiritual lives of children. Professional development workshop. Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, ON. January 8, 2014.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://legacy.uspharmacist.com/oldformat.asp?url=newlook/files/Feat/herbals.htm&pub_id=8&article_id=737", "date": "2014-12-20T22:10:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802770403.126/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075250-00056-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8899834752082825, "token_count": 4266, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-52", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__14787944", "lang": "en", "text": "The immunosuppressive medications used to prevent allograft rejection after transplantation present a host of patient monitoring challenges for the pharmacist. Continuous monitoring is essential because of the potential for infection, malignancy, drug side effects, and drugdrug or drugnutrient interactions. Immunosuppressive agents may also be used to treat other disease states, including rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease, and lupus nephritis. Therefore, pharmacists will be called upon to provide pharmaceutical care to a diverse population of patients using immunosuppressive medicines.\nPharmacists must be ready to monitor and counsel transplant patients or other patients who are taking immunosuppressants concurrently with herbal products. The increased popularity of herbal medicines may place these patients at risk for an herbalimmunosuppressive interaction.1,2 In the transplant patient this could result in potentially devastating toxic side effects or the loss of the transplanted allograft. Some herbal medicines are also potential nephrotoxins. Renal transplant patients and other patients on a cyclosporine-based regimen (Sandimmune, Neoral) should especially avoid herbal medicines. The initial transplant patient assessment and continued follow-ups should include questions on the use of herbal therapies.\nUnfortunately, little is known or reported on interactions of herbals with immunosuppressants. The herbal medications selected for this review have a reported interaction in the literature or have the potential to interact with immunosuppressants pharmacokinetically or pharmacodynamically.\nCytochrome P-450 and P-glycoprotein\nPotential pharmacokinetic drugdrug and drugnutrient interactions with cyclosporine, tacrolimus (Prograf) or sirolimus (Rapamune) that may pose a substantial clinical risk to the patient on immunosuppressants are well-known based on a growing wealth of knowledge about the cytochrome P450 (CYP) system. CYP3A represents the most abundant subfamily of enzymes within this system.3 It accounts for approximately 30% of all CYP content in the liver and as much as 70% in epithelial cells (enterocytes) of the small intestine. Major improvements in the scientific tools available to research this system allow the prediction of potential drugimmunosuppressive interactions.\n|There are at least 10 constituents, or groups of components that may contribute to the pharmacologic effect of St. John's wort on cyclosporine.|\nPGP has also been located in the enterocytes of the small and large intestine, where its role is to carry lipophilic molecules from the enterocyte back into the intestinal lumen for elimination. Many hydrophobic drugs are either metabolized by CYP3A or pumped back into the lumen by PGP after intestinal absorption and enterocyte uptake. Therefore, CYP3A and PGP, acting in tandem, may decrease the oral absorption and delivery of cyclosporine, tacrolimus or sirolimus.\nPharmacokinetic Immunosuppressive-Herbal Interactions\nCyclosporine/St. John's Wort: Case reports of St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) causing decreased serum levels of digoxin and indinavir were discussed previously in U.S. Pharmacist.1 Similar case reports of an interaction of St. John's wort with cyclosporine were documented in The Lancet.7 Both of these cyclosporine cases involved patients with stable heart transplant allografts who were maintained on a standard regimen of cyclosporine, azathioprine (Imuran) and corticosteroids. These cases are reviewed below.\n* Case One: A 61-year-old patient was admitted for elective endomyocardial biopsy.7 The heart transplant had taken place 11 months earlier, and cyclosporine plasma levels were stable prior to being admitted for the biopsy. There were no signs of infection or hemodynamic compromise. The only patient complaint was a feeling of nonspecific fatigue. Three weeks prior to admission the patient started self-medicating with St. John's wort for mild depression. The biopsy revealed acute transplant rejection. A St. John's wortcyclosporine interaction was suspected. St. John's wort was discontinued, the cyclosporine dose was increased and bolus corticosteroids were administered; however, this therapy was ineffective in reversing the acute rejection. A second biopsy performed seven days later showed prolonged rejection. Azathioprine was switched to mycophenolate mofetil (Cellcept) and intravenous antithymocyte globulin was given for 10 days. Cyclosporine plasma concentrations remained within therapeutic range after the patient stopped taking St. John's wort. Further episodes of rejection were not noted.\n* Case Two: A 63-year-old heart transplant recipient was started on St. John's wort by his psychiatrist because of anxiety and depression, three weeks before being admitted for elective endomyocardial biopsy.7 Prior to admission, the patient had an event-free course with stable cyclosporine plasma levels; however, on admission, cyclosporine plasma levels had dropped below the therapeutic range. Physical examination and laboratory values did not reveal a cause of rejection. The endomyocardial biopsy, however, showed acute heart transplant rejection. Cyclosporine returned to normal concentrations after the St. John's wort was discontinued. Further episodes of rejection were not documented.\nIn both of these cases, the strong temporal relationship suggests that treatment with St. John's wort caused the acute rejection, due to a drop in plasma cyclosporine concentration. There are at least 10 different constituents or groups of components that may contribute to the pharmacologic effect of St. John's wort. One component, naphtodiantron, is a known inducer of CYP3A. In addition, it has been suggested that St. John's wort extract may induce PGP.8 Overall, the combination of these two pharmacokinetic interactions decreases the oral bioavailability of cyclosporine. The same interaction should be considered in patients taking tacrolimus or sirolimus.\nCyclosporine/Rosemary: Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis [Labiatae]) is used externally to improve circulation in hypotonic circulatory disorders, rheumatic conditions, eczema, and as a poultice for poorly healing wounds. Rosemary is taken orally for dyspeptic disorders, loss of appetite, liver and gallbladder complaints, and blood pressure problems.9 It inhibits the binding of doxorubicin (Adriamycin) and vincristine (Oncovin) to PGP, thereby increasing the intracellular accumulation of these chemotherapy agents.10 Rosemary may thus also increase cyclosporine plasma concentrations by increasing its oral bioavailability, through inhibition of PGP activity. Literature documentation or case reports of cyclosporinerosemary interactions do not exist. However, a potential drug-herb interaction exists, and patients on cyclosporine-based regimens should be advised to avoid using rosemary for medicinal purposes.\nA summary of the cyclosporineSt.\nJohn's wort and cyclosporinerosemary interaction is provided in TABLE\nTable 1. Documented and Potential\n|Drug||Herb||Mechanism of Action||Description of Interaction||Counseling and Monitoring|\n|Cyclosporine||St. John's wort||Induces CYP3A enzyme,\nincreases drug metabolism\nInduces PGP in gut, reduces drug absorption\n|cyclosporine drug levels||Advise patients to avoid taking St. John's wort while on cyclosporine|\n|Cyclosporine||Rosemary||Inhibits the binding of cyclosporine to PGP||Potential in cyclosporine drug levels||Advise patients to avoid using rosemary for medicinal purposes while on cyclosporine|\nHerbals with Purported Immunostimulating Effects\nPharmacists must also monitor the use of herbal medicines that have purported immunostimulating effects. Various agents have been recommended by herbalists as immunotonics or in patients with immunodeficiencies. In theory, these herbals may interact with immunosuppressants, possibly decreasing or offsetting the effects of the immunosuppressive regimen.1,2 Patients taking immunosuppressants should be counseled to avoid these immunostimulating herbs to prevent competing effects on the immune system. When considering the drug history of a patient, pharmacists should include questions on the use of echinacea, astragalus, ginseng, licorice root and alfalfa. Questions should also be asked on the use of zinc supplementation. It is important to keep in mind that these herbals may also be found in protein powders and other nutritional supplements. TABLE 2 summarizes information on immunostimulating herbs.\nEchinacea: Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) is used as an immune stimulant and lymphatic system antiseptic. It is also used for colds, cough, fever, bronchitis, tonsillitis, wound healing, asthma, glandular swelling, UTIs, and as a nasal decongestant.9 Given orally or parenterally, echinacea affects the immune system by increasing the number of white blood cells and activating the capacity for phagocytosis by human granulocytes. Other effects include increased production of T-helper cells and cytokines, such as interleukin-1, interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor alpha.2\nAstragalus: Astragalus (Tragacanth) is used as a laxative because it stimulates stretching of the intestinal wall, resulting in increased peristalsis.9 Astragalus may also potentially stimulate T-cell activity.\nGinseng: Ginseng (Panax ginseng) is used to improve athletic ability because it increases stamina, and may possibly lower cholesterol.9 It is also used as an immune stimulant to potentially nourish major immune system glands in an unspecified manner.\nLicorice Root: Licorice root (Glycyrrhiza glabra) may stimulate the production of interferon.2 It is used as an antispasmodic and to promote healing of peptic ulcers by inhibiting gastric acid. Licorice is also used for colitis, diverticulitis, asthma, cough, bronchitis, eczema, and hypoglycemia.9\nAlfalfa Sprouts: Patients may be using alfalfa sprouts (Medicago sativa) for arthritis, to improve thyroid function and to decrease cholesterol. It may also be used as a blood purifier, a diuretic, and an antiulcer and antidiabetic agent.9\nZinc: Although zinc\nis not considered an herbal product, patients may use zinc gluconate lozenges\nto prevent or treat the common cold. The mechanism of action of zinc is unknown;\nhowever, studies suggest that zinc may induce interferon production and prevent\nformation of viral capsid protein.2\nTable 2. Herbals with Purported Immunostimulating Effects\n|Herb||Purported Use||Contraindications||Adverse Reactions||Drug Interactions/ Comments|\n|Arthritis, blood purifier, diuretic, antiulcer, cholesterol-lowering, anti-diabetic, improve thyroid function||1||Pancytopenia, SLE||Contains\nvitamin K, can decrease INR with warfarin.\nDo not exceed recommended dosage\n|Rare allergic reactions||Take with adequate amounts of fluid.|\n|Immune stimulant, lymphatic system antiseptic, colds, cough, fever||Multiple sclerosis, HIV, tuberculosis, leukosis, collagenosis, pregnancy||Fever, nausea, vomiting, allergic reactions||Additive hepatotoxic effects with anabolic steroids, amiodarone, methotrexate, ketoconazole. Patients with renal impairment should not use for more than 10 days.|\n|Stimulate immune system, improve athletic ability, increase stamina, possibly lower cholesterol||Hypertension, pregnancy, hematologic disorders, renal failure, anticoagulant therapy, in infants||Ginseng abuse syndrome with overuse, nervousness, hypertension, insomnia, tachycardia, dermatitis, fever, bleeding||May increase clotting time with aspirin, dipyridamole, warfarin; avoid excessive caffeine; avoid with antidepressants; may increase toxicity of steroids|\nHerbal Medicines that are Potential Nephrotoxins\nMedicines that may be nephrotoxic (e.g., aminoglycosides and amphotericin B) should be used cautiously or avoided in patients on immunosuppressants. This is especially important for renal transplant patients, because of the potential for additive nephrotoxicity with cyclosporine or tacrolimus. Herbal medicines may also be potential nephrotoxins (TABLE 3).9 Pharmacists must continuously monitor patients on immunosuppressants and educate them on potentially nephrotoxic herbals, such as Acorus calamus, birch bark, Ruta gravolens, Aristolochia clematitis, Stephania tetranda, and Magnoliae officinalis.\nAcorus Calamus: A. calamus (calamus) has spasmolytic, carminative (antiflatulent), and sedative effects.9 It is used as a tea for dyspeptic disorders to stimulate appetite and digestion and may also be used for gastritis and ulcers. In addition, calamus may be used externally for its hyperemic effects in rheumatism, gum disease, and angina (it improves blood circulation). Even though it is a relatively safe herbal medicine when administered properly, patients should be counseled against using it long-term and exceeding recommended dosages.\nBirch Bark and Birch Leaf: Birch bark and leaves (Betula species) have been used in folk medicine for centuries as blood purifiers, for gout and rheumatism, and for hair loss and dandruff.9 They are also used as flushing-out therapy in bacterial and inflammatory diseases of the urinary tract, and for kidney and bladder stones. Birch should not be used in patients with impaired cardiac or renal function or in patients with an aspirin sensitivity because it contains high amounts of methylsalicylate.\nRuta Graveolens: R. graveolens (Rue) has been used as a folk remedy for menstrual complaints, as a contraceptive and as an abortive agent.9\nAristolochia Clematitis: A. clematitis (birthwort) is used as an immunostimulant and in allergically induced gastrointestinal colic and cholecystitis.9 Pure aristolochic acid acts similarly to the gout medication colchicine. Birthwort is a highly toxic drug and should not be administered even in small doses. Acute intake of toxic doses leads to gastroenteritis, vomiting, spasms, and severe kidney damage. The United Kingdom Committee on Safety of Medications placed an emergency ban on the import, supply and sale of aristolochia on July 28, 1999.11 This ban resulted from case reports of end-stage renal disease caused by ingestion of a Chinese herbal remedy that contained aristolochia.12 The herbal preparations were from different sources and were prescribed for eczema.\nStephania Tetranda and Magnoliae Officinalis: Case reports have also been published regarding S. tetranda and M. officinalis.13 Two women under the age of 50 were diagnosed with a rapidly progressive fibrosing interstitial nephritis after starting a therapy for weight loss. Both women received the treatment from the same clinic and eventually required dialysis. The case reports prompted the authors of the article to perform an epidemiological survey. Upon analysis of the data, the authors discovered that the weight loss clinic had initially used the same slimming regimen for 15 years. No cases of renal dysfunction or renal failure had been reported on this old regimen; however, before the two reported cases, the clinic had changed to a new regimen that included the herbs in question. Other nephrotoxins or adulterants, such as diuretics or anti-inflammatory agents, were not found in the herbal treatment. In total, the survey identified nine young women on dialysis or with preterminal renal failure who had followed the same weight loss regimen.\n|Inquire about herbal use in an open, nonjudgmental fashion to provide an opportunity for patients to learn about the risks and benefits of these therapies.|\nPhenylbutazone has also\nbeen found as an illicit ingredient in herbal remedies. Renal toxicity associated\nwith phenylbutazone has been well-documented; proteinuria, hematuria, anuria,\noliguria, renal papillary necrosis and hypersensitivity-related renal dysfunction\nmay occur during therapeutic use.20,21 Traditional Chinese herbals\nused to treat various forms of arthritis have been found to contain phenylbutazone.22\nThese formulations are readily available from Chinese medical halls and stipulate\nthat the only active ingredients are Chinese herbs.\nTable 3. Nephrotoxic Herbal Medicinals\n|Herb||Purported Use||Contraindications||Adverse Reactions||Comments|\nExternal: rheumatism, gum disease, angina\n|1||Nephrotoxic, bloody diarrhea, dermatitis||Used to make tea or put in bath water; avoid long-term use: do not exceed recommended dosage|\n|Stimulate immune system, allergically induced GI colic and cholecystitis||1||Gastroenteritis, renal failure, carcinogenic||Highly toxic administration is prohibited; may be toxic as currently marketed|\n|Diuretic, UTI, renal calculi||Aspirin sensitivity, impaired cardiac or renal function||Hypersensitivity reactions||Contains high amounts of methylsalicylate|\n|Magnoliae officinalis||Flatulent dyspepsia, cough, asthma||1||Mucous membrane irritation or numbness, dermal irritation, hypersensitivity, CNS stimulant or depressant||Primary agent in Chinese herbal \"Houpo;\" may be nephrotoxic|\n|Tetrandine has antiphagocytic, antioxidant, antitumor, analgesic, hypotensive, and antiplatelet effects||1||Other adverse effects unknown||Contains 21 compounds (19 are alkaloids); may be nephrotoxic|\n|Antispasmodic, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Bell's Palsy, induce menstruation||1||Abortifacient, hepatotoxicity, photosensitizing||Fatal outcomes reported with overdose; may be toxic as currently marketed|\nRole of the Pharmacist\nIt is the responsibility of the pharmacist to educate patients on the safe use of herbal products.23,24 The lack of scientific data on herbals makes it imperative for the pharmacist to take an active role, especially with patients on immunosuppressants. Pharmacists must keep an open dialogue with patients currently taking or contemplating the use of herbal medicines.\nBecause herbal medicines\nare not considered drugs by some individuals, they are frequently not listed\nby patients or mentioned during drug history interviews. Pharmacists recording\npatient drug histories should include questions on herbal medicines or dietary\nsupplements. Pharmacists must inquire on the use of herbals in an open, nonjudgmental\nfashion to provide an opportunity for patients to learn about the risks and\nbenefits of these alternative therapies. Patients should be asked the specific\nreasons for using the herbal medicine. Pharmacists should also review the patient's\ndrug regimen to determine if herbal use is appropriate and not used to replace\nconventional therapies that may be more effective in the patient's disease state.\nDuring this review process, any herbal-related adverse events experienced by\nthe patient should be reported to the institution's Pharmacy and Therapeutics\nCommittee and, if warranted, to the FDA's MedWatch program.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://beerandabookblog.wordpress.com/2017/02/01/the-reivers-william-faulkner/", "date": "2018-07-20T18:02:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591719.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720174340-20180720194340-00080.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9654737114906311, "token_count": 1437, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__103276826", "lang": "en", "text": "The list of William Faulkner books I own and have read, often multiple times, is long. I know I missed a few titles along the way, but certainly I would have claimed to have read all of the Faulkner essentials and then some. No one ever mentions The Reivers when listing Faulkner’s major works, and it turns out I find that to be a shame. No, it’s not The Sound and the Fury, but this is not a work to be dismissed and unread. After all, isn’t it likely that even the worst work by a Nobel Prize winner has a good chance of being far better than the best book by an average writer? For my birthday my brother bought me a copy of The Reivers, published in 1962, a month before Faulkner’s death. A couple lines in the front jacket mirror my own conclusions, “The Reivers is, with no reservations whatsoever, one of the funniest books in our literature,” and, “But to those readers who have only sampled his work, The Reivers will be an especial delight.” Having believed I had read all of Faulkner’s good books, The Reivers truly was a wonderful surprise.\nTurns out The Reivers is well loved and highly regarded by fans of Faulkner. For readers new to Faulkner, it may be a great place to start and for good reason. It’s one of the more accessible Faulkner books, it truly is comic, and it’s an adventure story not that dissimilar to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is a kind of coming of age story about an 11 year old who on a short trip to Memphis, learns an immense deal about men, women, race, and the society he exists in.\nThis is definitely not a book you want to give too much of the plot away. In short, Lucius Priest (now 60) is reminiscing to his son about the time in 1905 when his grandfather bought the first automobile in Jefferson, Mississippi. 11 years old then, Lucius and older friend of the family, Boon Hogganbeck borrow/steal the automobile to drive up to Memphis. Soon after starting, they discover a stowaway hiding under a tarp in the back–Ned William McCaslin who is Black and a distant relative to Lucius. As with many Faulkner books, The Reivers includes many of the characters and relatives from the McCaslin/Edmondses family tree found in other works.\nSoon after arriving in Memphis, Ned trades the automobile for a stolen race horse that won’t run, with the grand scheme to set up a horse race in which they can win the automobile back and keep the horse too. Ned has a secret that he believes will get the horse to “run”, a secret that was previously successful in getting a mule to win any race it entered. Arriving in Memphis, Boon visits a brothel where we meet Miss Reba, Boon’s “gal” Miss Corrine, and Minnie, a Black maid with a gold tooth that has Lucius smitten.\n1905. Road trip. Brothels. Horse racing… and all under the treatment of Faulkner. Say. no. more. Similar to some of the stories in Go Down Moses, in Faulkner’s hand this “road trip” story unfolds on a scale of fabled proportion. Characters appearing in the novel are drawn out so vibrantly: Ned William McCaslin the brilliant con man and reader of men, Miss Reba who runs the bordello, Otis a 15 year old monster visiting his aunt Corrine at the brothel, and Butch, the horrific bastard of a White sheriff who embodies all that was so wrong for Blacks in the South. The language and dialogue is so rich and intelligent, even when coming out of the mouths of the ignorant.\nI am going to mention as well that I began reading the book on a day that officially heralded in the era of “make America great again,” or so it is said anyway. As I began to read The Reivers I couldn’t help but think that, no, what makes America great is not an ugly rhetoric based on misinformation and lies, what makes America great (at least in part) are its artists, musicians and storytellers who distill the American experience into something we universally recognize and share. It’s literature like The Reivers that both makes America great, as well as depicts its greatness. Certainly I’m not suggesting that the South of 1905 is a benchmark in America we should be striving to return to. The racism and Jim Crow era is on full display in The Reivers, especially embodied in the sheriff, Butch. But counter to that darkness are some of the most dignified human portraits of Blacks, as well as relationships between Black and White, found in American literature. It shows its people’s shared humanity, intelligence, pluck, and ability of its people to have a solidarity with one another that is based not on color, but on character. The novel is a depiction of American people and of a society beginning to find mutual respect for each other, while also living with the realities of its persistent racism.\nGiven the age of Faulkner when he wrote it, coupled with the subtitle, “A Reminiscence,” this should be enough to inform readers that The Reivers will be something of a golden, wistful remembrance of childhood in the South, of a time when the very first automobiles ever seen were appearing on the roads. If you can imagine the novelty and wonder of even sitting in the first automobile to appear in town, let alone taking a road trip in it, then this may be the book for you. The novel is all of that, and yet a profound book as well. There is a fable-like quality to it, with larger than life characters and a depiction of a post Civil War America growing into itself.\nLastly, there is a hook in the story that once set, will keep you reading to the end: the secret of how Ned can make a horse who doesn’t want to run, run. I would absolutely love to tell you Ned’s secret ingredient–it’s really too good not to share. When I finally found out what that secret was, I laughed, and I mean really laughed. But I could never live with myself if I ever stole that opportunity to experience joy from someone. So I’ll leave you with this. Feeling uncertain about the world? Bogged down with social media posts and “Breaking News” about Beyonce’s pregnancy status? Cable news got you pulling out your hair? Stop, turn it off, buy a copy of The Reivers, and regain some hope in humanity.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://geom-center.ontu.edu.ua/en/site/page/open_access", "date": "2024-04-20T06:28:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817491.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420060257-20240420090257-00708.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9123276472091675, "token_count": 261, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__192260948", "lang": "en", "text": "Journal “Proceedings of the International Geometry Center” is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.\nOpen Access Journal: We define open access journals as journals that do not charge readers or their institutions for access. From the BOAI: definition of \"open access\"\n\"By 'open access' to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://shop.handhcomms.co.uk/product/tough-at-the-top-book/", "date": "2021-06-21T22:48:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488504838.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20210621212241-20210622002241-00537.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9386148452758789, "token_count": 354, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__184231628", "lang": "en", "text": "Tough at the Top follows the story of a naive new circus owner as he learns first-hand what it takes to be an engaging leader.\nAdam has always dreamed of owning a circus. But when he becomes the new ringmaster of the Starlight Circus, he has to contend with an anxious tiger-tamer, a frustrated carousel owner, a delinquent trick-rider, a knife-thrower who hates his partner, and a troupe of clowns who work strictly to rule.\nFortunately, Adam has a guardian angel in the shape of the Starlight Circus fortune-teller. Her wise advice helps him steer the circus from the brink of disaster, towards an exciting and prosperous new future…\nYou’ve probably noticed that Employee Engagement has been big news in business for quite a while now, and with good reason.\nOrganisations with highly engaged employees significantly outperform those with less engaged employees in just about every performance measurement imaginable.\nOne thing in particular that highly performing businesses have in common though, is well-defined leadership habits. Numerous research and studies into employee engagement confirm that inspiring and motivational leadership behaviours are critical for creating a great place to work – and revolutionising the bottom line.\nUsing a fun, engaging and relatable metaphor, this un-put-downable business book is an essential read for any people manager who wants simple and accessible guidance on how to become a truly exceptional leader.\nIf you’re looking to:\nCreate a vision, mission and values that inspires your people to always go the extra mile\nBuild-in development opportunities that really bring the best out of everyone\nDemonstrate the right behaviours that will encourage positive action from your employees\nOr build an environment that supports innovation and creativity", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://tamara-allen.net/why-storytelling-is-more-powerful-than-photography/", "date": "2023-09-29T07:30:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510498.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929054611-20230929084611-00371.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9460427165031433, "token_count": 315, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__152191611", "lang": "en", "text": "Storytelling is more powerful than photography when it comes to capturing memories and moments. Photography can be beautiful and nostalgic, but it often lacks the ability to convey the emotion or feeling behind a particular moment. Storytelling can do that-it can evoke memories and feelings in a way that no photograph ever could. What’s more, stories can be passed down from generation to generation, ensuring that memories will never be forgotten.\nThink about the last time you looked at a photograph. What did it make you feel? Now think about a time when someone told you a story. Which made you feel more?\nChances are, it was the story that made you feel more. That’s because stories have the ability to transport us back to a particular time and place. They can make us feel happy, sad, excited, or any other emotion under the sun. And that’s something that photography simply cannot do.\nSure, a photograph might be able to capture a moment in time, but it will never be able to capture the feeling or emotion behind that moment. That’s what makes storytelling so powerful. It has the ability to take us back to a time and place and make us feel like we’re right there again.\nIn a world where we are constantly bombarded with images, it’s easy to forget the power of storytelling. But the next time you’re feeling nostalgic, take a moment to sit down and tell a story. You’ll be surprised at how powerful it can be.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://bayofplentynz.com/stories/katikati-haiku-pathway/", "date": "2024-04-21T08:05:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817729.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421071342-20240421101342-00546.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9449187517166138, "token_count": 232, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__123524457", "lang": "en", "text": "The Haiku Pathway is a one-of-a-kind in New Zealand and unique outside Japan.\nIt features over 40 haiku poems, the vast majority engraved on to river boulders, alongside a pathway that meanders either side of Uretara Stream and forms a peaceful park in the heart of a bustling country town.\nThe poems have been specially chosen to reflect their location and feature work by poets from New Zealand and overseas to form what is the largest collection of haiku “stones” in English and the only “haiku walk” outside Japan.\nThe pathway, which was a Millennium Project for the town, links into two other popular walks, the Bird Walk and Yeoman Walkway at The Landing, or visitors can enjoy the pathway to The Landing and then walk through town to view the murals.\nGuidebooks to the pathway, which include a map to the poems, are available to purchase from Katikati Information Centre (The Arts Junction).\nLook for the Haiku sign on the Main Road (beside Robert Harris café) for the entry to the car park.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://brandeisinterfaith.weebly.com/the-haberdashery/category/reading", "date": "2019-03-25T03:54:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203548.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325031213-20190325053213-00085.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9333165287971497, "token_count": 228, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__57459318", "lang": "en", "text": "blessed be He, prays.\nWhat does He pray?\nR. Zutra the son of Tobi said in the name of Rav: ‘May it be My will that My mercy may suppress My anger, and that My mercy may prevail over My other attributes, so that I may deal with My children in the attribute of mercy and bring inside the circle of justice’.\nIt was taught: R. Ishmael the son of Elisha said: I once entered into the innermost part of the Temple to offer incense and saw Akathriel Jah, the Lord of Hosts, seated upon a high and exalted throne. He said to me: Ishmael, My son, bless Me. l replied: May it be Your will that Your mercy may suppress Your anger and Your mercy may prevail over Your other attributes, so that You may deal with Your children according to the attribute of mercy and bring them inside the circle of justice. And He nodded to me with His head.\nFrom this we learn that the blessing of an ordinary person must not be considered lightly in your eyes.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.alamedapaulistaimoveis.com.br/how-you-can-date-efficiently/", "date": "2024-02-22T21:18:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473824.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222193722-20240222223722-00091.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9490737915039062, "token_count": 906, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__136630925", "lang": "en", "text": "If you want to master how to time frame successfully, you should learn how to get new members. Understanding latin feel how to get focus is the key to attracting the appropriate person. You need to know whom you are, what makes you attractive, and what you want right from a relationship. You should also really know what traits you want within a mate. These kinds of traits will assist you to find the best match for yourself. Look at the following ideas to learn how to time successfully.\nThe importance of a healthy and balanced relationship is certainly paramount to a successful romance. This book provides you with how you can cultivate these kinds of relationships. It will likewise discuss the importance of conversing and leftover main. You’ll also learn about tips on how to connect with other folks and how to develop long-term human relationships. If you’re a new comer to dating, this is a great publication to help you get started. You can use this book to learn how to attract women of all ages online.\nTo be able to attract women of all ages online, it’s important to keep yourself away from egotistical persons. Be your self and be honest and don’t permit a person’s looks turn you off. The book is certainly not a romance, but it’s a guide to cultivating a healthy romantic relationship. This guide will teach you the right way to set natural expectations and set realistic boundaries. It will also teach you how you can improve your Online dating experience and meet appropriate people.\nA prospering relationship can be described as work in improvement. It requires time, effort, and a lot of patience. With “How so far Successfully, ” you will learn how you can cultivate human relationships by following the principles of keeping your self main. The book will also provide useful tips to generate long-term romances. While it could an introductory book to online dating, it includes a realistic point of view of how to create it operate. So , in the event you’re single and searching for appreciate, this book is a must-have!\nThe primary idea of the book is to focus on connections that are long-lasting. It focuses on building relationships plus the importance of being yourself when you’re away with a potential date. A proper relationship is made on long-term commitment and communication. It takes time and effort to cultivate a relationship. This guide teaches you methods to cultivate a relationship through realistic, healthful limits and communication. The book might also teach you how to get a woman who may be ideal for you.\nThe publication is a wonderful introduction to online dating services. It displays how to build a productive relationship by using three single girls’ lives and their travels. It also provides realistic watch of the procedure and provides ways to make the most of your time online. You can actually date effectively if you the actual guidelines through this book. You’ll also discover ways to attract men who is best for you. This book will let you make the right first impression on a potential time.\nDeveloping a healthy romantic relationship is not easy. It will take time and effort to develop a successful romance. The book also discusses limitations, getting yourself, and staying the main personality. This book is a superb guide for individuals who want to build up a long lasting relationship with someone. It’s not romantic story, but it possesses a realistic look at the singles dating scene and will assist you to attract the appropriate person.\nGood relationships take some time and effort. Although it may seem simple to meet an individual and then go along well, it will take a lot of work to nurture a romantic relationship that will last. The author as well discusses authentic factors that influence a relationship plus the importance of keeping your limitations. The author will provide you with the tools you should build a effective romance. In addition to discussing how to time frame successfully, the book shapes what you should do to attract a man.\nA good relationship needs time and effort. Using “How as of yet Successfully” will help you build a fulfilling relationship. It will probably teach you how for making yourself the primary attraction. It can essential to speak and be yourself. It’s important to understand that a romance is no instant gratification. In other words, 2 weeks . long-term commitment. A lasting marriage takes job. However , this book can help you develop your going out with skills.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.ashlandcreekinn.com/media/files/tag-oc-executive.html", "date": "2015-01-25T03:45:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-06/segments/1422118059355.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20150124164739-00164-ip-10-180-212-252.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9740741848945618, "token_count": 174, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-06__0__148259179", "lang": "en", "text": "01 March 2012 | 08:58 AM\nby Rich Manning\nFor decades, the city of Ashland, Oregon was so strongly linked to the works of William Shakespeare that many people thought the play’s the only thing that happened in town. At first blush, it is easy to see why this was the case, since the Oregon Shakespeare Festival has lured people from around the globe to see the works of the nearly mythical literary icon performed at a world-class level for over seventy years. Yet as anyone who has recently visited Ashland can tell you, the association with The Bard merely scratches the surface of what is possible to enjoy within this modest community that lay between San Francisco and Portland. Indeed, there is a host of sumptuous yet rejuvenating activities to explore here; visceral life experiences that simultaneously provide a means of luxury while maintaining a feeling of escape.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://katherinekelpstebbins.com/", "date": "2024-04-14T20:23:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816893.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414192536-20240414222536-00619.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9326375126838684, "token_count": 179, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__35516922", "lang": "en", "text": "I am Associate Professor and Director of the Comics Studies Program in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. I am also affiliated faculty in New Media and Culture as well as Women’s and Gender Studies. My books include the monograph How Comics Travel: Translation, Publication, Radical Literacies, and the edited volume The Art of the News: Comics Journalism. My work has been published in a number of edited volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, The Comics of Alison Bechdel, Comics Studies Here and Now, and Horrors of War. I have published articles in the journals PMLA, Studies in Comics, Feminist Media Histories, Media Fields, and Sport in Society. I am the curator of the traveling museum exhibit The Art of the News: Comics Journalism, which debuted at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art in September 2021.\nContact me by email.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/technology/research/story-event/031/", "date": "2024-03-01T22:09:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475701.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301193300-20240301223300-00270.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9229699969291687, "token_count": 1566, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__207664491", "lang": "en", "text": "Provide stable Vehicle-to-Vehicle direct communication environment for platooning\nNov 28, 2023\nCommunication Required for Platooning\nSoftBank is actively working towards the practical implementation of Vehicle-to-Vehicle direct communication technology (V2V) utilizing 5G through research and development on truck platooning on highways and validation experiments on autonomous driving and platooning Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) systems.\nReference:「The Future of Logistics: SoftBank Working to Evolve Truck Platooning with 5G」\nPlatooning requires two types of communication: one for vehicle control with low latency and another for video monitoring with low latency and high capacity. In the vehicle control communication, vehicles share position, speed, steering information, and other relevant data with each other for platooning. In the video communication, multiple video feeds, including the surroundings of following vehicles (FV) and the interior of the vehicles, are transmitted to the lead vehicle (LV) for safety confirmation purposes.\nTypes of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication\nThere are two types of Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication technology: V2N2V (Vehicle to Network to Vehicle), where in-vehicle devices communicate through networks such as 5G or LTE, and direct V2V communication, which does not rely on network connectivity. In considering the frequency for V2V communication, the utilization of millimeter waves (mmW) is being explored due to their wide bandwidth*1, which allows for low-latency and high-capacity communication*2. Given the critical impact on safety, redundancy through multiple communication means is crucial to ensure uninterrupted communication in Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication.\nIn this article, we will introduce the challenges associated with V2V communication and the antenna diversity technology that addresses these issues.\n*1: n257 (29 GHz band) of 5G is allocated with a 400 MHz allocation.\n*2: In the \"Working Party 5A Draft new Report ITU-R M.[CAV] Connected Automated Vehicles (21 Sep 2023)\" document, the use of millimeter waves is being discussed.\nIssues with Vehicle-to-Vehicle Direct Communication\nInterference caused by reflections from the road surface, and other similar sources\nIn urban areas, communication between conventional base stations and vehicles often occurs in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments where the antennas of base stations and devices such as smartphones or mobile routers cannot have direct visual contact with each other. In these environments, multiple waves undergo reflections, diffractions, and other phenomena at various locations. Additionally, the propagation environment is constantly changing due to the movement of objects such as devices and obstacles along the propagation path.\nOn the other hand, V2V communication takes place in a line-of-sight (LOS) environment, where the antennas of the communicating vehicles are within direct visual contact. In this case, in addition to the direct waves that arrive without reflection, there are strong reflected waves that have reflected once or a few times from the road surface, road structures, surrounding vehicles, and other objects. This leads to the issue of radio interference.\nAs the inter-vehicle distance increases, the arrival angle difference and received power difference between the direct wave and the reflected wave decrease. This leads to significant power reduction in the received signal from the combined waveform due to phase differences based on the relative positioning of antennas. As a result, a phenomenon occurs where the received power of the combined waveform periodically fluctuates in a direction perpendicular to the reflection surface at the rear of the lead vehicle.\nOptimization of antenna configuration by antenna diversity\nTo reduce the degradation of wireless communication quality caused by interference and provide a stable V2V communication environment, SoftBank has focused on antenna diversity technology. Antenna diversity involves using multiple antennas to transmit and receive radio waves, thereby improving communication quality. Optimizing the antenna configuration is essential.\nBy solving the approximation equation of a composite wave, it has been revealed that the variation period of composite wave's received power in the vertical direction with respect to the reflecting surface is determined by factors such as the frequency used, inter-vehicle distance, and distance between the transmitting antenna and the reflecting surface. These findings have been confirmed through experiments. The following graph shows an example of road surface reflection, but the same results were obtained with lateral reflections from side walls or neighboring vehicles.\nAs a result, it has become possible to determine the optimal spacing distance between the antennas used in antenna diversity. For example, in the case of a fixed inter-vehicle distance, setting the spacing distance as an odd multiple of half the period of fluctuation can compensate for wireless quality degradation at one antenna with the other antenna. However, if the inter-vehicle distance varies, separate optimization*3 is required within that range.\n*3: SoftBank’s patent technologies\nAssessment of Effectiveness in Demonstration Experiment\nV2V Experimental Configuration\nWe took into account the road surface reflection wave and lateral reflection waves caused by road structures in the experiment. We employed a diagonal configuration with two antennas for diversity. Since the inter-vehicle distance varied, we optimized* the antenna spacing within a range of 15±5 m to ensure a negative correlation between the phase difference of the direct waves and reflected waves for each antenna.\nIn the lead vehicle, there is a radio unit and millimeter-wave antennas with a two antenna diversity configuration, installed inside the vehicle. In the following vehicles, there is a radio unit and millimeter-wave antennas with a two antenna diversity configuration, installed externally.\nRegarding the millimeter-wave antennas, the lead vehicle utilizes an antenna that can select the optimal beam from multiple beams. Meanwhile, the following vehicles use a conventional directional antenna without beam selection capability.\nTwo vehicles were driven manually by a human operator, maintaining a measured inter-vehicle distance of 15±5 meters using laser rangefinders. The vehicles traveled approximately 1.1 kilometers, including curves, at a speed of 20 kilometers per hour.\nComparing the One-Way Latency using the CCDF (Complementary Cumulative Distribution Function) 1% value, it was observed that without antenna diversity (red legend), the latency increased significantly to approximately 2.5 seconds due to retransmissions caused by transmission errors. However, when antenna diversity was employed (blue legend), the latency reduced to approximately 6.3 milliseconds. This result, combined with the latency data prior to statistical processing, confirms the provision of a stable and low-latency V2V communication environment.\nRegarding throughput, comparing the CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function) 1% value, antenna diversity again proved advantageous. The throughput achieved was approximately 52.5 Mbps. In the experiment, the MCS (Modulation and Channel Coding Scheme) was set low due to output constraints, and only one CC (Component Carrier, 100MHz) was used. However, with higher received power and the use of higher MCS and multiple CCs, it is possible to achieve transmission rates in the range of several hundred Mbps to Gbps, enabling the transmission of multiple high-definition videos and sensor raw data.\nIt has been demonstrated that by utilizing antenna diversity technology optimized with antenna configuration, a stable V2V communication environment can be achieved. This technology is expected to enable efficient operation of autonomous driving trucks and buses, which are receiving attention as a solution to the 2024 problem in the logistics and transportation industry.\nSoftBank will continue to promote research and development of various technologies, including Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication, in order to realize the next-generation mobility society.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://dcuedtrust.ie/2019/05/21/deutsche-bank-supporting-write-to-read-to-improve-childrens-literacy-outcomes/", "date": "2024-04-20T14:34:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00047.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9644867777824402, "token_count": 529, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__451763", "lang": "en", "text": "In 2012, Deutsche Bank staff decided to support a little known literacy research project with a big aim—to improve literacy outcomes for children in disadvantaged schools and communities in Ireland.\nThe project, Write to Read, was inspired by award winning doctoral research by Dr Eithne Kennedy from DCU’s Institute of Education. This research had demonstrated that intensive professional development for teachers, and investment in literacy resources to enable teachers to implement a holistic, evidence-based literacy framework could dramatically improve literacy outcomes for children in disadvantaged schools.\nWith support from Deutsche Bank, Write to Read has expanded to become a cross-city literacy project that currently works with 13 disadvantaged schools in Dublin city. Thanks to the matched fundraising efforts of Deutsche Bank staff, Write to Read has provided a wealth of high quality books to participating schools and teachers in those schools have transformed their approach to literacy with support from the project. Deutsche Bank has also enabled Write to Read to run poetry competitions and a Young Writers Academy to enable talented students to work with published authors to develop their storytelling abilities.\nIn this article, Ian Melia, Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff for Deutsche Bank Ireland discusses what motivates the company’s continued involvement with the project:\n“Through their work providing high quality literacy support to disadvantaged children, Write to Read is changing the life outcomes of local pupils – helping level the playing field and allowing them to access opportunities that would otherwise be closed to them.\nAt Deutsche Bank we see it as hugely important that we support charities which can make a genuinely meaningful impact – this is clearly the case with Write to Read which helps improve children’s social mobility and develop their social, emotional and imaginative capacities.”\n“Our staff get an enormous amount from this type of experience. It’s important that we remember how far children have to come just to access the things many of us take for granted. And for the children, we hope they benefit from getting to experience a new environment – maybe some of them will be able to imagine themselves working in a place like Deutsche Bank some day!\nWe also really enjoy that our support for the project has gone beyond simple financial support. From creating reading spaces in classrooms to designing bookmarks to encourage children and parents to read at home using Write to Read’s comprehension strategies, our team have really enjoyed contributing to the project in a meaningful way.”\n“For all children, whatever their background, it’s important that we encourage them to dream big. Reading, and reading widely, helps all of us to imagine ourselves doing new and exciting things.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://tuyap.com.tr/en/exhibitions/international-istanbul-book-fair", "date": "2019-11-12T10:17:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664808.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112074214-20191112102214-00529.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9033628702163696, "token_count": 184, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__142228041", "lang": "en", "text": "- Newspaper and magazine publishing\n- Media companies\n- Nongovernmental organizations involved in publishing\nThe Istanbul Book Fair by TÜYAP Fairs is the largest event in the industry with no significant competitors. With almost half a million visitors, it is the fair with the most access to readers in Europe. Hundreds of events and book signings make the fair one of the foremost cultural activities in the city. The fair is held in association with the Turkish Publishers Association.\nTüyap Fairs and Exhibitions Organization Inc.\nTüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center, Cumhuriyet Mahallesi Eski Hadımköy Yolu Caddesi 9/1, 34500 Büyükçekmece, ISTANBUL\nPhone: +90(212) 867 11 00\nFax: +90(212) 886 66 98", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://audio-times-dev.com/event/film-night-the-bookshop/", "date": "2019-07-24T05:20:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195530385.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724041048-20190724063048-00208.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.89610356092453, "token_count": 264, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__145561864", "lang": "en", "text": "27 Nov at 19:30 to 27 Nov 21:45\nDereham Memorial Hall, 62A Norwich St, Dereham NR19 1AD\nIt is 1959, and widowed Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) risks everything to open up a bookshop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough. When she exposes the narrow minded townsfolk to the best literature of the day including Nabokov’s scandalizing “Lolita” and Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”, she gains a kindred spirit and ally in the figure of Mr Brundish (Bill Nighy), who is himself sick of the town’s stale atmosphere, but has to reckon with the hostility of the other shopkeepers and of self-appointed doyenne Mrs Gamart (Patricia Clarkson).\n“Courage is the central theme of this delightful film about books, passion and dreams. . . Lovers of books and admirers of determination will embrace this enchanting film. I hope you will enjoy it, too.” Urban Cinefile\nAdmission £6 or £5 for Friends of Dereham Memorial Hall\nPay on the door or online at www.ticketsource.co.uk/fodmh", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lynnerae.com/picture-books/frank-and-lucky-get-schooled/", "date": "2023-05-28T12:50:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528114832-20230528144832-00173.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9406090974807739, "token_count": 843, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__131408563", "lang": "en", "text": "Frank and Lucky Get Schooled is a picture book about a boy and a dog who become fast friends, explore the world around them, and learn a lot of stuff together. Does this have anything to do with how when Frank, our red-headed real-life son, was growing up, we had a black lab-mix rescue dog named Lucky?\nAnd how Lucky was afraid of water until one day he saw some ducks on the bay and swam right out to speak with them and stayed there for hours?\nAnd how he came in the house one time with slender green weeds with little round burrs so artfully clinging (really clinging) to his fur all over his entire body that he looked like an Art Nouveau masterpiece?\nNo. Total coincidence. This is a work of fiction, and any resemblance to real persons, dogs, or actual events is purely accidental. If it were non-fiction, there would also be a sister. As our daughter has pointed out to us. (Sorry, honeypie. Next time.)\nI had so much fun making this book. I hope you have fun reading it. I hope your dog, if you have one, lets you. Some dogs do. Sometimes they like to listen:\nAnd sometimes they have other ideas:\nP.S. If you finish reading this book and think, I wish there were a book about kids and dogs and music, and wouldn’t it be cool if it also had snow in it, you are in luck. Some years ago, I made just such a book, called Snow Music. Click here for a preview.\nFun things to do after reading Frank and Lucky Get Schooled:\n- Go for a walk.\n- Make a friend.\n- Share a snack.\n- Learn some words in another language.\n- Make a map.\n- Go for another walk. Call it a hike, to make it more adventurous.\n- Draw a story.\n- Your turn:_____________________.\nSnippets from reviews of Frank and Lucky Get Schooled:\n“This is foremost a story of love between a boy and dog, but even readers who don’t have pets will want to get schooled with Frank and Lucky.” (School Library Journal, starred review)\n“Though it initially looks like a simple picture-book story of a boy and a dog, it’s much, much more . . . it . . .encourages the innocent curiosity (in both boy and dog) and perception of genuine relevance that is the spur to good learning in elementary-schoolers and Nobel Prizewinners alike . . . perfect for homeschoolers, but the combination of humor and gentle wonder will perk up any classroom — or young mind.” (Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, starred review)\n“Perkins’ pen-and-ink-and-watercolor illustrations use vignettes and speech/thought bubbles to marvelous effect. And the humor is hysterically tongue-in-cheek . . . As with Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s Math Curse (1995), this book should open readers’ eyes to the learning all around them. Of course, if they have learning companions like Lucky, so much the better.” (Kirkus, starred review)\n“Perkins brings a warm, conversational tone to the narrative, while her mixed-media pictures play up the story’s humor . . . From interdisciplinary connections to unanswerable questions, Perkins demonstrates the value and rewards of investigating one’s world, whether human or dog.” (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review)\n“The strands of school and life, boy and dog, and curiosity and investigation are firmly, joyfully braided throughout. Who needs Core Standards?” (Horn Book Magazine, starred review)\n“Informative and entertaining, Frank and Lucky Get Schooled is an A+ picture book in every way.” (BookPage)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.pfmpipeline.com/new-white-paper-successfully-conducting-tissue-cross-reactivity-studies/", "date": "2023-06-04T08:25:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649518.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230604061300-20230604091300-00259.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8626831769943237, "token_count": 156, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__289892497", "lang": "en", "text": "Developing a successful novel therapeutic is challenging and requires significant time and capital. It is important to identify issues early—both to limit failures in late-stage studies and to minimize potential for harm in clinical trials. For therapeutic antibodies or antibody-like molecules, preclinical tissue cross-reactivity (TCR) studies are a key tool for gathering and assessing important data about on- and off-target binding.\nThis white paper will explore:\n- The role, value, and interpretation of TCR studies in modern therapeutic development.\n- Key factors to consider—tissue selection, control items, etc.—when designing a TCR study to ensure robust data.\n- How Precision can partner with you to optimize your study, utilizing unique specialty lab and tissue procurement capabilities.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://siliconsouth.org.uk/business/english-classic-story-time/", "date": "2024-02-21T18:37:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473524.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221170215-20240221200215-00078.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9095814228057861, "token_count": 170, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__129752002", "lang": "en", "text": "English Classic Story Time – A Lifetime of Imagination, a Lifetime of Adventure\nEnglish Classic Storytime brings literature to life with our niche on-line membership video library of the classics, a global Book Club and and international community of lovers of English language. From Treasure Island to Alice in Wonderland, to the short stories of Oscar Wild to the musing of Sherlock Holmes English Classic Story Time has range of books for every age and ability all being read out loud by our talented readers. We cut the noise of everyday life and bringing stories back to the listener, the reader and the power of the author so imaginations can soar and knowledge can be gained. A full unabridged copy of the book, with illustrations as well as a vocabulary and expressions section and a quiz are included. A fully immersive experience to Entertain, Educate and Empower.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://activegrowth.com/productivity-experiment-review/?replytocom=276150", "date": "2020-05-27T08:40:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347392142.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20200527075559-20200527105559-00264.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9670398235321045, "token_count": 838, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-24", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-24__0__35594468", "lang": "en", "text": "A year ago, I announced a new productivity experiment and invited you to join in. I created a simple spreadsheet where I would track 3 areas of my life on a weekly basis:\n- Challenges (like 30 day challenges to form new habits)\n- Focus skills\nA year has passed and so it's time to look back and asses: did this productivity experiment work? Should I have done things differently?\nLet's find out!\nAs you can tell from the video, my results from this experiment were mixed. And they were mixed in ways I didn't expect.\nFirst, I didn't follow through - I didn't keep using the spreadsheet for the entire year.\nThat's in part just a lack of consistency on my part (told you I have this problem) and it's in part because I felt like it just wasn't working for me.\nBut looking back, I can tell that while it felt like the productivity tracking sheet wasn't doing anything for me, it did clearly yield some positive results.\nThe only thing that really didn't work in the experiment was tracking challenges on a weekly basis. I use other tools to track challenges and habits on a day-by-day basis and that's just far more effective.\nBut both the \"focus skills\" and the \"books\" parts of the tracking sheet had a clear, positive effect for me. My 2018 was better thanks to using this tracking sheet for a few months. I read far more books than usual and I learnt some new physical skills, despite a fairly lackluster training regimen.\nMy Favorite Books of 2018\nSpeaking of books: 2018 was one of my best years in terms of finding, reading and being inspired by books.\nHere's a short list of some of my favorite reads from the past year:\n- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - this book made me wish I could keep seeing the world as I saw it while I was immersed in reading. I mourn everything I forget about this book already.\n- Selfie by Will Storr - this book surprised me. Look at the title and read the blurb and you'll expect a certain narrative from this book. Read the book and get much more than that.\n- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier - this book is required reading for anyone working online. Actually, it's required reading for anyone with a smartphone.\n- Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff - this book pairs perfectly with the one above. Jaron Lanier lays out the consumer perspective and Douglas Rushkoff reveals the business side of the problems in the tech industry.\n- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker - hands down the best resource on sleep you can get.\n- The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle - if you work with teams, read this book. This is the book I wish I'd had, before I started hiring people.\n- What Doesn't Kill Us by Scott Carney - an odd one out in this list (although by far not the oddest book I read in 2018). This is an entertaining read about physical extremes and how they can help the human body thrive.\nThe Real Treasure\nThe story cliché is that the treasure you sought was inside you all along. I have a similar conclusion to my 2018 experiment - which failed but still succeeded, somehow.\nThe real treasure isn't in the specific tracking sheet that I shared at the beginning of 2018. It's not in any of the tools I use to track my habits and keep myself productive. It's in a general attitude of experimentation. It's in a \"mad scientist\" approach to life: try things out, see what happens and keep making adjustments that steer you towards your goals.\nThat is, above all, what I encourage you to do. Create your own experiment for 2019. Give it a go, even if you're not sure whether it will be great or a total waste of time.\nLeave a comment letting me know what you're experimenting with in 2019. And also: I'd love to hear about your favorite books from lately.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://firstfolio.tulane.edu/", "date": "2018-03-25T03:18:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257651780.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20180325025050-20180325045050-00661.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9102750420570374, "token_count": 1578, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__196610679", "lang": "en", "text": "SHAKESPEARE AT TULANE UNIVERSITY\nTHE FIRST FOLIO! EXHIBITION\nThe exhibition at the Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane — part of the international events planned for 2016 in observance of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death — will feature a First Folio of Shakespeare open to the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy in Hamlet and, unique to Tulane’s version of the exhibition, a rare quarto of Hamlet on loan from Tulane parent and bibliophile, Stuart Rose. Printed in the large “folio” size, the First Folio is the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays. It was assembled after Shakespeare’s death in 1616 by two of his fellow actors, John Heminge and Henry Condell, and was published in 1623. The First Folio is the only source for eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays, among these some of his best known and most popular, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, and As You Like It, all of which might otherwise have been lost.\nVisitors to the First Folio! exhibition will also have the opportunity to trace, across the Tulane campus, an \"archival circuit\" of rare materials connected with the history of book publication in Shakespeare's age, in the Howard-Tilton Library Special Collections Department; Shakespeare and race, at the Amistad Research Center; and Shakespeare and gender, at the Newcomb Archives and Vorhoff Library Special Collections Library.\nThe Folger Shakespeare Library acquired the First Folio that will visit Tulane in 1897 as part of their first acquisition of an extensive Shakespeare collection, the Warwick Castle Library. The Earl of Warwick assembled his library in the mid-nineteenth century with the help of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, an important Shakespeare scholar and collector. The touring copy is especially fine because the title and verse page are both original, just as they were printed in 1623. (Many other surviving copies of the First Folio have verse and title pages that are repaired or that have been replaced with facsimiles.) The Folger has in its care eighty-two copies of the First Folio, about a third of those that survive, by far the largest collection of First Folios in the world.\nAPRIL 23 Tulane in Stratford\nThe Wendell Brunious Band and Tulane School of Liberal Arts will take part in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon’s and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s Shakespeare Anniversary Celebrations.\nAPRIL 28Ferguson Lecture\nThe 27th annual Josephine Gessner Ferguson lecture: \"Shakespeare in America\" featuring James Shapiro (Columbia University), internationally renowned Shakespeare biographer and scholar. Freeman Auditorium, Woldenberg Art Center, 6:00 pm.\nMAY 3 - JUNE 4Historic New Orleans Collection Exhibition\n“Merry as the Day Is Long”: Shakespeare’s Hand in New Orleans exhibition on view in the Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres Street, Tuesday–Saturday, 9:30–4:30 pm. Admission to the exhibition is free.\nMAY 9 First Folio! Exhibition\nThe exhibition opens at the Newcomb Art Museum with a Jazz Funeral for Shakespeare, conducted by Michael White and the Liberty Brass Band, 6:30 pm. The First Folio will be on display through May 31, 2016.\nMAY 15 High School Teacher Workshop\nA workshop for local high school teachers will be conducted on the site of the First Folio exhibition, by Scott Oldenburg (Tulane Associate Professor of English) 1:00-3:00 pm, open by application. To apply, contact the Tulane English Department at email@example.com\nMAY 16 “Sonnets in the Gallery”\nA reading of Shakespeare’s love poetry, on the site of the First Folio exhibition, will be hosted by Peter Cooley (Tulane Professor of English and Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana), 1:00-3:00 pm, open to the public.\nPublic lecture, “All the World’s a Stage”: Shakespeare on the Stages and Streets of New Orleans, by Oliver Hennessey (Professor, English Department, Xavier University), May 18 at 6:00 p.m., WRC, 410 Chartres Street. Admission to the exhibition and the lecture is free.\nMAY 22 Family Workshop\nA workshop for families will be conducted at the Main Branch, New Orleans Public Library, 219 Loyola Avenue, by Adam McKeown, (Tulane Associate Professor of English), 1:00-3:00 pm, open to the public.\nNewcomb Art Museum, Tulane University, 6:00 PM. Hillary Eklund, Associate Professor of English, Loyola University. Free and open to the public.\nTULANE JAZZ FUNERAL IN STRATFORD\nBy special invitation from the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts will participate in the 400th Anniversary Celebration of Shakespeare's death. Home of The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and Shakespeare's burial site at Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon will host several events to commemorate the Bard.\nOn April 23, 2016, Tulane University will bring New Orleans's own unique cultural contribution, a Jazz Funeral, to the anniversary parade in Stratford. Complete with music provided by The Wendell Brunious Band, this special parade will join Stratford's formal procession to honor and remember the greatest playwright and poet the world has known.\nTrinity Church, the site of Shakespeare’s tomb, is situated on the banks of the River Avon and dates to the thirteenth century. It is the most visited parish church in England.\nAccording to Bruce Raeburn, Director of the Hogan Jazz Archive at Tulane and Head of Special Collections in Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, jazz funerals are rooted in West African and European traditions and are “probably the most appropriate way that New Orleans musicians can honor a person of value. They are alternately slow and dirge-like, energetic and celebratory of life.\"\nThe School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University is collaborating with a wide range of national, local, and campus organizations in order to celebrate Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of his death by bringing the First Folio! Exhibition to New Orleans and Louisiana. We wish to acknowledge all of our collaborators:\nTulane University’s participation in the Shakespeare Anniversary Celebration and the First Folio! Exhibition has been made possible by a generous gift from Stuart and Mimi Rose and the Stuart Rose Family Foundation.\nOn Shakespeare, Henry Clay Folger, and the First Folio (1623), see www.folger.edu\nTo view a full digital copy of the First Folio, click here\nOn the town of Stratford-upon-Avon, its Shakespeare connections, and Trinity Church, the site of Shakespeare’s burial, see www.stratford-upon-avon.org\nOn the sites maintained by and the outreach work of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, see www.shakespeare.org.uk\nOn Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, reconstructed as “a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote” in London, see www.shakespearesglobe.com", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.rdsblog.org.uk/improving-the-efficiency-of-clinical-trials-with-adaptive-designs", "date": "2023-11-28T14:08:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679099514.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20231128115347-20231128145347-00300.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9572707414627075, "token_count": 584, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__3415774", "lang": "en", "text": "Clinical trials have been very successful in evaluating the effectiveness of new treatments. However, over recent years the cost of trials has been steadily increasing, putting pressure on limited healthcare and research resources. There is therefore a great need for novel approaches to improve the efficiency of clinical trials, avoiding research waste and reducing the time taken to find effective new treatments.\nAdaptive designs are an exciting innovation in clinical trials that have the potential to improve both the efficiency of trials and the outcomes of patients who volunteer for trials. In essence, adaptive designs allow information collected during the trial to be used to change (adapt) the design to optimise it. A large number of adaptations are possible, with different ones being useful in different situations.\nTypes of adaptive design\nMulti-arm multi-stage is a type of design that allows a trial to test multiple interventions simultaneously and to use information collected to drop treatments that are found to be ineffective so that the trial can focus on the most promising ones. This is good for the patients recruited to the trial, who are more likely to get better treatment as ineffective treatments are more likely to be discarded during the trial; it is also beneficial in terms of the efficiency of the trial, as fewer patients are needed to achieve the same level of statistical power to detect whether the treatment is effective.\nAdaptive designs can also be used when there is limited information available about the treatment’s likely effect on the primary outcome (the main outcome that researchers are interested in measuring during the trial). Normally this makes it difficult to choose an appropriate sample size (number of participants needed to take part in the study) and could mean that there is not enough information for researchers to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of a new treatment or mean that more patients have participated in the trial than needed to. The sample-size reassessment design is an adaptive approach that allows the sample size to be reassessed partway through the trial as information available. This allows an increase in sample size to be implemented where justified by promising results mid-trial, or a decrease if the number recruited so far is sufficient.\nThere is a growing interest in identifying which patients a treatment works well for and which it does not. The hope of precision medicine is to be able to quantify these individual differences using biomarkers. Biomarkers are biological measurements that may be associated with different effectiveness of a treatment, for example cancer treatments are often targeted at certain types of tumour mutations. Adaptive designs can be used to guide allocation of the patient to the treatment that has been most successful for similar patients. This leads to better treatment for the patient and to improved chances of identifying specific patient groups that respond well to new treatments.\nWant to find out more?\nAdaptive designs can be very valuable for improving the power, efficiency and ethics of a trial. If you would like support designing an adaptive trial please contact your local Research Design Service.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://siserosshop.ecrater.com/about.php", "date": "2018-02-20T03:52:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812873.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20180220030745-20180220050745-00021.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9902862906455994, "token_count": 289, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__158114247", "lang": "en", "text": "Lizbeth R. Jimenez is a self published author, freelance artist and aspiring actress from New York City. Lizbeth R. Jimenez has loved art her entire life and studied in the high school of art and design and attended college in the school of visual arts. She has had art work displayed in the United Nations in 2005 and her work has earned her the attention of a few sites such as OtakuPride.com (2009), Ningin.com (2008), was interviewed by the FUSE Network in 2007 (aired early 2008), and was interviewed by Pierre Bernard of the Conan O'Brian Show in late 2007 where she was filmed drawing his portrait.\nShe is currently doing freelance work and has drawn covers for a number of Independently published novels, and can be seen in a few independent films such as \"Murder Avenue\" and \"I'm Trying (but I Don't Know How). But her pride and joy will forever be a story she has been working on since she was 14 years old: Sacred. After years of hard work, it was finally published and became available for the first time on Barnes & Noble.com on December, 23, 2009. She's diligently worked on \"Sacred\" for over 7 years and is excited to finally be able to share her beloved story with all of you and hopes to bring so much joy and inspiration to her readers through her writing and art work.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ordinarymiraclescom.wordpress.com/2020/06/19/there-is-always-time/", "date": "2022-12-05T17:13:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711042.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205164659-20221205194659-00609.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9831762313842773, "token_count": 545, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__100076274", "lang": "en", "text": "Our neighbor Joe used to visit several times a week. Joe was eight years old, polite and respectful, happy, bright-eyed, a popular kid in our neighborhood. When he stepped onto our front porch, he was usually looking for someone to play with. Sometimes, his mother sent him to fetch his sister.\nJoe knew how to knock appropriately, and he knew our doorbell is unreliable. Most days, he neither knocked nor rang. Joe preferred to chat with our dogs through the window, until I noticed his voice and the dogs’ cheerful barking. “Mrs. Rogers,” he’d say when he saw me. “Is my sister here? Please tell her it’s time to come home.”\nOne mid-summer day, after he delivered his mother’s message, Joe said, “Mrs. Rogers, do you know there is a caterpillar on your door? A big, fat, fuzzy, white one?” Joe’s earnest expression made it clear that our front-porch situation was urgent.\nI pressed my forehead on the glass door and gazed down, my eyes following his finger. Sure enough, a caterpillar was dangling from the door spring. “Yes indeed,” I said. “I can see it.”\n“Well?” Joe awaited my response. The awkward pause gave him confidence. He could see I was missing his point. “Mrs. Rogers, don’t you think I should do something? And, by the way, Mrs. Rogers, don’t open the door. He’ll be squished.”\n“What do you have in mind, Joe?”\n“I think I should get a twig, and carefully move him, Mrs. Rogers.”\nI agreed that was the right thing to do. “You can go now, Mrs. Rogers,” he said. “I’ll take care of this.”\nIt was hard to leave, but I did. I didn’t want Joe to think I lacked confidence in his ability to tend to the life of a fuzzy caterpillar. I can still picture Joe in my mind, though, his expression, his commitment, the natural way he noticed a caterpillar and cared. Years have passed. I still think often of Joe and the caterpillar, when I feel too-busy or scattered, when I see Joe, or when I see a butterfly. Joe’s front-porch spirit reminds me still that there is always time to care.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.shayneparkinson.com/?page_id=104", "date": "2018-01-23T21:48:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084892699.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20180123211127-20180123231127-00488.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9446914196014404, "token_count": 154, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__144908537", "lang": "en", "text": "After the Roses is not the end of Daisy’s story. I’ll be returning to her journey, but I do have other projects to complete first.\nWhile I was researching for After the Roses, I came across a reference to a court case in 19th century Wellington, New Zealand; a scandal in its day, though all but forgotten since, and an example of truth being stranger than fiction. My current project is a non-fiction book on the events surrounding this case, and the more I discover, the more engrossing I’m finding the story.\nIf you’d like to go on my mailing list to be notified when I have a new book out, please use the Mailing List tool in the sidebar.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.dsci.in/blogs/personal-data-driven-marketing/", "date": "2019-10-22T16:38:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570987822458.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20191022155241-20191022182741-00022.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9176462292671204, "token_count": 600, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__94779816", "lang": "en", "text": "Balancing Customer Experience and Concerns\nThe collection of consumer personal data has become an important part of any business segment. Accurate customer data allows firms to target markets more effectively, engage in customer relationship management, and be more market oriented.\nBut such large-scale collection of data which reveals attributes of a consumer’s personality and behaviour, has led to profiling and what has been termed as “Corporate Surveillance”.\nBut with the coming of privacy regulations and evolving best practices, we see businesses having a closer look at the value addition that usage of personal data brings in marketing processes, vis-a-viz the cost of compliance and reputational risk associated with breaches and undetected malpractices. This is an important consideration, since even if the payoff for successful use of consumer data is huge, the cost of implementing all the required capabilities is massive as well.\nIn this background it is safe to say, digital marketing is poised for evolution. To determine which direction businesses will take, an honest inquiry needs to be made in answering one important question, i.e.—Should my business care about consumer privacy, even if consumers may not?\nBusinesses need to ask this fundamental question, because when designing practices for a consumer, one must put them at the core and focus on developing holistic practices to aid the consumer in participating in the digital environment, not the stick of regulations and compliance. This holds paramount especially in a segment like digital marketing.\nKatz and Tassone hypothesized that consumers, despite being displeased with the prospect of a loss of privacy, have become acclimatized to the necessity of giving up their privacy in order to participate in modern society. This acclimatization is the result of the widening distrust between the user and businesses.\nWe need to examine how to re-establish trust between the users and businesses, to develop sustainable data driven marketing strategies. This goes beyond thinking about privacy policies, and consent; it points to creating greater transparency around usage of consumer personal data, to develop business models that sustain creation of loyal customer bases and protect the business from regulatory scrutiny, while creating competitive advantage for businesses in the market.\nJoin us as we discuss the different paths towards achieving this intricate balance at the NASSCOM-DSCI Annual Information Security Summit, 2018. Register Now: https://aiss2018.dsci.in/\n Myerscough, Stuart, Lowe, Ben, and Alpert, Frank (2006), “Willingness to Provide Personal Information Online: The Role of Perceived Privacy Risk, Privacy Statements and Brand Strength,” Journal of Website Promotion, Vol. 2 (1-2), Pages 115-140. DOI: 10.1080/15533610802104182\n James e. Katz, Annette r. Tassone; Public Opinion Trends: Privacy and Information Technology, Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 54, Issue 1, 1 January 1990, Pages 125–143.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://magdelstube.de/en/schreibwerkstatt-jetzt-online/", "date": "2020-08-08T12:00:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737645.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20200808110257-20200808140257-00113.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9318585991859436, "token_count": 221, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__186878010", "lang": "en", "text": "The writing workshop, which began as a literature circle, continues to take place: not in the Magdelstube, but online!\nThe next meeting will take place on Thursday, 9 April from 7 pm.\nAbout the writing workshop:\nDo you write stories, plays or a novel? Are you looking for feedback for your texts? We want to meet once a month to discuss our own texts and support each other in our projects.\nAll you have to bring along is something you have written yourself. This could be a short story, a prose novel, an excerpt from a story, a novella, a novel, a play or a screenplay. Almost anything is possible, also poetry.\nIf you are also willing to discuss honestly, factually and differentiated, then you’re right here.\nThe writing workshop is open to new participants!\nAccess to the online workshop via following link: https://meet.jit.si/schreibwerkstatt-jena\nThe writing workshop meets in this online conference room at the date of the writing workshop.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://unixunderground.com/?page_id=21", "date": "2018-02-19T04:12:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891812327.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20180219032249-20180219052249-00122.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6649547815322876, "token_count": 325, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__38080745", "lang": "en", "text": "The following is a list of the books that have been overwhelmingly helpful throughout my career in UNIX, Linux, Cisco/Juniper networking, and EMC storage. I hope you find them to be just as helpful!\n- Bokotey, D., Mason, A. & Morrow, R. (2003). CCIE Practical Studies: Security. Indianapolis IN: Cisco Press.\n- Boney, J. (2005). Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. Sebastopol. CA: O’Reilly.\n- De Ghein, L. (2007). MPLS Fundamentals. Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press.\n- Doyle, J. (2006). OSPF and IS-IS. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley.\n- Doyle, J. (2017). Routing TCP/IP Volume II, 2nd Edition. Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press.\n- Jain, V & Edgeworth, B. (2017). Troubleshooting BGP. Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press.\n- Spurgeon, Charles E. (2000). Ethernet the Definitive Guide. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly.\n- Stringfield, N., White, R., McKee, S. (2007). Cisco Express Forwarding. Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press.\n- Teare, D., Vachon, B., & Graziani, R. (2015). Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE) Foundation Learning Guide. Indianapolis, IN: Cisco Press.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://ocj.iau-saveh.ac.ir/en/contents/Home/Guid.for.Authors.html", "date": "2017-03-23T14:12:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218187113.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212947-00193-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8721557259559631, "token_count": 1434, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__44616656", "lang": "en", "text": "The Organic Chemistry Journal (OCJ) publishes original work in all areas of organic chemistry including organic synthesis, organic reactions, natural products chemistry, structural investigations, supramolecular chemistry, physical organic chemistry, theoretical and chemical biology. Contributions, in English, may take the form of research articles or short communications. Prospective authors are invited to submit their manuscripts onlne via our website or e-mail to org.chem.j.@gmail.com.\nThe authors are responsible for contents of papers. The submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously (exept in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication elsewere, that its publication is approved by all authors.\nPreparation of manuscript\nManuscripts should be prepared using Microsoft Word 2003 or 2007. Note that figures, schemes and tables should be included in the manuscript after the paragraph they are first referenced. Chemical structures should preferably be embeded in their original chemical structure drawn in file format (e.g. CDX for ChemDraw).\nManuscript for Full Research Paper articles submitted to the Organic Chemistry Journal should be devided into the following sections:\n§ Authors’ Names and Affiliations\n§ Results and Discussions\n§ Supporting Information (if any)\n§ Acknowledgments (optional)\nThe title of an article should be clear, concise and comprehensible to all readers with the purpose of quickly identifying the focus of the reported work. It should be brief and contain the most important keywords to optimize electronic retrieval. As far as possible, abbreviations should be avoided. Capitalize the first letters in all nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs.\nAuthors’ Name and Affiliations\nFor all authors who have made substantial contributions to the work, first name, middle (can be initial(s)) and last (family) name must be provided. Below this information the institutional address should be written in a separate line. At least one author must be designated with an asterisk as the person to whom correspondence should be addressed.\nThe abstract for the manuscript should not exceed 350 words. The abstract may be a compact text or may be structured into the separate sections: Background, the context and purpose of the study; Results, the main findings; Conclusion, brief summary and potential implications. Abbreviation should be used sparingly in the abstract. If used, then only common ones should be employed.\nThe abstract should be followed by up to five keywords describing the main topics of the paper for indexing purpose.\nThe introduction section should be written the standpoint of researchers without specialist knowledge in that area. 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Supply sample preparation procedures, name, model and configuration detailes of equipment used, and data handing methods.\nIn this section the authors can dedicate the article to a scientist of outstanding merit or acknowledge financial support, technical assistance and other contributions or advice persons who are not coauthors.\nIn general authors are obliged to perform literature searches and to cite original publications describing closely related work. A complete list of all references should be provided at the end of the article with an individual reference number for each reference. All references must be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerials, in the order in which they are first cited in the text, followed by any references in tables or legends. The references should be ed at the appropriate location in the text by writing the reference number as superscript. Multiple citations should be separated by commas. 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In Proceedings of the First National Conference on Porous Sieves, Baltimore, MD, June 27-30, 1996; Smith, Y., Ed.; Butterworth-Heinemann: Stoneham, MA, 1996; pp 16-27.\n7. Gutsche, C. D. Calixarenes; Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, U.K., 1989.\n8. Gleiter, R.; Hopf, H., Eds. Modern Cyclophane Chemistry; Wiley-VCH: Weinheim, Germany, 2004.\nGraphic and Tables\nAll figures and schemes must be embedded in the manuscript text after the paragraph they are first mentioned. After a manuscript has gone successfully through the peer review process authors may be asked to upload individual graphic files separately. Any diagram, graph, spectra, photograph or other type of illustration is presented in the manuscript as a figure. The designation scheme should be used primarily for reaction schemes. It is the authors’ responsibility to provide figures at a sufficiently high resolution to ensure high quality representation in the final article. Figures and schemes are consequently numbered with Arabic numerals in the order they are first cited in the manuscript text (i.e. Figure 1, Figure 2, etc.). All figures and schemes should be prepared in black and white style. Colored figures are only acceptable for online version of journal.\nTables should be cited in the text by using Arabic numerals. Each table should have a title explaining the components of the table. Footnotes to tables should be indicated by manuscript lower-case letters and included beneath the table body.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mvcc.vic.gov.au/sharing-the-love-of-books-online/", "date": "2020-10-22T23:58:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107880401.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022225046-20201023015046-00089.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9528764486312866, "token_count": 568, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__34494775", "lang": "en", "text": "Do you know that feeling when you read a book and are bursting to tell other people about it?\nOn Thursday nights, readers from across Moonee Valley have the opportunity to share thoughts and recommendations at our online Book Chat.\nLed by Jennie Moulder from our Libraries team, these sessions always throw up interesting discussions and suggestions for books to try.\n“I introduce the chat, but once people get involved I can sit back and enjoy the discussion,” Jennie said. “it is live, informal and not recorded.\n“We have some participants who are there every week, others visit now and then, but during the lockdown period we found it was an important opportunity for people to connect.\n“I love that we have people from different parts of Moonee Valley who have never met in real life sharing their reading preferences and getting involved in the chat.”\nOften the discussion is light-hearted, but there is no telling where the conversational thread might lead. For example, on one recent Thursday the discussion turned to the issue of grief, and what books one might read while grieving.\nBook Chat will be held weekly until the end of October, and then fortnightly for the rest of the year.\nShe emphasises that, although our libraries are currently closed, library staff are available 9.00-5.00 Monday to Friday to help people over the phone.\nWe asked Jennie to give us three recommendations of good reads for a Covid-19 spring. She chose three books that are available as e-books and e-audiobooks.\n“These are wonderful platforms, and a great way to explore books. Our team is always available to give help on the phone to people who want to access e-books and e-audiobooks and aren’t sure how.”\nSo, what should we be reading right now, when we’ve been through a tough winter and are hoping for a better spring?\nJennie is a big fan of a new genre called ‘uplit’ – empathetic novels that build optimism, and focus on things like human connection, everyday heroism and love.\nJENNIE’S UPLIT RECOMMENDATIONS\n* The Midnight Library by Matt Haig\nA wonderful book, with lots of depth and heart\n* Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman\nI absolutely love the central character. This book has with quite a dark backstory but leaves you feeling positive.\n* The Flat Share by Beth O’Leary\nDeals with the heavy topic of emotional abuse, but it has a great story that leaves you feeling good at the end.\nExplore our range of online offerings here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://martintheartist.com/writer/", "date": "2023-06-01T05:06:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647614.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601042457-20230601072457-00461.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9415608048439026, "token_count": 101, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__5288959", "lang": "en", "text": "The poetry books Io and Fågelflickan (Bird Girl) will be published in February 2018. Io is a 100 pages collection of Martins poetry from 1995-2018 and Fågelflickan (Bird Girl) is a 80 pages conceptual poetry book set in a North-Swedish landscape. Both books are in Swedish.\nThe books can be ordered directly from the writer or from the Blurb bookstore. Links for online purchase will be added later upon release in February 2018.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://pam.ctfc.es/fr/personal_det.php?id=309", "date": "2023-03-31T01:03:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949506.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330225648-20230331015648-00635.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6805815100669861, "token_count": 389, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__109182356", "lang": "en", "text": "Nadal-Sala, D., Grote, R., Birami, B., Knüver, T., Rehschuh, R., Schwarz, S., & Ruehr, N. K. (accepted). Leaf shedding and non-stomatal limitations of photosynthesis mitigate hydraulic conductance losses in Scots pine saplings during severe drought stress. Frontiers in Plant Science, 1600.\nNadal‐Sala, D., Medlyn, B. E., Ruehr, N. K., Barton, C. V., Ellsworth, D. S., Gracia, C., ... & Sabaté, S. (2021). Increasing aridity will not offset CO2 fertilization in fast‐growing eucalypts with access to deep soil water. Global Change Biology, 27(12), 2970-2990.\nNadal‐Sala, D., Grote, R., Birami, B., Lintunen, A., Mammarella, I., Preisler, Y., ... & Ruehr, N. K. (2021). Assessing model performance via the most limiting environmental driver in two differently stressed pine stands. Ecological Applications, 31(4), e02312.\nGattmann, M., Birami, B., Nadal-Sala, D., & Ruehr, N. K. (2021). Dying by drying: timing of physiological stress thresholds related to tree death is not significantly altered by highly elevated CO2. Plant, cell & environment, 44(2), 356-370.\nNadal-Sala, D., Hartig, F., Gracia, C. A., & Sabaté, S. (2019). Global warming likely to enhance black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) growth in a Mediterranean riparian forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 449, 117448.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.era-environmental.com/blog/thwarting-the-singularity", "date": "2024-04-22T01:16:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818067.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421225303-20240422015303-00545.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9268916249275208, "token_count": 479, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__92264332", "lang": "en", "text": "The role of the automobile manufacturing industry in reversing climate change\nWith concern for the environment reaching a fever pitch, every sector is scrambling to implement measures to reduce their environmental impact that will satisfy consumer demands.\nThis series of articles will seek to address some of the gaps in understanding preventing automotive manufacturers from executing policies founded in corporate sustainability practices.\nIt will address the auto industry’s role in the current ecological crisis and where that intersects with its responsibilities in micro- and macro-economies. It will analyze the significance of the automotive industry to slowing climate change and the roadblocks preventing the industry’s ability to implement meaningful sustainability practices industry.\n\"If I have seen further, it is be standing\non the shoulders of giants.\"\n- Isaac Newton\nIt is hoped that this series will offer one other thing:\nAmerica would not be the political, economic, and cultural power it is were it not for Detroit and the Big 3. We have prevailed victorious through hard times because of the automotive industry, and it is the automotive industry with the vision, the infrastructure, and the tools to reverse climate change.\nThis series will endeavor to first identify and re-frame the auto sector’s significance in the historic events that have shaped the present world.\nFrom there, it will address the unique challenges preventing the auto sector from fulfilling its environmental manifest destiny. Finally, this series will fill gaps in existing literature and offer practical implementation items which are actionable and measurable and can be incorporated into existing business frameworks which unify objectives for the numerous stakeholders served by the automotive manufacturing industry.\nUpcoming in this series are articles, blogs, infographics, and blogs providing context for the challenges facing the automotive industry during this next critical juncture in history. The authors will endeavor to equip the American automotive industry with tactics that will help it again rise to the challenge issued when Tolstoy proclaimed, “everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”.\nFill out our form and receive updates on this series and gain access to enriched features.\nTo learn more about ways ERA Environmental is already assisting automotive manufacturing facilities adopt successful and profitable sustainability management practices that improve all elements of their triple bottom line, follow the link below, and one of our environmental scientists will contact you.\nThis Blog Was Co-Authored By:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.hanginggardenswellness.com/group/mysite-200-group/discussion/6a571583-34a0-41ea-b517-d6234ccf6fb6", "date": "2023-12-11T18:56:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679516047.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211174901-20231211204901-00661.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8723994493484497, "token_count": 653, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__208685020", "lang": "en", "text": "Fombellida Cirugia Mucogingival Pdf 20\nFombellida Cirugia Mucogingival PDF 20\nIf you are looking for a comprehensive guide on mucogingival surgery, you may be interested in the book Fombellida Cirugia Mucogingival by Manuel Fombellida, a renowned periodontist and professor from Spain. This book covers the theoretical and practical aspects of mucogingival surgery, a branch of periodontics that deals with the correction of esthetic and functional problems of the gingiva and alveolar mucosa.\nMucogingival surgery aims to improve the appearance and health of the soft tissues around the teeth, implants, edentulous ridges, and alveolar sockets. Some of the common procedures include free gingival grafts, pedicle grafts, connective tissue grafts, coronally advanced flaps, tunnel technique, and vestibuloplasty. These techniques can help treat conditions such as gingival recession, altered passive eruption, lack of keratinized tissue, gingival hyperplasia, and mucosal defects.\nThe book Fombellida Cirugia Mucogingival is divided into four parts: Part I provides the basic concepts and principles of mucogingival surgery; Part II describes the surgical techniques for teeth; Part III explains the surgical techniques for implants; and Part IV discusses the surgical techniques for edentulous areas. The book is richly illustrated with clinical photographs, diagrams, and tables that demonstrate the step-by-step procedures and outcomes of each technique. The book also includes a DVD with video demonstrations of some of the most relevant techniques.\nThe book Fombellida Cirugia Mucogingival is available in Spanish and English editions. The Spanish edition was published by Quintessence in 2010, while the English edition was published by Quintessence in 2013 under the title Mucogingival Esthetic Surgery. The book has received positive reviews from experts and practitioners in the field of periodontics and implantology. It is considered a valuable reference for dental professionals who want to learn or update their knowledge and skills in mucogingival surgery.\nIf you want to download a PDF version of the book Fombellida Cirugia Mucogingival, you can search for it online using various keywords such as \"fombellida cirugia mucogingival pdf 20\", \"fombellida cirugia mucogingival pdf download\", or \"fombellida cirugia mucogingival pdf free\". However, please be aware that some of these websites may not be reliable or legal, and may contain viruses or malware that can harm your computer or device. Therefore, it is advisable to purchase the original book from a reputable publisher or seller, or borrow it from a library or a colleague.\nWe hope this article has given you some useful information about the book Fombellida Cirugia Mucogingival and how to download it as a PDF file. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact us. Thank you for reading!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://hazzum.com/2020/06/20/peanut-puddin-jelly-guest-artist-jeremy-skarekro-oryan/", "date": "2024-04-19T17:48:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817442.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419172411-20240419202411-00041.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9851212501525879, "token_count": 424, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__3205607", "lang": "en", "text": "We met Skarekro at our local comic shop, Comics 2 Games, one day when we stopped by to pick up some comic books.\nWe were introduced by a mutual friend and Kro, as he is fondly referred to, explained to us how he really wanted to work in comics. He showed us some of his art and Rodney and Kro became fast art buddies.\nWhen we got to Issue #5 of PPn’J, we wanted to go in a different direction with the art as Rodney had been doing it all for the first four issues. With him writing, penciling, inking, and hand-coloring the books with colored pencils, he had little time to work on anything else. We also wanted to move to digital coloring, so the books would have a more modern look and feel. After watching Kro grow as an artist, we felt like his style would help change the look of the book. So, Rodney and Kro started working together to design the new style for the characters.\nTogether, they make a great team. Rodney would thumbnail out the pages. Kro would add his touch with the pencils; giving the characters the fun updated look. Then Rodney would go back and embellish with inks and digitally color the art.\nKro was the guest artist on Issue #5, Apple Bomb Barrage, and Issue #6, Slope Slop, as well as two free comic book day shorts. We also have Issue #7 penciled by him, but we have put the book on hiatus to work on some other projects. We hope to finish that issue in the future and release the complete PPn’J series as an Omnibus.\nKro continues to work in comics and lives in Florence, Kentucky with his Wife and family of furry friends.\nYou can see more of his art on FB @Jeremy O’Ryan (Skarekro Art) and on IG @skare_kro_art.\nComics2Games is in Florence, Kentucky. http://www.comics2games.com", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jaxineforcolorado.org/beyond-the-basics-quotex-trading-explained/", "date": "2023-12-01T09:04:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100286.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201084429-20231201114429-00638.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9329996705055237, "token_count": 496, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__153698064", "lang": "en", "text": "It should enhance the message you want to convey rather than distract from it. By selecting quotes that align with your main idea, you create a seamless flow within your writing or speech. Furthermore, quotex mastery involves knowing when and how to incorporate quotations into your work. Quotes can serve various purposes – they can provide evidence for an argument, support a claim, add credibility to your ideas, or simply offer a fresh perspective on a subject matter. However, it is important not to overuse them as this may dilute their impact and make your work seem disjointed. Another aspect of mastering quotex is choosing quotes that resonate with your audience. Different people connect with different ideas and perspectives; therefore, it is crucial to consider who will be reading or listening to your work when selecting quotations.\nBy using quotes that speak directly to their interests or experiences, you create a stronger connection between yourself and your audience. Moreover, effective quotex mastery involves proper citation and attribution. When using someone else’s words in your own work – whether it be from quotex books, articles, speeches or interviews – it is essential to give credit where credit is due by citing the original source accurately. This not only demonstrates integrity but also allows readers or listeners who are interested in exploring further resources related to the quote. Additionally, mastering quotex requires careful consideration of language style and tone. Quotes should seamlessly blend into the overall voice of your piece without sounding forced or out-of-place stylistically speaking. Paying attention to word choice ensures that the quote enhances your writing rather than disrupts its flow. Lastly, quotex mastery involves understanding the power of brevity.\nSometimes, a short and impactful quote can convey more meaning than a lengthy explanation. By selecting concise quotes that encapsulate complex ideas or emotions, you allow your audience to engage with your work on a deeper level. In conclusion, mastering the art of quotex is an essential skill for effective communication and writing. It requires careful consideration of context, purpose, audience, citation, language style and tone. By incorporating quotations seamlessly into your work and choosing them wisely to enhance your message or argument, you can elevate the impact of your writing or speech. Quotex is a powerful tool that can help individuals and businesses unlock their full potential. Whether you are looking to improve your productivity, enhance your creativity, or boost your overall success, understanding the secrets behind Quotex can be a game-changer.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://yourgoalsyourlife.com/beyond-positive-thinking-a-comprehensive-review-of-dr-robert-anthonys-groundbreaking-book/", "date": "2024-04-18T02:14:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817184.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20240417235906-20240418025906-00633.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9072604775428772, "token_count": 889, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__61161512", "lang": "en", "text": "In the realm of personal development, Dr. Robert Anthony’s book “Beyond Positive Thinking” stands as a beacon of wisdom and insight, challenging conventional notions about the power of positive thinking and offering a transformative approach to creating lasting change. Through a combination of psychology, metaphysics, and practical exercises, Dr. Anthony guides readers on a journey of self-discovery, empowerment, and manifestation. In this comprehensive review, we’ll delve into the key themes, concepts, and insights of “Beyond Positive Thinking,” exploring its relevance and impact in today’s world.\nUnderstanding the Power of Belief\nAt the core of “Beyond Positive Thinking” is the recognition of the profound influence that our beliefs have on our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Dr. Anthony emphasizes that our beliefs are not merely passive perceptions of reality but active creators of it. He contends that our subconscious mind acts as a powerful force that magnetizes people, circumstances, and opportunities into our lives based on our dominant thoughts and beliefs. By understanding and harnessing the power of belief, readers can transform their lives and manifest their deepest desires.\nUnraveling the Subconscious Mind\nOne of the key insights of “Beyond Positive Thinking” is the exploration of the subconscious mind and its role in shaping our perceptions and experiences. Dr. Anthony argues that our subconscious mind operates according to its own set of rules and principles, often independent of our conscious awareness. He explains how deeply ingrained beliefs and conditioning from childhood can shape our reality and influence our behavior in profound ways. Through awareness and introspection, readers can uncover hidden beliefs and patterns that may be holding them back and create new pathways for growth and transformation.\nOvercoming Self-Sabotage and Resistance\nAnother central theme of “Beyond Positive Thinking” is the exploration of self-sabotage and resistance—the inner barriers that prevent us from achieving our goals and fulfilling our potential. Dr. Anthony identifies self-sabotage as the result of conflicting beliefs and desires within the subconscious mind, leading to behaviors that undermine our success and happiness. He offers practical strategies for identifying and overcoming self-sabotage, including techniques for releasing resistance, reframing negative beliefs, and aligning with our true desires. By addressing the root causes of self-sabotage, readers can break free from limiting patterns and create new possibilities for growth and success.\nEmbracing the Power of Intention\nIn “Beyond Positive Thinking,” Dr. Anthony introduces the concept of deliberate creation—the conscious and intentional process of manifesting our desires through focused intention and attention. He emphasizes the importance of clarifying our intentions with clarity and specificity, aligning our thoughts and beliefs with our desired outcomes, and taking inspired action towards their attainment. Through visualization, affirmation, and emotional resonance, readers can amplify the energy of manifestation and bring their dreams into reality. Dr. Anthony reminds us that we have the power to shape our destinies and create the life of our dreams through the power of intention.\nLiving in Alignment with Universal Laws\nThroughout “Beyond Positive Thinking,” Dr. Anthony explores the principles of universal laws and their role in shaping our reality. He introduces readers to concepts such as the law of attraction, the law of resonance, and the law of cause and effect, explaining how these principles operate in the universe and influence our lives. By understanding and aligning with these universal laws, readers can unlock the keys to manifestation and create a life of abundance, joy, and fulfillment. Dr. Anthony invites readers to embrace the principles of universal laws as guiding principles for personal growth and transformation.\n“Beyond Positive Thinking” is a timeless masterpiece that continues to inspire and empower readers around the world to unlock their full potential and create the life of their dreams. Through its profound insights, practical exercises, and transformative teachings, Dr. Robert Anthony offers a roadmap for personal growth, empowerment, and manifestation. Whether you’re seeking to overcome self-limiting beliefs, achieve success, or manifest your deepest desires, “Beyond Positive Thinking” provides the tools and guidance you need to unleash the power within and create a life of abundance and fulfillment. With its timeless wisdom and practical strategies, this book is a must-read for anyone seeking to transform their life and unleash their full potential.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://powerplate.co.za/effect-of-vibration-training-on-heart-health-part-1/", "date": "2024-03-03T02:57:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476180.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303011622-20240303041622-00449.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.956643283367157, "token_count": 500, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__109663668", "lang": "en", "text": "Exercise has long been known as a non-pharmacological therapeutic modality to restore impaired cardiovascular function. Recently, whole body vibration has emerged as a useful method for improving overall health, with improvements in body composition, muscular strength and heart health being common. Whole body vibration training is also particularly effective for elderly and deconditioned people who cannot participate in traditional exercise.\nOver the next few weeks we will take a look at just how whole body vibration has been proven to be a very useful therapy tool for improving cardiovascular health.\nThere are different types of vibration platforms used in clinical studies including rocking side to side action of the platforms, uniformly up and down action, and triplane in which the surface moves font to back, side to side, and up and down directions.\nThe mechanical action of the vibration causes a change in length of the muscle-tendon complex, which activates reflex muscle contractions. Performing an exercise on the vibration plate causes more muscle activity than performing the same exercise on the floor – more muscles, doing more work, more often.\nThe rate of vibration (or Hz) has an influence – with frequencies between 35Hz and 45Hz creating more activation than frequencies below 35 HZ, and therefore delivering more benefit. Power Plate has tri-planar movements with a frequency range between 25 and 50Hz, depending on the model.\nCardiovascular health or fitness and vascular aging are associated with muscle strength and muscle mass. The more muscle that is lost through the ageing process, the higher the risks of cardiovascular disease.\nThe effect of whole body vibration on muscle mass\nSeveral studies have shown whole body vibration to result in increases in muscle mass in the young and the old, in healthy or obese, and diabetic and diseased clinical populations.\nThese studies varied in length from 8 weeks to over 6 months. In many of these studies the increase in muscle size from whole body vibration training was very similar to what conventional strength training achieved. Important to note however that the amount of time of the training session for whole body vibration was much shorter than the strength training session.\nAnother consideration is that many of the groups studied were not able to attend regular strength training sessions due to illness, physical condition, diabetes, or obesity. The shorter sessions meant that compliance was better – leading to healthier long term outcomes.\nIt was concluded that whole body vibration training with the right parameters can be as efficient as regular fitness training methods in increasing muscle mass, in less time.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.caspari.com/new/index.php?/?/Get-Involved/volunteer_html?/Get-Involved/volunteer_html=", "date": "2014-04-21T04:31:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609539493.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005219-00151-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8316180109977722, "token_count": 123, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-15", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-15__0__113036580", "lang": "en", "text": "Caspari's Online Library allows you to search through a wide selection of over 7,000 books, journals & audio recordings. Registered users can reserve books online.\nNext Open Lecture:\nMurray Salisbury, \"Re-Creating Biblical Poetry: Translating Ancient Jewish Poems for Modern Christian Communities\". Tuesday 13th May, Caspari Center, 7pm.\nNext Missiology Course:\n3-14th November 2014.\nOn Monday 14th April, Caspari Center will close at 12:00 for Passover. We will reopen as usual on Tuesday 22nd April.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.skandrews.com/post/i-m-featured-on-nina-sadowsky-s-hollywood-decoded", "date": "2024-03-03T20:17:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476397.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303174631-20240303204631-00710.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9529408812522888, "token_count": 557, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__99965325", "lang": "en", "text": "This month's question comes from S.K. Andrews, author of The Kelly Society book series and the upcoming release Bay of Darkness a Paranormal adventure born from a Celtic love story centuries old (release date October 2, 2019)\nAmazon Buy Link S.K.: You have filled many roles in the entertainment field (writer, director, producer), but do you prefer projects in which you are writing and producing? Or, are you content to be the storyteller and let someone else make the trains run on time? N.S.: This is a great question as it's one I'm often asking myself. I love the ideation stage of any project when the only limit is imagination. Those early stages of idea creation, story problem solving, and refinement are delicious (even with dealing with Hollywood's fabled \"development hell\"), because anyone in this business is a dreamer and this the stage where dreams are built.\nThe execution stage, or production, is problem solving of a different sort, and also a challenge I like, even as the limitless dreams of your imagined world are inevitably constrained by the realities of such things as cast, locations, weather, time and money. I suspect I am also a little too much of a control freak to completely hand over my work to others, although I like to believe I am a good and easy collaborator. I do like to do it all; my biggest question is always: will there be enough time?\nSeptember 2019 Dispatch from the Cheerfully Dark Mind Nina Sadowsky\nWhat summer vacation? While I barely took a breath this summer, it was happily one of my most creative and productive periods ever! NYU LA launched with the arrival of the first cohort of students on August 28th. Our orientation took us all over the city of LA and culminated at OUE Skyspace where the brave among us slid down a glass slide on the outside of a skyscraper.\nAnd I'm official! See the press release here. I also had a prolific writing summer, churning out a new suspense novel and working on several pilots. More news on those fronts soon I hope!\nSave the date! Official launch: January 28th 2020 Barnes & Noble at The Grove, Los Angeles, California\nOfficial New York launch: February 7th, 2020 NYU Bookstore Please remember that pre-orders can help an author more than almost anything else, and please check out the relevant links: AMAZON https://amzn.to/2UVP9ru PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE http://bit.ly/2Vcmu6w BARNES & NOBLE http://bit.ly/2Wp6afc INDIEBOUND https://urlzs.com/okCUJ", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.cbhcfl.org/better-preventive-care-urged-for-schizophrenia-patients/", "date": "2023-09-29T20:40:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510528.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929190403-20230929220403-00639.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9489074349403381, "token_count": 262, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__70070560", "lang": "en", "text": "People with schizophrenia die 12 to 15 years earlier than their counterparts in the general population, a difference driven largely by ischemic heart disease and cancer, according to a large study of Swedish patients. “Despite having more than twice as many contacts with the health care system than other people, schizophrenia patients had no increased risk of having a diagnosis of nonfatal ischemic heart disease or cancer but had a far greater mortality from these conditions, suggesting substantial underdiagnosis and/or undertreatment,” said Casey Crump, M.D., Ph.D., of the Department of Medicine and the Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University.\nFor instance, ischemic heart disease was diagnosed prior to death in only 26% of schizophrenia patients, compared with 44% of others who died of heart disease. “Preventive interventions should prioritize primary health care tailored to this population, including more effective risk modification and screening for cardiovascular disease and cancer,” the researchers said.\nFor an in-depth review of this topic, see the book Medical Illness and Schizophrenia, Second Edition, from American Psychiatric Publishing. For an analysis showing higher standardized mortality ratios for cardiovascular and other diseases in people with mental illness, see the new online issue of the APA journal PS in Advance.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.preserveholmdel.org/environment", "date": "2023-12-03T23:23:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100518.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203225036-20231204015036-00750.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9410508275032043, "token_count": 547, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__126677750", "lang": "en", "text": "Recent article from CleanWaterAction.org, 2016\n(see additional articles under \"More Info\")\nRisks of Recycled Tire Products\nNearly 300 million car and truck tires are discarded every year. To address the problem of tire stockpiles, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) encourages the recycling of waste tires into playground mulch and synthetic turf athletic field infill. Use of recycled waste tires has grown over the last two decades with thousands of playgrounds across the country using the material as cushioning under outdoor play equipment and as infill on artificial turf fields.\nIncreasing evidence about the toxicity of recycled tire material is raising concerns. Waste tire mulch and crumb rubber contains toxic chemicals such as phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and many other chemicals known or suspected to cause adverse health effects. According to a chemical analysis conducted by Yale University, 96 chemicals were found in the 14 samples analyzed. Half of the chemicals have no government testing on them – making it unclear whether they are safe or harmful to human health.\nChildren go to playgrounds almost daily and young athletes frequently practice and play on the artificial turf fields, exposing them to chronic toxicity from the various chemicals present in the recycled waste tire. When the material gets hot, the off-gassing of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) increases. Cumulative exposure can result in a buildup of toxic chemicals in their bodies and can potentially result in disease. For example, there is concern that soccer goalies with chronic exposure to crumb rubber on synthetic turf fields may be at a higher risk for lymphoma and leukemia cancers.\nEPA acknowledges that more studies of crumb rubber need to be done, and has retracted an earlier assurance that crumb rubber turf is safe. On February 12, 2016 EPA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission launched a multi-agency action plan to study key environmental human health questions related to rubber from waste tires. By late 2016, the agencies will release a draft status report that describes the findings and conclusions of the research through that point in time. The report will also outline any additional research needs and next steps.\nClean Water Action supports delaying any new installation of playgrounds containing recycled tire mulch and artificial turf fields containing crumb rubber until findings from the Federal Research Action Plan on recycled tire crumb rubber infill are published and evaluated. The public deserves comprehensive evaluation of the product and deserves to be safeguarded from exposure until it is proven that there are no adverse environmental effects or risks to public health.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://igamanchester2018.wordpress.com/plenary-speakers/", "date": "2019-05-20T04:38:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255562.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520041753-20190520063753-00444.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.911105215549469, "token_count": 481, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__176421702", "lang": "en", "text": "Angela Wright is Professor of Romantic Literature in the School of English at the University of Sheffield. She is a former co-President of the International Gothic Association (2013-17). Her publications include Gothic Fiction (Palgrave, 2007), Britain, France and the Gothic, 1764-1820: The Import of Terror (Cambridge University Press, 2013 and 2015), (with Dale Townshend) Ann Radcliffe, Romanticism and the Gothic(Cambridge University Press, 2014 and 2016); (with Dale Townshend) Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Her most recent book is entitled Mary Shelley and appears in the Gothic Literary Authors series in January 2018. She’s at work now on a number of new projects, including a book entitled Fostering Romanticism and the co-editing (with Dale Townshend and Catherine Spooner) of a three-volume Cambridge History of the Gothic.\nMarie Mulvey-Roberts is Professor of English Literature at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her teaching and research interests include Gothic and gender. She is the author of Dangerous Bodies: Historicising the Gothic Corporeal(Manchester University Press, 2016) the winner of the Alan Lloyd Smith Memorial Prize, Gothic Immortals: The Fiction of the Brotherhood of the Rosy Cross (Routledge Revivals, 2016) and British Poets and Secret Societies (Routledge Revivals, 2014). She is the editor of The Handbook to Gothic Literature (Palgrave, 1998 rvd 2009) and has edited many other books including Writing for their Lives: Death Row USA (Illinois University Press, 2007) and the forthcoming Global Frankenstein (Palgrave, New York) with Carol M. Davison. She recently co-curated the exhibition Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter at the Royal West of England, Academy, Bristol, co-built the website getangelacarter.com and co-founded the Angela Carter Society. She is the co-founder and editor of the quarterly journal, Women’s Writing on historical women writers, for which she co-edited a special issue on Mary Shelley. Her two short films onFrankenstein and its links to Bristol and Bath are included in a MOOC run by English literature teaching staff at UWE called Writing the West: Writers of the South West.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.cemi.eng.br/eng/cases/7/paper-and-cellulose/92/controle-avancado-de-processos-otimizacao-da-etapa-de-branqueamento", "date": "2019-04-19T22:58:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578528430.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190419220958-20190420002958-00108.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8806610703468323, "token_count": 134, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__22795585", "lang": "en", "text": "Financial sustainability with best practices.\nPaper and Cellulose\nAdvanced Process Control - Bleaching Stage Optimization\nChallenge: Bleaching Step Optimization.\nSolution: The implementation of optimizing control in the bleaching stage can optimize the use of reagents, based on the characteristics of the pulp fed. From measurements of flow and characteristics of the pulp, the control ensures that the required amount of reagents will be used, guaranteeing the right levels of the pH and brightness of the product.\nResult: It is expected a reduction of 50 to 80% in the process variability, reduction of the use of chemicals, control of brightness and a more accurate pH level.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.wyevcharger.com/news/the-future-modernization-of-ev-charging/", "date": "2021-11-27T09:14:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358153.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127073536-20211127103536-00582.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9207096695899963, "token_count": 646, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__79210791", "lang": "en", "text": "With the gradual promotion and industrialization of electric vehicles and the increasing development of electric vehicle technology, the technical requirements of electric vehicles for charging piles have shown a consistent trend, requiring charging piles to be as close as possible to the following goals:\n(1) Faster Charging\nCompared with nickel-metal hydroxide and lithium-ion power batteries with good development prospects, traditional lead-acid batteries have the advantages of mature technology, low cost, large battery capacity, good load-following output characteristics and no memory effect, but they also have advantages. The problems of low energy and short driving range on a single charge. Therefore, in the case that the current power battery cannot directly provide more driving range, if the battery charging can be realized quickly, in a sense, it will solve the Achilles heel of the short driving range of electric vehicles.\n(2) Universal Charging\nUnder the market background of the coexistence of multiple types of batteries and multiple voltage levels, charging devices used in public places must have the ability to adapt to multiple types of battery systems and various voltage levels, that is, the charging system needs to have charging versatility and The charging control algorithm of multiple types of batteries can match the charging characteristics of different battery systems on various electric vehicles, and can charge different batteries. Therefore, in the early stage of the commercialization of electric vehicles, relevant policies and measures should be formulated to standardize the charging interface, charging specification and interface agreement between charging devices used in public places and electric vehicles.\n(3) Intelligent Charging\nOne of the most critical issues restricting the development and popularization of electric vehicles is the performance and application level of energy storage batteries. The goal of optimizing the intelligent battery charging method is to achieve non-destructive battery charging, monitor the battery's discharge state, and avoid over-discharge, so as to achieve the purpose of extending battery life and energy saving. The development of the application technology of charging intelligence is mainly reflected in the following aspects: optimized, intelligent charging technology and chargers, charging stations; calculation, guidance and intelligent management of battery power; automatic diagnosis and maintenance technology of battery failures.\n(4) Efficient Power Conversion\nThe energy consumption indicators of electric vehicles are closely related to their operating energy costs. Reducing the operating energy consumption of electric vehicles and improving their cost effectiveness are one of the key factors that promote the industrialization of electric vehicles. For charging stations, considering the power conversion efficiency and construction cost, priority should be given to charging devices with many advantages such as high power conversion efficiency and low construction cost.\n(5) Charging Integration\nIn line with the requirements of miniaturization and multi-functioning of subsystems, as well as the improvement of battery reliability and stability requirements, the charging system will be integrated with the electric vehicle energy management system as a whole, integrating transfer transistors, current detection, and reverse discharge protection, etc. Function, a smaller and more integrated charging solution can be realized without external components, thereby saving layout space for the remaining components of electric vehicles, greatly reducing system costs, and optimizing the charging effect, and extending battery life.\nPost time: Aug-16-2021", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.hccinstitute.org/value-based-care-and-financing-in-health-care/", "date": "2024-04-18T23:08:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00136.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9776520133018494, "token_count": 135, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__187112182", "lang": "en", "text": "Value-based Care and Financing in Health Care\nValue-based health care is a health care delivery model in which providers, including hospitals and physicians, are paid based on patient outcomes. Under value-based care agreements, providers are rewarded for helping patients improve their health, reduce the effects and incidence of chronic disease and live healthier lives in an evidence-based way.\nValue-based care differs from a fee for service or capitated approach, in which providers are paid based on the amount of healthcare services they deliver. The “value” in value-based health care is derived from measuring health outcomes against the cost of delivering the outcomes. Read the full article", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://scottsabbotsford.co.uk/", "date": "2017-12-16T01:37:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948581033.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20171216010725-20171216032725-00216.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9368377923965454, "token_count": 181, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__198738344", "lang": "en", "text": "Welcome to Abbotsford\nThe historic house is now closed for the season and will reopen on the 1st of March. Why not go for a walk or visit our café and shop until then, we're open daily.\nDiscover Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott;\none of Scotland’s most fascinating places.\nCreated almost 200 years ago on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, Abbotsford was the culmination of Scott’s creative ambitions as a writer and the fount of his inspiration.\nExplore the historic house and discover a treasure trove of intriguing objects and unusual artefacts which inspired Scott’s greatest poems and novels. Learn about Scott’s life and achievements, browse the gift shop, dine in style in our restaurant or simply relax and unwind as you wander through the beautiful formal gardens and tranquil woodlands.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://fox59.com/2016/04/25/andrew-luck-invites-readers-to-go-deep-with-new-book-club/", "date": "2018-06-21T13:39:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864172.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20180621133636-20180621153636-00106.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9508087038993835, "token_count": 333, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__227175395", "lang": "en", "text": "INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Andrew Luck knows how to read a defense, now he wants readers young and old to join his book club.\nThe Indianapolis Colts quarterback launched the Andrew Luck Book Club Monday. The website will periodically feature two books: one for “rookies” that Luck enjoyed when he was younger and another for “veteran” readers that he’s currently enjoying.\nAccording to the Colts, Luck will use social media to engage with members of the book club and talk live about the selections. He also plans to host Q&A sessions about the books. The first “rookie” selection is Jerry Spinelli’s Maniac Magee; the first “veteran” selection is Daniel James Brown’s The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics.\n“I have always loved to read and have my parents and grandparents to thank for introducing me to the enjoyment of reading at a young age,” said Luck.\n“People ask me all the time what I’m reading or if I have any suggestions of what they should read. And, when the topic of starting a book club came up over and over again, I figured it was time to put something together. I’m really excited to see this get off the ground and I’m looking forward to building a community of readers online and through social media.”\nLuck wants to use the book club as a forum where people can discover new books and build a community of readers nationwide.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sancarloslife.com/event/san-carlos-book-sale/2024-08-18/", "date": "2024-04-13T03:17:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816535.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413021024-20240413051024-00353.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9074783325195312, "token_count": 127, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__188061527", "lang": "en", "text": "Explore a diverse selection of books, CDs, DVDs, and more, all in excellent condition. Suitable for all ages and covering various genres, these items come at affordable prices, ranging from 25 cents to $2. Don’t miss our unique collection of rare books, each priced individually.\nYour purchase not only gets you a great deal but also supports the library’s initiatives. The sale typically happens on the third Sunday of each month, with occasional exceptions for special events. Join us in finding literary treasures while contributing to the community.\nFor more interesting events at the San Carlos Library, please check their calendar.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://word.op.org/2014/03/18/servant-qualities/", "date": "2018-01-16T13:21:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084886436.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20180116125134-20180116145134-00627.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9588881731033325, "token_count": 447, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-05__0__250541497", "lang": "en", "text": "Hear the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the teaching of our God, you people of Gomorrah!\nWash yourselves; make yourselves clean; remove the evil of your doings from before my eyes; cease to do evil, learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow. Come now, let us argue it out, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool. If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured by the sword; for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.\nThen Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them. They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long. They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have people call them rabbi. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all students. And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted.\nScripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.jennifermcgrail.com/2012/07/early-in-the-morning/", "date": "2013-05-25T10:37:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705936437/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516120536-00071-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9609825611114502, "token_count": 418, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__6778997", "lang": "en", "text": "One of my very favorite times of day is early in the morning, sometime between 4:00 and 5:00 AM. That’s around the time that Tegan usually wakes up and makes her way into our bed, to sleep for a few more hours snuggled between us. Like her three brothers before her, she slept exclusively in our bed as a baby and toddler, and it’s only been recently that she’s started choosing to start the night in her own bed. As I think most any cosleeping parent would tell you, it’s a bittersweet milestone to be sure.\nBut we still have our mornings.\nI always wake up as soon as she’s out of her bed… partly because of mother’s intuition, but mostly because she’s so dang loud. How a tiny 40 pound girl can make herself sound like a herd of elephants just coming down a hallway is beyond me, but she does. Every time. Once into our room, she almost flies onto our bed as if possessing super powers, and nestles herself in between her father and I. If we’re sleeping too close together, she simply burrows her way in. Not an eighth of a second after she lands, she’s asleep once again.\nAs our fourth and final child (our “caboose” as one of my friends likes to say), her fading babyhood is all the more poignant. At four, she is so busy, so active, so big… but in those early morning hours, she’s still my baby. And as I lay there in the dark, waiting for sleep to come again and loving her so fiercely it almost hurts, I drink it all in: the soft, rhythmic sound of her breathing; the faint scent of coconut in her tousled curls; the warmth of the little hand she’s wrapped around my back.\nIn those moments, nothing else matters but me and my baby.\nI am home.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://texashumanenetwork.org/you-can-help/humane-library-project/", "date": "2024-03-03T19:29:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476397.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303174631-20240303204631-00830.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9171678423881531, "token_count": 177, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__18478010", "lang": "en", "text": "Texas Humane Network’s Humane Library Project aims to source the best literature for children and young adults on animal welfare and then donate these books to Texas school districts with high instances of abuse and neglect to help them learn about animals and develop empathy. An important lesson in empathy is that animals are living beings and should be treated with respect and compassion. Teaching children how to care for animals correctly, with love and care, is an excellent way for our young people to develop empathy and prepare to be fantastic pet owners in the future. This project’s impact is far-reaching; empathy promotes moral intelligence, and morally intelligent people make decisions that benefit both themselves and the people around them.\nScroll down for a list of recommended books for your own Humane Library at home!\nInterested in donating toward a Humane Library? Contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ryanmcrae.net/best-fantasy-recommendations/the-trilogy-that-doesnt-get-enough-love-the-farseer-trilogy", "date": "2023-12-07T16:26:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100677.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207153748-20231207183748-00106.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9608458280563354, "token_count": 459, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__59569972", "lang": "en", "text": "The Trilogy That Doesn't Get Enough Love: The Farseer Trilogy\nThe Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb is a classic of epic fantasy that tells the story of FitzChivalry Farseer, a royal bastard who becomes embroiled in the political machinations of the Six Duchies. The trilogy comprises three books: \"Assassin's Apprentice,\" \"Royal Assassin,\" and \"Assassin's Quest.\"\nIn \"Assassin's Apprentice,\" we are introduced to Fitz, the illegitimate son of Prince Chivalry. Fitz is brought to the royal court and becomes the apprentice of Burrich, the stable master. As Fitz grows up, he discovers that he has a unique gift: the ability to communicate with animals. However, he also learns that he is the tool of a larger political game, and he must navigate the treacherous court politics of the Six Duchies.\n\"Royal Assassin\" picks up where \"Assassin's Apprentice\" left off, with Fitz now serving as the assassin of King-in-Waiting Verity. Fitz's loyalty to Verity and the royal family is tested as he becomes embroiled in a plot to undermine the Six Duchies' defenses against the Red-Ship Raiders, a pirate fleet that is attacking the kingdom.\n\"Assassin's Quest\" brings the trilogy to a satisfying conclusion as Fitz embarks on a quest to rescue his kidnapped love interest and uncover the secrets of the mysterious Elderlings. Along the way, he must confront his own past and the legacy of his family.\nOverall, the Farseer Trilogy is an outstanding example of epic fantasy. Hobb's world-building is intricate and immersive, and the characters are well-developed and compelling. Fitz, in particular, is a fascinating protagonist, and his struggles with identity, loyalty, and duty are the heart of the trilogy. The trilogy is not without its flaws - the pacing can be slow at times, and the plot can feel meandering - but these are minor quibbles in the face of the trilogy's strengths. Fans of epic fantasy should not miss the Farseer Trilogy, and it is a great starting point for those who are new to the genre.\nRyan McRae is the author of the website and a lover of fantasy novels.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://faithbook-fcconline.blogspot.com/2011/01/defeated-no-more-part-1.html", "date": "2020-08-11T10:26:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738746.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20200811090050-20200811120050-00344.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9797244071960449, "token_count": 678, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__18931107", "lang": "en", "text": "It is simply wrong thinking, wrong believing, wrong speaking and wrong actions that defeats most believers. If our thinking is right our believing will be right. If our believing is right then our confession will be right and if our confession is right then our actions will be right. In Matthew 8:5-13 we see Jesus' encounter with a Roman centurion.\nIn Matthew 8:5-8 we find that some how this centurion heard about Jesus or observed Jesus as He ministered so he went to Jesus and pleaded for his servant who was \"lying at home paralyzed, dreadfully tormented.\" Jesus’ response was immediate, “I will come and heal him”. There was no questions concerning the Father’s will to heal this mans servant. However, the centurion offers Jesus an alternative “Lord I am not worthy that You should come under my roof. But only speak a word and my servant will be healed.” This is important because it reveals some things concerning the centurion and Gods will.\nFirst we see the centurion’s faith at work. He heard about Jesus or observed the ministry of Jesus, it produced thought, he believed and he confessed by offering an alternative to Jesus coming to his house and healing his servant. Next, Matthew 8:9, The centurion tells Jesus that he is a man under authority just like Jesus is. He knew that he could verbally command soldiers under him and they would obey because they recognized his authority. He had discerned the authority that Jesus had and in the same way that the centurion commanded soldiers he believed that Jesus could command healing on his servant without Jesus going to his house.\nIn Matthew 8:10-12 We see that Jesus marveled at this mans spiritual insight and then brings a word of conviction to those who were Gods children and should have faith in God. Could the same statement be said to the church today, \"I have not found such great faith\" and be true as it was then? Jesus equates this mans understanding of authority as having great faith. In other words, \"I have not found such a great confidence in my power, even among the Jews, as this Roman, a Gentile, has shown himself to possess.”\nFinally Matthew 8:13 shows us the results of this encounter. The centurion heard, thought, believed, confessed and now he acted, “Go you way”, and then he received, “His servant was healed that same hour.” The fact that the centurion changed the circumstance in which Jesus was to heal his servant also shows us that God is far more willing to do things than most believers have faith for. We do not know if the centurion was a follower of Christ or not, but what is evident is true faith is all that it takes to move our Heavenly Father as we ask in Jesus' name.\nBelievers can and should speak the Word of God with authority being fully convinced that what God has promised He is also able to perform. So let's begin right now by changing our thinking, believing, confessing and actions from being manipulated by doubt, fear and unbelief and place our faith in the integrity of God's Word. Let us declare right NOW that 2011 will be the most fruitful year that we have ever experienced for HIS glory...", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.aahoa.com/blog-test/News/2022/06/29/surat-to-san-francisco-how-the-patels-from-gujarat-established-the-hotel-business-in-california", "date": "2022-12-03T01:46:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710918.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20221203011523-20221203041523-00005.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9202598333358765, "token_count": 164, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__259851229", "lang": "en", "text": "Author and historian Mahendra K. Doshi launched Surat to San Francisco: How the Patels from Gujarat Established the Hotel Business in California, which features personal stories on the incredible entrepreneurship journey of the Indian-American hoteliers. The book contains the untold history of the Patel hospitality narrative, from its genesis to its gradual consolidation and expansion throughout the U.S., and chronicles its founders and those Patels who came in the 1940s and 1950s. Today, the Gujarati hoteliers maintain a dominant presence in the U.S. hospitality landscape. The book traces the fascinating and inspiring history of how the Patels started the hotel business in California, and spread it to almost stratospheric heights.\nFor more information, please visit: www.patelhotelhistory.com", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sst.org.za/projects/african-marine-waste-network/wiomsa-marine-litter-monitoring-project/tanzania/", "date": "2021-06-23T13:47:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488539480.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20210623134306-20210623164306-00312.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8864395618438721, "token_count": 1052, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__184533704", "lang": "en", "text": "Total Litter Items\nTotal Rubbish Bags\nPercentage of litter that is plastic\nPercentage of litter that is local\nLitter Monitoring Statistics as of June 2019\nOur plastic challenge\nThe average plastic waste generation in Tanzania in 2010 was estimated at 0.02kg per person per day (Jambeck et al., 2015). This accounts for the per capita production prior to waste management and recycling interventions. In the commercial capital of Dar es Salaam, the amount of plastic in the total municipal waste composition increased from 16% in 2012 to 22% in 2014. This was primarily from the increase in PET beverage bottles, packaging of food stuffs and plastic bags used by small- and large-scale commercial vendors.\nConsidering an average waste collection of 58% in major urban centres across the country (Yhdego and Amir,2016), it is extrapolated that an estimate of 0.015kg of plastic per person per day ends up in the environment in 2019. That is equivalent to about one 500ml PET empty water bottle or 5 plastic shopping bags (HDPE).\nThe ability of the municipal waste management system to collect, treat and dispose waste in Dar es Salaam is hindered by inadequate human and financial resources, poor and insufficient quantity of equipment, restricted accessibility in terms of infrastructure as well as restructuring of governance structures.\nThis has resulted in land and marine pollution in the form of soil infertility, blocked drains that exasperate flooding during heavy rains, increased risk of water borne and non-communicable diseases, foul smells and deterioration of recreational beaches.\nIn 2018, 26 clean-ups organised by Nipe Fagio in Dar es Salaam collected 16,500kgs of waste; of which an average of 50% of sampled waste was plastic from domestic beverage and food industry brands and plastic bags. Apart from the visible effects of plastic pollution, a research paper in 2016 found microplastics in Tilapia and Nile Perch fish species sampled from Lake Victoria (Biginagwa et. Al., 2016). An on-going research conducted at the University of Dodoma (with support from WIOMSA) indicates preliminary findings of an accumulation of microplastics in the sediments and in cockle tissues sampled along the coastal shores of Dar es Salaam, Mafia and Pemba (Mayoma et al., 2019).\n- Biginagwa, F. J.,Mayoma, B. S., Shashoua, Y., Syberg, K., Khan,a F. R. (2016).\n- First evidence of microplastics in the African Great Lakes: Recovery from Lake Victoria Nile perch and Nile tilapia. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 42 (1) , 146-149.\n- Jambeck, J. R., Geyer, R., Wilcox, C., Siegler, T. R., Perryman, M., Andrady, A., … & Law, K. L. (2015).\n- Plastic waste inputs from land into the ocean. Science, 347(6223), 768-771.\n- Mayoma, B.S., Khan, F.R., Hemed, S., Shimba, M.J. (2019).\n- Threats of microplastics pollution to the marine ecosystem of Tanzanian coastal waters. https://blog.wiomsa.net/2019.\n- Yhdego, M. and Kingu, A. 2016. Solid waste management in urban centers of Tanzania leapfrogging towards a circular economy, Research Paper\nNipe Fagio (NF), “give me the broom” in Swahili, is a civil society organisation founded in 2013. Nipe Fagio is based in Dar es Salaam with partners in 14 regions of Tanzania. We aim to empower the civil society, the private sector and government to build lasting change towards turning Tanzania into a clean and sustainable country, conscious through education of its role on waste management and reduction of pollution.\nNipe Fagio advocates with the government:\n- To increase government responsibility for reinforcing current laws and policies\n- To push for new laws and policies to foster sustainable deve\nNipe Fagio works with the private sector:\n- To identify and create business opportunities that promote a clean economy\n- To educate about Best Waste Practices (BWP)\n- To promote a safe circular economy\nNipe Fagio engages with the community:\n- To raise awareness about the threats of pollution and environmental degradation\n- To raise awareness about the threats brought by poor waste management for community and ecosystem health\nThe programme piloted in June 2019 at the beach sites where a site cleanup was conducted followed by a 10-day maro-litter accumulation survey. The accumulation surveys recorded 3,000kg of waste from both sites over the 10 days\nThe team is led by Ana Le Rocha, the Executive Director of Nipe Fagio. The core team is comprised of 2 Project Coordinators, 1 Policy Coordinator, 1 Campaigns and Communications Coordinator, 4 Community Mobilization Officers and 1 Finances and Admin Officer.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://emergepublishers.com/", "date": "2017-04-25T00:48:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120001.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00075-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9343947768211365, "token_count": 115, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__259257086", "lang": "en", "text": "Let an eMerge specialist read your manuscript and provide feedback regarding layout, content and publishing options.\nWe can produce your book in various sizes, bindings or formats, from hard/soft cover books to digital books.\neMerge Publishing Group, LLC publishes novels, mysteries, short stories, and children's books, in addition to business, education, religion, humor, biography, and many other subjects.\nWe can publish your book in a manner that is affordable, reliable and easy.\nThe benefits of publishing with eMerge Publishing Group, LLC include:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://paper.sciencenet.cn/htmlpaper/2020/8/202081417484412858103.shtm", "date": "2020-10-25T06:30:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107887810.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20201025041701-20201025071701-00499.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7043853402137756, "token_count": 550, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__175099062", "lang": "en", "text": "美国哈佛大学Vijay G. Sankaran等研究人员合作开发出大规模平行单细胞线粒体DNA基因分型和染色质分析方法。这一研究成果于2020年8月12日在线发表在《自然—生物技术》上。\nTitle: Massively parallel single-cell mitochondrial DNA genotyping and chromatin profiling\nAuthor: Caleb A. Lareau, Leif S. Ludwig, Christoph Muus, Satyen H. Gohil, Tongtong Zhao, Zachary Chiang, Karin Pelka, Jeffrey M. Verboon, Wendy Luo, Elena Christian, Daniel Rosebrock, Gad Getz, Genevieve M. Boland, Fei Chen, Jason D. Buenrostro, Nir Hacohen, Catherine J. Wu, Martin J. Aryee, Aviv Regev, Vijay G. Sankaran\nAbstract: Natural mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations enable the inference of clonal relationships among cells. mtDNA can be profiled along with measures of cell state, but has not yet been combined with the massively parallel approaches needed to tackle the complexity of human tissue. Here, we introduce a high-throughput, droplet-based mitochondrial single-cell assay for transposase-accessible chromatin with sequencing (scATAC-seq), a method that combines high-confidence mtDNA mutation calling in thousands of single cells with their concomitant high-quality accessible chromatin profile. This enables the inference of mtDNA heteroplasmy, clonal relationships, cell state and accessible chromatin variation in individual cells. We reveal single-cell variation in heteroplasmy of a pathologic mtDNA variant, which we associate with intra-individual chromatin variability and clonal evolution. We clonally trace thousands of cells from cancers, linking epigenomic variability to subclonal evolution, and infer cellular dynamics of differentiating hematopoietic cells in vitro and in vivo. Taken together, our approach enables the study of cellular population dynamics and clonal properties in vivo. Combining droplet-based ATAC-seq and mitochondrial DNA sequencing reveals clonal variation in human cells and tissues.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jiomnepal.com.np/index.php/jiomnepal/article/view/258", "date": "2024-03-01T08:18:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475203.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301062009-20240301092009-00784.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9382926225662231, "token_count": 469, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__115336708", "lang": "en", "text": "Outcome of ABO-Incompatible Living Donor Kidney Transplantation: A Single Center Study from Nepal\nKeywords:ABO incompatible , graft survival, infection, kidney transplantation, patient survival, rejection\nChronic kidney disease (CKD) is a progressive condition and has emerged as a public health problem worldwide. Kidney transplantation is the most effective treatment for end stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. However, the increasing number of ESRD patients and the limited availability of living and cadaveric donors has led to a growing waiting list for kidney transplantation. ABO-incompatible transplantation has emerged as an alternative for these patients in Nepal.\nThis was a retrospective observational study of all the patients who underwent kidney transplantation from March 2017- Feb 2019. Data on demography of recipients and donor, blood group, HLA mismatch, induction agent, post-operative complications and creatinine clearance at discharge and one-year post-transplant were collected and analysed. Then we compared patient and kidney graft survival at one year between ABO incompatible and ABO compatible recipients.\nDuring the study period there were total of 124 kidney transplant recipients among them 12 were ABO incompatible and 112 were ABO compatible recipients. The study showed slightly lower patient and graft survival in ABO-incompatible recipients than ABO compatible recipients (83.3% vs 99.2%, p<0.001). However, death-censored graft survival were similar in both groups (100%,p<0.001). The graft function at one year measured by creatinine clearance was better in ABO-incompatible recipients than ABO-compatible recipients (67.1±11.75 vs 61.87±12.82, p<0.001). Postoperative complications were slightly higher, however, complications at one year were lower in ABO-incompatible recipients.\nThe study showed that living donor ABO-incompatible kidney transplant recipients have a good outcome at one year but is associated with greater risks of patient and graft loss at early transplant period compared to ABO-compatible recipients.\nHow to Cite\nCopyright (c) 2023 Journal of Institute of Medicine Nepal\nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://headworksinternational.com/product/polishing-treatments/", "date": "2024-02-24T22:38:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474569.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224212113-20240225002113-00160.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9576725363731384, "token_count": 523, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__92318831", "lang": "en", "text": "The Advanced Oxidation Processes (AOP), in broad sense, are a set of chemical treatment procedures designed to remove organic materials in wastewater by oxidation through reactions with hydroxyl radicals (OH*). To produce these radicals chemicals like ozone, hydrogen peroxide, UV light are used in combination. The ozone-peroxide combination has been known to produce high-energy hydroxyl radicals and are more effective in decolorizing textile effluents than other types of AOP, i.e. UV-Peroxide. These radicals are produced in situ by the following reaction:\n2O3 + H2O2 → 2OH* + 3O2\nIt, however, has has some limitations resulting from ozone stability, which is affected by the presence of salts, pH and temperature. Ozone-Peroxide AOP is also expensive, but they produce no sludge. It is also possible to use AOP as a pre-treatment to biological treatment where the substances are broken down into simpler forms which can be biodegraded in the biological process.\nMembrane treatments like ultra-filtration (UF) or micro-filtration (MF), or adsorption techniques like activated carbon treatments are used sometimes as an alternative to advanced oxidation processes. These processes are always used in combination with some other process as these are used as final polishing steps. Some dyes are not biodegradable and therefore are not affected by the biological processes. These dyes can be removed by membrane or adsorption treatments.\nAs the demand for water reuse is rising due to scarcity of water, it is recommended that, for achieving consistently high quality treated effluent, it is advisable to use AOP – either as a pre-treatment step to biological treatment to alter the biodegradability of primarily stable dye molecules, or as a post-treatment to biological treatment as a final polishing step. There are also studies which suggest that the combination of conventional activated sludge treatment (biological treatments) followed by sand filtration or activated carbon filter (physical treatments) have high organics removal and color removal rates with low operational difficulty and nominal chemical cost.\nBelow is the basic process flow diagram of a treatment process. First, the primary treatment takes place through coagulation or flocculation following which settling of wastewater takes place in a gravity settler. The wastewater then undergoes biological treatment. After the biological treatment, the water is transferred into a solid/liquid separator, from where it is transferred into one of three different available options as illustrated in the process diagram.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://newglobalelite.com/leadership/book-recommendations-2018/", "date": "2019-11-14T00:45:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496667767.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20191114002636-20191114030636-00514.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.959155261516571, "token_count": 2098, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__148683696", "lang": "en", "text": "New Year is always a time of resolutions and one of them is often to learn something new to read more. Below is a list of 12 books for the next 12 months ahead. I have read them all and I hope that you will find something for yourself in this mix. Whether you read them all, a few, or even only one, enjoy them and let me know their impact on you. And if you know great books that could benefit others, please let me know or recommend them in the comments section below.\nHappy New Year, and happy reading!\n“How Will You Measure Your Life” by Clayton M. Christensen. When my stepson was 20 and was trying to figure out what to do with his life, I gave him this book and it helped him find his own way. I recommend it to my Millennial clients , who love it so much that they give it as presents to their friends. The book looks at fundamental questions about life, and our own purpose, through a lens of business theories and business experience. Because of this, it is also very useful to leaders who want to leave a meaningful legacy. But it is mostly a great book for those who try to find answers to the universal life’s questions. It also looks at some of the biggest, typical traps in life and offers advice on how to avoid them. As professor Christensen said: “Look at it as a guidebook for your future. (…) It won’t offer simplistic answers. It won’t tell yo what to think. It won’t prescribe a set path for happiness. Instead, it will equip you to lead the type of life to which you truly aspire.”\n“Difficult conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most” by Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone and Bruce Patton. If I could recommend only one book today, this would be it. I’ve been recommending it for years to all my clients and to everybody who asks me for advice on how to have better relationships, manage conflicts more successfully, and live a better, more fulfilling life. I have read it 7 times, I took a course at the Harvard University with the authors, and I have run several communication courses based on it. Their participants have often described it as “revolutionary”, “life-changing”or “transforming”. Just do yourself a favor and get your hands on a copy today. And for maximum benefit, do not stop at reading – practice the principles every day! You can thank me later, when you notice how the quality of your relationships improves, how the conflicts in your life become less frequent and intense, and how you become more assertive, more respected, more effective in the way you communicate.\n“Thanks for the Feedback – The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well” by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone. This is the direct sequel to the “Difficult Conversations”. This time, Sheila and Doug focus on what they have identified as the most difficult conversation type: feedback. What is innovative in this book, is the focus on how to receive feedback. “Blending the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hardheaded advice, this book fills an important gap in the literature on leadership, organizational behavior, and education”. And I agree with professor Adam Grant who said that this book: “is a roadmap to less defensiveness, more self-awareness, greater learning and richer relationships”.\n“Extreme Ownership: How US Navy Seals Lead and Win” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. Two retired U.S. Navy SEALs wrote a book about leadership and responsibility for all of us non-SEALs out there. And it’s good. They call their method “Extreme Ownership” because it’s exactly about that: taking complete responsibility for everything in your life and work that you can influence. They describe the leadership lessons which they learnt during their missions and offer a practical way to apply them in life and in business. What I love about this book is that it offers extremely powerful lessons in a simple, no-nonsense way. I recommend it to everybody who wants to stop going round in circles with their life or career and to those who want to understand what leadership is really about. If I could, I would make this book a mandatory reading for everybody with a leadership ambition.\n“Ego Is The Enemy” by Ryan Holiday. This book has a clear message: there is no success, or good life, if your efforts ride on your ego. Using examples and stories from literature, history and philosophy this book shows the destructive powers of ego. Its message is especially relevant to leaders, because through their position of authority they can cause extensive damage to themselves and their organizations unless they learn to control this destructive force. It’s a cautionary tale, but one that also offers inspiration and guidance to dealing with this deep psychological challenge. It’s also a reminder that hard work, and humility, not ambition, are the cornerstones of success.\n“Our Iceberg Is Melting” by John Kotter & Holger Rathgeber and “Who Moved my Cheese” by Spencer Johnson, M.D. Ok, so these are two books but they are related both by the topic (managing change) and the style (fable). Written in a very entertaining way (a story about animals) and nicely illustrated, both books look at what change is. They also look at the importance of facing the facts before and during change, at the importance of taking risks and at the typical resistance issues. Then, they offer a simple roadmap to a successful change management. These books are a must-read for anyone dealing with, or managing change.\n“Men at Arms”, a Discworld novel. For July I recommend a light read by the inimitable Terry Pratchett. This is the 14th novel in his Discworld series. Go ahead and read them all! But if you read only one, read this one. It’s a hilariously written detective story, but one that also looks quite closely at the issues of true vs. fake leadership, tolerance, charisma, friendship, calling vs. career, duty vs. ego, love and marriage, and last but not least, at how the politics are made. A great book for those long beach days.\n“Biography of Steve Jobs” by Walter Isaacson. August is another “lazy” summer month. What better thing to do with all the time you have on those long evenings than to read this fascinating biography of a fascinating person by a fascinating author? “Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur (…) and the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination”. Another perfect read (all 656 pages) for those lazy summer days.\n“Agatha Christie, An Autobiography”. Agatha Christie, the undisputed queen of detective stories, was born on 15th September, and her autobiography makes a perfect recommendation for this month. You will learn, in her own words, about her formative early years, about her creative routine, about making big life mistakes and taking big risks, about success and disappointment, about the unhappy marriage to Archibald Christie and her happy marriage to Max Mallowan, about creating the most famous detective of all times, and about a silly bet with her sister that changed absolutely everything. Enjoy!\n“Poised for Success”. This book is for anyone who is serious about building their personal brand and making the best possible first impression on everyone they meet. Written by my mentor Jacqueline Whitmore, it explores what she calls the four “P” qualities of success: Presence, Polish, Professionalism, and Passion. It’s basically a guide to packaging yourself for success by refining and maintaining your professional and personal brand. In the highly competitive world today, this book helps you stand out in a positive and memorable way.\n“Grit” by Angela Duckworth. What is more important for success: talent, intelligence, and luck or: hard work, commitment and discipline? Why some people succeed in life, despite limitations and adversity, and some fail, despite having everything they need to succeed? And why some people always get up and try again, and others don’t recover from failures? In a gripping combination of hard scientific research and compelling stories, professor Angela Duckworth answers these questions and provides a roadmap to living and working better, to raising resilient kids and to creating more success. If you want to understand psychology of achievement and harness it for your own success, read this book. And if you are impatient, watch her TED talk.\n“The Difference: When Good Enough Isn’t Enough” by Subir Chowdhury. In our recent discussion, my mentor Desiree Steinman observed that “Humanity has all but left big corporations”. Based on my experience and what I see in the world, sadly, she might be right. However, this book offers hope and a roadmap for the humanity to find its way back to the big corporations. In this powerful guide to living a successful life and career, the management consultant Subir Chowdhury explains how the “caring mindset”: the ability to nurture the skills, loyalty and passion of the people who make up an organization, and creating a culture built on straightforwardness, thoughtfulness, accountability and resolve make the difference between successful and unsuccessful organizations. Basically, this book is a business case for what Charles Dickens described so compellingly in his “Christmas Carol”. Two hundred years later we are still struggling with the same issues. This is the modern book about the anti-Mr. Scrooge approach, and so, a perfect book for December.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://vancouveryfc.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/strange-but-truesummer-reading-club/", "date": "2018-07-19T19:18:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591216.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20180719183926-20180719203926-00468.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9083540439605713, "token_count": 283, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__88128032", "lang": "en", "text": "what's next on your to do list?\nStrange But True: Summer Reading Club\nSince 1990 the British Columbia Library Association and local public libraries have sponsored a provincial Summer Reading Club which encourages summer reading and public library use by school-age children and families in BC, encouraging them to do their very best and to set their own reading goals.\nChildren ages six to twelve are invited to join the Strange…But True? Summer Reading Club this summer, registration begins June 15. Vancouver Public Library also invites school age children to join the Multilingual Summer Reading Club – read books in any language!\nThis year’s Summer Reading Club illustrator is Mike Deas. Mike is an author/illustrator of graphic novels. His love for illustrative storytelling comes from an early love of reading and drawing while growing up on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. Summer Reading Club members will receive a reading record, bookmark, and stickers to collect. Children can record the titles and authors of the books they read on the reading record. It’s lots of fun and absolutely free!\nCheck out Vancouver Public Library’s Summer Reading Club events at: http://www.vpl.ca.\nThe Summer Reading Club is sponsored by the British Columbia Library Association and the Vancouver Public Library, with funding from the Libraries and Literacy, Ministry of Education, The Honourable George Abbott, Minister.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://teacherlibrarian.org/profiles/blogs/the-good-braider-by-terry-farish", "date": "2020-10-21T02:03:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107874637.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20201021010156-20201021040156-00378.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9586401581764221, "token_count": 349, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__116440745", "lang": "en", "text": "The Good Braider by Terry Farish\nMy rating: 5 of 5 stars\nViola's harrowing journey with her family from the war torn country of Sudan to Portland, Maine. Before leaving Juba, Viola is raped by a soldier; her self worth and her bride price are stripped. Farish does a superb job painting the fear, anguish and despair of Viola and those in her community in fear for their lives while trying to flee a country gripped in civil war. Once Viola, her mother and little brother escape, Juba, they begin a long perilous journey to Khartoum. Once Viola arrives in Portland, Maine settling into a community of African immigrants, attending school and working a job there is the clash of the new American culture and preserving the Sudanese culture. This novel in verse achieves the beauty of Viola's new American world and harsh reminders of the brutal civil war, Viola's voice is strong, happy, conflicted, scared, and hopeful. I loved the braiding title, which symbolized Viola's African world of beauty and how once in the US, she does not braid anymore and will not have her own hair braided. It is through her friends and family from the Sudan as well as her American friends that Viola finds her place in her new world of Portland, Maine. This is a must read for young adults; they will learn about the genocide the Sudanese suffered through, they will appreciate the customs and community that are so important to Viola. What is even more important for teens is to see the world through Viola's eyes and the positive and negative impact of American culture on immigrant communities. Powerful, this book is beautiful!\nView all my reviews", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://lilisnotes.com/thursday-motivation-14/", "date": "2018-02-21T03:13:13Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891813322.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20180221024420-20180221044420-00485.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9677882194519043, "token_count": 139, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__176929113", "lang": "en", "text": "Napoleon Hill is one of my favorite authors. I thought I’d share a few of his many great quotes.\nEvery adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.\nNo man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or another, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.\nBefore success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with temporary defeat and, perhaps failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.victorlodato.com/html/about.html", "date": "2022-12-05T05:49:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711003.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205032447-20221205062447-00430.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9708770513534546, "token_count": 211, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__141916321", "lang": "en", "text": "Victor Lodato is the author of two critically acclaimed novels. Edgar and Lucy was called \"a riveting and exuberant ride\" by the New York Times, and Mathilda Savitch, winner of the PEN USA Award, was hailed as \"a Salingeresque wonder of a first novel.\" Mathilda Savitch, a \"Best Book of the Year\" according to The Christian Science Monitor, Booklist, and The Globe and Mail, won the Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and has been published in sixteen countries.\nVictor is a Guggenheim Fellow, as well as the recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Princess Grace Foundation, The Camargo Foundation (France), and The Bogliasco Foundation (Italy). His short fiction and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, and Best American Short Stories.\nVictor was born and raised in New Jersey and currently divides his time between Ashland, Oregon and Tucson, Arizona.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lurkingfilms.net/2011/10/14/i-am-the-monster/", "date": "2021-05-14T16:28:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243991428.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20210514152803-20210514182803-00130.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9396243095397949, "token_count": 890, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__158391876", "lang": "en", "text": "I’ve always had a fascination with myriad things macabre and gruesome: Horror literature, horror films, horror-themed music, etc… The myths, legends, and tales of fear and terror have captured my imagination for as long as I can remember. The forms of media and how these stories and images are presented have been expanded and modified, but my appreciation for the horror genre has always been foremost in terms of what amused and entertained me.\nAs a kid in the 70s, I didn’t have access to the internet and thousands of cable channels, but always found a way to appease my appetite for the ghastly and horrific. Books – novels and anthologies of short stories – were always in my possession via libraries and stores. Hell, even comic books of the 70s catered to my tastes (and – happily – even presented monstrous creatures as heroes, like Werewolf by Night and Ghost Rider – more on that later). Television was limited, but I always sought out programming that featured horror films. This was always specialized weekend programming, usually on a Saturday afternoon or late at night. The shows I recall were ‘Shock Theater’ and ‘Creature Feature’ for afternoon fun, with ‘Count Zappula’ (a local horror film host) and ‘TJ and the ANT (All Night Theater)’ occupying my late night viewing.\nNevertheless, I was a pretty normal kid. My absorption of horror literature and film wasn’t the result of a hermetic existence. On the contrary, I’ve always been an active, social person, as well as an avid sports fan. Still, my interest in horror was greater than most people I knew.\nWhen I state, ‘I am the monster’, I’m tapping into not just my enjoyment of ghoulish themes, but also how I identify with – what I consider to be – the true protagonist of these tales and images: the monster or alleged menace.\nDoes this mean I root for the shark in Jaws?\nIdentify with Hannibal Lector?\nOf course not.\nFeel a kindred spirit with the menacing ghosts in Poltergeist?\nTo be more specific, I find some themes and stories of terror which include a sympathetic take on the monster or menace to be a nice twist. Not a genuinely cruel or evil presence, but possibly a misunderstood or misfortunate character. Examples would include any number of those afflicted with lycanthropy and beasts or persons that are merely defending their turf or utter existence: Werewolves; Frankenstein’s Monster; King Kong; Godzilla; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; etc… Shit, throw in the mad scientists too. We all identify with the misguided genius.\nVampires? Nah, fuck ‘em. I’ve been a vampire on Halloween, sure, but vampires as sympathetic or engaging characters is a premise I’ve found tiresome for awhile now. Anne Rice, other modern authors, films, and episodic TV shows for many years now have offered the world blood suckers as cute, cuddly, and ‘hip’ in an annoying manner (the recent exceptions for me are the brilliant films ‘Let the Right One In’ and ‘Thirst’). Besides, I’ve never identified with the well-manicured, perfumed seducer wearing a suit and cape. I do like the monstrous personification of the vampire in films like Nosferatu and Salem’s Lot, however. A truly menacing and frightening presence, a nearly unstoppable, mysterious force of nature is the best way to deliver the goods with the vampire character, in my opinion.\nI’ve really dug the monster cast as a martyr/hero theme, and as I mentioned before, the comics of the 70s drilled down into that scenario in a timely manner for me. Already a super hero/comic book nerd, the concept featuring a wolf man or demon from hell (i.e. Werewolf by Night and Ghost Rider) as a vigilante unwanted by society was something I dove into (and already a common storyline in comics with Batman and Spiderman being the best examples).\nWhat about the beast carrying away the beauty?\nOh yeah. I’m all over that. I am the monster.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://bundlenews.net/illuminating-wisdom-contribute-paid-guest-posts-to-detectmind-com/", "date": "2023-09-24T10:43:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506632.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924091344-20230924121344-00855.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8581119179725647, "token_count": 1368, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__60823521", "lang": "en", "text": "In the vast expanse of human thought and contemplation, the pursuit of wisdom stands as a timeless journey that has shaped cultures, driven innovation, and guided the course of human civilization. The quest to illuminate the intricacies of existence, discern profound truths, and share insights has been a cornerstone of intellectual progress. In today’s digital age, platforms like DetectMind.com have emerged as modern beacons of enlightenment, inviting writers, thinkers, and visionaries to contribute their wisdom through paid guest posts. DetectMind.com isn’t just a website—it’s a portal to share your wisdom and insights with the world, leaving an indelible mark on the intellectual landscape. This exploration delves deep into the multifaceted benefits for both writers and readers, the transformative power of illuminating wisdom, and how DetectMind.com serves as a conduit for intellectual growth, fostering connections, and contributing to the ever-evolving tapestry of human understanding.\nUnveiling DetectMind.com: A Portal to Intellectual Enlightenment\nDetectmind.com transcends the boundaries of a traditional website—it’s a dynamic portal where ideas converge, knowledge is shared, and wisdom is disseminated. As a platform committed to nurturing thoughtful discourse, DetectMind.com provides an interactive space where writers can contribute their ideas, experiences, and insights to a global audience eager to engage with the richness of human knowledge.\nThe platform’s scope spans a diverse array of subjects, encompassing psychology, philosophy, neuroscience, personal development, mindfulness, creativity, emotional intelligence, and beyond. This inclusivity mirrors the multifaceted nature of human thought and invites contributors to share their wisdom across a spectrum of disciplines.\nThe Power of Illuminating Wisdom: An Intellectual Odyssey\nParticipating in DetectMind.com’s paid guest post program isn’t just about sharing—it’s an invitation to embark on an intellectual odyssey that fosters personal growth, elevates discourse, and contributes to the ongoing evolution of human understanding. By sharing your wisdom, you become a torchbearer of insight, an agent of enlightenment, and a steward of intellectual progress.\nNurturing Personal Enrichment: Engaging in DetectMind.com’s paid guest post program nurtures personal enrichment. The act of delving into subjects, articulating insights, and engaging with readers cultivates continuous self-improvement and intellectual maturation.\nCatalyzing Intellectual Dialogue: DetectMind.com provides writers a platform to catalyze intellectual dialogue. By presenting thought-provoking concepts, encouraging meaningful discussions, and offering unique perspectives, you contribute to the ongoing exchange of ideas.\nWeaving the Fabric of Wisdom: Illuminating wisdom involves weaving your insights into the fabric of human thought. Your contributions contribute to the evolving mosaic of human understanding, shaping how society grapples with complexity, embraces new concepts, and evolves over time.\nAccess to Illuminating Insights: DetectMind.com serves as a gateway to illuminating insights that challenge conventional thinking, stimulate critical reflection, and ignite intellectual curiosity. Readers gain access to a treasure trove of wisdom that invites contemplation and exploration.\nFostering Intellectual Curiosity: Engaging with guest posts on DetectMind.com fosters intellectual curiosity. The thought-provoking content encourages readers to delve deeper into subjects, question established norms, and foster a lifelong love for learning.\nEmpowerment through Knowledge: Many guest posts featured on DetectMind.com empower readers with practical knowledge and actionable insights. Readers are equipped with tools to navigate challenges, make informed decisions, and proactively shape their personal and professional journeys.\nCultivating a Community of Visionaries: DetectMind.com’s Role\nDetectMind.com is more than just a platform—it evolves into a thriving ecosystem that nurtures a global community of visionaries, thinkers, and seekers of wisdom. The platform plays a pivotal role in shaping the collective narrative of intellectual exploration through several key dimensions:\nFostering Collaborative Discovery:\nDetectMind.com serves as a hub where contributors from diverse backgrounds converge. This inclusive environment fosters collaborative discovery, enabling the convergence of perspectives and the exchange of insights that contribute to a holistic understanding of complex topics.\nChampioning Diversity of Thought:\nDetectMind.com encourages writers to champion diversity of thought by exploring unconventional angles, introducing innovative concepts, and challenging established norms. By celebrating a range of viewpoints, the platform enriches discourse and contributes to the vibrant mosaic of human thought.\nFacilitating Engaging Conversations:\nThe platform thrives on interactive conversations between contributors and readers. Through comments, discussions, and shared insights, DetectMind.com fosters engaging dialogues that elevate discourse quality and encourage readers to actively participate in the illumination of wisdom.\nInspiring Positive Transformation:\nDetectMind.com recognizes the potential of wisdom to inspire positive change. The platform features articles that not only offer intellectual insights but also motivate readers to apply newfound understanding in their lives, fostering personal growth and societal progress.\nCrafting an Enriching Narrative:\nDetectMind.com recognizes the value of storytelling in crafting an enriching narrative of wisdom. The platform encourages writers to infuse their articles with compelling narratives, relatable anecdotes, and thought-provoking scenarios. These narratives serve as bridges that connect abstract concepts with real-life experiences, making the journey of intellectual exploration captivating and relatable.\nConclusion: An Invitation to Illuminate\nIn a world where illuminating wisdom leads to intellectual enrichment and the digital discourse serves as a channel for the dissemination of knowledge, DetectMind.com extends an invitation to writers to contribute to the ongoing narrative. By participating in DetectMind.com’s paid guest post program, you become a beacon of insight, a torch of enlightenment, and a custodian of wisdom in the symphony of human understanding.\nAs you reflect on the significance of your contributions, remember that your words have the power to enlighten minds, broaden perspectives, and shape the intellectual trajectory of humanity. By embracing DetectMind.com’s paid guest post program, you position yourself as a guide to wisdom, a catalyst for intellectual curiosity, and a luminary in the quest to illuminate the path of human thought.\nIn a world where illuminating wisdom leads to the dawn of enlightenment, DetectMind.com invites you to contribute to the narrative. Step forward, share your wisdom, and become an integral part of the ongoing journey to illuminate minds and hearts with the brilliance of human insight. Your voice, your perspective, and your wisdom have the potential to ignite intellectual fires and leave an enduring mark on the tapestry of human wisdom.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.stjohnsec.org/lentendevotional", "date": "2017-04-25T20:14:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120878.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00074-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9684413075447083, "token_count": 625, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__221704983", "lang": "en", "text": "Scripture for the Day\nOf all the agony of this difficult day and the cruel events of Jesus arrest and crucifixion--the lacerations of the scourging, the gouging of the thorns pressed onto Jesus’ head, the desperate, uncomfortable movements of his tormented, dehydrated body as it hangs in the heat of mid-day--of all the physical agony, none of it compares to Jesus’ spiritual desolation in his cry of anguish, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”\nJesus found his purpose and his strength in the presence of God. He was sustained throughout his ministry by the immediacy of his relationship with the Creator. With the strength of divine intention, Jesus endured the constant need of the suffering people and the ridicule cast upon him by his own. Jesus withstood the questioning, the threats, the torments, the betrayals, the unjust circumstances because through prayer and the power of the Spirit, he felt connected to his Father.\nAfter all he has suffered, he finds himself alone on the cross as if abandoned by the very One who led him to this moment. Alone. Jesus found himself utterly, absolutely, despairingly disconnected. He feels cut off from all that gives life and breath, removed from all that gives purpose and hope. Jesus is separated from the source of his being. On the cross, he plumbs the depths of the human condition, hanging vulnerably in what seems the utter absence of God. He hangs for the benefit of sinners, in place of those who reject God. In that moment of despair, Jesus cries out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”\nIs there anyone who has not felt abandoned or at least separated from God at some point in life? In Jesus’ words of despair, we uncover one of the sacred mysteries of the crucifixion. In his terrible anguish and ultimate death, love reigns. We discover on this Good Friday that there is no despair so deep nor evil so overwhelming nor place so far removed from hope that God is not with us. Even as Jesus hangs in torment, the spirit of God will give him the strength to finish his life on earth in willing obedience. He will complete his mission of redemption and reconcile all of us in a forgiveness that is boundless and meant for all.\n“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Let Jesus’ cry remind you that God knows your pain and need. The Divine One suffers with you in your difficulties and takes upon God’s very self the bitterness of your sin and brokenness. And in that cry, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” remember that there is no place where God cannot meet you--in your suffering, in the darkness of sin. God does not forsake us, but in Jesus welcomes death so that we might live. As the darkness of Jesus’ death looms, even now and ever after, love still reigns.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lmanderson.com/2017/08/25/let-your-words-go/", "date": "2023-03-28T06:17:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948765.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328042424-20230328072424-00206.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9617522954940796, "token_count": 1013, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__73136185", "lang": "en", "text": "Why are we embarrassed to share our deepest selves?\nWhy do we think that sharing what we create is silly and stupid?\nI was eleven-years-old the first time I told God I wanted to be a writer, and I’ve pretty much told him that every day since then.\nBut I am too scared.\nAnd I am embarrassed.\nI’m not embarrassed because I think my writing isn’t any good. I think, honestly, maybe I am embarrassed because I know it is good. And it’s embarrassing to think about sharing my creative self with the world because I feel safer feeling like the hidden and timid idiot in the background.\nWhy the hell do I let those mean voices even have a say in what I do with the words I write? The voices that tell me I should just be quiet because it’s a silly pipe-dream to let my words out — why do I give them so much sway over the words inside me? Why do I let them determine what I share and how far I go?\nI have been telling God I want to be a writer every day for 12 years.\nBut the thought of letting my words out the open is embarrassing.\n“Causing a feeling of self-conscious confusion and distress.”\nI fell in love with words because of their incredible and complex ability to connect humans with the world around them; to connect us with God and each other in a way that we can feel and express and understand. I fell in love with words because of their way to reach the unreachable and express the inexpressible; their ability to reach us right where we are and give us the satisfying sigh of, “Yes, that’s me.”\nI love words because they have a rhythm, a design that is so intrinsically holy.\nI love words because In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him and apart from Him nothing has come into being that has come into being. In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it (John 1:1-5).\nI love words because Jesus is the Word, and the way the that holy and healing Light shines into that darkness I can’t shake… How can your eyes not mist over with reverent awe of adoration?\nBut I let my insecurity and my pettiness turn the words into something vile, something vain and something causing “self-conscious confusion and distress.”\nWhy would I let my words wander here?\nI love words because they have the capacity to reveal so much of Jesus and yet I choose to let them make me hide who he can be through me.\nI want to let my words go.\nI imagine — Jesus, the Word, with God in the beginning, through whom all things were created… Embarrassed. Shy. Feeling it would be much safer to hide.\nWhat if God didn’t create?\nWhat if He stopped creating?\nThe fact that there is creative fire burning inside the veins of his people is proof that God hasn’t finished telling his story.\nAre we listening?\nAre we listening to the divinic syllables, the holy orchestrations and the Christ-like heartbeats of story unfolding? Are we listening to the creative fibers that make our fingertips tremble and our voices shake?\nAre we listening to the story he’s telling, the song he’s singing; seeing the portrait he’s painting?\nAnd like any good story there are different views and characters; it has depth and emotion and rhythm and style and grace; different pieces all rising and falling together like an expansion of breath and maybe, just maybe, what this magnum opus needs is your breath, your beat, your piece and your perspective.\nSo let your words go.\nStop hiding behind embarrassment; get rid of the pride and let God tell his story through you.\nChildren of God,\nIt’s time to let the Word go.\nLet it run wild and free through the tips of your fingers and tongue; let it splash from your soul and onto canvas. Let the Light shine through; release it from the fear-soaked corridors and let it dance out into the hallways of your unfolding life. Let his life saturate your world through color, through sound, through dance, beat, anthem; through heartbeat storytelling and soul aching music making.\nLet the ultimate Creator create something beautiful inside your hurt, your tears and fears and heartbreaks and failures; let him set his brush to it. Let him sing his song to it.\nMy darlings, let your words go. Let them go.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.capturingserenity.com/resources", "date": "2019-10-19T16:17:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986696339.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20191019141654-20191019165154-00490.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7034594416618347, "token_count": 383, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__213693882", "lang": "en", "text": "Books I Recommend\nThe Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh\nThe Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown\nDaring Greatly by Brene Brown\nBrainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D.\nParenting From the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. & Mary Hartnell, M.Ed.\nHow To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adel Faber & Elaine Mazlish\nAlways My Child: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding Your Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered or Questioning Son or Daughter by Kevin Jennings\nThe Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman\nGetting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.\nHold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson\nThe Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gotten, Ph.D.\nGetting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy by Francine Shapiro, Ph.D.\nThe Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.\nCrisis and Support\nLines and Links\nSuicide Prevention Lifeline : 1-800-273-TALK (8255)\nReporting Abuse, Neglect or Exploitation of Child or Adult: 1-800-922-5330\nAlcohol and Drug Abuse Helpline (SAMHSA): 1-800-662-HELP (4357)\nSex Addicts Anonymous:\nFind an Al-Anon and Alateen meeting:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.timberpress.com/author/mary_toomey/986", "date": "2019-03-25T01:52:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203547.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325010547-20190325032547-00253.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.947697103023529, "token_count": 140, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__56739127", "lang": "en", "text": "Home > Author profile\nMary Toomey, Ph.D., trained as a biologist, botanist, entomologist, and soil ecologist. A keen gardener, she has been growing and studying clematis for more than 30 years. She is currently editor of The Clematis, the journal of the British Clematis Society. She lectures widely on clematis, gardens, and gardening, and has written a number of previous books and articles. Born in Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), she now lives in Dublin, Ireland.\nBooks by Mary Toomey\nAn Illustrated Encyclopedia of Clematis by Mary Toomey and Everett Leeds", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.librarya.com/eBooks-View-171426=A-Clinical-Guide-to-Pediatric-Sleep-Diagnosis-and-Management-of-Sleep-Problems-%0A%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%87%D9%86%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D9%87.html", "date": "2021-04-17T21:28:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038464045.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20210417192821-20210417222821-00587.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9029276371002197, "token_count": 164, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__7725000", "lang": "en", "text": "This book is written for the busy primary care practitioner who needs a practical clinical guide to sleep disorders and their treatment. Information on the most common pediatric sleep disorders is organized by specific disorder and by the most frequent presenting complaints. The emphasis is on the practical application of diagnostic strategies and treatment options. Symptom-based algorithms will enable the practitioner to evaluate sleep complaints in a stepwise manner. Other features include: symptom checklists for specific disorders, a chapter on sleep and medications, and a chapter on sleep problems in special populations. Appendices provide practical tools the practitioner can use to screen for sleep problems, evaluate sleep studies, and provide information and resources for families.\nAn accompanying CD-ROM includes printable patient education handouts, a list of resources for families, and several sleep evaluation and screening questionnaires.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://keepbizzy.com/famous-fictional-characters-with-adhd/", "date": "2020-11-30T22:56:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141515751.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20201130222609-20201201012609-00683.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9774355292320251, "token_count": 998, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__40779992", "lang": "en", "text": "It can be hard to find good examples of characters in popular media with ADHD, largely because many times the diagnosis is never directly stated, and it is up to fans to determine which of their favorite characters share their condition. Fortunately, the fans have done their job and vocally shared which famous fictional characters have ADHD, and there are more than you might think.\nThere are lots of great characters with ADHD in film, television, and literature. These characters are generally some of the most loveable in their respective mediums, providing great representations of how having ADHD is merely a part of who they are, not the entirety. Hopefully, with the success of all these characters, there will soon be more in future, but here’s a list of some of the most famous fictional characters with ADHD that are around today.\nEmma Woodhouse— Emma\nEmma Woodhouse is the lovable but flawed protagonist of Jane Austen’s novel Emma. The novel has been adapted multiple times, though perhaps its best reincarnation is the 1996 movie of the same name starring Gwyneth Paltrow.\nIn both versions, Emma is a bit of a busybody—she likes to play matchmaker and meddles in the lives of those around her despite their insistence that she stop. Like those with ADHD in real life, she often misreads the intentions and thoughts of other people, leading to a mess of problems. Despite this, however, it can never be doubted that Emma has a good heart. Though she makes a mess of things, she is just as easily able to fix them and learns about herself in the process.\nScarlett O’Hara—Gone with the Wind\nThe lead in both an iconic book and an iconic movie, many may overlook that the character of Scarlett O’Hara possesses many qualities of people with ADHD. One of the defining characteristics of Scarlett is her impulsive nature, bringing about many of her interpersonal conflicts. Scarlett is also known for growing bored rather quickly, always on the lookout for stimulation. Scarlett is such a great character because she is so complex, leaving many fans wondering whether they love her or hate her at several points throughout the narrative, kind of like people in real life.\nPercy Jackson—Percy Jackson and the Olympians\nPercy Jackson is one of the few characters on this list whose diagnosis is very straightforwardly conveyed to the audience. As a young teen, Percy in both the books and movies has always struggled staying still and paying attention because of his ADHD. When he discovers he is a demigod, he is told that his ADHD serves a very specific purpose—battle-ready reflexes and laser-sharp focus when it counts. Percy also has dyslexia, because, as he finds out, his brain is hardwired for ancient Greek.\nPercy is a great example of a young character with ADHD who puts his condition to good use. With his sarcastic wit and tendency toward heroics, he is perhaps one of the most loved famous fictional characters with ADHD out there, providing a great role model to young readers. Percy Jackson is special, especially when you think about how Rick Riordan’s own son has ADHD and dyslexia, providing the inspiration for the character.\nJuno revolves around teen pregnancy and early motherhood and focuses on the titular character, Juno. Juno is a strong, confident character with ADHD who has wicked-smart dialogue and comebacks. Her impulsivity gets her into trouble throughout the film, but audiences love her for her candor and wit. Juno represents a great example of a character with ADHD who is confident in herself, making her a great example of a famous fictional character with ADHD.\nBarney Stinson—How I Met Your Mother\nPortrayed by the infallible Neal Patrick Harris, Barney Stinson is one of the most notable and memorable characters in How I Met Your Mother and in recent TV memory. This is due to a combination of Harris’ stellar performance and the wacky nature of the character. Barney is a great example of someone whose attention jumps around and who is often filled with an excited energy, ready to take on New York with whatever antics he has up his sleeve next. While there are a few problematic aspects to his character (notably, the womanizing), there is no arguing that Barney is darn entertaining to watch.\nBart Simpson—The Simpsons\nThe male child in the long-running adult cartoon The Simpsons, Bart is diagnosed within the show as having ADHD. Bart is a very mischievous character, though this cannot be linked with his ADHD condition, as he is essentially the same character before and after he starts his medication for it. Rather, we should attribute Bart’s ability to think outside the box as the main quality that he takes on from his ADHD that he applies in his everyday life.\nFeature image via Understood.org", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://kremen.fresnostate.edu/about/directory/castillo-yuleinys.html", "date": "2023-03-21T18:12:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943704.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321162614-20230321192614-00600.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8278382420539856, "token_count": 369, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__191531288", "lang": "en", "text": "Dr. Yuleinys A. Castillo, LPC, LPCC, CRC is an Assistant Professor in the Clinical\nRehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling Program at California State University,\nFresno. Dr. Castillo has experience providing mental health counseling, vocational\nservices, transition assistance, and assessments to diverse individuals in public\nand private settings. A passionate advocate of equity and social justice, her research\nactivities focus on the experience of individuals from a minoritized background in\nhigher education and employment. Dr. Castillo has published her scholarship work in\ndifferent journals and has presented at the regional, national and international levels.\nShe is a License Professional Counselor (TX) and a Licensed Professional Clinical\nCounselor (CA) with experience working with individuals with diverse backgrounds and\nMost recent scholarly work:\nCastillo, Y. A., Rinehart, K., Fischer, J., & Weber, W. (2021). Strategies and barriers to work behavior\nchanges: Perceptions of prevocational rehabilitation professionals. Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, 53 (3), 1–18.\nManiss, S. & Castillo, Y.A., Cartwright, J. & Yznaga, S. (2021). Crisis counseling\nself-efficacy: Personal abilities and situational influences. Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice, 7(2). https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/jhstrp/vol7/iss2/4\nCastillo, Y.A., & Larson, A. (2020). Attitudes towards people with disabilities:Systematic review\nof intervention effectiveness. COUNS-EDU: The International Journal of Counseling and Education, 5(2).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://creationtonewcreation.com/free-ebooks-from-desiringgod-org/", "date": "2023-01-31T14:41:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499871.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20230131122916-20230131152916-00392.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8904769420623779, "token_count": 350, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__27513247", "lang": "en", "text": "Desiring God has a wealth of resources available, including many books, available HERE. The great majority are by John Piper, but some are by other authors and editors. Most of the books are available as free ebooks in multiple formats, including PDF. The others are available for purchase (some have samples available as PDFs). All the PDFs available are printable (in other words, printing is not disabled). Here is just a small selection of the books available as free ebooks. Under each title is the link to the page where you can read more about the book, and download the ebook. Unless otherwise stated, the books are by John Piper. You can find out more about Desiring God HERE.\nDesigned for Joy: How the Gospel Impacts Men and Women, Identity and Practice edited by Jonathan Parnell and Owen Strachan.\nDon’t Waste Your Life (A Study Guide is also available from the download menu for this book.)\nFor the Fame of God’s Name: Essays in Honor of John Piper edited by Sam Storms and Justin Taylor.\nHabits of Grace: Enjoying Jesus Through the Spiritual Disciplines by David Mathis. A Study Guide is available HERE.\nThe Romantic Rationalist: God, Life, and Imagination in the Work of C. S. Lewis edited by John Piper and David Mathis.\nStill Not Professionals: Ten Pleas for Today’s Pastors with contributions by John Piper, Daniel L. Akin, Thabiti Anyabwile, Mike Bullmore, Sam Crabtree, Raymond C. Ortlund, R. C. Sproul, Jeff Vanderstelt, and Douglas Wilson.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jodyfrench.com/", "date": "2021-11-29T15:05:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358774.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20211129134323-20211129164323-00376.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8215169906616211, "token_count": 519, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__18273027", "lang": "en", "text": "JODY FRENCH- AUTHOR\nWelcome to my site! I'm a small town girl who loves to write stories for young people. My first book, Red Dirt Rocker is currently available on Amazon.com, and my second book, ROCK ANGEL, is due to be released on October 17th, 2019. Rock Angel can be ordered at www.amazon.com, www.target.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, and www.ebay.com. Rock Angel can also be purchased from www.waterstones.com in the UK!\nI'm grateful to all of my reader friends who have been gracious enough to read what comes from my heart.\nOrder your copy of RED DIRT ROCKER and ROCK ANGEL\nClick on~BOOKS~to order\n\"RED DIRT ROCKER\" --Inspired by Forrest French, former lead singer/guitarist for teen rock band, EMI-Capital Recording Artists, CROOKED X ~~~~~\nFORREST AND I WITH OUR FAVORITE SINGER/SONGWRITER, CHRIS STAPLETON\nFORREST WITH THE DALLAS COWBOY CHEERLEADERS AS WRITTEN ABOUT IN\nRED DIRT ROCKER--\nFORREST HOPING SOME OF THE \"COOL\" RUBS OF ON HIM---HE AND SAMUEL L. JACKSON HANGING OUT AT THE VIDEO GAME AWARDS IN LAS VEGAS ~~2009\nFORREST WITH MISS TAYLOR SWIFT BACK IN THE DAY\n(He said she was sooo beautiful and had the face of a china doll)\nFor you Skid Row fans--Snake Sabo with us at one of Forrest's concerts in Tulsa! Donnie Frizzell is on the left~ Fun night!\nFORREST SINGING ON STAGE WITH BRETT MICHAELS AT ROCKLAHOMA!\n--\"AINT NOTHIN' BUT A GOOD TIME!!\"\nWell, my beautiful reader friends, today I'm absolutely thrilled to announce that my book, Rock Angel, is available for purchase!! https://www.amazon.com/Rock-Angel-Jody-French/dp/1684333555/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=rock+angel&qid=1582059609&sr=8-3", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://saintjosephhs.com/mrs-anne-schratz/", "date": "2023-10-02T00:26:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510942.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002001302-20231002031302-00383.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.963229775428772, "token_count": 184, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__100196744", "lang": "en", "text": "Welcome from Mrs. Schratz!\n“I believe in Christ like I believe in the sun- not because I can see it, but by it I can see everything else.” -C.S.Lewis Oh, hey! I’m Mrs. Schratz and learning is an absolute passion of mine; we are each called to increase from less to more by design. I earned my BA in Education and Communications from Seton Hill University and I am currently enrolled for my MA in Theology at Franciscan University. The freshman English and sophomore Religion courses are designed to support and encourage students to more fully understand the world around them, and ultimately to discover God’s perfect & unique purpose for their lives through the lens of classic writing and the teachings of the Holy Catholic Church. I look forward to sharing my love of literature and the joy of Jesus with you!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.littlestartsgiftcards.com/brands/9990eff9-ff5f-4057-92e7-08cf99446625/little-folk-nursery-rhymes", "date": "2024-04-12T18:03:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816045.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412163227-20240412193227-00635.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9424433708190918, "token_count": 129, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__178232986", "lang": "en", "text": "Little Folk Nursery Rhymes classes are packed full of nursery rhyme fun for babes-in-arms and upwards.\nLed by Cat Bateman and her guitar, each 45-minute session uses fun props and puppets to get your little ones involved and includes the much-loved older rhymes and some upbeat, newer ones too.\nBabies will learn while they listen, toddlers will learn while they sing, and parents tell us they enjoy these groups as much as their little ones!\nSearch for your nearest Little Folk Nursery Rhymes class here and book a place using your Little Starts Gift Card.\nJoin our newsletter", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.driccpe.org.uk/portfolio-view/drawing-dreams-the-transformational-experience-of-expressing-dream-imagery-as-art", "date": "2018-02-20T17:30:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891813059.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20180220165417-20180220185417-00474.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9149628281593323, "token_count": 116, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__225344987", "lang": "en", "text": "An examination of methods of structured inquiry into personal dream experience, illustrated by the heuristic research that led to the development of Judy Pascoe’s “Drawing from the Night” workshop. (See DRI News for the dates of future workshops.)\nJudy Pascoe, MA, Dip. Psychotherapy, is a writer and psychotherapist in London. She has a Diploma and MA in Transpersonal Psychotherapy (CCPE) and practices in London as a psychotherapist with a particular interest in using dreams and art to aid in psychological transformation.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://abcpediatria.com/category/wedding", "date": "2024-03-03T03:57:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476180.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303011622-20240303041622-00339.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9256897568702698, "token_count": 561, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__137905924", "lang": "en", "text": "The pinnacle of romance is often realized in the seamless orchestration of a couple’s most significant day their wedding. In the grand tapestry of love, where emotions interlace with dreams, a wedding planner emerges as the maestro, skillfully conducting the symphony of vows and celebrations. Scaling heights with a wedding planner transcends the mundane; it transforms an event into a timeless narrative, etching the love story into the hearts of all who witness it. Picture a couple standing at the threshold of their journey together, gazing at the vast horizon of possibilities. This is where the wedding planner steps in, a guide in crafting the ascent to the pinnacle of their shared life. The planner, armed with creativity and precision, begins by understanding the nuances of the couple’s love story – the delicate brushstrokes that define their connection.\nEvery detail becomes a note in the melody, from the choice of venue that whispers of their shared adventures to the color palette that resonates with the cadence of their emotions. As the couple ascends the heights of romance, the wedding planner unfurls a panorama of possibilities. Each decision, from the ethereal floral arrangements to the delectable symphony of flavors on the menu, is curated to elevate the celebration along Events by Natasha, wedding planner and co-ordinator. The planner becomes a conduit between the couple’s dreams and the reality of their special day, ensuring that every moment is an echo of their love, resonating through time. The collaboration with a wedding planner is akin to embarking on a thrilling ascent with a seasoned guide. The planner’s expertise becomes the compass, navigating through the intricate landscape of wedding logistics. From coordinating vendors to orchestrating timelines, the planner scales the peaks of organization with finesse, allowing the couple to focus on the pure joy of the journey.\nThe pinnacle of romance is not merely reached; it is crafted, sculpted by the hands of a skillful artisan – the wedding planner. The planner transforms the couple’s vision into a breathtaking reality, creating a tapestry of memories that will be cherished for a lifetime. It is in the twinkle of fairy lights, the gentle rustle of the bride’s gown, and the heartfelt speeches that echo through the venue. Each element contributes to the crescendo of emotions, lifting the celebration to unparalleled heights. In the end, the wedding planner becomes the silent architect of a love story’s climax, where the couple, hand in hand, stands at the zenith of their romance. The pinnacle is not just an elevation; it is an experience crafted with love, passion, and the meticulous touch of a wedding planner who has scaled the heights of romance countless times before.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://usernamerob.blogspot.com/2009/08/guardian-angels.html", "date": "2017-03-29T09:09:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218190236.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212950-00589-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.986417293548584, "token_count": 348, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__171699704", "lang": "en", "text": "One week into my first summer sales experience I sprained my ankle. Three days later I tried crutches. One week later I was making no money and hobbling around in pain all day. All positive thinking and pick me ups had failed. Even calling my Mom did not work as it usually does.\nOn the day it all came crashing down and I found myself slumped against a concrete wall head hanging. My ankle was throbbing, I couldn’t walk and couldn’t sell. My hopes of financial freedom had been taken from me. It seemed like I sat for hours. As the sun sank, my spirits already at an all-time low, did as well. The faint glow of the half-broken street light was all that kept me from sinking back into the evening shadows. I felt numb, empty, I couldn’t even dredge up the emotion to feel sorry for myself. I composed a silent prayer and tossed it aloft pleading for some kind of deliverance.\nIn this woeful state a man approached me. I had seen him earlier standing in his open garage shirt off cigarette dangling precariously from his lip. He seemed almost embarrassed as he spoke, telling me in a few short words of his own sales experience years earlier. Then he handed me a sandwich and a bag of chips and walked away.\nIn that moment my body couldn’t decide what emotion it was feeling. Sorrow, joy, comfort and a deep overwhelming sense of gratitude swept through me.\nAs I bit into the sandwich my tears dotted the sidewalk.\nI did not know this man and likely would never see him again, but I silently thanked God for sending one of his angels.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lxxre.wordpress.com/editors/", "date": "2023-05-29T09:52:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644817.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529074001-20230529104001-00587.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8966572284698486, "token_count": 567, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__145494949", "lang": "en", "text": "The editors of Septuaginta: A Reader’s Edition are Gregory R. Lanier and William A. Ross.\nGregory R. Lanier\n(Ph.D., University of Cambridge) Greg is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Dean of Students at Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando; he also serves as Associate Pastor at River Oaks Church. He specializes in early Christology, the Synoptic Gospels, textual criticism, and the Greek OT. His publications include Old Testament Conceptual Metaphors and the Christology of Luke’s Gospel (LNTS 591; T&T Clark, 2018), How We Got the Bible: Old and New Testament Canon and Text (Christian Focus, forthcoming), and several articles published in the Journal of Biblical Literature, TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism, New Testament Studies, Journal of Theological Studies, Currents of Biblical Research, Journal of Septuagint and Cognate Studies, Biblica, and the Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. He lives in Orlando with his wife and three daughters, and maintains a blog at glanier.wordpress.com.\nWilliam A. Ross\n(Ph.D. candidate, University of Cambridge) Will is a Cambridge Trust Scholar completing a dissertation related to Septuagint lexicography and language change in the transmission of LXX-Judges. He is a member of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (IOSCS) and chair of the Septuagint Studies consultation at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS). His research focuses on Septuagint, Old Testament textual history, and linguistics and biblical lexicography. William has published An Interpretive Lexicon of New Testament Greek (Zondervan 2014), and is co-editing a forthcoming handbook on the Septuagint (T&T Clark, target 2019). He has also contributed to several edited volumes related to Septuagint scholarship, has published articles in Biblica, Novum Testamentum, and Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft, and is a contributor to the ongoing Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (Mohr Siebeck). He lives in Cambridge with his wife and three sons, and maintains a blog at williamaross.com.\nWe would also like to thank the excellent team at Hendrickson Publishers, especially Jonathan Kline (Ph.D. Harvard), Phil Frank, and Tirzah Frank. It has been a joy to work with them on this complex project, and we cannot commend them highly enough for their sustained energy and attention to detail!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thisisld.com/blog/how-dr-seuss-successfully-wrangled-constraints-and-how-you-can-too/", "date": "2023-11-30T14:41:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100227.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20231130130218-20231130160218-00322.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9567688703536987, "token_count": 1105, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__98196894", "lang": "en", "text": "Did you know that when Dr. Seuss started to write ‘The Cat in the Hat,’ he felt overwhelmed by the constraints set by the publisher? The limitations that they imposed were challenging, to say the least. The story could only have a maximum of 200 words, and the publisher included a list of only 350 different words that could be used. Crucially, the story needed to be engaging and lively for children learning to read. Nonetheless, Dr. Seuss managed to overcome these restraints to create ‘The Cat in the Hat,’ a classic, childhood-favourite book that has sold over 16 million copies.\nPhoto Credit: Daniel X. O’Neil via Flickr\nOften, we see constraints as hurdles to great creativity. We perceive them as obstacles that will impede us from creating something that otherwise could be better. In most instances, constraints are related to circumstance or context. They can include deadlines, tangible aspects that make a task physically impossible, or rules that need to be accepted. Constraints can also be self-created or appear in the form of mental roadblocks. Like when we tell ourselves that it’s the constraints that are limiting the depth and breadth of an idea. Or, that constraints create too much compromise and take away from the quality of the final result. At the end of the day though, it doesn’t matter where constraints come from. What’s more important is understanding how to work with and through them to minimise their disadvantages.\nWhen working through a challenge, there is a tendency to amplify constraints by focusing on them first. This can make them sound worse than they are. In many instances, constraints aren’t the enemy. On the contrary, research has found that they can boost creativity and problem-solving. They can help guide, innovate, and even inspire creative thinking.\nOften though, we get stuck at the beginning of the creative process when constraints overwhelm everything else, as we focus more on what we can’t do, instead of what we can do. This is because barriers (aka constraints) have been clearly identified and articulated, whereas a solution remains unknown. Over time we start to see creative sparks fly, and we begin to think about ways to work around constraints or solutions to work through them. We connect our ideas in different ways (often by asking ourselves ‘what if’) and reframe the situation. This leads to new possibilities, and our focus moves to the core challenge. Yet the process of working through constraints is not easy. Time is spent chasing multiple ideas as they evolve, and then frequently having to let go of them or move in a different direction because they don’t completely work or solve the problem. But, when an optimal solution appears, discomfort turns to satisfaction or even joy! The constraints are harnessed, and the project can move forward.\nTo wrangle constraints, you need to get comfortable dealing with them. The best way to achieve this is through practice. Here are three exercises to get you started:\nThe 6-word story. Try to come up with a story that’s only six words long. If you want to make it easier, start with eight words, before trying six. For example, ‘The waves fought with each other.’\nWithout using directional words (right, left, north, up, down, etc.), explain to someone or write instructions for how to get from your kitchen to your letterbox.\nThe next time you eat a meal, try swapping the hands you typically use for your knife and fork.\nBy completing these activities (and others like them), you rehearse how to engage with constraints and become desensitised to the discomfort surrounding them. You also begin to use your energy to reframe a challenge to expose yourself to possibilities that were not initially obvious.\nLike Dr. Seuss, all of us encounter constraints in the workplace and our daily lives. My top tips for working through them include:\n- Be calm. Don’t let the stress (or fear) associated with a constraint take over your thinking. If you are focusing too much on the constraint, step away and do something else. Come back when you can balance the constraint in proportion to the challenge.\n- Be open when free-thinking about solutions and workarounds. Don’t discount ideas straight away; instead, park them and let them simmer in the background. What might happen is that you’ll get another great idea and are then able to combine your thoughts into an optimal solution that accounts for the constraint without overemphasising its weight.\n- Ask questions. Questions are tools for collecting information and reframing situations. It helps even if you are only asking questions to yourself. Write both your questions and your answers down (ideally, using pen and paper!)—the connection between your brain and hands when writing often brings clarifying insight.\nRemember, constraints aren’t always bad and could lead to work that positively influences the world—just like ‘The Cat in the Hat’ did for millions of children learning to read. However, like Dr. Seuss, know when to ignore a constraint if doing so could create an even better result. In the end, ‘The Cat in the Hat’ had 236 words, instead of the originally allotted 200. Bravo, Dr. Seuss!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://steeltownchamps.com/articles/si-pittsburgh-steelers-pride-in-black-and-gold--2", "date": "2015-08-02T00:09:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042988924.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002308-00030-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9678146243095398, "token_count": 799, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-32", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-32__0__165912485", "lang": "en", "text": "In honor of the Pittsburgh Steelers celebrating their 80th season, Sport Illustrated has released a commemorative book titled Pittsburgh Steelers: Pride in Black and Gold, and wow, what a book it is. Every Steelers fan out there, from die hard to bandwagon, should get themselves a copy of this book.\nFrom the minute you open the cover and see the image of Mean Joe Green's helmet up close, scratched, battered, and worn, you know you are about to get a glimpse into what Pittsburgh Steelers football is all about. From images of Lynn Swann, John Stallworth, and Franco Harris on the sidelines to images of todays modern day Steelers such as Troy Polamalu, Pittsburgh Steelers: Pride in Black and Gold has it all covered.\nTim Layden took on the challenge of writing the introduction to a book about a team that needs no introduction. In a few short pages, covered in pictures of the Rooneys and the coaches that led the great Steelers teams to Super Bowl Championships, Layden captured the title of his introduction perfectly: The Heart of The City. He explained how the Steelers grabbed that distinction, and also told how they have managed to keep it alive and well right up to this very second.\nNo book about the Pittsburgh Steelers would be complete without a section on the famous Terrible Towel. What makes it even better and makes it hit home for us Pittsburghers its that its told in the words of the great Myron Cope. They are excerpted from an issue of Sports Illustrated originally published on July 30, 1979 and tell the story of how the Terrible Towel came to be a universal symbol for Pittsburgh Steelers Football. While reading Myron's story you are treated to images of the Terrible Towel being displayed in unique and entertaining locations including wrapped around every newborn delivered at Pittsburghs Magee-Womens Hospital, and being waved out the windows of an airplane landing in Dallas Texas during Super Bowl XLV.\nOver the next 80-ish pages some of the greatest players in Steelers history are rewarded with a page dedicated to just them (and more great images) and what they have achieved in Pittsburgh. Many of these players are well known even among the youngest Steelers fans, and yet some are names that to the regular fan mean nothing. Only the die hard fans will recognize those players that were Steelers before the 70's, guys like Bobby Lane who is better known for leaving a curse on the Detroit Lions after they sent him packing to Pittsburgh.\nFinally the remainder of the book is dedicated to, you guessed it, the six Super Bowl Championships the Steelers possess. Each Super Bowl is given several pages dedicated to fantastic photography and the amazing story of the game. There are also several more excerpts from past issues of Sports Illustrated that help to let the readers know what things were like at the moment of each of those victories.\nThe many Writers and Photographers that contributed to this book managed to make the history of the Pittsburgh Steelers jump right out of the pages and pull you back in with them. Each and every section was accompanied by images that show you exactly what the authors are describing. Many of todays young Steelers fans will get a deeper appreciation for the rich tradition that was founded long before their time, as well as a history lesson about the all time great people that have built a team that was so correctly described as \"The Heart of The City\". As the younger generations receive their history lesson, the older generations that witnessed the days of the \"Steel Curtain\" will be taken back to their own memories of the teams they have seen win six Super Bowls.\nIf you haven't already made up your mind to add this book to your Pittsburgh Steelers collection then let me just add this one last statement, this book just vaulted itself to being one of the best pieces in my extensive collection and will easily be passed down to future generations of Steelers fans ensuring that the history and tradition will live on forever.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://en.we-refugees-archive.org/archive/berlin-its-a-consolation/", "date": "2023-12-01T14:11:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100287.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201120231-20231201150231-00619.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9710714817047119, "token_count": 406, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__122534809", "lang": "en", "text": "In an interview, the writer Widad Nabi speaks about what Berlin means to her.\nA city, it has no interest in your identity.\nBerlin does not care about your nationality, skin color, religion or ideological convictions.\nIt says to its inhabitants: ‘Be as you are and as you love.’\nBerlin has free spaces. The person inside can be isolated in their house and not meet anyone.\nPeople can watch, dance and sing in the street with friends until the morning.\nAnd I do everything like Berliners.\n“A city, it has no interest in your identity.\nBerlin doesn’t care about your nationality, skin color, religion or ideological conviction.\nIt says to its inhabitants: ‘Be as you are and how you love.’\nBerlin has open spaces. People can be isolated in their houses and not meet anybody.\nPeople can watch, dance, and sing with their friends on the street until the morning.\nAnd I do everything like the Berliners do.”\nWidad Nabi was born in Kobani and now lives in Berlin. The Syrian-Kurdish writer studied economics in Aleppo. She published numerous texts in newspapers and magazines. In Germany, she has published in the Berliner Zeitung, SPON and Kursbuch, among others. Her first book in German was published in 2019 and in 2018 she received the first “Weiterschreiben-Stipendium Wiesbaden”.\nIn her texts Widad Nabi deals with the loss of familiar places, people and languages, but also with her arrival in the new city of Berlin. Her poems, which are published in the “Weiterschreiben”, can also be listened to there.\nIn a written interview with We Refugees Archive in July 2020, Widad Nabi answered questions about her life in Berlin, her memories and hopes.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://cherry-testblog.blogspot.com/p/wishlist-highpriority.html", "date": "2017-04-27T05:03:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121869.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00048-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9482979774475098, "token_count": 1211, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__273608985", "lang": "en", "text": "The Riddler's Gift by Greg Hamerton\nBook 1 of the Tales Of The Lifesong series\nAbout The Riddler's Gift:\nIn a time when the world was ravaged by chaos, one kingdom remains; ordered, isolated, protected. Then Tabitha Serannon awakens an ancient power and the world begins to change.Source: Info in the About The Riddler's Gift was taken from the author's website at http://greghamerton.com/lifesong/the-riddlers-gift/ on 04/09/2010.\nShe is hunted for her talent. The Shadowcasters whisper in her ears as their evil closes around her. Soon the Riddler walks beside her, but is he on her side?\nShe has a moment to learn the magic before she loses her grasp of the Lifesong, but the path she must follow leads into Darkness; into terror, treachery and desire.\nTo survive she must give voice to a music that she hardly understands, an enchantment that will echo through all time.\nGenre: urban fantasy\nJanet Begay is a Stormwalker--one who can channel the power of storms to work great magic. The desert town of Magellan is no stranger to the weird--vortexes that hold mystical energy lie just outside of town, and the residents are used to shape shifters, witches, shamans, and the occasional blood-sucking Nightwalker. Janet comes to Magellan to find a missing woman and confront her past, and she discovers secrets, lies, and hidden dangers. She'll need all the help she can get: from Mick, the mysterious fire-wielder who springs back into her life; from Coyote, a trickster god; from Jamison, her Changer friend; and from Nash, the Unbeliever sheriff who may be more powerful than all of them combined.Source: Info in the above synopsis was taken from the author's website at http://allysonjames.com/ on 10/10/10.\nFirewalker by Allyson James\nBook 2 of the Walker series.\nGenre: urban fantasy\nWhen Mick goes missing, it's up to Janet to find him and figure out how to keep him safe from persecution by his own people. She'll need a little help from her friends, old and new: Nash and Coyote; Cassandra, a wicked Wicca; and a few strange beings who are stirring things up in Magellan.Source: Info in the above synopsis was taken from the author's website at http://allysonjames.com/ on 10/10/10.\nA Kiss Before The Apocalypse by Thomas E. Sniegoski\nBook 1 of the Remy Chandler series\nAbout A Kiss Before The Apocalypse:\n\"The most inventive novel you'll buy this year.\" - Christopher GoldenSource: Info in the About A Kiss Before The Apocalypse was taken from the author's website at http://www.sniegoski.com/apocalypse/apocalypse.html on 24/08/2010.\nBoston P.I. Remy Chandler has many talents. He can will himself invisible, he can speak and understand any foreign language (including the language of animals), and if he listens carefully, he can hear thoughts.\nUnusual, to say the least - for an ordinary man. But Remy is no ordinary man - he's an angel. Generations ago, he chose to renounce heaven and live on Earth. He's found a place among us ordinary humans; friendship, a job he's good at - and love.\nNow he is being drawn into a case with strong ties to his angelic past. The Angel of Death has gone missing - and Remy's former colleagues have come to him for help. But what at first seems to be about tracing a missing person turns out to involve much more - a conspiracy that has as its goal the destruction of the human race.\nAnd only Remy Chandler, formerly known as the angel Remiel, can stop it.\nDancing On The Head Of A Pin by Thomas E. Sniegoski\nBook 2 of the Remy Chandler series\nAbout Dancing On The Head Of A Pin:\nStill mourning the loss of his wife, fallen angel Remy Chandler has immersed himself in investigating dangerous supernatural cases. His latest: the theft of a cache of ancient weaponry stolen from a collector who deals in antiquities of a dark and dubious nature. The weapons, Remy knows, were forged eons ago and imbued with unimaginable power. And if they fall into the wrong hands, they could be used to destroy not only Heaven but also Earth.Source: Info in the About Dancing On The Head Of A Pinwas taken from the author's website at http://www.sniegoski.com/apocalypse/pin.html on 05/09/2010.\nWhere Angels Fear To Tread by Thomas E. Sniegoski\nBook 3 of the Remy Chandler series\nAbout Where Angels Fear To Tread:\nSix-year-old Zoe York has been taken and her mother has come to Remy for help. She shows him crude, childlike drawings that she claims are Zoe's visions of the future, everything leading up to her abduction, and some beyond. Like the picture of a man with wings who would come and save her - a man who is an angel.Source: Info in the About Where Angels Fear To Treadwas taken from the author's website at http://www.sniegoski.com/apocalypse/tread.html on 05/09/2010.\nZoe's preternatural gifts have made her a target for those who wish to exploit her power to their own destructive ends. The search will take Remy to dark places he would rather avoid. But to save an innocent, Remy will ally himself with a variety of lesser evils - and his soul may pay the price...", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.trinitygalv.org/group/trinity-church-online-classroom/discussion/13205d71-2afb-4bc3-8122-2321b6b295a7", "date": "2023-09-26T02:43:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510130.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926011608-20230926041608-00393.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9502685070037842, "token_count": 176, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__235671091", "lang": "en", "text": "My thoughts surrounding the parable of the prodigal son always revolve around the relationships between the people in the story. So I would rename it the relationship parable. Because the relationships are so varied and because they change during the course of the story, I believe most everyone who reads it can identify with one or more of the characters depicted. We've all been the brash young son, the equitable father, the humbled young son, the worried grieving father, the compassionate forgiving father, the rejoicing father, the loyal older son, the cynical dissatisfied older son, the peacemaking father - and if not, we have certainly been close bystanders to these very relationship dynamics. I think this is why the story of the prodigal son always been popularly depicted in art and remains a favorite text for preaching and study.\ntop of page\nbottom of page", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.rubyhamad.com/about", "date": "2024-04-18T20:40:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817239.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418191007-20240418221007-00131.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.949773371219635, "token_count": 182, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__170167410", "lang": "en", "text": "Ruby Hamad is an author and academic with a journalism background. She is in the second half of a PhD in media studies at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.\nHer best-selling debut book WHITE TEARS/BROWN SCARS traces the role that White Womanhood and feminism have played in the development of Western power structures. The non-fiction book was inspired by her viral 2018 essay 'How White Women Use Strategic Tears to Silence Women of Colour', which was published in Guardian Australia and became a global flashpoint for discussions of race and gender.\nRuby spent five years as a columnist for Fairfax media's flagship feminist portal Daily Life. Her columns, analysis, literary reviews and essays have also featured in Australian publications The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Crikey and Eureka St, and internationally in The Guardian, Prospect Magazine, The New York Times, and Gen Medium.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://tiffanyjenkinsinfo.com/", "date": "2021-11-27T04:42:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964358118.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20211127043716-20211127073716-00543.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9410526156425476, "token_count": 211, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__12830717", "lang": "en", "text": "Tiffany Jenkins is a writer, author and broadcaster. Her book Keeping Their Marbles: How Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There (OUP) was described in the Sunday Times as ‘an outstanding achievement, clear-headed, wide-ranging and incisive.‘ She is writing a book for Picador provisionally titled, The Rise and Fall of Private Life.\nTiffany hosts the Behind the Scenes at the Museum podcast. Listen to the episode on censorship and self-censorship. She presented the BBC Radio 4 series A Narrative History of Secrecy, & Contracts of Silence on NDA. She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, a former visiting fellow at the LSE, and holds a PhD in sociology. She is author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority, and editor of Political Culture: Soft Interventions and Nation Building.\nContact her via her agent, Toby Mundy.\nPhoto: Chris Close.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.biovista.com/research/bea/", "date": "2021-06-16T20:58:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487626008.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20210616190205-20210616220205-00565.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.886088490486145, "token_count": 149, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__17067402", "lang": "en", "text": "Why BEA makes a difference\nBEA gives you a new way of using the literature to advance your work.\n- No longer do you need to specify your search parameters exactly.\n- No longer do you need to shift through long lists of paper titles to find the ones you want.\nWith BEA you search graphs of relationships between concepts of interest such as genes, diseases, compounds and cell types to obtain an overview of the knowledge that is captured in scientific literature (MEDLINE) and patent databases (USPTO). It is then one easy step to drill down to the underlying literature and explore these relationships in depth.\nSearch, understand, discover, capture, organize and share knowledge in a single, easy to use environment.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://apexnc.co.uk/blue-lock-215-review-the-climactic-showdown/", "date": "2024-04-19T06:47:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817289.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419043820-20240419073820-00273.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9278773069381714, "token_count": 294, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__42985455", "lang": "en", "text": "Blue Lock, the intense soccer manga penned by Kaneshiro Muneyuki and illustrated by Nomura Yusuke, has been an exhilarating ride for fans since its inception. With Chapter 215 marking another pivotal moment in the series, blue lock 215 let’s delve into the latest installment and explore the gripping developments.\nThroughout the series, Blue Lock has masterfully built tension, pitting talented young soccer players against each other in a high-stakes battle to determine Japan’s ultimate striker.\nThe Climactic Showdown:\nWith everything on the line, the players unleash their full potential, showcasing their individual skills and unique playstyles.\nNomura Yusuke’s dynamic artwork brings each moment to life, drawing readers into the heart of the action.\nChapter 215 delves deeper into these dynamics, exploring the personal struggles blue lock 215 and growth of the players as they strive to outshine their rivals and prove themselves worthy of the title of Japan’s top striker.\nThemes of Teamwork and Individuality:\nChapter 215 grapples with these themes as the players navigate the blue lock 215 complexities of competition, grappling with their desire to stand out while also recognizing the importance of working together towards a common goal.\nAs the series hurtles towards its conclusion, readers can’t help but be captivated by the intense drama unfolding on the pages.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.abrome.com/blog/tag/Dialectical+Inquiry", "date": "2019-11-12T08:53:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496664808.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20191112074214-20191112102214-00227.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9286523461341858, "token_count": 1025, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__12425437", "lang": "en", "text": "This week is national Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. In recognition of Banned Books Week, we wanted to share the thinking behind the building of the Abrome library.\nAbrome holds the radical belief that young people should be free to learn what they want to learn when they want to learn it, so long as it does not interfere with or harm anyone else. That learning happens best when Learners have full agency over their education. That dialectical learning greatly enhances one’s education. And that Learners should have access to resources that challenge their beliefs and assumptions.\nWe do not have classes or curriculum at Abrome, and we do not lecture Learners in order to instill certain values or beliefs. Instead, we give Learners the time and space to engage in learning that is meaningful to them. We focus on creating a culture where intellectual vitality thrives. We encourage Abrome Learners to challenge themselves by seeking critical feedback from their peers, reaching out to people with alternative opinions, and tapping the nearly endless stream of information available over the internet. And while we encourage tapping the resources that are now available due to the increased accessibility of information and connectivity of society, there is still something special about finding a nice, warm, comfortable spot where one can lose themself in a book.\nAlthough we are a new school, we take a lot of pride in our library. In part to promote a love of literature, we have 700 books conveniently spread across multiple bookshelves throughout our space. To promote intellectual vitality and dialectical inquiry, we filled our shelves with challenging books in terms of prose, content, and message. We chose books that were highly relevant in terms of cultural literacy, that are of great historical significance, that promote ideas both virtuous and reprehensible, and that may not otherwise be accessible to Learners at traditional school or public libraries.\nOur books generally fall into a few categories that traditional school libraries also have, and a few that they do not have. Among the categories that our library shares with traditional school libraries are a wide range of children’s literature, classic literature, biographies, domain specific (e.g., mathematics, physics) books, and reference books. Even within these categories, we hold titles that have often been challenged or banned by more traditional school libraries.\nOutside of these shared categories, Abrome carries books that are not generally embraced by traditional school libraries. The reasons for their exclusion most often revolve around perceptions of morality, particularly as they relate to or intersect with politics, race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, drugs, or violence.\nWhile 700 does not make for a particularly large library, we are proud of the fact that a good number of these books have been banned in the past. In fact, our library includes every book that has been banned or challenged that the Library of Congress included in their exhibit, “Books that Shaped America” (which includes Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, ironically).\nWe do not push any of these books on Abrome Learners; we allow them to sit on the shelves waiting to be found. If a Learner stumbles across one and dives in, we are ready to share in their learning, to make suggestions on other books and resources that may be worth seeking out (especially those with alternative viewpoints), and to talk with them about where they can take their learning next.\nA selection of the books in the Abrome library that some have considered too controversial for young people, or that have been banned or challenged include:\n· The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain\n· The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley\n· Beloved, Toni Morrison\n· Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, Susan Kuklin\n· Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown\n· The Call of the Wild, Jack London\n· The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger\n· The Color Purple, Alice Walker\n· The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx\n· The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck\n· Howl, Allen Ginsberg\n· The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins\n· Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison\n· The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini\n· Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov\n· Mein Kampf, Adolph Hitler\n· The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin\n· Our Bodies, Ourselves, Boston Women’s Health Book Collective\n· The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky\n· Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi\n· Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, Mao Zedong\n· Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky\n· To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee\n· Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston\n· Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe\n· The Words of Cesar Chavez, Cesar Chavez", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://boysfromlittlemexico.com/?tag=review", "date": "2017-04-27T13:08:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917122167.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031202-00460-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9529510736465454, "token_count": 220, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__300849358", "lang": "en", "text": "Just saw the first online review of the book on Goodreads.com. This guy, Michael, apparently snuck past the top secret security of Beacon Press and snatched a copy, because he read it before the book was published! (Or, more likely, he got his hands on an early uncorrected proof…)\nHere are Michael’s comments:\nThose who enjoyed H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights will enjoy this book for the same reasons. In it, the author follows a high school sports team, the sport of choice being soccer instead of football. He chronicles the ambition, stuggles, foibles, triumphs of the players and coaches, revealing what part sports play in the lives of young people. While this book lacks the character depth and hard-hitting cultural relevance that Bissinger’s conveys, it does make these boys’ lives meaningful to the reader, which is what, I think, the book intends to accomplish. I recommend it to anyone interested in sports, high schoolers, and Hispanic issues.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://level5strategy.com/value-promise-consistently-kept/", "date": "2022-08-17T02:05:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00185.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9450941681861877, "token_count": 397, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__126176764", "lang": "en", "text": "Still searching for that perfect gift for the business book-lover on your holiday shopping list? Or perhaps you’re looking for an inspiring book to add to your winter reading list.\nLook no further! THE VALUE OF A PROMISE CONSISTENTLY KEPT is an essential read for anyone overseeing (or interested in learning more about) brand management – and what it REALLY means to manage your organization’s brand as an asset.\nNo dull, dry textbook here. The Value of a Promise Consistently Kept is 170 pages of insightful, practical (and at times witty) inspiration for managing your brand as an asset.\nIn this book, Kincaid shares the concepts behind the business system and the tools that C-suite executives can use to create value from their brands. Along the way, he describes the path that led him to his current role as a globally recognized brand builder.\nBut don’t just take our work for it… here’s what brand leaders are saying about the book:\n“With this book, we get to learn from the victories, mistakes and revelations of an executive who made brand-building a mission, and who successfully motivated entire organizations to share in it.”\n– Mike Rapino, CEO & President, Live Nation\n“His insights and advice, drawn from broad and diverse experience, are invaluable to business leaders committed to maximizing enterprise value.”\n– Susan Helstab, Executive VP, Marketing Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts\nIf you order by December 15, you will receive your book on or before December 22.\nAll orders placed by December 15th will receive a free copy of Level5’s special release book: Brand Forward, Brand Back\nOrder your copy of The Value of a Promise Consistently Kept today: https://www.thevalueofapromise.ca/\nBy: David Kincaid", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.salisbury.nhs.uk/InformationForPatients/Departments/WRGL/Ourservices/Pages/Pregnancylosstesting.aspx", "date": "2020-04-05T17:09:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371606067.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200405150416-20200405180916-00443.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.846161425113678, "token_count": 163, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-16", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__115941413", "lang": "en", "text": "Testing is available for referrals that meet the laboratory’s acceptance criteria, with a tiered testing approach dependent upon the referral details and patient’s obstetric history.\nReferrals are accepted for:\n- Pregnancy loss or termination with significant fetal malformations (irrespective of gestation).\n- Pregnancy loss >24 weeks.\nAlso, in line with the published guidelines of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG):\n- Miscarriages (<24 weeks) for 3rd and subsequent miscarriages.\nIn compliance with RCOG guidelines the laboratory does not routinely accept referrals for parental karyotyping for couples experiencing recurrent miscarriages.\nFull details of our referral acceptance policy and the available tests are summarised in our solid tissue service guide.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.hoorayforelfie.com/about-us.html", "date": "2014-12-18T16:17:31Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802767274.159/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075247-00107-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9678017497062683, "token_count": 347, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-52", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__146474128", "lang": "en", "text": "Elfie joined our family in the mid 1960's. Our entire neighborhood shared fun as Elfie arrived around Thanksgiving time and stayed through Christmas. His job was to help Santa get his list ready and to be a gentle reminder to kids to help them make the Nice list. Elfie was and still is an integral part of our Christmas traditions and family celebrations.\nWe had so much fun with him we decided to write a storybook about ELFIE and share the fun with other families. We published Hooray For Elfie in 1976. The book was distributed mostly through fund raising organizations. The most active was the U.S. Jaycee organization who sold over 250,000 copies of Hooray For Elfie.\nOver the years Hooray For Elfie participated in fund raising events, fairs, story times at local libraries, church events and school book fairs. Elfie has travelled the world packed in shoeboxes with Operation Christmas Child, brought sparkle to the eyes of the elderly in nursing homes, brought joy to military families at Santa Breakfasts and could be found in GodPacks given to local homeless families.\nElfie's first website, a Christmas Tradition, went live in 2000. Elfie would arrive sometime around Thanksgiving and return to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. Today, ELFIE spreads cheer all year long. He exemplifies LOVE and Affordable, Simple, Family Fun. He still comes at Christmas time, but any time a family wants to celebrate, congratulate, or just have a day of hide and seek with ELFIE shows up.\nOur family invites you to enjoy the light hearted fun with ELFIE. Today, Tomorrow, Always.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://chaos-abroad.blogspot.com/2013/08/", "date": "2020-01-19T16:01:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250594662.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119151736-20200119175736-00161.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.982226550579071, "token_count": 1009, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__182574760", "lang": "en", "text": "So a little while ago I read this book which I believe was quite popular even before the movie. Of course when the movie came out I went to watch it to compare the two and I must admit Ang Lee does it justice, even if he has to invent some parts of his own.\nThough I enjoyed the story I found something wrong with it which I've decided to try and put into words here.\nThe story is about a young man (old boy) who finds himself on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for about two-thirds of a year. The story is roughly split into three unequal parts. The first part is his life as a boy in India. The second is the largest part which covers his time lost at sea.The last part is very short and briefly covers his arrival back on land and his re-connection with humans.\nThis is where I am required to put up the mandatory SPOILER WARNING sign to anyone who has not read the book, but still wishes to. For those people - go away and read it first. Get your own opinions before considering other people's.\nSo Pi is our narrator and his family live in India where they are zookeepers. They decide to emigrate to Canada and so load up some of the animals onto a ship, the Tsimtsum, and sail east. On their way a massive storm sinks the ship and Pi is the only member of his family to escape onto a lifeboat. Here we meet our first peculiarity. Pi claims that the animals were free from their cages, running around the ship.\nSo Pi ends up on a boat with an injured zebra, an orangutan and a hyena. The hyena kills the zebra and orangutan, before being killed himself by a tiger who happened to be hiding under the tarpaulin in the bottom of the boat. Pi then has to find a way to live with this tiger for the greater part of a year, surviving on rainwater and fishing to supplement the small supply of emergency rations kept in the boat.\nThis sounds fantastical in and of itself, but it gets even weirder. He then tells us of his adventures at sea, including finding a floating algae island which supported trees and fish-eating meerkats. The also speaks of meeting another traveller, himself in a lifeboat from his own shipwreck floating around in the Pacific Ocean.\nWhen he eventually reaches dry land, the tiger mysteriously disappears, leaving no proof of its existence. Some people find Pi and take him to a hospital where he is later interviewed by two Japanese men who are looking for information on what happened to the Tsimtsum and, learning that it sank, what the causes might have been. After refusing to believe the fantastical story which Pi tells them, he then succumbs to telling them another version of the story.\nIn this second story there were no animals loose on the ship. Instead the animals on the ship are replaced by people. The hyena is the ship's cook, the orangutan is his mother and the injured zebra is a sailor who broke his leg. The cook convinces the others they have to cut off the sailor's leg to stop gangrene, but then uses its meat to fish with. The sailor ends up dying and the cook keeps fishing with his body parts. He then gets into an argument with Pi's mother and kills her. Pi, unable to deal mentally with the situation flees to the raft (which they made to fish from) only to return later and take revenge. Pi is the tiger.\nI would like to expand upon that idea. Pi is traumatised and in order to deal with the situation has to create a split personality, an alter-ego. This is the tiger and the lifeboat - the central site of his pain - becomes its domain, forcing him into exile to escape the horrific memories.\nIt is only when he returns to dry land and is freed from the lifeboat that he can dismiss this alternate personality.\nThe introduction to the book gives us a promise to carry into the story. An old man in a bar (sounds like the opening to a myth) tells a writer that he knows a story that will make him believe in God. The writer then tracks down the narrator of the story in order to get the \"firsthand account\" of this story. What we find is something else. We do not find that we believe in God, but simply that we want to believe in God for fear of what the alternative means.\nWe find a lovely fantasy story designed in such a way as to supplant a true story and the true story is so horrible and tragic that we want the fantasy to be true. This, essentially, is the story of religion. Anyone who has spent enough of one's life following a religion will want desperately to hold their faith, even if their beliefs are proven to be illusions.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://conference.naturalstart.org/sessions/featured/speakers", "date": "2024-02-26T16:43:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474661.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226162136-20240226192136-00481.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9308115839958191, "token_count": 681, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__131011777", "lang": "en", "text": "Meet Our Speakers\nAngela Searcy, EdD\nDr. Angela Searcy is a mental health and educational consultant; adjunct faculty and seminar leader at Erikson Institute; credentialed developmental therapist; and former neuro-developmental specialist. She is the author of Push Past It! A Positive Approach to Challenging Classroom Behaviors, and her Book Elevating Equity is due for release this summer. Dr. Searcy will lead a workshop titled “Pushing Past Bias and Challenging Classroom Behaviors: Changing Children’s Behavior Starts With Changing Ourselves.” Understanding children’s behavior must start with a meaningful understanding of adult behavior and the context in which all these behaviors occur. The workshop will help you look beyond the child to the implicit bias, contextual elements, interactions, and classroom variables that might contribute to challenging classroom behaviors.\nAmy Chapman, Ph.D.\nDirector, Collaborative for Spirituality in Education, Columbia University\nAmy Chapman, Ph.D. is the Director of the Collaborative for Spirituality in Education (CSE), a center for research and teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. She researches spiritually supportive school culture and provides professional development for educators and school districts to apply that research in their own schools. Her first book, Social Media for Civic Education: Engaging Youth for Democracy was published in October 2022. Dr. Chapman will present the neuroscience of spirituality to understand how schools support students’ innate spirituality, and illustrate the importance of nature-based learning to the creation of a school environment that fosters spirituality.\nAmber Fyfe Johnson, ND, Ph.D.\nAssistant Professor, College of Medicine, Washington State University\nAmber Fyfe-Johnson, ND, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine at Washington State University. Her work is centered at the intersection of social determinants of health, outdoor nature-based exposures, and pediatric health equity. Trained in pediatrics and cardiovascular disease epidemiology, her work has three primary objectives. First, to explore the biological and social mechanisms by which early life adversity influences health, and how exposure to nature acts as a protective factor. Second, to test interventions targeting pediatric health equity, specifically nature-based interventions that improve physical and mental health in youth. Third, to inform policy decision-making to promote equitable access to nature for all children. Dr. Fyfe-Johnson will explore how research can contribute to optimizing health equity in underrepresented youth and pediatric populations facing adversity.\nMélina Mangal writes picture books, biographies, and short stories that focus on connections with nature and culture. She is the author of The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just, winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award for Jayden’s Impossible Garden, named One of the Best Children's Books of the Year by Bank Street Center for Children’s Literature, and author of the forthcoming Jayden’s Secret Ingredient, about finding nature and creating community. Her latest YA short story appears in Boundless: Twenty Voices Celebrating Multicultural and Multiracial Identities. She will explore what children and adults can do when there isn’t much nature nearby, highlighting ways to foster engagement with nature in a positive way, through story.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://bmandwbooks.com/", "date": "2014-12-22T00:41:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802772897.141/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075252-00030-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9545089602470398, "token_count": 106, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-52", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__70127753", "lang": "en", "text": "NOTE: We will not be accepting book drop offs December 24 or 31 but will be open normal hours December 27 and January 3.\nEvery March we sell an average of 100,000 volumes in just five days. While many sales offer mostly paperback fiction, we specialize in top-quality, non-fiction, academic, hardback books in addition to paperbacks.\nBooks are donated to us by Princeton University scholars, local celebrities, and ordinary book lovers. Proceeds support college scholarships for young women from central New Jersey.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://meettheskeptics.libsyn.com/webpage/2012/03", "date": "2017-04-23T07:53:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118310.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00062-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9819819927215576, "token_count": 123, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__284990528", "lang": "en", "text": "Thu, 8 March 2012\nHemant Mehta is best known for his work as the blogger \"The Friendly Atheist.\" He began his public activism career with a curious and creative Ebay auction that eventually became the inspiration for his book I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith through an Atheist's Eyes. His efforts to personally understand religion have informed his unique approach to promoting an Atheistic worldview as a better moral choice.\nYou can read Hemant's Blog at www.FriendlyAtheist.com.\nFollow him on Twitter at: @Hemantmehta.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://pojokpublik.my.id/2024/03/01/river-rush-embarking-on-an-epic-rafting-expedition/", "date": "2024-04-19T04:43:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817289.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419043820-20240419073820-00598.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8736512660980225, "token_count": 601, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__12920276", "lang": "en", "text": "Beneath the radiant sun and amidst the tranquil embrace of nature lies a world of exhilarating adventure – the realm of river rafting. Far from the ordinary, this waterborne odyssey beckons thrill-seekers and nature lovers alike to immerse themselves in its wild embrace. In this article, we’ll navigate the currents of excitement and discovery as we explore the thrilling world of river rafting, from its ancient origins to the heart-pounding rush of conquering rapids.\nRafting’s legacy stretches back through the annals of time, echoing the courage and ingenuity of ancient civilizations. From humble beginnings as a means of transport to modern-day escapades, the evolution of rafting mirrors humanity’s enduring quest for adventure and exploration.\nEnveloped by the serenity of flowing waters and the rustling whispers of verdant foliage, rafting becomes a symphony of nature’s grandeur. The journey downriver unveils a canvas painted with rugged cliffs, lush forests, and the majestic spectacle of cascading waterfalls – a masterpiece crafted by the hands of Mother Nature herself.\nThe heart of rafting lies in the challenge of navigating the rapids – nature’s tempestuous playground where bravery meets the surge of rushing waters. Each rapid, from the gentle ripples of Class I to the thunderous fury of Class V, presents a dynamic labyrinth of twists and turns, testing the mettle and teamwork of adventurers.\nSafety is the compass that guides every river voyage, and proper equipment is the anchor that secures it. Clad in sturdy rafts, equipped with paddles, helmets, and buoyant vests, adventurers embark on their journey fortified against the whims of the river. Under the watchful guidance of experienced guides, they learn the art of navigation and the dance of the rapids.\nRafting offers a tapestry of adventures, woven from threads of excitement, camaraderie, and shared experiences. From leisurely floats along tranquil waters to adrenaline-fueled descents through turbulent rapids, there’s a river adventure tailored to every taste and temperament.\nIn the spirit of stewardship, rafters are custodians of the rivers they traverse, champions of conservation, and guardians of nature’s sanctuaries. Through sustainable practices and environmental advocacy, they strive to preserve the pristine beauty of rivers and ensure their vitality for generations to come.\nRiver rafting is more than an adventure – it’s a voyage of self-discovery, a communion with nature, and a celebration of the human spirit’s indomitable quest for adventure. So heed the call of the river, embrace the thrill of the rapids, and embark on an epic expedition that will leave an indelible mark upon your soul. For in the currents of adventure, you’ll find the true essence of life’s greatest journey.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.wisconsinacep.org/page-18086/6575237", "date": "2020-09-25T13:07:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400226381.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20200925115553-20200925145553-00720.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9395443201065063, "token_count": 285, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__142488000", "lang": "en", "text": "In order to address the issue of physician suicide, the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD), in collaboration with AAEM, ACEP, ACOEP, EMRA, RSA, RSO and SAEM have come together to annually dedicate the 3rd Monday in September as National Physician Suicide Awareness (NPSA) Day, #NPSADay.\nPhysician suicide is a tremendous issue in healthcare today. While estimates of the actual number of physician suicides vary, literature has shown that the relative risk for suicide being 2.27 times greater among women and 1.41 times higher among men versus the general population. Each physician suicide is a devastating loss affecting everyone - family, friends, colleagues and up to 1 million patients per year. It is both a very personal loss and a public health crisis. Vision Zero calls on individuals, residency programs, health care organizations and national groups to make a commitment to break down stigma, increase, open the conversation, decrease the fear of consequences, reach out to colleagues, recognize warning signs and learn to approach our colleagues who may be at risk. Let us challenge each other as individual, community, institutional and organizational to make changes to reach zero physician suicides.\nSuicide can be prevented. Be the one to be there. Shed light on this issue and change the culture of medicine to save lives. Learn more and receive updates and information as it is released.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://gicasym.org/daily-news/role-adjuvant-chemotherapy-following-neoadjuvant-treatment-rectal-cancer", "date": "2019-04-26T16:48:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578841544.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190426153423-20190426175423-00542.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9328481554985046, "token_count": 2853, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__30251721", "lang": "en", "text": "- Although colon and rectal cancers are frequently grouped as a single disease entity, there are important differences in treatment approaches and patterns of recurrence between these malignancies.\n- The role of adjuvant therapy in colon cancers is well established, but available data do not support the routine use of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer receiving neoadjuvant therapy.\n- The landscape of treatment for rectal cancer continues to evolve, making the role of adjuvant chemotherapy increasingly difficult to define.\nApproximately 39,000 people are diagnosed with rectal adenocarcinoma in the United States annually.1 Adjuvant chemotherapy following chemoradiation and total mesorectal excision (TME) for locoregionally advanced rectal cancer has become a standard of care in the United States despite limited data.\nThe role of adjuvant chemotherapy in rectal cancer was first evaluated in the NSABP R-01 trial in 555 patients with Dukes’ B and C disease. Patients were randomly assigned to adjuvant chemotherapy with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), semustine, and vincristine; adjuvant radiotherapy; or no further treatment. Both overall survival (OS) and disease-specific survival benefits were seen with the addition of chemotherapy compared to surgery alone (p = 0.05 and p = 0.006, respectively) and established adjuvant chemotherapy following rectal cancer resection as a standard of care.2 Despite wide adoption of adjuvant chemotherapy following publication, the analysis did not account for meaningful differences in baseline patient characteristics, as healthier patients were more likely to receive adjuvant chemotherapy and expected to live longer regardless of additional therapy. Furthermore, although this outcome was meaningful during this era, this study was conducted prior to routine use of neoadjuvant therapy and the TME technique.\nModern Era of Treatment\nSince the publication of early trials, the treatment of rectal cancer has evolved. The practice-changing trial from Sauer et al in 2004 established neoadjuvant, as opposed to adjuvant, chemoradiation as a standard of care for rectal cancer.3 In the 11-year update, chemoradiation resulted in 7.1% cumulative incidence of local recurrence versus 10.1% with adjuvant chemoradiation.4 Additionally, changes in surgical techniques have dramatically reduced local recurrence rates for patients with rectal cancer. Prior to routine use of TME, local recurrence rates were as high as 26% in patients treated with surgery alone.5,6 TME has since become standard of care, and more recent clinical trials examining the role of neoadjuvant radiation therapy (RT) found local recurrence rates of 10.9% with TME alone.7\nThe EORTC 22921 study examined the role of adjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer. Patients with stage T3-4 resectable rectal cancer (1,011 patients) were randomly assigned to preoperative RT, preoperative chemoradiation, preoperative RT and postoperative chemotherapy, or preoperative chemoradiation and postoperative chemotherapy. The 5-year cumulative incidence rates for local recurrence were 8.7%, 9.6%, and 7.6% for groups that received chemotherapy preoperatively, postoperatively, or both, and 17.1% in those that did not receive any chemotherapy (p = 0.002). These data established that the addition of chemotherapy in both the neoadjuvant and adjuvant settings decreases local recurrence.\nDespite long-term follow-up, there was no effect on OS or disease-free survival (DFS) with the addition of postoperative chemotherapy compared to no adjuvant chemotherapy (p = 0.32 and 0.29, respectively). In an unplanned subgroup analysis, there was a DFS benefit for adjuvant chemotherapy seen in those patients with tumor down-staging following neoadjuvant therapy (p = 0.013). However, the 10-year rate of distant metastases was nearly 30% in all study arms.8-11 It is important to recognize that this study did not directly compare adjuvant chemotherapy versus observation in patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation. Additionally, the trial design has been criticized for being underpowered and for using a bolus 5-FU regimen that is not standard in the United States.\nA second randomized trial, by Cionini et al, directly questioned the utility of adjuvant chemotherapy for patients with cT3 or T4 disease who underwent neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by surgery. The 655 patients in this study were randomly assigned to receive six cycles of 5-FU versus observation. At 5 years of follow-up, there was no difference in OS, local recurrence, or distant metastases.12 Notably, this trial also used a bolus 5-FU regimen.\nThe PROCTOR-SCRIPT trial randomly assigned patients with histologically proven stage II or III rectal cancer who received neoadjuvant RT or chemoradiation and TME to adjuvant chemotherapy versus observation. The trial accrued 437 eligible patients but closed because of poor accrual. After median follow-up at 5 years, there was no difference in OS, DFS, local recurrence, or distant metastases.13 An additional study from the United Kingdom closed prematurely after accruing 113 of an intended 800 patients. After neoadjuvant chemoradiation and resection, patients were randomly assigned to adjuvant capecitabine and oxaliplatin for six cycles or observation; compliance was poor, with only 48% of those assigned to chemotherapy completing six cycles. No differences were observed in OS or DFS.14\nIn an effort to improve statistical power through patient numbers, a meta-analysis of individual patient data from four European randomized trials included 1,196 patients with stage II or III rectal cancer receiving neoadjuvant therapy and surgical resection. No differences were seen in OS, DFS, or distant metastases. In these studies, compliance with adjuvant chemotherapy ranged from 43% to 73%.15 Collectively, these data do not support the routine use of adjuvant chemotherapy in local advanced rectal cancer patients treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery.\nOptimal Chemotherapy Regimen\nAlthough colon and rectal cancers are frequently grouped as a single disease entity, there are important differences in treatment approaches and patterns of recurrence between these malignancies. Where data are lacking in the adjuvant management of rectal cancer, extrapolation from colon cancer studies is commonly used. Early trials, including the NSABP-C01 and a pooled analysis, demonstrated a 25% to 30% relative risk reduction in mortality and distant metastases with the use of adjuvant chemotherapy compared to surgery alone.2,6,16-18\nThe MOSAIC trial, which randomly assigned 2,246 patients with stage II-III colon cancer to either adjuvant bolus plus continuous-infusion 5-FU and leucovorin (LV5FU2) versus the same regimen with the addition of oxaliplatin (FOLFOX4), found the addition of oxaliplatin significantly improved both 5-year DFS and 6-year OS (p = 0.003 and p = 0.023, respectively).19,20\nAlthough multiple studies have evaluated the optimal systemic therapy regimen in colon cancer, the data for selecting a specific chemotherapy regimen for adjuvant therapy in rectal cancer are sparse. The ADORE trial, a multicenter, phase II, randomized controlled study, examined the addition of oxaliplatin to a 5-FU–based adjuvant chemotherapy regimen in the setting of patients with rectal cancer who had previously been treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation and surgery. A total of 321 patients with pathologic stage II or III (ypT3-4N0 or ypTanyN1-2) rectal cancer and were randomly assigned to receive either four cycles of 5-FU and leucovorin versus eight cycles of FOLFOX. The primary study endpoint was 3-year DFS. With a median follow-up of 38.2 months, there was a statistically significant improvement favoring the FOLFOX regimen (71.6% vs. 62.9%, HR 0.657, p = 0.047).21 General treatment-related toxicity, including fatigue, neuropathy, thrombocytopenia, and nausea, was greater with the FOLFOX regimen, although there was no difference in grade 3 or 4 events.\nThere are currently no trials addressing the appropriate duration of adjuvant chemotherapy for rectal cancer. The optimal duration of therapy is largely based on the experience in colon cancer where 6 months of adjuvant chemotherapy is standard. Recent results from the IDEA collaboration (six randomized trials of 6 vs. 3 months of oxaliplatin-based adjuvant therapy) reported during the 2017 ASCO Annual Meeting demonstrated a significantly higher incidence of grade 3 or 4 neurotoxicity with 6 compared to 3 months of treatment (16% vs. 3% with FOLFOX, 9% vs. 3% with CAPOX). At a median follow-up of 39 months, the 3-year DFS for 3 versus 6 months of treatment was 74.6% versus 75.5% (HR = 1.07, 95% CI 1.00-1.15).22\nExtrapolating these data to rectal cancer, however, is challenging given many patients with rectal cancer are treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiation prior to surgery, whereas patients with colon cancer typically proceed directly to surgery followed by adjuvant therapy. Consensus-based guidelines, such as those from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, currently recommend a total of 6 months of perioperative therapy for treatment of resected rectal cancer, which generally includes a 5- to 6-week course of chemoradiotherapy and 4 additional months of adjuvant chemotherapy.\nDespite the paucity of data supporting adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer that have undergone neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by TME, it has been incorporated into standard treatment. The landscape of treatment for rectal cancer continues to evolve, making the question of adjuvant chemotherapy increasingly difficult to answer.\nAs cost of care and resource utilization becomes ever more important, some centers are beginning to incorporate a hypofractionated, neoadjuvant radiation approach (5 Gy x 5 fractions) both with and without consolidation chemotherapy.23-25 The ongoing PROSPECT trial is randomly assigning 1,000 patients to a standard arm of 5-FU or capecitabine-based chemoradiation, followed by TME and adjuvant FOLFOX, versus six cycles of neoadjuvant FOLFOX (and no chemoradiation if reassessment shows a greater than 20% response at the primary tumor), TME, and six cycles of adjuvant FOLFOX.26 Additionally, a nonoperative management approach pioneered by Habr-Gama et al suggests that patients with a clinical complete response to neoadjuvant chemoradiation many have preserved oncologic outcomes and may not derive additional benefit from surgery.27-30\nIn these contexts, the need for adjuvant chemotherapy has yet to be explored. The ongoing phase II trial from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is accruing patients to further explore a nonoperative treatment approach for patients with near or complete clinical response to the neoadjuvant treatment. Additionally, this study is examining the timing of chemotherapy and whether chemotherapy given prior to chemoradiation can improve DFS.31\nSensitivity to systemic agents appears to be dependent on microsatellite status as patients with colon cancer and high microsatellite instability (MSI-H) or deficient mismatch repair enzymes (dMMR) may not benefit from adjuvant therapy.32,33 Le et al found that in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and dMMR, delivery of anti–PD-1 antibody monotherapy resulted in high tumor response rates and increased progression-free survival compared to proficient MMR tumors.34 An ongoing phase III randomized trial is examining whether the addition of the anti–PD-L1 antibody atezolizumab to FOLFOX in patients with stage III colon cancer with dMMR or MSI-H can improve DFS compared to FOLFOX alone35; it is plausible that the use of immunotherapy could be extrapolated to rectal cancer.\nGiven the nearly 30% rate of distant metastases with locally advanced rectal cancer, better systemic agents are clearly needed. At present, oncologists will need to consider patients’ comorbidities, tumor stage (both pre- and post-neoadjuvant treatment), tumor response, pathologic characteristics, and postoperative performance status resulting in a nuanced discussion regarding the potential advantages and drawbacks of adjuvant chemotherapy.\nAbout the Authors: Dr. Spiegel is chief resident of the Duke Radiation oncology residency program at the Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Uronis is an associate professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute. Dr. Czito is an associate professor of radiation oncology at the Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute. Dr. Willett is professor and chair of radiation oncology at the Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute. Dr. Palta is an associate professor of radiation oncology at the Duke University School of Medicine and a member of the Duke Cancer Institute.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://selfaudit.blogspot.com/2005/05/star-wars-labyrinth-of-evil.html", "date": "2017-05-24T08:05:23Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607806.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524074252-20170524094252-00545.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9406197667121887, "token_count": 963, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__76931617", "lang": "en", "text": "This is a book that anyone planning to see Star Wars III should read before watching the film. It ably fills in the gap between the end of Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones and The Revenge Of The Sith. Numerous loose ends are tied up, the motivations of key characters fleshed out, and the stage set, as it were, for the grand opening scenes of the new film.\nThe gist of the story, without giving too many of the details away, is that time has passed since the end of \"The Clones\". The Separatists are apparently in retreat, having been pushed back to the Galactic Rim. The war continues, and Chancellor Palpatine uses every incident as a means to garner more personal power. Anakin and Obi Wan are but a couple of the Jedi tasked with leading the forces of the Republic in grandiose battles on far-flung worlds. Anakin is torn, as always, between his unrealized strength in the force and his duty, destiny, and respect for Obi Wan & the Jedi, from whom he harbours many secrets, not least his hidden marriage with Padme.\nBack on Coruscant, the Jedi Council is convinced that this is a war of the Force, more than of ships and men. Yoda, more than others, senses strongly the Dark Side ascendant, and his apparent inability to do anything to stem the rise of the Sith. The Lords of the Sith, Darth Tyranus, who we all know to be Count Dooku, and Lord Sidious, the as-yet-unexposed Palpatine, are well-detailed, perhaps Dooku more so. He is cast as a tragic hero, a stylized Brutus, perhaps, who, having made a choice to live by the sword, beyond the constraints of the Jedi, and for what he believed was the right cause for the galaxy, a fascist rule by one man, must now follow his own destiny down the path of sorrows.\nThe different groups in the Star Wars universe all have their own interpretations of duty and destiny, but none more tragic than the Jedi, guardians of the galaxy. Like many such groups before them, such as the Schutzstaffel(\"Meine Ehre heißt Treue\" -\"My honor is loyalty.\") , and the samurai, the Jedi are blinded to the dangers of state control by their duty to the state. The culture they embody requires them to wilfully go down the path of their destiny even as they foresee the rise of the dark side of the Force. Even those of them, such as Yoda, who has seen beyond the curtain of the dark side, cannot rip it apart and face the enemy, for fear that beyond the curtain lies a mirror, reflecting secrets of their own darkened hearts.\nThe book has some of the best action writing I have ever read. The space battles are visually rich, and the cross-cutting between multiple threads skilfully done. The essence of Bushido, Lucas' inspiration of the code of the Jedi, is expounded at times, including challenges of a samurai, such as choices between Loyalty and Rectitude, Honor and Courage> The other key attribute of Lucas' work, misdirection as a means of revealing much, drawn from Kurosawa's style, is continued in the book, until much is revealed, and the galaxy, Coruscant, and Anakin ablaze with the fire that will bring a new hope.\nIf you would like a few hints as to the final scenes, and the opening scenes of \"The Revenge Of The Sith\", please say so as a comment, and I'll email you/update the post.\n- ► 2010 (23)\n- ► 2007 (110)\n- ► 2006 (173)\n- Ismail Merchant, Master Filmmaker passes away\n- C S Lewis' Lands Of Shadow\n- Terrorism, Global\n- Pray For The Soul Of Betty, Constantine can take c...\n- Bomb Blasts in New Delhi cinema Halls over \"Jo Bol...\n- Team America : World Police\n- The Dell DJ: A Review\n- Van Morrison's Magic Time\n- Wal-Mart out of DVD Rentals, Netflix still in\n- The Song Of The Road and The River\n- A Valid Path: Alan Parsons\n- Stacked: A Nice Rack of Books\n- Possible proof of backward compatibility in XBox 3...\n- Flourishing Black Market in Forza Motorsport expos...\n- The XBox 360 launches\n- Sexy Bloggers\n- Huffington Post launched\n- Star Wars: Labyrinth Of Evil\n- Racing Sims Redefined: Forza Motorsport\n- ▼ May (19)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.dunlapbiblefellowship.com/service-type/understanding-the-will-of-god/", "date": "2023-10-04T05:45:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511361.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004052258-20231004082258-00326.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9682229161262512, "token_count": 191, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__323921614", "lang": "en", "text": "Matthew 4:1-4 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted[a] by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.” 4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’[b]”\n1 Chronicles 22:19 Now devote your heart and soul to seeking the Lord your God. Begin to build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the sacred articles belonging to God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the Lord.”\nPsalm 105:4 Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://2xfit.com/Sarcopenia.html", "date": "2020-02-29T00:48:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875148163.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20200228231614-20200229021614-00150.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9498390555381775, "token_count": 2544, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__174339125", "lang": "en", "text": "Sarcopenia: A Covert Threat to Your Life, Liberty, & Pursuit of Happiness\nMarlene Harris, NSCA-CSCS, NASM-CES\nAuthor’s Note: Resistance training is a very important element of your fitness and weight management goals. It shouldn’t be ignored, but all too often, it is. The following article was adapted from a longer, more technical research paper I wrote for a graduate level class in Exercise Epidemiology. For those who’ve not been exposed to this type of writing, I’ve toned down the “science-speak”. The little numbers in parentheses after various sentences refer to the exact studies that support my statements. The list of these references was omitted from this rendering, but if interested, I can make it available to you. I hope this article brings you greater insight as to why I speak about resistance training with such enthusiasm and conviction! M.H.\nThe Privilege of Longevity\nAn old adage advises: “never fret about growing older, as the privilege is denied to many”. However, as we journey through life, moving ever closer towards this privilege, a menace lurks deep within our physiology. Without clamor, fanfare, pain, or other overt physiological drama, it gradually and silently steals our quality of life if we allow it. This thief goes by the name of sarcopenia, a little-discussed process that effects one single population as we move beyond our third decade of life: all of us.\nSacrcopenia is the natural loss of lean body mass, specifically, Type II (fast twitch, or strength) muscle, that accompanies aging due to a combination of physiological, nutritional, hormonal, and lifestyle factors (22, 4). The development of muscle mass and strength capacity are reported to peak in the mid-twenties to early thirties, and if left to natural processes begin a gradual decline thereafter (22, 4). According to Wikipedia, the term sarcopenia has Greek origins, and means \"poverty of flesh” (22). This natural decline becomes more precipitous after 65 to 70 years of age, with about a third of your total (original) muscle mass being lost in your elder years(4). Most research literature reports that the rates of strength losses for men and women are fairly similar, with losses appearing first and more significantly in the larger, lower body muscles than those of the smaller, upper body muscles (4, 6, 11). Because the larger muscle groups are more affected, this has significant implications for the loss functional strength, metabolic capacity (ability to burn calories), and as a result, for general wellness and weight management. Among the myriad factors associated with this process, inactivity (specifically, a lack of resistance, or heavier weight-bearing exercise), and nutritional status (specifically, protein intake) are reported as being most prominent and readily controllable (2, 3, 4, 7, 11, 12, 14, 19, 20). This is the bright spot in this otherwise bleak outlook-we can have a great deal of control over this process if we take a hands-on approach.\nAt Higher Risk, by Nature…\nWhile sarcopenia affects both men and women at relatively equal rates of decline, women are particularly predisposed to the debilitating effects of this process for several reasons. However, stay with me here, gentleman readers, because you’re not out of the woods here by any means, and remember that these considerations will affect the women in your life.\nWomen have a naturally, and significantly lower starting complement of lean body mass (aka: muscle) as compared to men, meaning that gals have less muscle to lose out of the gate. In addition, various studies on physical activity trends indicate that women tend to be less physically active than men, and this tendency increases as age increases. The combination of less lean body mass and inadequate amounts of physical activity can set women up for significant impairment.\n…but There’s Plenty of Misery for Everyone!\nFor both genders, the loss of lean body mass directly relates to both calorie burning capacity and functional strength for life activities. This sets the stage for increased rate of weight gain as we age. Increasing weight gain can decrease our efforts at engaging in physical activity. Here you have it: reduced metabolic rate, subsequent weight gain, and decreasing activity levels. Result: increased risks for a spectrum of lifestyle-related illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease, and other inflammatory processes, along with a general decrease in your quality of life, and satisfaction with it. Specifically, here’s what you have to lose:\n1). Functional strength for daily activities, such as the ability to tend to your home, carry out general daily activities (such as carrying groceries, picking up a grandchild or pet, going up or down stairs, or getting up out of a chair).\n2). The ability to participate in favored activities and/or hobbies.\n3). Money, through the increased financial burden imposed by the need for more, and more frequent health care.\n5). Your sense of self-worth: you lose self-efficacy (your sense of confidence in your ability to carry out activities) and self-esteem (your general opinion of yourself).\nIn sum, the effects can be broad and the impact far-reaching in terms of your health and quality of life. As such, the process of sarcopenia should be viewed as a significant threat to your personal health.\nYour Muscle: A Forgotten Element of Fitness\nMany prominent researchers on the impact of physical activity on illness and mortality have devoted entire careers to examining the impact of general physical activity at work and at play on health and lifespan, with an emphasis on middle-aged men. This is hardly surprising, as men are particularly vulnerable to heart disease and related conditions at mid-life (although women are fast gaining “equality” in this dubious race). Consistent with the theme of concerns regarding coronary disease, much of the research and media attention has focused on aerobically-based, heart stimulating activities in the form of structured cardiovascular conditioning or simply increasing everyday and/or leisure-time physical activities. However, the research on muscle loss, strength, and resistance training is sadly under-reported.\nWhile heart health and cardiovascular work are undeniably important to health and should be included as a part of any regular physical activity program, equal consideration should be given to preserving and improving our muscle mass, strength, thus our functional capacity as we age.\nKey Consderations: What the Research Says\nThe research on sarcopenia provides a wealth of valuable insight into the process of muscle degradation and what we can do to prevent it.\nMany processes, simple path to success: Beginning with a detailed report on the complexity of the processes involved in sarcopenia, in 2006, Solomon and Bouloux (17) presented a beefy review which offered an outline of the many factors involved in the process of muscle growth and decline. They highlighted the importance of supporting cells and cell chemistry, mechanical stimulation (aka, resistance training), calcium and vitamin D status, and growth hormone, among others. In their conclusion, the authors noted that the “interaction between growth factors (created by supportive nutrition) and mechanical stimulation (resistance training) is of significant importance”. Simplified translation: eat healthy, lift weights, keep your muscle.\nForget hormone replacement, lift weight (and eat your protein!): In a 2005 review of various studies investigating the use of testosterone replacement, growth hormone replacement, or resistance training as remedies for sarcopenia, Borst (2) concluded that resistance training was the most effective strategy. He reported that:\n1). Testosterone replacement yielded only modest increases in muscle strength and mass and came with significant concerns regarding destructive side effects at higher doses.\n2). Growth hormone replacement yielded no increases in strength, did nothing to improve the effects of resistance exercise, and also carried with it a high incidence of destructive side effects.\nHe also commented that in older people, inadequate nutrition (protein intake and supporting nutrients) was the primary factor that kept people from the optimal benefits of resistance exercise.\nMore nutrition, nutrition, nutrition: Supporting the importance of nutrition in sarcopenia, various studies have focused on the relationship between dietary protein and lean body (muscle) mass. In a study done in 2007, Campbell and Leidy (3) reported that adequate protein intake, in connection with resistance training, are important considerations in slowing sarcopenia. Further, they suggested that the current recommendation of .08 g of protein per kg of body weight (which has been reported by some registered dieticians and nutritional references to be generous), may not be sufficient to support the desired results of resistance training.\nIn a similar study, also in 2007, Lord et al. (8) focused on the association between the intake of dietary animal protein and muscle mass in older women. They compared intake of animal and vegetable sources of protein with the muscle mass index (a measure of lean body mass) of each woman, and found that animal protein intake was the independent predictor of a higher muscle mass index. In their conclusion they suggested that, in particular, animal sources of protein were superior for the preservation of lean body mass. Other studies have reported this result as well.\nYou’re never “too old”, and it’s never “too late”: In terms of the effects of resistance training on the loss of lean body mass, many studies have examined this relationship among various age groups. While utilizing a variety of approaches, these studies all end up in agreement on one central point: in terms of curtailing, or even reversing the loss of muscle mass and related strength declines, regular resistance exercise does a body good at any age. In 2006, Reeves, Narici, and Maganaris (15) reported that resistance training offered a protective effect against various cellular and molecular markers of muscle degradation and consistently resulted in improvements in muscle mass and strength. They further noted that “older muscle…maintains a high degree of plasticity (responsiveness) in response to increased loading…”, meaning that age alone does not necessarily restrict the ability to generate new muscle growth. In 2006, Taaffe (20) also echoed these observations in his examination of resistance exercise as a treatment strategy for sarcopenia. In his conclusion, he likewise commented on the responsiveness of the aging neuromuscular system, and suggested that resistance exercise via a variety of forms, at a sufficiently taxing level of intensity, done regularly, on a weekly basis, was a prescription for improvements.\nIn still another report of favorable response to resistance training despite aging, in 2007, Melov, et al.(10) took skeletal muscle biopsies from both and younger older adults, and used gene expression profiling to examine and compare the features of the samples of both groups. Further, he exposed a sub-group of the older participants to a six month resistance exercise program. When he examined both pre and post exercise gene expression, he discovered that, in the older group exposed to the resistance training program, many of the genes known to be affected by both age and exercise showed a reversal of their gene expression(s) to profiles that more resembled those of the younger group.\nWhile science reveals that everyone will need to reckon with the process of sarcopenia, this brief glimpse into the research on this process offers considerable hope. The remedy can be found in the form of appropriate amounts and intensities of resistance exercise and proper nutritional support (specifically, adequate protein intake). Functional strength, ability, and metabolic capacity are as vital to health as sound cardiovascular functioning. What good is a healthy heart if you don’t have the strength to get up out of a chair, walk up and down stairs, or carry or pick up objects without injuring yourself? With respect to protecting your muscle mass, and considering the studies featured in this commentary, the opening advisory regarding to “never fret about getting older…” should be augmented with the gym rat’s time-honored advisory to “use it, or lose it”.\nReferences: A 24 item reference section exists for this paper, but was omitted here for the sake of space and bevity. The reference section can be made available upon request, just e-mail us!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.archstl.org/i-thought-you-should-know-jesus-heals-the-blindness-we-choose-when-we-sin-2381", "date": "2024-02-23T16:16:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474440.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223153350-20240223183350-00409.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9666634798049927, "token_count": 1146, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__107633736", "lang": "en", "text": "In the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Lent, God's Word pierces mankind's darkness and reveals a light that will always shine for those who walk in it.\nIn the first reading, God chooses one of Jesse's sons to be king. While Jesse presents seven sons, God doesn't choose any of them. God tells Samuel, \"Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart.\"\nWhen Samuel asks Jesse, \"Are these all the sons you have?\" Jesse replied, \"There is still the youngest, who is tending the sheep.\" Samuel said to Jesse, \"Send for him; we will not begin the sacrificial banquet until he arrives here.\"\nSince seven is the perfect number, it's easy to imagine that Jesse was very proud to present these seven sons to Samuel. Yet the Lord chose the eighth son, who wasn't even invited to the banquet. God works outside of human wisdom. Christ arose from the dead, not on the first day of the week, nor the seventh, which was also the Sabbath, but on the eight day. He introduced a new dimension into history. God always seems to be working in another dimension of time. God gave the prophet Samuel the light to choose a man after the heart of God.\nIn the second reading, Paul recalls that the Ephesians at one time walked in the darkness of sin but now walk in the light of the Lord. \"Live as children of light, for light produces every kind of goodness and righteousness and truth.\"\nThe Gospel presents the remarkable story of the man born blind. When the disciples ask why this man was born blind, Jesus responded, \"It is so that the works of God might be made visible through him. ... I have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.\" Already Jesus is opening the eyes of His disciples to the spiritual world. Once night comes, the time of choosing light or darkness will be over.\nAll of this is a prelude to the healing of the blind man. The physical healing isn't nearly as miraculous as the spiritual healing he is about to experience. As soon as the man born blind returns from the pool of Siloam and is able to see, his witnessing begins. The neighbors who knew him are confused and ask, \"Isn't this the one who used to sit and beg?\" For people walking in darkness, the light of Christ is always confusing.\nThe blind man tells them that he is the one they saw blind and begging. They take this man and present him to the Pharisees who are confused. On the one hand, they insisted that it is unlawful to heal on the Sabbath, but on the other hand they admit, \"How can a sinful man do such signs?\"\nThe more the blind man comes into the light, the more the Pharisees are plunged into darkness. In their confusion, the Pharisees seek help from the parents, but the parents are afraid of being excluded from the synagogue, so they defer the question back to their son.\nNow the man born blind becomes an evangelist for Jesus. The Pharisees say to him, \"Give God the praise! We know that this man is a sinner.\" More light comes forth from the man healed of blindness: \"If He is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see.\"\nWhen they continue to harass him, the man born blind tells them, \"I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become His disciples, too?\" Eventually, they can't take the light coming from this man, now born into spiritual light, so they throw him out of the synagogue.\nJesus seeks out the man thrown out of the synagogue, and says, \"Do you believe in the Son of Man?\" The man replies\"Who is He, sir, that I may believe in Him?\" When Jesus reveals Himself as the Son of Man, the man responds, \"I do believe, Lord.\"\nWhen the Pharisees hear Jesus say this, they ask, \"Surely we are not also blind, are we?\" Jesus says, \"If you were blind, you would have no sin, but now you are saying, 'We see,' so your sin remains.\"\nWe're all born blind.\n\"Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart.\" We all walk in the appearances we create.\nWhen we judge others for sinning differently than we do, we choose blindness. When we hold on to negative thinking, unforgiveness, lust, self-indulgence, anger and resentment, we're choosing blindness. We choose blindness every time we don't love others as God loves them. We choose blindness every time we deny our sins. Like the Pharisees, we create appearances in which we choose to walk.\nSimply trying harder or condemning ourselves won't help; these choices only make us blinder. Jesus is the only one who can give us sight, and so we must humble ourselves and ask Him. Our cry to Jesus should be, \"Lord, I want to see. Show me my sins. I want to come into the light. Lord, I give you permission to convict me of my sins.\" RELATED ARTICLE(S):I thought you should know | The forgiveness of sins is more than a private matter", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://dinosaur-heroes.com/10-bestselling-dinosaur-books-for-kids/", "date": "2024-04-22T09:03:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818105.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240422082202-20240422112202-00046.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9387764930725098, "token_count": 948, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__24539573", "lang": "en", "text": "Dinosaurs have always fascinated kids of all ages, and there are countless books out there that can help fuel that fascination. From colorful picture books that introduce little ones to the world of dinosaurs, to more in-depth non-fiction books that older kids can use for research, there’s a dinosaur book for every age and interest level.\nOne of the best things about dinosaur books for kids is that they can help spark a love of learning and a curiosity about the natural world. By reading about these fascinating creatures, kids can learn about different species of dinosaurs, how they lived, and what the world was like during the time of the dinosaurs. This can help them develop a deeper understanding of science and natural history, and can even inspire them to pursue careers in these fields.\nIn addition to being educational, dinosaur books for kids can also be a lot of fun. Many of these books are filled with colorful illustrations and engaging stories that can captivate kids’ imaginations. They can also be a great way for parents and kids to bond, as they can read the books together and talk about what they’ve learned.\nIf you’re looking for some great dinosaur books for kids, here are a few suggestions to get you started:\nby Roger Priddy: This colorful and engaging picture book is perfect for little ones who are just starting to learn about dinosaurs. It introduces kids to 26 different dinosaurs, from the familiar Tyrannosaurus Rex to the lesser-known Stegosaurus.\nby Jane Yolen and Mark Teague: This sweet and funny book is a favorite among kids and parents alike. It follows a group of dinosaurs as they go through their bedtime routine, and shows how even dinosaurs have to brush their teeth and say their prayers.\nby Thomas R. Holtz Jr.: For older kids who are looking for a more in-depth look at dinosaurs, this comprehensive encyclopedia is a great resource. It covers more than 700 different species of dinosaurs, and includes detailed illustrations and information on each one.\nRelated Article: Epic List of FREE dinosaur coloring pages for kids and toddlers\nby Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott: This fun and imaginative book combines two of kids’ favorite things: dinosaurs and sports. It follows a group of dinosaurs as they form a football team and compete against each other in a big game.\nby Byron Barton: This classic board picture book is perfect for kids who are just starting to learn to read. It uses simple text and colorful illustrations to introduce kids to different types of dinosaurs, and shows how they lived and interacted with each other.\nby William Joyce: This delightful book follows the adventures of a boy named Bob who has a special talent for talking to dinosaurs. He and his family travel back in time to visit the dinosaurs and learn all about their fascinating lives.\nby Claire Freedman and Ben Cort: This silly and imaginative book is perfect for kids who love a good laugh. It follows a group of dinosaurs who discover the joys of wearing underpants, and shows how they use them in all sorts of hilarious ways.\nby Mary Pope Osborne: This is the first book in the popular “Magic Tree House” series, which follows a pair of siblings who are whisked back in time to visit different historical periods. In this book, they travel back to the time of the dinosaurs and have all sorts of exciting adventures.\nby Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott: In this fun and imaginative sequel to “Dino-Football,” the dinosaurs take to the ice for some prehistoric hockey action. With exciting games and hilarious antics, this book is sure to be a hit with sports-loving kids.\nby Lisa Wheeler and Barry Gott: In the third book in the “Dino” series, the dinosaurs hit the baseball diamond for some prehistoric sports action. With fun games and exciting plays, this book is a must-read for kids who love baseball.\nSummary – Top 10 dinosaur books for kids\nIn conclusion, dinosaur books for kids are a wonderful way to fuel a love of learning and a curiosity about the natural world. These books can help kids learn about different species of dinosaurs, how they lived, and what the world was like during the time of the dinosaurs.\nThey can also be a lot of fun, with engaging stories and colorful illustrations that can captivate kids’ imaginations.\nWhether you’re looking for a picture book for little ones or a more in-depth resource for older kids, there’s a dinosaur book out there that’s perfect for every age and interest level. So why not grab a few books and start reading together today?", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://maxwellcynn.blogspot.com/", "date": "2015-05-29T07:58:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-22/segments/1432207929956.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20150521113209-00032-ip-10-180-206-219.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.961575448513031, "token_count": 573, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-22__0__19618016", "lang": "en", "text": "The story of Psyche and Eros is the archetype of all romance literature. The characters symbolize the soul (feminine) and body (masculine) wed in a divine love affair.\nPsyche is the most beautiful being in all creation, the epitome of womanhood. She even outshines the Goddess of love. Eros is smitten by her beauty and falls in love with her. They are married, but Psyche isn't allowed to see Eros because, she is told, he is a hideous monster. But she falls in love with him anyway because he is so kind and loving. (Beauty and the Beast? Bad boys in modern literature?)\nHer sisters convince Psyche that the monster which has seduced her will eventually kill her if she doesn't kill him first. She goes with a weapon and a lamp to sneak up on him and slay the beast, but in the light she sees his true beauty. Eros is angry and flies away. He is imprisoned by his jealous mother. Psyche seeks him and must complete impossible tasks. The last task poisons her (sleep) and Eros must come to her rescue. (Sleeping Beauty? Alpha Males and Billionaires?)\nThey of course live Happily Ever After or it wouldn't be a romance, right?\nFrom a psychological perspective it is easy to see why these archetypal characters dominate romance literature. They are hardwired in our psyche. It is why women fall in love with heroes and men fall in love with heroines. If our characters don't conform to these archetypes they seem strange and stilted. The hero must, in some way, be Eros and the heroine must be Psyche.\nWe could just as easily say David and Bathsheba or Romeo and Juliet or Clair Randall and Jamie Fraser. Though Romeo and Juliet is technically a tragedy. But you can name a hundred romances and they would all conform to the Eros and Psyche archetypes, even real life romances. It's who we are, how our heart and soul live as one. We recognize it in literary characters and it touches us, drawing us in, and making us part of the story.\nI could write volumes on the emotional and psychological triggers at play, but that isn't important for this post. Look at your characters. Can you see Eros in your male lead? Is your female lead Psyche incarnate? Do they suffer for their love? Do they fight insurmountable obstacles? Do they stand together when the whole world is against them? Do they pull apart, but long to be together?\nThese are all classic threads in Romance. If your story doesn't have them it is lacking the Heart (Eros) and Soul (Psyche) of romance and readers will feel that.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://namingthereal.libsyn.com/discharging-shame-energizing-our-bodies-to-live-in-freedom", "date": "2024-02-23T12:16:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474412.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223121413-20240223151413-00277.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9429622888565063, "token_count": 123, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__156427672", "lang": "en", "text": "Feb 2, 2024\nThere is perhaps no experience more visceral and soul-consuming than shame. And shame is opportunistic—it can enter our lives and bodies not only through things we’ve done, but by things done to us. Further, we can often feel absolutely powerless in the face of shame. But we do not have to resign ourselves to hopelessness. A life of flourishing of freedom is available. It requires courage and practices for engaging shame discharge. In this episode, we cover some simple—but not simplistic—practices for discharging shame and living in freedom, authenticity, and resilience.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.helpingcompanions.com/p/joys_of_storytelling_and_knowledge_sharing_with_seniors", "date": "2024-04-19T23:48:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817463.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419234422-20240420024422-00287.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9182114601135254, "token_count": 562, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__156442962", "lang": "en", "text": "Joys of Storytelling and Knowledge Sharing with Seniors\nThe Joys of Storytelling and Knowledge Sharing with Seniors as a Companion\nThe timeless art of storytelling and the sharing of wisdom form the heart of human connection and heritage. As a companion to seniors, these interactions are more than mere pastimes—they're threads that weave the tapestry of personal history and a shared human experience. There's an undeniable joy in the exchange, so let's explore what makes it so rewarding.\nEmbarking on a Journey Through Time\nEach senior is a living library, a vessel of firsthand experiences from different times. As a companion, you're afforded a front-row seat to the stories of the past—tales of love, resilience, joy, and challenges. These narratives are more than simple recountings; they're lessons in history, unexpected friendships, and pivotal moments that shaped society.\nUnearthing Treasures of Wisdom\nSeniors offer a wealth of knowledge that often goes untapped. From life lessons to practical skills, their insights are invaluable. Sharing knowledge about traditions, crafts, and strategies for overcoming life's hurdles enriches your understanding and appreciation of the journey that is life.\nStorytelling with elders can be a vivid adventure. As they describe the worlds they've inhabited, they ignite the imagination, transporting both of you to different realms. This exchange is not only enjoyable but also stimulates the mind and creativity.\nPreserving Heritage and Legacy\nIn listening to and sharing seniors' stories, you play a role in preserving a personal and cultural legacy. Each story is an opportunity to recognize and document the history that may otherwise be forgotten, bridging the gap between generations.\nBuilding Mutual Respect\nThis storytelling interaction fosters a deep sense of respect. Seniors feel valued and heard, while companions gain a newfound understanding of past eras and life paths. This mutual respect is foundational to a meaningful and enriching companionship.\nThe knowledge shared by seniors can dramatically shape your worldview and personal growth. Life advice, overcoming adversity, and the evolution of societal norms provide space for personal reflection and development.\nEnhancing Emotional Well-being\nThe act of sharing stories and knowledge nurtures emotional health for both seniors and companions. It forges meaningful connections, combats loneliness, and provides a shared joy that can brighten daily life.\nAs a companion, your role is pivotal in providing a meaningful social outlet where seniors can reminisce, teach, and feel valued. The joys of storytelling and knowledge-sharing with seniors are profound, offering a unique experience that enriches lives on both sides of the conversation. So, engage fully, listen deeply, and share that life-affirming joy of connection that storytelling brings.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.theatreofyugen.org/", "date": "2019-10-16T10:41:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986666959.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20191016090425-20191016113925-00235.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8873023390769958, "token_count": 606, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__104657966", "lang": "en", "text": "Season 41 Is Here!\nPuppets & Poe\nDirected by Shannon R. Davis\nOctober 3 - November 2, 2019\nThurs, Fri, Sat at 8 PM\nRecipe for the Macabre:\nStart with Edgar Allan Poe - the renowned master of poetry, short stories, and tales of mystery and the macabre. Dissect and remix. Mix with Theatre of Yugen's signature physicality, voices, words, ideas, bodies, a dash of Noh and Kyogen and PUPPETS. Stir in a splash of contemporary relevance, with good old-fashioned irreverence. Bake at a macabre 666 degree heat for an hour and a half. Devised Defiance is a dish best served cold.\nFeaturing: Ella Cooley, Alan Coyne, Shannon R. Davis, Steven Flores, Jamin Jollo, and Nick Ishimaru\nYugen no Kai: Fall\nNovember 16 & 17, 2019\nDirected by Lluis Valls\nTheatre of Yugen will be presenting its signature classical Japanese comedy in English works. The long-standing hallmark of the company’s work, Theatre of Yugen is proud to present the only regular Kyogen in English performances in the world!\nThis fall's offerings include:\nThe Snail (Kagyu)\nThe Thundergod (Kaminari)\nFeaturing: Sheila Devitt, Fenner, Nick Ishimaru, Meryn MacDougall, and Kate Patrick\nA Noh Christmas Carol\nDecember 6 - 29, 2019\nDirected by Nick Ishimaru\nThe perennial favorite is back!\nThe reimagined story in Meiji era Japan is told using a combination of noh, kyogen, kabuki, and butoh, bringing this classic story to life in a fashion like no other production does.\nEbezo Sukurooji [Ebenezer Scrooge] receives a visit from his deceased business partner Jakube Mashima [Jacob Marley] warning him to change his miserly ways or be doomed to linger forever as a hungry ghost. The miraculous intervention of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet-To-Come take Sukurooji on a wondrous journey through life and time in a profound attempt to remind him of the value of life beyond business and profit.\nFeaturing: Roy Eikleberry, Nick Ishimaru, Meryn MacDougall, Ryan Marchand, Mika Oskarson-Kindstrand, and Kate Patrick\nJoin Our Mailing List\nKeep up to date on the latest production information, ticket offers, and more from Theatre of Yugen\nSubscribe to the \"NohNews\" newsletter!\nTheatre of Yugen is a non-profit 501c3 that depends on support from individuals and the community. Show your support today by giving a tax-deductible donation. We appreciate your giving, celebrating the arts of Japanese and Western culture!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://secure.sierraclub.ca/en/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=88", "date": "2020-09-26T22:15:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400245109.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20200926200523-20200926230523-00046.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9094626307487488, "token_count": 137, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__23418845", "lang": "en", "text": "This is a book about Canada’s endangered critters; it’s a book no one has wanted to write.\nWe hope that by documenting the plight of so many beautiful creatures we will contribute to a renewed effort to protect them.\nIt’s an incomplete book -- only half of Canada's endangered species are included, but we will eventually include all 300 species and provide the final version to you upon completion (consider this a Beta version!).\nUpon your minimum donation of $15.00 you'll be given access to download the e-Book (in both EPUB and PDF formats).\nThanks for your consideration.\n-- The Sierra Club Canada Team", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://godmehimandthem.blogspot.com/2009/09/do-you-know-who-your-enemy-is.html", "date": "2018-05-25T10:40:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-22/segments/1526794867085.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20180525102302-20180525122302-00611.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.940010666847229, "token_count": 415, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-22__0__24647031", "lang": "en", "text": "Ephesians 6:12 says:\n'For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rules, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places'\nThis is God's word, so I know it to be true.\nBut sometimes, it feels so personal that it's hard to remember.\nSometimes, you can see the work of Satan and wonder why others can't.\nSometimes, you wonder who your enemy is?\nSo everyday, I will choose to put on the full armor of protection.\nLord, I choose to put on the helmet of salvation today in order to protect my mind. I want to think only Your thoughts, Lord. I want to thank you that when Satan sends one of his thoughts my way, this helmet of salvation will protect my thinking.\nLord, I choose to put on the breastplate of righteousness to guard my emotions. I was to feel only what you feel. Don't let me react out of my emotions. Rather, let me respond based on the truth I know in my mind.\nLord, I choose to fasten on truth so I can stay centered on your Word. I want to live in the truth, walk in the truth, and testify to the truth.\nLord, I choose to put on the sandals of peace. Wherever I go today, I want to be a peacemaker. I want my footprints to be evidence of the tranquility I carry in the Holy Spirit.\nLord, I choose to take up the shield of faith. I want to thank You that, no matter how many fiery arrows the Enemy hurls at me today, no matter how many trials or temptations may come, I can stand safely behind the massive protection of faith.\nLord, I choose to lift high the sword of the Spirit, Your hold Word. Father, thank you for this spiritual weapon that cuts so deeply to bring about conviction and repentance.\nIn God's love, sheila", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://chelseavoulgares.com/category/uncategorized/page/2/", "date": "2020-09-24T15:06:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400219221.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20200924132241-20200924162241-00616.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.966336727142334, "token_count": 858, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__111501517", "lang": "en", "text": "I received a thrilling email last night. The editors of Glimmer Train read and enjoyed my submission to their most recent Very Short Fiction award, and decided to include it on the list of honorable mentions for the contest. This journal is an institution in the writing world, and I’m so happy to have Linda and Susan take notice of my work.\nIssue 7 of the online literary magazine (b)OINK went live yesterday, and includes my surreal micro “Grab the Sharpest Blade” about fruit and cutting and getting shit done. This piece originated in one of Kathy Fish’s workshops. I can’t fully remember the exercise, but for me writing this piece was about word play and expressing emotion rather than an idea.\nI was a finalist for (b)OINK magazine’s very first flash fiction contest, judged by Kathy Fish! Being named as a finalist is a strange feeling. You’re so close, yet so far away. At the same time, however, the winning stories are truly lovely. I’m happy to have been introduced to these three new writers, and to have been considered their peers in some way. I’ll have a different story published in (b)OINK later on this month. It’s one of the strangest things I’ve written so I’m glad it found a great home.\nA few months ago, author Jac Jemc was nice enough to sit down and talk with me about her new novel, The Grip of It, which will be released on Tuesday by FSG Originals. Jac is a unique, talented, and innovative writer. I loved the book, a creepy literary story about a haunted house and the couple who buy it. Our talk is up now at Fiction Southeast!\nMy story “Volcano” has been published in Jellyfish Review. This story, about bad boyfriends and miracle pills, is one of my favorite things that I’ve written, so I’m so glad it had such a great home. You can read it here.\nI have a very short story in the new issue of The Nottingham Review, an online journal based in the U.K. My publication resume has gone International! Please check out “Ramen for Breakfast” in Issue 8.\nMy publication resume has crossed the pond! I have a micro-fiction in the brand new issue of The Nottingham Review, in the company of some wonderful writers like Christina Dalcher and Meg Pokrass. You can read all the stories and poems for free online or download a PDF copy of the whole issue. Here’s a direct link to my story!\nI got a very nice email from River Styx on Thursday saying that I had made it into the final round of judging for the Schlafly Micro-Brew Micro-Fiction Contest. It’s always nice to know when you are close as a writer even if you don’t win, so I’ll take finalist any day over all-out rejection. That said, I do think rejection is an important part of the submission process, and something we all have to face. On Facebook, I made a post celebrating my 210th rejection, and I really meant it.\nAnyway, I wanted to say congratulations to the winner and runners-up for this contest. I’m looking forward to reading their work in River Styx!\nGood news! I found out last night that I am the Runner-Up for Split Lip Press’s Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. Split Lip has published a lot of impressive work lately, so I feel really honored. You can read the announcement here.\nI wrote some nonfiction! Gay Degani was nice enough to ask me to do a post for her blog, Words in Place. My short essay is part of a series called Journey to Planet Write, and is about Sylvia Plath, James Baldwin, my other early favorite authors, and their role in my own path as a writer. Check it out, and stay awhile to read all the great work over at Degani’s site.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://azaniafront.org/1-kings-191-10-1-wafalme-191-10-06-04-2019", "date": "2020-07-15T23:11:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657176116.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20200715230447-20200716020447-00530.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8006529211997986, "token_count": 1401, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-29", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__20898272", "lang": "en", "text": "SATURDAY 6TH APRIL 2019 MORNING\n1 Kings 19:1-10 New International Version (NIV)\nElijah Flees to Horeb\n1 Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword. 2 So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”\n3 Elijah was afraid[a] and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there, 4 while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, Lord,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.” 5 Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep.\nAll at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.” 6 He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.\n7 The angel of the Lord came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.” 8 So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. 9 There he went into a cave and spent the night.\nThe Lord Appears to Elijah\nAnd the word of the Lord came to him: “What are you doing here, Elijah?”\n10 He replied, “I have been very zealous for the Lord God Almighty. The Israelites have rejected your covenant, torn down your altars, and put your prophets to death with the sword. I am the only one left, and now they are trying to kill me too.”\n- 1 Kings 19:3 Or Elijah saw\nThe Prophet Elijah was tired and depressed because of the opposition from his enemies. But God came to encourage him and gave him food and enabled him to rest. God gave Elijah a word to encourage him.\nYou might have been going through a tough time. Perhaps a friend or relative of yours has been experiencing various hardships. Do your best to encourage them. Let us help and support one another and let us commit our way into God’s hands so that He will lift us up in our time of need.\nJUMAMOSI TAREHE 6 APRILI 2019\n1 WAFALME 19:1-10\n1 Basi, Ahabu akamwambia Yezebeli habari ya mambo yote aliyoyafanya Eliya, na jinsi alivyowaua manabii wote kwa upanga.\n2 Ndipo Yezebeli akampelekea Eliya mjumbe, kusema, Miungu wanifanyie hivyo na kuzidi, nisipokufanya roho yako kesho, panapo wakati huu, kama roho ya mmojawapo wa hao.\n3 Naye alipoona hayo, aliondoka, akaenda aihifadhi roho yake, akafika Beer-sheba, mji wa Yuda, akamwacha mtumishi wake huko.\n4 Lakini yeye mwenyewe akaendelea katika jangwa mwendo wa siku moja, akaenda akaketi chini ya mretemu. Akajiombea roho yake afe, akasema, Yatosha; sasa, Ee Bwana, uiondoe roho yangu; kwa kuwa mimi si mwema kuliko baba zangu.\n5 Naye akajinyosha akalala chini ya mretemu; na tazama, malaika akamgusa, akamwambia, Inuka, ule.\n6 Akatazama, kumbe! Pana mkate umeokwa juu ya makaa, na gudulia la maji, kichwani pake. Akala, akanywa, akajinyosha tena.\n7 Malaika wa Bwana akamwendea mara ya pili, akamgusa, akasema, Inuka, ule; maana safari hii ni kubwa mno kwako.\n8 Akainuka, akala, akanywa, akaenda katika nguvu za chakula hicho siku arobaini mchana na usiku hata akafika Horebu, mlima wa Mungu.\n9 Akafika kunako pango, akalala ndani yake. Na tazama, neno la Bwana likamjia, naye akamwambia, Unafanya nini hapa, Eliya?\n10 Akasema, Nimeona wivu mwingi kwa ajili ya Bwana Mungu wa majeshi; kwa kuwa wana wa Israeli wameyaacha maagano yako, na kuzivunja madhabahu zako, na kuwaua manabii wako kwa upanga; nami nimesalia, mimi peke yangu; nao wanitafuta roho yangu, waiondoe.\nNabii Eliya alichoka sana na alitaka kukataa tama kwa sababu ya ugumu wa maisha na adui zake wengi. Mungu alisikia kilio chake. Mungu alimpa chakula na maji na alimpa usingizi. Baadaye alimtia moyo.\nInawezekana unapita mapito magumu au inawezakana rafika au ndugu yako ana msongo wa mawazo. Ni muhimu kusaidiana na kutiana moyo. Pia tulete mizigo yetu kwa Mungu ili atufariji.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.couragebooknow.com/testimonials/", "date": "2023-11-29T11:24:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100081.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20231129105306-20231129135306-00789.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9227635264396667, "token_count": 234, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__25981598", "lang": "en", "text": "This book was written to encourage lovers, friends, and partners to maintain, retain and fortify the love that brought you together in the first place. Whether you seek to improve your healthy relationship or wish to transform or end an unhealthy relationship, I provide tips and strategies to help you find the path you most desire. My book is geared to teach you how to build the confidence you need to move your relationship from an unhealthy zone to a zone of desirability. The Book on Boundless Courage takes you through the process of making your life more fulfilling and positioning your relationship in the best state possible.\nIn my book, you will learn:\n- How to overcome challenges and struggles in your relationship\n- How to muster the courage to improve your own relationship\n- How to strengthen your bond and rekindle your love and your life together\ntremendously in understanding how to have a more fluid love life with my spouse. After 3 months of her\ncoaching principles my hubby and I have settled into beginning to enjoy the bliss that relationship\nbrings. We could not ask for more! Thank you, Jacinth. Ann Marie Clarke-Smith", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://bookshelflapeer.com/index.html", "date": "2016-05-01T00:23:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-18/segments/1461860113541.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20160428161513-00154-ip-10-239-7-51.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9738612771034241, "token_count": 124, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-18__0__109004838", "lang": "en", "text": "BOOK SHELF LAPEER\nWelcome to Book Shelf Lapeer! We are a family owned and operated bookstore located in downtown Lapeer, just minutes from I-69. We strive to offer the very best in customer service. We carry a little bit of everything - from fiction to nonfiction, adult titles to children's titles, puzzles, games, gift items and much more! If we don't have exactly what you're looking for, we have the option to order it for you. Most orders will be fulfilled in a week or less, and almost all orders are free of a shipping charge.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.japancentre.com/fr/products/15812-the-complete-guide-to-japanese-drinks-hardcover-book", "date": "2022-01-27T16:16:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320305266.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220127133107-20220127163107-00283.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8075813055038452, "token_count": 122, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__121878017", "lang": "en", "text": "The Complete Guide to Japanese Drinks Hardcover Book, 900 g\nPerfect for the traveller or epicurean wishing to learn all about the drinks of Japan.\nThis book reveals the secrets of Japan's varied alcoholic beverages, from sake, to shochu, wine and beer. Enlightening readers about the drinking traditions of Japan, this book serves as the foremost guide to help beginners and seasoned connoisseurs learn all the intimate and tasty facts about beverages in Japan. Hardbound with 159 pages.\nRéf de l'article: #15812", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://blog.cengagebrain.com/blog/2014/02/according-to-amazon-books-to-read-before-you-die/", "date": "2018-06-20T03:35:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863411.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620031000-20180620051000-00420.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9666692614555359, "token_count": 1106, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__217788672", "lang": "en", "text": "The lists come out every year. Sometimes more than once. “100 books to read before you die.” “100 novels everyone should read.” They’re filled with classic books, or just good books—according to the list compilers. Sometimes they come out as memes, and you can check off which books you’ve read (and see how you score compared to your Facebook friends). On February 4, 2014, Amazon released its own list of top books, hotly debated for months by a team of Amazon staffers. Since for Amazon, books are the gateway to purchases on its site for many customers, it makes sense for the online behemoth to choose a number of titles to read—but you might be surprised by some of its choices. Which of these would you include in your “to be read” (TBR) pile?\nNot for homework\nAccording to Editorial Director of Print and Kindle Books Sara Nelson, the goal of the team developing the list was to keep the selections from feeling like a homework assignment. In comments made to Dana Sand of CNNLiving, in “Amazon 100 books to read in a lifetime,” Nelson said the team wanted to avoid “’eat your vegetable’ books. There was nothing in there except ‘I loved this book when I was 12 for this reason.’ We lobbied each other.”\nShe also explained, “In terms of the demographic of the writers, we never sat down and said ‘we need more women’ or ‘we need more books from different cultural groups or countries.’ But overall, when I eyeball that list, it seems to have a lot of variation.”\nThe resulting list includes fiction and nonfiction, children’s literature and fan favorites, classics and modern novels. Most of the books are from the 20th and 21st century, but Jane Austen’s 1813 “Pride and Prejudice” is also included.\nAmong the selections on the Amazon list (arranged in alphabetical order to avoid internal rankings) are:\n- “1984” by George Orwell\n- “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll\n- “Beloved” by Toni Morrison\n- “Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Book 1,” by Jeff Kinney\n- “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies,” by Jared M. Diamond\n- “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J. K. Rowling\n- “Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth” by Chris Ware\n- “Moneyball” by Michael Lewis\n- “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” by Junot Diaz\n- “The Diary of Anne Frank,” by Anne Frank\n- “The Giver” by Lois Lowry\n- “The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins\n- “The Lord of the Rings” by J. R. R. Tolkien\n- “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle\n- “Where the Sidewalk Ends” by Shel Silverstein\nIf you disagree with some of Amazon’s choices and want to recommend your own, a reader-selected poll is available on Goodreads.\nBefore you die\nDustin Kurtz, writing for the Melville House blog in “Amazon chooses ‘100 books to read in your lifetime, better hurry, why? Oh, no reason, forget I said anything” had a bleak (or, at least, satiric) outlook on Amazon’s list. He noted that Amazon “is working to develop a computing substrate for artificial intelligence. ‘100 books to read before the singularity turns you into a grey slurry’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as their list’s name, perhaps, but might be more accurate.” He also reminded readers of Amazon’s plans for a drone service, covered in Cengage Brain in December, and noted that the online superstore has changed its focus from books to other items, including grocery deliveries, saying that they might have called their list, “100 books to read before you forget what a book was.”\nWith these lists being released so frequently from so many sources, how can you pick through them? For one blogger, who is also a CPA and quality control auditor, the task became a huge project of analyzing and compiling. She took lists from “Time, NY Times, The Guardian, thebest100lists.com, The Novel 100, Harvard, BBC and two blogs” and included books that made at least three of the ten lists, she explained in her post, “The Challenge,” on her site 100 Books to Read Before You Die. While her list doesn’t include Amazon’s recent choices, her tabulation shows how many of the lists a book appeared on. “The Great Gatsby,” for example, appeared on 9 of the 10 lists (and, incidentally, is featured on Amazon’s list).\nWhat books do you think everyone should read? Tell us in the comments.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://join.flywire.ai/", "date": "2024-04-13T18:50:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816832.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413180040-20240413210040-00017.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8853127360343933, "token_count": 268, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__161720003", "lang": "en", "text": "Since 2019, scientists and experienced proofreaders have utilized FlyWire to proofread AI segmentation of a full fly brain (Dorkenwald et al., Zheng et al.). As of July 2023, the FlyWire flagship preprint Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain is available on bioRxiv, which includes 127,978 proofread neurons (Dorkenwald et al.). The companion annotation paper includes over 700,000 labels (Schlegel et al.).\nAutomatically extracted presynaptic and postsynaptic tags have been applied to all putative connections in the brain (Buhmann et al.), and the dominant neurotransmitter assigned for most neurons (Eckstein et al.).\nExplore the connectome and its annotations in Codex.\nCommunity of neurobiologists, computer scientists, and proofreaders who build and curate the first whole brain connectome for Drosophila in FlyWire. Join FlyWire and contribute community data for your lab to appear.\nFlyWire is created by the labs of Mala Murthy and Sebastian Seung at Princeton University. It is funded by the US Brain Initiative. Proofreading and annotation has been carried out in collaboration with the Cambridge Drosophila Connectomics Group (funded by the Wellcome trust) and many other labs around the world.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mrd.umn.edu/active-research-projects/vivo-and-ex-vivo-tissue-characterization", "date": "2023-12-06T05:22:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100583.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206031946-20231206061946-00647.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8987892270088196, "token_count": 393, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__310146392", "lang": "en", "text": "Accurate properties of living biological tissues are critically important to the advancement of medical simulation science. There are 2 key gaps in the currently available literature impeding the development of accurate simulators. First, there is minimal data collected for certain human tissues which are needed for surgical simulators. Second, the wealth of tissue characterization data collected on a broad range of tissues is largely unusable for the development of high-fidelity simulators because these tissues have been tested ex-vivo. It is well known that many tissues exhibit drastically different properties from ex-vivo to in-vivo. There are many reasons for these differences, including perfusion, temperature variations, and altered boundary conditions when tested ex-vivo.\nOur research aims to address these two challenges. Partnering with local tissue donor services, we are building a database of human tissue properties, with specific attention to the tissues requisite for surgical simulators. In addition, we are building the robotic tools necessary to measure in-vivo tissue properties. Using these tools, we aim to quantify and model the decay of tissue properties from in-vivo to ex-vivo for various porcine tissues. With such a model the current wealth of ex-vivo data could be rendered more useful for developing accurate simulators.\n|||Luis E Morales Tenorio, Kelsey J Devine, Jayme Lee, Timothy M Kowalewski, and Victor H Barocas. Biomechanics of Human Parietal Pleura in Uniaxial Extension. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 75:330--335, 2017. [ .pdf ]|\n|||Trevor K Stephens, Kelsey A Harper, Mark J Brown, and Timothy M Kowalewski. Decay of tissue mechanical properties over a 24-hr period. ASME Journal of Medical Devices, 10(3):030950, 2016. [ .pdf ]|", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://appreciatingpeople.co.uk/leadership-the-conversational-and-appreciative-general/", "date": "2024-03-01T14:46:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475311.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301125520-20240301155520-00791.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9637067317962646, "token_count": 1805, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__153208465", "lang": "en", "text": "‘When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take, choose the bolder’\nField Marshall Bill Slim, British Army\nIn 2011 the UK National Army Museum conducted a poll to identify Britain’s greatest general. Bill Slim was nominated –along with the Duke of Wellington – as Britain’s greatest general. If he were alive, Bill Slim would have been surprised, as he was a modest man. His soldiers in the 14th Army (known as the Forgotten Army) fought one of the most difficult campaigns in World War II in Burma, South East Asia; a campaign fought in one of most challenging geographical terrains, against an implacable enemy, with few resources and one of the most ethnically diverse armies in British History. He led the army through one of the longest retreats in British history, transformed it and then led it to victory.\nI’m not going to go into the military tactical and strategic abilities of Bill Slim – there are already some excellent biographies. I’m interested in concentrating on the person – his contribution to my understanding of leadership and how relevant he is outside the military to leadership in businesses and organisations.\nNor am I going to apologise for highlighting military leadership – this article is not about promoting war, but the view that in the cauldron of human conflict and its inherent waste, there is a place where you can learn. The leadership skills and attributes exemplified by Bill Slim are relevant to any organisation, large or small.\nSlim’s 1956’s Defeat into Victory is a personal account of the Burma campaign. The initial print run of 20,000 copies sold out in a few weeks – unprecedented feat for a new author. What stands the book apart from other military memoirs is that, apart from lucid robust prose and occasional flashes of dry humour, was its disarming humility. Here was an unusual (almost unknown) species of military commander – a general ready to admit his mistakes, often assailed by self-doubt and more than willing to attribute success to others. How many recent management books produced by captains of industry reflect that approach?\nBill Slim asserted that ‘leadership was of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision; its practice an art.’ In his 1960 article in the Australian Army Quarterly (based on a lecture given to the Adelaide Division of the Australian Institute of Management in 1957, which was republished in 2003 in the Australian Army Quarterly), he defined leadership:\n‘What is leadership? I would define it as the projection of personality. It is that combination of persuasion, compulsion, and example that makes people do what you want them to do. If leadership is this projection of personality, then the first requirement is a personality to project. The personality of a successful leader is a blend of many qualities: courage, willpower, knowledge, judgement and flexibility of mind.’\nSlim also states that whilst the qualities outlined above are essential for good leadership, integrity is a central part:\n‘Integrity should not be so much a quality of itself as the element in which all of the others live and are active, as fish exist and move in the water. Integrity is a combination of the virtues of being honest with all men and of unselfishness, thinking of others, the people we lead, before ourselves.’\nIn On the psychology of military incompetence, Norman Dixon writes that great generalship depends on an absence of authoritarianism:\n‘Firstly he was non-ethnocentric and therefore able to achieve the almost impossible, but vitally necessary, goal of maintaining a good relationship with Chinese allies, however frustrating they may on occasion have been. By the same token, his brilliantly successful leadership of Ghurkas, Africans and Indians, as well as Europeans (the14th Army was probably the most multi-ethnic army in British military history), would have been impossible had there existed a trace of ethnocentrism in his make up.’\nSlim had the capacity to maintain good relationships with ‘difficult’ people – and, in particular, fostered inter-service partnerships, promoting a culture where collaboration was the operational norm.\nIn my professional career I’ve dipped in to and studied many of the management publications on leadership, considering areas like authentic leadership, servant leadership, democratic leadership etc. Often, I have found there is a tendency to encourage a scientific and structured approach with models to follow, including training programmes to develop the skills – which has always struck me as mechanistic. Slim believed that the best training for leadership was leadership. He, also through his actions, maximised the use of ‘soft skills’. The only model for me near to the approach exemplified by his leadership is Appreciative Leadership, created by Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten- Bloom and Kae Rader. Appreciative Leadership linked with the organisation development philosophy Appreciative Inquiry is defined as:\n‘A relational capacity to mobilise creative potential and turn it into positive power – to set in motion the positive ripples of confidence, energy, enthusiasm and performance – to make a difference in the world.’\nThe authors, writing in the AI Practitioner, Volume 13: Number 1 (Positive and Appreciative Leadership 4) explain that leaders who use the OD philosophy Appreciative Inquiry as their vehicle for positive change have four things in common:\n- They’re willing to engage with other members of their organisation or community to create a better way of doing business or living\n- They are willing to learn and to change\n- They truly believe in the power of the positive\n- They care about people, often describing the work of the organisation or business of helping people, grow and develop\nIf you study Bill Slim’s leadership, you’ll see connection and resonance with these four elements. Studying Bill Slim has served me well – better than attending any leadership course and much of the leadership theory practise I have read. Here are my key learnings:\n- – The importance of clarity of intention: delegation fosters quality work, commitment, learning and innovation\n- – The value of creating a learning culture: providing the maximum potential for training and fostering a professional operational framework\n- – Be accessible: foster a simple and understandable message; be out and about and communicate clearly\n- – The importance and value of sharing stories as a way to learn and communicate\n- – The value of developing quality relationships and fostering collaboration in creating well-led and effective organisations\n- – The importance of supporting a non-blame culture that encourages learning from errors, to take calculated risks and be bold\n- – Adaptability, innovation and flexibility are created from fostering energy, and supporting a culture founded on trust and confidence\n- – The recognition that leadership is an art and not a science, and that it’s about the combination of spirit, personality and vision. Successful organisations need leadership at all levels\n- – The value and importance in caring for staff, encouraging their wellbeing and the way this can support organisational effectiveness\n- – The value of time for reflection: accept all success includes other people and learn to be more resilient\nSo, what is Slim’s relevance today?\nI first came across Slim’s Australian Army Quarterly article in Russell Miller’s Uncle Bill. Miller says:\n‘It would foreshadow the advice of legions of management ‘experts’ in the years to come. Indeed, nearly 50 years later, in 2003, a transcript of the lecture was published in 2003 in the Australian Army Journal with a note ‘It is amazing to consider how many ideas in this article have been sold in recent books as novel new approaches”‘\nOne quote from Slim particularly resonates:\n‘Some invention, some new process, some political change may have come along overnight and the leader must speedily adjust himself and his organisation to it. The only living organisms that survive are those that adapt themselves to change.’\nYet we still have not responded well to the ideas expressed over 50 years ago!!\nStudying Bill Slim – and my more recent use of the OD philosophy Appreciative Inquiry – have shown me the importance of working from strengths, fostering adaptability, flexibility and wellbeing. He was an exponent of the appreciative and conversational leadership model and has and will continue to provide encouragement and sustenance in my leadership journey.\nThe lessons learned, actions taken and leadership skills provided by Bill Slim and his 14th Army in Burma over 70 years ago have much to teach us in these challenging times, countering the prevailing views of control, risk averse and zero mistakes and errors.\nFor more information about our leadership training and board development work, please contact Tim Slack by email.", "domain": "literature"}
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{"url": "http://www.alexisaglianosanborn.com/seasons/january-23-2016-1", "date": "2018-06-19T04:44:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267861899.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20180619041206-20180619061206-00367.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9898001551628113, "token_count": 272, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__100415577", "lang": "en", "text": "The snow began in the early morning. I was surprised how sturdy my house was against the wind and gusts. At my old apartment these snow storms would bring bangs, whistles and weazes through the windows. This was my first snow storm in my new apartment and it seemed a sturdy ship.\nThroughout the morning it snowed in varying degrees of intensity. I thought to myself - it doesn't seem so bad. Yet by three o'clock the winds picked up and the snow increased. The subways and buses were to be shut down by four. Chris and I had to gear up to make a cross town journey before the city hunkered down to wait out the worst.\nBy evening the snow seemed to have lessened, and outside I could hear the joyful cries and shouts of people sledding down a small hill that bordered the Hudson River. Icicles hung from the lamp posts, and I wondered if they might break away on to the unsuspecting man who had been shoveling snow for the past three hours. We were warm and cozy that evening, but by the dawn the room had turned cold as the protective clouds were swept away and the new day greeted by a clear crisp blue sky. In the end, the storm was the third worst in New York City's history. We received close to 28 inches of snow that day.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://parfumexquis.com/ru/blogs/perfumelicios/golden-leaves-and-alluring-scents-discover-the-best-fragrances-for-fal", "date": "2023-12-05T21:57:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100568.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205204654-20231205234654-00564.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8789145350456238, "token_count": 1241, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__313949256", "lang": "en", "text": "As autumn approaches, nature undergoes a spectacular transformation. The leaves turn golden, the air becomes crisp, and the world is painted in a warm palette of oranges, reds, and browns. Just as we swap out our summer wardrobes for cozier garments, it's also the perfect time to transition our olfactory preferences to match the enchanting essence of fall.\n\"Golden Leaves and Alluring Scents\" dives deep into the heart of autumn to unearth the most captivating fragrances that embody the spirit of the season. Whether you're drawn to the warm spices reminiscent of a pumpkin latte or the woodsy undertones that evoke a walk through a fallen leaf-strewn forest, this guide will help you discover the perfect scent to accompany your fall adventures.\nWhispering Sugar Leather: The Tale of Golden Leaves\nAs the amber hues of autumn leaves fall gently to the ground, the world is enveloped in a comforting blanket of earthy tones and cozy feelings. Amidst this serene backdrop, a fragrance whispers tales of adventurous wanderings – it's Sugar Leather Une Nuit Nomade. Imagine a leather journal, its pages filled with tales of distant lands, caressed by the sun's last warmth and sprinkled with sugar crystals carried by the autumn wind.\nThis scent encapsulates a delicate balance between the rugged allure of leather and the sweet whispers of caramelized memories. Like a comforting fall embrace, Sugar Leather lingers, softly telling tales of nomadic journeys and the sweet moments they hold. Just as autumn brings stories of changing seasons, this fragrance gently unfolds its narrative, a poetic journey for the senses.\nHeralding Autumn with Nishane Ani's Enchanting Aromas\nWhen the cool embrace of fall draws near, Nishane Ani beckons us with tales of ancient cities and memories held in time's embrace. Picture the once-majestic city of Ani, standing tall near Armenia's borders, now remembered only through echoing ruins and tales whispered through the winds. Nishane Ani isn't just a fragrance—it's the essence of a city's memory, a heartfelt tribute to bygone eras and their lingering spirits.\nLet the tale unravel as the initial burst of pink pepper and ginger dances in the air, reminiscent of the city's bustling markets and lively streets. As you delve deeper, the mellow embrace of green notes pairs with calming bergamot, setting the stage for the heart's treasured inhabitants: a rare coupling of rose and black currant, their allure heightened with wisps of cardamom. The base, rich in woody notes, is like the sturdy walls of Ani—time-worn, yet standing tall, guarding stories and legends for those who'd listen. In every Nishane Ani sample, find an oriental caravan's allure, a fragrant journey that lets you craft tales of ancient wonders and autumn's nostalgic embrace.\nAn Enchanted Parisian Night: Grand Soir by Maison Francis Kurkdjian\nGrand Soir by Maison Francis Kurkdjian stands as an ode to those special evenings when Paris transforms into a city of ethereal allure. The captivating blend of warm vanilla of benzoin from Siam, rich honey from Bulgaria and Iran, and deep resins transports one to a magical Parisian night, lit by a thousand lights and awash with romantic mystery.\nIts luxuriously vanillic amber heart dances with nuances of rose, ylang-ylang, and seductive cumin, making it an impeccable choice for autumn's meaningful soirees. While its potency might be too commanding for a casual daytime affair, Grand Soir shines brightest during those cherished nights out, when its exquisite sillage leaves an indelible mark of elegance and allure. It's not merely a fragrance, but an experience – a Parisian dream captured in a bottle, perfect for the fall's most enchanting moments.\nA Symphony of Winter Whimsy: Velvet Tonka by BDK Parfums\nVelvet Tonka by BDK Parfums emerges as a symphony of warmth and sensuality. This masterful concoction seamlessly weaves the complexity of tonka bean – sometimes evoking vanilla leather, at times the warmth of almonds, and occasionally revealing chocolatey nuances. Paired with the intoxicating allure of orange blossom and almond, it paints a vivid picture of a Moroccan dreamscape, reminiscent of the founder David Benedek's roots.\nWith each spritz, one can envision marzipan castles and snowfalls of tonka sugar set to Tchaikovsky's ethereal melodies. The perfume's heart beats with rose petals and a hint of honeyed tobacco, while its base radiates with the addictive touch of amyris wood and a sultry veil of vanilla. Velvet Tonka is not just a fragrance but a tribute to the Atlas Mountains' enchanting beauty, making it the quintessential scent for those seeking warmth and depth during the crisp fall evenings.\nIn Conclusion: Embracing Autumn's Fragrant Tapestry\nAs the seasons shift, it's an unparalleled joy to delve into the aromatic treasures that autumn has to offer. From the poetic allure of a Parisian evening evoked by Grand Soir to the Moroccan dreamscape of Velvet Tonka, and the intriguing essence of Sugar Leather perfume, each fragrance tells a story of seasonal transformation. These scents are not merely bottled aromas but are experiences, memories, and reflections of fall's splendor.\nWhether you're enveloped in the warmth of a soft scarf or preparing for a cozy evening indoors, these perfumes are your ultimate olfactory companions. As the days become shorter and the air cooler, allow these fragrances, especially the captivating allure of Sugar Leather perfume, to envelop and warm you. Dive into the heart of autumn and let it be an aromatic adventure, painted with golden leaves, alluring scents, and the unmistakable charm of leather sweetened with a hint of sugar.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.heraldopenaccess.us/fulltext/Clinical-Studies-&-Medical-Case-Reports/A-Unique-Case-Presentation-of-Methadone-Toxicity-without-QTc-Interval-Prolongation-despite-Patient-Risk-Factors.php", "date": "2019-04-21T08:55:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578530505.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421080255-20190421102255-00356.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9374716281890869, "token_count": 4325, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__129048472", "lang": "en", "text": "Safe medication practice is a multidisciplinary process involving physicians, nurses, pharmacists and the patients themselves. Over recent years, particularly in health system settings, pharmacists have developed specialist roles in medication safety, working with colleagues in pharmacy and other professions to identify problems with medication use and prevention of errors. In November 2006, the Food and Drug Administration issued a public health advisory titled “Methadone use for pain control may result in death and life-threatening changes in breathing and heart beat”. The report emphasized the importance of clinicians to be mindful of the drug’s ability to cause QTc interval prolongation and is a marker for the risk of developing torsades de pointes, a potentially fatal ventricular arrhythmia. Factors associated with QT prolongation include higher methadone total daily dose, hypokalemia, low prothrombin level (suggestive of reduced liver function) and co-administration of a medication that inhibits the CYP3A4 enzyme system which may increase methadone serum levels. Methadone’s lipophilicity contributes to unpredictable pharmacokinetics with high rates of interpatient variability and unfortunately there is little data to support the development of an accurate risk assessment in patients receiving treatment. Despite there being a valid and reliable risk assessment tool, there are known risk factors for QTc prolongation to be aware of with methadone therapy. Greater awareness of the potential for clinically important interactions when methadone is taken concomitantly with other drugs is substantial.\nFluconazole; Methadone; Pharmacokinetic interactions; QTc prolongation; Torsades de pointes\nMethadone is widely used and FDA approved for the detoxification and maintenance treatment of opioid dependence. It is a substrate of Cytochrome P450 3A4 (CYP3A4), a metabolizing enzyme in the liver. Co-administration of this medication with other drugs that affect the function of CYP3A4 can change final outcomes [1-7]. Due to fluconazole’s ability to inhibit drug metabolism via this pathway, patients treated simultaneously with fluconazole and methadone may have clinically relevant increases in systemic methadone concentrations [1-7]. Fortunately, most of these Pharmacokinetic (PK) interactions are not life threatening; however they can have important consequences .\nMethadone is a synthetic opioid agonist frequently used in the treatment of opioid dependence. However, secondary to the drug’s long duration of action, efficacy and low cost, its use in the treatment of chronic pain is increasing. Methadone is a racemic mixture of R- and S- methadone; R -methadone is 8-50 times more potent than S-methadone and is responsible for most of it’s action. Methadone is a mu-opioid receptor agonist and it also binds to kappa and delta opioid receptors. Additional mechanisms of action include inhibiting the re-uptake of serotonin and norepinephrine and as an antagonist at the N-Methyl-D-Aspartate (NMDA) receptor, thought to prevent central sensitization and reduce opioid tolerance.Methadone is extensively metabolized, primarily by N-demethylation to pharmacologically inactive metabolites which are eliminated in the urine and feces. Metabolism takes place primarily in the liver, with some also occurring in the intestines [1-2]. Methadone has large inter-individual variability in its PK, so maintenance doses must be individualized; however, usual doses range from 80 to 120mg/day when there is no drug-drug interaction involved . The Cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzymes responsible for the metabolism in the liver include CYP3A4, 2B6, and 2C19 (primarily) as well as 2C8, 2C9 and 2D6. The metabolism of methadone is significantly influenced by medications that alter the activity of these enzyme systems resulting in either increased or decreased methadone metabolism in many cases.Even without the influence of interacting medications, the level of activity of the 3A4 enzyme varies significantly among individuals with up to a 30-fold difference in the liver 3A4 enzymes and an 11-fold difference in the intestinal enzymes .Fluconazole inhibits the metabolism of methadone in the liver. Therefore, it increases the methadone blood concentration and risk for methadone-related side effects and toxicity, including CNS depression . In general, the concomitant use of methadone and fluconazole should be avoided. However, if concomitant use is required, the dose of methadone should generally be decreased and signs of methadone side effects should be monitored [5-6]. Due to methadone’s long and unpredictable elimination half-life, ranging from 5 to 130 hours with a mean of about 20-35 hours, fluconazole mediated enzyme inhibition may continue for 4 to 10 days on average after discontinuation [2-6]. As with any other drug, increased knowledge of methadone's metabolism and potential interactions with other agents enables the clinician to use it more safely and effectively and underscores the need to be vigilant for such possible interactions [1-7].Safe medication practice is a multidisciplinary process involving physicians, nurses, pharmacists and the patients themselves. Of all the health professionals involved in medication usage, pharmacists have the most knowledge about the drugs administered to patients both in the hospital as well as ambulatory care clinics. Over recent years, particularly in health system settings, pharmacists have developed specialist roles in medication safety, working with colleagues in pharmacy and other professions to identify problems with medication use and prevention of errors .In November 2006, the Food and Drug Administration issued a public health advisory titled “Methadone use for pain control may result in death and life-threatening changes in breathing and heart beat”. The report emphasized the importance of clinicians to be mindful of the drug’s ability to cause QTc interval prolongation and is a marker for the risk of developing torsades de pointes, a potentially fatal ventricular arrhythmia . Factors associated with QT prolongation include higher methadone total daily dose, hypokalemia, low prothrombin level (suggestive of reduced liver function) and co-administration of a medication that inhibits the CYP3A4 enzyme system which may increase methadone serum levels .A normal QTc interval is ≤430 msec for men and ≤450 msec for women . Borderline QTc prolongation for men is classified as 431-450 msec and 451-470 msec for women, while QTc prolongation is defined as >450 msec for men and >470 msec for women. As the QTc interval increases, so does the risk for life-threatening arrhythmias such as polymorphic ventricular tachycardia or Torsades de Pointes (TdP). The risk of sudden cardiac death increases 4-fold when QTc is ≥500 msec .\nThis case involves a 58-year-old male who presented to the Moses Division Emergency Department (ED) with a 3 week history of difficulty swallowing. Past medical history includes HIV (CD4 23cells/mm3, VL 867, 878copies/mL), noncompliance to antiretroviral therapy secondary to depression, active poly-substance abuse issues including cocaine and on methadone maintenance treatment for heroin and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). The patient reported “feeling food getting stuck in his throat” and “had to drink something to get it down”. Vitals on admission were otherwise unremarkable (Table 1).Upon admission, according to the Gastrointestinal (GI) team’s recommendation, the patient was treated for presumed esophageal candidiasis with fluconazole 100mg PO daily for 14 days and was considered for an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) if symptoms persisted. The maintenance dose of methadone, 100mg PO daily, according to the patient’s treatment program was continued and baseline QTc interval reported was 420 msec. The Infectious Disease (ID) team was also consulted and suggested 100mg IV fluconazole daily, which began on hospital day 2.The dysphagia continued to improve, and the patient was mistakenly switched back after 3 days of IV to fluconazole 400mg oral suspension daily as he felt less retrosternal pain. On hospital day 5, the patient reported feeling Shortness of Breath (SOB) and had decreased O2 saturation at rest (93-94%). Walking O2 saturation decreased to 87-88% and he was placed on 2L O2. Arterial Blood Gases (ABG) revealed respiratory acidosis (pH 7.353/PaCO2 47.1/PaO2 55/HCO325.5).On hospital day 6, the patient developed an acutely altered mental status, with alternating agitation and somnolence as well as confusion, on a non-focal neurological exam. The patient was disoriented and restless throughout the day. A stat head computerized tomography revealed no acute intracranial pathology. Later that day, it was reported by the clinical pharmacist on medical rounds that the fluconazole order was deescalated incorrectly from IV to PO antifungal therapy (100mg orally daily should have been prescribed) and that the antifungal agent suppressed the hepatic metabolism of methadone potentiating its effect. The patient was referred to addiction psychiatry who subsequently recommended decreasing the methadone dose to 30mg daily and fluconazole was later discontinued.Despite furthering respiratory depression and hypotension risks in the setting of methadone co-administration, a total dose of 4mg lorazepam was administered on hospital day 7 as the patient presented with seizures. Subsequent improvement in Electroencephalography (EEG) was noted and a lumbar puncture revealed no evidence of acute infection. Levetiracetam 500mg twice daily was later initiated for short term seizure prophylaxis again recognizing the potential of a pharmacodynamic interaction with methadone. Vital signs were monitored closely.A Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the brain later revealed pre-existing patchy white matter hypo densities and periventricular matter confirming the altered mentation was likely secondary to methadone toxicity in the setting of a drug-drug interaction and not worsening HIV encephalitis. The patient became asymptomatic after discontinuation of fluconazole on hospital day 10. His mental status slowly improved as the drug concentrations of fluconazole were gradually eliminated and he returned to his baseline of 100% O2 on room air with clear lungs on day 11. Interestingly, no Electrocardiogram (ECG) changes from baseline were noted throughout the admission. He was eventually discharged on hospital day 12 to a nursing home.\nMethadone is commonly associated as a culprit for QTc prolongation due to its black box warning and known risk for TdP. The concern for this risk arose in 2002 when Krantz and colleagues reported TdP in patients receiving doses of methadone ranging between 65 and 1000mg per day in a retrospective case series of 17 patients. The QTc intervals varied from 522 to 785 msec. Numerous studies (case-control, cross-sectional and prospective cohort) have reported QTc prolongation since then, however, the rate of TdP remains unknown . According to Abramson, Quinn and Stern there are many cases of QTc prolongation associated with higher doses of methadone with concomitant risk factors including lower prothrombin levels, electrolyte abnormalities and comorbid use of CYP3A4 inhibitors . Methadone doses below 40mg per day were associated with less common risk for QTc prolongation. The prevalence of methadone prolonging the QT interval at doses within a normal therapeutic range is between 16-33% . Currently, there is controversial evidence to support that this effect is dose dependent.Methadone’s lipophilicity contributes to unpredictable pharmacokinetics with high rates of interpatient variability and unfortunately there is little data to support the development of an accurate risk assessment in patients receiving treatment. Despite there being a valid and reliable risk assessment tool, there are known risk factors for QTc prolongation to be aware of with methadone therapy (Table 2) [12-14].As reported in the case description above, there are several patient scenarios where no QT change had occurred with methadone toxicity. Contradictory to this patient case, a large majority of cases do not report QTc prolongation prior to methadone overdose. The risk assessment is commonly made from a single ECG reading reported at the time the patient presents to the emergency department for evaluation. Our patient’s QTc interval was considered normal, <430 msec, prior to methadone toxicity. In 75% of reported patient cases associated with methadone-induced QTc prolongation, the more common risk factors present were Drug-Drug Interactions (DDIs), electrolyte abnormalities, structural heart disease, and female gender. The average methadone dose in these cases was listed within a range of 60 to100mg per day . The only identifiable risk factors associated with a greater chance of QTc prolongation for our patient were increased age (>50), HIV infection and a DDI between methadone and fluconazole.Most studies that did display a positive correlation between dose and QTc prolongation reported patients on methadone doses greater than 100mg. Vieweg et al., performed a literature review and found 31 adult cases and one newborn case of methadone-associated QTc interval prolongation and/or TdP. Out of the 32 cases, 21 had a correlation between QTc interval prolongation and methadone dose. Out of the 21 cases the following similarities were noted: six (28.6%) had methadone doses ≥ 200mg, eight (38.1%) had heart disease, seven (33.33%) had electrolyte abnormalities, 12 (57.14%) were on either a CYP inhibitor or QTc prolonging agent, six (28.6%) had hepatic impairment (all six of these patients experienced QTc prolongation) and six (28.6%) had other risk factors (i.e., sinus bradycardia or cocaine use). There was an average of 3.19 risk factors per patient case for a positive correlation between QT interval prolongation and methadone dose . Out of these 32 cases, 11 did not have a correlation between QTc interval prolongation and methadone dose. Out of the 11 cases the following similarities were noted: seven (63.64%) had doses ≥ 200mg, three (27.27%) had heart disease, one (9.09%) had electrolyte abnormalities, four (36.36%) were on either a CYP inhibitor or QTc prolonging agent, zero had hepatic impairment and five (45.45%) had other risk factors. There was an average of 1.82 risk factors per patient case that did not have a positive correction between QT interval prolongation and methadone dose. Multiple risk factors, most likely three or more, may be associated with a higher likelihood of QT prolongation .There have also been multiple cases (21) of methadone-induced TdP without any correlation between QT prolongation and dose. Roy et al., also concluded after studying 180 patients (69.1% men) with an average QTc of 420.9 ± 21.1 msec and average methadone dose of 80.4 ± 27.7mg that there was no significant correlation between dose and QT interval. Presently, there is not enough evidence to fully state whether there is an apparent relationship between methadone dose and QT interval prolongation [11,12,14].Combination drug therapy is common in patients with human or Acquired Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV/AIDS) and opioid dependence . Drug-drug interactions can result in clinical response variations following the co-administration of two or more therapeutic agents especially in this population . The patient discussed in the case description did not experience QTc prolongation with his methadone treatment despite having two defined risk factors. He was prescribed fluconazole, a known CYP inhibitor and had a past medical history of uncontrolled HIV infection. Our patient’s methadone dose never exceeded 100mg throughout the hospital stay. However, he did experience several toxic methadone manifestations most notably on day 5 including altered mental status, hypotension, bradycardia and poor respirations (Figures 1-4). This patient case strengthens the notion that the risk of QTc prolongation may be increased when methadone doses are greater than 100mg when multiple risk factors are present but not in all instances . Two risk factors to potentially monitor with greater importance in many hospitalized patients include hepatic impairment, concomitant CYP3A4 inhibitor(s) and the addition QTc prolongating agents throughout admission.In the literature review conducted by Vieweg et al., those patients that experienced QTc prolongation with methadone doses had no direct correlation explaining this prolongation . Despite their possibly being a positive association between methadone dose and QTc prolongation, the clinical significance of this remains uncertain and warrants further study. Regardless, methadone can be safely administered as long as appropriate monitoring precautions are taken.\nGreater awareness of the potential for clinically important interactions when methadone is taken concomitantly with other drugs is substantial. Fortunately, most of these pharmacokinetic interactions are not life-threatening if identified and managed appropriately. Per the consensus guidelines for therapeutic drug monitoring it is recommended to obtain methadone levels for safety reasons, however, optimal drug levels may vary markedly due to variable levels of pharmacokinetics and tolerance. Serum methadone levels typically do not offer clinical significance but can be beneficial in determining a need for a dosage increase or patients needing split daily dosing. There is no established toxic level of methadone, however, in general a target through level of 400-600ng/mL is desired. A serum level was not drawn for our patient due to the reasons above [16,17].Clinical pharmacists who attend medical rounds have a better sense of the patients’ current medical problems and are able to make recommendations at the point of prescribing, rather than retrospectively. This has potential patient safety benefits since there are no delays in correcting any erroneous errors in medication orders. It was acknowledged based on the time-event relationship that a highly probable adverse drug event did occur in our patient according to the Naranjo algorithm with a score of 9 (Table 3). The clinical stability and improvement of objective findings and the temporal association between the resolutions of symptomatology following the discontinuation of fluconazole further supports our assumption that a drug interaction between the antifungal agent and methadone was more likely the cause of the relative overdose.Despite the fact that our patient did not experience ECG changes throughout the admission and the variable pharmacokinetic clinical course of methadone in any given individual, inpatients on methadone should obtain a baseline ECG and repeat after either dose escalation to an oral methadone dose of 60mg/day, if started on IV methadone or when drugs that can increase the risk for QTc prolongation are added to a regimen. Stable outpatients should receive a baseline ECG before treatment, 30 days after treatment initiation and annually . More frequent ECG monitoring should be considered for patients using ≥60mg/day of oral methadone. In addition an ECG should be obtained immediately in patients with unexplained syncope or seizures especially in the suspicion of methadone toxicity .\nConflict of Interest Statement\nThe authors whose names are listed immediately above certify that they have NO affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements) or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.\nFigure 1: Average blood pressure throughout hospitalization.\nFigure 2: Average body temperature throughout hospitalization.\nFigure 3: Average respiration rate throughout hospitalization.\nFigure 4: Average pulse rate throughout hospitalization.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://evalynmichelle.com/2016/05/11/just-because/", "date": "2023-06-09T15:39:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224656737.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230609132648-20230609162648-00211.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9541505575180054, "token_count": 260, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__202449430", "lang": "en", "text": "“Jesus Calling”, by Sarah Young\nDon’t be so hard on yourself. I can bring good even out of your mistakes. Your finite mind tends to look backward, longing to undo decisions you have come to regret. This is a waste of time and energy, leading only to frustration. Instead of floundering in the past, release your mistakes to Me. Look to Me in trust, anticipating that My infinite creativity can weave both good choices and bad into a lovely design.\nBecause you are human, you will continue to make mistakes. Thinking that you should live an error-free life is symptomatic of pride. Your failures can be a source of blessing, humbling you and giving you empathy for other people in their weaknesses. Best of all, failure highlights your dependence on Me. I am able to bring beauty out of the morass of your mistakes. Trust Me, and watch to see what I will do.\nAnd we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.\nBut as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear me.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.plasma4food.de/en/ueber_uns.html", "date": "2024-04-23T05:10:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818464.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423033153-20240423063153-00844.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9322885274887085, "token_count": 293, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__57196555", "lang": "en", "text": "Contamination by microorganisms is a critical problem in many sectors of the food industry. Pathogenic microorganisms such as Escherischia coli (e.g. EHEC), salmonella, listeria, and mold and the spread of multi-resistant strains pose a substantial health risk to the consumer. One example of this is the massive EHEC epidemic in the year 2001 with 3800 cases and 53 deaths nationwide in Germany, caused by contaminated fenugreek seeds [BfR 2011].\nThe application of innovative plasma technology may facilitate the efficient disinfection of surfaces and thus an increase in microbiological safety.\nPlasmas are ionized gases which are used in the medical, pharmaceutical, and food industries for the quick disinfection of materials and packaging. Plasma-based processes, by means of nonthermal inactivation of microorganisms, also have the potential to make foodstuffs safer and thus to reduce the risk of disease outbreaks.\nSince plasma's microbicidal effects are caused by a multitude of components, it is effective against a broad spectrum of microorganisms and, as opposed to chemical and thermal processes, products are treated gently and no residue is left behind.\nThrough the application of plasma sources in production processes, economic losses can be reduced or even avoided altogether. Thus, product safety and consumer confidence are increased. The corresponding lengthening of the minimum shelf-life brings economic benefits for production and handling.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sunvalleycenter.org/event-calendar/pal-part-company-fools-play-reading-series/", "date": "2018-02-25T05:56:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891816138.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20180225051024-20180225071024-00769.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9258259534835815, "token_count": 317, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__30322102", "lang": "en", "text": "Company of Fools invites you to join in the new play development process! Playwright Tasha Gordon-Solmon will visit Wood River Valley to begin development of her new play, PAL. Two best friends share their favorite movies, their deepest wishes, their greatest fears, and grow up together – all through written letters – in a world in which reality and imagination aren’t so simply delineated.\nTasha Gordon-Solmon’s plays have been developed and produced at Actors Theater of Louisville and The Humana Festival, Clubbed Thumb, Ars Nova, Northern Stage, The Perry Mansfield New Works Festival, Dixon Place, New Georges, INTAR, and the Flea. She is a recipient of the Dramatist Guild Fellowship, a lyricist in the BMI Workshop, a member of the Project Y Playwrights Group, a New Georges Affiliated Artist, and an alumna of the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group and the Ars Nova Playgroup. As a director, Tasha has worked at Ensemble Studio Theater, The Tank, The Brick, The Cell, The Claque, Crashbox Theater Company, Brooklyn Generator, Pipeline Theatre Company, New York Madness, Columbia University, Studio Tisch, the New York Fringe Festival and the Fire This Time Festival. She received her MFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU and is a proud 52nd Street Project volunteer.\nFollowed by a post-show conversation.\n*Part of The Center’s BIG IDEA project The Unreliable Narrator.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://casscarblog.com/tag/shared-experiences/", "date": "2019-11-21T13:18:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-47/segments/1573496670821.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20191121125509-20191121153509-00548.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9734358787536621, "token_count": 669, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-47__0__130520092", "lang": "en", "text": "One of the greatest parts of being a writer is the ability to communicate thoughts and ideas to readers. The problem is the writer and reader have differing outlooks on life; they often don’t have shared experiences upon which to draw that will help the reader make the connection the writer hopes. Most times, the reader has never met the writer in person and only knows them through their online and/or professional persona. What the writer intends to convey isn’t always what the reader interprets since they have little to no shared background.\nThis never occurred to me when I started my writing journey oh-so-many years ago now. At that time, my focus was on getting my stories onto the page in such a way as to tempt a publisher to take a chance on me. The stories I found the most success with were ones based upon my favorite television show at the time because the characters, situations, and back-story were all well-established. Whoever read the stories already knew and loved the characters so they would be interested in picking up the tie-in novelizations in order to explore new adventures with their beloved friends.\nI’m no longer writing what I now realize was a form of subsidized fan-fiction (not that there’s anything wrong with that – I still enjoy reading fan fiction and tie-in novels, but now I’m trying to embark on my own path as a writer). Many people enjoy exploring all the ‘what ifs’ of the worlds they know and love and others enjoying reading the thought processes of people who share some background, but different overall life experiences. The differences in background become a means of exploring a shared love through new eyes.\nIn the case of original fiction, the well-known and well-loved characters don’t yet exist. There are no established backstories or situations for the reader to draw upon. Everything is new territory and potential readers look for stories in their favored genre that look as though they may be appealing. The writer then has to successfully draw characters and build a world for the reader to love. Creating the relationship between the reader and the characters can take time and patience and the reader has so many options from which to choose these days that they can and will give up if the story takes too long to catch their interest.\nThe writer must know and love their characters very well and be able to express that so the potential reader’s interest is captured right away. The writer must know the back-story in such detail that they can indicate what has happened while putting the current story into play. Choosing the right words, phrases, and overall tone is vital to catching reader interest. These facts are all either well-known or instinctive to the successful writer. Some writers, like myself, may need a little more time to wrap their mind around the concept of successful world- and character-building.\nThese are thoughts I’m keeping in mind as I work to create enjoyable characters and stories in the future. I’ve got to make sure my intention is clear enough for the reader to be able to interpret what I’m trying to say in such a way that they enjoy my stories and characters as much as I do.\nAnd now…back to work!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/3753", "date": "2023-05-29T06:02:13Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644683.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529042138-20230529072138-00734.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8739622235298157, "token_count": 175, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__25458303", "lang": "en", "text": "\"Just Like Manitoba\": Didacticism, Universalism, Eurocentrism\nA review of Naomi: The Strawberry Blonde of Pippu Town, by Karmel Schreyer.\nBenjamin Lefebvre, an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Winnipeg and Research Associate at the Centre for Young People's Texts and Cultures , has published extensively on adolescent literature and culture. In August 2007, he will take up a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Alberta, where he will trace L. M. Montgomery's cultural capital and its relationship to the transnational circulation of dominant images of Canada. He is currently preparing Montgomery’s unpublished final novel, The Blythes Are Quoted, for publication.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://buxyi.com/brenda-the-sexiest-girl-in-otanwa-community/", "date": "2023-09-25T05:29:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506686.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925051501-20230925081501-00282.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9586790204048157, "token_count": 611, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__319099240", "lang": "en", "text": "Once upon a time, in the serene village of Otanwa, there lived a young girl named Brenda. She possessed a captivating beauty that seemed to enchant everyone who laid eyes on her. Brenda had sparkling eyes that mirrored the azure sky, flowing locks of ebony cascading down her shoulders, and a smile that radiated warmth and kindness.\nAs the most beautiful girl in Otanwa, Brenda became a beacon of inspiration for the village. People would often gather near the village square just to catch a glimpse of her, awestruck by her ethereal charm. However, Brenda’s beauty was more than just skin deep. She possessed a gentle spirit, a compassionate heart, and a remarkable talent for storytelling.\nWord of Brenda’s beauty and storytelling prowess soon spread beyond the boundaries of Otanwa. Visitors from neighboring villages would travel great distances, eager to listen to her enchanting tales. Every evening, Brenda would gather the villagers around a cozy bonfire, and as the flames danced in the night, she would transport her audience to distant lands and magical realms through her captivating narratives.\nOne particular evening, a young traveler named Kofi arrived in Otanwa. Kofi had heard tales of Brenda’s unparalleled beauty and sought to see if they matched the reality. Intrigued by his arrival, Brenda welcomed Kofi with open arms and invited him to partake in the evening storytelling ritual.\nAs the night deepened, Brenda weaved a tale of love, courage, and adventure that captivated everyone, including Kofi. Her words painted vivid landscapes in their minds, and her voice carried them away on a journey of imagination. Kofi was not only mesmerized by Brenda’s outer beauty but also by the depth of her character and the magic she possessed within.\nAs days turned into weeks, Kofi and Brenda grew closer. They shared countless stories, dreams, and laughter, forging a bond that transcended physical appearances. Kofi soon realized that Brenda’s true beauty lay not just in her external features but in her compassionate soul and the way she touched the lives of those around her.\nTheir love blossomed, and Otanwa village witnessed a union that celebrated beauty both inside and out. Brenda and Kofi taught the villagers a valuable lesson—that true beauty is not solely found in physical attributes but is a reflection of one’s kindness, empathy, and the ability to inspire others.\nFrom that day forward, Brenda and Kofi continued to share stories, love, and laughter, becoming symbols of true beauty in Otanwa and beyond. Their tale remains etched in the village’s history, reminding everyone that while physical beauty may fade, the radiance of a beautiful heart shines forever.\nAnd so, in the village of Otanwa, the legend of Brenda, the most beautiful girl, lives on—a testament to the transformative power of inner beauty and the magic that lies within each and every one of us.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lenashah.ampbk.com/news/waterstones-local-authors-party-2021-at-the-george-iv/", "date": "2023-03-28T11:07:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296948858.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20230328104523-20230328134523-00135.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8089733719825745, "token_count": 135, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__76068883", "lang": "en", "text": "Tuesday 7 September, 7pm-9pm\nGrateful and excited to be invited as one of the 20 local authors to speak at the Waterstones local author party, part of the Chiswick Book festival 2021.\nMore details can be found here:\nWaterstones Local Authors Party 2021 (at the George IV) – Chiswick Book Festival (https://www.chiswickbookfestival.net/speakers-2021/pre-festival-events/waterstones-local-authors-party-2021-george-iv/)\nHope to see you there.\n© Copyrights 2021", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ione.k12.or.us/event/wed-11072018-800am-1", "date": "2018-11-21T14:42:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039748901.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20181121133036-20181121155036-00300.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9685796499252319, "token_count": 203, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__186561317", "lang": "en", "text": "Just wanted to get the word out that the Scholastic Book Fair is coming to Ione!\nOur Scholastic Book Fair is a reading event that brings the books kids want to read right into our school. It's a wonderful selection of engaging and affordable books for every reading level. Please make plans to visit our Book Fair and be involved in shaping children's reading habits. Rumors heard around town are that Clifford is coming to the Book Fair this year!\nDates: November 7-8, 2018 in the elementary school gym.\nHours: The Book Fair is open from 8:00 am to 7:30 pm both days.\nFor folks unable to attend the Book Fair in person, we invite them to visit our online Book Fair at www.scholastic.com/bf/ione Our Online Fair is available from November 2 to November 15.\nThe Scholastic Book Fair is sponsored by the Ione Topic Club. All purchases benefit the children in the Ione schools.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://anchoredrc.com/immediate-vs-gradual-spiritual-experience-in-twelve-step-recovery/", "date": "2024-04-15T09:03:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816954.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20240415080257-20240415110257-00794.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9635924100875854, "token_count": 583, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__40403941", "lang": "en", "text": "IMMEDIATE VS GRADUAL SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE IN TWELVE STEP RECOVERY\nTwelve Step Recovery focuses on having a vital spiritual experience as a means of achieving and maintaining sobriety. From these experience, we have dramatic changes in our perception and reactions to life. There are two types of spiritual experiences that people have as a result of the Twelve Steps: the immediate and the gradual, or educational, variety.\nCarl Jung is quoted in the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous describing the spiritual experience as way to overcome alcoholism. Jung states, “To me these occurrences are phenomena. They appear to be in the nature of huge emotional displacements and rearrangements. Ideas, emotions, and attitude which were once the guiding forces of the lives of these men are suddenly cast to one side, and a completely new set of conceptions and motives begin to dominate them.” Regardless of the type of spiritual awakening we have, we find that the experiences are vital to our ability to achieve and maintain sobriety.\nImmediate and sudden spiritual awakenings can occur in the course of working the Twelve Steps. Bill Wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, described his experience having an immediate spiritual awakening in AA Comes of Age: “Suddenly the room lit up with a great white light. I was caught up into an ecstasy which there are no words to describe. It seemed to me, in my mind’s eye, that I was on a mountain and that a wind not of air but of spirit was blowing. And then it burst upon me that I was a free man.” These sudden upheavals, however, are not enough to keep us sober unless we continue on the path of recovery.\nMost people in Twelve Step recovery experience gradual spiritual awakenings. The Big Book explains, “Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William James calls the ‘educational variety’ because they develop slowly over a period of time. Quite often friends of the newcomer are aware of the difference long before he is himself. He finally realizes that he has undergone a profound alteration in his reaction to life; that such a change could hardly have been brought about by himself alone.” No matter how our spiritual experience manifest, we must follow it up with action in our recovery program. As the Twelfth Step of Alcoholics Anonymous suggests: “Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”\nTreatment should be stress free. That’s why we offer comprehensive evaluations, personalized assessments, and individual treatment programs. We’re more than treatment. We’re a community committed to sobriety. Call Anchored Recovery Community today for more information: 866-934-4849", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://highparknature.org/event/topic-to-be-announced/", "date": "2024-04-19T22:52:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817455.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419203449-20240419233449-00153.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9709656834602356, "token_count": 114, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__10599552", "lang": "en", "text": "- This event has passed.\nWho Goes To The Park\nAugust 21, 2022 at 10:30 am - 12:00 pmFree\nJoin Mark Ellwood as he leads you through the park on a walk that celebrates the beautiful artwork featured in the book, “Who Goes To The Park.” The book of illustrations and poems was created by Warabe Aska in 1984. The elegant, timeless illustrations show the park at its best. We will visit each of the featured spots, and compare what they looked like back then to how they appear today.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://spiritualalliance.ca/the-fear-of-unpredictability/", "date": "2024-04-21T12:24:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817765.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421101951-20240421131951-00467.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9218721389770508, "token_count": 206, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__45079411", "lang": "en", "text": "Isn’t it absolutely terrifying when the course of your life becomes utterly unpredictable and planning goes out the window? The fear of living in the unknown can be paralyzing. However, isn’t that the very essence of life? The thrill of not knowing what lies ahead? The unexpected twists and turns that keep us on our toes?\nThink about it – if everything was predetermined and predictable, life would lose its flavor. The challenges we face, the triumphs we achieve, and the lessons we learn are all part of the beautiful chaos that is life. It’s in those moments of uncertainty that we discover our true strength and resilience.\nSo, instead of fearing the unknown, let’s embrace it. Let’s embrace the uncertainty, the surprises, and the opportunities that come our way. After all, it’s in those moments that we truly live. So, take a deep breath, step into the unknown, and let life’s unpredictable journey unfold before you.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.parinama.mozello.com/home/", "date": "2021-01-18T23:15:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703517159.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20210118220236-20210119010236-00511.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7781736850738525, "token_count": 329, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__92027634", "lang": "en", "text": "The Yoga Sutras of Patañali, written aproximately 200 before or after common era by the sage Patañali succinctly outlines the art and science of Yoga meditation for Self-Realization.\nIt is a process of systematically encountering, examining, and transcending each of the various gross and subtle levels of false identity in the mind field, until the jewel of the true Self comes shining through.\nYoga Sutras of Patanjali Interpretive Translation\n(Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)\n3.15: kra-anyatvam parinamah-anyatve hetuh\nChange in the sequence of the characteristics is the cause for the different appearances of results, consequences, or effects.\n3.16: parinamatraya-samyamat atita-anagata-jnanam\nSamyama (meditation) on the three types of change gives rise to knowledge of the past and the future.\n4.2: jattyantara-parinamah prakrti-apura\nPhysical transformation engenders inner transformation of the form of existence.\n4.14: parinama-ekatvat vastu-tattvam\nThe uniqueness of change comprises the essence of everything.\n4.33: ksana-pratiyogi parinama-aparanta nirgrahyah kramah\nThe experience of a sequencing process of moments and changes comes to an end, thus making chance (kramah) a real experience.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://fatra.cnr.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/gmslab/papers/wrr.html", "date": "2024-04-13T07:36:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816586.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413051941-20240413081941-00749.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8903093338012695, "token_count": 194, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__147942564", "lang": "en", "text": "Published in Water Resources Research 34(3), 505-516, 1998\nMitas, L., and Mitasova, H.,\nAbstract. We present a bivariate model of erosion, sediment transport and deposition by overland flow, designed for complex terrain, soil and cover conditions. We use a Green's function Monte Carlo method to solve the underlying continuity equations, leading to improved robustness and implementation efficiency. By deriving the relationship between the terrain shape and erosion/deposition pattern we clarify the physical interpretation of terrain curvatures and overall importance of the bivariate formulation. We explain the impact of various soil and cover properties by simulating the detachment and transport capacity limited erosion for uniform land use and by predicting the erosion/deposition distribution for a conventional, spatially variable land use at an experimental farm. We compare the results with the observed colluvial deposits and linear erosion features and illustrate the application of the model for improving the effectiveness of erosion prevention measures.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://housingactioncoalition.org/news/david-baker-architects-new-book-9-ways-to-make-housing-for-people/", "date": "2023-06-08T12:51:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654871.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608103815-20230608133815-00453.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.963726282119751, "token_count": 211, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__279903679", "lang": "en", "text": "HAC’s Regulatory Committee was joined by Daniel Simons, HAC Board Member and Principal at David Baker Architects (DBA) where he presented on the firms’ recent book: 9 Ways to Make Housing for People. The book captures various principles and frameworks (9, to be exact) that guide DBA’s work in creating thriving communities through quality housing and architecture.\nDuring the meeting, Daniel opened with “Cultivating Connection,” the concept that architecture can foster community through shared space, recreation, and amenities.\nOne of the main takeaways was that while most of the concepts in the book are not novel, they must be achieved through intentionality and purpose throughout the development process. Ways such as “Activate the Edges,” “Get Personal,” and “Make Big Moves” are a part of an architectural ethos that keeps the people at the forefront, and consequently results in “aesthetically powerful…more rational, and more economical” projects.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.miraculous-moments.com/about/", "date": "2019-05-19T12:44:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232254882.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519121502-20190519143502-00290.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9540892839431763, "token_count": 200, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__205707805", "lang": "en", "text": "Life is a Miracle.\nI feel immense gratitude to have experienced so many beautiful moments along this journey and am glad that I've had my camera around for a few of them.\nThe world continues to awe me each and every day in the way it reveals its splendor and mysteries when we slow down, pause, and pay attention. Whether it be the delicate details of a wildflower or the way that clouds dance across the skies, there are countless invitations in every moment to connect with the divine essence of which we are an integral part.\nMy hope, is that these moments that have stopped me in my tracks and allowed Life in its fullness to pour in, will do the same for you. That they may inspire, even for a moment, a deep reverence and gratitude for the miraculous nature of this incredible journey. May they remind you to see the beauty that surrounds you at this very moment, to take it all in, and to savor every last drop of this precious existence.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.westrivermedia.com/about/", "date": "2024-03-05T00:48:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476592.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304232829-20240305022829-00391.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9384922981262207, "token_count": 122, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__33453439", "lang": "en", "text": "Formerly known as West River Publishing, West River Media is a company founded by Rick and Jerry Kustich in the mid 90s dedicated to producing high-quality fly–fishing books. West River plans to continue its long tradition of getting thoughtful, insightful, and significant works out to the public. While leaving instructional books to other publishers, the company will continue to produce works that embody the evanescent magic, excitement, and adventure of the quiet sport.\nPlease visit our online store to purchased signed copies by respective authors.\nUnsigned copies will be available from Amazon.com and other outlets.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://bloggerclass.edublogs.org/2017/04/17/experiencing-poems/", "date": "2018-03-20T09:22:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647327.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320091830-20180320111830-00647.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9671735763549805, "token_count": 250, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-13__0__200705820", "lang": "en", "text": "The time has arrived to experience, read and write poems, and I hope that you will be as pleased as I am! And yes, April is Poetry Month. Let’s begin with “Introduction to Poetry” by the contemporary American poet, Billy Collins. This piece can help us to begin thinking about what poetry is.\nPlease comment on the following:\na) What words/phrases jump out at you? What impressions do these words create?\nb) What do you think the author is saying about poetry?\nHere it is. I’m eager to share thoughts!\nIntroduction to Poetry\nI ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ipaeg.org/node/2041", "date": "2021-07-24T19:34:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150308.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20210724191957-20210724221957-00619.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8233508467674255, "token_count": 341, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__133268582", "lang": "en", "text": "|Publication Type:||Journal Article|\n|Authors:||A. Rösler, Perfectti, F., Peña, V., Braga, J. Carlos|\n|Journal:||Journal of Phycology|\nMastophoroids in the sense of Harvey et al. (2003) are the main components of shallow coral reef environments. Their status as a monophyletic subfamily is lost, but different subsequent proposals about the taxonomic relationships of their genera were declared to be untenable. Here we present a new, more complete phylogeny of Mastophoroideae sensu Harvey et al. (2003) with a temporal dimension reflecting the evolutionary history of this clade which is very important in ecological and structural means in coral reefs. We agree with Kato et al. (2011) to maintain the Lithophylloideae, Corallinoideae and Metagoniolithoideae, to reduce the Mastophoroideae and to establish the new subfamilies Hydrolithoideae, Neogoniolithoideae and Porolithoideae. We propose two new genera Adeylithon gen. nov. with the type species A. conicum and Harveylithon gen. nov. with the type species H. rupestre. The calibration of the molecular clock of the genetic marker SSU supposes a Cenozoic origin of most of the clades of the former mastophoroids sensu Harvey et al. (2003) and a separation from Hapalidiaceae in the boundary between early and late Cretaceous.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://bexbooks.net/", "date": "2017-01-21T21:31:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00506-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9643086194992065, "token_count": 186, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-04__0__44041732", "lang": "en", "text": "In 2001, I inherited about 400 books from my father. Believing that there must be some way to “recycle” these books for a good cause, I began listing them with online booksellers. I committed that a portion of the profits would go to not-for-profit organizations that are bringing help and hope to less fortunate people in the world. Among them are orphanages, women’s shelters, schools, disaster relief, community development groups, drug rehab facilities, and counseling centers.\nFrom those humble beginnings, I now maintain an inventory of approximately 30,000 books – all of which have come through donations. Some, from individuals who like the idea of their old books going to a good cause, others from not-for-profit organizations who collect books for fund-raising purposes.\nIf you would like to contribute to the inventory, contact me to arrange delivery or pick-up.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.tanksartscentre.com/whats-on/community/sydney-writers-festival-2017", "date": "2017-05-24T15:39:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607848.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170524152539-20170524172539-00316.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9548531174659729, "token_count": 333, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__49614771", "lang": "en", "text": "Sydney Writers' Festival\nSat 27 May\nBe part of the conversation as one of Australia's best-loved literature forums beams into Cairns, direct from Sydney.\nLive from Sydney Writers' Festival, Tanks presents two important conversations: writer Hisham Matar discussing his memoir The Return, and some bookish banter from Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales.\nAt 19, Hisham Matar’s Libyan father was kidnapped and held in a secret prison in Libya. Matar never saw his father again. His unflinching memoir charts a son’s search for his father’s fate. Matar talks to Fairfax Literary editor Jason Steger about how his search was both an effort to reconcile his loss and a harrowing journey into history, politics, art and the brutal legacy of corrupted power.\nAnnabel Crabb and Leigh Sales are acclaimed journalists by day, keen readers by night. This beloved double act has charmed Australia with their unmistakable chemistry, characterised by and quick-witted banter. Here, they look back on a year in reading – sharing the books that moved or amused them, and the ones that put them to sleep.\nCOST: $15.75 / $10.50 (CONC) inc b/f | teens go free (13 – 19) (PG)\nSTREAM STARTS: 3-4pm Hisham Matar: The Return | 4-4.30pm Interval |\n4.30-5.30pm Annabel Crabb and Leigh Sales: Our Reading Year\nVENUE: Tank 3 (fully seated)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.readerscare.com/harry-potter-and-the-prisoner-of-azkaban/", "date": "2023-09-21T22:38:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506045.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20230921210007-20230922000007-00872.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9082347750663757, "token_count": 275, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__80972270", "lang": "en", "text": "Written By: J.K. Rowling\nVoice/Narrated by: Stephen Fry / Jim Dale\nSeries: Harry Potter, Book 3, Wizarding World, Book 3\nAudio Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins\nAudio Release: November 20, 2015\nCategories: Children’s Audiobooks, Literature & Fiction\nFirst Published: July 8th, 1999\nCopyright: J.K. Rowling\nWhen the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it’s the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run – and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry’s tea leaves…. But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss….\nHaving now become classics of our time, the Harry Potter audiobooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism to listeners of all ages. With its message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new listeners.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.smartbill.com.au/protecting-borders-mobile-enterprise/", "date": "2021-10-18T01:17:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585186.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20211018000838-20211018030838-00298.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8626819252967834, "token_count": 129, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__221950882", "lang": "en", "text": "Protecting all Borders in the Mobile Enterprise\nMobile computing devices and the BYOD phenomenon introduce risk, especially the risk of data loss, unauthorized use and malware propagation. Neither Mobile Data Management (MDM) systems, nor Network Access Control (NAC) system, by themselves fully address the challenges. Securing the mobile enterprise requires a co-ordinated combination of MDM and NAC approaches.\nThis new paper, the second in the Bluewater™ whitepaper series, discusses the benefits and limitations of both MDM and NAC solutions in isolation, and contrasts these with the strength of combined MDM/NAC security approaches.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.chemiprobe.com/post/nitrogen-fertilizer-human-hair", "date": "2023-09-27T17:16:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510319.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927171156-20230927201156-00188.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9143450260162354, "token_count": 1084, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__313684158", "lang": "en", "text": "Nitrogen-Fertilizer : Human Hair\nin this article, Amir focuses on human hair potential for fertilizer production and illustrates economic feasibility as an opportunity for entrepreneurs in the middle east upon ammonia price volatility and fertilizer shortages\nHair is essentially composed of complex arrangement of keratins forming an external cuticular layer and an inner cortex. Particularly, keratins interlace into proto-fibrils that are arranged into macro-filaments further reinforcing fibrils as this compact protein complex is essential to promote mechanical resilience in resistance to environmental factors or chemical treatments.\nKeratins are poly-petides in which amino acids are primary components as human hair is composed mainly of alpha-keratin thus amino acids such as cystine, serine, glutamic acid, threonine, glycine, and arginine are abundant. Therefore, human hair waste is an optimum source for amino acids not to mention that human hair is considered useless and found in municipal waste and landfills.\nNormally, plants reduce applied conventional ammonium and nitrates fertilizers into amino acids. On the other hand, applying amino acids or related derivatives directly saves energy as plants readily absorb essential nitrogen-rich content. For this reason, amino acids fertilizer is obtained by hydrolyzing human hair waste in alkaline or acidic environment in which hydrolysis is enhanced by heat treatment.\nAlthough conventional ammonium and nitrates fertilizers provide nutrients for plant growth, yet not persistent to enrich soil in the long term including species diversity of necessary soil microorganisms. Another critical aspect is that conventional fertilizers are not regarded sustainable in reference to petrochemical value chain, besides the economic perspective upon conventional fertilizer shortages. In contrast, an organic fertilizer containing amino acids derived from waste human hair increases plant growth and soil fertility in the long-term while considered sustainable regarding waste hair utilization.\nProduction is based on contacting waste human hair with an alkaline aqueous solution to hydrolyze alpha-keratin followed by neutralizing with concentrated acid, relatively simple process in which control of reaction parameters including alkaline concentration, temperature and reaction time are considered upon immersing waste human hair in an alkaline medium inside the hydrolyzer -an agitator stirred tank provided with heating coils- and heated to an optimum temperature within (90 ºC - 150 ºC) for 15 minutes to an hour. The alkaline solution is obtained by mixing caustic potash in water to maintain an optimum (0.3 - 0.9) molarity. In addition, combination of caustic soda, caustic potash, and slaked lime is applicable no ore than recommended mixing ratio. Furthermore, concentrated phosphoric acid is used to neutralize hydrolyzed amino acids to preferably (pH = 8) as industrial-grade phosphoric acid is available in the range of (7.0 - 13.0) molarity. Notice mthat hydrolyzed amino acid fertilizer is actually nitrogen-enriched potassium phosphate fertilizer.\nRecently, new production method based on contacting waste human hair with diluted hydrochloric acid was used in laboratory scale to hydrolyze alpha-keratin in which diluted acid compensate with longer reaction time and moderate heating as waste human hair is immersed in acidic medium and heated initially to 97 ºC till hydrolysis takes place then temperature is kept within 60 ºC for 6 hours. The acidic solution is obtained by diluting hydrochloric acid in water to maintain an optimum (5.6 - 6.0) molarity as industrial-grade hydrochloric acid is available in the range of (9.0 - 12.0) molarity. Practically, 3 liters of diluted acid are required per kilogram of human hair for almost full hydrolysis.\nAs might be expected, waste human hair pre-treatment using soap or shampoo followed by rinsing with water removes impurities, moisture, and natural oil thus imporves fertilizer product quality.\nUpon expanding Chemiprobe coverage to include agrochemicals besides conventional fertilizers, there is no market players in the middle-east as human hair to fertilizer is new concept which has been addressed recently upon ammonia price volatility and fertilizer shortages.\nAccording to Chemiprobe, producing hydrolyzed amino acid fertilizer in the middle-east through treatment with caustic potash and phosphoric acid requires approx. 0.22 USD per liter in which 0.13 USD are raw materials and 0.09 USD are operational expenses.\nBusiness appraoch is illustrated below through simple (SWOT) analysis :\nStrength : abundant cheap resource\nWeakness : affected by market trends for caustic potash, phosphoric acid, or hydrochloric acid\nOpportunity : conventional fertilizer shortages, no regional competitors\nThreats : changing regulatory environment for agrochemicals, emerging competitors\n1. method for fertilizer preparation by hydrolysis of waste human hair.\nKim, J. Et al. (2011). KR101043568B1. South Korea\n2. Nagarjuna P, Verma S, Sharma A. amino acids production through human waste hair, pollution research 2020;39(3): 714-717", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://naturalpharmacist.net/news/files/fa350b031af3fd20f2c89e2f4ceeef7d-11.html", "date": "2017-04-30T09:05:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124478.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00053-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9460577964782715, "token_count": 888, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__161979723", "lang": "en", "text": "Ashland pharmacist's latest book looks at problems with oral contraceptives\n15 04 13\nBy John Darling\nSome pills can be helpful in maintaining health. But long-term use of pharmaceutical drugs, including oral contraceptives, can lead to nutritional deficiencies with big fallout for heart health, depression, sexuality and other areas of life, according to Ashland pharmacist, author and health educator Ross Pelton in his new book, \"The Pill Problem.\nThe author of 10 books on topics such as brain food, anti-aging, alternative cancer therapies and natural medicines, Pelton says artificial hormones in birth-control pills impact 12 million American women.\nOne problem, he says, is that oral contraceptives lower testosterone, which \"drives our sex desires,\" making sex painful and making it more difficult to have orgasms. Six months after going off birth-control pills, sex drive hadn't improved much for women in one test, he says.\nOther problems from birth-control pills are increased arterial plaque, which can lead to clots and heart problems, birth defects, vaginal yeast infections, migraines, fluid retention and weight gain, he says.\nIn his book, he explains that oral contraceptives also can cause depression, lack of energy and insomnia from depleted nutrition, which sends some women to the doctor for antidepressants, which results in more depletion of nutrients, thus deepening the cycle.\nAntidepressants, Pelton adds, \"change the brain chemistry and have a long list of side effects.\"\n\"The Pill Problem\" can be encapsulated like this: \"Hormones are powerful, and the Great Creator never intended them to be put in our gastrointestinal tract,\" he says. \"Synthetic estrogen and progesterone are not the same chemicals a woman's body makes. The first result is they interfere with the delicate lining of the intestinal tract.\"\nTo combat nutritional deficiencies from The Pill, his book advises a raft of supplements, including vitamin B6, L-methylfolate, tyrosine and coenzyme Q10, a powerful anti-oxidant that lowers blood pressure. Pelton calls it \"my favorite nutrient.\"\nIn his books, consultations and speaking engagements, Pelton guides people to herbs, minerals, natural hormone supplements and the more benign medications available. He is a pharmacist at Ashland Rite Aid, and his wife, Taffy, a therapist, sometimes co-writes books with him.\n\"I'm an advocate of women's health and a certified clinical nutritionist,\" he says. \"My passion is educating women on the side effects of birth-control pills and the things they can do to minimize them ... and I hate antidepressants and am very concerned about their side effects.\"\nA graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Pharmacy and administrator for six years of a hospital in Mexico for alternative, nontoxic cancer therapies, Pelton says he considers himself an \"authority on drug-induced nutritional depletion.\"\nPelton's books interlace around similar themes of natural therapies and enhanced mind, body and sexual function.\nHis \"Alternatives in Cancer Therapy,\" published in 1994, focuses on nutritional alternatives that slant the body toward an alkaline balance by eating a veggie-rich (especially dark, leafy greens) diet.\nHis \"How to Prevent Breast Cancer,\" published in 1995, urges similar steps, including boosting the immune system and diet and cutting environmental influences, because pesticides and other toxins are fat-soluable and tend to get stored in the breast.\nHe recommends that women get off estrogen as soon as they can tell menopause is over because estrogen stimulates tissue growth, especially in the uterus and breast, which increases the risk of mutations and cancer. He also suggests herbal and natural progesterone to replace estrogen — and considers synthetic estrogen inimical to health.\nHis book \"Mind Food & Smart Pills,\" published in 1989, tells of many supplements, herbs, anti-oxidants and plants to improve memory, intelligence and learning and to slow brain aging. The contents cite both familiar and exotic substances, including ginseng, ginkgo biloba and a couple that are legal in most countries but not here. Piracetam reportedly increases the flow of electrical data between the brain hemispheres, and Lucidril may help to flush built-up cellular waste from the body.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.pulj.org/the-roundtable/too-little-too-late-the-problem-of-unfinished-novels", "date": "2023-09-24T01:09:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506539.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20230923231031-20230924021031-00181.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.943572461605072, "token_count": 1624, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__32105675", "lang": "en", "text": "By Dan Spinelli\nDan Spinelli is a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania studying English and Political Science.\nMonths before the much-anticipated July 2015 release of Go Set a Watchman, the misbegotten early draft of Harper Lee’s classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, publisher HarperCollins released a statement from the author, which stated, “I’m alive and kicking and happy as hell with the reactions to ‘Watchman.’”  Lee’s well-known repudiation of the possibility of publishing any follow-up novels to To Kill a Mockingbird makes her words, if not completely surprising, seem a bit forced. Go Set a Watchman would, as the New York Times wrote after the book’s publication, make “an abrupt turnaround for an author who had said she did not intend to publish another work and then, late in life, agreed to venture out with a book that had initially been dismissed as an ambitious but disjointed first draft.”  Could it be that her lawyer duped the literary stalwart in her old age?\nLee had originally written Watchman, which features beloved characters like Scout and Atticus Finch and is set decades after the storyline of Mockingbird, as an early draft of Mockingbird in 1957. The original manuscript caught the eye of Therese von Hohoff Torrey, an agent at the now-defunct publishing company, J.B. Lippincott.  Torrey urged Lee to revise the novel, ultimately giving rise to the seminal 1960 tale of racism in a small Southern town. Nothing in the years since Mockingbird’s runaway success suggested that Lee wanted to revisit the book’s earlier iteration. It doesn’t take more than a shade of skepticism to wonder… why publish Watchman now, when, according to her sister, Lee “can’t see and can’t hear and will sign anything put before her by anyone in whom she has confidence,”? \nThe cynic may give the easy answer: money. With over 1.1 million copies sold in less than a week, Lee’s once-rough draft became the fastest-selling novel in history.  While it is easy to blame scurrilous publishers and a greedy lawyer for publishing Lee’s work, the problem may be our human desire for consumption combined with a need for closure. In American literary and cinematic culture, the Ironmen are right: “what is dead may never die.” We eat up sequels, prequels, spinoffs, trading cards, video games…there can be no “final” Star Wars or James Bond movie. The smell of big money brings the hulking beast of a media franchise back from the dead. Lee might have been fine with just one published novel to her name, but all the rest – her fans, publisher, agent, and literati at large – surely were not.\nNo literary celebrities are safe from excavations of their unfinished or thrown-away work. Ever since Stephen King famously retrieved his first novel, Carrie, from the trashcan, the garbage of novelists has become the reading public’s treasure. The controversy of the passage of literary estates a relatively straightforward matter by law, takes on an ethical, rather than legal, tone that affects many of literature’s greatest stars. David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King, was published three years after his death on September 12th, 2008. From index cards, an array of notes, and the manuscript worked on by Wallace for ten years, Wallace’s editor, Michael Pietsch “brilliantly pieced together” a novel that would later receive the honor of being a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist. \nBut would Wallace really have wanted someone else to finish his work? His widow and editor may have put their seals of approval on it, but would have Wallace approved of it? Some authors, like Game of Thrones czar George R.R. Martin, have fiercely opposed anyone else finishing their books if they are to pass away prior to the completion of the work.  Novels, unlike the serialized behemoths that are Star Wars and Indiana Jones, are the intellectual property of usually an intensely proprietary creator. When the literary estates of accomplished deceased authors are passed onto family members or editors, is it really their decision to publish or complete an unfinished novel? Or, in Lee’s case, how able is an author to authorize the publication of a novel she never saw fit to approve until she entered an advanced age?\nOne answer comes through the experience of Vladimir Nabokov, the Russian expatriate and author of Lolita. Thirty years after his death, The Original of Laura was released as an unfinished novel. What remains is far less than the “brilliantly pieced together” work of Wallace’s. As the New York Times puts it, “it’s simply fragments of a novel: the first five chapters, some taking up just a few cards, along with drafts and parts of other chapters, a random phrase or sentence here and there, and some notes.”  Prior to his death, Nabokov insisted that his wife burn the manuscript upon his death.  In this way, Nabokov not only demonstrated foresight over his editors, but also arranged for his final triumph: the preservation of the integrity of The Original of Laura.\n Kovaleski, Serge F., and Alexandra Alter. \"In Statement, Harper Lee Backs New Novel.\" The New York Times. The New York Times, 05 Feb. 2015. Web. 06 Nov. 2015.\n Kovaleski, Serge F., and Alexandra Alter. \"Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ May Have Been Found Earlier Than Thought.\" The New York Times. The New York Times, 02 July 2015. Web. 06 Nov. 2015.\n Mahler, Jonathan. \"The Invisible Hand Behind Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’.\" The New York Times. The New York Times, 12 July 2015. Web. 07 Nov. 2015.\n Giraldi, William. \"The Suspicious Story Behind Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman'\" Newrepublic.com. The New Republic, 13 July 2015. Web. 07 Nov. 2015.\n \"Harper Lee Novel 'Go Set a Watchman' Sales Surpass 1.1 Million Copies.\" WSJ. Wall Street Journal, 20 July 2015. Web. 07 Nov. 2015\n Cunningham, Michael. \"Letter from the Pulitzer Fiction Jury: What Really Happened This Year - The New Yorker.\" The New Yorker. Conde Nast, 09 July 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2015.\n \"We're Out of Luck If George RR Martin Dies Before Finishing A Song of Ice and Fire.\" Unreality Mag. N.p., 14 Nov. 2013. Web. 07 Nov. 2015.\n Gates, David. \"Nabokov’s Last Puzzle.\" The New York Times. The New York Times, 14 Nov. 2009. Web. 07 Nov. 2015.\n McCrum, Robert. \"The Final Twist in Nabokov's Untold Story.\" The Guardian. The Guardian, 24 Oct. 2009. Web.\nThe opinions and views expressed through this publication are the opinions of the designated authors and do not reflect the opinions or views of the Penn Undergraduate Law Journal, our staff, or our clients.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://carousel.md/products/little-grey-rabbits-paint-box", "date": "2021-08-03T22:40:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154486.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20210803222541-20210804012541-00112.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9260464906692505, "token_count": 177, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__287802860", "lang": "en", "text": "When Hare spots a lady painting him in the fields, he can't wait to see her sketchbook. Everyone is fascinated to see themselves on the pages, but can they paint a picture that's just as good?\nSince their first publication in 1929, the Little Grey Rabbit stories have captured the hearts of many and become children's classics. Beautifully told by Alison Uttley and brought to life by Margaret Tempest's charming illustrations, these stories enchant children and adults alike. For over 80 years, generations of children have grown up reading the adventures of Little Grey Rabbit, Squirrel, Hare and all their animal friends.\nAuthor: The Alison Uttley Literary Property Trust\nIllustrator: Margaret Tempest\nFor Ages: from 0-5 years old\nNumber of pages: 48\nPublisher: Templar Publishing\nDimensions: 179 mm x 146 mm\nCategory: Animal Stories Picture Storybooks", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://cas.usc.edu.ph/languages_and_literature/kulokabildo.jsp", "date": "2014-12-20T12:52:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802769867.110/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075249-00016-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9226937890052795, "token_count": 332, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-52", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-52__0__118386560", "lang": "en", "text": "Department of Languages & Literature\nKulokabildo: Dialogues with Cebuano Writers\nThe students of the Poetry and Fiction class (Engl 133N) of Dr. Hope Sabanpan-Yu, has documented the exciting conversations with Cebuano poets and fictionists in a book with a dvd of the live interviews with these famous writers.\nPublished by the USC Cebuano Studies Center with assistance from Sunflower Press, Kulokabildo: Dialogues with Cebuano Writers will be a useful resource for students, teachers and readers. The book features 24 varied writers such as Merlie Alunan, Tem Adlawan, Rogelio Pono, Renato Pono, Arlaine Obenieta, Dindin Villarino, Maripal Sandiego, Isolde Amante, Vince Cinches, Marvi Gil, Jeneen Garcia and more. The writers and student interviewers discuss the wide range of Cebuano language and literature, the challenges of writing in Cebuano, their inspirations and themes as well as their views on the current state of Cebuano writing. The dialogues are followed by a sample of the writer’s work.\nThe book will be launched at the USC Buttenbruch Hall on April 3, 2009 at 3:30-5:30 pm. Dr. Clarita Filipinas will give a talk about the book. Dr. Hope Yu will discuss how the project was conceived and brought to realization. The students and writers will exchange their views and experiences regarding the project.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://gratitudessinteraction.wordpress.com/", "date": "2020-08-08T09:39:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439737319.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20200808080642-20200808110642-00420.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.936272382736206, "token_count": 476, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-34__0__17829160", "lang": "en", "text": "An excerpt from the 2nd edition of the Ghana Gratitude newsletter:\nStudies have revealed that cassava and yam peels can be used as alternative substrate for cultivating quality mushrooms. About 50% of cassava produced is utilised fresh while the rest are processed into various cassava related products. Findings show that over 90% of the peels generated were either burnt or just left unattended to at dumping sites. In the case of yams, waste is mostly generated at the consumption levels (households, chop bars and food vendors). Since yam processing is very limited, it is only done by a few small and medium enterprises (SMEs).\nYam peels constitute about 14% of the volume of yams consumed in Ghana and approximately 5% of volumes of yams traded go to waste.\nGradually there is a shift from over dependence on wild mushrooms to the consumption of cultivated mushrooms in Ghana. This presents enormous opportunities for mushroom growers and subsequently the cassava and yam farmers.\nThere is a growing demand for value added organic products, especially in the food services industry like hotels and restaurants, and also for export. Thus cultivating mushroom is in the right direction.\nUnlike traditionally known mushrooms which are collected from the wild during the wet season (March – September), cultivated mushrooms are available all year round.\nCurrently the number of mushroom growers in Ghana is estimated at 2500 and they are mostly concentrated in the Greater Accra area (about 50%), Brong Ahafo, Ashanti, Eastern, Volta, Western and the Central Regions of Ghana.\nWhy is mushroom cultivation important?\n- Growing health consciousness of consumers\n- Generates employment opportunities\n- Augments government’s policies on agri-business\n- Provides entrepreneurial development\nMushroom has high nutritive and medical value. They are a rich source of proteins, minerals and vitamins. Thus it has the capacity to convert nutritionally valueless substances into high protein foods (Hafiz et al 2003).\nIt recommended that cassava peels could be composited before being used for the cultivation of mushrooms. After the production of mushrooms, the spent substrate, which is rich in nutrients can be used to prepare animal feed (poultry and small ruminants) and bio-fertilisers for crop cultivation (Change 1997).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jakewalters.io/2022/01/a-quote-post-01-31-2022/", "date": "2023-06-01T09:54:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224647639.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20230601074606-20230601104606-00329.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9482250213623047, "token_count": 153, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__223393388", "lang": "en", "text": "I enjoy a good quote! I’m going to start sharing some of my favorites and I may add my thoughts or I may just post the quote as-is.\nEveryone has their unique origin story; their success is not proof of your failure.\nThis was adapted from a post over on Medium((https://medium.com/creators-hub/writing-into-the-void-is-the-first-step-to-success-7d83923f521a)) about comparing oneself just starting a writing journey to successful writers.\nWhile it may be tempting, try not to compare yourself to other writers. They each have a unique origin story, and their success is not proof of your failure\nLeave a Reply", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://allmacintosh.ii.net/pub/ldp/test/en/Bash-Beginners-Guide/pr01s03.html", "date": "2024-02-22T01:25:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473598.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221234056-20240222024056-00402.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8938930630683899, "token_count": 159, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__148448503", "lang": "en", "text": "The most recent edition can be found at http://tille.garrels.be/training/bash/. You should find the same version at http://tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html.\nThis guide is available in print from Fultus.com.\nThis guide has been translated:\nChinese translation at http://xiaowang.net/bgb-cn/, by Wang Wei.\nUkrainian translation at http://docs.linux.org.ua/index.php/LDP:Bash_beginners_guide, by Yaroslav Fedevych and his team.\nA french translation is in the making and will be linked to as soon as it is finished.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.couponing101.com/free-audiobook-enemies-of-the-heart/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Couponing101+%28Couponing+101%29", "date": "2017-03-31T01:09:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218205046.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322213005-00423-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9358780384063721, "token_count": 167, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__242087330", "lang": "en", "text": "ChristianAudio.com is offering a FREE audiobook download of Enemies of the Heart during the month of April! You will need to add it to your cart and go through the checkout process.\nIn this compelling and helpful book, previously published as It Came From Within!, pastor and author Andy Stanley wrestles with what he calls “four invaders of the heart” –guilt, anger, greed, and jealousy.\nOne or another of these caustic emotions sabotages lives on a daily basis and destroys relationships. But Stanley assures readers that there is hope. In his trademark style–smart, engaging, and popular–he examines where these powerful forces come from and reveals effective strategies for overcoming them and moving toward healing and maturity.\nYou can also get a FREE audio download of the Do Hard Things Conference this month!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://peterandcandice.blogspot.com/2011/06/", "date": "2018-07-18T02:44:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590046.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718021906-20180718041906-00285.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9894411563873291, "token_count": 538, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__248734939", "lang": "en", "text": "Wednesday, June 1, 2011\nFour weeks ago, today, the doctor put little Angelica on my chest for the first time. We were finally meeting our special little girl after 9 long months awaiting her arrival. The past four weeks have been the hardest, saddest weeks of my life as well as the happiest and most wonderful. I miss Angelica so much, but I know that she will be part of our family again someday and I am grateful for the five days we got to spend with her in this life.\nMaybe the most important lesson I learned from this experience is that Heavenly Father is watching over us and listening to our prayers. This has been very clear since the first ultrasound when we found out that our daughter had severe abnormalities. Although we didn't have any answers at that point, we knew that the baby we were expecting was going to be a very special baby. We were obviously confused, sad and worried. But as I said my prayers that night, I felt peace and knew that Heavenly Father was watching over us and everything would work out for our good.\nAnd it has. Heavenly Father has been there for us, answering our prayers and strengthening us when we needed it. I prayed so hard that Angelica would survive the birth and that we would be able to meet our little girl, if for only a few minutes. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father not only answered our prayers, but gave us five days of precious time with our daughter. He didn’t cure our baby; that was not part of his plan for our family. But he strengthened us and brought us peace. Our experience reminds me of a scripture in the Book of Mormon: “And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord.”\nIt would have been a lot easier if the Lord had simply healed our baby. But if Heavenly Father always answered our prayers in the easiest way, we wouldn’t learn all the lessons that we were sent to Earth to learn. He didn’t heal Angelica, but he strengthened us so that we could bear the burden. And although we were not always cheerful and patient, I was amazed at how much joy and happiness we felt during this experience.\nI am grateful for our belief in a God that can turn a tragedy into a tender learning experience. And I am grateful for the knowledge that this good-bye is only temporary and we will have our daughter again with us someday.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://smallboatrestoration.blogspot.com/2017/06/pete-cullers-boats-by-john-burke.html", "date": "2018-07-18T14:12:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590199.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718135047-20180718155047-00630.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9266670942306519, "token_count": 207, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__25469073", "lang": "en", "text": "Today's Classic. Pete Culler's Boats: The Complete Design Catalog by John Burke. Simplicity, economy and ease of use. If you want to learn about those design philosophies then check out this book by John Burke. First published in 1984 it became an instant classic. Appendix A alone is worth the read. From that we have picked up several tips that we are designing into \"St. Jacques.\"\nOne of Pete Culler's favorite sayings: \"Mostly, boatbuilding is simply correcting one mistake after the other, and possibly the first mistake is to begin....but it's so much fun.\" look at lapstrake methods, from preparation, tools, materials, plans, keel structure, planking, frames, centerboard and decks to finishing off the rig.\nBurke, John. 1984. Pete Culler's boats: the complete design catalog. Camden, Me: International Marine Publishing.\nOur Small Boat Library List\nClick here to find a book through our Worldcat Small Boat library list", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://improvewithfit.com/read-our-new-book/", "date": "2022-10-02T10:23:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337307.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20221002083954-20221002113954-00602.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9455388784408569, "token_count": 672, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__76393214", "lang": "en", "text": "If you’re looking to improve human and organizational performance, Fisher Improvement Technologies is the perfect resource for you. We offer a holistic approach that covers everything from structure and equipment to personnel knowledge and capabilities. Our new book, Understanding Mental Models, can help you take your performance to the next level, both in your personal life and your professional life. Learn more and get in touch with us or purchase our book today!\nWhat Is the Book About?Our book, Understanding Mental Models, is all about understanding various mental models we use to reduce mistakes and improve task performance. A mental model is a simplified representation of reality that we use to make decisions and guide our actions. Everyone has mental models, but not everyone takes the time to understand them or how they work. Our book provides a great starting point for those who have never used mental models or who are looking to brush up on their understanding.\nHow Does It Help You?\nIf you can learn to understand your own mental models, you can learn to make better decisions, take action more effectively, and reduce the probability that you will make a mistake, especially one that could be catastrophic. Not only will you learn about the different types of mental models when you read this book, but you’ll also get tips and exercises for improving your own decision-making skills, as well as how to better understand human success and failure.\nWhat Are the Benefits of Understanding Mental Models?\nThere are many benefits to understanding mental models. When you understand how your mental models work, you can:\n- Reduce mistakes by questioning your assumptions\n- Improve your problem-solving skills by learning how to identify the root cause of an issue\n- Improve task performance by choosing the suitable mental model for the situation\n- Make better decisions by understanding how your mental models influence your thinking\n- Enhance your creativity by learning how to generate new ideas\nIf you’re looking for a resource on human performance improvement, Fisher Improvement Technologies is the perfect solution for you. Purchase our new book and learn how to practically apply performance modes today!\nHow to Use This Book for Maximum Benefit\nThis book is designed to be used as a reference guide. You can read it from cover to cover, or you can dip in and out of it as needed. Each chapter covers a different topic, and you can refer back to specific sections as needed.\nIf you’re serious about human performance improvement, then we recommend reading this book from cover to cover and taking the time to really digest the information. But if you’re short on time, then you can still get a lot of value from skimming through the chapters and picking out the key points.\nIf you’re looking for an effective, reliable way to improve human performance, Understanding Mental Models can be a great resource for you! We have worked hard to create a book that uses our decades of personal and professional experience, knowledge about mental models, passion for helping others reduce human error, and real-world examples to provide you with a comprehensive guide. So what are you waiting for? Get your copy from Fisher Improvement Technologies or Amazon or reach out to us with any questions you may have today! We’re happy to serve as an additional resource for you while you read this book or after you’ve finished it.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://annaither.work/2014/02/27/death-of-an-irishwoman-by-michael-hartnett/", "date": "2021-10-27T19:08:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323588242.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20211027181907-20211027211907-00093.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9760525822639465, "token_count": 227, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__122326770", "lang": "en", "text": "This makes me want to read Michael Hartnett, and wish I knew Irish Gaelic.\nIn 1975 the Irish poet Michael Hartnett announced his decision to give up writing in English by publishing the volume, A Farewell to English in the Irish language. The following poem recalls his maternal grandmother, Bridget Halpin who fostered him from the age of 4. Mrs Halpin was Hartnett’s door into the Gaelic/Irish past. His attachment to her as a substitute parent also enmeshed him with the shrinking Irish-speaking community (at least in the 1970s) to which she belonged. Hartnett’s lyrical representation of his grandmother in free verse is somewhat pared down, but in my opinion this makes the poem all the more powerful and hard-hitting. Further commentary follows the poem.\nDeath of an Irishwoman by Michael Hartnett\nIgnorant, in the sense\nshe ate monotonous food\nand thought the world was flat,\nand pagan, in the sense\nshe knew the things that…\nView original post 691 more words", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.pritchardsinc.com/blog/merry-christmas.aspx", "date": "2024-04-20T14:06:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817650.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420122043-20240420152043-00340.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9314186573028564, "token_count": 126, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__338574", "lang": "en", "text": "Jesus Is The Reason\nIn Bethlehem, God gave to us\nThe source of Christmas joy;\nA star shown on a miracle:\nThe virgin birth of a boy.\nHe was born both God and man,\nA Savior for us all,\nThe way to get to our heavenly home,\nIf we just heed His call.\nSo as we shop and spend and wrap\nAnd enjoy the Christmas season,\nLet's keep in mind the sacred truth:\nJesus is the reason.\nBy Joanna Fuchs\nFrom all of us to all of you and your loved ones,", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sacramento.shop/collections/kids-1/products/karen-sue-studios-secret-worlds", "date": "2023-09-26T18:00:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510219.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20230926175325-20230926205325-00137.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9198266267776489, "token_count": 270, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__27562292", "lang": "en", "text": "Secret Worlds is a whimsical coloring book perfect for unleashing your creativity and inner artist. There are 38 original detailed illustrations by artist Karen Sue Chen of Karen Sue Studios. This adult coloring book gives you a glimpse into the secret life of magical tiny creatures. Each unique page from the depths of imagination are sure to delight and surprise all colorists. Let your coloring experience take you to a fun world of relaxation and imagination. Connect with your inner artist using pens, markers, crayons, or coloring pencils. The pages are printed on a single side, so there is no bleed through. Ink illustrations in this coloring book for adults include:\n...and many more delightful scenes!\nAbout the Artist\nKaren Chen is the designer of Karen Sue Studios. Originally from Dallas, Texas, she is now based out of Sacramento, California. Karen developed a deep passion for art, creation, and mixed media at a young age. After graduating from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, Karen has been pursuing her dream to create and design. In her words, \"In my life’s story, art has rewritten the script. It is my passion, and my greatest pleasure to share creativity through my daily work\".\nSee more of Karen Sue Studios Work at Sacramento.shop/karensuestudios", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.ohrana-truda.in.ua/ru/the-aims-of-academic-term-papers/", "date": "2023-02-01T01:49:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499899.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20230201013650-20230201043650-00333.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9635975956916809, "token_count": 593, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__277507301", "lang": "en", "text": "A term paper is generally a written research newspaper written for a college course, often representing a significant portion of a students overall grade. In the US, it’s one of the two required documents (along with all the GMAT) that every pupil needs to pass before entering their freshman year of school. Merriam Webster defines it as a short, comprehensive, single-page report written for an assessment. It is normally composed to illustrate an argument, to demonstrate an idea, or to present a scientific outcome. Term papers are usually used for courses in business, law, and education, but they are also written for a number of other courses and subjects.\nWriting term papers normally starts with a topic announcement. The subject statement is that the crux of the newspaper; it tells the reader what the paper will probably be about, and it gives the researchers or authors a clear direction to work from. Some topics are more complex than others, therefore it’s important to consider it carefully before beginning the writing. The outline will generally take the kind of a review of the subject and will contain all the essential information. Here is a summary of some typical term papers:\nAn overview of the topic will begin with a synopsis of the study, followed by an appraisal of the literature review. The purpose of this part of the expression papers is to provide the reader a brief review of the literature. This part shouldn’t merely summarize the results of the research, but instead to explain why they were significant and making them unique. Assessing the literature is vital, especially for higher level math courses like Calculus. A reviewer is expected to understand how to read between the lines to recognize the substantial content within each newspaper.\nAfter the review, a study paper can start to describe the approaches which were utilized to reach the end. Essentially, this is a succinct explanation of the research process and results. For a mathematics contador online de caracteres word paper, the methodology is the thing that enables the writer to answer the question posed in the name. It is the research papers’ strong points, as well as their weaker points. These include: the analysis, development, hypothesis, and outcome.\nLast, the paper will conclude with a succinct paragraph which outlines the paper’s essential findings and decisions. Fantastic term papers always wind with their answers and why they were effective. Though this is where most pupils skim, it’s still an important part. The end must leave the reader with a positive impression about the newspaper and its own topic.\nAs you can see, the most important aim of an academic term paper will be to present a organized and precise outline. All other components are secondary. The outline is that the huge part and is where the student should spend the majority of their character counter online time. As mentioned previously, it is in this large part that the significant arguments could be researched and the weaker ones reviewed.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://voteyes.org.au/book/", "date": "2023-03-30T15:20:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949331.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330132508-20230330162508-00694.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9305930733680725, "token_count": 374, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__210846289", "lang": "en", "text": "Yes Yes Yes: Australia’s Journey to Marriage Equality\nTwo advocates involved in the marriage equality campaign, Alex Greenwich and Dr Shirleene Robinson, have written a moving account of some of their experiences of Australian Marriage Equality, sharing some of the stories behind the long journey to marriage equality in Australia.\nClick here to buy your copy now!\nYes Yes Yes reveals some of the untold stories of how a grassroots movement won hearts and minds and transformed a country. It is based on personal memories and more than forty interviews with key figures and everyday advocates from across Australia.\nFrom its tentative origins in 2004, through to a groundswell of public support, everyday people contributed so much to see marriage equality become law. The book captures the passion that propelled the movement forward, weaving together stories of heartbreak, hope and triumph.\nIt covers the movement’s origins in 2004, when the Marriage Act of 1961 was amended to exclude same-sex couples, through to the unsuccessful High Court challenge, a public vote in 2017 and the Parliamentary aftermath. It reminds us that social change is possible and that love is love.\n‘A wonderful record of a huge and heart-warming moment in Australia’s history.’— Magda Szubanski\n‘Winning the freedom to marry and changing hearts and minds — and the law — is never easy, even in a progressive democracy like Australia. By sharing the ins and outs and behind the scene stories from Australia‘s long and dramatic journey to marriage equality, Alex Greenwich and Shirleene Robinson offer valuable inspiration and instruction to all those heroes working tirelessly across the world to gain much-needed human rights wins and turn NOs into overwhelming and vitally important declarations of YES YES YES in support of equality!’— Evan Wolfson, Founder, Freedom to Marry, USA", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.maxrambod.com/pages/books/17672/archy-moore-abolitionist-novel/the-first-american-abolitionist-novel-the-slave-or-memoirs-of-archy-moore", "date": "2023-09-30T06:55:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510603.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930050118-20230930080118-00282.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9369319677352905, "token_count": 201, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__170937953", "lang": "en", "text": "First EditionHILDRETH, Richard. The Slave, or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Volume II. Boston: John H. Eastburn Printer, 1836. Duodecimo. Calf covers. 162 pages. Rag paper. The very first American abolitionist novel, published 15 years before Uncle Tom's Cabin, which some have argued it influenced. The anonymous author was an enigmatic, Harvard-educated contributed articles to various magazines. Poor health led him to spend two years in Florida, where he was he witnessed of the evils of slavery to write the anti-slavery novel The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore. It became incredibly popular, heralding a new genre of abolitionist slave narratives. In only fair condition. Covers detaching, missing one free endpaper. Pages toned, and mildly foxed. An extremely influential early text in the abolitionist movement.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mtghunter.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/hooray-for-halifax-public-libraries/", "date": "2017-04-24T21:10:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119838.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00448-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.948945164680481, "token_count": 178, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__11272674", "lang": "en", "text": "Hooray For Halifax Public Libraries!!!\nI found at least three in “the system” that I liked the look of. One, “Alara Unbroken“, was actually on the shelf in the fiction section so I grabbed that right away. While the other two, “Magic : the gathering : official strategy guide” and “Magic : the gathering : official encyclopedia, the complete card guide”, were elsewhere within the Halifax Public Libraries system. So, I placed them on hold, and look forward to reading them once they come in.\nI also noticed that there were a couple of anthologies in the library catalogue, “The dragons of magic anthology” and “The secrets of magic anthology”. Maybe I will save those for another time. I don’t want to hog all the Magic related stuff.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://apps.ad.uwm.edu/internal/courseLeaf/singleCourseHTML.php?course_code=TRNSLTN%20709", "date": "2023-10-03T02:02:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511023.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002232712-20231003022712-00832.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8674644827842712, "token_count": 96, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__135357609", "lang": "en", "text": "TRNSLTN 709 Seminar in Literary and Cultural Translation\n3 cr. Graduate.\nStudy and practice of literary translation in its cultural setting. Discussion of essays, analysis of published translations, translation practice, and collegial discussion of students' work.\nPrerequisites: graduate standing.\nLast Taught: Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020.\nCurrent Offerings: https://catalog.uwm.edu/course-search/", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://abandonjournal.submittable.com/submit", "date": "2023-12-09T15:29:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100912.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209134916-20231209164916-00654.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9333257675170898, "token_count": 694, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__106889631", "lang": "en", "text": "There are presently no open calls for submissions.\nAbandon Journal accepts previously unpublished work only. Please use the following word counts to select a category to submit, and please send no more than one piece at a time per category, except where noted. In addition, please only submit once per submission window:\n- Flash (fiction or nonfiction): max 1,000 words each (1-3 pieces per submission)\n- Short story: max 7,500 words\n- Creative nonfiction: max 6,000 words\n- Graphic novels, cartoons, comics: we want to see them\n- Poetry: any length or form (please send no more than five poems at a time)\n- Abandon Form: hybrid, experimental, and/or idiosyncratic work that doesn’t fit into conventional genres, categories, or forms\n- Artwork: we are particularly looking for genres that were created in a digital format (video, sound, animation, photography, design, etc.) but we will consider all visual art media (max five works at a time)\n- Craft essays and writing about art: although we are not looking for academic work or reviews, we’d like to see creative nonfiction or personal essay/memoir about writing, art, and art-making\n- Book reviews and interviews: please pitch us first before submitting\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe want to showcase writing and artwork that has been created with abandon. That term is free to be interpreted liberally, but ideally it is the kind of work that takes risks, created in a space wherein the artist doesn’t care what anyone else thinks or what everyone else is doing. This means that we’re open to so-called “genre fiction,” from mystery to sci-fi to romance to fantasy to horror to whatever strikes your fancy. As long as the writing is powerful and abandons the preconceived notions of what is expected, we want to read it.\nCurrent Calls For Submissions\nAbandon Journal is open for Issue #5 (Abandon Earth) from 8/1/23 through 9/30/23.\nHow To Submit\nWe accept unsolicited general submissions, for free, forever, always, no exceptions. (However, we’re happy to take tip jar submissions or other donations, if you’d like to contribute to our operating expenses and to helping us pay writers.)\nSimultaneous submissions are fine — we’re writers too, after all — but please let us know if your piece is accepted elsewhere as soon as you can.\nNo more than one active submission per category at a time, and please wait at least two months before submitting again.\nFeel free to inquire about the status of your submission if you haven’t heard back after 6-8 weeks.\nPlease, no re-submissions of the same work unless a revision was specifically requested. We're listed here at Duotrope, so please don’t forget to report your submission.\n$15 per piece or series.\nBoring But Important\nUpon publication, Abandon Journal acquires first world serial rights, including first audio production rights, after which we retain the right to include it in a print anthology, as well as the right to maintain it indefinitely on our website. All other rights return to the author upon publication.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://blueribbondesigns.blogspot.com/2011/", "date": "2020-07-16T16:32:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593657172545.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20200716153247-20200716183247-00002.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9497848153114319, "token_count": 249, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-29", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-29__0__65998252", "lang": "en", "text": "At the time of the exhibit, I was able to pre-order the 112 page book that featured this amazing exhibit - With Needle and Brush: Schoolgirl Embroidery from the Connecticut River Valley, 1740-1840 by Carol and Stephen Huber, Susan P. Schoelwer, and Amy Kurtz Lansing (and this wonderful book was finally released in late October 2011). This is the first book to explore schoolgirl needlework of the Connecticut River Valley - identifying the distinctive styles developed by teachers and students at schools from New Hampshire to Long Island Sound. This gorgeous book contains 89 illustrations - 80 of which are in color - and is definitely a lovely complement to any sampler book collection. Each sampler plate contains detailed information and object entries by the Hubers, making this a wonderful historical research/reference book for those interested in historical needlework. I purchased the cloth hardcover edition, but there is a paper cover version available, as well.\nFor more information and details for purchasing this extraordinary book, visit the website of Stephen & Carol Huber...if you have an interest in historic needlework, then this brilliant reference will not let you down...it is a gorgeous representation of a phenomenal needlework exhibit.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://rockingchairsecrets.com/resources/books/", "date": "2018-08-15T12:25:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210105.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20180815122304-20180815142304-00080.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7075602412223816, "token_count": 139, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__65912331", "lang": "en", "text": "Looking for a good read? Here are some amazing books we love!\nCan’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?\nby Roz Chast\nThe Wonder of Aging: A New Approach to Embracing Life After Fifty\nby Michael Gurian\nA Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life\nby Brian Grazer\nBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End\nby Atul Gawande\nThis Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism\nby Ashton Applewhite\nA Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents–and Ourselves\nby Jane Gross\nGot a book suggestion? Let us know on the Contact Us page!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://shanrefugeeschools.org/the-book/", "date": "2021-07-24T01:46:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046150067.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20210724001211-20210724031211-00238.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9456261992454529, "token_count": 422, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__151070965", "lang": "en", "text": "The Shan: Refugees Without A Camp\n“I cannot go back to Burma, Teacher. They will kill me.”\nA mix of memoir, travelogue, and history, The Shan: Refugees without a Camp recounts the trials and triumphs of Shan youth, who have escaped slow genocide in Burma by fleeing to Thailand. There they study English and tell stories about life in Burma, where Shan men serve as human minesweepers for Burmese soldiers searching for insurgents. They talk about the danger of death by starvation, beating, or bullets in a country where poor Shan women often become prostitutes and young Shan girls are raped by Burmese soldiers.\nThe refugees’ stories are interspersed with reminiscences about the author’s own life. Under the watchful eye of the military, she travels in Burma to see the persecution students experienced, but finds that “trouble” areas are off limits to tourists and that the peaceful façade of cities is maintained by polite, helpful, and poverty-stricken people. They are stories of tragedy, hope, and love.\nBernice Koehler Johnson has lived and taught English in Spain, Indonesia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, and Thailand. Presently she lives in Minnesota and Thailand. She speaks to church groups, school groups, and civic groups, talking about the plight of Shan refugees and raising money for projects her former students have initiated, such as teaching the English, Shan, and Thai languages to Shan refugee children. These children have fled to Thailand with their parents, who live with the constant fear of being deported and subjected to torture, imprisonment, and death.\nThe Shan: Refugees Without a Camp is available at Amazon.com\nListen to Bernice Koehler Johnson talk about her book The Shan: Refugees without a Camp to KFAI radio in Minneapolis.\nKFAI radio interview\nReady to help us make a change?\nWe greatly appreciate your financial contribution to our important work. Click the donate button to submit your donation securely via PayPal.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://journal-bpa.org/index.php/jbpa/announcement/view/2", "date": "2018-12-10T19:56:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823442.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210191406-20181210212906-00522.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.911531388759613, "token_count": 639, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__100977250", "lang": "en", "text": "Marc Esteve (University College London & ESADE Business School)\nArjen van Witteloostuijn (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & University of Antwerp)\nAndrew Whitford (University of Georgia)\nRobert Christensen (Brigham Young University)\nBradley Wright (University of Georgia)\nIn a global context of rising disdain towards government and fiscal austerity, understanding how to motivate public employees is of central importance for effective public sector governance (Esteve et al., 2017). The scholarly attention given to public sector motivation appears to reflect this importance. It is at an all-time peak, with over 50 studies published annually in recent years (Ritz, Brewer and Neumann, 2016). Yet, as argued by Esteve and Schuster (2018), these studies have overwhelmingly focused solely on one form of work motivation in the public sector: public service motivation. The large literature on work motivation in general management suggests, however, that other forms of motivation can be equally important in the workplace (Pinder, 2015). Similarly, linking to the fundamental psychology of motivation has great potential (Slabbinck et al., 2018).\nThis symposium welcomes proposals addressing how to increase motivation to serve the public interest, using experimental designs. The overarching theme of the symposium is to discuss strategies to enhance motivation among individuals involved in the delivery of public services – working in the public, private, or not-for-profit sectors.\nPotential topics for papers include any area of public administration and management. Research papers may provide insights into motivation research in areas such as:\n- Specific examples of interventions to increase motivation among employees delivering public services;\n- Studies empirically addressing the relation between motivation and work outcomes;\n- Mediating and moderating factors between motivation and individual performance;\n- The effect of nudges towards motivation in the public service;\n- The role of the need for achievement, affiliation, and power.\nAs part of this call for papers, we will organize a small conference in Barcelona, hosted by ESADE Business School. Scholars interested in participating should submit an abstract to the guest-editors by January 10, 2019. The abstract should be about two pages long and contain a description of the problem addressed and the argument that will be advanced, as well as the methodology and sources of data to be used. If possible, the nature of the arguments and findings should be previewed. Information on acceptance will be given by late January, with the conference to be held on April 25th and 26th.\nProposal submission deadline: 10 January 2019.\nConference: 25 – 26 April 2019.\nSubmission Deadline of Final Manuscripts: 30 September 2019.\nPlease note that final manuscripts will be submitted by the guest co-editors to JBPA for double-blind peer review with final decisions regarding publication being made by JBPA editors. The submitted papers will need conform to JPBA’s guidelines for paper submissions: http://www.journal-bpa.org/index.php/jbpa/about/submissions.\nThe full CfP can be accessed here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://tao-of-digital-photography.blogspot.com/", "date": "2017-05-23T01:18:13Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463607245.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170523005639-20170523025639-00107.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9636287689208984, "token_count": 354, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-22__0__223413401", "lang": "en", "text": "\"When the first encounter with some object surprises us... this makes us wonder and be astonished... And since this can happen before we know in the least whether this object is suitable to us or not, it seems to to me that Wonder is the first of all the passions. It has no opposite, because if the object presented has nothing in it that surprises us, we are not in the least moved by it and regard it without passion.\"\n\"There is a universal flux that cannot be defined explicitly but which can be known only implicitly, as indicated by the explicitly definable forms and shapes, some stable and some unstable, that can be abstracted from the universal flux. In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of our whole and unbroken movement.\"\n\"Think of such civilizations, far back in time against the fading afterglow of creation, masters of a universe so young that life as yet had come only to a handful of worlds. Theirs would have been a loneliness of gods looking out across infinity and finding none to share their thoughts.\"\n\"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The \"I\" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.\"\n\"When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run. \"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mycoffeegifts.com/object/jra-coffee-isnt-rocket-science-a-quick-and-easy-guide-to-buying-brewing-serving-roasting-and-tasting-coffee", "date": "2024-04-12T18:02:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816045.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412163227-20240412193227-00695.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8558892011642456, "token_count": 236, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__2253025", "lang": "en", "text": "Coffee Isn't Rocket Science: A Quick and Easy Guide to Buying, Brewing, Serving, Roasting, and Tasting Coffee\nDiscover a whole new world of coffee with COFFEE ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE. This engaging and beautifully-illustrated primer takes you on a journey through the fascinating realm of coffee, providing essential information that will enhance your enjoyment of every cup. Written in a style reminiscent of the highly-acclaimed Wine Isn't Rocket Science, this guide presents coffee knowledge in a fun and accessible manner. Featuring the expertise of a seasoned barista, it covers everything from the cultivation and processing of coffee beans to the diverse flavors found in beans from different countries. Learn how to brew the perfect pour-over, create delicious cold brews, and even master latte art. With cultural insights into coffee-drinking habits around the globe, COFFEE ISN'T ROCKET SCIENCE is the comprehensive resource you've been looking for. Delightfully illustrated with charming four-color drawings, this book effortlessly explains complex concepts with ease. Say goodbye to confusion and embrace the joy of coffee with this must-have guide.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://anthoscents.com/splendiris-parfums-dusita-en/", "date": "2021-03-05T20:02:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178373241.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20210305183324-20210305213324-00204.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8505616784095764, "token_count": 660, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-10__0__105066152", "lang": "en", "text": "Tags: candle lightdusitaEau de ParfumeaudeparfumFragranceFragranzaFragranza artisticaIrismontri umavijaninicchiaNicheNiche Perfumeryparfumspemspissara umavijanipoetryscentsplendiris\nOnce upon a time there was a man, a craftsman of gentle words, who used to travel the world embracing every fragment of life with his heart. In the evening, he sat beside an open window, waiting for darkness to envelop the existence of stars and hopes. In those silent and magical moments of shadows dancing by the candlelight, inspiration distilled emotions and memories, pouring their poetry onto immaculate pages.\n“I write by the candlelight in a night wrapped by many layers of dreams” (Montri Umavijani, 1941-2006).\nPissara Umavijani pays tribute to Montri Umavijani, her father and one of Thailand’s greatest contemporary poets, spreading the beauty of his work through Parfums Dusita’ collection.\nSplendiris, the eighth creation of Pissara, portrays the hazy and languid sensation of those moments kept between the pages of a dream. A fragrance in whose heart resides the passion of a whole life, surrounded by infinite layers of tenderness.\nThe golden splendour of the flame radiates from fruity brushstrokes of blood orange shaded in the honeyed sweetness of mandarin from Capua and in the aromatic yellow of Calabrian bergamot. Like memories awakened by the surreal beauty of an idyllic garden, a luminescent dew of Indian jasmine permeates the verdant transparency of violet leaves and fig leaves wrapping a nostalgic and romantic bouquet of iris, violet and May rose in an ethereal moon glow. The vernal exuberance of violet outlines the soft and sinuous shape of an iris in full bloom, to which the carrot seeds convey a rooty and sweetly herbaceous touch, reinforcing its vegetal freshness. Touched by a gourmand zephyr of vanilla, the creaminess of orris slowly slides towards an earthy base of Haitian vetiver and cedar wood, without, however, indulging in the conventional powdery aspect of iris but, rather, enhancing its languid sensuality. The whispered, voluptuous and vaguely animalic embrace of ambergris comes as a caress, making the abstract perfection of a dream almost tangible. What lingers is the charming feeling of a flower painted on the evanescent vault of an indigo colored sky. Splendiris.\n“It’s true that man should not give in to the dream; but without it, what is life?” (Montri Umavijani)\nThe official launch of Splendiris will take place on Aprile 18th at Parfums Dusita’ boutique (11 Rue de la Sourdière, Paris). The fragrance will be available by the beginning of May in selected perfumeries or on the OLINE SHOP of Parfums Dusita.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jasonmarmold.com/2021/10/14/its-about-time-i-write-again/", "date": "2023-06-02T14:35:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224648695.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20230602140602-20230602170602-00541.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9755750894546509, "token_count": 245, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__136653625", "lang": "en", "text": "It was well over a year ago that I last put electronic pen to paper and wrote here. I initially thought this blog would be a place for me to place the results of my Bible Study, preaching, and seminary work. But it turned out to be something I didn’t make a lot of time for as my teaching, preaching, and seminary work took so much time of its own.\nBut now, I think I have some things to write about. Maybe not heavy theology. Maybe not matters of life and death. But things related to Bible study, things having to do with Bibles, how we study them, care for them, and more.\nSo, look for some reviews coming up of the tools that I use in my Bible Study, pens, notebooks, even software. Also look for some book reviews and recommendations. I hope to share my love and passion for teaching and study and share some of the gleanings I’ve gathered over the past ten years of academic study, pastoral ministry, and seminary teaching.\nBlessings to you all who read, and look forward to the first post later in the month!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.centerstagetheatre.com/EventDetails.aspx?EventID=83", "date": "2013-06-19T19:05:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368709037764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125717-00036-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9266325831413269, "token_count": 203, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__139768584", "lang": "en", "text": "Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher from the classic novella by Henry James\nA young governess journeys to a lonely manor house to care for two orphaned children. She begins to see ghosts, whom she believes are attempting to corrupt the children.\nAre the ghosts the products of her own fevered imagination - or are they real? And even worse, if they are real, are the children somehow in league with the demons?\nReview by Michael Dresdner michaeldresdner.blogspot.com/\nThe Turn of the Screw Halloween Party\nJoin us for a theatrical Halloween party at the final performance of The Turn of the Screw on Halloween night. Wednesday, October 31st! Come in costume and get a $5.00 credit voucher to another Centerstage show.\n- 6:30 PM - Haunted Setting and free hors d'oeuvres\n- 7:30 PM - Performance of The Turn of the Screw\n- 9:00 PM - Costume contest following the play", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.maiasbooks.com/product/15070/The-Index-of-Scharfs-History-of-Baltimore-City-and-County-Maryland-Bill-and-Martha-Reamy", "date": "2019-02-24T04:00:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249578748.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20190224023850-20190224045850-00405.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9033428430557251, "token_count": 310, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__37592906", "lang": "en", "text": "Quantity: 4 available\n\"In 1881, Thomas J. Scharf published his History of Baltimore City and County. This single volume was a monumental effort to chronicle the development of the region; its political and economic structure; social life; institutions; and the individuals behind them. The work became the prototype for other mass produced local histories throughout the United States.\" -Thomas L. Hollowak In 1971, Scharf's History of Baltimore City and County was reprinted in two volumes consisting of a new Introduction, and a \"rearranged\" index. This volume, The Index, was compiled by Bill and Martha Reamy; it includes full-names (complete with maiden names), subjects and locations.\nTitle: The Index of Scharf’s History of Baltimore City and County [Maryland]\nIllustrator: Reg. Price: $25\nPublisher: Heritage Books:\nISBN Number: 1585492132\nISBN Number 13: 9781585492138\nBook Details: (1992), 1993, 5½x8½, paper, 228 pp, Heritage Books\nItem: 1.00 Item\nSeller ID: R0213\nDescription: In 1881 Thomas J. Scharf published his History of Baltimore City and County. In 1971, the above publication was reprinted in two (2) volumes consisting of a new Introduction, and a “rearranged” index. Bill and Martha Reamy’s index has a full-name (including maiden name), subject and location.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.yalhs.org.uk/yeovil-the-hidden-history/", "date": "2023-12-07T03:33:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100632.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207022257-20231207052257-00784.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8512246012687683, "token_count": 248, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__229992652", "lang": "en", "text": "To celebrate its 50th birthday, the Society has produced a new book on the archaeology of Yeovil, Yeovil: The Hidden History appeared in November 2004 as a paperback, published by Tempus. The book has been written and illustrated by members of the society.\n|A survey of Yeovil’s archaeology||Brian & Moira Gittos|\n|Prehistory and the Romans||James Gerrard|\n|Yeovil’s Anglo-Saxon minster||Brian & Moira Gittos|\n|Castle, church & conquest: the Normans in south Somerset||Sally Mills|\n|The archaeology of the Library site||Brian & Moira Gittos|\n|Yeovil’s history through maps||Duncan Black|\n|Surviving evidence of Wartime Yeovil||Jack Sweet|\n|Reference list of archaeology in the Yeovil area||Brian & Moira Gittos|\nOrder this book directly from the society at the discount price for UK & NI £8.00 (incl p & p), for Other Areas request the cost.\n(Recommended Retail Price £17.99)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ata.edu.au/job/story-hatchers/", "date": "2023-03-31T03:36:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949533.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230331020535-20230331050535-00012.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9554978609085083, "token_count": 220, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__39831416", "lang": "en", "text": "Balnarring, VIC 3926\nGifted Education, Primary Education, Primary Literacy and English. +1 more View less.\nAndrea has over 30 years experience and expertise as an educator. She is a specialist in Gifted Education who has worked extensively with highly able students (primary school). Andrea currently runs Creative Writing workshops for students with a passion for words, literature and story telling. She has presented popular bespoke workshops for G.A.T.E.WAYS (Gifted and Talented Education providers) for many years and recently launched her own business on the Mornington Peninsula with workshops for aspiring young authors as the main focus. Andrea is open to working with small groups with a minimum of 4 and her focus is on enrichment and extension, high-level challenge and talent development for students with a genuine desire to learn more and develop their skills in creative writing.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.dyncond.com/enhancing-isp-backbone-networks-with-global-server-load-balancing-gslb/", "date": "2023-12-04T02:36:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100523.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20231204020432-20231204050432-00110.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8927773833274841, "token_count": 1153, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__100117557", "lang": "en", "text": "Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) has emerged as a critical technology for optimizing the performance and reliability of internet services. As the demand for seamless online experiences continues to grow, the influence of GSLB on Internet Service Provider (ISP) backbone networks becomes increasingly significant. In the realm of ISP backbone networks, GSLB plays a pivotal role in distributing traffic efficiently among geographically dispersed servers. In this article, we will explore the multifaceted impact of GSLB on ISP backbone networks, considering factors such as latency, TCP timeout, TCP window size, packet loss and the integration of multi-data center and multi-cloud architectures. Additionally, we will delve into the client-side GSLB perspective.\nGSLB and Latency Optimization\nLatency, the delay between sending a request and receiving a response, is a critical metric in network performance. GSLB mitigates latency challenges by dynamically distributing incoming requests across multiple servers based on factors such as server load, geographic or network proximity to the user, and overall network health. This intelligent distribution ensures that users are directed to the nearest available server, reducing round-trip times and enhancing the overall user experience. This is achieved through intelligent DNS resolution, dynamically routing traffic based on real-time server health and load conditions. By reducing the distance between the user and the server, GSLB helps enhance the overall user experience.\nGSLB achieves latency optimization through:\n1. Geographic Load Distribution: GSLB leverages global awareness to direct users to servers that are geographically (standard server-side GSLB) or network (enhanced client-side GSLB) closer to them. By minimizing the physical distance data travels, GSLB reduces latency and accelerates content delivery.\n2. Server Health Monitoring: GSLB continuously monitors the health of servers in real-time. In case of server malfunctions or performance degradation, GSLB redirects traffic to healthy servers, preventing users from experiencing delays due to unresponsive or slow servers.\nTCP Timeout Considerations\nTCP timeout is a crucial parameter that determines how long a connection will wait for a response before declaring it lost. GSLB can influence TCP timeout by ensuring that requests are directed to the most responsive servers. By dynamically adjusting the distribution of traffic, GSLB reduces the likelihood of timeouts and enhances the overall reliability of the network.\nKey factors in GSLB’s impact on TCP timeout include:\n1. Intelligent Traffic Steering: GSLB uses intelligent algorithms to distribute traffic based on server health and responsiveness. This proactive approach minimizes the chances of connections timing out, as users are consistently directed to servers capable of timely responses.\n2. Failover Mechanisms: GSLB incorporates failover mechanisms that quickly identify and reroute traffic away from servers experiencing issues. This rapid response to server failures helps prevent TCP timeouts by swiftly redirecting users to alternative, functioning servers.\nTCP Window Size Optimization\nThe TCP window size is a critical parameter that influences the efficiency of data transfer over a network. GSLB contributes to TCP window size optimization by ensuring that the network’s bandwidth is effectively utilized and that data is transmitted without unnecessary delays.\nWays in which GSLB influences TCP window size optimization include:\n1. Bandwidth-Aware Load Balancing: GSLB takes into account the available bandwidth on each server and dynamically adjusts the distribution of traffic to maximize utilization. This ensures that the TCP window size is optimized for efficient data transfer, minimizing congestion and improving overall network performance.\n2. Dynamic Scaling: GSLB enables dynamic scaling of resources by directing traffic to servers with available capacity. This flexibility in resource allocation ensures that the TCP window size can be adjusted based on real-time network conditions, accommodating fluctuations in demand without compromising performance.\nMitigating Packet Loss\nPacket loss can occur due to network congestion or server issues, leading to degraded performance and user experience. GSLB mitigates packet loss by intelligently distributing traffic, preventing individual servers from becoming overloaded. In the event of server or network failure, GSLB redirects traffic to healthy servers, minimizing the impact of packet loss on the end user. This redundancy enhances the resilience of ISP backbone networks and contributes to a more robust internet infrastructure.\nGSLB and client-side GSLB in multiple data centers and clouds environments\nGSLB is instrumental in orchestrating traffic across multiple data centers and clouds. This not only enhances fault tolerance but also allows for efficient resource utilization. By distributing workloads dynamically across geographically dispersed data centers and clouds, GSLB ensures high availability and reliability, minimizing the impact of server failures or regional outages on the ISP backbone network.\nClient-side GSLB represents a paradigm shift in load balancing, allowing end-user devices to participate actively in the decision-making process. By incorporating client-side GSLB mechanisms, ISPs can offload some of the decision-making responsibilities to the clients themselves, resulting in a more distributed and scalable load balancing architecture. This approach not only optimizes server selection but also empowers clients to adapt dynamically to changing network conditions.\nGlobal Server Load Balancing (GSLB) has become an indispensable technology for optimizing the performance of ISP backbone networks. By addressing latency, TCP timeout, TCP window size and packet loss considerations, GSLB enhances the reliability, responsiveness, and efficiency of internet services. As the demand for seamless online experiences continues to grow, the integration of GSLB into ISP backbone networks becomes increasingly essential for delivering superior performance to users worldwide. As the digital landscape evolves, GSLB will continue to play a vital role in shaping the performance and reliability of ISP backbone networks, ensuring a robust and responsive internet experience for users worldwide.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://textilearchive.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/node/31", "date": "2024-04-25T10:30:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297292879.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425094819-20240425124819-00772.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9793548583984375, "token_count": 168, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__129315254", "lang": "en", "text": "We were delighted when June Hill visited us. The former Museums Manager for the Bankfield Museum, whose book Diana Springall: A Brave Eye was published in 2011, is now a freelance writer and curator. June was project co-ordinator for the major exhibition Cloth and Memory at Salts Mill. She is a regular contributor to magazines and exhibition catalogues, including Embroidery, Selvedge and Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture.\nAfter researching our collections she wrote a marvellous article, ‘From Loom to Boom’ which was published in the May/June 2012 issue of Embroidery, the magazine of the Embroiderers' Guild.\nPlease note that this article is the copyright of Embroidery Magazine and the Embroiders’ Guild.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://pub.cci-icc.gc.ca/resources-ressources/publications/category-categorie-eng.aspx?id=18&thispubid=542", "date": "2020-03-30T03:51:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370496523.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20200330023050-20200330053050-00161.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8428059816360474, "token_count": 144, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-16", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__75210813", "lang": "en", "text": "Other Countries: $30 Paperback 68 pp., 2020\nTB 26 Mould Prevention and Collection Recovery: Guidelines for Heritage CollectionsSherry Guild and Maureen MacDonald (revised by Tom Strang and Sherry Guild)\nMould infestation in heritage collections can damage objects and may pose a health risk to individuals who work with these collections. This Technical Bulletin presents information on mould morphology, prevention of mould growth, actions to take should mould occur and health effects relating to mould exposure. It informs the reader on how to remove mould growth from objects and it describes the appropriate personal protective equipment to wear when working in a mould-contaminated environment or when working with mould-infested objects.\n- Date modified:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://icantbelieveididthis.wordpress.com/", "date": "2017-10-19T14:19:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823309.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20171019141046-20171019161046-00522.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9280165433883667, "token_count": 175, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__282489511", "lang": "en", "text": "I am the author of four books about food: Pie Every Day was sited by Atlantic Monthly, Bon Appetit, and Amazon.com, as among the top ten cookbooks of 1997; A Soothing Broth (1999), about old recipes to feed the sick; and Secrets of Saffron, nominated as “Best Literary Cookbook in 2002” by the International Association of Culinary Professionals. My latest book, based on material written in the 1930s by the WPA, is America Eats!,On the Road with the WPA: The Fish Fries, Box Supper Socials, and Chittlin’ Feasts that Define Real American Food.\nI also teach. It keeps me off the streets….\nThe blog about writing and everything else in life:http://patwillard.wordpress.com/", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://alastairadversaria.wordpress.com/2012/05/27/1557/", "date": "2014-03-09T15:37:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394009669807/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305085429-00066-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9544467926025391, "token_count": 315, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__139263924", "lang": "en", "text": "Originally posted on Alastair's Adversaria:\nThe following is the first in a series of several posts, exploring the prophetic role of the church and the meaning of the Baptism of the Spirit.\nThe first chapter of the book of Acts presents us with both an ending and a beginning. Bringing to a close the period of his earthly ministry, Jesus’ ascent into heaven also marks the beginning of a new act in the drama of the NT, that of the public mission of the church.\nThe exact nature of the relationship between the ministry of Jesus and the ministry of his church is a matter that I will explore in some depth in the posts that will follow this one. In particular, I will be attempting to demonstrate that the events of Pentecost set the church apart as a prophetic community. Bringing the text of the opening chapters of the book of Acts into conversation with particular texts within the OT, I hope to explore the manner in which accounts of prophetic call, anointing and succession can provide a helpful lens through which to view the events of Pentecost. In making this case I will be devoting considerable attention to a closer analysis of Acts 2:1-4. Having established this exegetical groundwork, I hope to proceed to make some observations about the way in which I believe that the event of Pentecost should shape the Church’s self-understanding. While my focus will be on constructing a positive account of the significance of this event, I will also be entering into critical dialogue with alternative understandings.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://saltpublishing-eorg.eventbrite.co.uk/", "date": "2013-05-18T19:32:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368696382764/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516092622-00033-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9257482290267944, "token_count": 286, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__74266101", "lang": "en", "text": "Looks like this event has already ended.\nCheck out upcoming events by this organiser, or organise your very own event.\nPoetry Reading + Q&A with Salt Publishing editor and poets\nTuesday, 24 April 2012 from 19:00 to 21:00 (BST)\nBeaconsfield, United Kingdom\nBeaconsfield Library are pleased to be holding a Poetry Reading Evening to celebrate the first National Poetry Month (a month-long, national celebration of poetry within the book trade). The evening also celebrates the launch of Chris Emery's poetry collection The Departure. Chris Emery, also known as Chris Hamilton-Emery, is the editor of Salt Publishing. Joining him are three of his Salt Publishing poets: Tim Dooley (author of Imagined Rooms), Liane Strauss (author of Leaving Eden) and Claire Trévien (author of Low-Tide Lottery), who will be giving a reading. The readings will be followed by a Q&A session on publishing, poetry and everything in between.\nTickets aren't necessary, but do feel free to book a free ticket so that we have an idea of numbers!\nWhen & Where\nBeaconsfield Poetry Reading Series\nWe are the local Stanza Group for The Poetry Society and organize regular poetry readings and open mics in the area. To keep up to date with our activities go to:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.theprideshop.co.uk/product/little-book-of-sex-facts-paperback/", "date": "2023-12-03T11:13:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100499.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203094028-20231203124028-00517.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.864842414855957, "token_count": 179, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__305360572", "lang": "en", "text": "Little Book Of Sex Facts (Paperback)\nHaving sex is great. Learning about it is pretty hot stuff, too. Discover everything you wished you knew about sex (but were afraid to ask) with this pocket-sized compendium of mind-blowing facts. Whether you want to impress your friends or learn some new moves, these pages will equip you with everything you need to become a certified sexpert.\nPrepare yourself for a wild ride as this no-holds-barred book uncovers everything from filthy to frolicsome to funny.\n- Author: Cayman, Sadie\n- Publisher: Summersdale Publishers\n- Format: Paperback\n- Publication Date: 09/11/2023\n- ISBN: 9781800076327\n- B-Code: B070182\n- Pages: 128\n- Dimensions: 148x105mm", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.oshaeducationschool.com/articles/exploring-the-hierarchy-of-controls-the-leading-theory-for-maximizing-occupational-safety-and-health", "date": "2023-05-29T11:49:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644855.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529105815-20230529135815-00401.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9323850870132446, "token_count": 1314, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__247098587", "lang": "en", "text": "Occupational safety and health (OSH) is an essential component of any workplace, as it ensures the well-being and protection of employees. The Hierarchy of Controls is a widely-accepted approach to managing workplace hazards and reducing the risks associated with various tasks. In this comprehensive guide, we will delve into the Hierarchy of Controls, exploring its principles, the five levels of intervention, and practical examples that demonstrate its effectiveness in promoting occupational safety and health.\nUnderstanding the Hierarchy of Controls\nThe Hierarchy of Controls is a systemic method for addressing workplace hazards by implementing various types of interventions in a specific order. This framework prioritizes the most effective means of control first and helps organizations systematically reduce the risks associated with workplace hazards. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recommends this method for managing risks in the workplace.\nThe Five Levels of the Hierarchy of Controls\nElimination is the most effective level of the Hierarchy of Controls, as it involves completely removing a hazard from the workplace. By doing so, the risk associated with the hazard is eliminated, and employees are no longer exposed to it. Examples of elimination include:\n- Redesigning a process to remove a hazardous material\n- Replacing a toxic substance with a non-toxic alternative\n- Discontinuing the use of a hazardous piece of equipment\nWhen elimination is not feasible, the next best option is substitution, which involves replacing a hazardous material, process, or equipment with a less hazardous alternative. Substitution can significantly reduce the risk associated with a hazard. Examples of substitution include:\n- Replacing a hazardous chemical with a less toxic one\n- Using a lower-noise machine to reduce noise exposure\n- Switching to a less hazardous manufacturing process\nEngineering controls involve physically modifying the work environment or equipment to reduce the risk associated with a hazard. These controls do not rely on worker behavior, making them more reliable than administrative controls or personal protective equipment (PPE). Examples of engineering controls include:\n- Installing ventilation systems to reduce air contaminants\n- Enclosing a noisy machine to reduce noise exposure\n- Designing ergonomic workstations to prevent musculoskeletal disorders\nAdministrative controls involve changes to work policies, procedures, or schedules to minimize workers' exposure to hazards. While these controls can be effective, they rely on worker compliance and are generally considered less reliable than engineering controls. Examples of administrative controls include:\n- Implementing a job rotation system to limit exposure to hazardous materials\n- Providing training on safe work practices\n- Establishing work-rest schedules to prevent heat stress\nPersonal Protective Equipment (PPE)\nPPE is the least effective level of the Hierarchy of Controls, as it relies on the proper selection, use, and maintenance of equipment by workers. PPE should be used when other controls are not feasible or as a supplementary measure alongside other control methods. Examples of PPE include:\n- Safety goggles to protect against eye hazards\n- Earplugs or earmuffs for noise protection\n- Respirators to protect against airborne contaminants\nApplying the Hierarchy of Controls in the Workplace\nTo effectively implement the Hierarchy of Controls, organizations should follow these steps:\n- Identify hazards: Conduct a thorough assessment of the workplace to identify all potential hazards.\n- Evaluate risks: Assess the severity and likelihood of each hazard, prioritizing those that pose the greatest risk.\n- Select control measures: Determine the most appropriate control measures based on the Hierarchy of Controls, starting with elimination and working downward.\n- Implement controls: Put the selected control measures in place and ensure that they are properly maintained and used by employees.\n- Monitor and review: Regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the control measures in reducing hazards, making adjustments as needed to improve workplace safety.\nBenefits of Implementing the Hierarchy of Controls\nAdopting the Hierarchy of Controls in the workplace offers several benefits, including:\n- Enhanced safety and health: By systematically addressing hazards and implementing effective control measures, organizations can significantly reduce the risk of accidents and occupational illnesses.\n- Legal compliance: Employers have a legal obligation to provide a safe work environment. The Hierarchy of Controls helps organizations comply with OSH regulations and guidelines.\n- Improved productivity: A safer work environment leads to fewer accidents, reduced absenteeism, and increased employee morale, which in turn can boost productivity.\n- Cost savings: Reducing workplace hazards can lower workers' compensation costs, medical expenses, and potential legal liabilities.\n- Reputation management: A strong safety record can enhance an organization's reputation among customers, investors, and potential employees.\nReal-world Examples of the Hierarchy of Controls in Action\nManufacturing Industry: A metal fabrication company identified excessive noise exposure as a hazard for its workers. To address the issue, the company first tried eliminating the noise source but found it impractical. They then substituted the noisy machinery with quieter alternatives and added engineering controls such as sound barriers and absorptive materials to further reduce noise levels. Workers were also provided with earplugs as PPE.\nConstruction Industry: A construction company recognized the risk of falls from heights as a significant hazard. They first attempted to eliminate the need for work at heights by modifying the building design. When this was not possible, they implemented engineering controls, such as guardrails and fall arrest systems. In addition, workers were provided with appropriate PPE, such as harnesses, and received training on fall prevention measures.\nHealthcare Industry: Healthcare workers face numerous hazards, including exposure to infectious agents. To minimize the risk, a hospital implemented engineering controls, such as installing negative pressure isolation rooms and implementing proper ventilation systems. Administrative controls, like proper hand hygiene protocols and training on infection control practices, were also put in place. Lastly, healthcare workers were provided with PPE, such as gloves, masks, and gowns, to minimize the risk of exposure.\nThe Hierarchy of Controls is a proven and effective approach to managing workplace hazards and improving occupational safety and health. By systematically addressing hazards and implementing control measures in a prioritized order, organizations can significantly reduce risks, ensure compliance with regulations, and create a safer work environment for their employees. Regular monitoring and review of implemented controls will ensure ongoing effectiveness and help maintain a strong safety culture in the workplace.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://birdandbrass.com/products/gibbs-smith-sisterhood-31-postcards", "date": "2024-04-19T18:21:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817442.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419172411-20240419202411-00001.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9265747666358948, "token_count": 186, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__184870390", "lang": "en", "text": "Brighten her day, whether she’s your sister from birth or sister at heart, with a note that says just the right thing. Based on the beloved book Sisterhood by Sarah Cray, thirty-one postcards feature wise and witty reflections on sisterhood from individuals such as Audrey Hepburn, Charlotte Bronte, Julia Child, Marlene Dietrich, and Judy Blume.\nIllustrated in watercolor, gouache, and ink paired with inspired quotations—some silly, some solemn, all true—each postcard can serve as a standalone token of affection or as the perfect finishing touch to a gift.\nPaperback 32pgs Motivational & Inspirational\nSarah Cray is the creator of Dandelion Paper Co. and \"Let's Make Art,\" an online community and art supply shop, with the goal of getting more people to paint and to live a more creative life.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thecoastalinsider.com/francis-marion-hotel-charleston-getaway/", "date": "2024-04-16T00:19:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817036.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416000407-20240416030407-00020.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.918055534362793, "token_count": 614, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__48220727", "lang": "en", "text": "Charleston, SC – Stepping into Charleston feels like walking hand-in-hand into a love story that’s been elegantly penned over centuries. At the heart of this story, on the vibrant King Street, the Francis Marion Hotel stands tall—a beacon of the city’s rich heritage and an idyllic backdrop for our couple’s getaway.\nAs Conde Nast Traveler’s reigning ‘#1 Best City in the U.S.,’ Charleston wraps you in an embrace of cobblestone streets, antebellum charm, and a pace of life that invites you to savor every moment. And it was here, under the watchful grace of the Francis Marion Hotel, that we found our romantic refuge.\nThe moment we entered our room, it was as if we’d stepped into a piece of living history. Gazing out at Marion Square, the green heart of the city, we could almost hear the echoes of past generations who had walked these grounds, their stories blending with ours.\nOur days were filled with leisurely strolls through the storied French Quarter, where the air is rich with the scent of Southern cooking and the rhythmic jazz notes. The Battery, a mere stroll away, offered us postcard-worthy views of Charleston’s waterfront—a tapestry of historic homes against the calming waters.\nDining on King Street was a symphony of flavors. From the culinary masterpieces of high-end restaurants to the heart-warming soul food of smaller cafes, each meal was a celebration of Charleston’s gastronomic legacy.\nInsider Tip: Sneak away to the clandestine Blind Tiger Pub on Broad Street. It’s a local secret, perfect for an intimate evening of Charleston lore and craft cocktails.\nOur evenings were a cultural feast on Meeting Street, its galleries a vibrant showcase of Charleston’s artistic soul. The charm of the French Quarter’s art scene lay in its authenticity, a reflection of the city’s eclectic character.\nAt the Francis Marion Hotel, history isn’t just observed; it’s felt. From its grand ballrooms, echoing with tales of opulence, to the whispering corners of its vintage bar, the hotel is a guardian of Charleston’s past, inviting us to be part of its ongoing story.\nThis journey to Charleston, with the Francis Marion Hotel as our haven, transcended a typical vacation. It was an immersion into a city where every street, every brick, seems to whisper a tale of love and history. Here, romance is not just a concept but a living, breathing part of the city’s fabric.\nAs we bid farewell, with memories etched in our hearts, we understood why Charleston’s allure endures. In this city of romance, where history dances gracefully with the present, the Francis Marion Hotel stands as a timeless testament to love.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://academicalism.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/footnote-to-frankenstein-as-a-figure-of-globalization-corporate-monstrosity-in-the-grapes-of-wrath/", "date": "2022-10-04T11:07:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337490.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20221004085909-20221004115909-00397.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9258238673210144, "token_count": 1120, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__13502231", "lang": "en", "text": "In my latest article on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I write that “the Depression prompted … Frankensteinian representations of corporate business” that resonate today, amidst an economic crisis that has prompted references to the Depression. To identify scenes and tropes as Frankensteinian, I rely on Chris Baldick’s theory of Frankenstein’s “skeleton story” as the core of the story’s innumerable popular adaptations, of its status as what Baldick calls a paradoxically “modern myth” (tk). The “skeleton story” consists essentially of just two complementary plot points: 1) a man makes a creature; 2) the creature revolts and runs amok. For evidence of Frankensteinian representations of corporate business in the Depression era, I cited one example, a 1930 piece of journalism called “Frankenstein, Inc.” But I have more recently found a highly significant literary example – one I wished I had known about before the article went to press (hence this footnote) – it’s none other than John Steinbeck’s 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath, the major literary statement on the Depression, a novel I’m only now reading for the first time.\nThe novel tells the Depression-era story of the Joad family’s forced exodus from Oklahoma to California, and tells this story in a pointedly dialectical form, alternating between chapters about the Joads’ specific scenes and doings, and chapters about the general contexts and crises that condition the Joads’ particular story. The fifth chapter – a general chapter – describes the manouevres, manipulations, and machinations used by the “owner men” to get the “tenant men” off their lands in the process of mechanizing and automating agriculture – turning it into agribusiness. Steinbeck describes the owner men talking about the eviction of the tenants, and the reclamation of the land, with reference to figures of monstrosity that mystify the relations of corporate production and absolve the owner men of responsibility:\nIf a bank or a finance company owned the land, the owner man said, the Bank – or the Company – needs – wants – insists – must have – as though the Bank or the Company were a monster, with thought and feeling, which had ensnared them. … And the owner men explained the workings and the thinkings of the monster that was stronger than they were. … these creatures don’t breathe air, don’t eat side-meat. They breathe profits; they eat the interest on money. (41)\nWhen the tenant men counter that “the bank is only made of men,” the owner men tell them they’re wrong: “No, you’re wrong there – quite wrong there. The bank is something else than men. … The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It’s the monster. Men made it, but they can’t control it” (43, my emphasis).\nFollowing this scene of the owner men rationalizing (and reifying) corporate business – relieving them of responsibility for its cruel externalities – Steinbeck describes an encounter between a soon-to-be-evicted tenant and the driver of a company tractor that is the specific instrument of the “monstrous” corporate reclamation of the farmlands from the tenants: “The man sitting in the iron seat did not look like a man; gloved, goggled, rubber dust mask over nose and mouth, he was part of the monster, a robot in the seat. … The driver could not control it” (45). The tenant who talks to this driver fails to persuade him of his inhuman betrayal of the families he’s mechanically displaced, but ultimately vows, “There’s some way to stop this. It’s not like lightning or earthquakes. We’ve got a bad thing made by men, and by God that’s something we can change” (50, my emphasis).\nThe chapter thus adapts the “skeleton story” of Frankenstein as one of the premises for Steinbeck’s novel: in both the unsuccessfully reassuring words of the owner men and the horrified reactions of the tenant men, the corporate business model is a destructive, superhuman monster – made by humans, but now beyond humans’ control, running amok and wreaking havoc, economic and environmental. This certainly isn’t the only cultural or intertextual premise of Steinbeck’s stern and sweeping saga, but it is a conspicuous and telling one, eatablished very early in the plot of one of America’s definitive critical accounts of the corporate-dominated market society, the robber barons accountable for it, and the multitudes of workers exploited and abandoned by by it.\nBaldick, Chris. In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.\nMcCutcheon, Mark A. “Frankenstein as a figure of globalization in Canada’s popular culture.” Continuum 25.5 (2011): 731-42.\nSteinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath (1939). New York: Penguin, 1976.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://mythicmojo.com/blog/event/narcissus-and-echo-how-do-you-come-to-know-yourself-see-yourself/", "date": "2018-02-24T17:31:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815918.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224172043-20180224192043-00254.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9422006011009216, "token_count": 256, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__69724326", "lang": "en", "text": "In the myth of Narcissus and Echo, popularized by the Roman poet Ovid in The Metamorphoses, a beautiful youth rejects the advances of many admirers and falls in love with his own image. This myth is the source of the term “narcissism,” commonly understood as pathological self-absorption.\nBut is the story a simple morality tale about the perils of excessive self-love? Who was Echo? What is the relationship between “self” and image?\nJoin me for a thought-provoking and fun exploration of this ancient myth on Saturday, October 1,2016 at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. We’ll gather in the Clubhouse from 7-9pm. The Ace is located at 701 E. Palm Canyon Dr. For more info on the Ace, click here.\nThe storytelling will be followed by mythopoetic folk rock by Joshua Tree singer-songwriter Rags and Bones, the bastard son of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan with a dash of John Prine. (aka Phil Rosenberg)\nThis event is free and all open-minded adults are welcome.\n“Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.” — Wallace Stevens", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.armyfirefighting.com/", "date": "2023-12-01T03:10:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100264.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201021234-20231201051234-00608.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8979068398475647, "token_count": 377, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__51359828", "lang": "en", "text": "Army Fire Fighting: A Historical Perspective captures the previously undocumented aspect of the army fire service history. What started as research to assist a former World War II army firefighter in gathering data for his website http://www.firefighters.mil-fire.net grew into a desire to capture the fragmented history of the Army soldier/firefighter into a book devoted to the army’s military occupational specialty, “21M Firefighter”.\nUntil now, writers have given army firefighting little more than a brief quote in a much larger book or article. This book covers the origins of the MOS beginning with the Civil War and continues through the War on Terrorism. It includes not only the training, vehicles and equipment used throughout the years, but also dates and locations of deployments for firefighting platoons and detachments, unit rosters of World War I and II and in collaboration with Ted Heinbuch, webmaster of www.firetrucks-atwar.com and James Davis, webmaster of www.firefighters.mil-fire.net and author of Fire Fighters in Fatigues, the book also includes a comprehensive list of Line of Duty Deaths of soldier/firefighters.\nThe purpose of this book is to present a concise history of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers military occupational specialty 21M, Firefighter. With this object in mind, it addresses several audiences.\nThe book is available in Hard or Soft covers or ebooks from the publisher, Authorhouse at www.authorhouse.com or from your local bookseller or preferred on-line retailer.\nISBN 978-1-4685-2369-0 (Hardcover)\nISBN 978-1-4685-2370-6 (Softcover)\nISBN 978-1-4685-2368-3 (ebook)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.accelerants.org/single-post/the-four-spiritual-laws", "date": "2021-10-22T14:19:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323585507.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20211022114748-20211022144748-00209.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9716489911079407, "token_count": 368, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__286521075", "lang": "en", "text": "The Four Spiritual Laws\nOne set of guidelines designed to help Christians present the gospel message in a simple and systematic way, are the \"Four Spiritual Laws\". They highlight the main talking points about the Good News coupled with the corresponding scriptures.\nThese talking points are as follows:\n1. God loves you:\n\"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life,\" (John 3:16).\n2. Man is sinful and separated from God.\n\"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,\" (Rom. 3:23); \"For the wages of sin is death,\" (Rom. 6:23); \"But your iniquities have made a separation between you\nand your God,\" (Isaiah 59:2).\n3. Jesus Christ is God's only provision for man's sin.\n\"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me\" (John 14:6); \"But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us,\" (Rom. 5:8).\n4. We must individually receive Jesus as Savior and Lord.\n\"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name,\" (John 1:12); \"if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved,\" (Rom. 10:9); \"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,\" (Eph. 2:8).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://iaani.org/doing-autoethnography/", "date": "2022-08-09T08:13:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00532.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9227173924446106, "token_count": 218, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__21993289", "lang": "en", "text": "In 2011, Dr. Derek Bolen started the Doing Autoethnography conference at Wayne State University. The conference took place five additional times—2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2020. Derek’s time, energy, and vision has contributed greatly to the success of autoethnography in several academic contexts. Here are the programs from every Doing Autoethnography conference: 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020.\nSandra Pensoneau-Conway, Tony Adams, and Derek Bolen edited Doing Autoethnography, a book that features research from the first five Doing Autoethnography conferences (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). Contributors interrogate autoethnography ethically, theoretically, relationally, and methodologically, as well as address many interrelated themes: identity norms and negotiations; experiences tied to race, gender, sexuality, size, citizenship, and dis/ability; exclusion and belonging; oppression, injustice, and assault; barriers to learning/education; and living with/in complicated relationships.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thailandatho.me/discovering-the-wai-thailands-gift-of-respect-and-gratitude/", "date": "2023-09-24T04:12:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506559.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924023050-20230924053050-00373.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9322903752326965, "token_count": 1015, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__249742342", "lang": "en", "text": "A Sudden Encounter\nIn the bustling heart of Bangkok, beneath the imposing shadows of golden temples and alongside its meandering canals, I encountered a simple but profound Thai custom – the Wai.\nIt was my first visit to Thailand. As I navigated through the city’s charming chaos, with its sizzling food vendors, buzzing tuk-tuks, and colorful local markets, I was greeted by a friendly smile from Nai, a local flower seller. Holding her hands together, she inclined her head slightly and gave a gentle bow. This unconventional greeting, completely foreign yet serenely beautiful, stayed with me and piqued my curiosity.\n“I think you’ve just been Wai-ed”, a passing foreigner whispered as he noticed my bemused reaction.\nThe Introduction to Wai\nIntrigued, I decided to delve deeper into this traditional act called the Wai. A symbol of utmost respect, the Wai is more than just a greeting. It is a gesture deeply ingrained in the Thai culture, a silent yet eloquent testimony of the Thai people’s innate humility, reverence, and cordiality.\nIn performing the Wai, the hands are held together in a prayer-like pose at varying levels of the body depending on the person being addressed: the higher the hands, the higher the respect. It is typically accompanied by a slight bow of the head. However, the depth of this humble gesture lies in its meaning rather than the physical act.\nThe Wisdom behind the Wai\nAsking Nai, the friendly flower seller, about the significance of the Wai opened a whole new dimension of understanding for me. According to her, the Wai is not just a form of greeting, it’s a medium to express gratitude, respect and to acknowledge the presence of another.\n“Wai is derived from the Indian namaste,” Nai explained. “For us, ‘Wai’ ushers a divine bond between the greeter and the greeted. It’s similar to offering a prayer.”\nIn essence, a Wai could mean “Hello,” “Goodbye,” “I’m grateful,” or “I’m sorry.” It could even carry an introspective significance of recognizing one’s own Buddha-nature – an acknowledgment of a shared sacredness between individuals.\nWai: A Symbol of Thailand’s Cultural Identity\nA significant part of Thailand’s cultural identity, ‘Wai’ reflects the inherent respect Thai people possess for other individuals, irrespective of their age or stature. It fosters a sense of togetherness and harmony; a mirror to Thailand’s status as the “Land of Smiles.”\nIn a world busy bowing to the frenzy of digitization, where emojis and text messages have replaced human conversation, the ancient practice of ‘Wai’ stands out, splendid in its simplicity, profound in its meaning. Through their courteous ‘Wai,’ the Thai people extend an invitation to experience their rich culture and hospitality – to embrace the ethos that resonates with their lifestyle and traditions.\nGrasping the Gift of Respect\nAs I learned and gradually became proficient in the art of offering a ‘Wai’, I realized it is not for decorative purposes, but rather a canvas that paints a clearer understanding of Thai customs. What made it even more impressive was the consistency across the different sects of the society – whether it was a young student or a seasoned monk, the tradition prevailed with the same ardor.\nThis divinely humble gesture taught me that despite the growing global homogenization, there are cultures holding their sails strong and making the world witness their grandeur. The ‘Wai’ not only ingrained in me a sense of respect for Thai customs but also inspired me to treasure my encounters with individuals from vastly different walks of life.\nAs I bid farewell to Nai, I returned the Wai. In that moment, I realized that this subtle honorific gesture of Thailand had left an indelible mark on my journey, resonating deeply within my traveler’s heart.\nThrough the practice of the Wai, Thailand gifts us a minuscule yet mighty token of human connection and mutual respect. It portrays how, even in our diverse world, we can acknowledge and respect each other’s presence with a simple gesture steeped in tradition and rich in humanity. A country’s culture is indeed, a broadening of the mind, and in this case, the heart too.\nAs we navigate through our lives, let’s carry the spirit of the Wai with us, a gentle reminder that a little respect and gratitude can go a long way in creating a harmonious world.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.justingary.com/think-like-a-game-designer-published/", "date": "2019-08-25T10:18:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027323246.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20190825084751-20190825110751-00109.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9344757199287415, "token_count": 114, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__232150261", "lang": "en", "text": "I’m very excited to announce the launch of my new book: Think Like a Game Designer: The Step-by-Step Guide to Unlocking Your Creative Potential.\nYou can purchase the book directly from my website or from Amazon here. For anyone who has gained value from my writings on this blog, there is plenty of value for you in this book. It includes lessons not only from my own 20+ years in the gaming industry, but also from interviews with dozens of top designers from all over the industry.\nPlease check out the promo video below!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://catalog.apus.edu/2012/undergraduate/academic-programs/descriptions/descriptions.htm?CID=46", "date": "2013-05-21T02:37:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699675907/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516102115-00008-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9427638649940491, "token_count": 2188, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__105260052", "lang": "en", "text": "LITR201 World Literature through the Renaissance (3 hours)\nReadings in translation from a variety of cultures and authors from the Ancient World through the European Renaissance will be the focus of this class. Representative selections will be drawn from Classical Greece and Rome, China, India, and Western Europe. Readings include the major genres of epic poetry, drama, lyric verse, and prose fiction. Major themes include the warrior ideal, the relationship between the state and the citizen, and the pleasures of private life. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR202 World Literature since the Renaissance (3 hours)\nThis course will examine readings in translation selected from a variety of cultures and authors from the 17th century through the 20th century. Representative selections will be drawn from Western and Eastern Europe, India, China, Japan, Africa and the Americas. Readings include the major genres of short story, novel, drama, and lyric verse. Major themes include the changing nature of warfare, the relationship between the citizen and the state, and the pleasures of private life. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR210 English Literature: Beowulf to18th Century (3 hours)\nIn this course, students will study selected texts in English literature from Beowulf through the 18th century, including prose, fiction and nonfiction, drama, and poetry, with a focus on the historical and cultural contexts and issues relevant to the time. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR211 English Literature: 18th Century to Present (3 hours)\nIn this course, students will examine selected texts in English literature from the 18th century to the present, including prose, fiction and nonfiction, drama, and poetry, with a focus on the historical and cultural contexts and issues relevant to the time. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR220 American Literature before The Civil War (3 hours)\nThrough early American literature, we have the unique opportunity to see and experience what the United States was like before the Civil War through the eyes of those who not only lived here, but helped create it. We will explore some of the most influential social pieces ever written and discuss why these are vital to the fabric of our nation. Think of all we can learn about the United States by studying those who write about it. Prerequisite: ENGL101.\nLITR221 American Literature from The Civil War to Present (3 hours)\nThis course examines the rapid social and technological changes that have taken place in American culture during the mid-to-late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and how these upheavals have been expressed in our nation's literature. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR313 Shakespeare (3 hours)\nThis course will cover the major elements of some of Shakespeare's writings, including his histories, comedies, tragedies, and sonnets. The course will focus on the plays both as literature to be read and discussed as well as theatrical scripts for realization in a performance setting. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR316 British Poetry (3 hours)\nThis course offers a chronological survey of British poetry from the Anglo-Saxon era through the twentieth century. The poetry will be examined within the social and cultural contexts in which it was produced. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR320 American Fiction (3 hours)\nThis course provides an examination of American society and culture through literature, using fiction that covers different eras, personalities, and issues. Stress is placed on characterization and other literary techniques, as well as on the nature of American society itself and fiction's place in that society. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR322 American Poetry I (3 hours)\nThis course provides a survey of the major American poets, poetic style, and poetry from colonial to contemporary times, examining in the process what a poem is and how meaning is created through the use of literary devices. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR323 The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway (3 hours)\nThis course examines the genius and influence of Ernest Hemingway and his works on world literature. Students will study works selected for the sort of quality and precision that would define Hemingway’s art of writing and earn the respect and recognition of the Nobel Committee for his “powerful, style-making mastery of the art of modern narration.”\nLITR324 African-American Literature (3 hours)\nThis course will cover African-American literature from the earliest times to the present; development of prose and poetry, the novel; and the evolution of African-American political and social discourse through literature. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR328 The Legends of King Arthur (3 hours)\nThis course provides a survey of traditional and modern King Arthur legends focusing its attention on Arthur himself as well as other prolific characters. Emphasis will be placed on analysis of Arthur and his primary companions through discussion board interaction and critical response essays that culminate in an independent research project investigated by each student that will maintain the overall theme and direction of this course.\nLITR330 Literary Theory (3 hours)\nThis course is designed to expose students to literary theory. Students will read essays that cover key components of literary analysis such as Marxism, feminist theory, structuralism, and post-modernism, among others. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR337 Women Writers (3 hours)\nWomen writers have influenced thinking around the world, but this was not always recognized until recently. This course is an inclusive survey of women writers from around the globe, in both the Eastern and Western tradition, in all literary genres, through specific literary contributions from historical and modern times. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR340 Modern Epic Fantasy (3 hours)\nThis course examines modern epic fantasy literature through the novel Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. The Mists of Avalon is an epic fantasy tale of love, loyalty, betrayal, kingship, and magic. Taking a different view from the legend, it is told from the perspective of the women of Avalon. Since the Arthurian Legends were some of the earliest fantasy stories, a closer examination of the elements within these legends will give students a better, deeper understanding of what all is involved in creating the modern fantasy epic. Prerequisite: ENGL101.\nLITR341 Folklore (3 hours)\nThis course provides a survey of folk literature and storytelling. Special emphasis is placed on identifying archetypes, themes, and motifs, which are the common threads of orally transmitted literature across place and time. Assigned readings represent a sampling of folklore from around the world, from ancient to modern eras. Subjects include: magic, nature, heroism, adventure, and the nature of life and death. Students will participate in both a personal folk narrative and a research project. Prerequisite: ENGL101\nLITR355 Latin American Literature (3 hours)\nA study of major Latin American writers and literary movements beginning with the Twentieth-Century. This course challenges students to think critically about issues of race, class, gender, culture and identity in order to understand contemporary Latin America through representative literary texts. Prerequisite: ENGL101.\nLITR360 Russian Literature (3 hours)\nThis course provides an introduction to Russian literature, beginning with the earliest works and continuing through the mid-1800s. It focuses on short stories and explores how Russian literature affects a variety of art forms in Russia, such as dance, music, and opera. Russian Literature examines such aspects of Russian literary technique as irony, metaphor, and dualism. Students will also analyze differences between translations and how such differences may alter the interpretation of a work. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR365 Middle Eastern Literature (3 hours)\nThis course will focus on Middle Eastern culture through an analysis of major Middle Eastern literary works including literature from ancient through modern times. The works studied represent a broad survey of the literature available from the Middle East, including works from ancient Mesopotamia, works available from classical Arabic, and works that span the ages passed down by oral tradition and only recently recorded. The novel as interpreted by eastern rather than western sensibilities is also examined. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR370 African Literature (3 hours)\nThis course presents African literature from various countries across the continent with a close examination of the ways in which prose, poetry, and drama reveal the depths and beauty of the African culture and its people. Prerequisite: ENGL101.\nLITR385 Asian - American Literature (3 hours)\nThis course is an introduction to Contemporary Asian-American Literature and will present the major themes and issues in a new and growing interdisciplinary field of scholarly research and literary texts. The primary objective of the course is to engage and introduce students to selected texts from the growing canon of works in Asian American Studies and Literature. (Prerequisite: ENGL101).\nLITR401 Literature of American Cultural Diversity (3 hours)\nThis course focuses on the dynamic cultural diversity of 20th and 21st century American Literature. The course readings will include poetry, short stories, and novels from a wide range of authors from different sociological, ethnological, or regional backgrounds and will concentrate on how these pieces help to create the current American literary identity. (Prerequisite: ENGL101)\nLITR405 Medieval European Literature (3 hours)\nThis course will explore the literature of Medieval Europe. Students will study a wide range of texts and genres hailing from various medieval cultures – from epic poetry to chivalric romance, from crusading songs to fabliaux and satire – in order to gain an appreciation for the diversity and richness that medieval European literature has to offer. Major authors covered in this course include Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Chaucer, Dante, Boccaccio and Sir Thomas Malory. Secondary readings (from primary source material and from scholarly articles and books) will be supplied in order to help students gain a clearer sense of the contexts and cultures from which these texts emerged. Prerequisite ENGL 101.\nLITR406 The Literary Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (3 hours)\nThis course will cover a broad selection of Chaucer's works, including The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and various Dream Visions and other shorter poems. The focus will be on both the works themselves, and the historical and literary contexts in which Chaucer was working in latter 14th-century England. (Prerequisite ENGL101.)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://blog.alexandralevit.com/wcw/2016/12/project-management-in-the-21st-century.html", "date": "2017-04-26T17:46:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121528.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00398-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9332811832427979, "token_count": 572, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__94091119", "lang": "en", "text": "Researchers at Portsmouth Business School in the United Kingdom conducted a review of recent academic studies on project management to answer the question: “what components exist across the board in the worldwide practice of 21st century Project Management and what are some universal challenges that exist?”\nIn a 2016 issue of the Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development, Abdulrahman Alotaibi and Oluwasoye Patrick Mafimisebi at Portsmouth Business School published an interesting paper, Project Management Practice: Redefining Theoretical Challenges in the 21st Century. The pair pored over recent literature to assess if the practice of project management is truly valuable to the modern organization, and if so, to identify the activities that provide the discipline’s greatest chance of success.\nConceptualizing 21st century projects and project management\nIn determining its benefits, the researchers felt it was important to point out that there are conflicting definitions of projects and project management. According to Maylor (1999), a project can be defined as a non-repetitive activity that is goal-oriented, has a particular set of constraints around time and resources, has a measurable output, and changes something within the organization. On the other hand, the Project Management Institute (PMI) defines a project as a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result (Cobb, 2012).\nPer Verzuh in 2008, project management is a discipline – a set of methods, theories and techniques that have evolved to manage the complexities of work that is unique and temporary. Whereas, Maylor (1999) defined project management as the process of planning, organizing, directing and controlling activities in addition to monitoring what is usually the most expensive resource on the project – the people.\nAlotaibi and Mafimisebi concluded that project management is no longer about managing the sequence of steps required to complete the project on time (Besner & Hobbs, 2006; Maylor, 1999), but also about systematically incorporating the voice of the stakeholders, creating a disciplined way of prioritizing effort and resolving trade-offs, and working concurrently on all aspects of the project in multi-functional teams. Project management has evolved to plan, coordinate and control the complex and diverse activities of modern industrial, commercial and management change and IT projects (Lock, 2007).\nMore recently Mir & Pinnington (2014) found that organizations are increasingly using project management to increase productivity. This study also showed that employing a project management approach helped eliminate wasted time and efforts that would have been directed at irrelevant tasks. Perhaps due to these advantages, Fortune et al. (2011) reported that the use of project management methodologies and tools increased significantly in the first decade of the 21st century.\nFor the rest of the post, head over to the QuickBase Fast Track blog.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://theatermagazine.org/submissions", "date": "2024-04-20T01:38:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817463.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20240419234422-20240420024422-00891.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8600176572799683, "token_count": 297, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__13878388", "lang": "en", "text": "Theater values intellectually rigorous writing accessible to all readers. Articles are carefully written and edited to emphasize rich and lively prose and to minimize theoretical jargon. The magazine focuses on contemporary theater in performance, with a special interest in what’s new, experimental, and even radical. We recommend reading our publication before contacting us with an idea or manuscript.\nAppropriate proposals or submissions should be sent by email to firstname.lastname@example.org.\nWe welcome previously unpublished or untranslated submissions of:\nTimely and original critical essays and biographical profiles (2500-10000 words)\nIn-depth interviews with writers, directors, and other artists (2500-10000 words)\nReports from around the world (2500-10000 words)\nEssay-style reviews of recent or current productions (2500-4000 words)\nEssay-style reviews of recently published books on contemporary theater or performance (2500-4000 words)\nTheater follows The Chicago Manual of Style’s humanities style of documentation and composition (17th edition).\nAll citations and notes should be formatted as endnotes, following the guidelines for endnotes in The Chicago Manual of Style.\nAll spellings of the word “theater” should take the “er” ending (unless part of a proper noun such as “The Living Theatre”).\nBook and production reviews should list relevant publication or production information at the top.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://fire-force-online.com/", "date": "2023-02-02T20:10:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500041.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20230202200542-20230202230542-00176.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9483435153961182, "token_count": 415, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__232174847", "lang": "en", "text": "FIRE FORCE MANGA ONLINE\nFire Force manga (Japanese: 炎炎ノ消防隊 Hepburn: enen no shouboutai,”fire brigade of flames”) is a Japanese shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Ōkubo. It is published by Kodansha and has been serialized in the Weekly Shōnen Magazine since September 23, 2015, with the chapters collected into twenty tankōbon volumes as of October 2019.\nTerror has paralyzed the clockwork metropolis of Tokyo! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting department: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment’s notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out.\nOne of the Fire Force teams is about to get a unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous “devil’s footprints” and destroying his shoes in the process. Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?\nYear 198 of the Solar Era in Tokyo, Special Fire Force’s are fighting against a phenomenon called Spontaneous Human Combustion where humans beings are turned into living infernos called “Infernals.” While the Infernals are First Generation cases of spontaneous human combustion, later generations possess the ability to manipulate flames while retaining human form.\nShinra Kusakabe, a youth who gained the nickname Devil’s Footprints for his ability to ignite his feet at will, joins the Special Fire Force Company 8 which composes of other flames users as they work to extinguish any Infernals they encounter.\nAs a faction that is creating Infernals appears, Shinra begins to uncover the truth behind a mysterious fire that caused the death of his family twelve years ago.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://computersupportcentre.com/2024/02/09/ethical-considerations-in-ai-balancing-innovation-with-responsibility/", "date": "2024-02-21T01:48:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473360.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221002544-20240221032544-00437.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9133212566375732, "token_count": 734, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__43570133", "lang": "en", "text": "In the rapidly advancing landscape of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the ethical implications of AI development and deployment have become a subject of critical importance. As AI technologies continue to evolve and permeate various facets of society, it is imperative to carefully consider the ethical dimensions of their use. This article delves into the complex and multifaceted ethical considerations surrounding AI, examining the need to balance innovation with responsibility to ensure that AI benefits society while mitigating potential harms.\nUnderstanding Ethical Considerations: Ethical considerations in AI encompass a broad spectrum of issues, ranging from algorithmic bias and fairness to privacy, transparency, accountability, and the socio-economic impacts of AI-driven automation. At the heart of these considerations lies the imperative to uphold fundamental ethical principles such as fairness, justice, autonomy, and respect for human dignity. As AI systems become increasingly autonomous and intelligent, it is essential to ensure that they align with societal values and norms and do not perpetuate or exacerbate existing inequalities or injustices.\nAddressing Algorithmic Bias and Fairness: One of the most pressing ethical concerns in AI revolves around algorithmic bias, which refers to the tendency of AI systems to produce discriminatory outcomes, often as a result of biased training data or flawed algorithms. Addressing algorithmic bias requires proactive measures to identify and mitigate biases throughout the AI development lifecycle, including data collection, algorithm design, and model evaluation. This may involve implementing fairness-aware algorithms, diversifying training datasets, and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration between data scientists, ethicists, and domain experts.\nEnsuring Transparency and Accountability: Transparency and accountability are essential pillars of ethical AI governance, enabling stakeholders to understand how AI systems make decisions and hold accountable those responsible for their development and deployment. Achieving transparency in AI involves providing clear explanations of AI decision-making processes, including the underlying algorithms, data sources, and potential biases. Furthermore, establishing mechanisms for accountability requires defining clear lines of responsibility and recourse in cases of AI-related harms or errors, ensuring that individuals and organizations are held accountable for the impacts of their AI systems.\nProtecting Privacy and Data Security: Privacy concerns loom large in the age of AI, as the collection and analysis of vast amounts of personal data raise significant risks to individuals’ privacy and autonomy. Ethical AI practices mandate implementing robust data protection measures, including data anonymization, encryption, and informed consent mechanisms. Moreover, organizations must adopt privacy-preserving AI techniques that minimize the exposure of sensitive information while still enabling valuable AI insights. By prioritizing privacy and data security, stakeholders can build trust and foster responsible AI innovation.\nMitigating Socio-Economic Impacts: The widespread adoption of AI-driven automation has profound socio-economic implications, including job displacement, economic inequality, and shifts in power dynamics. Ethical considerations in AI necessitate proactive efforts to mitigate these impacts and ensure that the benefits of AI are equitably distributed across society. This may involve investing in workforce reskilling and upskilling programs, implementing policies to promote inclusive economic growth, and fostering dialogue between industry, government, and civil society to address the broader societal implications of AI adoption.\nConclusion: In conclusion, navigating the ethical complexities of AI requires a concerted effort to balance innovation with responsibility. By prioritizing ethical considerations throughout the AI lifecycle—from design and development to deployment and governance—we can harness the transformative potential of AI while safeguarding against its potential harms. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, stakeholder engagement, and a commitment to upholding ethical principles, we can ensure that AI advances human well-being, promotes social justice, and fosters a more equitable and sustainable future for all.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu/news/event/744", "date": "2024-03-02T22:12:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476137.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20240302215752-20240303005752-00095.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9538045525550842, "token_count": 2562, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__99254095", "lang": "en", "text": "Event Date Details:\nOCT 18 - 19, 2019 / 7 PM\nOCT 19 - 20, 2019 / 1 PM\nPLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT CURTAIN TIMES\nNO LATE SEATING\n- Hatlen Theater\na NAKED SHAKES production\nby William Shakespeare directed and adapted by Irwin Appel\nPart comedy, part tragedy, The Winter’s Tale is an epic and mystical story of love, jealousy, loss and redemption. It surprises with twists and turns, ending finally with a miracle of joy and forgiveness.\nIrwin Appel (Director) is Professor of Theater and Director of the BFA Actor Training Program at UCSB. He is also a professional director, Equity actor and composer/sound designer, and has performed with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Shakespeare Festival/LA, the New York, Oregon, Utah, and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals, The Acting Company, Theatre For a New Audience, Hartford Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and other prominent regional theaters. Acting roles include: Prospero in The Tempest, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor, Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Kent in King Lear, Macbeth in Kabuki Macbeth, , Matt in Talley's Folly and the Emperor in a world premiere of Emperor's New Clothes.\nSince arriving in Santa Barbara, he played the title role in Richard III, Stage Manager in Our Town, DeVere inThe Beard of Avon, Frank in Molly Sweeney, Duke Senior and Duke Frederick in As You Like It, and won Santa Barbara Independent Awards for his portrayals of Oscar Wilde in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde and the title role in Theater Artists Group's Timon of Athens. Most recently, at the Colorado New Play Summit at the Denver Center of the Performing Arts, he played Aunt Chuck inAppoggiatura by James Still and directed by Department Chair Risa Brainin, a role he originally played in the LAUNCH PAD production at UCSB.\nHe is also artistic director of Naked Shakes, producing award-winning Shakespearean productions at UCSB and traveling to downtown Santa Barbara and Los Angeles since 2006. Directing credits at many theaters include: Equivocation, Macbeth, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Merchant of Venice, Anowa, Hamlet (SB Indy Award), Measure for Measure, Romeo and Juliet, Rabbit Hole, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale (SB Indy Award), Seagull, The Tempest, Angels in America, Three Sisters, Comedy of Errors, Pentecost, A View from the Bridge (SB Indy Award), The Cherry Orchard, Speed-the-Plow, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Crucible, The Countess, Madwoman of Chaillot, Sylvia, Much Ado About Nothing and the world premiere of Brown Baby (SB Indy Award for his sound design). He also directed twice for the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.\nHe has also served as composer/sound designer for the Oregon and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals, PCPA, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Ensemble Theatre, Pan Asian Repertory, Indiana Repertory, and other regional and local theaters. Most recently, he served as composer/sound designer for a co-production of Other Desert Cities at Arizona Theatre Company and Indiana Repertory Theatre. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Juilliard School.\nRead about Professor Appel's groundbreaking Shakespeare course with Associate Professor of English James Kearney here.\nThere are two worlds in The Winter’s Tale: Sicilia and Bohemia. Sicilia is stately, starchy, maybe a bit too formal. Hot passions brew underneath this ordered exterior, however, as we will soon witness. Bohemia is, well, like it sounds: kinda Bohemian. But more on that later. We begin in Sicilia at the palace of King Leontes, his wife Queen Hermione who is now pregnant, and their son, the young Prince Mamillius. For the past nine months, Leontes has been visited by his best friend since childhood, King Polixenes of Bohemia. Sometimes Leontes and Polixenes are actually referred to by their place names: Leontes is Sicilia and Polixenes is Bohemia. Polixenes regretfully reveals that he must leave to return to Bohemia and that he misses his own son, Prince Florizel. Leontes tries to convince him to stay but Polixenes says he absolutely must leave for home. Leontes asks Queen Hermione to intervene, and even after Polixenes’ adamant refusals, she convinces him to stay. Leontes is pleased at first but then begins to believe that Polixenes and Hermione are carrying on a secret affair. Leontes’ jealousy grows and he orders his trusty right hand man Camillo to murder Polixenes by poisoning him. Camillo cannot believe that Hermione is unfaithful, and he realizes he must not carry out Leontes’ order to poison Polixenes. Camillo resolves to leave Sicilia rather than obey Leontes, and he chooses to tell Polixenes of Leontes’ plot against him. Camillo and Polixenes decide to leave the country together immediately.\nLeontes is enraged. He perceives Camillo’s decision to “forsake the court” and go with Polixenes to Bohemia as the ultimate betrayal and proof of Hermione’s guilt. He seizes his son, the prince Mamillius, whom he no longer believes is his real son, and he orders Hermione to prison. A noblewoman, Paulina, attempts to visit Hermione in jail, but is denied entry by the jailer. The jailer does allow the admittance of one of Hermione’s gentlewomen, Emilia, and Emilia tells Paulina that Hermione has given birth to a baby girl! Paulina believes that the best way to cure Leontes of his jealous fits is to present to him his new baby daughter. Hopeful, she brings the baby to him, but then Leontes becomes more enraged and calls the baby a “bastard,” believing Polixenes to be the real father. He first orders the baby killed, but then orders one of his advisors, Antigonus, who also happens to be Paulina’s husband, to take the baby and leave it exposed on some distant shore. Antigonus reluctantly obeys.\nLeontes puts Hermione on trial for her “crimes” of adultery and conspiracy. Also, in order to satisfy the people of his court, he sends to Delphos, home of the mighty Oracle, for confirmation of Hermione’s guilt. In the very public trial, Hermione pleads for her “honor” not her life, and demands the Oracle be heard. The message from the Oracle is read, and Hermione is proclaimed to be innocent. However, Leontes refuses to believe the Oracle and orders the trial and sentencing to continue. A servant enters and tells Leontes and everyone that the young prince Mamillius has died, overwhelmed by the grief of his mother. Hermione faints and Leontes realizes how wrong he has been. Paulina comes in and announces that Queen Hermione is dead. Leontes is overwhelmed with grief and guilt. Paulina lambastes him for what he has done, and he vows once a day to visit Hermione’s grave and do his penance for the rest of his life. Meanwhile, Antigonus has been visited in his sleep by a vision of the dead Hermione who tells him to leave the baby on the shores of Bohemia. Hermione names the baby “Perdita,” or “the lost one,” and Antigonus leaves the baby alone on the beach in the middle of a terrible storm. At this point, we have Shakespeare’s most famous stage direction in all of his plays: “exit, pursued by a bear.” After Antigonus is chased out, the stage is empty for a moment, while baby Perdita lies on the ground, exposed and alone. An old shepherd enters looking for his lost sheep and he discovers the baby on the shore. His son, known only in the play as the “Clown,” comes in and tells his father that Antigonus was killed by the bear and that the ship he came on, along with its’ mariner and crew, were lost in the storm. The old shepherd shows his son the baby and the basket of gold that is left with her. They vow to keep it a secret.\nNow our little play gets weird and also a hckluva lot of fun. Welcome to Bohemia! A narrator called “Time” comes in to tell us that sixteen years have now passed by. Our friend the Shepherd, after striking it rich from the contents of baby Perdita’s basket, is about to host the big sheep shearing feast. Perdita, now sixteen years old, accompanied by her friends Mopsa and Dorcas, sing and get ready for the feast. A young man named Florizel stands in the shadows, taking in every glorious note sung by this goddess who leads the trio. Florizel is King Polixenes’ son, and he has fallen in love with Perdita, this “shepherd’s daughter.” Perdita is worried that if Florizel’s father Polixenes finds out then all will be lost, since she feels there is no way she should ever be worthy of the royal prince. Florizel insists that their love will survive, and he affirms his undying commitment to Perdita. The feast begins and Polixenes and Camillo come in disguise – they have heard that Florizel is spening a lot of time with this “shepherd girl” and her newly rich father. After a rousing dance, Polixenes and Camillo reveal themselves to Perdita, Florizel and the shepherd and threaten to not only kill them, but also bar Florizel from succession to the throne if he continues to see Perdita. Florizel resolves to run away with Perdita, and Camillo sees this as an opportunity to return to Sicilia to reconcile with King Leontes, whom he dearly misses.\nA new character is introduced: he is a rogue and con man named Autolycus, and meeting him on the street, Camillo pays him to change clothes with Florizel so that Florizel and Perdita can slip out of Bohemia undiscovered. Camillo also devises a plan for Florizel to present himself before King Leontes and bring his young “princess” Perdita, telling Leontes that he has his father’s blessing, which is of course untrue. Camillo also decides to tell Polixenes of his son’s flight so that Polixenes will follow to Sicilia and hopefully all can be reconciled. Florizel and Perdita arrive in Sicilia and present themselves to Leontes, but a messenger comes in and says Polixenes is on the way and very unhappy. All seems lost, but then all come together in a joyous meeting. In the meantime, Paulina convinces Leontes to vow to never remarry unless it be to someone “As like Hermione as is her picture.” Paulina brings everyone to the gallery of her house to show them a statue of Hermione that has been sculpted for years and kept in secret. All throng to the statue and for the miracle that follows.\nOne of the most striking things about the plays of William Shakespeare is the fact they often feel uncannily relevant. It’s always easy to liken a prominent politician or celebrity to Hamlet or Lear, or to realize a high-profile dispute is revisiting the clash between justice and mercy he dramatized so often.\n- Tom Jacobs, The Current\nphoto by David Bazemore\nphoto by David Bazemore\nphoto by David Bazemore", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://essential-shotokan.com/bookdetails/bunkai.htm", "date": "2013-06-20T10:32:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711406217/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133646-00006-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8788684010505676, "token_count": 320, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__210765909", "lang": "en", "text": "Secrets of Karate Kata - The Tekki Series\nby Elmar T. Schmeisser, Ph.D.\n\"A true breakthrough in martial arts publishing!\"\nSecrets of Karate Kata\nThe Tekki Series . . .\nUtilizing over 330 photographs, Bunkai, for the first time in publishing history, allows a continuous visualization of an opponent during an enitre kata, without missing or overlapping motions in the kata sequence. This volume covers all three traditional karate Tekki kata: Tekki Shodan, Tekki Nidan, and Tekki Sandan.\nAbout the Author\nElmar T. Schmeisser, a 6th degree black belt and Renshi of the International Society of Okinawan/Japanese Karate-do, is a renowned pioneer in the analysis and application of karate kata. His first book, Advanced Karate-do: Concepts, Techniques, and Training Methods, is a bestseller in the martial arts community. In this book, he brings the Tekki kata of the Shotokan style to life as they have never been seen before!\nElmar T. Schmeisser is also the author of Channan: Heart of the Heians, which explores the possibility of the modern day Heians as derived from the chinese kata Channan-Dai and Channa-Sho. In a simple straight forward way, the author clearly illustrates apparent or perceived correlations between the Channan kata and the modern day Heians.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://aasheeshkolli.wordpress.com/research/", "date": "2023-06-03T07:20:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649177.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603064842-20230603094842-00622.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8394415974617004, "token_count": 336, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__213388065", "lang": "en", "text": "Memory Persistency: Future computing systems are expected to place persistent memories alongside DRAM on the memory bus. This work aims at developing new processor architectures and programming interfaces to fully exploit the benefits of persistent memories. This work comprises of the following projects:\n– Precise notations for memory persistency models (NVMW ’15, pdf)\n– High-performance transaction systems to safely update persistent memory (ASPLOS ’16, pdf)\n– Reduce logging overheads in systems with persistent memory (ASPLOS’16, pdf)\n– Novel architectures to support memory persistency models (MICRO ’16, pdf)\nHardware Acceleration: Rapidly processing text data is critical for many technical and business applications. This work develops a custom hardware accelerator, HARE, that eliminates most of the overheads observed in traditional text processing software, processing text at memory bandwidth speeds. This work also demonstrates a scaled down FPGA proof-of-concept (MICRO’16, pdf).\nInstruction Prefetching: L1 instruction cache misses are a critical performance bottleneck for server applications. Prefetching helps mitigate the instruction fetch delays. This work simplifies and reduces the hardware and energy overheads of accurate instruction prefetching by exploiting the relationship among instruction misses, program contexts and the return-address-stack (MICRO ’13, pdf).\nSimulator development and workload characterization: This work analyzes the memory system requirements for various server workloads using the gem5 architectural simulator. This work aided the development of an event-based DRAM memory controller in gem5 (ISPASS ’14, pdf).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://shinesquad.me/2012/07/19/ebook-conn-igguldens-conqueror/", "date": "2016-08-24T21:22:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471982292659.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823195812-00145-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9368118047714233, "token_count": 416, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-36", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-36__0__109218991", "lang": "en", "text": "Conqueror is the fifth and final instalment of Iggulden’s epic series featuring the Khan dynasty. It follows the extraordinary story of the rise to power of Kublai Khan, Genghis’s grandson, who used unparalleled and original military tactics to unite a nation and, at the height of his reign, ruled over a fifth of the world.\nFittingly, the ebook matches its exciting subject matter as it also breaks new ground, this time by pushing the boundaries of the ePub format. This is due to the inclusion of an interactive map, which covers the whole of Kublai Khan’s epic journey and offers the reader an enhanced experience of a multi-faceted and fast-moving plot.\nIn addition to the scope of the map, touch sensitive gesture technology allows the reader to load the map from any point in the book and see the location (and journey up to that point) of Kublai’s army. The reader can seamlessly return to their previous place in the narrative at any stage. Accessing the map is incredibly straightforward. The reader can swipe three fingers up the page at any point in the text to access it, and when they have finished viewing they can simply click ‘Done’ to return to the last point from which they were reading.\nOther features of the ebook include commentary on each stage of Kublai’s army’s epic journey, with an intuitive slider feature for reference and ease from start to finish. In addition, the e-reading experience is further accentuated by a variety of audio clips providing a pronunciation guide read by award-winning actor Richard E. Grant, as well as a witty and engaging discussion about Kublai by Iggulden.\nTo view a web version of the interactive map, please click here (best viewed in Safari or on Google Chrome)\nConqueror by Conn Iggulden\nEnhanced ebook edition | Exclusive to the Apple iBookstore\nPublication date: 19 July 2012", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://wti.yale.edu/profile/john-williams", "date": "2024-04-23T08:49:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296818468.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20240423064231-20240423094231-00776.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9329376816749573, "token_count": 174, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__103922820", "lang": "en", "text": "Philosophies of mind, phenomenology, mindfulness and collective memory\nI am interested in literature and media as expressions of the \"extended mind.\" My current book manuscript project engages with philosophies of brain and mind science as related to experiences of time, particularly with the notion of a \"living now.\" I am particularly fascinated by the rise of the contemporary mindfulness industry, which claims to help adherents to \"be here now\" in ways that implicitly address long-standing philosophical questions about time and memory. I also co-teach a class with Prof. Samuel McDougle called \"The Science and Culture of Memory,\" in which we explore both longstanding philosophical questions about mind and brain as well as new and classic research in neuroscience.\nChicago Journals (2016)\nLaw of Form (2019)\nOxford Academic (2021)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://orchids.fierceflora.com/thelymitra-x-irregularis-crested-sun-orchid/", "date": "2024-02-29T23:47:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474893.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229234355-20240301024355-00419.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8703101277351379, "token_count": 129, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__122602735", "lang": "en", "text": "Thelymitra x irregularis is a hybrid between T. ixioides and T. rubra/carnea. The T. ixioides parentage confers the tufts to the column and spotting on the tepals. The T. rubra/carnea gives the plant its pink colouration and makes the column tufts fleshier and yellow. I observed the hybrid in Melbourne’s south east where all three species grow in proximity.\nComparison of the columns between T. ixioides (left), T. x irregularis (centre), and T. rubra (right)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://bcs.breweredu.org/2018/01/12/brewer-community-school-wins-best-in-state-in-scholastic-reading-challenge/", "date": "2018-09-18T19:43:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267155676.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20180918185612-20180918205612-00122.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9791808724403381, "token_count": 165, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__30840513", "lang": "en", "text": "Last summer, students from BCS, along with children from all 50 states and 14 countries participated in the Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge.\nStudents world-wide read over 138 million minutes, and once again, BCS won the title of “Best in State” school. We had a total of 390,481 minutes read, and along with the title of “Best in State,” our school earned a commemorative plaque and will be featured in the 2018 Scholastic Book of World Records.\nIn November, classrooms had reading celebrations, where students got bracelets and participants received individual certificates. Our 15 top readers (all reading 3,000 minutes or more) were featured on our daily announcements, and were invited to the January School Committee Meeting as well.\nCongratulations to all our readers!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://linguisticsphd.wordpress.com/", "date": "2018-07-18T23:29:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590362.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718232717-20180719012717-00227.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8143508434295654, "token_count": 712, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__14161778", "lang": "en", "text": "“Sorry :(” – brief emails and their politeness features\nAnyone who has engaged in significant and frequent email communication has probably at some point sent a very brief email. Something along the lines of “Thank you so much” or indeed “Sorry :(”, but do these short emails have any unique characteristics? This talk argues that they do, and that they compensate for brevity with increased density in text of some CMC cues (Liebman & Gergle, 2016; Vandergriff, 2013) and the ‘thank*’ politeness marker (Pilegaard, 1997). These very short emails are additionally highly context dependent for their interpretation relying on knowledge of the historical relationship between the sender and recipient (Kádár & Haugh, 2013, p. 76).\nThis talk will discuss the composition of such short emails in comparison to a larger dataset of emails with diverse lengths, of which these brief emails form a part. This larger dataset is a collection of 1072 emails between a sole trader and her international academic clients who require proofreading or transcription services. The talk will focus on how writers can use such sparse text to effectively convey their message, and why such short messages as “Thank you so much.” are deemed worth the effort of sending, and how these may be necessary in terms of relationship management/relational tie maintenance (Goffman, 1971; Milroy & Milroy, 1992; Spencer-Oatey & Xing, 2003).\nKeywords: CMC, email, relationship management, politeness\nGoffman, E. (1971). Relations in Public; Microstudies of the Public Order. New York: Harper Colophon Books.\nKádár, D. Z., & Haugh, M. (2013). Understanding Politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.\nLiebman, N., & Gergle, D. (2016). It’s (Not) Simply a Matter of Time: The Relationship Between CMC Cues and Interpersonal Affinity. In Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) ’16 (pp. 570–581). San Francisco, CA: ACM.\nMilroy, L., & Milroy, J. (1992). Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model. Language in Society, 21(1), 1–26. http://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404500015013\nPilegaard, M. (1997). Politeness in written business discourse: A textlinguistic perspective on requests. Journal of Pragmatics, 28(2), 223–244. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-2166(96)00084-7\nSpencer-Oatey, H., & Xing, J. (2003). Managing rapport in intercultural business interactions: a comparison of two Chinese-British welcome meetings. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 24, 33–46. http://doi.org/10.1080/07256860305788\nVandergriff, I. (2013). Emotive communication online: A contextual analysis of computer-mediated communication (CMC) cues. Journal of Pragmatics, 51, 1–12. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2013.02.008", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.timescall.com/2012/12/09/longmont-based-tolkien-fan-group-celebrates-hobbit-holiday-at-library/", "date": "2019-06-25T10:48:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-26/segments/1560627999817.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20190625092324-20190625114324-00280.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9347211718559265, "token_count": 330, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-26__0__31455007", "lang": "en", "text": "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.”\nThe 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.”\nWith 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.\n“We really want to encourage young people to read the book as well as attend the movie,” Cowling said Friday.\nGrey Havens, founded in October 2010, has about 30 people of all generations who regularly attend its twice-weekly meetings, Cowling said.\nEvents such as Sunday’s Hobbit Holiday aren’t just about Tolkien’s works or literature with mythical themes.\n“We want to show people that reading is really a family affair,” Cowling said.\nJohn Fryar can be reached at 303-684-5211 or email@example.com.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://news.wef.org/wef-energy-roadmap-serves-as-user-guide-for-utilities-of-all-sizes/", "date": "2017-04-28T04:31:44Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.9009336233139038, "token_count": 264, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__286845873", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nThe 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.\n“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.\nWEF began working to develop this book and other related resources in 2012.\nFor more information, read Energy Roadmap Version 1.0: Driving Water and Wastewater Utilities to More Sustainable Energy Management and the WEF Highlights articles", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.jimmyharney.com/", "date": "2023-10-03T00:30:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511023.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20231002232712-20231003022712-00628.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9452815055847168, "token_count": 204, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__297910266", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nHe can be contacted directly at firstname.lastname@example.org.\nFor literary rights, he is represented by Rachel Cone-Gorham. She can be contacted at email@example.com.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.onlinebeta.website/copy-of-golden-circle", "date": "2021-01-18T12:55:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703514796.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20210118123320-20210118153320-00510.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.971926748752594, "token_count": 175, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__83293487", "lang": "en", "text": "Silver Circle 1\nSilver 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.hepworth-acoustics.co.uk/standards-a-legislation/environment/minerals-technical-advice-note-2coal", "date": "2013-05-23T20:42:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703788336/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112948-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9359819889068604, "token_count": 137, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__33720156", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nAnnex 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.\nAdvice 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.ultrakulture.com/orchestrating-fate/", "date": "2018-07-20T00:34:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591455.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720002543-20180720022543-00007.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9079692363739014, "token_count": 107, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__255716597", "lang": "en", "text": "When you enter intimately with the Fabric of Life, you observe an opportunity to pull certain particular strands of the Weaving of the Universe.\nTo 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…\nIn that analogy, the thread that you use for the orchestration that changes the shape of the weaving of the Universe… is your own Life.\n– JLL –\nLIVE LIKE LEGENDS", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.summitoaks.org/metformin-associated-lactic-acidosis-in-a-low-risk-patient.html", "date": "2015-10-09T05:00:23Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.8933796286582947, "token_count": 245, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-40__0__112090882", "lang": "en", "text": "(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.\nLactic 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://questalibrary.org/services/", "date": "2023-12-06T08:30:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100583.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206063543-20231206093543-00116.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9300980567932129, "token_count": 604, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__106463544", "lang": "en", "text": "Services for Children\nThe Library offers board books for toddlers, picture books and chapter books, books for junior and senior high readers, including a collection of graphic novels.\nThe 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.\nWe have two very special computers especially for kids. They are loaded with dozens of activities and books. Only the best for our younger crowd.\nWe 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.\nThe 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.\nWe 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.\nDVDs 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.\nThere 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.\nComputer classes available and will be announced. Sign up to be on list for classes.\nThe Library sponsors book readings, discussions, and musical programs; the dates and times for scheduled programs are listed on the Programs page.\nUsed Book Sales\nAs 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.\nCurrently, we are selling hardback books for $1 and paperbacks for 50¢! There are great bargains waiting for you to snap up.\nMost 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.\nWatch for information about the next event.\nThe Dropped Stitch\nAn 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.bookclubschool.com/pages/english-book-club-online", "date": "2023-09-25T17:15:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233509023.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925151539-20230925181539-00628.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9458725452423096, "token_count": 327, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__275489618", "lang": "en", "text": "Online English Book Club - Which book to get?\nBuying the book for your English book club online\nHow do you choose the books for the English book club online?\nShould I read an adapted or original book?\nClassic or Modern Novel - what difference does it make?\nReading 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.\nThe 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.\nE-book, Audiobook, Paperback, Hardback?\nChoose 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!\nEnjoy your book club! Geoff Hardy-Gould", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://life-with-the-landins.blogspot.com/2011/03/strength-for-today-and-bright-hope-for.html", "date": "2019-08-20T22:49:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-35/segments/1566027315681.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20190820221802-20190821003802-00203.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.869320273399353, "token_count": 120, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-35", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-35__0__15558764", "lang": "en", "text": "So do not fear, for I am with you;\ndo not be dismayed, for I am your God.\nI will strengthen you and help you;\nI will uphold you with my righteous right hand.\nThough I walk in the midst of trouble,\nyou preserve my life;\nyou stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes,\nwith your right hand you save me.\n2 Corinthians 13:11\nAim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be one of mind, live in peace.\nAnd the God of love and peace will be with you.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://kjc.nxu.edu.cn/info/1041/2902.htm", "date": "2019-02-16T23:58:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247481249.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20190216230700-20190217012700-00509.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7093948125839233, "token_count": 400, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-09__0__236718652", "lang": "en", "text": "报告题目一：Dietary Selection of Free-Ranging Sheep and Goats Raised by Bedouin in the Negev Desert\n报告题目二：Allometry：inter/intea- specific comparisons, empirical views, base models, flaws and conventional modern appeoach\nProfessor 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）.\nLivestock production under desert conditions.\nEnergy and water balances in captive and in free-living desert birds and mammals. Use of isotopes and time energy budgets in field studies.\nReproduction in captive and free-living desert mammals and birds.\nSecondary compounds as anti-nutritive agents against grazing herbivores.\nBiotic and abiotic effects on behavioral and physiological responses of animals.\nHost – parasite relationships and reciprocal physiological and immunological effects.\nProf. 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）.\nPhysiological and behavioral adaptations of birds and mammals to extreme environments.\nEnergy and water budgets in captive and free-living animals.\nEnergy allocation during reproduction in captive and free-living animals.\nConsequences of energy requirements in free-ranging animals.\nEffects of parasites on energy expenditure and reproduction of their hosts.\nDiet selection, fiber digestion and utilization of secondary compounds in mammals – basic and applied perspectives.\nEfficiency of utilization of metabolizable energy for maintenance, growth and production.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://outorah.org/p/18704", "date": "2023-03-22T13:52:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943809.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322114226-20230322144226-00004.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9843022227287292, "token_count": 1302, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__124941213", "lang": "en", "text": "Introduction to Sefer Yeshaya\nThe 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.\na) Yeshaya the Prophet\nYeshaya 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.\nYeshaya’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.\nThere 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\na) Yeshaya the Sefer\nThe 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.\nFinally, 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.\nThe 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.\n Yerushalmi Sanhedrin 10:2.\n Psikta Rabbati 33:20.\n Megilla 14a.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.genevaparks.org/event/the-enchanted-bookshop-a-playhouse-38-youth-production-2022-05-22/", "date": "2022-07-02T07:32:33Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103989282.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702071223-20220702101223-00646.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8908654451370239, "token_count": 159, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__203967067", "lang": "en", "text": "The Enchanted Bookshop – A Playhouse 38 Youth Production May 22 @ 3:00 pm\nAn 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.\nYouth production tickets: $10 each\nLocation: Playhouse 38\nTickets are available online at genevaparks.org or at the Stephan D. Persinger Recreation Center or Sunset Community Center.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://othernessarchive.com/archive/i-m-just-anneke", "date": "2024-02-23T19:42:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474445.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223185223-20240223215223-00417.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9379314184188843, "token_count": 158, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__134966486", "lang": "en", "text": "I’m Just Anneke\nAnneke’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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://koshep.wordpress.com/porch-time/", "date": "2018-07-21T09:10:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592475.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721090529-20180721110529-00240.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9701038002967834, "token_count": 2409, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__149934652", "lang": "en", "text": "“What if today were our last?”\nI. The California Coast\nIt 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.\nII. Purisima Creek Redwoods\nIn 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.\nIII. 1396 La Playa Street, San Francisco\nSitting 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.\nIV. Mision Flamenca\nI 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\ntea. 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.\nBodhisattvas (click for audio version)\nIt’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.\nTonight, 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.\nThe 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.\n“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.\n“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.”\nWhat do you say to something like that? Nothing. I just nodded.\n“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.\n“What are your days like now?” I asked.\n“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.”\nI’d wrapped my arms around my knees, “How was today? Good? Bad?”\n“Both.” he said.\nI 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.\nThe 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.\nI 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://workshops.killyourdarlings.com.au/p/introduction-to-memoir", "date": "2019-05-19T23:08:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255182.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519221616-20190520003616-00188.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9685529470443726, "token_count": 295, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__8614848", "lang": "en", "text": "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,\nThis 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.\nThrough 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.\nThe course is designed to take you 4-5 hours to complete, but can be accomplished in short stages, or at your convenience.\nRebecca 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://pliny.wordpress.com/2005/05/13/complexity-nostalgia-and-open-source/", "date": "2017-04-27T03:14:08Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.8928931951522827, "token_count": 232, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__122021257", "lang": "en", "text": "Interesting article on self-organizing productive networks in the May issue of First Monday.\nRave review of Steven Webers book on Open Source by Rob Vega, User Services Librarian, Valparaiso University:\n– 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.\nThe 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/\nAnother item for summer reading ….\nI 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.\n(Vellatri is a typo).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://jacquelynpless.com/publications/", "date": "2022-10-04T12:16:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030337504.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20221004121345-20221004151345-00281.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6922081112861633, "token_count": 775, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__140610152", "lang": "en", "text": "Pless, J., Hepburn, C., and Farrell, N., 2020. “Bringing rigour to energy innovation policy evaluation”, Nature Energy. Available without a paywall here.\nPless, J., Fell, H., Sigrin, B., 2020. “Information Searching in the Residential Solar PV Market”, The Energy Journal.\nPless, 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).\nO’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.\nHepburn 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.\nHeidari-Robinson S., Heywood S., and Pless, J., 2018. “How to Make Your Post-Merger Reorg a Success,” Harvard Business Review [online article only]\nMcKenna 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.\nPless 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).\nPless 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.\nSigrin B., Pless J., and Drury E., 2015. “Diffusion into new markets: Evolving customer segments in the solar photovoltaics market,” Environmental Research Letters, 10(8).\nArent 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.\nBazilian 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.\nChapters in Edited Volumes\nPopp, 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", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://4realestatehelp.com/simplified-spaces-amplified-life-the-joy-and-strategy-of-downsizing/", "date": "2024-04-21T18:27:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817790.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421163736-20240421193736-00505.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9288702607154846, "token_count": 2944, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__67591983", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nThis 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.\nHowever, the prospect of downsizing, or “right-sizing,” can be daunting, fraught with a complex mix of sentimentality, uncertainty, and fear of change.\nThis 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.\nAre you ready to embark on this journey of simplifying your space and amplifying your life?\nUnderstanding the Emotional Journey\nFor 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:\nRecognize the significance of your emotional attachments:\nYour 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.\nAllow yourself to feel the full spectrum of emotions:\nDownsizing 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.\nFocus on the opportunities that lie ahead:\nWhile 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.\nCreate tangible reminders of your cherished memories:\nTo 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.\nSeek support from loved ones and professionals:\nRemember 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.\nBy 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.\nPractical Steps to Downsizing\nEmbarking 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:\nStart with decluttering:\nBegin 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.\nBrowse for new homes that align with your needs:\nWhen 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.\nPlan your move strategically:\nTiming 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.\nPrepare your long-time home for sale:\nTo 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.\nSeek assistance from professionals:\nRemember, 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.\nRemember, 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.\nMaximizing Your New Space\nAs 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.\nWhen selecting furniture for your new home, opt for pieces that serve multiple purposes. For example:\n- 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.\n- An expandable dining table can accommodate guests when needed, but can be easily reduced in size for everyday use, saving valuable floor space.\n- 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.\nBy choosing furniture that adapts to your needs, you can ensure that your downsized space remains functional and versatile.\nPersonalizing your new home is key to making it feel like your own.\nDisplay 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.\nTo 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.\nAnother 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.\nRemember, 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.\nBy 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.\nLiving Larger in a Smaller Home\nEmbracing 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.\nTo 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:\nExplore new hobbies or rediscover old passions:\nDownsizing 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.\nEngage with your local community:\nSeek 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.\nPrioritize experiences over possessions:\nRather 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.\nWhen 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.\nIn 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.\nThe 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.\nRemember, 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.\nDownsizing 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.\nWith 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.\nReach out to us today, and let’s get you on the right path to right-sizing.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://fashion-history.lovetoknow.com/fashion-history-eras/stephane-mallarme", "date": "2022-05-16T19:15:20Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662512229.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220516172745-20220516202745-00657.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9221024513244629, "token_count": 2429, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__170726894", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nMallarmé 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.\nUnique Approach to Fashion\nMallarmé'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.\nLa Dernière Mode\nMallarmé'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.\nAlbeit 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.\nFashion as Cultural Form\nMallarmé'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).\nHere 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.\"\nFold and Word\nMallarmé'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.\nLa 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.\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nA 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.\nPersonal and Historical Impact\nAt 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.\nBrown, Peter. Mallarmé et l'Écriture en mode mineur. Paris: Lettres Modernes Minard, 1998.\nBurty, Philippe. Undated letter. In Stephane Mallarme: Correspondence. Vol. 4: 1890-1891. Paris: Gallimard, 1973.\nDeleuze, Gilles. Le pli: Leibniz et le baroque. Paris: Minuit, 1988.\nDragonetti, Roger. Un fantôme dans le kiosque: Mallarmé et l'esthétique du quotidien. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1992.\nFaye, Jean-Pierre. \"Mallarmé: l'Écriture, la mode.\" Change 4 (1969): 56-57.\nFortassier, Rose. Les Écrivains français et la mode: De Balzac à nos jours. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1988.\nKleinert, Annemarie. \"La Dernière Mode: Une tentative de Mallarmé dans la presse féminine.\" Lendemains 5, nos. 17-18 (June 1980): 167-178.\nLecercle, Jean-Pierre. Mallarmé et la mode. Paris: Séguier, 1989.\nLehmann, Ulrich. Tigersprung: Fashion in Modernity. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000.\nLewis Shaw, Mary. \"The Discourse of Fashion: Mallarmé, Barthes, and Literary Criticism,\" Substance 68 (1992): 46-60.\nMondor, Henri. Vie de Mallarmé. Paris: Gallimard, 1941.\nNectoux, Jean-Michel Un clair regard dans les ténèbres: Peinture, musique, poésie. Paris: Editions Adam Biro, 1998.\nPeyré, Yves, ed. Mallarmé, 1842-1898, un destin d'Écriture. Paris: Gallimard/Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998.\nThibaudet, Albert. La poésie de Stéphane Mallarmé. Paris: Gallimard, 1912.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://billygonyou.blogspot.com/2011/07/book-review-abraham-lincoln-vampire.html", "date": "2013-12-11T10:57:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164034642/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133354-00022-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9671273827552795, "token_count": 273, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__194884802", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nBefore 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.\nThe 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.\nIf you are looking for a great thrill ride, definitely pick yourself up a copy of Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://crpgbook.wordpress.com/review-index/2008-seventh-sense-lone-wolf-adventure-books/", "date": "2022-10-01T13:47:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030336674.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20221001132802-20221001162802-00380.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9462814331054688, "token_count": 493, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__39693145", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nThe 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.\nCreated 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.\nIn 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.\nSeventh 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.\nThe 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.\nEach 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.\nThe 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.\nTo 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", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.sunriseseniorliving.com/blog/categories/alzheimers-and-memory-care.aspx", "date": "2015-04-27T10:29:40Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.9490129351615906, "token_count": 100, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2015-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2015-18__0__3522691", "lang": "en", "text": "By Tim Watt |\nMarch 23, 2015\nThe 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.navalorder.org/awards/2015/10/16/neptune-by-craig-l-symonds-2015-samuel-eliot-morison-award-for-naval-literature", "date": "2019-01-20T16:42:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583728901.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20190120163942-20190120185942-00115.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9302463531494141, "token_count": 1889, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__76076003", "lang": "en", "text": "Neptune, The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings\nby Craig L. Symonds\nCraig 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.\n• A riveting story of the greatest sea-borne assault in human history\n• Discover the often overlooked naval arm of the D-Day invasion just in time for the 70th anniversary of the invasion\n• Expertly told by one of the foremost naval historians writing today, author of the highly acclaimed Battle of Midway\nCraig 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.\nSeventy 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.\nMost 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.\nCraig 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.\nIn 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.\nReviews and Praise for Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings\n\"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\n\"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\n\"[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\n\"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\n\"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\n\"[A] fascinating, multi-layered story... Symonds has an excellent eye for telling details and arresting quotes from the ordinary participants.\" --Daily Beast\n\"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\n\"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\n\"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\n\"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\n\"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\n\"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\n\"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\n\"[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\nOrdering Info: Amazon", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://pentoprint.blogspot.com/", "date": "2023-05-28T13:44:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528114832-20230528144832-00147.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.906229555606842, "token_count": 1031, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__77154033", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nHere are the rules:\nWrite 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!)\nHere's my entry, at 342 words:\nHere's my entry, at 342 words:\nA LITTLE CHRISTMAS WISH\nBy Margaret Greanias\nJack 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.\nIt’s Christmas Eve and Jack’s kicking up snow when Santa’s hat tumbles by. Up and away it blows.\nNo one’s chasing it, so Jack jumps at his chance. He could be the biggest thing since Rudolph!\nBut first, he needs transportation. He commandeers a toy airplane. BADUMP-A-DUMP-A-DUMP. It’s a bumpy takeoff.\nThere’s the hat! Near Santa’s workshop!\nNEEEOOOOW! Jack buzzes by.\nBernard, dozing at his workbench, startles awake.\n“Thanks Jack!” calls Bernard.\nJack doesn’t hear him. His eyes are trained on the hat.\nIt dances away and darts into the stables.\nJack 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.\nHe tosses them to Victor, who’s grooming the reindeer.\n“Thanks Jack!” calls Victor.\nBut Jack’s already out of earshot. He speeds to intercept the hat.\nHe swerves and swoops, and loop-de-loops. He doesn’t see the bag of presents, waiting for Quigley to haul.\nIt hitches onto the plane’s wing as Jack barrels by.\nOops. He detours to the sleigh.\n“Thanks Jack!” calls Quigley.\nBut the roar of the engine drowns out everything.\nIt’s just Jack…and Santa’s hat. Time is running out.\nThe wind whisks the hat up, up, and up.\nHmmm…can an elf my size climb so high? Then, Jack’s eyes widen. Can Santa deliver Christmas cheers with icicles dangling from his ears?\nJack hunkers down. He twists and turns; his stomach churns. He rockets through clouds, sunshine, stars until…Santa’s hat begins to fall!\nDown, down, down it dives – into Jack’s outstretched hands.\n“YIPPEE!” Jack shouts.\nBack home, he shyly returns the hat.\n“Why Jack Jingle!” Santa ho-ho-hos. “Thank you! I shiver to think what Christmas would have been without you.”\nJack’s cheeks grow warm. He gets his Christmas wish at last.\nCheck out the other fun entries into Susanna's holiday contest. Enjoy!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.douglasteacher.com/the-book-of-teaching-english-abroad", "date": "2017-07-22T04:34:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549423901.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170722042522-20170722062522-00029.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9476554989814758, "token_count": 222, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__111733111", "lang": "en", "text": "Read this book before you Teach English Abroad.\nThe 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.\nRummell 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.\nThe Book of Teaching English Abroad will inspire you to explore, dream, and discover a new adventure for yourself.\nYou'll read about\n*Teaching Insights and Anecdotes,\n*Types of Students\n*Private Lesson Hustling $$$\n*Dating and Romantic Relationships Abroad\n*Suggestions for Personal Finance Abroad\n*Traveling, Vacations, City Breaks and Getting out of Town\n*The Ultimate Exit Strategy\nThe Book of Teaching English Abroad will inspire you to jump on a plane and move somewhere you've never been.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://go.nethealth.com/l/125911/2021-03-23/7kmbgj", "date": "2024-04-21T19:13:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817790.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20240421163736-20240421193736-00150.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9228848218917847, "token_count": 198, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__148081948", "lang": "en", "text": "Give your team the insights and knowledge to improve outcomes, ROI, and patient quality of life\nAnd it's easy to see why: Pressure injuries affect patients in all healthcare settings, but the highest incidence is in acute care settings. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reported that 2.5 million hospital patients develop a pressure injury each year, and 60,000 patients die as a direct result of their wounds.\nAnd to make matters worse, the coronavirus pandemic is increasing the number and severity of patients with PIs. Moderate to severe coronavirus-related infections can cause significant debility, and recovery is often slow, creating an unfortunate environment for pressure injury development among at-risk patients.\nDownload this whitepaper for insights and information about wound care, including:\nPressure Injury Documentation and Assessment: A Guide to State-of-the-Art Staging and Recording of PIs", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.honeyourmind.co.za/psalms/psalm-23.html", "date": "2020-02-25T20:48:56Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875146160.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20200225202625-20200225232625-00361.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7828139662742615, "token_count": 638, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__151789829", "lang": "en", "text": "PSALM 22 (23), Latin Vulgate (Clementine)\nDominus regit me.\nPSALM 22 (23).\nThe Lord is my shepherd.\nA psalm for David.\n1. Dominus regit me, et nihil mihi deerit:\nTHE Lord ruleth me: and I shall want nothing.\n2. in loco pascuae ibi me collocavit. Super aquam refectionis educavit me,\nHe hath set me in a place of pasture. He hath brought me up, on the water of refreshment:\n3. animam meam convertit. Deduxit me super semitas justitiae, propter nomen suum.\nhe hath converted my soul. He hath led me on paths of justice, for his own name’s sake.\n4. Nam, etsi ambulavero in medio umbrae mortis, non timebo mala, quoniam tu mecum es. Virga tua, et baculus tuus, ipsa me consolata sunt.\nFor 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.\n5. Parasti in conspectu meo mensam, adversus eos qui tribulant me; impinguasti in oleo caput meum; et calix meus inebrians quam praeclarus est!\nThou 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!\n6. Et misericordia tua subsequetur me omnibus diebus vitae meae; et ut inhabitem in domo Domini, in longitudinem dierum.\nAnd 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.\nKJV Psalm 23 - audio\n23:1 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.\n23:2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.\n23:3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.\n23:4 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.\n23:5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.\n23:6 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.\nPage Revision #5.2R 11-17", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://omarbinmusa.blogspot.com.au/", "date": "2014-03-08T14:35:57Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1393999654759/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305060734-00073-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9235280752182007, "token_count": 420, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-10__0__136090124", "lang": "en", "text": "Monday, November 11, 2013\n\"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.\nPoem written by Omar Musa.\nThe last line is an interpolation of a line by Jorge Luis Borges.\nThursday, September 5, 2013\nFriday, August 2, 2013\nFam & 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:\nSaturday, July 20, 2013\nFriday, May 17, 2013\nSunday, May 12, 2013\nReview in Overland Literary blog by Ali Alizadeh: http://overland.org.au/blogs/poetry-fiction-reviews/2013/04/portrait-of-poets-as-young-men/\nReview in Stash Everything: http://www.stasheverything.com/lifestyle/book-review-omar-musa-parang/\n\"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\n\"Never mind page versus stage, this is poetry: listen\" - Jeet Thayil, Booker shortlisted author of Narcopolis\n\"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", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://solomonrobsons.blogspot.com/2017/04/ewan-mclennan-george-monbiot-breaking.html", "date": "2023-12-10T14:59:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679102469.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20231210123756-20231210153756-00821.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9726601839065552, "token_count": 615, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__221408246", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nThe 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.\nAfter 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.\n\"Reclaim the Street\" is an anthemic celebration of a street party bringing a neighbourhood of strangers together for the first time. \"I'm Coming Home\" is the voice of a migrant yearning to return home. \"These Four Walls\" explores those brief moments of connection at checkouts for those elderly folk who are otherwise isolated all day with only the TV for company. “In the aisles, as I wonder, I practice my lines. ‘Did you see the news’ and ‘The weather’s been fine’ But the checkouts have gone and the tills can talk. So I count my change and home I walk.”\nFor me, the standout is the opener, \"Such A Thing As Society\": The neo-liberal story we are told we have to live by is that we are selfish, brutal, venally competitive, nasty individuals and yet in reality our capacities for cooperation and altruism are staggering - quite unique in the animal kingdom. \"It my friend is the time-honoured lie - there is such a thing as society, it keeps us from losing our minds, it's working and living and laughing together that makes us humankind\". The set is perfectly rounded out by a rousing pedal steel guitar-accompanied version of the Pete Seeger classic \"We Shall Overcome\".", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.readingfrenzy.com/shoppe/books/pg3/", "date": "2016-08-30T22:45:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-36/segments/1471983026851.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20160823201026-00134-ip-10-153-172-175.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9345077276229858, "token_count": 352, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-36", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-36__0__49500750", "lang": "en", "text": "Reading Frenzy ~ An Independent Press Emporium\nA selection of hand-picked gems from our downtown Portland store. Minimum order of $8.\n(21-23 of 23 items)\nThe 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.\nOriginally 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.\nIn Consensuality, Helen Wildfell and her co-adventurers detail the process for creating or finding a healthy, successful relationship as well as common pitfalls and how to avoid them, like gender identity, sexual boundaries, power struggles, and emotional dysfunction. Overcoming regret and resentment, the authors describe a journey towards a respectful social environment. Their experiences lead to lessons of self-empowerment and communication tips for building healthy partnerships. We recognize their preferences and boundaries. We discuss how those fit with our own preferences and boundaries. Filled with personal descriptions of the complex layers in human interaction, the book combines gender studies with memoir to truly make the personal political.\nHOME | ABOUT | FAQ | LEDGER | SHOPPE | DETOURS", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.revistas.ibracon.org.br/index.php/riem/article/view/1077", "date": "2021-05-06T04:36:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243988725.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20210506023918-20210506053918-00486.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9114952683448792, "token_count": 219, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__45729377", "lang": "en", "text": "Nonlinear analysis of concrete structures using GFEM enrichment strategy with a microplane constitutive model\nAbstractOne 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.", "domain": "literature"}
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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.\nThis is the Truth, that the Blood Sacrifice of Christ is the only way into the Throne Room of the Father. 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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.\n2 Timothy 2:15, Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.\n2 Corinthians 10:6, And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.\nIsaiah 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!\nIsaiah 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://1hd.tv/news/a-new-book-about-harry-styles/", "date": "2023-12-02T14:08:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100427.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202140407-20231202170407-00810.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9779534935951233, "token_count": 155, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__285410709", "lang": "en", "text": "A new book about Harry Styles\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nIf 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://curtperkinsdesign.com/sallie-bissell/", "date": "2024-04-18T17:34:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817222.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418160034-20240418190034-00646.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9489933848381042, "token_count": 258, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__173777580", "lang": "en", "text": "Web Development, design, book cover design and layout for Author Sallie Bissell; author of the critically acclaimed Mary Crow adventures.\nNashville 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.\nMotherhood 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.\nWe 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.\n- Theme Setup and customization\n- Graphic Design\n- Custom CSS for WordPress\n- Basic Search Engine Optimization\n- Book Cover design\n- Book layout assistance through Pressbooks\n- Book Distribution setup through IngramSpark", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://dungeonfantastic.blogspot.com/2021/09/what-do-i-get-royalties-on.html", "date": "2021-12-04T23:09:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964363125.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20211204215252-20211205005252-00052.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9576368927955627, "token_count": 187, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__55128851", "lang": "en", "text": "So, someone asked what books I get royalties on. Here is the list:\nGURPS Dungeon Fantasy 12\nGURPS Dungeon Fantasy 15\nGURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 1\nGURPS Dungeon Fantasy Monsters 3\nGURPS Dungeon Fantasy Denizens: Barbarians\nGURPS Dungeon Fantasy Treasures 3: Artifacts of Felltower\nGURPS Low-Tech Companion 2\nGURPS Martial Arts (and the POD version)\nGURPS Martial Arts: Gladiators\nI'll edit later with links.\nNow, 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.thornetimes.co.uk/invite-to-build-houses-for-fairies/", "date": "2020-12-02T08:55:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141706569.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20201202083021-20201202113021-00009.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9548619389533997, "token_count": 200, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__168756120", "lang": "en", "text": "Friends of Thorne Community Wood are inviting families to take part in a fairy house building competition.\nThe 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.\nJudging 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.\nThe 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\nThe 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://englishlanguagelearningstudio.wordpress.com/2018/01/", "date": "2023-05-31T04:44:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224646257.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20230531022541-20230531052541-00137.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9450669884681702, "token_count": 1594, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__183849406", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nTypes of reading strategies\nWith 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.\nThe 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.\nWhat is an authentic text? A different view of ‘authenticity’\nThere 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’.\nIn which types of reading activities do we involve in real life?\nPeople 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.\nReading activities in the language class\nAccording to Greenall and Swan (1986 in Ball & Hockly n.d.: 17-18), reading activities can be described as follows:\n- Extracting the main idea (read in a general sense to distinguish between important and unimportant information).\n- Reading for specific information (looking for the important information needed to perform a specific task).\n- Understanding text organization (recognising how sentences are joined together to make paragraphs).\n- How paragraphs form a passage and how this organization is signalled.\n- Predicting (see what information is new and which one is known so that there is not an overload of new information).\n- Checking comprehension (finding specific information in the passage).\n- Inferring (when the writer decides to suggest something indirectly, the reader has to infer information).\n- Dealing with unfamiliar words (guessing a word or expression by looking for clues in the context).\n- Linking ideas (seeing how different words are related to the same idea).\n- Understanding complex sentences (seeing how long and complicated sentences can be simplified).\n- 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).\n- Evaluating the text (evaluating why the passage was written and the purposes that certain sentences serve).\n- Reacting to the text (separating what the writer says from what the reader thinks).\n- Writing summaries (the ability to write accurate summaries requires accurate comprehension of the passage).\n- Speed reading (to prevent the tendency ‘to stumble on unfamiliar words’ thereby failing to ‘grasp the general meaning of the passage’).\nYou 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).\nThe 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.\nWe 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.\nWhat 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.\n* 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\nBall, P. & Hockly, N. (n.d.). Developing Language Skills in the Classroom. Funiber\nBarnes, D. (1976/1992). From Communication to Curriculum. London: Penguin. (Second\nedition, 1992, Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook-Heinemann.)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://citeblackauthors.com/cba-article/sustaining-culture-expanding-literacies-culturally-relevant-literacy-pedagogy-and-gradual-release-of-responsibility-in-k-8-classrooms/", "date": "2023-05-28T02:20:40Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224643462.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528015553-20230528045553-00643.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7073909044265747, "token_count": 125, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__148733111", "lang": "en", "text": "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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://thefash-ist.blogspot.com/2012/01/", "date": "2018-07-16T04:39:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676589179.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20180716041348-20180716061348-00309.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9729443192481995, "token_count": 629, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__156916121", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nIt 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.\nThat 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.\nIn 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.\n|Blouse, Blazer & Skirt: Forever 21 / Heels: Nine West|\nI really can't think of a better time to share my resolutions for the New Year:\n1. Be more patient with myself; with everything.\n2. Learn to enjoy the journey.\n3. Stretch for at least 10 minutes every day.\n4. Complete Slim in 6 within the assigned time frame! (<-- workout regiment)\n5. Speak to my nephew and younger sister more.\n6. 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.)\nSometimes 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.\nI'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.\nTil Next Time,", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://eestinoorsooteater.ee/en/news/wordless-production-young-children-being-premiered", "date": "2024-04-16T22:54:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817112.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416222403-20240417012403-00050.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9435552358627319, "token_count": 416, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__181191932", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nAccording 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.\nThe 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.\nAccording 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.\nPerformers: 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.creationtips.com/jonah.html", "date": "2016-06-25T14:10:01Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.9737080931663513, "token_count": 489, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2016-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2016-26__0__78880092", "lang": "en", "text": "Did a whale or fish swallow Jonah?\nWas Jonah swallowed by a fish, or a whale?\nThe 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.\nDuring 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).\nIn 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.)\nA whale is not a fish\nNow 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?\nNo. And this is why.\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nWhen 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://aniedireland.com/2022/08/14/happy-vet-visits/", "date": "2023-06-03T14:13:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649293.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603133129-20230603163129-00348.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9454469084739685, "token_count": 580, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__94554809", "lang": "en", "text": "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).\nThese 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).\nThe 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).\nYou can see that it’s been a bit of a recipe for disaster…\nHappy 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.\nCan 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.\nCan 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.\nHappy 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.\nDogs likely experience fear in anticipation of going to the vet’s.\nCounterconditioning 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.\nThe scary thing predicts the availability of the yummy things!\nBut 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.\nWith 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.\nGuiding 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.\nDiscuss Happy Visits for your dog, with their vet-team, and come up with a plan that increases everyone’s comfort.\nOf course, we can help too!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://gyalwagyatso.org/yoga-the-12-step-path-recovery-weekly-classes/", "date": "2013-05-19T08:51:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697232084/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094032-00007-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9556508660316467, "token_count": 322, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__129812315", "lang": "en", "text": "With Kyczy Hawk, Author & Yoga Instructor\nEvery Monday 7:00-9:00pm\n1 hour topic discussion meeting\n1 hour Basic Hatha yoga practice\n(No class on March 25th and April 1st 2013)\nThis 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.\nKyczy 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.\nCost: suggested donation $10\nNo pre-registration required. Drop-ins welcome!\nYoga and Recovery at a Buddhist Center: Blog with Venerable Drimay\nAdditional information: Yoga Recovery", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://elitetarot.com/Testimonials.html", "date": "2017-04-27T03:09:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121865.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00188-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9838528037071228, "token_count": 4098, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__213723549", "lang": "en", "text": "\"Eve provided my tarot card reading with such insightful, accuracy. Her gentle approach addressed the very issues that were being questioned in my life. Eve encouraged my participation to gain a deeper exploration into the meaning of the cards. I was able to achieve better clarity of my circumstances through Eve’s thoughtful explanation, as well as appreciate the necessary position I am in at this time in my life. I was grateful for the copy of the tarot card reading on CD that Eve provided. Listening to the CD, not only allows me to revisit the exact details of my reading, but also provides me the opportunity to gain further perspective. I was given many pearls of wisdom with my tarot card reading and one I continue to listen to is \"life is when you begin it\". I acknowledge that Eve has divine ability and I am appreciative for having experienced her intuitive gift.\" -- V.H., Baltimore, MD\n“I don't know where to begin. Since yesterday I feel like a totally new person. I feel happy, light, excited about the future. I'm not angry or sad or down anymore. I feel full of life and happiness. You have a true gift to make people see the brighter side of life. Thank you!”\n--C.C., McLean, VA\n\"Thank you for the wonderful and eye-opening reading you gave me. There is something absolutely authentic and magnetic about you and I knew I was in the right place right when I met you. Thank you so, very much for providing me with clarity, for uncovering my fears and for making me face them in a gentle yet completely undeniable way. Thank you for being the catalyst of a change that I felt repressed for a very long time.\"\n--H.L., Washington, DC\n\"Many thanks for everything. I am truly astonished how different my life will be and it all started with you. I will continue to tell the world what I want, think positively, and believe I will get what I want.\"\n--G.K., Raleigh, NC\n\"Thanks so much Eve! I really appreciated the audiofile, pictures and text. I awoke this AM feeling very \"unstuck\" with an increased sense of positivity and energy. I am really stoked and grateful!\"\n--S.L., Blacksburg, VA\n\"I greatly enjoyed the reading and found it to be extremely on-point and enlightening. Thank you for all of your insight and warm words of encouragement; I left yesterday's consultation feeling like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. You are truly gifted and I am very grateful for your services.\"\n--B.N., Washington, DC\n\"Thank you so much Eve. Our time together has been very enlightening and\ngiven me that push to open my eyes and listen to the universe.\"\n--K.S., Toronto, Canada\n\"Thank you so much, Eve!!! I thought that the reading was spot-on, and it feels great that I'm headed in the right direction. You are a dear to work with, and I appreciate your wonderful insights and examples to help me to understand what the cards were saying. Thank you so much again! That was a wonderful, exciting experience!!\"\n--B.K., Baltimore, MD\n\"Thank you so much Eve! It was really helpful and validated everything I've been thinking. I would love to continue to see you as I embark on this journey. Thanks again!\"\n--A.Z., Washington, DC\n\"Thank you so much for the reading. It was very insightful and more important .. you opened my mind and my heart. I feel hopeful now.\"\n--P.H., Arlington, VA\n\"Eve is the REAL DEAL. Worth every penny. I did a remote reading via Skype, and Eve took so much time explaining each card's meaning and then how everything connected to everything else. Months later I am still thinking about the reading and it has affected my life in a very positive way. Eve has a gift. I am so happy that I stumbled on her website. She is warm, intelligent, and funny, and very easy to talk to. Highly recommended!!\"\n--M.R., Winchester, VA\n\"Thank you! The meeting today was so clarifying. I am excited to see where this journey takes me, but without too much worry and control. I appreciate it so much.\"\n--C.B., Arlington, VA\n\"I came across Eve one afternoon while running a random Google search. The \"Code of Ethics\" section on the website really sparked my interest. Eve was absolutely fabulous. I can't give her enough credit. She was prompt in responding to my appointment request and in her initial call. She offered guidance throughout the entire process by informing me of what she was doing and offering her interpretation. The whole process was very interactive. Not once did I feel rushed or as if she was telling me what I wanted to hear. She was very genuine in her responses and I truly appreciate that. She added a positive outlook to even the most personal or surreal moments. I would definitely recommend her, especially to the skeptics!\" -- K.W., Fairfax, VA\n\"Thank you so much for the Tarot reading. It was really helpful and gave me a lot to think about. I'm starting to feel like I'm on the right track for the first time in a long time!\" --T.K., Washington, DC\n\"Thaaaaaaank you so much! I truly loved my reading!\"\n--P.K., New York, NY\n\"I found your reading insightful and motivating and your calming manner was very comforting. I am looking forward to the future and all that comes along with it.\"\n--L.R., Centreville, VA\n\"Thank you once again for doing my tarot reading yesterday! Although I was a bit nervous, being that it was my first reading, you made it nothing but an absolute great experience. What we discussed was very insightful, and will definitely help me as I plan and prepare for my future.\"\n--L.P., Arlington, VA\n\"You are wonderful and I TRULY appreciate your insight and advice. It opened my eyes to many \"truths\" that need some tweaking. Today is a new beginning ;) THANK YOU!\"\n--E.D., Washington, DC\n\"I'm still just over the moon about my reading! Thank you for the summary and card layout. This was such a cathartic experience for me. Please continue what you're doing. It is such a gift.\"\n--B.S., Washington, DC\n\"Eve was the very best reader I have ever experienced. She is thorough, clear and easy to understand, and exceedingly accurate! I would recommend her for any gathering or event you are planning.\" -- W.R., Woodbridge, VA\n\"I have been at a crossroads and have had significant life changes (both parents passed away last year). Not only was Eve able to pick up on some of these things in my reading, but she was able to help to offer guidance and assistance in how I should look at approaching the way forward. Eve truly has a gift and she has found a way to use it masterfully to benefit others. I will be calling upon Eve in future and highly recommend her to others if you are looking for a gifted medium.\" -- H.M., Baltimore, MD\n\"Eve was able to connect with me through the tarot cards and her findings were very accurate. It's clear she has a true intuitive gift. I left the reading with tools to help guide me through the current phase in my life and make decisions, as well as confirmation of the right and wrong paths I could take. I definitely highly recommend Eve & Elite Tarot and look forward to our next reading!\" -- G.W., London, England\n\"Thanks so much for the reading and the inspiration. I feel better already.\" -- P.C., Arlington, VA\n\"This was my first tarot reading and I was unsure how it would be conducted, but Eve was calm and spiritually minded. A tarot reading is a slice of life's journey, and with Eve's objective guidance I was able to achieve a rise in consciousness and strengthen my inner direction. Eve is a good communicator, respectful, and unprejudiced. I hope many people will partake of her interactive energy and self-disciplined talents.\"\n-- A.N., Alexandria, VA\n\"When I saw all of the great reviews on Yelp and then the fact that Eve had international clients, I thought \"Heck, Why not? It's a new year coming up and I need a new perspective. Let's give it a whirl!\". She is the REAL DEAL. Eve has a love for her craft - which is people. She phrases things in such a way to enlighten you and to also show that she \"gets you\". It's like she's listening to your soul. Being a Pisces, I have a very hard time making decisions when I get to a crossroads. Eve shines the light onto the right direction. Can't wait for my followup next year!\"\n--T.B., District Heights, MD\n\"This was my first tarot reading and I must admit I was a little nervous as I wasn't sure what to expect. Eve conducted the reading in a relaxed and informative manner, making me feel really comfortable. She seemed to have an uncanny ability to apply the generic meaning of the cards to my life on a personal level. She helped me gain new perspective on life questions I had been considering and raised other points I had not yet focused on. It was definitely a clarifying experience and one I plan to repeat. In addition to being helpful, it was also a lot of fun and something I would highly recommend!\" -- S.M., Reston, VA\n\"Thank you so much Eve! Your words really inspire me. Thank you for your kindness and awesome service.\"\n--Y.C., McLean, VA\n\"I was extremely nervous about having my first tarot card reading, but Eve explained how everything would work and every detail of the reading. The process brought a lot of insight into my life. Eve would pull a card and we would discuss the meaning behind it and how it played a part in my life. It made me really think about what I truly wanted and it was, surprisingly, an optimistic experience. I now notice what the cards were trying tell me as each day goes by. I would highly recommend Eve for a tarot card reading. She is very gentle, kind and overall a warming spirit.\" --B.K., Columbia, SC\n\"Eve took the time to explain her background and how and why she does what she does before we ever even began the reading. It put me fully at ease and made it clear that this is not some \"woo woo\" process. She explained each card thoroughly and how it could apply to me and my situation. She also graciously recorded the session so that I could listen to it again on my own. I enjoyed it and actually got much more out of it than I expected. I have already referred her to several business owner friends who I feel would enjoy it as well.\"\nJ.S., Fairfax, VA\n\"I've recently had issues in my life that required that I make important, possible life-changing decisions and have been overwhelmed with regards to my current situation. The tarot card reading provided by Eve helped give me the clarity I needed to figure out where I am now in my life, the reasons I have been unable to make the necessary decisions, and truly provided me with guidance as to what I am looking for and where I need to go from here. Eve impressed me with her knowledge and professionalism. She made me feel at ease in discussing the issues and explaining what each card represented for me. I would highly recommend a reading by Elite Tarot to anyone who is seeking understanding and guidance in their life.\" --L.M. Highland Park, IL\n\"Eve's reading helped me bring issues to the forefront that I had been keeping from others in my life. She created a safe space to explore underlying fears and identify new possibilities for openness in the future.\" --S.B., Washington, DC\n\"Having never had a Tarot reading I wasn't sure what to expect and was a bit nervous. Eve did a great job of explaining the process and getting me comfortable with how the reading would work. After that Eve did a full reading and really seemed to know her stuff. I felt completely comfortable throughout the whole reading and would highly recommend Eve whether it is your first reading or you are a frequent Tarot visitor.\" -- J.N., San Diego, CA\n\"Eve brings a unique interactive process to her tarot readings. As Eve carefully analyzes multiple aspects of the cards that come up in the reading, she also engages her clients' own intuitive reactions in order to provide a truly informative and thought-provoking experience.\" --S.G., Washington, DC\n\"I felt the reading really connected with my life's journey, and helped give me understanding of it in greater depth and insight.\" -- H. L, Bellingham, WA\n\"I was so grateful for the time with Eve – for the chance to not only really clarify what the question was in my mind, as some things had been popping in and out of my thoughts yet not been focused on, but also to get some clarity around it. Eve helped me to think about the current state of the situation and what was holding me back, as well as what the outlook looked like and some advice needed to get there. Now I'm excited to take it on!\" --B. N., San Diego, CA\n\"Eve shred a lot of light on my life as it is at moment, and why I feel like I'm not getting where I want to be. It's because of the pressure that I'm putting on myself and not letting the universe know what I want, and leave it in it's hands to take care of it. I feel less stressed today, even though the reading was yesterday. I can't wait to find out in 3 months how my life has turned around.\"\n--L.K., Arlington, VA\n\"I loved my tarot card reading. Eve was right on with my reading. She explained everything so I could understand each card clearly. I would recommend her to anyone that has a question in their life they need some help with.\"\n--M.W., Rapid City, South Dakota\nCorporate Events / Celebrations\n\"Elite Tarot was wonderful. Eve showed up early and stayed later to accommodate everyone's needs. She was friendly, warm and welcoming and the guests at the party had a great time learning about tarot readings and getting their own reading. Would definitely use her again!\" -- L.S., Chevy Chase, MD\n\"Eve was a wonderful addition to our neighborhood party. She was very generous with her time, was professional and friendly. Everyone enjoyed the readings very much and had only positive things to say about her. I highly recommend her. If you're looking for fun entertainment that's outside the run of the mill, Elite Tarot is perfect for you.\"\n--K.F., Fairfax, VA\n\"Eve was great! We used her for a corporate holiday party and she arrived on time, was very flexible and received great feedback from our employees! Everybody that saw her really enjoyed her and we would definitely use her again in the future and recommend her to others!\" --T.O., Vienna, VA\n\"I recently hired Eve for several hours to do Tarot readings at a party I was hosting. Everyone loved her! She has a kind, gentle nature and made sure everyone was comfortable with the cards that they pulled. All of my guests enjoyed their readings. I would highly recommend Eve for a personal reading or for a group.\"\n--M.K., Falls Church, VA\n\"Eve is absolutely wonderful. She was very flexible and all of our\nguests enjoyed their readings. We are very, very pleased. I would hire\nher again in a heartbeat.\"\n--A.S., Fairfax, VA\n\"Amazing! Could not have done a better job. Highly recommend!\"\n--B.S., Washington, DC\n\"Eve was our entertainment for an event we had in our office. While I didn't have a reading done myself, I had consistent feedback that the experience was exceptional. Eve has a kind demeanor, explains the reading prior to completing it, and was able to answer lots of questions from those who did have readings. I would highly recommend Eve for any event where you may require a tarot reader.\" --C.R., Vienna, VA\n\"Eve was fantastic! We hired her for a Halloween party at our home. I was worried that our guests would be uncomfortable having their cards read, but she was the hit of the party! Guests were lined up in a queue all evening, and each one came out of their reading with a positive comment and experience. I was too busy hosting to have my turn, but in my dealings with Eve in coordinating the event, she was very professional and friendly. Highly recommend!\"\n--A.C., Annapolis, MD\n\"I so appreciated working with Eve - great communication skills leading up to the event, friendly and approachable presence, amazing stamina to go for 4 hours straight (when only contracted for 2) to accommodate all of our guests) , and flexible in adapting to the occasion (Day of the Dead celebration). It was our first time hiring a psychic and I was quite reticent - but Eve was great at allaying concerns and answering any questions.\" --J.R., Alexandria, VA\n\"Eve was SO great!!!!! We hired her for a bachelorette party and she came to our house and did a reading for all 12 girls! She was awesome, positive, and professional, not cheesey at all -- everyone loved it!\"\n-- B.S., Baltimore, MD\n\"Eve came all the way to Richmond and conducted readings for our team. It was amazing and she has such a gentle and peaceful nature about her. She makes you feel very comfortable.\"\n-- S.S., Richmond, VA\n\"She was on time, professional, and absolutely lovely. One friend said\nher readings were \"scary accurate.\" Would recommend without hesitation.\"\n-- S.E., Washington, DC\n\"Eve was great! She was such a hit at my party. She took the time to give everyone a reading, and even agreed to stay beyond her scheduled period. I highly recommend her!\" --J.H., Falls Church, VA\n\"Thanks so much again for a fun night and great readings. All of the guests loved them and it was such a great addition to the party!\"\n-- S.D., Gaithersburg, MD\n\"I hired Elite Tarot for a business/client event and it was a big hit! Most everyone participated (even the skeptics) and the feedback we received was all positive. Eve made everyone feel comfortable and it was a memorable experience for all. I would definitely hire her again.\"\n--K.K., Allentown, PA\n\"Eve joined our corporate event and was marvelous! There were so many compliments on how well she did and how much fun everyone had. She was a delight to work with and very easy to communicate with her. We will definitely consider her for future events! \"\n--N.M., Leonardtown, MD\n\"We had a lovely experience and my guests were thrilled with her knowledge and skill. I would definitely hire her again!\"\n--S.J., Alexandria, VA\n\"Thank you for coming out to do the program! It was fantastic! I’d love to have you out again in the future. Thanks again, Eve!\"\n--N.W., McLean, VA", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://giamgiasau.com/torrent/5300357/Sharp-Ends-Stories-from-the-World-of-the-First-Law-Joe-Abercrombie-2016-Fantasy-Audiobook-miok/", "date": "2022-06-26T10:39:29Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103205617.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20220626101442-20220626131442-00590.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7002347707748413, "token_count": 1138, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__218552037", "lang": "en", "text": "Sharp Ends: Stories from the World of the First Law - Joe Abercro...\n- Category Other\n- Type Audiobook\n- Language English\n- Total size 326.2 MB\n- Uploaded By miok\n- Downloads 67\n- Last checked 34 minutes ago\n- Date uploaded 2 days ago\n- Seeders 13\n- Leechers 2\nSharp Ends - Joe Abercrombie - 2016\nStories from the World of the First Law\nBy: Joe Abercrombie\nNarrated by: Steven Pacey, Joe Abercrombie\nSeries: First Law World\nLength: 11 hrs and 49 mins\nRelease date: 04-26-16\nCategories: Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Anthologies & Short Stories\nPublisher: Orion Publishing Group\nFormat: mp3 64/48 stereo\nSharp Ends is the ultimate collection of award-winning tales and exclusive new short stories from the master of grimdark fantasy, Joe Abercrombie.\nViolence 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.\nThe 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.\nCurnden 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.\nThere's only one obstacle left - his own lunatic champion, the most feared man in the North: the Bloody-Nine....\nSharp 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.\n©2016 Joe Abercrombie (P)2016 Orion Publishing Group\n24/7 Seedbox Support\nFiles:Joe Abercrombie - 2016 - Sharp Ends (Fantasy)\n- Downloaded From 1337X.txt (0.1 KB)\n- Downloaded From AngieTorrents.txt (0.0 KB)\n- Downloaded From Demonoid.txt (0.0 KB)\n- Downloaded From Glodls.txt (0.2 KB)\n- Downloaded From ProStyleX.txt (0.1 KB)\n- Downloaded From TorrentGalaxy.txt (0.6 KB)\n- Sharp Ends (01).mp3 (17.3 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (02).mp3 (25.4 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (03).mp3 (25.6 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (04).mp3 (11.3 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (05).mp3 (14.7 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (06).mp3 (23.3 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (07).mp3 (19.1 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (08).mp3 (22.7 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (09).mp3 (25.8 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (10).mp3 (51.2 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (11).mp3 (13.2 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (12).mp3 (39.7 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (13).mp3 (25.7 MB)\n- Sharp Ends (14).mp3 (10.7 MB)\n- Sharp Ends - Joe Abercrombie - 2016.txt (1.8 KB)\n- Sharp Ends.jpg (154.3 KB)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://whiteoaklibrary.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=18681&lib=1001&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2019/10/01", "date": "2020-02-22T23:11:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875145729.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20200222211056-20200223001056-00263.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9484685063362122, "token_count": 354, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-10__0__155801930", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nGail 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.\nThe 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.\nFGW 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.\nThere will be a Q&A session and signed books will be available for purchase.\nAppetizers along with wine and beer will be served.\nAttendees must be 21 years of age or older to attend.\n*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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://jmel.com.ng/index.php/jmel/article/view/232", "date": "2019-07-23T04:40:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195528869.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723043719-20190723065719-00492.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7592111825942993, "token_count": 1020, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__42061690", "lang": "en", "text": "DOUBLE STANDARDS FOR THE SEXES IN THE WORKS OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR AND IHECHI NKORO\nPrevious 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.\nKey words: Double standards, sexual freedom, social conventions, female oppression, marriage, child bearing.\nAdebayo, Aduke. The Nature and Functions of Literature : The Comparatist’s Perspective.\nIbadan : Ibadan University Press, 2009. Print\nAkintan, Oluwatosin A. Powerful and Powerless : Women in Religion and Culture in the\nTraditional Ijebu Society in South-West Nigeria Research on Humanities and Social\nSciences. Vol. 3, No. 22 2013 (57-64) Web\nDe Beauvoir, Simone. L’invitée. Paris: Editions Gallimard.1943. Print\nDe Beauvoir, Simone. Le deuxieme sexe. Paris: Editions Gallimard.1949. Print\nDe Beauvoir, Simone. Les belles images. Paris, France: Editions Gallimard. 1966. Print\nEjechi, Ndidiamaka Ononuju. “Freedom and Choice in Heterosexual Relationships in\nSimone de Beauvoir’s Les Mandarins” International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies. Vol, 4, No 3 2017 88-104 Web\nMbiti, John S. “The Role of Women in African Traditional Religion” Cahiers des Religions\nAfricaines. 1988 Vol 22:69-82 Web\nNdongo, Aplponse Kamdem. “Stratégies de Libération de la Femme chez Lynn Mbuko,\nUnimna Angrey et Ihechi Nkoro: Une Étude Comparée” International Journal of Humanities and Cultural Studies. Vol, 1, No 4 2015 32-44 Web\nNkoro, Ihechi. Ma vie m’appartient. Owerri, Nigeria: Fasmen Communications\nNwanokwai-Ogbenege, Lilian. Femmes Échouées : Silhouettes des femmes dans Les lauréats\nDe Motunraro Adegbilero. RANUEF. Ed. Mokwenye, Cyril. 2016.\nOmari, Shani. Imaging the Woman through Tanzanian Women’s\nMaxims Journal of International Women Studies. 2018 19:3 119-134\nPilcher, Jane.. 50 Key Concepts in Gender Studies. London: SAGE Publishers Ltd, 2004.Web\nSuwaed, Mohammad Y. “The Exploitation of Women and Social Change in the Writing of\nNawal El-Saadawi” Journal of International Women Studies. Vol 18, No 4 2017 (233-\nTyson Lois. Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide. New York: Garland\nPublishing. 1999 Print\nVintges, Karen. Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Thinker for Our Times. Hypatia, Inc\nWalters, Suzanna Danuta. “From Here to Queer: Radical Feminism, Postmodernism and the\nLesbian Menace (Or, Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Fag? Feminist Theory and\nPractice. Chicago: Chicago University Press 1996. (830-869) Web\n- There are currently no refbacks.\nCopyright © 2014 - 2019. JMEL All Rights Reserved.\nISSN:978-978-48450-4-5 Powered by Myrasoft Systems Ltd.(Phone Number: 08062926794)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://michaelfaloticoart.wordpress.com/home/comic-books/our-own/", "date": "2021-07-30T11:29:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153966.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20210730091645-20210730121645-00205.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9471306800842285, "token_count": 160, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__126892398", "lang": "en", "text": "“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.\n‘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.\n‘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.\n*this comic is unofficial and is not in any way endorsed by the creators of the “Alien” series. *this book is not for sale", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://mybeautymusings.blogspot.com/2010/12/recent-reading-material.html", "date": "2018-12-14T14:18:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376825916.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20181214140721-20181214162221-00040.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9802135229110718, "token_count": 209, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__242545397", "lang": "en", "text": "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!)\nThe ones I am finishing up in the next week and a half are:\nI 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 :)\nWish me luck!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://heprp.blogspot.com/2011/01/for-beauty-of-earthfor-beauty-of-skies.html", "date": "2018-07-18T05:04:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676590051.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20180718041450-20180718061450-00189.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9112339019775391, "token_count": 145, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__35596261", "lang": "en", "text": "For the beauty of the earth,For the beauty of the skies,\nFor the love which from our birth Over and around us lies,\nLord of all to Thee we raise,This our hymn of grateful praise.\nFor the beauty of each hour Of the day and of the night,\nHill and vale,and tree and flower,\nSun and moon,and stars of light,\nLord of all to Thee we raise This our hymn of grateful praise.\nAgain 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.\nMay you all have a blessed new year.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://actorsguild.livejournal.com/160498.html", "date": "2018-04-23T13:38:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125946011.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20180423125457-20180423145457-00183.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9651724100112915, "token_count": 242, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__110343348", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nIt 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.\nThe 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!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://musingsincatholicland.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/two-lenten-passion-poems/", "date": "2019-01-18T03:20:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583659677.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20190118025529-20190118051529-00129.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9869804978370667, "token_count": 465, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__198997370", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nThe way to Calvary on which walked my Lord\nWas filled with such hardship and pain\nA crown of thorns on his head was lain\nCarrying a cross on his bruised back\nTread the road which was so steep.\nStumbling with each step he took\nMy heart with sorrow shook.\nThe crowds jeered and mocked at him\nBeatings and insults adorned his way\nHis eyes were filled with agony\nHe bore it all for you and me.\nThe journey seems so long and painful\nAs he reached the mount of Calvary.\nNails in his hands and feet tore him apart\nThe spear finally pierced his heart\nOut flowed blood and water like a river\nThe sight of it all makes me shiver.\nInspite of all the pain and sorrow\nHe forgave us for a brighter tomorrow.\nBowing his head he gave his life\nFinally redeeming us from all sin\nAs darkness and fear covered the earth\nLightning and thunder gripped the place\nWhat an awesome sight it was\nFor truly he was the Son of God.\nMy Friend and the Cross\nWhat a symbol of suffering the cross became\nMy Lord died on it with such shame\nWhy did it happen so ?\nLooking back I feel so low.\nHe was a man with majesty and splendour\nWho always loved everyone so tender\nWhy then did he have to go thru so much pain\nFor a man who came into the world without stain.\nThe nails that pierced his hands and feet\nCrown of thorns that lay on his head\nThink of how much the Lord must have bled\nThe pain that etched on his face\nSpeaks but a thousand words.\nAs I sat in front of the cross today\nA few words would like to say\nThere was a light that shone in his eyes\nHe called me with arms open wide\nSuddenly felt all my troubles wash away\nMy Friend and the Cross with me will always stay.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://tvtakesall.blogspot.com/2011/10/morning-joe-team-to-write-joint-memoir.html", "date": "2018-07-21T07:52:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676592420.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20180721071046-20180721091046-00476.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9597851037979126, "token_count": 126, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__5558533", "lang": "en", "text": "|More book signings are in store |\nfor the Morning Joe team.\nThe 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.\"\nAccording 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.\nAllen reports that the book \"will explore their lives leading up to their remarkable collaboration in creating the hottest brand in political television.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://teeoff4tucker.com/2018-honoree/", "date": "2022-01-26T04:14:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304915.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220126041016-20220126071016-00015.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9810914397239685, "token_count": 688, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__118906380", "lang": "en", "text": "In loving memory of Ed Gulley\nby Tony Thayne\nWith a heavy heart we announce this years TOFT pay it forward recipient as Carol Gulley.\nCarol is the wife of Ed Gulley (my in-laws) who passed away after a battle with brain cancer.\nI 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.\nAs 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.\nThe 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.\nMy 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.\nThe TOFT team is honored to pay it forward to Carol and help cover funeral expenses and outstanding medical bills.\nThank you all that support TOFT in making it one of the best events we can share.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://helensteadman.com/audio-books/", "date": "2021-09-23T17:18:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057427.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923165408-20210923195408-00429.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9325882196426392, "token_count": 138, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__51988600", "lang": "en", "text": "Widdershins audio book available from Audible, AppleBooks, iTunes and Amazon.\nTry a short sample below. Narrated by Christine Mackie from Downton Abbey, Coronation Street, etc.\nThe 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.\nAll three novels will be available on Amazon, Audible and iTunes by the end of 2021.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://digitalnewsreleases.com/archives/category/entertainment", "date": "2013-05-24T08:56:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704392896/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516113952-00083-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9389839768409729, "token_count": 345, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__72345445", "lang": "en", "text": "After the widely successful film adaptation of the post apocalyptic teen novel, Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games is making waves in libraries as well.\nThe Auckland libraries are no exception, as currently 2610 people are currently in line to borrow the book.\nAs 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.\nLibrary readers hunger for hit book – Books – NZ Herald News http://t.co/Ve8MMGCr\n— AbacusEduBooks (Abacus Edu Books) (@AbacusEduBooks) Tue May 1 2012\nThe 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.\nAccording 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.\nThe 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.\nThe 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.satot.es/2020/04/23/transplant-candidate-kdigo/", "date": "2022-07-02T03:02:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656103983398.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220702010252-20220702040252-00620.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9219056963920593, "token_count": 206, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__8548239", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nThe 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://sarahreed.squarespace.com/news/2017/9/6/new-paper-stewardship-of-conservation-developments", "date": "2019-04-20T10:39:18Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578529606.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420100901-20190420122901-00436.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.933996319770813, "token_count": 350, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__26220591", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nDownload the full paper here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169204617301949", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://signalmountaintn.gov/departments/library/friends_of_library.php", "date": "2024-04-16T04:55:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817043.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20240416031446-20240416061446-00041.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9484970569610596, "token_count": 161, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__148356446", "lang": "en", "text": "Friends of Library\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nAll 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://michiganradio.org/post/join-great-michigan-read-story-writing-contest?nopop=1", "date": "2014-09-18T23:49:26Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.9165008068084717, "token_count": 347, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-41", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-41__0__45685417", "lang": "en", "text": "Podcasts & RSS Feeds\nMost Active Stories\n- Here's how Michigan taxpayers came to own the designs for the original World Trade Center\n- Revisiting the origin of the \"Michigan Left\"\n- What's behind Michigan Republicans' big turnaround on medical marijuana?\n- Decades after a summer job up north, this man writes an insider account of Mackinac Island\n- Here are 10 West Michigan trails to explore this fall\nThu April 10, 2014\nJoin the Great Michigan Read story-writing contest\nThe Deadline for this contest has expired.\nThe 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.\nAs a sponsor of the Great Michigan Read program, Michigan Radio is presenting a “one minute” short story writing contest.\nYou 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.”\nThe contest is open to anyone with a personal and original story to tell on the topic. Stories should be a maximum of 120 words.\nWinners 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.wias-berlin.de/people/tabelow/index.jsp?lang=0", "date": "2020-01-19T02:56:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250594101.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20200119010920-20200119034920-00205.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7597090005874634, "token_count": 325, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__42653308", "lang": "en", "text": "Dr. Karsten Tabelow - personal homepage\nI 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.\nI am author of a large number of articles in scientific journals and book chapters, see the publication site for details.\n- adimpro - Adaptive Smoothing of Digital Images (with J. Polzehl)\n- dti - dMRI Analysis (with J. Polzehl)\n- fmri - Analysis of fMRI Experiments (with J. Polzehl)\n- ACID-Toolbox for Artifact Correction in dMRI for SPM (with S. Mohammadi, J. Polzehl, L. Ruthotto)\n- aws4SPM - toolbox for SPM (with Devy Hoffmann) -currently under reconstruction\n- AWS for AMIRA - plugin for AMIRA (TM) (with Devy Hoffmann)\n- Adaptive smoothing plugin for BrainVoyager QX (with Felix Anker)\nWeierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und\nStochastik, Mohrenstraße 39, 10117 Berlin, phone: +49-30-20372-564, fax: +49-30-20372-303\nlast reviewed: Mar 1, 2016, Karsten Tabelow", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://heather.therichins.net/", "date": "2017-04-30T09:01:02Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.9844030737876892, "token_count": 1160, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__253213885", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nMy second child, T-Rex, has been a different story. And he has taught me how to help a slow reader.\nEvery 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.\n1. Read to your child\nRead 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.\n2. Read a lot\nRead 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 . . .\n2a. Write a lot\nWriting 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.\n3. Find what works for them\nA 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.\nAnother 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.\nThe 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.\n4. Sign up for a reading contest\nSummer 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.\nYou 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!\n5. Have your child tested\nIf 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.\nAll 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.\nNote: I was not paid or compensated to mention any product in this post.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://delphidb96.blogspot.com/2010/07/", "date": "2017-04-28T17:50:14Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.9578573107719421, "token_count": 317, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__72984634", "lang": "en", "text": "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\nfor $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.\nThe synopsis for \"Net Assets\" is:\n\"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.\n\"And then the bureacrats' world came to an end.\"\nIn 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.\nBut as has been noted, \"Ad astra per aspera.\"\nThis is a stimulating and provocative libertarian science fiction novel - don't miss it!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.pamelahartpoet.com/", "date": "2019-10-14T15:13:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986653876.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20191014150930-20191014174430-00558.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9513769149780273, "token_count": 318, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__79919121", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nMOTHERS 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\nHart 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", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://writeabooktogrowyourbusiness.com/optin18365914", "date": "2021-04-16T22:27:15Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038092961.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20210416221552-20210417011552-00490.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9573440551757812, "token_count": 333, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__248942290", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nEstablished 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.\nUsing 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.\nPrior 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.\nShe 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.\nThe 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://400squareftliving.blogspot.com/2011/06/fireworks.html", "date": "2018-07-23T05:58:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676594954.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20180723051723-20180723071723-00614.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9598032236099243, "token_count": 193, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-30__0__94642178", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nThe lights in the sky were reflected on the lake..\nThe fireworks looked like stars and solar systems.\nThe 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.pljonasbooks.com/post/new-book-in-the-works", "date": "2023-12-01T17:26:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100290.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20231201151933-20231201181933-00480.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9639167785644531, "token_count": 190, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__139537145", "lang": "en", "text": "I'm Typing As Fast As I can!\nUpdated: Sep 20\nExciting news for fans of my romantic suspense \"Hall of Deception\", a sequel is in the works!! I am busy, busy, busy writing every day.\n\"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.\nWith 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.\nBut when damaging rumors about Ellen and Dee spread through the community, their family’s happiness is put to a test.\nStay tuned for more information as it becomes available.\nProjected Release: Fall 2024 ( corrected)", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://entlebucher.us/memorial.htm", "date": "2023-06-08T20:53:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224655143.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608204017-20230608234017-00074.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9859381914138794, "token_count": 1357, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__103483780", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nWhere to Bury a Dog\nFor if the dog be well remembered,\nif sometimes she leaps through your dreams actual as in life, eyes kindling, laughing, begging, it matters not where that dog sleeps.\nOn a hill where the wind is unrebuked and the trees are roaring, of beside a stream she knew in puppy hood,\nor somewhere in the flatness of a pastureland where most exhilarating cattle graze. It is one to a dog, and all one to you,\nand nothing is gained and nothing lost -- if memory lives.\nBut there is one best place to bury a dog.\nIf you bury her in this spot, she will come to you when you call --\ncome to you over the grim, dim frontiers of death, and down the well-remembered path to your side again.\nAnd though you may call a dozen living dogs to heel, they shall not growl at her nor resent her coming, for she belongs there.\nPeople may scoff at you, who see no lightest blade of grass bent by her footfall,\nwho hear no whimper, people who have never really had a dog.\nSmile at them, for you shall know something that is hidden from them.\nThe one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of her master… - Anonymous\nFlip 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.\nPaula's Heidi Ho CDX\nHeidi 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.\nBuckeye Buttercup CDX\nSusie 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.\nHanna am Flaschee CD\nHanna 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!\nHanna 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.\nBello VD Weirhalten RN\nBello was a wonderful ambassador for the breed and an incredible addition to our family! We lovingly called him, \"Mello\" Bello.\nHe 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.\nBello also has a first for the Entlebucher Mountain Dog breed:\nBello is the first AKC Rally titled Entlebucher. Bello passed away 2 weeks shy of his 15 birthday.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://puffy-alpaca-25c.notion.site/Download-free-OMFS-textbook-b9daf4f81cd9470988fd6e2bafd5cfec", "date": "2023-12-11T12:53:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679511159.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211112008-20231211142008-00619.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9608137011528015, "token_count": 252, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__23541979", "lang": "en", "text": "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\nThis 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.\nWe 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.\nAs 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.\nProfessor Peter Brennan, co-author and Chair of BAOMS Council", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://johnnmarsh.com/professional-accomplishments/", "date": "2018-12-10T21:34:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823445.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20181210212544-20181210234044-00552.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8070594072341919, "token_count": 355, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__167044962", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\n2004: 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.\n2003: “Margaret Laurence,” a biographical essay published in The Online Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography at: www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/\n2000: “Practicing the Scales of Rejoicing” in Essex Conversations (Skinner Press, UUA, Boston, 2001).\n1999: “Choose Life” in Sermons, Homilies, Reflections on the Death Penalty (published by the American Friends Service Committee, Philadelphia, PA).\n1998: “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).\n1996: Annual Social Justice Award of the Western Canada District of the Unitarian Universalist Association.\n1995: “The Unitarian Church of Edmonton,” a history printed in Northern Lights, edited by Joan Montagnes, (Moosemilk Press, Edmonton, Alberta).\n1994: editor, Sweetgrass and Cottonwood Smoke by Mary Scriver (Moosemilk Press, Edmonton, Alberta).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/society/societyaims", "date": "2017-04-29T03:35:30Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.944761335849762, "token_count": 180, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__279608618", "lang": "en", "text": "The Society aims to encourage interest in and a deeper understanding of the life and work of the writer\nAuthor of over fifty books including Tarka the Otter.\nPhotograph copyright © Oswald Jones\nPermission granted for use by\nThe Henry Williamson Society\nCopyright: 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.\nEnquiries about copyright permissions should be addressed to:\nMrs Anne Williamson, Manager of the HW Literary Estate,\nKeepers, West Dean Woods, Chichester, West Sussex PO18 0RU, England", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.henle.de/jp/the-publishing-house/artists/index.html", "date": "2013-12-05T01:53:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386163038079/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204131718-00056-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.96015465259552, "token_count": 343, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__108916972", "lang": "en", "text": "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:\n“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!\nEvgeny Kissin to G. Henle Publishers; see also original letter\nGünter 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.\nToday 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:", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/3763/Fielding-Dawson.html", "date": "2019-03-24T15:38:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203462.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20190324145706-20190324171706-00475.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9425985813140869, "token_count": 358, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__170495299", "lang": "en", "text": "Fielding Dawson Biography\n(1930–2002), The Black Mountain Book, Open Road, The Mandalay Dream, A Great Day For a Ballgame\nAmerican 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.\n- Jennifer Dawson Biography - (1929–2000), The Ha-Ha, The Bell Jar, Fowler's Snare, The Cold Country\n- Other Free Encyclopedias", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://coins-mag.com/is-blockchain-the-future-of-our-medical-system/", "date": "2023-05-28T18:59:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644506.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20230528182446-20230528212446-00673.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.947242796421051, "token_count": 574, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__82448895", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nBlockchain and health: for better knowledge management\nBlockchain would allow the healthcare sector to address concerns related to the need for a :\n- knowledge and data management that is flexible and digitized ;\n- easy and user-friendly for patients to access their health data;\n- allowing the decompartmentalization of the data stored in the current tools.\nSuch a system would respond to the growing complexity of healthcare. Indeed, these must be supported by an adequate knowledge management tool.\nBlockchain 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.\nDecentralization for a better follow-up in care\nSo 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:\n- decentralized monitoring of the use of medical equipment by healthcare institutions ;\n- identify deficiencies or surpluses of devices in different geographical locations.\nBlockchain 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:\n“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.”\nOn-chain and off-chain, a synergy to be found for health data storage\nHowever, 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.\nHowever, 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:\n“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.”\nThe 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?", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://byfinessegroup.com/finesse-writers-club/", "date": "2022-12-05T14:17:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711017.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20221205132617-20221205162617-00393.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9266903400421143, "token_count": 151, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__65359312", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nAt 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!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://fieldstonecommunityfarm.org/conept", "date": "2020-11-28T04:40:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141195069.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20201128040731-20201128070731-00188.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9549635052680969, "token_count": 129, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-50__0__205412014", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nOur 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://camerahacker.com/Forums/DisplayComments.php?file=Print/Print_Like_a_Pro", "date": "2022-07-05T01:23:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104506762.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704232527-20220705022527-00121.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9327750205993652, "token_count": 367, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__205285305", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nOf 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!\nWed, 14 Dec 2005 18:06:46 -0800\nYou 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.\nThu, 15 Dec 2005 11:24:27 -0800\nDid your message disappear? Read the Forums FAQ.\nSpam Control | * indicates required field\nTrackBack only accepted from WebSite-X Suite web sites. Do not submit TrackBacks from other sites.\nNo TrackBacks yet. TrackBack can be used to link this thread to your weblog, or link your weblog to this thread. In addition, TrackBack can be used as a form of remote commenting. Rather than posting the comment directly on this thread, you can posts it on your own weblog. Then have your weblog sends a TrackBack ping to the TrackBack URL, so that your post would show up here.\nMessages, files, and images copyright by respective owners.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.bartletttree.co.uk/resources/technical-reports/abiotic-disorders", "date": "2020-04-10T03:53:52Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585371883359.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20200410012405-20200410042905-00237.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.958522379398346, "token_count": 127, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-16", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__81972717", "lang": "en", "text": "A Technical Report from The Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories\nLandscape 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://cabometyxhcp.com/mechanism", "date": "2018-12-09T20:43:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823009.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20181209185547-20181209211547-00018.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8884140253067017, "token_count": 1011, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__71383195", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nGastrointestinal (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.\nThrombotic 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.\nHypertension 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.\nDiarrhea: 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.\nPalmar-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.\nReversible 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.\nEmbryo-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.\nThe most commonly reported (≥25%) adverse reactions were: diarrhea, fatigue, nausea, decreased appetite, hypertension, PPE, weight decreased, vomiting, dysgeusia, and stomatitis.\nStrong CYP3A4 Inhibitors: If concomitant use with strong CYP3A4 inhibitors cannot be avoided, reduce the CABOMETYX dosage.\nStrong CYP3A4 Inducers: If concomitant use with strong CYP3A4 inducers cannot be avoided, increase the CABOMETYX dosage.\nUSE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS\nLactation: Advise women not to breastfeed while taking CABOMETYX and for 4 months after the final dose.\nHepatic 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.\nPlease see accompanying full Prescribing Information.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://physivantage.com/pages/our-founder", "date": "2021-07-28T05:09:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046153521.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20210728025548-20210728055548-00702.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9676002264022827, "token_count": 234, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__287911736", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nHörst 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).\nA 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 >>", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.eliasfischer.com/ego-the-false-self-perception/", "date": "2023-10-03T17:51:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511170.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20231003160453-20231003190453-00742.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9655246734619141, "token_count": 753, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__58321519", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nYou 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.\nTHE EGO COMPARES AND JUDGES\nIf 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.\nWHAT DOES ‘EGO’ MEAN?\nEgo 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.”\nSINK IN THE EGO EFFECTS\nEgo 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.\nBe 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.\nKEEP AN EYE ON YOUR EGO AND BE AWARE OF YOURSELF\nAn 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.\nThis 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://alistaird221b.blogspot.jp/2012/06/book-review-sherlock-holmes-on-screen.html", "date": "2013-06-19T08:24:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708145189/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516124225-00028-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9730811715126038, "token_count": 330, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__64807982", "lang": "en", "text": "I’m glad I caved into curiosity and bought it.\nIn 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).\nThe 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’.\nBarnes’ 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”.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.lycocard.com/index.php/lyco_pub/results/", "date": "2017-04-30T13:01:02Z", "file_path": "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", "language_score": 0.844711184501648, "token_count": 2626, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__182947324", "lang": "en", "text": "Publications from April to December 2011\nV. 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.\nL. Müller, V. Böhm: Antioxidant activity of β-carotene compounds in different in vitro assays - Molecules 16 (2011) 1055-1069.\nA. 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.\nL. 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.\nL. 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.\nR. 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.\nVerónica 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.\nF. 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.\nA 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.\nTherefore, 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].\nSo 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].\nβ-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.\nAnalysis 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].\nHomogenisation 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].\nThe 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].\nSo 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.\nAccompanying 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.\nThis 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.\n• 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\nJ. Agric. Food Chem. 57 (2009) 6815-6822\n• 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\nFood Chem. Toxicol. 46 (2008) 3832-3836\n• 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\nJ. Food Lipids 16 (2009) 259-272\n• 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)\nJ. Nutr. 138 (2008) 1432-1436\n• 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\nJ. Agric. Food Chem. 57 (2009) 4739–4745\n• 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\nBr. J. Nutr. 102 (2009) 207-214\n• 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\nJ. Nutr. Biochem. 21/1 (2010) 34-46\n• 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\nInnov. Food Sci. Technol. 10 (2009) 179-188\n• 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\nJ. Agric. Food Chem. 55 (2007) 8825-8829", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.mindfulwellness.us/awareness1/sugar-industry-suppressed-research-linking-sugar-to-heart-disease-and-cancer", "date": "2023-10-04T07:09:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233511361.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20231004052258-20231004082258-00450.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.880851149559021, "token_count": 1203, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__230303431", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nThis 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.\nIn 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).\nResearchers 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).\nIn 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).\nBasu, 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].\nFoley, 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].\nKearns, 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\nKearns, 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\nNutritional 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\nPaigen, 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].\nThe 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].\nThe Awareness domain contains research, news, information, observations, and ideas at the level of self in an effort to intellectualize health concepts.\nThe Lifestyle domain builds off intellectual concepts and offers practical applications.\nTaking care of yourself is at the core of the other domains because the others depend on your health and wellness.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.wanderful.design/en/designers/leo-timmers/", "date": "2023-12-02T08:31:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100381.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202073445-20231202103445-00526.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9933837652206421, "token_count": 194, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__315605503", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nRecently 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.tammyplunkett.com/grandparents-of-trans-children/", "date": "2023-05-29T06:34:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224644683.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20230529042138-20230529072138-00541.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9716092944145203, "token_count": 813, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__226717158", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nSince 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.\nMany 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.\nNo room for grace\nOne 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.\nNo access to support\nWhile 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.\nAgain, 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.\nOne 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.\nDownload 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.voiceactorwebsites.com/meditate-gods-light/", "date": "2019-07-21T06:45:13Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526931.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20190721061720-20190721083720-00343.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9305363893508911, "token_count": 173, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__153027348", "lang": "en", "text": "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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://muslimjapan.com/2011/07/07/hadith-15-good-manners-in-speech/", "date": "2024-04-13T13:46:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00184.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9613449573516846, "token_count": 2294, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__81678976", "lang": "en", "text": "Hadith 15: Good manners in speech\nAbu Hurairah, radiyallahu ‘anhu, reported that the Messenger of Allah, sallallahu ‘alayhi wasallam, said:\n“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.”\n[Al-Bukhari & Muslim]\nThis 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.\nImam 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.\nThe responsibility of the Muslim regarding what he says is mentioned in the Qur’an:\n“Not a word does he utter but there is a watcher by him ready to record it”\n[Surah Qaf (50): ayat 18].\nThere 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.\nOne 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]\nWhat we can learn here is that either we say something beneficial and good or else we should keep silent.\nThere 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.\nAs 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.\nIf 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.\nIf 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.\nEven if we have information which, as a result, may add to the person’s confusion, we should keep it to ourselves.\nWe 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.\nWhen 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.\nWhen 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.\nComplaining, 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.\nWe 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:\n- spreading rumours, especially those that will cause harm to the community.\n- slandering, back-biting, etc.\n- 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.\nSometimes 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.\nThe 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.”\nIn 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.”\nAnother 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.\nWe 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.\nThe ‘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.\nRegarding 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.\nHosting 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).\nThis 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.\nDr. Jamal Ahmed Badi", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://meenakshisundaramwriter.blogspot.com/2014/10/a-shepherds-discovery-of-rajakesari.html", "date": "2021-08-04T00:06:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154486.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20210803222541-20210804012541-00301.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9626045227050781, "token_count": 778, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__281284534", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nAnd a folksong related to such riddles, is still narrated by the peoplof Ettimadai, a village near the ancient highway Rajakesari Peruvazhi.\n“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)”\n“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.\nPointing at the three hills Sorimalai, Thimilmalai and Attamalai in Ettimadai, Anbarasu says:\n“Look, you can have a clear view of Rajakesari Peruvazhi between those mountains”\nInteracting with K.R. Babu, a poet and historian of Coimbatore at Rajakesari Peruvazhi on Friday, Anbarasu informed:\n“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”\nAnbarasu 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!\n“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.\nPointing at the ancient highway, which runs between the long stretches of cacti along its sides, poet K.R.Babu averred:\n“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”\nLink to my article in The New Indian Express : http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/c/3633910", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.qpsemployment.com/about/leadership/bio/dan-burnett", "date": "2024-04-18T15:00:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817206.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418124808-20240418154808-00802.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9556090831756592, "token_count": 125, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__135412369", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nDan has a bachelor’s degree in education and a master’s degree in management and leadership. He is the author of the book \"I Am CXO, Now What? A Job Description for Living a Life of Purpose and Meaning.\" Westbow Press, 2017.\nDan and his wife Denise have two grown children and reside in Oconomowoc, WI.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.kcrwf.com/team-1", "date": "2023-12-08T12:35:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100745.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20231208112926-20231208142926-00887.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9490466713905334, "token_count": 238, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__81791341", "lang": "en", "text": "2023 KCRWF Americanism\nEssay Contest Winners\nEvy Krombein is an incoming high school sophomore living in Kootenai County. When she’s not writing novels or essays, you can find her reading one of her favorite books (which include The Sinking City by Christine Cohen and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas), or cuddling her cats, Snickerdoodle and Cocoa.\nMy 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!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://sharingwisdom.us/events/", "date": "2013-05-20T16:42:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368699113041/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516101153-00075-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8217340707778931, "token_count": 130, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__202474250", "lang": "en", "text": "You are invited to attend\na book signing for author Lisa Solis DeLong:\nNovember 19, 2011 at 4:00pm\n295 E. Colorado Blvd,\nPasadena, CA 91101\nPlease join Lisa for this special event and invite a friend!\nIf you already have a copy of BLOOD Brothers,\nbuy one for a friend – this book makes a great gift!\nWe hope to see you there!\nFor more information or to rsvp, please email author\nLisa Solis DeLong\nCan’t make the event? Get it at www.tatepublishing.com or Amazon", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://mestradosustentabilidade.usuarios.rdc.puc-rio.br/en/noticias/aluna-egressa-do-curso-carla-pimentel-lanca-livro-guia-jardins-terapeuticos-em-instituicoes-de-saude/", "date": "2024-04-20T10:44:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817576.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20240420091126-20240420121126-00090.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8677101731300354, "token_count": 303, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__43961650", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nWhile 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.\nJardins terapêuticos em instituições de saúde: benefícios, características e implementação\nAuthor: Carla Pimentel\nEdition: Gondola label from Lacre publishing house\nE-book sold on the main online sales platforms\nBack to Noticias", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://sussexcarz.com/spinning-fortunes-exploring-the-slot-world/", "date": "2024-04-18T22:36:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296817249.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20240418222029-20240419012029-00118.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9017918705940247, "token_count": 556, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__141178088", "lang": "en", "text": "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.\nFrom 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.\nIn 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.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://siskinbob.com/page/177/", "date": "2022-01-21T21:10:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303709.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220121192415-20220121222415-00564.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9684274196624756, "token_count": 449, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__103638434", "lang": "en", "text": "I want to tell you about a series of books to which I have just been introduced by my friend Eric.\nThe series is called Emperor and tells the story, via four novels, of the life of Julius Caesar.\nFrom young boy to Consul of Rome and beyond with Rome, Spain, Gaul, Britain and Greece as a backdrop. The books are filled with adventure, pirates, political intrigue, a little romance and lots of action both on land and at sea. The books are also peppered with other famous characters such as Pompey, Cicero, Mark Antony and so on.\nWhen 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 !!!\nIf only my tutors could have enlivened the classes with stories such as these.\nSince 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.\nAlso, 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.\nThe 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.\nI 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.\nThank you Eric, for introducing me to Emperor.", "domain": "literature"}
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{"url": "https://wavemakerglobal.com/uk/positive-provocation-the-next-stage-of-marketing/", "date": "2024-03-05T07:09:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707948223038.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20240305060427-20240305090427-00612.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9301648139953613, "token_count": 135, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__176693901", "lang": "en", "text": "It wasn’t just the beginning of ‘lockdown’; it was the moment when marketing as we know it changed forever and a new era began.\nIntroducing our major thought leadership book, Positive Provocation: the next stage of marketing.\nPositive Provocation is the next stage of marketing. It demands attention, focus and analysis from the business and brand owner community.\nIn this book authors from Wavemaker UK unveil seven provocations that can help you drive growth in what’s set to be a turbulent decade.\nOur Positive Provocations are unflinching, challenge conventional marketing practice and will show you a better way to grow.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://qeegdb.net/default/menu04/menu04_cont03.php?sub=43", "date": "2023-10-01T07:41:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510810.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20231001073649-20231001103649-00078.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7277206182479858, "token_count": 3423, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__235705187", "lang": "en", "text": "Joel F. Lubar, Margaret N. Shouse\nReduced seizure incidence coupled with voluntary motor inhibition accompanied conditioned increases in the sensorimotor rhythm(SMR), a 12–14 Hz rhythm appearing over rolandic cortex. Although SMR biofeedback training has been successfully applied to various forms of epilepsy in humans, its potential use in decreasing hyperactivity has been limited to a few cases in which a seizure history was also a significant feature. The present study represents a first attempt to explore the technique's applicability to the problem of hyperkinesis independent of the epilepsy issue. The results of several months of EEG biofeedback training in a hyperkinetic child tend to corroborate and extend previous findings. Feedback presentations for SMR were contingent on the production of 12–14-Hz activity in the absence of 4–7-Hz slow-wave activity. A substantial increase in SMR occurred with progressive SMR training and was associated with enhanced motor inhibition, as gauged by laboratory measures of muscular tone(chin EMG) and by a global behavioral assessment in the classroom. Opposite trends in motor inhibition occurred when the training procedure was reversed and feedback presentations were contingent on the production of 4–7 Hz in the absence of 12–14-Hz activity. 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(2007).\nNeurofeedback for the treatment of children and adolescents with ADHD: A randomized and controlled clinical trial using parental reports. BMC Psychiatry, 12, 107.Duric, N. S., Assmus, J., Gundersen, D. I., & Elgen, I. B. (2012).\nNeurofeedback treatment for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children: A comparison with methylphenidate. Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback, 28(1), 1–12. Fuchs, T., Birbaumer, N., Lutzenberger, W., Gruzelier, J. H., & Kaiser, J. (2003).\nLong term effects after feedback of slow cortical potentials and of theta-beta-amplitudes in children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism, 10(4), 209–232. Gani, C., Birbaumer, N., & Strehl, U. (2008).\nIs neurofeedback an efficacious treatment for ADHD? A randomized controlled clinical trial. 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{"url": "https://bloodgodpod.com/autumn-of-avatar-book-3-finale-recap/", "date": "2023-12-07T11:08:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100651.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207090036-20231207120036-00688.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9089980125427246, "token_count": 223, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__236639923", "lang": "en", "text": "Autumn of Avatar – Book 3 + Finale Recap\nWell, fellow Benders, it’s finally here: the end of our Autumn of the Avatar. We’ve reached the conclusion of Book 3: Fire, seen Sozin’s Comet rocket across the sky, and the return of many familiar faces as the final battle played out.\nWe’re joined by Kate Sánchez of But Why Tho? to help bring it all home. In this big Book 3 finale, we’ve got:\n- Kat and Nadia’s impressions of the finale\n- The generational trauma of this 100-year war\n- Redemption vs. atonement\n- And somehow, the Earth King not getting eaten by Bosco\nAll this, the series MVP vote, and more in our thrilling conclusion to the season of Avatar: The Last Airbender. As always, we appreciate your support and Patronage which lets you get content like this. And a special thanks from us to you, for going with us on this seasonal journey through such a special show.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://mikevanleeuwen.com/en/balrog/", "date": "2024-02-26T08:56:50Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474653.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226062606-20240226092606-00478.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.953196108341217, "token_count": 163, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__31174", "lang": "en", "text": "The Balrog burner is a wood-fired burner based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings trilogy, one of the most popular and influential works of the 20th century when it comes to fantastic literature. The Balrog is a powerful fictional monster featured in this trilogy. These beings are described as tall and menacing, and can shroud themselves in fire, darkness and shadow. What better basis for a beautiful burner? The adventurous aspect of Lord of the Rings and the mediaeval style always appeal to the imagination, and were a great source of inspiration for the design. And what makes the Balrog burner so unique is that it shares that same magnificence found in the film. It has been created with a true eye for detail. An awe-inspiring eye-catcher!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://blog.mareliscott.com/2017/08/from-girl-next-door-to-next-female-jtfoxx.html", "date": "2021-10-25T07:05:27Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-43/segments/1634323587655.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20211025061300-20211025091300-00184.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.94258713722229, "token_count": 573, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-43__0__290775654", "lang": "en", "text": "From Girl Next Door to Next Female JT Foxx\n9 Things that make JT Foxx #1:\n- JT genuinely wants everyone to succeed and reach their full potential as he is powered by his students' success.\n- He focuses on potential and often believe more in others than they do themselves.\n- With his \"leave no man behind\" attitude, JT always over-delivers on value.\n- His word is his honour and loyalty means everything to him.\n- JT has unequaled experience and knowledge in a broad spectrum of industries.\n- JT is a master strategist and always 8 steps ahead.\n- He is relatable as he knows what it's like to have nothing and start from the bottom.\n- Everything he teaches, he implements in his own businesses on a daily basis.\n- He'd much rather be honest than popular.\nHERE'S A SNEAK PEEK AT MY LIFE SINCE BECOMING PART OF THE JT FOXX FAMILY\nJT Foxx calling me \"The Next Female JT Foxx\"\nJT Foxx endorsing me\nThe JT Foxx Organization's first Mega Speaker event and my first time on stage speaking in front of 1000 people\nStarting my journey as International Radio Host and hosting my own show about 'Authenticity'\nReceiving the Radio W.O.R.K.S. World International Speaker Award in London as International Radio Host\nInvited to share the stage with JT Foxx at the National Achievers Congress in South Africa\nPersonally receiving a signed copy of Robert Kiyosaki's new book after speaking on the same stage at the National Achievers Congress in South Africa\nTwo page feature in Wealth Ladder Magazine\nInvited to a personal tour of the Nelson Mandela Foundation with George Ross: The Apprentice Judge, Donald Trump's former right-hand man and JT Foxx's current right-hand man\nInterviewing George Ross\nWriting and publishing my first book 'Authentic ME' with foreword by JT Foxx\nLaunching my book \"Authentic ME\" at the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) in London\nNominated to receive an Authors Award at the BAFTA in London\nA FEW OTHERS I'VE MET, DONE BUSINESS WITH OR SHARED THE STAGE WITH\n- Learn and implement as much and as fast as you can.\n- Surround yourself with like-minded people who will push you to grow.\n- Invest in yourself and in your future at every opportunity you get.\n- Keep your eyes and ears open for opportunities and seize them.\n- Have a mindset of adding value instead of taking.\n- You only fail if you learn nothing.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://screeningthepast.media.latrobe.edu.au/archives/FMPro?-DB=articles&-Format=article_info.htm&articleid=rmfr10e&-Find", "date": "2013-05-23T09:50:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703108201/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516111828-00074-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8977673649787903, "token_count": 158, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-20", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-20__0__144189238", "lang": "en", "text": "Title 'The problem of interpretation...': authorial and institutional intentions in and around Kiss me deadly.\nAuthor Richard Maltby\nIssue Issue 10, 2000.\nThis essay re-examines the critical location of Kiss me deadly, arguing that its strategies of incoherence, contradiction and allusion result in large part from the circumstances of its production and exhibition. The essay discusses the history of the movie’s encounters with the Production Code Administration, the Legion of Decency and the Kefauver Senate Subcommittee investigating juvenile delinquency. By considering the cultural status of the paperback book industry in general, and the works of Mickey Spillane in particular, the essay also explores the limits and possibilities for the adaptation and exploitation of a Spillane novel in the mid-1950s.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://whatwoulddogsdo.com/about-nichole", "date": "2021-09-17T21:25:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780055808.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20210917212307-20210918002307-00239.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9810704588890076, "token_count": 359, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__10199457", "lang": "en", "text": "Ever since early childhood, Nichole's life has been intertwined with dogs. For the longest time, she simply felt her connection with dogs was simply normal; something everyone possessed. However, once she started working with rescue dogs and pets she realized her connection and understanding of dogs was unique and special. Her respect for dogs, coupled with her insights into their behaviours and motivations, revealed ways in which she could help dogs properly socialize, overcome challenges, and find balance in their lives. These basic elements that created happy and healthy dogs are the same elements that create happy and healthy human beings. Nichole has taken the lessons and observations learned from her work with dogs and authored her first book: What Would Dogs Do?: Lessons for Humanity from our Best Friend.\nNichole has lived throughout Canada and currently resides on the East Coast with her husband, their two sons, their four dogs, and their six cats. Her heavy immersion into the dog world occurred over the years she ran a boarding kennel on the West Coast of Canada and was partnered to foster and rehabilitate hundreds of dogs for the local Humane Society. Prior to her operating the kennel, she worked for years in business while raising a family, including several adopted pets.\nIn addition to her involvement in animal rescue, Nichole is a recent vegan, a long time environmentalist, and advocate for women's rights.\nFor years, Nichole worked with an incredible variety of dogs to both care for and rehabilitate. She observed many ways in which dogs are similar to human beings and how, all too often, dogs are able to handle and overcome challenges even better than humanity does. Nichole's observations are compiled in her first book - What Would Dogs Do? - available now on Amazon, in paperback and for Kindle.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.jeywin.com/product/tamil-police-investigation-powers-tactics-techniques-volume-1-2/", "date": "2017-11-23T12:45:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806832.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123123458-20171123143458-00410.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9417645931243896, "token_count": 202, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__200569718", "lang": "en", "text": "Volume 1 and 2 of this book “Police Investigation – Powers, Tactics and Techniques” together constitutes a single book. Volume 1 contains 1 to 14 chapters and Volume 2 has Chapter 15 to Chapter 25 with Annexures. This book will be regarded as a benchmark and best-practice model and would continue to be regarded as the ‘Bible’ for professional investigation in India. May the Indian Police conduct investigation in a better manner, the Advocate conduct the trial in an earnest way protecting his genuinely aggrieved client and the Judicial Officer deliver impartial justice in a fair manner without any prejudice or compulsion. After going through this book, may the Indian Police earn the appreciation of all citizens of India and the international community for achieving the status of world-class competency in protecting the citizens and their properties, bypassing the name and fame earned by even the London Bobbies. For the discerning investigating Police Officer, this book may not be an option, but rather a necessity – a vade mecum.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.cameyeam.com/post/what-is-the-joseph-anointing", "date": "2024-02-22T05:11:24Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473690.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20240222030017-20240222060017-00065.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.961633563041687, "token_count": 864, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__41071639", "lang": "en", "text": "As a once young minister, I understand the importance of tapping into our inner strength and resilience to achieve our goals and overcome challenges. That's why I'm excited to introduce you to the concept of the Joseph anointing - a powerful gift that has helped countless people throughout history to succeed and thrive in the face of adversity. In this article, we'll explore what the Joseph anointing is, how it can help you achieve your goals, and practical ways to apply it in your own life. So, sit back, relax, and let's dive into this inspiring topic together.\nWhat Is the Joseph Anointing?\nIn the Bible, Joseph was a figure known for his exceptional ability to interpret dreams and his unwavering faith in God. Many people believe that the \"Joseph anointing\" is a spiritual gift that enables individuals to prosper, succeed, and overcome adversity. But what exactly is the Joseph anointing, and how can we tap into this gift? In this article, we'll explore the origins and meaning of the Joseph anointing, its relevance today, and how we can apply its principles in our own lives.\nThe Origins of the Joseph Anointing\nThe story of Joseph can be found in the book of Genesis in the Bible. Joseph was the son of Jacob, and he was sold into slavery by his jealous brothers. Despite this setback, Joseph rose to become the second most powerful man in Egypt, using his gift of dream interpretation to help Pharaoh navigate a severe famine. Joseph's faith in God and his ability to persevere through adversity have made him a beloved figure in the Bible.\nUnderstanding the Joseph Anointing\nThe Joseph anointing is a spiritual gift that is believed to help individuals prosper and succeed. It is often associated with the ability to interpret dreams and receive visions from God. Those who possess the Joseph anointing are said to have a deep sense of purpose and direction in their lives, and they are able to overcome obstacles and achieve their goals with ease.\nThe Relevance of the Joseph Anointing Today\nWhile the story of Joseph may be thousands of years old, the principles of the Joseph anointing are just as relevant today as they were in biblical times. In a world filled with uncertainty and adversity, the Joseph anointing can provide us with the faith and courage we need to succeed. By tapping into this gift, we can discover our true purpose and direction in life, and we can overcome any obstacle that comes our way.\nHow to Tap Into the Joseph Anointing\nIf you want to tap into the Joseph anointing, there are several steps you can take. First, you must have a deep and abiding faith in God. This faith will help you stay grounded and focused, even in the face of adversity. Second, you must be open to receiving visions and dreams from God. These visions can provide you with guidance and direction in your life. Finally, you must be willing to take action on the insights you receive. By putting your faith into action, you can achieve your goals and fulfill your purpose in life.\nApplying the Principles of the Joseph Anointing in Your Life\nThere are several ways to apply the principles of the Joseph anointing in your life. One way is to seek guidance from God through prayer and meditation. By spending time in quiet contemplation, you can open yourself up to receiving insights and visions from God. Another way is to stay focused on your goals and trust in God's plan for your life. Even when things get tough, remember that God has a plan for you, and that he will see you through any difficulty.\nI hope that this article has inspired you to tap into the Joseph anointing and discover the power that lies within you. By trusting in God's plan for your life, seeking guidance through prayer and meditation, and staying focused on your goals, you can achieve success and overcome any obstacle that comes your way. Remember, the Joseph anointing is not just a concept from biblical times - it is a timeless gift that can help us navigate uncertainty, achieve our dreams, and live a purposeful life. So, go forth with confidence, knowing that you have the strength and resilience to achieve all that you desire.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://truth2power-media.blogspot.com/2017/08/listen-read-along-to-this-excellent.html", "date": "2018-12-12T13:57:39Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376823895.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20181212134123-20181212155623-00139.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9114668965339661, "token_count": 946, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-51__0__107091106", "lang": "en", "text": "Macbeth dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those who seek power for its own sake. A brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. He is then wracked with guilt and paranoia. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler. The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. - Wikipedia\nDuncan – King of Scotland\nMalcolm – Duncan's elder son\nDonalbain – Duncan's younger son\nMacbeth – a general in the army of King Duncan; originally Thane of Glamis, then Thane of Cawdor, and later King of Scotland\nLady Macbeth – Macbeth's wife, and later Queen of Scotland\nBanquo – Macbeth's friend and a general in the army of King Duncan\nFleance – Banquo's son\nMacduff – Thane of Fife\nLady Macduff – Macduff's wife\nRoss, Lennox, Angus, Menteith, Caithness – Scottish Thanes\nSiward – general of the English forces\nYoung Siward – Siward's son\nSeyton – Macbeth's armourer\nHecate – Queen of the witches\nCaptain – in the Scottish army\nThree Murderers – employed by Macbeth\nTwo Murderers – attack Lady Macduff\nPorter – gatekeeper at Macbeth's home\nDoctor – Lady Macbeth's doctor\nDoctor – at the English court\nGentlewoman – Lady Macbeth's caretaker\nLord – opposed to Macbeth\nFirst Apparition – armed head\nSecond Apparition – bloody child\nThird Apparition – crowned child\nAttendants, Messengers, Servants, Soldiers\nExcerpts of some of the more famous phrases\nand those relating to Cambodia\nAnd oftentimes, to win us to our harm,The instruments of darkness tell us truths\nTo beguile the time,\nLook like the time; bear welcome in your eye,\nYour hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,But be the serpent under't.\nFalse face must hide what the false heart doth know.\nI have no spur\nTo prick the sides of my intent, but only\nVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself\nAnd falls on the other.\nI would, while it was smiling in my face,\nHave pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,\nAnd dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you\nHave done to this.\nthe sleeping and the dead\nAre but as pictures: 'tis the eye of childhoodThat fears a painted devil\nThere's daggers in men's smiles: the near in blood,\nThe nearer bloody.\nBut I remember now\nI am in this earthly world; where to do harm\nIs often laudable, to do good sometimeAccounted dangerous folly:\nO nation miserable,\nWith an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter'd,When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again\nAlas, poor country!\nAlmost afraid to know itself. It cannot\nBe call'd our mother, but our grave; where nothing,\nBut who knows nothing, is once seen to smile;\nWhere sighs and groans and shrieks that rend the air\nAre made, not mark'd; where violent sorrow seems\nA modern ecstasy; the dead man's knell\nIs there scarce ask'd for who; and good men's lives\nExpire before the flowers in their caps,\nDying or ere they sicken.\nFoul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds\nDo breed unnatural troubles: infected minds\nTo their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets:\nMore needs she the divine than the physician.\nThose he commands move only in command,\nNothing in love: now does he feel his title\nHang loose about him, like a giant's robe\nUpon a dwarfish thief.\nLife's but a walking shadow, a poor player\nThat struts and frets his hour upon the stage\nAnd then is heard no more: it is a tale\nTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://thelamp.com.au/tag/ratios-life-or-death/", "date": "2022-07-04T21:13:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-27/segments/1656104496688.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220704202455-20220704232455-00107.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9467440843582153, "token_count": 347, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-27", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-27__0__22592904", "lang": "en", "text": "A US study has found that nurse-to-patient ratios not only improved patient outcomes – they did so at little financial cost to the health system.\nThe study, led by Dr Karen Lasater RN PHD, found that hospitals with better staffing levels recouped the added costs of staffing by having significantly lower lengths of admissions and lengths of stay.\nThe study analysed readmissions, mortality rates and lengths of stay for patients admitted for acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, stroke, or sepsis at 306 American hospitals.\nAfter accounting for differences in patient status and acuity, the researchers found a cost difference $18,848 per patient for those in hospitals with proper staffing ratios, versus a cost of $18,671 per patient at those without them. This presented an insignificant cost difference between the two cohorts.\nHowever, hospitals without staffing ratios exhibited notably higher rates of patient mortality and readmissions. They also had lengthier hospital stays on average.\nIn particular, patients admitted for sepsis had a 2% greater mortality rate at understaffed hospitals compared to those who attended hospitals with safe ratios\nThe costs of readmissions and hospital stays thus counteracted any financial benefit derived from cutting staff.\nUniversity of Pennsylvania’s Aaron Glickman lauded the results of the study, indicating it as a reason to mandate nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals.\n“Prior literature made the quality case for better nursing clear. This study bolsters the economic case,” Glickman said.\n“When hospitals invest in their nurses, patients benefit, with no net increase in costs. That’s a powerful value proposition.”", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.bitcoinerbooks.com/author/george-orwell", "date": "2024-02-21T05:23:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473370.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221034447-20240221064447-00625.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9876810908317566, "token_count": 258, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__11663252", "lang": "en", "text": "George Orwell (real name Eric Arthur Blair) was a British author and journalist born on June 25, 1903, in Motihari, India. He is best known for his works of fiction, including \"Animal Farm\" and \"Nineteen Eighty-Four,\" which are widely regarded as literary classics and have had a significant impact on modern political thought. Orwell's writings often explored themes of social injustice, totalitarianism, and the abuse of power. His experiences as a police officer in colonial Burma, a soldier in the Spanish Civil War, and a journalist in England and Europe during World War II provided him with firsthand exposure to the oppressive regimes and social inequality that he would later critique in his writing. \"Animal Farm,\" published in 1945, is a political allegory that satirizes the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and the early years of the Soviet Union. \"Nineteen Eighty-Four,\" published in 1949, is a dystopian novel that depicts a totalitarian society where individual freedom is suppressed and critical thought is punished. Orwell's works continue to be widely read and studied today and have had a significant impact on popular culture and political discourse. He is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century and his name has become synonymous with critiques of authoritarianism and government surveillance.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://myintrovertbubble.wordpress.com/2016/02/05/the-book-is-always-better-the-shining-book-review/", "date": "2017-12-13T05:04:13Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948521292.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20171213045921-20171213065921-00115.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.975010097026825, "token_count": 255, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-51", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-51__0__86981050", "lang": "en", "text": "I bet all book lovers out there can agree with me when I say that the book is always better than the movie. Because of course it is. The lack of detail isn’t what bothers me. But the redundant changes in the original plot are what set my teeth on edge. I just have one question. WHY?\nThe Shining is the first ever novel by Stephan King that I got the chance to read. I watched the movie a while back and it, without a doubt, gave me a good scare. The novel on the other end, despite being only words, was much more terrifying. Did I want to stick it inside the freezer at some point? (Reference from Friends) Yes I did!\nBeing a sucker for the horror genre, I had my doubts about whether a book could make me afraid of the dark. The Shining certainly did. It was exceptionally well written and the plot was perfectly paced. It neither ran too fast, like the movie. Nor was it slow or tedious. I absolutely loved how smoothly the story was told, making it easily believable. Stephan King provided the perfect amount of details and insight into the minds of the characters letting the readers know exactly what was happening. I look forward to reading more books by this brilliant author.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://journals.berghahnbooks.com/migration-and-society", "date": "2019-03-20T13:01:30Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202347.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20190320125919-20190320151919-00456.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8679640889167786, "token_count": 852, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-13__0__184578676", "lang": "en", "text": "Migration and Society\nAdvances in Research\nAims & Scope\nMigration is at the heart of the transformation of societies and communities and touches the lives of people across the globe. Migration and Society is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal advancing debate about emergent trends in all types of migration. We invite work that situates migration in a wider historical and societal context, including attention to experiences and representations of migration, critical theoretical perspectives on migration, and the social, cultural, and legal embeddedness of migration. Global in its scope, we particularly encourage scholarship from and about the global South as well as the North.\nThe second issue of Migration and Society will include a combination of general articles and reflections in addition to a special themed section which is being guest edited by Dr Jelena Tosic and Dr Annika Lems. The contributions in the special themed section will shed light on different patterns of im/mobilities in, from and between Europe and Africa. By focusing on migrants' perspectives on their struggles to reach European shores and cross borders, their experience of being stuck in transit, their dreams and experiences of Europe as well as their decision to leave it behind, this section will explore the long-standing and unequal interconnectedness of Europe and Africa. The guest editors and authors will argue that rather than fortifying divisions, current patterns of im/mobilities are a testimony to the strong social, historical and political connections between the two continents and that current patterns of im/mobility cannot be understood beyond these long (postcolonial) histories of interrelationship. Through in-depth ethnographic case studies the individual papers will show the historical embeddedness of such trajectories- how they do not appear 'out of the blue', but have their own histories and follow their own temporal logic.\nMigration and Society continues to invite and accept - on a rolling basis - full length articles, contributions for our People and Places section, reflections on teaching migration studies and submissions for our Creative Encounters section, in addition to book reviews and review essays.\nFor more information on our submissions process please follow: http://ojs.berghahnjournals.com/index.php/air-ms/about/submissions\nVolume 1, 2018\nVolume 2, 2019\nAfrican-European trajectories of im/mobility: Exploring entanglements of experiences, legacies and regimes of contemporary migration\nGuest edited by Annika Lems and Jelena Tošic\nMette Louise Berg, Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Jo Waters\nJelena Tošic and Annika Lems\nMigration as survival: Withheld stories and the limits of ethnographic know-ability\nMoving-with-others: restoring viable relations in emigrant Gambia\n\"Looking for one’s life\": Trapped mobilities and adventure in Morocco\nThe Long Homecoming: Ghanaian Migrant Businesses and Power in Veneto, Italy\n“My visa application was denied, I decided to go anyway”: Interpreting, experiencing and contesting visa policies and the (im)mobility regime in Algeria\nPeople and Places: Hostile environments\n'Windrush generation’ and ‘hostile environment’: symbols and lived experiences in Caribbean migration to the U.K.\nHuon Wardle and Laura Obermuller\nEnforcing Apartheid? The Politics of ‘Intolerability’ in the Danish Migration and Integration Regimes\nJulia Suárez Krabbe and Annika Lindberg\nPeople and Places\n‘Coaching’ Queer: Hospitality and the Categorical Imperative of LGBTQ Asylum Seeking in Lebanon and Turkey\n'Refuge’ and history: a critical reading of a polemic\nJessie Blackbourn, Estella Carpi, Naluwembe Binaisa, Sandy F. Chang, Katja Swider, Magdalena Kubal-Czerwinska, Kristy Belton\n- Berghahn Books on Facebook\n- Berghahn Books on Twitter\n- Berghahn Books on Tumblr\n- Berghahn Books on Vimeo", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.paintandpencil.com/post/a-change-of-direction-vanessa", "date": "2023-02-03T14:09:26Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500056.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20230203122526-20230203152526-00460.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9613131284713745, "token_count": 158, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__20392852", "lang": "en", "text": "A Change of Direction - Vanessa\nHi Everyone! I'm taking a break from painting (except for fun and relaxation) because I've started a mad new hobby - writing mystery books! So, for a while I'll take a back seat here and just continue and a friend and ADMINISTRATOR for PAINT & PENCIL, rather than post up my art work.\nI've published two books so far and a third will be available very soon, all on Amazon, paperback or eBook. They are set in Greece, with an Archaeologist hero who can't resist trying to solve mysteries that happen alarmingly often for such a serene island in the Cyclades!\nThis is the first in the Naxos Mysteries series. I hope you like it. Vanessa x", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://lifeiscrazybeautiful.com/2014/10/13/rainy-days-and-mondays/", "date": "2022-12-08T17:27:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711344.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20221208150643-20221208180643-00747.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9449250102043152, "token_count": 151, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-49__0__247197495", "lang": "en", "text": "They don’t get me down. I love rain!\nI looked for quotes about rain and found most of them quite dreary and had to stop reading. My choice for today is to see the rain as a source of life, refreshing, cooling, and cleansing. When the skies are gray our eyes get a bit of a break, the surrounding muscles can relax. Colors are more vivid when their hues are not washed out by bright sunlight. Something about falling rain causes me to be a little more reflective, to dream more deeply, live a bit more quietly. And, if you’re still looking for reasons to enjoy the rain there are rainbows!\nHave a beautiful day wherever you are, whether rain or shine!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://iancleary.com/2009-2/", "date": "2024-02-29T08:24:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474795.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20240229071243-20240229101243-00337.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8466866612434387, "token_count": 129, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__5094211", "lang": "en", "text": "Life’s Ups & Downs\nNothing in life is static.\nThere are ups and downs.\nOne follows the others follows the other.\nIf you fear the downs – the ups become a THREAT.\nAn up becomes a predictor of a down.\nIf you fear failure you will fear success.\nIf you fear fatigue you will fear energy\nIf you fear sadness you will fear joy\nIf you fear rejection you will fear connection\nYou will flatline. You will stagnate\nYou WILL survive but not thrive.\nMany things in life are beyond our control\nBut how we respond to them changes everything.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.catchiscommunity.org/in-real-life", "date": "2021-04-19T00:24:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038862159.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20210418224306-20210419014306-00337.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9557338356971741, "token_count": 333, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-17__0__6410326", "lang": "en", "text": "In Real Life...\nParenting can be pretty rough, but we rarely see that because most people only talk about the good stuff.\nIn this essay series, CATCH offers a look at what's happening In Real Life with stories from parents and others. We hope our readers will find comfort and support in their experiences.\nIn most cases, we are not posting the names of the authors of these essays because they include parts of their children's stories, and those are theirs to tell.\nIf you'd like to tell others what's going on In Real Life, we'd love to hear it and share it.\nGBN Grad Shares What It's Like to Experience a Depressive Episode\nSomeone who is smiling, laughing and experiencing joy can still have depression. GBN '10 grad Erin B. Doppelt explains what depression is like \"In Real Life\" in her brave and personal essay. Read more.\nAn Anxious Parent, An Anxious Child, and the Value of Validation\nWhat’s a mother to do when her own anxiety gets in the way of parenting her child with anxiety? In this post, one mom shares what she learned from her therapist and how it’s helping her manage the mix of emotions. It’s a helpful lesson on the value of validation and a reminder about what to do when we just want to fix everything. Read more.\nThe Work of Worrying Less\nWhen you are the parent a child with mental illness, the fears are never-ending. In this essay, a mother gets real about her concerns and shares her plans to worry less. Read more.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://graciedix.com/reading-guide", "date": "2021-01-25T00:46:08Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703561996.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20210124235054-20210125025054-00792.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9632787108421326, "token_count": 195, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__120868699", "lang": "en", "text": "Are you tired of being bored at home with nothing to do? Do you want to find some books that you’ll actually LOVE reading?\nGood news — there are hundreds of really cool authors and middle-grade book series out there, and I’ve made the perfect starter list that you can get totally for FREE!\nMeet Gracie Dix\nHi, I’m Gracie Dix! I’m seventeen-years-old, and for as long as I can remember I’ve loved reading books about fantasy, adventure, science fiction and more. So much so that I wrote my very own novel, Welcome To Superhero School, coming in early 2020!\nIn my new book series guide for middle-grade readers, you’ll find some of my favorite middle-grade authors and series that made me fall in love with reading, and I think they'll do the same for you! Ready to get started?", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://graduation.unm.edu/spring-2021/virtual/b39aw183/personalpage", "date": "2022-09-29T05:55:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335304.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220929034214-20220929064214-00631.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9742453098297119, "token_count": 104, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__172009807", "lang": "en", "text": "It is by the grace of God I am where I am, today. I am eternally grateful for the opportunity to further my education at UNM and grow in the ways I have in the past four years!\n\"Then he said to them all: 'Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will save it.'\" - Luke 9:23-24", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://giesicke.com/en/catalogue/18th-19th-centuries/stained-glass-circle-months-85.html", "date": "2023-09-29T13:21:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510516.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20230929122500-20230929152500-00533.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9662497043609619, "token_count": 290, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__11951982", "lang": "en", "text": "With verses in English\nEngland, London, c.1870\nEach panel 19.5 x 29cm\nOval unipartite panels, painted with black vitreous paint and yellow silver stain\nThe month of March is represented by a young man with a daffodil in his right hand, grasping a young tree with his left. Beneath him is the following verse.\n‘Dear Solitude, the soul’s best friend / that man acquainted with himself doth make’\n(From the poem ‘Dovedale: The Retirement’ by Charles Cotton (1630–1687))\nThe month of May is represented by a young falconer on horseback. The following verse appears with it.\n‘It’s a royal sport! Than for an evening flight / A tiercel gentle, which I call, my masters’\n(From the play ‘The Guardian’ by Philip Massinger (1586–1640))\nThe month of September is represented by a young farmer, who is reaping corn. Beneath him is the following verse.\n‘Behind his back a scythe and by his side / Under his belt he bore a sickle circling wide’\n(From the epic poem ‘The Faerie Queene’ by Edmund Spenser (1552/3–1599))", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://karljacoby.com/books/crimes-against-nature/", "date": "2024-04-25T02:25:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296820065.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425000826-20240425030826-00351.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9115437269210815, "token_count": 305, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__100822498", "lang": "en", "text": "Crimes against Nature\nSquatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation\nUtilizing case studies drawn from three of the United States’ earliest and most prominent conservation sites—the Adirondacks, Yellowstone National Park, and Arizona’s Grand Canyon—Crimes Against Nature reveals how nineteenth-century efforts to control nature became irretrievably entangled with attempts at controlling the behavior of rural Americans. Viewed from the perspective of the inhabitants of the American countryside, conservation represented the imposition of a new legal framework on the natural environment, one that transformed many previously acceptable practices into crimes: hunting became poaching, for example, the cutting of timber, theft, and the setting of fires, arson. These dramatic changes enmeshed, in turn, a diverse array of rural folk, from Abenaki, Shoshone, and Havasupai Indians to poor whites in New York, Montana, and elsewhere. Before Crimes Against Nature’s novel blend of social and environmental history, such individuals had been virtually invisible in the scholarship on the American relationship with nature, which had focused instead on what the environmental historian Richard Grove once termed the “pantheon of conservationist prophets”: celebrated figures such as George Perkins Marsh, John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, and Theodore Roosevelt, who collectively laid the political and intellectual groundwork of the conservation movement.\nRead an excerpt from Crimes Against Nature: Download PDF\nExcerpt courtesy University of California Press", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://keepingonwith0utyou.tumblr.com/page/2", "date": "2014-07-23T09:42:34Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997877670.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025757-00217-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9879085421562195, "token_count": 168, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2014-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2014-23__0__176947215", "lang": "en", "text": "It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.\nSometimes you need to remind yourself that you were the one who carried you through the heartache. You are the one who sits with the cold body on the shower floor, and picks it up. You are the one who feeds it, who clothes it, who tucks it into bed, and you should be proud of that. Having the strength to take care of yourself when everyone around you is trying to bleed you dry, that is the strongest thing in the universe.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ketamineclinics.com/healthcare-professionals/", "date": "2021-05-15T18:18:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990551.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20210515161657-20210515191657-00008.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9238837361335754, "token_count": 247, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__173805980", "lang": "en", "text": "Ketamine’s Mechanism of Action\nKetamine operates by blocking the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) glutamate receptor Ca2+ channel to reduce the presynaptic release of glutamate; however, the exact mode of action is not known. Some researchers speculate that increasing free glutamate in turn stimulates postsynaptic α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA) receptors, which then mediate fast, excitatory neurotransmission. Ketamine’s antidepressant actions might instead be the result of AMPA stimulation rather than only an NMDA receptor blockade. The rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine are associated with fast induction of synaptogenesis and the reversal of atrophy caused by chronic stress.(9) In other words, ketamine seems to actually rebuild synapses. The effectiveness of ketamine in treating pain has been tied to its effects on the NMDA receptor, the AMPA receptors, as well as on the m-opioid receptors; however, some researchers have also pointed to the restoration of balance in the glutamate/ γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) system.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.humanities.org.au/Grants/PublicationSubsidyScheme.aspx", "date": "2013-12-10T01:41:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164004057/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204133324-00014-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9502032399177551, "token_count": 283, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2013-48", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2013-48__0__56991562", "lang": "en", "text": "The Publication Subsidy Scheme\nThe Academy's Publication Subsidy Scheme provides support of up to $3,000 for the publication of scholarly works of high quality in the humanities. The scheme is designed to assist humanities scholars based in Australia. Both independent scholars and those working within an institution are eligible to apply.\nApplicants must consult the Rules of the Award before applying [Rules of the Award.pdf 132KB\n]. Applications must include all of the following:\n- A Cover Sheet, signed and dated by the applicant [Cover Sheet.doc 180KB]\n- A completed Application Form [Application Form.doc 224KB]\n- An assessment of the work by a recognised scholar in the field\n- Correspondence from the publisher demonstrating support for the work\n- A publisher’s reader’s report\nApplications are assessed by the Academy's Awards Committee and rated according to academic merit and demonstrated need for a subsidy. Priority is given to works that require a subsidy for their viability as a publishing venture, or for the inclusion of essential items such as illustrations, photographs or maps. Applicants need to prove that they have limited access to funds to complete publication of the work, or that without the subsidy the work would go either unpublished or be published in a diminished capacity. Please note that a Publication Subsidy cannot be awarded to books that are published before the Awards Committee makes its decision.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://twintrees.ie/lutyens-heywood-in-context-by-david-averill/", "date": "2024-04-12T15:01:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816024.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20240412132154-20240412162154-00359.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9517748355865479, "token_count": 283, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__195450042", "lang": "en", "text": "Lutyens & Heywood In Context\nA Talk by David Averill FRIAI\nAs part of our Tours, Talks & Afternoon Tea package, at this year’s Twin Trees Heywood Festival, David Averill delivered a wonderful talk, entitled ‘ Lutyens & Heywood In Context.’\nIn the idyllic setting of Ballinakill’s All Saints’ Church, David held the sell out audience captive, with a broad, in-depth knowledge of the great architect, his architectural brilliance; and how both are reflected and evident, in the wonderful Heywood Gardens, designed by Lutyens in 1906.\nBeing an architect, and a member of the Lutyens Trust, David’s insights and observances of Heywood, were truly fascinating, and everyone present, left with a vastly greater knowledge and appreciation of the great man, whose 150th Birthday we were there to remember – Sir Edwin Lutyens.\nBefore leaving us on the day, David very kindly presented the committee with illustrated books of his talk on Lutyens & Heywood. These beautifully produced booklets, were a wonderful gesture, and we sincerely thank David for his thoughtfulness and generosity.\nBelow we share with you a PDF version of the book by David Averill, with the option to download and keep a version too. Enjoy!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://bernadettekeefemd.com/tag/empowered-patient/page/2/", "date": "2023-03-30T04:48:41Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949097.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20230330035241-20230330065241-00576.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9274718761444092, "token_count": 153, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__204266597", "lang": "en", "text": "By Bernadette Keefe MD and Matthew Katz MD\nThe classic ‘triple aim’ for healthcare is a framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) that describes an approach to optimizing health system performance. IHI asserts that new designs must be developed to simultaneously pursue three dimensions which we call the ‘Triple Aim’:\n- Improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction)\n- Improving the health of populations, and\n- Reducing the per capita cost of health care\nNumerous publications suggest that the list be expanded to a ‘Quadruple Aim’ to include: Improving the Care of and Experience of The Provider (ie MDs/other HCPs).", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://quartetbooks.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/the-spain-we-love/", "date": "2018-06-22T05:10:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864354.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622045658-20180622065658-00124.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9507336616516113, "token_count": 327, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-26", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-26__0__36292672", "lang": "en", "text": "Footprints in Spain is a book every Briton should read, given that most of us have been drawn to Spain for centuries.\nFrom the Pyrenes to Gibraltar and La Coruña to Murica, the Iberian Peninsula has played host to many momentous events that have shaped the culture, history and psyche of both nations. Over time, Spain has made its mark on some of Britain’s best-loved thinkers, writers and royals, from Catherine of Lancaster to Laurie Lee and Benjamin Disraeli to George Orwell.\nIntelligent, humane and enlightening, this book tells the story of great British lives in Spain over the years. In doing so, it vividly charts the tumultuous history of Spain, its people and its British visitors, touching on everything from monarchy to tauromachy, Don Carlos to Don Quixote. Writing with warmth, colour and a keen eye for an anecdote, Simon Courtauld gets to the heart of Spanish life and sheds new light on this eternally fascinating country.\nSimon is the author of seven previous books including Spanish Hours. In addition to many years spent travelling in Spain, he has been legal correspondent of The Times, deputy editor of the Spectator and a regular contributor to the Telegraph.\nIf you’ve never visited Spain, the book will more than enlighten you what to expect and see.\nIt will also be a marvellous Christmas present to give to those whose love of travelling will induce them to add this book to their library and spread the good word around to ensure that this remarkable volume will gain the media coverage it deserves.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://snas.franciscan.edu/faculty/mckenna-kyle/", "date": "2021-08-03T13:27:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154459.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20210803124251-20210803154251-00263.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.82675701379776, "token_count": 373, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__238589294", "lang": "en", "text": "Immune responses in the eye are absolutely critical to eliminate pathogens that could damage ocular tissues and cause blindness. For example, immune suppressed AIDS patients often develop blinding cytomegalovirus infections of the retina. However, ocular immune responses can also pose a threat to vision if pathogen elimination destroys ocular cells that do not regenerate. This occurs in Herpes Simplex virus infections of the cornea. As a result, immune responses in the eye are tightly regulated to minimize inflammation. This phenomenon, termed ocular immune privilege is explored in the McKenna Laboratory. Our goal is to identify mechanisms that maintain immune privilege and can be targeted therapeutically to activate ocular immune responses to eliminate intraocular tumors, or inactivate ocular immune responses to minimize immunopathology.\nMcKenna, K.C. 2015. Splenectomy Restores Tumoricidal Activity to Promote Elimination of Intraocular Tumors. Oncoimmunol. 4:7, e1011516 July 2015\nMiller, M.R., Mandel, J. B., Beatty, K.M, Harvey S. A. K., Rizzo, M. J., Previte, D. M., Thorne, S. H., McKenna, K.C. 2014. Splenectomy promotes indirect elimination of intraocular tumors by CD8+ T cells that is associated with IFNg- and Fas/FasL-dependent activation of intratumoral macrophages. Cancer Immunol. Res. 2(12); 1175-1185.\nMcKenna KC. Use of Aborted Fetal Tissue in Vaccines and Medical Research Obscures the Value of All Human Life. Linacre Q. 2018 Feb;85(1):13-17. Pubmed PMID: 29970932", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ultimateseosource.com/google-seo-jackyan-guide/", "date": "2024-04-13T07:18:17Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816586.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413051941-20240413081941-00884.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8951003551483154, "token_count": 1046, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__17018016", "lang": "en", "text": "In the fast-paced world of digital marketing, staying ahead of the curve is essential for businesses looking to maximize their online visibility and drive organic traffic. One invaluable resource in this pursuit is the Google SEO Jackyan Guide, a comprehensive roadmap that provides insights and strategies to navigate the complexities of search engine optimization. In this blog, we’ll explore everything you need to know about the Jackyan Guide, from its origins to its key principles and actionable tips for SEO success.\nWhat is the Jackyan Guide?\nThe Google SEO Jackyan Guide is a classic written by Jacky An, a well-known authority in the SEO field. Drawing on years of experience and specialized knowledge, Jacky An has poured all that he | knows into a guide on every aspect of SEO (from getting pages optimized right through to ways to getting links in). The book is a valuable resource for marketers and business executives – in short, anyone who wants to improve their website’s Search Engine Rankings and get more traffic.\nKey Principles of the Google SEO Jackyan Guide:\nAt the core of the Google SEO Jackyan Guide, there are several key principles. These principles form great guidelines for forming effective SEO strategies.\n- Content Quality and Relevance: The guide suggests that it is essential to create high-quality, relevant content that meets the needs & interests of your target audience. Content invested with value and responsiveness to what users ask about is more likely to find favor with search engines, so you can rank highly pairs nicely.\n- Keyword Research and Optimization: Correct keyword research is essential for working out the appropriate search terms and (literally) words for your target audience; the guide gives you insight into how this can be done. It also tells you how to tune your copy so that it will rank for these keywords.\n- Technical Optimization: By ensuring that your website is technically optimized for search engines, you can guarantee SEO success. The guide covers topics such as web page speeds, mobile-friendliness, site architecture, and schema markup to help you improve your website’s visibility and performance.\n- Backlink Building: Building a strong backlink profile is yet another key aspect of SEO, and the guide provides strategies for acquiring high-quality backlinks from authoritative sources. Backlinks serve as “votes of confidence” from other internet sites in the eyes of search engines, which serves to enhance your website’s credibility and authority.\n- User Experience Optimization: User experience affects one’s ranking in search engine results pages, and this guide covers the optimization of your website for both a seamless and enjoyable user experience. Factors considered here include site navigation, page load times, and responsiveness across different devices. These are all crucial aspects of providing users with convenience – or even pleasure – when interacting online. They are also important points to keep in mind when improving your SEO performance.\nActionable Tips from the Google SEO Jackyan Guide:\nIn addition to outlining key principles, the Google SEO Jackyan Guide provides actionable tips and strategies for implementing effective SEO tactics:\n- Regularly Update and Refresh Content: Keeping your content fresh and up-to-date is essential for maintaining relevance and attracting organic traffic. The guide recommends regularly auditing your content and updating it with new information or insights to ensure it remains valuable to your audience.\n- Optimize for Featured Snippets and Rich Results: Targeting featured snippets and rich results can help your content stand out in search engine results pages. The guide provides tips for optimizing your content to appear as a featured snippet, such as providing concise answers to common questions and structuring your content for easy readability.\n- Monitor and Analyze Performance: Tracking key metrics such as organic traffic, keyword rankings, and conversion rates is essential for evaluating the effectiveness of your SEO efforts. The guide recommends using tools like Google Analytics and Google Search Console to monitor performance and identify areas for improvement.\n- Stay Updated on Algorithm Changes: Search engine algorithms are constantly evolving, and staying abreast of these changes is critical for maintaining SEO success. The guide provides resources for staying updated on algorithm updates and adapting your strategies accordingly to stay ahead of the curve.\n- Invest in Continuous Learning: SEO is a dynamic and ever-changing field, and the guide emphasizes the importance of investing in continuous learning and skill development. Whether through online courses, workshops, or industry conferences, staying informed about the latest trends and best practices is essential for staying competitive in the world of SEO.\nThe Google SEO Jackyan Guide is a comprehensive resource that offers invaluable insights and strategies for navigating the complexities of search engine optimization. From content creation to technical optimization and beyond, the guide covers all aspects of SEO and provides actionable tips for improving your website’s visibility and performance in search engine results. By following the principles outlined in the guide and implementing the recommended strategies, businesses can enhance their online presence and drive sustainable organic traffic growth. Whether you’re a seasoned SEO company, professional, or novice marketer, the Google SEO Jackyan Guide is an indispensable roadmap for achieving SEO success in today’s competitive digital landscape.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=137", "date": "2023-04-02T06:44:54Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296950383.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20230402043600-20230402073600-00220.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8539474010467529, "token_count": 286, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__44428504", "lang": "en", "text": "Life history and life table of Pronematus ubiquitus (McGregor) as a predator of eriophyoid mites in Egypt (Acari: Tydeidae)\n1999 - Volume: 40 Issue: 1 pages: 29-32\nThe predacious mite Pronematus ubiquitus (McGregor) successfully developed from larva to adult stage when fed on individuals of the fig bud mite Eriophyes ficus Cotte and the fig leaf mite Rhyncaphytoptus ficifoliae Keifer. The durations of the immature and adult stages were determined. The number of prey consumed was highest when individuals were maintained on the fig bud mite compared with the fig leaf mite. The average number of eggs/female/day was 1.9 and 1.6 on E. ficus and E. ficifoliae, respectively. P. ubiquitus populations fed on the fig bud and leaf mites multiplied 18-55 and 17-40 times in a generation time of 27.18 and 28.72 days, respectively. It proved to be a more voracious predator on E. ficus than on R. ficifoliae.\nPlease read and follow the instructions\nto post any comment or correction.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.ncnonprofits.org/resources/principles", "date": "2017-04-25T14:24:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120461.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00615-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9161064624786377, "token_count": 118, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__244722692", "lang": "en", "text": "Principles & Practices for Nonprofit Excellence is based on the fundamental values of quality, responsibility, and accountability. This document has three purposes:\nNonprofit organizations are essential to the vitality of communities. They enrich quality of life, epitomize the highest societal values, and strengthen our democracy. Volunteers, board members, and employees become involved with a nonprofit because of the organization’s public benefit mission. Therefore, the continued success of North Carolina’s nonprofit organizations requires broad public support and confidence. This document publicly testifies to the nonprofit sector’s commitment for excellence.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.priestessingliberation.com/about-me/", "date": "2024-02-26T13:11:31Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474660.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226130305-20240226160305-00637.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8735485672950745, "token_count": 265, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__29879624", "lang": "en", "text": "Meet Kohenet/Priestess Angelique “YA” Rivera\nI am Kohenet/Priestess Angelique “YA” Rivera: a Neurodivergent Jewyorican, Poet, and Advocate for Decolonial Liberation. With 25+ years of experience, I’ve dedicated myself to supporting others in breaking free from oppressive systems through my coaching and consulting business, Priestessing Liberation.\nMy Journey & Contributions\nI’ve collaborated with local organizations, teaching the power of pivoting from traditional paradigms and using poetry as a tool for healing trauma, especially in children and teens. My expertise spans trauma awareness, mental health, and decolonial liberation, fueling a passionate quest to decolonize the practice of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.\nBeyond my the work at the center of my being, I cherish being a mama to two powerhouse comrades who keep me grounded. When not challenging the status quo, I indulge in slow mornings with my beloved café or unwind with a cigar at my favorite spot.\nAre you ready to join the revolution of personal liberation? Together, let’s unleash your fabulosity and craft a future where you lead authentically, unapologetically, and powerfully.\nWith love & devotion,", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.rockpointe.com/surviving-sepsis-campaign-continuing-medical-education-saving-lives/", "date": "2023-06-08T02:44:46Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224654031.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20230608003500-20230608033500-00409.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9696687459945679, "token_count": 592, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__203619217", "lang": "en", "text": "A recent study looked at “The Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC or “the Campaign”), which developed guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic shock. This Campaign was a performance improvement initiative targeted at changing clinical behavior (process improvement) via bundles based on key SSC guideline recommendations.\nThe campaign was a multifaceted intervention to facilitate compliance with selected guideline recommendations in the intensive care unit, emergency department, and wards of individual hospitals and regional hospital networks. These guidelines were implemented voluntarily in the United States, Europe, and South America. Elements of the guidelines were “bundled” into two sets of targets to be completed within 6 hrs and within 24 hrs. An analysis was conducted on data submitted from January 2005 through March 2008. The study analyzed a total of 15,022 subjects at 165 sites to determine the compliance with bundle targets and association with hospital mortality.\nThe impact of the campaign was analyzed in the Critical Care Medicine Journal, and found that the unadjusted hospital mortality decreased from 37% to 30.8% over 2 years. As a result, the study concluded that the Campaign was associated with sustained, continuous quality improvement in sepsis care. Accordingly, the authors noted that the “implications of this study may serve as an impetus for similar improvement efforts.”\nIt is important to recognize that the Campaign is partially funded through commercial support. In fact, as noted in article from 2007, medical societies on behalf of SSC applied for and received industry-sponsored educational grants to conduct sepsis-related educational initiatives. The author noted that such industry sponsored educational grants were critical to the success of the Campaign and improving patient outcomes because government does not fund such education.\nWith respect to the development of the 2004 guidelines, the author noted that industry support was limited to funds for logistic planning. No industry representatives participated in the conference or reviewed the guidelines in any form before peer-review and acceptance for publication.\nMoreover, the author noted that the “inability to translate top quality research into medical practice has been identified as a major failing of representative healthcare agencies worldwide”. Accordingly, he recognized that industry sponsored grants “have enabled the SSC to develop the components of a global performance improvement program to elicit significant and rapid clinical change.”\nHe emphasized the fact that “without such sponsorship, an ambitious project of this scale would not have been possible in the present funding climate.” It is also important to note that such “sources of funding have always been prominently disclosed, including in the 2004 guidelines publication itself.” Additionally, the medical societies that received the grants maintained full control over their use, and the societies’ ethical safeguards and transparency in governance ensured that any misuse would have been identified.\nConsequently, this study reveals that industry supported educational programs improve patient outcomes including saving lives by better adherence to guidelines.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.newhopedayton.org/wednesday", "date": "2017-10-20T05:02:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187823731.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20171020044747-20171020064747-00148.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.890041172504425, "token_count": 229, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-43__0__191169197", "lang": "en", "text": "17 Never pay back evil with more evil. Do things in such a way that everyone can see you are honorable. 18 Do all that you can to live in peace with everyone.\n19 Dear friends, never take revenge. Leave that to the righteous anger of God. For the Scriptures say,\n“I will take revenge;\nI will pay them back,”[a]\nsays the Lord.\n“If your enemies are hungry, feed them.\nIf they are thirsty, give them something to drink.\nIn doing this, you will heap\nburning coals of shame on their heads.”[b]\n21 Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good.\na) 12:19 Deut 32:35.\nb) 12:20 Prov 25:21-22.\n44 But I say, love your enemies![a] Pray for those who persecute you!\na) 5:44 Some manuscripts add Bless those who curse you. Do good to those who hate you. Compare Luke 6:27-28.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.greaternewburyportvillage.org/content.aspx?page_id=4002&club_id=976957&item_id=1459848", "date": "2021-09-22T13:48:51Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057366.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20210922132653-20210922162653-00160.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9619884490966797, "token_count": 275, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__153205074", "lang": "en", "text": "Award-winning and best-selling Amesbury author, Edith Maxwell, talks about her path to publication. With her first mystery novel published two months before she turned sixty, at sixty-eight Maxwell now has twenty-four books in print, all traditionally published, and is halfway through writing her thirtieth. She'll include a discussion of her daily writing habits, why she uses a pen name, why she writes both historical and cozy mysteries, and more.\nZoom Link & Details:\nAgatha-winning and Macavity-nominated author Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries and the Local Foods Mysteries, as well as award-winning short crime fiction. As Maddie Day, she authors the Country Store Mysteries and the Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. She also wrote two Lauren Rousseau Mysteries.\nMaxwell lives north of Boston with her beau and energizer kitten, and blogs with the other Wicked Authors and at Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen. You can find her at https://edithmaxwell.com and on Facebook.\nFREE DRAWING: At the end of Edith’s talk, members who register and attend will have a chance to win copies of her books. Members must log into the Village website to register for this event by Saturday, June12 to be eligible for the drawing.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://lorrainemarie.com/product/powerful-moments-in-the-presence-of-god/", "date": "2020-03-31T10:03:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-16/segments/1585370500426.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20200331084941-20200331114941-00177.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8909277319908142, "token_count": 159, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-16", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-16__0__93749129", "lang": "en", "text": "This beautiful devotional gift book is for readers who want to experience God’s presence in a new and exciting way. With amazing testimonies, inspirational messages, and four-color photographs taken by the author, this book encourages readers to see God’s power at work int he lives of everyday people.\nThe devotional messages take only moments to read, but are packed with biblical promise and perspective. Along with a message of faith and trust in a miracle-working God, each day’s spread also includes a related Scripture that points to timeless truth–and inspires readers to expect their own supernatural encounters with God.\nHardcover: 208 pages\nPublisher: Chosen Books (September 8, 2015)\nProduct Dimensions: 5.3 x 0.8 x 7.2 inches", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://saldokiado.hu/cyber-diplomacy-from-the-european-perspective-2159", "date": "2023-09-25T17:49:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233509023.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20230925151539-20230925181539-00477.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6926613450050354, "token_count": 310, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__289689466", "lang": "en", "text": "Tartalom és kiadási információk\nThe purpose of the volume is to provide the reader with the key tools needed to navigate the realm of cyber diplomacy. It is not exhaustive in detailing all aspects of cyber diplomacy; instead, our work highlights the key pillars needed to understand a varied and complex topic from a European viewpoint. Balázs Mártonffy provides an overview of the key terms and relevant literature of the topic. Anna Molnár offers an introduction to the strategic and institutional framework of the EU’s cybersecurity policy. Dóra Molnár demonstrates how European traditional diplomatic powerhouses fare in the realm of cyber diplomacy. Dóra Dévai focuses on the institutionalisation of the cyberspace policy of the European Union, and accounts how the EU’s cyberspace policy evolved. Csaba Krasznay provides an overview of the “WannaCry” and the “NotPetya” attacks, and details the Western response. Anita Tikos focuses on the roles and efforts of the Visegrád Four states in cyber diplomacy, highlighting the importance of the group’s rotating presidency.\n|Kötés típusa||cérnafűzött, keménytáblás|", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.elliewhitewrites.com/48-2/", "date": "2017-11-19T17:46:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805708.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119172232-20171119192232-00686.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9777603149414062, "token_count": 248, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__2234445", "lang": "en", "text": "Ellie White has been trying to teach people how to hallucinate since 1986. She holds a BA in English from The Ohio State University, and an MFA from Old Dominion University. Ellie writes nonfiction and poetry. She is also the creator of the comic strip “Uterus & Ellie.” Her poems have been published in FreezeRay Poetry and Harpur Palate, as well as other journals. Her poetry chapbook, Requiem for a Doll, was released by ELJ Publications in June 2015. Ellie’s work has won an Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize and a Best of the Net nomination. She served as a Poetry Editor at Barely South Review for three years, currently reads nonfiction for Four Ties, and is the Social Media Editor at Muzzle Magazine.\nEllie also has a background in performance poetry. She has competed in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational, the Individual World Poetry Slam, the Rustbelt Regional Poetry Slam, the Women of the World Poetry Slam, and the Capturing Fire Queer Poetry Slam. Ellie currently lives near some big rocks and trees outside Charlottesville, Virginia.\n[Photo by Emily Howell]", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.icfo.eu/research/projects?project=163", "date": "2017-03-24T21:56:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218188623.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212948-00544-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9035421013832092, "token_count": 111, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-13", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-13__0__67813292", "lang": "en", "text": "Hybrid graphene – quantum dot optoelectronics\nDescription of Activities:\nWe break current limits in light sensing exploiting the benefits of 2D nanomaterials such as grpahene and 0D nanomaterials, quantum dots to develop ultra-sensitive phototransistors. These devices are based on low-cost large-area processed platforms enabling for low-cost high-sensitivity sensors. We study the fundamentals of electronic coupling between these heterogeneous material platforms and investigate novel functionalities that cannot be reached by other technolgies.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://my.book.live/view/816812/15/", "date": "2020-09-23T10:51:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400210616.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20200923081833-20200923111833-00498.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9608335494995117, "token_count": 303, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-40__0__227193257", "lang": "en", "text": "CHAPTER 1 Introduction\nThe largest investment most people make is their home. That makes selling a home — whether a single-family residence, duplex, or condominium — the single largest, most complex transaction a person will ever undertake. It involves new terms and concepts, financial acumen, and larger figures than normally dealt with. It is also one in which emotions may come into play to the detriment of good judgment. Surely, the seller thinks, my home where I raised my children and made so many memories is worth more than the bricks and mortar it contains. Real estate transactions involve dozens of decisions and substantial investment in homeowners’ time, energy, and money, and emotions almost always lead to problems in a sales price negotiation. The home seller’s objective is to find that buyer who cannot resist buying your house at the highest price. To do this, you need to offer potential buyers a striking home sales presentation that outshines other homes on the market. It requires making a fantastic first impression, an instant feeling they are walking to the door of their new home for the first time. It’s about falling in love at first sight, from the curb, in those initial fleeting seconds. Most sellers do not venture alone into selling their home. They find it better to have an experienced real estate professional with whom the owners are comfortable. This book was written to provide some of that comfort without the direct sales stressors of person-to-person contact.\nPowered by FlippingBook", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.tpmackey.com/metaliteracy", "date": "2021-06-16T20:27:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487626008.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20210616190205-20210616220205-00001.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8904129266738892, "token_count": 331, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__70365002", "lang": "en", "text": "Metaliterate Learner Characteristics (Figure by Mackey & Jacobson, 2018)\nMetaliteracy is an empowering pedagogical model for literacy and learning that promotes metacognitive thinking, and the active production of original and repurposed information in particiaptory social environments.\nWe first introduced the metaliteracy model in the peer-reviewed article entitled Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy (Mackey & Jacobson, 2011). Since that first paper, we have continued to publish books and articles on metaliteracy, including the co-authored book Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information Literacy to Empower Learners (2014) and the co-edited volume Metaliteracy in Practice (2016).\nRecently, I collaborated with Trudi and a team of exceptional authors on a new book for ALA/Neal-Schuman Publishing entitled Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World. I contributed the framing chapter entitled \"Empowering the Metaliterate Learner for the Post-Truth World\" and the book was published in 2019.\nWe also worked with the Metaliteracy Learning Collaborative, including Kelsey O'Brien and Michele Forte, to write the peer-reviewed article entitled \"Metaliteracy as Pedagogical Framework for Learner-Centered Design in Three MOOC Platforms: Connectivist, Coursera and Canvas\" for Open Praxis.\nThis team also designed three metaliteracy MOOCs, created a competency-based Metaliteracy Digital Badging System, and developed the metaliteracy goals and learning objectives.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.idtools.com.au/analysis-of-root-morphology/", "date": "2023-12-07T04:31:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100632.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20231207022257-20231207052257-00342.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9191465973854065, "token_count": 312, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__265171204", "lang": "en", "text": "Analysis of roots morphology within intact soil cores using synchrotron X-ray tomography\nComputer tomography of intact samples offers great potential to investigate agricultural issues. New breakthrough in plant and soil research has been made in understanding root processes using synchrotron x-ray tomography.\nThe aim of this project was to visualise root system architecture in the soil, non-destructively and in a three-dimensional form. As a result we developed a high-throughput process flow for 3D root analysis visualization using synchrotron x-ray tomography.\nSeveral steps were required to extract root morphology information from the data. The main difficulty to overcome is to isolate the lower density root morphology from the higher density surrounding soil and, at the same time, distinguish between the root and other biological material present in the soil.\nThe typical data analysis workflow is illustrated in Fig. 1.\nThe labelling step enables color coding of the individual connected regions. The labelled slice is shown in Fig. 1(f), where the root system has been associated with the color green. By selecting only the value corresponding to green the root system can be automatically extracted and visualised individually. 3D volume reconstruction (or volume rendering) method had been applied to allow every voxel in the volume data to contribute to the reconstructed image, Fig. 2.\nSoil imaging could also assist the development of crop models that can more accurately predict water and nutrient use efficiency, and the design of better irrigation techniques, such as subsurface drip.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://gadaitalia.com/new-clinical-study-on-bactiguards-central-venous-catheter-shows-promising-results/", "date": "2022-09-30T16:51:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-40/segments/1664030335491.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220930145518-20220930175518-00071.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9563528895378113, "token_count": 185, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-40__0__74320535", "lang": "en", "text": "A recent clinical explorative study (link), published in the Journal of Biomedical Materials Research and conducted at the Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden, shows that Bactiguard’s infection prevention central venous catheter – BIP CVC, distributed in Italy by Gada, had significantly fewer adverse events compared to a standard uncoated CVC. The study also shows that Bactiguard’s noble metal alloy does not expose patients or the environment to any risks.\nThe pilot study was conducted on patients undergoing major abdominal surgery. 34 patients were randomized in two groups, 12 patients received standard CVCs and 22 patients received Bactiguard CVCs. This study confirms that the Bactiguard coating is durable and safe for patients and it shows promising results when it comes to reducing device related complications such as sepsis and thrombosis.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.importatoy.co.za/products/lego%C2%AE-disney-princess%E2%84%A2-build-your-own-adventure-book-set", "date": "2022-08-12T22:34:53Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00780.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8679100871086121, "token_count": 262, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-33", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-33__0__23790057", "lang": "en", "text": "Get inspired to build and play with LEGO® Disney Princess™ Build Your Own Adventure. This 80-page illustrated book features more than 50 fun building ideas across 5 chapters, each telling the story of a different LEGO Disney Princess. Get ready to escape from Ursula with The Little Mermaid, play in the castle gardens with Belle, build a spinning wheel with Sleeping Beauty, explore the mountains with Mulan and visit the village fair with Cinderella. This charming book comes with a Cinderella mini-doll figure, plus bricks and instructions to build an exclusive model of Cinderella’s carriage. Also includes a bookmark and a poster featuring Cinderella, Prince Charming and Cinderella’s carriage.\n- This hardcover, 80-page illustrated book features more than 50 building ideas, each structured around the world of a different LEGO® Disney Princess™. The five princesses featured are: Cinderella, Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and Mulan.\n- Includes a Cinderella mini-doll figure, bricks and instructions to build an exclusive Cinderella carriage, an exclusive poster featuring Cinderella, Prince Charming and Cinderella's carriage, and a bookmark.\n- Measures over 9” (25cm) long and 8” (21cm) wide.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.caspa.edu.au/blog/latest-releases-on-vocational-education", "date": "2019-05-24T17:52:10Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257699.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524164533-20190524190533-00171.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9582111239433289, "token_count": 212, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-22", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-22__0__170071015", "lang": "en", "text": "This publication provides information on how public vocational education and training (VET) in Australia is financed and where the money is spent.NCVER's strategic plan: 2017-20\nNCVER's new strategic plan is based on the results of an extensive independent review, designed to ascertain how we are perceived and how our data and products are used.Social media and student outcomes: teacher, student and employer views\nInterviews with teachers, students and employers found that social media can help to improve student engagement and lead to more course completions; however, there were some concerns around its use.Social media in VET courses: good practice guide\nThis good practice guide explores the types of social media being used in vocational education and training (VET) courses, the benefits and pitfalls of using social media in teaching and learning, as well as tips for incorporating into VET courses.VET student outcomes 2017\nThis publication provides a summary of the outcomes of students who completed their vocational education and training in Australia during 2016, using data collected in mid-2017.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://karenbergerpiano.com/2011/08/03/new-book-the-art-of-songwriting/", "date": "2018-02-24T18:02:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891815918.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20180224172043-20180224192043-00747.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9519394636154175, "token_count": 376, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-09", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-09__0__195296685", "lang": "en", "text": "I’m going to use this post to let you know about David’s new book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Art of Songwriting, coauthored with Casey Kelly. It just came out yesterday.\nDavid Hodge and I live and work together and we both spend our days pretty much the same way: Writing books and on-line articles, teaching music, and doing the occasional live or studio gig. I teach piano; David teaches guitar and songwriting — plus bass, banjo, mandolin, ukelele, and a little piano. We sort of fell into writing books for the Complete Idiot’s Guide series, which despite its name, offers some pretty meaty content (written, of course, in a down-to-earth-easy to understand way).\nDavid’s the author of Complete Idiot’s Guides to Bass, Rock Guitar and Guitar, and he’s going to be starting a book on playing ukelele. I’ve written titles on piano chords (a little, easy little “pocket guide” to using lead sheets and fake books), as well as teaching music and piano exercises.You can read more about these books at our music books page\nSo… Songwriting. On this book, David collaborated with songwriter Casey Kelly, a Nashville-based Grammy-nominated songwriter who has written chart-topping hits performed by Tanya Tucker, Kenny Rogers, and George Strait, among others. The book covers music and lyrics, collaborating, business aspects of selling your songs, and gives plenty ideas on how to get going. The book benefits from the combination of David’s long experience teaching and writing about songwriting and music theory and Casey’s top-tier music industry and working-songwriter chops.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/worlds-deadliest/00000144-0a33-d3cb-a96c-7b3f9f390000?cs=related&source=relatedvideo", "date": "2021-01-16T22:00:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703507045.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20210116195918-20210116225918-00205.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.967284619808197, "token_count": 187, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-04__0__75897297", "lang": "en", "text": "When a migrating herd tries to cross the river, dinner is on the hoof ... and the crocs just have to open wide.\nDriven by their migration, the herd crosses the river's edge.\nWhen the pressure mounts from the herd pushing from the back, the ones in front are forced into the river.\nIt's like a dam break.\nAnd the croc has its pick of prey.\nIt has up to 68 pointed teeth that it uses to catch and latch onto its prey.\nBut it can't tear and chew its meal.\nInstead, it thrashes and spins to rip apart pieces.\nThen swallows the pieces whole.\nWhen the rains come and the river isn't the only source of water, easy kills become rare.\nBut the croc has one more trick.\nIt can slow down its own metabolism, so when food is scarce, it can fast for months.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.nyufinancesociety.com/events/2014/2/20/young-money-kevin-roose-author", "date": "2017-09-24T06:54:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818689897.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924062956-20170924082956-00274.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8872451186180115, "token_count": 183, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__69438654", "lang": "en", "text": "Come hear the author of Young Money and NYMag writer Kevin Roose delve inside the hidden world of Wall Street's post-crash recruits!\nAuthor interview: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/a-conversation-about-young-wall-streeters/\nAbout the book: \"Young Money is the story of these eight young bankers. It's a story about 100-hour workweeks, drug-fueled all-nighters, Harvard hedge funds, dating mixers, Occupy protests, and top-secret fraternity parties. But it's also about the doubt and introspection that creeped into the financial sector after 2008, and an inside look at how the crisis really, truly changed Wall Street, starting with its youngest members. \"\nFacebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1397562883839313/", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/story/juan-e-mendez-book-award-shortlist/", "date": "2024-03-04T09:14:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476432.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20240304065639-20240304095639-00339.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9131296873092651, "token_count": 212, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__182570094", "lang": "en", "text": "The Duke Human Rights Center at Franklin Humanities Institute, the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the Human Rights Archive at the Rubenstein Library announces the shortlist for the 2023 Juan E. Méndez Book Award.\nThe Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America honors the leadership and legacy of Juan E. Méndez, a champion of justice who has devoted his life to the defense of human rights. Méndez is the former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and current Professor of Human Rights Law at American University. The award recognizes an outstanding book of non-fiction, including graphic works, published in English on human rights, democracy and social justice in contemporary Latin America.\nBelow are the six books that have been selected for this year's Méndez Book Award shortlist. To learn more about each book or to order online, click on the individual image.\nTo learn more about the Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America, click here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://new.1037thebeat.com/author-jean-elster-returning-to-muskegon-heights/", "date": "2021-09-23T11:43:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-39/segments/1631780057421.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20210923104706-20210923134706-00295.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9032952785491943, "token_count": 130, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-39__0__49367435", "lang": "en", "text": "Guess Who’s coming back to Muskegon Heights?\nAuthor Jean Elster\nOn Saturday, April 26, 2014 at 1pm\nJoin Jean, as she speaks about her new book The Colored Car, the story about\nsegregation and discrimination in everyday life in Detroit in the 1930s.\nThis is a free program for all ages at the Muskegon Heights Branch Library\n2808 Sanford Street\nAll are welcome\nFor more information call 231-739-6075\nFree, Family, Fun with Author Jean Elster on April 26 at 1pm\nSponsored by the Muskegon Area District Library", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://karengillmoreart.com/2018/07/26/seashore-books/?like_comment=7769&_wpnonce=3e57afcc1c", "date": "2023-06-03T22:23:21Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224649343.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20230603201228-20230603231228-00705.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9577889442443848, "token_count": 166, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-23", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-23__0__176199223", "lang": "en", "text": "Big news — the children’s books I’ve been working on for the last few years are out! Written by Gloria Snively, published by Heritage House Publishing, illustrated by me, these are beautiful, full-colour, hardcover storybooks that are also educational, about all the critters that live in and around the sea and the seashore. Today I’m just going to give you a sneak peek of the covers, but I’m planning to do a leaf-through video soon so you can see the interiors. Here it is:\nAre the books for sale?\nHi Sesta! Yes they are; I recently received a shipment. Drop me a line (link in the top menu) and we can work out details by email.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://conveyxo.com/", "date": "2024-04-14T04:30:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816864.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414033458-20240414063458-00537.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9415381550788879, "token_count": 228, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__56062263", "lang": "en", "text": "Exosomes play a key role in cell-to-cell communication and can modulate the behavior of nearby and distant cells.\nExosomes secreted from mesenchymal stem cells retain the immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties of their source cells and present a promising alternative to cell therapies in regenerative medicine.\nBut potential applications of exosomes are many, as the vesicles can be loaded with molecules that amplify or change their activity, such as RNA, proteins, or any water-soluble drug compound.\nPreclinical results confirm the potential of loaded exosomes in neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, auto immune, and infectious diseases, as well as oncology.\nBoth natural and loaded exosomes can be altered to precisely target specific cells or tissues by attaching ligands to their surface. The exosomes are then directed to the cells of interest to deliver the loaded compound. This reduces the dose of the compound and increases its potency on the targeted cells only.\nThe application of loading and/or targeting technology results in engineered exosomes.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.albaanee.com/", "date": "2023-12-11T05:09:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679103558.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211045204-20231211075204-00765.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9744704961776733, "token_count": 3079, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__32086269", "lang": "en", "text": "شيخ محمد ناصر الدين الألباني\nShaykh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaanee (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ)\nName and Lineage: Shaykh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaanee (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ)\nHe was Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen Ibn Nooh Ibn Aadam Najaatee, al-Albaanee by birth, ad-Dimashqee by residence and al-Urdunee (from Jordan) due to his migration and place of death. He was born in Ashkodera, the capital of Albania, in the year 1332H (1914 C.E.) and it is to this country that he ascribes himself.\nHe was a Muhaddith (scholar of hadeeth), a Faqeeh (scholar of Fiqh), a caller to the Book and the Sunnah with the understanding of the Salaf as-Saalih (righteous predecessors). And he was a proficient writer and an expert scholar.\nHis Educational Background and Teachers:\nHe received his education in a school, which was part of a relief shelter in Damascus, the capital of Syria. This school served as a place of refuge for seekers of knowledge for many previous generations. He benefited and learned from a number of Shuyookh and people of knowledge the likes of his father al-Hajj Nooh, Sa’eed al-Burhaanee and others.\nAllaah made the science of the Prophetic Hadeeth beloved to him during the prime of his life and the early part of his youth. This was during the time when he would review articles written by Shaykh Muhammad Rasheed Ridaa (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) in the magazine Al-Manaar, in which he would criticize weak narrations that Aboo Haamid al-Ghazaalee mentioned in his book Ihyaa ‘Uloom-ud-Deen.\nHis Early Role in Da’wah and Effects on the Ummah:\nHe began writing and authoring books during the first stages of the second part of his life (i.e. after reaching middle age). One of the first books he wrote on Fiqh, which was based on knowing the evidences and using comparative Fiqh, was his book: “Tahdheer-us-Saajid min Ittikhaadh al-Quboor Masaajid” (Warning the Worshipper against taking Graves as a Place of Worship). This book was printed many times. And from his first books in which he referenced and checked hadeeth, was his book “ar-Rawd-un-Nadeer fee Tarteeb wa Takhreej Mu’jam at-Tabaraanee as-Sagheer” (Blossoming Gardens: Arrangement and Referencing of the book Mu’jam as-Sagheer of at-Tabaraanee). This book is still in manuscript form and not printed.\nHe was put in charge of teaching the subject of Prophetic Hadeeth in the Islaamic University of Madinah at the time of its inception for the length of three years, beginning from the year 1381H. Because of him, this move had a great influence in bringing about a scientific and comprehensive revival of the subject of Hadeeth throughout the entire world – on all fronts. As for the official front, then this was by all the universities having a strong concern for that subject, such that they produced a hundred university treatises, which deal specifically with the Science of Hadeeth. As for the general nationwide front, then this was such that a large number of students of knowledge applied for studies in the Science of Hadeeth and specialization in that field. And this goes as well for all the other things that came as a result afterwards. So it became one of the Shaykh’s many effects.\nOne of the greatest proofs for this is the large amount of Hadeeth books, with checked and authenticated chains of narration, and written indexes for Hadeeth that exist today, a majority of which were not known in previous years. No one can deny this effect due to its clear and obvious nature – not even those who opposed the Shaykh and fought against his methodology.\nThe Scholars’ Praise for Him:\nThe senior scholars and Imaams of this time praised him and they would ask him questions, go to visit him, seek religious verdicts from him and exchange letters with him. And if they, may Allaah preserve those of them who are living and have mercy on those who have died, were to be counted, all of them would not be able to be accounted for.\nAt the head of them was the noble Shaykh and great scholar, ‘Abdul-‘Azeez Ibn ‘Abdillaah Ibn Baaz, for he had great esteem and profound respect for him. May Allaah have mercy on them both.\nShaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez al-Hudda (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) said:\n“The Shaykh, the great scholar, the ocean (of knowledge), Muhammad al-Ameen ash-Shanqeetee (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) – the one whom no one’s knowledge of the Science of Tafseer and the Arabic Language was comparable to his during his lifetime – used to respect Shaykh al-Albaanee so remarkably to the point that when he would see him passing by, and he was giving his class in the masjid of Madeenah, he would stop his class to stand and give Salaam to him out of respect for him.”\nThe great scholar, the teacher, Muhibb-ud-Deen al-Khateeb (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) said:\n“And from the callers to the Sunnah who devoted their lives to reviving it was our brother Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen Nooh Najaatee al-Albaanee.”\nThe great scholar Muhammad Haamid al-Fiqee (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) said:\n“…the brother, the Salafee, the Scholar, Shaykh Naasir-ud-Deen.”\nThe former Muftee of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Ibraheem Aali Shaykh (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) said:\n“And he is the upholder of the Sunnah, a supporter of the truth and an opposition to the people of falsehood.”\nDuring his lifetime, the father, the Shaykh, ‘Abdul-’Azeez Ibn Baaz (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) said:\n“I have not seen under the surface of the sky a person knowledgeable of the Hadeeth in our current time the likes of the great scholar, Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaanee.”\nAnd he (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) was asked about the hadeeth of the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) :\n“Indeed Allaah raises up from this ummah at the beginning of every century someone who will revive it for them (i.e. a mujaddid).”\nSo he was asked who is the mujaddid of this century? He replied:\n“Shaykh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaanee. He is the mujaddid in my opinion and Allaah knows best.”\nShaykh Muhammad Ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaimeen (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) said:\n“From what I came to know of the Shaykh through my gatherings with him – and they were few – was that he was very serious about acting upon the Sunnah and fighting against the innovations. And this was regardless of whether it was about the Belief or about actions. As for through my readings of his written works, then I have come to know that about him, and also that he possesses a vast amount of knowledge of Hadeeth, in terms of reporting them and investigating them. And Allaah has benefited many people through what he has written such as about knowledge, aspects of the Manhaj, and concern for the science of Hadeeth. And he has had an enormous influence on the Muslims, all praise be to Allaah.”\nShaykh Muqbil Ibn Haadee al-Waadi’ee (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) said:\n“Indeed, there cannot be found an equal in terms of the knowledge of Hadeeth like that of Shaykh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaanee. Allaah has given benefit through his knowledge and his books numerous times more than what has been accomplished by those zealots for Islaam who act upon ignorance – those who organise reformation and revolutionary movements. And that which I sincerely believe and am convinced about is that the Shaykh Muhammad Naasir-ud-Deen al-Albaanee is from the mujaddideen (reformers/revivers) whom the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) spoke the truth of when he said:\n’Indeed Allaah raises up from this ummah at the beginning of every century someone who will revive it for them (i.e. a mujaddid).’ Reported by Aboo Daawood and authenticated by Al-‘Iraaqee and others.”\nThe Basis of His Da’wah:\nThe students of the Shaykh are many and widespread throughout all parts of the world, all praise be to Allaah. They are spreading the authentic knowledge and calling the people to the pure methodology with strength and firmness.\nThe Shaykh spent all of his life calling to Allaah upon sound proofs and evidences, basing his call on the methodology of Tasfiyah and Tarbiyah, which is based on knowledge and self-purification. So he was a noble instructor and a truthful educator (enforcing Tarbiyah). By Allaah, we were brought up and raised tremendously by his methodology (manhaj), his agreeable countenance, his good manners, his high morals, his elevated character and his soft heart.\nThe Shaykh (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ), had many praiseworthy characteristics. Among the most clear, manifest and highest of them was his profound precision with regard to knowledge, his diligence, perseverance, his tolerance (with others), his firmness upon the truth, his quickness to return to correctness, his patience with the hardships of knowledge and Da’wah, and his taking of insults and harms for the sake of the Da’wah, bearing that with patience and consideration.\nOne of the greatest things that distinguished the Shaykh from many of his (Muslim) brothers amongst the people of knowledge was his strong support for the Sunnah and its adherents, his firmness upon the methodology of the Salaf As-Saalih, his love for those who called to it, and his refutation against the deviants from all levels and various positions, with an extreme clearness and a rare clarity.\nThe Shaykh (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ) received a tremendous acceptance from the righteous Muslims all over the world. He gained wide and vast fame and notoriety in all of the different regions of the world, even though he did not seek after it nor strive for it. On the contrary, he would run away and flee from it. And he would always repeat these words: “Love for fame will break one’s back.” (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ).\nThe Last Part of His Life:\nThe Shaykh (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ), did not cease to be devoted to the knowledge, persistent in authoring works, diligent in teaching and educating until he reached the age of eighty-six. He did not stop authoring books, writing letters and doing referencing and checking of ahaadeeth – because of his heart’s attachment to that – until the last two months of his life, when he grew very weak. This was until Allaah took his soul in death right before sunset (Maghrib) on Saturday when eight days remained for the end of the month Jumaadaa al-Aakhira of the year 1420H (10/2/1999).\nHis Death and Its Effect on the Ummah:\nThe Shaykh’s Janaazah (funeral) prayer was performed on the evening of the same day that he died. Scores of people, whose number exceeded that of five thousand persons, prayed over him in a musalla (place of prayer). Despite the fact that his body was prepared, he was prayed over and then buried, his burial was completed at the earliest time possible, in compliance with his final Will, in which he encouraged that the prophetic Sunnah be adhered to and acted upon.\nThe scholars, students of knowledge and common people were all affected by his loss. When the news of his death was conveyed, he was remembered and praised by the high and respected people of knowledge, such as Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Azeez Ibn ‘Abdillaah Aali Shaykh, Chief Muftee of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaimeen, Shaykh ‘Abdullaah Ibn Jibreen, Shaykh Saalih Ibn ‘Abdil-‘Azeez Ibn Muhammad Aali Shaykh and others.", "domain": "literature"}
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{"url": "https://wearrings.com.au/collections/plain-jane-1/products/pj-studs1", "date": "2020-10-26T06:29:58Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107890586.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20201026061044-20201026091044-00482.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9269645810127258, "token_count": 230, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__185371472", "lang": "en", "text": "Gilmore - Pink and Navy studs\nThese hot pink and navy studs add some colour and class to the plainest outfit. A hot pink base with navy spots over the top. These earrings will add a bit of colour to you, your outfit and your life - we all need more colourful lives!!\nNamed after the author Jane Gilmore, who write the book Fixed it, an incredible book about how women are portrayed in the media. This book is a powerful look at the stories we are told - and the stories we tell ourselves - about gender and power, and a call to action for all of us to think harder and do better.\nWear these earrings when you want to feel powerful - you are!\nStud piece: 15mm (diameter)\nThese Plain Jane & Co earrings are handmade using polymer clay and are mounted on surgical steel posts with a butterfly clip.\nAll Plain Jane earrings are individually handmade and shaped making each and every piece unique and therefore may result in variations in pattern and size. Rest assured, we think you will love your Plain Janes even more because of their uniqueness!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://torontodistresscentre.com/resources/advancing-prevention-research-role-culture-suicide-prevention", "date": "2017-11-25T07:52:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809695.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20171125071427-20171125091427-00592.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9189340472221375, "token_count": 169, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__112614900", "lang": "en", "text": "Advancing Prevention Research on the Role of Culture in Suicide Prevention\nDespite evidence of considerable racial/ethnic variation in adolescent suicidal behavior in the United States, research on youth of European American descent accounts for much of what is know about preventing adolescent suicide. In response to the need to advance research on the phenomenology and prevention of suicidal behavior among ethnic minority populations, NIMH co-sponsored the “Pragmatic Considerations of Culture in Preventing Suicide” workshop to elicit through\ninterdisciplinary dialogue how culture can be considered in the design, development, and implementation of suicidal behavior prevention programs. In this discussion paper we consider the three ethnic minority suicide prevention efforts described in the articles appearing in this issue, along with workshop participants’ comments, and propose six major areas where issues of culture need tobe better integrated into suicidal behavior research.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://stanislauslibrary.typepad.com/stanislaus_library_blog/2008/02/meyers-magic-re.html", "date": "2017-04-28T19:43:00Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123048.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00491-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9763084650039673, "token_count": 163, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__286896841", "lang": "en", "text": "The fourth and very much anticipated book by Stephenie Meyer is set to be released in August. \"Breaking Dawn\" continues the saga of Edward and Bella. Although there is no synopsis for the book yet, it's sure to address the issues every fan has been waiting to see resolved. Find out August 2!\nIn other Stephenie Meyer news, the \"Twilight\" movie is currently filming and is due to be released sometime in December. The two actors currently signed to the project according to imdb.com are Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as Bella and Edward respectively. Stewart has been in \"Zathura\" and \"Panic Room\" among other movies. Pattinson is probably best known for playing Cedric Diggory in the movie adaptation of \"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.\"", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://booksontheblvd.com/products/42182", "date": "2022-01-18T08:35:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320300805.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220118062411-20220118092411-00110.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.7860474586486816, "token_count": 132, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-05__0__79174530", "lang": "en", "text": "ANGLO-AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS. Part Two West to East 1786-1930. Describing 1st Editions of American Authors. Books. Published in England before America.\nBrussel, I. R.; ANGLO-AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS. Part Two; Constable & Co. / R. R. Bowker Co., London & NY: 1936.; Very Good with no dust jacket; First; 1936; Volume 2 only. Marbled boards, vellum backstrip. Gilt spine titles deckled edges. Binding tight and square, inner pages lightly age-toned, clean and unmarked.;", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://phoenixchineseworld.com/Article/studyaz/446", "date": "2018-11-19T09:09:09Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039745522.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20181119084944-20181119110944-00535.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.927757740020752, "token_count": 213, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-47__0__12912659", "lang": "en", "text": "Chandler Public Library is excited to partner with In-N-Out Burger again to provide this fun reading incentive program, March 7 - April 18, 2015!\nChildren ages 4-12 who read five books at his or her reading level may earn a \"Cover to Cover Club\" reading certificate, along with a coupon for a free hamburger or cheeseburger from In-N-Out. Families can pick up a reading log from any Chandler Public Library to enroll their children in the program. The log is used to list the titles of the book. After the five books are read, a parent or guardian signs the reading log and the child receives their certificate.\nChildren too young to read may participate if an adult reads with them. Also, each child may earn up to three certificates during the program (while supplies last)!\nFor more information or to sign up, please call 480-782-2800 or drop by one of the four library locations. http://www.chandlerlibrary.org/spring-reading-program.html", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://cdnapisec.kaltura.com/index.php/extwidget/preview/partner_id/347381/uiconf_id/43049831/entry_id/1_364xfin9/embed/dynamic", "date": "2024-02-26T12:10:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474659.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20240226094435-20240226124435-00806.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9525700211524963, "token_count": 102, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__170598672", "lang": "en", "text": "Webinar: Natural History at Home – 'Stripes of All Types'\nThis program features a special guest: author/illustrator Susan Stockdale! Susan reads her book, \"Stripes of All Types,\" and shares how learning about and studying natural history inspires and informs her book creations. Susan also describes the process she uses to develop her books and invites participants to create their own artwork to teach others about an animal of their choice. This Zoom webinar aired January 9, 2021.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://artofsurgery.org/books.html", "date": "2017-11-22T16:43:55Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806615.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122160645-20171122180645-00444.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9258110523223877, "token_count": 297, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-47", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-47__0__172745527", "lang": "en", "text": "The Podiatric Surgeon’s Field Guide\n- Notes on anatomy and surgery-\nWritten and Illustrated by O. A. Mercado, D.P.M.\nDr. Mercado brings his life long experience as a teacher, writer, illustrator, anatomist and surgeon to produce a beautifully illustrated, masterfully written series of DVD e-books that guide the reader through the complicated field of podiatric surgery; he tells you what works, pitfalls to avoid and, along the way, gives you a richer understanding and appreciation of surgical anatomy.\nThe DVD e-book format allows for full color illustrations and photographs as well as Video Clips of actual surgery performed and narrated by Dr. Mercado.\n“It is my distinct honor and privilege to introduce you, the reader and the perpetual student, to one of the most enlightening surgical manuals you will ever read on the subject of podiatric surgery. The Podiatric Surgeon’s Field Guide – notes on anatomy and surgery is a no - nonsense, cut to the chase, surgical guide to podiatric surgery. Please read this book with the same passion that Dr. Mercado has used to write it and then share your knowledge with others in our great profession.”\nH. F. “Bunny” Brown III, DPM Past President, American Podiatric Medical Association\nDestined to become a CLASSIC in the field!\nBook I is now available!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://smpfa.org/scholastic-book-fair-coming-to-sterling-march-28th/", "date": "2020-01-23T13:44:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250610919.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20200123131001-20200123160001-00075.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9261114001274109, "token_count": 108, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-05", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-05__0__49203285", "lang": "en", "text": "Sterling’s wonderful Reading Specialist, Dawn Lawrence, is organizing our Book Fair and needs your help! She is gathering a team of enthusiastic, creative and talented volunteers to help make this year’s fair a great success.\nPlease take a moment to view the sign up sheet to see what roles may interest you. Spread the word to your friends and invite them to help out, too. Together, we can make this the best Book Fair yet!\nFor additional information on how to help, please contact Dawn Lawrence.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.vernier.com/2019/03/07/vernier-in-the-chemistry-journals-spring-2019/", "date": "2021-06-23T10:47:22Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623488538041.86/warc/CC-MAIN-20210623103524-20210623133524-00604.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.6565603017807007, "token_count": 940, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__52138245", "lang": "en", "text": "A Second Look at the Kinetics of the Iron−Oxygen Reaction: Determination of the Total Order Using a Greener Approach\nA. M. R. P. Bopegedera (The Evergreen State College, Washington);\nJ. Chem. Educ., 95, 2018, pp 1897−1899.\nInvestigating NOx Concentrations on an Urban University Campus Using Passive Air Samplers and UV−Vis Spectroscopy\nCole M. Crosby, Richard A. Maldonado, Ahyun Hong, Ryan L. Caylor, Kristine L. Kuhn, and Matthew E. Wise (Concordia University, Oregon);\nJ. Chem. Educ., 95, 2018, pp 2023−2027.\nInvestigating the Clough, Lutz, and Jirgensons Rule for the pH Dependence of Optical Rotation of Amino Acids\nScott Simpson and Alexandra M. Izydorczak (St. Bonaventure University, New York);\nJ. Chem. Educ., 95, 2018, pp 1872−1874.\nStudents use a Vernier Chemical Polarimeter and Logger Pro 3 software to determine if lowering the pH on L configuration amino acids causes the molar optical rotation to become more positive.\nBuffers in Context: Baby Wipes As a Buffer System\nJon-Marc G. Rodriguez, Sarah Hensiek, Jeanne R. Meyer, Cynthia J. Harwood, and Marcy H. Towns (Purdue University, Indiana);\nJ. Chem. Educ., 95, 2018, pp 1816−1820.\nUnnatural Chemical Biology: Research-Based Laboratory Course Utilizing Genetic Code Expansion\nKelsey M. Kean, Kari van Zee, and Ryan A. Mehl (Oregon State University, Oregon);\nJ. Chem. Educ., 96, 2019, pp 66−74.\nCombining the Maker Movement with Accessibility Needs in an Undergraduate Laboratory: A Cost-Effective Text-to-Speech Multipurpose, Universal Chemistry Sensor Hub (MUCSH) for Students with Disabilities\nRonald Soong, Kyle Agmata, Tina Doyle, Amy Jenne, Tony Adamo, and Andre Simpson (University of Toronto, Ontario);\nJ. Chem. Educ., 95, 2018, pp 2268−2272.\nDemonstration Extensions Based on Color-Changing Goldenrod Paper\nDonald K. Schorr and Dean J. Campbell (Bradley University, Illinois);\nJ. Chem. Educ., [Online early access], DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00341, Published Online: Dec 5, 2018, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00341 (accessed Feb 8, 2019).\nThe authors use a Vernier UV-VIS Spectrophotometer to examine ultraviolet and visible absorbance spectra from extracts of goldenrod paper.\nModified Siwoloboff−Wiegand Procedure for the Determination of Boiling Points on a Microscale\nTimothy L. Troyer, Kristen R. Mounsey, William J. King, Laura M. Givens, Jessica A. Hutton, Melissa Hood Benges, Kindra N. Whitlatch, and Jacob D. Wagoner (Huntington University, Indiana; West Virginia Wesleyan College, West Virginia);\nJ. Chem. Educ., 95, 2018, pp 1406−1410.\nThe authors devise a system to determine the boiling points of very small volumes of liquids using a digital hotplate, block of aluminum, Go!Temp temperature probe, and an original LabQuest interface.\nApplying Chemistry Knowledge to Code, Construct, and Demonstrate an Arduino−Carbon Dioxide Fountain\nSeong-Joo Kang, Hye-Won Yeo, and Jihyun Yoon (Korea National University of Education, Republic of Korea, Dankook University, Republic of Korea);\nJ. Chem. Educ., [Online early access], DOI: 10.1021/acs/jchemed.8b00663, Published Online: Jan 30, 2019, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00663 (accessed Feb 8, 2019).\nThe authors automate a classic experiment, the Carbon Dioxide Fountain, by using a Vernier Gas Pressure Sensor connected to an Arduino microcontroller.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.dswa.ca/node/1000", "date": "2017-07-29T11:43:43Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549427766.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20170729112938-20170729132938-00408.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9386979341506958, "token_count": 140, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-30__0__80467889", "lang": "en", "text": "This is Matthew Ring's first self-published book. With just over 100 pages of full colour photographs, the book provides a visual reflection on where the dry stone walling we know and love originated. Text throughout the book explores these unique structures and provides some insight into their use. It is available for 25 dollars + 5 s/h and tax.\nFor copies of the book, you can contact Matthew directly at 416 835 2900 or email@example.com; save the shipping costs by picking up directly from the author.\nOrders may also be placed by going to :\nPlease note that all images are copyright Matthew Ring and their use is prohibited without written consent.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://artscenter.duke.edu/event/screen-society-saint-omer-alice-diop-2022-albertine-cinematheque/", "date": "2024-02-23T08:22:07Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474361.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223053503-20240223083503-00220.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9236880540847778, "token_count": 290, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__140847179", "lang": "en", "text": "Rama, a literature professor and novelist, travels from Paris to Saint-Omer to observe the trial of Laurence Coly. Coly is a student and Senegalese immigrant accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter by abandoning her to the rising tide on a beach in northern France. Rama, who is four-months pregnant and, like Coly, is in a mixed-race relationship and has a complex relationship with her own Senegalese immigrant mother, feels a personal connection to Coly. She plans to write a modern day retelling of the Greek Medea myth about the case. As she learns more about Coly’s life and the isolation Coly experienced from her family and society while living in France, Rama becomes increasingly anxious about her own life and pregnancy.\n“A film of vast reach and great complexity.” – Richard Brody, New Yorker\n“This immensely intelligent film … exposes a host of limits—of empathy, self-knowledge, language, cultural understanding—while it expands into infinite possibilities regarding the timeworn genres of the courtroom thriller and the immigrant tale.” Melissa Anderson, 4Columns\n“An intellectually charged, emotionally wrenching story about the inability of storytelling—literary, legal or cinematic—to do justice to the violence and strangeness of human experience.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.fishfoodonline.org/index.php?route=pavblog/category&id=24", "date": "2019-07-18T08:13:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525524.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20190718063305-20190718085305-00019.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9249140024185181, "token_count": 219, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__192727953", "lang": "en", "text": "Aqualog: Loricariidae All L-Numbers, New 2nd Edition Aqualog has published the 2nd edition of its famous “All L Numbers” book.\nBack to Nature: Guide to L-Catfishes (Loricariidae) The armored catfish family (Loricariidae), with more than 700 described species, is one of the largest and most varied groups of fishes known to man.\nDiscus World: A complete manual for the discus fish keeper The tropical discus – fascinating, beautiful and high-maintenance. Looking after your discus is challenging and rewarding, and takes time, money and love. Now in a revised and fully updated second edition, DISCUS WORLD is the complete manual for the tropical discus keeper\nThis book IS the Betta Bible! It is available in Kindle and paperback. It is loaded with 150 color photographs and 300 pages long. This book is written by Dr. Martin Brammah who is a well-respected Betta enthusiast and world-renowned for his hands-on experience.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.vencolibrary.org/events/fos-read-me-story-more-9", "date": "2021-07-31T15:19:28Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-31/segments/1627046154089.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20210731141123-20210731171123-00318.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.923656702041626, "token_count": 180, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-31", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-31__0__279626283", "lang": "en", "text": "\"Read Me A Story & More!\": an early\nliteracy workshop for parents and\ncaregivers of children ages 0-5 years old\nJanuary 21, 6:00 - 8:00 pm\nin the Makerspace Area of the 2nd Floor\nParents and caregivers will learn :\n- The 6 early literacy skills and the 5 practices children need to be reading ready\n- How to make a story come alive!\n- How to have fun with felt board rhymes & songs\n- How to extend stories into activities that the whole family will enjoy!\n- Each participating family receives finger plays, felt supplies and a book to enjoy.\nAdvanced registration is required:\nClass size is limited.\nSign up at the children’s desk or\ncall 648-2716 (ask for children’s dept.) This workshop is for ADULTS ONLY", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.woodlandsgastroenterology.com/colon-health-101/", "date": "2023-09-28T14:52:03Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510412.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928130936-20230928160936-00036.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9257054328918457, "token_count": 695, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__102732033", "lang": "en", "text": "Colon health 101\nIf you’re a self-declared bookworm, you’ll be happy to know that October is National Book Month. This is a great excuse to pick up that new book you’ve been meaning to read, or to dust off the cover of an old favorite. It’s also a great opportunity to read up on ways to prevent colon cancer.\nAccording to Alice Bender, Registered Dietician for the American Institute of Cancer Research (AICR), “Research now shows that 45 percent of colorectal cancers in the United States are preventable each year through diet, staying a healthy weight, and being physically active. That’s about 64,000 cases every year.”\nNearly half of all colon cancer cases can be prevented through simple lifestyle changes. To help you get started in the right direction, here are some ways to lower your risk of colon cancer, and some books to keep you well-read on the subject.\nClean up your plate\n• Load up on fiber. For every 10 grams of fiber consumed per day, your risk of colon cancer is reduced by 10 percent.\n• Fill your plate with colorful fruits and vegetables. They’re loaded with nutrients, antioxidants, and fiber.\n• Cut back on red meat and eliminate processed meat, both of which are known to increase your risk of colon cancer.\n• Limit alcohol intake. AICR recommends limiting daily alcohol intake to two drinks for men and one drink for women.\nBook Recommendation: The Cancer Survivor’s Guide: Foods That Help You Fight Back – This book explores the connection between nutrition and cancer prevention. It also includes several vegan recipes to get you started on a low-fat, plant-based diet.\nFind Time for Exercise\n• Aim for at least 30 minutes of physical activity each day.\n• Explore different fitness routines until you find something you love. If you enjoy your exercise regimen, you’re more likely to stick with it.\n• Remember that every little bit helps! Whether you’re push-mowing the grass or taking the stairs at work, those minutes count toward your daily total.\nBook Recommendation: Anticancer: A New Way of Life – Written by a neuroscientist who discovered a tumor in his own brain, Anticancer serves as a guide to lifestyle changes that prevent and treat cancer. It outlines the importance of diet, exercise, and meditation.\nMaintain a Healthy Weight\n• Shed excess body fat and belly fat, which increase your risk of developing colon cancer.\n• Discover your ideal body weight by calculating your BMI.\n• Practice portion control and eliminate calorie-laden junk foods (Source: American Institute for Cancer Research).\nBook Recommendation: On The Far Side of The Curve: A Stage IV Colon Cancer Survivor’s Journey – Retiree Wayne Cooke underwent three surgeries and over 70 rounds of chemotherapy to overcome stage IV colon cancer. He shares his journey of hope, strength, and how a positive attitude can help anyone overcome even the greatest odds.\nKnowledge really is power, so read up on ways to improve your health this October. Visit your local library or bookstore, and delve into the pages of a good book. It can be your first step toward building a healthier, happier you!\nBook an Appointment Today\nEasy and Fast Online Scheduler", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://store.thebrew.in/product/organizational-alignment-high-performance/?currency=CAD", "date": "2023-02-05T11:14:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500251.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20230205094841-20230205124841-00502.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9152068495750427, "token_count": 686, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-06", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-06__0__40611327", "lang": "en", "text": "Organizational alignment is key to achieving strategic goals and successful realization to strategy execution. It is the cornerstone of maximization of goal attainment & a leading driver of organizational success & progress. It’s criticality is only highlighted by the fact, that, we, at The Brew regard it as one of key critical ingredient (of the overall 6 elaborated in The Brew’s Science of Building High Performance Organization) to building of high performance organization.\nBased on organizational alignment research, highly aligned organizations have the following attributes, vis a vis the less aligned ones:\n- Grow revenue 58% faster\n- Are 72% more profitable\n- Satisfy customers 3.2-to-1\n- Engage employees 16.8-to-1\nAnd hence, the importance of organizational alignment, can’t be understated – one of the key reasons being, most of the strategic organizational goals & metrics are driven by cross functional impact – multiple internal stakeholders & functions having a role to play in its realization, while seeing through the competing goals that realize moving the needle favorably of these strategic goals. Which is why, the importance of organizational alignment becomes so imperative – cos through alignment, the inter-dependencies, the multiplier effects over the value chain & the optimization of organizational resources to get orchestrated, enabling the realization of strategic goals.\nHow does The Brew’s Organizational Alignment Index helps ?\n- It follows a bottom-up approach, giving visibility of critical information percolation & communication at the grassroots\n- In addition to last mile information check, it gauges the employee perceptions in terms of readiness, feasibility & preparedness to the ask of essentials for realization of strategic goals.\n- The degree & direction of interaction between employee perceptions & employee efforts, from the lens of expectations, accountability, practices & teams\n- From the above insights, the Management & Leadership are to get extremely important lead indicators & follow-up actions to improve realization of organizational goals.\nThe Organizational Alignment Index was created to enable Leaders & Organizations to realize their peak performances, measuring employee perceptions & behaviors on 3 elements (this constitutes Organizational Alignment): Strategic Clarity to Operational Objectivity, Healthy & High Performance Culture and Engaged Employees.\nDrawing from validated research, here is the science of elements comprising Organizational Alignment:\n- Strategic Clarity to Operational Objectivity explains 31% of the difference in performance between aligned & unaligned organizations. That being said, quite often we have witnessed Leaders believe that their plan for success are twice as clear as their employees. The Alignment score enables Leaders to iron these anomalies out.\n- Healthy & High Performance Culture explains 40% of the difference in performance between aligned & unaligned organizations.\n- Engaged Employees explains 29% of the difference in performance between aligned & unaligned organizations.\nAbout The Brew\nThe Brew, enables high impact solutions on levers of human capital, enhancing organizational performance – capability – effectiveness yield, basing to build high performance teams & sustainable high impact workplaces, with ultimate objective to create competitive advantages. Be it building high performing workplaces, or high potential teams, improving organizational effectiveness, or organizational trust, engagement, embedded-ness, culture or to improve business outcomes, human capital ROI – we leverage our demonstrated competence in these outcomes to transform organization. Check out The Brew & The Brew Store for further info.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://alreadyancientaotearoa.com/product/hakuturi-forest-folk/", "date": "2024-03-03T21:37:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476399.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303210414-20240304000414-00275.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.955618143081665, "token_count": 604, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__133194015", "lang": "en", "text": "Hākuturi- Forest folk\nHākuturi were the guardians of the forest, remembered in stories of old and sought by few of this day. We remember our connection to the natural world\nis the consistent truth. We search for our kindred spirits.\nCreated from an exceptional emerald green stone of AAA+ quality, this wee guardian is a highly personal gift that reminds us we have good friends that look out for us.\nAlready Ancient hand make all our stones in Aotearoa NZ. No two stones are the same!\nOut of stock\nWe made this piece for the old ones. The forest people. Those who stand small but staunch, those who do their work quietly.\nThese were the folk who make dead trees alive again, the folk who care and protect the vulnerable, the ones who remember truth. This is the story of Rātā\nAs we sat amongst the drift wood on the beach on Te Tai Poutini/ West Coast, we reflected on the journey of a tree. From its life, to its death and resurrection by parasitic plants and myscillia. We reflect on the fallen tree being washed out to sea and cleaned only to be returned again as a long log for the fire. As so is the path of the forest. A perpetual process of life and death and resurrection.\nRātā searches for his father's bones so that he can afford them the proper respect. He learns that the sea goblins have the bones in their village. He must build a canoe to get there. He goes into the forest, and fells a tree, and cuts off the top. His day's work over, he goes home, and returns the next morning. To his surprise he finds the tree standing upright and whole. Once again he cuts it down, but when he returns he finds the tree standing again. Rātā hides in the forest, and hears the voices of the multitude of the Hākuturi, who set to work to re-erect the tree, putting each chip into its proper place. He runs out and catches some of the Hākuturi, who tell him they re-erected the tree because he insulted Tāne the god of the forest, by not performing the correct rituals before felling the tree. Rātā is ashamed, and expresses regret. The Hākuturi then make him a canoe, completing the work in one night.\nDespite how urgent we feel our cause is we remember others in our environment. The stories of old are still seen today, unfolding in the natural events that display natural \"life intelligence\". Perhaps nature is crying from our lack of connection to it. Perhaps you are one of its heroes in the small things you do.\nWe don't see much pounamu of this colour and we use it sparingly. Light moves within the Mantis green Nephrite Jade.\n|65 × 20 × 16 mm", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.ourbroomhall.org.uk/content/latest-contributions/broomspring-writers-workshop", "date": "2023-12-11T16:19:19Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679515260.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20231211143258-20231211173258-00161.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9295435547828674, "token_count": 251, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__234778723", "lang": "en", "text": "The preface from the 2001 book of collected writings by the Broomspring Writer’s Workshop gives a great insight into their times meeting at the Broomhall Centre (then Broomspring Centre):\n“It’s seven o’clock on a Monday night in Broomhall. Shirley’s finishing off her day’s work. I’m hauling tables from various corners of the Broomspring Centre, stacking and unstacking chairs, filling the kettle and collecting cups. Mary arrives first; her bus gets her here early. Next comes John, always punctual. We wait, we chat, we check our watches. Ian and Michael and Sarah turn up, then Sue with a bag full of biscuits. Colin brings his bike into the room. Brian comes in, or doesn’t, distracted. He’s getting married soon. We begin.\nThe book you’re holding in your hand is the result of lots of these Monday nights strung together. We write and read and do a lot of talking about it. It’s been my pleasure to witness the blossoming of such diverse talents. This book is a step along the way.\nLinda Lee Welch", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://turtlequests.com/about-us", "date": "2024-04-25T06:59:11Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712297290384.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20240425063334-20240425093334-00077.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9275590181350708, "token_count": 412, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__117857399", "lang": "en", "text": "I am Samantha Jenkins, a devoted turtle enthusiast and conservationist. My love for nature and my special connection with turtles have shaped my life’s purpose.\nGrowing up near the coast, I became captivated by the rich marine life inhabiting the oceans. This fascination led me to pursue a Bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology, specializing in the study of sea turtle ecology and conservation. Throughout my studies, I delved deep into understanding the nesting behavior and migratory patterns of various sea turtle species.\nDuring this incredible journey, I had the privilege of working closely with esteemed marine biologists and actively participating in field research projects across diverse coastal regions. I dedicated myself to sea turtle monitoring programs, conducting population assessments, and studying the impact of human activities on nesting sites.\nDriven by my experiences and a burning desire to raise awareness about turtle conservation, I decided to share my knowledge and adventures through my turtle blog. It is my aim to provide a platform for fellow turtle enthusiasts, nature lovers, and conservationists to expand their understanding of turtles, their habitats, and the challenges they face in today’s world.\nThrough my writing, I strive to convey my profound passion for turtles and my unwavering commitment to their preservation. I share engaging articles, informative guides, and captivating stories to educate my readers about the significance of safeguarding these ancient creatures and the ecosystems they call home.\nWhen I’m not immersed in writing or conducting research, you can find me exploring coastal areas, volunteering at local sea turtle rehabilitation centers, and actively engaging with community initiatives focused on turtle conservation. I firmly believe in the power of education, collective action, and raising awareness to make a positive impact on the lives of turtles and the environment as a whole.\nI invite you to join me on this incredible journey as I unravel the fascinating world of turtles and share my insights on how we can protect these gentle creatures for generations to come. Together, let’s make a difference in the lives of turtles and the precious ecosystems they inhabit.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.mredkj.com/running/books.html", "date": "2023-12-02T01:37:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100309.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20231202010506-20231202040506-00465.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9332820773124695, "token_count": 223, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__186998964", "lang": "en", "text": "Running - Books\nAbout this site\nThe following reviews include some of our favorite books. We describe a little bit about each one, but mostly the information provided is a subjective analysis of the material.\nThe New Competitive Runner's Handbook\nby Bob Glover and Pete Schuder\nThis book is the best running reference book I have found to date. It includes information on training for cross-country, the mile, and distances all the way up to marathon and beyond. Not only does this book focus on the experienced runner, but it is also suitable for beginners. The chapters focusing on technique, injury, and nutrition can be useful for all runners.\n(Review by Eric)\nPre: The Story of America's Greatest Running Legend, Steve Prefontaine\nby Tom Jordan\nPre is a great source for information on Steve Prefontaine. There is a lot of analysis of Pre's running, which a runner will appreciate. But, the book also discusses topics that reveal the mystique of Steve Prefontaine. His story is a sad one, but this book really shows what made him so great.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://wiserr.co/philip-bradbury", "date": "2020-10-22T15:23:49Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107879673.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022141106-20201022171106-00655.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.942973792552948, "token_count": 363, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2020-45", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2020-45__0__175287120", "lang": "en", "text": "More about Philip\nA writer of 17 books (to date),\nI love helping others find expression in the written word and so run writing workshops and groups to create a safe, supportive space to help people realise they can write ... and can happily share those writings.\nI am a recovering accountant, banker, corporate trainer, lecturer who turned to writing. I somehow found myself involved in (or informed about) international intrigues, dishonesty and fraud, involving banks, governments and police forces. I thought it was time to turn them into stories so everyone can experience the “other side” of life.\nHaving run personal development courses in several countries (and being a student of A Course in Miracles) I cannot help but bring in the spiritual element to these stories, giving characters (and readers) ways of dealing with stressful situations.\nLife is far too interesting to be fluffing about on the sidelines and I (and my characters) are determined to live it to the fullest, even if it means a little danger, stress and uncertainty at times!\nI have been a columnist, editor and publisher of magazines in NZ, Australia, South Africa and Czech Republic. I was commissioning editor for Business Books (an imprint of O-Books) and am a freelance writer and editor for clients around the world.\nSummary list of writing/publishing experiences\n- Publisher of books\n- Commissioning Editor for Business Books\n- Publisher of national magazine\n- Website Editor/Writer\n- Columnist for magazines in four countries\n- Writer of 14 published books\n- Editor for national magazine\n- Reporter for weekly newspaper\n- Professional freelance writer, proof-reader and editor for clients in Australia, Czech Republic, Norway, Slovenia, Germany, Romania, Arabia, Britain, Canada and America", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.pvcsd.org/HS/press/PR740-Quinn_Gilman-Forlini_Writing_Award.php", "date": "2017-04-26T02:11:48Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917121121.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031201-00408-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9690908193588257, "token_count": 250, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__49307859", "lang": "en", "text": "Putnam Valley High School is proud to announce that student Quinn Gilman-Forlini has been recognized with a regional Gold Key in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 2009, presented by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers. Quinn, a tenth grader at PVHS, was recommended by her English Language Arts teacher, Ms. Tracey Getman, for her short story, Round Trip.\nMs. Getman said, “Quinn is an amazing writer and I am so proud that she is being recognized for both her artistry and ability. Quinn's aspiration is to be a writer and the world of literature should prepare for her arrival!”\nQuinn’s story will automatically be forwarded to the national-level judging for these awards, which is happening in late March, with award winners to be announced in April.\nThe national competition also offers significant opportunities for college scholarship funding as well as additional recognition for the student participants.\nIn their 86-year history, these awards have recognized some America’s most celebrated authors and artists while they were teenagers, including Richard Avedon, Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, Sylvia Plath, Robert Redford, and Andy Warhol.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.yesyesyescoaching.com/law-of-attraction-coaching", "date": "2019-10-15T06:15:37Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-43/segments/1570986657586.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20191015055525-20191015083025-00055.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9605764746665955, "token_count": 1350, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-43", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-43__0__83089240", "lang": "en", "text": "Law of Attraction says “the essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn”. While it may seem a rather simple statement, it is a powerful law that is at the basis of our world. It affects all things at all times. Another way it is often described is “like attracts like” or “whatever you focus on expands”.\nWhenever we use expressions such as: “birds of a feather flock together”, “meant to be” “when it rains, it pours”, fell into place”, “it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy”, “out of the blue”; or words such as “luck”, “karma”, “fate”, serendipity”, “and coincidence” we are really referring to the Law of Attraction.\nMany authors have written about this most important law. A century ago, in 1906 a man named William Walker wrote the book “Thought Vibration or the Law of Attraction in the Thought World”. Four years later, in 1910 a man called Wallace D. Wattles wrote “The Science of Getting Rich”. Ernest Holmes wrote about Law of Attraction in “Basic Ideas of Science of Mind” in 1926. And in 1949 Dr. Raymond wrote “Working with the Law”.\nIn the 1900’s the teachings on the Law of Attraction became widely available through the publications of “The teachings of Abraham” by Jerry and Esther Hicks. Esther Hicks does a fantastic job of allowing and translating Infinite Intelligence. I personally feel very strong resonance whenever I read or hear Abraham. They always remind us that though, that their wish for all of us, is to go directly to our Source and do our own translating, to trust the guidance that comes forth from within.\nIt is essential to understand how the Law of Attraction works because everything is brought together by Law of Attraction. No exceptions. We attract into our lives the essence of whatever we think and feel, whether wanted or unwanted.\nIn the past when we weren’t aware of this, we learned habits of thoughts that contradicted our desires and we attracted unwanted things by default. It is most important to forgive and not beat up on yourself whenever you become aware of focusing in opposition of your desires. Instead be happy and pat yourself on the back whenever you are aware of these no longer necessary habits of thought. If you react negatively you are only giving it more energy- LOA is funny that way.\nThis is where the second Law, the Law of Deliberate Creation or “focusing on what is intended while being consciously aware of your state of being” comes into play. This is where we give conscious though to what we DO want, where we start putting our attention and energy on all things wanted, where we deliberately intend the way we want to think and feel.\nSince every subject is two subjects, the subject itself and the absence of it, it is very important to be aware of what part you are giving the majority of your attention to. People think very much about money, but are they putting their attention of the money they have, on how grateful they are to have it, trusting there’s more where that came from, or worrying about the money they don’t have? The answer is obvious. We’ve all been there, done that.\nThe third Law, the Art of Allowing is my favorite. It says “I am that which I am and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.” When we understand the first two laws it becomes easier to allow. When we truly understand how everything comes to be and that what we experience is within our control, then we are more willing to allow others to be as they are and choose as they choose, even if it’s different than what we would want for them.\nThe Art of Allowing is “the practiced process of deliberately choosing thoughts and subjects of attention that feel good, with a keen awareness of how that perspective feels to you”. At any moment in time we are free to choose what we give our attention to and in every moment we receive feedback from our Inner Being through emotion.\nThe Universe at large can’t and doesn’t determine what is right for you and what is not. It just acts in accordance to Universal Laws. It matches your vibration and gives you what you have predominantly been thinking and feeling.\nThe good news is, our Inner Being, our Source, knows us. It knows what we really want and what our truest intentions are. We contribute to this knowledge every time life helps us conclude preferences. If we weight everything that comes to our attention against the feeling in our belly, (some call it solar plexus or chi center) then we can always tell whether we’re heading towards what we want, or away from it. If we feel good we’re on our path to more of everything we want. If not, that’s ok, make peace with where you are, reach for a slightly better feeling thought and soon you’ll feel the relief of coming into alignment with your Source.\nYou are allowing your well-being anytime you feel good. Anytime you are Yes! Yes! Yes’ing your way through life, relaxing and having faith that things are unfolding for you. Whenever you are enjoying the moment you are in the state of allowing, of letting the Universe bring you what you want.\nIt is important not to confuse tolerating with allowing. Tolerating means that you are looking at what you don’t want and doing nothing to try to stop it or change it, and you can tell because it’s an uncomfortable feeling. Allowing means looking briefly at what you don’t want so that you may conclude what you do want and then finding a way of looking at it that still allows your connection to your Inner Being at the same time. Then your job is to turn your undivided attention towards that. In other words, you are of more value to yourself and others when you are solution oriented rather then focusing on a problem with the purpose of fixing it.\nAn understanding and an application of these universal principles is very helpful in living the joyous life you came forth to live.\nThank you for visiting my website!!\nSan Mateo, California", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://adogslifeinva.wordpress.com/2006/12/08/foreman-ah-that-is-what-the-doggy-door-is-for/", "date": "2018-04-22T12:10:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-17/segments/1524125945596.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20180422115536-20180422135536-00417.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9889633059501648, "token_count": 135, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-17__0__46907168", "lang": "en", "text": "The wind kicked up this evening making quite a howling sound over the field behind the house. I let Foreman outside between gusts and he went out to the grass to do his thing. The wind kicked up and he found himself wanting in but debating on whether his fear of the doggy door was worse than his fear of the wind. After a short pause and a visual plea through the glass window to come in another way, he darted to the house and came through the doggy door.\nFrom that point on, I can put him outside, he does his thing, and then comes right back in the doggy door without pause. Tough love works.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://ecogoddess.com/shop/zero-waste-vegan-travel/", "date": "2019-04-22T00:24:12Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578532948.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421235818-20190422021818-00542.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.888455867767334, "token_count": 236, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__77701730", "lang": "en", "text": "For all of you wanderlusters who wish to travel in a more mindful, eco-friendly way…\nZero Waste Vegan Travel is a practical, relatable guide based on my personal, walk-the-talk experience of living a zero waste vegan lifestyle.\nThis book is not intended to make your life harder, but rather simpler, happier and healthier! To touch upon both lifestyle components: zero waste and vegan, I have split the book into parts, beginning with my personal definitions of each term. Each part of this book is rich with information, including:\n- Zero Waste Vegan Lifestyle Hacks\n- Alternatives & Tips\n- Your Complete Travel Checklist\n- Money-Saving Strategies and MORE!\nThis book presents the tried-and-true ways to a lifestyle filled with more compassionate, health-focused choices that are in alignment with Mother Earth. I share with you what has worked and what has not while navigating my travels and experience as a ZWV lifestylist.\nA better world begins with YOU.\nWelcome to Zero Waste Vegan Travel: Your Complete Guide to a More Compassionate (Less Trashy!) Travel Experience.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://linguenordiche.it/call-for-papers-conceptions-of-girlhood-now-and-then-girls-literature-and-beyond/", "date": "2021-05-13T08:39:32Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-21/segments/1620243990584.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20210513080742-20210513110742-00261.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9320535063743591, "token_count": 788, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-21__0__25490510", "lang": "en", "text": "Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden, 6–8 October 2020\nThe history of comprehensive analysis of “girls’ literature” as a genre is an established study in Nordic scholarship. Scholars such as Birgitta Theander, Marika Andræ and Mia Österlund have explored girls’ literature and coming-of-age stories in Swedish-language texts as well as in translated texts. The concept of “flickbok,” which roughly translates into “girl’s book,” is a specific genre label with a defined set of characteristics within a Swedish-language context.\nDrawing on this scholarship, we are seeking academic papers exploring the idea of girls and girlhood in children’s literature and young adult literature and film, both in Nordic and in international primary texts. We welcome papers on both historical texts that have been defined as girls’ literature and conceptions of girlhood in contemporary literature of various genres. Scholarship might include what it means to be a girl in specific texts or as demonstrated by particular fictional girls, how girlhood is constructed in texts, how we define “classic texts for girls,” and the ways in which those definitions change over time, or in different countries.\nWe are especially interested in papers that examine shifting definitions of gender and how it is performed in texts defined as “girls’ literature,” the ways in which texts respond to social issues of girls and girlhood, and how contemporary coming-of-age stories address what it means to be a girl in a specific time and place.\n- We encourage papers on (but not limited to) topics such as:\n- Representations of girls/girlhood in children’s and YA literature and film\n- Intersectional approaches to the concept of girls’ literature and girlhood in children’s and YA literature and film\n- Adaptations, revisions, and translations of “classic” girls’ books\n- Girl-centric communities in children’s and YA literature and film\n- LGBTQ+ approaches to the concept of girls within children’s and YA literature and film\n- National and international perspectives on and definitions of girls and girlhood, as well as “girls’ literature” as a genre – Norm-critical readings of children’s and YA literature and film\n- Pedagogical approaches to girls/girlhood in children’s and YA literature and film\nThe conference language is English. Academic papers should be accessible to an international audience.\nThe following presentation formats are available:\n– 20 minute paper presentations\n– 10 minute poster presentations\n– 20 minute pre-recorded video presentation which is followed by an online Q and A\n– Panels of three 20 minute paper presentations\nPlease submit your abstract to email@example.com. Abstracts should be up to 300 words long. Please include a brief biography of no more than 100 words and indicate which presentation format you prefer. The submission deadline is the 1st of February 2020.\nWe are looking into the possibilities of compiling an essay collection based on a selection of the conference presentations. There will be possibilities to explore the Swedish county Småland during the conference.\nPlease note that there will be a conference fee.\nThe conference will be hosted by Centre for Childhood Research in Literature, Language and Learning (CHILLL) at Linnæus University in Växjö, Sweden. It will be co-organised with the Swedish Institute for Children’s Books and Dawn Sardella-Ayres, who holds a PhD in Children’s Literature from the University of Cambridge.\nFor further information regarding the conference, please contact: firstname.lastname@example.org", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://comp.anu.edu.au/study/projects/saddle-free-optimisation-of-deep-networks/", "date": "2023-12-06T10:56:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100593.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20231206095331-20231206125331-00826.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8923332691192627, "token_count": 309, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__84892707", "lang": "en", "text": "To develop and investigate a new saddle-escaping optimiser for deep neural networks, which converges faster with less hyperparameter tuning than existing optimisers.\nAnalysis of deep networks has established that there are an exponential number of local minima (almost all with similar error to the global minimum), but exponentially more saddle points than minima, known as “saddle point proliferation” [1, 2]. This suggests that getting stuck in a high-error local minimum is less of a problem than the optimiser slowing down near saddle points and plateaux. Furthermore, Newton-based second-order methods, while able to handle low-curvature regions appropriately, are attracted to saddle points, limiting their utility in deep learning. This project aims to explore a new class of cheap second-order methods that quickly escape plateaux without being attracted to saddle points.\n Dauphin et al., Identifying and attacking the saddle point problem in high-dimensional non-convex optimization, NeurIPS, 2014.\n Choromanska et al., The loss surfaces of multilayer networks. J. Mach. Learn. Res., 2015.\n Henriques et al., Small steps and giant leaps: Minimal newton solvers for deep learning, ICCV, 2019.\nThis is primarily a theory project. Fundamental knowledge of optimisation theory is essential and familiarity with deep learning and the PyTorch framework is recommended. Suggested courses: COMP4670, COMP4680, COMP4691.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.dbbookbinders.com/self-publishing-melbourne/", "date": "2023-09-27T04:14:59Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510259.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20230927035329-20230927065329-00480.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9560031294822693, "token_count": 186, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-40", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-40__0__273545595", "lang": "en", "text": "Are you looking for a local business that can take your dream of being a published author and make it a reality?\nWe have been fortunate to have worked with many authors on their projects. Some projects have been years in the making while others were weeks of work. No matter how long you’ve been working on your book, we’ve got the experience and resources to help you with every step of the way to becoming a published author.\nWe specialise in creating books in either hardcover (casebound) or paperback (softcover). We can discuss the differences if you aren’t sure.\nWe welcome you to get in touch with our resident self publishing expert, Jeremy Dart, to discuss your specific needs and how we can help turn your dream into a reality.\nClick the button below to request a quote and we will be in touch within 24 hours to discuss your project.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://kyptraining.com/?p=2586", "date": "2023-12-03T22:01:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100508.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20231203193127-20231203223127-00781.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9320605397224426, "token_count": 203, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-50", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-50__0__114056197", "lang": "en", "text": "Researchers have attempted to understand the demands of being a dementia caregiver.\nFindings suggest that familial caregivers experience a range of difficulties such as burden (van der Lee et al., 2014) and burnout (Astrom, Nilsson, Norberg, Sandman, & Winblad, 1991).\nBurnout is common in human service workers and has been described as “physical, emotional, or mental exhaustion, especially in one’s job or career, accompanied by decreased motivation, lowered performance, and negative attitudes towards oneself and others” (VandeBos, 2007, p.140).\nThree different dimensions of burnout have been identified; emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and decreased personal accomplishment (Maslach & Jackson, 1981). Emotional exhaustion refers to the reduction of emotional resources leading to irritability and fatigue. Depersonalisation comprises of a carer attempting to emotionally distance themselves from the care recipient and personal accomplishment is how competent an individual feels in their work.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://booksillustratedltd.wordpress.com/", "date": "2017-09-21T13:49:02Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818687820.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170921134614-20170921154614-00354.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.944175124168396, "token_count": 323, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-39__0__124151612", "lang": "en", "text": "What a great time we had the day that the children from Peter Pan visited our stand this weekend. Steve Hutton (back right) worked with Zach ( a Lost Boy) Aubrey (Peter Pan) and Issy (Wendy). They met and talked with enthusiasm about the parts they played in helping Steve create the characters of this wonderful story. Vistors to the launch we’re delighted.\nSteve Hutton, the illustrator of our latest book ‘Peter Pan’ will be on our stand to discuss this wonderful tale and his art. As Steve used real models for his characters, we are also pleased that the models of Peter and Wendy will also be on the stand on the Saturday (only). The fair runs from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 November 2015. Come and join us at the event to see both the book and the original artwork. Contact us for a complimentary ticket to the show.\nWe are publishing a deluxe limited edition of Peter Pan (only 200 copies). It will go to the printers on the 1st October. We will be launching the book at the ‘Antiques for Everyone’ fair which is held at the Birmingham NEC – 19 – 22 November.\nVisit our dedicated webpage for Peter Pan to order your copy and see the amazing illustrations by Steve Hutton.\nNorthend Creative Print Solutions submitted our two limited edition books in the category ‘Best Book Printer’ and have made it through to the final stages. We will know if they are successful when we attend the ceremony in London mid-October. Our fingers are crossed!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://galway2020.ie/en/about/galway-2020-bid-book/", "date": "2018-08-16T10:07:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221210615.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816093631-20180816113631-00492.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9459656476974487, "token_count": 262, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-34", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-34__0__198703513", "lang": "en", "text": "Share with your friends your attendance\nShare on Facebook\nShare on Twitter\nSign up to Galway 2020 eNewsletter\nThis bid book is the culmination of 18 months work of facilitation, consultations, workshops, seminars and one-to-one intense sessions with the artists, makers, dreamers, cultural creators and innovators of Galway.\nMaking Waves bid book is not about boasting what Galway has already. It is about what we will deliver in 2020 and the lasting legacy for the people of Galway, Ireland, Europe and beyond.\nThe themes of Galway’s bid book include Migration, Landscape and Language. These themes and issues came from the people who attended the 39 Speak Outs which were held all over Galway city and county, the islands, Dublin, Boston, Chicago and London. Themes which resonate not just in Galway but throughout Europe.\nOur bid book is available below in both Irish and English.\nEnjoy it, relish it and look forward to what could be a truly life-changing year in 2020 for everyone.\nIf you are experiencing difficulties accessing the bid book on your mobile phone you can also access the book via Issuu.com while the Irish version is also available here.\nDownload the bid book here and the Irish version here.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://aishasharif.brownpapertickets.com/", "date": "2019-07-20T15:34:04Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195526536.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20190720153215-20190720175215-00450.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9412503838539124, "token_count": 367, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-30", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-30__0__216167712", "lang": "en", "text": "Aisha Sharif's Book Release\n\"Won't you celebrate with me?\" My first book, To Keep From Undressing, is finally here!\nThis collection of poems explores my experiences as an African American Muslim woman. It reveals the beautifully complex ways that faith, gender, race, geography, marriage, and motherhood intertwine, and how we, particularly as women, \"keep from undressing\" when faced with uncovering the truths of our lives.\nAfter a decade of dreaming, writing, editing, and submitting this body of work, I can now share it with all of you! \"Won't you celebrate with me?\"\nPlease join me for my book release on Friday, February 1, 2019 from 6pm to 8pm, hosted by the El-Scari Harvey Art Galley, located inside of the Center For Spiritual Living in Kansas City, MO. The evening will consist of me reading select poems and signing purchased copies.\nGet your tickets now! There are two options:\n1) General Admission, which includes a pre-signed book* and entrance to the reading. General Admission begins at 6:30pm.\n2) VIP, which includes entrance to a pre-reading reception with light hors d'oeuvres and conversation with me, the author, a pre-signed book*, and entrance to the reading. The VIP reception begins at 6pm.\n*The book is currently in pre-order status. Buy a ticket now, and you will receive your book on the night of the event.\nCome celebrate with me!\nEl-Scari Harvey Art Gallery (inside the Center for Spiritual Living) (View)\n1014 W 39th St\nKansas City, MO 64111\n|Dog Friendly: No|\n|Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!|", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://xn--kocichrystusowy-yrb75k0m.pl/en/2023/10/30/the-4th-national-retreat-of-the-churches-of-christ-took-place-july-9-12/", "date": "2024-04-14T03:55:45Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816864.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20240414033458-20240414063458-00746.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.983190655708313, "token_count": 220, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__29019306", "lang": "en", "text": "The 4th national retreat of the churches of Christ took place July 9-12. The retreat was held at the dormitory of the Naval Academy near a beach a few minutes’ walking distance from downtown Gdynia. “Reliability of the Bible” was our theme and our speaker was Curt Niccum from USA. Curt has dedicated his life to studying the original languages of the Bible and currently teaches New Testament Greek at ACU in Texas.In several lessons presented by him and translated by Robert Nowik from Gdynia, we had an opportunity to get a better understanding of the transmission process of the text of the Bible over the centuries. Among other things we learned what is the difference between canonical and inspired writings, that the Bible is the best documented book, as compared to the great classics of literature, as well as the fact that the church did not create the canon of the Bible, but that the inspired books of the Bible constitute the basis for the church. Altogether 41 people participated in the retreat representing 4 different congregations of the Lord’s church.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://glorisunglobalnetwork.org/hualin-international-journal-of-buddhist-studies/e-journal/6-2/18-29/", "date": "2024-04-13T12:11:25Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-18/segments/1712296816734.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20240413114018-20240413144018-00396.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8798048496246338, "token_count": 779, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-18__0__32453375", "lang": "en", "text": "Click here return to the Hualin main page.\nClick here return to the Hualin E-Journal Vol 6.2 Table of Contents page.\nHualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies 6.2 (2023): 18–29; https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.06.02.02\n(This article belongs to the Special Issue Religion and Local Society)\nPopular Reverence and Commercial Publishing in Late Ming Hagiographic Literature\nUniversity of Cambridge\nAbstract: The turn of the seventeenth century saw a surge in the publication of illustrated hagiographic narratives (chushen zhuan 出身傳), or ‘origin narratives’, in the book meccas of Jiangnan and Fujian. These commercially published books recount the miraculous lives of widely-worshiped cult figures, from Buddhist deities and Daoist immortals to Confucian sages and local heroes. Highly entertaining yet encyclopaedic in scope, origin narratives repackaged the life and lore of their revered protagonists into ‘vernacular’ narratives (xiaoshuo 小說) that seem to have targeted a wide readership. The cultic worship and sacred geographies of the protagonists of origin narratives take centre stage in their main narratives and feature prominently in the paratexts of these books (such as prefaces, postfaces, and appendices), offering practical, current information on the reverence of the protagonists. The incorporation of ‘religious’ materials in the main texts and paratexts of origin narratives highlights the multiple roles that commercial publishers played in late Ming society as cultural agents and producers of knowledge. Origin narratives, I argue, provided commercial publishers with a particularly profitable platform to engage with local cults while promoting their own intellectual and worldly interests.\nKeywords: hagiography, print culture, literature, immortals, Ming, Zhenwu, Lü Dongbin\nAbout the Author: Noga Ganany is an Assistant Professor in the Study of Late Imperial China at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Her main research interests are Chinese cultural history, religious practice in China, premodern Chinese literature, print culture and history of the book, travel and pilgrimage, and popular culture. She is currently working on two book projects. Her first monograph, Origin Narratives: Hagiographic Literature and Religious Practice in Late Ming China, examines the role of commercial publishing in propagating cultic reverence of saints, gods, and immortals among lay readers. Her second book project, King Yama: Afterlife Judgments in Chinese Conceptions of the Netherworld, explores lay moral discourses in the last millennium by tracing the history of King Yama in Chinese religious practice, literature, and art. Her most recent publications include ‘Writing and Worship in Deng Zhimo’s Saints Trilogy’ (Religions, 2022) and ‘Journeys Through the Netherworld in Late Ming Hagiographic Narratives’ (Late Imperial China, 2021). Before assuming her current position at Cambridge, Dr. Ganany taught briefly at Boston University (2018–2019), after receiving her Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York (2018). Dr. Ganany is a member of the board of directors of the Society for the Study of Chinese Religions (SSCR) and a board member of the Society for Ming Studies.\nThis is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://arr.ga.gov.au/about/how-to-reference-arr", "date": "2019-04-20T14:55:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578529839.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20190420140859-20190420162030-00081.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8228235244750977, "token_count": 149, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-18", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-18__0__118311186", "lang": "en", "text": "How to reference ARR\nWe recommend people refer to the full editions or directly refer to a book or chapter.\nThe reference for the ARR 2016 is:\nBall J, Babister M, Nathan R, Weeks W, Weinmann E, Retallick M, Testoni I, (Editors), 2016, Australian Rainfall and Runoff: A Guide to Flood Estimation, Commonwealth of Australia\nWhen referencing specific books or chapters of Australian Rainfall and Runoff (ARR), the following format is recommended:\nNathan, R and Weinmann, E, 2016, Estimation of Very Rare to Extreme Floods, Book 8 in Australian Rainfall and Runoff - A Guide to Flood Estimation, Commonwealth of Australia", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://larrypino.com/author/", "date": "2024-03-01T15:09:06Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947475311.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20240301125520-20240301155520-00346.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9722431302070618, "token_count": 157, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__103965842", "lang": "en", "text": "Larry has authored fourteen books on life and business and is currently working on a few new titles. Some of those books are available on Amazon, Goodreads, Publishers Weekly, Simon & Schuster, Books A Million, and ThriftBooks.\nAuthor writes as Laurence J. Pino on his blog at OurLifeInBusiness, where he pen’s his thoughts on life, business and his family.\nLarry embraced the social blogging platform, Medium, as a place to publish his more in-depth essays on business, politics and life musings, complete with historical and bibliographic links.\nLarry regularly contributes to the Orlando Sentinel as a guest columnist and a member of the CF100 line up, which comprise some of Central Florida’s most influential people.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://abkhazmoscow.ru/en/personalii.php?ELEMENT_ID=1314", "date": "2019-01-18T11:37:47Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-04/segments/1547583660070.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20190118110804-20190118132804-00501.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9607642292976379, "token_count": 171, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2019-04", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2019-04__0__96750294", "lang": "en", "text": "Abkhaz poet - January 16, 1938\nFamous Abkhaz poet laureate of the State Prize of Gulia, academician, author of many books of poetry, the poem \"Golden Fleece\", a novel in verse \"Fatherland\", which played a significant role in the development of the Abkhazian literature.\nBy the nature of his talent M. Lasuria - lyricist. Peru M. Lasuria has translated into the Abkhaz language novel in verse by Pushkin's \"Eugene Onegin\", Shota Rustaveli's poem \"The Knight in the Panther's Skin\", \"Novice\" and \"Demon\" by M. Lermontov, \"The Prisoner of Chillon\" George. Byron \"The Song of Hiawatha\" G. Longfellow, and others.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://czlobby.cz/en/news/beyond-common-ideas-feminist-and-lgbtqi-movement-new-brochure-gender-information-center-nora", "date": "2024-02-24T13:44:44Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474533.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20240224112548-20240224142548-00205.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9351633787155151, "token_count": 330, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__96453533", "lang": "en", "text": "The Gender Information Center NORA, which is a member organization of the Czech Women's Lobby, has created a new electronic brochure titled \"Threads of History: Beyond the Common Ideas of the Feminist and LGBTQI+ Movement\"\nThe brochure offers a detailed summary of key milestones in the feminist and LGBTQI+ movements and the development of gender and queer studies. It covers a wide range of topics including historical insights into various feminist movements around the world and conflicts within and outside the feminist movement. The brochure does not only stay with history but also names current challenges and ongoing struggles within the feminist and LGBTQI+ movements, such as racism, homophobia, and transphobia.\nThis document serves as an informative and accessible guide for anyone interested in understanding the historical and current complexities of the feminist and LGBTQI+ movements. The author collective presents key milestones of both movements in an uncomplicated, readable yet comprehensive form, making it particularly useful for elementary and high school teachers who wish to incorporate these topics into their curriculum, for students, and for the general audience interested in gender equality and LGBTQI+ rights.\nThe publication was created in 2023 and is the output of the project \"Streets Aligned – Supporting educators towards a LGBTIQ+ Inclusive Education\"\nThe author collective consists of MgA. Bc. Eva Lukešová, Mgr. Dagmar Matulíková, Mgr. et Mgr. Tamara Jačisko Nasri from the organization Gender Information Center NORA, o.p.s..\nYou can download the publication below, in both Czech and English.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://visionchangewin.org/know-your-rights-during-covid-guide/", "date": "2024-02-28T08:14:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474700.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20240228080245-20240228110245-00754.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9381783604621887, "token_count": 196, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__41284996", "lang": "en", "text": "Over the past year this guide was written, compiled, and updated for community members, organizers, and activists to develop a shared understanding of our rights in uncertain times. It is focused on policing, criminalization, militarization, and other forms of state power. As we collectively navigate multiple crises including the COVID19 pandemic, now more than ever there is a deep need for centralized information. In this guide, you’ll find information on rights during uprisings, quarantine, stay-at-home orders, and more.\nThe guide was last updated on February 26, 2021. All information that has shifted up until that date has been edited. Please see the first five pages of the guide for additional COVID related resources. This guide was written by Pooja Gehi, Gabriel Arkles, Che Johnson-Long, Ejeris Dixon, Ken Montenegro, and Emmy Esquerre.\nClick here to download the Know Your Rights During COVID Guide", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://staysocial.com.au/stay-social-and-celebrate-the-story/", "date": "2022-05-20T01:47:14Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662530553.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220519235259-20220520025259-00148.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9752452969551086, "token_count": 377, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2022-21", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2022-21__0__217626426", "lang": "en", "text": "‘Stay Social’ is a beautiful accommodation space designed to bring people together for work and play. We believe that connections between people can result in new business collaboration that transforms community and life! When Frances Ardern got in touch with us to stay with her family for her book launch we got just a little bit excited and had to share her story with you.\n“The people who are staying with me at Stay Social span three generations: my late grandmother’s brothers, my parents, and other relatives who are teachers within the Catholic Education system,” smiles Frances.\nFrances, completing her masters in education this year, is under 30 and achieving a life-time goal that so many of us hope to achieve; the publication of her first book, ‘ Celebrating the Story ’.\nThree years ago Frances received a commission from the Catholic Education Office of Sandhurst, to write about the history of Catholic Education in the Sandhurst Diocese. For more than 160 years Catholic schools have been providing education for families in the Sandhurst Diocese when the first school opened on the Bendigo Goldfields in 1853.\n“It means so much to me to have everyone here to celebrate,” Frances explains. “My family has travelled from as far as Mildura. My Grandfather was the first lay teacher in this region, so we are celebrating our family connections within the Diocese.”\nThe people Frances met to gather research material are still very active in our community and passionate about education. “The stories I collected for this book share a common thread that education builds community and education received by one person not only benefits that person, but the community they live within.”\n- Frances is pictured above with Aidan and Jeremy, Karen and Chris’ sons who attend a local Catholic Primary School.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.francineely.com/post/franci-neely-reflects-on-the-books-that-changed-her-life", "date": "2023-03-22T08:58:16Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943809.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20230322082826-20230322112826-00773.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9430391192436218, "token_count": 185, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2023-14", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2023-14__0__256766813", "lang": "en", "text": "Houston philanthropist Franci Neely says reading is not only one of her top hobbies, but she finds great stress relief in the pages of a compelling book. In fact, Neely’s had such a lifelong love for reading, she looks back fondly on her childhood days when she would write stories and plays and act them out for neighborhood children.\n“There is never just one book. Since I was a little girl, I’ve had my nose in books,” Franci Neely told ideamensch.com.\nFull story: https://www.dailyuw.com/ask_the_experts/franci-neely-reflects-on-the-books-that-changed-her-life/article_f6417cba-65e1-11ed-830f-bff226cafac6.html", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://tdmaryland.org/event-612564", "date": "2021-11-30T14:51:35Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964359037.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20211130141247-20211130171247-00322.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8911045789718628, "token_count": 122, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-49", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-49__0__201877955", "lang": "en", "text": "Join him for a motivational, inspiring presentation and book signing experience! Books will be available for purchase.\nThis event is free and open to the public!\nIt will be held from 6:30 until 8:00 PM on January 22 at the Enoch Pratt Free Library - 400 Cathedral Street - Baltimore, MD 21201.\nClick here to learn more about the book and Jim \"Mr. Energy\" Smith, Jr.\nEmail Us: email@example.com\nAddress: PO Box 2524 • Ellicott City, MD 21041\nChIP Code: CH2030", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://poetryforgcseenglish.blogspot.com/2009/10/island-man.html", "date": "2017-04-28T21:38:36Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917123097.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031203-00411-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9549734592437744, "token_count": 916, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2017-17", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2017-17__0__145781583", "lang": "en", "text": "Grace Nichols, born in Guyana but a resident of Britain since 1977, wrote the poem 'Island Man' 'for a Caribbean island man in London who still wakes up to the sound of the sea' (her own words). It is a poem of contrasts based on the two places that the man has known as home and is set as he is waking up in London.\nThe first stanza of five lines tells us that it is morning and that the man hears the sounds of the island 'in his head' as he wakes up. These are the sounds of nature, of the sea: 'blue surf' and waves 'breaking and wombing'. Wombing is an unusual verb used by Shakespeare to mean 'enclosing'; it is the final word of the first stanza but leads through enjambment to the 'wild seabirds' in the first line of the second stanza, as if the sea is about to give birth to the birds. In stanza two, which is six lines long, Nichols continues the theme of dreaming about the island as the fisherman set out to sea and the sun rises 'defiantly' (in contrast to London weather, of course). The images are again based in nature, and the colours in these initial stanzas are rich and beautiful: 'blue surf' and 'his small emerald island'.\nStanza two ends, however, with the phrase that tells us how the man has to emerge from his dream 'groggily groggily'; these words set to one side to emphasise that the dream has ended and a different setting is being introduced. The repetition of 'groggily' also serves to portray the idea that this is a reluctant, slow awakening. The third stanza consists of four lines, repeating the phrase 'comes back' from the end of the preceding stanza. Nichols tells us here that he comes back to 'sands', but as we continue to the next line we realise that these are metaphorical sands 'of a grey metallic soar'. The natural images change to man-made ones, and the beauty of the island's colours has switched to grey. The sounds of the sea have now turned into those of London traffic, with a 'surge of wheels' and a 'roar' on the North Circular road; the use of the adjective 'dull' to describe the road echoes the greyness two lines earlier. The 'surge of wheels' in line fourteen is pushed to one side as was the phrase 'groggily groggily', almost as though the man is trying to push the sounds of London out of his head.\nEnjambment is again used to connect to the fourth stanza which opens with the phrase 'muffling muffling', this time echoing the repetition of 'groggily groggily' and suggesting once again that there is a struggle to shut out one set of sounds in favour of another. Nichols uses the metaphor 'crumpled pillow waves' to link the ideas here back to the sounds and images of the sea at the beginning of the poem. The fact that the man 'heaves' himself out of bed gives the impression that he is unwilling to leave his dream of the Caribbean Island and face the reality of 'Another London day', the final line of the poem which is set apart from the previous stanza.\nThe lack of punctuation in the poem allows the lines and stanzas to flow freely, underlining the image of the sea. The irregular lengths of both lines and stanzas form a visual pattern reminiscent of the ebb and flow of the tide on the shore. Rhyme is also irregular here, with just one or two rhyming words dotted here and there such as 'soar' and roar', perhaps to give a natural feel. Alliteration with soft 's' sounds features in the images of the island: 'sound of blue surf', 'sun surfacing'. We can find assonance in the final stanza, in the phrases 'muffling/his crumpled pillow...' and the final 'Another London day'.\n'Island Man' is just nineteen lines in length, but Grace Nichols succeeds in presenting us with a concise poem that conjures up vividly the idea of a man who has left his native island in the hope of a better life in one of the world's great capital cities but finds himself longing for the simplicity and beautiful surroundings of the island of his birth.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.massimodalcorso.com/post/how-can-the-hero-s-journey-be-applied-to-the-process-of-recovery-from-addiction", "date": "2024-02-23T14:04:01Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947474412.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20240223121413-20240223151413-00398.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9224969744682312, "token_count": 692, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__170379916", "lang": "en", "text": "The hero's journey is a powerful storytelling device that has been used for centuries to tell tales of personal growth, transformation, and overcoming adversity. But did you know that the steps of the hero's journey can also be applied to the process of recovery from addiction?\n👣 Step 1: The Call to Adventure\nIn the hero's journey, the call to adventure is the moment when the hero is called upon to embark on a journey of self-discovery and transformation. Similarly, in the journey of recovery, the call to adventure is the moment when an individual realizes that they have a problem with addiction and need to seek help.\n🛡️ Step 2: Refusal of the Call\nOften in the hero's journey, the hero initially refuses the call to adventure out of fear or a sense of inadequacy. In addiction recovery, this refusal of the call can manifest as denial or resistance to the idea of seeking help.\n🌟 Step 3: Meeting the Mentor\nThe hero's journey often includes a meeting with a wise mentor who helps the hero on their journey. In recovery, this mentor can take many forms, such as a sponsor, a therapist, or a support group.\n💥 Step 4: Crossing the Threshold\nIn the hero's journey, crossing the threshold is the moment when the hero leaves their familiar world behind and enters a new and unfamiliar realm. In recovery, this can be the moment when an individual enters a treatment program or takes their first steps towards sobriety.\n🗝️ Step 5: Tests, Allies, and Enemies\nDuring the hero's journey, the hero encounters tests, allies, and enemies that help shape their character and prepare them for the final battle. In addiction recovery, tests can take many forms, such as resisting temptation, navigating difficult relationships, and dealing with cravings.\n🧘 Step 6: The Ordeal\nThe ordeal is the moment of greatest challenge in the hero's journey, where the hero faces their greatest fear and overcomes it. In recovery, the ordeal can be the moment of relapse, where an individual faces the temptation to use again and must summon the strength to resist.\n🌅 Step 7: The Reward\nThe reward is the moment when the hero emerges from their journey transformed and renewed. In recovery, the reward can be the experience of living a sober and fulfilling life, free from the grip of addiction.\n💪 Step 8: The Road Back\nIn the hero's journey, the road back is the journey home, where the hero brings their newfound wisdom and transformation back to the familiar world. In recovery, the road back can be the process of re-entering society and learning to live a sober life in the context of everyday challenges.\n🏆 Step 9: The Return with the Elixir\nThe return with the elixir is the final step of the hero's journey, where the hero returns home with the wisdom and transformation they have gained on their journey. In recovery, the return with the elixir can be the experience of helping others who are struggling with addiction, sharing one's own story of transformation and offering hope and support.\n👉 By understanding the similarities between the hero's journey and the journey of recovery from addiction, we can gain a deeper appreciation for the power of storytelling to inspire personal growth and transformation. #Inspiration #AddictionRecovery 🙌", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "http://www.financialfun.ca/featured-guest/", "date": "2018-09-24T05:16:05Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-39/segments/1537267160145.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180924050917-20180924071317-00485.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.8874887228012085, "token_count": 172, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2018-39", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2018-39__0__14103623", "lang": "en", "text": "CHECK OUT our GUEST of the WEEK 🙂\nJohn Lanza– Author & Chief Mammal of The Money Mammals\nJohn Lanza is the Chief Mammal of The Money Mammals and author of the new book for parents, The Art of Allowance: A Short, Practical Guide to Raising Money-Smart, Money-Empowered Kids. A pioneer in youth money-smarts, John created the original Money Mammals DVD and has written three children’s picture books to help kids learn to “Share & Save & Spend Smart.” He is recognized nationally as a youth financial literacy expert and the Money Mammals have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The LA Times.\nKIDS: 2 Girls ages 13 & 15\nListen to the Podcast HERE!\nConnect with John HERE!", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://paintsocial.ca/who-qualifies-as-higher-education-essay-writers/", "date": "2021-06-18T15:27:38Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-25/segments/1623487637721.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20210618134943-20210618164943-00054.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9735004305839539, "token_count": 504, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2021-25", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2021-25__0__205290548", "lang": "en", "text": "Essay authors ‘ are maybe not the same. You’ll find distinct kinds of folks who produce, plus they need to be hired depending on their need. This job demands a lot of research & a lot of the time you affordable papers have to do it all day and hours on end. Some people are able to compose well in an hourbut for others, even if they write one essay every day for per month, then it might take a year to complete.\nYou might have noticed that college essay authors tend to be hired through recommendations. In case your buddies and other acquaintances have employed authors, then there’s a possibility that they are able to advise that you in their mind as well. They’re also able to recommend you to unique companies or other professionals in your own field, or sometimes the people can guide you into the perfect faculty to further your livelihood. This is a rather excellent means to begin your own career.\nA great benefit of this is the fact that you simply receive the benefit of word of mouth advertisements. In case other men and women who have hired authors are advocating you, you can always say thanks. Of course should individuals who hire writers can urge you, it may lead to job chances for you too. In addition, it makes it possible for you to land interviews using plenty of different businesses.\nYou’ll find a number of diverse sorts of authors, also you will find some regions that lots of writers excel inside. These are the areas of writing that they adore performing. As an instance, some people love writing poems and have the ability to set their emotions into poetry.\nThis kind of writing can be exceedingly touching and expressive, and certainly will get you plenty of consideration. This can be why these writers are hunted soon after. It could possibly be a good idea to discuss with and determine what kind of authors your friends and family are all hiring.\nMost faculty essay authors have a good deal of experience in writing. They’ve written a lot of essays and stories, plus so they know just how to hone their knowledge to receive superior grades. That really is because they have been composing for years, and now they’re on the lookout for brand new tasks or looking for a school.\nThey may additionally have obtained some writing lessons, however their career options are limited by how many instruction classes they can take. As they have been creating so longthey know that the composing skills that they have to have for their tasks.", "domain": "literature"}
{"url": "https://www.drorgarti.com/battle-of-oranges-main", "date": "2024-03-03T06:01:42Z", "file_path": "s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947476205.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20240303043351-20240303073351-00081.warc.gz", "language_score": 0.9582267999649048, "token_count": 154, "dump": "CC-MAIN-2024-10", "global_id": "webtext-fineweb__CC-MAIN-2024-10__0__87885859", "lang": "en", "text": "BATTLE OF THE ORANGES\nEach year in the days preceding Fat Tuesday, townspeople of Ivrea divide up into nine different squads, dressed in battle attire, and over the course of the next three days engage in fearless orange battles, attempting to “kill” the other teams.\nThe origins of this event are tied to a tale where an evil marquis, who attempted to rape a young woman in the town, was instead decapitated by the woman. In the aftermath of his death, the townspeople stormed his palace in revolt. It is this revolt, which is symbolized by the Battle of the Oranges every year and the marquis slayer, the Mugnaia, appears in the first act and opens the festival.", "domain": "literature"}
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