![]() The patients with schizophrenia landed at the bottom-excluded from group therapy, seen as lunatic and raving, and incapable of fitting into the requirements of normalcy. I was in this group, and was perhaps even ranked as highly as the depressives, because I came from Yale. In the middle of the hierarchy were those with anorexia and bipolar disorder. ![]() We had already proved ourselves capable of being high-functioning, and thus contained potential if only we could be steered onto the right track. A precocious young person on a track to success, Wang experiences a manic episode at Yale that leads to her first hospitalization. ![]() The Collected Schizophrenias is a book of personal essays that was the 2016 winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize. Because we were in the Yale Psychiatric Institute (now the Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital), many of those hospitalized were Yalies, and therefore considered bright people who’d simply wound up in bad situations. Esm Weijun Wang is a novelist who has been diagnosed with Schizoaffective Disorder. Wang mixes in news stories about schizophrenia sufferers who have committed or been the victims of. From here, each essay focusses on a different aspect of either her own life or those of others. Depressives, who constituted most of the ward’s population, sat at the top of the chain, even if they were receiving electroconvulsive therapy. The way the collection is structured was clearly and excellently thought-out: first educating us, then encouraging empathy and understanding. ![]() “A natural hierarchy arose in the hospital, guided by both our own sense of functionality and the level of functionality perceived by the doctors, nurses, and social workers who treated us. ![]()
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Little blue truck makes a friend7/2/2023 ![]() And if you allow your child to be indoctrinated into the Red Army, before you know it she's going to run off thinking she can farm or smelt or push dump trucks or whatever, and let me be straight with you, friend: she can't. The American Way is you best call a tow truck, and if you can't afford a tow truck then you have a truck problem. ![]() Real talk: a frog can't move a dump truck. ![]() "With great labor we will fulfill the plan" But is any of that acknowledged in this insidious communist propaganda? Of course not! The real-life result was a lot of bad steel and no one had any pots left. You know what Little Blue Truck sounds like to me? It sounds like Little Red Book, and this story is an allegory for Mao's Great Leap Forward, during which everyone, regardless of their innate ability or training, was set to melting metal down into steel. "Everybody is fully occupied in production" Sound familiar? That's because it is COMMUNISM! If all pull together, even the largest tasks can be accomplished. Even if, like the frog, they are not best suited for pushing, they must join equally in the fight. Whatever their individual strengths, all must join in the struggle to move the enormous truck. ![]() In the end it's the addition of the little green frog who pushes them over the edge that last little bit is enough to help the dump truck.Ī mighty machine can only be moved by the combined strength of every citizen. A dump truck gets stuck in the mud plucky little blue truck can only get him out with the help of all his friends. ![]() Man Without a Shadow by Colin Wilson7/2/2023 ![]() ![]() He ascribed his lack of acceptance by British academia to the fact that he never attended a university that may have been so, but it is also a fact that far too much of his massive output was sloppy, superficial and, from an alarmingly early stage, outright silly. In his preface to an anniversary edition of Religion and the Rebel decades later, he stated that the only possible improvements he could make to the latter would be in the vocabulary (the word "Outsider" came in a bit too much, he thought). Wilson wrote The Outsider at twenty-five, became a best-seller, and promptly stopped developing. The basis of his philosophy, so far as I can discern it, was that optimism is truer than pessimism because it feels better that the universe, having produced George Bernard Shaw and then, in relatively short order, Colin Henry Wilson, must be a rather jolly place that human beings have vast reservoirs of as yet untapped psychic potential and that, given sufficient mental discipline, a man might become anything he wanted and live as long as he wished. ![]() ![]() The death of Colin Wilson, as a spring chicken of eighty-two, will have surprised nobody more than himself. ![]() The secret by rl stine7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() They also seem compelled to fall in love with one another. Even after a hundred years, the Fiers seem destined to be wealthy while the Goodes remain poor. The Saga continues! Further generations of Fier and Goode families aim to wipe out the other's entire bloodline. Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series. ![]() Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. ![]() ![]() ![]() The modern theoretical basis for studies of the folk classification and nomenclature of plants was developed from accounts of peoples who were small-scale agriculturists and, to a lesser extent, hunter-gatherers. It also makes a major contribution to the larger project of ethnobotany by describing aspects of a nomadic peoples' conceptual relationships with the plants of their homeland. ![]() Bedouin Ethnobotany offers the first detailed study of plant uses among the Najdi Arabic-speaking tribal peoples of eastern Saudi Arabia. A Bedouin asking a fellow tribesman about grazing conditions in other parts of the country says first simply, "Fih hayah?" or "Is there life?" A desert Arab's knowledge of the sparse vegetation is tied directly to his life and livelihood. ![]() ![]() ![]() The majority of stories, though, are about residents of Avonlea (and surrounding towns) who are never mentioned in the Anne novels. As well, there are brief appearances made by Diana Barry, the Reverend Mr. The Penhallows from "The Winning of Lucinda" would be mentioned later in Anne of the Island. ![]() Other Avonlea residents from the Anne series are also referenced in passing, including Marilla Cuthbert and Mrs. She is otherwise only briefly mentioned in passing in five other stories: "Each in His Own Tongue", '"Little Joscelyn"', "The Winning of Lucinda", '"Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's" and "The End of a Quarrel". Sometimes marketed as a book in the Anne Shirley series, Anne plays only a minor role in the book: out of the 12 stories in the collection, she stars in only one ("The Hurrying of Ludovic"), and has a small supporting role in another ("The Courting of Prissy Strong"). It features an abundance of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912. About Chronicles of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of stories by Lucy Maud Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. ![]() Moonshot by alessandra torre6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() This is my first Alessandra Torre book – and all I want to do is just stop – stop and bask in the beauty she ends up delivering – this is one of the MOST INTENSE, SOUL SHATTERING FORBIDDEN AND SECOND CHANCE LOVE that I have had the honor of ever reading. really! And Moonshot is that book for me! There are certain books that stay with you – it could be because of their characters, or it could be because of the phenomenal writing or it could be because of the way the plot just smoothly moves!īut rarely, rarely do we come across books that have everything going for it – the characters, the writing, the whole she-bang. A distraction who played like a god and partied like a devil. A distraction with sex appeal poured into every inch of his six foot frame. The daughter of a legend, the Yankees were my family, their stadium my home, their dugout my workplace. The summer that Chase Stern entered my life, I was seventeen. ![]() Baseball isn’t supposed to be a game of life and death… ![]() Even If Such Ways Are Bad by Rich Larson6/30/2023 ![]() We affirm.Īfter the facts which formed the basis of the prosecution first came to light in February 1986, the state filed a complaint against defendant in magistrate court. Defendant also raises an issue concerning cumulative error, but because we find no error there can be no cumulative error. We discuss: (1) whether the information should have been dismissed because the state and defendant had an agreement whereby defendant would not be prosecuted if he fulfilled certain conditions (2) whether the trial court erred in allowing a videotaped deposition into evidence or in not dismissing the prosecution for violation of the six-month rule and (3) whether the trial court erred by admitting certain alleged pornographic materials into evidence. Other issues listed in the docketing statement but not briefed are deemed abandoned. ![]() ![]() Wilson, Wilson & Martin, Roswell, for defendant-appellant.ĭefendant appeals his conviction for multiple counts of criminal sexual offenses involving his daughter and another child. ![]() A dance with dragons part 16/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Martin takes his story to the next level that is filled with violence, betrayal and extreme politics as Kings and Queens attempt to secure their empire in the world of Westeros. Unlike the previous novel of Martin which focused on new characters, this current instalment thankfully returns readers to the primary characters of this series which is Jon Snow, Tyrion and Daenerys. The book also focuses on Jon Snow who has been made the 998th Lord Commander of the Night Watch and even though he was given the chance by King Stannis to reclaim Winterfell, he has truly pledged his allegiance to the watch in order to protect the borders from the upcoming darkness that threatens Westeros with the dreaded white walkers.ĭaenerys Targaryen even returns to centre stage and plays a large part in this story, especially as her recently acquired city of Meereen is now in turmoil as new darker factions are unleashed in this deadly game of thrones. With Tyrion Lannister killing his father and being accused of murdering his nephew, King Joffrey, he was successfully smuggled out of King’s Landing only to be thrown out of the frying pan and into the fire. ![]() ![]() To coincide with the fifth season of Game of Thrones, Harper Collins has just re-released Game of Thrones 5: A Dance With Dragons Part 1 Dreams and Dust which parallels the latest season of this extremely entertaining HBO series. Game of Thrones 5: A Dance With Dragons Part 1 Dreams and Dust ![]() ![]() ![]() Foraging bats demonstrated both affiliative and competitive interactions with different social calls linked to each interaction type. Repeating foraging encounters were predicted by within-roost association and histories of cooperation in captivity, even when accounting for kinship. We found that closely bonded female vampire bats departed their roost separately, but often reunited far outside the roost. We assessed evidence for 6 hypothetical scenarios of social foraging, ranging from individual to collective hunting. To evaluate if long-term cooperative relationships in vampire bats play a role in foraging, we tested if foraging encounters measured by proximity sensors could be explained by wild roosting proximity, kinship, or rates of co-feeding, social grooming, and food sharing during 21 months in captivity. However, it remains unclear whether these cooperative relationships extend beyond the roost. Food-sharing relationships form via preferred associations and social grooming within roosts. ![]() A striking example is that female vampire bats often regurgitate blood to socially bonded kin and nonkin that failed in their nightly hunt. ![]() ![]() Stable social bonds in group-living animals can provide greater access to food. ![]() |