"Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit."
-- Wayne Muller
Frantic Winner: Best Crime Novel -
by Katherine Howell Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards
In one terrible moment, paramedic Sophie Phillips' life is torn apart - her police officer husband, Chris, is shot on their doorstep and their ten-month-old son, Lachlan, is stolen from his bed. The police suspect Chris is involved with a number of armed hold-ups and that the attack is revenge for his desire to distance himself from the robberies, but Sophie believes the attack is much more personal - and the perpetrator far more dangerous... While Chris is in hospital and the police, led by Detective Ella Marconi, are moving heaven and earth to find their colleague's child, Sophie's desperation to make amends compels her to search for Lachlan herself. She enlists her husband's partner, Angus Arendson, in her hunt for her son, but will the history they share prove harmful to Sophie's ability to complete her mission?
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Will you pack on the pounds if you eat past 7 p.m.?
By Martica Heaner, M.A., M.Ed., for MSN Health & Fitness
Q. I don’t get home until late, which means I eat dinner pretty late. I’ve heard that you should stop eating after 7 p.m. to lose weight, or to avoid gaining it. I think I would starve if I didn’t eat at all—but is eating at night bad for me?
First choice ... Kate Winslet as Hannah in The Reader.
An award-winning film is the latest success for this philosopher-turned-prolific author, writes Steve Meacham. Bernhard Schlink - considered by some to be the finest legal philosopher-turned-best-selling fiction writer - is jubilant.
At home in wintry Berlin, he's just heard the news from sunny Los Angeles: Kate Winslet has won the Golden Globe for best supporting actress as Hannah in the movie of his hit novel, The Reader.
[From Boing Boing]
So many of the epic problems that Obama is going to be wrestling with over the next four years involve systems of great complexity and scale: the bailouts and stimulus programs, our national energy use, the immense expenditures involved in fighting two wars, the global scope of climate change. Tufte would be the first person to argue that complex systems like these are not easily explained using sentences and statistics, particularly when we're talking about such vast numbers. I can imagine a White House address on the stimulus package, or his long-term plan for energy independence, where instead of sitting at a desk reading from a teleprompter, he's actually walking us through the problem and his proposed solution with a backdrop of visually arresting and memorable slides. That would actually make for more stimulating television, and at the same time do a better job of communicating the issues.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/19/the-case-for-powerpo.html
The only comic book character that can still be found in every supermarket in the country, where he merits prominent point-of-purchase placement alongside US Weekly and Fabulous Fruitini Orbit gum? A skinny teenaged redhead in a sweater vest.
The question: what is it about Archie Andrews that has allowed him to bravely weather a sales environment harsh enough to send the X-Men fleeing for cover?
Encyclopaedia Britannica is about to launch a new initiative... The main thrust of this initiative is to promote greater participation by both expert contributors and readers. Both groups will be invited to play a larger role in expanding, improving, and maintaining the information we publish on the Web under the Encyclopaedia Britannica name as well as in sharing content they create with other Britannica visitors. A complete redesign, editing tools, and incentive programs will give expert contributors and users the means to take part in the further improvement of Encyclopaedia Britannica and in the creation and publication of their own work.
The most memorable speeches are observations about the world at large, and remarks that unify, not observations about the speaker and his or her accomplishments and goals. To identify a speech given at a higher level, one that is not self-centered, simply count the number of times the word “I” is used vs. the number of times “we” occurs.
http://www.socializedpr.com/i-vs-we-in-presidential-rhetoric/
