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![]() In this inspiring podcast, Tami Simon speaks with Jon about his empowering new book, Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief, and how we can greatly improve our lives (and our entire world) by reframing the way we relate to our thoughts, our minds, and the sensations of our bodies. Jon Kabat-Zinn has received international acclaim for his leading work in bringing the life-changing practices of meditation and mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. Current statistics tell us that 20% of the US population has some form of chronic pain, defined as severe discomfort that has continued for six months or more. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bits of stone and cement lodge into the abdomen of Mizuho employee Ed Nicholls. Only moments earlier he was leaving his wife a message saying he was fine, which is interrupted as Praimnath sees the U on the side of the United plane flying towards his office window. Buried beneath rubble, Stanley Praimnath “called out onto a dark floor where no one else was alive to hear or help him” (85) eventually, he gets free. ![]() ![]() There are people with broken bones, severed limbs, and burned faces. The impact kills many instantly, tears others apart, and leaves those people above the point of impactin a state of terror. At 9:02 a.m., as an announcement to casually evacuate, if one wishes to do so, comes over the loudspeakers, United Airlines Flight 175 smashes into the south tower, its wingspan running diagonally across the 77th through 85th floors. ![]() ![]() Rather than delivering more of the same, its sequel Harrow the Ninth instead reads like Douglas Adams-meets- Girl-Interrupted, gleefully refusing to bury its gays but utterly game to put them through all kinds of hell. ![]() Gideon blessed unsuspecting readers with an interstellar locked-room mystery packed with characters wielding swords nearly as long as their names, fueled by an enemies-to-lovers romance between a high-strung necromancer and her butch bodyguard. Starting with her debut novel Gideon the Ninth, they have gleefully resisted comparison, even to other recent works queering sci-fi narrative expectations (Yoon Ha Lee’s Machineries of Empire trilogy and Arkady Martine’s Texicalaan novels come to mind). Yes, they feature lesbian necromancers in space, but this billing only just scratches the audacious surface of Muir’s books. ![]() As countless reviewers before me have observed, it is devilishly difficult to describe Tamsyn Muir’s Locked Tomb series to the uninitiated. ![]() ![]() ![]() But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.īig Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. ![]() New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. ![]() But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn't be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. Possible?).Ĭeleste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. And to top it all off, Madeline's teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline's ex-husband over her. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline's youngest ( how is this possible?). She's funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. What's indisputable is that someone is dead.īig Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads: Sometimes it's the little lies that turn out to be the most lethal.Ī murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Red Tent is something of a woman’s book, and has influenced imitators since first being published in 1997, so you may be wondering why I’d be interested in it - even seeing as though I’m sort of a progressive Christian (but a reluctant non-feminist, because men get a bad rap under a lot of “feminism”). The truth in Diament’s handling of the story - which is not Biblically or historically “accurate” - is a little more complicated than that, turning Dinah into something more human in the process. ![]() It is the story of Dinah, a woman from the Old Testament that gets scant mention and is considered to be in Biblical context little more than a rape victim. This retelling of a Bible story from Genesis is concerned with the notion of childbirth and motherhood, and what makes a mother a mother. It seems appropriate that I concluded my reading of Jewish author Anita Diament’s The Red Tent on Mother’s Day and that this is the day where I sit down to write this review. ![]() ![]() The primary outcome was 28-day mortality, assessed in the intention-to-treat population. ![]() ![]() A second dose could be given 12-24 h later if the patient's condition had not improved. Those trial participants with hypoxia (oxygen saturation <92% on air or requiring oxygen therapy) and evidence of systemic inflammation (C-reactive protein ≥75 mg/L) were eligible for random assignment in a 1:1 ratio to usual standard of care alone versus usual standard of care plus tocilizumab at a dose of 400 mg-800 mg (depending on weight) given intravenously. This randomised, controlled, open-label, platform trial (Randomised Evaluation of COVID-19 Therapy ), is assessing several possible treatments in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in the UK. ![]() In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effects of tocilizumab in adult patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 with both hypoxia and systemic inflammation. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was born in El Paso, Texas in 1921 but raised in Los Angeles. Today, August 19, 2021, would have been Roddenberry’s 100th birthday. As many fans remember, Roddenberry passed away in 1991 just as Star Trek: The Next Generation was taking off. It will also include him surviving two plane crashes as well as the events leading up to his death. However, there is no director or cast attached to the project yet.Īccording to Variety, the biopic will showcase Roddenberry’s life before and after creating Star Trek. ![]() The Emmy-winning writer of You Don’t Know Jack, Adam Mazer, will write the screenplay. Currently, the two serve as executive producers on both the currently airing Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard. The producing duo is Roddenberry’s son, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth. A biopic exploring the life of Star Trek‘s creator Gene Roddenberry is in the works at Roddenberry Entertainment.Īccording to a report from Variety, the Gene Roddenberry biopic is being co-produced. ![]() ![]() ![]() This explains both the appearance of extraordinary phenomena on Earth and the lack of understanding of magic and acceptance of the extraordinary as commonplace (as it is in the other four worlds). However, Earth became separated from the other four worlds long ago. Overseeing all of the dominions is the Unbeheld, Hapexamendios (God). The Earth is actually just one part of five connected worlds or Dominions, called the Imajica. Barker has stated he wrote the novel in fourteen months writing fourteen to sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. The inspiration and many of the ideas for Imajica came to Clive Barker in dreams, and so inspired, he worked at an intense pace to complete the novel. Considered wide in scope, elaborate in its imagery, and meticulous in its detail, the novel covers themes such as God, sex, love, gender and death. The work, 824 pages at its first printing in 1991, chronicles the events surrounding the reconciliation of Earth, called the Fifth Dominion, with the other four Dominions, parallel worlds unknown to all but a select few of Earth's inhabitants. Barker, in 1997, named it as his favourite of all his writings up to that point. ![]() Imajica is a fantasy novel by British author Clive Barker. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The person who holds the Infinity Glass would hold a tremendous weapon in their hand and you don’t want it falling into the wrong hands. Books 1 and 2 basically established that various people had different time related abilities and they were competing people looking for something called the Infinity Glass. If you aren’t familiar with the Hourglass series, you can read reviews of book 1, Hourglass, and book 2, Timepiece, to catch up. Hallie is the overprotected daughter of a criminal who works for a competing agency called Chronos. Infinity Glass tells the final part of this story from yet another character’s point of view, in this case Dune and a young woman named Hallie. It is dynamic and I found the main character, Kaleb, to be engaging, complex and well written, so I was excited about book 3, Infinity Glass.įast forward to the 3rd and final book in the trilogy, Infinity Glass. Book 2, Timepiece, is one of my favorite books. It is one of my go to recs at my library. I am a huge fan of the Hourglass series by Myra McEntire. ![]() |