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| 4af402d | considering that lexicons and dictionaries are practically a high art form in German- speaking countries. The entry merges Essad Bey and Wolfgang von Weisl into one person. It explains that "Wolfgang (von) Weisl" also used the pseudonyms Leo Noussimbaum, Essad Bey, and Kurban Said--and hence the Austrian journalist, who otherwise had only a travel book and a book on Austrian artillery to his credit, suddenly was the prolific author of appro.. | Tom Reiss | ||
| 9db58ae | Mag sein, dass die Leute sagen werden, ich bleibe daheim, um mich nicht von den dunklen Augen Ninos trennen zu mussen. Mag sein. Vielleicht haben diese Menschen auch recht. Denn diese dunklen Augen sind fur mich wie die heimatliche Erde, wie der Ruf der Heimat nach ihrem Sohn, den ein Fremder auf fremde Wege verleiten will. Ich bleibe, um die dunklen Augen der Heimat vor dem Unsichtbaren zu schutzen. | love | Kurban Said | |
| 384a70f | likely explanation for Elfriede's connection to Kurban Said first presented itself to me a few weeks after I visited the castle. | Tom Reiss | ||
| 2141e13 | He rose, took a slender silver water can with a long slim neck and staggered out. After a while he came back and put the can on the floor. We all rose to congratulate him, for his body had cleared itself of superfluous matter. | Kurban Said | ||
| 4b361aa | Every man who invents something to kill other people easily, quickly and in as great numbers as possible is highly praised, he makes much money and a decoration is bestowed on him. That is good and right. War must be. But on the other hand the Europeans build many hospitals, and a man who during a war cures and feeds enemy soldiers is also praised and decorated | Kurban Said | ||
| df840a2 | Like this cemetery, she was old and dry and what she had once been or even later represented had begun to slip from memory. | Barbara Nadel | ||
| 03ab65b | Cohen was so shallow it was almost a talent. | Barbara Nadel | ||
| e54381d | How likely is it that you'll be present when I give birth? * If not, who will be there instead? * Can I meet all of your partners? * What is your policy on ultrasound? * What forms of pain relief do you recommend? * How many women in your practice give birth without pharmacological pain relief? * What do you think about doulas? * How often am I likely to see you while I'm in labor? * What prenatal tests do you do routinely? * What labor pro.. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 8c1d16f | Can I drink and eat in labor? * If I go into labor, check in to the hospital, and my labor slows down before I get very far, can I go home? * What is your induction rate? What methods do you use? * Can I walk around in labor? * Is there a time limit for labor? How long can I push? * Can I choose the position for giving birth? Can I give birth on my hands and knees if I like that position? * What is your cesarean rate? * This may seem a pers.. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| d24a89e | In her insightful Of Woman Born (1976), Adrienne Rich said it very eloquently: "My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness." | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| d2d3b83 | Midwives provide all the prenatal care healthy women need. The midwifery ideal is to work with each woman and her family to identify her unique physical, social, and emotional needs. In general, midwifery care is associated with fewer episiotomies, fewer instrumental deliveries, fewer epidurals, and fewer cesarean sections. Midwives are trained to identify the relatively small percentage of births in which complications develop and to refer.. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| c337c85 | our bodies must work pretty well, or there wouldn't be so many humans on the planet. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 804b66d | in the ordinary course of a healthy labour, the mouth of the uterus opens by some secret agency; or at least without any apparent force. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| b3a2eda | This means that most of the births they have seen were to women on epidurals lying still during labor, waiting for it all to be over. Seeing this kind of birth over and over again causes a subconscious imprint on the mind, and many women develop enough fear of the pains of childbirth that they block the messages their bodies give them about other positions they might take in labor. Others may simply fear diverging from the norm. A woman in .. | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| c9e4e0b | Marie Striekwold-Ebben, passed along this piece of wisdom: "Even if you don't have much money, keep in mind that the bedroom is the most important room in the house. Love and sadness are shared under the sheets, and you hope that your children will come into the world in your bedroom and that you will leave the world there." | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| 65f8775 | Where the techno-medical model of birth reigns, women who give birth vaginally generally labor in bed hooked up to electronic fetal monitors, intravenous tubes, and pressure-reading devices. Eating and drinking in labor are usually not permitted. Labor pain within this model is seen as unacceptable, so analgesia, and anesthesia are encouraged. Episiotomies (the surgical cut to enlarge the vaginal opening) are routinely performed, out of a b.. | childbearing episiotomies labor-and-deliver techno-medical-model-of-birth women | Ina May Gaskin | |
| 27dcd9d | emphatically, that I was. After that I decided not to feel sorry for myself or | Ina May Gaskin | ||
| b6eed85 | Mother's milk is soul food for babies. The babies of the world need a lot more soul food. | birth breastfeeding life | Ina May Gaskin | |
| 456652f | Stephen Gaskin (2005) describes karma as hitting golf balls in a shower. Often our attempts at payback just get in the way of balls already ricocheting back toward the person who sent them flying in the first place. | Rick Hanson | ||
| 8e392ba | Run a double strip of masking tape across the opening of the container. Scoop up a heaping spoonful of the ingredient and level it off by scraping it against the tape. | Cook's Illustrated Magazine | ||
| 1b72b62 | FACT The pork of yesteryear was always cooked till gray, but that pork was a lot fattier than what's on the market today. Selective breeding has made today's pork much leaner, and if you cook it till gray, the meat will be dry and tough. We think the leanest cuts--like tenderloin--are best cooked to 145 degrees. At this point, the meat will still have a tinge of pink in the center. (Click here for more information about modern pork.) | Cook's Illustrated Magazine | ||
| 8ef318c | Roasted at 450deg 1. Temperature at 1/4" below surface: 189deg 2. Temperature at midpoint: 160deg 3. Temperature at center: 125deg Weight before roasting: 6.34 lbs Weight after roasting: 4.8 lbs Moisture loss: 24.2% Roasted at 250deg 1. Temperature at 1/4" below surface: 146deg 2. Temperature at midpoint: 135deg 3. Temperature at center: 125deg Weight before roasting: 5.98 lbs Weight after roasting: 5.42 lbs Moisture loss: 9.38%" | Cook's Illustrated Magazine | ||
| 04931d6 | He knew how it felt to be on the perimeter of relationships, to feel as if you'd never quite belong. | Melinda Curtis | ||
| 20f38e8 | Continental three-dollar bill, designed by Benjamin Franklin. An eagle fights a crane, with the motto "Exitus in dubio est," "The outcome is in doubt." | Kathleen DuVal | ||
| d36b416 | Isaiah 40:21-31 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (vv. 28, 31) | Kathleen Long Bostrom | ||
| 136e6ec | Three things come to mind as we look at this text: (1) we are theological amnesiacs; (2) the psalmist reminds us that God really is in charge; and (3) only when we feel weak and helpless, whether young or old, are we vulnerable enough to experience the power and grace of a God who "raises us up on eagle's wings." So, this text is about us, about God and what God does with us when all we seem to be is down." | Kathleen Long Bostrom | ||
| 97399be | His face always got soft with wonder when he felt the life within his wife's womb. "This kid's on the move." Mariah sat up straight and worked her fingers against her lower back again. "He can move out any time now." "Your back hurts, huh? Come here." She offered no resistance as he sat on the grass and drew her to sit between his legs. "Lean back and let me do that for you." "We're sitting right out on the front lawn," she reminded him as .. | Kathleen Eagle | ||
| a0f59d8 | The whirl of images refused to remain still. The flames. Edwina. The spreading pool of Dominic's blood, glistening in the firelight. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 9dc00d0 | Her attention was fixed so completely on Jane that she did not see her own death hurtling toward her head. The poker slammed into Edwina's skull, and Lily felt the crack of crushing bone, transmitted straight to her hand through wrought iron. Edwina dropped to the floor without uttering a sound. Lily lost her grip, and the falling poker clanged as it hit wood. She stared down at what she had just done. At Edwina's head, the skull caved in. .. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 8058c64 | We're all struggling to stay upright, Maura thought. Resisting the pull of temptation, just as we fight the pull of gravity. And when we finally fall, it's always such a surprise. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 0fb0bd3 | Maura moved quietly to the alcove. There she lit three candles for three women. One for Sister Ursula. One for Sister Camille. And one for a faceless leper whose name she would never know. She did not believe in heaven or hell; she was not even sure she believed in the eternal soul. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 53bc4ad | Catgut is a type of surgical thread made from the intestines of cows or sheep." "So why do they call it catgut?" asked Rizzoli. "It goes back to the Middle Ages, when gut strings were used on musical instruments. The musicians referred to their instruments as their kit, and the strings were called kitgut. The word eventually became catgut." | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| de13224 | would have said, Not too hot, | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 0c1cf3b | Every human on this earth had secrets. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 0403a77 | Think of what it means to manually strangle someone. How personal it is. The close contact. Skin to skin. Your hands against her flesh. Pressing her throat as you feel her life drain away.' Rizzoli | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 5afb227 | meat comes from the supermarket, where it's wrapped in plastic. No guts involved. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 524d963 | Some part of you, some ancient memory deep in your brain, recognizes this continent as home. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 3c4f1a6 | We could show them the most exquisite Ming vase, or a carved ivory screen from Persia, and they'd turn their backs and go straight for the human remains. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| f4341b5 | There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected--something amazing--could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 3f8a22c | Gradually the beep of the EKG slowed. Against the steady rhythm of that heartbeat, the two women gazed at each other. If Catherine had recognized a part of herself in Nina's eyes, so, too, did Nina seem to recognize herself in Catherine's. The silent sisterhood of victims. There are more of us than anyone will ever know. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| cf5fae3 | A ROW OF SKULLS glared from atop a wall of intricately stacked femurs and tibias. Though it was June, and she knew the sun was shining on the streets of Paris sixty feet above her, Dr. Maura Isles felt chilled as she walked down the dim passageway, its walls lined almost to the ceiling with human remains. She was familiar, even intimate, with death, and had confronted its face countless times on her autopsy table, but she was stunned by the.. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 0bbe3d5 | night." "Just some sore muscles. That's all." She shrugged," | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 8947611 | Some people just couldn't commit to their own health. Instead they wasted their energy worrying about things they could do nothing about. | Tess Gerritsen | ||
| 976ab92 | There are hazards to every job, just like there are hazards to getting up in the morning. Driving to work, walking to the mailbox. Boarding a plane... The surprise isn't that we die. The surprise is how and when we die. | surprise | Tess Gerritsen |