New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
For those who have ever thought they were too old or too unfit to finish a triathlon, From Couch Potato to Endurance Athlete will prove that it is never too late to compete! This is a story about overcoming life's obstacles—from injury and business trouble to grief and loss and everything in between. Hilary Topper was a 48-year-old working mother who once upon a time had practically failed high school gym class. She was working 60-plus hours a week, running a small business. Her focus was on others—her children, her aging parents, and her staff. In the meantime, her weight kept increasing, and she was unhappy with the way her life was going. She needed a change. To turn things around, she joined a gym for the first time in her life. This book will take you on Hilary's decade-long journey as she trains for and runs her first 5K, swims the aqua-blue waters of the Caribbean, cycles a hilly course in Milwaukee, learns how to run–walk her way through the New York City Marathon, and competes in her first triathlon in Sanibel, Florida. You will be right with Hilary as she narrates each experience—even a 5.5-mile swim in the murky waters of Long Island. Hilary's story will move, motivate, and inspire. You will laugh and cry as you follow her on her journey. Even if you don't start out as an endurance athlete, after reading this book, you will walk away feeling that no matter what happens, you can cross the finish line, too.
Incidence rates are counts divided by person-time; mortality rates are a well-known example. Analysis of Incidence Rates offers a detailed discussion of the practical aspects of analyzing incidence rates. Important pitfalls and areas of controversy are discussed. The text is aimed at graduate students, researchers, and analysts in the disciplines of epidemiology, biostatistics, social sciences, economics, and psychology. Features: Compares and contrasts incidence rates with risks, odds, and hazards. Shows stratified methods, including standardization, inverse-variance weighting, and Mantel-Haenszel methods Describes Poisson regression methods for adjusted rate ratios and rate differences. Examines linear regression for rate differences with an emphasis on common problems. Gives methods for correcting confidence intervals. Illustrates problems related to collapsibility. Explores extensions of count models for rates, including negative binomial regression, methods for clustered data, and the analysis of longitudinal data. Also, reviews controversies and limitations. Presents matched cohort methods in detail. Gives marginal methods for converting adjusted rate ratios to rate differences, and vice versa. Demonstrates instrumental variable methods. Compares Poisson regression with the Cox proportional hazards model. Also, introduces Royston-Parmar models. All data and analyses are in online Stata files which readers can download. Peter Cummings is Professor Emeritus, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle WA. His research was primarily in the field of injuries. He used matched cohort methods to estimate how the use of seat belts and presence of airbags were related to death in a traffic crash. He is author or co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles.
Soon after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and around the world. By the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. military's prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were subject to President George W. Bush's executive order authorizing their trial by military commissions. Jess Bravin, the "Wall Street Journal"'s Supreme Court correspondent, was there within days of the prison's opening, and has continued ever since to cover the U.S. effort to create a parallel justice system for enemy aliens. A maze of legal, political, and moral issues has stood in the way of justice--issues often raised by military prosecutors who found themselves torn between duty to the chain of command and their commitment to fundamental American values.While much has been written about Guantanamo and brutal detention practices following 9/11, Bravin is the first to go inside the Pentagon's prosecution team to expose the real-world legal consequences of those policies. Bravin describes cases undermined by inadmissible evidence obtained through torture, clashes between military lawyers and administration appointees, and political interference in criminal prosecutions that would be shocking within the traditional civilian and military justice systems. With the Obama administration planning to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators at Guantanamo--and vindicate the legal experiment the Bush administration could barely get off the ground--"The Terror Courts" could not be more timely.
A bestselling, groundbreaking author investigates wives who thrive, sharing their uncensored strategies for staying married. America’s high divorce rate is well known. But little attention has been paid to the flip side: couples who creatively manage to build marriages that are lasting longer than we ever thought possible. What’s the secret? To find out, bestselling journalist Iris Krasnow interviewed more than two hundred wives whose marriages have survived for fifteen to seventy years. In raw, candid, sometimes titillating stories, Krasnow’s cast of wise women give voice to the truth about marriage and the importance of maintaining a strong sense of self apart from the relationship. Some spend summers separately from their partners. Some make time for wine with the girls. One septuagenarian has a recurring date with an old flame from high school. In every case, the marriage operates on many tracks, giving both spouses license to pursue the question “Who am I apart from my marriage?” Krasnow’s goal is to give women permission to create their own marriages at any age. Marital bliss is possible, she says, if each partner is blissful apart from the other. For anyone who wants to stay married and stay sane, this is the book to read!
Art can be an invaluable means of communication. It can bypass language and impairment and allow for the expression of thoughts or feelings too difficult to communicate with words. In The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story, Rawley Silver draws on her years of experience using therapeutic art with hearing-impaired children, stroke patients, and others with learning disabilities or emotional disturbances. The book’s original art assessments use stimulus drawings to elicit responses that provide access to a patient’s emotions and attitudes toward themselves and others, while also testing for the ability to solve problems and convey ideas. Offering tools to assess cognitive skills that often escape detection on verbal tests of intelligence or achievement, the book helps in identifying those at risk for violent behavior or masked depression. Thoroughly updated from Silver’s earlier works, this new book includes techniques to assess aggression and depression that may lead to violence in schools and suicide among children and adolescents. It also addresses important gender and age differences, incorporating new information and updated studies, and it offers an in-depth look at the developmental procedures involved in these art assessments. As education for mental health professionals now includes art therapy more regularly, Silver has provided an invaluable resource for assessing emotional and cognitive content.
This book is to reveal to women of all walks of life, no matter what they have been in, or what they have come out of, or what state they are in right now that they may experience the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge and be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. And that they will know that God’s love for them is steadfast, unconditional, unfailing and unmovable. And to enlighten the eyes of their hearts to know the plan, will, purpose, mandate and kingdom destiny that Abba Father has ordained for them before the foundation of the world. And to open their eyes so they may know the hope to which He has called them and the riches of His glorious inheritance that He has for them in His kingdom. God has called them to His kingdom for such a time as this, to place glory, honor and favor on them and to give them an inheritance among the family of God and to use them for His glory. And to help women establish the kingdom in their hearts and make them aware of Jesus Christ redemptive work for their life, and that He was sent to atone for their sins and through His blood and sacrificial life there is forgiveness of sin and that He is the way of eternal salvation. And to inspire women all over the world to know their value and self-worth, that they are priceless jewels and queens who were miraculously and wonderfully made in the image and likeness of God, and they don’t have to settle for anything or any kind of treatment. And they don’t have to compromise or lower their standard to be loved. And to encourage women to come out of sin and out of that abusive and ungodly relationship and come to Jesus, the Bishop and Lover of their soul and let Him love on them, clean them up and heal them with spiritual intimacy because He loves them with an everlasting love. His love for them is real, genuine, eternal, free and without hidden agenda. I want to challenge every woman to stop looking for love in all the wrong places and receive God's agape love through His Son. Jesus is the answer to all of your problems and He will quench your hunger and thirst for love. Once you come taste and see that the Lord is good, loving and kind you will be satisfied. I want to ignite women to rise up and take their rightful place in the kingdom of God as a chayil, strong, loving, noble, vibrant God-fearing kingdom woman who will minister to the Lord and serve Him in spirit and in truth. And be a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto the Lord, which is your reasonable act of spiritual worship. I also want to illuminate biblical understanding to women that it is because of the goodness and lovingkindness of God that they live, move, and have their beings, and because of His compassion and tender mercy that they have not been consume by the devil. And that their bodies are for the Lord and the Lord for the body and encourage women to rise up and come out of Mystery Babylon the Mother of Harlot, come out of sexual slavery, come out of the house of bondage, come out of sexual immorality and sexual uncleanness, come out of perversion and adultery. And receive with meekness the engrafted word of God which is able to save your soul and make you whole and complete. And to admonish women of all backgrounds to take a stand for righteousness, holiness, sexual purity, and receive the word of life and the word of hope that gives them everything pertaining to life and godliness and an eternal future. And to pursue peace and godliness because godliness with contentment is great gain, it's great wealth, it's true riches and brings great profit. Jesus Christ is satisfaction guarantee, He is the way, the truth and the life of God. Women don't be depraved of mind and devoid of the truth, but walk in present truth and be chayil in your sexual character, spirit, soul and body, and set your heart ablaze and ignite a passion to be zealous for spiritual things and to seek the kingdom and God, and be fervent in spirit and love the Lord with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, and love yourself and your neighbor as yourself. This is a clarion call for all women all over the world to come out of darkness into God's marvelous light and to turn from the power of Satan to the power of Jesus Christ and be translated into His kingdom and have a godly, sound, calm, well-balanced and renewed mind, and a transformed, caring, loving and pure heart.
