This publication includes details about the three speech data releases created by Subhashish Panigrahi in February 2023, containing 61,445 audio recordings of words in the Odia language. Created under the aegis of the "OpenSpeaks." the project primarily uses the web-based open-source tool Lingua Libre and available online under a CC0 1.0 Public Domain Release. The rest of this DVD-ROM's content is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) License. To view a copy of this license, visit creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
Second Edition of the Datasheet booklet of the 2019 documentary film "Gyani Maiya", directed, written and produced by Subhashish Panigrahi. The Gi Mihaq (also known as Kusunda) used to be a semi-nomadic hunter and gatherer community that has now settled in villages around the mid-western Nepalese district of Dang. They have long lost their native language Mihaq (Kusunda), to acculturation and a lack of other means for active use. The community also lost their elder Gyani Maiya Sen-Kusunda in 2020, who was the most and the only known fluent Kusunda speaker. Filmed in Kulmor in the Dang District in 2018, this documentary is a memoir of Sen-Kusunda in her own words. It also serves as a biography of her people who have forgotten their language and cultural identity. Kusunda as a language was presumed to be near-extinct as there was little public knowledge of any fluent speaker after Sen-Kusunda. A few years later, the hope of hearing the language of Ban Raja (transl. “king of the forest” in Nepali, an honorific endonym by the Kusunda people.) returned because of two people: Kamala Sen Khatri, Sen-Kusunda’s younger sister who was away from Kulmor, and local researcher Uday Raj Aaley, who took Sen Khatri’s help to pilot an informal school for teaching Kusunda to local children in Kulmor. This film captures an intimate conversation between Aaley and Sen-Kusunda, who had started working together when Aaley started collecting words in Kusunda to compile a comprehensive dictionary in 2017. Aaley recognises this film to be the most detailed video documentation in Kusunda available to date under an open license.
Slow Down and Connect with God The Bible in contemporary language is placed here alongside the ancient Christian practice of lectio divina, or sacred reading. A perfect resource for your devotional quiet time. This beautiful reading Bible introduces the timeless practice of lectio divina. Learn the practice with 150 guided reflections, then enjoy putting prayerful reading to practice, with ample space for journaling your observations, reflections, and prayers on high-quality paper. Here are the steps of prayerful reading to help you slow down and meet with God: Stop Take a moment to stop and prepare to encounter God. Read Read and make observations of the chosen passage. Ponder Meditate on the meaning of what you've read. Pray Begin a conversation with God about this Scripture. Reflect Take note of what this time with God has brought to the surface for you. Live Consider how this time with God translates into our life with God. You'll enter the text of Scripture more fully than ever before and come out of each prayerful reading with a fresh encounter with our loving God, ready to live in the way of Jesus.
The solar system is falling further into the grip of machines, and only a handful of people can see the looming threat. As they seek to carve out future for humanity in an increasingly hostile universe, can Face help guide them through to victory against her siblings? Find out in the explosive, post-human conclusion to the Crystal trilogy.
The Essential Evangelical Parallel Bible enables readers to easily compare the texts of a quarter of modern translations that span the full range of scholarly approaches to the ancient text.
The Plight of Steel is a high fantasy based in a world of feuding kingdoms, where certain individuals are given one of a certain three magical gifts. The book focuses on the royal families of each kingdom, some of whom rose to power with these gifts. It tells about the internal conflicts between members of each family, as well as the conflicts between the different families, and about the fight for survival against the kings and rulers who have used their gifts to become almost like gods.The debut novel from sixteen-year-old author Tony Del Degan is a high-fantasy behemoth filled with multiple plotlines, characters, and kingdoms, all connected in a web of conspiracy, violence, love, and humanity. As the first novel in the Plight of Steel series, this book will charm you, anger you, make you fall in love and make you hate.
BRILLIANTLY EXPLORING TODAY'S CUTTING-EDGE BRAIN RESEARCH, MIND WIDE OPEN IS AN UNPRECEDENTED JOURNEY INTO THE ESSENCE OF HUMAN PERSONALITY, ALLOWING READERS TO UNDERSTAND THEMSELVES AND THE PEOPLE IN THEIR LIVES AS NEVER BEFORE. Using a mix of experiential reportage, personal storytelling, and fresh scientific discovery, Steven Johnson describes how the brain works -- its chemicals, structures, and subroutines -- and how these systems connect to the day-to-day realities of individual lives. For a hundred years, he says, many of us have assumed that the most powerful route to self-knowledge took the form of lying on a couch, talking about our childhoods. The possibility entertained in this book is that you can follow another path, in which learning about the brain's mechanics can widen one's self-awareness as powerfully as any therapy or meditation or drug. In Mind Wide Open, Johnson embarks on this path as his own test subject, participating in a battery of attention tests, learning to control video games by altering his brain waves, scanning his own brain with a $2 million fMRI machine, all in search of a modern answer to the oldest of questions: who am I? Along the way, Johnson explores how we "read" other people, how the brain processes frightening events (and how we might rid ourselves of the scars those memories leave), what the neurochemistry is behind love and sex, what it means that our brains are teeming with powerful chemicals closely related to recreational drugs, why music moves us to tears, and where our breakthrough ideas come from. Johnson's clear, engaging explanation of the physical functions of the brain reveals not only the broad strokes of our aptitudes and fears, our skills and weaknesses and desires, but also the momentary brain phenomena that a whole human life comprises. Why, when hearing a tale of woe, do we sometimes smile inappropriately, even if we don't want to? Why are some of us so bad at remembering phone numbers but brilliant at recognizing faces? Why does depression make us feel stupid? To read Mind Wide Open is to rethink family histories, individual fates, and the very nature of the self, and to see that brain science is now personally transformative -- a valuable tool for better relationships and better living.
