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You wouldn’t believe it, but . . . James Earl Jones, the voice of Darth Vader, grew up mute. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. Albert Einstein was bullied mercilessly in school. Beethoven’s mom almost aborted him. Life takes the strangest sharp turns—and sometimes, U-turns. Robert Petterson—popular speaker, storyteller, and author—has been a student for his entire life of what God is teaching us through those real-life U-turns. In this short book, he compiles amazing stories that teach lessons you won’t easily forget. Each entry is written in the rest-of-the-story style popularized by Paul Harvey. Marvel at how God has used the lives of these ordinary people to change the course of human history. (Adapted from The One Year Book of Amazing Stories)
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have read—and reread—Christopher Moore's irreverent, iconoclastic, and divinely funny tale of the early life of Jesus Christ as witnessed by his boyhood pal Levi bar Alphaeus (a.k.a. Biff). Now, in this special (check out the cool red ribbon marker, gilt-edged pages, and gold lettering) gift edition of Christopher Moore's bestselling Lamb, you, too, can find out what really happened between the manger and the Sermon on the Mount. And, in a new afterword written expressly for this edition, Christopher Moore addresses some of the most frequently asked questions he's received from readers since Lamb's initial publication, about the book and himself. Fresh, funny, poignant, and wise, this special gift edition of Lamb is cause for rejoicing among readers everywhere.
The Advocate is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) monthly newsmagazine. Established in 1967, it is the oldest continuing LGBT publication in the United States.
Cook - A Doctor's True Story By: Robert V. Snyders, M.D. RETIRED CAHOKIA DOCTOR INVENTS MEDICAL DEVICES By Jason White, Managing Editor The Cohokia Herald August 15, 2001 [Excerpted] The heart is where Dr. Robert V. Snyders is most at home these days. Snyders, a physician in Cahokia for three decades until his retirement six years ago, is working on a new generation of implanted cardiac assist devices. His interest in the field began in 1988, when his mother-in-law died of late-stage congestive heart failure a few months after being treated for the condition. She was in her late 70s and otherwise healthy. “She should have lived a longer life,” he said. “And that got me started. There ought to be something simple we can do…that can give them a few more years.” Late-stage heart failure affects about 500,000 Americans. Another 50,000 to 100,000 suffer from acute heart failure, which may occur after surgery or heart attacks. More than a decade later, Snyder’s has developed three of what he calls “implanted cardiac assist devices.” His initial forays into the field began with the fabrication of a pneumatic heart jacket. The jacket wraps around the heart and pumps through an electrocardiogram-timed gas-driven system. Later, he modified the jacket design into a fluid-driven device that reduces a heart’s volume, which helps restore heart functionality to victims of late-stage heart failure, an electrocardiogram-timed gas-driven system. Later, he modified the jacket design into a fluid-driven device that reduces a heart’s volume, which helps restore heart functionality to victims of late-stage heart failure. Snyders worked at the St. Louis University Medical School’s Surgical Research Institute, where he tested prototypes of the jacket on pigs. Another early step involved building heart models based on animal and human cadavers. “I had to start from scratch,” he said. The devices reduce the bleeding and infection risks posed by the current generation of cardiac assist devices, Snyders said. People who use these devices often require a heart transplant – an operation that is performed only 2,500 times per year. “You try to get a heart transplant, and that’s a tough act to follow [through to completion],” Snyders said. In the last two years, Snyders has built a device called a “Funnel Valve” to prevent blood from flowing the wrong way through the heart’s four valves. The valve would be delivered to the heart through blood vessels. Its advantage is that a patient’s heart would not have to be stopped. Snyders paid for much of his early research out of his own pocket. But in 1998, he licensed three of his patents to Cardio Technologies, Inc. of Pine Brook, N.J. The company combined his inventions with those of Dr. Mark Anstadt of Duke University to develop a pneumatic heart jacket that is now being tested at East Coast medical facilities. A year later, Snyders licensed the patent for Pine Brook, N.J. The company combined his inventions with those of Dr. Mark Anstadt of Duke University to develop a pneumatic heart jacket that is now being tested at East Coast medical facilities. A year later, Snyders licensed the patent for the fluid-driven modification of the heart jacket. Testing is one reason his research takes so much money. For example, he travels to Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York to test his valve on a flow loop – a machine that simulates the flow of blood through the heart – because St. Louis doesn’t have a flow loop. He said it will be three to five years before the Food and Drug Administration grants an investigational device exemption so that his inventions can be used on people. “When you start these things…you never know what particular modifications might work best,” he said. “That’s why it takes a number of years. You don’t hit it right away.” Continued inside on page 72.
#1 New York Times Bestseller Over 10 million copies sold In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people. For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected American society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up. Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek. There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.
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