Winde rienstra biography of william hill
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Thanks to Laura Sibson, I am participating in a “My Writing Process” Blog Hop. I added the Bunny Hop part as a nod to Easter, Spring, and my own beautiful Tween Bunny who is my first reader.
Laura earned her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts after discovering a passion for writing novels geared toward teens. Laura’s a fellow runner (she runs much longer distances than me), dog-walker, coffee-drinker, “ingester-of-pop culture,” and mom of teens. She lives in suburban Philadelphia and has impressed me with her knowledge of “Bawlmor” accents.
Laura describes the paranormal young adult novel she’s writing on her blog, Laura Sibson,A journey toward writing dangerously. Her novel sounds spooky and fascinating, and it involves the Black Aggie, a real statue that used to reside a stone’s throw away from my parents’ house, in Druid Ridge Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.
Do you think its a coincidence that Laur
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Episode 16 Kites and Kingfishers: Ruth Harvey on the Iona Community and Emerging Patterns
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Ruth Harvey, leader of the Iona Community in Scotland, joins us to talk about how the community has modeled refugia for decades. We discuss the balance between action and reflection and the need to imagine new kinds of togetherness in these “tender times.”
For more background
Learn more about the history and work of the Iona Community at their website, iona.org.uk.
Ruth mentions Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff’s idea of “base communities,” which is laid out in his 1977 book Ecclesiogenesis: The Base Communities Reinvent the Church.
Ruth also refers to Capacitar, a global justice and relief movement that focuses on “body-based practices.”
Ruth’s address to the Corrymeela community, titled “Patterns of Emergent Community,” is available here.
We discuss Ann Lewin’s poem about a kingfisher, officially
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The Control of Diastolic Calcium in the Heart
Abstract
Normal cardiac function requires that intracellular Ca2+ koncentration be reduced to low levels in diastole so that the ventricle can relax and refill with blood. Heart failure fryst vatten often associated with impaired cardiac relaxation. Little, however, is known about how diastolic intracellular Ca2+ koncentration is regulated. This article first discusses the reasons for this ignorance before reviewing the basic mechanisms that control diastolic intracellular Ca2+ koncentration. It then considers how the control of systolic and diastolic intracellular Ca2+ concentration fryst vatten intimately connected. Finally, it discusses the changes that occur in heart failure and how these may result in heart failure with preserved versus reduced ejection fraction.
Keywords: calcium, diastole, heart failure, myofibrils, stroke volume
So then I could tell them
Where the wind goes…
But where the wind comes from
Nobody knows.
—AA Milne,