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19/09/2022

The Parable of the Wise Wife

There lived an ordinary-looking peasant family. A husband and wife. They grew apples in their garden and sold them in the fall. That was their life.

And then one year it happened that the farmer got sick and could not gather the harvest on time. A lot of apples rotted. But there was nothing to do. Without selling the harvest, the family will not survive. So the peasant gathered all the rotten apples into a cart and went to the market to sell. His loving wife blessed him and told him that everything will be fine. And so the peasant set off.

And on the way he meets a merchant. And he sees that the peasant is going on the road to the market, and his cart is full of rotten apples.

The merchant was surprised and said:

- What are you doing, you fool? You are taking rotten apples to the market, no one will buy them from you!

- I know, merchant," says the peasant. - But there's nothing to do, we have to sell them, or my wife and I will die.

- Yes, you'll get it from your wife when you come back from the market with nothing. She'll eat your guts out!

- Oh, merchant, don't worry about that. My wife is golden. She loves me in every way and accepts me.

- There's no such thing, man! - replies the merchant.

- Yes, there is! My wife is golden!

Then the merchant proposes a bet:

- Here's a bet. Now we go back to your house and say that the apples are rotten and no one has bought them, and that there will be nothing to live on in winter. If your wife is really as you say, then you have won - I will give you this purse of gold, not enough for one winter. And if it turns out that you are lying, and your wife makes a scandal of you, then I have won and I will take your horse and cart. Is that a deal?

- Deal!

And so they returned to the farmer's house. From the threshold, he says to his wife, upset:

- Wife, trouble! I haven't sold my apples! It's going to be a bad winter!

- No, dear. What are you talking about? You're back, and that's good. And you have a guest with you. What a joy! Come in, you must be tired from the road and hungry. I'll wash up and set the table. You can rest and eat.

And so she quickly brings a jug of water to wash herself and serves up a towel and sets the table. The merchant is amazed, but thinks to himself that this is a circus in front of a stranger. He thinks, "If I stay here long enough, she's bound to lose it!" And so they are sitting at the table, the peasant's wife is looking after them, all glowing with joy, and the merchant, from time to time, turns all the conversation to the unsold harvest, and how they will live for the winter.

And the farmer's wife answers him all the time:

- Everything will manage somehow, we will live! Now the main thing is that the husband and the guest feel well.

The merchant was even more surprised. They sat like that for a long time. In the end, the merchant realized that he had lost the bet.

Takes out his purse and says:

- Yes, I've seen a lot in this world, but I've never seen a golden wife like yours. You were right. Here is your money, and live happily ever after! And so I take my leave.

That's the science for men - love and forgiveness of a woman works wonders.

The energy of a woman is so organized that she is able to correct any mistake of a man, even a fatal one. She is able to make him come back alive from the war, even if everyone thinks it is impossible. A woman is able to predict and tell a man the right way out and the right decision.

And there is more that a woman is capable of than a man could ever dream of.

And the only force that brings out all these amazing possibilities in a woman is Love.

18/09/2022

How does writing work?

Written language is an amazing way for humans to communicate information. Communication through written messages has been around for centuries. Today, written communication is accomplished by typing on a keyboard or by writing on paper using a ballpoint pen, marker pen, or pencil.

The invariable components of the process of realization of written speech are: intention, visual and auditory control and automated movements of the hand.

Written speech is a voluntary act that begins with a motive. A person always knows what he or she writes for: to remember information, to pass it on to another person, to accurately and correctly write down oral speech material that he or she is listening to.

The motive is to dictate words, sentences or text.

Here perception of speech sounds becomes important - writing down words or text at dictation is not possible without involving internal auditory analysis.

When a person writes dictation, there is bound to be external or internal articulation, either explicit or implicit. This helps to clarify the sounds that need to be written down.

The final stage of dictation is the transcription of sounds into graphic images, the translation of the sound structure of a word into a sequence of graphic symbols. It is essential to be able to reproduce the image of a letter and accurately orient the graphemes in space in relation to each other.

Some types of writing are realized without hearing, such as copying or personal signing.

The motive is to formulate and state a thought - an essay, an outline, a short message

A person mentally draws up a plan of a written statement, imagines the general sequence of ideas.

A person relates the initial idea to a specific sentence structure and selects the necessary words to accurately convey the main idea of the message.

After that, the final stage of translating the idea into written speech begins - the automated movements that the hand makes when writing words, under the control of vision.

During the writing process, a person regulates the sequence of writing: what he or she has already written and what is to be written.

In a literate adult, writing is an automated skill and each word is a complete motor act. All complex operations are abbreviated, convoluted.

The writing process is not regulated by a separate part of the cerebral cortex. Written speech is the result of the joint work of several brain areas, each with its own function:

Temporal lobe of the cerebral cortex - sound analysis of the message;

Occipital area - visual control of writing letters and words;

parietal area - precise hand movements;

Frontal lobes - conception of a written statement and understanding of written words.

17/09/2022

Inman decides to make his way home to his fiancée, the town of Cold Mountain.

1998 - John Grisham, The Lawyer. A brilliant young lawyer suddenly becomes the protector of the most defenseless. What is this - a sudden attack of altruism or a desire to solve and unravel really interesting cases?

1999 - Joan Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Harry Potter and his friends explore the story of Sirius Black, an escaped wizard from Azkaban prison who is suspected of working for Lord Voldemort.

2000-е

2000 - John Grisham, Blackmail. What do you do when one day a clan of criminal judges chooses the wrong victim? When an ingeniously thought-out idea to blackmail a very powerful man suddenly turns against the blackmailers themselves?

2001 - John Grisham, The Painted House. Seven-year-old Luke Chandler has never lied. But that all changed one day when his childhood home turned into a crime scene.

2002 - Alice Seabold, "The Lovely Bones." The deceased protagonist, Susie Salmon, adjusts to life in heaven and watches from above as her killer tries to cover his tracks and his family tries to come to terms with the loss...

2003, 2004, 2005 - Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code. Dr. Robert Langdon must solve the case of the murder of the curator of the Louvre. And the clue must be sought inside Leonardo da Vinci's famous works.

2006 - Mitch Elbom, For Another Day. Elbom's touching and unusually human works help us look at ourselves and our loved ones in a new way, feel the joy of life more acutely, learn to love, believe, forgive and find hope despite the strokes of fate. Simple feelings that we sometimes forget about in the hustle and bustle of everyday life... Feelings that Mitch Elbom rediscovers for us!

2007 - Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Shining Suns. The novel chronicles 30 years of Afghan history and tells a touching story of family, friendship, faith and salvation.

2008 - John Grisham, Appeal. Billionaire Carl Trudeau has successfully pulled off major Wall Street scams more than once. But now he faces the nearly impossible task of outmaneuvering the Mississippi Supreme Court.

2009 - Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol. Robert Langdon's adventures continue. This time he has to solve the greatest mystery of the Freemasons, which has the power to change the world. Centuries-old secrets, enigmatic signs and symbols and a deadly journey through the labyrinths of the past.

2010 - Catherine Stockett, "The Maid. The American South, it's the 1960s. Skeeter has just graduated from university and returns home to the sleepy town of Jackson, where nothing ever happens. She dreams of becoming a writer, of breaking out into the big world. But a decent girl from the South shouldn't indulge in such silly illusions, a decent girl should get married and take care of her home. Wise Aibileen is thirty years older than Skeeter, she has served in white people's homes all her life, has nursed seventeen children, and has long expected nothing of life, for her heart has been broken since the death of her only son. Minnie is the best cook in all of Jackson, and she's also the feistiest maid in town. And her sharp tongue has served her poorly more than once. Minnie never stays in one place for long. But Minnie is not to be messed with, even by the most arrogant white ladies. Two black maids and an inexperienced white girl have one thing in common - a keen sense of justice and a desire to somehow change the order of things. Can these three oppose the whole world? Will they be able to survive in this struggle?

Tell us, what of this you have already read?

16/09/2022

Ludlam subtly combines the attributes of the detective genre - pursuit, chase, gunfire, murder - and deep psychologism in the portrayal of the protagonist, who by virtue of circumstances faces the question: who is he really...

1981 - James A. Michener, The Accord. The novel tells the story of interaction and conflict between populations living in South Africa.

1982 - Robert Ludlum, The Mosaic of Parsifal. A scout never becomes an ex. Michael Havelock has experienced the truth of this statement firsthand. The past, in which he was a double agent of the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world, by no means ended with a bloody moonlit night on the beach in the Costa Brava, but only lay dormant for a while. It turned out that among the fragmentary memories in Havelock's brain hidden key - a code sequence of words and signs, firmly linking him to the invisible manipulator of the fate of humanity - the sinister Parsifal ...

1983 - John Le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl. A spy novel about the struggle of Western intelligence agencies against terrorism in Europe and the Middle East at the end of the 20th century.

1984 - Robert Ludlum, The Aquitaine Conspiracy. Aquitaine is not just one of the French provinces. It is the name of a secret organization formed by retired generals from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Israel and South Africa. They decided that the political system of their countries was rotten to the core and that their people deserved a better future. Which the conspirators envisioned as a total military-fascist dictatorship...

1985 - Stephen King, Skeleton Team. A collection of 19 short stories, 2 poems, and 1 novel.

1986 - Stephen King, "It." According to the main storyline, seven friends from the fictional town of Derry, Maine battle a monster that kills children and can take on any physical form.

1987 - Daniela Steele, All is Well. The novel is about a successful businessman, Bernie Fine, whose life suddenly and irrevocably changes.

1988 - Tom Clancy, The Kremlin Cardinal. A suspense novel by popular contemporary American author Tom Clancy, written in the form of a political detective about a high-ranking Soviet officer recruited by the CIA.

1989 - Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses. The novel is written in the genre of magical realism. The main theme of the novel is emigrants and emigration, the impossibility of assimilation in the new culture, and the inevitability of returning to one's roots.

1990-е

1990 - Scott Thurow, The Burden of Proof. Acclaimed lawyer Alexandro "Sandy" Stern returns home from work and discovers that his wife of 30 years, Clara, has committed su***de.

1991 - Alexandra Ripley, "Scarlett." The book continues the storyline of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind. The indomitable Scarlett and the irresistible Rhett love and suffer again, struggle with fate and hope for happiness.

1992 - John Grisham, The Pelican Case. A young law student conducts her own investigation into the mysterious deaths of two Supreme Court members. And the closer she gets to solving it, the closer the unknown killer gets to herself.

1993 - Robert James Waller, "Bridges of Madison County". "The Bridges of Madison County" is an absolute phenomenon of twentieth-century American literature. The novel lasted more than ninety weeks on the national bestseller list, rightfully winning the prestigious EBBI Literary Award. The book's first print run alone totaled seven million copies. Clint Eastwood's film of the same name was one of his best. And the brilliant American actress Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar for her performance in the title role.

1994, 1995 - James Redfield, The Celestine Prophecies. The protagonist of the novel goes on a journey to Peru to find and understand 9 ancient revelations made by Mayan Indians.

1996 - Joe Klein, Primary Colors. A fictional political drama about the presidential race of Jack Stanton, a womanizing Southern governor battling Democratic candidates in 1992.

1997 - Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain. The novel tells a love story set against the backdrop of the last days of the War of Independence, when a deserter from the front

15/09/2022

From shyness to confidence

Have you tried to pick up and decide to be confident? It sounds primitive. It seems too easy. Okay, let's change the approach.

Do you know what a confident person looks like? How he acts, how he walks, what he says, how he behaves, what his manners are?

In perceiving these questions, you have probably imagined some kind of image. You have seen his unsteady gait, his clear diction, his firm steps, his strong gaze.

So there's an image, great. And now the climax: what if you copied him? What if you looked like a confident person and tried your best?

When you decide to be confident, the brain starts to move. Neurons force it to activate areas that will help with the realization of the idea.

The brain is amazing. It doesn't distinguish well between what came before. It sticks to images. It doesn't care if it's an image you made up or if it's a real confidence you have.

If you don't believe it, try it. Stand up and step away from your device, and then clearly say, "I will be confident. Repeat this three times, increasing in volume and determination with each attempt.

The difference may seem insignificant, but it's there. And, as you can see, it only took you a couple of seconds to get something out of a choice based on absolutely nothing.

It's possible to decide to feel confident for no reason. No techniques, no affirmations, no coaching, no paid courses or anything else. Deciding and imitating is all it takes. It's simple and free. Give it a try.

14/09/2022

My father slowed down in his later years. He would stop after any number of steps and was averse to any active physical activity. It was not a matter of lack of energy or ordinary ailments and pains of age, but literally matters of the soul. This organ, so often associated with emotions, is also responsible for pumping blood, and the pump is an energy-intensive apparatus. And so, when the heart wall became a victim of modest circulation, the pump worked intermittently, and Dad, so as not to overload it, had to reduce physical activity to a minimum. As far as our long-term well-being is concerned, nature is an easy-going mistress. She doesn't command us to give up bacon and milkshakes or require continuous exercise. But in acute situations, she won't let us down. Try eating human f***s and you'll be pulled right out. Set you down with a ferocious beast - you'll recoil. Walk briskly when the soul muscle lacks blood - and nature will contradict you. Especially if the pulse rate increases, the nerves of the mental muscle send a strong alarm signal to the brain, and there is a severe blow of crushing pain. This pain is called angina pectoris. In the middle of the XX century, surgeons believed that they had discovered an ingenious remedy for angina pectoris. Their reasoning was that if a certain artery in the chest cavity was dragged, blood flow through the bypass vessels would increase and thereby improve circulation in the affected area. In physics, it is often possible to look at a theory from different angles, scribbling any math in a notebook. Doctors, on the other hand, began to perform surgery. It was as if the theory was backed up: patients reported significant pain relief. Soon surgeons mastered the procedure everywhere. Why confirm anything with controlled studies when the efficacy was already known? There were, however, a couple of clouds in that clear surgical sky. Pathologists reported that they had had to dissect into patients who had undergone such surgery, and no signs of improved circulation were found in them. Even though the patients themselves said that the operation had helped them, their hearts claimed the opposite. In addition, the scientists who operated on the dogs also confirmed that they saw no effect. The doctors suspected that the improvements were occurring in the patients' heads. In 1959 and 1960, two teams of doctors set out to find out about the paradox in control experiments, which today would not be allowed for ethical reasons: both real and fake operations were performed, after which the results were compared. In the fake surgeries, the doctors opened the patient's chest, exposed the target artery, and then sewed up the patient without ligating the artery. Both studies certified the assumption that the surgeries were affected for psychological rather than medical reasons. In one, three-quarters of the patients who had the actual surgery said their angina was relieved. But the same thing happened to the five patients operated on falsely. The placebo result as it were. In an article published from the study, a patient who underwent fake surgery informed, "I actually felt better immediately... [in the eight months] after surgery, I took ten units of nitroglycerin, and before surgery, I took five units a day." Another patient reported no chest pain at all and was "optimistic" about his future, but the next day, alas, he "dropped dead after moderate exertion. The degree of cardiac malaise in the patients, as the doctors noted in the article, did not correlate with the strength of the angina they were experiencing. Just as the strength of anger that different people experience for the same insult, exactly the same way pain is experienced differently by different people, even when the physical harm to the body is identical. And just as some people may not be at all angry at something that will arouse rage in another person, some people feel no pain at all from an injury that will torment others. In the simplification of pain, the placebo effect is exceptionally powerful owing to a strong psychological component. The surgical operation in question is called "internal thoracic artery ligation," and it was eventually completely discontinued, and by the 1990s a less invasive and more difficult technology was developed: stenting. A stent is a tiny wire mesh that is inserted through an artery on the hip or arm into a pathologically narrowed artery to increase its lumen and blood flow. As with ligation of the internal thoracic artery, patients were informed about the healing effect of stents, and the operation, which costs 10,000 to 40,000 bucks in the States, became commonplace, although no large-scale follow-up studies confirming its benefit have not taken place. After that, in the year two thousand seventeen, the authoritative medical journal "The Lancet" published an article stating that, like the old dressing, stenting was no better than a fake placebo procedure.

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