6/30/2023 0 Comments The better half sharon moalem![]() With clear, captivating prose that weaves together eye-opening research, case studies, diverse examples ranging from the behavior of honeybees to American pioneers, as well as experiences from his personal life and his own patients, Moalem explains why genetic females triumph over males when it comes to resiliency, intellect, stamina, immunity and much more. The answer, he discovered, lies in our genetics: two X chromosomes offer a powerful survival advantage. ![]() ![]() Sharon Moalem drew on his own medical experiences - treating premature babies in the neonatal intensive care unit recruiting the elderly for neurogenetic studies tending to HIV-positive orphans in Thailand - and tried to understand why in every instance men were consistently less likely to thrive. Why is this? And why are we taught the opposite? They are simply stronger than men at every stage of life. They're better at fighting cancer and surviving famine, and even see the world in a wider variety of colors. Here are some facts: Women live longer than men. ![]() An award-winning physician and scientist makes the game-changing case that genetic females are stronger than males at every stage of life ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Unwind novel![]() ![]() The issues raised could not be more provocative - the sanctity of life, the meaning of being human - while the delivery could hardly be more engrossing or better aimed to teens."Publishers Weekly, starred review "Gripping, brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller. ![]() ![]() If they can survive until their 18th birthday, they can't be harmed - but when every piece of them, from their hands to their hearts, is wanted by a world gone mad, eighteen seems far, far away. Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion.īrought together by chance, and kept together by desperation, these unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey, knowing their lives hang in the balance. In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would 'unwind' them.? Perfect for fans of THE HUNGER GAMES. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Unwinding is now a common, and accepted, practice in society.Ĭonnor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Unwinding: the process by which a child is both terminated and yet kept alive. ![]() ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments In Step by Nicole Higginbotham![]() ![]() ![]() Gentry Sr., and one sister Clara Mae Shiflett.ĭoris attended Osbourn Park High School and later taught as a substitute teacher which she enjoyed immensely.ĭoris was a loving and generous wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend and a devoted family caretaker. In addition to her parents and step-father, she is preceded in death by three brothers, Carl L. Garcia, two grandsons that were her world, Michael “Scott” Bradley and Anthony “Shawn” Bradley, many loved nieces and nephews, cherished life long friends, Janet Sisk Thompson, Linda Horn Jackson, Sue Michaels Howell and the Hutchison brothers, Pete and Charlie. Doris is survived by her husband, Cecil, daughter, Melissa and “Special Girl” Nicole Breein Mai Pai of Alexandria. On April 24, 1966, she married Cecil Scott Higginbotham, and they had their one and only child, Melissa Dawn Higginbotham. She was the baby in the family, born on April 7th 1948 in Alexandria, VA, the daughter of Ashby Vernard Gentry and Atlas Josephine Thacker Gentry, and the step-daughter of Jack Richardson, all of whom preceeded her in death. Doris (affectionately known as “Dotsie”) of Luray, Virginia passed away at the age of 74 on Wednesday, Octoat Winchester Medical Center from lifelong chronic illnesses. How much more beautiful heaven must be since you arrived, Doris Elaine Gentry Higginbotham. ![]() ![]() ![]() Toil tends to fall on a spectrum measured by the following characteristics, which are described in our first book. While this target may not be appropriate for your organization, there’s still an advantage to placing an upper bound on toil, as identifying and quantifying toil is the first step toward optimizing your team’s time. ![]() ![]() ![]() Google limits the time SRE teams spend on operational work (including both toil- and non-toil-intensive work) at 50% (for more context on why, see Chapter 5 in our first book). These activities can quickly consume a team if left unchecked and unaccounted for. System maintenance inevitably demands a certain amount of rollouts, upgrades, restarts, alert triaging, and so forth. Toil is seemingly unavoidable for any team that manages a production service. For the purposes of this chapter, we’ll define toil as the repetitive, predictable, constant stream of tasks related to maintaining a service. For a comprehensive discussion of toil, see Chapter 5 in Site Reliability Engineering. Primarily, we want to avoid performing tasks classified as toil. But the scope of optimization isn’t limited to compute resources: it’s also important that SREs optimize how they spend their time. Google SREs spend much of their time optimizing-squeezing every bit of performance from a system through project work and developer collaboration. With Betsy Beyer, Max Luebbe, Alex Perry, and Murali Suriar Matthew Sartwell, Chris Coykendall, Chris Schrier, By David Challoner, Joanna Wijntjes, David Huska, ![]() ![]() The 7th story in the Elm Creek Quilt series, Sugar Camp Quilt by Jennifer Chiaverini, is different from all the other books in that it has no Bergstrom in it. When both of these books came to an end I was sad because I LOVED reading them so much! ![]() I loved the Runaway Quilt first and this one next. It was the second best of all her series. ![]() L.Īfter reading the story, I wondered why it was not the first in the series. Once he dies- while helping a slave to freedom- his family learns about what has been going on and carries on his work. As it turns out- the Uncle was a stationmaster on the underground railroad and kept to himself to keep his family safe. The family that lives at the camp moved in with a cranky old Uncle that no one can stand. His neighbors that live on the Granger Farm have a maple sugaring business. L, as it turns out is a mean drunk who is up to no good at every turn. ![]() the man that Sylvia's ancestors gambled out of the cabin/ land that eventually became Elm Creek Mannor. This book predates the history of the family in all of the novels. ![]() |