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Students taking a course (N=6,596), some on-site and others in a MOOC, participated. The aim of this study is therefore twofold: to validate the new flow measurement scale dedicated to the educational environment, EduFlow-2, and to test a new theoretical model. As a result of both a meticulous analysis of existing models and consideration of more recent developments, a new flow scale has thus been developed. The resulting work in the field of education has led to the development of a new model for understanding flow experience in education, specifically dedicated to adult learning. In recent years, researchers have examined flow in the context of other theoretical constructs such as motivation. Among these, education stands out as one of the most active. While the formulation of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s theory of flow, including the experience dimensions, has remained stable since its introduction in 1975, its dedicated measurement tools, research methodologies, and fields of application, have evolved considerably. And her fuss-free party ideas allow hosts to impress while actually enjoying their own get-togethers. Her recipes are built around big, bold flavors but won't have you slaving in the kitchen. Garten's fans-and she has many-love her simple, straightforward approach to cooking and effortless take on entertaining. Garten has also hosted several shows on the Food Network and created Barefoot Contessa Pantry, a line of baking mixes and other high-end food products. She's written seven, including Barefoot Contessa at Home, Barefoot in Paris, and the recently published Barefoot Contessa: How Easy is That? Fabulous Recipes & Easy Tips. In 1996, Garten sold Barefoot Contessa and shifted her attention to cookbooks. Despite Garten's complete lack of experience-she had never run a business nor worked in the food industry-the shop blossomed, eventually expanding to a 3,000-square-foot space in East Hampton. She left a job in the White House Office of Management and Budget and bought Barefoot Contessa, a small specialty food store in Westhampton, New York. T hirty-two years ago, Ina Garten took a chance. Some people couldn’t speak but could still sing. Pillars of the community became pathological liars. Parents suddenly couldn’t recognize their own children. Observers were amazed by the transformations that took place when different parts of the brain were destroyed, altering victims’ personalities. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. The author of the bestseller The Disappearing Spoon reveals the secret inner workings of the brain through strange but true stories.Įarly studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike - strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents - and see how victims coped. AUTHOR: Carolinda Witt is the granddaughter of MI5's double agent celery aka Walter Dicketts. Using family and official records, police records, newspaper articles and memories, the author unravels the tangled yet true story of Double Agent Celery. Sometimes rich and sometimes poor, his private life was a web of complexity and deception. A mixture of hero and crook, Dicketts was worldly and intelligent, charming and charismatic. After that he persuaded an Abwehr Officer to defect, and spent nine months undercover in Brazil. Despite discovering he had been betrayed as an MI5 plant before he even left for Germany, Celery somehow got back to Lisbon. With his life on the line, Dicketts had to outwit his interrogators in Hamburg and Berlin before returning to Britain as, in the Nazis eyes, a German spy. Once there, the Nazis spirited him off to Germany. Codenamed Celery, Dicketts was sent to Lisbon with the seemingly impossible mission of persuading the Germans he was a traitor and then extract crucial secrets. With Britain braced for a German invasion, MI5 recruited an ex RNAS officer, come confidence trickster, called Walter Dicketts as a double agent. Print Double Agent Celery MI5's Crooked Hero This is made clear with Hetty’s lack of individual goodness she is the more physically beautiful and those around her are often fooled or blinded by her appealing looks-Hetty’s true personality is that of inner ugliness. Eliot contrasts the inner and outer beauty of the characters by portraying that external beauty may be more recognizable and superficially preferred to inner beauty, but it obviously is not the most desirable. Throughout the Adam Bede novel, assessments against another person’s negative actions are a condemning aim of the novel, e.g., Adam is at times able to see his own failings but is frustrated in attempts to correct them. Instead, she offers real characters, whose motivations are sympathetic even when the motivations are tainted. She does not preach, and she does not offer flat characters with whom it is impossible to sympathize. And in addition to all those, the husband of my wife’s friend in the village has major heart problems and lurches from one near miss to another.Īnd my point is? That we face many more threats than Covid-19, yet to read the mainstream press or to listen to broadcast media you’d be forgiven for thinking that there is little else that faces us either individually or collectively. That he’s alive at all is a miracle but the hospital is desperate to discharge him home where his bewildered wife has no idea how she’s going to cope. He followed that up with a fall, broke his hip, and is now in hospital with his mind almost gone and practically unable to move. In the next house along, the chap there had a stroke two months ago and lost the ability to speak properly. On the other side of my house a neighbour was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma before Christmas and has just finished chemotherapy. Seven months ago in my village one neighbour died of leukaemia (and was younger than me – I’m 63), and another passed away from liver cancer a few weeks ago. Unless severely mentally impaired, humans are conscious of the inevitable end that awaits them, and, if pessimists, of the fact that any joy or pleasure derived from this world is ultimately transient and must succumb under the duress and strain of pain and fear as one comes closer to death. It has led us, most dramatically, to the knowledge of the certainty of our death. Instead, Ligotti’s Gothic horror is internal because consciousness is inescapable and, worst of all, the source of all our discontents. In the latter, psychosis or other illnesses may stand in for pervasive hauntings of the mind. Ligotti’s Gothic horror is one where the claustrophobia so often external in first wave Gothic fiction, with its emphasis on, for example, female captivity, is interiorised, but not necessarily in the psychological landscapes well-developed by Victorian and fin-de-siècle fictions. This essay is reproduced in a fuller version in William Hughes and Andrew Smith (eds), Suicide and the Gothic (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019). And yet, in its particularity, its informality, Chasing Utopia continually reminds us of what's important: the connections we develop with those we love. This is not major Giovanni only occasionally (as in a poem written to commemorate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln) does she invoke a world more expansive than the one we make at home. I used to watch / my mother cook, she writes, she would invariably sigh / a little sigh then light / a cigarette // since no one smokes / anymore Beans / have not tasted as good // I have her sigh / and stack of spices. At its center is the notion of family - Giovanni's parents, her aunts, her son - an ideal of domesticity. Chasing Utopia is intimate, personal, what we might call a commonplace book, blending memories, reflections, even recipes. Or Holy Histrionics, Batman, I’d rather have listened to an opera… He divides his time between his homes in Los Angeles and Scotland. He is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. In his secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, he has also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS. Since then he has written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning his American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. |