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Cloudstreet : a novel
\"After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are industrious, united, and--until God seems to turn His back on their boy Fish--religious. The Pickleses are gamblers, boozers, fractious, and unlikely landlords. Change, hardship, and the war force them to swallow their dignity and share a great, breathing, shuddering house called Cloudstreet. Over the next twenty years, they struggle and strive, laugh and curse, come apart and pull together under the same roof, and try as they can to make their lives. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognized as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and forgiveness, and the magic of the everyday\"-- Provided by publisher.
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THE MEANING OF PLANETARY CIVILIZATION: Integral Rational Spirituality and the Semiotic Universe
This article composes a formal constellation of distinct, but overlapping, philosophical, methodological, and theoretical commitments enactive within the integrative world-space. This approach is proposed as a basis for exploring a pragmatic meta-worldview capable of carrying meaning making necessary for the formation of a healthy and enduring planetary civilization. The heart of this challenge lies in finding a coherent and culturally extensible contemporary integration of humanity's most persistent and foundational dualism-that of materialist and spiritualist views (with their respective ontic/realist vs. espistemic/idealist orientations) and the overarching meaningmaking cosmologies they respectively support. I contend that current integrative approaches are still early in the developmental process of forming such a view, and that while they move us ever closer to a viable nondual orientation, they are ultimately perceived to fall on one side or the other of the divide and therefore fail, as yet, to locate a meaningfully comprehensive stance capable of uniting all of humanity under one cosmological structure. In this article I seek to develop an integral pragmatist approach, which I refer to as integral semiotic realism, as a distinction supportive of resolving the cosmological divide. An integral cosmology is then proposed based on the post-metaphysical injunction prescribed by the semiotic enactment of the notion of Planetary Civilization through the signification of integral rational spirituality. This endeavor fits within and contributes to the development of Integral Post-Metaphysics, Integral Pluralism, and an integrative realism and strives to locate unity in their diversity. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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The Strong One
ONE MORNING AT the beginning of summer, Rachel left them asleep and walked down through the peppermints to the caretaker's office to post her letter. The office had wide plate windows pasted with maps and announcements. She stopped to witness her reflection in the glass. She looked good. Her skin was clear, there was light in her hair, and when she put her hand against her belly it looked as firm as it felt. The ponderous weight of her breasts was gone. She had survived something to become Rachel again. No; she knew she was more.
Magazine Article
Cytomegalovirus Viremia in Lung Transplant Recipients Receiving Ganciclovir and Immune Globulin
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) disease is an important cause of organ transplant-related morbidity and mortality. During the last 5 years at our institution, prophylactic ganciclovir and hyperimmune globulin have been routinely administered to lung transplant recipients whenever the donor or the recipient was CMV antibody-positive. We sought to assess the efficacy of prophylaxis on viremia, CMV disease, and bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS).
A retrospective chart review of 61 consecutive lung transplants performed between recipients between January 1993 and August 1995 was performed. Fifty-six patients who survived at least 1 month were analyzed. Patients were considered at risk for CMV disease whenever pretransplant donor or recipient serology was positive.
Fourteen of the 39 patients at risk (36%) had viremia while on prophylaxis. The rate of CMV disease was 13% during the first 6 months following transplantation. A donor whose CMV serology was positive appeared to increase the risk of BOS in a Cox regression model (relative risk=2.4; 95% confidence interval=0.86-6.74; p=0.0957). Neither age, CMV infection (viremia or a positive specimen from BAL), recipient's serology at the time of transplantation, or CMV disease was associated with BOS. None of these variables was associated with mortality on Cox regression analysis or univariate analysis.
Administration of combination ganciclovir and hyperimmune globulin prophylactic therapy to lung transplant recipients at risk for CMV infection and disease is associated with a relatively low incidence of disease, which appears only after prophylaxis treatment with ganciclovir is completed. Ganciclovir prophylaxis does not prevent CMV viremia; however, viremia while on prophylaxis is not predictive of disease.
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An Interview with Tim Winton
Ben-Messahel interviews Tim Winton, an Australian author who is actively involved in the Australian environmental movement, about his recently published novel--Breath which won the Miles Franklin Award in 2009. Among others, Winton tells the use of landscape as a character as part of eco-critical writing.
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\By the age of five I knew hospital was trouble.\
Australian novelist Tim Winton explores his own complicated attitude to hospital, an institution that has loomed large in his life. If you're an inpatient, acute illness does you the oddest favour; it takes up all mental space and serves as a buffer between you and the institution. Once the worst of the pain and fear have receded, however, your ordeal is not over; it merely changes shape. Of course nothing is more hellish than extreme pain and ungovernable terror, but nobody can prepare you for the challenge of recovery. That is the long game.
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