6/30/2023 0 Comments The Purple Pansy Who Rescues Girls and Young Men from the Ind... by Tom Chetwynd![]() ![]() Rain water rushed into the cave, trapping them deep inside.ĭocumentary filmmaker Chai Vasarhelyi describes the cave as incredibly intimidating, with a "a darkness that kind of pulls you in." The boys and the coach were about two kilometers in, she says, and "trapped on the wrong side of the water." ![]() But it was just before the beginning of the four-month monsoon season, and while they were in the cave, it started to downpour outside. The boys, who were all members of a soccer team, had gone into a long, winding underground cave with their coach to celebrate one of the boy's birthdays. In June 2018, the world held its breath for 18 days as a group of elite cave divers risked everything to rescue 12 boys and their coach from an underwater cave in Northern Thailand. The Rescue chronicles the 2018 rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach who were trapped deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Alexia daria![]() ![]() There are three major classifications of alexia with different alexia syndromes associated with each. In each form of alexia, a different area of the brain is found to be damaged. Damage to these areas can result in multiple language-related deficits such as Broca's aphasia, Wernicke's aphasia, global aphasia, alexia, and others. Most of the language processing occurs around the angular gyrus of the left hemisphere, the dominant hemisphere for most of the population. ![]() ![]() The neuroanatomical area that controls visual perception and interpretation is known as the visual word form area (VWFA) located in the occipitotemporal gyrus. There are varying degrees of comprehension deficit resulting in different types of alexia, including occipital or posterior alexia, central or parietal-temporal alexia, and frontal or anterior alexia. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov![]() Listeners will be left wishing Rudnicki had infused more of his narration with those qualities. His rendition of the title character-which sounds like a hybrid of Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat and Soviet comedian Yakov Smirnoff-is dynamic and entertaining. He does, however, provide a wide range of voices for the cast of characters. This has been a constant since I was 17, when I discovered both almost simultaneously. Instead, Rudnicki's tone is variously stiff, needlessly booming, or monotone. If you ask me my favourite author, I would probably give you two names: Will Self and Vladimir Nabokov. Rudnicki's narration is clear and steady, but fails to capture the playfulness of Nabokov's prose and the humor of the text. ![]() ![]() Told in a series of vignettes, the story follows Russian immigrant and professor Timofey Pavlovich Pnin as he boards the wrong train on his way to deliver a lecture, loses his luggage, struggles with the English language, hunts for living quarters, deals with his ex-wife, and throws a faculty party. Nabokov fans will be disappointed by narrator Stefan Rudnicki's stiff, staid performance in this audio version of the author's 13th novel. ![]() |