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"The twenty-five poems in Samantha Duncan's One Never Eats Four are carefully crafted explorations of transformation, of what is and what is not. Her verse is rich in its scarcity; each line pared down to its most essential, brightest form. And each line is music, too--painful music, marking "the season [her] feelings/ran out/[her] pores.""Annalee Kwochka, author of Opening the Doors of the Temple"With One Never Eats Four, poet Samantha Duncan performs linguistic and associational acrobatics with content that delves into the deep recesses of the psyche. Duncan's tone is sturdy and assured in juxtaposition to her oftentimes wildly imaginative and dreamlike imagery rooted in physical sensation: "A bee whisks the hair over my ear," "fork punctures my lip, sour blood lies through teeth" ("Inventory"). The resulting tension between content and tone asks the reader to go all-in, both sensually and intellectually. This collection isn't for the passive reader. Its poems beg to be fully experienced."Leah Sewell, author of Birth in Storm

Sweaters will never be out of style. Their practical use and elegant aesthetics make them an universally accepted piece of fashion. Pretty Knitting Sweaters features 14 vintage patterns in total. They're a joy to make and come with easy-to-follow instructions.

French Olivier Ventre rang his good friend Jordan Royle from his Cambridge University days, a well-respected owner of a prestigious London department store. To his surprise, Jordan and not the voice mail, answered. After greetings and enquiries, Olivier told him, Im coming with my sister, Sharlyne, to stay with our grandparents, Jordan. Sharlyne, having completed university and on the principals recommendation, has been offered an interview for a prestigious position based in London. Sharlyne has worked so hard, gaining masters with honours in her degrees, and we are all so proud of her. Her IQ is over 130. Jordan hadnt met Sharlyne, with her being educated abroad and when she did visit her grandparents, he was working abroad. Olivier had always spoken highly of her. Whats this position? he asked. Let her tell you. Sharlyne, compared to the modern trend of today, has an innate modesty, but she will feel comfortable sharing this with you. Are you okay for a few minutes Jordan? Carry on.

This book addresses the need to support teachers in developing adults' skills through reading for pleasure as an individual and group practice, incorporating the activity into the curriculum. It focuses on reading for pleasure for adult emergent readers.

Fashion goes to war- literally. A playground comes to life. A lady wants to fly. An artist plays a dangerous game. A mysterious woman appears after a powerful storm. Time comes to an end, yet the world goes on... All that + 13 cosmically flappy poems, some swampy Southern Gothic, & an introduction to the world's most profound coloring book.

The Fall 2014 issue of FLAPPERHOUSE is so wonderfully bizarre & freakishly beautiful it'll make your cheeks quiver & explode. It begins with an Alternate Reality Game, ends with a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, and in between there's pink slime, raving gods, naked alligator rides, regurgitated Raymond Carver, menstrual anxiety, a bunch more fiction that's too bizarre to summarize here, and some phenomenal poetry.

Context: Patients continue to report high-reinjury rates, low rates of return to sport (RTS), and poor long-term function, with only 44-55% of athletes reaching full return to competitive sports. RTS tests inadvertently fail to consider the complex dynamics of sport (e.g. reactive and cognitive-motor demands associated with rapidly changing environment), which may threaten their utility in preventing subsequent injury. Objective: To establish within and between session test-retest reliability of two novel reactive agility tasks (Aim 1) and to assess the influence of a challenging visual constraint (e.g. stroboscopic visual field disruption) on participants' reaction time, time to target, total targets achieved and time to completion (Aim 2) Design: Descriptive case series with a test-retest design. Participants: Three healthy, physically active participants (Male n = 1 Female n = 2) aged 18-30 years old participated. Intervention: Participants completed two novel reactive agility tasks in a randomized order. Each participant completed 2 sessions approximately 7 days apart. Each session consisted of two sub-sessions that were identical excluding task order randomization and the addition of stroboscopic glasses during session 2b. After each task the participants completed the NASA-TLX survey. Main Outcome Measures: Task 1 outcomes included: Average Reaction Time (seconds), Average Time To Target (seconds), Number of Target Deactivations (n = #) Task 2 outcomes included: Average Time To Target (seconds), Number of Target Deactivations (n = #), Time to Completion (seconds). The NASA-TLX survey results were included as a secondary outcome measure for both tasks. Results: Overall, the ICC values for within and between session reliability of reaction time were moderate to weak and with wide confidence intervals (within: ICC = 0.782, 95% CI .000-.994, between: ICC = 0.318, 95% CI .000-.975). ICC values for time to completion, time to target and number of target deactivations within and between session reliability were moderate-excellent but with wide confidence intervals. The strobe condition did not impact reaction time but did seem to impact pursuit of target. Conclusion: Reaction time was not a reliable measure in this study. Time to target, time to completion and number of target deactivations had moderate-excellent reliability.