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Cultivate hope with strengths-based practices grounded in positive psychology. Learned Hopefulness offers powerful exercises grounded in evidence-based positive psychology to help you identify your strengths; ditch the self-limiting beliefs that diminish your capacity for positivity; and increase feelings of motivation, resiliency, and wellness.

In the tiny Iowa farm town of Atalissa, dozens of men, all with intellectual disabilities and all from Texas, lived in an old schoolhouse. Before dawn each morning, they were bussed to a nearby processing plant, where they eviscerated turkeys in return for food, lodging, and $65 a month. They lived in near servitude for more than 30 years, enduring increasing neglect, exploitation, and physical and emotional abuse.

On April 18, 1981, a ball game sprang eternal. What began as a modestly attended minor-league game between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings became not only the longest ever played in baseball history, but something else entirely. The first pitch was thrown after dusk on Holy Saturday, and for the next eight hours the night seemed to suspend its participants between their collective pasts and futures, between their collective sorrows and joys....

Conservative commentary on politics, policy, and news from the Southern Piedmont of North Carolina, through the Raleigh State House to the nation's capital. "That liberty is indivisible, and that political freedom cannot long exist without economic freedom" The Sharon Statement

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and on the eve of a national recession, New York Times writer Dan Barry launched a column about America: not the one populated only by cable-news pundits, but the America defined and redefined by those who clean the hotel rooms, tend the beet fields, endure disasters both natural and manmade. As the name of the president changed from Bush to Obama to Trump, Barry was crisscrossing the country, filing deeply moving stories from the tiniest dot on the American map to the city that calls itself the Capital of the World.

Hello! I'm Dan Rotter. I was so looking forward to bringing you a travelogue style podcast about the people and places in and around my home village of Arsbury. However, after overhearing some locals discussing plans for a new housing development on nearby farmland, my brother Barry and I have begun an in depth investigation into this outrageous attempt to profit from the destruction of the English countryside, to stop it and hold those responsible to account. This is our story.This comedy podcast is entirely fictional and any content resembling, naming or seemingly featuring any actual people...