5/13/2023 0 Comments Revelation space![]() ![]() Their technology typically manifested as black cubes of "pure force" and was immune to conventional human weaponry this machinery was easily capable of dodging most weapons thrown at it-usually temporary holes would appear and allow the shot to pass through-or was simply unaffected by it. They functioned on unknown principles speculated to be femtotechnology or "structured" spacetime and were capable of self-replication. They were non-sapient machinery, referring to themselves as post-intelligent. The hints of a tetrapod, warm-blooded vertebrate past could be faintly discerned in their architectures. Initially an organic race, or group of races, they later made use of extensive cybernetics to enhance themselves, and eventually discarded their organic forms entirely to become wholly machine. The Inhibitors were a post-intelligent machine race left over from a massive war-the Dawn War-that occurred between the first civilizations that arose in the Milky Way galaxy. ![]()
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5/13/2023 0 Comments Shakespeare by michael wood![]() Wood doesn't have new evidence to support this necessarily, but he does delve into the Warwickshire region's history as a flashpoint of crypto-Catholicism, which may have touched Shakespeare's family and their neighbors and distant relatives. Addressing both Shakespeare's artistic universality and his religious beliefs, Wood considers him a Catholic with a capital "c" as well as a small one. ![]() ![]() Like many of the Bard's biographers who want to surpass the few official documents and brief contemporary testaments that form the official record, Wood's lively portrait is half hypothesis and half argument, embellished with speculative digressions. ![]() The companion volume to Wood's four-part PBS documentary, to air in early 2004, this life of Shakespeare has all the vividness of a good television profile, backed up with a keen and contentious historical perspective on his turbulent era. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Can You See Me? by Romilly King![]() I might be too old and too damaged to ever truly experience my desires, but I want to know, just for myself, just for the record, which way I am tilted. I don't know if this Outreach thing can help me, but with their science and their skills they can tell me the kind of man I could have been, the kind of love I could have had, and there is some comfort in that. There is this need inside me that I never explored and then the trauma denied me the freedom to even consider it. It’s easy to blame it on my service, to be that PTSD veteran, but it’s more than that. ![]() ![]() I’ve not been doing great for a long time. I'm revising this story, and I'm going to learn everything The Outreach has to offer. It’s making me feel all kinds of stupid about how I've played in the past, and all kinds of fascinated for how to scene in the future. It seems these guys actually know what they are talking about, and what they are saying is resonating inside me on a primal level. When my boss sent me on this assignment I thought I was writing a fluff piece, a sly little dig at the newest psychobabble trend to hitch itself to the “discover yourself” gravy train. Some see it as a green light for deviancy, for others it’s their last chance to understand why they want the things they want. It’s brand new and causing waves, politically and socially. ![]() This is The Outreach, where the kink curious can have their desires analysed, their cravings explained, and if they are lucky, find the right kind of someone to meet their needs. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Dara horn dead jews![]() ![]() This is a timely and important conversion. Today, the consequences are clear: antisemitic attacks in America are on the rise, and Holocaust education has shown to be ineffective, at best. Jay Ruderman: It constitutes an effort, she claims, to both minimize Jewish suffering and to whitewash the atrocities and antisemitism, both past and present. ![]() Jay Ruderman: From Harbin, China, to Monsey, New York, from Anne Frank to Shakespeare, Dara examines the ways in which Jewish history and culture have been memorialized and presented.ĭara Horn: What I’ve found is I’ve now become, like, this sort of receptacle for all of this pain in the Jewish community that I really didn’t know about. Jay Ruderman: Dara Horn is an award-winning author of six books and the recently published collection of essays, “People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present.”ĭara Horn: People love dead Jews. Jay Ruderman: And today on our show: Dara Horn.ĭara Horn: Anne Frank wrote this line about people being truly good at heart, 3 weeks before she met people who weren’t. Jay Ruderman: Each episode we bring you in-depth and intimate conversations with inspiring individuals trying to change the world.ĭara Horn: That discomfort–it wasn’t sorrow. Leonardo DiCaprio: I stand before you, not as an expert, but as a concerned citizen. Kennedy : This generation of Americans has already had enough. Simone Biles: I say put mental health first because… Jay Ruderman: Hi, I’m Jay Ruderman and welcome to the “All Inclusive” podcast: stories of activism, change and courage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The next generation of scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, policy-makers, and activists will carry this work forward as the world aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2050." "Students and young activists have kept climate change at the top of the global agenda, despite the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we owe it to them and to everyone around the world to develop real plans and take real action," said Bill Gates. Knopf, February 16, 2021).Īs climate leaders from the public and private sectors gather in Glasgow, Scotland for the COP26 climate conference next month, the imperative to take tangible action as a global community has never been stronger. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Beginning today, Bill Gates will give every college and university student around the world a free digital copy of his best-selling book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need ( Alfred A. ![]() ![]() ![]() Naturalist plays were therefore considered "slice of life" plays because they rarely changed their settings, and the time span of the play mirrored the passing of time for the audience. However, naturalist plays removed the dramatic elements of theater in an effort to present a real-life moment of its subjects. Naturalism exhibits the same characteristics of realism. Realism strived to eliminate the distance between the audience and the stage by making its productions mimic real life as close as possible. Realism theater sets, costumes and props, were made to mirror their real-life counterparts. However, the two movements differ in that realism did not attempt to romanticize its subjects lives. Realism used the same subject matter as romanticism. Realism was the second phase of modern drama. However, where later modernist drama movements would attempt to portray these stories as truthfully as possible, romantic plays exaggerated, dramatized, warped and romanticized the character's lives for the theater. Six Characters in Search of an Author Patrick Henry College's Eden Troupe 121 subscribers Subscribe 121 15K views 4 years ago Patrick Henry College's Eden Troupe Presents Six Characters in. Like other modernist plays, romantic productions focused on the stories of those who inhabited the lower rungs of the social ladder. ![]() The first phase of modern drama began in the late 19th century with the rise of romanticism. ![]() Although modern drama evolved over time, its theme of using theater to challenge and experiment upon social norms remained constant. The modern drama is characterized by its unique subject matter like the romanticism of the poor, the strict depiction of real life and the use of symbols, imagery and metaphors. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Duchess by Danielle Steel![]() ![]() Unable to secure employment without references or connections, Angélique desperately makes her way to Paris, where she rescues a young woman fleeing an abusive madam-and suddenly sees a possibility: Open an elegant house of pleasure that will protect its women and serve only the best clients. ![]() To survive, she will need all her resources-and one bold stroke of fortune. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. ![]() But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. At eighteen she is her father’s closest, most trusted child, schooled in managing their grand estate. The incomparable Danielle Steel breaks new ground as she takes us to nineteenth-century England, where a high-born young woman is forced out into the world-and begins a journey of survival, sensuality, and long-sought justice.Īngélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Overtreated by Shannon Brownlee![]() ![]() I intended to write a blog about this book, then found that many people had already expressed their opinion about this book. ![]() I enjoyed very much in reading this book. By comparing the health care system between the United States and the China, you could easily think of these terms, especially when I heard the new medical conditions "ADHD - Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder", "M-IBS - Mixed Irritable Bowel Syndrome", "Chronic Fatigure Syndrome (CFS)", "fibromyhalia" when I saw the images how many pills a patient took regularly.ĭriven by the NPR interview with Shannon Brownlee ( Are Today's Hospital Patients "Overtreated"?), I went to the local library to borrow her book "Overtreated: why to much medicine is making us sicker and poorer". these are the terms I have used in one of seminars several years ago. "Overtreated", "Overdiagnosed", and "Overdosed". ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Complete me j kenner![]() ![]() In her previous career as an attorney, JK worked as a clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced primarily civil, entertainment and First Amendment litigation in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as in Austin, Texas. Her books have sold over three million copies and are published in over twenty languages. Her Demon Hunting Soccer Mom series (as Julie Kenner) is currently in development as a television show. JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations” and by RT Bookclub for having “cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swoon for them.” A six time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy) and in 2017 for Wicked Dirty in the same category. Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy, and paranormal mommy lit. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Wall Street Journal and #1 International bestselling author of over one hundred novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Gerald mcdermott arrow to the sun![]() He created several animated films based on myths and folktales, many of which explored the theme of the heroic quest. During this time he worked as a graphic designer for a public television station and began pursuing his interest in filmmaking. After attending a public high school for artistically gifted students, he received a Scholastic Publications National Scholarship to Pratt Institute in New York. His parents recognized his artistic talent early on and enrolled him in weekend classes at the Detroit Institute of Arts when he was 4 years old. McDermott was born on January 31, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan. The American Library Association presented him with the Caldecott Medal in 1975 for Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale (1974). ![]() American author, illustrator, and filmmaker Gerald McDermott gathered tales from around the world and retold them in children’s books using straightforward text and bold, colorful pictures filled with geometric shapes and traditional symbols. ![]() |