5/20/2023 0 Comments My lovely wife samantha downing![]() ![]() ![]() Embarrassment looks the same on everyone. Her eyebrows shoot up, she covers her mouth with one hand, and the pink rises on her skin. She reads it and crinkles her brow, looking back and forth between the phone and me. I slide my phone across the bar toward her. That’s why she looked at me, why she smiled, why she is happy I have come over to join her. I am thirty-nine, in excellent shape with a full head of hair and a deep set of dimples, and my suit fits better than any glove. Physically, I appeal to her the same way I would appeal to most women in this bar. Her lips move, she says hello, and her eyes are brighter. It is unremarkable in both color and length. I walk over and take the seat next to her. Most of her lipstick is gone, now a reddish smear on the rim of her glass. I glance over and smile to show her I am. I look at my own drink and can feel her watching, wondering if I’m as interested as she is. Her blue eyes are glassy, they flicker down to her drink and back up. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Part V: Unification in the Twenty-First Centuryīeginning with a brief consideration of classical physics, which concentrates on the major conflicts in physics, Greene establishes a historical context for string theory as a necessary means of integrating the probabilistic world of the standard model of particle physics and the deterministic Newtonian physics of the macroscopic world.Part IV: String Theory and the Fabric of Spacetime.Part II: The Dilemma of Space, Time, and the Quanta.Preface (with an additional preface to the 2003 edition).A new edition was released in 2003, with an updated preface. ![]() In 2000, it won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory is a book by Brian Greene published in 1999, which introduces string and superstring theory, and provides a comprehensive though non-technical assessment of the theory and some of its shortcomings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Russia is a dangerous place, run by nasty people. ![]() Such was our single direct contact with Russia before beginning our discussion of the book, the book about systemic human abuse, greed, corruption. State Department said to pay it before the boy became an embarrassment and disappeared. Bill told a more recent story about the son of a friend who was held at Russian border only 3 years ago, for a $65,000. Bill had visited USSR in the 1970's: gray, dingy, repressive. We began with a few personal experiences with Russia. As well as a story of power, greed and corruption in Russia today. Red Notice is the story of big finance in Russia by Bill Browder, founder and driving force behind Hermitage Capital, a uniquely successful mutual fund that took advantage of undervalued, recently privatized Russian companies' assets in the early to mid 1990's. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was written and directed by Stuart Beattie, and starred Caitlin Stasey in the role of Ellie Linton. Tomorrow, When the War Began was adapted into a feature film of the same name that was released on 2 September 2010 in Australia and New Zealand. The novel is told in first person perspective by the main character, a teenage girl named Ellie Linton, who is part of a small band of teenagers waging a guerrilla war on the enemy garrison in their fictional home town of Wirrawee. It was published in 1993, and is a young adult invasion novel, detailing a high-intensity invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. Tomorrow, When the War Began is the first book in the Tomorrow series by John Marsden. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Gotham City Sirens by Paul Dini![]() ![]() Previous events in other comics that are alluded to in the very beginning mean that the characters have no shortage of money, so they have no immediate impetus to commit crimes, and the first arc of the series revolves around when they themselves are attacked by other criminals, instigated when Harley is out shopping. Though not quite a Slice of Life (the series remains an Action/Adventure story about costumed stars battling other costumed individuals) the premise is that the characters have not united for any form of Evil Scheme or plot, but rather have decided to be a team simply for the sake of being with people they are on friendly terms with. The series lasted 26 issues (August, 2009-September, 2011). ![]() None of them have completely foresworn their extra-legal activities, but neither have they become a trio of Villain Protagonists, either. Their portrayals have varied widely over the years, ranging from terrorists to just shy of The Hero, and their current portrayal is right on the Anti-Villain / Anti-Hero line. Gotham City Sirens was a monthly comic-book series published by DC Comics co-starring Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn, three characters who had previously recurred throughout the DC universe, primarily as foes / allies / love-interests of Batman. ![]() ![]() ![]() His elegantly written, succinct biographies and studies of early New England, respected by specialists but accessible to undergraduates, became required reading for several generations of college students. “I think that any group of people who have a system of belief that covers practically everything, and who act upon it, are bound to be interesting to any scholar,” he said in a 1987 interview with The William and Mary Quarterly. Like his mentor and fellow atheist, the Harvard historian Perry Miller, Professor Morgan found his richest material in the religious thought of Puritan New England and endless fascination in the theological debates and spiritual struggles of men like John Winthrop, Roger Williams and Ezra Stiles. His death was confirmed by his editor, Robert Weil. ![]() ![]() Morgan, an award-winning historian who illuminated the intellectual world of the Puritans, explored the paradox of freedom and slavery in colonial Virginia and, in his 80s, wrote a best-selling biography of Benjamin Franklin, died on Monday in New Haven. ![]() 5/19/2023 0 Comments Die Moiren; Tradition und Wandel des Motivs der Schicksalsgot... by Markos Giannoulis![]() ![]() ![]() It seems that Moira is related with Tekmor (proof, ordinance) and with Ananke, who were primeval goddesses in mythical cosmogonies. In Plato's Republic the Three Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity). Later they are daughters of Zeus and Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order and law. In the Theogony of Hesiod, the three Moirai are personified, and are acting over the gods. In the Homeric poems Moira or Aisa, is related with the limit and end of life, and Zeus appears as the guider of destiny. The gods and men had to submit to them, but in the case of Zeus he is portrayed in two ways: as the only one who can command them (the Zeus Moiragetes) or as the one who is also bound to the Moiras as incarnation of the fates. ![]() They were independent, at the helm of necessity, directed fate, and watched that the fate assigned to every being by eternal laws might take its course without obstruction. They controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal from birth to death. Their number became fixed at three: Clotho (spinner), Lachesis (allotter) and Atropos (unturnable). In Greek mythology, the Moirai ( Ancient Greek: Μοῖραι, "apportioners", Latinized as Moerae)-often known in English as the Fates-were the white-robed incarnations of destiny ( Roman equivalent: Parcae, euphemistically the "sparing ones", or Fata also equivalent to the Germanic Norns). Old National Gallery, Berlin Greek deities ![]() Relief, grave of Alexander von der Mark by Johann Gottfried Schadow. ![]() ![]() The author brings a relentless acuity to her depiction of sensual, chaotic times, and she is astute in her portrayal of the awkward place women occupied in this bohemian hierarchy. After an unsatisfying year at Swarthmore, she dropped out and began to move with a small circle of estranged nonconformists in rundown Manhattan locales, where they experimented with sex, drugs, and art. ![]() Her unconventional career, however, was hardly forecast by a 1930s girlhood filled with violence and foreboding, in which the bright child was alternately confused and tormented by her strict Italian family and the cruel Brooklyn streets. San Francisco poet di Prima ( Loba, not reviewed) is considered the most prominent woman among the “beatniks” (Corso, Kerouac, Ginsberg et al.) of the 1950s. ![]() An informative, comprehensive account of one woman’s rise in the literary underground, ripe with the flavors and transformations of the Beat Generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() She chairs the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Albright is a professor in the practice of diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. permanent representative to the United Nations and was a member of the President’s cabinet.Ĭurrently, Dr. ![]() Albright was named the first female Secretary of State and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. In 1997 under President Bill Clinton, Dr. Albright, continues to advocate for democracy and human rights across the world, while also championing the important impact international relations and educational exchanges have on the United States today. ![]() As one of the world’s most respected diplomats, Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Paul Kemp, 64 and of no fixed abode, was jailed after he breached a suspended sentence handed to him for two counts of attempting to cause a boy to engage in sexual activityĪ paedophile who failed to tell police where he was staying claimed he was sleeping under a hedge and had no idea what day it was. Kerwin was handed 10 months in jail, but had already spent nearly six months in custody, meaning he was immediately released. McLoughlin - a convicted armed robber - was jailed for nine years and four months, of which he must serve two thirds behind bars. But the Crown Prosecution Service accepted McLoughlin's plea to manslaughter and Kerwin's plea to assault causing actual bodily harm, to the dismay and anger of Duncan's grieving family, who slammed the decision. McLoughlin, 36, of Torus Road, Old Swan, and Kerwin, 31, of no fixed address, both denied murder and were set to stand trial on January 4. Mr Browne, from Kirkby, died in hospital next day, surrounded by his family. ![]() McLoughlin's friend - convicted heroin dealer Terrence Kerwin - first hit the victim, as they tried to get into a black cab ahead of him.īut after McLoughlin knocked out Mr Browne in the early hours of Sunday, July 4, 2021, the "cowards" got in the taxi and went to a party. He delivered a fatal "catastrophic injury punch" to the 23-year-old at a taxi rank in Hanover Street in Liverpool city centre. Michael McLoughlin killed aspiring firefighter Duncan Browne in an unprovoked attack over a taxi. ![]() Michael McLoughlin, 36, of Torus Road, Old Swan ![]() |