![]() ![]() ![]() 2021 Nicknamed in various parts of North America as ling, lawyer, cusk or mud shark - the once-lowly burbot is being elevated in Minnesota from unprotected rough fish to game fish. 2021 With the advent of digital footprints, digital client ling and fintech payment systems, granular segmentation is critical. Celeste Moure, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 Aug. 2023 And don’t miss The Courtney Room for dinner, where the slow baked ling cod with summer squash is a must taste. 2023 The sand eels, pilchards, ling and dogfish are missing on this occasion, but everything depends upon the season. 2023 Attention, little Wild- lings! - Vulture, 7 Mar. storms were located along a ling from Underwood-Petersville to Barton to 6 miles northeast of Red Bay and were moving east at 55 mph. Noun Severe thunderstorm warning for Lauderdale, Colbert, northern Franklin and northwestern Lawrence counties in northwest Alabama until 11:30 p.m. ![]()
0 Comments
![]() ![]() When the Great Depression hit, the people in England panicked, and started trading in their paper money for gold. ![]() ![]() In the early part of the 20th century, all the world's key economies were on the gold standard.īut in 1931, the system began to unravel in the most powerful country in the world: England. year after year, $20.67 got you an ounce of gold. If you had a dollar, you could take it to the government any time you want, and trade it in for a fixed amount of gold. The story of why that era came to an end includes a nervous breakdown, a global panic, and a presidential adviser who was an expert on cows and chickens. There was a time, of course, when paper money was backed by gold - the era of the gold standard. People are worried about the value of paper money. ![]() ![]() ![]() Bouton’s revealing look at baseball off the field made for eye-opening and entertaining reading, but he paid a big price for the best-seller when former teammates and players and executives across baseball ostracized him for exposing their secrets. Published in 1970, “Ball Four” detailed Yankees great Mickey Mantle’s carousing and the use of stimulants in the major leagues. ![]() He fought a brain disease linked to dementia and was in hospice care. He was 80.īouton’s family said he died Wednesday at the Great Barrington home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. (AP) - Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died. Jim Bouton, the New York Yankees pitcher who shocked the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book "Ball Four," has died, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. 7, 2009 file photo, Former New York Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton signs copies of the Associated Press book "New York Yankees 365," in New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() On page 241, (paperback edition), Gavin first mentions the Sacramento Junk. To get the gist of Gavin’s arguments let’s look at one of his claims. In particular Bill Hartz’s exhaustive demolition is a bracing tonic for Gavin’s numbing elixir. You can look here and here and here and here. That task has already been done by an army of critics. I’m not going to catalog Gavin’s many errors, omissions and deceptions. It’s to bad that remotely plausible does not make your case! Skeptics are hard-asses we demand rigorous and repeatedly verified evidence before deeming suppositions possibly not crap! By this standard Gavin falls way short. ![]() Gavin Menzies’ ludicrous tome, 1421: The Year China Discovered America, (also titled 1421: The Year China Discovered the World), is the finest example of delusional sophistry I’ve encountered since Graham Hancock’s insane Finger Prints of the Gods.Ībout the only thing you can say for Gavin’s fantasy is that, (unlike Hancock’s Finger Prints - the “ science” behind the movie 2012), 1421 is remotely plausible. For reasons that infuriate skeptics there is a never-ending parade of pseudo-historians spouting rubbish that is eagerly devoured by a credulous pig ignorant public. Crank history is big business and it’s getting bigger. ![]() ![]() ![]() 3īut even if "gravity" did provide such balance, it could hardly suffice as an adequate cause for the whole universe. 2 Recent investigations into gravity-one of which questioned its very existence-left plenty of room for doubt about claims that depend on an accurate conception of this particular natural force. What would compel a person to ascribe the power of creation to just gravity? Perhaps it stems from the idea that gravity has an equal amount of "negative" energy to perfectly balance all other "positive" energies. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. The Telegraph quoted from The Grand Design:īecause there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. This conclusion goes against the writings of another famed Lucasian Professor who is credited with discovering the very law Hawking uses as his "proof"-Sir Isaac Newton. ![]() In it, he claims that the universe did not need God to create it. Stephen Hawking, leading cosmologist and recently retired Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, has co-authored a new book, The Grand Design. ![]() ![]() ![]() And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales-prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the centurys great men of imagination. His disarming simplicity of style underlies a towering body of work unmatched in metaphorical power by any other American storyteller. From a lonely coastal lighthouse to a sixty-million-year-old safary, from the pouring rain of Venus to the ominous silence of a murder scene, Ray Bradbury is our sure-handed guide not only to surprising and outrageous manifestations of the future, but also to the wonders of the present that we could never have imagined on our own.Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. ![]() And here, presented in a new trade edition, are thirty-two of his most famous tales-prime examples of the poignant and mysterious poetry which Bradbury uniquely uncovers in the depths of the human soul, the otherwordly portraits of outre fascination which spring from the canvas of one of the century's great men of imagination. ![]() ![]() Ray Bradbury is a modern cultural treasure. ![]() ![]() After a brief, random fit of hysterical laughter and a glass of brandy, Hatherley calms down and admits that he's had a horrible shock.His name is Victor Hatherley, and he's a hydraulic engineer – someone who works on designs related to fluid mechanics, such as pumps, turbines, canals, dams, and bridges. He apologizes for coming so early, but he has just arrived by train after a serious accident the night before.The new patient is a young guy, around 25, dressed in tweed and holding a bloody handkerchief over his hand. ![]() A guard, an old friend of Watson's, says he's brought him a new patient and then takes off without waiting for thanks. One morning at around 7am, two men come to his house/office from nearby Paddington Train Station.This would be soon after Watson's marriage, when he's working on expanding his medical practice.Watson has only brought Holmes two cases in his life and this is one of them, a particularly weird problem that emerges during the summer of 1889. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "The House in the Cerulean Sea" is a beautiful fantasy story that begins with Linus Baker, a caseworker for the Department in Charge of Magical Youth, who has just been assigned a top-secret case. It's a creatively told story about real-life themes of belonging and chosen family. Here are three reasons "The House in the Cerulean Sea" is just as great as everyone says.ġ. Readers can't get enough of this magical story. Today, #thehouseintheceruleansea has over 3.9 million views on TikTok, over 22,000 dedicated posts on Instagram, and a staggering 4.45 average rating across over 292,000 reviews on Goodreads. ![]() I recently picked it up again to revisit the comfort of the magical house in the Cerulean Sea and fondly discovered once more why it comes so highly recommended by readers on TikTok. I read this book for the first time in the early weeks of the pandemic, just after it was published, and found the sweet story to be a simply enjoyable read. But when TJ Klune's "The House in the Cerulean Sea" was first published in 2020, I seemed to be seeing the book everywhere and couldn't resist picking it up for myself. I don't read fantasy novels often, usually finding it too challenging to keep track of magic rules, fantastical species, and complicated worlds. ![]() ![]() ![]() " -Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and Grassroots: A Field Guide to Feminist Activism. An empowering, original, funny, and frank book, Body Drama is poised to become the modern girl''s Our Bodies, Ourselves. Fun and frank, like talking to a good friend who knows absolutely everything and is willing to dish." -Kim Gandy, President of the National Organization of Women "In Body Drama, Nancy Redd combines the stylishness of Naomi Campbell, the vibe of your best friend, and photos you always wanted to see but were afraid to ask. Body Drama has the answers you want to the questions you don''t know how to ask. It''s a book of liberation and it''s fun." -Eve Ensler "I love this book! It puts loving (and knowing) your body into words and pictures - you''ll find out yours isn''t so different after all. It will make you love every little thing about your body: your sags, you tags, your lumps, your bumps. This is just what girlitas need today-a get-real guide with un-airbrushed photos that allows them to dialogue with their bodies on the most honest levels." -Deborah Gregory, author, The Cheetah Girls series and Catwalk " Body Drama should be center stage in every young woman''s life. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative begins with eighteen year-old Gideon Nav's 86th attempt to escape the Ninth House, a death cult tasked with guarding a Locked Tomb said to contain the Emperor's greatest foe, and by whom Gideon was raised in indentured servitude. ![]() Lyctors are immortal necromancers, revered as saints, who serve as the Emperor's right-hand necromancers in wars against his enemies. At the start of Gideon the Ninth, the Emperor invites the heirs of the Nine Houses and their sword-wielding bodyguards (called cavaliers ) to undergo a series of trials to become Lyctors. The Houses in turn are ruled by the Emperor, an impossibly powerful, immortal necromancer whom they have worshipped as a god for the past ten thousand years. In the star system Dominicus, there are nine planets, each home to a great House which practices its own school of necromancy. It is Muir's debut novel and the first in her Locked Tomb series, followed by Harrow the Ninth (2020), Nona the Ninth (2022), and Alecto the Ninth (2023). Gideon the Ninth is a 2019 science fantasy novel by the New Zealand writer Tamsyn Muir. ![]() |