![]() ![]() He was in all the World War II campaigns in the Central and South Pacific: Guadacanal, Bougainville, the recapture of Guam, Iwo Jima. He attained the rank of lieutenant on August 16, 1941, and was a member of the 3rd Marine Division. ![]() Shortly after graduating from Amherst, Jim was a marine, an officer candidate (USMC Platoon Leaders) U.S. He was a member of the Outing Club and the Speakers’ Club. He ran middle distances in track as well as cross-country. Jim was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1917 and graduated from Harrisburg Academy before matriculating at Amherst where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi and an English major. His wife of 56 years, Kathryn Winthrop Cole Michener, had died August 22, 1996, a day short of Jim’s 79th birthday. ![]() Only recently did the College receive word that Jim had died in July of 2005, apparently at a retirement community south of Washington, D.C., where he had been living for several years. ![]()
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![]() Charlie’s one attempt results in a broken wrist. What makes the book gripping is the rising sense of threat from Adam, who resists his owner when he tries to power him down. What makes the book gripping is the rising sense of threat from Adam, who resists his owner when he tries to power him down When Charlie makes contact with Turing, the Cartesian mysteries of mind-brain duality get thoroughly debated, threatening to tip the novel into a dry cerebral exercise. ![]() McEwan’s Turing has developed “machine consciousness” to its ultimate level, and is instrumental in putting Adam on the market. The notion that a machine can fall in love opens up the intense philosophical debate that underpins the novel, most notably via the figure of Alan Turing, who is still alive, and a hero of Charlie’s. The complication is that Adam has fallen in love with Miranda. ![]() Adam is “not a sex toy”, but “capable of sex”, and acquits himself better than his human rival, causing Charlie to dismiss him as a “bipedal vibrator”. ![]() Read more: Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach unwittingly skewers our attitudes to sex todayīoth observations will prove significant, as once up and running, Charlie’s “ambulant laptop” becomes ferociously acquisitive not only of knowledge but emotional sophistication. ![]() ![]() The first event, held in March of 1987, saw an expected 150 registrants swell to 700 on the opening day. ![]() The SXSW group expected initial resistance from the locals, but it was quite the opposite. A name was sought that was not restrictive in its concept.įinally, in October of 1986, the announcement of the first South By Southwest was made. For a local event to bring the world to Austin, it needed to have value everywhere. The solution being discussed was an event that would bring the outside world to Austin for a close-up view.Īs the key ideas were formed, recognition grew that Austin was not the only city where this was an issue. ![]() Inclusiveness and reaching for new things were core values. Music was the uniting factor, but the group had a catholic taste for art and ideas. A fundamental opinion shared by the group was that the local creative and music communities were as talented as anywhere else on the planet, but were severely limited by a lack of exposure outside of Austin. The meetings were in the offices of The Austin Chronicle, and participants were sworn to secrecy. That same year, a small group of people in Austin, Texas began a series of long discussions about the future of entertainment and media. ![]() 40 million music CDs were made and sold worldwide. ![]() An Apple Macintosh computer with 128 kilobytes of RAM sold for $5,500 (in 2015 dollars). Many phones used rotary dials to enter numbers. "Electronic mail" was used primarily by universities and the military. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Ringworld could be regarded as a thin, rotating slice of a Dyson sphere, with which it shares a number of characteristics. Walls 1000 miles tall along the edges retain the atmosphere. The "Other Ocean" has many maps of a single world: the Pak Homeworld. One of the large oceans, known as the "Great Ocean", contains one-to-one maps of all of the inhabited worlds of known space. On opposite sides of the ring are two large deep saltwater oceans, placed in counterbalance to one another. The majority of the surface is land interspersed with shallow, freshwater seas. Ringworld has a habitable flat inner surface equivalent in area to approximately three million Earth-sized planets. It rotates, providing an artificial gravity equivalent to 99.2% of Earth's gravity by way of centrifugal force. The Ringworld is an artificial ring about one million miles wide and approximately the diameter of Earth's orbit (which makes it about 600 million miles in circumference), encircling a Sol-type star. G3 verging on G2, barely smaller and cooler than Solħ.5 Ringworld days (225 h, 9.375 Earth days) ![]() ![]() The head of the family is shady business man Rex Fortescue, elderly and unscrupulous and altogether a bad lot. Living at Yewtree Lodge near London is a family which would, in Regency times, have been called 'Cits' - self-made rich folk of the slightly vulgar variety. Don't ask me to explain - it must be some kind of leftover childhood thing.Įngland, 1953. I also find English accents of a certain sort VERY soothing and comforting. ![]() And if this current election cycle hasn't agitated you then you haven't been paying attention. ![]() I don't know about you, but there's just something about Christie (no matter the mayhem involved) that I find soothing and comforting when I'm feeling agitated. ![]() A POCKETFUL OF RYE is as good a place to begin as any. Highly recommended, especially if you're (God forbid) not familiar with Miss Marple or Agatha Christie or even, Golden Age mysteries. Of course I've read this Miss Marple book (7th in the series) many times over the years, but I'm enjoying it now in audible form for the first time, narrated by the wonderful actor Richard E. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sensitivity, and humor, bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson delivers a novel for teens about first love, first heartbreak, and the power of a kiss. But when she begins to realize that Carl may be more interested in boys than girls, Sylvie struggles to hold on to the pieces of her shattered dreams. Sylvie is sure Carl loves her, so why hasn't he kissed her? Sylvie and Carl have always been best friends, and Sylvie's always dreamed that they'd get married someday. ![]() ![]() About the Book With her trademark blend of honesty, sensitivity, and humor, bestselling author Wilson delivers a novel for teens about first love, first heartbreak, and the power of a kiss. ![]() ![]() ![]() Names such as The Boot, Copper Kettle and The Plough become popular.īy the 12th century, the naming of public houses and inns was fairly commonplace and with pub names came pub signs. The first proper pubs didn’t appear until many centuries later and the history of pub names came from when inn owners would hang distinctive objects outside in order to distinguish their building from surrounding properties. It’s thought that this is what inspired the first pub names, such as The Hollybush, The Bull & Bush and The Bush. It’s believed that when the Romans invaded Britain, vine leaves were in relatively short supply, so instead, they hung bushes up. Pub names are believed to stem from Roman times where public houses and inns would hang vine leaves outside to act as a trading sign to attract travellers and passersby that there was wine being sold inside. A simple pub sign can hold the key to a town’s past and when it comes to the history of pub names, each one is different. ![]() Pub names depict everything from local folklore, historic events, royalty and notable characters. Almost every single British town, city and village has one and you can be sure that, no matter how old the building is, the name of the pub draws some form of inspiration from a moment in history.īritain was built on pubs and there’s a unique heritage to all of the pub names and signs you see. Take a walk down any British high street and you’re sure to spot a pub or two. Have you ever thought about the history behind some pub names? ![]() ![]() We got a taste of the sunnier side of superstition in Indian culture more recently, in Netflix’s Indian Matchmaking, when the birth charts and horoscopes of potential matches were reviewed to check for compatibility. ![]() They’d mutter a prayer as they did so: “It’s to protect you from the evil eye,” they’d say, “from black magic.” ![]() As a kid, before going to a wedding, on a trip, or basically any sort of event where I’d be with people from outside of my family, one of my grandparents would put a black streak of kajal - a sort of kohl eyeliner - on my forehead, just near my hairline. ![]() ![]() ![]() A posthumous collection of his selected works, including the first publication of his final (unfinished) novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002.Īdams was a self-proclaimed "radical atheist", an advocate for environmentalism and conservation, and a lover of fast cars, technological innovation and the Apple Macintosh.Īdams was born in Cambridge on 11 March 1952 to Christopher Douglas Adams (1927–1985), a management consultant and computer salesman, former probation officer and lecturer on probationary group therapy techniques, and nurse Janet (1927–2016), née Donovan. He co-wrote the sketch " Patient Abuse" for the final episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus. He wrote two stories for the television series Doctor Who, co-wrote City of Death (1979), and served as script editor for its seventeenth season. Īdams also wrote Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), The Deeper Meaning of Liff (1990), and Last Chance to See (1990). Adams's contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy's Hall of Fame. It was further developed into a television series, several stage plays, comics, a video game, and a 2005 feature film. ![]() Originally a 1978 BBC radio comedy, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy developed into a "trilogy" of five books that sold more than 15 million copies in his lifetime. Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – ) was an English author, humorist, and screenwriter, best known for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everybody gets horny, everybody gets a little tingle down there, you know what I’m saying. Maybe you’re conservative, but everybody got a little freak inside them, you know? Every single person. “Some of these men are uncomfortable, they’re not even comfortable being sensual. "All witchcraft comes from carnal lust, which is, in femmes insatiable." “I touch my own skin, and it tells me that before there was any harm, there was miracle.” She has helped to cultivate work and thinking about Octavia Butler and Emergent Strategy, gathering a loose knit global network of people interested in reading Octavia’s work from a political and strategic framework.Īdrienne maree brown in conversation with Anupa MistryĪdvertising says: The body is a business. ![]() ![]() She is also the co-editor of the anthology Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements with Walidah Imarisha, published by AK Press in 2015. We drag it all the way down and turn it into algaeĪdrienne is the author of the NY Times Bestseller Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, the radical self/planet help book Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds published by AK Press in 2017. We see you casting smoke against our visions Listen to this playlist: Muted (Beyond R Kelly) ![]() |