![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, that Hollywood can spare Vinnie Jones is a miracle - he has a frightfully successful career over there, according to his biannual Sun interviews - but for Lost in Showbiz, Celebrity Big Brother is currently all about Dame Stephanie, and we can only hope she packed her eveningwear turban, and a large supply of smelling salts to help her through the indignity of it all. Another time i remember i almost lost my brother was when he was hit by a bus. But Lost in Showbiz confesses to have found Stephanie's tight smile and refusal to stand up to shake hands with any fellow housemate utterly giggle-inducing, as indeed was the status-establishing "when did you get in?" conversation between what we must style as the house's LA contingent. She'd already lost her oldest daughter to double pneumonia. ![]() Whether having played Sable Colby almost 25 years ago strictly entitles you to believe yourself above introductions is a matter of debate. The latter opportunity was declined by Bo for several reasons - primarily a principled refusal to appear on a programme that considered Jan Leeming a celebrity - and it must said that throughout, she carried herself with the same poignantly grand deportment as Stephanie seemed to be affecting in the Bungalow of the Damned last night. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Certainly, another telling of Einstein's life story, only a couple of years later, must surely seem unnecessary and ambitious. ![]() Nothing, surely, could have been left out, you would have thought. Every utterance, every scrap of paper produced by the great man was examined and debated in 2005. Journals, biographies, exhibitions, even plays and operas, were produced to mark the centenary. You can therefore understand what all the fuss was about. Not bad for a 26-year-old patent office clerk. This was the year in which Albert Einstein wrote a set of scientific papers, including one containing the equation E=mc2 that changed our understanding of the universe and became the cornerstones of quantum mechanics and general relativity - the twin intellectual pinnacles of the 20th century. In 2005, astronomers and cosmologists celebrated - in style - the 100th anniversary of their annus mirabilis: 1905. ![]() ![]() – Gail Busby, VMFA Executive Assistant for Advancement That inspired me to tell the story of Tar Beach to my own little girl. On a recent visit to Virginia Beach, I observed people of different ethnic backgrounds walking along the boardwalk. Faith Ringgold felt honored to have an exhibit based on her work at such a fine museum. I had the privilege of escorting Faith Ringgold through the Children’s Museum exhibit, which looked like the roof top of a high-rise building, only this one had reading nooks and play areas galore. I’ll always remember the part of the story when Cassie flies through the sky, imagining the lights on the George Washington Bridge as her sparkly, diamond necklace. (The asphalt roof made it “tar beach.”) While the parents would play cards with friends, Cassie would lie on a mattress, look up at the stars, and imagine she could fly. Instead, her mother, father, and little brother would go up to the roof of their apartment building to escape the summer heat inside. ![]() Because the story is set in the early 1930s when public beaches were segregated, Cassie’s family couldn’t go to the area beaches. ![]() In Tar Beach, the artist tells the story of an eight-year-old girl named Cassie Lightfoot, who lives in Harlem with her family. ![]() ![]() I vividly recall a wonderful exhibit at that museum called Tar Beach, which was based on Ringgold’s story quilt and her book of the same name (which is available in the VMFA Shop). Many years ago, I lived in New York City and served on the board for Children’s Museum of Manhattan, a great organization. ![]() ![]() that is to say, whether they represent a slow, fast or moderate takeoff’). ‘we can distinguish three classes of transition scenarios …. We should note that sometimes the book loses focus into seemingly insignificant minutiae and truisms (e.g. The overall narrative of the Superintelligence follows sequentially the development of the issues related to superintelligent AI - starting with its creation, going through the speed of attainment of superintelligence, getting a decisive strategic advantage, the possible consequences for humankind and possible solutions to the control problem. That being said, if you have the right expectations, this book is great, thought-provoking and intellectually stimulating. ![]() I would say the target audience would consist of engineers who plan to work on the ‘control problem’ or curious game theorists that would like to quickly get ahead in this scenario. It is really important that one views this book for what it actually is - an introduction textbook (some AI-related organizations even consider it a mandatory read). This should be a fair warning to those expecting a light read. ![]() ![]() The philosopher Nick Bostrom tries to answer by investigating the possible scenarios for developing superintelligence as well as their consequences in painstaking detail. ![]() ![]() Promotional posts, comments & flairs, media-only posts, personalized recommendation requests incl. Please use a civil tone and assume good faith when entering a conversation. All posts must be directly book related, informative, and discussion focused. If you're looking for help with a personal book recommendation, consult our Suggested Reading page or ask in: /r/suggestmeabook Quick Rules:ĭo not post shallow content. It is our intent and purpose to foster and encourage in-depth discussion about all things related to books, authors, genres or publishing in a safe, supportive environment. ![]() Subreddit Rules - Message the mods - Related Subs AMA Info The FAQ The Wiki Join in the Weekly "What Are You Reading?" Thread!. ![]() ![]() Check out the Weekly Recommendation Thread.Mon at 1pm, Michelle Lam Author of Meesh the Bad Demon. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Courtney Crumrin & The Night Things is a new four-issue mini-series of creepy kids and nebbish nocturnals from fan-favorite creator Ted Naifeh (Gloomcookie). Now, instead of kids from the neighborhood, her only friends are ghastly ghouls and spooky spirits. And while her parents have slipped easily into their new social status, Courtney now has to deal with snobby classmates and the strange shadowy visitors that often come to visit her uncle. He wrote a feature adaptation of the comic book Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things for 20th Century Fox, New Regency Pictures, and Fox 2000, with Stan Winston Productions doing the special effects. Now Courtney's parents have dragged her out to a high-to-do suburb to live with her creepy Great Uncle Aloysius in his spooky old house. Soon after, Graham was featured in Esquire Magazine in the Celluloid Style Film Competition. Courtney Crumrin is an odd middle-school girl who struggles to connect with much of anyone including her vapid, self-absorbed parents. She enjoyed school, and her teachers and classes were the best. Courtney Crumrin is an independent comic book series written and illustrated by Ted Naifeh and published by Oni Press. She had friends scattered throughout her city neighborhood. ![]() Genres: Fantasy, Leading Ladies, School LifeĬourtney liked her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer." Source: The 2006 ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia (Pete Palmer, Sterling Publishers,, ) This is the nature of man and the name of the game." Source: Sports Illustrated () "Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. ![]() "A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived." Source: My Turn at Bat (Ted Williams, Fireside Publishers, ) "All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth." Source: Forbes Magazine (Volume 174, Issues 6-13, ) ![]() ![]() I was looking through a knothole, and I said, 'Geez, does that guy look good!' And it was Lefty O'Doul, one of the greatest hitters ever." Source: The Sporting News () And I saw the guy come to bat in batting practice. I remember the first time I saw Lefty O'Doul, and he was as far away as those palms. Quotes From & About Ted Williams | Baseball Quotes | Ted Williams ![]() ![]() One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture - a pale blue eye, with a film over it. What kind of eye did the old man have in the Tell Tale Heart? It also symbolizes the old man’s authority. Since vultures are scavengers that eat dead things, this eye signals how central death is to the story. The narrator names the old man’s eye as the reason he has to kill him, which suggests he wants to be seen and known. ![]() What does the eye of the old man symbolize?Įyes represent perception, awareness, and truth. ![]() By accepting guilt in the minute hand that he is responsible for the death of an old man, a narrator symbolically tries to hide a crime in his subconscious. In The Tell Tale Heart, an eye represents an object that watches a narrator continually, eventually becoming its main motivation to kill. What does the eye in Tell Tale heart symbolize? 8 What does the eye and the heart mean?.7 What are the main symbols in the Tell-Tale?. ![]() 5 What conclusion can you draw about the old man tell-tale heart?.4 What are the two main symbols in the story The Tell-Tale Heart What does each one represent what is one other symbol Poe might have chosen?.3 What are the two main symbols in the story The Tell Tale Heart What does each one represent what is one other symbol Poe might have chosen?.2 What does the eye of the old man symbolize?.1 What does the eye in Tell Tale heart symbolize?. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Oakland, California on Maa fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Deemed a paranoid schizophrenic by the state, Solanas was immortalized in the 1996 film I Shot Andy Warhol. Valerie Solanas was a radical feminist playwright and social propagandist who was arrested in 1968 after her attempted assassination of Andy Warhol. You've got to go through a lot of sex to get to anti-sex, and SCUM's been through it all, and they're now ready for a new show they want to crawl out from under the dock, move, take off, sink out." -Valerie Solanas "Unhampered by propriety, niceness, discretion, public opinion, 'morals', the respect of assholes, always funky, dirty, low-down SCUM gets around. It was the truth, and the truth is so absurd it's painful." -Michelle Tea Humor such as this is a muscle, a weapon. ![]() The truth of the world as seen though Valerie's eyes is patently absurd, a cosmic joke. ![]() "To see the SCUM Manifesto's humor, to let it crack you up page after page, is not to read it as a joke. This is an update of the essential AK Press edition, with a new foreword. Shifting fluidly between the worlds of satire and straightforward critique, this classic is a call to action-a radical feminist vision for a different world. First circulated on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1967, the SCUM Manifesto is a searing indictment of patriarchal culture in all its forms. ![]() |