![]() ![]() What should we think about this advertisement? I have a number of things to mention, but I think it would be important to confront the Christian first. ![]() No doubt, as a full-page ad it cost a pretty penny to run for a month in it – and might I add, this magazine is one of the most prestigious publications for advertisers. I copied it in a format that appears about the way the ad actually looked when it ran in the magazine. The above was an advertisement in “Advertising Age” magazine last month (October, 2002). Get friendly with the magic of the occult today before being nominated most likely to succeed. A dark room, candles, and nineteen pentagrams scrawled onto a high school binder. The number of the beast has that special something that touches us all. Rock, rap, pop – there really isn’t anything the dark lord doesn’t improve. Where are the songs about Satan? What happened to the dark hidden messages that command suburban teens to submit and perform his evil biddings? You can’t offend with songs about summer flings, “bling, bling,” or nookie. Can you believe advertisers were foolish enough to run this ad in a “prestigious” magazine? Their stupidity knows no bounds. ![]()
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6/27/2023 0 Comments Hostage Taker by Stefanie Pintoff![]() ![]() ![]() Along with her presence, he demands five witnesses: ordinary people with some hidden connection. But he knows who FBI agent Eve Rossi is-and everything about her past. For one FBI agent, a madman's terrified hostages, and an entire city, a long and harrowing day is about to unfold. In the hushed quiet of early morning Manhattan, in front of the towering brass doors of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, a young woman holds a sign that reads: Help Me. Terror Strikes an Iconic Church-And Brings a City To Its Knees. Perfect for readers of Iris Johansen and Catherine Coulter. From Edgar Award winner Stefanie Pintoff comes the start of an electrifying new thriller series featuring Eve Rossi, head of a secret division of the FBI-one made up of ex-convicts with extraordinary talents, oversized egos, and contempt for the rules. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments James joyce portrait![]() ![]() In 1898, he entered the University College, Dublin. Jesuits at Clongowes Wood college, Clane, and then Belvedere college in Dublin educated Joyce from the age of six years he graduated in 1897. In spite of poverty, the family struggled to maintain a solid middle-class façade. The Roman Catholic Church dominated life of Mary Jane Murray, an accomplished pianist and his mother. John Stanislaus Joyce, an impoverished gentleman and father of James Joyce, nine younger surviving siblings, and two other siblings who died of typhoid, failed in a distillery business and tried all kinds of other professions, including politics and tax collecting. Technical innovations of Joyce in the art of the novel include an extensive use of interior monologue he used a complex network of symbolic parallels, drawn from the mythology, history, and literature, and he created a unique language of invented words, puns, and allusions. People note this novelist for his experimental use of language in these works. A profound influence of literary innovations of Irish writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce on modern fiction includes his works, Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939). ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Cal newport's digital minimalism![]() ![]() But as Thoreau reminds us, ‘the sun rose clear’ and we still have the ability to change this state of affairs. “Our current relationship with the technologies of our hyper-connected world is unsustainable and is leading us closer to the quiet desperation that Thoreau observed so many years ago. Here's to Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World! Big Ideas we explore include the fact that your soul is engaged in a lopsided arms race, a definition + overview of digital minimalism, the importance of spending time alone (and the consequences of *not* spending adequate time alone), reclaiming leisure (get active!) and joining the Attention Resistance. As you know, I rarely say a book is a must read but this book is as close as it gets. Enter: My SUPER strong recommendation of the book and my ALL IN commitment to helping create a movement around the ideas in the book. ![]() Enter: Our new philosophy of technology use: Digital Minimalism. Given the fact that the fastest way to Optimize your life is to STOP doing things that are sub-optimal AND the fact that (for nearly all of us) our use of technology is the #1 thing that “Needs work!,” it’s SUPER important for us to figure out how to best use all the technology available to us WITHOUT becoming lost in a tsunami of inputs. He’s also a bestselling author of a number of books. ![]() in Computer Science from MIT and is now a Professor at Georgetown. Cal Newport is one of my favorite thinkers. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Hoffmann nutcracker![]() ![]() In her dream it is a seven-headed Mouse King and she doesn’t awaken the next morning from a lovely dream, but with a physically injured arm. She is unworried by this odd occurrence of a doll showing signs of life, and falls asleep with her Nutcracker. In doing so she sees a flash of a human face on her wooden doll. In Hoffmann’s much more elaborate plot, Marie finds the Nutcracker herself and mends it with a bit of ribbon from her dress. ![]() At no point is Marie distressed by the fact that a wooden toy has become alive and her companion! When she wakens from her dream, back home, her Nutcracker is a cherished wooden doll once again. ![]() ![]() The Mouse King/Queen is quickly vanquished, Marie’s Nutcracker transforms into a Prince, who summarily escorts her into a magical dream world, first full of snow, then through the Kingdom of Sweets, populated by internationally based dancing sweets and ruled by the beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier. Giant mice fight life-sized toy soldiers, led by her Nutcracker, who comes to life to protect her. When it meets a mishap thanks to Marie’s brother, the ballet version shows Drosselmeyer assisting in mending the doll, often imbuing it with innocent magical powers that take Marie into a wonderful dream. In the ballet, her slightly mysterious but entirely good-natured uncle, Drosselmeyer, attends the party and presents her with a special present, a Nutcracker. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Nixonland amazon![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fred Schwarz’s Christian Anti-Communism Crusade, or the presidential boomlet for William Warren Scranton?), Nixonland tackles the most obsessed-over era in recent American history. It labors under handicaps his first book didn’t have: whereas Before the Storm dealt with a circumscribed and neglected moment (who remembers Dr. If Before the Storm was a near-masterpiece, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, which covers the turbulent years from Goldwater’s defeat to Nixon’s 1972 landslide victory, is merely a great success. The result was Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, a richly detailed narrative of the 1964 election, and a dense and dizzying account of a moment when America was teetering on the verge of a nervous breakdown but didn’t know it yet. ![]() Seven years ago, Rick Perlstein, a young and decidedly left-wing historian, accomplished a daring feat: he imagined his way into the hearts and minds of the right-wing idealists who made Goldwaterite conservatism one of the most successful mass movements of the 1960s. ![]() 6/26/2023 0 Comments Vanina vanini![]() ![]() Why Should I Choose Write Paper For Me As My School Assistant?Ī quick Google search will unearth dozens of do-my-paper services, adding to your stress, instead of alleviating it. And nowadays, it’s as easy as typing “Make an essay for me” in live chat. Luckily, you don’t have to suffer in silence or give up on your dream of a college degree. You’re not alone, and it’s perfectly normal to struggle in a new environment and buckle under the weight of elevated expectations. So don’t feel bad if your thoughts go from “Can someone write my paper?” to “Write me a paper asap!” within the first few weeks of the college term. If you try to stay on top of all your responsibilities, you’ll likely burn out or suffer an anxiety attack sooner rather than later. You will soon forget about your plans to discover the party scene, visit your parents every other weekend, or find your soulmate on campus. ![]() Not only is it your first attempt at independent life free from parents’ oversight, but it’s also a completely new level of academic requirements and independent study many aren’t ready for.Īnd if you’re an overachiever or a perfectionist, keeping up with all the classes, assignments, extracurriculars, and side gigs will keep you up most nights. After all, college is an eye-opening experience for most students. If you’re suddenly wondering, “Can someone do my paper for me?”, there’s likely a very good reason for that. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments The code book singh![]() ![]() Like for instance the possibility of an undecipherable encryption technique, which should, as wanted by the military, never be widely used because of its complexity and importance for cyberwarfare superiority. ![]() The closer the book comes to the present, the more explosive the stories become. An earlier, later, or even non-occurrence of an encryption or decryption technique would almost certainly have led to another current geopolitical map, unleashing close to any possible uchronic alternative timeline. Thus, in the race between decoders and creative code writers, not only the reputation of the technicians but often also the history of the world as we know it was at stake. The military historical and political aspects are anyway much more interesting for the philistines of applied science. The methods used are described in detail, which is sometimes too advanced for beginners, and because of this, it´s sometimes advisable to skim the purely theoretical descriptions as in my case (laziness and layman). ![]() The further the time progresses, the more complex the techniques become and get ever shorter expiration dates because of the specialists trying to crack them. ![]() A journey through the history of coding, cryptography, and codebreaking.Ĭhronologically arranged, the book begins in ancient times and describes simple forms of encryption such as shaving the head, tattooing a message, waiting a few weeks, or wrapping a leather strip with important information around a stick of specified thickness. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Author of sing unburied sing![]() ![]() During a scene where she becomes quite ill there's an added layer of tension because Leonie doesn't know how to properly care for her. Jojo is the one who primarily cares for young Kayla as he observes of Leonie that “she ain't got the mothering instinct.” I found it really touching how the novel shows some people aren't natural parents and the way other family step in to fill the role of caregiver – particularly for someone as young as Kayla. ![]() With the meandering nature of the story it felt like it took a while before I really knew the characters, but once I got into it I found the novel quite moving. So the past is folded into the present in a way which is ultimately quite poignant. Gradually spirit figures appear around them as there is a hereditary condition where this family can commune with the dead. Leonie's colleague and friend Misty also accompanies them and takes them on a detour to pick up/transfer drugs. The bulk of the story is made up of a car journey Leonie takes with her two children Jojo and Kayla to pick up their father Michael who is being released from prison. ![]() Maybe I came to read “Sing, Unburied, Sing” by Jesmyn Ward with too much expectation since it has recently won the National Book Award and many people recommended it to me, but it took me some time for me to get into this novel. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Thoreau gandhi![]() ![]() His literary style interweaves close observation of nature, personal experience, pointed rhetoric, symbolic meanings, and historical lore, while displaying a poetic sensibility, philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. ![]() Among his lasting contributions are his writings on natural history and philosophy, in which he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern-day environmentalism. Thoreau's books, articles, essays, journals, and poetry amount to more than 20 volumes. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay " Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state. Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. ![]() |