In married life, though, she feels lost and left behind. She is soon drawn to Alden Whetstone, a brilliant, complicated physics professor who opens her eyes to the fundamentals and poetry of his field, the beauty of motion, space and time, the delicate balance of force and energy that allows a bird to fly.Įntranced and in love, Meridian defers her own career path and follows Alden west to Los Alamos, where he is engaged in a secret government project (later known to be the atomic bomb). In 1941, at seventeen years old, Meridian begins her ornithology studies at the University of Chicago. Church takes us from the World War II years in Chicago to the vast sun-parched canyons of New Mexico in the 1970s as we follow the journey of a driven, spirited young woman, Meridian Wallace, whose scientific ambitions are subverted by the expectations of her era. In her sweeping debut novel, Elizabeth J.
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Tommy is transporting precious cargo of a small box containing a Queen bee, to begin his entrepreneurial endeavour as a beekeeper, and Tuppence is carrying everything else. The first episode, part one of three of The Secret Adversary written by Zinnie Harris, opens in Paris in 1952 with Tommy and Tuppence boarding a London-bound train. With a strong cast led by David Walliams, playing Tommy, and Jessica Raine, playing Tuppence, Partners In Crime is a six-part series, adapting two of Christie’s stories, The Secret Adversary and N or M? This isn’t classic detective drama, but an espionage caper, where married couple Tommy and Tuppence find themselves as a fish-out-of-water detective duo mixed up in a dangerous mystery. In celebration of the 125 th anniversary of the birth of Agatha Christie the BBC have brought Christie’s crime-fighting husband-and-wife duo Tommy and Tuppence Beresford to Sunday nights. Observed and reported need for ability to predict hazmat behaviors during emergencies for improved emergency responder decision making in "Predicting Hazardous Materials Emergency Outcomes" 1975 Reported observation that regulatory special permits enable safety experimentation on the public cited observed hazmat risk variance along transport routes in "Hazardous Materials Transportation: Current And Future Issues" 1973 Reported observed ambivalence about concern for safety need for generalized accident theory and risk -introducing risk /bearing/acceptance relationships in "Safety, Risk and Regulation" 1972 This section contains selected observations and insights about safety investigation issues identified and reported from 1972 to 2015 by Ludwig Benner during investigations, investigations of investigation processes, analyses of investigation reports and literature searches, and the work in which it was introduced: Note: Most works mentioned are accessible on line at Section A Section B: References used in ny papers 1970-2013Īdditional lists will be added as time permits. Section A: Observed Issues and Insights documents data base 1972 - 2019.References lists for Investigation Process Researchers RELATED REFERENCES Archives of Personal Papers ex libris Ludwig Benner, 5/11/2023 0 Comments 2010 by Arthur C. Clarke"I went with Jerome Robbins and my friend, Aidan, to see that movie, and I think it was partly because of Bernard Herrmann's haunting score and the tension and the mystery of this man following this woman, it was a moment where I started to really think about that dream even more so." "I think seeing that movie was probably a turning point," Millepied says. Though his love of cinema took a backseat as he pursued a career as a dancer and choreographer, a revival screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in his late teens reignited his passion to someday direct. to study under the tutelage of West Side Story's Jerome Robbins. Millepied began studying classical ballet by age 11 and at 15, moved to the U.S. "But these things have a huge emotional impact when you're young - the lighting, the camera, the environment, the drama, it's something that stays with you forever." "I spent most of the film under the seat," he recalls. Around that same time, she took Millepied to see Sydney Pollack's psychological drama, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, in France. Benjamin Millepied first started dancing at the age of 8 when his mother, a former ballet dancer, became his first teacher. "The rabbit, slightly louache in appearance but always respectful." Though I am not sure what louache actually means, it sounds apropos.įootnote: I think it is a form of this word - louche \LOOSH\, adjective: Of questionable taste or morality disreputable or indecent dubious shady. Zolotow and family have detailed on her Web site the why and how of how this book came to be. There have always been some mysteries for me attached to this book (whenever I've gotten close to a title, I always have unanswered questions about things), but in this case, Ms. "Little girl" as a two word combination is written approximately 40 times, and (not including the cover and title pages) "Mr. "Something red, maybe," said the little girl. Rabbit and the Lovely Present: A Caldecott Honor Award Winner Hardcover Picture Book, Septemby Charlotte Zolotow (Author), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) 108 ratings Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 16.95 63 Used from 1.38 18 New from 11.93 10 Collectible from 9. None-the-less, I like this book for its absurd repetitions and fruit/color collecting. Maybe '62 was a less sinister time, but the way Sendak illustrates the rabbit is a bit jaunty. Rabbit" has always seemed a little too grownup and mysterious to be helping a little girl devise a gift for her mother's birthday. I've always thought this book was a little weird. Published 1962 by I'm not sure who but my '77 edition is by HarperTrophy 5/10/2023 0 Comments The second form at malory towersThe first new character, Belinda, is another scatterbrain to match up with Irene (because scatterbrains can only be friends with other scatterbrains, and all scatterbrains are also geniuses). This was because some new characters got introduced (jettisoning the infamous Violet, who was mentioned precisely once in book one with the disclaimer that everyone forgot about her because she was always so quiet, and then never mentioned again), and they took up a bit more of the narrative time. I was delighted by that unexpected twist when I read the first book, however there wasn’t actually a huge amount in book two. Mam’zelle Dupont is still trying to be strict, Alicia plays a terrible trick with invisible chalk and Gwendoline and Daphne inevitably get into trouble.Ĭoming back to Malory Towers a good few months after reading the first one, I was ready and braced for more decent Darrell/Mary-Lou shipping. Darrell, Sally, Gwedoline, Mary-Lou and all the other girls from First Term at Malory Towers are now in the second form and they are all as lively as ever. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The christmas cookie club bookIt promises to cool you off, yet heat up your tastebuds. I found quote a few passages that I really enjoyed and they’re going into my book of quotes.Īnyway…if you find you can’t take the heat these days, try reading this wintry tale. I could relate to the effects that the lack of daylight has on a person. It starts with a great description of winter in the Midwest. That was it for my desire to bake, too bad since it doesn’t happen often. Then I remembered it was 31 degrees Celsius (40 with the humidex). By recipe number one I was hooked and had a strange desire to go home and bake. At the start of each chapter there is a recipe for the cookie that that particular woman brought to the exchange. The story is told by Marnie, she’s the host of this year’s exchange. Each person brings 13 dozen cookies, one dozen for each member and one to donate to charity. Members come and go and new ones are referred to as Cookie Virgins. It’s the tale of a twelve Michigan women who meet each December to drink wine, talk and exchange cookies. Chick Lit and Christmas baking, it doesn’t get much better than that. Anyway…I noticed The Christmas Cookie Club on display downstairs at Brodie and thought – hmm, it *is* less than 4 months till Christmas. However, the parts about the ant colony were pretty fascinating. I thought the whole book was about ants, but it isn’t. I think Joan enjoyed it a whole lot more than me. It was recommended by Joan Rivers in a magazine I was reading. I’ve been struggling to read Anthill by Edward O. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The Tree House by Shay LynamStudents who have achieved a cumulative GPA (grade-point average) of 3.5 to 3.74 are named to the Dean’s List following completion of at least 12 semester hours or upon completion of degree requirements. Ship This Item Qualifies for Free Shipping Pick up in Store Check Availability at Nearby Stores. The Tree House eBook : Lynam, Shay: .uk: Kindle Store. Students who have achieved a cumulative GPA (grade-point average) of 3.75 or higher are named to the President’s List following completion of at least 12 semester hours or upon completion of degree requirements. Butler County Community College recently announced the names of students who have made the President’s List and Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 semester, as well as the names of those who have graduated recently. 5/10/2023 0 Comments Teatro grottescoThe 'northern border town' is reminiscent of Lovecraft's Innsmouth, recalled and told from the perspective of both temporary lodgers and residents it goes from mishaps and odd events in the town to the point of other dimensional demon towns bleeding into existence through tempting doors and gateways appearing inconveniently. Note: This text is available in the tribute to Current 93, Mighty In SorrowĪ brilliant unsettling novella themed around the "northern border town" prompted by the Current 93 'Fields of Rape' lyric "In a foreign town, in a foreign land, reaping time has come" and the four stories were subsequently accompanied with sound collage/drone pieces on CD, presumably to be listened to while reading. 5/10/2023 0 Comments The birth of venus dunantPlayed out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities.īut their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. |