5/31/2023 0 Comments Unbelievable my front row seat![]() ![]() Unbelievable is her darkly comic, fascinatingly bizarre, and often scary story of how America sent a former reality show host to the White House. Through all the long nights, wild scoops, naked chauvinism, dodgy staffers, and fevered debates, no one had a better view than Tur. The Boys on the Bus became the Girls on the Plane. ![]() She was part of the first women-led politics team in the history of network news. At one point, he got a crowd so riled up against Tur, Secret Service agents had to walk her to her car. He tried to charm her, intimidate her, and shame her. ![]() ![]() In return, Trump repeatedly singled Tur out. She visited forty states with the candidate, made more than 3,800 live television reports, and tried to endure a gazillion loops of Elton John's "Tiny Dancer"-a Trump rally playlist staple.įrom day 1 to day 500, Tur documented Trump's inconsistencies, fact-checked his falsities, and called him out on his lies. Katy Tur lived out of a suitcase for a year and a half, following Trump around the country, powered by packets of peanut butter and kept clean with dry shampoo. "Compelling… this book couldn't be more timely." - Jill Abramson, New York Times Book ReviewĬalled "disgraceful," "third-rate," and "not nice" by Donald Trump, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur reported on-and took flak from-the most captivating and volatile presidential candidate in American history. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Serafina books by robert beatty![]() Mountain lions, owls and other animals native to western North Carolina are among the key characters throughout Serafina’s tale. To the south, you’ll encounter the thundering waterfalls of DuPont State Forest, featured prominently in the book trailer’s waterfall scenes. Mitchell State Park where you’ll the highest peaks in the east. To the north explore favorite sunset spot, Craggy Gardens, or the fragrant balsam forests of Mt. ![]() At that time, the estate encompassed 120,000 acres, including the land that would later become the Pisgah National Forest. Roam the elegant halls and gardens on your own or take a specialty tour that will give you a behind-the-scenes immersion in the history of the Vanderbilt family’s way of life, and even into Serafina’s basement abode.īeatty’s novel is set in 1899, just four years after builders completed construction of Biltmore. As the largest privately-owned house in the United States, Biltmore offers more than 8,000 acres to explore. Right at HomeĪ natural start to a Serafina itinerary is her home: the historic Biltmore Estate in Asheville. Check into your room, then stop by the Asheville Visitor Center to pick up the “Serafina Adventure Map” and bring along these suggestions to guide you on your very own Serafina exploration. ![]() ![]() That package includes accommodations, breakfast, and several of the experiences we detail below. The Grand Bohemian Hotel, wants to serve as your home base and is offering a special Serafina-themed travel package. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Heroes of the computer revolution![]() ![]() Levy found them to be “adventurers, visionaries, risk-takers, artists” rather than “nerdy social outcasts or 'unprofessional' programmers who wrote dirty, 'nonstandard' computer code.”įor this book, Levy talked to many different hackers, who were active from the 1950s until the 1980s.Īt the beginning, Levy introduces many important hacker figures and machines. He also wanted to present a more accurate view of hackers than the one most people had. Levy decided to write about the subject of hackers because he thought they were fascinating people. Computers can change your life for the better.You can create art and beauty on a computer.Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race or position.Mistrust authority-promote decentralizatioin. ![]() Access to computers-and anything which might teach you something about the way the world works-should be unlimited and total.As phrased by Levy, the principles of the Hacker Ethic are: The book is particularly notable for its popularization, and perhaps coinage, of the phrase "hacker ethic," and its codification of its principles. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was published in 2004 so obviously I am 13 years late to the fandom I was 12 years old when this book was first published so I’m kind of glad I didn’t read it then. The Darkness That Comes Before is Richard Scott Bakkers debut novel. They are moments that rankle at becoming past, and so remain contemporaries of our beating hearts.” ”Some events marks us so deeply that they find more force of presence in their aftermath than in their occurrence. This whole entire world is new, unique and fascinating and you will not find another story like it, this is the reason why I’m literally urging every grimdark fan to go read this now. It can’t be compared to just your standard fantasy due to the complexity and HUGE plot and backstory. Like a Malazan book, this series goes in its own category of badassery and uniqueness. ![]() This novel is one of those novels that are basically impossible to review. Which I prefer to the original covers which is half a face in a circle. ![]() Jason Deem’s re-imagery of the series covers. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?” “The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The poem’s setting and “plot” follows a fair maiden who is a prisoner in a tower on Shalott, a neighboring isle to the legendary Camelot. Through its use of Arthurian references, picturesque symbology and two alternate endings, Tennyson is able to create a meaningful, prose focused on representing the shifting ideas of his time. Written in 1832, the poem’s setting and wordplay reflects the attitudes towards women both in Tennyson’s time, as well as during the medieval setting of the poem. Relating to this is Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem The Lady of Shalott, a prime example of allegorical storytelling. This can be expressed through several forms of art namely, poetry. Most scholars have defined allegory as a narration or description in which events, actions, charact ers, setting s or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. ![]() Garrett Masters, Arts and Entertainment Editor ![]() |