![]() ![]() ![]() Her portfolio includes driving around the county to provide family-planning services, and one of her first jobs is to give Depo-Provera shots to two young girls, age 11 and 13. She quickly becomes very close to one particular family of patients. She confesses to being “uppity,” saying, “our arrogance was a shield against the kind of disdain that did not have the capacity to even conceive of Black intellect.” Her father wanted Civil to follow in his footsteps, but nursing called to her as a way to be closer to patients. She came from an elite Black family, her father a doctor, and her childhood surrounded by educated people. ![]() Her adopted daughter knows the story of her parentage, Civil tells us, but not her lineage, how she came “out of a long line of history that defies biology.” That intersection of biology and the chain of struggles and accomplishments that creates history forms the heart of Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s third novel, Take My Hand.Ĭivil’s memory skips back more than 40 years to 1973, when she was a young nurse working at a family-planning clinic in Montgomery, Alabama. At 67, Civil Townsend is troubled not only by her body’s aches and pains but also the bruises of memory. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Macomber’s novels have spent over 1,000 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. In her novels, Macomber brings to life compelling relationships that embrace family and enduring friendships, uplifting her readers with stories of connection and hope. ![]() ![]() Knit and crochet projects in this companion book are inspired by the lives and projects of the characters there are scarves, a baby blanket, sweaters, socks and other items.Other titles by Debbie Macomber: i]Knit Along with Debbie Macomber: Charity Guide for Knitters /i]: 9781601402325 i]Friendship Shawls /i]:9781601407424 i]Twenty Wishes /i]: 9781601408404 i]Back on Blossom Street /i]: 97816014048ĭebbie Macomber is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of today’s most popular writers with more than 200 million copies of her books in print worldwide. The main characters included are Alix Turner, a bakery chef who wants to stop smoking Anne Marie, a book store owner with a complex family situation Phoebe Tylander, a physical therapist who wants to get over a lost love and Bryan Hutchinson, a candy company CEO who is at high risk for heart disease. The latest class is Knit to Quit, where knitting is used as therapy to help avoid bad habits of various kinds. In her newest edition in the popular Blossom Street series, Debbie Macomber shares the stories of Lydia Goetz, owner of A Good Yarn shop and customers who have become friends through her knitting classes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Yes, it’s noticeable that African-American women like Leontyne Price and Lena Horne appear in Avedon’s mass-market ads in an era when they were rarely featured outside Ebony or Jet. Yes, the Versace woman commands the shirtless Versace man. The compilers of the book make a case for female empowerment in these images, which only halfway holds up. (The photos, tellingly, focus on the models and barely show the shoes.) And they are his ads: Over the years, he increasingly inserted himself into agency conversations in order to knit together strategy and image. When in the 1990s Hush Puppies carried off a miracle, repositioning itself from “strictly for dorky sociology professors” to “so clunky it’s hip,” it was Avedon who helped that happen. ![]() Before the campaign he shot for Clairol, one in seven American women dyed their hair afterward, it was one in two. According to the first survey of his ads, Avedon Advertising (by Rebecca Arnold, James Martin, and Avedon’s daughter-in-law Laura Avedon), these photographs really worked as marketing. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 6, she was about halfway through her poem. When the pro-Trump insurrectionists attacked the U.S. The Los Angeles native told the PBS NewsHour days before the ceremony that she started writing the new poem in early January, shortly after being invited to present an inauguration poem. Gorman, describing herself, nodded to the fact that a “skinny Black girl, / Descended from slaves and raised by a single mother, / Can dream of becoming president, / Only to find herself reciting for one.” WATCH: Poet Amanda Gorman on how she prepared for Inauguration Day ![]() Of this group of esteemed poets, Gorman is the youngest in recent memory to read a poem on Inauguration Day. ![]() The 22-year-old poet was the latest to follow in a tradition of poets - including Robert Frost, Maya Angelou, Elizabeth Alexander, and Richard Blanco - who have read for incoming Democratic presidents. Capitol, which two weeks ago was attacked by a largely white pro-Trump mob, and reminded us that “Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed / A nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” Amanda Gorman opened her inauguration poem, “The Hill We Climb,” with a question.Īddressing newly sworn in President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, those of us watching, and the world, she said: ![]() ![]() ![]() But as Damen pulls away to save them from the darkness inhabiting his soul, Ever’s connection with Jude grows stronger-and tests her love for Damen like never before… Read online She’s always believed Damen to be her soulmate and one true love-and she still believes it to be true. ![]() Despite her fierce loyalty to Damen, Ever is drawn to Jude, a green-eyed golden boy with magical talents and a mysterious past. ![]() And in her quest, she gets help from an unexpected source.a surfer named Jude.Īlthough she and Jude have only just met, he feels startlingly familiar. Desperate to break the curse and save Damen, Ever immerses her herself in magick. Now sharing so much as a single touch could bring about Damen’s death…and send him plummeting into the Shadowland, an eternal abyss for lost souls. But just when an everlasting future is finally within their reach, Damen is struck down by a curse-a dark spell separating him and Ever for eternity. Ever and Damen have gone through countless lives and fought off the world’s darkest enemies so they could be together. ![]() ![]() ![]() The ALU is capable of applying a range of Boolean logic combinations to its input data (operands). ![]() You might think of his as dynamic configuration of the ALUs capabilities. The CPU decodes the instructions to select the appropriate function of the ALU. The ALU is also used to test multi-bit values for zero or negative values, or compare two multi-bit values for equality, less than, greater than etc. ![]() The ALU can shift the multi-bit value left of right (usually through some internal bit) shift is important for multiply and divide operations, among other uses. The ALU implements bit-wise Boolean operations like and, or, not (bit-complement), using the multi-bit values as groups of bits. The ALU implements the 'data processing' operations like add, subtract, negate, etc., using the multi-bit values to represent binary numbers. ![]() The ALU operates on multi-bit binary values, for example 8-bit (bytes), 16 or 32 bit words. If you search the web for Arithmetic Logic Unit, or ALU, you will find many usable explanations, for example wikipedia Arithmetic_logic_unitĪll Central Processing Units (CPUs) have one or more ALU's. Reading your question, it doesn't seem tht the book has communicated the basic concept of an Arithmetic Logic Unit (aka ALU). I don't have the Charles Petzold 'Code' book. ![]() ![]() Jamal Mumia Hart III with his grandfather Mumia Abu-Jamal in 2022 at Pennsylvania State Prison SCI Mahanoy, Courtesy Photo The Neighbor Program, the Pan-African Socialist organization that hosted Free Mumia Day, provides education through its Political Prisoners Program on incarcerated activists still seeking justice. Requests for a new trial have been denied as recently as March when Judge Lucretia Clemons dismissed evidence alleging key witnesses were bribed or coerced. In 2011, Abu-Jamal was resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after the prosecution stopped its pursuit of execution. The high-profile 1982 court case, in which Abu-Jamal was convicted and sentenced to death, has drawn scrutiny over claims of police, prosecutorial and judicial bias and misconduct.Īfter almost two decades on death row, a federal judge in 2001 denied his request for a new trial but overturned the death sentence and granted him a resentencing after finding jurors were given incorrect instructions. ![]() The altercation left Abu-Jamal shot in the chest and Faulkner fatally shot in the back and head. ![]() 9, 1981, an altercation occurred between Abu-Jamal, his brother William Cook, and police officer Daniel Faulkner. ![]() ![]() ![]() She translated Whitman's War Writings for the University of Iowa's WhitmanWeb. ![]() Hélène holds an MA in American Literature from the Sorbonne, taught at Hamilton College & Loyola Marymount University, and received fellowships from the Goethe-Institut & Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. Winner: Albertine & FACE Foundation Grant, Hemingway Grant, Independent Press Award, NYC Big Book Award, Readers' Favorite Book Award, Best Book Award, Pinnacle Best Bilingual Book Award, Julie Suk Honor, International Book Award. du Cygne) and The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press). HÉLÈNE CARDONA is a poet, literary translator, and actor, author of Life in Suspension (Salmon Poetry), Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon Poetry), The Abduction (Maram Al-Masri, White Pine Press), Birnam Wood (José Manuel Cardona, Salmon Poetry), Beyond Elsewhere (Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, White Pine Press), Ce que nous portons (Dorianne Laux, Éd. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s mom Marjorie (Marcia Gay Harden), mourning the collapse of her latest marriage-this one to gambling addict Barry (Stephen Lang)-as she runs an art gallery noted for its installation of smoking trash cans that make weird noises when their lids are lifted. Alas, no swan dive to the asphalt follows, meaning we’re forced to endure his subsequent saga of self-actualization, which involves a cast of characters each more grating than the last. ![]() ![]() Based on Peter Cameron’s novel and operating like the unholy spawn of Tadpole and Waiting for Forever, the twee-tastically titled Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You charts the oh-so-precious coming of age of a 17-year-old twerp named James (Toby Regbo), whose life of privilege and lack of responsibilities is so sad and difficult that, per genre cliché, he opens Roberto Faenza’s film perched on the edge of his apartment building rooftop, contemplating suicide. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You should know that THE DEVILISH DUKE holds a special place in my heart for a few reasons, but particularly because it was the first book I actually finished, which is a big accomplishment for aspiring writers. And they find not only their lives in jeopardy but their very hearts. And Sophie seems unmoved by his charm… But then Sophie becomes the target of a killer lurking from the dark shadows of Devlin’s past. The premise of THE DEVILISH DUKE is that if notorious rake Devlin Markham can’t woo eccentric bluestocking Sophie Wolcott within the month, he’ll lose his fortune. Many thanks Emily! It’s been a real whirlwind of activity leading up to the release, and now that my novel has finally been set free into the wide world, it’s very exciting J Welcome to the blog, Maddison!įirst of all, congratulations on the release of your debut novel, THE DEVILISH DUKE! Tell us about the book-what should we know about it, and what inspired you to write the story? ![]() It’s only natural that she tends to incorporate elements of mystery and suspense in her novels. Beyond being prolific-she has a second book coming out later this year-Maddison’s got a unique perspective: She’s also a police officer who lives and works in Sydney, Australia. Maddison Michaels' debut novel, THE DEVILISH DUKE, is the very first book she actually finished writing-so it holds a special place in her heart. ![]() |