![]() ![]() While stamping out dissent by holding 300 people, including prominent members of the Saudi royal family, in the Ritz-Carlton hotel and elsewhere for months, he continued to exhibit his extreme wealth, including buying a $70 million chateau in Europe and one of the world's most expensive yachts. ![]() The allegations of his extreme brutality and excess began to slip out, including that he ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. He lifted the ban on women driving and explored investments in Silicon Valley.īut MBS began to betray an erratic interior beneath the polish laid on by scores of consultants and public relations experts like McKinsey & Company. He spoke passionately about bringing women into the workforce and toning down Saudi Arabia's restrictive Islamic law. Political and business leaders such as former UK prime minister Tony Blair and WME chairman Ari Emanuel flew out to meet with the crown prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of the world's most powerful royal family, and how the struggle for succession produced Saudi Arabia's charismatic but ruthless Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, aka MBS.ģ5-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. ![]()
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![]() I’ve always loved wild people and wild places, always been drawn to them, and here are some of the stories. If you’ve worked holiday towns as a seasonal worker, either in the UK or abroad, then you’ll ‘get it’ or if you’re looking to work a season in Spain or Portugal or the South coast of England, then these are the tough but crazy times you can expect. Now if you’re reading the above and are thinking this was some kind of school reunion with a bunch of old codgers on Zimmer fames, playing inflatable ball games and drinking Dandelion & Burdock, mate, you’ve got it all wrong! There were even people who’d missed each other first time around, yet all of us have a very rare and exceptional connection. And do you know what, it was as if we hadn’t skipped a beat. This book recalls those days and tells the story of bringing a special group of people back together again after almost 40 years. ![]() ![]() We lived off our wits and, yes, from time to time we were rogues, but we had each other’s backs and we had some laughs. Many worked the deckchairs, some worked hotels, pubs, bars, or nightclubs, either as bar staff or bouncers. We were seasonal workers during the late ‘70s and early ‘80s in Bournemouth. In the lead-up to a recent reunion party, many of the old stories came out. ![]() We’re the oddballs, weirdoes, comedians, eccentrics, head cases and hard cases, and this book is for those who ‘get it’ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I didn’t roll my eyes once! I know I’m *feeling* the book when my reading automatically slows down and I absorb and revel in the moments – does that ever happen to you? Conchita, you had it right! It WAS to be “savored slowly like a decadent desert” □ read moreįiled Under: Jeaniene Frost, My Book Reviews Tagged With: 4. It was tense, exciting, chilling and heartwrenchingly sad – but incredibly and believably romantic. There was just something about this couple that sucked me right in, and they felt *right*. Is considered to be the most powerful vampire of all (soms of his abilities are Telekinesis, telepathic communication, Precognition, locating people, and in addition his is well versed in dark magic. It kept me captivated, on the edge of my seat, and I *sighed* my butt off throughout. Mencheres is well known in the vampire world, due to his age, status, abilities, skills and wealth. ![]() ![]() I started the book late Friday evening and read straight through until 4am. I LOVED it! In fact, I would have easily pulled an all-nighter, but my iPad quit before I was ready to (husband didn’t recharge it for me after his day of playing with it). 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In an effort to stop the busy tone from ever getting to callers ears, the Metro Nashville Department of Emergency Communications doubled their call capacity, pairing their backup location with their primary site. “To get that level of phone call again you’re talking about something like the active shooter that happened in Las Vegas where someone is opening fire into a large crowd.” “It is possible to call 911 and get a busy signal,” said Stephen Martini, Director of Metro Nashville Department of Emergency Communications, adding it’s incredibly rare and only happens with a widespread massive disaster, like Sunday’s storm, or a mass shooting. A flaw News 2 was told has since been fixed. Many complained that both emergency lines and non-emergency lines were busy. Everett, a 6-foot-2, 230-pounder, was a hard-throwing right-hander who clocked a 97 mph fastball on his first pitch at Vanderbilt in mid-April after sitting out the first half of the season with. ![]() (WKRN) - We have an update to a story we shared with you Wednesday after Wilson County dispatch received a number of calls from people in Davidson County during Sunday’s deadly storm. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was experiencing that accompanying nausea that follows such continuous spinning motions. The skiff, still attached to the ship's plating, was likewise carried around at dizzying speed. It was sweeping around in a spiral whose radius kept growing smaller and smaller. ![]() This was where the Nautilus had been sent accidentally-or perhaps deliberately-by its captain. It can suck down not only ships but whales, and even polar bears from the northernmost regions. They form a whirlpool aptly called "the ocean's navel," whose attracting power extends a distance of fifteen kilometers. ![]() Monstrous waves race together from every point of the horizon. They form a vortex from which no ship has ever been able to escape. The Maelstrom! Could a more frightening name have rung in our ears under more frightening circumstances? Were we lying in the dangerous waterways off the Norwegian coast? Was the Nautilus being dragged into this whirlpool just as the skiff was about to detach from its plating?Īs you know, at the turn of the tide, the waters confined between the Varrö and Lofoten Islands rush out with irresistible violence. "Maelstrom! Maelstrom!" they were shouting. We weren't the cause of the crew's concern. ![]() But one word twenty times repeated, one dreadful word, told me the reason for the agitation spreading aboard the Nautilus. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a splendid body of work, the story of a lifetime spent “practicing history.” ![]() Spanning more than four decades of writing in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, The Nation, and The Saturday Evening Post, Tuchman weighs in on a range of eclectic topics, from Israel and Mao Tse-tung to a Freudian reading of Woodrow Wilson. Tuchman looks at history in a unique way and draws lessons from what she sees. ![]() Tuchman reflects on world events and the historian’s craft in these perceptive, essential essays.įrom thoughtful pieces on the historian’s role to striking insights into America’s past and present to trenchant observations on the international scene, Barbara W. Celebrated for bringing a personal touch to history in her Pulitzer Prize–winning epic The Guns of August and other classic books, Barbara W. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You can read more about Crist and donate directly to his GoFundMe page here.įrank Conniff is a comedy writer and performer who began his TV career writing for the Peabody award-winning series Mystery Science Theater 3000, where he also played “TV’s Frank,” the bumbling yet lovable mad scientist sidekick. Clayton Forrester” and “TV’s Frank”) for this special livestream event as they live-riff on the 1953 sci-fi movie PHANTOM FROM SPACE! Stick around for a post-show Q&A with Frank & Trace and very special guest Bill Corbett (Mystery Science Theater 3000, Rifftrax)!Ī portion of the proceeds from this event will benefit MST3K makeup artist Crist Ballas, who needs assistance with medical costs incurred during a recent and unexpected week long hospital stay. ![]() The Mads are back! Join Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars Trace Beaulieu and Frank Conniff (“Dr. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Somewhere along the way Nico’s personal problems replaced saving the world as the main conflict the series needed to resolve, and it’s felt from front cover to back cover of The Blood of Olympus. The ending, which should have been magnificent, was forced and anticlimactic. After four years of build up, everything about The Blood of Olympus felt rushed. Is it really so hard to write a satisfying ending? The Blood of Olympus, the fifth and final book of the Heroes of Olympus series, lost its way–and not even everyone’s favorite demigods could save this book from itself. ![]() What a disappointing end to an exceptionally fun series. I’ll give a complete series review when I’ve finished the last book, but so far so good!ĭang. Book one was worth the wait! On to book 2! With a couple weeks to go before that FINALLY happens, I figured it’s safe to get started. I’ve been waiting for the last book to be published before I started this series. The Lost Hero (The Heroes of Olympus, #1) by Rick Riordan ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Frank observes many shamanistic rituals of his own invention, and it is soon revealed that Frank killed three children before he reached the age of ten himself. The Wasp Factory is written from a first person perspective, told by 16-year-old Francis Cauldhame ("Frank"), describing his childhood and all that remains of it. Following the success of The Wasp Factory, Banks began to write full-time. ![]() According to Banks, this allowed him to treat the story as something resembling science fiction – the island could be envisaged as a planet, and Frank, the protagonist, almost as an alien. Banks decided to try a more mainstream novel in the hopes that it would be more readily accepted, and wrote about a psychopathic teenager living on a remote Scottish island. Before the publication of The Wasp Factory, Banks had written several science fiction novels that had not been accepted for publication. The Wasp Factory is the first novel by Scottish writer Iain Banks, published in 1984. ![]() ![]() ![]() The frame for Mack’s rollicking tour through the nooks and crannies of physics is an exploration of the ways our universe might end, from the relatively mundane (everything just keeps getting further apart forever) to the mildly terrifying (a bubble of death that expands at the speed of light until it devours everything without warning). ![]() All of these are true, and Mack entertainingly explains why. She describes primordial black holes as “awfully cute in a terrifying theoretical kind of way”, antimatter as “matter’s annihilation-happy evil twin”, grand unified theories as “all-in-one particle physics part” and the universe as “frickin’ weird”. What stands out most is Mack’s pure enjoyment of physics, and it is contagious. ![]() Its references range from William Shakespeare and Nicolaus Copernicus to Friedrich Nietzsche and modern science fiction. The main text is more like an animated discussion with your favourite quirky and brilliant professor. It is a mantra for her book, which guides readers on a tour of some of the wildest areas of physics and how they will someday contribute to the end of the universe.įor a book on a seemingly grim subject, it made me chuckle on many occasions, particularly the footnotes, which read like a director making snarky asides about her own film. “PHYSICS is wild.” Katie Mack repeats this on at least two occasions in The End of Everything. ![]() |