![]() The author of dozens of books and proprietor of the popular sex/tech blog Tiny Nibbles, Blue has been a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, CBS, and Znet, where she broke the story about the Snapchat security flaw that led to its user database being exposed. But as one of the Internet’s foremost sex and tech journalists, she’s also devoted her nearly two-decade-long career to covering these issues firsthand. ![]() ![]() Although it’s a pressing issue for everyone regardless of gender, it’s especially urgent for women, who are often targeted by trolls, stalkers, hackers, and all-around creeps on a near-daily basis.Īs a high-profile female investigative blogger who’s been named one of Forbes’ top 25 “ Web celebs,” Violet Blue has experienced her fair share of trolling and online harassment. In light of the Heartbleed bug, there’s been an awful lot of talk about Internet security. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Teachers will find this picture book a natural for curriculum units on leaves or hibernation, and children will enjoy seeing fall anew through the eyes of a big-hearted character more innocent than themselves. ![]() Just as Stein uses white space effectively in the art, he uses "white space" well in the spare, precise text, leaving some details for children to notice in the pictures alone, such as how the leaves have been stuck back on the trees by spearing them onto the living twigs. Created with bamboo pen, the energetic, sensitive drawings are tinted with subtle shades of color. The narrative works seamlessly with the freewheeling, expressive artwork. In spring, he joyfully welcomes the tiny leaves unfolding on the trees. but it was not the same." As he watches the leaves fall and blanket the ground, he grows sleepy, finds a cavelike hole, fills it with leaves, and burrows into it to sleep away the winter. "He tried to catch them and put them back on. He wonders, "Are you okay?" More leaves fall. ![]() He lives on a tiny island with a few trees, flowers, berries, and butterflies, and he dances with joyuntil he sees a leaf fall to the ground. To Bear, in his first year, everything is new. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin (John Malkovich), Tweedy fosters Secretariat into the winner's circle, the history books, and the hearts of Americans. So long, Charley.24 He had coined a phrase that jockeys would use for decades. Laura Hillenbrand, quote from Seabiscuit: An American Legend. The autos alone remained to conquer space. ![]() While this Disney movie celebrates the animal that became known as " America's Superhorse," it also focuses on his owner Penny Tweedy (Diane Lane), a housewife and mother who, with little training experience, takes over management of the family thoroughbred farm after her mother's death and her father (Scott Glenn) becomes ill. Laura Hillenbrand, quote from Seabiscuit: An American Legend. In 1973 the titular, record-breaking thoroughbred won the Triple Crown for the first time in 25 years and set race records in all three events – the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. Here are five movies about horses and horse racing sure to put you in the mood for Saturday's gallop to the winner's circle. In Seabiscuit: An American Legend, what were the qualities that made this horse a winner Seabiscuit possessed all the qualities for which the Thoroughbred has been prized since the English. Horse racing has spurred many big screen features over the last century, from the Marx Brother's "A Day at the Races" (1937) to "Boots Malone" (1953), "The Black Stallion" (1979) and "Dreamer" (2005). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For this to be true in our known universe the person inside the unit would have to travelling at the speed of light relative to a person outside the unit. zero time passes for a person placed inside a "zero tau" unit, relative to an observer outside the unit. In Hamilton's universe "zero-tau" is used as an expression of "zero time", i.e. The story in the novel revolves around a spaceship that travels ever closer to the speed of light, and hence closer to "tau zero" - time passes normally for the crew on board but the relative passage of time externally keeps increasing. In the novel tau is described as the "time contraction factor" which is related to the speed of light and the relative velocity of an object. The name of that novel is itself derived from a fictional variation of the mathematical concept of tau. The epic voyage of the spacecraft Leonora Christine will take her and her fifty-strong crew. Out-of-universe, the name "zero-tau" is probably a nod to the 1970 sci fi novel by Poul Anderson "Tau Zero". Leggi Tau Zero di Poul Anderson disponibile su Rakuten Kobo. They're described as a device that stops the flow of time for objects (including humans) placed inside them and that's not possible according to our current understanding of the universe. ![]() ![]() There's no science to support the idea of the "zero tau" pods described in these novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s probably why I am in the position that I am today. ![]() “The only thing I can say is going through all these challenges, I always hold the passion to keep going and I always hold the love for the game,” he added. I am not able to manage the pain to play often and even practice,” Nadal told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, who has been beset by injury problems throughout his career. Nick Kyrgios says he only slept for one hour because of the excitement of learning he had reached his first Grand Slam singles final after Rafael Nadal's withdrawal at Wimbledon. “After the pandemic, something happened in my foot. The Spaniard has been suffering with a foot injury for years now, and it’s an ongoing problem that Nadal said required daily injections at the French Open in order to keep playing and training. Nadal won his 14th French Open title earlier this month – his record-extending 22nd in total – despite playing the final without any feeling in his foot. I trust that things go well and I can go on with my week of training, so that I can have a chance to compete well at Wimbledon.” He added: “It’s been three years I haven’t played (Wimbledon), I’m excited, but we’ll see how (the foot) progresses. Nadal takes part in a training session at Santa Ponsa Country Club in Santa Ponsa, Mallorca. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Taylor was a fellow at the Hutchins Center at Harvard University under the direction of Dr. The exhibition will travel throughout the United States for three years. Taylor is an award-winning author, photographer, and cultural documentarian working on a multidisciplinary project based on the Green Book. She is the author of Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (Abrams Books), as well as the curator and content specialist for an exhibition that will be toured by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) starting in June 2020. ![]() ![]() She grew up in a time when women were pressured to follow a traditional path, and in many ways she did: marrying, becoming a nurse, having two children. ![]() Kidd was drawn to tell Hetty's story because she is a seeker herself, on a mission to deeply engage with the world. She profoundly deepened my understanding of what it was to be an urban slave and of what striving for freedom and dignity feels like on the inside. Also drawn from real life is Hetty, nicknamed Handful. Though the tale is fictional, the Grimké sisters were real-life abolitionists whose stories captivated Kidd. All four share an ardent desire to break free: Sarah and Angelina Grimké from the constraints of being female in the early 19th century, and Hetty and her mother, Charlotte, from the bonds of slavery. The novel tells the story of four women from Charleston, South Carolina-two sisters from the prosperous white Grimké family and an African American mother and daughter who are the Grimkés' house slaves. It is impossible to read this book and not come away thinking differently about our status as women and about all the unsung heroines who played a role in getting us to where we are. ![]() Here's what makes The Invention of Wings extraordinary-and why I am thrilled to announce it as my third selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0: Sue Monk Kidd has written a conversation changer. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was the result of her exposure to adult knowledge at a very young age that her mother was extremely shocked when Monica asked her what does virgin mean. Even though they were not suitable for her at that age, she used to get excited by reading such novels. Right from her pre-adolescent age, Monica began reading romance novels. ![]() ![]() After finishing all the books on her shelf, she began borrowing and exchanging books from her mother. Initially, Monica used to read all the novels written by author Judy Blume. ![]() But, she she used to get glued to her books and read whatever she liked. Having been brought up in California, Monica always had something or the other to do outside her home. Similar to all the other writers, she too used to enjoy reading a lot. She says that all these things eventually helped her to become an author of the historical romance genre. Monica enjoys a mixture of things such as baseball, attorney, voracious reading about historical novels, and motherhood. Sh particularly writes her novels in the Historical Romance genre. Monica McCarty is one of the USA Today and New York Times bestselling authors from The United States, who has written a few popular novel series based on the romance genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I would like to achieve something that is neither moving nor still, or that possesses a certain contradiction by virtue of the combination of the two within it. Over time my ideas seem to have become more static, though with a view to achieving something akin to a freezeframe of an (often dramatic) action or process, so that the passing of time, or otherwise, becomes acutely apparent. At the very beginning all my ideas involved materials that were changing very fast, ice, fruit, unpreserved animal carcasses and live insects breeding, so the experience of one viewer would differ from that of the next. Could you please comment on the temporal aspect of your artwork and on your own methodical artistic process?ĬM: Temporality has always been an important aspect of the things I make. ![]() Not only do you integrate living and inanimate materials (each with their individual velocities of action), but the compositional patterns themselves have a rhythmic musical force. variable (h) x 1.5m (d) x 1.5m (w) Exhibited in Building With Colour at Gallery North, Newcastle, UK, and Consumer at Palais de Tokyo, Paris Photo Credit: Kris HeathĪLJ: The relationship between movement and stillness is so compelling in your installations. ![]() |