![]() ![]() Toshi Seeger was born Toshi Aline Ohta on July 1, 1922, in Munich. Additionally, they co-founded the Clearwater Festival (officially known as The Great Hudson River Revival), a major music festival held annually at Croton Point Park in Westchester County, New York. In 1966, Seeger and her husband, folk-singer Pete Seeger, co-founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands. A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, Toshi's credits include the 1966 film Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, released through PBS in 2007. Toshi Seeger (born Toshi Aline Ohta J– July 9, 2013) was an American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() We discuss moral sentiments, and how they connect to questions of moral responsibility. We talk about the relationship between free will and moral responsibility. ![]() We start by talking about how to approach free will from the perspective of Philosophy, and we discuss the necessary conditions for its existence. In this episode, we talk about free will and moral responsibility. Within the area of free will and moral responsibility he is particularly interested in the challenge of skepticism and theories of responsibility that appeal to reactive attitudes or moral sentiments. Russell's interests cover the areas of free will and moral responsibility along with various topics in early modern philosophy. He also serves as Director of the Lund|Gothenburg Responsibility Project (LGRP). Paul Russell is Professor of Philosophy at Lund University (half-time appointment since 2018). This show is sponsored by Enlites, Learning & Development done differently. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The act of creation is singular, as is the moment of creation, and the result is something fresh and strange. But every time we create something new, we go from 0 to 1. Doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Of course, it’s easier to copy a model than to make something new. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. ![]() The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. Like Heraclitus, who said that you can only step into the same river once, Thiel believes that each moment in business happens only once. Here are eight lessons I took away from the book. And thinking about thinking is what we’re all about. Zero To One is an exercise in thinking - about questioning and rethinking received wisdom to create the future. And now he’s written a book, Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, with the goal of helping us “see beyond the tracks laid down” to the “broader future that there is to create.” He also made the first outside investment in Facebook and was an early investor in companies like SpaceX and LinkedIn. Peter Thiel is an entrepreneur and investor. ![]() ![]() He currently works as an entertainment finance attorney in Los Angeles. Biographical information in the back of The Guardian says “he began his career in 1969 working for a Hollywood talent agency.” He went on to become general counsel to a theater chain, and then a production executive at MGM studios. ![]() Konvitz is a native New Yorker, and was educated at Cornell and the Columbia University School of Law. He continued to produce films through 2007. He only wrote a couple more novels - Apocalypse (1979) and Monster (1981), which was published as The Beast in the UK. Around the same time, he co-produced with Lloyd Kaufman of Troma fame the horror film Silent Night, Bloody Night, which appears to have set him up to write the screenplay for and produce the 1977 film adaptation of The Sentinel. Konvitz’s debut propelled him, and his follow-up novel The Guardian, to the top of the lists. ![]() The stepback art for his first novel was probably one of the first in a long line of novels featuring the soon-to-be overused blurb “ Rosemary’s Baby, The Exorcist, The Other, and now….” ![]() Jeffrey Konvitz is an American author of horror and suspense, best known for his 1974 novel The Sentinel, which hit #2 on the New York Times bestseller list in the wake of Catholic horror blockbuster The Exorcist. ![]() ![]() My character, Natalie, debates following the seemingly impossible dream of becoming a professional goalie or going to college like most girls her age. Hannah debates the merits of dedicating her life to ballet, a career that will last a decade, if she’s lucky, or following the path of most nineteen-year-olds in New York City and enrolling in college. Hannah reminds me a great deal of one of my own protagonists, Natalie, my goalie girl. While the complaint of many reviews I read was that the book was littered with too many French, dance-specific terms, to the extent that it detracted from the story, I disagree – this is an exceptional and unique look into the lives of young professional dancers. ![]() Sophie Flack is particularly qualified to write this book and it would not be nearly as realistic if the author did not have Sophie’s ballet background. ![]() ![]() I love when authors write about what they know as it tends to be the most realistic way to learn about a topic. ![]() ![]() His engines tended to be the driving force of id Software, each game often being touted with a new engine that in turn relied upon Carmack's efforts. ![]() Carman's first book, The Dark Hills Divide, was published in 2005 2 The book, and the subsequent books in the same series ( The Land of Elyon ), were all New York Times bestsellers. The primary reason he got involved with games is because it offered all the aspects of programming, whilst at the same time not limiting him into one direction. Quake Patrick Carman Set in a cinematic world where telekinetic powers dominate, Quake is the pulse-pounding finale to an epic story of love and revenge for fans of I Am Number Four and The Maze Runner. Patrick Carman (born February 27, 1966, in Salem, Oregon) is an American writer and a graduate of Willamette University. While John Romero in particular was well known for maintaining relations and being very open with the public, Carmack was notably more reserved.Īfter using an Apple II computer at his school, Carmack became determined to be a programmer. This had a lot to do with focusing on designing a complex engine for Quake. Carmack also created VQuake, but after its completion he vowed to never write another propriety port, citing his frustration with Rendition’s Speed圓D API.Ĭarmack was notably reserved in talking about Quake during its design at most he showed his progress through. He created the fully 3D engine and also a TCP/IP networking model for Quake. He was the lead programmer for Quake, Quake II, and Quake III Arena he also served as the technical director for Quake 4. Carmack (born August 20, 1970) is a computer programmer who helped found id Software in 1991 and worked for it until his official resignation in November 22, 2013. Quake, Quake II, Quake III Arena, Quake 4 ![]() ![]() Rosa Campesino, a lovely forensic pathologist with a macabre sense of humor and a lively libido - Yancy's kind of woman. (Warning: You might not want to snack while you're reading this book.) But he longs to get his old job back, and Stripling's may be just the helping hand he needs, even if it did go into rigor mortis with its middle finger extended.ĭelivering the limb to the Miami morgue has one positive effect immediately: It introduces Yancy to Dr. Now Yancy is counting insects and scoping out rat droppings in restaurant kitchens up and down the Keys. Yancy got booted from the force to the restaurant inspection beat after he attacked the husband of his "future former girlfriend," deploying a handheld vacuum cleaner on a tender area of his rival's anatomy in full view of tourists swarming at Mallory Square. ![]() ![]() Once the tourist has snapped pics of the arm for his Facebook page, custody of the limb is entrusted to Andrew Yancy, suspended from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office and currently on roach patrol. ![]() ![]() ![]() Porter wrote mainly children's literature, adventure stories, and romance fiction. About the Eleanor Emily Hodgman Porter (1868–1920) was an American novelist, most known for Pollyanna (1913) and Just David (1916). Some of the best known are the 1920 version starring Mary Pickford, and Disney's 1960 version starring child actress Hayley Mills, who won a special Oscar for the role. Pollyanna has been adapted for film several times. ![]() ![]() Despite the current common use of the term to mean 'excessively cheerful', Pollyanna and her father played the glad game as a method of coping with the real difficulties and sorrows that, along with luck and joy, shape every life. Due to the book's fame, "Pollyanna" has become a byword for someone who – like the title character – has an unfailingly optimistic outlook a subconscious bias towards the positive is often described as the Pollyanna principle. Further sequels followed, including Pollyanna Plays the Game by Colleen L. Eleven more Pollyanna sequels, known as "Glad Books", were later published, most of them written by Elizabeth Borton or Harriet Lummis Smith. ![]() The book's success led to Porter's soon writing a sequel, Pollyanna Grows Up (1915). Porter, considered a classic of children's literature. About the is a 1913 novel by American author Eleanor H. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite her lingering distrust of him, Liesl agrees to work with him to enact a dangerous plan that will put the criminals away forever. When Liesl discovers John’s true identity, she feels betrayed. Just as quickly, Hawk finds himself falling for Liesl’s strength and bravery, as well as her grace and beauty. John is completely unfazed by Sheriff Hodges’s attempts at intimidation, and Liesl is quickly swept up by Hawk’s courage and integrity. ![]() When she meets the self-assured and attractive new farmer, John, she hopes he might help her in the fight for justice. Only one person is trying to stop him-Liesl, the sheriff’s own daughter. ![]() Posing as a farmer, Hawk heads to Sand Creek, a town ruled by a violent and corrupt sheriff. US Marshal John “Hawk” Hawking is one of the most respected lawmen in the West, so when a telegram arrives from the small town of Sand Creek warning him of a death threat against him, he immediately begins an investigation. Hearts collide when a sheriff’s daughter asks a hardened US Marshal to join her fight for justice and rid a small town of her corrupt father. ![]() Available From These Resellers: Categories: New Releases, Proper Romance Wyoming Wild ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Citeste mai multĭon't miss the delightfully funny supernatural Mediator series, from New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot. Will Jesse choose to live without her, or die to love her?ĭon't miss the delightfully funny supernatural Mediator series, from New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot. Shes a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a. It means she can alter the course of history.and prevent Jesse's murder, keeping him from ever becoming a ghost-and from ever meeting Suze. The Mediator 6: Twilight LIT 2jlrm8bdpceg. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie.īut when she discovers that she has the power to determine who becomes a ghost in the first place, Suze begins to freak. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. Twilight is the sixth and final book in the thrilling, romantic Mediator series, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot. ![]() The final installment of this series by the #1 "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Princess Diaries." Suze is in love with a ghost named Jesse. ![]() |