Every falling star by sungju lee6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Soon a broker helps him escape into China where he met his father and they flew to South Korea.This was a stark and honest look at life in this secretive and isolated country. Four and half years later, after living in abysmal conditions, he ran into his grandfather. ![]() Left with nothing but salt to eat, he turned to stealing at the market and eventually creating a gang of kotjebi, street boys. When their savings dwindled and work hours were cut, it became imperative the father to go to China to try and make some money (promising to return) and then the mother went to her sister's (promising to return) leaving Sungju alone. Attending school there was a real eye-opener as Sungju's classmates had little or nothing to eat for lunch and most of the education centered on the lives of their country's leaders. Under Kim Jong-il, however, things changed and the family was forced to move to a city called Gyeong-seong where the parents took jobs doing menial work. ![]() Sungju's family lived in the capital city Pyongyang where his father was a respected member of the military under Kim Il-sung. and achieved remarkable success in education, the author still cannot use his real name for fear of retaliation of any family members left behind. Even though he has escaped North Korea and settled in the U.S. ![]()
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Jew ish jake cohen6/10/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 pound of russet potatoes (2 small), peeled and cut into ½-inch pieces.2 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil.He revealed his favorite dish from the book and showed us how to make potato leek bourekas, which Jessica called “a carb lover’s dream.” “I find it incredibly incredibly important to preserve these recipes, and these stories,” Jake said. ![]() ![]() Many of the recipes in Jake’s book are tied to family members on both his side and his husband’s side, and he said he learned a lot about his background and what his family went through to get these recipes to America. He said that when he met his husband, who is Persian-Iraqi, he learned of different traditional Jewish dishes that they then got to explore together. Jake Cohen’s new cookbook “Jew-ish: A Cookbook: Reinvented Recipes From a Modern Mensch,” is not just about food, it’s about family, culture and taps into what makes us who we are.ĭuring a recent conversation with Jessica, Jake said that he wanted to explore what being Jewish meant to him and to encourage people to find passion in every aspect of their identity. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]() ![]() Demonstration projects like this are hugely complicated, extremely risky, and extraordinarily expensive - and it’s very hard to finance them. ![]() That means building an enormous physical plant, ironing out engineering, supply chain and distribution issues, repeating them over and over again and steadily cutting costs. ![]() ![]() Once you can make green hydrogen in a lab, you have to prove that it works - safely and reliably - at scale. When I was starting Microsoft, we didn’t need much infrastructure to write code and, once we’d written it, we could make nearly infinite copies with perfect fidelity for very little money.Ĭlimate-smart technologies are much more difficult to navigate. It is incredibly challenging for any start-up to commercialise its product, but it is uniquely so for energy companies. This will require a massive effort to fund hundreds of commercial demonstration projects of early-stage climate technologies. At COP26 we need to think about how to turn lab-proven concepts into ubiquitous products that people want and can afford to buy. If the world is really committed to climate innovation, however, then these breakthroughs must be only the beginning of the story, not the end. As a result, some important clean technologies - like sustainable aeroplane fuel, green steel and extra-powerful batteries - now exist and are ready to scale up. There is now significantly more money for basic research and development and more venture capital for clean start-ups in hard-to-decarbonise sectors than ever before. ![]() ![]() In Egypt he found a copy of a Frankish king list from Clovis to Louis IV that had been written by an Andalusian bishop. He presumably gathered information on Byzantium from the Byzantine admiral, Leo of Tripoli, a convert-to-Islam whom he met in Syria where his last years were divided between there and Egypt. ![]() Īl-Mas'udi may have reached Sri Lanka and China although he is known to have met Abu Zaid al-Sirafi on the coast of the Persian Gulf and received information on China from him. He also sailed on the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean and the Caspian. He also travelled to the Indus Valley, and other parts of India, especially the western coast and he voyaged more than once to East Africa. ![]() His journeys took him to most of the Persian provinces, Armenia, Georgia and other region of the Caspian Sea as well as to Arabia, Syria and Egypt. And a member of Banu Hudhayl tribe He mentions many scholar associates met on his travels through many lands:Īl-Mas'udi's travels actually occupied most of his life from at least 903/915 CE to very near the end of his life. Born in Baghdad, he was descended from Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud, a companion of Muhammad. ![]() Apart from what al-Mas'udi writes of himself little is known. ![]() Ralph ellison6/9/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ellison’s work appeared in various publications including Antioch Review, New Challenge and New Masses. It was Richard Wright who pointed Ellison in the direction of writing and motivated Ellison to write for him. However, the major turning point for Ellison in New York was meeting with Richard Wright. Ellison thoroughly enjoyed New York’s vibrancy and liveliness. While at New York, Ellison studied photography in addition to sculpture. S Elliot as an inspiration.Įllison left Tuskegee and moved to New York City in 1936 after his third year as a result of financial issues, planning to complete his education in due time. He particularly recalls reading “The Waste Land” by T. He flourished in his music classes while at Tuskegee and also began to spend more and more time in the library. Dawson making it one of the famous departments of Tuskegee. The department was led by composer William L. He went to study music in Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute in 1933 on a scholarship. ![]() The complete works of raymond carver6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In gathering all of Carver’s stories, including early sketches and posthumously discovered works, The Library of America’s Collected Stories provides a comprehensive overview of Carver’s career as we have come to know it: the promise of Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and the breakthrough of What We Talk About, on through the departures taken in Cathedral and the pathos of the late stories. In books such as Cathedral and the later tales included in the collected stories volume Where I’m Calling From, Carver revealed himself to be a more expansive writer than in the earlier published books, displaying Chekhovian sympathies toward his characters and relying less on elliptical effects. Carver’s stories were brilliant in their detachment and use of the oblique, ambiguous gesture, yet there were signs of a different sort of sensibility at work. Suggestive rather than explicit, and seeming all the more powerful for what is left unsaid, Carver’s stories were held up as exemplars of a new school in American fiction known as minimalism or “dirty realism,” a movement whose wide influence continues to this day. Beneath his pared-down surfaces run disturbing, violent undercurrents. In collections such as Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Raymond Carver wrote with unflinching exactness about men and women enduring lives on the knife-edge of poverty and other deprivations. ![]() The falling love montage6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Sex Scene “Expert” Michael Douglas Shares His Secret To Filming A Good Sex SceneĪlec Baldwin Can't Seem to Quit Guns, Joins New Movie About Infamous Kent State Shooting Lance Reddick’s Emotional ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ Scene Will Break Your HeartĬannes Film Festival 2023: Molly Manning Walker's 'How To Have Sex' Plays Like An Episode of 'Love Island' Directed By Éric Rohmer The “White Men Can’t Jump: The Musical” Storyline in ‘Girls’ Is More Memorable Than the 2023 Hulu Remake Who Plays Ocean Park on 'XO, Kitty'? It's 2PM's Taecyeon Jack Harlow Calls Out Chick-fil-A’s “Homophobic Chicken Sandwiches” in ‘White Men Can’t Jump’ Is 'Love Again' Streaming on HBO Max or Netflix? Gwyneth Paltrow Recalls "British Press Being So Horrible" After Her 'Shakespeare in Love' Oscar Win: "Totally Overwhelming" Stream It Or Skip It: 'Royalteen: Princess Margrethe' on Netflix, the Second in a Series of DOA Norwegian Teen Romances ![]() Seth Rogen Slams Streaming Service Execs for Their "Secretiveness" and "Insane Salaries": "Thank God for These Labor Unions" ![]() ![]() Perhaps one of the strengths of books such as Carrie Ryan’s, at least for me, is that it makes me appreciate what life is like at present. Click on the image to be taken to the websource. Since my husband and I are avid Walking Dead TV-viewers, I thought that it would be good to read a little something about the undead through Carrie Ryan’s eyes. ![]() ![]() I knew then that vampires were “out” as zombies were “in.” It also rides the crest of the current dystopian wave that most young readers seem to have embraced alongside werewolves and fallen angels. I had high hopes for the series after hearing and reading all the hype about it a little over a year ago. ![]() I thought that I might as well do a 2-in-1 book review in keeping with our Dusty Bookshelves and Library Loot – as these books have been gathering dust in my shelves for quite awhile now. I finished reading Carrie Ryan’s The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves while I was in the States a month ago.
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Up the faraway tree enid blyton6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() After all, I’m not the target audience any more, and all three have been entranced by it. ![]() Photograph: Hodder Children's Booksīut! I could see how much she loved the stories, and so I read them again to my middle child, and then again to my youngest, and I found myself reluctantly acknowledging the Faraway Tree’s charms once more. The Magic Faraway Tree by Jacqueline Wilson, to be published in May. ![]() The Saucepan Man in particular was a little creepy and as ever with Blyton, there’s editorialising to be done while reading out loud, if you don’t want the girls to be told to stand aside for the boys. Then I read the books to my eldest child – and found myself not as charmed as I’d hoped. I wanted to creep past the Angry Pixie, watch Dame Washalot empty her buckets of water over Mr Watzisname (how much washing did she really need to do?), and make friends with Silky and Moonface. I imagined biting into a Hot Cold Goodie, or sucking a toffee shock. I dreamed of using a Slippery-Slip – the huge slide which goes down the centre of the tree. Or flying on a dandelion seed in the Land of Giants. I read them first growing up, and revelled in the thought of the different magical lands that could be reached at the top of an enormous tree – the Land of Take-What-You-Want! the Land of Goodies! Imagine being able to ask for an ice cream of any flavour, and going for sardine, as Connie did. I am a veteran reader of Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree books. ![]() |