![]() ![]() How does the legacy of that glorious band live on today?.Why does the story of the Titanic continue to fascinate?.How did the faith of the band members allow them to react with grace under pressure?.In The Band that Played On, Turner asks and answers key questions, including: Join renowned biographer Steve Turner as he shares an extraordinary portrait of eight men who were thrown together on a maiden voyage, never having played together as a band, and whose names will be forever linked because of an extraordinary act of courage in the face of death. But never before has "that glorious band," the group of eight musicians who played on as the Titanic slipped deeper and deeper into the Atlantic Ocean, been explored in such depth-until now. They often tell the same story about the "unsinkable" Titanic, her wealthy passengers, the families torn apart, and the unthinkable end. The movies, the documentaries, the museum exhibits. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They continue to produce joint projects under the company.Ģ006 - "The Long Walk Home" (written and directed by Sean Becker) wins Best Comedy at the RadioAlice Film Festival in San Francisco, California. Ģ005 - Becker and producing partner Payman Benz combine all of their individual projects under the company AWKWARD PICTURES. ( February 2017)Ģ004 - Directed video segments for the Seriously Unusual Television Network (S.U.T.N.) which was a Saturday night sketch show that aired on the UPN network.Ģ005 - Becker received a nomination and a win for a Northern California Regional Emmy Award in the category of "Entertainment Segment" for the short film "Parallel/Parallel". You can help by converting this section, if appropriate. ![]() This section is in list format but may read better as prose. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Rebecca goldstein godel![]() ![]() The second incompleteness theorem, which follows from the first, states that the system cannot prove its own consistency. To prove this, Gödel developed a technique now known as Gödel numbering, which codes formal expressions as natural numbers. The first incompleteness theorem states that for any ω-consistent recursive axiomatic system powerful enough to describe the arithmetic of the natural numbers (for example, Peano arithmetic), there are true propositions about the natural numbers that can be neither proved nor disproved from the axioms. Gödel's discoveries in the foundations of mathematics led to the proof of Gödel's completeness theorem in 1929 as part of his dissertation to earn a doctorate at the University of Vienna, and the publication of the two Gödel's incompleteness theorems two years later, in 1931. ![]() Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel had an immense effect upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century, a time when others such as Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and David Hilbert were using logic and set theory to investigate the foundations of mathematics, building on earlier work by the likes of Richard Dedekind, Georg Cantor and Frege. Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( / ˈ ɡ ɜːr d əl/ GUR-dəl, German: ( listen) April 28, 1906 – January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher. Über die Vollständigkeit des Logikkalküls (1929) Mathematics, mathematical logic, analytic philosophy, physics ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Project Gert by Will O'Reagan![]() ![]() ![]() To this end, the stimulus of Rensink, O’Reagen, and Clark (1997) was adapted to a passive oddball ERP paradigm to investigate the underlying processing differences between the standard (original) and deviant (altered) stimuli measured in 22 subjects. The present study sought to investigate the apparent controversy between the experience under the change blindness paradigm and the ERP results. On the other hand, research on the visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) component of the event-related potentials (ERPs) identified sensitivity to events (deviants) different from the regularity of stimulus sequences (standards), even if the deviant and standard events are non-attended. ![]() Change blindness experiments had demonstrated that detection of significant changes in natural images is extremely difficult when brief blank fields are placed between alternating displays of an original and a modified scene. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments Hughes the big sea![]() ![]() There was a big revival at my Auntie Reed’s church. ![]() I was saved from sin when I was going on thirteen.
5/28/2023 0 Comments Time salvager series![]() ![]() I’m not the same person I was even just a few years ago. ![]() Hah! That interview must have been before 2016, because I’ve since spawned two upgrades who are now six and three, so now the things that spark joy and excitement are the trivial things in life, like when my eldest successfully builds a complex Lego set (he just finished the Lego Optimus Prime! Boom!) or when my toddler forms a complex and nuanced sentence or sleeps through the night without pissing in his sheets. How are you getting your traveling and adrenaline fix lately? GdM: In another interview, you said you enjoy adrenaline sports and extensive traveling. Chu was kind enough to sit down with us and talk with us about his newest work, The Art of Prophecy, writing in existing fandoms, and so much more. He has been writing in science fiction and fantasy for over a decade and is the creator of the Tao series, Time Salvager, Io, The Eldest Curses, and now the Wuxia series, The War Arts Saga. Wesley Chu is an author who needs no introduction. ![]() 5/28/2023 0 Comments White trash the 400![]() ![]() ![]() They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing-if occasionally entertaining-poor white trash. “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” - O Magazine San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended booksĪ Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 ![]() ![]() Despite the theory's codification nearly thirty years ago, there are few queer approaches to the foundational Old English poem Beowulf. In 1990, Teresa de Lauretis coined "queer theory", which subsequently sparked discussion of non-normative gender and sexuality in literature. ![]() I am deeply fortunate to have the sorts of access I have, and I try not to push my luck, so that such privileges may continue and expand. With the right letters of introduction and negotiations, I can gain access to other collections, other treasures, other experiences, but I will never drink from a medieval cup, I suspect. With a bit of planning and funding and effort, I can get myself to the British Library, where the generous librarians allow me access to wonders. Lead paints (and laws) make this a bad idea. ![]() ![]() I have even been tempted, like John, to eat the occasional book (fig. ![]() I want to open and close the wings on altarpieces, to feel ivories warm in my hand, to drink from the Mérode Cup while achieving check- mate with the Lewis Chessmen. I want to turn the pages, not by touching a screen or mouse in the Brit- ish Library’s Turning The PagesTM app, but by touching vellum in the British Li- brary’s reading room. I want to hold all of the works of art in all the museums. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments The lie tree series in order![]() The tree might hold the key to her father’s murder. ![]() The fruit, in turn, delivers a hidden truth. A tree that bears fruit only when she whispers a lie to it. In pursuit of revenge and justice for the father she idolizes, Faith hunts through his possessions, where she discovers a strange tree. And that her father’s death was no accident. She keeps sharp watch of her surroundings and, therefore, knows secrets no one suspects her of knowing-like the real reason her family fed Kent to the close-knit island of Vane. But inside, Faith is burning with questions and curiosity. To most people, she is modest and well mannered-a proper young lady who knows her place. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction.Īn ALA/ALSC Notable Children’s Book and an ALA/YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Top Ten selectionĪ teenage girl unravels lies and magic to solve her father’s murder in this unforgettable and thought-provoking YA historical fantasy from award-winning novelist Frances Hardingeįaith Sunderly leads a double life. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Tainaron leena krohn![]() I’m sure many will find this nonsensical, bizarre, maybe pointless, yet there’s something memorable and almost poetic about the book. There’s something visceral in the narrative, making this a book with an amorphous emotional impact. ![]() The most obvious nuance is one of change. I’ve heard the character writing the letters is female, but I never picked up on that and saw the letter writer as male, lost and adrift, having travelled to Tainaron seeking a promise that may never be fulfilled unless it’s found within. We never know the recipient of these letters and only get to know the writer obliquely. ![]() ![]() The story from this Finnish prize-winning author is a fantasy told in a series of letters written by a foreign visitor and sent from an insect city. First, the copy I have is of a small hardback book that’s a delight to hold with an eye-catching slip cover, and drawings dotted throughout a fast read at only 124 pages. ![]() |