![]() ![]() An instant box office success, he moved on to the defining franchise of his career with “The Terminator” (1984), playing the villainous cyborg sent back in time to kill the mother of humanity’s savior John Connor. His breakout role came with the epic adaptation “Conan the Barbarian” (1982), directed by John Milius and co-written by Oscar-winner Oliver Stone. With a career that began by playing a “special agent” infiltrating a gym in “Stay Hungry” (1976) and a spotlight in the documentary feature classic “Pumping Iron” (1977), Schwarzenegger went on to become one of the most influential and classic action stars of his generation. ![]() To celebrate his 75th birthday, Variety ranks his 10 best film performances. With over 50 credits grossing more than $4 billion worldwide, Schwarzenegger ranks among the top 40 highest-grossing stars of all time. The Austrian-born actor, producer, former bodybuilder and governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is one of the most successful box office stars in history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once called a “rare talent” by Bob Dylan, Lightfoot’s timeless compositions have transcended the boundaries of generations and musical genres.ĭozens of artists have covered his work, including Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand, Harry Belafonte, Johnny Cash, Anne Murray, Jane’s Addiction, Sarah McLachlan and, perhaps most surprisingly, dance supergroup Stars on 54 who turned his classic “If You Could Read My Mind” into a disco-pop curiosity for the 1998 movie “54.” Author Stephen King described him as “a wonderful performer,” while the Beach Boys co-founder Brian Wilson added a simple “rest in peace.”įormer Ontario premier Bob Rae said he was “such a decent man” and a “musician with a magnificent tenor voice that will last forever” while Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield said his “poetry and melodies are an eternal inspiration.” Other celebrities and politicians added their praises of Lightfoot’s craft on Twitter. May his music continue to inspire future generations, and may his legacy live on forever.” “Gordon Lightfoot captured our country’s spirit in his music – and in doing so, he helped shape Canada’s soundscape. “We have lost one of our greatest singer-songwriters,” tweeted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau late Monday. ![]() ![]() On top of the names mentioned above, The Watcher also features Joe Mantello as John, Michael Nouri as Roger and Isabel Gravitt and Luke David Blumm as the Brannock's children, Ellie and Carter.Īll episodes of the limited series The Watcher are now available to stream exclusively on Netflix. ![]() He's also featured in Rosaline, Waist Deep, Harriet and Gridlock'd and is due to appear in The Collaboration later this year. Where else have you seen Henry Hunter Hall? Henry's most prominent role to date (besides The Watcher) is likely his role as Sherman "Cheeks" Johnson in Hunters on Prime Video. Whilst he's there, he secretly becomes involved with the Brannocks' daughter, Ellie. the imagination of 1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz- nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read. Henry Hunter-Hall plays Dakota, a young security specialist from Vanguard Security Solutions who the Brannocks hire to install security cameras around the property in their hunt for the elusive Watcher. ![]() Dakota helps the Brannocks keep watch outside their home. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They make around 30 different calls to communicate with each other, expressing everything from “I am hungry” to “there’s a predator nearby.” I wonder what their conversations are like. They also get fresh leafy greens straight from my indoor greenhouse. There is always plenty of food and lots of fresh water for these youngsters – everything is replenished or changed whenever needed. Chicks remain on starter feed for the first six weeks and then progress to grower feed. Starter feed is a protein dense variety of chicken feed designed to meet a chick’s dietary requirements. And, although it is hard to see, the Silkie’s eyes are also black. Their beak is short, quite broad at the base, and is gray or blue in color. Silkies also have bright turquoise earlobes – another unique characteristic of the breed. Silkies are naturally more calm than most other breeds, and tend to be very friendly without any special effort to be tamed. Underneath all that feathering, they have black skin and bones and five toes instead of the typical four on each foot. I have them in my antique bird cage located in my stable feed room, where it is warm and safe. ![]() Can you make out my four Silkie chicks? Silkies are loved for their hair-like plumage and incredibly sweet temperaments. ![]() Hard to resist any chick, but the Silkie Bantam is among the most popular. ![]() ![]() Between 19 he was a member of the Poetry Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain.Ĭausley was very highly regarded by his fellow poets, and on his 70th birthday, many of them, including Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Roger McGough and Seamus Heaney contributed to a collection of poetry and prose tributes published in his honour. He was presented with the Heywood Hill Literary Prize in 2000. Other awards include the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1967. In 1958 Causley was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was awarded a CBE in 1986. He was also a prolific editor of collections of poetry. ![]() In addition to his poetry, Causley wrote plays, short stories and opera librettos. His poetry includes many references to Cornwall and its legends, and in his later years he published many books of verse for children, several of which have been illustrated by prominent artists. After serving in the navy in the second world war (an experience he wrote about in Hands to Dance and Skylark), he worked as a teacher in Launceston and began publishing verse in the 1950s. Other poetry books by Charles Causley include the collections Johnny Alleluia: Poems (1961), Underneath the Water (1968), Secret Destinations (1984), and A Field of Vision (1988), as well as poetry written for children including Figgie Hobbin: Poems for Children (1970), Jack the Treacle Eater (1987), winner of the Kurt Maschler Award, and The. Charles Stanley Causley was born in Launceston in Cornwall, and spent most of his life there. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Instead, what Taylor is driving at is a shift in what he calls the “ conditions of belief”, the “taken-for-granted” background assumptions, framework, or imaginary, the naive world we all inhabit even before we start thinking about what we believe. (1) A Secular Age: Introduction In the first chapter of A Secular Age Charles Taylor asks a question that he will pursue for the rest of the book: “why was it virtually impossible not to believe in God in, say, 1500 in our Western society, while in 2000 many of us find this not only easy, but even inescapable?” What is Taylor getting at when he asks this question, what shift is he trying to describe? In describing the shift to what Taylor calls a “Secular Age,” he is not thinking of a decline in religious belief-lots of people still believe in God in secular societies. ![]() Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. At the bottom of this page I’ve included a glossary for the Taylorisms used in the summary (the worlds included in the glossary are in bold) I’ve also included an index for my chapter summaries and some suggestions for further reading. ![]() I’ve organized this shorter summary into 11 different sections and added some links to the corresponding chapter summary that each section is drawn from. For those of you feeling intimidated by my 21 part series on A Secular Age, this shorter summary could help you get a sense of the argument Taylor is making. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ward, Erika Wilde, Gena Showalter, and Carly Philips.įind Ella Frank at the Y/CON for conference and workshop. Brooke Blaine and Ella Frank delivered another unforgettable MM romance. Some of her favorite authors include Tiffany Reisz, Kresley Cole, Riley Hart, J.R. Lily Mayne is a true expert in her craft, and Seraph, alongside her other new. Her Confessions series has been praised as “scorching hot!” and “enticingly sexy!”Ī life-long fan of the romance genre, Ella Frank writes contemporary and erotic fiction. ![]() Y/CON gets hot with new guests: Ella Frank and Brooke Blaine!Įlla Frank is the USA Today Bestselling Author of the Temptation series, including Try, Take, and Trust and is the co-author of the fan-favorite Preslocke series. ![]() ![]() In the footage, obtained by TMZ, you see. When I got to the last page, I flipped back to the first. New video showing the bloody aftermath of a domestic disturbance in Miami, which ended with one man being stabbed to death and a woman covered in blood. Needless to say, Cas and Anna are my new favorite twosome. ![]() “It's the old boy meets girl story, if the boy is a wry, self-destructive ghost-hunter bent on avenging his father and the girl is a homicidal ghost trapped in a house full of everyone she's ever murdered. Blake's smooth combination of gore and romance should have little problem attracting the Twilight crowd.” - Booklist on Anna Dressed in Blood Spellbinding and romantic.” -Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments series on Anna Dressed in Blood “ Anna Dressed in Blood is a dark and intricate tale, with a hero who kills the dead but is half in love with death himself. during her second serve and dousing her photos with chicken blood. We demand sequels.” - Kirkus Reviews, starred review on Anna Dressed in Blood Could we really spend the next 10-12 years watching Anna covered in her own sweat. “Abundantly original, marvelously inventive and enormous fun, this can stand alongside the best horror fiction out there. ![]() This captivating story pulls no punches, making for a breathless read that lingers in the imagination long after the last page is turned.” - NPR on Anna Dressed in Blood “At once as eerie and terrible as it is sad and romantic, Anna Dressed in Blood is not your normal ghost story. ![]() ![]() ![]() During their time there, Asimov once complained he was unable to get anything down after even five re-writes of the story. However, his tenure in the military was only five years (quite short for an officer), when he was released from the service due to tuberculosis he was ruled partially disabled and received a small government pension and retained the use of Veterans Administration healthcare for the rest of his life.Īs World War II struck, Heinlein returned to the military as a civilian contractor in the Philadelphia Naval shipyard, bringing along an old friend, Isaac Asimov, to help him. His other influences came from the deep feelings of loyalty and service instilled in him during his time at the U.S. Born in Butler, Missouri, Heinlein embraced the frontier ethos of self-reliance, risk acceptance, and skepticism, but rejected the irrationality of " Bible Belt" religiosity and misplaced moralizing in many of his novels, such as Revolt in 2100, Glory Road, and Stranger in a Strange Land. ![]() ![]() Heinlein's life is reflected in his various works. ![]() ![]() In Shoko’s Smile, Shoko, a Japanese student, is visiting Korea on an exchange programme for the first time since such links between the two countries were resumed in the 1960s. ![]() The stories range across the history of Korea, from the occupation by Japan, 1910-1945, to the anti-communist trials of radicals in 1975, when young South Koreans were imprisoned and tortured, only acquitted in 2007, and the tragedy of 2014, when 304 passengers, most of them school children, died after the MV Sewol sunk off Jeju on the south coast. ![]() Their grandchildren are now educated, many living and working outside Korea, unwilling to follow the hierarchies that curtailed the freedom of their grandmothers and even of their own mothers. For example, Choi gives a voice to older, often illiterate, women from the working class whose social function was to marry, give birth to sons and to obey the dictates of their mother-in-law. ![]() |
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