Courting Kate by Mary Lou Rich5/22/2023 Ms McDonald is currently suing RTE for defamation and she has successfully sued other media outlets for damages in the past too. It has been claimed that the cases can have a "chilling effect" on media coverage of such figures. SLAPPS (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) are used regularly by rich and powerful persons and interests who take on journalists and others in the courts. President Putin is the frontrunner in the Outstanding Oligarch of the Year category. Some of the prominent and prestigious members of CASE include Greenpeace, the AEJ (Association of European Journalists) and Civil Rights Defenders. Read More: 'Stop telling lies about us' - Eoin O Broin hits back at claims Sinn Féin has policy of legal action Ms McDonald is set to be unveiled as the winner of the CASE (Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe) SLAPP Politician of the Year award. The Sinn Fein leader is expected to be announced the winner on Thursday, October 20 in the award ceremony being run by a European journalists and whistleblowers' alliance. Mary Lou McDonald has been nominated for an embarrassing anti-transparency award on the same shortlists as Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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The last black cargo zora neale hurston5/22/2023 To open his last verse, he pleads with black children to look to the distant past for inspiration: “ we came to this country / We were kings and queens, never porch monkeys.” Incomplete and romanticized readings of history have resulted in a fanatical, monolithic image of Africa, or worse, a dismissal of the rest of the continent as a backwards land that colonizers rightfully raided. Consider Nas’s 2003 song “ I Can” (his highest-charting single to date), which was widely lauded for its uplifting message. Precolonial black history is often reduced to a troubling binary: Africans as a uniformly subservient arm of the triangular trade and Africa through the lens of monarchies like ancient Egypt and Haile Selassie’s Ethiopia. All of us villains series5/22/2023 The one left standing will win the control of Ilvernath’s high magick until the next generation’s tournament. Long time ago, seven families cursed themselves, each generation were to fight each other to their deaths. This book started with the Lowe brothers, Hendry and Alistair, told in Alistair’s point of view as they climbed the fence out to town. It was so good to read and I looked forward to those two point of views more than the others. There seemed to be enemies to lover trope but it didn’t get far despite the slow burning wants. I loved following each character’s train of thoughts, maybe Alistair more than others because his relationship with his brother was unique. Despite being who they were, I liked that each character appeared to have their own personal goals. They are born into a villain family and trained to be a villain their whole life. An excellent read, this book has a set of characters, villains as they may be, you couldn’t help but love them. My Experience: I started reading All of Us Villains on and finished it on.
Children of Mars by Paul G. Day5/21/2023 Unlike the Sanhedrin, however, the Athenian Areopagus was primarily interested in defending a Greek concept of “the gods.” Both were used somewhat like a court to settle disputes and judge certain cases. Both were considered “conservative” in the sense of mostly defending the status quo. Both groups were composed of distinct sects holding contrary beliefs in certain areas. Both were groups of respected local men charged with investigating spiritual or philosophical ideas. The purpose of the Athenian Areopagus was similar to that of the Jewish Sanhedrin. For the most part, however, the term Areopagus as used in Acts chapter 17 refers to the group of Athenian leaders and thinkers who met on the hill. When Paul gave his famous address on Mars Hill, one could say this occurred both “at” the Areopagus and “in front of” the Areopagus. The older Greek term, Areopagus, was still used in Paul’s day, mostly in reference to the council that met there. By the time of Paul and the early Christian church, this location was under Roman control, so the spot was known as Mars Hill. This location was called Areopagus, a combination of the Greek words for “god of war” and “stone”: the Areopagus is literally “Ares’ Rock.” The equivalent to Ares in Roman mythology is Mars. This area was once used as a forum for the rulers of Athens to hold trials, debate, and discuss important matters. Northwest of the city of Athens, Greece, is a small hill covered in stone seats. Kid Docs by Jenny Lynne5/21/2023 but nothing they say convinces her they have her back as a Māori woman. She says ACT and National talk about working for all New Zealanders. We would really like to work together with the government no matter who’s in Government to be able to come up with solutions that are going to be working for us all,” Dr Tupara says. But maybe in the future that’s where Māori obviously want to go. That’s not what Māori have been talking about. “The ACT Party for example talk about co-government. Fourteen-year-old Connor Hansen became a doctor two days ago-along with all of his friends. Rebirth Story Telling to Children from Norse Mythology and the Nibelungenlied (Classic. She says some parties have been whipping up controversy about things like Three Waters and the shelved He Puapua report on implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. League president Hope Tupara says there is a lot of misunderstanding in the community about the concept. National Iwi Chairs Forum, the New Zealand Māori Council and the Māori Women’s Welfare League have called on the government to actively promote co-governance because it is good for all New Zealanders. The Riddle by Alison Croggon5/21/2023 " When I was halfway through at a certain point that shall remain unnamed, I had to stop and flip to the end. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.Other than that, I don't really have any complaints." Otherwise I'll have to say Croggon just slipped up and failed to hit the mark on the ending (and I'll be very annoyed). I'm hoping it will all be explained away in the third book. She'll fix/clarify that in the next book, right?" I don't want to give anything away (so maybe just stop reading if you haven't finished it, though I'll try to be vague), but lust does not equal love and certainly does not stand on its own as evidence of an extremely deep love. All except the ending, which left me cold and thinking, "She's kidding. "Overall, I really liked this one, the sequel to The Naming. Trapped in the Winterking's icy realm, Maerad must confront what she has suspected all along: that she is the greatest riddle of all. The quest leads Maerad over terrifying seas and vast stretches of glacial wilderness, ever closer to the seductive Winterking-ally of her most powerful enemy, the Nameless One. Now she and her mentor, Cadvan, hunted by both the Light and the Dark, must unravel the Riddle of the Treesong before their fractured kingdom erupts in chaos. Maerad is a girl with a tragic and bitter past, but her powers grow stronger by the day. Ghost run day by day armageddon5/21/2023 People tend to get nervous if they think murderous psychopaths are still around to lob sound decoys like undead dinner bells or nuclear weapons at them. I didn’t say anything to him, as I didn’t want him to know I’d been scanning the old Remote Six frequencies. We were a day’s sail from our stronghold in the Keys. I’d stumbled upon a radio distress ping one week ago while out fishing with John. A large balloon secured with a thin cable marked the spot like a dropped pin on a smartphone app I’ll come back to that. Pre-undead technology hidden away in some bunker that’d never see the light of day if the dead didn’t start walking. In front of me was something very interesting. My sailboat, the Solitude, was anchored out a hundred meters from shore, and about a mile from where I stood. Although my Geiger read above acceptable radiation limits, it wasn’t by much, and I was being a bit cautious. No one knew at the time it happened, but after the government nuked New Orleans, the Waterford Nuclear Generating Station melted down, further contaminating the area. I was two hundred miles from any living human, deep inside the New Orleans exclusion zone. The radiation suit pressed against my perspiring skin and my breath was loud through the gas mask. All take place on Wednesday afternoons from 1:00 p.m. GENEALOGY: Librarian Gwen Kelley will lead a series of 15 beginner-intermediate genealogy seminars through April 2023. His next novel, A Song for Bellafortuna, is Book 1 of his Bellafortuna series. It won the Pinnacle Award for historical novels. His first book was Tempesta’s Dream – A Story of Love, Friendship and Opera. LoCoco is a New Orleans estate planning attorney. Giuseppe Sanguinetti, the village’s longtime leader, faces the immense grief of losing his son during the war while using all his strength to lead the village through its most dangerous enemy yet. At the same time, with the defeat of Mussolini and fascism, an old nemesis reemerged from the ashes – the Mafia. As money pours in from Italy, the black market becomes the islanders’ lifeline. Her first paying job was in the nursery of her town’s public library.Īfter the end of World War II, Sicily lay in ruins. She said she’s been a writer and book nerd all her life. Speranza is the granddaughter of Irish and Italian immigrants, raised Catholic and raised by nuns. Rose gets a job at the shipyard behind her parents’ back, where she feels free and important for the first time in her life. But she secretly dreams of becoming more like her fiercely independent, widowed godmother. Her parents expect Rose to marry a local boy and start a family. The island of a thousand mirrors5/21/2023 Munaweera's prose is both poetic and incisive, and she deftly navigates the fraught terrain of the conflict, without reducing it to a simplistic binary of good versus evil.Īt the heart of the novel is the friendship that develops between Yasodhara and Saraswathi, which transcends the ethnic and religious divides that have torn their country apart. One of the novel's strengths is its ability to capture the complex social and political landscape of Sri Lanka, where deep-rooted ethnic and religious tensions fueled the civil war. Through their eyes, we see the horrors of war, the devastation it wreaks on families and communities, and the human toll it exacts. Yasodhara and Saraswathi's stories are intertwined, and the novel weaves back and forth between their perspectives, exploring the experiences of both sides of the conflict. Yasodhara is a Sinhalese woman from the South, while Saraswathi is a Tamil woman from the North. The novel is told from the perspectives of two women, Yasodhara and Saraswathi, who come from opposite sides of the ethnic conflict that ravaged the island nation for more than a quarter-century. |