Bravo two zero6/28/2023 ![]() From left to right: Ryan, Consiglio, MacGown (obscured), Lane, Coburn (obscured), McNab (obscured), Phillips, Pring (obscured). Patrol members File:Bravo Two Zero (team photo).jpgīravo Two Zero patrol members. For McNab's conduct during the patrol, he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal, whilst Ryan, and two other patrol members (Steven Lane and Robert Consiglio) were awarded the Military Medal. The subsequent book, Soldier Five by patrol member Mike Coburn (Kiwi Mike), was released in 2004. ![]() The investigative book The Real Bravo Two Zero (2002) by Michael Asher, followed the patrol route and interviewed witnesses. ![]() Accounts in the first two books, by patrol commander Andy McNab's Bravo Two Zero (1993) followed by Chris Ryan's The One That Got Away (1995), as well as those by the SAS's RSM at the time of the patrol, Peter Ratcliffe ( Eye of the Storm, 2000), did not always correspond, leading to accusations from the media of lying. The patrol was the subject of several books. finding a good LUP (lying up position) and setting up an OP " on the Iraqi Main Supply Route (MSR) between Baghdad and North-Western Iraq, while according to another, the task was to find and destroy Iraqi Scud missile launchers along a 250 km (160 mi) stretch of the MSR. According to one patrol member's account, the patrol were given the task of "gathering intelligence. For the film, see film.īravo Two Zero was the call sign of an eight-man British Army SAS patrol, deployed into Iraq during the First Gulf War in January 1991. For the book, see Bravo Two Zero (1993 book). ![]()
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If we were villains cover6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. ![]() In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras.īut in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.Ī decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. "Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare…Readable, smart.” Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession.will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” “Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. ![]() You are a badass book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘When we share what we were brought here to give, we are in alignment with our highest, most powerful selves.’.‘The moment you have the audacity to start believing in the not-yet-seen, your reality will begin to shift.’. ![]() ‘If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn.’.You cut yourself off from the supply of awesomeness when you are not in a state of gratitude.’.‘If you wanna stay stuck in the same place and keep getting spanked with the same lessons over and over, be negative, resentful, and victimized.’.While reading it, I noted down powerful quotes so that I remember Jen Sincero’s teachings. The book has encouraged me to have faith, practice gratitude and fearlessly go after my dreams. I also feel inspired, and I believe that I can get whatever I want if I go after it. I just finished reading ‘ You Are A Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living An Awesome Life’ by Jen Sincero, and I feel unbeatable. ![]() Love dead jews6/28/2023 ![]() She writes that she felt gaslighted by the notion that having an interest in Jewish suffering is somehow “a sign of respect for living Jews.” Concern over recent antisemitic atrocities in the U.S. Horn’s book makes a point I’d never heard made. ![]() ![]() The rise of international and domestic reports about defaced synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in San Diego, Boston, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Chicago, and elsewhere are signs that even in America, antisemitism is on people’s mind. When I saw on TV recently masked, menacing men marching at the Lincoln Memorial, I was reminded of the 2017 torch rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where racist marchers chanted, “Jews will not replace us!” As if we wanted to. “I had mistaken the enormous public contract in past Jewish suffering for a sign of respect for living Jews. She dealt with an idea I’ve thought about for nearly nine decades yet never saw from her perspective: Could it happen here? Horn demonstrates that it already has. Horn’s evidence is overwhelming and scrupulously documented. Her argument is that the “ways we commemorate antisemitism and Jewish tragedy distract from a more direct reckoning…The future was the present, which was essentially the past…People murdering Jews is a three-thousand-year-old global phenomenon.”Įgypt, Spain, Germany, Russia, Baghdad - different eras, same results. ![]() But I was also curious enough to read the book, if only to understand what she meant by her provocative title. When I saw mention of Dara Horn’s People Love Dead Jews in the New York Times, I was revolted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Male voice choirs generally have a wide and varied repertoire and we, as choristers, enjoy singing a variety of different kinds of music. Gabrielle is an international adjudicator and musical consultant of considerable reputation.Ī big week ahead sees us at QEA on Friday evening and at Sutton URC on Saturday. “Your performance was first rate – but then Meryl would not allow anything less! There were many compliments flying around afterwards and you certainly made a great impression.” said music coordinator of the Event, Gabrielle Burgin Lister. Thanks, as always, to the music team and to Geoff, who does so much work in organising these events. It’s not so easy to perform under a canvass marquee but I thought the sound was pretty good and I’m sure we made a good impact on the public. ![]() There is a bottomless resourcefulness in man that ultimately enables him to transform ‘the spear of frustration” into a shaft of light – Howard ThurmanĬongratulations to all concerned and big thank you for such a great turnout at Newark Show last weekend. ![]() Sit like a frog mindfulness6/28/2023 ![]() They are not a cure-all, but they do offer ways to cope and grow in the process. The exercises in this wonderful book are suitable for kids with ADHD, dyslexia, and autism spectrum disorders. In it, the author provides exercises for kids that are simple and direct and that parents can do along with their children. Sitting Still Like a Frog provides basic meditation techniques for kids from ages seven through twelve. A founder of the Academy of Mindful Teaching in the Netherlands, she began to teach mindfulness courses for adults, parents, and children in 2004. Now comes Eline Snel with a "sutta" for kids titled Sitting Still Like a Frog.įor more than twenty years, Snel has been developing mindfulness training programs. ![]() Thousands of years ago, the Buddha taught mindfulness to his monks through such texts as the Satipatthana Sutta ("The Foundations of Mindfulness"). ![]() ![]() ![]() That meeting is but one among many in the trajectory of Bennett's young life, as he rode the cresting wave of spoken word through the 2010s. ![]() In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin-Manuel Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American theater. A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion. ![]() Cather's great plains trilogy6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1943. In later life, she experienced much negative criticism for her conservative politics and became reclusive, burning some of her letters and personal papers, including her last manuscript. She travelled widely and often spent summers in New Brunswick, Canada. ![]() In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her novel, 'One of Ours' (1922), set during World War I. Her novels on frontier life brought her to national recognition. Because of this, she changed her major and graduated with a bachelor's degree in English.Īfter graduation in 1894, she worked in Pittsburgh as writer for various publications and as a school teacher for approximately 13 years, thereafter moving to New York City for the remainder of her life. She then attended the University of Nebraska, initially planning to become a physician, but after writing an article for the Nebraska State Journal, she became a regular contributor to this journal. Wilella Sibert Cather was born in Back Creek Valley (Gore), Virginia, in December 7, 1873. ![]() Another day david6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() By the end of his career, Kapuściński calculated that he had lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, been jailed 40 times and survived four death sentences. ![]() He was sent abroad and ended up developing an award-winning career as Poland’s leading foreign correspondent, working for the communist government-approved Polish Press Agency. Kapuściński started working as a journalist soon after leaving Warsaw University in 1955. He received many awards and was at one point considered for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Ryszard Kapuściński (1932 to 2007) was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. ( Another Day of Life, page 108) Ryszard Kapuściński To others it is pages in a book, pictures on a screen, nothing more. War is a reality only to those stuck in its bloody filthy insides. The image of war is not communicable – not by the pen, or the voice, or the camera. ![]() Meghan gilliss lungfish6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Agent: Melanie Jackson, Melanie Jackson Agency. Meghan Gilliss Represented by Sarah Bowlin // Aevitas Creative Management () Or contact me directly this way: Name. Readers will appreciate the irony of how the Turners’ conditioning in enduring racial bias empowers them to master more macabre challenges. Meghan Gilliss LUNGFISH In the World Events Bio Contact LUNGFISH In the World Events Bio Contact. ![]() ![]() Ruff ( The Mirage) has an impressive grasp of classic horror themes, but the most unsettling aspects of his novel are the everyday experiences of bigotry that intensify the Turners’ encounters with the supernatural. As Braithwhite jockeys for ascendancy in the sorcerous Order of the Ancient Dawn, he draws Turner and his family and friends into a variety of intrigues, including the recovery of a book of occult lore, the manipulation of a Jekyll-esque split personality, and encounters with ghosts. The novel’s episodic events involve the extended family of Chicagoan Atticus Turner, who are lineal descendants of slaves once owned by the ancestors of New Englander Caleb Braithwhite. This timely rumination on racism in America refracts an African-American family’s brush with supernatural horrors through the prism of life in the Jim Crow years of the mid-20th century. ![]() |