Releasing the embrace, I smile timidly at her. Lunging her upper body in my direction, she wraps her arms tightly around my neck and kisses my cheek. “Oh my God! You really came! You really came!!” she yells loud enough for the entire first floor of the restaurant to hear. Thankfully, the stool to her right is open, and as I slide onto the green padded seat, she begins to squeal and bounce up and down in her chair. Shifting the transmission into park, I take several deep breaths to help calm the nerves using my stomach as a dance floor, and before I can lose my resolve and drive myself back home, I hop out of the SUV and scurry through the oppressive Georgia summer heat toward the entrance.Īs soon as I walk through the glass door, I see Stella perched on one of the stools up at the old-style wood bar, chatting it up with some of the other patrons and openly flirting with the young bartender. After about a fifteen-minute trip, I pull into the parking lot across the street from NONA, short for New Orleans ‘N Athens, a popular upscale Cajun restaurant, which is well-known for its Oysters Rockefeller and Shrimp and Grits.
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NPRs Michel Martin speaks with creator Matthew A. Tender and empowering, Hair Love is an ode to loving your natural hair - and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere. Movie: Hair Love The new animated short, follows the story of an African-American father trying to do his daughters hair. But he LOVES his Zuri, and he'll do anything to make her - and her hair - happy. When Daddy steps in to style it for an extra special occasion, he has a lot to learn. It kinks, coils, and curls every which way. Cherry and New York Times bestselling illustrator Vashti Harrison. Its up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters, from former. It's up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this ode to self-confidence and the love between fathers and daughters, from Academy-Award winning director and former NFL wide receiver Matthew A. The extraordinary book has changed my life. Since then I am associated with the activities of Ananda in Kolkata and amd participating in its programmes. Immediately I registered for the classes and by the end of 2006 I became a kriyaban of Ananda. In 2004, I was transferred to Kolkata and the seed of desire of learning Kriya Yoga sprouted in April 2006, when I saw an ad of Ananda Sangha to learn kriya yoga. Subsequently I read the whole book and I kept reading from the book off and on. I was mesmerised by this chapter and the seed of desire to learn kriya yoga was sown in my heart. I had been doing hatha yoga and pranayam since adolescence and I had also read the book on Kundalini Yoga by Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Again after a gap of 3-4 months I read the chapter ‘The Science of Kriya Yoga’. Being a student of science I am attracted by scientific explanations. The chapter on ‘The law of Miracles’ attracted and engaged me much. After around 3-4 months I again started reading it from here and there. I read a few chapters and then put it aside thinking it is has too many of miracles.īut it always remained on by book shelf. I was 30 years old in 1992 when my boss gifted me the Autobiography of a Yogi as a prize for participating in a lecture competition. The fact that he is also willing to help Carrie get into a writing program makes her like him even more. They remain in touch, become close friends and she starts to like him as well. At the same time, having been to an interview at Brown in New York, following her application, Carrie met a student named George who also showed great interest in her. He eventually asks her out and they become a couple. Carrie falls in love with him and he also shows interest in her. Carrie meets a new boy at her school, Sebastian - a handsome young man who is incredibly popular with the ladies. In addition to stressing about her future, Carrie stresses over the fact that she is the only one in her group of friends who seemingly still hasn't lost her virginity and she wonders whether she will lose it before heading off upon graduation from high school. I don’t know what took me so long to see that he’s the one, but I’m glad I finally woke up.” I found myself laughing, crying and even gasping out loud while reading, this book was such a huge win! So if you’re a fan of swoon worthy romance, a fabulous group of friends and the fake boyfriend trope, you definitely have to pick this one up! Clarke’s fingers dug slightly into her hip, reminding her of the plan, and she played her part, winding an arm around his waist and beaming up at him. I fell madly in love with the fake fiancée story-line…oh my heart, it was so much fun! And I loved Audrey, Clarke, and their group of friends. Marriage on Madison Avenue was the perfect ending to this series. As the faux wedding date looms closer, Audrey and Clarke realize that they can never go back to the way things were, but deep down, do they really want to? Clarke is the charming playboy Audrey can always count on, and he knows that the ever-loyal Audrey will never not play along with his strategy for dodging his matchmaking mother-announcing he’s already engaged…to Audrey.īut what starts out as a playful game between two best friends turns into something infinitely more complicated, as just-for-show kisses begin to stir up forbidden feelings. After all, they’ve been best friends since childhood without a single romantic entanglement. Marriage on Madison Avenue ( Central Park Pact #3)Ĭan guys and girls ever be just friends? According to Audrey Tate and Clarke West, absolutely. On the Incarnation for Teens, simplifies the arguments in the original book while answering many of the common questions we have today about the topic. Because of his contribution to Christian theology, Athanasius earned the Coptic title ‘Athanasios Pi-Apostolikos’ which means ‘Athanasius the Apostolic.’ Because of his constant rivalry with emperors, Athanasius earned the Latin title ‘Athanasius Contra Mundum’ which means ‘Athanasius Against the World’. The first is called ‘Against the Gentiles’ where he argues against the pagans, the second is ‘On the Incarnation,’ where he speaks about the incarnation of Jesus Christ, and the third is ‘The Life of St Anthony’, where he tells the story of the great monk St Anthony. St Athanasius wrote many books, three of which are particularly famous. ‘On the Incarnation’, one of the most famous books in all Christian history, was written by an equally famous saint – beloved of the Egyptians – St Athanasius the Great of Alexandria. If that didn't prove his intelligence, what would? Before he knew it, he had proved a new theorem. Along the way, he realized that one of his assumptions, in combination with the simplified Navier Stokes equations, had led him into an exploration of a particularly interesting family of partial differential equations. Lawrence dove into the problem, rapidly (or so he thought) covering both sides of ten sheets of paper with calculations. Basically it was a question of hydrodynamics, which could be tackled using certain well-known systems of differential equations. More complicated variations could be expected at bends in the river. The current would be faster in the middle of the river and slower at the banks. Clearly, 5 miles per hour was nothing more than the average speed. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat. Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back? The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. “He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy. As shockwaves rippled throughout the NFL system, the very legitimacy of one of the league's most popular teams and their star quarterback began to erode, even as the Patriots and Brady went on to win that year's Super Bowl. As evidence began to build, however, a full on NFL investigation was launched, exploding an unsubstantiated rumor into an intense scandal that would lead news coverage for weeks. In January 2015, rumors circulated that the New England Patriots - a team long suspected of abiding by the if you ain't cheating you ain't trying philosophy - had used under-inflated footballs in their playoff victory against the Indianapolis Colts. The thrilling behind-the-scenes account of how the NFL's most sensational scandal culminated in sports history's greatest comeback, featuring dozens of exclusive interviews with Patriots players - including Tom Brady himself. Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse-who held that “fascism could happen anywhere,” and that authoritarianism is a “more or less universal modern phenomenon.” Likewise, we concur with Paul Gilroy, who writes that “barbarity can appear anywhere, at any time.” Īccordingly, as we explore these five books, we will confront not only the “brown” fascism indelibly associated with Benito Mussolini, National Socialism (or Nazism), Trumpism, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust, but also Black, “red” (Communist), Syrian, Indian, and Chinese fascism and authoritarianism. In general, we agree with the theorists of the Frankfurt School-like Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. This book review essay seeks to answer this question and explore fascism and the far right by examining five recently published anti-fascist (Antifa) and anti-authoritarian volumes: namely, Lars Rensmann’s own The Politics of Unreason ¡No Pasarán! (2022), edited by Shane Burley Ilham Tohti’s We Uyghurs Have No Say (2022) Luke Cooper’s Authoritarian Contagion: The Global Threat to Democracy (2021) and Charles Reitz’s The Revolutionary Ecological Legacy of Herbert Marcuse (2022). In The Politics of Unreason (2017), Lars Rensmann poses an important question about fascism and anti-Semitism: namely, are these oppressive phenomena “specific to German or European culture-or rather universal, the byproduct of universal authoritarian phenomena, susceptibilities, and tendencies in modern society. LeMaitre shares have added about 18.8% since the beginning of the year versus the S&P 500's gain of 8.6%. The sustainability of the stock's immediate price movement based on the recently-released numbers and future earnings expectations will mostly depend on management's commentary on the earnings call. The company has topped consensus revenue estimates two times over the last four quarters. This compares to year-ago revenues of $39.56 million. LeMaitre, which belongs to the Zacks Medical - Products industry, posted revenues of $47.08 million for the quarter ended March 2023, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 7.63%. Over the last four quarters, the company has surpassed consensus EPS estimates just once. A quarter ago, it was expected that this medical device maker would post earnings of $0.26 per share when it actually produced earnings of $0.25, delivering a surprise of -3.85%. This quarterly report represents an earnings surprise of 8%. These figures are adjusted for non-recurring items. This compares to earnings of $0.27 per share a year ago. LeMaitre Vascular (LMAT) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.27 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.25 per share. |