![]() Changes are occurring and making progress toward transparency, and I think they’re for the better, but living in the past isn’t always for the better.Ĭhris Leonard, former Associated Press agribusiness reporter, released a book, “ The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business”, that takes a look at the impact the largest four packers have on the meat industry and how that consolidation has affected farmers and ranchers. I’ve shared information about these conversations in the past, including the “ glass walls project” with a transparent look at the process of animal slaughter and even other nostalgic looks at the industry with the book Gaining Ground. This time it’s another book with a critical eye on the meat and poultry industries in the United States. Earlier this month, the efforts continued to look at food and meat production with a nostalgic yearning for yesterday. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() She won the Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Conference (GPCWC) awards for writer of the year for two consecutive years 20. She is also director of the Northeast zone where she leads the membership loop for the New England states, New York and New Jersey. The magazine has released monthly issues of columns by best, bright and celebrated authors, agents and publishers in the industry for the the last seven years. As director of CFBA, she deals with over 200 book reviewers. Thanks to her love of writing, Bonnie progressed naturally into marketing and advertising. Their home sits on 15 acres of land in an upstate area of Binghamton, New York. She lives with her husband Bob in a log cabin complete with a pond, apple orchard and three other companions: a dog and two cats. In her spare time Bonnie is an avid social media junkie and teaches Facebook, Twitter, blogging and HTML. She retired as a seamstress and clothing designer to dedicate herself to writing fulltime. She is a member of the International Thriller Writers and also an industry professional member. Calhoun is a female author, who writes books in the suspense, young adult and science fiction genres. The Christmas Quilt (By:Vannetta Chapman)Ī Promise in Pieces (By:Emily T. A Wild Goose Chase Christmas (By:Jennifer AlLee) ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything previously moving with the grain is now against- you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable, and enmeshed totally in the blackest caves of the mind. Humor and absorption on friends' faces are replaced by fear and concern. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. ![]() Feelings of ease, intensity, power, well-being, financial omnipotence, and euphoria pervade one's marrow. Sensuality is pervasive and the desire to seduce and be seduced irresistible. There are interests found in uninteresting people. Shyness goes, the right words and gestures are suddenly there, the power to captivate others a felt certainty. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars, and you follow them until you find better and brighter ones. ![]() “There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1865: The losses mount : "The great cloud darkening the land" "If we can save our scalps" "I hardly expect to live to see it completed" - pt. 1864: Struggle for momentum : "First dictator of the railroad world" "Dancing with a whirlwind" "Trustees of the bounty of Congress" - pt. 1863: Last of the dreamers : "Speculation is as fatal to it as secession" "I have had a big row and fight" - pt. 1860-61: Union, disunion, incorporation : "Raise the money and I will build your road" "There comes crazy Judah" "The marks left by the Donner Party" "The most difficult country ever conceived" "We have drawn the elephant" - pt. 1845-57: A procession of dreamers : "For all the human family" "Who can oppose such a work?" "I must walk toward Oregon" "The great object for which we were created" "An uninhabited and dreary waste" - pt. Includes bibliographical references (pages 759-777) and indexĬhronicles the events that took place in the thirty years it took to complete the first transcontinental railroad, profiling the key players in its development, the major setbacks the workers faced, and the public objections to the railroad's completion ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() So, I must have been around 14 when I read this for the first time. Only Elizabeth will know – and the killer. And if Elizabeth has her way, they’ll never find out. Because she was out of town when it happened, Isabel’s friends don’t know she’s gone. Then Isabel is murdered – and her twin wants to find out why. ![]() Elizabeth ended up with her mother, a jet-setting socialite who hopscotched her young daughter all over the world. Isabel stayed with her father, a brilliant and reclusive author. and her enemies.Įlizabeth and Isabel hadn’t seen each other since their parents divorced when they were three. I wore her favorite fuzzy sweater, kissed her boyfriend, inherited her friends. I took over my sister’s life after she died, slipped into her place without missing a beat. no oneĭescription: And then there was one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, Roberts looks more like a blissed-out holy man than either a bank robber or the bestselling author he became when Shantaram,an epic 936-page novel based on his own life, was published in 2003. “They thought no one would be crazy enough to escape over the front wall.” “If you’re planning an escape, you look for the place that’s least protected,” explains Roberts, now 70, at home in Jamaica. It’s an audacious, brazen escape, and at one o’clock on a July afternoon in 1980, it’s exactly how convicted bank robber Gregory David Roberts broke out of Melbourne’s Pentridge Prison. ![]() He’s over the front wall and away before the guards in the machine gun towers even turn their heads. Not for him chipping away at a dank tunnel for 17 years like Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption. In the opening moments of the new Apple Plus series Shantaram, Charlie Hunnam breaks out of prison the fast way. ![]() ![]() ![]() #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride. ![]() The ebook arrives immediately as a downloadable epub file.If this purchase is refunded, a $10 charge will be retained to cover the cost of the ebook. Digital product purchases are nonreturnable.I’m excited to present this first book to you at last: a different type of Brandon Sanderson story, one I wrote when there were no time constraints, no expectations, and no limits on my imagination. ![]() She urged me to share it with the world-and alongside three other secret novels, with the support of readers worldwide it grew into the biggest Kickstarter campaign of all time. Note from Brandon: I started writing this in secret, as a novel just for my wife. A perfect introduction to Brandon's work, and a delightful story in the tradition of the Princess Bride, Good Omens, and Stardust. Includes free ebook!Įxperience one of the books that launched the biggest kickstarter of all time. Tress of the Emerald Sea Premium Hardcover Book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ĭlaw is the central figure of the exhibition, "The Life and Times of Scarface Claw", that included more than 40 illustrations of "the roughest and toughest, boldest and bravest of cats". Scarface Claw stars in a picture book, Scarface Claw, Hold Tight, to be released on 2 October 2017. ![]() ![]() Scarface's sole starring role to date, however, is in the 2001 eponymous book, where he proves unafraid of anything, including dogs, thunderstorms, and large hairy spiders but in the final scene is reduced to abject terror by catching sight of himself in a dusty mirror. He features in several of the books that follow, including Hairy Maclary Scattercat (1985), Caterwaul Caper (1987) (where he becomes stuck up a tree and shatters the town's peace and quiet with his appalling howling), Rumpus at the Vet (1989), Hairy Maclary's Showbusiness (1991) (a cat show where he wins the prize for "Most Bad-Tempered"), and Slinky Malinki Catflaps (1998). Scarface Claw is introduced in the first Hairy Maclary story, the 1983 Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy, where he appears from the shadows to terrify Hairy Maclary and his canine friends as they prowl through the town. A large, black cat with big yellow eyes and chunks missing from his ears, Scarface has a reputation as the "toughest Tom in town". Scarface Claw is a fictitious tom cat who features in the Hairy Maclary children's stories written by New Zealand author Lynley Dodd. ![]() ![]() "It's just a matter of working through as quickly as we can," he says. Salazar says the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island may reopen in phases as repairs are completed. Add in the damage at other nearby national parks, such as Gateway National Recreation Area and Fire Island National Seashore, and the total rises to more than $200 million. The National Park Service says these two islands alone will need $59 million worth of repairs. On nearby Ellis Island, historical artifacts and exhibits survived the storm intact, but underground flooding destroyed a lot of the island's infrastructure, including heating and electrical systems. ![]() Docks and buildings will need to be repaired or replaced. But across Liberty Island, paving stones are missing and large chunks of fence are washed away. The statue itself escaped the storm unscathed. "You folks would not have been able to walk around here the first couple weeks," Luchsinger says. David Luchsinger, superintendent of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, led the secretary on a walking tour. On Thursday, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar made his first visit to the Statue of Liberty since the storm. Flood damage inflicted by the storm has closed Liberty Island and nearby Ellis Island indefinitely. ![]() The Statue of Liberty still lifts her lamp beside the golden door, but the island that's home to the iconic statue was severely tempest-tost by Superstorm Sandy. ![]() ![]() ![]() He’s also curious about Schulz’s creative decision to finally realize her on the page, just the once. Martino says he is “personally thankful” for the existence of that 1998 strip. They reproduced the profile and proportions precisely, put her in a striking electric-cyan dress, and conjured up what Martino deems a “special” hue of red hair: a supermarket-tomato red that’s distinct from that of the other Peanuts redheads Peppermint Patty and Frieda. Instead, with the same painstaking care they lavished on the other aesthetic considerations of the project, the Peanuts Movie animators looked to the Little Red-Haired Girl’s single silhouetted appearance in Schulz’s 1998 strip. The design of the character in those specials, however, suggests Melendez’s looser hand rather than that of Schulz, who had little involvement in the specials and didn’t regard them canon. The character has, in fact, had on-screen roles in the past, including two of the classic Peanuts television specials concocted by animation director Bill Melendez, It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977) and Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (1986). It’s not lost on us that Charles Schulz left her to our imagination.” ![]() “We had many, many days of conversation about this. Putting the character on-screen in The Peanuts Movie was not a move taken lightly. TM and © 2014 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. ![]() |