Greg ross futility closet5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() It is organized according to principles that are intrinsic to the world of sounds, and which would be operative even if there were no physical events that could be identified as the causes of the individual sounds.” The auditory Gestalt is not merely incongruous with the physical events that produce it. “Yet the sequences as heard are played into neither ear, and represent no causally unified process in the physical world. “It is as though the sounds gravitate towards neighbours, where ‘neighbourhood’ is defined not by the physical proximity of the causative events, but by adjacent places on the pitch spectrum,” writes philosopher Roger Scruton. Though the pattern in each channel jumps around in pitch, when they’re combined we tend to hear two smooth scales. ![]() Listen first with the left and right channels in balance, then isolate each ear. This illusion was discovered by University of California psychologist Diana Deutsch. ![]()
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Bébé Day by Day by Pamela Druckerman5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved children, from the author of There Are No Grown-ups. ![]() Witty, pithy and brimming with common sense, Bébé Day By Day offers a mix of practical tips and guiding principles, to help parents find their own way. ![]() How do you teach your child patience? How do you get him to like broccoli? How do you encourage your baby to sleep through the night? How can you have a child and still have a life?Īlongside these time-tested lessons of French parenting are favourite recipes straight from the menus of the Parisian crèche and winsome drawings by acclaimed French illustrator Margaux Motin. She set out to learn how the French achieve all this, while telling the story of her own young family in Paris.īébé Day By Day distills the lessons of Bringing up Bébé into an easy-to-read guide for parents and caregivers. À la carte wisdom from the international bestseller Bringing up Bébé, journalist and mother Pamela Druckerman investigated a society of good sleepers, gourmet eaters, and mostly calm parents. ![]() John Dillinger by Dary Matera5/10/2023 ![]() The prisoners successfully escaped that day while Dillinger was sitting in a Lima, Ohio jail after being arrested while visiting his girlfriend. In September 1933, Dillinger was able to have guns smuggled into a thread shipment to the shirt factory where the prisoners were working. He began a series of quick bank robberies throughout small towns in Ohio and Indiana to fund the escape. On May 22, 1933, Dillinger was paroled from Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. Dillinger had an agreement with fellow inmate Harry 'Pete' Pierpont to help prisoners escape after he was paroled in exchange for being in Pierpont's gang once they were out. The real John Dillinger did smuggle guns to the inmates but was not present during the escape. ![]() John Dillinger -Letter from John Dillinger to Henry Ford, May 16, 1934ĭid Dillinger break his friends out of jail after he was paroled like Johnny Depp does in the first scene of the movie Public Enemies? I can make any other car take a Ford's dust. Your slogan should be, Drive a Ford and watch the other cars fall behind you. Hello Old Pal: - Arrived here at 10 AM today. ![]() The promise in a kiss stephanie laurens5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() To lie would be a sin, but no one can be good all the time. So when the good sisters rush up, demanding to know if she has seen a man on the grounds, Helena ignores the years of strict upbringing that insist she reveal his presence. and it’s the most utterly romantic gesture she’s ever seen. Why else would he have risked his neck and jumped out of a window into the snow? It’s wrong, it’s outlandish. He’s clearly a bit dangerous… and obviously caught in the middle of a clandestine rendezvous. So when a man literally falls at Helena’s feet as she’s walking through the courtyard one moonlit Christmas Eve, the pretty, young comtesse d’Lisle knows he’s up to no good. ![]() What would you do if you were kissed by the most handsome stranger you’d ever seen? And what if that man was a Cynster? Every girl–even convent-educated ones–dreams of forbidden kisses. You can read this before The Promise in a Kiss (Cynster, #0.5) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book The Promise in a Kiss (Cynster, #0.5) written by Stephanie Laurens which was published in 2001–. ![]() Brief Summary of Book: The Promise in a Kiss (Cynster, #0.5) by Stephanie Laurens ![]() The personal mba by josh kaufman5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() As entrepreneurs, we also know that business schools (and universities in general) are stale, old institutions that don’t provide the value that the claim to.Īttending one of the top three Business schools will leave you in around $150,000 worth of debt, but also according to this financial times article, you’ll also lose $100,000 due to loss of salary or opportunity costs. Business has quite a few very important ideas and principles, learn these and partner them with common sense then you’re good to at least go and start making a name for yourself. Josh Kaufman, the author starts off by explaining something that most entrepreneurial people know to be true, that you do NOT need to attend business school to learn how to do, or build a successful business. That statement, however, gives more of an incite into top business schools than the book itself. ![]() ![]() Obviously the book is not comparable with an MBA……. This book’s title is perfect in the sense that it’s a great mixture of truth and marketing. ![]() Tank Girl by Alan C. Martin5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Characters appear slightly more fleshed-out and Tank Girl herself seems somewhat more… coherent than usual. The story in Two Girls, One Tank is slightly less surreal and more narrative-driven than many previous outings. ![]() While it may sound like typical Tank Girl fare, there are a few noteworthy differences, particularly in the storytelling department. Thus Jones becomes the eponymous second girl as alluded to in the comic’s title. While Tank Girl sets off on a mission to reclaim the physical manifestation of her identity, Magnolia Jones becomes so endeared by the tank that she herself shaves her head and becomes a secondary Tank Girl, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that life imitates art… or something. Though less-than-amused, it turns out the tank in question is not far-off: it happens to be in nearby Sydney, where it has been procured by an art deal named Magnolia Jones. Our intrepid outback outlaw sees her beloved tank missing after Booga bet it in a game of cards and subsequently lost. ![]() ![]() Compared to the short Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel. It is also worth mentioning that due to this, these films have a rather nightmarish vision and feel surreal, especially The Forbidden, since it has a mixture of negative tape with black and white, which makes it look very strange and sometimes I finish it. Barkers short story, about a man whose hands gain sentience and rebel against him with predictably violent results, serves as one half of the inspiration for this tedious made-for-TV. As they struggle, the last surviving human runner makes it to the finish line and Hell loses once again. ![]() Before he can win, Joel engages in a struggle with Hell's runner, who bites off his face. ![]() It is because of the editing and the mixed images that these tapes can be somewhat difficult to understand, but the concept explains everything and more than movies themselves, rather they are a visual experience. A satanist politician, Gregory, has made a bargain with Hell on the outcome of the race. Both shorts are silent and filmed in black and white, but the peculiarity of these is the editing, since the story of both is narrated through images, but in such a way that it makes them look like music videos. In fact, I found them to be quite a striking experiment for Clive Barker to decide to start his early days in the cinema and they are no different from other very peculiar short films made by great directors in their early days. As movies themselves I can't say that Salome and The Forbidden are very good, but they are quite rare and curious. ![]() Haddix risked5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The eighth and final book, Redeemed, was released on September 8, 2015. The series continued with book titles Sent, Sabotaged, Torn, Caught, Risked (originally intended to be titled Kept), and Revealed. ![]() The first book in the series, Found, was published on April 22, 2008. ![]() Because Jonah is one of the stolen children, he, along with his non-adopted sister Katherine, must help return the missing kids to their rightful places in history and fix time before it is destroyed. They are then adopted by families in the 21st century. It tells the story of famous children from history stolen by futuristic time travelers from their place in time and accidentally sent to the 21st century as babies. The Missing is a series of fictional young-adult novels written by Margaret Peterson Haddix. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Young adult, Historical fiction, Science fiction, Adventure Cover for Found, the first book in the seriesįound, Sent, Sabotaged, Torn, Caught, Risked, Revealed, Redeemed ![]() Barnes julian arthur & george5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() Barnes recounts is the real-life-inspired story of how Arthur took up George's case and by playing detective tried to restore George's good name. The George in the novel is one George Edalji, a half-Indian solicitor who was convicted in 1903 of mutilating farm animals in his rural parish. The Arthur in Julian Barnes's new novel is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur & George By Julian Barnes 386 pages. ![]() Trans by Helen Joyce5/8/2023 ![]() “First it was folk like this saying ‘we just have concerns’… ‘we only want a debate’. “This kind of commentary has been getting progressively worse over the last five years,” Christine Burns, author of Trans Britain, told PinkNews. The clip was widely shared on social media and led to instant backlash from trans people, with many drawing attention to Joyce’s suggestion that the number of people who transition should be reduced. Helen Joyce’s comments described as ‘chilling’ ![]() ![]() “And I mean the people who’ve been damaged by it – the children who’ve been put through this – those people deserve every accommodation we can possibly make, but every one of them is a difficulty.” Joyce continued: “If you’ve got people – whether they’re transitioned, whether they’re happily transitioned, whether they’re unhappily transitioned, whether they’re detransitioned – if you’ve got people who’ve dissociated from their sex in some way, every one of those people is someone who needs special accommodation in a sane world where we re-acknowledge the truth of sex. ![]() |