![]() ![]() ![]() On a microcosmic level, the author follows the lives of two LAPD officers, John Skaggs and Wally Tennelle, the former investigating the murder of the latter’s son. Leovy posits that the gang violence in LA is the result of the local police simply not doing their jobs. Leovy’s big-picture thesis is that whether you’re talking about the “rough justice” of vigilante revenge killings in Ghana, Northern Ireland or South Central LA, the one underlying cause is the same: a vacuum left by a legal system that fails to serve everyone equally. In her debut, the author journeys where most fear to tread: the perennially mean streets of South Central LA, where she uses the senseless murder of a policeman’s progeny as a jumping-off point to investigate broader issues of why, even as violent crime as a whole in America continues to drop, that urban area sees so many of its people dying by tragically violent means. Los Angeles Times reporter and editor Leovy looks at the thinly veiled racist origins of violence in South Central LA. ![]()
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![]() ![]() They might object to the fact that there's far more fighting than fucking and the lack of political consciousness. ![]() ![]() Some readers may object to the depiction of sex (very low key, implied rather than explicit), the fact that they never say "I love you" or talk much about the relationship at all (in short, typical men of that time and pretty much any time). He makes it clear that the problems they face are imposed by a homophobic society, not from their fundamentally flawed relationship. ![]() But the author doesn't betray his characters by having them breakup or kill themselves or sink into a seedy gay underworld because (as SO many novels of the time implied) that's just what the gays do, they can't be happy. It's not a 100% happy ending (many reviewers have described it as "bittersweet") due to the realities of the time period. But I want to put it right up front that this is not a downer of a novel with the obligatory unhappy ending like most of the gay-themed novels of my youth. Written in 1979 by a former USN officer, it tells the story of fighter pilots Fred Trusteau and Jack Hardigan, battling the Japanese across the Pacific and coming to terms with their feelings for each other, and the equally hazardous undertaking of making a life together in postwar America. ![]() ![]() ![]() I covered agribusiness for the Associated Press, and before that, I worked at smaller newspapers. I've been a business reporter in the Midwest for about 10 years. ![]() ![]() This interview has been edited for length and clarity.įirst, could you tell us a little bit about your relationship to the meat industry? How were you able to get this inside view of what's going on in Tyson's boardrooms? Leonard spoke with Salon about how he brought these heavily guarded secrets to light, and explained why those who would defend the industry are apologists for a system gone wildly awry. " The Meat Racket," Leonard's new exposé, lays it all out on the chopping board: how virtually all of our meat is produced by the same four companies, led by Tyson, how those companies manage to keep the farmers who raise their chickens under crippling debt while ensuring that poultry prices stay high, and how the only real choice left for the consumer is to either partake or opt out of meat altogether. "It's been very telling to me how bothered consumers are when they learn how this industry really operates," Leonard told Salon. Our health, the well-being of animals and large swaths of rural America are all under threat by America's monopolized meat industry, Leonard says, and the full extent to which it's taken over should be making us a lot angrier than it is. The dark secrets behind America's meat industry are enough to make us sick - and according to journalist Christopher Leonard, that's only the start of it. ![]() ![]() I enjoyed some of the stories more than others but those that I enjoyed I LOVED, the book is a good length too.įor those who enjoy fractured fairy tales, Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and have an equally wicked sense of humor and tolerance for the cleverly bizarre this book is one to read. The books starts off a bit slow with the introduction of characters from the authors other books, but it continues to get better and better until it gets plain genius, brilliantly mischievous, wicked and playfully dark. ![]() The rhymes vary in their levels of naughtiness and shock value, from the very shocking using the occasional controversial word or phrase to the very appropriate “inappropriate” rhyme and story. If you are a fan of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes you will really enjoy Rhymes from the Cabbage Patch. ![]() ![]() Myleene Klass strips down to an orange bikini on I'm A Celeb after hitting back at trolls who accused of recreating THAT shower scene to 'win' the show but the 79-year-old still claims his latest baby was planned ![]() Robert De Niro has SEVEN children born across SIX decades from FOUR mothers. Shakira seen for the first time after THAT flirty outing with 'romantically interested' Tom Cruise as she heads out on boat ride with pals in Miami 'The rest of the cake I will save in its box and I will sell it with the rest of my collection for charity after my death. 'I didn't have any after-effects from my nibbles so I will have a proper portion to celebrate on coronation day. 'It still had taste, although it was rather dry after 42 years. 'There is plenty of cake attached to the icing marzipan base so I have tried a few nibbles. ![]() 'This is going to be a very expensive breakfast, a slice from one of the most iconic cakes in the world. He said: 'You could call me a mad monarchist, I have the royal crest with the coronation flag flying outside my house at the moment. Gerry, a yacht skipper from London, paid almost £2,000 for it in 2021 and has resisted tucking into it. She kept it preserved in clingfilm before her family sold it in 2008. ![]() It is thought the cake was given to Moya Smith, a member of the Queen Mother's staff. About 20 wedding cakes were made for the historic royal wedding in July 1981. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Connecting real-time hazard and impact data with users:proof of concept of a visualisation tool, GNS Science. (2020) Connecting real-time hazard and impact data with users: proof of concept of a visualisation tool. Potter S., Harrison S., Thomas K-L., Leonard G., Skilton J., Apiti M., Balfour N., Harvey S., Coomer M.(2018) Sedimentary and geochemical signature of the 2016 Kaikōura Tsunami at Little Pigeon Bay: A depositional benchmark for the Banks Peninsula region, New Zealand. Williams S., Zhang T., Chagué C., Williams J., Goff J., Lane EM., Bind J., Qasim I., Thomas KL.Australian Journal of Emergency Management 35(3): 71-78. (2020) Disaster memorial events for increasing awareness and preparedness: 150 years since the Arica tsunami in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Thomas KL., Kaiser L., Campbell E., Johnston D., Campbell H., Solomon R., Jack H., Borrero J.International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 47. ![]() (2020) The scientific response to the 14 November 2016 Kaikōura tsunami – Lessons learnt from a moderate event. Select Make, A & L Fiberglass, A & M Manufacturing Inc, A1A Nautical Inc, AB Inflatables, Abbott Boats.
![]() However, Poppy and Joyce are representative of a trend in femininity that attempts to pursue social authority in the contemporary British public sphere by way of degrading the spirit of marginalized persons. ![]() Importantly, we are also introduced to Poppy Burt-Jones, a schoolteacher who seeks to portray herself as a morally progressive thinker and advocate for equality among all racial and ethnic groups. I argue that Zadie Smith has crafted White Teeth, in part, as a critique of contemporary British feminism and to show that feminism has been founded on a paradigm that largely seeks to control and hierarchize particular forms of femininity, and categorize these forms according to race, ethnic backgrounds, and sexual orientation. Smith brings satire and humor into the novel to lighten the heavy themes being addressed by showing that although Joyce claims to be a feminist, she symbolizes a tough contradiction, by relying on her husband not only financially, but also to validate how physically attractive she is. Joyce also represents the type of feminist that is troubling to so many women in western culture: the “white,” heteronormative feminist. ![]() Midway through Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, we are introduced to Joyce Chalfen, a modern woman who seeks to create her identity as an authorial voice and a “staunch feminist” that successfully advises women on how to grow the perfect English garden, as well as how to become the ideal woman (Smith 324). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was sure too, he’d have clocked my rolling it in the hankies, lifting it, perhaps also mind-reading my intention to carry it up to the usual place. Probably had gotten the detail of my picking it up, of walking back, walking forth, all that dithering about beforehand. I knew though, that he was well aware of what it was. ![]() All through our exchange I made no reference to this head, nor did I look at it. Here I was, standing beside this milkman, my thoughts easily to become terrified, not helped either by the dead cat’s head I was holding in my hands. Here, we see an eighteen-year-old girl caught up in the building pressure of an ethno-nationalist conflict-a war- threatening to erupt at any moment. But this scene, in which the unnamed heroine stumbles across a cat’s head in the rubble of a bombed-out building, unites the political with the deeply personal. ![]() This week, Anna Caritj, author of “ White Angora” from our Summer 2019 issue, examines a passage from Milkman by Anna Burns.Īnna Burns’s Milkman is outwardly a novel about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. For our Marginalia web feature, we ask writers to introduce us to their favorite works of literature by way of a short piece of prose. ![]() ![]() ![]() His objective is to have maintenance work done on his time machine and when he goes to pick it up, he encounters his future self. He makes one trip to a city in Minor Universe 31, a residential and entertainment world made mostly from a science fiction "substrate," where the company for which he works is headquartered. Charles's parents, a few clients, and several street performers are the only other humans that he encounters during the course of the story. Accompanied only by his dog and a computer that has the pixilated face of a female and a cartoon-like voice, Charles hopes to one day locate his father in some alternate universe to which he apparently has traveled in a time machine. The protagonist is a lonely and rather sad fellow, who spends much of his non-working hours drifting along in his capsule, thinking about his past and his parents, especially his father who disappeared long ago. As the novel progresses, it is revealed that this man's name is the same as that of the author, Charles Yu. ![]() He makes calls on people who have rented time machines for recreational purposes but have become stuck in time and must be rescued by him. ![]() It concerns a young man who has spent most of the past decade in a small time machine in his job as a time machine repairman. Charles Yu's debut novel, How to Life Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, could be described as a story about contemporary family life disguised as science fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her autobiographical "Digressions" in the book Knitting Around reprinted many of her original artworks alongside the text. Zimmermann attended boarding school in England and art schools in Switzerland and Germany. ![]() Elizabeth Zimmermann helped to re-introduce continental style knitting to the United States.īorn Elizabeth Lloyd-Jones in London, England, Zimmermann was the daughter of a British naval officer her mother invented Meals by Motor, one of the earliest businesses delivering meals to peoples homes. Many English-language books on knitting are in the English or American style. During World War II, German or continental knitting fell out of favor in the UK and US due to its association with Germany. She also advocated the Continental knitting method, claiming that it is the most efficient and quickest way to knit. ![]() Though knitting back and forth on rigid straight needles was the norm, she advocated knitting in the round using flexible circular needles to produce seamless garments and to make it easier to knit intricate patterns. She revolutionized the modern practice of knitting through her books and instructional series on American public television. Elizabeth Zimmermann (9 August 1910 – 30 November 1999) was a British-born hand knitting teacher and designer. ![]() |