![]() ![]() I’m always anticipating for the runners to go so I just try to make the throw, make the play and they get themselves out, I guess.“ ![]() “When you’re playing defense you’re doing everything you can to keep the other team from scoring runs,” Acuña said via a translator. brought a roar from the sellout crowd of 40,800 at Truist Park in the 11th when he caught Adam Frazier’s 322-foot flyout and made a one-hop throw to third baseman Austin Riley, who tagged Austin Hays for a double play. Harris hit a game-ending double off Cionel Pérez in the 12th inning, and the Atlanta Braves beat Baltimore 3-2 on Sunday to stop the Orioles’ streak of seven consecutive winning series.īraves right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. I got up there first pitch and tried to hit something hard and I did.” ”So to see them walk Ozuna and want to have to face me, it kind of put a fire in my you-know-what. “I was having some good at-bats all game,“ Harris said. ![]() ATLANTA (AP) - Michael Harris II couldn’t wait to get into the batter’s box after the Baltimore Orioles chose to intentionally walk Marcell Ozuna and pitch to him. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Tchaikovsky’s vision is bizarre, frightening, and wildly imaginative. ![]() Woven throughout are flashbacks to the planet’s original colonization, as transplants from Earth struggle to adapt to their inhospitable new home. But the Order soon realize that the behavior of the brackers is beyond their ken-and even stranger threats lurk nearby. A demon is terrorizing the land to save her people to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder Sorcerer, who lives in the local tower. Elder Race is about Lynesse's Fourth Daughter, who lives in a high medieval state. ![]() As Handry and Melory negotiate with Amorket, another of the Order arrives to request aid in a war at the village of Tsuno, which is under siege by beasts called brackers. Elder Race: This was the first work I read of his. At Orovo, a regular stop on their travels, they are confronted by a new type of expert system, a Champion, hosted by a woman named Amorket and sent to fight the Order. His sister, Melory, is host to an “expert system,” the ghost of a physician that serves as a source of ancestral knowledge. In the decade since Handry was Severed from his village and assumed leadership of the Order of Cain, a society of fellow outcasts, he’s managed to create a loose network between the roving Order and the stationery villages of their unnamed planet. Tchaikovsky’s deliciously creepy sequel to The Expert System’s Brother showcases just how alien other worlds can be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Whenever someone says "writing can't be taught," Dan begs to differ and has the track record to prove it. Eleven and twelve-year-old students in Simmons' regular 6th-grade class averaged junior-year in high school writing ability according to annual standardized and holistic writing assessments. He also worked as a national language-arts consultant, sharing his own "Writing Well" curriculum which he had created for his own classroom. ![]() During his years of teaching, he won awards from the Colorado Education Association and was a finalist for the Colorado Teacher of the Year. His last four years in teaching were spent creating, coordinating, and teaching in APEX, an extensive gifted/talented program serving 19 elementary schools and some 15,000 potential students. ![]() He then worked in elementary education for 18 years-2 years in Missouri, 2 years in Buffalo, New York-one year as a specially trained BOCES "resource teacher" and another as a sixth-grade teacher-and 14 years in Colorado. in English from Wabash College in 1970, winning a national Phi Beta Kappa Award during his senior year for excellence in fiction, journalism and art.ĭan received his Masters in Education from Washington University in St. Dan Simmons grew up in various cities and small towns in the Midwest, including Brimfield, Illinois, which was the source of his fictional "Elm Haven" in 1991's SUMMER OF NIGHT and 2002's A WINTER HAUNTING. ![]() ![]() Through meticulous scholarship, Masonen provides us with a glimpse of the four-hundred-year, serendipitous process by which a disparate group of scholars and adventurers established a fund of consensual facts that form the basis of our current understanding of the great Sudanic empires. But how had these storied empires become known to modern scholars? This question forms the central focus of Finnish historian Pekka Masonen's study of African historiography in Europe. ![]() ![]() In the era of decolonization, the symbolic importance of these ancient states was such that the nationalist movements of the Gold Coast and the French Sudan opted for their countries to gain independence as Ghana and Mali, respectively. The great West African empires of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay figure prominently in introductory surveys of world history as early examples of indigenous African statecraft and achievement. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Elizebeth meets her future husband in a scientific arcadia populated by eccentric millionaires, windmills, and monkeys in diapers, and her decryptions help take down Nazis during World War II. codebreaking and the intelligence community as we know it - and it reads like some wild cross between a fairy tale and a gripping detective thriller. “You hear a voice that bursts from a body or a page with beauty or urgency or insight.” And Elizebeth Friedman, the woman in question and one of the first, best codebreakers in the United States in the early 20th century, is a gem of a voice.įagone’s book details Elizebeth’s long and rollicking career - one where she lays the foundation of U.S. “You get these moments sometimes as a journalist, if you’re lucky,” he writes. When Jason Fagone discovered the subject of his new book, “The Woman Who Smashed Codes,” he felt as if he were stumbling on buried treasure. ![]() ![]() To cast this affinity as mere bling-era excess misses far too much of the real story of how champagne found itself at the heart of hip-hop’s triumphs (and insecurities) for more than three decades. Please enable Javascript to watch this video The French are the O.G. influencers when it comes to champers (the centuries-old sparkling wine was originally designated for coronations in the Reims Cathedral), but many of us today learned about the drink through Illmatic cassettes and Yo! MTV Raps videos. Puff Daddy and Biggie taught us about Moët, Jay Z and Dame Dash showed us Cristal, and countless pop-culture tropes-including slang like popping bottles and sipping Cris’-were born out of the rap’s fascination with bubbly. ![]() ![]() It’s a fitting coda to hip-hop’s long, indelible relationship with champagne-one that has evolved from aspirational, to self-consciously showy, to business-savvy. Recently, Jay Z provided yet another when he purchased Armand de Brignac-better known as “Ace of Spades”-to become the first rapper to own a champagne label outright. ![]() The past decade has given us an endless stream of “you never thought that hip-hop would take it this far” moments-from winning Oscars to getting shout outs from the president, today’s emcees have a platform that pioneers like Melle Mel and Kurtis Blow never would have fathomed. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His portrait hangs in public buildings and he features as the face of numerous public campaigns. Gandhi’s image is all over India, on advertisements, banknotes, and murals. Globally respected for his fight against the evils of caste and religious violence, for most Indians his worldwide reputation is a source of great pride. Today, Gandhi is a national hero and India’s most famous freedom fighter. ![]() He was a master political strategist and crowds of tens of thousands regularly traveled hundreds of miles to his mass rallies. Gandhi’s determination and eloquence earned him the name “Mahatma”, meaning “Great Soul” from his followers. On his return to India in 1915, Gandhi was swiftly elected to the Indian National Congress and went about turning the organization into a mass anti-colonial movement, focusing on the Indian peasantry. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The original piece was written for WWII, and Wouk included all the pent-up anger in this country over Pearl Harbor,” Friedkin told Deadline. A naval officer stands trial for mutiny for taking command from a ship captain he feels is acting in unstable fashion, endangering both the ship and its crew. ![]() ![]() The original novel, the 1954 film with Humphrey Bogart as Queeg and a Robert Altman-directed 1988 telepic of the play that starred Midnight Run‘s Brad Davis as Queeg were set during World War II. 'Rabbit Hole': Paramount+ Sets Remaining Cast For Kiefer Sutherland Spy Series ![]() The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial is one of the best court-martial dramas ever written.” “But I think about it a lot, and it occurred to me that could be a very timely and important piece, as well as being great drama. “I’ve looked at a lot of scripts in the last 10 years, and I haven’t seen anything I really wanted to do,” said Friedkin, who most recently directed 2011’s stylish noir drama Killer Joe starring Matthew McConaughey. Annabelle Dunne and Matt Parker are producing. It is being plotted for a January start, and casting is just getting underway. Commander Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, using a 50-year-old play script written by Herman Wouk from his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. and others has found both a script and a star he could not resist. EXCLUSIVE: William Friedkin has been plenty selective in the films he directs, but the heralded helmer of The French Connection, The Exorcist, To Live and Die in L.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Finally, here is Leonard Bernstein with a somewhat advanced lesson on the history of harmony.Why did Bach write this part so high in the trumpet range? For a hint, read about the natural trumpet at Wikipedia. Listen now to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2, paying particular attention to the trumpet part (not hard to do).HERE is a reading on harmony that gets into more detail about overtones and their relationship with harmony.The verb "to sol-fa" means to sing in solfège. at Wikipedia, see Shape note and Sacred Harp. ![]() First stanza or verse is sung in solfège (singing the notes with their do-re-mi type names, although the names are a bit different from do-re-me), and then the next stanzas are sung with the words of the hymn. 47b Idumea - Second Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, 2012Įxample of Sacred Harp, a form of shape-note music.Old and New: Contrast these two pieces, from 16.ġ) Monteverdi-“Hor che’l ciel e la terra” - Click for translation of text into English.ĭig the unexpected, but entirely harmonious, harmonies. Copland's Musical Recommendations for Chapter 6 (harmony) ![]() ![]() Sales Rank Publication Date Lowest New Price Many expressions, quotes and names from the novel are still commonly used in Italian, such as Perpetua or Questo matrimonio non s'ha da fare ("This marriage is not to be performed", used ironically). It deals with a variety of themes, from the cowardly, hypocritical nature of a priest (Don Abbondio) and the heroic sainthood of others (Padre Cristoforo, Federico Borromeo), to the unwavering strength of love (the relationship between Renzo and Lucia and the struggle of these betrothed to finally meet again and get married), and offers some keen insights into the meanderings of the human mind.Īlthough not fully appreciated abroad, in Italy the novel is considered a real masterpiece of world literature and a basis for the modern Italian language, and as such widely read and studied in every school. ![]() The Betrothed was inspired by Walter Scott's Ivanhoe and was the first Italian historical novel. It is also noted for the extraordinary description of the plague that struck Milan around 1630. Set in northern Italy in 1628, during the terrible, oppressive years under Spanish rule, it is sometimes seen as a veiled attack on Austria, who controlled the region at the time of writing (the definitive version was published in 1842). ![]() It has been called the most famous and widely read novel of the Italian language. ![]() The Betrothed is an Italian historical novel by Alessandro Manzoni, first published in 1827, in three volumes. ![]() |