![]() The book's silliest sentence comes when Simmons praises the Celtics' Dennis Johnson for making the winning layup after Larry Bird's famous steal against the Pistons in the 1987 playoffs. He was insatiable." Ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Simmons' unfiltered internal monologue.Īs should be expected in a long book of sports argumentation, the great observations-five of the game's most-notorious playoff chokers (Wilt Chamberlain, Elvin Hayes, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, and Kevin Garnett) all relied on fadeaway jumpers-are interleaved with some howlers. He then decrees that Malone was "the Marilyn Chambers of rebounding. Alas, in the same write-up, Simmons sees fit to list dozens and dozens of C-list celebrities who, like Moses Malone, "had one ploy that brought them inordinate success": Michael " Let's Get Ready To Rumble!" Buffer, Jeff Foxworthy, Vanna White, and on and on. ![]() The Rockets and Sixers star was the greatest offensive rebounder ever, Simmons argues, thanks to his mastery of the "Ass Attack"-a maneuver in which he'd "sneak under the backboard … slam his butt into his opponent to create the extra foot of space he needed, then jump right to where the rebound was headed." This Ass Attack stuff is fantastic-an evocative, strange, funny, entirely apt sketch of Malone's greatness. Consider the section on Moses Malone, part of Simmons' quest to identify the NBA's "pantheon." Simmons makes a surprisingly strong case that Malone, a guy most of us don't consider a hoops icon, is one of the top 12 players in NBA history. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Not all of these mothers and daughters in the Bible were paragons of virtue. ![]() Through these stories, Shannon explains the intimate connection between faith and family-and how God’s unexpected agenda can redefine the way we think about family. And a daughter, Michal, struggled to keep her faithless father, Saul, from sin, while battling pride in herself. Another biblical mother, Rebekah, made terrible choices in an attempt to ensure her son’s place in history. Could Jochebed have imagined that God’s actual design for her son involved flight into exile and danger? And yet this was all part of the master plan to deliver Israel from slavery. She tells the story of Jochebed, a mother who took enormous risks to protect her son, Moses, from Pharaoh. But what does it actually look like to live it out? In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream examines the lives of biblical women to see how God’s plans can turn our worlds upside down. “Have faith” is a phrase we hear all the time. God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect…. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tertuliano buys a fake beard and goes to meet António. They decide to meet at António's country home in a week. Initially, António dismisses Tertuliano and refuses to meet, but later contacts him and agrees. ![]() António's wife answers and mistakes Tertuliano's voice for her husband's. After acquiring the actor's phone number and address, Tertuliano stalks his double, António Claro, and eventually telephones him. His relationship with his girlfriend, Maria da Paz, suffers because he refuses to disclose his motives to her. Posing as a film student and using his girlfriend's address, he sends a letter to the production company asking to be put in contact with the actor. Tertuliano becomes obsessed with meeting the actor and spends weeks discovering the actor's name. One day Tertuliano rents a movie recommended by a colleague and sees an actor who looks exactly like him. Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is a divorced high school history teacher who spends his nights reading about Mesopotamian civilizations. In Portuguese, the title is literally "The Duplicated Man." It was translated into English and published as The Double in 2004. ![]() The Double ( Portuguese: O Homem Duplicado) is a 2002 novel by Portuguese author José Saramago, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998. ![]() ![]() “Never forget the day Eva came bouncin’ into my f**ked up life, shakin’ pigtails, singin’ Janis, wearin’ chucks and sharin’ peanuts and straight up stole any decency I had left which wasn’t a whole lot but she f**kin’ took it and I’ve been hers ever since. The Silver Demon’s MC was a notorious group of criminals who lived by the code of the road and gave modern society and all it entailed a great big f**k you. Madeline Sheehan Unbeautifully Madeline Sheehan 9781489521538 Createspace. It was not the first time my father had been in prison and it wouldn’t be the last. ISBN-13: 9781489521538 / Angielski / Mikka / 2013 / 346 str. My father, Damon Fox or “Preacher”, the President of the infamous “Silver Demon’s” motorcycle club -mother chapter- in East Village, New York City, was doing a five-year stint for aggravated assault and battery with a deadly weapon. I was five years old when I met Deuce, he was twenty-three, and it was visiting day at Riker’s Island. 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Befitting our time, this one episode has more salacious subterfuge than your favorite serial podcast: sex tapes, the blogosphere, rival visions of LGBTQ liberation, free speech wars, the crisis of journalism, and, in the end, the overwhelming force of an oligarch's money. ![]() ![]() This week's LARB Podcast is a master class in 21st Century power relations, as Ryan Holiday discusses his sensational new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue with co-hosts Eric Newman and Kate Wolf. ![]() ![]() Having held global company positions within business covering four countries, in addition to national and state positions, her expertise has developed through interactive global diversity within leadership, communication, team building, people management, negotiation skills, research, and sourcing abilities. With further specialist studies and practical laboratory developments of Diamonds taken through the Gemological Institute of America (GIA), Leigh has served on the National Board of the GAA, advocating and campaigning for international responsible sourcing of gems and diamonds, nationally and internationally. ![]() Leigh’s inspiring career is established within the Diamond, Gems and Custom Designed Jewellery Industry, as a Gemmologist and Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Australia, (GAA). ![]() Leigh will commence as Director of Advocacy-Elect on 1 July 2021 and take up her role on 1 January 2022. Soroptimist International (SI) is delighted to announce Leigh Ellwood-Brown FGAA, as SI Director of Advocacy, 2022-2023. ![]() ![]() ![]() When people talk about “Generative AI”, they tend to mix these areas together into one big bucket. For this post I am going to ignore everything in this bucket for now. However, this is meant to be a short post versus a book, so please bear with me. Obviously different model architectures and end markets exist for AlphaFold 2 versus self driving cars. I am dramatically over simplifying things in a dumb way by bucketing lots of stuff here. This includes robotics, self driving cars, protein folding, and numerous other application areas. Other (really a very large set of other tech & markets that really should *not* be naturally clustered together). These models allow you to type a prompt to generate an image.ģ. Image generation which includes models like Midjourney, Dall-E, or Stable Diffusion as well as currently simple video approaches and 3D models like NeRF. These are general purpose models like GPT-4 or Chinchilla in which the web (or other source of text / language) are ingested and transformed into models that can do everything from summarize legal documents to be used a search engine or friendly chat bot.Ģ. The AI world is divisible into roughly 3 areas (this is a massive oversimplification of course):ġ. ![]() So updating and publishing now and will undoubtedly be wrong again in a few months). Since then Google has announced entering the market and MSFT announced Bing and other AI integrations. (I originally wrote this post a few months ago and sat on it. ![]() ![]() ![]() Newton's curiosity was wide-ranging and insatiable. Newton's oeuvre constitutes a richly layered document of social and cultural history, intensely personal, often auto-biographical, but always engaged with the world as he saw and knew it. ![]() While he proved himself a master at this métier, his talents went far beyond the eloquent depiction of fashionable clothes. Yet it would be selling him short to label him a fashion photographer. Helmut Newton (1920–2004) was arguably the single most inventive and influential photographer working in the realm of fashion in the second half of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The room tries to get Mike Enslin to commit suicide, but he refuses, turning the tables by managing to light the cursed location on fire and burn it down, much to Olin's delight. The beginning of 1408's end is the same in both the theatrically released cut and the director's cut, which contains the originally planned conclusion. Yet, the ending audiences saw in theaters was the end result of big changes to the original conclusion. Jackson as Olin, 1408 was a critical and commercial hit, and is generally considered one of the best King-based movies to date. Starring John Cusack as Enslin and Samuel L. Many King fans pointed to 1408 as the standout story of Everything's Eventual, and in 2007, a film adaptation of 1408 was released. Related: 1408: The Creepy True Story That Inspired The Movie Unsurprisingly, he soon learns Olin was right. ![]() Against the desperate urging of hotel manager Gerald Olin, Enslin books the room after threatening Olin with legal action. Research for a new book leads Enslin to the supposedly haunted room 1408 at New York City's high-end Dolphin Hotel. ![]() The story focuses on Mike Enslin, an author and paranormal investigator who, oddly enough, doesn't actually believe in the paranormal. 1408 was first published in King's 1999 short story collection Everything's Eventual, which as usual for the author, was received exceptionally well. ![]() ![]() ![]() Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.įeyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. ![]() |