![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The company first began upgrading radios and then eventually produced the first tape recorder available in Japan. The company’s initial name was Tokyo Telecommunications Research and was later changed to Sony, derived from the Latin word for sound and a play on the English word “sonny”, a slang term meaning young boy that was common in Japan at the time. I found this section incredibly engaging and loved learning that Sony began with a staff of eight crammed into a small office in a bombed downtown Tokyo department store in 1945. ![]() Personal Stereo thankfully begins long before the invention of the Walkman with a history of Sony and its founders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita. Looking back from a time when iPhones exist, at times it was almost comical to read some of the concerns that critics voiced about the Walkman. The Walkman’s debut occurred when I was young so I do not remember either the excitement it generated nor the consternation about its potential negative impact on society. Personal Stereo is a quick and fascinating read that covers both the history of the Walkman and its effects on society. I had not encountered the Object Lessons series previously, but after reading this one I plan to seek out more of them. I love music almost as much as reading so when I saw this book I knew it was a must-read (plus the cover is fabulous). ![]()
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![]() The story of Georgia-Pacific’s safety crisis, revealed in internal corporate documents obtained by ProPublica, interviews with executives and workers, and Koch’s own data, shines a rare light on the inner workings of Koch Industries, one of the nation’s largest and most secretive corporations. Most important, Georgia-Pacific’s safety record was worse than its major competitors’, including Weyerhaeuser and Pratt Industries. One internal Koch presentation showed that Georgia-Pacific’s safety record in 2016 by one measure ranked in the bottom half of U.S. More worrisome, the accident rate also increased during that period, meaning that each employee faced a higher chance of being hurt on the job, according to internal Koch documents. ![]() ![]() Accidents kept rising in the years after. By the end of the year, six Georgia-Pacific employees were killed on the job. ![]() When Hannan held the meeting in early spring, no workers had yet died that year. ![]() ![]() It's a very different approach from a lot of modern YA fantasy, which anchors itself to the viewpoint of the main character, often with a heavy focus on their inner monologue. Lewis's Narnia series each contains a number of asides to the reader.) Like a lot of older fantasy, especially ones aimed toward children, Le Guin takes the tone of a storyteller. The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards. ![]() It keeps the maps and Robbins' chapter illustrations. My edition has Yvonne Gilbert's cover art from 1984, although it's a later printing (with the publisher's website on the back cover) and the font has a really old-fashioned look like it's from the sixties. The cover shows Ged with (in my opinion) ambiguously dark skin. The beautiful but almost-unreadable map is Le Guin's own work (with Robbins' embellishments). The cover of the first edition and the chapter illustrations were done by Ruth Robbins. ![]() Le Guin's first Earthsea novel, was first published in 1968. A Wizard of EarthseaĪ Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. ![]() We are beginning the first book, A Wizard of Earthsea, and this post is for chapter one, "Warriors in the Mist." If you're wondering what this is all about, check out the introduction post. ![]() ![]() The film follows the book closely and gives adorable scenery of local life in the mid 1800s, but there is one important scene in the book which you miss in the film. This is where the story begins, which is a revelation of humanity and tenderness in the claws of a cruel destiny of injustice involving deaths, roguery and tragedy. Dishonored he becomes a miser and recluse as a weaver living alone in a cottage outside a small country town. His best friend takes advantage of it to both ruin him and steal his girl by getting him implicated in a theft and banished from town. Ben Kingsley makes one of his finest performances and brings full justice to the heart-rending character of a vulnerable man suffering from occasional catalepsy, which results in his fate. George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) was one of the most interesting Victorian authors with only significant credits, while "Silas Marner" is a small changeling among an impressing lot of masterpieces - but her finest story. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Others in the community did not view these incidents as the assaults they were, trivialized them as errors, or even justified them by implying that the ladies themselves were complicit. They were isolated and forbidden from telling anyone, and even blamed for their own assault, with implications that the assaults were justified in their spiritual interests. Those who tried to resist, question or protest, would be emotionally abused by him and other authorities in the group. Upon investigation, Ali discovered that the Shaykh regularly touched and kissed many women against their will, mostly in private so-called ruqya sessions. After ten years with his Shaykh, “Ali,” (not his real name) was approached by a fellow female student, who said that the Shaykh had sexually assaulted her. ![]() ![]() Between fighting off a rampaging goat named King Arthur, a spider that just won't die, and a prima donna bunkmate named Victoria Radamoskovich, there's no time left for Chloe to learn cake decorating. She decides to make the best of it: she'll learn cake decorating and earn money when she gets home, frosting cupcakes at a local shop. ![]() The second book releases Spring 2021 and is set in San Francisco. The first in this series takes place in Paris. There is no way eleven-year old Chloe is going into the sixth grade riding her old pink bicycle! But before she can earn money for a new bike, she's shipped off to career camp. A handpicked group of kids from around the world, each with their own particular skill set, are trained as spies to help stop the crimes of world-renown villains. ![]() Well, they obviously never had to ride a baby bike to the first day of middle school. Someone once told me that money can't buy a girl happiness. ![]() Join eleven year old Chloe McCorkle on her trip to summer Camp Minnehaha in this action-packed, laugh-out-loud book perfect for middle schoolers and kids ages 9 to 12. ![]() ![]() There are two differing accounts of how she crashed - a car either pushed her from behind until cornered into a concrete wall, or she fell asleep at the wheel. Regardless, it is still a mystery what caused Silkwood's car accident. All that was concluded from the trial was that she had not contaminated herself intentionally. An investigation was launched into how she'd been contaminated: by herself accidentally, intentionally or if the company had done it to her. ![]() Karen Silkwood eventually learned that she had been contaminated with plutonium and she was barred from working in the area where she'd been collecting evidence. ![]() The company was so intertwined with government that when the case went to trial, they couldn't find an Oklahoma judge that was impartial. Silkwood, along with union reps began collecting evidence on the deplorable safety standards in the early 1970s. Report on the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Karen Silkwood, who was killed in a car accident while on her way to meet a New York Times reporter to whom she was to give evidence that Kerr-McGee, an Oklahoma uranium processor and the company she worked for, was violating nuclear safety standards. ![]() ![]()
![]() Many were daunted by the complex and highly choreographed set-pieces which passed for social discourse in French salons. She seemed so natural and yet also conscious of being on show. Wherever Georgiana accompanied Lady Spencer people marvelled at the way in which Georgiana combined a perfect mastery of etiquette with a mischievous grace and ease which met with approval in the artificial and mannered atmosphere of the French court. Of her own, and is happy in an education which it is to be hoped will counteract any ill effect from what may too naturally turn her head." She has, I believe, an exceedingly good disposition ![]() According to a fellow English traveller, "Lady Georgiana Spencer has been very highly admired. Which greeted Georgiana in Paris confirmed Lady Spencer's fears. ![]() In 1772 the family embarked upon another grand tour, this time with all three children in tow. Her daughter's outward sophistication led many to think that she was more mature than her years. ![]() "I hope not to part with her till 18 at the soonest," she told a friend in 1771.37 ![]() Lady Spencer thought it would be a dreadful mistake if she married too young. Georgiana was only fourteen when people began to speculate on her choice of husband. ![]() ![]() ![]() When the stage doesn't start forward, Marshall glances at him-a fleeting look first, but a longer one when their eyes lock. ![]() Somehow, Marshall's proximity isn't helping. He should put his eyes on the road ahead and get the horses moving, but his hands are still shaking. Bram finds himself staring again, and this time he can't bring himself to look away. When he climbs onto the bench beside Bram, it's with a freshly loaded shotgun in hand he looks like a man ready for anything. Instead of mounting, he simply hitches his horse to the back of the coach. Marshall returns quickly, on foot, kicking up dust as he leads his horse into the road. He wishes it were enough to settle his anxious nerves as he climbs back into his seat, reins in hand. Well, that and the rescue for which Bram is plenty grateful. He's got no reason to trust him beyond the fact that so far the man hasn't tried to shoot him. ![]() ![]() But if Marshall wants to stick around after the gunfire fades, Bram's not going to complain.īram doesn't really consider leaving when Marshall disappears to retrieve his own horse but his heartbeat is a confused racket in his chest, and he's none too sure why he stays. Right place, right time, that's all this is.īram Caldwell sure as hell didn't expect to need rescuing. ![]() |