![]() ![]() “We’re very confident on the law,” DeSantis said. It targets the Walt Disney Company.”Īt that legislative meeting, Fine added Disney was being targeted because “they are the only company in the state that has ever been granted the right to govern themselves.”ĭisney also argued the agreements are vital to its plans to invest $17 billion and create 13,000 jobs in Central Florida over the next decade, according to the suit filed in Tallahassee.ĭisney’s lawyers want the courts to block the Legislature’s actions on the Reedy Creek district and keep Disney’s agreements in place.Īt the news conference, DeSantis said he is trying to make sure Disney has to “live by the same rules as everybody else.” Randy Fine, R-Melbourne Beach, in which he responded to Orlando Democrat Carlos Guillermo Smith by saying, “You got me on one thing: This bill does target one company. That included a quote from the bill’s sponsor, state Rep. The lawsuit quoted from DeSantis’ book, as well as other Florida Republicans’ statements, to indicate that the state was targeting Disney. Disney’s attorneys say the agreements were lawfully approved in open meetings, and the state is using its power to unconstitutionally punish Disney for opposing DeSantis’ legislative agenda. ![]()
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A Raisin in the Sun is a drama, written by Lorraine Hansberry, which tells a story about a colored family that is debating on the uses of the insurance money, worth ten thousand dollars. ![]() ![]() Singer Tito Amato has let fame go to his head. ![]() With carnival gaiety swirling around him and rousing Venetian passions to an ominous crescendo, Tito finds that the most astonishing secrets lurk behind the masks of his own family and friends. The possible suspects could people the cast of one of his operas: a libertine nobleman and his spurned wife, a jealous soprano, an ambitious composer, and a patrician family bent on the theater s ruin. Alarmed that the merchant aristocrat who owns the theater is pressing the authorities to close the case, Tito races the executioner to find the real killer. Tito Amato, mutilated as a boy to preserve his enchanting soprano voice, returns to the city of his birth with his friend Felice, a castrato whose voice has failed.ĭisaster strikes Tito’s opera premier when the singer loses one beloved friend to poison and another to unjust accusation and arrest. Opera is the popular entertainment of the day and the castrati are its reigning divas. The dazzling city on the lagoon is sailing toward the ruin of her maritime empire, determined to go down in a maelstrom of pleasure, music, and masquerade… ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While this episode in American history serves as the fulcrum for Richards Powers’ The Overstory, the 502-page novel ranges far beyond these events. Those of us paying little attention back then to those north woods provocations might at least recall headlines focused on the movement’s symbolic icon - the spotted owl. Some demonstrations turned violent as the Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest became a proving ground for conflict among environmentalists, industry and the people whose livelihoods depended upon the lumber business. Some climbed the ancient giants and camped for months in their upper limbs to protect them from destruction. They stood between machine and primal nature. In the 1980s and ’90s, as the whir and scream of chainsaws echoed throughout the old-growth forests of the American Northwest, protesters converged to stop the clear-cutting of the last stands of some of Earth’s tallest and oldest trees. ![]() ![]() Ida is a gentle soul with a great deal of wisdom. Cate is willing to have a go though, and Ida is more than happy to accept her. It’s not what the party girl expected, with no mobile phone reception and Ida’s thorough job of hoarding decades’ worth of items. Life in Perth is not what it used to be, so Cate decides to help Great Aunt Ida in the middle of nowhere. Cate’s always been a drifter, darting from job to job with no real purpose but after a devastating accident she’s forced to reassess her life. The book begins as Cate arrives at her great aunt’s farm. Despite the heavy subject matter, it’s an ultimately uplifting story. I’m a fan of Australian rural fiction, yet The Drifter is a unique fit as it deals with loss, secrets, life, death and grief. The Drifter is a book that sneaks up on you, until you’re completely captivated by its charm and melancholy. Setting: Mainly country Western Australia Why I chose it: From the author and Penguin Books, thank you. The not-so-good: Henry is reluctant to give up his secrets. ![]() The good: Sensitively written, it’s an engaging story. What she doesn’t know is that in the middle of nowhere, she will start to feel like she belongs… ![]() In brief: Cate has never been known to stick at anything, but after a tragic accident she’s staying put in the bush. ![]() ![]() " Feed is a proper thriller with zombies. Blackout, Mira Grant (Orbit) Best Novella. " Feed is a proper thriller with zombies." - SFX McGuire has crafted a masterpiece of suspense with engaging, appealing characters who conduct a soul-shredding examination of what's true and what's reported."― Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) "It's a novel with as much brains as heart, and both are filling and delicious."― The A. Title: Blackout (Newsflesh Trilogy 3) Author: Mira Grant Publisher: Orbit Books Publication Date: Source: borrowed from the good ol public library Plot Summary from Goodreads: The year was 2014. With too much left to do and not much time left to do it, the surviving staff of After the End Times must face mad scientists, zombie bears, rogue government agencies-and if there's one thing they know is true in post-zombie America, it's this: Now, the year is 2041, and the investigation that began with the election of President Ryman is much bigger than anyone had assumed. ![]() They uncovered the biggest conspiracy since the Rising and realized that to tell the truth, sacrifices have to be made. Georgia and Shaun Mason set out on the biggest story of their generation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The world didn't end when the zombies came, it just got worse. Blackout is written by Mira Grant and published by Hachette. The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times bestseller Mira Grant - a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all. ![]() ![]() And the restaurant at Vigilius in the Dolomites was another spectacular one. And it’s one of those very simple recipes and you think wow, somebody thought of this. I absolutely loved Il Falconiere in Cortona because the chef there is another one of those innovators, and she bakes these olives, baking them overnight in the oven and then pulverizes them and coats a filet with the olive dust on either side and roasts it. La Subida in Friuli was a huge favorite of mine. ![]() I remember in particular a really wonderful restaurant in Ostuni in the hotel there, that was one of the spectacular meals. ![]() ![]() Bonci Pizzarium is a Roman Institution, famous for its freshly baked bread, pizza by the slice, and suppli, croquettes (ph Andrea Wyner)Īnd I began to learn so much more about Italian food that I never knew before. ![]() ![]() ![]() He investigates the “conditions of possibility” for thought in any given period or domain of knowledge. ![]() It is in this way that we can characterize Foucault as a post-humanist. More than anything, Foucault is interested in how external structures (like institutions of power) produce subjects. ![]() For Foucault, this change signals not “a quantitative phenomenon: less cruelty, less pain, more kindness, more respect, more ‘humanity,’” but “a displacement in the very object of the punitive operation” from the body to the soul. The second is little more than a time-table regulating the daily life of young prisoners in Paris. The first, in 1757, is the grisly public execution of Damiens, convicted of attempting to kill Louis XV- he was tortured, drawn, quartered, and finally burned. Foucault dramatizes this transformation by opening the book with two penal schemes separated by 80 years. ![]() Discipline and Punish, subtitled The Birth of the Prison, is Michel Foucault’s reading of the shift in penal technologies from torture to imprisonment that took place in Europe beginning in the eighteenth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() MOST IMPORTANTLY, there must have been a significant group who "at the time" pointed out, correctly, why the action in question was folly (i.e., no Monday morning quarterbacking or 20/20 hindsight). The actions must be conducted by a number of individuals, not just one deranged maniac andĤ. ![]() The actions must be conducted over a period of time, not just in a single burst of irrational behavior ģ. The actions must be clearly contrary to the self-interest of the organization or group pursuing them Ģ. ![]() ![]() To qualify as "folly" for this book, Tuchman explains that actions need to meet all four of the following criteria:ġ. Honestly, how often can you truly say that you've overdosed on happy reading a history book. You're so interested that you just glide along the pages, absorbed in her narrative web, while she's filling your brain with smarts. You see, Babs writes history in such a colorful, engaging manner that you don't notice she's shoveling mounds of knowledge into your memory muscle. This is the second gem by Barbara Tuchman that I've tackled, after the stellar The Guns of August), and the impressiveness of her work has led to my developing rather intense, and possibly inappropriate, feelings for her. Babs is one crafty, talented instructor and this ranks highly among the BEST history books I've had the pleasure of reading. ![]() ![]() There’s a difference between knowing what chemicals cause what colors, and launching them into the sky.ĭespite the occasional overly convenient resolutions here and there, the interplay between Rishe and Prince Arnold is delightfully done we learn a bit more about the darkness that drives his future we see Rishe pull off outlandish schemes one after another and we see the potential for a future diverted while being treated to Rishe’s rollercoaster of emotion. The way she resolves the final conflict required future knowledge beyond her five year windows. ![]() Let’s take the most egregious example without spoiling anything. Her personality is outright charming, but the author plays loose with what she knows and doesn’t know depending on the plot. ![]() But let’s be honest, Rishe is as dumb as she is clever. She’s in top form in this volume, though her willful cluelessness and ability to pull solutions out of a hat do wear thin at times. ![]() |