![]() ![]() ![]() The Press’ investigation revealed Asbury Park officials spent $2.27 million to rehabilitate apartments for its lowest income residents, and then failed to monitor whether those units were rented at affordable rates, as mandated under state law. ![]() Rogers and other local advocates gathered at Rebirth Church to address an Asbury Park Press investigation that exposed the misuse of millions of taxpayer dollars. ![]() “People who are here, who have been here all their lives, are just being pushed aside,” said Tracy Rogers, who leads the Asbury Park Affordable Housing Coalition, at a news conference Wednesday. Watch Video: Community members want answers in Asbury Park housing mismanagementĪSBURY PARK – Housing advocates and local residents said the city’s mismanagement of a $2 million affordable housing program is just part of a losing battle against gentrification and “corrupt” city practices that have driven long-term, low-income residents out of Asbury Park. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() From Skywatch, in which Florian introduces the venerable pastime of observing the heavens, to The Great Beyond, in which he highlights the vastness of unexplored space - and how much we don't know! - these are poems meant to spark the interest of young children, to inspire them to discover more about the cosmos. Douglas Florian, whose other collections of non-fiction poetry for children include insectlopedia and mammalabilia, presents twenty poems about the universe, in all its great and wondrous diversity, in Comets, Stars, the Moon, and Mars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ⚠️spoilers in caption⚠️ don’t attack me in the comments for not adding Aelin or Nesta because girlies lost their powers whether we like it or not□ ic : ꨄ︎ Art creds: Madschofield, briez.draws, vale.jzarts, aiphos.s, _alex_oxy_, clarywhy, _mageofspace_, jemlin_c, sketchesanmin, dianadworak, minta.art, mftfernandez, bxromance, hachandraws, letociavalzart, lucielart, pandyals_art, diana.dreamsart, raye_illustrations, andreaaguirresart, naarielart, cosmikla, procastle_studios, thebeautifuldarkness #manon #manonblackbeak #dorian #dorianhavilliard #manorian #feysand #feyrearcheron #rhysand #highlordofthenightcourt #highladyofthenightcourt #ruhndanaan #lidiacervos #dayandnight #agentdaybright #thehind #brycequinlan #huntathalar #quinlar #starborn #acotar #qos #tog #acomaf #hoeab #hosab #sjm #booktok #foryou #fypġ.4K Likes, 30 Comments. ![]() ![]() She shares her abode with her husband, two children, and three hairy miscreant dogs. When not scribbling, she is by turns an earth elemental, English professor, actress, artist, and domestic goddess. Her near-future young adult collaboration with Glenn Dall Lisa Mantchev is a temporally-displaced Capricorn who casts her spells from an ancient tree in the Pacific Northwest. Published by Feiwel & Friends (Macmillan,) the series includes the Andre Norton and Mythopoeic awards-nominated EYES LIKE STARS (2009), PERCHANCE TO DREAM (2010), and SO SILVER BRIGHT (2011.) Her Kindle #1 Bestselling young adult steampunk novel, TICKER, is available from Skyscape. She is best known as the author of the young adult fantasy trilogy, The Théâtre Illuminata. ![]() ![]() Lisa Mantchev is a temporally-displaced Capricorn who casts her spells from an ancient tree in the Pacific Northwest. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On our way, we encounter a remarkable cast of characters: the clock-building English abbot with leprosy, the French craftsman-turned-spy, and the Persian polymath who founded the world's most advanced observatory. From multiplying Roman numerals to navigating by the stars, curing disease, and telling time with an ancient astrolabe, we learn emerging science alongside Westwyk and travel with him through the length and breadth of England and beyond its shores. Born in a rural manor, educated in England's grandest monastery, and then exiled to a clifftop priory, Westwyk was an intrepid crusader, inventor, and astrologer. In The Light Ages, Cambridge science historian Seb Falk takes us on a tour of medieval science through the eyes of one fourteenth-century monk, John of Westwyk. As medieval thinkers sought to understand the world around them, from the passing of the seasons to the stars in the sky, they came to develop a vibrant scientific culture. But the so-called Dark Ages also gave us the first universities, eyeglasses, and mechanical clocks. ![]() Seb Falk uses the monk John of Westwyk to weld us into the medieval ways of imagining as well as thinking. Soaring Gothic cathedrals, violent crusades, the Black Death: these are the dramatic forces that shaped the medieval era. ‘ Compulsive, brilliantly clear and superbly well-written, The Light Ages is more than just a very good book on medieval science: it’s a charismatic evocation of another world. An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through the life of a crusading astronomer-monk. ![]() ![]() ![]() The political interpretations focus on the first three, and emphasize the close relationship between the visual images and the story line to the political interests of the day. Scholars have examined four quite different versions of Oz: the novel of 1900, the Broadway play of 1902, the Hollywood film of 1939, and the numerous follow-up Oz novels written after 1900 by Baum and others. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of America in the 1890s. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Rogers in 1906 sees the political uses of Oz: he depicts William Randolph Hearst as Scarecrow stuck in his own Ooze in Harper's Weekly ![]() ![]() “I think we were silently getting better and, just because of the people who were in front of us, we didn’t really get the recognition,” agrees Gilles, who teamed with Poirier in 2011. ![]() With Canada producing so many great ice dancers in the 21st Century, it’s taken Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier a long time, a few stalls and setbacks, and a lot of belief in their coaches, their training and their commitment to their partnership to reach where they are now: the 2023 Grand Prix Final champions (Canada’s first since Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir seven years ago) world bronze medallists sharing the ice with Kurt Browning on his Stars on Ice Farewell Tour and earning their own loyal, swelling fan following for their unique interpretation of a wide variety of dance styles. ![]() ![]() ![]() In this sense, Carey's Bliss can be considered a collection of narratives it can be analysed as a great 'container' of 'one hundred stories', and many intertextual references, for example to Shakespeare and Marquez, enhance this meta-narrative quality. ![]() In Mansfield's story the title is ironical, but only partly so in Carey's novel, for Harry Joy will reach a true 'bliss' at the end however, both are 'about modes of perception, about how people live within their own cosy fictions, which often bear no relationship to the way things are' (Dovey 202). Peter Carey began his literary career as a short story writer, and his first novel Bliss (1981) is certainly more of a continuation with than a breakaway from this genre the title itself connects the novel with Katherine Mansfield's short story 'Bliss' (1920) and, like Bertha Young, Harry Joy believes his life is 'blissful', only to realise he is in 'Hell'. ![]() ![]() ![]() franca (and in post-colonial studies) is discussed, along with the constellation of languages in present-day Europe and the resulting phenomenon of hybridity. ![]() The position of English as the world lingua. The two conflicting forces of globalism and tribalism are presented and set off against the sociological concept of cultural identity. The paper attempts to show the effect of recent developments (particularly globalisation and advances in technology) on our production and perception of language, and on translation and the job profile of the translator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At Rinehart’s death her books had sold more than 10 million copies. Her autobiography, My Story, appeared in 1931 and was revised in 1948. It was one of her books that produced the phrase, ‘The butler did it,’ and in her prime, she was more famous than her chief rival, England’s Agatha Christie. While her general novels were her best selling books, she was most highly regarded by critics for her carefully plotted murder mysteries. Her most memorable tales combined murder, love, ingenuity, and humor in a style that was distinctly her own. There is an attempt at realism in the depiction of modern life, with many different clas*ses, corruption high and low, and a great diversity of characters. They form an American school that mixes adventure and detection. ![]() In fact, all three groups, scientific, hard boiled, and Rinehart show common features. It also is part of the American school of ‘scientific’ detection. It has a lot in common with hard boiled school, in both style and subject. Rinehart’s work is very different from the cliches of Rinehart criticism. The Amazing Adventures of Letitia CarberryĪbout the Author Mary Roberts Rinehart 1876 1958 was an American novelist and playwright best known for her mystery stories. ![]() |