Michael’s senior assignments at CIA also included serving for two years as the Director of Intelligence, the Agency’s top analyst, and for two years as Executive Director, the CIA’s top administrator-managing human resources, the budget, security, and information technology for an agency the size of a Fortune 200 firm. Michael also served twice as Acting Director, leading CIA when Leon Panetta was named Secretary of Defense and again after David Petraeus left government. Politico has called Michael the “Bob Gates of his generation.”ĭuring his 33-year career at CIA, Michael served as Deputy Director for over three years, a job in which he managed the Agency’s day-to-day operations, represented the Agency at the White House and Congress, and maintained the Agency’s relationships with intelligence services and foreign leaders around the world. He has been at the center of our nation’s fight against terrorism, its work to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and its efforts to respond to trends that are altering the international landscape-including the Arab Spring, the rise of China, and the cyber threat. Michael Morell, the former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is one of our nation’s leading national security professionals, with extensive experience in intelligence and foreign policy. Morell Former Acting Director and Deputy Director Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
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When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers’ only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. Kennedy’s commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director’s role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. As a flight director in NASA’s Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. This New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director. In an exclusive interview with Rock Cellar Magazine, Anderson chatted with us at length about Clockwork Angels, his relationship with Neil Peart, and being a lifelong Rush fanboy. With noted album artist Hugh Syme, Peart and Anderson tell a remarkable, magical tale about the forces of order, chaos, and love. Anderson is a best-selling author with over a hundred books that include spin-off novels for Star Wars, DC Comics, and the X-Files. It’s an innovative combination of music and literature, and the story of a young man on a quest through exotic carnivals, lost cities, and stormy seas, hoping to find the Watchmaker, a “big brother” figure who makes certain that every detail of society is on schedule and well planned.Īlong with being the drummer and lyricist of the band Rush, Peart is the author of Ghost Rider, The Masked Rider, Traveling Music, Roadshow, and Far and Away. Anderson and legendary drummer Neil Peart, who teamed up to convert Rush’s latest album, Clockwork Angels, into a full-length steampunk novel. “ Those words ring loud and clear for two small-town boys who dared to dream big: renowned sci-fi novelist Kevin J. The new novel Clockwork Angels begins with the line: “The best place to start an adventure is with a quiet, perfect life…and someone who realizes that it can’t possibly be enough. Sharp provided the LEC edition of the book aquatint illustrations, which the Sandglass goes into great detail about. He definitely shows some versatility in his style his later, more restrained pen drawings for Pepys and Rousseau’s Confessions greatly contrast against these more grisly interpretations of Poe’s imaginative narratives. William Sharp, last spotted doing the set of Samuel Pepys’ Diary, gleefully made his debut for the George Macy Company rendering these chilling tales in 1941. The marbled boards are perfect too the coloring is ghastly! Many of the classics are included here: “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Black Cat”, “The Gold-Bug”, “The Pit and the Pendulum”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”, “The Masque of the Red Death”, and plenty more. Here we have what many would consider his most enduring legacy to literature his horror-fueled short stories. We last saw Poe in the exquisite Hugo Steiner-Prag illustrated Poems I detail out his LEC/HP career in that particular post. in 1941įront Binding – Two previously featured icons return to the Macy blog today: the author, Edgar Allan Poe, and the artist, William Sharp. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (1941) 7/5/2023 0 Comments Gild by raven kennedyThere will be monarchs and magic and fae and steam and violence and all the feels. But the monsters on the other side might make me wish I’d never left.Īuthor’s Note: This is a fantasy romance m/f story. And I realize that everything I thought I knew about Midas might be wrong.īecause these bars I’m kept in, no matter how gilded, are still just a cage. Until war comes to the kingdom and a deal is struck. And even though I don’t leave the confines of the palace, I’m safe. He gave me protection, and I gave him my heart. I’m the woman he Gold-Touched to show everyone that I belong to him. Dug me out of the slums and placed me on a pedestal. In Highbell, in the castle built into the frozen mountains, everything is made of gold. Gold floors, gold walls, gold furniture, gold clothes. ” – Raven Kennedy, “Gild” What It’s About: Genre(s): Fantasy, New Adult Romance Total Star Rating: 3.25 Starsĭoes it really matter if your cage is solid gold when you aren’t allowed to leave it? A cage is a cage, no matter how gilded. 7/4/2023 0 Comments Bad feminist“I am in a wonderful marriage,” Gay tells me. It is mid-morning in New York and Gay, 48, is drinking a takeaway cup of coffee in the eaves of the brownstone house she shares with her wife Debbie Millman. And, in many areas, such as reproductive freedom, we have lost ground, which is a bitter pill to swallow.” Most of the issues I wrote about are sadly just as relevant today. When I coined it, it was partly serious and partly tongue in cheek: if good feminism is the feminism that overlooks the intersections of identity that we all inhabit, then I’d rather be a bad feminist. So, nine years on, does the writer, editor, professor, podcaster, cultural critic, and Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University, New Jersey, still consider herself a bad feminist? “I think I’m a better feminist now than I was,” says Gay when we meet on Zoom. The Roseingraves befriend a Black father and son. Waite’s Regency England is placidly multicultural and liberal minded. This scheme is pure screwball comedy, and it sets the tone for a lighthearted story in which there are no barriers to love. She and her fellow weavers have hatched an elaborate plan to get even with a local merchant who's been cheating them for years. It’s immediately clear to Sophie that Maddie Crewe is up to no good, but she ultimately learns that Maddie is up to no good for a good cause. In the mill city of Carrisford, Sophie encounters the most beautiful woman she’s ever seen. Sophie Roseingrave and her family are forced to leave London when a dishonest business partner ruins her father’s piano shop and her dreams of becoming a concert pianist. Instantaneous attraction drives the latest romance from the author of The Care and Feeding of Waspish Widows (2020) and The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics (2019). 7/4/2023 0 Comments Sons and lovers 1913At last, unable to bear her suffering, Paul and his sister Annie put an overdose of morphia in her milk. Paul is made an overseer at the factory and he now begins to be noticed as a painter and designer. Mrs Morel fears that Miriam will exclude her and tries to break up their relationship, while Paul, himself sickened at heart by Miriam's romantic love and fear of physical warmth, turns away and becomes involved with Clara Dawes, a married woman, separated from her husband Baxter, and a supporter of women's rights. Paul is friendly with the Leivers family of Willey Farm, and a tenderness grows between him and the daughter Miriam, a soulful, shy girl. She nurses him back to health, and subsequently their attachment deepens. Mrs Morel, numbed by despair, is roused only when Paul also falls ill. William goes to London to work as a clerk, and Paul also gets a job as a clerk with Mr Jordan, manufacturer of surgical appliances William develops pneumonia and dies. She struggles to keep herself and her family ‘respectable’ and is determined that her boys will not become miners. Morel, baffled and thwarted, is sometimes violent, while Mrs Morel turns all her love towards her four children, particularly her two eldest sons, William and Paul. She begins to shrink from his lack of fine feeling and drunkenness. Walter Morel has married a sensitive and high‐minded woman better educated than himself. Lawrence, published 1913, a closely autobiographical novel set in the Nottinghamshire coalmining village of Bestwood. 7/4/2023 0 Comments The deep river solomon"Finding the Deep River Within is that rarity-a book that is at once poetic and pragmatic. Christiane Northrup M.D., author, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom "Finding the Deep River Within holds the key to lasting health and sustainable joy." Gentle Wisdom for Women in a Hurried World With gentle encouragement, practical guidance, and compelling stories of struggle and success, Finding the Deep River Within details the three preliminary doorways and six core practices for inviting the rich resources of our deeper nature into everyday life. Based on the experiences of women whose lives have been transformed by her workshops, this highly anticipated first book presents her comprehensive program to nurture contact with the Deep River Within, the soul-nourishing dimension in each of us that flows beneath the busyness of daily life. Book Synopsis For over two decades, Abby Seixas has taught women how to slow down and reclaim their lives from the tyranny of their to-do lists. 7/3/2023 0 Comments Eat stop eat book brad pilonYou can pick any 8 hour period that works for your lifestyle. Eating and drinking caloric beverages is restricted to 8 hours every day. The 16:8 method – The premise of this method is simple.There are a few types of intermittent fasting methods. Intermittent fasting is the practice of eating during specific times and fasting during other times. In recent years, intermittent fasting has grown in popularity as the answer to the fad diet controversy, but is that an honest description of the practice? What Is Intermittent Fasting? It’s also filled with advertisements, health bloggers, celebrity endorsements for fad diets, and controversial weight loss methods. The New Year is filled with resolutions to get in better shape, eat healthier, and schedule overdue visits to the doctor. Too many people spend their lives normalizing symptoms, aches, and pains that can be medically addressed, but it’s never too late to start making healthier choices for yourself. Taking care of your body is an investment in your future and a commitment to increasing your quality of life. |