7/7/2023 0 Comments Fred minnick blind bourbonIf Minnick reviews a bottle and likes it, good luck finding that bottle on the shelf. He tells it how he sees it, and people love seeing bourbon through his lens. Minnick met bourbon in a very unique way and thus he treats it in a unique way. Minnick is one-of-a-kind in today’s swirling media world, because he truly cares about the bourbon. While Minnick has procured one of the most impressive bourbon resumes to date, it doesn’t hold a candle to the influence he simultaneously created. With all of these accolades, Minnick is considered the foremost authority on all things bourbon in today’s booming bourbon world. Also on Minnick’s resume is judging the San Francisco World Spirits Competition and World Whiskies Awards. As well as being an accomplished author, Minnick is the current Bourbon Authority for the Kentucky Derby Museum. Bradshaw Bourbon finished 2nd in the review alongside the fierce competition of strong brands such as Eagle Rare, Old Forester, Wild Turkey Rare Breed, Daviess County, and others.įred Minnick is a Wall Street Journal best-selling author, Editor-In-Chief of Bourbon+, and former lead American whiskey reviewer for whiskey publication Whiskey Advocate. Bradshaw Bourbon is proud to announce the honor of being hand-selected by Fred Minnick for a blind taste test review.
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7/7/2023 0 Comments Zita the spacegirl book 2The monster wearing the “The End is Nigh” sandwich board is wonderful. I loved her wide eyed OMG, the button worked! expression and giggled at the “BLRG!” horror of raising herself from the ground covered in giant snail slime.Ĭharacter wise, I had completely forgotten about dopey Jerry who joyfully declares the good news that “In three days an asteroid is gonna explode us all!” to attempt to fix Zita’s leaking eyes. I appreciated and paid more attention to the details this time around, including the wonderful expressions on Zita’s face throughout the story. What’s wrong with me?! (Please don’t answer that!) The bright side is that I decided to reread this one so I remembered where I left Zita and her friends. Here we are almost 4 months after I first adored this graphic novel and I still haven’t read Legends of Zita the Spacegirl. Civil War did not distract city leaders from taking action.Ĭhesbrough's solution was an unprecedented tunnel five feet in diameter lined with brick and dug sixty feet beneath Lake Michigan. The befouled environment, giving rise to outbreaks of sickness and cholera, became so acute that even the ravages and costs of the U.S. As a result, within a few years of its founding, Chicago began to choke on its own sewage collecting near the shore. The Tunnel under the Lake recounts the gripping story of how the young city of Chicago, under the leadership of an audacious engineer named Ellis Chesbrough, constructed a two-mile tunnel below Lake Michigan in search of clean water.ĭespite Chicago's location beside the world’s largest source of fresh water, its low elevation at the end of Lake Michigan provided no natural method of carrying away waste. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Girl Taking Over by Sarah KuhnIf you'd like to support First Draft, a quick and easy way to do that is by subscribing to the podcast wherever you're listening right now, and by leaving a rating and review on Apple podcasts. I so loved what Sarah had to say about her history in geek culture before it was the dominant culture, what her background as a journalist taught her about structure and character, the self-rejection that comes from believing in conventional wisdom, and on staying open to the many different, and sometimes unexpected, possibilities that present themselves in our creative field. This week I'm talking to Sarah Kuhn, author of the Heroine Complex series, Shadow of the Batgirl, the Star Wars audio book original Doctor Aphra, I Love You So Mochi, and many, many more, about her new young adult novel, From Little Tokyo With Love. Welcome to First Draft with me, Sarah Enni. She learned her craft by trial and error. He had recruited her in the Newberry Library in Chicago. She started this on the estate of billionaire George Fabyan in suburban Geneva. In World War I she cracked the German’s codes. The codebreaker who spanned two World Wars and took down the rum-running Mafia during Prohibition, including Capone’s brother, single-handedly neutered the German U Boats’ wolf pack, and took down Nazi threats in South America that could have become a southern front against the US. How does Elizebeth Friedman inspire you or young girls who might enjoy coding? We’ll discuss this fascinating book that begins at the Newberry Library in Chicago! We will discuss the video program and the book. This video program is based on the book, The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America’s Enemies by Jason Fagone. It’s available online now via Passport or Amazon Prime. 11 PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE aired The Codebreaker program about Elizebeth Friedman. We will meet via Zoom for a discussion of the life of a truly amazing woman, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the founder of modern cryptography. 7/6/2023 0 Comments Dan ariely irrationalAccording to Ariely, our understanding of economics, now based on the assumption of a rational subject, should, in fact, be based on our systematic, unsurprising irrationality. Drawing on psychology and economics, behavioral economics can show us why cautious people make poor decisions about sex when aroused, why patients get greater relief from a more expensive drug over its cheaper counterpart and why honest people may steal office supplies or communal food, but not money. Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion. ‘Charming and delightful a must read!’ Joan Johnston, New York Times bestselling author of A Stranger’s Game ‘Witty dialogue and clever schemes… Is a master storyteller.’ Booklist: ‘Witty dialogue and clever schemes Grey’s vivid characters will charm readers.’ Romantic Times: ‘This beguiling romance steals your heart, lifts your spirits, and lights up the pages with humor and passion.’ Library Journal: ‘Readers will be quickly drawn in by the lively pace, the appealing protagonists, and the sexual chemistry that almost visibly shimmers between.’ Rendezvous: ‘Such a tantalizing and funny read, you won’t be able to put it down.’ A Romance Review: ‘If you like Amanda Quick, you will absolutely love Amelia Grey Fun, fast paced, and very sensual.’ 20090116 Praise for Amelia Grey’s Regency romances: Affaire de Coeur: ‘Each new Amelia Grey tale is a diamond. In a moment of passion, they become scandalously entangled, and suddenly the duke must take Henrietta’s curse seriously, and she must take drastic measures to save the one man she could love… Sure that she carries a curse that killed her previous guardians, Henrietta just wants the duke to sign over her inheritance before something terrible befalls him… What is a roguish young nobleman supposed to do with a shockingly lovely young ward? The Duke of Blakewell believes he’d better marry her off as soon as possible, before he gives in to temptation himself…īut Henrietta doesn’t want a husband she wants her independence… Also, this psychological feeling is a primitive justice in the absence of norms and laws. As long ashuman beings exist under the sun, revenge becomes a piece of human behavior from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare’s Hamlet. While it is both a feeling of humanitarian, at the same time it places people into bizarre and dangerous activities. The sail of revenge fills with this tempest and if this tempest is very strong, it destroys the sails. The feeling of revenge is a tempest that evokes people. This study intends to analyze not only the concept of revenge, how universal and motivating isthis feeling but also how justifiable is it through the lens of the characters in Hamlet. Not only Hamlet but also Laertes and Fortinbras want to revenge. The concept of revenge is the driving force throughout the play. The play points out flaming with revenge after the King has been murdered by his brother and claims the throne. Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s important revenge tragedy plays believing to have been written between 15. 7/5/2023 0 Comments Pete walker ptsd bookIt is the logical extension and evolution of the work presented on this website and in his first book. Pete’s most popular book, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving is now also an audio book. Pete’s website (click here) has some helpful downloads, including Strategies for Emotional Flashbacks, and Inner Critic Attacks. Pete specializes in helping adults who were traumatized in childhood, especially those whose repeated exposure to abuse and/or neglect left them with the symptoms of Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He has been working as a counselor, lecturer, writer and group leader for thirty-five years, and as a supervisor and consultant of other therapists for 20 years. He is a “general practitioner” who has a private practice in Berkeley, California, in the serene Claremont Hotel neighborhood. Pete Walker, M.A., MFT is a licensed psychotherapist, MFC 25210, with degrees in Social Work and Counseling Psychology. at Michigan, Bennett's 2014 essay for Jezebel, "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" gained considerable attention, generating over one million views in three days. She later attended the University of Michigan for her M.F.A. The Vanishing Half was selected as one of The New York Times ten best books of 2020.īennett was raised in Southern California and earned an undergraduate degree in English from Stanford University. Her second novel, The Vanishing Half (2020), was also a New York Times best-seller and it was chosen as a Good Morning America Book Club selection. Her debut novel The Mothers (2016) was a New York Times best-seller. "I Don't Know What to Do With Good White People" (2014)īrit Bennett is an American writer based in Los Angeles. |