![]() Twenty Pagans were arrested and pleaded guilty to racketeering, drugs, firearms and conspiracy to commit murder, among other charges, following his undercover investigation. He chronicles his harrowing covert experiences a decade ago in the new book, “ Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang,” co-authored with Dave Wedge. “There are s–tloads of Pagans running around, actively recruiting and have been for years.” ![]() “Pagans are riding the streets of New York City today, flying their colors,” ex-ATF agent Ken Croke, 54, who spent two years undercover with the gang, told The Post. Las Vegas biker gangs shootout possibly caused by prior shooting deathĪ vicious biker gang is aggressively expanding its turf in the Big Apple, warns a former Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent who infiltrated the group. Member of notorious ‘Mongols’ biker gang indicted for executing suspected snitch from another crew Undercover agent exposes Hells Angels’ sex rules: ‘A violent price to pay’ ![]() ![]() Oklahoma City outlaw biker boss jumped, killed nearly year to day after Texas gunfight ![]()
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![]() ![]() Daphne’s grandfather George du Maurier’s gothic novel Trilby introduced the now-legendary character “Svengali” to the canon her father, Gerald, was a stage actor so famous that du Maurier cigarettes are named after him. The du Mauriers were a famous and wealthy family of actors and writers. ![]() ![]() Du Maurier’s fifth novel made her a literary sensation at 31, although not one without a head start. Published in 1938, Rebecca was an overnight success-the initial print run of 20,000 flew off bookstore shelves. This version-premiering 80 years after Alfred Hitchcock’s timeless best-picture winner-casts Armie Hammer and Lily James as rich widower Maxim de Winter and his nameless bride, who’s slowly consumed with envy as she grows obsessed with his first wife, Rebecca. On October 21, Netflix premieres a film reincarnation of an old classic: Rebecca, based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Humans that are awakened do not want this and eventually Lilith is deemed a traitor after helping to save the Oankali that Lilith has been mated with. The Oankali, a strange looking race, want to interbreed with the Humans and call it genetic engineering. Lilith is picked as the Human who will lead the other Humans that will be reintroduced on the Earth's surface now, so that the planet can hold life again. Lilith is awakened on board an Oankali space ship and told that there is very little of the Human race left from a war that Humans waged on themselves. The story focuses on the Human resisters who want their freedom returned, regardless of the consequences, and the lives of the Oankali and Humans that are trying to work together. ![]() ![]() The aliens, known as the Oankali, are nothing like Humans and while they revere life, they believe that to let Humans alone, only to destroy themselves again, is the same as allowing death. Butler is the story of how Humanity was saved from the war it waged on itself by an alien species. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From Dick's unrelenting crusade to marry the glamorous teacher through the myriad crises of his political career, the Nixons' story is filled with hopes and disappointments, both intimate and global. With the help of personal writings and interviews with family and friends, Swift unveils a woman who was warm and vivacious, yet much shrewder and more accomplished than she has been given credit for. Nixon the man was enormously complicated: brilliant, insecure, sometimes coldly calculating, and capable of surprising affection with his wife. In Pat and Dick, biographer Will Swift brings his years of experience as a historian and marital therapist to this unique examination of a long-misunderstood marriage. Now, the couple's recently released love letters and other private documents reveal that as surely as unremitting adversity can fray the fabric of a marriage, devotion can propel it to surmount disgrace and defeat. ![]() ![]() But a very different image of the polarizing president emerges in this fascinating portrait of the relationship between Richard and Pat Nixon. When Americans remember the controversial Nixons, they usually focus on the political triumphs, the turbulent White House years, and the humiliating public downfall. Shortlisted for the 2015 Plutarch Award for Best Biography, "the most humanizing portrait of the Nixons we're likely to have" (Douglas Brinkley) is a sweeping depiction of the turbulent fifty-three-year marriage of Richard and Pat Nixon. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, along with their cousins Liesl and Rosa, they begin to enjoy exploring the Black Forest. After a while they all begin to relax but Asta, who is uncomfortably aware that she has behaved badly at the outset, finds it more difficult than the others. The family travels to Germany where they are met by a welcoming, hospitable, but undeniably different, family. ![]() Asta, who had hoped to study art, is miserable, worried and unable to respond to his kindness, whilst Thea, a student at the Lingeraux Ballet School, is afraid that she will not be able to return. ![]() Van is excited to be going abroad and happy when Herr Hartrich assures her that she is as welcome as his brother’s own children. Max, who is studying modern languages, is delighted to be relieved of the responsibility for his sisters, and pleased when his uncle is able to find him a job on a farm. Uncle Gustav descends on the family and sweeps them off to his home in the Black Forest for the summer. ![]() ![]() Zoe Venakovsky, known to her family as Zoya, has worked hard to leave the suffocating streets and small minds of Brighton Beach behind her-only to find that what she's tried to outrun might just hold her true happiness. With her hopes for the future dashed, Natasha must find a new purpose-one that leads her into the path of a dangerous young man. But the Soviets do not allow Jewish students-even those as brilliant as Natasha-to attend an institute as prestigious as Odessa University. ![]() ![]() Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study mathematics. ![]() To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria-born Dvora Kaganovitch-has fulfilled her mother's dreams.īut a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. ![]() Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic family saga centering on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family-each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for love and personal fulfillment-and how the consequences of their choices ripple through time. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() ![]() The gorgeous actress and her son supported Michael on the red carpet, as he took on the role of Hank Pym in the Marvel franchise for the third time. Michael, 78, and Catherine, 53, who also share 19-year-old daughter Carys Zeta Douglas, have been enjoying some bonding time with Dylan as of late, as he accompanied his parents to the to Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumaniapremiere in Los Angeles in February. ![]() bit out of touch, bad jokes for sure!” Michael Douglas and son Dylan Douglas on Broadway in April 2023. “More in terms of what he says, rather than who he is,” he explained, adding, “Just dad stuff. “He can be embarrassing at times,” Dylan told Page Six. During the Broadway opening of Good Night, Oscar, Dylan Douglas, 22, hilariously dragged his Academy Award-winning pops for acting like most dads who love corny jokes. The son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones called out his famous father for being… a father. ![]() Search Hollywood Life Search Trending Navigation Trending Latest Hollywood Celebrity & Entertainment News Primary Menu Menu Close Menu ![]() ![]() ![]() It's loaded with examples, many of them very funny, and is of course lucidly written. ![]() I see this notion as being useful to us, the readers of Editing Matters, as we work to ensure that nothing gets in the way of a client's words being converted, in the reader's mind, into the intended ideas.įortunately, the book is nowhere near as confusing as my previous paragraph. An effective writer chooses and arranges words in a way that makes it more likely that the resulting web in the reader's mind bears some resemblance to what was in the writer's mind. The reader then absorbs the string of words and re-webs it into their own mental network. Pinker describes the web (of ideas), the string (of words) and the tree (of syntax): the tree allows the writer to convert the web into a string. Forcing a network of ideas into linear form gives rise to many of the stylistic problems that writers face. Pinker describes writing as 'a linear ordering of phrases which conveys a gnarly network of ideas'. In The Sense of Style, Pinker applies his understanding of cognitive language processing to questions of written style. ![]() Steven Pinker is a cognitive scientist, but he has also produced well-regarded discussions of style, including 'Why academics stink at writing' ( Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 September 2014 ( )). ![]() The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21st Century S Pinker, Penguin Books, 2015, 368pp, £11.14 (pbk), ISBN 978 0 14312 779 6 Reviewed by Lucy Metzger ![]() ![]() ![]() Dynamic 1H NMR spectroscopy was performed on some relevant systems in order to explore molecular dynamics. Through combination of the combustion and sublimation results, the standard molar enthalpies of formation in the gas phase, at T = 298.15 K, were derived and used to infer about gas phase energetics. For some compounds, Calvet microcalorimetry was used for the determination of standard molar enthalpies of sublimation, at T = 298.15 K. The Knudsen/Quartz crystal effusion technique was employed for the measurement of vapour pressures as a function of temperature, and derivation of standard molar enthalpies, entropies and Gibbs energies of sublimation, at T = 298.15 K. Static mini-bomb and macro-bomb combustion calorimetry was employed for the determination of standard molar enthalpies of formation in the crystalline phase, at T = 298.15. ![]() The great majority of the compounds under study was synthesized by the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction, and characterized by 1H and 13C NMR spectroscopy and by X-ray crystallography. In this work, a series of organic aromatic compounds was studied by various experimental and theoretical methods, with the main objective of obtaining insights about the physical-chemical factors that might lead to structural and energetic differentiation among selected groups of interrelated molecules. ![]() |