![]() ![]() ![]() And 59 per cent said it would be great to see airlines consult those with sight loss to improve their policies. ![]() To improve the travel experience, 65 per cent would like to see airlines undertake training to understand how they can better support passengers who are visually impaired. Reasons included feeling nervous checking in at the airport (38 per cent), reading the food menu (34 per cent) and putting away their luggage (32 per cent). More than half (56 per cent) have felt uncomfortable travelling by plane at some point in the past. And 84 per cent would feel more comfortable with air travel if cabin crew were better educated about visual impairment. It comes after a poll of 250 visually impaired adults found 59 per cent would like to travel abroad more. Virgin Atlantic has partnered with the charity to provide each cabin crew member with online resources incorporated into their wider training programme, to improve accessibility and create a more inclusive travel experience. Airline cabin crew are to work with Guide Dogs to help support those flying with a visual impairment. ![]()
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![]() World Population 2015, by Chase Mohrman aka TeaDranks, also see the 1900 version. I thought of a cartogram I put together a while ago, which I was inspired to by Paul Breding’s and Chase Mohrmann’s cartograms. The Humans Who Read Grammars blog recently asked me how to improve on Illustrating current questions in research on linguistic diversity. Sometimes they can be quite comical by enlarging Alaska to imply that several tens of million people live there. Those start off with something similar to a Gall-Peters Projection and then distort the individual countries or regions according to the data to be shown. ![]() There are several world population versions (and other data sets) by Sasi Group and Mark Newman available at. ![]() An area cartogram is a map that tries to convey information by resizing areas to show data, e.g population, domestic product or number of languages. ![]() ![]() Yet, there's no escaping the arranged bond, much less a man like Luca. In her world a handsome exterior often hides the monster within a monster who can just as easily kill as kiss you. But Aria knows the bad boy aura isn't just a game blood and death lurk beneath Luca's striking gray eyes and arrogant smile. ![]() He may be one of the most sought-after bachelors in New York, thanks to his good looks, wealth and predator-like charisma. Luca is the future Capo of the New York Famiglia, a man known for his brutality-and for crushing his cousin's throat with his bare hands.Īria is terrified of marrying a monster like him. What many consider a gift means her doom when she's forced to marry Luca Vitiello to bring peace between two mafia dynasties. ![]() ![]() Born into one of the leading mob families in Chicago, Aria Scuderi is a mafia princess known for her beauty. ![]() ![]() He a big- game hunter, flyer, the adventurer a lost soul escaping the restrictions of England for the freedom of a new untamed land, still never comfortable in, or anywhere else. Denys Finch Hatton a British aristocrat, Oxford educated oozing charm became her inevitable lover, she adoringly writes about but keeps the relationship unstated, but you can read between the lines. These memoirs by the upper-class woman of her African experiences tells mostly the truth, the interesting stories with hidden secrets, after all this was published in 1937 and reputations needed to be protected, discretion ruled the age. ![]() At an elevation above 6,000 feet you can imagine the difficulties, a great place for coffee beans are at lower levels she will discover to her immense regret. The unfaithful husband Baron Bror Blixen neglects the Baroness and not interested in the farm, he enjoys the company of other women. Isak Dinesen ( nee Karen Blixen) finds real love and tragedy while managing it 1913-1931. A Danish noblewoman comes to Africa gets married to a Swedish Baron, her second cousin and starts a coffee plantation close to the Ngong Hills in the Kenyan Colony southwest of Nairobi then just a small town before the start of WWI. ![]() ![]() post misleading or false statements regarding the share price and performance.post any confidential or price sensitive information or that is not public knowledge.discuss illegal or criminal activities.While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, swearing, insulting posts, personal attacks, or posts which are invasive of another's privacy. ![]() Your account nickname must not be the same, or contain, listed company names or board members' names.If a post is made under your account, it will be considered that it was posted by yourself. Your email and password must only be used by you.Any user found to have more than one account on this site will have all, and any future accounts suspended permanently. 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Warbreaker is a Brandon Sanderson novel, all right, and it’s a characteristically excellent one, to boot. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:37:26 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40393603 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier ![]() ![]() This is a shame, but I guess Mekas shooed Landis away when the author tried to leave some flyers at the Anthology Film Archives once and he’s held a grudge ever since. The only time Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford really refer to “underground film” in Sleazoid Express - their exhaustive survey of the exploitation film scene in Times Square - is to knock it and particularly to slam Jonas Mekas, who oddly pops up a few times as a villain in the book. ![]() For example, the rise of NYC’s downtown Cinema of Transgression scene occurred at about the same time the old Times Square grindhouses were closing up and being razed to the ground. While the definition of what exactly constitutes an “underground film” has evolved over the years, it hasn’t - as far as I know - been used to incorporate exploitation cinema, even though much in the current underground scene is similar to the exploitation style of exploring taboos and other shocking subject matter. al., in what was commonly known as the New American Cinema movement. Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Shirley Clarke, et. ![]() ![]() ![]() The term didn’t become synonymous with avant-garde and experimental filmmaking until Stan Vanderbeek used it in 1961 to describe the work of his contemporaries, e.g. The term “underground film” was originally coined in 1957 by Manny Farber, but he used it to describe the work of under-appreciated B-movie directors like Howard Hawks and Raoul Walsh. ![]() ![]() ![]() Loved Rory and the Old Dears.ooh, and Fat Sam of course □ 5 stars from me.Īdam? Well, a bit of a Dick with a capital D, and he deserves everything he gets as far as ribbing from practically everyone is concerned, Rory in particular is playing him like a fiddle but let's hope he grows up and comes to his senses soon. John is certainly ringing the changes lately with his stories, and I for one can't wait for the next instalment to appear. It couldn't be more different to the More Heat than the Sun series, but in a really good way. What a sweet, feel good story this was from John, set once more in his beloved Devon. He said there would be more Ben and Nik stories, and I can only hope he will honour that promise.maybe his muse has done a runner or life in general is too hectic for any new stories at the mo, but a little more info would give all of us Wiltshire fans a huge boost please John □□□*** ![]() Yes, we know that John has moved back to the UK from New Zealand.but other than that? Zilch, zip, nada. God, isn't it amazing to think that we've gone 4 years without a new John Wiltshire story. ![]() ![]() "A study of municipal power that will change the way any reader of the book hereafter peruses his newspaper." -Philip Herrera, Time Every politician should read it." -Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times but an object lesson in the dangers of power. ![]() Not just a stunning portrait of perhaps the most influential builder in world history. you know that you are in the hands of a master. There has probably never been a better dissection of political power. "Simply one of the best nonfiction books in English of the past 40 years. This is a study of the corruption which power exerts on those who wield it to set beside Tacitus and his emperors, Shakespeare and his kings." -Daniel Berger, Baltimore Evening Sun This is definitive biography, urban history, and investigative journalism. "One of the most exciting, un-put-downable books I have ever read. A monumental work, a political biography and political history of the first magnitude." -Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York ![]() "The most absorbing, detailed, instructive, provocative book ever published about the making and raping of modern New York City and environs and the man who did it, about the hidden plumbing of New York City and State politics over the last half-century, about the force of personality and the nature of political power in a democracy. "I think about Robert Caro and reading The Power Broker back when I was twenty-two years old and just being mesmerized, and I'm sure it helped to shape how I think about politics." -President Barack Obama ![]() "Surely the greatest book ever written about a city." -David Halberstam ![]() ![]() ![]() Before my visit, on a recent Monday morning, she had made sure to tidy up the room, but had left out a stack of books-some research materials for her third novel, “American Hagwon.” (The Korean word hagwon refers to a type of private enrichment school that is ubiquitous in Korean communities around the world.) They were mostly academic works about education and its centrality in Korean communities some titles included “ Koreatowns,” “ Education Fever,” and “ The Asian American Achievement Paradox.” It is a compact, sunlit room, with a couch, a pair of desks, and a wall of floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. A creaking wooden staircase runs up its spine, leading to Lee’s research library, on the top floor, where she works. The author Min Jin Lee lives in a four-story town house in Harlem that she and her husband purchased in 2012. ![]() |
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