![]() ![]() ![]() The top five finishers in the 5k automatically qualify for the NCAA Championship held in three weeks at Drake University in Iowa. Khadraoui (13:54.53) and Ledwith (14:01.11) are seeded seventh and 13th respectively after also qualifying at in Philadelphia on April 24. Ng'etich is seeded fifth overall after finishing third overall at the Penn Relays with a time of 13:51.68. ![]() All three ran top 15 times in the East this outdoor season. The race is the last event scheduled and will commence at approximately 9:20 pm. Khadraoui, Ledwith, and Ng'etich will compete in the 5000 meter finals on Friday night. New Rochelle, NY - Iona College men's outdoor track senior Abraham Ng'etich and juniors Mohamed Khadraoui and Andrew Ledwith along with women's juniors Ashling Baker, and Fiona Nash will represent the Gaels this weekend in the upcoming NCAA East Regional Championships at Mike Long Track on the campus of Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL this weekend. ![]()
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5/23/2023 0 Comments Permanent record audio book![]() Written with wit, grace, passion, and an unflinching candor, Permanent Record is a crucial memoir of our digital age and destined to be a classic. ![]() ![]() Spanning the bucolic Beltway suburbs of his childhood and the clandestine CIA and NSA postings of his adulthood, Permanent Record is the extraordinary account of a bright young man who grew up online-a man who became a spy, a whistleblower, and, in exile, the Internet's conscience. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it. In 2013, Edward Snowden shocked the world by exposing the US government’s systematic surveillance of ordinary citizens. This gripping NPR Best Book of the Year (The Washington Post) reads like a literary thriller (The New York Times). ![]() The result would be an unprecedented system of mass surveillance with the ability to pry into the private lives of every person on earth. Permanent Record audiobook by Edward Snowden, narrated by Holter Graham. ![]() In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Natsume sōseki kokoro![]() ![]() Next Section Glossary Previous Section Kokoro Summary Buy Study Guide How To Cite in MLA Format Lin, Alexander. ![]() The motherless son of a Buddhist priest, K is an extremely idealistic, determined, and indifferent young man who has been Sensei's friend since the two were young. Sosekis Kokoro has an unforgettable atmosphere of the loneliness and mysteriousness of mans relationship with man. 'Okusan' is the polite form of address for someone else's wife. Sensei calls her by her name, Shizu but in the context of his story she is called 'Ojosan,' which is the polite form of address for 'young lady' or 'daughter'. Sensei's Wife / OjosanĪ very beautiful woman whose seemingly simpleminded nature belies her strong emotional intuition. The Narrator's MotherĪ kindly and simpleminded country woman. ![]() The Narrator's FatherĪ pleasant and simpleminded old country man who is suffering from kidney disease. He hints of his dark past, but never reveals it. Although he is weary of the world in general, he becomes a mentor of sorts for the narrator. SenseiĪn enigmatic man who lives a reclusive and idle life with his wife. Youthful and earnest, he is drawn to Sensei but feels alienated from his family. The unnamed narrator, a well-off young man from the countryside, attends university in Tokyo. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments The enchanted castle book![]() ![]() Given their freedom, the children set out and spend their days exploring. And Mademoiselle agrees to give their their freedom, as long as they promise “not to be more naughty than they must”. The French mistress is also living there, and agrees to supervise them, while the cook will make their meals. It’s a little strange to be living in an empty boarding school for the summer, but no other girls are there. But when their cousin Betty came down with the measles, they ended up at Kathleen’s school. Gerald, Jimmy and Kathleen were supposed to go home for the summer holidays. It’s been around so long that not only could your parents have read it as children, but your grandparents and great-grandparents as well! This particular book doesn’t feature ghosts, witches or vampires, but instead some of the scariest creatures to come out of the imagination: the Ugly-Wuglies! What are they? You’ll find out…but first, you’ll have to read The Enchanted Castle, by E. One more October Old Favorite, this time the oldest book featured so far. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments March book 1![]() ![]() It just never dawned on me that many of today’s young adults have parents that were too young to recall Jim Crow’s death rattle. But when I realized how many Americans don’t have a close connection to the Civil Rights Movement, I was honestly shocked at my own cluelessness. As I age, events like realizing kids born in 1992 can now legally purchase alcohol or realizing many of my peers have never heard of Heathcliff and the Catillac Cats stop me in my tracks. Either through my mother thwarting my attempts at avoiding school with her “in my day” rebuttals or through stories told during daily crappie- fishing excursions with my grandmother, I learned important lessons about American history through oral history. ![]() My mother helped integrate a school in small town Arkansas and her mother served as a social worker of sorts for a five county area in southwest Arkansas. My knowledge of social change in America (in particular, the Civil Rights Movement) was personalized at a young age by my mother and grandmother. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The little one kiyo tanaka![]() ![]() If you’re familiar with any of Daniel Pinkwater’s other books ( The Big Orange Splot, Pickle Creature), you might have some idea of what to expect from this truly unusual and funny book. Kat Hats, Daniel Pinkwater and Aaron Renier Ī charmingly bonkers, truly original book book about cats trained to serve as hats (And the solution is wonderful.) Despite the book’s unusual tone, I’ve found that children are fascinated by the clueless, useless adults here, who walk around in an ignorant stupor. (Perhaps that part, at least, seems familiar?) ![]() Over and over again, Treehorn insists that he is shrinking and that it’s outside of his control – he’d knock it out if he could! – but in the end, it’s up to him to solve his own problem. It’s comical and strange, of course, that no one believes him or cares, but it also feels very much like that common childhood experience: no one listens to me. ![]() The most interesting thing about this book is not, in fact, that Treehorn is shrinking, but instead the bizarre and dismissive reactions of everyone around him. ![]() When Treehorn finds that he’s gradually shrinking, he’s understandably dismayed and perplexed… but his mother and father seem hardly to care. The Shrinking of Treehorn, Florence Parry Heide and Edward Gorey Ī deadpan delight about the way adults dismiss and ignore the very real concerns of childrenĪ classic from the 1970s, The Shrinking of Treehorn is brilliantly offbeat and deadpan, a tale for children with intriguing, dark undercurrents – just as you might expect in a book illustrated by Edward Gorey. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Shrine by james herbert![]() The Unholy transplants the action from Brighton, England to Massachusetts, USA and recasts Fenn as a disgraced reporter in the shape of Jeffrey Dean Morgan. The miracles center on a deaf girl called Alice who can suddenly hear and speak, after being unable to for years, thanks to the apparently divine intervention of “The Lady.” As Alice and Banfield become more well known as a shrine, like those in Lourdes or Međugorje, and throngs of the faithful start to arrive, Gerry begins to have doubts about the assumed divine provenance of the occurrences. ![]() In both book and film, reporter Gerry Fenn becomes embroiled in a series of miracles occurring in the small town of Banfield. Only as the credits rolled did I notice that The Unholy was an adaptation of a novel, The Shrine, by famed British horror author James Herbert. ![]() Instead, it was due to the dawning realisation that there was a great story to be told here, but this definitely wasn’t it. ![]() Not an unexpected emotion to experience while watching a movie produced by horror maestros Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, but unfortunately, it wasn’t due to any of the horrors on screen. As I sat in the cinema watching The Unholy, a feeling of dread slowly crept over me. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments In his steps sheldon![]() ![]() ![]() I read it in its entirety that night as a means of distraction as I waited for morning and light and the banishing of all imagined terrors of mice. Needless to say, I wasn't going to sleep that night.Ī choir director had given me a copy of In His Steps one Christmas, and I had brought it with me, because, of course, a homeschooled teen never leaves home without a book. It was also November, and bitterly cold.Īdd to that the fact that the story around the campfire that night had been of the time my parents had inadvertently pitched their tent over a mouse’s hole and felt the mice crawling under their sleeping bags all night, as well as the fact of my absolute terror of the small furry creatures, which was compounded by the further fact that several mice had boldly visited our fire while the fateful tale was told. It was my first time camping since almost before I could remember, and I was staying (for the first time) in my own tent. This may be understandable, since the occasion of my first reading of the book was on a camping trip. I had read it once when I was a teen, and I was surprised by just how much I had forgotten of the plot line. ![]() ![]() In October, my book club read the novel In His Steps by Charles M. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Honor by umrigar![]() ![]() ![]() Her reportorial style takes us deep into the lives and minds of vividly realized characters, showing us their gestural quirks, geniality and, at times, horrific cruelty. Umrigar writes not only as an elegant storyteller but as a sharp-eyed reporter, no doubt informed by her experience as a former journalist. ![]() Honor adds an element that the author has not addressed before: extreme violence. Her critically acclaimed novel The Space Between Us told with impeccable delicacy a story of friendship between two women of different backgrounds. Umrigar, an English professor at Case Western Reserve University, has set several of her past novels in this tumultuous India, investigating fraught social issues such as caste and class divides, the lure of fundamentalism and culture clash. It's the unseemly side of the country, blighted by cultural conservatism, poverty, sectarian violence, caste hierarchies and misogyny. This isn't the globalized India of news or the India of IT excellence and an ambitious space mission. It's a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world. Thrity Umrigar's important new novel Honor isn't an easy read.įrom depictions of casual misogyny to distressing scenes of public shaming, mistreatment and torture, the novel shows the terrifying social forces that strip vulnerable people of dignity and render them animal-like. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Drawn by Chris Ledbetter![]() I held my dog, Ted, up to my computer with the waivers page open to see if he’d lick the screen where Morel’s name was to see if he could hunt truffles. That sounds just okay, due to the average, but, again, look at the guys he was already better than. Prorater! - But if you were to prorate Morel’s stats from last year, he was a 20/15/.235 hitter. Not to get all stupid with prorating - “If you were to hear the song, ‘How Much Is That Doggie In The Window?’ and price every dog in every window, it would take you 37 years, 11 months and sixteen days.” Oh, shut up, Mr. So what? C! There was barely a B and you want a C? Get out of here!. B! Christopher Morel aka Captain Mushroom was more valuable last year than Ketel Marte, Oneil Cruz, Ke’Bryan Hayes and Adley Rutschman. ![]() Please scream these letters at yourself in the mirror: A! He was a top 130 overall guy on the Player Rater last year. You might be thinking, it’s not funny, who knows if Morel can hit in the majors. That he was in the minors for the Cubs until yesterday would be the funniest thing if it wasn’t so sad. ![]() 330/.425/.730 with 11 homers and four steals in 29 games. So far this season in Triple-A, Christopher Morel was going. ![]() |