“There’s a bigger structural trend here, where the economics have not yet caught up with reality,” Waxman said in an interview. The firm has been researching the NWSL opportunity for about nine months, Waxman said in an interview, and found that “everything that indicates something is structurally undervalued was flashing green, on every vector.” Sixth Street’s investment thesis, according to co-founder and CEO Alan Waxman, centered around data regarding growing attendance at women’s sports, increased media accessibility, contractually obligated revenue and social media following. Meet the Monarch Collective, a New $100 Million Women's Sports Fund Sporticast: Monarch Collective to Invest $100 Million in Women's Sports Just Women's Sports, NWSL Extend Highlight Rights Deal They say they plan to invest $125 million in the team at the start, including the expansion fee, a roughly $40 million practice facility, and the remaining $32 million or so onto the club’s balance sheet. The group’s investors include former Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg, former Golden State Warriors president Rick Welts and a quartet of former USWNT players-Brandi Chastain, Aly Wagner, Danielle Slaton and Leslie Osborne. A group led by private equity giant Sixth Street has closed on an NWSL expansion team in the San Francisco Bay Area, committing to a league-record $53 million expansion fee.
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“The Wisdom Kid”), this plot has more momentum than a runaway stagecoach on a mountain road.īut it’s more than just a great yarn. Starting with a seemingly innocent act of saving a drowning man’s life and moving with quarter horse speed to the climactic (though gun-free) “High Noon”-style showdown with Rabbi Ruben (a.k.a. The Wisdom Kid,” is perfect for the big screen because it’s a full-length, well-plotted graphic tale. “It’s against character, I suppose, but the look is right.”Ĭasting aside, the latest saga, “Rabbi Harvey vs. “Someone suggested Adam Sandler as Harvey, but I don’t know,” said Sheinkin, whose prior books in the series are the collections, “The Adventures of Rabbi Harvey” and “Rabbi Harvey Rides Again” (both from Jewish Lights Publishing). The cult hero of a generation of Jewish boys, Park Slope author Steve Sheinkin’s Talmud-spouting Wild West lawman rides again this month, in a new full-length graphic novel that is practically daring a film studio to finally make a hero out of this man in a black hat. Finally, Rabbi Harvey is made for Hollywood. Holleran G, Scaldaferri F, Gasbarrini A, Currò D. extract on gastrointestinal hormones and brain-gut peptides in functional dyspepsia rats. Artemisia annua and artemisinins are ineffective against human Babesia microti and six Candida sp. Antimicrobial activity of Artemisia absinthium against surgical wounds infected by Staphylococcus aureus in a rat model. Moslemi HR, Hoseinzadeah H, Badouei AB, Kafshdouzan K, Fard RMN. Therapeutic efficacy of Artemisia absinthium against Hymenolepis nana: in vitro and in vivo studies in comparison with the anthelmintic praziquantel. 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This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Įric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. But many of those failures are preventable. No wonder Collins sees his poetry as "a form of travel writing" and considers humor "a door into the serious." It is a door that many thousands of readers have opened with amazement and delight.īilly Collins has published twelve collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems, Nine Horses, The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems, Ballistics, Horoscopes for the Dead, and Picnic, Lightning. The typical Collins poem opens on a clear and hospitable note but soon takes an unexpected turn poems that begin in irony may end in a moment of lyric surprise. The poems themselves best explain this phenomenon. His readings are usually standing room only, and his audience – enhanced tremendously by his appearances on National Public Radio – includes people of all backgrounds and age groups. His work has appeared in a variety of periodicals including T he New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The American Scholar, he is a Guggenheim fellow and a New York Public Library "Literary Lion." His last three collections of poems have broken sales records for poetry. No poet since Robert Frost has managed to combine high critical acclaim with such broad popular appeal. Poet Laureate (2001 – 2003)īilly Collins is an American phenomenon. He seemed to specialise in men who were bullying, self centred obsessives, going from the books of his which I’ve read in the past. It’s probably more acccurate to describe it as an interesting look at a psychological type.Ĭronin was a doctor, a local GP in a small town (Dumbarton) in the west of Scotland and as such must have met a lot of characters in his daily life, some of whom inspired/appalled him so much that he felt the need to get their characters down on paper and write tales around them. Actually I’m not sure if enjoyable is the word, given the storyline. It stars Dirk Bogarde, worth watching for him alone but as I recall it’s an enjoyable watch. Cronin was published in 1950 and was made into a film in 1957, it looks like you can see the whole of the film online, if you’re interested. The Spanish Gardener by Scottish author A.J. “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” imagines a software product that works as a kind of digital memory, always exact and always precise, and puts it in parallel with the way the technology of reading and writing has already shaped human memory.Ĭhiang is thoughtful about the rules of his imagined technologies. “The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate” imagines a time machine that obeys Einstein’s theory of relativity - essentially a doorway that you walk through from the present, emerging on the other side a fixed period of time into either the past or the future - and riffs on ideas about predestination in an Arabian Nights-inspired nest of stories. But you can always trust that the machine’s inventor has plotted out that pattern with exquisite precision.Ĭhiang writes what could be loosely described as “thinky sci-fi.” His stories tend to introduce a single scientific idea or paradox, and then dramatize it. And this machine is made up of intricately connected parts, all moving in a pattern of such complexity that you can’t always be sure that you’re following it. The go-to cliché when a critic is reviewing a particularly lovely collection of short stories is to say that they are “jewel-like”: that they are elegant and discrete little gems of story, shimmering away on the page.Įxhalation - the newest short-story collection from Ted Chiang, author of the novella that was adapted into the 2016 Amy Adams movie Arrival - is not jewel-like. In this case, LaRose is the fourth to bear his name, all of whom were women healers able to fly and defy other laws of physics. I’m one of those Erdrich enthusiasts who nonetheless balks at her penchant for embellishing stories with traditional Indian sorcery. Maggie, in turn, will tutor LaRose in surprising ways. Snow and Josette Iron, high-school volleyball stars, eventually make the younger Maggie Ravich their project, transforming her from preteen screw-up to confident teen. Meanwhile, their children must adapt to ever-changing family constellations. Nola regards the college-educated Emmaline’s indifference toward her as arrogance. That Nola and Emmaline are half-sisters with little love for each other only adds to the tension. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.Įver so slowly, Nola heals while LaRose’s mother, Emmaline, suffers in her own way, until she can no longer bear the strain and suggests that the two families share the boy. At the time, Pach was sitting on a flatbed trailer. The officer arrived in a marked police car and identified himself as an officer when he approached Pach. In response to the calls, a police officer and a paramedic attempted to help Pach. All three witnesses left after emergency services arrived. The witnesses believed that he was intoxicated and were unsure if he would be a harm to himself, so they both called 9-1-1. BASIC FACTS On April 18, 2020, three people observed Pach falling, getting up, and stumbling toward a major highway. Defendant, Sean Michael Pach, appeals as of right his jury-trial convictions of one count of assaulting, resisting, or obstructing a police officer, MCL 750.81d(1) MCL 750.81d(7)(b)(i),1 and one count of assaulting, resisting, or obstructing a paramedic, MCL 750.81d(1) MCL 750.81d(7)&b)(ix).2 For the reasons stated in this opinion, we affirm. 20-010166-FH SEAN MICHAEL PACH, Defendant-Appellant. STATE OF MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, UNPUBLISHED NovemPlaintiff-Appellee, v No. If this opinion indicates that it is “FOR PUBLICATION,” it is subject to revision until final publication in the Michigan Appeals Reports. I owe the authenticity of OBSESSED to Detective Chris Lyons. Cricket, it turned out, had a friend in the Special Assault Unit, and she called her to arrange for us to get together for an interview. It had a villain who was a serial rapist and I was struggling to make my cop hero’s job come across as authentic when I frankly didn’t know beans about that division of law enforcement. One day in the women’s locker room, the conversation turned to the book I’d just started writing. It wasn’t until she read my book SHADOW DANCE and liked the way I’d handled the gun part that I discovered she was a cop. She was always sort of cagey about what she did for a living, but putting bits and pieces together, I decided she was a meter maid. I’ve belonged to the same gym for over a decade, and way back in the early ’90s, I used to chat between workouts with a woman named Cricket. It’s funny how things work out sometimes. The original book cover (right) from when Obsessed was first released in October 1993. |