![]() The documentary series builds a cultural history of basketball, tracing the evolution of the NBA leading up to the 1992 Olympics and its ensuing growth into the second most popular sport on Earth. Olympic Men’s Basketball team, widely regarded as the best team ever assembled.ĭREAM TEAM uses rare archival footage and explores original unheard audio interviews from Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, and Larry Bird, among many more, while featuring recent interviews from Dream Team and NBA legends including Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing, and David Robinson, among others. ![]() DREAM TEAM: BIRTH OF THE MODERN ATHLETE is a five-part documentary series for Paramount+ based on acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum’s New York Times Best Selling book, which follows the 1992 U.S. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Based on her own memorable and hilarious experiences, she provides invaluable advice on how to get the right head shot, what to look for in representation, and the importance of getting out there and just doing something. ![]() With candor and wit, Fischer lays out what it takes to establish yourself in the profession. ![]() Jenna Fischer wants to be that person for you. Or, better yet, someone to show her the way-an established actor who could manage her expectations, educate her about the business, and reassure her in those moments of despair. If only she’d had a handbook for the struggling actor. And with so many obstacles to navigate, it wasn’t always easy to fight off discouragement. The path to professional acting was more competitive than she’d ever imagined. It would be eight long years before she landed her Emmy-nominated role of Pam Beesley on The Office-nearly a decade of failure, struggle, rejection and doubt. She was determined, she was confident, she was ready to work hard. Never mind that she didn’t know a single person in the entertainment industry. With a theater degree in hand, she was certain everything would fall easily into place. Jenna Fischer’s Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hometown of St. ![]() ![]() ![]() We find out that Luděk’s Babi and Little Fox’s grandmothers are sisters. Despite unreliable supplies in the grocery stores (Prague has run out of toilet paper!), and restrictions on expression and movement, Luděk enjoys a life of running around the city streets, so fast he believes he is invisible. In the other world, Prague under Soviet rule, there is Luděk, a young boy who lives with his Babi, his grandmother. ![]() In one world, we meet a girl, nicknamed Little Fox, who lives with her Czech grandparents in Melbourne, where her grandpa is a nightwatchman in a factory. Set largely in 1980, it is the story of a Czech family, separated by space and time and politics. There Was Still Love is a sweet story about parallel worlds, but it is not science fiction or fantasy. ![]() ![]() 2020 sucks after all.Īfter reading a handful of modern day books about the topic I came away feeling unsatisfied each time. This year, however, I've delved more deeply into literature about the topic. ![]() ![]() I've always had an interest in stoicism and have slowly over the years accumulated more knowledge and more stoic habits. Meditations, Enchiridion, Seneca's essays: view and compare translations.We are a community committed to learning about and applying Stoic principles and techniques. View the subreddit without personal and advice posts For any clarification you can message the mods. Please consult our community rules before making a new comment or post. In the interest of creating a safe space to discuss Stoicism, especially for those new to Stoicism, posts and comments that grossly violate reddiquette will be removed. A summary of central themes in Stoicism.Recommended translations of Marcus Aurelius.Recommendations for introductory reading.Welcome! Please read our FAQ, which includes (but is not limited to) answers to questions on: ![]() ![]() ![]() Although the woman, Alexi Sauvage, has no memory of the attack, Sebastian knows her all too well from an incident in his past-an act of wartime brutality and betrayal that nearly destroyed him.Īs the search for the killer leads Sebastian into a treacherous web of duplicity, he discovers that Pelletan was part of a secret delegation sent by Napoleon to investigate the possibility of peace with Britain. Damion Pelletan in one of London’s worst slums, Sebastian finds himself caught in a high-stakes tangle of murder and revenge. Regency England, January 1813: When a badly injured Frenchwoman is found beside the mutilated body of Dr. Cyr and his pregnant wife, Hero, into a dangerous, decades-old mystery as a wrenching piece of Sebastian’s past puts him to the ultimate test. ![]() The gruesome murder of a young French physician draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. ![]() ![]() "Rubin is really funny but like John Green, he manages to be poignant at the same time. Suddenly Denton’s life is filled with mysterious questions and precious little time to find the answers. Is this what will kill him? And then a strange man shows up at his funeral, claiming to have known Denton’s long-deceased mother, and warning him to beware of suspicious government characters. ![]() (Though he’s not totally sure-see, first hangover.) His anxiety builds when he discovers a strange purple rash making its way up his body. First love triangle-as the first sex seems to have happened not with his adoring girlfriend, but with his best friend’s hostile sister. For Denton, that’s in just two days-the day of his senior prom.ĭespite his early deathdate, Denton has always wanted to live a normal life, but his final days are filled with dramatic firsts. Get ready to die laughing: this is an outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenager’s life as he searches for love, meaning, answers, and (just maybe) a way to live on.ĭenton Little’s Deathdate takes place in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows the day on which they will die. ![]() **The Snapchat Original series, Denton's Deathdate, is here-check it out!** ![]() ![]() ![]() Read on to check out our guide on how to give a team gift to the boss. Whatever your situation, there's a gifting solution that'll hopefully make your boss feel appreciated during this major moment. ![]() Or maybe your team is full of quiet quitters who are too checked out to help you come up with a gift that’s thoughtful, personal, and still professional. But perhaps you work from home, have never met the boss in person, and have no idea what they’re into. If you see your boss every day (or a few times a week) in the office, you may have a sense of what their interests, tastes, likes, and dislikes are. It's daunting enough to choose the perfect gift for your friends and family members, but when it comes to giving a gift for your boss, well, welcome to a whole new level of stress! So, your boss is celebrating an important life event, and it’s up to you to organize a gift from the team. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An essay titled "The Real History of Slavery" presents a jolting re-examination of that tragic institution and the narrow and distorted way it is too often seen today. It presents eye-opening insights into the historical development of the ghetto culture that is today wrongly seen as a unique black identity-a culture cheered on toward self-destruction by white liberals who consider themselves "friends" of blacks. In a series of long essays, this book presents an in-depth look at key beliefs behind many mistaken and dangerous actions, policies, and trends. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville and Frederick Law Olmsted. This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. ![]() ![]() Economist David Friedman vets the legitimacy of these claims and finds them mostly wanting in "Adam Smith Wasn't a Progressive" ( page 22). ![]() This pattern established by the American Founders has continued to the present day, when one will often hear progressives summoning Smith's words to battle for the causes of antitrust, publicly funded schooling, labor unions, taxing the rich, and more. Jefferson's lifelong opponent Alexander Hamilton lifts entire passages from Wealth of Nations in his "Report on Manufactures" to Congress, for instance, only to be met-as Yuval Levin notes in his anniversary tribute to Smith at National Review-by James Madison, citing Smith (rather more credibly) in opposition to Hamilton's proposal for a national bank. Three hundred years after Adam Smith's inauspicious birth in Kirkcaldy, it's not hard to make the case that it's still true.Ĭlaiming the endorsement of the greatest of the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers for one's own arguments has been a successful rhetorical gambit for at least as long as Smith's books, The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, have been available to the public. ![]() "In political oeconomy, I think Smith's wealth of nations the best book extant." So Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 overall picks, most recently New Orleans Pelicans forward Zion Williamson. Since 1984, more than 250 players who competed in the Invitational were later selected in the NBA draft. The tournament-officially dubbed the Maui Jim Maui Invitational-is a rare chance for local hoops fans to see top-level talent in person. Since its inception, the Invitational has hosted an array of powerhouse programs, including five teams that would go on to win the NCAA Division I championship: Michigan in 1988 UConn in 2010 and North Carolina in 2004, 2008, and 2016. Now, after a two-year absence, the nationally recognized college basketball tournament is coming home. In 2021, with pandemic concerns lingering, it was played in Las Vegas. ![]() In 2020, COVID-19 restrictions relocated the event to Asheville, North Carolina. ![]() But for the last two years, it wasn’t played on Maui. The Maui Invitational has been a local institution for nearly four decades. Prestigious college basketball tournament returns to Lahaina after two-year hiatus ![]() |