![]() ![]() And I’m sorry it has to be that way.”Īs cocky and sarcastic as Weston was, he knew when to take things seriously. My leg couldn’t keep still, bouncing up and down. I sat down on the other end of the couch. I wouldn’t have kept talking to him if I didn’t. And no matter what happens or doesn’t happen between us, if you tell me to fuck off, and I walk out, and we never speak again, your secret is safe with me, Anson. No one has the right to decide how someone else lives their life. “As much as I tease, and contrary to what traveling here might say, I won’t push you. Believe me, there is a lot of internal freaking out happening.” I got some of it out by talking to myself in the mirror. He finished his tour, then went for the couch. I liked that Weston had spent time looking into my career. “Hey, I was a fucking badass college player.” I can’t believe this is on the wall in your living room.” “I’m sure he would say the same about you.” He took a drink of his beer and continued to move around the room. “This is your brother?” He pointed to a photo on the wall. I followed behind him as if my house was his place and he was leading me through it. He was so relaxed, I wondered if he made himself at home in random guys’ houses all the time. ![]() We opened them, and Weston walked around, looking at odds and ends as he worked his way toward the living room. I grabbed two bottles from the fridge, then handed one over to him. Heat pooled low in my gut, and I tried to ignore it. “Are you sure you’re a senator?” I finally asked. ![]()
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![]() Wiley spends a lot of time away from home as chef on a ship company called the Great Lakes Line. He is also Helene Sabat’s husband and Nel’s father. Wiley Wright is the great nephew of Cecile Sabat. The family lives in a nice house in the Bottom. She marries Wiley Wright and gives birth to daughter Nel after 9 years of marriage. Raised in a strictly religious home, Helene grows up to be authoritative and devout. She is taken away from her birth mother, Rochelle, a Creole prostitute, by her grandmother Cecile Sabat. Helene is born behind the red shutters at the Sundown House, a place of prostitution. After graduating from school, Nel marries Jude Greene. Nel is the daughter of Wiley and Helene Wright. On January 3 every year, in observance of National Suicide Day, he parades through the Bottom with a cowbell and lets everyone know that they may kill themselves or one another. He lives in a shack previously owned by his long deceased grandfather. ![]() A survivor of battle, Shadrack was hospitalized for over a year before he returned to the Bottom. Founder of National Suicide Day, Shadrack is a veteran of war. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have developed narrow mechanism-specific agents targeting the intrinsic pathway of coagulation and demonstrated that experimental thrombosis and platelet production in primates is interrupted by selective inhibition of activation of coagulation factor (F)XI by FXIIa. However, a similar process can also lead to pathological processes including deep vein thrombosis, ischemic stroke, or myocardial infarction, among others. Hemostatic plug formation upon blood vessel breach is initiated by platelet recruitment, activation and aggregation in concert with thrombin generation and fibrin formation. McCarty serves as the Chair of the Biomedical Engineering Department and a fellow of the American Heart Association. McCarty joined Oregon Health & Science University in 2005, where he holds an appointment as a Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology and the Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology in the OHSU School of Medicine. He performed his postdoctoral research on platelet cell biology in the Pharmacology Department at the University of Oxford and University of Birmingham, UK in the group of Dr. degree in Chemical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, where his research focused on the identification and characterization of tumor cell receptors for blood platelets and leukocytes. ![]() in Chemical Engineering from SUNY Buffalo, and a Ph.D. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "forget the fashion for a minute we need to talk about the fact bill nighy and anna wintour are together like what," one person tweeted after seeing the photos.Īnother wrote: "If you asked me, 'guess who Anna Wintour's dating' and gave me a thousand guesses, I would not have guessed this." Nevertheless, many were left shocked by the unlikely pairing. The pair, both 73, have been spotted at a number of fashion shows, theaters, and restaurants together over the years. Wintour, who has chaired or co-chaired the fashion event since 1995, paired a simple white column dress from Chanel with a bold coat adorned with a yellow and black floral print for the occasion while Nighy opted for a simple, dark navy suit. However, on Tuesday, Nighy's spokesperson told People that "they are not in a relationship," but "have simply been great friends for two decades." In 2021, the couple, both 73, were spotted enjoying several dinners together in Italy.Īnna Wintour walked the carpet at the 2023 Met Gala arm-in-arm with "Love Actually" actor Bill Nighy, fueling speculation that they are dating. The Vogue editor-in-chief and the British actor walked arm-in-arm, fueling dating speculation. Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic/Getty ImagesĪnna Wintour and Bill Nighy walked the red carpet at the 2023 Met Gala together on Monday. Anna Wintour and Bill Nighy at the 2023 Met Gala on Monday, May 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I can't deny either of those things, but despite them, I still really loved every scene he was in - he shined and brought so much life to the story. Was the romance a little odd and unnecessary? Yes. One young woman learns the true nature of powerboth her own and others’in the riveting conclusion to The Waking Land Trilogy. Was some of his personality a little bit cliche'd? Yes. Don’t miss any of Callie Bates’s magical Waking Land trilogy: THE WAKING LAND THE MEMORY OF FIRE THE SOUL OF POWER. Jahan, the love interest of Elanna, was also someone that I really enjoyed reading. ![]() I loved his loyalty, his strength, and down-to-earth nature that made him such a fascinating person to follow. So props to Elanna for struggling through such a weird situation.Īlistair, whom I mentioned above, isn't necessarily a 'main' character, but is someone I considered a main secondary character, and he really helped bring life to every scene he was in. I was also a bit annoyed by how wishy-washy she seemed regarding her loyalties, but then I considered her position of having to choose between the place where was raised and is loyal to and a place where she is actually from and where her biological family is, and I actually understood what a difficult position that would be. She had many moments of seeming rather annoying and repetitive, but I did also really appreciate her moments of strength and forcefulness when she would realize that she just needed to buck up and make a decision or follow her gut, even if it didn't seem right. I loved some of them, like Alistair and Jahan, but others were just. ![]() ![]() ![]() Silo reviews: What critics and audiences sayĪs we mentioned, Silo's first episodes have been incredibly well-received by both critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, currently sitting at 91% on both sides of the table - a rare feat in the age of review-bombing. Of course, it's only a matter of time before one of the Silo's inhabitants - in this case, an engineer named Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) - refuses to believe what they're being told about the outside world, and sets out to discover what's really going on.įerguson (Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, The White Queen) leads an exceptional cast which also includes Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption), David Oyelowo (Selma), Iain Glen (Game of Thrones), Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation), Common (John Wick: Chapter 2) and Will Patton (The Postman). ![]() As in all tales set within a dystopian society, the people of the Silo are governed by a ruling authority which has set a number of regulations which must be adhered to for the sake of the greater good. ![]() ![]() Convincing her slightly inebriated best-friend, Connor, to be her sperm donor was a lot easier than she thought, and all that’s left now is to start the process. After throwing the annual life celebration (for the anniversary of her fiancée’s death) with close friends, she’s finally gotten the courage to take matters into her own hands and become a mother. The last thing Emma Harrison wants is to attend another party-least of all one at work. ![]() There he knows he can knock back a few stiff drinks and find some new no-strings-attached girl to take home for the night. Escaping the wrath of his father and sisters, he wants nothing more than to get to the company Christmas party. But after standing up as godfather for his great-nephew, Mason, that’s just what he gets at the Christening Party. ![]() Coming off a break-up with his latest “friend with benefits”, the last thing Aidan Fitzgerald needs is a family hassle about his bachelor status. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Aiken totaled 13 points in the second OT with 8 of 10 shooting from the charity stripe. The Tigers didn’t leave as much drama in the second overtime and took control of the game thanks in part to Aiken’s clutch shooting from the free-throw line. Lebanon’s Caden Hinckley tied the game at 62-62 with 1:50 remaining, and after a North Allegheny turnover, the Blue Devils had a chance to win the game in the waning seconds of overtime but Lamendola missed two shots before the buzzer. In the extra session, North Allegheny took a 62-60 lead on an Aiken layup with 2:03 to play in overtime. ![]() Lebanon was led by Sean Loughran who tallied 23 points. Lamendola finished with 13 points for the Blue Devils. Lebanon’s Michael Palmer trimmed the score to 55-53 with a jumper with 1:03 to play and a Mark Lamendola layup tied the game at 55-55 with seven seconds remaining to force overtime. The non-section Class 6A contest was tightly played throughout and NA led by four points, 55-51, with just over a minute remaining in the fourth quarter. Senior Griffin Sestili added eight points. Senior post player Isaac Barnes chipped in with a double-double, scoring 18 points and pulling down 10 boards. ![]() Junior Curtis Aiken paced the Tigers attack with a game-high 38 points and eight rebounds. Lebanon Blue Devils on the road for a 77-69 victory in double overtime. In a seesaw game that featured 10 ties and 14 lead changes, the North Allegheny boys’ basketball team outlasted the Mt. ![]() ![]() I like to let my interests wander, to follow obsessions-right now I am reading everything I can get my hands on about funeral traditions all over the world-and see where they lead.Ĭagibi: Name some of your favorite distractions when you travel somewhere. When I wander, I try to cultivate a spirit of openness, noticing, moving without an agenda. I like to build plenty of wandering time into my travel, since the most interesting things happen when I wander. Linnea Hartsuyker: I think I’d disagree, or disagree about there being a strong distinction between them. ![]() Linnea grew up in the woods outside Ithaca, New York, studied engineering at Cornell University, and later received an MFA in creative writing from New York University.Ĭagibi: Hilaire Belloc, the early twentieth century Anglo-French writer and historian, wrote, “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” Do you agree? Why or why not? Linnea Hartsuyker can trace her family lineage back to the first king of Norway, and this inspired her to write her debut novel, The Half-Drowned King, the first book in her trilogy about the Vikings, which was published by HarperCollins in the United States and internationally in six other countries. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Extremely affected by the death of her birth mother Mary Wollstonecraft, the future Mrs. She was a smart, rebellious teenager with a past full of demons, the perfect leading lady. “Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” by Richard Rothwell. Strap in and grab your popcorn, because theirs is a love affair with enough twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat long past the final page. ![]() Today, we celebrate the anniversary of this literary power couple eloping to France on July 28, 1814 by revisiting their tragically beautiful (or tragically tragic, depending on how you look at it) love story. While most of us turn to the latest Hollywood soap opera to get our fix of these addicting dramas, no fiction can compare to the spectacular story of Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and poet Percy Shelley. What’s a good love story without a little bit of drama? Sure, there’s something to be said of happy couples riding off into the sunset, hand in hand, but what people really want are stories full of pain, struggle, heartbreak, infidelity, poverty, loss, and just enough love left over to keep things interesting. ![]() |