This news comes on the heels of another controversial water-related change at the coffee giant. The company adds that the newer ice machines use less water to make ice, which will contribute to its sustainability goal to cut its water footprint in half by 2030. Starbucks also notes baristas have been using the same ice scoop they always have, so the volume of ice per beverage will not change. Further, Starbucks says the tests showed that most customers didn’t notice a different ice was used in their beverage at all, but that most of the folks who noticed responded positively. The coffee chain says it conducted several tests that demonstrated that the nugget ice does not melt faster than its current ice, which may allay the worries of many commenters speculating about the future of their beverage happiness.
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The red state/blue state schism marks several old divides, he holds, one between “a preference for conspicuous consumption over energy efficiency and conservation,” one between secularism and theocracy. He is now in the unhappy position of bearing witness to the birth of a Texas-fried, small-tent politics that blends religious orthodoxy and unwavering uncertainty in presidential infallibility with an economics predicated on indebtedness and extraction. Phillips ( American Dynasty, 2004, etc.), the apostate former Republican strategist, once coined the term “Sun Belt” and envisioned the Southernization of American politics. A dazzling treatise on the collapse of Republican virtues under the fundamentalists and plutocrats united in the perfect storm of Bushism. Jackson’s body hasn’t forgiven him for past crimes. Jackson keeps crashing his bicycle of self-care and a successful relationship, and Ellery wonders what’s going to give out first-Jackson’s health or Ellery’s patience. notified Monday evening of an unresponsive 2-year-old at an apartment on Meadowlark Lane. When the man he thinks of as his brother is accused of killing a police officer in an obviously doctored crime, Jackson will move heaven and earth to keep Kaden and his family safe. Meat taxes are being considered to price it out of our reach. As Henry and Jackson fight the bad guys and each other to find out who dumped the porn star in the trash can, Jackson must reexamine his assumptions that four months of rest and a few good conversations have made him all better inside. PI Jackson Rivers grew up on the mean streets of Del Paso Heightsand he doesn’t trust cops, even though he was one. Their first case is a doozy, involving porn stars, drug empires, and daddy issues, and their client, Henry Worrall, wants to be an active participant in his own defense. Now that he and Ellery are starting their own law firm, there’s no reason he can’t rush into trouble and take the same risks as always, right? Fish Out of Water: Book One PI Jackson Rivers grew up on the mean streets of Del Paso Heightsand he doesn’t trust cops, even though he was one. Jackson Rivers has always bucked the rules-and bucking the rules of recovery is no exception. Elites, not elections, put Bush in power. He traces the course of Bush’s family over the past 100 years, detailing how they sought influence “in the back corridors” of the oil and defense industries, investment banking and the intelligence establishment. In his new book American Dynasty, Phillips lays out his almost visceral distaste for what he calls “the politics of deceit in the House of Bush,” accusing the administration of dishonesty and secrecy that would make Tricky Dick blush. Phillips served as the chief political strategist for Richard Nixon in 1968, and, in The Emerging Republican Majority, he formulated the “Southern Strategy” that helped hand the White House to the GOP for a generation. He’s not only a lifelong Republican, he’s also the guy who literally wrote the book that became the blueprint for the party’s dominance of presidential politics. Bush and accuses the president of attempting to establish a family dynasty better suited to royalist England than to democratic America.īut Phillips is no left-wing demagogue. He attacks the “smug conservatism” of George W. He bemoans the unprecedented influence that private corporations hold over public institutions. He rails against the growing inequality of wealth in America. Listening to Kevin Phillips talk about politics, it’s easy to mistake him for a populist firebrand from the 1890s. I didn’t necessarily enjoy reading it because it’s pretty messed up what happens. There were a lot of twists and turns right up until the end of the book. The more interesting it got thought the more confusing it got. It wasn’t until about halfway through that it got interesting. It was mundane and just about her domestic woes at the beginning. Unlike a lot of the reviews on Goodreads, I found the first half of the book pretty boring. Then Thursday learns that her husband is abusing one of the other wives and becomes concerned. But anyway, Thursday is curious about the other wives and befriends one. So it took me half the book to realize the main character’s name is Thursday and not just a nickname. Goodreads says the main character’s name whereas the back of the book doesn’t. Now I just want to note the synopsis on the back of the book and Goodreads is different. This book follows a woman whose husband is a polygamist, but she doesn’t know his other wives. My mom’s quick review I got before reading the book was ‘the ending was crazy’. This one was lent by my neighbour and my mom read it before me. The first book is “The Wives” by Tarryn Fisher. The writing transforms a standard western good-guy-bad-guy plot into serious literature. No one has McCarthy's ear for regional talk, nor eye for details of place. He speaks in the purest Texan with the idiosyncratic quirk of saying "kindly" instead of "kind of". He cares enormously about the people in his county and decided to become a law officer almost as a monastic choice to atone for something that happened during the war. He has a sense of humour so dry it is almost incendiary. McCarthy's sheriff, Ed Tom Bell, a happily married, decorated second world war veteran, is respectful of life, and, like nature writer Barry Lopez, stops his vehicle and removes crushed animals from the roadway to the grassy verge. The old Texas sheriffs served as law men, psychiatrists, Mr Fixits, social workers, medical aides and lonely hearts advisers. Cormac McCarthy has chosen one of the most interesting Texas figures as the central character in No Country for Old Men - the county sheriff. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. With twenty-five all-new illustrations in both color and black-and-white from acclaimed artist Gary Gianni-who also illustrated A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms-this modern classic takes on a truly timeless feel sure to delight its legion of fans. Martin’s landmark saga continues with this beautifully illustrated special edition of the third book in the series. The twentieth-anniversary celebration of George R. A gorgeous illustrated edition of the third book in the beloved A Song of Ice and Fire series, for fans of HBO's Game of Thrones Later, the glass bead game was adopted by mathematicians. Moving these beads into new configurations symbolically represented the development of new, musical themes. Originally, as Hesse relates, the glass bead game was used by musicians as a way to build upon and improvise on musical themes. Upon these wires were hung beads of various colors, sizes and shapes. In appearance, the glass bead game resembled an abacus, with several dozen wires strung vertically and horizontally. Cast in a future period, one in which intelligent activity reached its fullest expression, the glass bead game provided a way for intellectual masters from various disciplines to synthesize their thinking into new planes of knowledge. Herman Hesse's Nobel Prize winning novel, The Glass Bead Game, written in 1943, may very well contain the secret to competitive success in the 21 century. Throughout the search, tips poured in, along with some ominous threats to both Gobi and Leonard.īut one call, from a local man, led to Leonard’s reunion with Gobi, who was found on the side of the road. He searched the streets of Urumqi every day, with the help of a team of locals, by posting flyers, interviewing residents, and spreading the word online. But Leonard was so affected by the dog, he launched a crowdfunding campaign and travelled to China to find her. Shortly after the race, Gobi went missing. Leonard has chronicled the experience, and the ensuing whirlwind adventure to adopt Gobi, in Finding Gobi¸ released Tuesday. The dog, who would later be named Gobi, tailed Leonard for nearly 128 km and captured the world’s attention online. Stray pup races alongside man throughout seven-day ultra-marathon “It was then that I started to realize I had a real deep feeling for her and the bond was really forming.” “I went to these races trying to win them but I stopped as I went halfway through a river crossing because she was yelping and whining and barking,” said Leonard, 41, of Edinburgh, who completed the race in 2016. He knew, as he turned back to carry the dog across, he’d reached a “turning point.” On Day 3, halfway through a river crossing, he heard yelps and saw the dog standing on the riverbank, unable to follow. Dion Leonard had just begun the second stage of the Gobi March, a 250-kilometre race through the Gobi Desert in China, when he noticed a stray dog was following him. The books in the series are Storm Glass, Sea Glass and Spy Glass respectively. following the character Opal Cowan from the Study Series. Snyder then released another trilogy of books, the Glass Series. The next two books in the series are Magic Study and Fire Study, which continued to follow the adventures of Yelena and Valek. Her first novel, Poison Study, was published in October 2005, won the 2006 Compton Crook Award for Best First Novel, Īnd earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly magazine. Snyder (born April 15, 1973) is an American fantasy and science fiction author best known for her Study Series. Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |